QIC: Cooter
Date: 2/9/22
PAX: John Doe, Pipeline, Spooner, Abercrombie, Chiclet, Choo Choo, Faceplant, Blackout
AO: Parliament
Conditions
Weather was clear and 26 degrees. Cold enough that I had to scrape water the ice off the window – twice – on the way out of the house. First Quarter Moon – who knew?
COP
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Said good mornings (at time, had to grab my gloves from truck!!), did the F3 intros, and PAX grabbed a couple of bricks and took off on our mosey out to the front of the concrete bleachers and circled up on the track.
CoP performed without bricks.
- Fwd Fold oyo
- WMH x10 IC
- SSH x25 IC
- Fwd Fold oyo
- LBAC x10 IC
- REV LBAC x10 IC
- Seal Clap x10 IC
- Michael Phelps / Self-Esteems (I’ve missed Woodrider)
**5 Burpees** WreckdEm fartsacked… again :p
The Thang (all with a brick in each hand)
Round 1 – oyo (Plank at 4th ‘corner’ of track)
From CoP Position on Track – 25 Berkins (Merkins w Bricks)
Sprint/Mosey 100m – 25 Berkins
Sprint/Mosey 100m – 25 Berkins
Sprint/Mosey 100m – 25 Berkins
Mosey back to start, with detour up the concrete bleacher stairs and back down (approximately 34 up and 34 down)!
Round 2 – oyo (Al Gore at 4th ‘corner’ of track)
From CoP Position on Track – 25 Squat Jumps w Bricks
Skip 100m – 25 Squat Jumps w Bricks
Skip 100m – 25 Squat Jumps w Bricks
Skip 100m – 25 Squat Jumps w Bricks
Mosey back to start, with detour up the concrete bleacher stairs and back down (approximately 34 up and 34 down)!
Round 3 – oyo (Plank at 4th ‘corner’ of track)
From CoP Position on Track – 25 Forward Arm Raises w Bricks
Bernie 100m – 25 Forward Arm Raises w Bricks
Bernie 100m – 25 Forward Arm Raises w Bricks
Bernie 100m – 25 Forward Arm Raises w Bricks
Mosey back to start, with detour up the concrete bleacher stairs and back down (approximately 34 up and 34 down)!
Round 4 – oyo (Al Gore at 4th ‘corner’ of track)
From CoP Position on Track – 25 Lateral Arm Raises w Bricks
Side Shuffle 100m – 25 Lateral Arm Raises w Bricks
Side Shuffle 100m – 25 Lateral Arm Raises w Bricks
Side Shuffle 100m – 25 Lateral Arm Raises w Bricks
Finale: Motivators down through 7 (halfway point) – WITH BRICKS!!
Ending up:
400 Reps
240 Stairs
1+ Mile of Goofy Transport
150+ HC “hops” of one variation or another… most with bricks 🙂
COT
Handle your stuff!!
Personal situation: At dinner the night prior, the M and I were chatting about a CoT from this week – one of the F3 brothers and his M lost a baby in the womb. We were chatting about their struggle, and that Wendy/we went through that same thing in 2002 (we, but miscarriage really impacts the Ms in ways we can’t understand IMO). A little time passed and we were blessed with twins in 2004!! The M said to me “you know today was the day that Luke was diagnosed” – this hit me hard, I had forgotten the exact day… but she hadn’t. It was 13 years ago that we were told that Luke had Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy – he’s now 17 with a twin sister that is healthy, as well as an older sister that is healthy. DMD families have a high divorce rate – I can’t turn my back. We’ve handled those situations – together – the best we could… we’re still handling them.
Handle your business – large or small – get it done and take care of what needs to be done. Reach out for help if you need, but do what needs to be done. Each man out here is doing the hard work and starting their day off doing just THAT. But also each brother in this cult organization is also going through things that we don’t often know about. This CoT started with one man opening up to us/me, and then my wife reminding me that those around us (her) are also carrying burdens. Handle your stuff – help someone handle theirs too if you are able.
Moleskin
Warning TL;DR (but if you do, there are nuggets in here)
Things started really COLD. As most Q-eves go for me, I didn’t sleep worth a damn so I was up and ready to go a few minutes early. I bundled up, got some water (for me AND the windshield) then cranked the ole Silver Bullet up. Thinking of my fellow gloomers, I decided I’d toss the bricks in the passenger floorboard for the drive down and get them heated. Since I forgot to turn the wipers on after the initial water-down of the windshield, it had frozen over again! Luckily I had time to repeat that task and get on my way.
Upon arrival, I noticed there was no Abercrombie in the mobile office of his – he was out on his pre-Half-Murph or pre-Pierce; one can never know unless you DM him prior to assure your destruction participation. I actually did DM him, but it wasn’t for doing a pre-workout, it was me asking that if we had the time could he lead the group at the end for a little “motivation” – to which he he obliged.
The rest of the PAX quickly trickled in, and during the intro YHC realized he forgot to put on his gloves – freekin’ rookie – you’d think it was my VQ. 26 degrees with bricks that Cooter’s old Nissan didn’t warm up much at all, and I don’t have on my gloves?!?! sheesh… It actually was a few firsts for me: first Q with my weight vest (probably not my best decision), no crib sheets at all for the workout, didn’t bring music, and was first post with Spooner (who killed it all morning, btw – that man came across the river to get his money’s worth!). Chiclet and Choo Choo car-pooled. Pretty sure Chiclet and I have posted at Parly together before, but I’m not 100 on that.
Before we took off, Abercrombie mused at all the weight vests in play – 5 of 9. Once in the circle of pain, there was good mumble chatter – something I personally love to have happen at my Qs or any beatdown. I couldn’t really make much of it out, trying to count and all. But it was all good mostly led John Doe and Blackout as I recall. Faceplant was quiet as usual, but he and I are posting up here at this AO pretty often lately… I’ll eventually get him to mumble chatter more, or piss him off trying 🙂
A few more quick notes… there was some chatter about how cold the bricks were, and I get it but I did try – I drive a 2000 Nissan truck that apparently doesn’t get all that warm. Whatever – next time they will be a nice 26 degrees MEN!! Then we got into something about what that bright light in the Eastern sky was: “Spaceship” led to government watching us, and someone said only the vaccinated could see it, which led a few unvaccinated to scratch their heads (or blink their eyes). Pretty sure it was just Mars (although SkyView showed Venus pretty close this morning too). Not sure everyone caught this, but that led to Pipeline commenting on John Doe’s swollen… antibodies? idk man – weird morning LOL.
By the last round of the workout YHC and Pipeline were the Six. I looked over at hm on the backstretch and said we may have enough time for Abercrombie to “motivate” us out, and that I had already arranged it. For a brief moment it was shock, but he lit a fire and pushed me through our last 2 sets of the round to get us there in time. Then Abercrombie says in his calm demeanor “with bricks – it’s hard to explain – just follow me.” With bricks was NOT part of the dang plan. And for those who don’t know, I’m not going to spoil the fun: let’s just say I can’t Q it yet – even without bricks. I’m sure you’ll get to experience it one day.
p.s. I’d be remiss not to mention I did a variation of this Q at Detention that I just couldn’t find the time to backblast. There we did similar, no stairs and no track, but 100m intervals with a bonus round for 500 total reps (Brickyard 500??) and over a mile to transport, more burpees and some Mary. Dundee, Snatch, 8 Seconds, Sherlock and Blindside humored me for that one. AND!! Got to see Blindside at Hackliament coffeteria/bible-study too he Q’d Hack – i Q’d Parly – small F3 world!! Thank you for having me Detention gents!
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