Sunday evening and YHC was minding his own business, ready for a regular Monday morning getup the next day when Goose asked if he wanted to Q tomorrow morning. YHC casually concurred, thinking “Valve tends to bring the heat with Monday Qs outlined on the way there; I should be okay.”
A few minutes later, Goose filled me in on two pieces of unfortunate news: (1) that he would be missing the beatdown on an account of an inconveniently timed colonoscopy/EDG appointment at Our Lady of the Lake Children’s Hospital for Coyote (he’s regained his activeness and high energy level; thank you on behalf of him, Goose and myself for all of your prayers!), and (2) that Monday was November 11, Veteran’s Day.
The last time YHC unknowingly signed up to Q on a holiday was on January 1 of this year; Goose was there to dump off to—not this time. He did, however, have a quick and easy (to devise) format: “How about you do eleven elevens?” my reaction was the same as what I read on the faces of the numerous PAX that showed up: mixture of “Ooh…” and “Eh?”
Jogging to the Stage from the house after Goose left with Yote, YHC came within sight of the parking lot and noticed with a faint glimmer of hope that it was empty at 5:10… maybe everyone else held on to the justified opinion that a holiday workout—especially after Popeye’s CFT destruction on Saturday –was not worth the trade of a few extra hours of sleep. YHC’s hopes were dashed—ahem… assumption was proven wrong when Popeye pulled in as soon as the thought occurred to me, followed a few minutes later by Valve.
The format was simple: ten reps of eleven different exercises (done this morning up on the Stage) then one rep of another set of eleven different exercises (done after a half-lap around the track), followed by nine of set one’s exercises and two of set two, and so on in basic elevens format.
The exercises for each set were as follows:
Set 1 (descending):
· American hammers
· Merkins
· Bobby hurleys
· Big boy sit-ups
· Freak nasties
· Squats
· V-ups
· Kraken burpees (later modified to hand-release burpees)
· Box jumps
· LBCs
· No-cheat merkins
Set 2 (ascending):
· Freddy mercuries
· Carolina dry docks
· Bonny blairs
· WWI sit-ups
· Shoulder taps
· Imperial walkers
· Burpees
· Derkins
· Star jumps
· Hello dollies
· Inchworm merkins
(Note: Valve promised to remove most of the chest workouts tomorrow, for those considering posting.)
In 40 minutes, the PAX completed every set until we got to 6 and 5 reps at the respective stations. Chatter was generally quiet, as is to be expected when the routine requires an annoying amount of rep counting and/or physical discomfort.
COT and Valve prayed us out.
The PAX kept up a decent pace throughout the beatdown, only slacking a little; shoutout to Valve and Popeye for showing up on a holiday and grinding out an intimidating workout with me to the finish (bonus points for enduring the general lack of tunes).
SYITG, Pope
Fitness. Fellowship. Faith.
