For Just 25 Cents a Day …

Five pax paid their weekly dues at the St Christopher’s Country Club at 0530 Monday. Here’s what was accomplished:

  • Tabata #1: SSH / IW
  • Hot Lap #1
  • Tabata #2: Squats w/ weight
  • Hot Lap #2
  • Tabata #3: Alternating Shoulder Lawnmowers
  • Hot Lap #3
  • Tabata #4: Merkin Rotation (Regular, Wide-Arm, Diamond, Carolina Dry Dock) x 2
  • Hot Lap # 4
  • Tabata #5: Alternating O/H Press / Triceps Press
  • Hot Lap #5
  • Tabata # 6: 4 Minutes of Mary
  • Hot Laps #6 and 7

Mumblechatter from the Gloom:

  • Hitch’s paternity leave is going great and appears to consist of naps, daydreaming business ideas, having Swirly install a gas fireplace log and haunting Facebook Marketplace in search of potential SCCC Implements of Woe costing <$1 per pound of weight (shipping included). Won’t someone just play Sally Struthers and pass the hat some morning at COT so we can buy the man a kettlebell and be done with it? For less than the cost of a cup of coffee …
  • True story: Hitch had never seen a blade of grass before coming to America, couldn’t even conceptualize a machine such as a lawnmower. Now, he’s dreaming up startup businesses — many of them apparently tortilla-adjacent — and refusing to let Upchuck in on the Friends & Family round. The American Dream, baby!
  • The question came up, apparently by way of curious pax in Houston: Why is a shoulder push-up called a Carolina Dry Dock? The answer (as with so many F3 oddities): Because That’s What Dredd Called It.
  • Dogs, many of them in neon harnesses, were being walked in laps on the field adjacent to the track. F3/K9, perhaps … No word if they were doing Tabata in between.
  • TAP for MFaceplant and MTYA.

We’re here every Monday at the cushiest track in metro RVA to start your week off right. Join us — I’ll lead next Monday, then turn the reins over to anyone who wants to take a shot.

OBT