Author: Fireman Ed

12 athletic behemoth PAX and the Fireman showed up to witness the Fireman’s second q on a low 70s humid morning.

Even though I am a Jets fan, I am excited about football season coming upon us in 6 days for college and 10 for NFL.  Our exercise routine went a little something like this:

Warm up:  In honor of Spinal Tap, 11 Don quixotes, 11 helicopters; then 20 Side Straddle hops, 20 Freddie Mercurys and 10 forward arm circles and 10 backward arm circles.

First exercise:  Mosey to parking lot at corner of ridge and forest, partner one lunges with the partner 2 does 5 burpees, partner 2 catches up to partner 1 and they switch.  Probably ended up doing 35-45 burpees unless you are Splinter and Jack Sparrow whose strides are super long; they probably did 20-30 burpees.

Second exercise:  Mosey to adjacent parking lot.  Bear crawl from one corner to the next corner, jog to next corner, 16 WWIIs, bear crawl to next corner, jog to next corner, 16 Merkins.  Repeato with backward crabwalks (or since I wasn’t clear on direction choose some form of crabwalk, do 32 LBCs and 32 jump squats).

Third exercise:  Mosey around adjacent neighborhood with a friendly somewhat dark jog (SilverSpring road to Spottswood to forest, first right to intersection).  Year NFL founded was according to wiki: 1920.   Run to end of culdesac, 19 merkins, run backwards back, 19 more merkins.  Repeato with 20 2 count mountain climbers.  then repeat with partner wheelbarrows.

Fourth exercise:  Mosey back to Tuckahoe and do 100 combined partner leg tosses

Lastly:  Kubota took over with a merkin ring of fire (or Mary).

Announcements:  Puppy pile went really well last Saturday.  Looking for a date in September with only limited conflicts.

Labor Day convergence.  Admittedly, I missed the other announcements but I think there is a big race at forest Hill Park in October.

I closed the group in prayer.

General Musings:  I mentioned to the group to try to not make puppy pile on 9/29 because of the Penn State/Ohio State game to which the response was “Is the game in the morning?” and I said “no” but neglected to tell them I would be in Pennsylvania for the game so while I am tailgating and getting fat, by all means have puppy pile.

Warmest Regards, the Fireman

9 hardened veterans in total showed up at Hoedown this morning.  Thankfully the rain ended last night and the morning was actually not bad at 69 degrees and humid.

The Fireman started things off promptly at 5:30 which seemed to surprise Garbage Plate and Bodos.

The hoedown went a little something like this:

Warm up:  20 Side Straddle hops, 20 Don Quixotes, 20 Arm Circles and 20 Mercans

Mosey to one of the nearby parking lot on Forest asked the PAX the last time the Jets won a SuperBowl and the answer was 1969.  As a result we did 19 Carolina dry docks, 19 jump squats, 19 WWIIs and 69 2 count flutter kicks.  Then we did 19 LBCs, 19 burpees (elicited a few groans), 19 flutter kicks and 69 jump squats.  .

Mosey to Lindsay Drive.  Asked Trivia question about Mets loss to Nats of 25-4 (2nd worst loss in Mets history).  In honor of the Mets 4 runs, I has the PAX do a 4 by 4 4 corner style. This consists of 4 merkins and 4 2 count mountain climbers at the top of Lindsey do down 2/3 the way to another 4 by 4 go across the road 4 by 4 to the top again 4 by 4.  Repeat to 4 8 by 8s and then 4 12 by 12s.

Mosey to front of Tuckahoe for 100 PLTs (partner leg toss).  Then mosey to nearby parking lot for back and forth lunges followed by American hammers – 25, merkin ring of fire, HoneyDo led burpees and the last 15 side straddle hops.

Numberama followed by names, etc. and a prayer at the end by the Fireman.

Announcements:

Puppy pile – 8/25

CSOP (Completely stupid and utterly pointless) at Forest Hill – Viral I think you said 10/20 but correct me on that if needed

Labor Day Convergence

Three Lakes Park event

I had a good time Q’ing for the first time.  Admittedly I did not sleep much as I kept playing scenarios and what ifs in my head.  Great job PAX and look forward to Qing again in the near future.