Author: Upchuck

One PAX threw off the lure of the Fart Sack to inaugurate, not for the first time, the AO now known as The Clinic. Temperatures were 70 and sunny (actually 64, but no complainers here). According to the people preparing to charge other people money for the privilege of working out in the Broward Mall parking lot, this is more or less what happened:

Stretch and moan in the hotel parking lot. Short walk to get the blood flowing. Mosey 1/2 mile, then realize that office key has been left in the car.

Footnote: YHC has a routine. Hotel room, elevator, car (drop hotel key, office key, iPhone, wallet, and mask in the car AND leave them under the driver’s seat). Handshake, remember that part. UNDER THE DRIVER’S SEAT. YHC has been meaning to carry his office key with him; to quote Splinter from years ago, “We have all been a little tied up at some point during a workout.”

Route: Lake loop, cross Peters, office parking lot, past LaQuinta Hotel (no arrests in progress this morning), left on 78th/10th (north), left on Federated to Broward Blvd, and return the way YHC came…until…well, visions of Splinter telling YHC, “We have all been a little tied up at some point during a workout.” For 10 years, YHC has run around this area. Today was the first time YHC carried his office key fob. Building access, check. Clean facilities, check.

Leave the office and BTTVSF.

Number, name, YHC took himself out.

NMS:
After the workout, YHC goes for coffee. To get there, YHC unlocked and opened the car door, reached UNDER THE DRIVER’S SEAT (Handshake, pay attention) and found a hotel key, his iPhone, wallet, mask, and ANOTHER iPhone. YHC supposes someone put their phone under the seat of their rental vehicle and then forgot the phone. Or, perhaps YHC’s iPhone and hotel key had some weird transmorfication. Unclear. The Clinic is never boring. YHC will keep the PAX informed regarding any pictures which may appear on said additional phone.

Schedule update: The Clinic gathers regularly. Like DaVille, the day of the week changes from time to time. Many weeks, The Clinic happens on Wednesday’s at 5:30, sometimes 5, and occasionally 4:30. Sometimes, Tuesdays. Rarely Monday, though on Valentine’s / Galentine’s Day, the schedule calls for Monday. Almost never Friday. Thursdays are less rare, albeit not frequent. It has never met on a Saturday, nor on a Sunday. The precise start time is always roughly 5:30, though the Q does have some leeway to schedule according to local times, traditions, conditions, and decisions. Nonetheless, The Clinic meticulously starts on time every day it happens.

UpChuck spits the bit.

One PAX delivered himself up for physical redemption (from last night’s pizza dinner). Conditions were 70 and sunny. According to the security cameras in the DHL parking lot, the following might have happened:

1/2 mile run to the parking area.

COP:

Standard stuff: SSHs, stretches, DQ’s, IW’s, HRMs, WWIIs.

Lot Loops:

DHL has a large parking lot (large = massive). Everyone works from home now, meaning open lot. YHC estimates 1/4 mile loop. Run the full loop then add 40 of an exercise at the end of the loop. Exercises were:

WWIIs
Flutter kicks
Rosalita’s
Heels to heaven
Dolly’s
HRMs (20)

1/2 mile run back.

Number, name, YHC took himself out.

Announcements:

Ramps. Help build them. Sign up (See Slack). Questions – see Corned Beef.

HDHH coming up south of south of the James.

Monday, Feb 7, Punisher meets at Bingo Beer on Broad. 6 p.m. workout. 6:15 p.m. social.

One PAX peeled off the outer layers of The Fart Sack and scrambled forth into an unseasonably cool morning. Temps were 70 and sunny in the heart, 61 on the skin, and south Florida was there for the taking. According to the early riser in the green Camaro, here’s more or less what happened:

1/2 mile run to the AO.

COP (in cadence, unless otherwise noted):

SSHs, DQs, IWs, Dead Man Hang (sans cadence ’cause still cadence is silly), light stretching, WWIIs, FKs, HRMs…mosey 1/4 mile.

Intermittent running / exercises for 1/2 mile. HRMs, Rosalitas, decline merkins, dips.

4 Corners (but, stick with YHC on this – do it clockwise. Eh? Harder than the normal way):

Reverse crunches
Squats
Heels-to-Heaven
Dips

2 rounds, then for rounds 3 and 4, add a run up the parking garage ramp and 10 HRMs at the top.

50 SSHs.

2 mile run.

BTTVSF. 3 minutes of stretching.

Number, Name, YHC took himself out.

NMS:

Remember when you went to an office building each day? There’s a dude who shows up at 5:45 each day at DHL (building whose garage YHC uses). He parked over there on the outer edge “action style” every day for years. With no one else using the building these days, now he parks “in the middle area.” He’s learned a new habit. Says it keeps his car cleaner. He’s used the opportunity presented to improve things for himself. YHC likes it.

Prayers for Omar and his mother-in-law who had brain surgery in November and is just not the same. Good to catch up with YHC’s friend, even if he can’t join the workouts due to work.

Total mileage today was just under 4.2. Plus the beatdown, not a bad way to start the day, albeit in more than 45 minutes.

UpChuck spits the bit.

One pax scraped himself out of the Fartsack and launched for the first 2022 Lake Florida workout. Temps were 70 and sunny (definitely not 25). According to the construction crew on Peters, this might be what happened:

Run today. Hotel loop across the lake, cross Peters to the office lot, round the spot where HoneyDo rolled his ankle back in the day, north on 30-something street to Broward Blvd, and reverso BTTVSF. Just shy of 4.5.

5 minutes of Chum-inspired stretching.

Number, name, and YHC mumbled himself out.

NMS: nice to be back. Two new apartment complexes have sprung up over the past year. YHC is thinking about starting a group. FWIW, there is a pay-to-workout company now set up with vans in the parking lot of the local semi-abandoned mall. They start about 5:45 or 6, YHC guesses. Free has to be cheaper than what they offer.