6 pax were intrigued by a weird preblast and joined YHC for a VQ at Fallout. Peart Plus and Gambini showed at 5am prompt for a 2 mile standard, which unexpectedly included spying on Peart’s back yard. 

Back at AO, the rest of the pax arrived and were given a disclaimer. Did everyone hear it? hmmm. 

The warmup was brief, but it included an instructional misfire – the Q forgot to say ‘exercise’ for the windmills, giving Gambini the first material for VQ heckling. 

Thang

The preblast made a confusing promise of a workout of ‘stone and dwarven metal’, and delivered like so:

The stone was simply blocks:

• Overhead Press
• Squat
• Curl
• Merkin
• Lunge (each side)
• Lawnmower (each side)
• Skullcrusher

OYO, We did 10x each, then 9x each, then 8x… all the way down to 0. Also, all throughout, we stopped to do 3 burpees EMOM. 

The dwarven metal was an obscure rock album that filled the silence. For more info, STK; however, it was definitely a hit with the pax, with lots of compliments such as ‘How did you even find this‘, ‘what is this, metal mixed with a Riverdance?‘ and ‘Wait do you really listen to this??‘

After that, we did an In**** run around the track (oops, Rodeo has informed me that’s supposed to say Guardian Run), then 5 more reps of each block exercise, a rifle carry, and finished with Mary. All in all, we did 60x each exercise and 75x burpees. 

• Very strong showing from Peart Plus today – crushed the block work and added the standard too
• Drebin was first one done on the block work, I think. Will he join me for a spartan race in August? We’ll see…
• Gambini did the whole workout + standard with a swollen foot. Good thing he wasn’t 100% or I may have had extra time to fill. 
• Rodeo was his cheery self, and (surprisingly?) charitable with the VQ mumble chatter, thanks for going easy on me.
• Snake Eyes calmly crushed the workout, but 60 merkins and 75 burpees wasn’t enough chest work, so he called for more merkins during Mary. Would a Snake Eyes workout be just merkin variations for 45 minutes? I’d go. Thanks for leading the prayer. 
• 66 quietly cruised through the workout as well without a single complaint
• Despite the obvious setup for discussions of fantasy lore, the best piece of trivia was that the Air Bud series is a sequel to Airwolf. I mean, it’s not. but in a much more real sense, it is. 

Cheers,

Cobra