* Also, this was YHC's first ever Q at Stretch Armstrong and was feeling somewhat under-qualified.
However, it turns out the Pax were very encouraging as always and everyone should Q at Stretch Armstrong at least once. Looking at you Blackbeard.
Here is roughly what went down:
0500: Solo run / walk standard to get the muscles warmed up.
0530:
That we didn't do something like a dynamic warm-up to start might have been my first Q fail of the day? But it was a well organized Weinke broken down into logical sections as below. We held most stretches for ~1 minute unless otherwise stated.
Standing Things:
- Hamstring stretch, into raised upright
- Upright lean left, then right
- Lean middle, with arms hanging down
- Quad stretch, L / R
- Calf raises: L / R slow controlled one leg calf raises x 10 OYO each side
- Repeato
Non-standing things:
- Butterfly stretch
- Sitting lean left leg, then right leg, then middle
- Elbow plank x 2 minutes
- Front leaning rest 30 seconds, into calf stretches left then right
- Left leg pigeon
- Right leg pigeon
- Upward dog
- Downward dog
On backs things:
- Left leg hold into chest then right
- Low flutters x 25 IC
- Legs over head stretch
- Hold one leg glute bridge left then right for 1 minute each
Other things (improvised, as the Weinke only took us to 0601!): Order probably not correct
- American Twist x 15 IC
- Bent leg Calf raises: L / R slow controlled one leg calf raises x 10 OYO each side
- Repeato
- Slow deep squats x 15 IC
- One legged tea pose L / R
- We tried this thing where we'd hold ourselves up in a sitting position on the ground. But either I'm too weak or my arms aren't long enough, so that was scrapped.
- Two leg glute bridge for 90 seconds
- More hamstring stretch after that ^
- Elbow plank until time, ~75 seconds
Recover, recover.
Moleskin:
- Our hearts were full with prayer requests. We lifted up in our thoughts Mr. Gnarly Goat and family, Mr. Holiday and family, the family of a colleague of Mr. Toxic who passed away, and Mr. Ultraman and family for his MIL's sister.
- We also prayed for our children returning soon for another school year.
- Anyone can Q at Stretch Armstrong! Appreciate the opportunity Omaha. This was born out of a recent ruck we did together.
- Mr. Blackbeard (if you happen to read this), Omaha Q'd once at Mighty Jungle while you were MQ. You owe him a Q at Stretch. Them's the rules, Sir.
- Speaking of Blackbeard, his "Respect Q" is 18-Aug at Fallout.
- And Mr. Topgun turns 50 at Gladiator on 1-Sep. Respect, gents!
- Which leads to the next point: Moses pointed out that the Mean, Mode, (and maybe Min and Max *nerd* ) ages were 49 today. Lots of folks are 49 and YHC hopes to be as fit as these men when I hit 49.
- YHC was possibly not the least flexible Pax today. That honor might go to Ultraman. I have a feeling that Ultraman will be the next Pax to Q every Huntersville / Cornelius AO over their career.
- Good to meet Honeysuckle Blue for the first time. That it was my first time meeting him means, as usual, that YHC needs to get to more bootcamps.
- Tagless worked up a sweat, hopefully others did as well.
- [Insert Toxic mumblechatter comment] – Its cliche at this point, lol. Thanks for going easy on someone with no Stretch Q experience.
- Good to see you again Die Hard. Wilderness sounds like a good option for tomorrow.
Appreciate all of you guys. Turnpike.