Endocarditis can bite this


Soprano for the solo Standard today.

Today is my “heartiversary”. I gave the Pax my disclaimer and then shared the story behind what that means. Flashback 3 years ago, 12/9/2016, doctors turned off my heart for 45 minutes and I chilled out in a super cold operating room while they cut into my pumper and fixed one of its valves.  All is well now. I like to make sure I get the opportunity to Q on this day for sentimental reasons.

Here we go

Warm Up

  • Windmills
  • Carrot Pullers
  • IST
  • SSH
  • Mountain Climbers
  • `merkin time bomb (starting at 5)

The Thang

  • 10 Burpees
  • 10 Shoulder presses
  • 15 Goblet Squats
  • 15 Curls
  • 10 Lawn Mowers, rights then lefts
  • 15 Chest Presses
  • 10 Sit ups
  • Run a lap around the bus lot (Roadie style running…none of that fast stuff)

We repeated the above 3 times

Mary

  • 50 Little Baby Crunches
  • 15 Pretzel Crunches, rights then lefts
  • 15 Freddy Mercuries
  • 20 Pickle Pounders

Moleskin

  • As I mentioned, this is a special day for me.  For what it’s worth, they shave your whole body before a surgery like mine. Honestly that could have been more enjoyable.
  • Callahan and a couple others offered consultation on the workout’s design, I believe something to the effect of it not being creative. I blushed. I believe he also offered to show me one of Outlaw’s signature moves. I declined.
  • Stapler took us out with a prayer.

Age Stats for Nerds

  • Mean: 49.5 (average of the recorded ages)
  • Median: 50 (age in the middle of those recorded)
  • Mode: 45 (age that occurred the most)
  • Max: 57 (highest age)
  • Min: 36 (lowest age)
  • Count: 15 (count of pax)
  • Standard Deviation: 5.90238 (square root of the average “distance” each age had from the mean)
  • Kurtosis: 0.36598 (indicates how “tailed” the data, i.e., are there outliers)
  • Skewness: -0.76981 (describes the asymmetry of the data with respect to the mean, i.e., are we leaning left or right in a normal distribution. for about 3/4 of my qs, the skew leans negative, which is not surprising given the likelihood of more guys in their upper 40s/low 50s coupled with 2-3 pax in their 30s.)