The third stop on the Q 101 traveling road show was Granite Falls. YHC pulled up to #Hurler wondering how many PAX would post at a workout led by a grumpy old angry preacher at 5:30 in the gloom. 6 men maybe? As many as 8? Darest he hope for double figures? But when YHC arrived there were PAX milling around everywhere. 15 of ’em had rolled out into the gloom. These @F3GraniteFalls men are en fuego. They are on fire.
And, they’re in shape too. Shakespeare would not like y’all, he who wrote, “Let me have men about me who are fat, sleek-headed men such as sleep a-nights. Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look . . . such men are dangerous.” (forgive me, English major you know)
The Granite PAX have that lean and hungry look. Such men are dangerous. Dangerous to the status quo. Dangerous to a culture that doesn’t want strong male leadership. Dangerous to the spread of the Sad Clown virus.
You gotta love these “dangerous” men.
Oh yeah, we did do a workout too, and it included a Q school.
The Thang (some of which YHC actually remembers, some not so much)
SSH X 15 4ct in cadence
And a bunch of other warm up exercises in cadence, like:
IMPs (hate ’em. Why we do these? Giving them up next Lent.)
Russian twist, a.k.a. American Hammers
Horizontal mtn. climbers
Merkins
Squats
Other stuff? Maybe. Can’t remember.
Follow Udder Butter on short mosey over to the church. Partner up.
100 Partner merkins. Partner 1, 10 merkins. Partner 2, LBCs. Flap jack until done.
100 Partner WWII sit-ups. Partner 1, 10 WWIIs. Partner 2 plank. Flap jack until done.
Circle up
PAX who had never attended a Q school, and there were a lot of them, took turns in the center leading an exercise. Each man chose an exercised, called it out, and led the cadence. This was followed by critique from the PAX pointing out what the neophyte Q did well and what he could do a little better.
Short lecture:
History of F3 Nation, F3 Hickory, & F3 Granite.
How to plan a workout
Workout structure
How to count
Ran out of time but would have covered:
Circle of Trust
Writing Backblasts
Follow Friar on a slow mosey back to the flag (wait – was there a flag? didn’t see one).
COT
Count-off, name-o-rama, announcements, and a WOD from YHC.
Moleskin
Take notice F3 Hickory region: we’ve got some A.O.s that are flat killing it. YHC has learned this on his Q 101 road show at every stop. The Mount is going strong in Mountain View. In Conover The Station has exploded in the last couple of months. And Hurler in Granite – 15 PAX at a mid week workout? Dang. “It’ll never work west of Charlotte,” they said. They were wrong.
The road show continues in two weeks with a stop in Lenoir.
Best comment ever overheard in the gloom: “Man, you got a big weinke.” Yep, that was actually said this morning.
#SYITG at the Den.
Abraham
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