Backblasts

AO: The Patriot

QIC: Lazlo

The PAX: Bone, Wedding Singer, Maj. Payne, Lucius, Jag, Bambino, Brown Bag, Coconuts, Wild Thing, Slapshot, Cable Guy, Sunshine, Choo Choo, Spokes

After being inspired by Sticks’ Monday Decathlon workout, the QIC decided we’d try out some of the less glamorous Olympic events today.

WARM UP: SSH x5, Slow BWS x5 (repeat x3)

Merkins x5, plank jacks x5 (repeat x3)

Cherry pickers

We closed the warmup and began the Olympic theme with a mosey around the track, led by Bambino bearing the Olympic flame (or an orange cone, it can be hard to tell the difference).

THA-THANG: 

The speed walk. This is an Olympic event where the goal is to walk funny. The F3 version of this was a coupon-bearing duck walk, from the goal line to the 20 yd line, leaving the coupon there in preparation for our next event.

Biathlon. The biathlon consists of cross country skiing, interspersed with target shooting. The QIC was stumped by the Exicon, however, because alternating jump lunges look like skiing, but go by Bonnie Blair. Olympian, yes, but in speed skating. Very confusing. So for a special one-day exception, we the PAX did alternating jump lunges, aka the Marit Bjoergen, named after the most decorated Winter Olympian of all-time, from Norway, and winner of 15 gold medals in cross country skiing. With that out of the way, the exercises commenced.

20 Marit Bjoergens, sprint to the 20, knock over your target (coupon), sprint back to the goal line. 

20 Marit Bjoergens, sprint to the 20, reset your target (coupon), sprint back to the goal line.

Repeat x3.

Curling. A popular Winter Olympics event, F3 style. PAX paired up. One was the sweeper, the other was the stone. The stone impression was a bear crawl to the 40 yd line, whlie the sweeper did a side-shuffle alongside, with an optional sweeping motion to coax the stone along. At the 40, flapjack, and return to the goal line.

Repeat x2.

Surfing. Your QIC was surprised to learn that this is an Olympic event. We couldn’t find a pool with waves large enough to surf, so we made our own. PAX spaced out every 4-5 yds in plank position, forming a line down the field. The PAX in the back of the line ran to the front. Whenever the runner passed the prone PAX, they would go from low plank to high plank, creating a wave. I swear it looked like a wave. For the next runner, they returned to low plank, and so on. We made it almost to the end of the field and back when all PAX had run twice.

Weightlifting. The F3 version of weightlifting was the Blockie. All PAX did Blockies OYO, until someone reached 25, and we were all finished. Thanks to Slapshot, most of the PAX were hardly out of the gate when we called time.

Table Tennis. A fast-paced sport. The PAX started at the goal line, sprinted to the 10, did 1 burpees, sprinted backwards to the goal line, and did another burpees. 5 times back and forth seemed about right for a point, and we called it quits.

Medal Ceremony. The PAX achieved heroic things today, and all were deserving of a medal. We moseyed to the medal platform (aka a wall). The 2022 Olympics will be in Beijing, and since that’s on the other side of the world, your QIC postulates that everyone will be standing upside down. To prepare, the PAX went balls to the wall, and held that position (or at least tried) while listening to the Star Spangled Banner. Fortunately it was not the Whitney Houston version, so there was a chance.

MARY: Continued the Olympic theme. 

Cycling: 15 Freddie Mercury’s IC

Sailing and Canoeing: 8 (or so) boat-canoe’s

WWIs: 15 of these in honor of the 1916 Olympics that never were

WWIIs: 15 of these in honor of the 1940 and 1944 Olympics that never were

COT: We talked about the Olympic and Paralympic ideals. The three Olympic ideals are:

Excellence, Respect, Friendship

The four Paralympic ideals are:

Determination, Inspiration, Courage, and Equality

That’s more profound than anything your QIC could come up with.