Backblasts

Date: 2024-09-01
AO: social-distance
Q: Booking
PAX: 2 percent, Big Short, CableGuy, Wedding Singer, Speedo
FNGs: None
COUNT: 6

WARMUP:
THE THANG: 6 for 6 miles and change with chatter along the way MARY: 40 merkins
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT: job well done in the hopefully last of the summer humidity!

Tags: social-distance, 2 percent, Big Short, CableGuy, Wedding Singer, Speedo

Date: 2024-08-31
AO: thesandlot
Q: Legacy
PAX: Klinger, CableGuy, Popeye, Defiance, Pepco
FNGs: None
COUNT: 6
WARMUP: SSH, Imp Walker, Hill BIlly, Cherry Picker, Little Bitty Arm Circles, Reverse, Downward Dog, WGS,
THE THANG: This was a JG, we ran out to Fairfax Drive at the Law School and then went out to Ballston, turning around eventually and coming back through the General. We would stop approx every 3 minutes for a set of 10 air squats and a set of 10 merkins. MARY: 30 Flutters (IC)
ANNOUNCEMENTS: 9-11 stuff–see deets of 2F event
COT: Try to focus not just on the beatdown itself but also the fellowship.

Tags: thesandlot, Klinger, CableGuy, Popeye, Defiance, Pepco

Date: 2024-08-31
AO: 1stf
Q: Legacy
PAX: Birdman, Horshack, Defiance, Popeye, Hobbyhorse
FNGs: None
COUNT: 6
WARMUP: Imperial Walker, Hill BiIlys, Willy Mayes Hayes, Michael Phelps
THE THANG: Beautiful weather and mostly dried out in some perfect late summer gloom. We arrived at the base of the Exorcist Stairs just as the police on Canal were towing away the wreckage caused by a Maryland driver. The Maryland drivers in our party were already waiting for us–obviously they sped recklessly through the DC streets to beat us there. We did six warm-up flights at a pretty comfortable rate, but then our engineer and finance-bro types had to start calculating challenges in their heads. So we came up with a target of 10 more flights at a serious/urgent pace. These were always broken up by a set of 10 air presses at the top and bottom, except when Defiance just had to use independent judgement again to make us do merkins on D.C. concrete. There were a few other dudes down there, one who was at the double-respect level and had yacht rock on his phone with no ear buds and in his blood was a lot of moxie. We EH-ed him — I gave him one of Major Payne’s old F3 The Capital business cards.

Defiance can have a job as my full-time navigator if he wants it, as he made a number of good suggestions throughout the morning, such as going back to the cars via Prospect, which would have been cool. But I wanted to gawk at an investment property and then talk smack about the residence of a local billionaire. And, candidly, it was embarrassing to me, having been a partner at this firm for a while, to have a first year associate Popeye tell me: “you know, just because someone tells you the parking is going to be free, that doesn’t mean it’s true.” I was like: “No way–I read people like a book. I am a human lie-detector test.” Plus, this is Georgetown University, my beloved alma mater where I spent many years and many thousands of dollars obtaining a semi-useful professional degree. There’s no way they would screw me like tha…..and….ah $hi7! 10 Dollars!. So thanks Defiance for bonding us out of there.

And we will be changing the name of the new AO. The co-branding deal is off–they don’t know who they are dealing with. There’s only one method of dealing with Georgetown’s Board of Visitors and that method is called retaliation. To add insult to injury, there were open spots on Prospect. Live and learn. Hoya-Paxa is now Notre Dame!

But this was a great time, and, as Popeye will surely misquote me, we will be glad when 9-11 comes.

MARY: Not in DC, thanks
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:

Tags: 1stf, Birdman, Horshack, Defiance, Popeye, Hobbyhorse

Date: 2024-08-31
AO: olympus
Q: Peanuts
PAX: Monk, Ashe
FNGs: None
COUNT: 3

WARMUP: SSH; WMH; MP; DD; WGS
THE THANG: With only 3 pax the plan to play UF was pretty futile. We moseyed up the hill and played some tennis while the 3rd pax picked an exercise. Rotated around while Ashe stretched. After awhile we decided to run some stairs for a half…minute or so. MARY: Started with 50 merkins which Ashe kinda did; LBCs; and FKs ANNOUNCEMENTS: no
COT: we had a good time at coffee with doodles.

Tags: olympus, Monk, Ashe

Date: 2024-08-31
AO: balls-of-fury
Q: Fish Fry
PAX: Legacy, Smokey, Pepco, Hops
FNGs: None
COUNT: 5

WARMUP: All excuses were declared for poor performance. Legacy Q’d two workouts to warm up. THE THANG: Lots if round robin tennis with trash talk from Smokey. MARY: walk from the courts to the car
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Looks like we will be making a permanent shift to Saturday at 0800. EC play will likely start at 0700. COT: Work on consistency for better play.

Tags: balls-of-fury, Legacy, Smokey, Pepco, Hops