[commitment] A Rivalry Q

AO: commitment
Q: Fuse Box , Gerber
PAX: Fuse Box, Gerber, Tollbooth, Chastain, Chainsaw, Rain Man
FNGs: None
COUNT: 6
I saw an opening for today at Commitment and thought it would be fun to celebrate Rivalry weekend by having two rivals split the Q. I reached out to both Gerber and Paper Jam in a DM. Thank God Gerber stepped up because Paper Jam’s response was “Do you think the pax would mind if mine was just 30 minutes of running?”.

I arrive early to drop of two medicine balls for my portion of the Q. With about a minute until launch my co-Q comes jogging up in what can only be described as the exact outfit from marketing the day before – or as he stated “short shorts but not short enough to have booty hanging out”. I believe Chastain the photo shop wonder was going to fix that for him. If his intention was to get in my head and sike me out, he won. The moment I saw him I got colder – and I had two layers on, wool socks, and Mad Dog Gloves (TM).

6:30 lets go. Run up to the school to find a warm light. Find a partner and split 150 merkins. The goal was to get the pax so tired that they were trading off 1 merkin at a time by the end and I succeeded. Even Chastain thought it was stupid. Shout out to my Partner Toll Booth who crushed this after confiding in me earlier in the week that he could only do 2 merkins when he started F3.

Mosey back to the cul-de-sac and do partner pulls back up to the “New” 4 way stop (that apparently at least two pax blew through today). Apparently Chastain and Rainman didn’t get the message that you had to squat down and put some resistance on your partner. Toll Booth goes “oh man, they are practically running”. The goal was for this to be absurdly long, and it was. Pax arrived to the finish with burning tight quads. Another success.

Back to the cul de sac where we used those 20 lb medicine balls. Two teams for a relay race. Sling the ball as far as you can while your team does progressive counts of either aussie burpees or squats. I think my team got up to an 8 count before Chainsaw crossed the finish line. Team Rainman brought up a good point that they may have won because while our teams ball went across the line first, their team arrived back to start first.

New Partners for partner pushes back to the four way. Again, insanely long and I felt the burn in the glutes and hammy’s. I partnered with Chastain this time and he felt like I was intentionally steering him towards the curb while I felt like he had a flat tire of a shoe that kept steering us to my right while I attempted to correct us back to straight.

Just over a minute left in my Q so we went back to how we started and split 150 LBC’s with your partner.

GERBERS TURN!
Mosey through the neighborhood towards the pool parking lot stopping along the way for Mike Tysons and Carolina Blue Dry Docks (of course). (Wouldn’t be shocked he if brought out some Carolina Dry Docks today as well).

At the pool was three rounds of: Burpee Broad Jumps, Bear Crawls, Walking Lunges, loop run. I’m not doing it justice because that sounds easy on paper but I was gassed. Just trust me that it sucked (in a good way).

Run back to Nesbit cul de sac by way of the trail stopping along the way for Mike Tysons.

Finish out with suicide burpees – a crowd favorite (in my best Posse sarcastic impression).

Mole Skin
– Thanks to Gerber for agreeing to my absurdity of an idea. My reverse jinx for todays game: The Tar Heels are due. We have one four in a row and the last 7 out of 9. It just feels like they may jump on us today.
– Toll Booth has been killing it. I think he has been to more workouts that I have since joining. He’s gotten faster and based on today he’s gotten way stronger. Great job to Cliffhanger on the EH.
– Rainman towards the front of the pack most of today while laughing and carrying on conversations with ease. Meanwhile I can’t even respond to yes or no questions in the back while my breathing looks like a damn steam locomotive in these cold temps.
– Chainsaw the ever steady gentleman. He won’t talk smack but will certainly laugh at the smack being talked. I saw the back of him way too much today. Great jobs dude.
– Chastain the red bearded wonder was the other half of the Rainman conversation. He claimed he left his Tar Heel stuff at home….how have I known Chastain this long and never knew he was a closet Tar Hole? Or maybe he was trying to get a dig in at my expense. Surely a man of high morality as Chastain wouldn’t be a bandwagon baby blue fan. Also, how has Chastain been in F3 this long and never done a partner pull before???
– I think that’s about it. As Gerber said in the prayer, we hope for healthy and spirited rivalry games today, but also hope sportsmanship makes its way back. I’m about done with the flag planting crap in the opponents stadium which tends to cause most of the scuff ups. Good luck to my Tar Heel friends – but I say this with sincerity – I hope y’all lose today.