February 11th, 2025 By Fire Chicken

PAX
Catfish, Loveboat, Professor, Spud, Scooter, Firechicken, LMU, Marlboro, Psycho T, Tombstone, Mayweather

11 men crawled out of warm beds with a fresh promise of no burpee suicides this morning. But they didn’t know I had not made any plans before showing up, so the easiest thing to do would have been to just steal Grover’s Q. It writes itself, I already have the backblast, too easy. So that’s how we began…

WARM UP

SSH x25ic

Hillbillies x 15ic

Loose Change x10ic

Arm Circles forward and back

Quad Stretch

Mosey down to the lower lot, where hopes and dreams go to die on a cold Grover morning. Line up to begin burpee suicides, and then I remembered there’s a quarter mile drag strip across the street, so audible was called and we moseyed on over.

Run the strip, stopping at 4 stations at the standard light poles:

1. Squats x10
2. WW2’s x10
3. Merks x10
4. Core Killers x10ic

Stop at every station as you run by it and do the prescribed exercise. Repeato until 6:05 then mosey back to Mary.

At Mary we went around the circle and each man picked an exercise. Here’s what they picked, in no order:

Catfish – Outdoors

Loveboat – Homer to Marge

Professor – Merks

Spud – WW3’s

Scooter – LBC’s

LMU – Crunchy Frogs

Marlboro – Hello Dollys

Psycho T – Plank 1 min

Tombstone – Deerticks

Firechicken – Extended reverse crunches

Mayweather – Low Flutters

No stretching

PRAYERS

The Whitt family who lost their son to suicide, friends with Scooter

Firechicken’s M and 2.0 as they head out of town on a class trip

Marlboro’s next but certainly not last baby will be arriving on Sunday via induction. Any more after this and he’s gonna have to start holding tryouts and making cuts at the beginning of each season.

MOLESKIN

First of all, Look Me Up was present. I cannot stress that enough.

Happy that you were all saved from burpee suicides, but sad it came at the expense of Grover’s health. Hope he feels better soon, and that we all stay safe in the midst of the flu going around.

Much discussion about sports, which I prefer. Some mention of baboons fucking from Tombstone? But then back to sports. Not enough respect paid to Clemson for beating Duke on Saturday and then destroying the Heels by 20 last night. Bring us your beloved champions, and we shall slay them all one by one. Much discussion on the potential new head coach for UNC. I believe that the obvious hire would be the only man for the job – JJ Reddick. Unless you think you could get Coach K to come out of retirement. Make him an offer.

Broke from my normal routine to grab a rescue Q this morning, and it’s wild how much my body knew I was off schedule and was supposed to be swimming. I could hardly run. We are probably all locked in like some variation of that. Which is a damn good thing, rather than being locked into laying our fat asses in bed. However, it shouldn’t have had to happen…we have a bunch of great dudes in our group who are great leaders. Our numbers each morning range from 10-25 men. Can’t just have the same 6 or 7 leading all the time. That’s how you get a week of burpee suicides. We’re not building rocket ships. Run, do some push ups, do some sit ups, run some more. It ain’t gotta be fancy. If you haven’t been out in a while, come back by grabbing a Q. It’s the easiest way to get back in the swing – you can set the pace and you’re too committed to hit the snooze button.

Clemson – 77

Duke – 71

Clemson – 85

Carolina – 65

Never thought I’d see the day, but happy to have you guys to share it with <3

Backblast

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