Aye, 8 pax posted in the Gloom for pre-launch workout #2, only to learn that they had stumbled into the Land of the Clipboarders.

The Thang:

Jog around City Park Track to warmup COP: SSH, Merkins, Flutter Kicks, Mountain Climbers

The Dirty MacDeuce (12 reps of 12 exercises, broken into 4 blocks of 3 exercises with a lap around the track in between each block):

Block 1: Larry Craig; Hello Dolly; Squats

1 lap around track

Block 2: Lousiana Dry Dock; LBC (Little Baby Crunches); Rock Hoppers

1 lap around track

Block 3: Diamonds; Bicycles; Peter Parkers

1 lap around track

Block 4: Crab Roll; Rosalita (High Dolly); Burpees

1 lap around track

How To Count (H2C) instruction with whole group.

COT

Spreadsheets from the Gloom:

_ An impressive doubling of attendance from workout #1! Congrats and welcome to FNGs Buster (Dean Roy) and Triple Shift (Chris Chin). Buster is a friend of Chewie, an Area 51 veteran (and brother-in-law of the Ginger King himself, Sir Topham Hatt), who recently moved to the North Shore of Lake Ponchartrain; Triple Shift and YHC have been talking about F3/Nola ever since his M emailed the website to inquire about FiA in Nola.

_ We were also joined by special guest and AG Redwood Original Achtung Baby, who made his way over from a work conference taking place downtown. Thanks to Achtung for dropping some additional #F3wisdom on the pax.

_ The track had a few folks on it Tuesday, but Wednesday is clearly the big day for the Nola Clipboarders — there were at least three separate Pay-to-Play workouts going on at various locations around the track. One guy had staked out the whole rubberized part of the infield for his group, who all had BYO towels/yogamats/water bottles — he supplied the boom box, megaphone and Little Baby Hand Weights (just like a Hitman workout!). I had to suppress the instinct to apply a Flying Headlock to some of the dudes working out in the tomato-filled field — it’s considered bad form to try to steal a guy’s clients right out from under him.

_ Thanks to KeyMan for taking the Shout Out — and doing it well.

_ Updates on the rest of Launch Week:

• We will have a final pre-launch workout tomorrow (Thursday), 10/16, at 0530 at the City Park track. KeyMan and Roots will each lead segments of the workout and I will hand off the F3/Nola Shovel Flag to the pax before heading back to Charlotte.
• The public launch is Saturday, 10/18, at 0700 at the City Park track. EH everyone you know to come on out and look for the F3/Nola Shovel Flag! Your Qs, down from NC for the occasion, will be Gandalf and Chong Li. Coffeeteria to follow the workout at Cafe Navarre, 800 Navarre Avenue, about half a mile from City Park.

OBT