Tag: #HueyPLong

  • A backblast for Bogey in the Mists of Misty Mtn – from Reluctant Yankee

    I have been able to post for some Saturdays recently – a nice change after a year of Saturdays full of early volleyball matches and activities. I am RELUCTANTLY writing a backblast after mostly quitting on the habit of recording the actions of men committed in the gloom. Not all regions write them. Its not a required rule. During the PANDEMIC we quit putting a focus on the process of recording this. I used to value it but really for the last 36 months – I didn’t see the point other than recording the date and actions of the men who got their butts out of bed. However I was recently at a Christmas party with BOGEY and man that guy guilted men back to the habit – he is dying to read and see what he missed. The thing I value the most from a backblast isn’t the ideas for future workouts but rather the recording of the date and who posted – especially for FNGS. So after a year or so they can look back and remember who Qd and what they did. I guess that’s the loss to me. I honestly haven’t read anyone’s backblast in 2 years. Bogey informs me that I am missing out on some great creative writing.

    Today we posted in the a real GLOOM. It was thick. I couldn’t see past the steeple of Holy Name. I took the Q yesterday’s gloom when I asked GABRIELLE who might be the Q in charge- his answer was no one yet. My cousin F3 HUEY – Austin Jones – was planning on a rare post – so I stepped up and took the lead.

    We ran to the base of Misty Mtn for SSH x 20, IMP WALKS x 20, Merks x 20 and Roaches x 20.
    Then at the base – we sprinted up the inclines and mosey’d on the flats up to the 4th floor. Here we circled up again and focused on our obliques. Hip Dips x 15 L and R, NOLAN RYANS x 20 L/R, and LB-Obs x 20 L/R, Bird dogs x 15 – slo
    Then we ran the incline and mosey’d the flats up to the 6th floor. Here we used the wall for wall sits, wall sits with leg lift R/L, wall base walking plank and 15 decline merks feet on the wall.
    We ran the incline and mosey’d the flat up to the 7th floor. Here we circled up for the 12 days of Christmas. 1. Burpee 2. Imp Walk Squat 3. Merks 4. Shoulder Tap 5. SSH 6. Bonnie Blairs 7. Freddie Mercs 8. Shoulder Taps 9. Plank Jacks 10. JLOS, 11. Flutter Kicks 12. LOW COUNTRY CRAB
    WILLIE had to cut out early to the ACT. Good luck getting yourself into college.

    After ROUND 7th we took a break with a LAP down a floor and up a floor.
    That was time so we mosey’d back to the FLAG.
    COT: Enjoyed the accountability, enjoyed the fellowship, prayed for family
    BOGEY – IF you read this – Thanks for the push to get back to writing BACKBLASTS. I promise a personal commitment to writing BBs again. Thanks for the accountability. You the man.

  • Ev’ry man a king

    YHC is also the much belated. And yes, I’m writing this while fartsacking the Skinny.

    On May 12, 2018 the PAX gathered at Audubon Park to clown car out to Elmwood for the Huey P. Long Bridge 5K.  Uptown PAX don’t travel well so we like strength in numbers. T claps to Tinkles for driving.

    After collecting our race bibs, doing a warm up jog, and getting buzzed by a drone filming the events, the runners were ready. It was hot and 1300+ runners pressed in. Mulligan, Tinkles and El Guapo moved to the front where they could position to lead the scrum.  The gun sounded and we were off.  A quick mosey through the Elmwood office park and then up.

    “The Huey P. Long is a cantilevered steel through truss bridge that carries a two-track railroad line over the Mississippi River at mile 106.1 with three lanes of US 90 on each side of the central tracks…. In 2014, a writer in The New Yorker described the bridge as “a structure so vaulting and high that it seems to extend from one white, towering Gulf Coast cloud to the next.” Thank you Wikipedia.

    And so we reached for the clouds.

    Cashbar kept a brutal pace charging up the hill and YHC had to skip taking landscape photos from the top. At the finish line in Bridge City, we reassembled. Mulligan and Guapo had won their respective divisions and the entire PAX finished in 30’47”.  YHC was the six. We collected our t-shirts and jambalaya and took the shuttle bus back to Elmwood.

    Glad to run this one with the F3 Pax and my 2.0.

     

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