Q vs Q – Enron vs Novocaine

Oh what a beautiful day to start a Q vs Q challenge – Enron vs Novocaine!  The skies were blue and the air was just crisp enough to put a chill in the air and as the PAX arrived they were greeted with the sight of the F3 cinder blocks which always gets the mumble chatter started.  To begin Novocaine and I agreed that I would handle the warm up and then we would alternate every 12 minutes with Novocaine finishing the day up with the COT.

To begin the warm up YHC introduced the PAX to a new Merkin challenge done to the Baby Shark Song.  Starting in the merkin position when they started singing about the baby shark (diamond merkins)done to the beat of the song, next was mommy shark (normal merkins), then daddy shark (wide merkins), next grandma shark (normal merkins but on knuckles), next was grandpa shark (on knuckles in wide merkins).  Now that they have meet all the sharks now it was time to hunt like a shark so we alternated on hand in the air until it was time to run away where we performed mountain climbers.  We were all safe now from the sharks so we could stand up and finish off the rest of the warm up.  To finish it off we performed SSH and jump squats IC.  Now it was Novocaine’s turn to bring the pain.

12 mins – AMRAP of PIMPS.  5 Pull-ups, 10 Imperial Walkers, 15 Merkins, 20 Plank Jacks, and 25 Squats.  This was a building AMRAP where the PAX would perform an exercise then run to the other side of the gazebo and then run back and perform the first exercise followed by the second.  This pattern continued till you completed all the exercises and Novocaine even stated that once you completed the first round that you were to continue going in the reverse order.  After Novocaine’s 12 minutes were up it was time for Round 1 for YHC.

After a short mosey to the Moss Landing area each PAX was instructed to grab some curb.  First exercise was a 5 min AMRAP.  Sideways bear crawls from one curb to the other followed by 5 merkins with one hand and foot up on the curb, rinse and repeated for the time limit.  Next exercise AMRAP was Piston Squats for 3 minutes, in the squat position rotate and one knee touches the ground.  Final exercise was AMRAP as well and was Monkey Humpers.  On to round 2 now for Novocaine.

After another short mosey back to Festival Park it was time for Novocaine to put those blocks to good use.  Instructions were to partner up, then partner one performed 10 reps of blockee merkins, 10 overhead presses, and 10 donkey kicks while partner 2 jogged over to cones that were set up at the other end of FP.  While there it was a 10 yard bear crawl followed by a 10 yard chil-cut or army crawl, followed by a 10 yard crab walk.  Partner one and partner 2 would then switch once partner 2 returned back to the blocks.  This was again a AMRAP in 12 mins.

Enron round 2 – mosey over to the peoples pier where we started the round off with 20 Wolverine burpees, killer exercise.  Once that was finally finished we began with the Al Gore ring of fire around the gazebo on the pier.  Each PAX member got into the Al Gore hold and started walking sideways around the pier and as we went around each PAX was allowed to call out their favorite exercise and how many reps of each one.

To finish off the day we moseyed back to the flags where Novocaine finished the day off with the COT, the naming of the new FNG – Peach Fuzz, prayers and announcements.  It was a great time Q’ing against Novocaine and hope that we can do it again in the future.  Until next time….Enron.