It was an unusually hot summer in Irwindale. The City of Irwindale is mostly industrial littered with rock quarries, which somehow made the city eternally dusty. We’d joke it was the armpit of Southern California. There was a wave of fitness that had taken over our facility, and there were two after work workout classes that divided our facility into two camps. On one end there was the boot camp and the other there was the cross fit class. Both took place down the street for our building. Initial Dan and I enrolled in cross fit, but the. For the second round he decided to enroll in the boot camp class for some reason. At first I did know why because honestly it really was his cup of tea, and I really didn’t think anything of it.