Kryptonite-esque Monday Morning

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YHC preblasted the night before to warn PAX that today would be a high tempo style bootcamp with around 3 miles of running.  I don’t know if it was that, a little Q sheet discrepancy, or a combination of both, that led to a typical PC workout to have lower than expected numbers.  There was no flag, no site Qs, and no PAX from Woodcreek 🙁

3 Mile EC was done by Warbucks, Maybelline, and YHC.
2 Mile EC was done by Dawgpound, Buford and Cowboy.

FNGs: none
Warm Up: Mosey up the ramp to the top by the ticket counter.  Circle up for the following:
Good Mornings ICx10
Frankenstein Leg Kicks ICx10
Seal Claps ICx10

The Workout: Partner up based on speed. Partners started running in opposite directions until they met up.  When they did meet, 5 pattie cake merkins were performed.  Then turn back and run in the opposite direction until meeting up again with said partner.  This was done until there was a total of 10 meetings.  Some of the PAX that finished early did a few core style exercises near the ticket counter area until the 6 arrived.
Mosey down the ramp and over to the tunnel.  Partner 1 did BTTW while Partner 2 ran to the end of the path and back, flapjack.  Then People’s Chair was performed while the other partner ran to the end of the path and back, flapjack.  Mosey over to the basketball court / “virtual flag” area.

Mary: Circle up at the basketball court.  Each PAX called out a 10 count exercise.  Except for Lucky Charms who called 5 Burpees OYO which led YHC to conclude with 10 Turkish Getups OYO.
Announcements: We are about a month out from HSHM.  This was most likely YHC’s final Q in South Wake.
T-Claps (Recognition): Maybelline getting faster and stronger post injury
Prayer: Unspoken, YHC took us out

Truly an honor to lead – thanks guys for coming!

Cards Again? Why not!

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PAX: Flyboy, Jerk, and Decoy playing cards at South Park.
Warm Up: 4 mile EC run
The Workout: Deck of Death with Derkins, Dips, Squats, WW2 with Aces and jokers being 10 burpees.
Mary: 7’s with body shakers and Turkish get ups.
Announcements:Sunday Black Ops Run and Smokey Mountain Relay in April.
Prayer: friends/family suffering or recovering from sickness or injuries.

Welcome FNG – Convict

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4 HIMs at GP this morning including an FNG who saw the write up in HS Magazine.

FNGs: Convict (Miami fan)

Warm Up:  20 SSH, 10 Good Mornings, 10 Windmills, 10 Daisy Pickers, 10 Imperial Walkers, 10 Hillbillies, 15ct Pigeon Pose

The Workout:

Mosey to the wall

3 sets of 30 ct Ascending Testicles

3 sets of 40 ct Wall Sits (Al Gores, Prisoner, Morrocan Nightclubs)

Mosey to the rock pile

3 sets 20ct Curls, Triceps Press, Rutrows, Bus Drivers and Ground Pounders

3 sets of 10 ct Windshield Wipers, 6 Inches and Presses

Return the rocks and mosey to the playground

Face cards (10’s)

  • 20 Merkins and Split Jacks (diamonds)
  • 20 Dips and Rocky’s (clubs)
  • 20 Mountain Climbers and Lunges (spades)
  • 20 Plank Jacks and Americans Hammers  (hearts)
  • 20 Goof Balls (Jokers)

5 minutes of Mary

  • 4 sets of 10 ct Supermans (Dive to Free Falls)
  • 5 sets of 5 ct Boat Canoes
  • 10 3 ct Pickle Pounders
  • 20 ct 3 ct Homer to Marge (single leg)

Announcements: F3 Picnic today, HSHM end of November

Prayer Requests: Prayers for DOA’s wife who lost her Mom and continued prayers for Forcep’s boys through the separation.

Recover on the Burpee

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FNGs:None

EC:Aquaman, Bullseye, Katniss

Warm Up:Mosey to Ivan lot then a few of the regs. SSH……
The Workout:Partner up. 100 burpees, 200 Merkins, 300 LBCs while the other runs at 5K finishing pace around the lot. Once all were finished we ran 400ish meters (1/2 way around soccer fields) at 100%, stop and do 20 merkins, then 400 meter cool down. Rinse and repeat 3X before it was time for Mary.
Mary:Low slow flutter x20 right into box cutters x20 right into protractors feet never touching the ground. Flip over for 20 hand release merkins then back on the six to finish off with YHCs favorite….Boat Canoes!!!

Announcements:
T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer:Deadbolt took us out.

Patches O’Houlihan secrets of dodgeball

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EC: UTI, Axe, 187, Full House, Cupid

ME: Axe, Crab Legs, Cupid, Da Business, Fram, Full House, Noah’s Ark, Oboe,  Redenbacher, Snap, UTI, 187 ,16-bit

FNGs: None

Warm Up: Good mornings, SSH, daisy pickers, fazio arm circles, seal claps, overhead claps, Moroccan night club, shoulder taps

The Workout: Two teams of 6 split into Indian run around Womble baseball fields, last man 5x merkins then sprint to the front.  Proceeded to tennis courts for Average Joe’s vs. Globo Gym.  Apparently Fram used to be a professional dodge ball player, who knew!  Two teams of six competed, if you were knocked out 15 merkins, second time, 10 burpees, third time 25 prisoner squats, fourth time 10 merkins, 10 star jumps, fifth time 15 wide plank merkins and 15 monkey humpers.

Mary: WWII’s, LBC’s, Freddy Mercury, American hammer, homer to marge, UTI prompted pickle pounders…apparently needed more ball work, have a nice day

Announcements: F3 picnic Saturday 11-2 Harris Lake shelter

T-Claps (Recognition): Great to see Crap Legs out today!

Prayer: Oboe, had to put down his dog yesterday, 16 years old.  Healing, strength and continued prayers for Crab Legs and Noah’s Ark, unspoken.  Health of all PAX and those training for half/marathon’s coming up.

 

Mercy vs. Grace

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FNGs: Welcome Fanny Pack
Warm Up: Two Native American laps around island with hose, then circle up for standard issue warm up.
The Workout: We went for a big lap around the fields with our trusty kettle bells in hand making a stop at the stage, playground, shelter, fence line, and back to parking lot.  There were exercises performed at each location incorporating full body motions (you had to be there).
Mary: Back to lot for Mary in the normal fashion with Pickle Pounders. Each member was encouraged to watch and learn new techniques from fellow PAX.  We also performed LSF’s in the normal way a PAX does.
Announcements: Picnic tomorrow, 12 October 2019, 11a-2p.
T-Claps (Recognition): All of the PAX that came out.
Prayer: Prayers for those suffering with loss, pain, hopelessness, worry, anger, addiction, and all of life’s troubles.

CHiPs word of the day: A lesson on Mercy vs. Grace was given out and explained in a manner only a PAX can understand.  2 John 1:3.

Wood and Water

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Pax of 2 today. At least there was no odd man out. Kept the pace moving, worked in some yoga, and got out right on time for Sprinkler to get to the station.

WARMUP
Mosey with forward, karaoke, and backward run, then backwards Indian run
Frankenstein’s, trunk twists
Slow dive bombers to engage the whole body and start the burn

WORKOUT
Start with 20 reps of each, decrease by 4 each round until you complete reps (or until time runs out)
– Partner squats
– Plankey-cakes
– Butterfly situps
– Erkins
– 200 (or so) meter run

Yoga flow

20-10-5
– dips
– box jumps
– erkin shoulder taps

COMBATIVES
Get outta my bubble: using pressure points to create space

MARY
Pulse-ups, one-down-two-ups, side v-ups, x-man crunches

ANNOUNCEMENTS
Fuquay FD open house 10-3 tomorrow with Sprinkler (station is downtown Fuquay, behind El Dorado)
Picnic

PRAYER REQUEST
Shredder, unspoken prayers

Everything else was spot on…

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After circling up and discussing the routes, I see a few PAX make a quick stop at the shovel flag to tear off a few squares from the standard issue R4TJ tp roll. There was a lot of mumblechatter at CoT about the number of “pitstops” that were made along the various routes. Nothing like a good run to get the body flowing..

EC: Lipstick, Pikachu, Redenbacher, UTI

FNGs: None, probably went to TBD for an easy workout.

Warm Up: YHC totally butchered the first exercise and started counting off SSH without letting PAX know what the exercise was….everything else was spot on.

All exercises in cadence, 15 X SSH, 15 X Daisy Pickers and off we go.

The Workout:

A few weeks ago, UTI suggested we add a 3 mile option at R4TJ. We have had a good turnout and it is great to see some new faces coming out to get some miles in. Keep up the good work men!

3 Mile Route:

 

 

 

 

 

 

5 Mile Route:

 

 

 

 

 

Mary: I hear they do that at TBD if you are interested…

Announcements: Picnic this weekend, sign up to bring something. Fill up the Q sheet – it was mentioned that the F3 standard is that the number of times you post a week is the number of times you should be the site Q each month. Peer led workouts is one of the core principles of F3.

T-Claps (Recognition): Great to see some more new faces to take advantage of the 3 mile option! Good work and excellent choice raising your standard and challenging yourself with a tough run (and not taking the easy route at Womble this morning).

Prayer:  Bernie and his family, UTI’s co-worker battling cancer, Cape Fear PAX that recently passed, unspoken

YHC took us out.

Come to Southwake and get in a elementary school gym class workout

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YHC overslept slightly and knew he was going to miss the EC crowd. After quickly getting ready and out the door, I pull up to the stoplight and see Warbucks headed to play games at Tiger Blood which as we all know is the second best workout in Southwake on a Thursday. I didn’t bother rolling down my window to try and convince him to follow me to Disney as I knew he had an obligation to shoot hoops with those PAX that didn’t want to exercise this morning.  As I pull into the lot at 0507, I see the EC crowd of 1, Pablo, running alone. I didn’t bother to grab my tracer as I wanted to catch him. After a brisk half-mile sprint and a couple of cat-calls I got Pablo to turn around.   We took some short cuts on the run so we could do some scouting at Disney.  There’s been some trail work completed and we wanted to confirm the Abyss was accessible.   Once confirmed we jogged back to the parking lot to get some light stretching in because Pablo is old and has bad hips.   David Key, I mean Deadbolt, pulled in.  Sometimes when PAX don’t show up for a while I forget their F3 names.   CHIPS and Dumbo rolled in and we were ready to go.

FNGs: None, probably wanted an easy workout and went to Tiger Blood

Warm Up: Took to the soccer fields.   SSH x25, Cotton Pickers (yeah we called em this), Good Mornings, Hillbillies, Imperial Walkers

The Workout: Workout started on the soccer fields with Anthony Bourdains, aka Suicides.  BTW Pablo is a terrible person for naming these. 3 rounds of suicides included a 10 count exercise (LBCs, Merkins,  & some other exercise I don’t recall)

Indian run to the abyss.   First 3 to the Abyss partnered up.  Last 2 partnered up.  Ended up being Pablo, Chips, Dumbo and David Key/Emeril.
Partner 1 run to bottom and back up.
While Partner 1 runs, Partner 2 or 3 work through x50 hand release merkins, x100 WWII and x150 Jump Squats.
Rotate until complete.

Indian run back to the soccer fields.
Anthony Bourdains x2 rounds with Peoples Chair (each PAX x10 count) and Balls to the Wall (each Pax x5 cadence count)
Bear Crawl to suicide spot 1, Lunge to spot 2, Bear Crawl to spot 3, Lunge to spot 4.

Mary: 6 inch hold into 90 degree hold, roll right into dying cockroaches.  Back to 45 degree roll into LBC’s.  Back to 6 inch hold, roll into low slow flutter.   Left leg over right knee and left elbow to right knee x20. Right leg over left knee and right elbow to left knee x20.   x10 Homer to Marge, x10 Homer to Marge left leg up, x10 Homer to Marge right leg up.

Jog to the parking lot for announcements, prayers and COT

Announcements: Picnic, Ruck, Christmas Party (Dec 14. TBD on where we’ll host it)

T-Claps (Recognition): TClaps to all you suckers that played “hoop” this morning.  Great job. Maybe you can play dodge ball tomorrow.

Prayer: Emerils parents as they prepare to move down South. They’ve been in their house for over 55 years so there’s a lot of stress involved in their move.

Nothing But Net

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YHC overslept slightly and knew he was going to miss the EC crowd. After quickly getting ready and out the door, I pull up to the stoplight and see Emeril headed toward Disney. I rolled down the window to try and convince him to follow me to Tiger Blood, but he wasn’t playing any games. He was ready to run the Disney PAX to death. As I pull into the lot at 0507, I see the EC crowd of Axe, 187, Bernie, and Lipstick just leaving , so I quickly grab my tracer and try to catch them. After a brisk half-mile sprint, I catch them as they missed turn for Gable Ridge. Bernie and Lipstick had other plans, so 187, Axe, and YHC turn back to get on track. Just before getting to Holly Springs Rd, we picked up a friendly Pokemon who surprised us when he said he was only on mile 2, not 20. So we headed back to Holly Ridge just in time to see Coal Ash swerving around trying to find the entrance to Tiger Blood. Slaughter and the 12 Oaks clown car roll up and at 0530, we’re ready to roll.

EC:

FNGs: None, the heard Emeril was Q’ing at Disney

Warm Up:
Mosey to back parking lot for:

SSH x20, The goofball x20, daisy pickers x10, mountain climbers x20, moroccan night clubs x10, seal claps x10

Mosey over near the basketball courts.

The Workout:
Thang 1 – Double 7’s

We started out with 7’s from the playground to the parking lot gate. YHC called scorpion dry docks at the playground and pistol squats, 1 each leg. Flanigan suggested we do 1 on each leg for dry docks as well, hence the double 7’s.

Thang 2 – Shoot around

Over to the basketball court to see what kind of ballers made it out to Tiger Blood. PAX lined up and did an exercise called by YHC while PAX took turns taking a shot. We began by doing 1 burpee for a miss and adding 1 after each miss. This turned out to be a terrible idea with this group. After missing the 6 or the first 7 shots, YHC decided we’d wait until the end of each round to do penalty burpees. The terrible shooting continued for 5 rounds and quite a few burpees done after each round. We had a round of horrible dunks, 3 pointers, and free throws.

Exercises done: plank hold, squat hold, plank jacks, SSH, Al Gore’s, and lots of penalty burpees.

Mosey over to the long parking lot.

Thang 3 – Merkin Shuffle + Guantanamo’s

PAX partnered up for Merkin shuffle (5 shuffle steps + increasing pattycake merkins). YHC didn’t do a good job on explaining the proper count for pattycake merkins (2 merkins = 1 count). We struggled through the count until we hit the 1st island.

We then switched to Guantanamo’s until the 2nd island, then back to merkin shuffle. YHC tried counting left, right = 1, but PAX didn’t get that either, even cadence counting didn’t work. As this fell apart, we switched back to Guantanamo’s to the 3rd island.

A sprint back to grab the basketball then mosey back to the start for Mary.

Mary:
As noted in the pre-blast, we did some spelling. PAX held a 6 inch hold and spelled the alphabet (capital letters) with both feet together. This was so much fun at Purple Cobra Tuesday, that YHC brought it back out.

Just after our spelling lesson, Bernie and Lipstick showed back up for a little Mary and CoT.

LBCs x20
Hello Dolly x20
Homer to marge x20 x10 right/x10 left
American Hammers x20

Announcements:
Picnic this weekend, Neuse River trail run Saturday (see Pikachu for details)

T-Claps (Recognition):
To all the PAX who showed up today and were unashamed to show off their terrible shooting skills.

Prayer:
Praise for Shredder’s return to the gloom, Bernie’s family, classmate’s mother who passed unexpectedly

YHC took us out.