Pacing for Tigers

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YHC had been looking forward to Qing Tiger Blood ever since completing RRCA coaching certification. Equipped with a pace chart to give Pax personalized recommendations for our interval repeats, I committed to Q when Mr. Terrific said he was traveling this week.

After Running 4 the John + Thunder the day before EC wasn’t going to happen. I pulled in at 0520 to Skidmark’s truck and Cupid wasn’t far behind. 0530 hit and we were off.

FNGs: Nope
Warm Up:

Mosey to the parking lot near the track. SSH x10 IC, Daisy Picker x10 IC, Imperial Walker / Hillbillies x10 IC. Mosey over to the track for a warm up lap which ended with hip openers, Tiger Claws x10 per leg, and side to side leg swings.
The Workout:

We then did 4x 400m repeats at our designated short interval paces with 400m recovery in between. After 2 miles of interval/recovery work we triangle up for Low Slow Flutter x10 IC, Homer to Marge x10 IC + x5 IC per single leg, Tiger Claws x10, and front to back leg swings.

 

We then took a 200m recover jog and then did 2x 200m intervals with 200m recovery.

Mary:

Mosey back to the starting parking lot for left over right, right over left, forward fold, downward dog, and pigeon poses.
Announcements:

Bass Lake mulching – see social media. See announcements post.
T-Claps (Recognition):

All 3 pax ran long Wednesday morning and made it to speed work the next day. Great work guys!
Prayer:

Continued prayers for our country and community and for the men of F3 to step up and lead.

Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum Takeover

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The mouse was away so two of the misfits from Alice in Wonderland were in charge. Tweedle Dee and Tweddle Dum grab the reigns.

FNGs: None today
Warm Up:

Got into an Indian run to head to the warm-up location. As we proceeded on the run we noticed the current pathway was roped off. This resulted us in turning around and running pass the abyss. This turned out to be a good thing. We were able to check out the wait time. Only 5 minutes. What a great day this was going to be.

Made it to the parking lot on the other side of the baseball field.

25 Side Straddle Hops
Bat Wing With Randy’s
Fazio Arm Circles forward
Fazio Arm Circles backward
Seal Claps
Overhead Claps
Randy’s
Good Mornings

It was time to get back in the Indian Run and head to the abyss. We were concern that the wait time was increasing. The queue for the abyss is nothing like the queue for Peter Pan’s flight. So we had to hurry.

The Workout:

We split up into two groups. Group one started with the exercises up top and the other group went down the stairs first.

Up top, we did 10 absolutions. At the bottom, we did 5 Prisoner Squat Get Up Jump Squats. Each pax did 2 rounds at the abyss. LBCs were done while waiting on the six.

Now it was up for Tweedle Dee to take over. We all got into the Indian Run to hit up a new ride “The Tilta World”.

Pax found a partner for some bear crawl dora. Each group went to a small island. As one pax bear crawled around the island the other pax did the exercises. 100 Merkins, 200 LBC, 300 Squats.

As pax were riding “The Tilta World” Tweedle Dum received notification that the abyss was up to a 40-minute wait. This meant we wouldn’t get to ride it again today. Though as we proceeded with 15 minutes to go Tweedle Dum got a notification that 13 Fast Passes just opened up. We grabbed them and Indian Run to the abyss.

Once back at the abyss we did the same exact ride as before.

Up top, we did 10 absolutions. At the bottom, we did 5 Prisoner Squat Get Up Jump Squats. Each pax did 2 rounds at the abyss. LBCs were done while waiting on the six.

This time coming up the stairs was a lot harder than the first time. The PGUSJs did not make getting up the steps any easier.

After this was all done we headed back to the starting point.

Mary:

Tweedle Dee took over with Mary.

Homer to Marges South Wake style was done.
Big Boy Situps
Have a Nice Day

Announcements:

Sign up for Bass Lake. 2.3 miles to go.

T-Claps (Recognition):

Prayer:
Praises to Flojo’s wife for finding a job
All addicts struggling.

LipSync’s 4-year anniversary Q at the location where it all started

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AO: Kenny’s Grave

Date: 25-June-20

Warm Up

  • Run to rock pile and grab a rock
  • Circle up for Warm-up: Side straddle hop, good mornings, Frankenstein’s, imperial walkers, Hill Billies and seal and overhead claps

The Workout – My Greatest (aka: favorite exercises)

  • Barely curling across parking lot
  • Hit the greenway with John Cusack’s
  • Two rotations of squat hold Indian runs with rock
  • Curls for the girls with running lap around the group as the time keeper
  • Rocks spaced out along greenway with alternating bear crawls and crabwalks
  • Jack webs in grass next to baseball field
  • Wonder bras at bathrooms
  • Return walks and jog to Mary

Mary

  • LBCs, Freddie Mercurys, box cutters and have a nice day

Announcements

  • Still openings for mulch spreading this Saturday
  • We need more HIMs to step up to Q. Our Q sheets should be filled out 3 weeks instead of looking for Qers each week.

Prayer Request

  • Our Country
  • First responders and hospital workers
  • Gamecock’s 2.0 due this November
  • Traveling mercies during the summer break

Thunderstruck right at the legs

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PAX: Fumunga, Pikachu, Boy George, Kubota, , Lipsync

FNGs: None
Warm Up: Dynamic Stretching of the Legs
The Workout:

Balance Lunges (25 per leg); Calf Squats (25); X Merkins (15); Single Leg Deadlift (25 per leg); Wall Squat (90 Seconds); Merkins (25, hold 5 count on every 5); Step Back Lunge (15 per leg); Diamond Merkins ( 25, hold 5 count every 5); One Leg Wall Squat (60 Seconds, Switch every 10 seconds); 1 Leg Deadlifts (25 per leg); Wide Merkins (25, hold 5 count on every 5); 3-Way Lunge (15 per leg); Moving Lunges (20 total); Close Merkins (25, hold 5 count on every 5); Two Leg Deadlifts (50 total); Iso Lunges (25 per leg); Clap Merkins (10 total); Bear Crawl (40 yards); Calf Raises (75 total with a rock); Diamond Merkins (15, hold 5 count on every 5); Bobby Hurleys (30); Burpees (30)

Mary: LBCs; Boat Canoes; Homer to Mars
Announcements: Mulch at Bass Lake every Saturday till August
T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer: F3 Brothers that have lost love ones; Skidmark and his 2.0

Welcome to the Rock

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FNGs: Nil
Warm Up: Moseyed to Stinson-side parking lot to avoid anyone getting ‘possumed, and circled up.

SSH x 20

Imperial Walkers x 10

Hillbillies x 10

Fazio arm circles x 10 (forward and backerds)

Overhead claps x 10

Seal claps x 10

The Workout: Mosey over to the pit and line up on the ghost of what was once the sideline for some 11’s: merkins and star jumps, squat holding for the 6 after each leg. Good work by all PAX keeping it tight.

Next was an Indian run from the pit to the rock pile. YHC instructed everyone to grab a medium sized rock. Lined up along the lines of the parking space where YHC called rock pushes. For those not familiar, it’s basically a bear crawl but you also push a rock. Did the length of the parking lot, then did 10 low slow flutters. Did the rock push back to start where we did box cutters.

We circled up and did some popcorn rock work and pretty much heard all the greatest hits. Returned the rocks to their homes.

Moseyed to the picnic shelter for some irking durkins and dips: 15 each.

numbered off, with 1’s on the wall and 2’s holding plank. Did 2 rounds. Moseyed to the tennis courts mary.

Mary: Circled up, YHC called for Windshield wipers. Called out some random PAX to give us an exercise for quasi-popcorn Mary.

YHC closed is out with good mornings

Announcements: Bass Lake mulch. Check the signup sheet if interested.
T-Claps (Recognition): everyone for sticking with it.

Fanny pack for beating the fart sack

me for rhyming

Prayer: Everybody. But especially those on the front lines, first responders and our service members

 

Take me out to the ball game

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This morning YHC promised some fun at the workout while everyone was gathering around.  Not “fun” fun but actual fun.  I hope I delivered on that.

FNGs: Not today

EC: Norm

Warm Up:

Lap around the tennis courts and then circle up in the parking lot for:

SSH x20 IC

Frankenstein x10 IC

Butt Kickers x10 IC

Windmills x10 IC

Daisy Pickers x10 IC

Imperial Walkers x10 IC

Merkins x10

The Workout:

A quick swing past my car to grab a ball and bat and we ran down to the concession stand to rip off some quick sets at the short wall.  We did 10 stepups with each leg (20 in all), and then 10x irkins, dips, and dirkins.

Afterwards we headed down to the softball field and met at home plate.  PAX counted off to establish batting order and instructions were given.  Each one would get up to bat and hit the ball.  We would all run to the ball and the batter would call out a 10 count of an excercise of their chosing.  If the ball did not make it past the pitcher’s mound before hitting the ground there would be 2 penalty burpees and a strike out would result in 5 burpees.  Luckily no one struck out and there were only two instances of the ball not making it in the air past the mount.  Lots of different exercises were called out and I can’t remember them all but there were burpees (there always has to be that one guy), star jumps, bobby hurleys, LBCs, big boy situps, monkey humpers, and a lot more.  I think in all we made it through 16 batters.

After the first time through the line up we “ran the bases”.  Bear crawls were done from home to 1st base, crawl bears from 1st to 2nd, crab walks from 2nd to 3rd, and duck walks from 3rd to home.  Afterwards we started back at the top of the lineup.

Once we started to run out of time we gathered on the drive way for a slow Indian run up to the tennis courts to circle up for…

Mary:

YHC called out an exercise that he learned while perusing the exicon one night called the Dr. W.  It’s an 8 count exercise.  I’ll let the exicon describe it:

“Dr. W is a sufferable 8-count ab exercise that combines Dolly, Rosalita, and the W; often within the 6MOM. Always a #CrowdPleaser. 1 is legs apart like a Low Dolly, 2 is legs together, 3 is raise the legs to Rosalita position (45-60 degrees-ish), 4 is spread ‘em, 5 is The W (hands together and stretching forward between your legs), 6 is the return to your back (legs still up), 7 is legs together, 8 is legs down. 5-8 Dr. W’s is a good start to get the pax coordinated with the counting. 10 is a magic # that most build up to 15 is just dumb and torture #FetalPositionMaker Qtip – We always emphasize that the W is on the 5 count. Kinda breaks down the motions and gives a 2nd starting point.”

We did 10 of those.  I like them, they’re fun.  After that it was 10x American Hammers and then HAND.

Announcements:

Bass Lake mulch again this weekend.  There were several HIM that signed up but now can’t do it so there are open slots for those interested.

New COVID friendly BRR guidelines came out yesterday from the race director.

Prayer:

1st responders.

Crosby has been sick.  Hopefully he recovers soon and can get back to his regular not posting.

 

Thanks for the privilege of leading you all this morning.

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Helping Fumunga Lose The Vacation 15 lbs

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PAX: Fumunga, Gamecock, Banana Seat, Yosemite, Finkle, Norm, Buttermilk

7 PAX met in the Nest with ~98% Humidity with no mosey in sight.

Warm Up: 2 Laps around the Parking Lot with dynamic stretching.

The Workout: 25 Seconds on; 5 Second Rests

Round 1: Bobby Hurley’s, Deconstructed Lower Burpees, Side Shuffles, Goofballs, High Jump Knee Tucks; Repeat 4 times

Round 2: 180 Squat Jumps, Mountain Climbers, Switch Lunges, Crap Kicks, Full Burpees; Repeat 4 times

Round 3: Straight through Round 1 and Round 2

Mary: 25 seconds on, 5 second rest
Rising Flutter Kicks, Rockers, Toe Touches, Heel Taps, WWI, Slow Scissors, Freddy Mercury’s, WWI

Announcements: Mulch, 10 Year F3, Emphasized Pikachu’s Announcements on Slack

Prayer: Those that have recently lost love ones, Gamecock’s 2.0 due in November, Fumanga and his M.

Prison Yard is Back

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9 Pax members got stronger at the reopening of the Prison yard.  Roll call was taken promptly at 5:00 sharp with Double D, LED, Fonzie, Fram, Deadbolt, New Mexico, Roger Roger, 8-Bit and Warden Breach on the Q.

Warm-Up: A little mosey around the parking lot followed by 22 count reps of SSH, Imperial Walkers/Hillbillies and Daisey Pickers.

The Workout: 9 Stations of pain, 2 minutes of work followed by 15 seconds to rotate between stations

Tire Drag down the parking lot and back

Battle rope double arm waves

Jump Rope

Heavy Bag Squats

Tire flips with a merkin

Pain stick overhead press

Firehose reverse lunges

Ab roller

Med ball overhead slams

Mary: Circle up for a slow burn v-Freddie mercury

Announcements: New AO possible in the Garner area on Mondays getting up by New Mexico, details to come

Prayer: Roger Roger mentioned a family with a child dealing with cancer and his father in law is having surgery, Double D mentioned a family that lost their 14yr old.

…but I would WEAR a shirt today!

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Lots of questions from the pax as we gathered in the gloom this morning at the Teeter. “Will I need gloves?” “Will we be doing lots of bear crawls?” “Will we do a lot of ground work?” Turns out we did, so YHC was glad he told Dawgpound to keep his shirt on as he was going to attempt to do the workout shirtless. Since it was a last minute move, he joined the gloom circle with a “half shirt”…nips out and all. Pax joked that F3 Southwake needs a new style shirt order. We agreed a bare pecs shirt would be stylish with just a rectangle cutout for the upper chest area. Anyways… we were off. Mixed signal workout from pax today. Lots of mumblechatter, but also many comments from pax that said they wished they hadn’t run EC.

ECers: Pablo, Dumbo, Emeril, Dawgpound, Dahmer

FNG’s: Too humid maybe???

Warm Up: SSH, GM’s, Daisy Pickers, Sir Fazios, Imperial Walkers and 5 burpees for a late pax. Plus about a half mile warmup mosey. Ends up we got just over 2 miles in on the workout this morning.
The Workout: One long Indian run behind the stores to the dead end hill. Pax partnered up for a DORA.  100 merkins, 200 star jumps (many pax grumbled about this), 300 mountain climbers.  Running pax ran up the hill, did 3 burpees, then returned.  Think I got 18 burpees in total.

Indian run to behind jiffy lube for some rail action. Pax split in half.  Some worked on the rail for Dips x 25, irkins x 20, Dirkins x 15 while other pax did AMRAP LBC’s, LSF’s, And Freedom Hammers. Switch.  2 rounds of this.

To the great red wall we moseyed.  Again, pax split in two. Half pax did BTTW while Ground pax did 20 Shoulder Taps IC.  Switch.  Repeated except ground pax did 15 plank jacks IC.  Finished with all pax doing People’s Chair for each pax doing a 7 count to their liking.  Indian run with a final jailbreak back to the flag.
Mary: 20 Pickle pounders IC so we can all be prepared for the unexpected!
Announcements: RUNE.  Mulch. And a Disney co-Q Thursday not to be missed.
T-Claps (Recognition): The ECers continuing to go strong.  POTS always supplying the dirtiest jokes.
Prayer: Those in recovery from addiction, praise my daughter Julia is returning to form. Skidmark, his family, and the new baby.

Honored to lead men.  Thanks for being there. I get to accelerate by helping you all accelerate.  I hope I was able to do that today.

Happy Father’s Day…Easy Like Sunday Morning

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On any given Sunday, sometimes YHC reserves the right to switch things up from time to time. Pre-blasted a 4mi bootcamp instead of a standard 6ish mile route. Alot of PAX logging tons of Rune miles and finding that U-Turn has always been the main weekend draw, so a nice easy bootcamp to close out the week from time to time is always a good option. We did this last month to some good reviews so being that it was Father’s Day, it just made sense to offer up something special.

Rolled into the parking lot to see some cars already parked. We had the Cupidmobile, but he appeared to already be on his way based on some EC exchanges on Slack with Vasoline. Fanny Pack’s car was parked, but didn’t see him at first until he emerged from the shadows. Fresh off of some vacation, he was looking to get re-released into the wild after a significant week long hiatus from the gloom. May as well start with some EC.

YHC planted the flag and informed Fanny that I’d be good for about a mile, but had to be honest, I needed to save some energy for what was planned this morning. Informed him I’d roll with him to Rogers Street, but then would need to turn back as I had a few things to scope out. He continued on and YHC turned back to Womble, but not before seeing Vasoline and Cupid strolling at a nice pace in the opposite direction.

My original plan for this morning’s bootcamp had us doing some warm ups in the old Ivan lot and then continuing a run to Sugg Farm for some typewritters at that steel fence at the entrance. That plan quickly dissipated as I made my way back to the Womble lot as I saw an empty Hunt Community Center lot on the way back. With this area in play, we’d be sacrificing a little mileage this morning, but definitely up’ing the beatdown value of the workout.

With about 5 minutes left before go time, some additional cars came rolling in along with the PAX finishing their EC routes. Wallaby- a first timer to AGS, then Oboe. Out of no where, Bernie comes rolling in. Been a while since I’ve seen Bernie at AGS and good to see him out there this morning.

YHC greeted PAX, wished everyone a Happy Father’s Day and went right to work at 6am.

Warm Up: Brisk mosey to the back Womble lot via the left side of the soccer fields. Circled up for some SSH X25. As we finished those up, Nemo decided to join us a little late and you know what happens next… 10 Burpees OYO. Brisk jog to the center speed bump and back to the start. Good Mornings X10, Prisoner Squats X10, followed by a brisk mosey to the other side of the lot. Circled up for some Fazios X10 F\B, Seal Claps X10 IC, Overhead Claps X 10. Brisk mosey around the back corner to the other side of the island to the mid point and then back to the corner. Imperial Walkers X 10, brisk mosey to the far end for some Hillbillies X10, followed by some more prisoner Squats X10. Formed one single line and proceeded on an Indian Run to the rock pile that abuts the baseball fields.

The Workout:

Womble Baseball Lot

Everyone grab a rock, one you feel comfortable curling and extending. Asked Nemo his kids ages. 14 and 12 I believe, so advised PAX to put the rock down. Right hand on the rock, 14 Merkins, Left hand, 14 Merkins, Right hand, 12 Merkins, Left Hand, 12 Merkins. Next some Tricep Extensions X14 and then X12. Asked Fanny his kids ages and believe he said 8 and 10, so we did some curls X10 and then X8.  At that point, I think Nemo mentioned that he hoped remaining PAX had kids between the ages of 2 and 3.

Cusacked to the far end of the lot and did squats X10 and then on their six for some low slow flutter with rocks behind head. Cusacked back to the rock pile and returned the rocks. Formed a single line and called for another Indian run back to Stinson and then into the Hunt Community Center lot. Got to the flags at the entrance of the Hunt Center and did some Sumo Squat Jumps X10.

Hunt Center

8 PAX formed two lines of 4. Here’s where my earlier idea came into play. Two lines of 4 would form for some indian bear crawls that spanned the length of the lot. Line would proceed with everyone bear crawling with the guy in back double timing the pace of his crawl to make it to the front. Did a back in forth of the lot (everyone getting a turn and a Michael Phelps in between sets).

PAX were soaked and turned out to be a brilliant idea in a twisted and sadistic kind of way. Called for PAX to form a single line again, this time scout running to up Stinson, left on Rogers, and then to the upper deck parking lot behind City Hall.

Upper Deck Parking Lot

PAX lined up and at that point knew Wallaby had 3 2.0’s so asked some ages and before we knew it we did sets of standard merkins, wide grip merkins, and diamond merkins (as they were all girls and diamonds are a girls best friend). Mosey’ed to the far end of the lot and performed one more set with a mosey back to the far end. Then instructed PAX to the OBGYN Reserved parking slots for some Derkins X10 and People Chair with Overhead Claps X10 IC. Rinse Repeat X8, because well…YHC’s 2.0’s are 10 and 8.

Called for the single line again and asked for an Indian Run to the rock pile next to the Library.

Library Hill

Asked PAX to pick a rock that was somewhat flat, but something they felt comfortable curling, squating, and extending. Also asked PAX to find an accountability partner. Cusacked the rocks to the top of the traffic circle at the top of Library Hill.

PAX at the top would perform 50 Curls, 50 Extensions, 50 Squats (Total Team), while the other PAX would run down Library Hill to the pool lot and then back up to relieve their partner and finish up their half of the exercises, while their partner did the same up and back run up the hill.

The reason for the flat rock was simple.. For this next installment, PAX at top would plank hold with rock on their back, while their partner ran down Library Hill to West Elm and then back up. Switch. Rinse. Repeat.

Cusack’d rocks back to the pile but performed some extensions and curls on the way before returning.

Single Line reformed and we were off with a final Scout run back to Womble. Great push by all PAX, and only was 4 mins over schedule and 3.62mi total.

Mary: Bernie 2.0 inspired stretches in 7 and 4 counts Right over Left, Left over Right, Pigeon Stretches.

Announcements: Rune- get your miles
T-Claps (Recognition): Wallaby for his first AGS post and also realizing after the fact that AGS is a 1-hour workout, not 45min. Way to push through! All PAX posting on Father’s Day and putting some work in.
Prayer: All PAX on this special Father’s Day. Those battling health issues, families near and far.