Neighbors New and Old

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I texted ahead to Flanigan the night before.  I didn’t want to just assume that I had the Q, not sure if one of the regulars had called dibs.  He said it was all mine.

I parked in the lot a little earlier than I might have normally.  I’m the Q, I had to cross the U-Turns, I wasnt sure if we still “planted the flag” in the same place (I forgot to ask).

Also a little early, Flanigan arrived by bike and parked in the school’s bike stand.  Cornholio, Blue Hen, and Shooting Blanks followed.  Shooting Blanks caught my tag from the night before as he was headed to Purple Cobra, came to meet some of his new neighors instead.  He was going to be late to Purple Cobra anyway 😀

It was great to see the Nutcracker Q and catch up a bit as we went throught the workout.  Awsome time PAX!

 

Warm Up: 

  • good mornings, windmills, fazios fwd and back, franks

The Workout:

Thang 1: The Coupon 7s

  • The Setup: Grab your rocks. Set up two lines approximately 40 yards apart. Exercise A is performed at the starting line with the coupon. Rifle Carry the coupon to the far line, perform Exercise B with the coupon, and Rifle Carry it back.

  • The Math: Reps always add up to 7 (1 of A / 6 of B, 2 of A / 5 of B… up to 6 of A / 1 of B).

Location Exercise Description
Starting Line Block Overheads Full press from chest to locked out overhead
Travel Rifle Carry Block held at chest level, arms engaged
Far Line Goblet Squats Hold block vertically at chest, drop hips low

Thang 2: The DORA 2×3

  • The Setup: Partner up.  2×3 beacuse we had 5 PAX.  3 Blue Shirts and 2 Non Blue. Blue Shirts run a lap while non-blue chip away at the total team reps. Swap when Blue Shirts return.

  • Reps

    • 100 Carolina Dry Docks (Shoulders/Triceps)

    • 200 LBCs (Core)

    • 300 Monkey Humps (Quads/Glutes)

 

Mary: On the return we did Lunge walks down a stretch of the parking lot, low slow flutters, WW2s, Heel Taps, Homer2Marge, Pigeon Pose, Side plank Crunches, Homer2Marge (again), Boat Canoes, Runners Pose

Announcements:

  • Volunteer June 12th – https://f3southwake.slack.com/archives/C8VU9BS0K/p1779283022783959

Prayer:

  • Prayers for MadDog’s wife as she begins cancer treatments.

Running up that hill

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FNGs: none

Warm Up: good morning, mtn climbers, sir fazio, merkins, prisoner squats, willy mays hays

The Workout: hill repeats on Ole Red

5 burpees at the top

10 patty cake merkins at the bottom

stop at bench halfway back up hill for 15 freddy mercury

repeat for 3 rounds

round 2 we increased to 2o patty cake merkins and round 3 switched to 15 broke back merkins

Mary: 10 mins core 45 seconds / 10 rest for 2 rounds of lbcs, low slow flutter, box cutters, meat gazers and home to marge

Announcements: volunteer event 06/12 to mulch for HS. Run for the Quay this weekend. 

T-Claps (Recognition):

Prayer: speedy recovery for Fram’s father Norm

1k Rep Challenge

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Warm Up: Fazio Arm Circles, Good Morning, Windmills, HillBillies, Imperial Walkers   

The Workout:10 Reps of 10 Exercises for 10 Rounds.

10 IC -SSH,

10 -Bobby Hurly

10-Merkins

10-Burpees

10 IC -Mountain Climbers

10 IC -Peter Parkers

10 IC -Plank Jacks

10 -Squats

10 -Calve Raises

10-Alternating lunges.

Announcements: Run the Quay. 

Prayer: Ka-Chow SATs

Murph 2026

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16 HIM for Murph 2026
We met at Herbert Akins MS track where newly built pull up bars were available.
0550 warm ups
0558 Breach speech about Stg. Murphy
0600 Pledge then go time

1 mile
100 pull ups: modify with bands or sand bag rows
200 push ups aka merkins
300 squats
1 mile

The showers started just as the last man finished.

Strong work by all. It was a privilege to lead this years Murph.

BS out!

Tour de Womble

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FNGs: none

Warm Up: string of pearls style- good mornings, sir fazios, willy mays hays, pledge of allegiance. 

The Workout: 11’s in the far parking lot- merkins/squats, grapevine/karaoke to travel back and forth. Colt/Bolt 45’s, plank holds, wall sits also made an appearance.

Mary: Popcorn on the pickle ball courts. Schoolbus educated us that merkins are a core exercise.

Announcements: Service opportunities upcoming- see slack

T-Claps (Recognition): Strong work all

Prayer: Sick and injured pax, folks dealing with sickness and stresses in their immediate families. 

The Happiest UFO on Earth

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FNGs: none

Warm Up: minimal, some crazy people did burpee hill sprints or similar in the abyss as EC

The Workout: ufo- burpees to match your points in the score. 

Announcements: Post as Disney, attendance has been light

T-Claps (Recognition): great teams @sombrero

Prayer: none

Sweatin’ 4 the John

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8 PAX dripped their way through Holly Springs. Not a single John was found 🚽

Well done! Bleeder Wild Turkey batboy Downrange Pikachu Dumbo M4LIFE

Shuttle Bus Hills

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FNGs: none

Warm Up: EC for all

The Workout: took a lap of holly springs with all the hills.

wild turkey ran to the Qs house, then we ran from my house to womble, picked up fumunga from the bathroom following his EC and off we went. 

route took us to cayman ave, a cut through to crossway, the almost all the way down crossway, with a brief detour on cliff creek. Stopped at TomTom’s house for some monkey humpers, same for Mr. Terrific. Crossed the street for some pickle pounder merkins at Wild Turkey’s house. That was the end of the ride for him, so fumunga and I carried on without our fearless site Q leader. 

trip back to womble for COT. I needed to run home, and Fumunga needed more miles, so back down Stinson to my house. Door to door company for the Q today, what a treat. 

Mary: Announcements: murph tomorrow at Herbert Akins

T-Claps (Recognition): none

Prayer: military and first responders

Putting the U in UTurn

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It was a delight to host this crew at UTurn, pulling 16PAX out of bed and into the misty morning. @Foot Fault @B-I-N-G-O @Yogurt @Bumblebee @Fumunga @Gator @Redenbacher @Dawgpound @Dumbo @Emeril @M4LIFE @McNugget @Wax Off @Bleeder @Pablo

TBD Celebrating 61

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Warmup: Squats, arm circles, squats, merkins. Followed by 10 burpees because M4L and Banana Seat were late. That’s right 5 per late PAX 🙂

Main event: Maximize the site features and celebrate the number 61.

First stop: Nice brick wall next to Hunt Center. We had six PAX, so we counted off 10 each x 6 for 60 plus 1 bonus. Three rounds of BTW and preacher’s chair. Why is it called preacher’s chair?

Next stop: Split rail fence behind Hunt Center. Three rounds of arm/shoulder work: Erkins alternating with derkins. For each round of derkins, we placed our feet on an different rung of the fence.

Next stop: Front corner of parking lots for leg work: Squats and lunges and Turkish getups.

Next stop: The grassy hill behind the Hunt Center. At least three rounds with multiple exercises at top and bottom. Squats, merkins, leg swings, erkins, derkins, etc.

Ended this tour with lunge walks up the wooden steps.

Mary: Just enough time for everyone to choose their favorite “worst” exercise. Banana Seat – monkey humpers. Midget – absolutions. PST – burpees. Shooting Blanks – heel taps. Best in Show – side plank hip raise. Yogurt – American hammers.

My pleasure and HONOR to lead.

Note: This year’s photo plus 2022 BDay Q Cletus. Both taken with the same iPhone 8 🙂