Up and Down

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PAX: Pumpkin Spice, Chaps, OJ, Lucky Charms, Snap

This was YHC’s first time being the Q at a kettlebell workout.  I think I succeeded at wearing everyone out and we all came out stronger.

FNGs: None
Warm Up: Mosey around the block, SSH, windmills, Fazio arm circles, Michael Phelps, maybe a few others

The Workout:

Modified DORA (don’t even know why we’d call it a DORA at this point) – After a lecture on perfect form and making easy things hard, we shared 100 curls for the girls, 100 tricep extensions, and 100 LBCs with a twist with our kettlebells, switching back and forth while our partners ran the stairs.

30-20-10 ladder – We moved out to the parking lot hoping for some more air circulation (didn’t really help) fora set of 30 Pullover WW2s, 30 plank rows, and 30 clean and press.  We followed that with a set of 20 of each, and then a set of 10 each.

Tabata – 30 seconds on, 10 seconds off off of Wonderbras (we threw in an extra 45 degree angle), sumo squats, kettlebell swings, and Midget love handles.  Made it through 2 total sets.

Mary: With 2 minutes or so left, we held a plank for until 6:15 mixing it up with some shoulder taps and pickle pounders.

Announcements: Mulching and the Derek Davis Memorial Run in 2 weeks.

Prayer: Pumpkin Spice has been working with a young man that recently moved out and has his own place now, prayers for him and all the other crazy things going on in our country.

Out with Old..In with the New..

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Two years of AGS. Hard to believe that what started as a weekly Sunday run around the lake has morphed into an AO that has consistently drawn PAX from week to week. YHC can count the number of times on one hand over the past 2 years where he posted to a vacant lot. Additionally, AGS has only closed once and it was due to inclement weather where driving conditions prevented safe travel to the AO. These are a few of the great things YHC is most proud of regarding this AO and speaks volumes to the accountability and support you HIM, who have posted here, have given me since its opening, and for that, I Thank You.

I’m gonna keep this BB simple. I know…very uncharacteristic, but there is nothing I’m gonna say here that hasn’t been said already. The one thing I will say is that part of the draw and unique nature of this AO is the people who show up to help drive each other throughout the run no matter the conditions. This is what makes this AO great and this morning was no exception.

Arrived to the lot with 30 seconds to spare and saw several cars and trucks with many PAX waiting. 187 said he was getting kinda concerned with one minute to start that YHC may have fell victim to the fartsack. YHC actually forgot his Garmin and had to take a slight detour back to retrieve it. Planted flag. Exchanged pleasantries and we were off with the following workout. While on the initial mosey, Lipstick was seen coming in hot (like Dukes of Hazzard hot- complete with actual skidmarks and suspension-busting speed over speed bumps).

FNGs: None

Warm Up: Short loop around the lot. Circled up for SSH X10, Good Mornings X10, Fazios 10F\10B, Imperial Walkers X10. Light mosey to the other end of the lot with butt kickers and lunge walks back with slight mosey to the point of origin. Prisoner Squats X10, Frankensteins X10, squat hold for the route.
The Workout: Down and up Stinson, left on Bass Lake Road, Straight up Rhamkhatte staying left on Skymont all the way down to the trail that leads into the back side of Paradise City EC, loop around via Arctic Ridge and then back out to the trail and onto Veterans, Jones, Raleigh Street, and then Stinson back to the flag. Another strong showing by the FML boys, Cupid, Nemo, UTI and Vasoline. We even had a surprise visit by Oyster.

With all that speed out there this morning, YHC was picked up several times by the HIM in attendance. A real muggy and humid morning and the accountability and extra encouragement was needed. After all was said and done, the run was a bit below 6 miles, but had several PAX post-Main Event go on to get 10. Nice work by all this morning.

Mary: Stretches OYO during COT
Announcements: Co-Q duel tomorrow. Nemo is up first at DTT.  Rumor has it that there could be several miles consumed tomorrow. Clean out the closets, bring clothing donations for Healing Transitions. Mulch sign ups for next week. Great work out there to the HIM who have posted to help out. The project is halfway complete and need more volunteers heading into next week. Sign up if you haven’t already.

T-Claps (Recognition): All those in attendance this morning. Everyone who posted to AGS over the past 2 years. Vasoline for stepping up as site Q and taking over AGS. YHC is leaving it in great hands and will certainly take this AO to another level.

Prayer: Quiver’s uncle who is battling health issues due to covid. Those who are training and preparing for upcoming races. Keep PAX healthy and continued health for family and friends near and far. YHC took us out.

HIM- it has been an honor to lead this great AO. Thank you for the opportunities to do so each Sunday morning. You pushed me and continue to push me more than you will know.

Candy Crush

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FNGs:none
Warm Up: mosey to home plate.  Fasio arm circles, 10 good mornings, 10 daisy pickers, arm stretches.
The Workout:15 erkins, 15 derkins, 15 dips.

mosey to playground 2 rounds of pax chasing exercise and then spinning the wheel to determine reps 5-25 per exercise.

Exercises included mountain climbers, merkins, plank jacks, American hammers, squats, pickle pounders, homer to marge, merkins, ssh, wwII, lbcs,  and 3 more I can’t recall.

moved to tires and did 2 sets of hopping over tire and a burpee, and then step ups on each leg.  X10 then x 6
Mosey to Ramos and did bear crawl up one side and down the other x3.
mosey to rock pile and did 20x curls for the girls, over head press, and ground pounder.

mosey to start and did 1-5 ratio of jack webbs.

finished with some arm and hip stretches.
Mary:incorporates in work out
Announcements: mulch, Derek Davis run at tiger blood, q swap.
T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer:forceps, all effected by hurricane and guidance through Covid situations.

Just a little backwards yogging

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19 PAX in total out to celebrate National Backwards Day (which is really January 31st, who knew!) and a reverse U-turn track.  Multiple PAX grabbed extra miles for EC this morning prepping for BRR.

The warm up – SSH, IW, daisy pickers, windmills, good mornings, 10 burpees OYO.  19 PAX set off for a leisurely stroll, reverse u-turn heading up through by Target first and then down the hill on Irving, up Green Oaks and into 12 Oaks before returning back to Panera.  Post run circled up for Skidmark’s version of some stretching by watching some chick on a video…some yelled out porn, but couldn’t be confirmed.  YHC determined best to just wrap this thing up.

Announcements, mulch sign up, volunteers are still needed, repeat offenders are welcomed.  FV/HS convergence this week, make sure to check as not all AO’s will be open this week or next.  Great job by the entire group today picking up the six.  No spoken prayer requests, but honor those unspoken and for our first responders, military and for our nation.

Why So Quiet?

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Kung Pow has been putting up consistent numbers week to week on Fridays. We have our regulars like Sprinkler, POTS, and Wallaby, but over the past several weeks we’ve been starting to see new faces come out like Moped and Tetanus.  Haven’t seen LED or Fonzie in a few weeks. Not since the last time we hit all the cul-de-sacs that one week with burpees at each intersection. Hopefully they come back. This morning I thought I saw a ghost when Draper emerged from the shadows riding his bike to the AO from down the street on Optimist Rd. Great to have him back in the gloom. Apparently- he had gotten the word from Deadbolt last week about this AO and decided to check it out. Unfortunately, Deadbolt was on puppy duty this morning and had to miss out on all the fun we were about to have.

Nemo got some early EC and was chasing a ghost. I guess he saw YHC’s car was already parked and thought I was getting EC. Turns out YHC actually arrived early to set up the workout and do some chalk drawings up and down Danagher in preparation for this morning’s festivities.

Pre-blast only yielded 1 HC, so wasn’t sure what to expect, so planned a workout that could be done as a group or split apart if we needed to. By 5:22, we had 12 guys stretching, arriving early to see what all this talk of combo platters and express to go orders was all about. Last one to roll in was Sprinkler to make this morning’s addition of Kung Pow a bakers dozen.

5:30- hit, welcomed PAX, and we were off on the mosey to Sunrise church lot across the street. Circled up in center of the 4 segmented lots for the following warm-up

FNGs: It would be great if there were some this morning
Warm Up: SSH X20, Imperial Walkers X10, Hillibillies X10, Moroccan Night Clubs IC X10, Hold squat position- Fazio Arms 10F\10B, recover, Chinooks X10- mosey to the far corner closest to the entrance

The Workout: Split the entire lot up into 4 corner segments with 3 exercises in each segment. First started with legs

Exaggerated Squats on the Up and on YHC’s down X10, Star Jumps X10, Alternating Lunges X10, mosey to the next corner

Standard Merkins X10, Wide Grip Merkins X10, Hand Release Merkins X10, mosey to the next corner

Grab a rock from the Rock Pile- POTS apparently was very particular as to the rock he wanted to select and was found almost foot deep in the body of water while making his selection. Everyone found one they were comfortable with and performed the following

Curls X20, Tricep Extensions X20, Overhead Presses X20, Cusack to the 4th corner where PAX could see 4 bright cones approximately 15-20 yards apart. PAX would partner up, with one group having 3 PAX due to the odd number.

Partner 1- Suicides across each of the 4 cones

Partner 2- Hold Plank while YHC called for alternating plank exercises until Partner 1 returned…switch

Performed 2 Rounds- On the second round inserted alternating rock exercises- Rut Rows, Ground Pounders, Tricep Extensions

After six was in, returned rocks and formed one single Indian Run line to the entrance. At the entrance, called for PAX to carefully check for traffic and do a fellowship run back to the neighborhood and to the bottom of the tree line fairway on Wescott Ridge. At the bottom of the hill, split lines into 2 lines on each of the curb sides. With 7 trees evenly placed on each side of the street, PAX would single file bear crawl up the hill to each tree and then alternate to lunge walk, and then back to bear crawl. Squat hold at the top and when six was in, stayed in two lines and Indian run taking a left on Danagher all the way to the cul-de-sac past Pablo’s house.

By this time, YHC realized that he barely heard a peep from any of the PAX all morning. Virtually no mumblechatter. The only time YHC heard any of the PAX was when we were at the bottom of Wescott Ridge at the tree line and Nemo asked if we were doing Indian Bear Crawls and heard strong objections from both lines.

Have to admit, YHC is not the most talkative among PAX and when Q’ing I tend to get carried away in the counts and hyper focused on what comes next and how it gets done that I lose sight of the comedy that can be triggered during a workout. Maybe everyone was focused this morning as well or maybe they all just wanted to suffer in silence. Whatever it was, it was one of those mornings where it was all business.

At each of the seven sewer caps along Danagher, PAX would progressively add an exercise and a rep to the count, with dual Indian Runs in between along lower and upper Danagher

Cap 1- 1 Burpee

Cap 2- 1 Burpee, 2 Wide Grip Merkins

Cap 3- 1 Burpee, 2 Wide Grip Merkins, 3 Shoulder Taps

Cap 4- 1 Burpee, 2 Wide Grip Merkins, 3 Shoulder Taps, 4 Squats

Cap 5- 1 Burpee, 2 Wide Grip Merkins, 3 Shoulder Taps, 4 Squats, 5 Nipplers

Cap 6- 1 Burpee, 2 Wide Grip Merkins, 3 Shoulder Taps, 4 Squats, 5 Nipplers, 6 LBC

Cap 7- 1 Burpee, 2 Wide Grip Merkins, 3 Shoulder Taps, 4 Squats, 5 Nipplers, 6 LBC, 7 Hand Release Merkins

Fellowship down the hill to the intersection. When the 6 was in, PAX checked for cars and YHC ordered a Jail Break back to the flag in the parking lot. Circled up for Mary

Mary: Low slow flutter X10, Homer to Marge X10, Absolution X10, American Hammers X10. Also introduced a new exercise, where PAX in seated position performed a series of alternating leg circles- Left Leg X10\Right Leg X10. Got into plank position and performed alternating calf stretches, driving the left and right heals into the ground. Walked the hands up to downward dog, getting a good stretch into the hamstrings, and then did some Left foot over Right foot stretches, and 3 Good Mornings to close out.

Announcements: Co-Q duels begin next week in Holly Springs and Fuquay the week after. Check slack for all details, but we will be conducting all 3 F’s with a designated AO each morning. Clean those closets out and bring donated clothes and shoes to the workouts next week. AGS turns 2 on Sunday. Come out for some miles. YHC will be handing the keys off after 2 years as site Q to a HIM who will be taking this AO to the next level.

T-Claps (Recognition): Bondo for posting 14 times in 3 weeks. Also for all the headlocking going on in SouthWake- 5 new FNGs within the last week and a half. We are better because they are here and they showed up and keep showing up- Look at Bondo. That HIM is on fire. Goldilocks for putting in a solid week of posting and driving out this morning as well as humoring Midget in trips to Raleigh for workouts. Nemo for getting some early morning EC.

Prayer: Bondo’s friend, Jimmy, battling health issues. Sprinkler’s friend, whose daughter is battling cancer. Please keep the Woodard family in your prayers. Bondo took us out.

Always an honor to lead. Appreciate the opportunity and thank you for making this AO part of your morning today.

Those Star Jumps Gave Us a Break

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EC: YHC solo, but it was flat… that was nice.  I just ran til I ran out of lights.

FNG’s: none

YHC did s two-for in the FV this week. I was less familiar with this site, but between running EC and using parking lots… we had plenty of work to do.  Thanks to my FV pax for welcoming me (from the Springs) as I had the honor of Q at a couple of your home turf places in SouthWake.  7 pax zipped around parking lines in strong fashion this morning at the Grave!
Warm Up: Good Mornings, Sir Fazios F/R, Seal Claps, Daisy Pickers, Hillbillies, and Frankenstein’s all x10 IC.  Warm up mosey around community center stopping along the way for 13 ct. of SSH, Mountain Climbers, and Imperial Walkers.
The Workout: There are 14 parking spaces on each side of the strip that we chose in the KG parking lot. We used those several times for our workout today. Round 1: Pax typewriter crawl all parking curbs and the end island along both sides of the “zipper”. (28 parking spaces). Round 2: similar to round 1 except pax do “happy feet”/fast feet all the way around. Round 3: we did Burpee/Star Jumps alternating in each spot all the way around.  It was at this point that Finkle stated “at least we had a break with the star jumps”.  I thought most pax hated those too? Round 4: Slightly different here. Pax lunge walk and on each stripe, they stop and do a Prisoner Squat for that number of stripe (ie. Stripe 1= 1 squat, stripe 14= 14 squats etc.) The pax did start back at 1 when going to the other side of spaces as Norm mentioned the time it would eventually take to complete this otherwise. But…different idea for a different Q! YHC had I think the perhaps toughest round of all planned for round 5, but time was running low so…

We did clockwork merkins as a pax until all pax and YHC twice, called a number.
Mary: Descending ladders of exercises with 15,10, then 5 IC counts.  Exercises were: Dying Cockroach, Homer to Marge, Freddie Mercury’s, and LBC’s.
Announcements: Q shift for next two weeks, check the Slack and let the smack talk begin! Mulch is good for this week, but needed for future weeks. During Q shift weeks, we are taking donations for the residents at Healing Transitions.  Bring clothes for HS week, bring hygiene items for FV week. Let’s help these fellas out!

T-Claps (Recognition):Norm And YHC for parking our vehicles as such to save 1 parking space of pain!
Prayer: Military, first responders, our Nation. We as men to be a source of peace in chaos, and to bring unity during a very divided time. To live 3rd!  Honor to lead men.

Making it up as we go

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YHC saw on Slack that this morning’s workout had been cancelled last night due to potential bad weather and/or damage as a result of Hurricane Isaias moving throught. YHC took a chance and posted on Slack that he was heaed to the Nest and would Q a workout is anyone showed up.  To my suprise, both Boy George and Norm came to keep me company . . . Thanks guys.  At 053o we kicked off the workout with absolutely no idea what we would do

PAX:  Boy George, Norm, Martini

FNGs:  None
Warm Up:  SSH, Sir Fozie Arm Circles, Imperial Walkers, Hillbillies, Daisy Pickers, Good Mornings, Windmills
The Workout:  During the warm up, YHC was looking around and trying to come up with some idea of what we would do.  The handrails at the top of the hill caught my eye.  Mosey to the handrails for the following:

  • 1 leg squats x 10 each leg
  • Slow erkins IC x 10
  • Dips IC x 10
  • Derkins x 10
  • Run down the hill
  • Calf raises x 10 each leg
  • Mountain climbers x 10 IC
  • Run back up the hill
  • Rinse and repeat 2 more times

Next Boy George took us over to the wall for the following:

  • BTW each PAX count to 10
  • Bear crawl from the wall to the island
  • 5 merkins
  • crawl bear back to the wall
  • People’s chair each PAX count to 10
  • Lunge walk to island
  • 5 merkins
  • Lunge Walk back to the wall backwards
  • Rinse and repeat 2 more times

Mary:  Norm took us to the shelter for American Hammers, LBC’s, Homer to Marge
Announcements:  Discussed the open AO’s for the next 2 weeks
T-Claps (Recognition):  Boy Gororge (who ran from home) & Norm

Prayer:  Boy George selling house, those impacted by the hurricane

A solid full body beatdown with all taking an active role and great mumble chatter

2nd F at Stick Boy!

Good thing my M knows math or my kids would be screwed.

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Another glorious morning at the greatest place on earth. YHC was excited to see Deadbolt doing some weasel shaking last night on Facebook as a pre-blast so I followed up on Slacks.  I had an FNG coming out and it was great to see all the HC’s coming in. Welcome FNG OJ!

I promised simple and effective. If my math was better, it might have been a little smoother. The whole jack webb thing messes with me.

FNGs: Welcome OJ!
Warm Up: FNG Disclaimer, Lot Mosey, SSH x40 IC, Frankenstein x10, Sir Fazio, Seal Claps, OHC all x10 IC. Daisy Pickers x10, Standard Merkin x15.
The Workout: Mosey to the Abyss. Split into partners.  1 Partner at the top cycle through Standard, Wide and Military Merkins AMRAP until partner 2 returns from down the stairs and 10 Star Jumps at the bottom. Cycle through until each person has done the bottom 3 times.  We all went down and picked up the 6 with 10 Star Jumps.

Mosey back to the fields.

Suicide Lines

1st Set: Halfway, all the way.  At halfway, Mt Climbers IC x15, End WWII x15

2nd Set: Halfway: Chilly Jacks x15 IC, SSH x15 IC

3rd Set: Jack Webb 2-4 finish with 10-20 (or something close to that, this is where my math went off the rails)

Mary: Homer to Marge x10 IC (L/R), Box Cutter x10, LBC’s x20 IC
Announcements: HS/FV Q battle next week. Bring “all the clothes” for healing transitions
T-Claps (Recognition): Goldilocks, Bondo for hitting it hard today and FNG OJ!
Prayer: Those impacted by the storm, Families in Beirut, Small Business owners, YHC took us out.

Prefontaine Insanity

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FNGs: n/a
Warm Up: Two laps around the track
The Workout:

14 PAX ran a modified workout from the Great Steve Prefontaine.

200 meter repeats on the track. Alternating Target 5k race pace / +10 slower per 200m continuously for 1600m.

After 1600m run, go back and pick up the six.

2 minute rest and then repeat.

Mary: Streeeetching (Pigeon pose, runners stretch, etc)
Announcements: Mulch
T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer: Prayers for Lipstick

Hilly Springs Ride

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FNGs: None
Warm Up:  Did it before we arrived.
The Workout:  10 mile loop through Holly Springs.
Mary:  None – unless you stayed for Thunder
Announcements:  mulch
T-Claps (Recognition):  these 4 amigos, especially Doc with his back injury.
Prayer:  Doc – back injury.