You Will Feel the Bern

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Great to be back in the gloom.  It’s been quite some time.  Pax rolled in along with some fog, and off we went.

PAX: Bernie, DOA, Full House, Snap

EC: Bernie, Full House

FNGs: None

Warm Up: 4-Corners:

Mosey to bottom of ramp – SSH X 10 IC

Mosey to top of ramp – Hillbillies x 12 IC, Good Mornings x 12 IC

Mosey to opposite side – Squats x 10

Mosey to bottom – Dips x 20

Mosey to bottom of ramp

The Workout: Suicide Tabata

Marked off 3 distances on the ramp (roughly 20 yards apart) for suicides.

  • Run to first point (cone) and back and do 5 burpees
  • Run to second point (trash can) and back and do 10 star jumps
  • Run to third point (cone) and back and do mountain climbers until everyone returns (this was pretty much Snap every time).

Started with the suicides above and then performed 8 rounds of 20sec exercises and 10sec exercises.  There were 4 sets of these with the suicides above in between each set.  Definitely felt the ‘Bern’ in this one.

Set 1: 8 times non-stop

  • Merkins – 20sec
  • Planks – 10sec

Suicide run

Set 2: 8 times non-stop

  • Squats- 20sec
  • Squat Hold – 10sec

Suicide run

Set 3: 8 times non-stop

  • Plank w/ Shoulder Taps- 20sec
  • LBCs – 10sec

Suicide run

Set 1: 8 times non-stop (alternate legs each round)

  • Static Lunge- 20sec
  • Lunge Hold – 10sec

Mosey to the basketball court for Mary.

Mary:

V-Up-Tucks x 15 IC

Frog Sit-ups x 15

Announcements: F3 Christmas Party

T-Claps (Recognition): DOA making his first morning workout

Prayer: Pilgrim’s dad and Crab Legs

Grateful to lead!

Bernie, Out!

Paradise City 12/2

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Pax of 2 for a good start to December

Snap and Breach on the Q
Warm Up: 22 Counts of SSH, Imperial Walkers, Squats, and Calf Raises

The Workout: 4 Corners around the soccer fields, 3 exercises at each corner stop with 22 counts for reps

Corner 1 – Merkins, American Hammers and Lunges

Corner 2- Irkins, Derkins, and Dips

Corner 3- Homer to Marge, Low Slow Fludder,  Heal Taps

Corner 4- Squat Jumps, Frakenstiens and Monkey Humpers

Corner 5- Plank Jacks, Supermans and Side Crunches

Corner 6- Step Ups, Irkins and Dips

Corner 7- Box Cutters, Pickle Pounders and Hillbillies

Corner 8- 10 Burpees

Mary:- 4 Minutes of Yoga to stretch out

Announcements: Frosty this weekend

Closed out in Prayer:

#5onit at Paradise City

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Thanksgiving week started out strong with 5 Pax doing work at the most beautiful AO in South Wake. Not sure if it is the HSHM hangover, fartsacks, or fear but the numbers were low this morning. Truth be told there is lots of strength in a small workout group. You can hide and it’s hard to overlook the 6. YHC appeared to be alone for EC but was quickly joined by Pikachu dashing from home. A late arrival clown car added two more for EC. After a little mosey of EC the 4 returned to where the shovel flag was supposed to be planted. Unfortunately the person returning the shovel flags from HSHM didn’t make it.

EC: Pikachu, UTI, Lipstick, Skidmark

1 pax rolled in at 0544 beating the bell and we were off.

FNGs: None
Warm Up: 1 lap around womble with SSH, IW, Hillbillies, Windmills – all done correctly in cadence
The Workout: Stack up suicides the length of the parking lot

Round 1- 5 merkins, 10 plank jacks, 15 Squats, 20 LBCs

Round 2 – 5 plank jacks, 10 squats, 15 LBCs, 20 merkins

Round 3 – 5 squats, 10 LBCs, 15 merkins, 20 plank jacks

10 sets of agility square jumps were completed after each round, 5 in each direction

Mary: Some more IW and Hillbillies, Chillcut plank hold for 3 minutes

Announcements: Christmas party 12/14, Frosty CSAUP 12/7, Convergence this Thursday at Tiger Blood
T-Claps (Recognition): UTI with the 1/2 PR
Prayer: Quiver and his family, All Pax traveling this week for Thanksgiving and safe decision making as we approach the holiday season

Lipstick Delegation Tour Day 1

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EC: Papa Emeril, Slide Rule, UTI, Dawgpound, Cowboy, 187, Axe
Warm Up: Mosey around the lot and circle up on BBall courts.

SSH x50

IW x15

Hil x15

Plank position: Hand Release Merkins x10

Mountain Climbers x10

At this point YHC informed the Pax that it was delegation week. YHC would be Qing 5 straight days and delegating a 20min portion of the workout to a PAX member.  Day 1 UTI was choosen
The Workout:

Mosey to the rock pile and bring a rock back to the BBall courts.

On your six and air press x20

American Hammers x20

Overhead Press x20

Repeat x2

Then UTI delgated his delegated portion to Dawgpound for Rock sings. YHC had enough when Sir Dawg got up to 44 count and took the Q back over.  Rocks returned

Mosey to the bottom of the ramp and split in two groups.

Group 1: Run to staircase and go up and down 3x with Star Jumps x10 at the bottom and run back

Group 2: Hand Release Merkins x10, Merkins x10, Childs Pose for 10 seconds (Q was a little sore from the weekend) Diamond Merkins x10 Repeato until Group 1 came back.

Group 1/2 switch and repeat x2
Mary: Low Slow Flutters x20, LBC x20, Box Cutters x20
Announcements: Frosty December 7. Shirt Orders by 11/20
T-Claps (Recognition): UTI for picking up the Co-Q in the moment (wink, wink)
Prayer: Quiver’s Family, Pax running this weekend

Enjoyed it, See you at the Nut

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It’s been a long time since YHC and Pikachu co-Q’ed a workout together so we figured we give it a shot. Some mumble chatter about how many miles we were going to get in.

EC: Emeril, Dawgpound, Warbucks, Full House, Pablo, UTI, Skidmark, 187 (a little late)

Fartsacks: Mookie with the HC last night. Much like the Patriots last night he didn’t show up.

FNGs: None
Warm Up: 1 lap around with SSHsx10, Good Mornings x 10, IW x 10, Hillbillies x 10.
The Workout: Indian Run Merkin Mile with 12 merkins every quarter mile.

Switch off to Pikachu:

We did some running backwards up the ramp with a variety of exercises at the top including squats, Step-ups, box jumps, Russian Dips. 1 time we did a bear crawl up the ramp. Made our way around the park and did a set of Erkins, Derkins, Dips.

Mary: Plank hold. Side crunches. Have a nice day.
Announcements: CSAUP Frosty Dec 7, Christmas Party Dec 14, Oakwood 24 hour Dec 22.
T-Claps (Recognition): Midget posting after running long on Saturday and attempting 50 miler.
Prayer: Full House’s aunt.

 

We got 3 miles and Pikachu took us out.

High Intensity Boot Camp

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YHC signed up to Q Paradise City with every intention of helping it earn its High Intensity Boot Camp badge and possible setting a distance record for the AO in the process.

Ran over to arrive at 0515 to see some ECers out there – Yogurt, Pablo, Emeril, Dawgpound, Buford, and YHC rolled out a minute late (something about waiting for Dawgpound) and got some bonus miles in.

Come show time it was clear we were going to be an intimate 8 today. 0545 came around and we were off.

FNGs: None
Warm Up:

Mosey to the ticket booth, circle up in squat hold for x10 IC Smuf Jacks

Mosey to opposite corner of park for x10 windmill IC

Mosey back to basketball court for x10 reverse merkins
The Workout:

Mosey to the bottom of the ramp. Pax were promised getting to visualize finishing HS Half in a few weeks so we spent some quality time on the ramp.

First stop – run from the concrete/asphalt change to the 1st foul ball market, do 5 star jumps, then back. Next trip up go to the 2nd market. Repeat all the way through the 5 markers.

Pax then picked up the 6 and assembled for an indian run counterclockwise around the park. We stopped at the corner opposite the bottom of the ramp for 10x Frankenstein’s and then continued our indian run back to the bottom of the ramp. During this portion pax were instructed to come up with a workout for our next set of  ramp repeats, but they were warned that if they were easy we would be doing ramp runs based on lightpoles (13 of them) instead of foul ball markers.

Dawgpound request t-merkins (hand release with shoulder blades pinched at the top) and YHC decided those were challenging enough to do at foul ball markers, so we repeated the last ramp repeats but with t-merkins instead.

Pax then assembled for an indian run clockwise around the park. We stopped at the opposite corner for imperial walkers x10 IC. We then stopped again at the guard rail for russian dips x10 IC at the request of Emeril (YHC aims to please when reasonable). We finished the indian run to the bottom of the ramp and YHC asked Yogurt if he wanted foul ball marker or light pole repeats – Yogurt selected light poles (of course – there’s a reason YHC picked him to choose!) and YHC selected squats to go with that. So we did ramp repeats to each light pole with 3x squats at each stop.

This was great, but it took quite a while. YHC got so focused trying to keep up with Snap that I noticed rather suddenly that we had only 4 minutes left. YHC called for pax to come down on their next ramp repeat and head to the basketball courts for mary – apparently this was not well received as most pax finished out the last set and took their time to the basketball court. Blaming that one on not enough blood left in the brain to understand what “stay at the bottom” means.

Mary:

Freddier Mercury x10 IC

Homer to Marge – x5 IC per leg

Pidgeon pose – x10 per leg (at the request of Emeril)
Announcements:

Frosty CSAUP December 7th – sign up:

Christmas party December 14th – location is being confirmed

After this workout the web team decided Paradise City had earned its High Intensity (Running) Boot Camp designation and that is now reflected on the website. Should help us not kill an FNG.
T-Claps (Recognition):

Snap for properly dusting YHC on the last ramp repeat. Dude is for real fast.
Prayer:

Pablo’s mom going to doctor today

Emeril’s wife is picking up his parents this weekend for them to move down/in with them

Developing a Reputation

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17 Pax mosied at Paradise City for a high intensity bootcamp. The smell was ripe this morning as Pax set off for EC and continued to linger throughout the workout. Welcome back Kotter (Pilgrim). Special appearance by Roger Roger and his truck.

7 for EC: Lipstick (early or late I’m not sure but there was one pit stop), UTI, Emeril, Full House, Pablo, Warbucks, Skidmark, and Pikachu ran from home.

Q was informed he may be developing a reputation. 2nd Q in a row that has gone longer than 3 miles.

FNGs: I’ve been told my workouts may not be FNG appropriate and the SouthWake site may need to say high intensity bootcamp.
Warm Up: Small mosey lap and circle up for 10 cc SSH, 10 squats, 10 cc lunges, 10 merkins, 10 plank jacks, 10 WWIIs, and 10 American hammers
The Workout: Catch me if you can run around the complex. Partner 1 does 5 jump squats then catches Partner 2. I full lap. Went back for the 6 as Cowboy pulled a Lipstick.

3 man Indian Run from the bottom of the ramp across the parking lot to the stairs.

1 time down 7 SSH, return to start 7 SSH (not done in Cadence)

Next time 7 SSH, 7 squats

3rd round 7 SSH, 7 squats, 7 Lunges

4th time 7 SSH, 7 squats, 7 lunges, 7 merkins

5th round 7 SSH, 7 squats, 7 lunges, 7 merkins, 7 plank jacks

6th round 7 SSH, 7 squats, 7 lunges, 7 merkins, 7 plank jacks, 7 WWII’s

7th round 7 SSH, 7 squats, 7 lunges, 7 merkins, 7 plank jacks, 7 WWII’s, 7 American Hammers

Get the 6 and everyone did 7 SSH, 7 squats, 7 lunges, 7 merkins, 7 plank jacks, 7 WWII’s, 7 American Hammers together

2 groups of Indian runs back around the complex to the start.

Mary: 4 minute plank hold with Peter Parkers and 1 arm up, 1 leg up.
Announcements: CSAUP in South Wake Dec 7. Pikachu and Mookie doing Insomnia run of 13 miles starting at 3:30 AM before U-Turn (WTF)
T-Claps (Recognition): Way to kind this morning Tetnus.
Prayer: Family and community of HS after young girl was killed last week.

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!

0.0 miles is a long ways to go

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It was almost 60 degrees this morning when 8 HIM gathered in the gloom for a 0.0 mile beat down. There was one PAX present for EC – UTI. Flag is planted and we circle up on the basketball courts ready to start the week off right!

EC: UTI. One is the loneliest number…

FNG: None.

Warm Up: SSH, Abe Vigoda, Fazio arm circles (F/R), Seal claps, Overhead claps, Imperial Walkers, Hillbillies.

The Workout: Partner up for accountability. Bear crawl from the basketball court up the hill toward the tennis courts to the end of the guardrail. Stop for 2 sets of Irkins, Dirkins, and Dips. Thanks to Lucky Charms for the strong counting all morning!

We continue up the hill to the tennis courts via a crab walk. This seemed like a better idea on my couch than it did in the gloom. Note taken. At the top of the hill we stop again for a Lazy Dora with your partner.

Lazy Dora:
100 merkins. Partner holds plank and switch every 10 reps.
200 WWIIs. Partner holds 6″ and switch every 20 reps.
300 squats. Partner squat hold and switch every 30 reps.

Leaving the top of the hill headed back down, bunny hop to the top of the guardrail. At this point the arms are too smoked for Irkins or Dirkins so we do 20 dips and keep moving. Our next mode of transportation is Lt. Dans (1 squat then 2 lunge steps) back to the basketball court. With Lt. Dans we increased reps from 1-5 and then back down.

Mary: I think Mary might have been hanging out with Midget today. Neither were present but we had 5 minutes to kill so might as well do some more work! Big boy sit ups, Homer to Marge, pickle pounders, Have a nice day!

Announcements: Picnic (sign up for things we need), GrowRuck (contact Pablo for details).

T-Claps (Recognition): Wallaby. Welcome back to the gloom brother!

Prayer: UTI uncle (fell out of a deer stand), unspoken.

It’s always a pleasure to lead you men in the gloom. Thanks for the opportunity and I’ll try to do better next time!

Sprints, Ramps, Accountability…and another guy named Todd

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Always great to Q outside of Any Given Sunday every now and then. Monday was my second time Q’ing Paradise City and have always loved the options at this AO. You have the ramp, rock piles, a tunnel, plenty of parking spaces, and a long line of guard rails, which are almost as long as the line of excuses Midget gives YHC when he HC’s, but never shows to the next day’s workouts.

This morning, YHC rolled in about 15min early. Several cars were parked already to get some EC. One I recognized was Full House, fresh of a solid Torch Run on Saturday. Particle Board was already in the lot with an FNG he had headlocked for this morning’s workout.   FNG introduced himself with Hospital Name-Todd…..Yes, men another guy named Todd. Now he was provided a quality F3 at the conclusion of the workout, but have to say F3- SouthWake is a breeding ground for HIM that regularly post with the hospital name of Todd- Maybelline, Norm, Coal Ash, Pablo, Wiggly, YHC, and now the newest member of our group who is now commonly referred to as F3-Utah.

Thank goodness for F3 names as you can imagine the confusion that this creates at the Wescott pool when the Wescott clowns Pablo, Maybelline, and YHC are present at the same time and one of our M’s shouts, “hey Todd” to the pool from the lounge chair.

Anyway…7 Todd’s… I digress. As Particle Board, FNG, and I were wrapping up our conversation the sweet sound of a diesel engine in the distance cut the humidity… Could it be?…..Heck yeah it was.. Roger Roger has returned from hunting wolverines in Alaska and has come to re-engage with this F3 thing we have in South Wake.. Welcome back, Bro. We missed you and glad you are here.  Next to roll in was Deadbolt, then Bufford, and Pablo. Just in time as Full House came rolling in from EC, along with Yogurt and Go-Gurt who had already worked up a lather on the way in.

Disclaimer provided the FNG. A quick 2 minutes to go for last minute stretches and we were off at 5:45am.

FNGs: Welcome FNG-Utah (named after Johnny Utah from Point Break. Hobbies included surfing and is also a Michigan fan- Go Blue! Name was fitting considering in Point Break , Utah was a former Ohio State quarterback turned FBI agent). Kudos to Pablo on the solid name and reference.

Warm Up: Light jog weaving through the parking lot around the medians, with alternating shuffles and butt kickers. Circled up for SSH X20, Imperial Walkers IC X12, Hillbillies X12, Mountain Climbers X12. Recovered on the jog to the guard rails adjacent to the basketball courts. Time to warm up the upper body with a Slide Rule special of Erkins, Derkins, and Dips X20 each. Recover on the jog up the hill beyond the tennis courts for a set of Jack Webbs in a 1 merkin to 3 air press ratio, incrementally increasing to 10 merkins and 30 air presses. Recover on the jog to the lot before the concession stand. Time to warm up the legs. YHC called for a set of 20 prison squats with a squat hold at 15 and 20 where we held for a 10 count in cadence of Morocan Night Clubs.

The Workout: Accountability sprints up the ramp. YHC called for a partner up by speed. Challenged PAX to partner with another HIM that was going to push them on the ramp for a set of 7’s. With 10 PAX we had 5 groups of HIM that were equally matched in speed except for YHC, who was paired with Pablo… we’ll get to that in a minute.

Pairings: Yogurt and Go-Gurt, Full House and Bufford, Roger Roger and Deadbolt, Particle Board and FNG-Utah, Pablo and YHC

Started at the bottom of the ramp and sprint all the way up to the concessions. At the top of Partner 1 performs 6 broke back merkins with Partner 2 in plank position. At the bottom of the hill Partner 2 performs 1 merkin all the way to 6 with Partner 1 in plank, until both partners share equal numbers of broke back merkins at both sides of the ramp. Strong pushes by all PAX with solid efforts up and down the ramp. For YHC it was more like Pablo pulling his partner up the hill, in what I can only imagine looked like a speed boat pulling a tug boat up stream. Just didn’t have the legs this morning.

PAX finishing early picked up the six and upon completion of the final set at the bottom of the hill, YHC led PAX to the middle parking lot area for a set of Build-A-Bears. PAX would bear crawl each parking space performing a merkin incrementally in the middle of each space, skipping a space in between before bear crawling the next space and performing 2 merkins in the middle and so on until we had a total of 10 spaces and 10 merkins.

Mary: Cardio Abs…. In the same lot, each PAX occupied a parking space with their backs to the far end of the lot. YHC called WWII’s IC X10. After performing this first set, PAX would remain on their six with their backs turned. On the word “GO” PAX would sprint to the other side of the lot. At the far end, PAX performed Homer to Marge X10… “GO”- turn around and sprint to the opposite end..LBC X15…”GO-turn around and sprint to the other end..Freddy Mercury X15..”GO- turn around and sprint to the opposite end… Circled up one final time for a set of planked Shoulder Taps X15..Ended with Have a Nice Day.

Announcements: F3 Family Cookout. YHC is looking for PAX to donate pasta and sauce as part of a non-profit charity Grow Our Kids for under privileged family’s. YHC’s PT-Erin Blankenship of Thrive Physical Therapy is running the Richmond Half and is targeting a goal of 680 items of pasta and or jars of sauce in support of this charity through Nov 1st. YHC will be at AO’s and collecting any donations that PAX may have.

T-Claps (Recognition): All PAX coming out and pushing each other and getting some EC in before workout.
Prayer: Continued prayers for Shredder and Bernie and their families. Prayers for those on IR and prayers for continued health for all PAX training for upcoming races. YHC took us out. Always an honor to lead.