What’s the count?

Man was it cold this morning.  I wore two pairs of gloves and still had issues with my hands (go look up Raynaud’s Syndrome).  I guess holding on to cold rocks and holding them above your head doesn’t help.  It also doesn’t help when you can’t keep count on your own and your fellow PAX are either intentionally or unintentionally messing with the count.  Thanks guys!

FNGs:

Not today.  There’s been a slew of them recently and maybe I’ll get to break one in soon.

Warm Up:

SSH x20 IC

Good Morning x10 IC

Windmill x10 IC

Sir Fazio Arm Circles x10 IC Forward and Reverse

Frankenstein’s x10 IC

The Workout:

We moseyed down to the end of the parking lot and partnered up to do Partner Plank Hops.  P1 got down and started doing shoulder taps while P2 side hopped over P1’s legs for a 10 count and then switched.  We did two rounds of this and then headed to the rock pile.

Everyone grabbed a travel sized rock and met at the corner for instructions.  We would be doing an extended 7 of Diamonds today with our rocks.  We’d start by doing 7x triceps extensions at each corner and John Cusack’d to the other corners to do more of the same.  Next was 14x Curls for the Girls with a jog between corners.  We alternated John Cusack and jogging moving forward between exercises.  We went all the way up to 28 then then worked back down the ladder.  The full list was:

7x Triceps extensions

14x Curls for the Girls

21x Rut Rows

28x Goblet Squats

21x Trunk twists

14x Ground Pounders

7x Bus Drivers

We actually ran out of time before we could complete the full round so we skipped out on the bus drivers.

Mary:

LBC Circuit x10 each (regular, reverse, left, right)

Announcements:

Frosty CSAUP December 5th.  Ruck style event exploring Fuquay and most of its AOs.

T-Claps (Recognition):

Sprinkler’s daughter actually had a varsity volleyball game yesterday.  Parents weren’t allowed so he had to watch it from his house and his neighbors surprised them by brining over food to help celebrate.  It was a bit of a return to normalcy for them which is nice and is needed, I think, for all of us.

Prayer:

Prayers for 187 and Fanny Pack’s Ms.  You men let us know if there is anything we can do for you or your families.

 

Thanks for joining me this cold morning men.  We warmed up pretty quickly once we started going.  I had fun, hope you did too.

 

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There’s sidewalk, there’s sidewalk not, there’s sidewalk, there’s sidewalk not…

He loves me, he loves me not..." [Original] : awwnime

Can you believe that with everything going on in the world right now the most “heated” debate this morning was whether or not a certain section of Judd parkway had sidewalks?  Almost refreshing, actually.

YHC looked at the Q Sheet this morning and noticed that no one had signed up to Q this morning.  Crap.  I really should be a better site Q it would seem. No time to really plan anything this morning so it was a make it up on the fly kind of day

Warm Up:

SSH x20 IC

Daisy Picker x10 IC

Windmill x10 IC

Imperial Walker x10 IC

Hillbillies x10 IC

The Workout:

Mosey down to the concession stand area and grabbed a piece of the knee wall for two sets of:

Step ups x20 IC

Irkins x10

Dips x10

Dirkins x10

Afterwards we grabbed some wall on the building.  We did People’s Chair and Balls to the Wall with each PAX giving a 20 count during the first go round and a 15 count the second time though.  Afterwards we headed over to the little hill between the fields for 11s.  We did squats at the bottom and star jumps at the top.

Once done with that we moseyed back up to the tennis courts for a round of what I’m now calling Crab Boils.  Starting at the side line of one of the tennis courts we crab walked to the same line on the next court over where we did 10 Crab Cakes IC.  We crab walked to the next court where we did 10 Crab Humpers IC and finally crab walked to the next court to do 10 Crab Jacks IC.  We took a bit of a rest at the end.  A rest in the form of Jack Webbs.  1 merkin and 4 air presses progressing up to 10 merkins and 40 air presses.

After that we did a Crab Boil back across the courts until we got back to where we started.  Our rest on this side was Batwings.  We were supposed to do 20 IC reps of forward arm circles, reverse arm circles, seal claps, and overhead claps but YHC’s shoulders were on fire (based on the smoke coming off of them) so we audibled half way through to only do 10 reps of seal claps and overhead claps.

One more time across the courts, this time starting off with a lunge walk to the next court, 10 squats, duck walk to the next court, reverse lunges, broad jumps to the next court, forward lunges, and frog jumps to the fence.  At that point it was finally time for…

Mary:

LBC circuit to start.  10x IC each of regular LBC, reverse LBC, knees to the left, and then knees to the right

American Hammer x10 IC

Pickle Pounders x10 IC

Box cutters x10 IC

Reverse box cutters x10 IC

Announcements:

Holly Springs Half coming up on 11/14.  Looking for volunteers to man aid stations and also for a sweeper.  Check Slack for details or reach out to Pikachu.

Frosty CSAUP being held in FV this year and will be a ruck style event, moving between most of the AOs in the Quay (sorry Sheepdog). More details to come, reach out to Breach if you impatient.

T-Claps (Recognition):

Great to see Kubota out in the morning again!

Prayer:

187 and Fanny Pack’s M’s both dealing with things.

Kubota has a 2nd interview today for a position that, if goes well, could end up with an offer before the end of the day

 

It was a beautiful morning this morning and I was glad to be able to spend it with such fine men.  I hope everyone had an equally great morning regardless of whether you slept in or visited one of the lesser Wednesday morning AOs.

 

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Foggy morning

FNGs:none

4 packs for EC. LED,  Deuce, Norm and Fram with ECEC
Warm Up:SSH, good morning, fazio arm circles,daisy pickers
The Workout:Grabbed 5- coupons and two medicine balls. Moseyed you bottom of hill. 2- packs threw ball up hill and climbed hill to retrieve ball until they reached the top. Pax’s on bottom of hill did reps of 20 of following exercises until all packs did the hill 6 x

curls for girls, triceps, ground pounder,overhead press,upright rows, toe taps over block while on back, hop over blocks, squats.

put blocks away and moseyed to concession stand  did descending count of wall sits and BTW 20,15,10,5. Did 3x 10count ic plank arm extensions to the Wall.

moseyed to courts

Mary: 40 lsf ic, 40 big boys, 30 American hammers IC, 40 mount climbers IC, 40 sec Superman IC. Finished with 5 burpees mentioned by POTS.

 

Announcement: Ruck with hygiene products from family dollar on sunset and HS road intersection to HS PD. 5:30 Thursday 10/22.  Bring products to Kenny’s grave if you can’t make ruck.

Prayer:Kids, teachers, school, Our struggles with Covid. FedEx spider bite future president.

Dora returns to Possum Trot

It’s been a while since I Q’d Possum Trot and, seeing whereas I’m the site co-Q, I probably should.  To be honest, the Q-Sheet has been pretty full so there hasn’t been a lot of need for me to which is a great problem to have.

Often times I try to get too creative with my Qs and forget that sometimes the tried and true things are that way because they work.  That said, I decided to do something I haven’t done in a long time, the Dora.  Or two of them. Whatever.

FNGs: None

EC: Fram, 16-bit, Norm, H1N1

Warm Up:

SSH x20

Windmills x10

Daisy Picker x10

IW x10

Hillbillies x10

Sir Fazio Arm Circles x10 Forward and Reverse

Seal Claps x10

Overhead claps x10

The Workout:

PAX paired off for the first of two Dora’s YHC had planned.  The first one was a standard one, 100 merkins, 200 LBCs, and 300 squats.  While one partner was doing reps the other was running a lap around the outside of the tennis courts.  Continued until all reps were complete.

For the 2nd round we went and got rocks and lined up at the end of the parking lot.  This round was 100 triceps extensions, 200 curls for the girls, and 300 trunk twists.  The non-rep doing partner John Cusacked a rock about half way up the parking lot and back.  We started to run out of time so at the end everyone divided up the number of trunk twists they had left and the teams pumped them out so we could wrap up.

Mary:

American Hammer x10

Sleeping Hillbillies x10 each side

Homer to Marge x10

Pickle Pounders x10

Announcements:

Needmore ruck heading to Mama’s house this Sunday morning and doing a non-perishable goods drop off. If you want to do the ruck bring some food.  You can also chose to donate $20 either in person or via the South Wake Paypal account.

H1N1 is looking for a Q for Casino Royale on the 23rd

Prayer:

Unspoken

 

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“I should’ve went to Garner”

FNGs: None
Warm Up: Mosey around outside of tennis court. SSH 15 count I/C, Double time 15 count I/C, Smurf Jacks 15 count I/C. Sir Fozio Arm circles forward and Back, Windmills, Good-mornings, Chest & Back Stretch.
The Workout: 2 groups of three with a cinder block each. 1 PAX run appx 400m around Tennis court, 1 PAX on various exercises on Cinderblock. (Shared Leadership) 1 PAX run up hill and bear crawl facing down the hill. (once explained various audible but undiscernible mumbles.) Running Pax were timers, Rotation was from blocks to hill. Hill to run. Run to blocks. We made 4 cycles through.
Mary: I felt we had been neglecting this portion upon several posts YHC has lead and attended.  Conscious decision to give about 10 min to this. I am sore…so definitely been neglected. Exercises: LBC I/C 15 count, Reverse LBC I/C 15 count, Full LBC I/C 15 count (need a better name for this one…maybe tacos or Half V’s). Full ext Boat Canoes I/C 15 count with a 10 count V-up hold at end. Right and Left side Oblique v-ups I/C 15 count with a 10 count hold on last rep. Side arm balance with alternating single arm plank. I/C 10 count.

Announcements: F3 Southwake TED talk from Dahmer. Recording to be shared, watch if you can.
T-Claps (Recognition): Each PAX gave one Praise.  (Family, Daughter’s Birthday, God’s Grace, Vacations, New Jobs)
Prayer: Each PAX gave one Prayer. (Travel, Family, Country Divided, getting kids back in school, Health/Medical, Dealing with the Jesters in your life (Pride)

Week 4 IPC

FNGs:None
Warm Up:OYO arm stretches SSH, etc
The Workout:

1 Round For Time

10 Burpee Block Jump Overs (BBJO)
Murder Bunny 25yds
25 Thruster
Return to the goal line with your block

10 Burpee Block Jump Overs (BBJO)
Murder Bunny 50yds
50 Alternating block merkins
Return to the goal line with your block

10 Burpee Block Jump Overs (BBJO)
Murder Bunny 75yds
75 Curl Presses
Return to the goal line with your block

10 Burpee Block Jump Overs (BBJO)
Murder Bunny 100yds
100 Block Windshield Wipers
Return to the goal line with your block
10 Burpee Block Jump Overs (BBJO)

Nice work everyone, way to push through and pick up the six
Mary:None
Announcements:
T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer:Fumunga wife and baby, fumunga neighbor, my uncles cancer, firefighters and first responders down south

IPC week 3

FNGs:none
Warm Up:some arm stretches and leg stretches OYO
The Workout: ironpax  week 3

timed workout

400m run

10o merkins

400m run
90 squats

400m run

80 merkins

400m run

70 squats

400m run

60 merkins

400m run

50 squats

400m run

40 merkins

400m run

30 squats

400m run

20 merkins

400m run

10 squats

800 m run

Mary: none
Announcements:mulch Saturday ruck and adopt a highway Sunday 6:00 am
T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer: people affected by sally

Did You Put Those Deer There?

YHC has been trying to get down to “the Quay” more often. Figured if I sign up to Q, I’ll head down there. So YHC decided to Q a couple FV places he’s only been a couple times. Lemme Q Possum Trot and Kenny’s Grave back to back.  You never know what can happen right? After lagging behind somewhat on the EC, YHC was determined to hit at least 3 spots with challenging intensity. At arrival, Fonzie was already game planning for his beatdown to deliver during Q challenge week coming up. So I figured, I better throw out something good today. 13 pax posted strong today!

EC: Fanny Pack, Fonzie, LED, Shamwow!, And Norm (who did about a 1/4 mile catch up as he rolled in a bit late for EC…impressive).

FNG’s: POTS boy…welcome Meatball.  Swedish Metal Music = Meatball. Good enough!
Warm Up: SSH x 30, Good Mornings, Imperial Walkers, Squatted Seal Claps, Squatted Arm Circles F/R, Squatted Overhead Claps, Moroccan Night Clubs.
The Workout: Moseyed a loop and did 11’s on the big grass hill at the corner.  We did Mountain Climbers IC at the bottom, dips on the guardrail up top.  Mosey to the tennis court for some stacked Suicides on the lines. We stacked up and then unstacked with some extra absolutions for our 6.  Line exercises were: 5 absolutions, 10 burpees, 15 star jumps, 20 merkins, 25 monkey humpers, 30 LBC, 35 SSH.  Then we took the same stack back.

Mosey to the restroom pavilion for each pax 10 ct. of people’s Chair x2, and a 10 ct. each pax of BTTW. Finished down there, with 2 deer onlooking, with a dozen of each: shoulder taps, nipplers, Merkins. LED comments, “man Fanny Pack… Did you put those deer there?”  I aim to please…mosey back to the flag for Mary Mary: Feel the PT road rash… 20 Box Cutters, 20 H2M.
Announcements: Q shift week coming up… check Slack.  Mulch continues.., check Slack.  Sign up to Q…seriously fellas…check Slack.
T-Claps (Recognition): Breach showing great instructional form on burpees and absolutions. LED for doing an extra few lines during the suicide stack. My FV brothers for allowing YHC to come to their turf to practice my trade!
Prayer: In a strong move of boldness, Meatball… the FNG… took us out.  See you tomorrow my FV brothers!

Hit the skids

FNGs: None
Warm Up: SSH, Sir Fozie arm circles (10 forward / 10 back) Windmills, single leg dead lift.

The Workout: 4 cones spaced 75 feet apart in a square. cone 1 > PAX choice, Cone 2  > Abs, Cone 3 > Biceps/Triceps, Cone 4 > Chest and back. Group split into teams of 2 and a group of 1.  Each Cone had an additional 44lbs tractor weight. Once the timer started tractor weights could not touch the ground, penalty for dropping was 5 burpees per drop.  A skid was placed at Cone 1 and pushed/pulled to the next cone with the tractor weight. Partner helped without picking up the skid. Once the skid hit cone two the 2nd tractor weight was added and the next group pushed/pulled the skid. This rotation continued around all four cones.  The next pass around the cones we dropped off one weight and continued the rotation. The HIM’s owed 50 burpees at the start of the workout and each pass of the skid deducted the overall burpee count for the 30 min ME.  As the team got the jest of the activity it became very clear that we have conceptual thoughts about how the theories of E=M2 works in physics, but we were very challenged in practical application of the theory.  POTS worked the skid and weight with out a buddy to help and we lost one tractor weight early. 55 burpees before we made one pass and another drop put us at 60.  We got better as the time passed, but a PAX that shall not be named (POTS) maybe dropped two weights accidentally on his mosey to the next cone.  At the end of the 30 min we owed 10 burpees from an apex of 60.

Mary:  Korean Wars (20 count) Ball Diamonds (20 count) Side Raises / Oblique V-ups 10 each then switch sides.

Announcements:  Mulch..Mulch…Mulch.
T-Claps (Recognition):  Thanks Sprinkler for bringing the coupons.
Prayer: Families trying to figure out school and working parents, First responders, People in isolation. Unspoken

The Beatdown as promised

EC:  Fram, LED

PAX:  Fram, LED, H1N1, Messi, POTS, Sprinkler, Martini

Warm Up:

Mosey around the tennis court

Circle up for SSH, Sir Fozie Arm Circles, Windmills, Good Morning, Imperial Walkers, Hillbillies, Daisy Pickers

The Workout:  As promised, there was not coasting into the weekend.

Headed down to the concession stand where we splint into 2 groups of 2 and 1 group of 3.

DORA 1-2-3:  each group performed a cumulative total of 100 merkins, 200 LBC’s and 300 step ups on the wall.  The groug with 3 did 150, 300 and 450.  One PAX from each group took off running up the hill and back down as the other PAX performed the exercise.  When PAX 1 returned, they swapped places and PAX 2 took off running the hill.

Round 2:  100 erkins, 200 reverse LBC’s and 300 calf raises – did not quite make it all the way through the second round

Mary:

Taken care of with the workout

Announcements:

Q sheet has plenty of openings, mulching, 16-Bit looking to add a member to BRR team

T-Claps (Recognition):  Fram and POTS for getting after the EC and POTS for taking us out

Prayer:  Sickness, siutation in the country/world

Honored to Lead!