Has it been 1-year already???

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11 PAX showed at my 1-year anniversary right here at AGS.  Of course I took the Q and it meant a lot to me to have so many PAX show up on a freezing cold Sunday.  I mentioned in COT I would not have taken any offense to any one of these PAX not showing up today considering how much they’re posting and Q’ing during the week as it is.  This was the most PAX I’ve hosted at AGS since I took over as site-Q back in the fall.  **Mookie, Redenbacher, and Oboe all showed this morning and they were the original 3 PAX I met at AGS 1-year ago today…this meant a LOT to me guys.  There are so many PAX out there that have helped me get to where I’m at today physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually…rather than name all the individual names I just wanted to thank F3, particularly those infamous names out there that are significantly going above and beyond week in/week out.  You know exactly who you are.  THANK YOU ALL.

FNGs: none today

Warm Up:  mosey up and down the tennis court parking lot at Womble, 10x Windmills, 10x Daisy Pickers, 10x Imperial Walkers, 10x Hillbillies, 25x-30x Merkins (pretty much my standard warmup, particularly to stretch out the hamstrings)

The Workout: 6mi loop beginning at Womble with a R on Stinson, R on Bass Lake, L on Salem Ridge, L on Holly Springs, L on Raleigh, L on Grigsby, followed all the way to the backside of Womble Park, ran around Womble for a strong finish back to the tennis court parking lot

Mary: ran out of time unfortunately

Announcements: Sunday Q School 3pm

T-Claps (Recognition): my 1st F3 anniversary with many more to come, also the showing of Mookie, Oboe, and Redenbacher who were the original 3 PAX I met on my first F3 workout exactly 1yr ago to the day right here at AGS!

Prayer:  Pikachu’s M, all the unspoken, YHC felt led to take us out

My Triple Crown @ AGS

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I look for 3 things when I’m running around Holly Springs in the early morning hours: deer, money, and athletic balls (I’ve found baseballs, golf balls, lacrosse balls, and lots of tennis balls).  During EC at AGS with Skidmark and Pikachu I happened to mention this to them because as Skid was pulling into Womble we had noticed 3 deer crossing over Stinson into the woods.  A few minutes prior to this I had found a lacrosse ball running around Womble that I held onto the entire workout.  I rarely ever find money (but I have found loose change running through parking lots and I found (2)-$20 bills running past Mattress Firm near the start to U-Turn over the summer).  Post-workout I was jogging back home and less than a mile from my house I found a $1 bill on the side of a street curb just waiting for me.  I hit my own Triple Crown.  Truth be told, I’d trade in that Triple Crown to see the elusive Albino Deer just once…

FNGs: none today

Warm Up: Twas’ 25 degrees out so we quickly knocked out 10x Imperial Walkers, 10x Frankensteins, 10x Good Mornings, and 10x Daisy Pickers

The Workout: 6.5mi around Holly Springs that I’ve known deer to be hanging out in the early morning eating breakfast (this included cruising down Bass Lake Rd and all the way up Salem Ridge, the intersection of Crossways and Kingsport Dr, front yards on Elm St at Ballentine St intersection, and finally the infamous corner of Stinson and Grigsby St).

Mary: no time today unfortunately

Announcements: Long ass run cancelled for next week.  Plans underway for a 22-mile run at ATF in March.  Wilmington Marathon pushed out until April.

T-Claps (Recognition): Skid and Pikachu knocking down EC and a running workout post-race day.

Prayer: @Lipstick and family for the loss of his Aunt, everything @Forceps has going on, the loss of the 14yr girl in the youth group @Shredder had mentioned a little while ago

Where is the Deer Corridor?

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YHC was just coming back from a foot injury as I took the Q this Sunday. Dropped a TV Table on my foot Thursday. Oh well…let’s give the foot a try. I end up running about 14 miles total with a drop-in from Nemo at our COT and then ran some with him post workout. But, I will say, in running EC today, I didn’t see any deer. Not the infamous albino or any others for that matter. This is strange because the deer usually happen to be plentiful on any EC Womble route.

FNG’s: None
Warm Up: Good Mornings, Frankenstein’s, Hillbillies, and Daisy Pickers  all IC x12
The Workout: A 6 mile route covering some of the famous named hills in Holly Springs including: Library, Elm Street, and Cemetery. This was followed by tackling not such bad hills themselves of Blooming Meadows and up the climb on the Greenway back to Womble. Pretty much we ended up with a somewhat figure 8 pattern around town. We did finally find the deer corridor. It was downtown next to the new construction site. We saw 6 regulars, but sadly…no albinos. It’s ok Vasoline, we all agreed it would be terrible to spot the albino without you there. Of course, Vasoline did complete a full marathon the day before, so the absence will be counted as “excused”.
Mary: None
Announcements: Long Ass Run will be re-scheduled due to Wilmington race re-scheduling.
T-Claps (Recognition): Cupid for pushing through the run for 4 miles as his neck bottomed out again. Focus and mental strength at play.
Prayer: Cupid’s neck, my M. Good surgery, but did not render desired results overall. Back to the drawing board. Honored to lead these men!

Hills seemed like a good idea at the time…

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FNGs: none
Warm Up: SSH x 15, Imperial Walkers x 10, Frankensteins x 10
The Workout: Good weather for a 5.36 mile figure 8 around the Springs. Started out with a strong push up Stinson by the Hunt Center. Also took a trip down Crossway and a return up Stinson for a hilly run. Never too early to start training for BRR, right? Thanks for the accountability and mumble chatter, Nemo.
Mary: nada
Announcements: quiet
T-Claps (Recognition): Nemo for braving the rain.
Prayer: healing and a good year going forward

This Way is Harder

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Core Principle: Workouts are Held Outdoors, Rain or Shine, Cold or Heat. 4 PAX answered the bell for this challenge today at AGS with the temperature around 34 degrees and an increasing rain coming down. There was about a mile where YHC was pretty sure it was sleet… All the men got stronger and a couple hit some milestones.
Warm Up: Good Mornings, Imperial Walkers, Hillbillies, Frankensteins
The Workout: The route had us leaving Womble and heading down Stinson with a left on Bass Lake, Right on Holly Springs Rd., Left on Linksland, and then we ran Crossways (all PAX agreeing that this direction seemed somewhat harder). YHC called an audible from going through the greenways and instead took a Left on Skymont and followed it all the way up through Rhamkatte Village and got back onto Holly Springs road and headed to toward downtown. The lights are always nice this time of year down there and then we turned off to head back to Womble, but went the long way around on Grigsby and through Blooming Meadows. A touch more than 7 miles….and a few minutes late for COT, but all PAX elected to continue during the run.
Mary: None
Announcements: 1 AO, KungPOW open Christmas Friday.
T-Claps (Recognition): Nemo hit his 1000 mile for the year mark, despite being down with sickness for almost a month. Way to not give up or give in HIM! Abe hit a distance PR for himself and said it had been quite some time since he’s run that far. Great push!
Prayer: Vasoline took us out with great words of encouragement and prayer….like any fine site Q would! A true blessing just to be there with this group as they all continue to accelerate. Great work men…now for that hot shower!

A Cold AGS

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FNGs: none
Warm Up: SSH x25, Frankensteins x10, Windmills x10
The Workout: Our route today took us out to Holly Springs Rd, through Sunset Ridge and up Bass Lake Rd before returning back to start. We took a detour on Gable Ridge Rd in Sunset Ridge for an extra hill. Good effort was put forth by all, with everyone taking a turn at the front of the pack and picking up the six at some point. Light mumble chatter along the way, with a pretty quick pace starting out.
Mary: Nada.
Announcements: Christmas Party 12/17 at Bombshell.
T-Claps (Recognition): Oboe and Nemo for getting out on a cold morning and picking up the six.
Prayer: 187, Fanny Pack and Shamwow’s wives for healing.

Do You Even Run Bro?

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Not sure of the condition that Vasoline would be after his 26.2 so I volunteered to take the Q at AGS. Spent some time (2 minutes) and created a nice little 6.1 mile mosey through Holly Springs. As always with AGS some quality mumble chatter and encouragement along the route.

Vasoline started at 0500 because that’s what Vasoline does. YHC and FNG started at 0530 for three miles, joined by Vasoline. Two more joined at 0600.

FNGs: Welcome Odyssey
Warm Up: Nah. Let’s get it!
The Workout: 6.1 mile route that included Crossway, Bass Lake, and Stinson Hills.
Mary: Hands on your knees.
Announcements: Shirt order coming soon. SW Ted Talks
T-Claps (Recognition): Vasoline on his first 26.2
Prayer: Nemo and his family, Family in Holly Glen, Vasoline’s friend, People thinking about suicide.

Let’s Go Treasure Hunting

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YHC decided to take the PAX up and around Ting Park this morning and hunt for some “treasure” along the way.  Over the past 3 weeks I’ve found 2-$20 bills, a quarter, and a few pennies while running.  I had found a baseball in the Ting Park parking lot running for some EC the day prior and I’ve also found a couple of tennis balls at Ting in the upper backside parking lot near the tennis courts over the past month or so.  I run through Ting Park at least 2-3 times a week and afterwards I’ll usually pass the front of my neighborhood before jumping on the Crossways route off of Main St and I’ll toss the tennis ball or baseball at the front of my neighborhood and retrieve it later in the morning while walking my dog.  We didn’t find anything at Ting Park today but YHC found a penny on the way there and then @Cupid and I found a couple of pennies in the Womble parking lot post-workout.  I’m always looking for 2 things while running: treasure and the infamous white albino deer.

FNGs: None

Warm Up: 10x Good Mornings, 10x Imperial Walkers, 10x Hillbillies, 10x Daisy Pickers

The Workout: 6mi run leaving Womble, L on Stinson, R on Grigsby, L on Holly Springs Rd, R on Main St, L at Ting Park (run around the entire parking lot, R on Main St, followed Main St all the way up to 55 before turning around, R on Oak St, R on Grigsby, L on Stinson with a hard sprint back to Womble

Mary: No time this morning

Announcements: Food Cupboard project coming up, Phase 3 began in Wake County on Friday 10/2 at 5pm

T-Claps (Recognition): @Yogurt making 6mi look easy

Prayer:  all the families, parents, and children whose lives have changed due to COVID-19, all the kids going back to school, those who are suffering from sickness, disease, addiction, mental illness, and for those who have lost their way following the Lord’s path

Coming in HOT…

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Prior to the start of AGS a few PAX were running through a neighborhood on Stinson towards Womble after coming off of Bass Lake and a car must have been going 45-50mph right towards us.

ALWAYS stay alert out there…it’s staying darker later and later in the morning.

SYITG…

FNGs: none

Warm Up: none since Pikachu, McNugget, and I were already at 12mi of EC and Skidmark was already at 5mi of EC

The Workout: 8 miles around Holly Springs

Mary: not today

Announcements: 6-8 PAX needed for upcoming Food Cupboard event (more info coming out in the next couple of weeks)

T-Claps (Recognition): Kudos to Pikachu, McNugget, and I for completing a 20mi run (by far the most I’ve ran at AGS).  Also Skidmark joining us for 12mi and Cupid joining us for 8mi and keeping us motivated.  Lastly, picking up the 6.

Prayer: continued recovery of Skidmark’s dog who was involved in a neighborhood dog fight, comfort for Moby and his family, prayers and comfort for those with any illness, depression, addiction, lost of a loved one.

Was that a snake…nope that was flatulence

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**I would like to open up this BB by apologizing to @Full House and explaining the above title…please forgive me Full House!!!  About 3-miles into our 6-mile workout I was running with Alpine and my stomach was giving me some awful pain.  I told Alpine my stomach was jacked and to keep going and I would catch up.  I stopped dead in my tracks and ripped one for what felt like 10-seconds.  Well it wasn’t until the end of the workout that Full House mentioned that he was trailing us during the run and thought I had stopped to look at a snake or something.  As soon as he ran through the exact spot where I had unleashed my stomach pains, he took the brunt of the aftermath.  I cannot not apologize enough @Full House and I can’t believe I’m mentioning this in a BB that will forever be posted.  I will be hanging my head in shame every time I see you for quite some time my man.

FNGs: none

Warm Up: 10x Daisy Pickers, 10x Good Mornings, 25x shoulder-width Merkins, 10x Imperial Walkers, 10x Hillbillies, 10x Fazio Arm Circles (Fwd & Rev), 25x wide positioned Merkins

The Workout: 3PAX prepping for BRR ran 3-miles with post-stretching, 4PAX ran 6miles on the “standard route”: Start off leaving Womble with a R on Stinson, R on Bass Lake, L on Salem Ridge, L on Linksland, R on Holly Springs, L on Raleigh, L on Grigsby all the way to the backside of Womble, L into the lot behind the ball fields, R at the playground, Finish back at the parking lot

Announcements: BRR this upcoming weekend, Friday 9/11 Stair Climb (posted by @ShamWow), Goggins Challenge – 4 miles every 4 hours for 48 hours (48-miles total) on 9/18 beginning at 8pm (posted by @Bernie)

T-Claps (Recognition): Picking up the 6

Prayer: safety of all who are participating in the BRR event this weekend (both travelling and running throughout the event)