Normageddon, Part 3: No time to roost

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YHC’s 2 year anniversary tour continued at The Nest where we had great temps but definitely no time to roost. After a solo EC, YHC returned to the parking lot where a handful of PAX were preparing for what was to come.

It was an honor to lead as always and I’m thankful for those who showed up to encourage and push me. It means more than you guys know.

FNGs: None

Warm Up:
Mosey around the parking lot
SSH x 20 IC
Frankensteins x 15 IC
Daisy Pickers x 15 IC
Good Mornings x 10 IC
Windmills x 10 IC
Imperial Walkers x 10 IC
Hillbillies x 10 IC

The Workout:
We moseyed over to the baseball field which has never before been utilized at The Nest as far as anyone could remember.
Start off with 5 burpees at home plate > bear crawl to 1st base > plank hold for the 6 > do an arm exercise (Round 1 = Merkins x 10) > Lunge walk to 2nd base > squat hold for 6 > do an ab exercise (Round 1 = WW2 x 10 IC) > crab walk to 3rd base > squat or plank for the 6 > do a leg exercise (Round 1 = squats x 10 IC) > crawl bear to home plate > plank hold for the 6 > complete the round with (you guessed it) 5 celebratory burpees and a victory lap around the bases.

Round 2: R&R plus 5 reps (15 @ each base)
Round 3: Pax chose to change the exercises to Carolina Dry Docks @ 1st base, LBC’s @ 2nd base, and Monkey Humpers (thanks a lot Gump!) @ 3rd base – plus 5 reps (20 @ each base)
Round 4: R&R minus 5 reps (15 @ each base)

That was all we had time for so moseyed back to the parking lot for Mary…

Mary:
American Hammers (x 15 IC)
Freddie Mercuries (x 15 IC)
Box Cutters (x 15 IC)
Homer to Marge (x 10 IC)
Homer to Marge – right leg up (x 10 IC)
Homer to Marge – left leg up (x 10 IC)
Have a Nice Day!

Announcements:
Mulch on Saturday; Adopt a highway on Sat. @ 6am at Needmore Park

T-Claps (Recognition): Great work HIM! > Congrats on the new job Finkle!

Prayer:
FloJo traveling and family challenges; pray for our nation – healing and recovery from COVID; Finkle’s new Job

Sharing is Caring

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Two weeks in a row we’ve shared The Nest with a female workout group (Not FIA). Luckily we’ve had different plans and stayed apart. Guess, we’re going to have to be good neighbors and share the gloom until the gyms open back up.

FNGs: None

Warm Up: Short Lap, SSH, Willie Mays Haze, Fazio Arm Circles, Michael Phelps

The Workout:

Bear Crawl Indian Run from the parking lot to the Middle school sidewalk. PAX in a line hold a plank while the back moves up in a bear crawl. Stop at the short wall for 2 sets of Dips, Irkins, Box Jumps, Cubicles (ha! new name by Norm, seated squats),  Dirkins. Walk Like an Egyptian (Lunge Walk Indian Run) back to the road at the top of the park… the burn is real…

What should we name this one? Benjamin’s, Centurion, One Hundo’? They called this Route 66 in the Lexicon, but we don’t have as many light poles. Run along the road doing 5 exercises at each of the 5 light poles. Come back doing the same thing but with the next exercise. Total of four rounds makes 100. Merkins, IC Squats, Star Jumps, Burpees.

Celebrated Phase 2.5 with pull-ups on the playground AMRAP.

Mary: Circle for Mary. Low Slow Flutter, WW2, Big Boy Sit-ups, LBCs, American Hammers

Announcements: Iron Pax Challenge, BRR this weekend, Sign up for mulch

T-Claps (Recognition): All the boyz

Prayer: Unspoken

Abe visits the Nest

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The call went out last night for a Q for the Nest. I’ve never been to the Nest, so I figured it was a good excuse to make the trek down to the ‘Quay. YHC didn’t have a plan going in. I got there a little early to scope it out, and seeing how squarely-shaped the park was, good ol’ 7 of Diamonds seemed to fit the bill. Martini and H1n1 were already there, running EC. Two FNGs showed up a few minutes before 0530 to make a nice, manageable team of 5. The newbie spiel was delivered and we were off.
FNGs: Bogey (likes to golf) and his son Sweet Tea (works at Chick-Fil-A)
EC: Martini, H1N1
Warm Up: Jogged around the parking lot, then circled up for SSH x 15, Imperial Walkers x 10, Hillbillies x 10, Fozio Arm Circles, 10 forward / 10 reverse, and Good Mornings x 10.
The Workout: 7 of Diamonds was the name of the game today. But instead of rounding the bases, we rounded Falcon Park. Round 1, 7 reps. Round 2, 14 reps, Round 3, well, you get the picture. Exercise one is the standard murkin. Exercise two is the prisoner squat. Exercise 3, catalina wine mixers. Exercise 4, WWIIs.
PAX then jogged around to the brick wall in the parking lot and grabbed some people’s chair. Everyone held people’s chair while one PAX rain down to the end of the parking lot and back. Then it was the next PAX’s turn. We did this until everyone had a turn to run.
We ended with a quick indian run around the parking lot.
Mary: LBCs x 15, Freddie Mercuries x 15, Shoulder Taps x 10, Pickle P0unders x 10, Reverse LBCs x 10, something else I forgot and American Hammers x 10.
Announcements: Mulch sign up
T-Claps (Recognition): Bogey and his son Sweet Tea for coming out and joining us in the gloom.
Prayer: Parents juggling their kids’ school, especially Norm’s wife who’s flying solo while Norm is away for training.

Co-Q Duel at the Nest

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PAX: Boy George, Gamecock, Banana Seat, Sprinkler, ShamWow, Dahmer, Dawgpound, Mookie, Fanny Pack, Pumpkin Spice, Snap, Wallaby, Florence/FloJoe, H1N1, Cupid, Bobby Doll, 16-Bit, Nemo, Fram, Hardy, Fumunga, Moped, Bondo. Martini

EC:  There was a Crew

FNGs:None

Warm Up:  SSH, Sir Fozie Arm Circles, Windmills, Hillbillies, Imperial Walkers, Daisy Pickers

The Workout:  Count of by 3’s.

Group 1 to the Wall:  People’s Chair 5 count down the line, bear crawl to the island, 10 merkins, bear crawl back to the wall.  BTW 5 count down the line, lunge walk to the island 10 monkey humpers, lunge walk back to the wall.  Rise and repeat until time to switch.

Group 2 to the shelter:  1 leg squats x 10 each side, 10 Erkins, 10 Dips, 10 Derkins, 10 LBC’s.  Rinse and repeat unitl time to switch.

Groupt 3 – 4 corners aourn the permieter of the park.  corner 1 = 5  burpees, mosey to corner 2, 10 merkins, mosey to corner 3, 15 LBC IC, mosey up to hill to corner 4, 20 squats.

Once the group doing 4 corners made it back to the wall, everyone rotate.

Mary:  Boc Cutters, Homer to Marge, Reverse LBC’s, American Hammers

Announcements:  Mulch, 2 Options on Thursday (Kenny’s Grave & DDMR @ Tigers Blood)

T-Claps (Recognition):  Everyone who came out.  Boy George & Gamecock for the help w/ the Q

Prayer:  Everyone with kids returning to school

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!

The Nest 7-21-20

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EC:

Norm, Fumuga

PAX:

Norm, Fumunga, H1N1, Messi, Gamecock, Bananna Seat, Martini

Warm Up:

Mosey around the outside of the park

SSH x 20

Imperial Walker x 10 IC

Hillbillies x 10 IC

Good Moring x 10 IC

Windmills x 10 IC

Daisy Pickers x 10 IC

The Workout:

DORA 1-2-3:  PAX split into groups of 2 with 1 group of 3.  100 Merkins, 200 LBC, 300 Squats (team with 3 did 150, 300, 450).  Exercise was performed by PAX 1 while PAX 2 took a lap around the parking lot.

Round 2:  100 Dips, 200 Reverse LBC, 30o Calf Raises

Complete round 2 with about 10 minutes remaining.

Lined up shoulder to shoulder (w/ safe social distance).  First PAX in line took off runing arougn the parking lot.  2nd Pax in line called an exercise that the remaing PAX performed unti PAX 1 returned form his lap.  PAX 2 took off for a lap an PAX 3 called and exercise.  Continued unitl all PAX got their chance to call and exercise and complete a lap.

Mary:

Took care of during the workout

Announcements:

Plenty of opportunities to Lead – Sign up on the Q Sheet

3rd F Mulching – Sign up on Slack

Prayer:

Mulitiple sick co-workers/friends

 

Great work Men, it was an honor to lead!

“Fun” with Cards at The Nest

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EC:

Fumunga, Norm, Martini

Fumunga dropped some knowledge of a comment visible to the north west.  With this information we headed out on an alternate EC route to see if we could spot it . . . we didn’t.  Once we got back he informed us that is was actually visible form the north east, not north west.  Oh well, we sitll got in some good miles and a tour of the Quay.

PAX: 

Fumunga, Norm, Martini

Yosemite origninally had the Q today, but due to an injury YHC got the opportunity to lead.

Warm Up:

SSH x 10 IC

Sir Fozzie Arm Circles x 10 each front & back

Imperial Walkers x 10 IC

Hillbillies x 10 IC

Windmills x 10 IC

Daisy Pickers x 10 IC

The Workout:

Deck of Death:

Each card worth Face Value, Face Cards worth 10, Aces = 3 Burpees, Jokers = 5 Burpees

Hearts = Bobby Hurley

Diamonds = Merkins

Spaces = Squats

Clubs = LBC

Made it through the deck with time to spare.  Norm Suggested we proceed with 4 Corners around the Park.  Off we headed.  Stop 1 Norm deciced we would do Carolina Dry Dock x 15.  Second stop Fumung decided to bear crawl up the stairs, up the ramp and back down the stairs.  Third Stop Martini chose toe taps x 20 IC.  Fourth stop was at the rails where Norm chose Erkins x 10, Derkins x 10, Dips x 10.  Once Complete headed back to the starting position just in time for Mary.

Mary:

Reverse LBC x 10 IC

Heel Taps x 10 IC

Box Cutters x 10 IC

Plank walk-0ut (?) – someting that Fumunga brought up

Announcements:  Mulching, Sign up to Q

Prayer:  Soldier in Norm’s unit in ICU w/ COVID, PAX w/ babies on the way, Injuries

Great Work Men!

That’ll Make You Feel Alive!

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Stop #2 on my self imposed 5 day Q and EC tour.  This time, YHC hit the cozy confines of The Nest down in the heart of Fuquay-Varina with the promise of getting in some last day RUNE miles and to see some FV brothers I don’t see in the gloom so much. The Nest is an AO with quite a few features and lots of options for a solid Q.  One feature worth noting today would be road rash on the back and knees doing exercises today.  Good amount of gravel in the skin. It’s not a Possum Trot level surface, but many places at the Nest are not friendly.  This includes the grass.   Word of wisdom, don’t do burpees or merkins in the grass down by the entrance! You, like Buttermilk, May get to feel very “alive” if you do.  Not sure if it was fire ants, sand burs, or just grass thorns, but Buttermilk got some in his hands and apparently it’s not pleasant!

EC: Fanny Pack, Dovetail, Gamecock, 16 Bit, Boy George, Norm, Buttermilk.

FNG’s: Too soupy???
Warm Up: Circled up for Good Mornings, IW’s, HB,s, Frankenstein’s, Fazios, and Chinooks.  Mosey up to the street.
The Workout: With it being the last day of RUNE, YHC knew and pre- blasted there would be a fair amount of running. Ended up with about 2.5 during the workout today. Pax drew the 7 of Diamonds to get that done today.  Each corner around the perimeter of the park for each round had: 7 burpees, 14 WW2’s, 21 Jack Webb’s ( 7 merkins with 21 air presses), and 28 Shoulder Taps. Pax all did a great job of taking duty and calling counts.

Mosey to wall and partnered up. 1 partner does People’s Chair while other bear crawls to the curb and does Irkins to a 5 count, bear crawl back.  Switch. We did this on a descending count of Irkins from 5 to 1.

There was some mumblechatter and disagreements about mileage today so YHC wanted to put that to bed by calling a mosey loop in the parking lot followed by an Indian run that gave us a couple more spins around the lot. Return to the shovel flag for Mary.
Mary: Freddie Mercury’s, Plank Holds (standard and chill cut/2 rounds). Have a nice day.
Announcements: Mulch. Sign Up.
T-Claps (Recognition): Plenty of EC today!
Prayer: Finkle to finish strong on a software engineering class he’s doing.  Dovetail stepped up to take us out.  Honor to lead in a new place. Gotta get down to the FV more often.

Helping Fumunga Lose The Vacation 15 lbs

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PAX: Fumunga, Gamecock, Banana Seat, Yosemite, Finkle, Norm, Buttermilk

7 PAX met in the Nest with ~98% Humidity with no mosey in sight.

Warm Up: 2 Laps around the Parking Lot with dynamic stretching.

The Workout: 25 Seconds on; 5 Second Rests

Round 1: Bobby Hurley’s, Deconstructed Lower Burpees, Side Shuffles, Goofballs, High Jump Knee Tucks; Repeat 4 times

Round 2: 180 Squat Jumps, Mountain Climbers, Switch Lunges, Crap Kicks, Full Burpees; Repeat 4 times

Round 3: Straight through Round 1 and Round 2

Mary: 25 seconds on, 5 second rest
Rising Flutter Kicks, Rockers, Toe Touches, Heel Taps, WWI, Slow Scissors, Freddy Mercury’s, WWI

Announcements: Mulch, 10 Year F3, Emphasized Pikachu’s Announcements on Slack

Prayer: Those that have recently lost love ones, Gamecock’s 2.0 due in November, Fumanga and his M.

A double Dora with a little bit more

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YHC ran from home this morning for EC. With Rune going on and not sure who had the Q, I figured getting 2 miles before and after the workout would help make sure I hit my goal for the week. Took a detour to get a bit extra mileage and did a quick 30 second sprint on a Strava segment, which I immediately regretted doing thanks to the dew point of 72. Finished with a short walk/jog to the AO to see Sprinkler’s truck, but no-one else. Asked if he had the Q, but he didn’t. We waited a few minutes until go time and I decided to lead this morning.
EC: Boy George
FNGs: None
Warm Up: Took a quick lap around the parking lot to give me a few minutes to figure out a workout. We lined up for these exercises:
Side straddle hops – 20 IC
Windmills – 10 IC
Sir Fazio arm circles – 10 IC forward, 10 IC reverse
Seal Claps – 10 IC
Overhead Claps – 10 IC
Imperial Walkers / Hillbillies – 10 IC each
The Workout: There are a few go-to workouts that a PAX should always have ready in their arsenal if they are called on to lead at the last minute. DORA is one of those. Settled on doing a combined 100 merkins, 200 squats, and 300 LBCs, one PAX does as many reps of whatever exercise while the other PAX runs ~0.1 mile loop around the parking lot. For the most part, we matched our reps almost exactly, doing 20-30 of 2 different exercises each round (merkins+squats until we reached 100 merkins, then merkins+LBCs, then a few rounds of 50 LBCs each).
We finished up and I checked my watch – that only took 13 minutes!! After a few seconds of thinking, decided to keep it simple and rinse and repeat. 2nd time around we were a bit slower, but t-claps to Sprinkler for knocking out 55 LBCs and then 50 more in less than a minute each round.
We were now around 33 minutes and had a little over 1.5 miles. I know the big loop at The Nest is around 0.4 miles, so we did a bit of running together. We stopped at each of the 4 corners to do even more reps – 10 merkins, 20 squats and 30 LBCs. After 2 corners we were sick of those, so YHC called an audible – stop 3 was 10 Carolina Dry Docks, 20 forward lunges, and 15 low slow flutter in cadence, stop 4 was also 10 C.D.D., 20 reverse lunges, and 15 Freddie Mercury’s in cadence. Jogged back to the parking lot and we were both smoked, so naturally we finished with 5 burpees.
Mary: None
Announcements: Rune going strong
T-Claps (Recognition): Sprinkler for pushing the rock today
Prayer: Prayers for everyone affected by the big issues going on in our world currently – covid, protest, etc. For our local/state/federal gov’t to be good leaders and make wise decisions. For PAX who have recently lost family members. For PAX who have financial struggles due to job loss.

I hadn’t planned on taking the Q today, but am glad I did. I always feel like I push myself harder when I do. Honored for the opportunity to lead today.