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Paradise City Q of the Year?

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YHC showed up early to set up some equipment for todays beat down. The preblast had a comment saying this would be the best Q of the year. Needless to say I think it was, considering there was only 1 other one. This is the rare occasion I have the honor to Q PC and know the standard mileage is 3 or more. YHC wanted to bring the intensity and keep the PAX moving with the option to push themselves. We had 11 HIM show up for the main event with a few ECers. One dude rucked it up as well. This is what we did.

Run big loop reverse with warm up exercises along the way.
Frankensteins
Windmills
Skiers
Copperhead Dirkens

7’s on ramp down to sportsman – burpees and worst Merkin ever
Agility ladders on the flat in the middle

Stack’ems in the parking lot (snake)
Shoulder tap merkins x10
Freddy Mercury’s x20
Chilly jacks x30
Bobby Hurleys x40 – didn’t have enough time

No Mary
No new announcements
Prayers for lady dying of cancer, church family had a loss, Pablo’s family with their loss.
YHC challenged the PAX to stop going through the motions and get out of their comfort zone. Do something to benefit someone each day.

Pleasure to lead men!
BS out

Lucky Thirteen

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Warm Up: side straddle hops and good mornings while the stragglers assembled.

The Workout: standard route in reverse. Optional 4mi route as desired

Announcements: Q school tomorrow at Womble at 14:00

Prayer: injured and sick PAX, Pablo’s sister passed away unexpectedly at Xmas.

Cletus Rules!

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Lots of chatter the night before Cletus. YHC was inviting everyone to come out for an old school beat down. There were a lot of PAX getting in some early miles before the main event. After 21 PAX showed it was 0530. One more came flying in making it 22 total for the AO. We had a lot of smells coming from multiple guys but we survived. Here’s what was on the menu.

Warm up
Mosey to lower lot area, circle up
Burpees x5
Seal Jacks x20 IC
Burpees x5
Bat wings x20 IC
Burpees x5
Cotton pickers x10 IC
Burpees x5

Mosey to lot near volleyball
7’s Bonnie Blair squat broad jumps
– sea star jump ups
– Curb hand release derkins

Partner carry to ball field entrance
Partner wheelbarrow and switch until reach statue

Circle around statue on six for Guantanamo

Mosey to concession stand
BTTW shoulder taps x10 IC
Wall sit hallelujahs x10 IC
R&R

Indian run 2 groups to tennis courts
Stay in groups in corners
Crab bucket corners
1 – crab cakes
2 – crab humpers
3 – crab jacks
Crab walk to each corner
X10 reps IC for all

Mary
Sally abs
Side raises
Plank hold to Chillcut hold
HAND

COT was interesting as we had a buck walk over in the parking lot. Guess he was an FNG we missed earlier.
Announcements on slack
Pikachu took us out in prayer.

Excellent turnout and strong work from the pax today. As always, it’s an honor and a pleasure to be able to lead a group of HIM.

BS out!

Meet Charles Bronson

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EC: Standard 2 mile route – solo

Warmups: Ran one lap around the main circuit and stopped for Good Mornings (10x), SSH (50x), and that’s about it. Back to the basketball court area for the ME. 

ME: I centered the workout on reaching 3 miles running. How do you get there? You run around the main 0.5 mile circuit 6 times. No problem. But what about the exercises? Hmmmmm. Hello Lexicon!

Meet Charles Bronson. Wikipedia: One film critic said that Bronson “oozed male life-force, stoic toughness, capability, strength.” Ha! That’s perfect for an F3 RESPECT week workout. 

In the Charles Bronson exercise, you begin with a 50-rep exercise–again, perfect for RESPECT week. We did overhead claps, jump lunges, LBCs, Merkins, and regular lunges. Next time I’ll make the exercises a lot harder. 

I had set up cones on the back stretch, where it’s slightly uphill, perfect for accelerated runs. We did the exercises and runs together. 

Cone 1: Accelerate to cone 1, but you must reach your top speed as you cross the finish line. So, you must accelerate all the way! 

Cone 2: Decelerate to cone 2. Because you hit top speed at cone 1, you need a short distance to slow down.

Cone 3: Bear crawl from cone 3 to upper corner of the lot. Then, run together, circling back to basketball court corner, rinse and repeat five times, at least.

Mary: 3 minutes ab work, including 50 big boy sit ups and more.

RESPECT Message: Be a positive impact on your community. Last weekend I was biking and was disappointed to see graffiti on the freshly painted white walls as I passed through the under pass tunnel. On my return, however, I could smell fresh spray paint. Aha! Thinking I was gonna catch the culprits red handed, I rolled into the tunnel to find a father and some teens spraying white, over the graffiti! I was so impressed. The community wins! 

So, if you see the opportunity to have a positive impact, go for it! 

Paradise City 10/24

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FNGs: none

Warm Up: SSH, Good Morning, Fazzio Arm Circles F/R, Windmill, Imperial Walkers

The Workout: Simple 7’s – Make 7 laps around Ting with stops at the top of the ramp and basketball court.  At each stop PAX perform 7 hand release merkins and 7 Freddie Mercury’s IC.

Mary: Homer to Marge, Low slow flutter and LBC

Announcements: CPR class

T-Claps (Recognition): All PAX posting on a Monday morning!

Prayer: unspoken

Climbing the Mountain to Paradise City

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PAX: @Pikachu, @Dahmer, @Dumbo, @Breach, @8bit, @187, @Full House, @U.T.I., @Dawgpound, @Skidmark, @Fumunga, @Emeril, @Moose, @Katniss, @Pablo, @Redenbacher, @Woody, @Finkle
Warm Up: Mosey around the tennis courts and down the ramp.  We did our stretches on the way back up the ramp stopping at each blue sign.  Walking cradles, walking toe touches, walking lunges, walking lateral lunges both sides.  At the top we did a round of Good Mornings and then Daisy Pickers and ran back down the ramp to the East Parking lot.
The Workout: Stacking four corners 3 rounds.  Round one: Merkins, Shoulder Taps, Side planks all sets of ten.  Round two: Squats, sumo squats, lunges, Richard Simons one leg squats.  Round three: LBCs, Reverse CBLs, Flutter Kicks, ABCs in capitals.

Climbing the mountain: running the whole length of the parking lot we stopped at major cross walks and completed sets of 10, 20, 30, 40, and 50 mountain climbers.  Thanks @Pikachu for the cadence counts.  Very nasty and lots of chatter.

Mary: We finished with a victory lap up the ramp and around the tennis courts.
Announcements:
T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer: @Skidmark’s mother-in-law with covid and family in quarantine, @Pikachu and M looking to start a family, all the 2.0s starting college or getting ready to go back to grade school.

A Good Mix of Hills

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Run for the John route had us doing 5.3 miles today.
Warm Up:Windmills, Frankenstein, and Imperial Walkers  x12.
The Workout: Leave Ting, head up Crossway, right on Flint Point until Madsen at Rhamkatte.  Take Old Ride out to Holly Springs Rd. Right on Holly Springs Rd. Right into Jones Park and the path to Veterans Park. Go around Veterans lake and take Chrismill left until we get back to Crossway. Take a right on Millpass and a left on Anchor Creek back to Ting.
Mary: no
Announcements: no
T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer: Stubs, Lipstick family, Oyster good hip diagnosis. YHC took us out!

R4TJ, Cat in the Hat Version

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A baker’s dozen showed up for a Cat in the Hat tour around Arbor Creek

2 for EC (Fram and Breach)  ME- Fram, Roaming Knome, LipStick, 187, Dumbo, McNugget, AXE, Bobby Dall, Bobby Boucher, Cancun, Abe, Woody and Breach on the Q

Warm Up: 22 counts of Frankensteins and Lunges to get the legs ready to go

The Workout: We took a tour de Arbor Creek in a very suspect-looking Cat in the Hat pattern, my GPS must have gotten off as I had to course correct a few times, but we made it back to ting as a group in just over 45 mins and we all did just about 5 miles.

Announcements: Take a look at the post that Dumbo put out on Slack, we are here to help and accerlerate each other, we may not always agree with each other, but respect needs to stand. We should encourage those around us, not put them down.

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+1 Point #June Challenge

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The Workout: We Ran…and it was good…and we went by crossways on a U Turn route 🙂
Mary:
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Prayer:

Toilet paper Team Tear

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13 PAX showed at R4TJ for a changed up event. First day of June challenge is off to a great start.

Divide into two teams
Run a 0.9 route/lap inside Ting
Once 5 laps are completed, you run only the square route.

The flag will be at the top of the ramp with a roll of TP on it. Each time you pass you pull one sheet and add it to your teams pile. The team with the most sheets at the end of 50 mins wins. Timer will be set at the flag.

We ended up with 45 vs 40 sheets of TP. Nice work gents and great push.

BS out!