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R4TJ 5 Year Anniversary – “What we experienced this moanin’ was sum gud ole fashion fun”

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Nine men got stronger on the BEST HILL TRAINING ROUTE EVER. After 25 fast side stradle hops in cadence, we took off. Across Main Street, right on Milpass, left on Crossway, up to Creekvista. Batboy and Flop arrived first and started running the elbow. On this route originated by Wild Turkey, the “elbow” consists of running down Creekvista, running back up, then running to the bottom of Crossway, then running back up to Creekvista. Rinse and repeat as many times as possible before converging for the run back to the flag.  

I got hooked on the elbow last week with Sunshine’s Q. This is the kind of run that is exhausting and exhilarating all at the same time. Everyone ran strong and pushed each other–just like last week. But, no trips this week. Two last week. No “knee-matomas” either. 

Glad to honor the 5-year anniversary of F3SW’s original mid-week run. Thank goodness one of the Original Gangstas @U.T.I. joined us at COT. UCrain told us all about it. Started with his Blue Ridge Relay team looking for a mid-week run. Went to HS Run Club, found very unsatisfying. Got headlocked, I mean, realized they were Freed to Lead and started their own Area of Operations (AO). UTI and Lipstick were site Qs for the first year or so, then @Redenbacher took over for the next four. Red used to wear his DOT approved safety vest. So glad that he broke down this barrier, now I’m proud to wear one. Shout out to Red by wearing my vest in the snap. 

In the end, TomTom declared, “What we experienced this moanin’ was sum gud ole fashion fun” And so it was! It was an honor men.

Flag planted, warmups, run, COT, snap, backblast, done.

Bring back the HC! 

We even got 1.99 miles in

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FNGs: None

Warm up: Mosey to The Block garage. High Knees, Butt Kick, Side shuffle. SSH, GM, Arm Circles, Claps, Daisy Pickers.

The Workout:

5 rounds. PAX shared the count.
10 inverted rows
20 LBC (in cadence)
30 Squats
Mosey to Block Amphitheater
10 Derkins
20 Boat/Canoe
30 Step Ups
Mosey to Block Garage

Mosey back to the flag

Mary – a few stretches

Got 1.99 miles in. 

Announcements: 2nd F Friday lunch

T-Claps (Recognition): 

Prayer: Best in Show’s mom and mother-in-law’s health; Hasselhoff’s friend lost his father

Six Souls Survive Sevens on S(C)emetery Summit

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Warm Up: Quick Mosey, SSH, Windmill, 10 Merkins. Another mosey

Thang 1:

7s on Cemetery Hill: Squats at the bottom, Burpees at the top. (The Humidity was worse than the hill)

For the last round of each we added a twist. 

After completing our last burpee, PAX circled up for a 1 at a time 10 count merkins around the circle. While each PAX pushing the earth down, the other PAX held a low merkin position (similar to a plank, but the bottom of a merkin). 

After completing the last six squats, PAX circled up for a similar exercise as the the top of the hill, only this one featured squats/squat hold.

Thang 2: All PAX moseyed back to the flag, with a quick stop along the way for some calf raises and dips along the curb. We then visited the small rock pile in the corner of the parking lot for some rock work. Colt 45s, Groundpounders and Goblet Squats. We then circled up for a game Q called ‘Duck Duck Bear’: in a circle, each PAX held a bear crawl position (knees low, waist at a 90 angle). In sequence, a PAX would circle the group while performing a bear crawl, the remainder held still. Hold until all have completed a circle. @Batboy made sure to call out “Duck” as he passed each person.

Mary: Homer to Marge, Freddy Mercury’s, Superman, Yoga

Announcements: @Batboy on the Q tomorrow at Purple Cobra, 

Prayer: @Best-In-Show’s Mom, MIL and FIL who are all battling issues. Strength for them, strength for him and his M as they are caretakers. 

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The Bowler Runs 4 The John

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FNGs: Nuh uh

Warm Up: EC was had by 187, Lipstick, UTI

The Workout: A past route of my own creation returns!

Mary: Profuse sweating in the parking lot, heavy breathing

Announcements: 

  • Bottle Share this weekend – see Cupid and Slack
  • Picnic next weekend – see Cupid and Slack
  • 3 Alarm Run – just show up (See Q sheet)
  • R4TJ in need of a site Q – Bring the flag, encourage leadership, draw up some running routes – Ask Lipstick, UTI, and Redenbacher for past Site Q overview.  

T-Claps (Recognition):

Flag provided today by Yogurt – thanks brother!

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Prayer:

  • Maybelline
    • MIL is having open heart surgery, M is traveling to be with her
    • Dad is recovering from recent procedure
  • Pikachu
    • MIL is traveling
    • Mom is having surgery
  • Down Range
    • New baby, new to the area, new job

You Chose Poorly

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11 HIM swung some bells today. YHC brought back some ska hits to keep the tempo moving us. It was a moist one. Some PAX may have chose poorly for a bell to travel with but they pushed through the pain.

WU’s
Good mornings
SSHs
Willie Mayes Hayes
Carolina Dry Docks (slow IC)

12 exercises 3 rds each (15, 12, 10 reps)
3 groups

1 – goblet squat
2 – swings IC
3 – single arm chest press (R arm)
4 – single arm chest press (L arm)
Mosey to playground with traveling curls
5 – bent over rows R
6 – bent over rows L
7 – lunge pulse bell w touch knee R
8 – lunge pulse bell w touch knee L
Mosey to shelter with traveling tris
9 – halos rotate directions (L&R count 1)
10 – pull through merkins (both sides 1)
11 – cross body snatch R
12 – cross body snatch L
Mosey to courts with John Cusaks.

Join Cletus for Mary
Mary almost didn’t happen as Forceps started name-a-rama with 5 mins left. Once that was over YHC saw we had almost 3 mins left.
American Hammers x22
LSF x22
50 sec chillcut plank hood for Forceps respect bday Q

Announcements on slack
Prayers – BS church member lost life to pneumonia mid 30’s lady named Brenae. Forceps lost co-worker to kidney failure. Cousin IT spoke of one but cannot remember.

Nice job today men!
BS Out

Did he just say 50 burpees?

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FNGs: Not really the place for all that…

Warm Up: Good Mornings, Imperial Walkers, Windmill, Overhead Claps

The Workout:

  • Thing 1 – Mini Dora on the tennis courts.  Partner does suicides while other partner exercises, Switch, rinse, repeat.  Exercises were 50 burpees, 100 Mtn Climbers IC, 150 Star Jumps.
  • Thing 2 – Laps around Ting with stops at the ticket booth for step ups and split leg squats and a stop at the guard rail for Irkins, Dirkins, and Dips.

Mary: Stretching and a couple of laps around COT because we were real close on the promised 3 mile minimum.

Announcements: Picnic

T-Claps (Recognition): All the PAX showing up and showing out on a Monday.  Great work out there men!

Prayer: Best In Show’s MIL battling cancer.  PAX training for various races.  YHC took us out.

It’s always an honor to lead in the gloom.  I’ll try to do better next time!

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The Hunt for the Next R4TJ Site Q

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Warm Up: Also No

The Workout:

https://connect.garmin.com/modern/course/158351375

Mary: Still No

Announcements:  R4TJ site Q WANTED

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T-Claps (Recognition):  Happy Birthday 3 ALARM!

Prayer:  Yoshi’s friend Christian, had a medical issue while out of the country.  Made it back but still getting checked out.

Hollywood Birthday Party

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Warm Up: Based on the weather, all PAX headed for the parking deck as soon as 5:30:00 arrived. Warmed up and stretched with Side Straddle Hops, Good Mornings,  Frankenstein’s, and Willy Mays Hays. 

The Workout: PAX tackled a few exercises named after Hollywood classics.

  • First – The Imperial March: Imperial walkers, performed while marching in a circle for the duration of the John Williams classic ‘The Imperial March (Darth Vader’s Theme)”. PAX complained about how long the song was, but not loudly enough to get relief from the Q.
  • Second – Catch Me If You Can: PAX partnered up for a race of sorts. At the sound of ‘GO’, partner one performed five burpees. While partner one performed burpees, partner two attempted to flee as quickly as possible while running backwards. Upon completing the required burpees, partner one sprinted to catch their fleeing partner. Flapjack. Repeato while replacing Burpees with 10 diamond merkins.
  • Third – Field of Dreams: PAX counted off by four, then split to each of the 4 designated ‘bases’. At the sound of ‘GO’, Home plate performed 10 burpees, 1st performed AMRAP merkins; 2nd held a plank; 3rd AMRAP Squats. When homeplate completed the required burpees, they raced down the baseline to first, starting the chain of all stations rotating as they were tagged out. Repeato until all PAX performed burpees. 
  • Round 2 of Catch Me If You Can
  • Round 2 of Field of Dreams, replacing burpees with dips, merkins with derkins, planks with LBCs, squats with Sumo squats
  • Round 3 of Catch Me If You Can – At this point, it became a challenge among PAX to travel further than their partner did. @U.T.I. attempted to gain extra distance on @wildturkey through the use of evasive maneuvers. @wildturkey elected to instead take a shortcut to put a stop to @U.T.I.’s shenanigan’s. 
  • Round 3 of Field of dreams, replacing dips with burpees, derkins with Erkins, LBCs with low-slow-flutter, Sumo Squats with preachers chair.

Ended with a game called Rock Paper Scissors. each PAX measured how many overhead claps they could perform in 20 seconds. They then partnered up to compete in an effort to see who could reach their predetermined number of claps first. In the event of a tie, RPS was played to determine the winner.  After four rounds it was determined that @bestinshow was truly the best-in-show and could have a viable career as a bird if he desired. 

Ended with COT where Q provided doughnut holes for all PAX in celebration of 34 trips around the sun. Nothing makes you want doughnuts like sweaty cardio on a humid morning. 

Mary: None

Announcements: None

Prayer: Davis’s (@davisteitelbaumF3;3Alarm) recovery, @BobbyBoucher’s 2.0 Walt (F3 Bolt) recovery from breathing difficulties yesterday, @Kosher’s mother-in-law recovery from breast cancer. 

Last Day 75Hard

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Warm Up: Bounce, Good morning, Arm Circles/Seal Clap/Overhead Clap, Spinal Rotations

The Workout:

Walked through each compound Kettlebell exercise then two rounds Tabata, 45 seconds on; 15 second rest

  1. Deadlift, Clean, Curl, repeat
  2. Reverse Lunge, Single Arm Press, switch legs half way
  3. Rows 2x each arm, repeat
  4. On your back. KB 45 degree. Alternating Leg extensions. Half way mark switch to Leg Thrusters holding on the bell at top of your head.
  5. 3x KB Swing, 2x Goblet Squat, repeat
  6. Single arm Squat Thrust; switch arms half way.
  7. On your back. Pullover x2, Skull Crusher x3, repeat
  8. Merkin on the Bell, alternate each rep
  9. Renegade Row with Pass Thru, alternate each rep
  10. Ground Pounder

Finisher

5 Rounds OYO: KB Swing – Single Arm Snatch – 50 meter run and back. 25-20-15-10-5 – total 75 reps

Mary: None (Q lost track of time). 

Announcements: Road Clean Up in FV tomorrow.  See 3rd F. April 5th Possum Trot workout and breakfast. 

T-Claps (Recognition): All those who completed 75 Hard. 

Prayer: Sombrero’s 18 month old son possibly needs surgery, Best in Show’s mother-in-law’s battle with cancer. PAX who are ill and dealing with injuries.

Shoulders and Arms

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Warm Up: Lap, SSH, Sir Fozio Arm Circles/Seal Clap/Overhead Clap, Good Mornings

The Workout:

Five rounds: Straight count or in cadence depending on exercise: 25,20,15,10,5 reps for total 75

Cinder Block circuit playground area: Curls, Triceps, Shoulder Press, Row, Ground Pounder

Run to Station Two

Brick Wall Circuit: BTTW, People’s Chair, Carolina Dry Docs

Run back to Playground

Repeat

Mary: LBC, LSF, Box Cutter, Hundreds

Announcements: Man Night at Hope Community Church, Wednesday, March 22nd, 6:30PM.  All men invited. 

T-Claps (Recognition): All the men who completed 75 Hard

Prayer: Nemo’s daughter just turned 15, test for driver’s permit today. All PAX recovering from illness or injury.