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Sheepdog – finding Baby Jesus…

8 Pax w/ 1, 2.0 killed it this morning with a little Egyptian, planets aligning with the moon, find baby Jesus vibe. Kidding aside, the sight was pretty cool! Black Knight, 2.0, just wrapped up a 5-pack with his 1st week at F3. Ā Bam!!! Set the bar. Get this kid Breathtaker.

EC Beater & YHC

Warm Up: mosey to the front. SSH, Sir FAC (F&B), Michael Phelps, IM & HB with a little extra push to engage the core. Ā  Frankensteins

The Workout: mosey to the brick knee walls for some traveling. Three sets of Erkin travel around kneewall and lunges between. Wing Chun strikes and wedging between each set. Last set, Pax had a choice between military, diamond, or one arm erkins. Moseyed to the back. Introduction to breaking someone balance in preparation to take them down.
Mary: plank tap; wrists, shoulders, hips, knees, anckles then back. 5 sets, no rest. LBCs, Boxcutters, LSF.
Announcements: BRR, ATT CSUP, Wrightsville, Breathtaker.
Prayer: Friend of Beater lost his mom. Pax in need; health, etc.

The Rise of the Tiger Hawks

The first AO to see the rise of the Tiger Hawks!Ā  The new shirts look awesome, good to see the first ones hitting the streets at U-Turn this morning.Ā  Thanks for modeling Warbucks

EC: Deadbolt, Warbucks, LED, PSI, Roger Roger, THE DawgPound, Cowboy, SlideRule, Full House

Cowboy and DawgPound commuted to U-Turn on foot today from hills of 12 Oaks.Ā  The rest of us rallied at Starbucks for a 3-mile loop through the business park.

Warm Up:Ā  Frankenstein Kicks, Daisy Pickers, High Knees, Butt Kickers, Side Straddle Hops

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Welcome FNG ShamWow! – A resident of Holly Springs that enjoys running (who likes running!?) and has a pretty killer pace.Ā  He is a resident of Holly Springs and is in sales.Ā  Our F3 hivemind this morning went down the infomercial path and gave him a name that is “As Seen on TV

The Workout:Ā  Traditional U-Turn 5mi route was mapped and offered and for the masses.Ā  Plenty of turning for the 6 going on along the way.Ā  A few went “off the map” to hit their personal targets.Ā  Great work to all #HIM for braving the below freezing morning.

Mary:Ā  Nope! No Girls allowed.

Announcements:Ā  Nope! and very sorry to have passed over this.Ā  I guess I was getting cold?Ā  Excited to run?Ā  Still really bad at being a Q?Ā  As always keep an eye on your social media platform of choice.Ā  Please toss them out on the BackBlast post.

Prayer:Ā  Again – BAD UTI, BAD UTI – Skipped over Prayer.Ā  It wasnt intentional…Ā  Please know I realized my error when we got back to Starbucks and I did pray for those unspoken prayers since I’m absent minded.Ā  For those things that we should raise up out in the open, please post them on FB/Slack under the BB post so we can pray for them directly.

Sheepdog – menstrual cycle!?!

8 Pax did I their thang this morning with some ā€œcolorfulā€ commentary from Gump. EC – Beater, Dovetail & YHC. Ā Beater killed it!

Warm Up: Beater led the warm up with a light jog to the back. Pax circled up and ran through some stretching, Sir Fazio Arm Circles , Good Mornings, Merkins, and SSH. (Think Iā€™m missing one).
The Workout: YHC led the workout with step ups, dips, 50 uppercuts. Indian Run to the front. (Que Gumps uncomfortable mumblechatter) Started at one island. Toe taps, cerkins, and fast uppercuts. Then dip kicks to the center island. (Heā€™s still talking) More toe taps, cerkins, and uppercuts. Traveled around the island. Dip kicks to the last island. Rinse and repeat. (Pax šŸ¤¢ -not from the workout) Moseyed to the side parking lot. Core/knee strike drills. Then Muay Thai clinch with knee strike. Counter knee strikes. Escapes.
Mary: Dovetail led Mary with some Dollys, Thorā€™s, and some crazy rotational LSF.
Announcements: BRR signups, ā€œpass it forwardā€ RoadID bands (Gump will buy the next one. Someone take him up on it.)
Prayer: The std. requests plus LED and Dovetailā€™s sister. Gump took us out.

She Thinks my Shoulders are Sexy

Great Job today guys! Ā 25 pax including 2.0 Sandlot

9 pax for EC- Fonzie, Ā Slide Rule wearing breathtaker, Pablo, Dumbo, The Natural, Messi, H1N1,Roger Roger, LED

 

Warm Up:jog to concession stand. 20IC SSH, 10-forward 10- reverse fazio arm circles, 10 count good morning, shoulder and arm stretches, 10 merkins, 20 wall planks IC
The Workout:mosey to tennis courts, count off in 2ā€™s

burpee break down

1st round

1- balls to wall shoulder taps while

2- jog to 1st line, 2nd line…3rd and 4th doing following respectively

4 merkins, 8 in/outs, 12 squats, 16 burpees returning to start each time with backwards run

Switch and repeat

2nd round

1-WWII

2- jog to 4th line, 3rd line…2nd and 1st doing the following respectively

4 burpees, 8 squats, 12 in/outs, 16 merkins

Switch and repeat

4 corners modified

bear crawl to 1st line

10 star jumps

bear crawl to 2nd line

10 star jumps, 20 plank jacks

bear crawl to 3rd line

10 star jumps, 20 plank jacks, 30 SSH

bear crawl to 4th line

10 Star jumps, 20 plank jacks, 30 SSH, 40 alternating lunges

Mary: circles up and took turns through the pax calling set of 10 exercise including the following

alphabet bowelsx2, burpees, American hammers, box cutters, Freddy Mercury, SSH, monkey jumpers, pickle pounders, and one leg merkins

Announcements:long ass att run feb 9th, healing transitions clothes and health product collection Friday at Cletus. Work out at 2:30 Friday, Dauber led q source directly after

Prayer: led by Roger Roger The father of a couple in our small group that is solo for next 2 weeks while wife is having medical treatment. Ā Dumbos knee and quick healing

We start at what time?

Loads of Pax out on a great morning for running. Start times ranged from 5:10 to 6am with mileage from 3 to 15. A good group of pax were present for a 6am warm up.

Warm Up:

SSH x10 IC

Frankenstein walk halfway down parking lot

Butt kickers back

High knees back down

Mosey back to start – hillbillies x10 IC

Announcements:

Happy birthday Aquaman!

Yoga at 9am at Athletic Lab South Wake lead by Dovetail’s M. First class there is free.

See Slack/Facebook for other announcements.
Prayer:

UTI’s dad – was in hospital yesterday, cause unknown. Is home now.
The Workout:

3 to 15 miles. Great work put in across the board.

Sheepdog – ā€œ donā€™t be ninjā€™inā€

ā€œDonā€™t be ninjā€™in nobody who donā€™t need ninjā€™in.ā€ Diamond Dave

9 Pax Grinded it out in the Gloom this morning with 3 EC (R22, Beater, Shredder).

Warm Up: light jog then Pax circled up. SIR Fazio Arm Circles f&b, Michael Phelps, SSH, Squats, High Knees and Butt Kickers around the parking lot. Moseyed to the back with a little Imperial Walker and Hillbilly Indian Run peppered in.
The Workout: 5 stations; Step ups, Dips, Sticky Fingers, Patty Cake Merkins, while last Pax took a lap. Ā Rotated after each completed lap. One round

Then, Squat kicks, front kicks, two punch combos, then punch elbo combo, and partner drills.
Mary: plank-a-rama quickly turned into burpees with R22 kicking it off. Rotated through Pax calling out for Mary. Reps of 10.
Announcements: check Slack, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, MySpace, and you local bulletin. . . Kidding aside, Ā Pikachuā€˜s announcements really help.
Prayer: Beater took us out. Spoken and unspoken.

Pole 2 Pole – KG Version

Another brisk morning in South Park for a new type of workout at Kenny’s Grave. 7 PAX made the trip over and start time was delayed by 1 min. In the words of Big John McCarthy, “Let’s get it on!”

Warm up
Mosey jog with some slides then over to the court
Smurf Jacks x20 IC
Mtn Climbers x20 IC
Frankensteinā€™s x10 IC
Hip rotations aka Two Step x10 IC (had to name it something)

Workout
P2P KG style
8 light poles 0.5 mile one way
1 – Burpees x10
2 – Reverse Merkins x20
3 – Reverse Squats x20
4 – Diamond Merkins x20
5 – Monkey Humpers x20
6 – Shoulder Taps x20
7 – Jump Lunge x20
8 – Turkish Getups x10 each arm
Stop at each pole on the way back and do the same exercises again in reverse order
Completed this a little faster than expected so improv came into play

Courts
Slides from center line out to free throws and back, end line and back, repeat opposite side.
Rinse and repeat going backwards
Rinse and repeat with Carioca

Grab some fence for “Crabs in a Bucket” – BTTW while guy on end bear crawls to front and back up to BTTW. 2 rotations for each PAX since most were on their knees already.

Heavy rock curls x50…just keep going man
Mike Tyson x20 IC
Heavy rock curls x50…YHC heard mumble chatter. I chose the wrong rock. All smiles.

Mary (less than 3 mins left)
Pickle pounders x15 IC
Freddy Mercury x15 IC
Heels to heaven x15

Verse : Ephesiansā€¬ ā€­4:31-32ā€¬ ā€­NKJVā€¬ā€¬
ā€œLet all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice. And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you.ā€
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Announcements– see slack and FB

Prayers– sugars neighbor Bob health (cancer), Crab Legs, DD family, Modify family, Ausfart, CarPex M battling breast cancer, PD and all service men and women

After the prayer was said, YHC noticed the PAX was so quiet. Guess they got their monies worth. YHC picked a Q for next week since no one was stepping up. H1N1/Messi co-Q will be running the show next Thursday so come join the show. Thanks guys for the hard work out there.

BS Out!

Compression packages

U-Turn continues to grow every week. If this is any indication Wrightsville is going to be a BLAST. A 7+ mile route was developed for the Pax but Pax modified as needed.

Fartsacks: UTI – Alarm Misfire??

Warm Up: SSH x 20, IW x 15, Hillbillies x15, Mountain Climbers x 15, SSH x 10
The Workout: Go for a run
Mary: Coffee
Announcements: Q-Swap – we are going to Carpex next week, BRR meeting 1/22 at Blackdog, 2 Shirt orders (Wrightsville shirt comes with a $5/shirt donation to ALS)
Prayer: Raleigh Police Officer – Special thanks to our First Responders and Military, Daubers mom, Buford

Sheepdog – frozen Sugar

Pax of 8 with 3 EC; Beater, Farva, & Shedder.

Warm Up: Norm led Pax through some Side Straddle Hop, Imperial Walkers, Hillbillies, Good Mornings, Fazio Arm Circles.
The Workout: YHC Started with Build a Bear, Striking in cadence (150 total) then slowed it down and focused on technique. Rotated through Merkins, Wedging, Military Merkins, back to Wedging, Capoeira Merkins, and then ended on an Americana Arm Bar.
Mary: LBCs (short on time)
Announcements: lots of announcements on Facebook and Slack. BT Challange, q-source, q-swap.
Prayer: Beaterā€™s neighbor. Injuries and health.

We Pickle Pound This Town

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