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First Appearance of the Steel Mace

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Snow came the day before. Still 10 men braved the chilly weather to come see the steel mace!!

FNGs: Nope
Warm Up:
Quick lap to warmup
Circled up for the following
Good Mornings
Fazio Arm Circles
Leg Swings both directions both legs
BackStroke
The Workout:
Counted off by three. We had four stations, but I wanted groups of three since there were three Pax present that had already did a steel mace workout. They should be the Shepard for the steel mace. The goal was to keep the legs fresh for tomorrow’s long ass run.

3 complete circuits. Each Station was 2 minutes and 15 seconds. Each pax did 5 to 10 reps each exercise. After completion keep on going till the timer sounds.

Station 1:
Stairs — Run them or carry a bell. Just get up and down them.

Station 2:
Kettlebell
LawnMowers
Push up On the Bell
Push Press
Chest to Chest in bridge

Station 3:
Battle Rope and Core
Battle Rope
Midget Love Handles
Midget Getups
Midget Cookie Pouches

Station 4:
Steel Mace
Upper Cut
Bent Over Rows
Side Paddle Overhead (No lunge)
Kayak
Ballistic Curl

Mary:

Circled up for some stretching:

Leg across and open up the hips. Like getting in a pigeon pose but keep the leg straight
Runners pose and open up the hip
Runners pose concentration on going deeper
Fire Hydrant Circles
Fire Hydrant Kicks

Announcements:

ATT run tomorrow

T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer:

Wallaby as he comes home from Rehab
Forceps and his family
John, Deadbolt’s friend that is battling cancer

Fruity Pebbles with a glass of OJ

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I’m going to get straight to the point. No talking smack on those that didn’t make it. No talking smack on other AOs. As long as you took the plunge today and did a workout with your brothers you are good in my book.

FNGs:  None have shown up.  They must have gotten lost.  I hope they are okay

Warm Up:

Jogged to the basketball hoop and circled up
30 Side Straddle Hops.  I meant to only do 25 but I missed my exit.
5 Foot traces both directions both feet
5 Legs swings both directions both feet
Wring out the shoulders.

The Workout:

Jog to pickup the bricks.  2 bricks per pax.

Bear Crawl with your bricks across the field
Cusack to the basketball hoop and circle up

We stacked the bricks on top of each other.  Then we got in a merkin position with one hand on the bricks.  Did a merkin and the hand that was on the ground we did a shoulder tap.  This will be referred to as Brick Merkin Taps

2 Rounds:
10 Brick Merkin Taps Right hand on bricks
10 Brick Merkin Taps Left hand on bricks
20 Goblet Presses
20 Exaggerated toe touches with the bricks in hand

We then airplane to the wall by the playground.  Arm’s straight out to the side.

We all took a spot on the wall.  Holding your bricks either out in front or close together depending on how you felt.  Three pax went and did pull ups till fatigue.  Once they completed they rejoined the wall and the next pax took their place.   Once all pax completed the pull ups we moved to the flags.

1 Round:  — Should have been 2 but I noticed I was running out of time
10 Fruity Pebbles — T merkin into I, with the bricks
5 Reverse to Forward Lunges Right leg with bricks overhead
5 Reverse to Forward Lunges Left leg with bricks overhead
20 Hello Dolly’s ‘I think that is what they are called’

Cusack to the bus drop off.

Pax got into two lines.  Plank jacks until you get to the front of the line.  Then once in the front boo boo bear crawl.  Switch legs at the median.  Run back to the line and continue the plank jacks.

Moved back to the flags

1 Round:  — Should have been 2 but I noticed I was running out of time.  Also dropped the Hello Dollys
10 Fruity Pebbles — T merkin into I, with the bricks
5 Reverse to Forward Lunges Right leg with bricks overhead
5 Reverse to Forward Lunges Left leg with bricks overhead

Airplane to the wall

We all took a spot on the wall.  Holding your bricks either out in front or close together depending on how you felt.  Three pax went and did pull ups till fatigue.  Once they completed they rejoined the wall and the next pax took their place.  Once all pax completed the pull ups we moved to the basketball hoop.

1 Round: — Should have been two and I dropped the toe taps
10 Brick Merkin Taps Right hand on bricks
10 Brick Merkin Taps Left hand on bricks
20 Goblet Presses

Return the bricks and jogged to the flags.  I was going to wheel barrow the bricks back across the field but no time.

Circled up for Mary

Mary:

Bring sally up/Bring Sally down  6 inches to 45 degrees
Homer to Marge
Luges
Supermans

Announcements:

Long Ass ATT run this weekend
Thursday 2F at Lowe’s Food 2.50 pints

T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer:

Forceps and his family.
Wallby and his family as he continues his journey.
Lipstick’s sister.

Last Man Standing

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YHC had been thinking about this Q for a few weeks and trying to figure out how to pull it off. I wanted to make sure everyone pushed themselves but we all stayed together. How we could modify and keep the integrity of workout in tact. It was challenging to pull off but I think it well this time. I’ll reflect more on it and take suggestions on how to improve. The main even was pre-blasted so everyone knew what was coming.

This is also a great workout to prepare for the South Wake Beer Mile in October.

EC: Deadbolt, Mookie, Skidmark

FNGs: None

Warm Up: Very minimal as we got right to it. 25 SSH, 10cc IW, 10cc Hillbillies

The Workout: Last man standing theme. Down to the tunnel and runs were completed on the long portion of the greenway

  • 1/4 mile run and a minimum of 5 rep exercises completed in certain amount of time.
  • 1st round needed to be completed in 2:40 (includes running and exercises)
  • 2nd round 2:35
  • 3rd round 2:30
  • So on and so forth
  • We completed 12 rounds for 3 miles with the last at 1:50 return and completed the exercises. At this time we had 6 Pax still in: Snap, Pablo, Pikachu, Lipstick, Lucky Charms, and Skidmark
  • If you didn’t make the cutoff time you ran to until leaders were coming back and then did exercises with the group.

Indian Run around the complex with stops to 10 counts of erkins, derkins, and dips, 10 burpees OYO, 10 box jumps, and 25 merkins.

Return to basketball court

Mary: 10 minutes of stretching

Announcements: Long Ass Run Saturday. 22 milers start at 0715 from New Hill. 14.5 mile from New Hope Church Road at 0815, 0930 South Point Mall. Details on Slack.

T-Claps (Recognition): Pax this morning really pushed themselves. Lipstick somehow managed to run a lap, do exercises, take a shit, and make the next run in time. Quite impressive!

Prayer: Wallabee, Bernie’s family, Buford’s friend, those battling addictions

Uturn DRP

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FNGs: None
Warm Up:

Circled up for the following.

Bounce while YHC explained the format for today’s run.  The 3 milers will start at 6:25 and will be lead by Sprinkler.  The 5 milers will go out together and will have three pick ups.  The first one being in 12 Oaks at the circle. The idea here is that this would be a long pickup but should be safer than Old Apex Holly Springs road.  The second pickup would be at the corner of Irving and Green Oaks.  The last pick up would be at the end.  The hope/goal was that all pax would finish at roughly the same time.

Foot traces in both directions
Frankensteins
Hip Openers

The Workout:

We ran.  Seriously for Uturn what do guys put in this section.

Mary:

Cirlced up for runners pose, and pigeon stretch.

Announcements:

Next Saturday is the ATT Long ass run.
Holly Springs Food Cupboard will be held the second week of October

T-Claps (Recognition):

Forceps

Q Source Message of the day:

Q 1.1 DRP (Daily Red Pill)

The daily commitment to accelerate Fitness, Fellowship and Faith

A man can not get right on their own.

“Going it alone, the Mascot is doomed to fail because no man can disengage the death grip he holds on his own status quo.  Absent a Disrupter, a man willing and able to create a disturbance in his enervated life, he will remain just as he is, clinging to the capsized boat of his life and incapable of initiating the Movement required to Get Right.”

Mascot is a symbol of a something rather than the something itself.

The first disturbance the Disrupter makes in the life of the Mascot is to elicit Commitment.

The mascot has to commit to Movement, not just its appearance.

He must decide to turn Pro rather than continue life as an Amateur

The HIM knows that proper personal alignment requires the constant honing that can only be done through daily practice.  His focus Is on Preparedness.

An Amateur will start each day with the Blue Pill and live a life of seeming rather than being.

No man is too far wrong to Get Right.  It takes just one small movement.  The decision to take the Red Pill.  To commit to your acceleration.  

Prayer:

Forceps and his family

Like a Box of Chocolates

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FNGs: None

Warm Up:  Seven PAX showed up after a pre-blast of sweets and sweat.   Jog around parking deck; circle up by chair and mystery Valentine’s Day heart shaped box and executed the following exercises:  25 SSH, 10 Daisy pickers, 10 Don Quixotes, 10 O/H claps, 10 seal claps.

The Workout:  PAX counted off and then paired up.  Dauber went solo with an odd number of PAX.  Each PAX went to the box of “chocolates “ and pulled out a card.  15 Cards total.  Two exercises on each card:  an exercise for KB and another one.  Lots of mumble-chatter initially but it soon quieted down.  High-tempo workout for sure – everyone kept moving the entire time.

 

Mary:  No time left on the clock for her.

Announcements:  ATT run, need support with water via bike (see Slack)

T-Claps (Recognition):  First timers to Crazy Ivan (Snap?, Sassy, Noah’s Ark and LipSync)

Prayer:  Raising up Forcep, his family, his son.

2ndF at Harvest Moon

 

An honor to lead. -Dauber

Speed Racer Take 2

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It was a balmy 65 this morning in the gloom. PAX gathered at 0520 for a short mosey to the track. Others came in at 0530 as the announcement to converge Tiger Blood would be happening until March 12 went out a bit late. Here is what we did.

Warm Up:
Buttkickers, high knees, slides, cariocas

The Workout:
Gave instructions to the run format for today.
400M warm up lap
2 mile run at 5K pace +30 secs to that pace with 2 mins of rest after completion
2 mile run at 5K pace with 2 mins of rest after completion
– these should have been reversed bc most legs were tired after the first 2 mile run
5x100M sprints with 1:15 rest after each
– some of these dudes were moving

Mary:
She did not show up today

Announcements:
Lowes Food 2ndF starts today, HSFC golf tourney will be hosted by F3, Tiger Blood will be converged with temp AO Speed Racer until Wilmington race

T-Claps (Recognition):
Da Business for coming out of his hoodie

Prayer:
The Leahy Family needs all of our prayers. Check slack for what we can do and when. Lipsticks sister.

Lot’s of skins today on the track. Saw guys getting out of their comfort zone on the runs. Hopefully these sessions will help you get stronger and faster for the long runs. Thanks for those that posted.

Thanks,
BS Out

Good Times at Johnsville

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EC: UTI, Skidmark, YHC had an abbreviated EC that included the John
Warm Up: Jogging, Karaoke, Frankenstein, shuffles
The Workout: Reverse Indian Run down Paradise City EC route to the Bridgewater Pool. Pax paired up based on speed for partner loops. Partners went in opposite direction and met back at full loop (0.4 Miles) for Patty Cake Merkins x10 in Cadence. Repeated this 5 times with increasing intensity levels – 1K Pace 50%, 60%, 70%, 80%, 90%.  Pax headed back to Ting with cool down mile
Mary: Went through some stretching as we talked Announcements.

Quick Note from the Q: I often find I have pain during or after running that typically go away. A big part of this has to do with no warmup and cooldown. I purposely (and selfishly) tried to integrate more warmup and a cool down during our time.  I always tell myself I don’t have the time to spend on it and just need to get going for the miles.  I tried something different today by integrating the cool down into our announcement time. It was a great opportunity for Skid to share his thoughts/connection on the Run for Dedee 5K, while we all appropriately stretched our muscle groups.  All this to say, Find time for the pre/post run work. It will lead to better things, speed, injury prevention, etc…

Announcements: ATT Run 2/22; Standing 2F Thursday’s at Lowes Foods @ 530; Run for Dedee 5K begining of April at Sugg Farm See Skidmark for details
T-Claps (Recognition): All Pax for sticking with me this morning. I wasn’t sure how the turnout would be and I was excited to see 14 heads as I came back from the John!
Prayer: Sick Families (UTI’s), All those going through Addiction, Pikachu’s Wife who is dealing with Back Pain

Only 12 poles…

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PAX: Snap, Pikachu, Emeril, Java, Dawgpound, Buford

FNGs:none
Warm Up:SSH, windmills, fazio arm circles, high knees, butt-kickers, and karaoke.
The Workout: Tabata style: 20 seconds of exercise, 10 seconds of rest, 3 sets each of 4 exercises for a total of 6 minutes per set of exercises.

Set 1 (lower body): Lateral jumps, Pop squats – wide squat followed by narrow squat (dubbed “Rice Crispies” by Dawgpound), jump lunges, sumo squats with kick

Ran to the top of the ramp for Set 2 (upper body): scorpion dry docks, dips, balls to the wall, and burpees.

Indian run around the park to the bottom of the ramp where we did 12s/ladder.  Sprint to the first light pole, do one merkin jog to the bottom of the ramp for 12 star jumps all together, sprint to second pole, do two merkins, jog to the bottom for 11 star jumps, etc etc

Mary: started Mary going around circle and each pax picking an exercise and 10 count.
Announcements: New permanent F2 at Food Lion on Thursdays at 6
T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer: Pikachu’s wife, Snap’s employment

Something New

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SW Leadership team is taking over U-turn for the next few weeks to try some new stuff out. Our objective is to bring everyone back close to the same time for COT. Today was the first test run to see how group releases would work. So here we go. Two minute warning given. Then final minute. 0600 let’s go.

FNGs: Nope but we did have 23 count at start and ended with 29. Birth on the run.

The Workout: Short mosey over to open area with some but kickers. Instructions on how today’s run would work.
Frankensteins x15 IC
5 Mile Group:
Group 1 release – 10:30 pace or greater
4 mins of warmups
Group 2 release – 9:30 pace
4 mins of Mary
Group 3 release
– Pick up the 6 in your group twice. Once at circle in 12 Oaks and again at Irving left turn
3 Mile Group:
Release with group 3. Run route reverse 1.5 then turn

Cool Down:
Circle up 0700 for stretches and yoga poses

Announcements:
Lowes Food 2nd F on Friday’s

T-Claps (Recognition):
Fanny Pack on the PR for milage. Shout out to Brexit on milage total (Strava don’t lie)
Shield lock challenge winners. Wrangler with the tight shield making skills.

Prayer: Farva’s neighbors house burn down need gift cards, Lipstick’s sister battling addiction, Frumonga’s request of little boy with cancer, Pikachu’s wife having back issues

Nice work out there in the cold gloom. Thanks for allowing me to lead and change things up a bit today. Strong 2nd F at Panera following the run as well. Race season is creeping in and beach season will be here soon. Stay Hard!

BS Out

RailRoaded At TBD

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You know it’s time to start the workout when FloJo, Hardy, and Poopeater arrive. Today, they were about 30 seconds late. Ordinarily, they are exactly on time at 5:30, a just-in-time operation!

Warm-up: Mosey + Burpees

Mosey onto Stinson, stop at first parking lot, SSH 25x

Continue mosey down Stinson to Noonday, 10 burpees OYO, mosey back up to parking lot.

There’s your warm-up! Dawgpound: Why did we have to go down the hill to do those burpees? Because after Q’ing and working out at Womble for so long, we needed a different warmup.

The Thang: Railroad Tracks

After having fun with this format on Monday, I decided to continue today.

In the parking lot, each of the 12 PAX planks up on the first 12 lines. First PAX (YHC) runs to end of PAX like an Indian Run to the first open line. Plank up. Each PAX follows until we reach the end. My idea was to simply run back to the beginning from there. But, the first PAX to round the corner (Cowboy?) found a whole new set of parking spots around the corner, paralleling the first set. He started the railroad there and we returned same as we came. Bonus!

Next sets of exercises, same format: Guantanamo, 5 hand-release Merkins, WWIIs before your run to front of line. PAX holds 6 inch while the one PAX does WWII.

Mr. Clarity (i.e., Pablo) kept asking questions, claiming that he was just seeking clarity. Seemed suspiciously like he was trying hi-jack my Q! Indeed the Fritter Goobers brought more chatter to this parking lot than it has heard since the last installment of Ivan.

Balls to the Wall by Request:

Sprinkler and POTS were disappointed we did not do BTW on Monday. So, making sure not to disappoint, we moseyed to the amphitheater. OK, so Sprinkler was genuinely happy to have this exercise, pretty sure he could go 5 minutes. POTS was not as pleased.

Upon finishing up the WWII railroads, PAX moseyed one-by-one down to the amphitheater and took People’s Chair position on the wall. First round 10 second count by each PAX. FloJo is now famous for his I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X counting method.

Mary: American Hammers, pickle pounders, LBCs, etc.

Announcements: Check Slack

Prayer Requests: Sprinkler and his family as they lay his father to rest today. Dawgpound safe air travels. FloJo as his family considers adoption.