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Week 2 of Tequila Sunrise and The View Didn’t Disappoint

FNGs:

None

Warm Up:

A quick round of Side Straddle Hop, Good Morning and Daisy Pickers

The Workout:

Both the 3 and 5 mile routes were in play.  Cancun came prepared with a Ruck and some extra weight in the form of his 2.0 strapped to his chest.  Yogurt, Gamecock and Cancun were out for EC.

Really good mumble chatter on the run.  9 PAX logged some miles on a great day for running.

Mary:

None

Announcements:

CSAUP In JOCO

SHP Bed Build and Delivery – Great work Men!

Prayer:

Martini and Yogurt’s Mom – prayers for strength and quick recovery

Crop-duster aka the Toot-n-Scoot

FNGs: None

EC: Norm, Red, Sprinkler, Katniss, POTS, Gamecock

Warm Up: Good mornings, Willie mays haze, Imperial walkers, Hillbillies, SSH, Sir Fazio arm circles

The Workout:

Part 1: Wheel of Misfortune.

Circle up with one PAX in the middle. The PAX on the outside are assigned an AMRAP exercise, and the PAX in the middle acts as the timer and does 10 burpees. Once he’s done, rotate to the next station with the top of the circle coming into the center for his turn at burpees. We made three rotations. Outside exercises were: Sumo squats, Shoulder taps, High knees, Angle grinder, Daft Punk (Around the world lunges), and Crab Cakes.

Part 2: Next Man Up, Crop-duster style

One PAX calls a terrible exercise for the rest of the group then heads off. PAX that called the exercise then “bones the fish” side-shuffling along the parking space lines moving up the parking lot then mosey back.  Rotate and the next man up calls an exercise then leaves. There was revenge, cruelty, anticipation, and way too many burpees.

Mary: There was enough Mary in Part 2.

Announcements: FV 4 mi and bible study black ops on Wednesday, Tequila Sunrise on Saturday

T-Claps (Recognition): All the visitors to KG!

Prayer: Local family with losses in the family, Martini, Praise for Sprinkler and POTS’s kids graduating

My Little Friend

We kept it leg friendly today, but that doesn’t mean easy.

FNGs: None
Warm Up: SSH, Imperial Walkers, Willie Mays Haze, Frankenstein, Michael Phelps
The Workout: A four corners stack, but we substitute the mosey between each corner with something different with the Kettlebell.

Stack 1: Merkins, Nipplers, Carolina Dry Docks, Angle Grinders. Move between each corner with a kettle bell bucket brigade.

Stack 2: LBCs, Plank Hold, Meat Gazers, Outlaws. Move between each corner with a kettle bell lunge walk, indian run style.

Stack 3: Hover Merkin, Squat hold seal claps and overhead claps, Jack Webbs, Balls to the wall. Move between each corner with John Cusack.

Mary: Done during round 2

Announcements: Sign up for Sleep in Heavenly Peace 4/24.
T-Claps (Recognition): H1N1 with the EC
Prayer: Finkle’s mom recovering from a shoulder injury

Where’s Martini’s Cell Phone?

FNGs: None
Warm Up: PAX circled up for some SSH, daisy pickers and IWs
The Workout: 2 routes available this morning, 4 miles and 5.5 miles.  17 set out on a short journey in search of some pre-marathon miles, taking it easy, or running with a ruck sack if you’re @Yogurt.  The 5 milers took old U-turn, with a trip up cemetery hill in anticipation of BRR in a few months.  The run wouldn’t have been complete without a search for Martini’s phone on the route, t-claps to @Skidmark for finding it in the grass and @Yogurt for going back for the six.
Announcements: Opportunity to help build bunk beds for Sleep in Heavenly Peace on Saturday 4/24 from 8-11.  See slack and/or LED for details.  F3 Foundation is supporting the initiative and events will take place in the Kohl’s parking lot in Fuquay.
Prayer: Good health and safety for all those running in Wilmington.

Batter Up!

FNGs: None

PAX: @Finkle, @Fumunga, @K I T T Y L I T T R, @Gamecock
Warm Up: Mosey around the parking lot, in cadence SSH, Daisy Pickers, Good Mornings, toe touches (middle, left over right, right over left), quad stretches
The Workout:

Batter Up!  – It was a glorious morning for some time out on the ball field.  YHC had 16 wonderful exercises all lined up for business on cards in a hat.  Each batter would draw an exercise out of the hat for a single.  The PAX had to sprint the bases/crab walk/lunge walk/bear crawl while other PAX were at home plate doing the exercise.  Once all exercises were done we put the cards back in the hat and did a double with the batter now drawing 2 cards and doing the exercises.  Batter now had to go around the bases 2 times and PAX did one exercise per each lap around bases.  We were gonna do triples but ran out of time.  NUTS!
Mary: Something about Mary…we did round robin
Announcements:
T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer: @Fumunga’s wife is getting close to having a baby in a few weeks.

Rocking the Wall on 3/25/21

FNGs: None
Warm Up: Mosey to bus stop parking lot.  SSH, Frankenstein’s, Daisey Pickers, Good mornings, Imperial Walkers, Hillbillies, Shoulder stretch all I/C
The Workout: PAX grabbed all sizes of Rocks.  Breach decided to grab a small boulder. Mosey to the RR next to splash pad. We did a wall sit and passed each of the rocks waist high to the man next and piled them up at the end, then sent the rocks back to the start. 3 rounds waist, chest and overhead. Two sets of SLT abs I/C. Back to the wall and passed the rocks underneath the legs, Overhead with press and chest press. Two sets of SLT abs. Back to the wall and bicep curl, front raise then two sets of abs.   (Martini and Norm ran more miles and joined the group for a final wall sit and COT.

Mary:
Announcements: 2nd F at Panera
T-Claps (Recognition):  Sprinkler and Breach for posting with Fram’s 4 day Q streak.
Prayer: Breach Traveling and unspoken

Egg-cellent Adventure

The Town of FV planted eggs at all the local parks for an Easter egg hunt. Each PAX was given a marker and sheet to draw four eggs. We ended up with 1+ mi, some new scenery, and some bad doodles. Norm split off for some miles of his own.

FNGs: None
Warm Up: Merkins, good morning, willie mays haze, Frankenstein’s, imperial walkers, hillbillies, Michael Phelps
The Workout: First stop Centennial Park. Partner up for this one. One PAX wall sits while the other bear crawls to the sidewalk, 5 merkins, bear crawl back and switch. x5

Second stop FV Arts Center. 3 sets of Irkins, Dips, and Derkins. Guest appearance by the Rolling Stones .

Third Stop Library, Ashworth Park. Circuit of start jumps, bunny hop stairs, step ups, calf raises.

Finally back to Falcon Park for 5 minutes of Mary

Announcements: 3F opportunities on Slack

T-Claps (Recognition): Finkle for winning the art contest as judged by Norm.

Prayer: Kitty Litter and Re-engage class, all others unspoken

The Mario Cart Lineup Continues

Saturday March 20th, 2020

FNGs: Welcome ‘Peach Beach’

Another recruit brought out by Emeril that knew Mario, Luigi, and Yoshi.  YHC was having a tough time on deciding between Koopa Troopa or Peach Beach so I put it to a vote amongst the other PAX.  Peach Beach won by a landslide (I don’t believe there were any votes for Koopa Troopa…ha).

Warm Up:  quick mosey around the parking lot, Michael Phelps arms, 10x Good Mornings, 10x Frankensteins, 25-30 Merkins OYO.

The Workout: 3mi and 6mi option

Mary: no time today

Announcements: Long Ass Run Saturday 3/27 on the ATT – plenty more details to be posted on Slack

T-Claps (Recognition): 25 PAX at U-Turn on the first day of spring!  Emeril recruiting a 4th FNG in just as many weeks

Prayer: all the unspoken, teachers/students/state workers back in schools getting readjusted

The Mario Cart lineup continues…

Saturday, March 13th

FNGs: welcome Yoshi!

This FNG was another recruit by Emeril.  3 weeks prior Emeril had brought out 2 FNG’s that were named Mario and Luigi because of their moustache’s and also because they knew each other.  Well it just so happened that Mario and Luigi knew the FNG so I had made up my mind during the ME he was going to be Yoshi…one of my favorite Mario Cart characters.  The FNG did the standard introduction in front of the group but I decided to shut it down quickly in case some of the PAX needed to get over to Grounder Pounder.  “Everyone say hello to Yoshi.”

Warm Up:  Michael Phelps arms, 10x Windmills, 10x Daisy Pickers, 10x Imperial Walkers, OYO 25-30 Merkins.

The Workout: U-Turn standard route in reverse, with a 3mi option.  This was the last weekend to earn a Mt Dew branded long sleeve T-shirt

Mary: no time unfortunately

Announcements: Long A$$ Run on Sat. March 27th, Blood Drive on Sat. March 2oth hosted by Holly Springs Rotary Club, Gillette will be a St. Baldrick’s Participant and shaving all that beautiful hair

T-Claps (Recognition): 25 PAX at U-Turn!  Picking up the 6.

Prayer: all the unspoken, those suffering from sickness, mental illness, addiction, loss of a loved one, and those who have lost their way.  Thankful for everything the good Lord provides.  YHC took us out.

Not too Wet n’ Wild

FNGs: none

PAX: @Finkle, @Gamecock, @K I T T Y L I T T R, @Martini
Warm Up: Mosey up to the covered bus ramp area at FV Middle School.  SSH’s 20 in cadence, overhead arm stretches and arm stretches across your chest, Michael Phelps, Downward Dog into Pigeon right knee then left knee, followed by a walk up slowly stretching our calves and hamstrings.

The Workout:

Event 1:  Plank hold Indian Bear Crawl.  In a line we held plank while the last man bear crawled up to the front of the line the length of the bus ramp.  Then we called out an 10 count exercise, followed by Bears and Dan’s coming back to where we started.  This is a bear crawl followed  by a 1:4 ratio of lunges to squats building up to 5 lunges (each leg) and 20 squats.  R and R.

Event 2:  Pax performed a given exercise while a runner ran the bus loop.  We did Merkins, LBC’s, Turkish Get Ups, Pickle Pounders, Wall Sits with Seal Claps and others.
Mary: There’s something about Mary that we all love…our abs!  We did Homer to Marge regular, followed by holding your left leg up then right leg doing a 10 count cadence, next was ABC’s and then Reverse LBC’s.
Announcements:  BRR (forming a team).
T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer: @Norm and his family recovering from Covid, @Finkle has family that is traveling this week, @Gamecock mentioned that his church is opening back up and praying for wisdom as they do so.  @Finkle led the prayer.