🎵,This Must be Just Like Living in Paradise 🎵
A rockin tour of paradise by 3 PAX for my 6 of 25 Q’em All Challenge. We toured the pollen-filled stadium with some miles (two) and monkey humpers.
Thanks for joining me and letting me lead!
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Discin It
2 PAX for 10 holes of golf…and a few exercises!
Thunder Struck
Four men gathered for an emotional support workout.
Gump, Kubota, Rams, YHC
WU: SSH 15, good evenings, stretching OYO
ME: Grab a rock. Groundpounders (Up on one, according to Gump), curls, overhead presses, squats, a few merkins. More chatter than exercise LOL. “Welcome to Groundpounder and Thunder” 🙂
John Cusack to the the playground–specifically the dumbed-down dodgeball circle (apparently “Gaga” ball). Erkins, dips, exhausting! More chatter: tuition costs, co-ops, financial planning, “retirement,” life expectancy. Stretching OYO, air OH presses, squats. More chatter: intern wages, college housing, financial planners. Exhausting!
Returned our rocks and circled up under the picnic shelter for 2 minutes of Mary. Low slow flutter, big-boy sit-ups.
COT: Count off: Four! Name-O-Rama, Announcements, Prayers
Yogurt out!
Incident Detected!
Vicious Cycle – Daylight and 47 degrees, perfect for MTB’ing. Kubota ready to go, Gump almost ready go. Apparently, I was also almost ready to go too, having forgotten my bike helmet. First stop: my house.
Then, per Kubota’s request, we headed toward the “Aviator trails.” That’s the most recent “old” Aviator Brewery on Technology Park Lane, across from the Bagel Hospital (you know, Bagels +). Question: Do we have time to get there and back for Thunder? Of course. Chatter included the free bike, donated by Mr. Terrific, that Kubota fixed up and was riding.
We reached the trailhead for the single track quickly. There, we took a quick water break before hopping in. A new house encroached on the trail, but the local talents modified the trail as needed. They even were building small dirt jumps. Probably riding electric bikes–who needs to pedal anymore? LOL
We climbed the gnarly, steep hill up to the cul-de-sac of Technology Park Lane and Kubota said he didn’t remember it being that steep.
We continued around the large apartment complex, hopped on the backside greenway, and headed down towards the rickety bridge. Still intact, impressive.
Next destination was the Alston Ridge end of the new greenway that connects to Bass Lake Outfall greenway.
About the time we arrived, Gump’s Garmin and phone started going off! Incident Detected! Oh my! Apparently Garmin sensed Gump was in trouble and notified everyone on his emergency contact list. One person called him right away.
Next, we rolled up Old Adams Road and back to the greenway and back to Womble. Elapsed time: 1 hour, 5 minutes.
Just in time for Thunder.
Sitting by the Toilet
6 PAX joined the virgin YHC for some running and other exercises at various corners along the parking lot route…and more importantly, ending it all with stretching. 3 PAX broke off for longer distances and rejoined for COT.
The cycle begins
Nice ride from Womble to Jones and Veterans, down the Middle Creek Greenway, up Linksland, down to Bass Lake, and back to Womble. Great start to the VC season.
Rumble at Thunder
Warm Up: Very Short Mosey to the pavilion and then some 22 counts of SSH, Franeksteins, Daisy Pickers, and Windmills.
The Workout: A full-body set of
100 Squat Crunches
90 Side Straddle Hops
80 X-Planks
70 Skaters
60 Plank Rows
50 Lunges
40 Leg Raises
30 Homer to Marge Kicks
20 Freddie Mercuries
10 Burpess
Finished up with some Broga while the muscles were warm
Announcements: Triple Ruck Challenge, Manion WOD Sat May 2nd 6:30a at Ting
Closed in Prayer:
Our Own Magic 8 Ball
5 PAX played some simulated Magic 8-Ball and 8 Corners with lots of merkins, squats, and plyometrics. The Magic 8-“Ball” determined weather we Burped, squated, hineyed, or hopped the rest of the way. Ended with some stretching and Mary!
AO 4 of 25 in the Q’em All Challenge!
Possum Trot Glory Days 3/4/26
Revisiting the pre-Covid glory days of Possum Trot, F3SW’s original AO. Pleased to see the 12 Oaks bus roll in with Flanigan and Brony. And Double D and Gump. Goal is to use the signature site features: gravel parking lot, the hill, the tennis courts.
Warm up SSH 25x, Imperial Walkers 15x, Hillbillies 15x, mosey for some big boy sit-ups.
ME: Grab a rock
We struggled to count off: 1, 2, 1, 2, 1… Finally got it right.
Mosey to “gravel” parking lot and line up. “Ones” push rock while bear crawling out and back, while “twos” do arm exercises: curls, overhead press, triceps. Three rounds.
Began moseying around the tennis courts, but exercised on the hill per Gump’s request. Hill. Dips was in great condition: mowed, not too slippery. Climb hill, dips at top on guard rail 20x. Five rounds up/down hill with dips at top.
Final stretch of rock push with bear crawl to return rocks. Head to tennis courts.
Once again, divide into ones and twos. Ones BTW while twos hold plank. Three rounds.
Finally, circle the inside perimeter and settle on the far end to set up “suicides.” Emphasis on speed while not pulling a hammy. Run to sideline of court 1 and back, sideline of court 2 and back, court three and back, court four and back.
Mary
BOARDING ACTION!!
FNGs: N/A
Warm Up: The Usual. F3 Mission Statement and 5 core principles were stated correctly.
The Workout: in today’s gloom we ran a competition pitting Queen Anne’s Crew (Gump, Flip Phone, and Finkle) against Vane’s Rebels across 4 stations of equipment and body weight exercises. With the help of a 50 second tabata timer, members of one crew would lift the heavy things and put them down (farmer carry, kettlebell swings, sandbag burpies, and curls for the girls) while the other crew did body weight exercises of their choosing (too many to name). The crews would switch and see if they could lift up heavy things better than that of their rival crew.
See history lesson on Blackbeard and Charles Vane below.
Mary: No time!
Announcements: None
T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer: Prayers for injured PAX and PAX on the job-hunt.
History Lesson: Blackbeard vs. Charles Vane
Charles Vane and Edward Teach — better known as Blackbeard — were both prominent pirates operating in the Atlantic during the early 1700s, and their rivalry stemmed from competition over territory and resources in the Caribbean and along the American coast. Vane was known for his brutality and refusal to accept pardons, while Blackbeard cultivated a fearsome reputation through theatrics and intimidation. Towards the end of Blackbeard’s life, the two were competing for dominance in pirate havens, and Vane’s aggressive tactics alongside Blackbeard’s declining influence created tension between their crews. Though they never directly clashed, their rivalry represented the cutthroat nature of piracy in that era — fitting inspiration for today’s beatdown.