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Thunder Struck

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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!

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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.

The cycle begins

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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

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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:

Chilly and Breezy at UFO

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FNGs: Welcome FNG “Hi-YAH”

Warm Up: SSH IC and stretching

The Workout: 60 minutes of Ulimate Frisbee with ascending burpees on the score.

Mary: None

Announcements: Q-em All Challenge and Triple Ruck Series for Holly Springs races in 2026 with Breach.

T-Claps (Recognition): The guys who helped the Hope Closet over the weekend.

Prayer: Ausfart’s wife and our military in the middle east. 

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Lightning Strikes Again

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5 PAX for an Around the Horn warmup and lots of rocks to lift for the main event. Good to see Lube out there recovering from back surgery!  Prayers for healing and job search. 

 

Cold night of Thunder is better than waking up for a 5:30 am workout

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FNGs: None

Warm Up: 2 rounds of popcorn

The Workout: Pick out 2 smallish rocks for 1 round of exercises, return rocks and get large rock or a round of exercises, return cold rock and move to pavilion to finish the workout without freezing our hands.

Broga & Core

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Wednesday night, 9/10/2025

FNGs: None

Warm Up: Mosey to Amphitheater with coupon (KB or weight)

The Workout: Worked our way up the letter, P, P-U, P-U-M, etc. 

P – Plank 

U – Upward Dog

M – Mountain Pose

P – Pike Stretch

K – High Knees

I – Inch Worms

N – Neck Rolls

 

S – Spinal Rotations

P – Pigeon Pose

I – Iron Cross (Lying Spinal Twist)

C – Cat-Cow Stretch

E – Earl Fondas

Finisher: 2 rounds w coupon , 10x curls, triceps, rows, wonder bras

Prayer: Our Nation

Soggy Volleyball

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FNGs: Jacob Lewis, 22. New Name 6-Feet Under. He is dating Pumpkin Spice’s college age daughter. 

Warm Up: Mosey to volleyball area. GM, HB, IW, Arm Circles

The Workout: Volleyball 4v5. 

Mary: Mosey to shelter 

Announcements: Fence painting Friday. 

Prayer: Socrates possible medical procedure; Spice’s wife traveling to Israel. 

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Some can jump rope

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FNGs: None

Warm Up: GM, DP, WMH, Arm Circles/Seal & Overhead Clap

The Workout: Three Rounds each circuit. 10 count or 5 each side each exercise. Someone was always on the jump rope for 100 or 50 count.  Weight plates 15# to 35# provided. PAX encouraged to modify any exercise with or without weight. 

Circuit 1: Curls, Triceps, Rows, Wonder Bra

Circuit 2: Squat to seated position on bench, Step Ups, Bulgarian Leg Squat (R&L)

Circuit 3: Derkins, Erkins, Dips

Circuit 4: Lunge, Side lunge, SL Romanian DL (R&L)

Circuit 5: Chest Press, Pullover, LSF (weight above chest) , H2M, American Hammer.

Mary: LBC, GM and return coupons

Prayer: Socrates 2.0 surgery, Praise replacement auto for Socrates, Pumpkin Spice’s M has the flu. Safe travel.