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Glorious Game of Ultimate Under the Lights

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FNGs:  none
Warm Up:  Good AM, Frankenstein, SSH
The Workout:  Ultimate 5 on 5, under the lights at Ting park on the pitch; 42 degrees F, raining (moderately)….two teens (Macho Nacho & Frenchie) paired with 6-footers of Norm & Shredder (both with deceptive speed) and SNAP who simply ran everyone in the ground gave a good effort.  Was it enough?  It was tied 7-7 I believe with 3 minutes left until Mary.  Did Kubota make the incredible no-see catch with his glasses fogged/dripping of rain?  Was it the long distance toss/catch between the dynamic duo of Chad “Mahomes” Breach to speedster “can’t catch me”  Pikachu?  Or was is Dauber threading the needle to a diving Gronk-esque Forceps?  You had to be there.  Outstanding game gentlemen.
Mary:  Michael Phelps….trying to stay warm as we circled up.
Announcements:  Beer Ruck; HSPD Toy fundraiser  – keep the $ coming PAX!  FVFD Toy collection – drop off with Sprinkler; Ted Talks with Bacon next Tuesday
T-Claps (Recognition):  All the PAX who embraced the suck this morning!  Thank you!  It was glorious!
Prayer:  Praise – successful surgery 187 M; prayers for Pikachu’s M; prayers for Forceps uncle who recently passed.  Unspoken.  First responders; military.  Dauber took us out.

Less than 1/2 Mile

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Pax of 7 for cold Thunder workout, some complaints about the short run to warm up.  I know Thunder is not a running workout, but come on, not even 1 mile :).

FNGs:  None

Warm Up:  SSH, Cherry pickers, L+R overhead stretch, fazio arm circles

The Workout:

Run around soccer fields to playground:

5 sets of five exercises:

5 pull ups,  5 diamond merkins, 10 merkins,  10 lbc’s,  15 squats

Jog to rock pule:

5 sets of five exercises:

12 curls, 12 tricep presses, 12 lunges, 12 upright rows,  12 shoulder press

Jog to pavilion:

3 sets of 3 exercises:

Balls to wall, Dips, Step ups

Mary:  Shoulder taps, box cutters, LBC’s, WWII, plank

Announcements:  Ruck on Saturday, Christmas party…  see slack

Prayer:  Family of Forcep’s uncle who died of covid, recovery for Pikachu’s wife back

Pikachu learnt something new….

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Pax 6 for a cold as a grave diggers ass Thunder.

6miles ‘easy‘ 😂 EC for Pikachu and Deere.

Warm Up: 18 SSH, 9 fwd arm circles, 9 rev, 10 cotton pickers, 18 hill Billy’s, 18 walkers.
The Workout: 2miles mosey with 18 stops….

stop 1 – 1 x Merkin, 1 x leg raise, Turkish get up, 1 x squat…

stop 2 – 2 x Merkin, 2 x leg raise, Turkish get up, 3 x squat…

rinse and repeat till 18…. (18th set, Diamond Merkins)

18 cadence Balls to Wall

18 cadence box cutters

18 cadence Balls to Wall

18 count (9 left, 9 right) top taps (quad killers)

Mary: 18 cadence American Hammers, 18 cadence Crab leg HIGH heel taps, 18 cadence crab leg LOW heel taps.
Announcements: Frosty CSAUP, Beer Ruck, Bombshell Dec 17th Christmas piss up.

Prayer: unspoken, Kubota took us out.

2ndF – Crosby garage… special guest appearance GigaWatt.

excuse spelling and grammar…..

Eleven!

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FNGs:None tonight

Warm Up:

SSH x20

Daisy Picker x20

Sir Fazio Arm Circles x10 forward/backward
The Workout:

Mosey to the rock pile for a medium rock. John Cusack to the pull up bars.

11s with Curls and Pull ups, starting with 10x and 1x respectively. This got hard.

John Cusack to the amphitheater for 11s with balls to the wall and dips.

John Cusack back to the rock pile and return the rocks. Mosey to the tennis courts.

11 on the courts with squats and LBCs, moseying to opposite sides between exercises.

Mary:

Shoulder Taps

Left and right arm/leg up planks

Homer to marge x10, x5 each leg

Low plank hold x10 IC
Announcements:

Thunder on November 11th will be a murph in commemeration of Veteran’s Day. We will go as long as it takes for pax to finish. 11 mile EC feet move at 1600.
T-Claps (Recognition):

Kubota for his first double down!
Prayer:

John Deer’s sister; 187 and his M, Noah’s Ark and his family

There’s sidewalk, there’s sidewalk not, there’s sidewalk, there’s sidewalk not…

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He loves me, he loves me not..." [Original] : awwnime

Can you believe that with everything going on in the world right now the most “heated” debate this morning was whether or not a certain section of Judd parkway had sidewalks?  Almost refreshing, actually.

YHC looked at the Q Sheet this morning and noticed that no one had signed up to Q this morning.  Crap.  I really should be a better site Q it would seem. No time to really plan anything this morning so it was a make it up on the fly kind of day

Warm Up:

SSH x20 IC

Daisy Picker x10 IC

Windmill x10 IC

Imperial Walker x10 IC

Hillbillies x10 IC

The Workout:

Mosey down to the concession stand area and grabbed a piece of the knee wall for two sets of:

Step ups x20 IC

Irkins x10

Dips x10

Dirkins x10

Afterwards we grabbed some wall on the building.  We did People’s Chair and Balls to the Wall with each PAX giving a 20 count during the first go round and a 15 count the second time though.  Afterwards we headed over to the little hill between the fields for 11s.  We did squats at the bottom and star jumps at the top.

Once done with that we moseyed back up to the tennis courts for a round of what I’m now calling Crab Boils.  Starting at the side line of one of the tennis courts we crab walked to the same line on the next court over where we did 10 Crab Cakes IC.  We crab walked to the next court where we did 10 Crab Humpers IC and finally crab walked to the next court to do 10 Crab Jacks IC.  We took a bit of a rest at the end.  A rest in the form of Jack Webbs.  1 merkin and 4 air presses progressing up to 10 merkins and 40 air presses.

After that we did a Crab Boil back across the courts until we got back to where we started.  Our rest on this side was Batwings.  We were supposed to do 20 IC reps of forward arm circles, reverse arm circles, seal claps, and overhead claps but YHC’s shoulders were on fire (based on the smoke coming off of them) so we audibled half way through to only do 10 reps of seal claps and overhead claps.

One more time across the courts, this time starting off with a lunge walk to the next court, 10 squats, duck walk to the next court, reverse lunges, broad jumps to the next court, forward lunges, and frog jumps to the fence.  At that point it was finally time for…

Mary:

LBC circuit to start.  10x IC each of regular LBC, reverse LBC, knees to the left, and then knees to the right

American Hammer x10 IC

Pickle Pounders x10 IC

Box cutters x10 IC

Reverse box cutters x10 IC

Announcements:

Holly Springs Half coming up on 11/14.  Looking for volunteers to man aid stations and also for a sweeper.  Check Slack for details or reach out to Pikachu.

Frosty CSAUP being held in FV this year and will be a ruck style event, moving between most of the AOs in the Quay (sorry Sheepdog). More details to come, reach out to Breach if you impatient.

T-Claps (Recognition):

Great to see Kubota out in the morning again!

Prayer:

187 and Fanny Pack’s M’s both dealing with things.

Kubota has a 2nd interview today for a position that, if goes well, could end up with an offer before the end of the day

 

It was a beautiful morning this morning and I was glad to be able to spend it with such fine men.  I hope everyone had an equally great morning regardless of whether you slept in or visited one of the lesser Wednesday morning AOs.

 

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Figure 8 at Thunder

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FNGs: none
Warm Up:  8c ssh, good am, seal claps, o/h claps, Fabio arm circles (f/b), daisy pickers, burpees
The Workout: Each PAX grabbed a coupon weighing 20-30lbs from Dauber’s car and began a figure 8 jaunt around Womble.  PAX executed various exercise with and without the coupon.  After completing a few exercises, PAX grabbed another coupon and ventured off a few yards before stopping for more coupon fun.  Exercises included:

‘plank jacks, merkins, squats, curls, tricep curls, rut-rows, swings, 6 inches from six, nipplers, o/h press, slap coupons, toe taps, midget love handles, and more

Mary:  Light stretching

Announcements:  Mutiny heading to Ting on Nov 2 for ultimate frisbee under the lights on the soccer field; ruck with HSPD
T-Claps (Recognition):  Ruck for Mama’s House; HS Cupboard
Prayer:  Unspoken; 187’s M; PAX looking for better employment opportunities

 

We Found the HS Tower

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FNGs:  None
Warm Up:  OYO
The Workout:  8.30 miles
Mary:  No time
Announcements:  See Slack & FB
T-Claps (Recognition):  Way to go Kubota
Prayer:  YHC took us out; friends and family with illness; job opportunities;

 

Not Enough Big Rocks

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….says Pikachu! Apparently Womble Park rock selection is dwindling down and beasts like Pikachu are at a loss for finding more challenging rocks. Maybe it’s time for a field trip to “import” some other rocks from Jones Park or The Greenway???

YHC hasn’t taken the Q at Thunder since the spring and it was a great night to be back out with these good fellas! YHC came up with somewhat of a plan running a solo 5 mile EC down to Bass Lake. Several other viscous cyclists also were in attendance afterward at Thunder. Impressive double-down.

FNGs: no sir.
Warm Up: SSH IC x 30, Daisy Pickers, Seal Claps, Overhead Claps, Imperial Walkers, Frankenstein’s, Hillbillies all IC x 11.
The Workout: Mosey to the bandstand for a series of group split exercises. One group held either BTTW or People’s Chair while other groups did exercises including: Irkins x 20/x15 and dirkins x15, and dips x25, x20, and x15.

To the rock pile. Small handheld rocks were the first order. Pax completed a series of shoulder Press, lateral raise, and front raises with the rocks. Counts were mixed but all moves had a 30,20,and 10 count. 60 total reps per move. On to the big rocks. Each pax selected a big rock and Cusacked over the The hill by the batting cages.

YHC called for 11’s with Ground Pounders IC at the bottom of the Hill and Wonderbras at the top. At some point, Lipsync threw his rock down the hill which gave YHC an idea! All PAX would “shot-out” their rock from the top of the hill. Whichever pax threw farthestvonly had 1 burpee. Each pax thereafter would add a burpee depending on Landon position. Lip sync had 1…YHC had 8.  We completed 11’s and mosey with rocks to a nice flat section near the rock pile. Pax completed: 50 chest Press, 10 merkins, 30 chest Press, 7 merkins, 20 chest Press, 5 merkins.
Mary: To the picnic shelter for 1 more round of 10 count per pax BTTW. Finished with 15 counts of WW1, LBC’s, Homer to Marge, and LSF. Completed 11 SSH at the flag.
Announcements: Help at HS Food Cupboard this Sat.  Details on 3rd F Slack.
T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer: Wallaby has a cousin with health and family issues. Aquaman and Bullseye trip to Chicago and relatives stuck in Mexico. YHC took us out on a great fall evening.

HARD, WET, DIRTY Ride @ VC

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FNGs: None
Warm Up: OYO
The Workout:  See PIC ~ 10 miles, greenway, trails, roads, sidewalks, …


Mary: None
Announcements:  See Socials
T-Claps (Recognition):  PAX who got DIRTY tonight

Prayer:  Unspoken

2nd F at Bass Lake; early b-day celebration

 

Honor to lead even when you show up one week early on the Q sheet.

Taking it Easy at Thunder

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FNGs: Fumunga (YHC), Gump, Doogie, Dusty, Kubota, Pikachu, LipSync, Dauber, Wallaby

FNGs: None


Warm Up: PAX Selected their (wet) Coupon to replace the pullups that would of been performed if it wasn’t for those dang kids, and that dog too. Walked ~0.15 miles with the coupon held above their head. Smurf Jacks till Gump showed up to the circle (that was painful). Foozie Arm Circles, Shoulder Stretch (15 count), Peck Stretches
The Workout: The PAXs remained in the circle and proceeded to rotate working those pecks and back. Each set was harder than the last. The YHC also took recommendations to add in Balls to Wall since “why not” from Pikachu. 

  1. Merkins (30 total) 10 regular, 10 left leg up, 10 right leg up
  2. Ruck Rows in Cadence (x15)
  3. Wide Merkins (x20 total) 10 regular, 5 left leg up, 5 right leg up
  4. Lay Down Pull overs with the coupon (x10)
  5. Military Merkins (20 total) 10 regular, 5 left leg up, 5 right leg up
  6. Thor’s Hammer (x10 per side)
  7. Derkins (x20)
  8. Ruck Rows in cadence (x15)
  9. Diamond Merkins (x15)
  10. Laying Down Pull Overs with Hips up and a coupon (x15) 
  11.  Saturday Night Merkins (x10)
  12. Curls for the Girls in cadence (x15) 
  13. Ruck Rows in Cadence (x15)
  14. Hand Release Merkins (30 total) 
  15. Lay Down Pull overs with the coupon (x10)
  16. Hand Release Wide Merkins (x20 total) 
  17. Thor’s Hammer (x10 per side)
  18. Hand Release Military Merkins (20 total)
  19. Ruck Rows in cadence (x15)
  20. Balls to the Wall- Complements of Pikachu
  21. Derkins (x20)
  22. Laying Down Pull Overs with Hips up and a coupon (x10) – 5 reps with left leg up then 5 reps with right leg up
  23. Diamond Merkins (x15)
  24. Curls for the Girls in cadence (x15) 
  25.  Saturday Night Merkins (x10)
  26. Supermans (15 count)


Mary: 25 of each: In & Outs, Sitting up Freddy Mercuries, Boat Canoes, Alt Reach up and Touches, Slow Large Scissors Kicks, Roll Up V-Ups, Frog Ups, Heel Pulses, American (Freedom) Hammers with our Coupons
Announcements: PAX were encouraged to sign up to Q, Happy early Birthday to Gump, if only this was known before the end of the workout b/c YHC would of included the age # within the workout
T-Claps (Recognition): All the PAX that got stronger throughout the workout
Prayer: In place of taking prayer requests YHC had each PAX list a Thorn and Rose. 

Good work men!