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What Is A Mahktar N’ Diayes Anyway?

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FNGs: Yes! Welcome Omaha!  Arch nemesis of his (former) Patriot’s QB often used this in cadence…hearing it makes the FNG nauseous, and that made YHC smile, so we knew it was perfect.
Warm Up: Following the welcome and disclaimer to the FNG, mosey across the street to the church parking lot. 10 each IC: Good Mornings, Sir Fazios F/B, Overhead Claps, and Hillbillies. 25 IC Side Straddle Hops.
The Workout: 18 PAX showed up after the preblast by Mookie. After much EH’ing by fellow PAX (specifically Pablo, Dumbo, Mookie, Deadbolt, and M4L), YHC was provided with the opportunity to put the EH’s to rest. With that, YHC spent an inordinate amount of time preparing for this Virgin Q (afterall, YHC was still pure and wanted it to be with the right one, time was right, he was ready, etc.). His kids and wife may or may not have seen him pacing the halls as if he were about to give his left kidney. YHC even bought a watch, which he struggled with towards the end, and was lucky, frankly, to end on time…but not really because we were across the street and still had to get back to the pool parking lot. My bad if you were late to your next engagement.

Ok, the workout: Mosey to the curb where YHC had already chalked the named exercises on the asphalt. ALARMS and BLIMPS were in play. Some PAX had never heard of them, but they were about to find out. Split into 2 teams. Special thanks to Mookie who offered to lead Team 1 while YHC led Team 2. Six exercises were spaced across the parking lot for the ALARMS and BLIMPS. PAX on Team 1 would travel to each location via Bunny Hops (Stations 1 – 3) and Lunge Walks (Stations 4 – 6). PAX on Team 2 would travel to each location via Bear Crawl (Stations 1 – 3) and Crab Walk (Stations 4 – 6). Squat or plank hold for the 6 before starting each exercise. Teams that were doing BLIMPS then did ALARMS, and vice versa. Thank you to all PAX who helped YHC get through the counting…he was winded for sure.

BLIMPS: 10 Burpees, 15 Lunges IC, 20 Imperial Walkers IC, 25 Merkins, 30 Plank Jacks IC, and 35 Squats.

ALARMS: 10 Burpees, 10 Jump Squats, 10 Mountain Climbers IC, 10 Rocky Balboas IC, 10 Mahktar N’ Diayes IC, and 10 Seal Claps Sobriety Style (YHC felt this was fitting given his recent F3 ‘departure’).

Question was asked after the fact: What is a Mahktar N’ Diayes anyway? YHC answered that it was a plank hold to chill cut and back up IC. PAX said, “Oh, we did more than that.” YHC responded, “Yes, you were doing Absolutions but there was no reason to correct you because you were doing more than required.” Well done!

Following the completion of the circuit, YHC was a little stressed because we still had 20 minutes to kill (lesson learned). YHC was not feeling that a ‘rinse and repeat’ of previous exercises would be well-received. Audibled for an Indian Run to Mookie to meet at the parking lot entrance (each Team goes opposite way). At the entrance, YHC called for a jailbreak back to the mailbox followed by a mosey to the rock pile.

At the rock pile, PAX picked up a medium sized rock. The following exercises were performed IC between 15 and 25 reps, and much thanks to the PAX that stepped in to help YHC get through this: Curls for the Girls, Tricep Extensions, Rut Rows, Bus Drivers, Midget Love Handles, Midget Cookie Pouches, American Hammers, Overhead Press, Low Slow Flutter, and Chest Press.

Mary: With 6 minutes remaining, YHC lucked out. Mary consisted of the following IC: Freddie Mercuries, LBCs, Homer to Marge, Pickle Pounders, and Have A Nice Day.
Announcements: Mulch at Bass Lake – get signed up! Continue to visit AO’s that you don’t frequent very often; and Q Swap in August.
T-Claps (Recognition): Mookie for his assistance; all other PAX for their encouragement and willingness to step up and get YHC through this VQ.
Prayer: Those in recovery due to substance, verbal, physical, or mental abuse and/or health; Bondo’s granddaughter Piper; YHC’s cousin (cancer) and M’s grandfather (hospice has been brought in); Omaha’s marketing career; First responders; and Leaders of our country that we may get through the chaos that is rampant today; Unspoken.

Dumbo took us out.

It is a privilege to lead; thank you. YHC will keep learning, striving to do better next time.

Hit the skids

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FNGs: None
Warm Up: SSH, Sir Fozie arm circles (10 forward / 10 back) Windmills, single leg dead lift.

The Workout: 4 cones spaced 75 feet apart in a square. cone 1 > PAX choice, Cone 2  > Abs, Cone 3 > Biceps/Triceps, Cone 4 > Chest and back. Group split into teams of 2 and a group of 1.  Each Cone had an additional 44lbs tractor weight. Once the timer started tractor weights could not touch the ground, penalty for dropping was 5 burpees per drop.  A skid was placed at Cone 1 and pushed/pulled to the next cone with the tractor weight. Partner helped without picking up the skid. Once the skid hit cone two the 2nd tractor weight was added and the next group pushed/pulled the skid. This rotation continued around all four cones.  The next pass around the cones we dropped off one weight and continued the rotation. The HIM’s owed 50 burpees at the start of the workout and each pass of the skid deducted the overall burpee count for the 30 min ME.  As the team got the jest of the activity it became very clear that we have conceptual thoughts about how the theories of E=M2 works in physics, but we were very challenged in practical application of the theory.  POTS worked the skid and weight with out a buddy to help and we lost one tractor weight early. 55 burpees before we made one pass and another drop put us at 60.  We got better as the time passed, but a PAX that shall not be named (POTS) maybe dropped two weights accidentally on his mosey to the next cone.  At the end of the 30 min we owed 10 burpees from an apex of 60.

Mary:  Korean Wars (20 count) Ball Diamonds (20 count) Side Raises / Oblique V-ups 10 each then switch sides.

Announcements:  Mulch..Mulch…Mulch.
T-Claps (Recognition):  Thanks Sprinkler for bringing the coupons.
Prayer: Families trying to figure out school and working parents, First responders, People in isolation. Unspoken

“Wow, these really are gold!”

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It was a search for treasure.

Gold, specifically.

Sorry for the late BB post here, YHC had a whirlwind of a time since the AO, and only now getting back in front of the computer after a trip to Beech Mountain and a day of downhill mountain biking.

Warm Up:

Shredder, Mr. Terrific, and Fumunga for EC.

Side straddle hops, Moroccan night clubs, Frankensteins, and trunk twists, then mosey to the first stop.

The Workout:

Workout consisted of five stations (we only completed 4 before time), each station holding hidden treasure in the form of a small stack of gold playing cards. One man was chosen (or volunteered) to hunt, while everyone else held a squat. Once the treasure was found, the 5-6 cards dictated the exercises thusly:

♦ – 3 reps, ♠ – 6 reps, ♣ – 9 reps, ♥ – 12 reps

  • Ace: One-arm merkins
  • 2: Thighmaster – hold lunge position, pulse up and down in cadence. Suit count for each leg
  • 3: Travoltas – side plank, other arm points up, then shoots through arm
  • 4: Freddy Mercury
  • 5: Failure to Launch – squat hold for 10-count, then explode upward, land in a squat
  • 6: Shrimp-on-the-Bar-B – plank position, crunch arm and opposite leg
  • 7: Sterkin – step up each leg, then erkin. That’s 1 rep
  • 9: Not Quite Lay-Z-Boys – on your six, arms and legs up, extend and lean back as much as possible until you roll back or touch the ground. That’s 1 rep.
  • 10: Twinkle Toes – squat hold with calf raises, in cadence
  • Jack: J-Los – Elbow plank hold, hips rotate side to side to kiss the ground
  • King: King of Hearts – karaoke suicides

Combatives:

Sitting kick defense – front kick (remember to thrust hips forward!), twist kick (hips shift out L, R leg kicks to the outside, then switch legs), side fall turn kicks

Announcements:

Mulch signups

Prayer:

Mr. Terrific’s wife’s roommate tested positive for COVID; general continued health for the PAX

Ground Pounder with a twist

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FNGs: Nope

5 HIMs posted to GP this morning.  Mumble chatter did not disappoint. 

WarmUp:

10 Good Mornings, 10 DaisyPickers,  10 Emperial Walkers, 10 Hillbilly Squats, 10×3 ct Windmills, 10x3ct Fozzie Arm Circles,  20 SSH, 15 ct arms stretches

The Workout

Mosey to the Wall of Pain

  • 50 ct Wall Sits
  • 1 set of 10 x 3ct  Australian Ass Smacker
  • 10 Merkins
  • 50 ct Prisoner Wall Sits
  • 1 set 10x3ct Ascending Testicles
  • 10 Merkins
  • 20×3 ct Moroccan Wall Sits
  • 1 set 10x3ct Ascending Testicles with a few holds

Mosey to the Rock Pile. PAX all selected perfectly large rocks (so proud) and assembled in the lot.  Rotate rocks between exercises.

3 set of 10 x 3 ct of each exercise:

Curls for the Girls, Overhead Tricep Press, Wonder Bras, Trunk Twists, Bus Drivers,  Rutrows, and Ground Pounders (of course).  Broke up each set with Ab exercises.

  • 2 set of 10 x 3 ct Plank Rock Spanks (1 without consent; 1 with)
  • 40 LBCs
  • 10x3ct Freddie Mercuries
  • 10 x 3ct Windshield wipers
  • 10x3ct Scissor kicks
  • 10x3ct Box Cutters
  • 10x3ct Rocky’s
  • 20 Love Haters  (10 for each handle)

Mosey back for Mary

Ended with ACDC’s Thunder Struck to end the suck.
Divided song in 3 sections.

1st section:  SSH + Squats on “Thunder” (just about killed us)

2nd section: Mountain Climbers  + Merkins on “Thunder”

3rd section: LBCs + Homer to Marge on “Thunder”

Announcements:  Mulch day at Bass Lake, Derrick Davis and Yogging 5Ks Sign up open

Prayer Requests:  Praise for all HIMS who support one another in times of need. Praise LED’s uncle on solid road to recovery.  Continued Prayers for DOA’ Father in Law, Wes undergoing chemotherapy treatment.

731 Days Later

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Two years goes fast.  I still remember my first post and how I thought I was going to die most of the time.  How did those guys move so much?  How were they not as exhausted as I was?  Who is this Banana Seat guy and how has he not been arrested for torture? Kenny’s Grave was the only AO I went to for some time.  Thursday was my F3 day and that’s what I did.  And, honestly, having Banana Seat Q most of my first work outs was probably a blessing because, well, you know how he is.  He made me do things I didn’t think I could do and made me keep wanting to come back to see what more I can do.  So, for that Banana Seat, I thank you.

Two years later and I’m still enjoying every minute of these workouts, pushing myself and others to achieve things previously unachievable.  The things I’ve accomplished along the way were things that I would have told you I’d have never done before.  As we’ve all heard in the past, they workouts don’t get any easy, you get stronger.  And I’ve gotten a lot stronger and not just physically.

On to the workout, the preblast indicated that the numbers 24 and 16 would be prominent.  I was hoping the reasons would be fairly obvious.  I also remembered something that New Mexico said on Friday at Deadbolt’s 6 year Q, “Anniversary Q’s don’t have to suck, you know?”.  With that in mind I set out to make us all sweat but not to make us all regret it.  I also wanted to work in some of the things we did in my first workout so I borrowed a bit from that old backblast.

FNGs:

Not today

Warm Up:

We ran a lap around the track, mixing in butt kickers, high knees, and carocia.  We finally circled up near the tennis courts for:

Squatted overhead claps x24 IC

Windmill x16 IC

SSH x24 IC

Daisy Picker x16 IC

Burpees x5 OYO

The Workout:

The Red October guys went about their business why the rest of us moseyed down the parking lot some.  We partnered up to do some partner plank hops.  P1 did shoulder taps while P2 did side hops over their legs 24 times, and then switched.  Each partner did two rounds.

We moseyed a bit further to do some chilly broad jumps to traverse the rest of the parking lot down to the circle.  PAX got in chill cut plank position and spaced out a bit while the first guy got up and jumped over everyone.  When he was done he got down in to plank and the next guy went.  We got through 3 rotations before reaching the end.  From there we went and fished a rock out of the water and circled up for some quick rock work:

Curls for the girls x12

Tricep extensions x8

Ground Pounder x12

Rut Rows x8

Rinse and repeat (had to get 24 and 16 reps).  5 more burpees and then we carried our rocks up to the back parking lot and lined up.  We started with 24 dips on our rocks and then bear crawl pushed them to the other side of the parking lot where there was an island.  On that side we did 16 dirkins with our feet up on the curb.  To work our way back across the parking lot we put our rocks in our bellies and crab walked.  Back at the start we did 24 midget cookie pouches with our rocks.  With our rocks in hand we duck walked to the other side where we did 16 goblet squats.  We held our rocks and lunge walked back across and finished up with 5 more burpees.

We returned our rocks back to the drain and made our way over to the soccer field and lined up along the sideline.  Instructions were given that we would sprint across the field, do an exercise, sprint back, do an exercise, etc. The exercises were Bobby Hurley x24, irkins on the bleachers x16, tuck jumps x24, and lastly 5 more burpees.

We did a slow Indian run up to the bathroom building for a 24 count people’s chair before heading to the tennis courts for…

Mary:

Our esteemed Red October colleges joined us in the circle for:

American Hammer x24

LSF x16

LBC x24

and to round it off, 4 burpees for 24 total during the workout

Announcements:

The Bass Lake mulch project continues.  Great work is being done by UTI and the team so please help volunteer and help solidify F3 in the community.  We probably wake a lot of people up so giving ourselves good press can only be good.

T-Claps (Recognition):

To all the guys that did the ruck yesterday morning, helping bring food and supplies to Mama’s House.  It’s a great place and I love that we’re doing things to help them.  I was proud to see LED and Fram and F3 in a post from Mama’s House last week thanking them for their charity

Prayer:

For everyone dealing with all the things.  So much stuff is going on right now and we’re all dealing with something.  Maybe that’s the biggest take away that there is, we’re all dealing with something so have grace and patience for your fellow man.

I also reminded God that I think he left the oven on.

 

As always, it was an honor to lead.  When I started doing this there was no way I ever thought I’d be able to lead a workout, for many reasons.  I’m glad that I do and I’m glad that I can and I encourage anyone that hasn’t to get out there and do it.  You will surprise and impress yourself, I guarantee it.

 

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This Ruck was the best morning ever to adjust Gross weight!!!

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YHC talked to Breach about a food Ruck for Momas House of Thrift. Put it out on slack earlier in the week so you HIM could prepare. It was not disappointing this morning with 13 PAX for the Ruck and 3 for some miles. Arrived this morning to find at least 8 already packing the food into their back packs. M4life had a little extra pack for each one to hand off and carry along the route. 

FNG: None 

Warm Up: The RUCK 

The Workout: At 6:00 am we were off. Started the Ruck off with lots of mumblechatter. It was noted right off, that someone was already complaining about the weight of their pack. No name calling! After we hit the blue trail towards Breaches house he mentions, hey lets stop by my house. I said whats up? Nothing, I have a case of toilet paper we can pass around OTW. I was the first one to tote the box of paper. It was passed around for the first mile….until it was Breaches turn. He did carry it for a few feet before stopping and we regrouped. (Box of toilet paper no fun to carry.) We removed all the toilet paper and stuffed it into grocery bags and packs. This would have been the best morning ever, to adjust gross weight. Lots and Lots of TP. Back on the route to Momas House. Still heard complaining about the weight a certain HIM pack. No Names! A little over 4 miles we arrived to drop off the food. We estimated it was over 400lbs of food. Way to step up and help out when in need!! We soon found ourselves getting refreshments and coffee at Dunkin. The Ruck back was a much faster pace! The total Ruck was around 8.5 miles.  Breach and I decided we did not need to lead. We walk to fast!

Mary: None 

Announcements: Bass Lake mulch starts back Saturday.  M4life reminded to donate to the 4 families dealing with COVID and can not work.  

This is one of the best ways to get to know everyone. One minute you are walking and talking and the next you are near the middle or rear fellow shipping with another. Come out and join us next week. 

After much discussion when we returned we will make the food Ruck a monthly trek. More details to follow. 

T-Claps (Recognition) Pikachu, Cupid and Skidmark for getting some miles this morning. All the HIM’s for getting up and supporting this worthy cause to assist those in need. 2.0 Slaps LED’s son for joining us OTW back.  

Prayer: Continued prayer for LED’s friend. Victims of COVID. Our Country. Others had unspoken. Those who carried to much weight this morning! 

It was an honor to lead! Sprinkler 

“I feel the need for speed.” – Said no possum ever.

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Warm Up: 2 PAX for EC. 8 PAX took the DRP for today.  20 SSH, 10 Imperial Walkers, 10 Hillbillies, 10 count cadence good mornings, 10 count cadence daisy pickers, Quad and Hamstring stretch.
The Workout: First half of ME: 7 speed and power plyometric exercises for 30 sec timer per exercise. 10 sec rest in between. 1. Jump Squat 2. High Knees 3. Tuck Jumps 4. Calf Raises 5. Lateral Bounds 6. Butt Kicks 7. Jump Lunges.  PAX rotated as rabbit in the middle,for the pace setter per exercise. Rinse and Repeat 3x. 14 min and 20 sec total cycle.

Second half of ME: Two groups of three and one group of two. Three stations: Bridge Hill Sprints, Grab bag of weights for upper body and 20 yard sprints. Hills and sprints did 3 reps before rotating.  Weight group did variety of upper body exercises called out at random from PAX. Each round the reps were reduced by one. Two hills , two sprints then working our way down to 1 rep.

Mary: Yoga stretches focusing on hip flexers,quads, hamstrings and lower back.
Announcements: Dead Bolt 6 year anniversary at Cletus on Friday. CSAUP coming in the fall and Q-swap. (Banana Seat)
T-Claps (Recognition): LED, FRAM and FED-EX helping family in need with furniture in Angier.
Prayer: Clay Jensen’s family, Crab legs struggling with health, Dead Bolt’s daughter in third week of Nursing at Wake Med. Tension and depression in society and in homes during this time.

Okay, so we’re doin’ this…

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Told Sprinkler I would take care of the pre-blast, rolled up to 3 pax in the parking lot when I got there and 4 more showed up and we rolled of a little slow to let breach catch up with us.

FNGs: none
Warm Up: none
The Workout: Ruck the Red, Blue, and Yellow Trails at the AO
Mary: Not today
Announcements: New AO Opening Tomorrow Banks Road Elementary, Mulch Continues
T-Claps (Recognition): Those who Received breathtaker shirts.
Prayer: Our Country, First responders, and frontline workers.

NMS: If you have not been out for this AO on Sunday, I recommend it, we had a lot 2nd F/mumble chatter during the workout. You don’t need a rucksack just something with weight in it, or if you are injured, feel free to walk with us without any extra weight.

No Slushies at Ground Pounder on 7-11

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FNGs: Welcome Duece

6 HIMs and 1 FNG showed up to GP this morning.  It was a hot and we got shweaty. Stout from Davidson, NC was downrange and decided to join us in the gloom.  DOA was LOA (Late on Arrival) 

WarmUp:

10 Good Mornings, 10 DaisyPickers,  10 Emperial Walkers, 10 Hillbilly Squats, 10 Burpies, 10 Willy Mays Haze, 10 3 ct Windmills, 20 SSH, 15 ct arms stretches

The Workout

Mosey to the Rock Pile. YHC asked the PAX to select medium rocks and we headed for the shade.  Rotate rocks based on exercise.

3 set of 10 x 3 ct of each American exercise:

Curls for the Girls, Overhead Tricep Press, Wonder Bras, Trunk Twists, Bus Drivers,  Rutrows, and Ground Pounders (of course)

  • 2 set of 10 x 3 ct Rock Spanks (1 without consent; 1 with)
  • 10x3ct Freddie Mercuries
  • 10 x 3ct Windshield wipers
  • 20  1 Arm Merkins (10 each side)

Mosey to the Wall of Pain

  • 3 sets of 70 ct Wall Sits
  • 2 set of 10 x 3ct  BTW Australian Ass Smacker

Mosey back for Mary

  • 20 ct Pigeon pose
  • 20 LBCs
  • 10x3ct Plank Jacks
  • 10x3ct Mountain Climbers
  • 30 ct Chill Cut Planks
  • 10 WWIIs
  • 20 American Love Haters  (10 for each handle)

T-Claps for LED getting the FNG out this morning

Announcements:  Mulch day at Bass Lake starts up again this weekend.

Prayer Requests:  Prayers for DOA’ Father in Law Wes undergoing chemotherapy treatment.  For our country’s local and federal leadership and for all those suffering physically or financially.

We Need To Retire That One…

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For a while now, those guys in Wescott have been putting together a Friday morning routine since March. Through neighborhood accountability among PAX, sometimes there were 3, other times there were 6, and then eventually through word of mouth, suddenly there were 10+. Over the past few weeks, this AO has  been drawing double digits.

Maybe it’s those outstanding post game 2nd F’s- sometimes including home cooked bacon, often times ice code tailgate refreshments, or maybe its those clever marketing campaigns-Reagan Era Beatdowns by some of SouthWake’s elder statesmen, deranged Easter Egg hunts, or some weird creepy photoshop work involving Mr. Rogers. Hey.. whatever works, but the Mr. Roger’s angle in pre-blast last night was enough to entice Nemo into heading straight down Sunset Lake Road instead of taking that right onto Holly Springs Road from Wood Creek and onto Crazy Ivan.

Some have been skeptical about these workouts that these men have been putting together up at that pool on the hill off of Sunset Lake Rd. One PAX even went so far as yesterday to call it a ‘fake’ workout and one that should be abandoned for the sake joining a celebratory birthday Q, where sometimes the featured EC is YouTube Yoga, with a non-F3 affiliated virtual led instructor- Mary Beth? Those who throw stones I guess. You know who you are and I still love ya.

While it would have been nice to celebrate Midget’s birthday this morning in person at Crazy Ivan, we now have a legitimate AO in Wescott, with an actual reference on the Q sheet, and the ability to check a box to write a backblast. For those reasons alone, there was an increased need to be accountable this morning and Q in the absence of our site Q, Deadbolt, who is currently vacationing with family. By the way, his Reagan Era beatdown last week with Double D was one that will be long remembered by those in attendance for a very long time. No fake news on that one.. Over 100 burpees and the guys attending the 1776 workout the following day were still talking about it. Ain’t that right, Pikachu? You know. You were there.

Since cancelling this morning’s workout was not an option, YHC decided to honor Midget’s birthday with a workout that mimic’d one of his favorite Raleigh AO’s- Whiplash. Thankfully, we didn’t cancel as when I got to the lot, it was filled with pickup trucks and SUV’s. Lots of PAX getting EC beforehand. A real sight of beauty. Pretty soon there were 10, once Pablo emerged from a distance one street over. Exchanged some light mumblechatter, and as 5:30 hit, we went right to work.

2 lines formed as we proceeded out of the lot in Indian Run formation down Wescott Ridge and over to the new annex they are building off of Bible Way Court. Circled up in the cul-de-sac within the new annex and performed the following

Warm Up: Good Mornings X10 IC, Imperial Walkers X10, Hillbillies X10, Fazio X10 F\B, Seal Claps X10, Overheads X10. Formed 2 lines and made our way out of this new development, but not before giving instruction on what we’d be doing.

The Workout: Little known fact about Wescott, there are 7 cul-de-sacs (not including the 1 we were exiting). The workout was simple..

2 line (5 PAX per) Indian Runs throughout the entire workout

-5 Burpees at each intersection we pass either entering or exiting (Total 85 Burpees for the workout)

-At each cul-de-sac progressive exercises would be performed X10 reps each exercise, tacking on a new exercise at each cul-de-sac visited

Proceeded first down Bible Way to head toward the cul-de-sac of Eden Glen on the backside of Wescott, which Deadbolt usually refers to as Fuquay South. A boat was seen in front of his house, but wasn’t his. Seemed fitting though that the first exercise should be Boat Canoes, but made zero sense to get PAX on their six, so we settled for some squats X10 at the bottom of the first cul-de-sac. Finished those and headed back up the hill in Indian Run formation. At the intersection, did another set of 5 burpees, ran an few hundred yards and then another 5 burpees at the Brightling intersection.

Passed by YHC’s casa, where the sprinklers were running. Let PAX know, if they needed a water break, this would be a perfect time as my water was their water. No takers. We had work to do and continued the Indian run to the next cul-de-sac. This next one was situated way down hill so Pablo cleverly said we should do Mountain Climbers. Perfect.. 10 Squats and 10 Mountain Climbers IC at the bottom of the cul-de-sac. Back in the Indian Run lines.

3 more intersections- 15 more Burpees to the next cul-de-sac for an added set of shoulder taps. So here we go- 10 Squats, 10 Mountain Climbers, 10 Shoulder Taps. Everyone still together we formed a somewhat fellowship run out of the cul-de-sac on the bottom of the back side of Brightling Way to the intersection.. Yep- 5 more burpees. 2 lines reformed and we headed up the second worst hill in the neighborhood.

By that time, we were starting to see some fatigue by a few PAX, but iron sharpens iron and although there were some pick ups of the 6, the lines were evenly distributed with very minimal lag time where neither line was way ahead or way behind. A very good mix in each lane and we all pushed each other. At the top of Brightling and Wescott Ridge- another 5 burpees and then proceeded down to that palm tree house at the bottom of Wescott Ridge. 10 Squats, 10 Mountain Climbers IC, 10 Shoulder Taps, and 10 Star Jumps. Back in 2 lines with 3 more intersections and 15 more burpees. Saw a few neighborhood clowns running, but appeared they wanted no part of these HIM trains, either due to social distancing or that they couldn’t fathom 10 dudes just suddenly dropping in front of them doing choreographed burpees at the end of their street almost as if they were possessed.

Home stretch and one more hill left, two lines still in tact, headed right on Danagher for one final cul-de-sac. 5 more burpees at the intersection. For those who have posted here before, this hill is like a Tyson knockout punch to the face, especially closer to the end of the workout. Lots of final adrenaline on display after these intersection burpees. Squat hold for the 6. At the top of the cul-de-sac, 10 Squats, 10 Mountain Climbers IC, 10 Shoulder Taps, 10 Star Jumps, and 10 Hand Release Merkins. This last exercise got two thumbs down from Fonzie as a Mother Trucker certified exercise. 2 lines reformed and 5 more burpees at the bottom of the hill. No time to proceed forward.. 5 out of 7 cul-de-sacs covered, 3mi later, and just enough time for 6 minutes of Mary.

This workout wasn’t meant to be easy, but we pushed through it together, and we’ll do it again next week. These guys absolutely killed it this morning. Double D indicated that we should retire this workout, but I’m gonna reserve the right to break this one out on special occasions or when certain PAX want to really separate fact from fiction on the type of workout we are delivering in Wescott on Friday.

Mary: Boat Canoes X10, LBC X20, Homer to Marge X10, Low Slow Flutter X10, Pickle Pounders X20 IC, Downward Dog, and one extra Good Morning, because that it was.

Announcements: Check out the new AO Banks Road Elementary on Monday, another new Sunday option with a Ruck at Hilltop Needmore. Check slack for details
T-Claps (Recognition): All PAX in attendance this morning and those getting EC- Fonzie, LED, New Mexico, Double D, Nemo, FedEx. FRAM and Sprinkler for sticking with it and pushing through the entire workout. Iron sharpens Iron in effect all morning.

Prayer: First responders, those experiencing financial impacts from the pandemic, and additional prayers for family and those in our communities battling health issues. YHC took us out.

Always an honor to lead. Thank you for this opportunity this morning.