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Cletus gets a UTI (╬ ಠ益ಠ)

It’s been a spell since Yogurt EH’d me for this Q.  I want to thank him for bringing me this opportunity.  I’m again very humbled by the turnout today.  Whether it was for me specifically or Cletus was just the place you wanted to spend your Friday in the gloom – I thank you.  So close to Christmas with all of the things I know we collectively have going on, it is awesome to share the morning with you guys.  I feel humbled to have been the Q this morning and to witness it.  I hope you got your money’s worth.  The year isnt over yet!!!  SYITG <3 UTI

EC: Nemo, Mookie, 187, Pikachu, Redenbacher, LED, Maybelline

YHC hit the olde snooze button this morning and barely made EC.  In fact, I was late.  I chalked up nearly 2 miles in the time allowed and barely got to see any of the HIM that actually made it out there on time.  Good work PAX!

FNGs: No Sir

Warm Up:

  • Mozy from the flag to the lot formerly known as the Ivan lot
  • SSH ~25 IC
  • Hillbillies 14 IC
  • Imperial Walkers (In Honor of Star Wars) 14 IC
  • Daisy Pickers – 14 IC
  • Fozio Arm Circles – 14 Forward 14 Back, IC

The Workout:

Thing 1

  • Groups of 5ish PAX line up in Indian Run formation.  Move to Bear Crawl position.  Indian Bear Crawl to mid lot and Jailbreak.  5 burpees.  Assume formation again and return to other side in exact same way.
  • Repeato 1x

Thing 2

  • Mozy to Amphitheater.
  • Dips, Erkins, Derkins – 20 each
  • Split PAX in 2, half on the wall for People’s Chair, half complete 20 Box Jumps and switch
  • Half on the wall for Balls2Wall, half complete 20 step-ups (10 each foot) and switch
  • Dips, Erkins, Derkins – 15 each
  • Split PAX in 2, half on the wall for People’s Chair, half complete 20 Box Jumps and switch
  • Half on the wall for Balls2Wall, half complete 20 step-ups (10 each foot) and switch
  • Dips, Erkins, Derkins – 10 each
  • Split PAX in 2, half on the wall for People’s Chair, half complete 20 Box Jumps and switch
  • Half on the wall for Balls2Wall, half complete 20 step-ups (10 each foot) and switch

Thing 3

  • Mozy to hand rail near baseball fields
  • Split PAX in 2, half on the hand rail for pull-ups, half complete Prisoner Squats to 20 and Switch
  • Split PAX in 2, half on the hand rail for pull-ups, half complete Prisoner Squats to 10 and Switch
  • Return to the flag

Mary:

  • Dying Cockroach 14 IC
  • Box Cutters 14 IC
  • Homer to Marge – 14 IC
  • Pickle Pounders – ~10? IC – Time caught us

Announcements:

  • 24hr Run Supporting Healing Transitions this weekend – Sat 3pm to Sun 3pm
  • AGS needs a Q – Mookie is suggesting that instead of AGS, make the 24hr run your target
  • Good things coming from 3rd F
  • Call out from DoubleD to take 3rd F seriously – it has an impact on your life and its ok to miss 1st F to make 3rd F a bigger part of your life.
  • Get up with Pikachu about the Emergency contact registry (esp Site Qs so you know how to access it quickly)
  • Be on the lookout for some emergency response training.  Good session in 2019 with the Holly Springs FD

T-Claps (Recognition):

  • The PAX that kept compressions going for Sgt Pepper.  They saved his life an made sure the EMS team had a patient when they arrived.  Way to be!

Prayer:

  • SlideRule and family – new baby TBN (to be named)
  • Sharapova and family – new baby
  • Sgt Pepper and family – suffered a heart attack during a workout
  • Safe travels to all this weekend if you are heading out – be safe

Great 2nd F at Harvest Moon today guys!

Monday mutiny

FNGs:none
Warm Up:SSH, imperial walkers, SSH, hillbillies, SSH, mountain climbers, leg stretch he’s, arm stretches, fazio arm circles
The Workout:Fedex led 4 pax while 4 stayed at red October. 10- hot potato IC, 10-around the body IC, 10-Figure 8 IC, 10 Swings, 10-triceps IC, 20 -presses, 10- standing be rows and 10- bent over rows. 10- tricep rows. 10-go let squats, 10- each side suitcase deadlifts, 10- each leg single leg deadlifts, 10-squat curls IC. 10-sit-up press, 10- merkin/squat /curl combos, 10 American hammers, 10 side bends.  Rinse and repeat
Mary: derkins, irkins , LSF, LBCs, homer to marge, pickle pounders
Announcements: shield lock, throw back week next week. Possum trot closed Christmas unless a volunteer to q. Oak wood 24 donations and auction
T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer: injured pax, Fumunga, unspoken.

R22 spotting at Mutiny

10 HIMs posted at Honeycutt this morning  – 4 HIMs showed up to Mutiny; 6 for Red October. 

YHC led the PAX in the warm up, Dauber ran COT.

FNGs: None, but some dude named R22 showed up in the Gloom again  – great to see you brother.

 Warm Up: Jog down around circle and back, 20 x 3 ct SSH, 10 Good Mornings, 10 Windmills, 10 Daisy Pickers, 10 Emperial Walkers, 10 Hillbillies, 10 Emperial Squaters, 10 Hillbilly Squaters, 10 Fozie Arm Circles, 10 ct Pigeon Pose

The Workout

Mosey to the picnic area: 1 set of 10’s Merkins, Derkins, Erkins, Dips

Rock Pile. Rotate around rocks between sets.

  • 2 sets of 20’s – Curls for the girls
  • 2 sets of 20’s  – Overhead Overhead Tri-press
  • 2 sets of 10 x 3 ct – Ground Pounders
  • 2 sets of 10 x 3 ct  – Bus Drivers
  • 2 sets of 10 x 3 ct – Rutrows
  • 4 sets of 10 x 3 ct – Standard Bench Press
  • 1 set each of 10 x 3 ct Windshield Wipers, 6 inches, Box Cutters, and Low Slow Flutter

PAX pair up:

2 sets of alternate weighted plank hold while other runs 30 yards

2 sets of weighted crab hold while other runs 30 yards

2 sets of 10 x 3 ct Step Ups and Star Jumps in rapid succession

1 set of 10’s Merkins, Derkins, Erkins, Dips

Mosey back to COT to meet up with the rest of the PAX. 

PAX did 10 Merkins, 10 3 ct Mountain Climbers and 10 3 ct Plank Jacks till Dauber’s group finished up

Dauber led the group in 20 LBCs and  10 American Hammers

Announcements:  Christmas Party this coming weekend (Sign up online)

T-Claps :  For all the HIMs that posted EC this morning and for those who participated in Frosty CSAUP this weekend.

Prayer:  HIMs that are dealing with injuries, all those who experience depression and sadness during the holiday.  Encouragement to reach out to someone you haven’t heard from in a while.

Dauber took us out.

There was a plan. Was.

YHC had mentally put together a workout.  It required multiple teams of 3 and my biggest stumbling point when mentally preparing the night before was trying to figure out how to address a 2 man team or an extra PAX.  This seemed totally doable as Possum Trot regularly has 10-15 dudes show up.  5.  We had 5 this morning.  Don’t get me wrong, I was absolutely grateful for the 4 HIM that showed up this morning and wouldn’t trade them for the world, but it threw a wrench in what was already a thinly put together plan.  Oh well, time to practice was we preach and modify as needed.

FNGs: Nope
Warm Up:

Good mornings x10 IC

SSH x20 IC

Moroccan Night Clubs x10 IC

Squated overhead claps x10 IC

Squated seal claps x10 IC

The Workout:

So the original plan was to do a 3-man team Dora with a PAX on either side of the parking lot and the 3rd partner bear crawling and/or crab walking with a rock in between the other two and having it be a bit of a relay.  This did not happen.

What did happen:

We moseyed to the rock pile to get a rock and then headed over to the top of the road leading down to the ball fields.  Two groups of 2 PAX grouped up at for a standard Dora (100 merkins, 200 LBC, 300 squats), with YHC being solo.  While one partner started on the exercises the other was bear crawling and pushing their down to the not-so-portable Port-A-R4TJ.  Once said commode was reached they would flip over, put rock on “rocks” and crab walk back up to their partner.  Cycle through this until both groups completed their full set.

Along with the original plan calling for 3-man teams YHC also planned to increase the number of reps of each exercise to accommodate for the larger group.  Again, with smaller numbers we finished sooner than expected so I had to think on the fly.  Or, as was the case today, steal from Forceps.  PAX circled up with their rocks, rotation one rock to the left after each exercise, doing two rounds of:

10x curls for the girls

10x tricep extension (or, if you’re Breach, tris for the guys)

10x rut rows

10x bus drivers

10x chest press

10x dead lift

Afterwards we returned the rocks and headed to the wall on the tennis courts for BTTW -> People’s chair -> BTTW -> People’s chair.  The PAX took turns counting to 10 in as many languages (both real and made up) as they could.  Breach tried to get creative and do an IC 10 count doing mountain climbers but YHC and his weigh vest wanted nothing to do with that and cut him off at 5.

Mary:

Circle up for:

15x American Hammers

10x Australian Snow Angles

15x Low slow flutter

10x Freddie Mercury

Announcements:

Frosty CSAUP on Saturday

Christmas party next weekend

Q sheet looks bare (at least for PT) .  Being with a group that has Q’d often I encouraged them to get other PAX to spread their wings and sign up to Q and fill in the sheet.  It’s getting in to the cold months were numbers dwindle so having folks come out and VQ will always draw a bigger crowd.

Prayer:

Wallaby and his family.  Pablo is trying to set up time to go over and help put up their Christmas lights.  Check the #3rdF channel in Slack or reach out to him directly for details.  There is also a meal train set up for the family.  https://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090c44aaab23a7f58-hanlon

The time around the holidays can be hard for some folks.  We often times think of it as a joyous time, as it should be, but others struggle to get through these times for any number of reasons.  Reach out to your fellow PAX that you haven’t seen in a while, or a friend or a neighbor, and check in with them and see how they’re doing.  You never know what someone is going through.

 

010000

Ultimate Hard Mode

FNGs: None today
Warm Up:

SSH x20 IC

Windmill x10 IC

Frankenstein’s x10 IC
The Workout:

Ultimate frisbee F3 style! When the disc hits the ground do an exercise from a rotating list. For today the list was 10x merkins, 10x squats, 5x burpees. A big up in the number of reps vs what is the norm – that’s why it was hard mode!

When a team scores they call an exercise that everyone does.

Mary:

We played until 42 minutes or so – after a game point call we moseyed back to the parking lot for some Mary.

Low slow flutter x20 IC

LBC x20 IC
Announcements:

CSAUP, Christmas Party, Oakwood 24.
T-Claps (Recognition):

16-bit for playing with breathtaker. He’s committed to the 5 pack and I’m sure this wasn’t easy with the extra 20 lbs.
Prayer:

Finkle’s daughter is in post op recovery. Duwan at Banana Seat’s church needs lifting up. Continue to pray for Wallaby and his family – a meal train is in the works by Pablo. Fumunga’s hot water heater is busted. Beater’s son is having some behavioral issues.

Thankful

FNGs:none
Warm Up:Good mornings, arm stretches, fazio arm circles, ssh
The Workout:

T – The Wolverine 10 count

H- Howling monkeys atom the circle and 10 count at end

A- Aiken legs 20 jump squats, 20 lunges IC, 15 smurf jacks

N- no surrender 20 IC

K- king of hearts suicides. 3 sets

S- Stirkins stepuos and irkin

G- 20 Groiners

I- indian run to tennis court with last man doing 3 merkins

V- vacuum cleaners with 3 sermons at two locations

I- iron Hulk 1:4 ratio to 7

N- never cross dolly

G – growing pains

G- good day

Mary:none
Announcements: convergence tomorrow at 6:00am tiger blood, csaup dec 7th, Christmas party Dec 14th.  Leadership changes starting Jan 1st
T-Claps (Recognition): to the pax who came out and brought canned goods for Mamas House of Thrift.  Picture to follow but we’ll over 300 items.
Prayer:Quivers family, Hardy and sickness, Wallaby

On the fly

FNGs: None
Warm Up:SSH, Good Mornings,Daisy Pickers, Windmills, mountain climbers, Moroccan nightclubs
The Workout:Half burpee curb hops. Some where around 15. Grabbed some rocks and did a variation of 7’s utilizing the wonder bra and merkin/groiner exercises.  15 count IC tricep curls, curls for the girls, deadlifts, and rutrows.  Back to curb to do half burpee wave from 1 to 4, holding plank when resting. Repeat rock exercises above. Jog to concession stand and did 7’s of donkey kicks on wall and plank to arm extension onto wall IC.

Mary:met with red October for some stretching, homer to marge and pickle pounders. Did rounds of circle on what we are thankful for.
Announcements:Christmas party, convergence Thursday, canned goods brought to possum trot will be delivered to Mamas house Thrift shop. 12 bucks gets around 25 cans.
T-Claps (Recognition):for all the pax not running last week but supporting those who ran.
Prayer: quiver daughter and family.

Threes company

FNGs:none
Warm Up:SSH, monkey humpers, fazio arm circles, arm stretches
The Workout:

10hot potato IC

10 count IC around waist

10 count IC figure 8

10 shoulder press

10 slow bent over rows and 10 fast

10 straight rows

10 tricep extension

10 goblet squats

10 suitcase deadlifts each side

10 single leg deadlifts each leg

10 wonder bras

10 sit-up press

10 push-up, squat curl combos

10 American hammer variation

10 side bends each side

 

repeat

Mary:15 count boat canoes,hello dollys, LSF,pickle pounders, homer to marge box cutters, stretches all IC
Announcements:frosty, Christmas party
T-Claps (Recognition):
Praye r: Quiver and family

Successful Launch of Red October – New AO in FV

Red October made her maiden voyage on a gorgeous, crisp, autumn morning with pleasant temperatures in the 60s!  Dauber was giddy with excitement about bringing all of his kettlebell knowledge he had learned while under the tutelage of Sir Dawgpound and Nemo during many early morning study sessions at Crazy Ivan.  Unfortunately, Dauber arrived to the launch site at 5:29 and dawdled getting over to the circle of 16 PAX eager to start their Monday off right.  Double D penalized the lads with 5 burpees OYO for his “tardiness” and handed off the warm-up duties to Sprinkler.

FNGs: None.

Warm Up:  As announced through social media, Red October would join the Mutiny PAX for both warm-up and COT.  Sprinkler was “volun-told” to lead us and did an amazing job.  We warmed up with the following exercises:  quick jog around path, SSH, merkins, Fozio Arm Circles, Daisy pickers, IW and HB.

The Workout:  PAX of 7 moseyed with kettle bell in hand to the tennis courts.  A brief discussion about technique and modifications ensued with nods from all PAX eager to begin their KB work out.

The following exercises were executed using a kettle bell:

10 count Goblet Squat, 10 cadence count merkin-tap, 10 count swing (Rinse and Repeat)

10 count Bent-Over row, 10 cadence count chill cut plank-tap, 10 count halo (R & R)

10 count Lawn mower pull (L&R), 10 cadence count OH press, 10 count Midget love handles (R & R)

10 count figure 8 (5L, 5R), 10 cadence count twists back to center, 10 Arm thrusters (L,R) (R & R)

10 count pulls, 10 count straight leg/tricep pull, 10 rear lunges (L,R) (R & R)

PAX divided into pairs (Forceps had to depart for a flight); PAX without KB executed LBCs, PAX executed farmer’s walk back and forth with two kettle bells at their sides.  Crab walk to center and back from opposite sides of tennis courts.

BTTFence for a 30 cadence count

Mary:  Red October PAX were joined by Mutiny PAX after Mutiny PAX played with some cement blocks and drank lattes watching Red October PAX get sweaty.  40 count Jack Webb’s in the grass with some AB exercises too.  Double D rocks!

Announcements:  HSHM, F3 Christmas party, CSAUP

T-Claps (Recognition):  LED and his SHOCK ABSORBERS handling all of the kettle bell weight PAX ordered!

Prayer:  Double D took us out with words of wisdom.  Unspoken, spoken.  16 Bit leg issue, Quiver job/home sale.

A sincere thank you to those PAX who came out today for a different workout in FV and those PAX who sent kind words my way in preparation for this AO.  A true privilege to lead you men. – Dauber

BTTW til you drop!

EC: Fonzie, LED

Warm Up: I can’t remember…but I know we did 5 burpees.

The Workout:

Mosey to baseball field for one welsh dragon to 10.

Mosey back to tennis court for reconstructed burpees.

Crab walk first court, 4 turkish getups. Run back.

Crab walk two courts, 4 turkish getups and up/downs. Run back.

Crab walk three courts, 4 turkish getups and merkins. Run back.

Crab walk all four courts, 4 turkish getups and burpees. Run back.

Circle merk for 3 rounds, one side do 10 pattycake merkins, the other side do 10 brokeback merkins.

Back to tennis courts for BTTW til you drop. Losers do 5 burpees. Winner: Fonzie! 5 burpees anyways.

Mary: PAX choice.

Announcements: Frosty the CSAUP.

T-Claps (Recognition): Fonzie, our BTTW champion! And welcome to Fuquay Hardy, Florence, and K9 Poop Eater.

Prayer: Everyday life.