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Cackling and Clucking on the Yard

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There are some PAX (POTS) that simply shut down the mumblechatter with burpees. YHC can typically deal with some mumblechatter during the warm ups or even Mary at some point…during the workout…nah. Those that were, according to POTS cackling and clucking (you know who you are) put in some reasonable work on the Yard this morning, so the guest Warden didn’t punish. Apparently, the pain stations equipped with many types of coupons were enough anyways…13 men…a record for Prison Yard…did the crimes and did the time at Hilltop Needmore Prison today.

FNGs: no fresh meat on the Yard today!
Warm Up: After a quick set-up with the help of the inmates, we ran a quick mosey loop followed by SSH x30 IC, Windmills x10 IC, Sir Fazio’s F/R x 12 IC, Frankensteins x10 IC, Standard Merkins x 20.
The Workout: The timer was two men, flipping the large tractor tire up the hill and carrying back to the bottom. Each man flipped up the hill once. During this, the PAX took part in various pain stations including: Kettlebell Swings, Plank Pull Throughs, Steel Mace Warrior Squats, Railroad Iron Bench Press, Pain Stick Squat, Pain Stick Curl, Pain Stick Press, Partner Pain Stick Squat and Press, Tractor Weight Shoulder Shrug, Farmers Carry with the Tractor Weights and Diamond Merkins, 4 cones for a side shuffle Burpee routine. All prisoners got to play with the toys multiple times.
Mary: Put the coupons away, followed by LSF x30 IC and LBC’s x30 IC.
Announcements: May Main Event…only two more days to sign up. Bed build info on Slack. Breach will Q a Travis Mannion workout Thursday at Tiger Blood.
T-Claps (Recognition): Lots of EC this morning…LED, Breach, FRAM, Nemo, Mookie, Deadbolt. Nemo’s first time on the Yard…looked like he’d done time before….good work!
Prayer: Shamwow! injury and hopes he or all injured PAX can get back after it! Motor Boatin’ a prayer of thanks for the accountability. Breach took us out including the moment of silence for our military and first responders on the front lines. Honored to lead this strong group this morning!

Everyone Needs a Little Mercy

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A beautiful weather morning for 13 HIM to show up at the “Happiest AO in SouthWake”. YHC had pre-blasted that loud voices would be heard during a few audible exercises at Disney today. YHC had also heard that a decent contingent of Disney regulars had a pretty stationary (albeit painful) beating at Possum Trot the day before, so I decided to keep the feet moving. Fairly certain we got a bit over 2 miles.

FNG’s: None
Warm Up: SSH x 40IC, Good Mornings x 20IC (always a crowd pleaser), Sir Fazio Arm Circles (F/R) x 10 IC.
The Workout: Counted off by two’s and formed two lines for a lengthy Indian Run to the front of the high school by the circle. Group 1 would bear crawl around the circle, while Group 2 did AMRAP dips on the nearby benches. We then rotated. Now it was time for voices to be heard. We stayed in our groups and each group took a turn doing an Indian Run line from the circle up the hill of the parking lot and return, while the other group did the “loud call”  AMRAP exercise. Warbucks called for group 2 to do Pickle Pounders while Group 1 was gone. Roger Roger called for Group 1 to do WW2’s while Group 2 was gone.

We basically repeated this sequence in a couple more spots on our travels today. Next, we went to the bottom of another hill around the side of the high school. Each group took a turn sprinting up and down the hill with 5 Star Jumps at the top. The group waiting did AMRAP LSF’s.

Back to the Indian Run lines…this time to the Abyss. Once again, Groups took turns going down the stairs and returning, while other group did the “loud call” AMRAP exercise. At the bottom of the Abyss, groups did Mickey Mouse Merkins.

Round 1: 3 Mickey Mouse Merkins at the bottom, Group 2: Burpees at the top, Group 1: Hand-Release Burpees at the top.

Round 2: 5 Mickey Mouse Merkins at the bottom, Group 2: Homer 2 Marge at the top (as Bondo said…everyone needs mercy sometimes), so Group 2 returned the favor this round.

Final Round: 7 mickey Mouse Merkins at the bottom, Group 2: Shoulder Taps, Group 1: Star Jumps.

We did one final whole group Indian Run back to the flag for Mary.

Mary: Zebra Kicks x 20IC, LBC’s x 20 IC, Box Cutters x 20IC, american Hammers x10IC (cuz everyone deserves some mercy).
Announcements: Long Ass Run, March 27th. Check the Slack.
T-Claps (Recognition): Great job to the PAX for picking up the six many times today…this is what we do men!
Prayer: Maggie Peterson., friend of Roger Roger with breast cancer. Pikachu’s M and some ongoing pain concerns. Bondo stepped up to take us out.

Bear Crawl on the Rocks

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on the rocksFNGs: none
Warm Up: SSH x20, Windmills x10, Daisy Pickers x10, Fozio Arm Circles / Sun Gods x10 forward x10 back, Seal Claps x10, Overhead Claps x10, Moroccan Night clubs x10
The Workout: YHC’s avoiding a lot of running due to injury, so we took things nice and slow today. Like, bear crawls across the parking lot slow. We mosied over to the rock pile and grabbed a medium-sized rock. It went like this:

  • Curls for the girls x30 in cadence.
  • Bear crawl / rock push across the parking lot (long ways) to the next corner.
  • Squats x30 in cadence.
  • Lunge walk short side.
  • Ruh Rohs x30 in cadence.
  • Bear crawl / rock push.
  • Ground Pounders x30 in cadence.
  • Lunge walk back to start.

Round 2 was the same, with the count at 20. Round 3 we were running tight on time, so we swapped the bear crawls with John Cusack walk. Count at 10. Returned our rocks and mosied over to the picnic shelter.

Lined up for People’s Chair, 10 count down the line for a total of 40. Balls to the Wall, 10 count x4 = 40. Urkins, Durkins and French Dips, 10 each. Mosied back for Mary.
Mary: Popcorn Mary (those shoulder taps were rough). Ended with some light yoga stretching.
Announcements: *crickets*
T-Claps (Recognition): Cancun for swapping out for a bigger rock after round 1 of the workout.
Prayer: mental health for everyone these days, sleep for those with wee ones

What happens at the John, stays at the John

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We had a surprise visit by HS finest this morning. Not sure what the commotion was all about, could have been an arms dealer, could have been speeding…guess you should have came to the John to find out.

EC: Full House, Katniss, UTI, Vasoline

FNGs: None

The Workout:

Head out of Ting > Right on Main > Right on Earp > Cemetery Hill 2X > Right on Avent Ferry > Right on Ballentine > out to 55 > Back to Main Street > Left on Main > Back to Ting

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mary: Ran out of time.

Announcements: Check Slack and FB

T-Claps (Recognition): Everyone for picking up the six.

Prayer: Cupid on his job interview, Full House on his new lead, my Mom who recently received her vaccine.

Felt good to be back in the gloom and very thankful for this group of HIM.

YHC took us out. Thank you for the opportunity to lead.

Do the Major Melon Dew T-Shirt Challenge

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Pre-pre-blasted on Tuesday Feb 23rd that any PAX who posted and ran 3+ miles at U-Turn would receive a Mt Dew Major Melon long sleeve T-shirt and a free can sample of the full sugar or zero sugar.  Received plenty of HC’s on Tuesday and plenty more with Friday evening’s pre-blast.  Including myself 24-PAX were out and about at U-Turn…by far the most I’ve ever had the honor to Q

FNGs: none today

Warm Up: quick mosey around the parking lot, Michael Phelps arms, 10x Windmills, 10x Good Mornings, 10x Daisy Pickers, 10x Frankensteins, 10x Imperial Walkers, 25-30 Merkins

The Workout: 3mi option and 6mi option of the standard U-Turn route in reverse

Mary: no time today

Announcements: Monthly Challenge #3 begins Monday;  #monthlychallenge on slack for more details

T-Claps (Recognition): all the PAX completing 3+ miles today and earning some swag

Prayer:  the safety of all the students, teachers, state workers going back to school on Monday.  Also the safety of everyone state-wide as COVID restrictions begin to ease up.

Jessie’s Girl and the After Song

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It was good to see several cars in the lot already as I pulled up early for GP. Tclaps to Shredder who hopped out of his car and went for an EC run with the promise of no burpees by the Q if he was late getting back. Forceps rolled up right on time bringing the music with him, because the pax at GP do get grumpy without their music. Little did he know how important it would be later to set the mood for my new Mary Circuit.

FNGs:N/a
Warm Up: side straddle hops(by most, Gump hops by 1, and attempted Gump hops by another), good mornings, fozzy arm circles forward and reverse, Michael Phelps, and daisy pickers.
The Workout: our normal rocks were halfway underwater so mosey to the new rock pile for a medium to large rock. I was very proud of everyone today as I didn’t see any one arm pebbles this week. John cusack, curls for the girls, and mumble chatter (something about morning enemas) as we mosey to the game board by the basketball courts.

Everyone lined up by the color wheel with rocks for the main event. Pax would spin the wheel, I would move on the board to that color, we would do a super ground pounder as the buy in for every turn there’d been (1,2, 3, etc.), the pax that spun would call a 10 count move, we would all execute that move, and then rotate down a rock. It took 15 turns to make it to the end and we ended with a 20 count move to finish.

Cusack, curls for the girls, and mumble chatter(something about a trip to Circle K, had to be there for this one!) as we returned the rocks to their exact location and mosey back to the start for Mary

Mary: Inspired by GP 2 weeks ago I promised to make a Jessie’s Girl Circuit based on some mumble chatter. Forceps had it on the playlist and got it started.
Jessie’s Girl: 10 count 3rd Nipplers(thanks Gump for the inspiration), 6 inches hold, pickle pounders, homer to marge right leg up, and homer to marge left leg up. Then rinse and repeat for Round 2. This circuit lasts much longer than the song and I think we hit a different playlist for the after song.
Finished things up with an embrace the suck plank hold.

Announcements: Mama’s Thrift moving tomorrow morning 7am
T-Claps (Recognition): All pax that made it out for some ridiculousness and a reasonable Q
Prayer: Fanny Pack traveling, covid relief, unspokens

Have you ever seen Brad Pitt and Nemo in the same place?

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Nemo and new hairstyle graced us with their presence while continuing to recover from Uwharrie. Many comparisons were drawn to Brad Pitt and Johnny Depp. Looking good Nemo.

Couple late guys too. You know who you are.

FNGs: None
Warm Up: About 1 mile warmup. Leg swings front to back and side to side, Tiger claws, A-skips, B-skips
The Workout: Prefontaine for 3 miles. 200 m at 5k pace, 200m at 10s slower (1:20mm). 2 400m at short interval pace, 400 recover in between
Mary: Stretching and it felt good
Announcements:
T-Claps (Recognition): Good to see Fumunga
Prayer: Fumunga’s co-worker, Fumunga on upcoming fatherhood. Pikachu and M

Safety First

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9 PAX for some miles at R4TJ.

FNGs: Nope
Warm Up:Nope
The Workout

Stayed on the same side of 55 for some hilly miles. Cemetery Hill, Elm Street, and Library Hill were enjoyed by all.

Mary:
Announcements:
T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer:

Four(ty-Four) Strong

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Four showed up at Downtown Train for YHCs early birthday Q as well as last as Co-Site Q.  The theme for the beatdown was the number 44.

FNGs: Nope
Warm Up: Lap around library and to the parking deck; 10 burpees OYO; frankensteins; daisy pickers; SSH (44 in cadence)
The Workout: 4 Corners of the parking garage (run the long stretches, bear crawl south end, crawl bear southern end)

Exercises:

Corner 1: 10 burpees; 10 burpees; 10 burpees; 4 burpees

Corner 2: Monkey Humpers (44 in cadence); Lunges (44 in cadence); Squats (44 in cadence)

Corner 3: Dora (100 SSH, 200 squats, 300 LBCs; second partner climbed stairs); 44 second plank hold; American hammers (44 in cadence)

Corner 4: Peoples chair (44 seconds regular, 44 seconds arms straight out; 44 seconds arms above head); balls to the wall (44 second count); Peoples chair (44 seconds regular, 44 seconds arms straight out; 44 seconds arms above head)

Mary: None
Announcements: Last week of monthly challenge
T-Claps (Recognition): Nemo, Fanny Pack, and Dawgpound for coming out on my birthday
Prayer: Fanny Pack’s M

Return to Crossway

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EC: Full House, Nemo, Shamwow!, Skidmark, UTI

FNGs: Not today

Warm Up: Everyone shows up ready to get after it at the John.

The Workout: It had been awhile since we went out and back on Crossway so I decided today was a great day to make our return.

Mary: MIA

Announcements: Wilmington Race has been postponed. Sorry to all PAX who have been training hard. The long ass run has been postponed as well to coincide with the adjusted marathon training. Check slack for details.

T-Claps (Recognition): Everyone for picking up the 6.

Prayer: Lipstick and Full House family, Unspoken, this country

YHC took us out. Always an honor to lead.