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Not That Kind of Threesome @ KG

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YHC rolled into Kenny’s Grave a little early to get 3 miles of EC and passed Boy George on the way in who got a head start on his 3 mile EC.

Upon return, Sprinkler was waiting for us. After a quick greeting, we checked the time and with about 3 minutes to go it was just the 3 of us and none of us were planning to Q. We then devised a quick game plan and shared the Q – basically making it up along the way. Not sure what happened with who was supposed to Q but we made it work because that’s what we do.  YHC got in about 2 miles and burned close to 700 calories.  Great work HIM.

FNGs: None

Warm Up:

Sprinkler led us through a few exercises consisting of SSH, Daisy Pickers, Good Mornings, Sir Fazio Arm Circles, Seal Claps & Overhead Claps.

The Workout:

We decided on a modified 4 corners workout around the rec center starting with a rock exercise. We then proceeded to the next corner and took turns choosing an exercise at each stop. Against YHC’s better judgment we took the rocks with us for one of the rounds; a mistake we chose not to repeat. After 4 rounds and 16 different exercises, it was time for…

Mary:

LBC’s / Reverse LBC’s / Homer to Marge / Low Slow Flutter / Have a Nice Day!

Announcements:

New AO @ Fleming Loop starting tomorrow?

T-Claps (Recognition): Way to step up and help lead, HIM!

Prayer:

Boy George heading to Ohio with the family for a week

Sprinkler’s coworker having shoulder surgery

Soldier in Norm’s Battalion who committed suicide – the funeral is today in New Bern

Better late than never?

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Apologies for the lateness of this BB but hopefully late is better than never. We had a good start to the week at Mutiny/ Red October and it was YHC’s honor to lead for Fedex who had to be at work early. Thanks for the honor to lead and I hope those who were there got their money’s worth.

EC: Norm – all alone… *sigh*

FNGs: None

Warm Up:

Courtesy of Fram…
SSH x 20
IW x 20
Hillbillies x 20
Toy Soldiers x 10
Daisy Pickers x 10
Sir Fazio Arm Circles – x 10 forward/ x 10 reverse

The Workout:

Partnering up was easy with 4 of us so once we chose our partners, the beatdown commenced…
P1 runs while P2 does exercise – P2 catches up to P1 and switch – first partner to finish does 2nd set of exercise – each partner does 2 sets

Between laps: 20 each of dips/ derkins/ Irkins

Lap 1: 20 Merkins (single count)
20 x irkins/ dips/ derkins
Lap 2: 15 squat jumps
15 x irkins/ dips/ derkins
Lap 3: 10 crab cakes (5/ leg)
10 x irkins/ dips/ derkins
Lap 4: 10 WW2’s
10 x irkins/ dips/ derkins
Lap 5: 10 Carolina Dry Docks
10 x irkins/ dips/ derkins

Mary:

Mary: Yoga stretches with Dauber

Announcements:

Martinis mom’s funeral today at 11am
Rune

Prayer requests

T-Claps (Recognition):

Red October Q was Dauber who was joined by Gump and Fram.

Prayer:

Covid/ front line workers/ riots
Fram had to put their dog down

10 Sheepdogs become Dragon Warriors

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FNGs:None today
Warm Up: EC was our warm up then right to the Workout, because I had a lot planned and only 45 minutes to execute!
The Workout: Went with a Kung Fu Panda theme and decided to do workouts inspired by the 5 main styles in the movie and finish with a customized exercise made for this AO.

3 merkins to kick off each segment

Krane

  • side straddle hops x20
  • Fozzy arm circles forward then reverse, seal claps, overhead claps, overhead claps, seal claps, arm circles reverse then forward with no breaks

3 merkins

Snake

  • plank snake agility around the parking lot
  • Indian snake run

3 merkins

Monkey

  • 11s with monkey humpers and Monkey ladders(goofballs) all in cadence

3 merkins

Tiger (55 deconstructed burpees split between two sets of 11s)

  • 11s with squats and plank jumps forward and back 
  • 11s with merkins and squat jumps (this one in place, no rest in between)

3 merkins

Praying Mantis

  • 4 minute embrace the suck meditation hold

3 merkins

Panda/Dragon Warrior

Bear Crawl Ring of Fu

  • Bear crawl clockwise in a big circle; 1st pax calls out a number and then on his “up” everyone jumps up and throws that many wing chun strike combos in cadence; then Back to bear crawling the circle and repeat with the next pax until all pax have gone and are sufficiently smoked

T-Claps (Recognition): 4 Pax for EC, My 3yr anniversary
Prayer: Graduates, leadership, the direction of the country, the police and military, recent losses

Deja Vu at the Nest

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Yosemite posted that he needed a Q at the nest, so I grabbed it, I figured I could repeat my birthday Q at Disney.

EC: Boy George, Fumunga, Gamecock
FNGs: none
Warm Up: 15SSH, 15 Hillbilly’s, 15 Imperial Walkers, 10 Sir Fazio arm circles forward and backward, 10 Good Mornings
The Workout:
         Thang 1: Mosey to one end of the parking lot, get a partner. One Partner runs the lot stopping at each island and does 15 merkins, 20 lbc’s, 25 squats. While
Partner 2 does 10 count Balls to the Wall, 15 count Shoulder Taps, and Peoples Chair until partner returns. Did this 3 times.
        Thang 2: Mosey to Shelter, for Dora 123, 100 Step-Ups, 200 Freddy Mercuries, 300 dips
        Thang 3: 11’s in the parking lot, star jumps and Carolina Dry docs,
Mary: 8 Homer to Marge, and Have a nice day.
Announcements: Rune is ongoing, Helping Holly Springs with Park Maintenace, 10 F3 anniversary
T-Claps (Recognition): Pax for Hard work and good talk after the workout
Prayer: Martini, Pablo, and Hobo’s families as they are dealing with Hospice for a loved one, Gamecock’s niece continues improvement in NICU.  Prayers for compassion patience, and understanding for the nation as we deal with 2020.
NMS: There is a lot going on right now, I feel for our African American citizens right now. I can’t even begin to knows what if feels like, I hope this will lead to better things for them and our country, everyone should feel safe in the US and not feel like they are being targeted because of Race, or any other reason.

Back to avg numbers at the U!

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FNGs: NOPE
Warm Up: Quick mosey, the usual – SSH, Frankenstein, Good Morning, Daisy Pickers
The Workout: Standard U-Turn route, there had to be at least 15 of the 21 present make the first 6-pick up. Amazing site to be seen!
Mary: Not a chance
Announcements: RUNE!
T-Claps (Recognition): 4 Mile EC Crew! @Vasoline @Alpine @Skidmark @Aquaman @Bullseye @ShamWow!
Prayer: Martini’s Mother, Pablo’s Mother, Unspoken – @Aquaman took us out

Sheepdog 5/29/2020

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EC: Martini, Norm, Mr. Terrific, Shredder 
FNGs: none
Warm Up:  Shredder kicked it off with lots of arm. OH Claps, Seal Claps, Sir Fazio Arm Circles, Moroccans Night Clubs, SSH, IW, HB, Frankensteins, & HB Frankensteins.

The Workout: Dovetail picked up the Q with a rotation of goodies. One pax set the pace by sprinting down around the island. 3 set. All hurt!

YHC picked back up with various sets of striking (lots of striking), kicks, dips, erkins, and combos

Mary: Pax choice as we went around the circle with LBCs, V-ups, box cutters, etc.

Announcements: Rune-Sign up. Adopt-a-highway clean-up on Sunday.
T-Claps (Recognition): Martini for getting out despite a challenging time. We got your 6 brother.
Prayer: Mr. Terrific new job opportunity. Martini’s mom and family.

Drowning in Kenny’s Grave

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FNGs: None

4 HIMs showed up to KG this morning. 

WarmUp:

10 Good Mornings, 10 Daisy Pickers,  10 Windmills, 20 Fozzie Arm Circles, 10 Emperial Walkers, 10 Hillbilly Squats, 10 Willy Mays Haze, 10 Goof Balls

The Workout

Mosey to the Rock Pile. Rotate around rocks between sets; Mosey around building after each series.

  • 3 sets of 20’s – Curls for the girls
  • 3 sets of 20’s  – Overhead Overhead Tri-press
  • 3 sets of 10’s – Ground Pounders
  • 2 sets of 10’s – Trunk Twists
  • 2 sets of 10’s – Bus Drivers
  • 2 sets of 10’s – Rutrows

Mosey to pavilion to get out of the deluge of rain.

  • 20 x 3ct LBC’s
  • 10 x 3ct Pickle Pounders
  • 10 Erkins
  • 10 Dips
  • 10 WWIIs
  • 10 x 3 ct Homer to Marge
  • 10 x 3ct single leg Homer to Marge
  • 10 Derkins
  • 15 x 3 ct American Hammers
  • 20 x 3ct 6 inches
  • 10 x 3ct Scissor Kicks
  • 20 x 3ct Chilcutt Planks
  • 10 x 3ct Box Cutters
  • 10 x 3ct Plank Jacks
  • 10x 3ct Mountain Climbers
  • 10 Dips
  • 10 x 3ct Rockies
  • 10  x 3ct Lunges
  • 10 Merkins
  • 20 Hate Handles (Side crunches)
  • 20 Step Ups
  • 20 x 3ct Split Jacks
  • 20 x 3ct SSH

T-Claps for Norm with a 2 mile solo EC

Announcements:  Run the Quay cancelled (virtual run available and possible live run with a small F3 contingent).

Prayer Requests:  Prayers for  Mr Terrific and his family.  For continued prayer for me and my family still dealing with loss of our beloved son. For our corporate and government leadership.

 

Just Like Gonorrhea

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After months of Qing and not being able to move I made sure to incorporate lots of movement in to my return to Qing outdoors.  Over two miles were put in during the course of the workout.  I had also thought of several names for this backblast, going back and forth between several because I wasn’t able to land on my favorite.  Ultimately it was Forceps that gave us what you see here today.

FNGs:

None

EC:

LED, Norm, Fonzie, FedEx

Warm Up:

Mosey up over the hill to the parking lot of the shopping center on the other side.  Circle up for:

SSH x20 IC

Good Morning x10 IC

Windmill x10 IC

Squatted Moroccan Night Club x10 IC

Imperial Walkers x10 IC

The Workout:

We moseyed to the sidewalk leading back up the hill and lined up for Walk like an Egyptian.  This is a lunging Indian run type deal where the PAX line up and lunge forward while the one in the back lunge walks to the front.  When he gets up there everyone takes a step to lunge with the other leg and the next guy goes.  The plan was to do this all the way up the hill.  This is where we got our backblast name, as everyone started to talk about the burning in their legs.  The hill was longer than I remembered so after about 60% of the climb I called an audible and we ran up the rest of the hill.

We crossed the bridge and did a bear crawl Indian run down the hill to the entrance of the park.  From here we took a quick jaunt in to downtown Varina and to the mural wall where we lined up for BTTW.  Each PAX counted to 10 as we held it up there.  This parking lot didn’t have the necessary number of curbs so we crossed the street to the small parking lot in front of the Brickhouse.

Each PAX grabbed a parking spot with a curb to put their feet on and did a dirkin.  We then crab walked across the parking lot to the opposite side, put our feed up on the curb there and did two dirkins.  Back across for three dirkins.  We were supposed to go to 13 but a quick look at the watch told me that we weren’t going to have enough time to get everything in that I wanted to if we went to that, so we stopped after 5.  I don’t think anyone minded.

Back at the park we partnered up for some B.L.I.M.P.S.  Partner one started a slow mosey while partner two did 5 burpees and then ran to catch up to his partner who then stopped and did 5 burpees of his own.  This then went to 10 lunges, 15 imperial walkers, 20 merkins, 25 plank jacks, and 30 squats.  Again, due to time constraints we stopped after P but LED insisted that we needed our squats so we circled up and fired off a quick 30 count of squats all together.  After that it was off to the tennis courts for…

Mary:

Circled up for a LBC circuit.

Regular LBC x10 IC

Reverse LBC x10 IC

Knees down to the left LBC x10 IC

Knees to the right LBC x10 IC

Announcements:

Sunday morning the first Adopt-A-Highway cleanup is taking place on Hilltop Needmore road.  We’ll be working on a 1.67 mile section of the road.  LED will have bags and vest and potentially gloves but please try to bring your own.  2.0s over 12 are welcome according to NCDOT regulations.  Information is on Slack and you can always reach out to LED for more information.

Prayer:

Norm took us out this morning.

Prayers for Mr. Terrific that his job interview goes well today.

Martini’s mother who is in her final fight with cancer.

All of the people affected by the virus, either those that are sick, those on the front lines helping fight it, those helping keep us all running, those who’s jobs are affected by it, and anyone else who has been waylaid in some sort of way by it.

 

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Power to the People!

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With all the restrictions out there, let’s give the power back. YHC is a generous supreme leader and lets the people choose their pain.

EC: Boy George (in the sideways cold rain, give that man his fritter!)

FNGs: Nah

Warm Up: Lap in the rain, then relocated under the shelter. SSH, Good Mornings, Fazio Arm Circles, Imperial Walkers, Hillbillies

The Workout: The People’s Pancake Stack

Format is a reverse stack. Start with a set of exercises and go around the circle removing one at a time at a PAX’s request. Complete the rest.

Round One:

Burpees x10, Absolutions x10, Squats ICx20, Shoulder Taps ICx30, Lunges x40

Elimination order: Absolutions, Shoulder taps (leg day baby!), Squats, Lunges, Burpees

Round Two:

Groiners x10, Merkins x10, Monkey Humpers ICx20

Elimination order: Monkey Humpers (not that much leg day), Groiners, Merkins

Round Three:

Oh look more time! Democracy is cancelled. Regular stack in order of  appearance. 

Carolina Dry Docks x30, Step-ups x40, Dips x30 

Mary: WW1s, American Hammers, Freddie Mercurys, Oblique Crunches, LBCs, Have a nice day

Announcements: Sign up for RUNE

T-Claps (Recognition): Thank you to the Fuquay Four for coming to my VQ in the rain.

Prayer: Wisdom and patience as NC starts to open up

I Got 99 Merkins but a Hill Ain’t One

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YHC pre-blasted Monday about one of the most epic workouts at Possum Trot that he experienced from June 6, 2018. This workout was a mere week prior to SouthWake celebrating 5 years and and 6 months before SouthWake became it’s own region (that’s right you can’t find the BB on SouthWake because we were part of Raleigh). I’m pretty sure M4L convinced Warchild from Raleigh to come down and give us a special beatdown and a little message in picking up the 6. I think we underestimate what it means and how important it is to pick up the six. For lots of guys it is what keeps them coming back, it keeps them engaged, keeps them accelerating, or gives them purpose. The message was loud and clear, that we pick up the six when the workout is easy or when the workout is tough. Right time, right message, lifelong impact. I didn’t know Warchild well to be honest. Our paths crossed maybe a few times over my time in F3 but his legacy goes deep. Almost 1 year ago Warchild lost his battle with addiction. He was one of those guys who was the 6 in some part of this life. He needed guys picking him up along the way. He went through Healing Transitions and felt the impact that F3 leaves on men. I watched and listened to Raleigh morn and heard the stories and felt the impact he left. It’s ironic that we never truly feel the impact that some men leave until they leave. I’m blessed to have been at Possum Trot that morning because that one workout makes me more of who I am today and than all the miles I ran over the past few years, more than the marathons, the PRs. Living 3rd allows you to be your best.

We also used to take pics after every workout.

EC: Boy George, Pikachu, Skidmark
Absences: M4L

FNGs: None
Warm Up: SSH x 20, Imperial Walkers x 10, Hillbillies x 10

The Workout: Mosey to the bottom of the hill on Church Street for Triple 7’s. Seven merkins at top of the hill, Seven merkins at the bottom, seven times run up the hill. Mosey back to the parking lot for a somewhat modified burpee-peterparker-hillbilly thing. Drop down to plank like a burpee do one leg peter parker, jump up to hillbilly with the same leg, back down and do with the other leg…that’s 1. Do 5 OYO. We did 1 merkin prior to give up 99 for the day.

Mary: On the tennis courts round the circle 10 count core exercises. These included Flutter kicks, break dancers, crab cakes, Freddy Mercury’s, Side plank crunches, windshield wipers, plank jacks, mountain climbers

Announcements: Rune sign up. Let’s get 50 guys.

T-Claps (Recognition): Boy George is going to get a pass for the Great Value Fritter since he committed to supporting VQ at Kenny’s Grave tomorrow. He needs to do EC and that workout as well as EC and Crazy Ivan for the walmart version of the fritter challenge.

Prayer: Heather Prince  (HSRC), unspoken.