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Midget, your ride is waiting for hill work and EC……..???

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Q-Duel Train Rolls on right through the heart of the Happiest Place on Earth! The House of the Mouse welcomed 23 PAX from all over South Wake – and even as far as CARPEX!  It’s truly an international house of pain.  YHC rolled in about 0445 just because I was up, and noticed a truck in the lot. Flag set, Pablo rolled in and coming up the hill is Banjo (Already out on the golf course trails since 0435) “Midget is supposed to be here at 0500….”  I’ll leave that here for now. Fanny Pack checked in. YHC heard the tell-tale Nemo sounds coming in hot at 0504. We’ll wait and see if Midget still shows too. Ha. Off we go for EC.

PAX gathering and overheard Goldilocks saying he was waiting outside of M4L’s house as his ride… no show… Apparently he was doing “hill work” somewhere?? OK – 10 burpees Midget OYO.

Co-Q’d with the one and only Pablo Escobar!  His triumphant return to Disney as Q was as expected.

FNGs: NONE
Warm Up: YHC lead mosey on to the soccer field which was littered with 45lb plates and corner posts for soccer. Navigating and cutting mosey short we circled up (literally around a circle mid-field). 50 SSH IC, Frankenstein x10, Standard Merkin x20, Daisy Picker x10, Sir Fazio 10F/B  Mosey back to the lot (it was dark and hard to see) for count off. 1’s and 2’s form M4L Run Lines and follow your Q’s.

The Workout:

At the high school we broke into two groups. Group 1 stayed to take 4 rides around the corners, Group 2 went to Hot Dog Hills.

Group 1 – Broke into 2 smaller groups for 4 corners.  5 Burpees OYO, IR to Corner 2 – 15 Plank Jacks IC, IR to Corner 3 – 15 Prisoner Squats IC, IR to Corner 4 Mickey Mouse Merkins. Repeato. Group 1 did a prison break at 1/2 way points into Corner 2 and 4 second time through.

Group 2 – 11’s on Hot Dog Hill. Star Jumps at the top of the hill, Mickey Mouse Merkins at the bottom.

Groups did this for about 12 minutes and switched.

Overheard: “They’re dropping like flies”

Back to the Flag for Mary in our IR Groups 1 & 2.

Mary: Pablo-special – Mix of LSF, Box Cutter, Homer to Marge, Freddie Mercury, Pickle Pounders (Getting ready for Labor Day!), Have a nice day.
Announcements: Last day for Holly Springs Q’s ends at Cletus tomorrow, Fuquay starts Monday at Mutiny. Bring donations for Healing Transitions – Next week’s focus is on Toiletries (Noted that Fuquay doesn’t use mouth wash – so HS PAX focus on non-alcohol based mouth wash).
T-Claps (Recognition): Pablo for Co-Q today and the STRONG showing from the 12 Oaks boys. Thanks for your support this AM!!  Flanigan for stopping off to help Fonzie through his back issues AND still doing Star Jumps while attending to him!!
Prayer: Fonzi – Hope you are recovering well today.  All those in recovery and dealing with mental health issues. YHC took us out.

6 Year Anniversary Gala at Cletus

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Wow – 6 years.  When I first gave into the 18 month long headlock by Gnard Dogg from Raleigh – I remember telling my M that “maybe this will be good – I can catch a Friday workout a few times a month to change up things for me at the Y (Sad Clown).  Little did I know that 6 years later, I would have accomplished the following:

  • Probably 1,000 posts
  • 7 half marathons completed
  • 2 Blue Ridge Relays
  • Maybe 3,000 miles of running
  • 10+ CSAUPs
  • 100+ Q-ed workouts
  • Hundreds of Clown Car rides
  • Stronger Marriage and relations with my kids
  • Major advances in my career / leadership (I accredit some of this to F3)
  • Countless memories with hundreds of new friends

WOW

Rolling into the parking lot at Cletus, Mookie and I got a little concerned.  On the way over in the clown car, we discussed what we would do if we had more than 25 Pax.  I did not want too many in our group(s) given Covid.  I quickly discussed what I had planned to Mookie as we drove over.  I remember him looking at me like “Are you crazy?”

As it became obvious that the Pax count would be near 40 – we decided to go with the Audible and split the pax.  I am very glad we did.  T-Claps to Mookie for the co-Q

FNGs:  None – Shovel flag planted at 5:29
Warm Up: Got things started with a mosie down to the field near the small pavillion.  The one we always warm up in when the crowds are big

  • Hand Release Burpees x 5 (OYO)
  • Good Morning x 10 (IC)
  • SSH x 20 (IC)
  • Moroccan Night Clubs x 20 (IC)  – note:  no one of Moroccan decent was offended with this reference
  • Mountain Climbers x 20 (IC)
  • Hell – it’s time to go

The Workout:

Pax of 38 was split into roughly half.  Mookie too one to the lower field and YHC kept the other half up top at the Soccer field.  It went down like this

Thing 1:  The Elle McPhereson

The Split pax on the soccer field would split again into two groups.  Groups would perform exercises on duct taped sheets in two (2) of the four corners (diagonal from each other).  Group 1 would sprint 50% around the track while Group 2 did the exercises.  Group 2 does AMRAP until all of Group 1 makes it to the opposite corner.  Group 1 would signal with a “yell” for Group 2 to stop the reps and run the same direction (clockwise around the field to them).  This was repeated for 20 minutes while the other Pax was down on the field.  Basically we were looping the 1/2 miles around the soccer field.

Group 1 (Arms and Chest)

  • Burpees
  • Wide Grip Merkins
  • Carolina Dry Docks
  • Diamond Merkins

Group 2 (Legs and Abs)

  • Jump Squats
  • WW1
  • Star Jumps
  • Mountain Climbers

Thing 2:  “The Michigan”

This workout was from the original scrolls of Southwake.  It was named by a Ohio State fan.  “Because it sux”.  The pax gathered on the end line of the soccer/football field.  All we did was sprints and Jack Webbs.  It went like this

  • Ten – 100-yard dashes +  2 Hand Release Jack Webbs (2 hand release merkins and 8 halleluiahs) 
  • Eight – 80 yard dashes + 4 Hand Release Jack Webbs
  • Six – 60 yard dashes + 6 Hand Release Jack Webbs
  • Four – 40 yard dashes + 8 Hand Release Jack Webbs
  • Two – 20 yard dashes + 10 Hand Release Jack Webbs

That went on for 20 minutes – it was a smoker

The 2 groups converged on the North Tennis Courts for Mary and COT

Mary:

  • Low Slow Flutter
  • LBC Ladder (IC)
    • 5
    • 10
    • 15
    • 20
    • 10
    • 5
  • Have a nice day

Announcements:

  • Mulch
  • Q Swap in August

T-Claps (Recognition):

  • Gump for 5 years of F3!
  • YCH for 6 years
  • Kid Cracker for the Kotters – welcome back brother!

Prayer:

  • Unspoken
  • 1st responders
  • Brony’s friend with Cancer

YHC took us out in prayer

Photos, 2nd F and Busch Latte

I love you all

DB Out!

Poker at the Fire House

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YHC pre-blasted with the promise of picking things up and putting them down. The implication was that was simply kettle bells – the fire hose waiting to greet pax as they pulled in proved that was not necessarily the case.

EC: Full House and Deadbolt for some miles, Dawgpound, Flanigan, and YHC for some yoga.

Pax just kept pouring into the parking deck – not sure if it’s the pleasant location or the attractiveness of the scaleable workout, but for two weeks in a row we landed at 20 pax for Ivan.

FNGs:

None today – a shame.
Warm Up:

SSH x20 IC

1x Burpee

Right leg swings x10 IC

2x Burpee

Left leg swings x10 IC

3x Burpee

Daisy pickers x10 IC

4x Burpee
The Workout:
Pax maintained the circle around the fire hose. One pax left their kettlebell and picked up the hose for a lap around the bottom of the parking deck. Another pax flipped a card out of the deck which determined what exercise we did while the pax was traveling.

For the first 12 minutes we did:
Diamond – Squat Thruster – Tragically we didn’t get to do a single one of these. The problem with randomization I suppose.
Spade – Kettlebell swing
Clubs – Curls
Heart – Merkin shuffle (Merkin with one hand on bell, slide bell, merkin, repeato)
Joker – Turkish Getup

For the second 12 minutes we did:
Diamond – Lawnmowers
Spade – Midget cookie pouch
Clubs – Triceps
Heart – Midget getup
Joker – Turkish getup

At some point in this second set a 3rd and 4th joker were drawn and the pax learned that YHC’s deck was a bit doctored…..woops, might’ve failed to mention that at the start.

For the third 12 minutes we did:
Diamond – Boobity boobity (squeeze bell and press up from one pec to the top down to the opposite, repeato)
Spade – Low slow flutter w/bell overhead
Clubs – WW1 w/bell
Heart – Single leg deadlift
Joker – Turkish Getup

During this set UTI remarked that there was a difference between Jacks and Jokers. YHC assured him that there were in fact only 6 jokers in this “deck” of cards.

Mary: Incorporated into last set

Announcements:

Run for Dee Dee – https://www.eventbrite.com/e/4th-annual-run-for-dee-dee-5k-registration-84539745655

T-Claps (Recognition):

Yogurt for the triple down option this morning (Crazy Ivan, Mountain biking in Umstead, 5K in Umstead). Keep your eyes out for this one to repeat itself!

Prayer:

A note about the requests – we have some of the same requests that come up for long standing issues. Please do remember to conciously lift these up in whatever way matches with your creed – don’t just check the box at the end of CoT, make it real.

Wallaby. Forceps and his family. Lipstick’s family and his sister. YHC’s M’s back.

YHC took us out.

3 Ring Circus at U-Turn, but No Dumbo…

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Q Tour rolled into U-Turn this morning. Nice brisk temps. Pre-Blast went out late last evening from YHC after assessing the multiple feeds on Slack to determine what many of the PAX were thinking heading into their Saturday runs. Saw many were looking to get in some early morning miles, some looking for 5 as usual and others feeling nostalgic, looking for the ‘old school’ U-Turn route. For YHC, the plan was to start em off with warm-up and close em down with COT, but lead a 3 mile route for those looking for shorter distance. The combination of age setting in, my stupidity on Monday ‘getting way after it’ at PC, as well as my unfortunate lack of common sense trying to make Emeril all salty during Indian runs has earned YHC a well-deserved hip issue. To that existent, YHC had to rely on the strength of the PAX to push each other during their 5 mile runs.

Lots of PAX rolling in from EC and also many rolling in for Main Event. Planted flag, exchanged pleasantries with several PAX. Around 5:58am, Pablo was seen coming in hot, but no co-pilot in the form of Dumbo to be found. After seeing some early morning feeds from Slack on my porcelain throne this morning, it appeared that a great evening was had by many PAX at the NC State game last night. Dumbo’s morning scratch, however, was about as disappointing as Danny Manning’s .411 winning percentage at Wake Forest to many PAX in attendance,  including DawgPound, Pablo, and Emeril.

6:00am hit and after confirming no FNG’s we were off with the following warm-up.

Warm Up: Light jog around the lot with alternating carioca R\L, L\R. Continued on the light jog and circled up for SSH X15, Imperial Walkers X10, Hillbillies X10, Good Morning X 10 IC. Squat hold while YHC explained the options.

The Workout: Old School U-Turn with Dauber and Doc, Newer School (current standard U-Turn) route with 10min\mi and higher starting first, and a 3 mile with YHC, heading in either the New School or Old School direction. After explaining the route options, YHC sent the 10min pace groups first, but then Slide Rule said he’d have to be back before 7am, so would head out with the 10min group and then at that point after witnessing his long strides, the gazelles got triggered and just headed out all at once. They all knew what to do so…run pick up the six, repeat for 5 miles.

Boy George, Vasoline, and YHC stayed back, did some additional exercises to continue limbering up and to burn some time at the beginning so our 3mi route would end around the same time as some of the 1st PAX starting to filter in from their run. We chose new school route and headed up about 1.5 mi and just circled back to the lot. 15 PAX at the start and about 21ish PAX on the return for COT, accounting for those that headed out for early EC. Definitely didn’t lose anyone, but gained a few along the way.

Mary: OYO
Announcements: Dad-2.0 Workout with Mr. Terrific at 9am Womble.
T-Claps (Recognition): Deadbolt shaving 20seconds this morning compared to last week’s U-Turn post. Kudos to DawgPound with a strong finish at the end in picking up the six onto a solid 5mi run pacing around 9:13. All those getting extra miles out there this morning and pushing each other

Prayer: Continued prayers for Forceps. YHC took us out.

Protect the Jewels!

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FNGs:None

Warm Up: Lap around soccer field, overhead seal claps, seal claps, fozio arm circles, windmills, imperial walkers and hillbillies.

The Workout: Headed to the play ground area for rounds of exercises followed by running around the parking lot.

Round 1: 30 Merkins, 30 Dips, 15 each leg single leg side step ups.

Round 2: Banded upright rows, squats, and curls 30 count for each

Round 3: Hip flexor exercises, peoples chair 10 count down the line followed by balls to the wall

Round 4: Derkins, Dips,  and Prisoner Squats

Round 5: banded shoulder presses, step ups, and merkins

Pax then moseyed down the decline driveway area to do single leg hops.

Pax then jail broke up the hill for Mary

Honor to lead! Great job!

Mary: hip flexor exercises, homer to marge regular and one legged, v-sit up hold, six inch hold with circles and then low slow flutter.

Announcements: Mule 6-9am next week, Garner High School on Wednesdays AO.

T-Claps (Recognition):

Prayer: Wallaby, Forceps and New Mexico’s family radiation therapy.

I’ve never seen a fart move a workout

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Q-swap week leaves a lot up in the air. How many are going to post at the Q-Swap? How many will post here? Who just wants to run miles. I was a bit uncertain on how many Pax would post at TBD on this foggy, warm, muggy Wednesday, but after the discombobulation that is R4TJ I knew things were going to be looking up in the number of Pax posting. What I didn’t expect was the stench that followed one of our Pax. Literally moved the workout. Unheard of! A southwake first. Congrats Lipstick!

EC: 187, Pikachu, Deadbolt, Mookie, Redenbacher, Full House, Lipstick, Skidmark

FNGs: None
Warm Up:

Mosey around the soccer fields and circle up for the following:

  • 25cc SSH
  • 12cc IW
  • 12cc Hillbillies
  • 10cc Sir Fazio Arm Circles, forward and reverse
  • 10cc Seal claps
  • 10cc Overhead claps
  • 10cc Chinooks
  • 10cc Goofballs

The Workout:

Mosey to the rock pile and gather a decent size rock suitable for your stature and strength. Return to the playset

Partner up for 15 minute AMRAP

  • Partner 1 runs to the restroom facility wall and back
  • Partner 2 doing pull-ups, one legged deadlift with rock, or 1 legged squat with rock – Rotate through exercises

Mosey to tennis courts for Jack Webb Suicides

  • 1:3 merkins:overhead press with rock
  • Run across both courts and back
  • 2:6 so on and so forth all the way to 10:30

Return rock to rock pile

Mary: 10 count core exercise lead by each pax

Announcements: Pikachu and UTI meeting with Parks and Rec to see how we can support each other. Q-Swap at Thunder (1900), Tiger Blood, Crazy Ivan, and Ground Pounder

T-Claps (Recognition): Deadbolt 4 days in a row

Prayer: Wallaby and his family, Earthquake victims and families in Puerto Rico, A client of Full House, Crablegs, prayer for growing F3 within our community with the support of HS Parks and Rec, the growth in the shieldlocks.

Week 4 Day 5

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EC: Dawgpound, Emeril
FNGs:  Once again I’m sad
Warm Up:

Onnit Warm Up 2

The Workout:

Work Fast Recover Faster 2

Mary:

Onnit Cool Down 2

Announcements:

Old School Q week

T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer:

New Baby Winton
Sgt Peppers

Week 2 Day 1

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EC: Dawgpound, Buford, Cowboy, Lucky, Emeril
FNGs: Nope… Unless we count the onnit guys
Warm Up:

Onnit kettlebell warm up

The Workout:

Persist and Endure 1 — We get to also do this workout Friday

Mary:

Onnit Kettlebell cool down

Announcements:

CSAUP December 7th
Christmas Party December 14th

T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer:

All unspoken.
All pax going through difficult times in the holiday

Lipstick Delegation Tour Day 5

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EC: Lucky Charms, Skidmark, Pikachu, Banana Seat, Yosemite, YHC, Slide Rule
Warm Up: Lap around lot to loosen up the legs.

SSH x100 I mean what else would we start with?

Imperial Walkers x15

Delegation Tour continued at Crazy Ivan. YHC called out on the slack that we would be doing some Yoga, I believe the message was taken as a joke. At least 15 HIM’s showed up with bells in hand. YHC quickly sidelined Banana Seat and said “This is going to be a real delegation” YHC may have planted the seed on delegation the previous 4 days 🙂
The Workout: PAX split up for a Banana Seat Kettle Bell Beatdown (you had to be there to know what took place) and a Sarah Beth Yoga Session
Mary: Plank hold for final 4 minutes with various plank positions, including Pickle Pounders x25
Announcements: Check the Web
T-Claps (Recognition): Yosemite for completing his first Fritter. Banana Seat for the Lipstick Fritter and truly taking on the delegation Q!
Prayer: Quiver’s Family, Crab Legs, All those running HSHM tomorrow

*Dumbo and Slide Rule went out for a 4.5 mile run, as they didn’t think a real kettle bell workout would happen.

Thanks for coming to the Party!

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EC: 187

FNGs: The party was open to all men but only FHIGs showed (Friendly High Impact Guys)

Invites were sent but based on RSVPs it was hard to tell who to expect at the party.

YHC got to the party a little early to double-check the venue before the guests arrived.  A quick spin around the back lot to confirm that all of the standard party fare was in place.  The bounce house was not there and that was OK.  HSHM is just 2 days away and the jumping wouldn’t sit right for some of the runner-types…  You know who I’m talking about…  “Did you get a race shirt yet?”  “Are you running a half-marathon this weekend too?”  “Do you even run bro?”  “Yeah… I ran a full last weekend, I’m gonna Q all week, do a Fritter, not show up to your birthday Q, and run the HSHM this weekend”  (I <3 you team FML, I’m just playing to the crowd – except you Lipstick, that last one was real)

Oh… HEY…  Sorry… Yeah let me get back to talking about this manly workout thing we did today.

12 men gathered in the lot, the clock moved over to 5:30 – Welcome to the Party!

Warm Up:  Like any good party you start out with something light.  Allow people to mingle and have a little small talk.  We circled up in that front lot and tackled these party snacks.

  • 12x Windmills
  • 12x Daisy Pickers
  • 12x Frankensteins = 36
  • Fozio Arm Circles (36)
    • 18 Forward
    • 18 Back

Now that the pleasantries were out of the way, we moved the party to the back of the house.  Tiger Blood has some room to move around so we needed a little mozy to get there.  Nothing too strong

Party games are essential for keeping your guests entertained…

The Workout:  Party Games!!!

  • finish the MOZY back wall of the school
  • Balls to the Wall Elimination (Blowing Out the Candles)
    • We held our balls to the wall until we just couldn’t anymore.
    • If you fell, you called a Plank-o-rama move for those not still on the wall
    • 187 beat out the birthday boy for the win (his invite will be revoked for next year)
  • MOZY to lot by the football field
  • Curb Alert
    • Line up on the curb and climb up and back down, then do a Merkin (1:4 until 9:36)
  • Captain Thor
    • On your 6, WWII / American Hammers (1:4 until 9:36)
  • MOZY to the bleachers by the football field
  • 12 Erkins /12 Derkins /12 Dips – 36
  • Repeato – 12 Erkins /12 Derkins /12 Dips – 36
  • MOZY back to lot by the football field
  • Overhead arm stretches and Michael Phelps
  • Jack Webbs
    • Merkin / Air Presses (1:4 until 9:36)
  • MOZY to front lot
  • Superman (Ws, Ts, Ys) – 12 each OR 36
  • MOZY to driveway between the schools
  • Flat Tires
    • To the metal poles jutting out of the ground with the arms that stop cars.  AKA the gate
    • Wheelbarrow “steps” / Merkins  (4:1 until 36:9 or until we hit the gate)
    • Partner exchange as needed
  • MOZY to the Jungle Gym behind the school
  • Partner 1 – 4 Pull-ups / Partner 2 – Continuous LBCs until switch  (36 Pull-ups before you’re done? – we might have done it)
  • MOZY to the front lot for Mary

Mary:

  • Pickle Pounders (36)
  • Homer to Marge (36)

Party is over – everyone go home!!!  Good luck washing your hair today!

Announcements:

  • HSHM this Saturday
  • Frosty

T-Claps (Recognition):  Post workout, BackBlast T-Clap…  ShamWow! leading the HSHM training agenda.  Aquaman representing South Wake as a poster boy for the race – Beyond that continuing their leadership role by leading the warm-up and making sure the shirts land in hands in support of Skidmark.   Skidmark who is not running the race but coordinated the shirts, will be volunteering and probably running his fellow #HIM up the ramp.

Prayer:

  • Thoughts with Quiver and his clan
  • Safety as we approach Thanksgiving week and travel
  • Open arms and mind towards those that may be feeling the holiday depression.  Let those in your circles or outside know you are there and you are thinking of them.

2nd F after Tiger Blood – M4L showed up after Disney and gave me a cake pop!

Thanks for the coffee and the fellowship guys

Fancy Feast made a random appearance to buy biscuits, Lipstick didn’t show up…  🙁