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Farmer Mickey

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YHC signed up to Q Disney this week since he had decided with Skidmark that it would be a down week on the running front which meant no speed work at the track. One of my favorite AOs from the sheer breadth of things that you can do – today we didn’t need much more than the parking lot though.

I promised a new ride that hadn’t been seen before – the pax that made it out in the rain had the pleasure of farmer’s carrying “Mickey” throughout the workout.

FNGs:

Not today – would’ve been impressive in the 40 degree rain
Warm Up:

SSH x21

Burpee

Imperial Walkers x10

Burpee x2

Hillbilly x10

Burpee x3

Good morning x10

Burpee x4

Frankenstein’s x10

Burpee x5

Merkin x10

Burpee x6 (that’s 21 total for those keeping track)

Take a mosey for what will be our working lap – we made a loop between the parking lot and a small section of the greenway.

The Workout:

Partner up. Two sets of partners split up running opposite directions on our established loop. When they meet they perform 10x Hand Release Merkins the first time, 15x Squats the second, and 20x LBCs the third.

The other pair of partners stayed in the parking lot making a loop – one doing bear crawl, the other farmer’s walking with “Mickey”. The partners switch when they meet – another set of partners relieve them after a full lap.

After we all had a go with “Mickey” we had one pax carry him all the way down the hill to the road – the other 5 ran ahead and performed core work called by a pax. We repeated this up and down the hill until everyone had had their turn – core work included Low Slow Flutter, Nipplers, Shoulder Taps, and three other that my brain fails me on.

We then tucked Mickey away and out came the speaker – we sent 2020 off with a bang to Thunderstruck – SSH the whole time with burpees on every thunder/thunderstruck. Snap confirmed 33 total burpees as YHC advised.

Mary:

Homer to Marge x10

Yoga to let the heart rate come down
Announcements:

F3 turns 10 tomorrow
T-Claps (Recognition):

All the pax that beat the fart sack today and ended 2020 on a high note – 6 in Holly Springs and 6 in Fuquay means quite a few opted for the covers this morning. Let’s do better on the first day of 2021.
Prayer:

Breach took us out with prayers for our nation, first responders, and all those impacted by COVID.

The English Strain

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FNGs:

Not today
Warm Up:

Mosey to the rock pile

SSH x21

Imperial Walker x10 IC

Hillbillies x11 IC

Good evening x10 IC

The Workout:

Grab a rock and mosey to the playground

Pull ups x10

Rock homer to marge x11

Mosey to pavillion

Lazy Dora – each pax performs:

  • 50x Hand Release Merkins
    • Plank hold while resting
  • 100x Rock squats
    • Preacher’s chair while resting
  • 150x LBCs – cue Deere coughing from ab soreness and saying he had the “English strain” of C19……
    • 6″ leg hold while resting

Leave the rock and mosey to the white fence. Type writer back and forth with 5x derkins at each stop – 20x derkins total.

Mosey back to the pavillion and recover the rock. Return rock and mosey to shelter for Mary.

Mary:

Mary around the horn with 20 counts by each pax – low slow flutters, diamond merkins, chillcut plank, and pickle pounders.
Announcements:

F3’s 10 year anniversary is January 1st.
Prayer:

Unspoken

Not my A Game

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A down week in running allowed YHC to become a little more involved in the bootcamp scene that has been so badly missed so what better way to get back at than picking up a couple Qs. Been a while since I’ve been down in the Quay so figured I make the trip to PT. Researched some previous backblasts and noticed there hadn’t been a tour of Varina in a while. Unfortunately my memory left me and some of the locations were not what I remembered. Regardless it was nice to see a good turnout this brisk winter morning.

EC: Pikachu from home, Skidmark

FNGs: None
Warm Up: SSH, Imperial Walkers, Hillbillies, Sir Fazio Arm Circles, Moroccan Nightclubs, Overhead claps, Seal claps, Good mornings
The Workout: 3 Indian Run lines mosey to the flag pole. The initial plan was for 21’s of WWIIs and Box jumps but the wall was higher than I thought and none of us earned an Olympic Medal in the high jump so we settled for step ups which ended up being quite time consuming. (modified)
Mosey to the giant wall for Preacher chair and then Ascending Testicles with merkins. Rumor was all Flex spending accounts were emptied and dental deductables not met so modified the testicles to Balls to the Wall after 1 set. 2 more sets of Preacher chair and BTTW.
Mosey to the home of the FV Democratic Party Headquarters or as many of us care to call it: Stephen’s Hardware. Jump up the rail for some side plank walks I guess. Quick feet as we wait for the 6.
Mosey to Aviator. Bear Crawl up the ramp as smell BBQ. Repeat.
Mosey the walk through wall for a set of dips, erkins, and derkins.
Mosey back to the park for 4 sets of Big Bang (reference exicon here).
Mary: 7 minutes in heaven. Yes, we did plank hold with various core exercises.
Announcements: 2ndF at Stick Boy, GrowRuck, GrowRuck light, heavy something. See Pablo for details. Monthly challenge
T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer: Deadbolt hasn’t been feeling well. Hoping 2021 is better for most. YHC took us out

12 Days Of Christmas

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Warm Up: Mosey to Rock Pile doing dynamic stretches, mosey to shelter.

The Workout: 12 Days of Christmas ladder…

1 double Merkin burpee / 2 squat wonder bra, 1 double Merkin burpee / etc etc- up to 12 then back down… workout as per photo.

Totals = 24 Double Merkin Burpee, 44 Squat Hold Wonder Bra’s, 60 Right/Left Leg Step Ups, 72 Dips, 80 Box Cutters, 84 LSF, 84 Diamond Merkins, 80 triceps’s extensions, 72 Ruck rows, 60 Curls, 44 SSH, 24 cadence Santa Sack to the Wall.

Mary: Rudolph The Red Nose Reindeer – Squat Hold During Song, Push Up on Santa, Burpee on Rudolph, Star Jump Christmas.

Prayer: unspoken

R4TJ Holiday Bowling Party

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EC: Skidmark, Pikachu, Redenbacher, Full House, YHC

FNGs: Had the place all to ourselves…

Warm Up: We left the parking lot abruptly at 5:30 – Couldn’t wait to get this over with started!

The Workout:

A few of us got started in the parking lot early for a little “Extra Credit”, pre-gaming for the company party.  We didn’t go too overboard (well maybe Skidmark did a little) just a few miles to get us in the mood.  These things are always a little dull.  At least we were going to be doing something other than eating finger foods and staring at each other pretending to pay attention to the boss’s next big fish story.  The Boss, or “Nantan” as he likes to be called is always doing something Crazy, Stupid, and Utterly-Pointless…  OOOhhh, we’re impressed you and 3 of your buddies ran 200 miles through the mountains in like a day – big whoop!

You never know quite who plans to show up.  I volunteered to take the lead on this one and sent out invitations (check out that banner up top) in plenty of time and a few extra nudges on the company Slack.  Some of these funny and entertaining videos get a laugh and get people a little more excited about showing.  It’s not like this event lasts forever…  It’s not like running a marathon or anything.

Photo

Honest Abe rolled in right on time like he always does.  McNugget promised to bring the Chicken Minis but none were to be found.  He looked drowsy like he had eaten them all in the car on the way over.  Shredder came, didn’t think he was into bowling…  said he saw the map tucked in the invitation (look right) and that got his attention for some reason.  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

187 and Lipstick showed up next.  Now the fab 4 were all going to be here… FML…  “remember that time we all nearly died running 200 miles” 🙄

Alright, let’s get this over with started!  The games were set.  The fab 4 were on a team and got started first.  They move fast and it’s best just to let them go.  As we got started, Shredder suggested we sing some carols.  I lead a few bars but it nevery really went anywhere.  Was it me or was no one really feeling festive?  Is Jingle Bells office appropriate?  Shrug it off – let’s keep bowling.

The party split up into appropriate groups, it was nice though we always managed to come back together every once in a while and catch-up around the 6th frame.  Everything was pretty decked out for Christmas, nice assortment of lights.  Way better than the Nantan’s attempt at a light show the week before.  I wouldn’t tell him that though “Great lights last week, huh boss!?”  Gotta get that Christmas bonus.. with this years check I’m putting in a pool for the family..

At one point I was mid-stride, lining up a strike when I heard “Hey Buddy” from somewhere unknown in the distance.  Come to find out Lipstick was doing his business and was trying to talk to us from the John.  Man I hope he left that bathroom in some decent shape.  If any of the other establishments we frequent knew what kind of presents he leaves around… we’d never be welcomed back.

Near the end of the event there was a bit of a snafu.  The alley had to shut down one of the lanes around the 4th mile (our office measures the number of games in miles, strange right?).   The guy came out from behind the pins to let us know.  He only had one arm…  maybe not too surprising I’m sure it gets a little tricky back there.  He told us something about an icy bridge on the greenway???  That’s some pretty high level bowler tech lingo I guess….  We endured through the last 2 miles (games remember) and the party was at it’s end.

Remember:  Don’t Eat Yellow Snow!

Mary:  Mary got fired a few years ago.  Tragic story, remind me to tell you sometime.  Not here, not now…

Announcements:

  • BRR Teams are forming – find your team and get signed up for 2021

T-Claps (Recognition):

  • 187 thanked everyone for all the prayers and support, his M is doing well

Prayer:

  • Prayers for cancer diagnosises in the extended families of Full House and Lipstick
  • Prayers for all of those impacted by Covid, especially those

Last week Ivan

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5 men showed up for my 250 post for the year. This has been a strange year with Covid. Luckily I still was able to post 250 times with this fine group of men. You all motivate me in many ways.

EC: 500 Swings Fanny Pack, Emeril, Pikachu and Dahmer
FNGs: Nope
Warm Up:

This was last week. I’m sure we bounced and did those foot traces. Some other onnit stuff went down,.

The Workout:

The goal was 6 rounds. We did 4 rounds and 1 round of negative reps

10 Push Ups
10 Each Arm Single KB Swing High Pull
10 Push Ups
10 Each leg Figure 8 with reverse lunge opposite leg that we are figurine 8 around does the lunge
10 Push Ups
10 Each Arm Clean Twist with Press. Start movement to side where the weight is on.
10 Push Ups
10 Each Direction Halo Chest Presses
10 Bell Taps
Split Squats
10 Shoulder to Hip Taps
5 Each Arm Kettlebell windmill

When the remix of the man played we did a burpee Roma. Since the burpee record was broken this week by Alison Brown it was only fitting. She did 730 burpees in an hour. We did burpees for each time break was mentioned.

Mary:

2 rounds of 6 minute Abs. So 4 minutes

1o Second Plank
10 Second Knees to Elbows
10 Second Mountain Climbers
20 Second Hug your knees
20 Second Freddie Mercuries
20 Second Russian Twist
20 Second Bowl

Announcements:
T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer:

I thought that was FedEx

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Chilly, windy Monday mornings always brings out the best in people: great workouts, great mumble chatter, great fellowship. Nice to see a consistent showing at PC as 13 strong ventured out to let FML take the Q. We make this promise, you will get a variety.

EC Bells: Dawg and Emeril
EC Running: UTI, Lipstick, Skidmark
Commute: Pikachu

FNGs: One new member to F3 moseyed across the street to join rather than making the commute to Garner. Welcome Brah. Good thing he didn’t tell us he joined slack with a fake name or this could have been ugly. Someone pointed out a slight resemblance to FedEx.
Warm Up: Lipstick ran us up the ramp for some SSH, Imperial Walkers, and Hillbillies. Down the ramp for burpees for sleepy Kat and Frankensteins.
The Workout: Lipstick with the first Q who took us on a 5 minute mosey to the entrance to Oak Hall. The first one. BUT depending on you point of reference that could easily change. Regardless we had to run up there in 5 minutes and back in 3:45. Valiant effort.

Pikachu with part Deux. Suicides on the ramp. 3 star jumps at the bottom and Monkey Humpers at the light post. Add 3 humpers at each light post to get you to 39 humpers of monkees.

Mary: Skidmark at the rear. 3 man indian run to the courts for about 7 minutes of plank hold for varying exercises. Forgot Dumbo hurt his shoulder so he exercised his abs from his back. Lots of guys on their knees at this point. Guess they were all sucking…wind

Announcements: 2nd F leadership, 3rd F looking for more guys to join the committee
T-Claps (Recognition): FNG, Bondo is 60 and getting after it.
Prayer: Fanny’s wife, 187 and Tracey, Holiday goods and bads

Tough Ladders

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FNGs: None today
Warm Up:

Mosey to the track and a mosey lap

Grab some fence for side to side leg swings x10 IC

Tiger claws x10

Front to back leg swings x5 IC
The Workout:

Ladder work – 400m at Long Interval, 400m recovery, 800m at LI, 400m recovery, 1200m at LI, 400m recovery, 1600m at LI, 400m recovery, 1200m at LI (this is where it got tough!), 400m recovery, 800m at LI, 400m recovery, 400m at short interval

Recovery mosey back to the flag and we were out of time

Mary:

Not today 🙁
Announcements:

Christmas party tonight!
T-Claps (Recognition):

UTI for crushing the last 400m

Skidmark for an awesome CoT exercise about pax that we’re thankful for
Prayer:

187’s M, Fanny Pack’s M, the pax that we were all thankful for

I’ll take an order of hills hold the lights

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FNGs: Nope!
Warm Up: Nada – we had 6 miles to cover
The Workout: An attempted route to see Christmas lights.

https://connect.garmin.com/modern/course/47106280

Sadly they were very lacking. So we ended up with an order of hills hold the lights.

Slight miscommunication on the way back when a Cayman audible was called – good moral to do more picking up of the six when going through neighborhoods where there are lots of side streets.

Mary:

There was no appetite for Mary in ~35F rain.
Announcements:

Christmas party.
T-Claps (Recognition):

Laettner is still crushing it!
Prayer:

Tracy, Full House’s extended family, Fanny Pack’s M

Last Weeks Caveman

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Yep I forgot to do this last week.The weasel hasn’t shaken me down just yet, but I figure I should record this for history.

This workout was advertised as shoulder light and leg light to heavy. I think it lived up to the advertisement.

EC: Kettlebell swings: Dawgpound, Emeril, Pikachu, Dahmer. Red was a lonely runner

FNGs: Nope
Warm Up:

We did some bounces and some other onnit warm ups. It was a week ago and I don’t plan the workouts. I’m sure we traced a foot once or twice.

The Workout:

5 Rounds
Hallow Hold Press 10 Each side (Chest Press with legs straight and off the ground)
Switch Grip Reverse Lunge 10 Each Side
Uppercuts 10 Each Side
Romain Deadlift to Single Leg Romain DeadLift (10 Each Side) Weight on post leg
Rotational Row Twist 10 Each Side
Overhead Squat 10 Each Side

Mary:

I cannot remember what we did for Mary. I will have to make sure I do these the day off from now on.
Announcements:

There was an Epic Christmas Party on Thursday
T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer:

Fanny’s M
187 Wife