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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.

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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

On the fly….Again

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Second week in a row rain has altered YHC’s plans at Downtown Train. Audible called and we headed to the parking garage for a make up as we go boot camp.

FNGs: None

Warm Up: Two laps around parkin garage, SSHs, good mornings, hamstring stretch

The Workout:

Suicide ladders-

Round 1: WWIIs 5, 10, 15, and 20

Round 2: Squats 5, 10, 15, and 20

50 LBCs (in cadence), 2 minute peoples chair

Round 3: Lunges (R leg) 5, 10, 15, and 20

Round 4: Lunges (L leg) 5, 10 , 15,  and 20

50 LBCs (in cadence), 90 second peoples chair, 40 SSHs (in cadence)

Round 5: Leg lifts (6 inches > 90 degrees) 5, 10 , 15, and 20

Round 6: Alternating lunge jumps 5, 10 , 15, and 20

50 LBCs (in cadence), 60 second peoples chair

Mary:  None

Announcements: Christmas Party (need more sides)

T-Claps (Recognition): All PAX for coming out on a rainy Monday.

Prayer: 187’s wife, Fanny Packs wife, YHCs father, father-in-law, and mother-in-law

Hilltop NeedMore Ruck. Nice temperature for the Ruck.

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This is always a nice time to catch up and unwind on Sunday mornings. Enjoyed talking with all of you and I hope you have a Great week!

FNG: None

Warm Up: The RUCK

The Workout: We hit the red trail first. After that we did the small yellow loop. We finished up with the blue for a total of 5 miles. We had some great mumble chatter. Thanks for you all that showed up on this beautiful Lords Day!!!

Mary: None

Announcements: Christmas Party 17th Bombshell. Sign up.

Prayer: Praying for all PAX injured and family members having surgery and up-coming surgeries here at Christmas time. YHC took us out.

We are not running Crossway?

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EC: A lot of PAX.

FNGs: None

Warm Up: discussed the route and headed out.

The Workout:

We ran the scooter route:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The bat flippers ran their own route and back to Ting for 500 KB swings

Mary: Not today

Announcements: See slack and FB

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

Prayer: 187 and Tracy, Pax dealing with Covid, unspoken.

Shamwow! took us out. Always an honor to lead.

2020 South Wake Frosty CSAUP 12/5

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On a crisp December morning. Well not so crisp but it was December 20 HIM congregated at Possum Trot for the 2020 South Wake CSAUP..Ruck Style. That’s right all of us were carrying rucksacks with the appropriate weight inside. Trust me I checked. Cadre Breach was joined by Cadre Blue Hen and Cadre M4L. We kicked off the first workout at the Trot with Fonzie at the helm.

@Farva, @Dawgpound, @POTS, @Blue Hen, @M4L, @Finkle, @Bondo, @Alpine, @Flannigan,

@Fanny Pack, @Dauber, @Bingo, @Pikachu, @Latiner, @16-Bit, @Sprinkler, @LED, @Fonzie, @H1N1 and

@Breach on the Q

Possum Trot Q #1 BB (Fonzie)

25 days of Christmas

Chestnuts Roasting (Chest press with the ruck)

Hanukkah Billes ( Hillbillies)

Reindeer Rows (Rut Rohs)

Imperial Nutcrackers

Santa Squats

Taint Tinsel (Swings with the Ruck)

Merry Merkins

Abominable Snowman (LBC’s with the Ruck)

S-Hat Burpees (10)

 

After the Trot workout, we hit the pavement for our trek to Mutiny. There were 5 coupons in play 2 Firehoses, 2 Pain Sticks, and a sandbag. The load had to be shared by all so everyone took turns embracing the suck. Sprinkler decided to take a dive in the ditch and almost took himself out before we got to his Q. The pax only racked up 2 violations along the way.

Mutiny Q (Sprinkler)

Arrived to have 2 penalties. With pack 20 merkins, took the pack off for overhead press for the second penalty. Off to the parking lot. Lined up to do Irkins, Derkins and dips on the curb with crab walk and lunge walks from one side to the other for a total of 4 rounds.

Moseyed to Rockpile and claimed a partner. Partner 1 curls, bus driver, rut rows while partner 2 ran to 2nd light poles. Rinsed and repeated. Ended with 5 burpees OYO.

The Pax was given 5 mins to rehydrate, refuel and repack before getting back to the action. The pax were allowed to leave 1 coupon behind and they voted to get rid of a pain stick so we left that behind in the support vehicle. We pressed on to the next AO..The Nest. Upon arrival at the nest we grounded the coupons and the packs for the Nest Q via Finkle, there were no violations on this part of the trip.

Nest Q (Finkle)

Pax was taken down to the walls and the fence line for some Balls to the wall and people’s chair sets. On the first set we counted to 25 for Balls and seal claps to 25 till we got all the way around and then set 2 we did shoulder tap Ball and overhead claps. This continues till we got down to decreasing by a 5 count each round.

Second activity was bears and dans.  Bear crawl two parking spaces than did Lt Dan Taylors building each time up to 10 squats and 40 lunges.

 

Pax was given another 5 minutes to rehydrate and refuel, we lost H1N1, Fonzie and LED after this AO. The decision was made to leave the sandbag and a pain-stick behind for good behavior. Onward to Casino Royale. Along the way Cadre Blue Hen decided to have the pax do some Indian Runs. The back 2 guys run to the front and tuck in behind the flag bearers. During the journey he had them try to beat his timer, Flannigan with wings of glory ran ahead of the colors which resulted in a violation for the pax.  Which was assessed by him when we arrived at Casino Royale. 22 Diamond Merkins with the packs on.

Casino Royale (Fanny Pack)

BOMBS at the Casino. With a lot of the wall working and bear crawling already taken, YHC had to go to a hybrid plan C. @Dauber knowingly chose a number of reps to start with (15) and @Farva unknowingly chose B1 -Burpees rather than B2- bench presses with the ruck. 2 groups Indian run with no rucks in opposite directions. When groups meet, we did BOMBS. 15 burpees OYO, 25 Overhead Press with a ruck, 35 merkins, 25 big boy sit-ups, and about 3 minutes of squats.  Both groups got around the large track twice. YHC did call an audible and chose mercy over punishment and ended the squats about 20 seconds early. Honored to be a Holly Springs Pax and allowed to lead today with my brothers in the Quay!

Pax was given the last 5 min break of the day for hydration and fuel before stepping off for the final leg back to Possum Trot. Once we got to the railroad tracks Blue Hen decided to take the pax down the iron highway. The trek was slow going as the town of Fuquay did not place railroad ties very symmetrical to each other. We got a bit spread out due to the uneven terrain, but we got back in line for the final push up the hill and back down to the trot. We dumped our packs and coupons for the final time and headed to tennis courts to get smoked one more time by 16-Bit.

Possum Trot #2 (16 Bit)

PAX lined up on one sideline of the first tennis court to perform what I’ve named a Crab Boil. PAX crab-walked to the corresponding sideline of the next court where we performed 15 crab cakes in cadence. Resumed crab walk to the next court and did 15 crab bumpers (inverted pickle pounders). We were supposed to crab walk to the same sideline on the next court but a silver sneakers tennis tournament was starting to show up and that last court was getting occupied so our last crab walk was only to the sideline on the other side of the court we were on. When we got there we did 15 crab jacks in cadence.

The aforementioned tennis tournament stopped us from being able to rinse and repeat so we audibled to batwings which consisted of 10 of the following, forward arm circles, reverse arm circles, seal claps, and overhead claps.

We headed down the hill towards the baseball fields and circled up for Mary. We started with 20 American hammers in cadence and then went to Dr. W’s. These are one of my favorites but always cause a lot of confusion. It’s an 8 count exercise that we lost count during so I stopped after 7 or 8 of them. We finished up with an LBC circuit of regular, reverse, and side LBCs.

 

We ended in a very large COT with some great messages passed about our involvement in the community and our impact on others. We closed in prayer and got back to the front of the park for some very much needed coffee and biscuits courtesy of Forceps.