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Ice Ice Baby

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If you ever have a chance to run Neuse River Trail it is worth the drive.

4 pax converged on Neuse River Trail for a 7 am start but one pax but in the wrong directions and there was a slight detour.

There was some quick mumble chatter and we set off with all the essentials: tailwind, goo, protein bars, gloves, hats, etc..

A little chilly for the run but no wind. We headed south on the trail for a few miles. 1st ice patch up and skidmark got some wet feet trying to avoid a trail wide sheet of ice.  After about 2 miles quick stop for a COT and so skidmark could defrost his camelback. Hose froze and he couldn’t get any nutrition. One pax pissed at this time.

Continued to mosey down the trail to mile 5 for a turn around. Again a quick COT so skidmark could defrost his camelback and two pax could piss.

Nice mosey back to the start where Double D left after 10 miles and skidmark, pikachu, and 187 could last little bit of 12 miles.

Well, way more ice patches along the way. Luckily no one busted their ass. Last 12 were pretty uneventful. Nice little grind coming in to the parking lot.

It’s funny how your body rejects walking after 22 miles. Like WTF are you doing g this for. All good for 22 miles then you start walking and your calves go to shit.

Some a have a nice days in the parking lot with a foam roller next to a used condom (not ours). Lots of recovery time as we popped pills, drank, and moaned in pain. Lots of good conversation.

Off to Starbucks. Leg cramps! A quick coffee. Skidmark had to steal someone’s water or we would still be waiting there. Fuck you Alan! I ran 22 miles today. You walked you ass in from the parking lot. I’m taking this water Alan.

5 weeks!

Warm Up:
The Workout:
Mary:
Announcements:
Prayer:

Pickle Pounders End Eventually

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Pax of 3 for a cold Crazy Time – last iteration in the current workout selection.

Warm Up:

1 mile run
The Workout:

Modification – playground was wet so we went under the shelter. 100 diamond merkins

200 pickle pounders

300 homer to marge
Mary:

1 mile run
Announcements:

For February Crazy Time will shift to:

1 mile run

100 burpees

200 shoulder tap balls to the wall

300 lbcs

1 mile run

Should be a fun month. You can blame Crosby for the burpees 🙂
Prayer: N/A

Surprise… it’s LipSync!!!

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PAX of 8 came out to Thunder to find out who the Mystery Q was going to be

Warm Up

A fun jog up and over the tables under the pavilion to the field for warm up consisting of: Good Mornings, SSH, arm stretching, arm circles and chinooks.

 

The Workout

Run to the rock pile through and over the playground (including going down the slide) and grab a rock

Rock toss through the sand volleyball court

John Cusack to baseball field for some Jack Webs

Curls for the girls and overhead extensions while walking to next sand volleyball court for more rock tosses

Barely Curling up the parking lot with Crab Walk Rock Kicks back down

John Cusack, Curls for the Girls and Overhead Extensions back to rock pile

Ruh Roh’s and Shoulder press before tossing rocks back to the pile

Partner up and 10 count Double Merkin Burpees while hopping over partner in a Plank… than switch

 

Mary

LBCs, WWII, Low Slow Flutters, American Hammers and Have a Nice Days (with meditation, prayer, reflection and a car alarm)

 

Announcements

BRR reminders

We need to all become “Slackers”

 

Prayer Request

Crab Legs; wounded Police officers and their families; Kubota’s parents, aunts and uncles as they possibly start the process of moving their mother to an assisted living facility; Beaufort’s recovery from hip surgery and any others that I forgot.

What was that last thing we did?

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EC: Cowboy, SlideRule, Dawgpound, Pikachu, Skidmark, Crosby, Roger Roger, Double Donk

Welcome FNG Bigalo!!!  21 degrees with an FNG that’s pretty cool.  Pun intended.

Warm Up:

Run around the tennis courts and soccer field.
Stop at the bottom of the ramp – Side Straddle Hops
Stop at the ticket office – Frankenstein Kicks and Good Mornings
Stop at the corner – Bat Wing (10 Fazio Forward, 10 Fazio Backwards, 10 Seal claps and 10 overhead claps
Run to the Tunnel

The Workout:

Split up into two groups.

Group 1 did an indian run down the long path.  When they reached the end they did 5 Burpees.
Group 2 did 5 Burpees, 10 Merkins, 15 Squats, 20 LBCs, 10 Cadence Count Balls to the wall and Preacher chair until group 1 came back.

The groups then switched.
Repeated 5 times

Mosey to the bottom of the ramp for something that was way too complicated, but we had 3 minutes to burn.

Run up four light poles.  Turn and run backwards up two light poles.  Don’t turn around and run forward two light poles.  Then turn around and repeat till you reached the top of the hill.  Then mosey back to the circle for Mary.

Mary:

10 Imperial Walkers
10 Hillbilies
10 Low Slow Flutters
20 Pickle Pounders
Have a Nice Day

Announcements:

BBR meetup Wednesday
2nd F at Starbucks

Prayer:

Crablegs
Buford
First Responders

Groundpounder 1/19/2018

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Pax of 6 for Ground pounder:

Shredder, Pikachu, R-22, Doogie, Dovetail

Breach on the Q

Warm Up: Run down the parking lot to the 2nd-speed bump, turn back to the fence. 22 count of Irkins and then hop over the fence back and forth until the big gap. Mosey over to the hill and run up and backpedal down over behind the baseball field. Circle up for 22 counts for SSH, Good mornings, Imperial Walkers/Hillbillies and windmills. Grab some wall for 22 Count dips.

The Workout: Run up the bleachers, at the top 10 Irkins at the bottom 5 burpees. Reapeat for 3 cycles. Mosey over to batting cage fast feet around the perimeter. Mosey over to the fence. Traveling planks around the fence until the bricks stop. Mosey over to the rockpile.
Grab a rock and circle up for around the world. 22 curls for the girls..rotate to the left..22 count tricep extensions rotate..11 up and over merkins…rotate 11  Wunderbras… rotate 11 Wunderbras.. rotate..11 up and over merkins back home for another set of 22 count curls for the girls.
Mosey to the picnic tables for around the world core..22 counts of shoulder taps, pickle pounders..American hammers.. crab cakes. Diamond merkins and reverse hop bridges. Move over to the curb for 22 counts of step ups..11 right 11 left. 22 counts of irkins and dips.
Mosey over to the disc golf circle for a little duck duck goose. 1 duck runs around the circle and chooses a goose. If the goose catches the duck choosesse his exercise. If the duck gets back to his spot first he chooses for the goose.
Mary: 5 Turkish get ups and 22 cadense count of SSH.

Prayer: Prayers for Shredders dad and for other pax members family for their health battles. Close out in prayer.

We start at what time?

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Loads of Pax out on a great morning for running. Start times ranged from 5:10 to 6am with mileage from 3 to 15. A good group of pax were present for a 6am warm up.

Warm Up:

SSH x10 IC

Frankenstein walk halfway down parking lot

Butt kickers back

High knees back down

Mosey back to start – hillbillies x10 IC

Announcements:

Happy birthday Aquaman!

Yoga at 9am at Athletic Lab South Wake lead by Dovetail’s M. First class there is free.

See Slack/Facebook for other announcements.
Prayer:

UTI’s dad – was in hospital yesterday, cause unknown. Is home now.
The Workout:

3 to 15 miles. Great work put in across the board.

South Wake Invades Dante’s Peak

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QSwap 2019 – YHC & Skidmark had the Q at Dante’s Peak. Loads of EC in play – Crazy Time, Pull up routine, EC miles.

The pax poured in and included an FNG brought out by Banana Seat. Disclaimers were read and we were off.

Warm Up:

Mosey to upper parking lot, performing karaoke, butt kickers, backwards run, and skips along the way.

Circle up for:

SSH x15 IC

Daisy Pickers x10 IC

Mountain climbers x10 IC

Standard Merkin x5 on Q’s up and down

Windmill x10 IC

Mosey down to end of parking lot

The Workout:

Pax lined up shoulder to shoulder facing back  the direction we came from. Dropping down into plank, on Q’s GO they sprint back to start/where we circled up.

Repeato back and forth, each sprint on Q’s GO with the following exercises (always held before the next GO):

  • Squats x15 IC
  • Low Slow Flutter x10 IC
  • Pickle Pounders x10 IC
  • Plank hold
  • Squat hold

Last sprint was down and back once YHC had used most of his allotted time. Pax circled up for Freddy Mercury x10 IC for one last break and then the reins were handed over to Skidmark.

Mosey to rock pile/bridge/pond. Pax grab a rock for some Jack Webbs

Merkin x1 Rock Press x3

Run lap around the lake

Merkin x2 Rock Press x6

Run lap around the lake

Merkin x3 Rock Press x9

Run lap around the lake

4:12 through 10:30 were done without the running in the interest of time.

Mosey back to flags.

Mary:

Merkin clock from 12 down to 1. “Break” at 6 o’clock for one arm up planks.

Some planks IC wrapped us up:

Standard x10

Right arm up x10

Right arm and right leg up x10

Standard x10

Left arm up x10

Left arm and left leg up x10

Chill cut pickle pounders x10
Announcements:

See FB/Slack for South Wake announcements

Carpex Pax are heading to Peru in ~3 weeks – they have a published list of needed supplies, see Carpex or South Wake slacks for details

Burger Feet is taking a group down to Burgaw in Eastern NC for Hurricane cleanup tomorrow (Saturday Jan 19th). See Twitter for details.

Carpex Pax has a published book where proceeds go to Triangle foster care. Book name is Charlie’s New Puppy Brother. Available on Amazon, however direct purchases yield more donation and are encouraged.
Prayer:

Ausfart – receiving visitors at home, request that M be contacted ahead of time (# is on Carpex slack)

Crab Legs – ALS

DD, Water Wings

Matlock – praise for being back out after being on IR with a back injury for a while

 

QSwap continues to be one of YHC’s favorite weeks of the year. A huge thank you to all of the Carpex & South Wake Pax that helped make this happen, from Qing workouts to making long drives and clown cars to support Qs. We’ll certainly do it again next year!

Crazy for CarPex

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YHC and Skidmark had the Q for Dante’s Peak as part of 2019’s South Wake/Carpex QSwap, so the obvious thing to do was give them a two for one and bring Crazy Time down to Carpex too. After confirming the clown car with Crosby the plans were set and Slack posts were made. No HCs were made from Carpex so YHC was worried, but thankfully they showed up.

We were warned that the park gates may not be open and that was confirmed to be the case. We found some Carpex Pax also looking for where to park – we landed at the subdivision past the park and we would use the mosey from there as part of our 1st mile.

Warm Up:

1 mile mosey to pull up bars, taking the long way
The Workout:

100 pull ups – it was nice being in Apex and having nice, real pull up bars

200 pickle pounders

300 homer to marge

Most pax did these in sets of 5/10/15 – Lipstick did some sets in 10/20/30, very impressive
Mary:

1 mile mosey back to the cars
Announcements: N/A
Prayer: N/A

Kudos to Hanson and Sub for joining our craziest AO. Found out during the workout they’re both fairly new to F3 – very impressive!

Back in Black (Carpex QSwap 2018)

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Today is Thursday, January 17, and it’s time for SouthWake to head North and Q the ever-early Back in Black (5:15 start!)  16 Pax showed up on a chilly morning, 7 SW regulars + 1 FNG (pretty sure that’s 50% SW….just sayin!) .  A few minutes before kickoff, an emergency plan was discussed and a brief tutorial of how to properly do an Australian Clip Board & Nutcracker Merkin.

Hermes, Repeato, Straight Cash, Disco Duck, Peeping Tom, Light Bright, Staubach, Wiggly, Yoga Mat, Warbucks, Pikachu, Breach, Blue Water, Shut In, Slide Rule, you were all there.

And we’re off!

Emergency Plan:

In case of emergency, we’ll load up in Hermes’ truck, 2 men in back with downed Pax, 1 passenger calling 911, and Hermes driving us to Wake Med just up the road.  Shut In would take over if Hermes is down.

Warm Up:

Quick lap around the small lot.  SSH & Imperial Squat Walkers in Cadence to get loose.

5x Bobby Hurleys, then 5x Blue Devils (add a Turkish Getup to a Bobby Hurley…the Flop really captures the full Duke experience).  In a surprise to all involved, Shut In and Hermes opted to actually do the exercise rather than stand and watch this year.

Circle up, all Pax do SSH while we introduce ourselves and pick 1x Burpee or Blue Devil.  YHC is sorely disappointed more Blue Devils were not chosen, but if the Pax wants to start the day with 16 Burpees, so be it.

The Workout:

The goal of all SW Q’s when we come to Carpex is to work hard enough to slice through the mumble chatter.  YHC figured the best chance of that was a mix of running and lots and lots of Burpees + Blue Devils.  If you can’t breathe, you can’t chatter 🙂

Indian run to the larger lot and group in 4’s by speed.  YHC got there early and set up 10 Traffic cones, zig-zagging the entire lot.  Pax would run the long way to the next cone, do the workout, bear crawl around the island, work out, then run.  Repeat until reaching the far side.  The 10 workouts were, in order:

  • 5x burpees
  • 10x Nutcracker Merkins (one pax bench presses the other’s ankles, 2nd pax doing merkins…watch your nuts!)
  • 15x Australian Clip Boards + 5x Burpees (ACB: 2 pax (the clipboards) form a platform by grabbing wrists; 3rd pax does upside-down rows (australian pull up))
  • 10x Blue Devils
  • 5x Double Merkin Burpees
  • 5x Wide, Diamond, Military & Regular Merkins
  • 15x Australian Clip Boards + 5x Burpees
  • 10x Blue Devils
  • 5x Burpees
  • 10x Nutcracker Merkins

When finished, loop back and pick up the six.

At this point, YHC made a tactical error.  I should have just repeated the lot workout, but I was told there were rocks and didn’t want to be accused of being boring.

Thang Pt 2:

Indian run to the rocks (farther away than I thought).  Grab a Vanity Rock….Pikachu is very vain…. for a set of 16’s with WonderBras + Curls.  We made it about 5 rounds in before having to audible away due to time.

Indian run back to the lot, clean up the cones, and Jailbreak to start

Mary:

5 mins of Yoga stretching followed by 25x Pickle Pounders

COT Proof:

COT Video

Announcements:

2.0 Dad’s workout Saturday; Looking for big turnout next Friday for Arena in DTRaleigh; QSwap ends tomorrow!

Prayer:

Ausfart, Buford, Crab Legs, Mission Trip, family

 

9/16 went for Coffeeteria.  I look forward to QSwap all year, was a great two weeks guys!

ThunderStock

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4+ mile EC- John Deere, Crosby

EC- (add as others let me know)

Warm Up:SSH , Moroccan Night Clubs, Daisy Pickers
The Workout:

Roxanne– 3:11(26)
M’erkins (during Roxanne)

Rebel Yell– 4:48
Pickle Pounders(Chorus)
Homer to Marge (Verse)
Low Slow Flutter (Bridge)

Thunder– 3:07(78)
Dips Hold in down position and raise up on “Thunder”

Optional Mosey-

Flower– 3:26(30)
Squat up & Down squat hold

Safety Dance– 2:45(47)
Reverse M’erkins On “dance” You come up

Give it away– 4:42
Protractors during verse
15/45/90 start back at 15
LBC’s during the chorus

BRIEF STRETCH

Thunder Struck– 4:52(34)
Double M’erkin burpee on thunderstruck/Thunder

Mary: OYO

American Hammers
Freddie Mercury
Shoulder Taps
Box cutter
Balls to The Wall (With Shoulder Taps x1)

X2

Cobra Stretch

PROTRACTORS 15/45/15/90

LBC

M’erkins x10

Diamond M’erkins x10

Announcements: on the F3 page & Slack, Crosby @Bombshell Saturday Night, Long Ass Run Feb 9(?)
Prayer: Pikachu took is out… Lots of PAX hurting, Raleigh Police officers, moment of silence.