Carpex Surprise!
FNGs: None
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Announcements: Mulch at Bass Lake – limit it to 5 at a time.
T-Claps (Recognition): Juneteenth.
Prayer: Families in F3. BLM.
Wahoo took us out.
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QSWAP DAY 5: UTI ….. FOREVER MORE….
A pre-blast was sent to Carpex and South Wake looking for support for the to-be Q at Dazed and Confused. With the numbers that these two regions have the potential to bring, YHC thought this was an appropriate time to swallow his pride and make the request for a name change. I know… I know… I’m Good Enough, I’m Smart Enough, and Doggone It, People Like Me! But if there was ever a time to get the votes I needed, it would be today. And hey, I’ve heard some of the mumblechatter about South Wake naming. Peeping Tom’s name got shortened to PT when he moved to Carpex – Carpex will be sympathetic to my plight…. right?
1000 HCs were requested, the votes came in…
Carpex –
- 10 HCs
- 4 Laughed with me (I think)
- 1 SC
- 2 “Peeing” emoji – inappropriate!!! EXACTLY THE SORT OF THING I’M TRYING TO GET AWAY FROM!!! Calm… Calm…
- 1 “No Entry” emoji – I assume this just means no, I’m not trying to enter anything… Minds in the gutter in this region…
SouthWake
- 8-ish HCs
- A whole bunch of protests – “We Love You UTI… Never change..” stuff like that
- A threat that I would be “Getting an English Ripping” – Australians… Am I right?
As 187 commented on the pre-blast, “UTI ….. FOREVER MORE….”
***I had no intention of changing my name. Do we even have 1000 PAX between our 2 regions? If 1000 had HC’d or shown up I might have had to change my name… I mean that would be some vote! This exercise was for fun and a mockery of those posts you often see out on the social medias. I scouted the FB pages of some of my elderly relatives for research and treaded lightly around the ones that focus on serious illnesses. This was my inspiration 😀
EC: Warbucks, Full House, The Joker, 187, Skidmark, Lipstick, Pikachu
FNGs: Too Scared…
Warm Up: Mozy under the parking deck
Circle Up
1 Burpee
Daisy Pickers
2 Burpees
Windmills
3 Burpees
Imperial Walkers\Hillbillies
4 Burpees
SSH
5 Burpees
The Workout:
Thang 1
Count off 1,2,3
- Group 1 Top of the Deck, Star Jumps until relieved
- Group 2 Stairs, run to the top to relieve Group 1
- Group 3 Bottom of the Deck, WWIIs until relieved
Groups 1, 2, and 3 cycled through this rotation until all 3 groups completed 10 climbs up the stairs
*Flaw in the structure of this, should have created groups of 3 and had them split up into 3 stations, continuing the rotation as a team of 3. T-claps to Shut-In and other PAX that started calling out group numbers as they got to their new stations to help keep everyone moving. Lesson learned for next time 😀
Thang 2
All PAX to the top of the parking deck, line up on the half wall
Bear Crawl the long way down the lot stopping at each light pole for 5 Merkins OYO
T-Claps to Theismann for calling out Chill Cut moves (and not Have A Nice Day) while we brought in the 6. Lucky Charms and Pikachu – you guys are fast on those Bear Crawls!!!
Return to the other side of the lot – this time Lunge Walks, 10 LBCs at each light pole.
Thang 3
Mozy to the opposite stair case and descend. People’s Chair while we wait for the 6.
Partner-up, Balls 2 the Wall / Sprints Out and Back on the short length of the deck. AND SWITCH
5x per partner
Mary: Runners Pose each side, Pigeon Pose each side, Have A Nice Day!
Announcements:
- Q-Swap Week Continues Saturday – Banana Seat has your Q at Pheonix (Bond Park)
- 2f2f lunch today at noon, Societa in RTP
- Yahoo is back and safe
- M4L, Shout out to the regular HIM that are making the trip to Bergdaw (sp?) – Encourage more of that from all PAX.
T-Claps (Recognition): Thanks all for the great week in Carpex. YHC completed a 5 pack in your beautiful region. Terrific Hosts, putting 5-stars in Yelp, I’ve LIKED your FB page
Prayer:
- Disco Duck is moving mom into a retirement home. Prayers for a smooth transition.
- Meatloaf’s 2.0 is heading back to college
- Prayers for Chicken Little’s brother or friend. No details but he needs your prayers.
- Service men/women
- South Wake’s own, Walaby
- UTI prayed that Carpex might actually “bring it” next week… I guess we’ll see… 😀
Q-Swap Week – Disturbing the Peace
YHC hasn’t Q’d in a while and was eager to knock the dust off for Q-Swap. A workout was planned to handle a large crowd and to minimize the mumblechatter. Carpex is a difficult group to slow down. 13 for EC (of course SW PAX went for a run), 38 for the main event.
FNGs: Nope
ECP: Wahoo, Hamm, The Joker
EC: 2 milers: Warbucks, UTI, Slide Rule, Full House, Kosher, Redenbacher, Lipstick, 187
7.5 miles: Revere, Hanson
Warm Up:
YHC decided to start off on a high note with the slaughter starter (20 burpees OYO) to kill the mumblechatter before it really started. It slowed them for a bit before they were begging for a pledge and some good mornings.
A quick pledge of allegiance at the shovel flag and we were off on a mosey for carioca, side shuffles, butt kickers, etc. Circled up in the lot beside CC Jones park for:
Good mornings (SW style of course)
Goofball
Windmill
Sir fazio arm circles
Seal claps
Mosey back to shovel flag.
The Workout:
Thang 1:
Partnered up with PAX from rival territory for Flat tires across long parking lot with each partner working from 4:1 to 40:10 (wheelbarrow steps:merkins). When form broke down, YHC called recover and we mosey’d around to the other side of the church.
Thang 2:
Circled up for Howling Monkeys. 2 rounds were performed with each PAX doing 10 monkey humpers while other PAX held monkey humper starting position. Big circle, so we spawned off 2 active PAX. Slide Rule had enough and tried to stop the howling, but we continued for round 2. PAX then tried to mosey around to the other side of the building. It was at this point that Burt admired YHC’s pants and suggested I went shopping with M4L.
Thang 3:
Evolution of man (crawl, walk, run) x2 rounds
Line up on end of parking lot
Bear crawl to first island
15 merkins
Lunge walk to light pole
15 squats
Sprint to other side of lot
15 shoulder taps
15 WWIIs
*Repeato*
Mary:
Alphabet soup (CAPITAL LETTERS)
LBCs
American hammers
Hundreds
Mosey back to shovel flag for COT.
Announcements:
Q swap continues at Rush Hour tonight at 1800 (6pm).
New Carpex AO launches tomorrow at Waverly with 3rd F to follow
T-Claps (Recognition):
Carpex PAX for maintaining such a strong level of mumblechatter and living up their reputation.
Prayer:
No prayer requests, YHC took us out.
Thanks for the hospitality Carpex! It was an honor (and a challenge) to lead such a large and chatty group.
What’s the count?
EC: Cowboy, Cupid, Katniss, GoGurt, Yogurt
FNGs: Chico (from Williamsport PA, home of Little League), brought in by Schlitz, and Falwell (Liberty University graduate), brought in by Banana Seat
Warm Up: SSH x35, arm circles 15xF/15xB, seal claps 15x, overhead claps 15x, tricep stretches, Michael Phelps, pickle pounders 15x
The Workout: I focused on some of the more difficult exercises I’ve done at Cletus. We started by moseying to the double tennis courts, then partnering up for wheelbarrows. Planned to paint the service lines, but when we got there, I realized that would be too short for this PAX. Modified and went all the way to net instead. We had PAX of 18, so if we had pairs at each corner of the two courts, that would cover 16 PAX. So, the extra pair worked in the middle. I paired with FNG Falwell and he really took off on this one! He was moving strong and fast was the wheel. Everyone rinsed and repeated until each PAX had completed four turns as the wheel. I could hear the PAX grunting with effort throughout, including YHC.
Mosey to The Pit. Time for some 11s! This is definitely not an original exercise, but I wanted to get in some running. Here, we ran from sideline to sideline, maybe 80 yards or so. Mountain climbers on near end and star jumps on the far end. Always concerned about losing count, especially on 11s, I did great until we reached 9 on the near side, when I asked Snap, “Where are we? Two?” Duh.
What’s Cletus without a little hill work? Thanks Slide Rule. This time I decided to keep the count simple. Seven Derkins at the top, seven WWIIs at the bottom. Even I could keep up with the count on this one. “If you can’t Q it, don’t do it.” I guess this applies to counting as well. Was planning to start with WWIIs, but Banana Seat had different ideas. I must have reached the limit of 30 seconds of explaining the exercise when he took off up the hill. This man likes to keep moving!
Earlier in the week, I had promised a return to classic Cletus exercises, so time for BTW! PAX found a spot on the brick wall outside the east end of the Hunt Center. Easy count of 10, followed by 10 squats with good form. Form should mimic how you would squat with a barbell on your shoulders–chin up, chest out, butt out. Breach suggested that a good way to do that is by doing prisoner squats, so we did.
Time to mosey to far parking lot, COT, name FNGs, and join Crazy Ivan for their COT and bidding on Breathtaker–new charity for month of August.
Mary: Cupid led some planks with arm raises on each side while I got my phone.
Announcements: FB, Slack
T-Claps (Recognition): Slide Rule for leading July’s Breathtaker fund-raising for Meg’s Smile. About $6,700, which enough for about two “smiles.”
Prayer: Help doctor’s diagnose Noah’s Ark’s wife’s illness. Keep him strong while supporting.