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Q-Duel Cletus – Sprinkler 1 year anniversary and the BIG 50!

EC:  Katniss, Boy George, Dahmer, Nemo, Norm, Flyby from Vasoline

FNGs: Welcome @Fanta
Warm Up:  Mosey to the far lot to keep the noise down a “little”.  10 X Fazio Arm circles FW & REV, 15X Overhead Claps, 10X Imperial Walkers, 10X Hillbillies, 20X SSH
The Workout:

It was a celebration week for Sprinkler.  He had his 1yr F3 anniversary this week and turned the big 50 today.  RESPECT!  What better way to celebrate than an F3 party!  41 STRONG today.  Nice showing F3Southwake, way to end the HS Q-Duel week!!!

Count off by 2’s and divide up.

1’s with Sprinkler and 2’s with YHC:

1’s stayed in place for Round 1 11’s , 2’s headed to the lot by the Rock Pile for Round 2 11’s

Well the plan is below, but since we split up I can’t speak for both groups.  I can say that there were a lot of bear crawls for the 2’s and a lot of modifying on the fly (for time!).  I heard group 1 got in a lot of Bear Crawls also and that was the main plan; so all went well.  The surprise for me was the Pavillion intermission which turned out to be a beast!  We had a Round 3 planned just in case, but not a chance on that one!  I’m sharing and saving the workout below because I would like to complete it as written sometime.  It’s a great start to a CASUP if you ask me!

We even had an FNG today.  Welcome Fanta, from San Diego and use to work for Pepsi!

 

Round 1
11’s
Merkins jog between sides
prisoner squats
Intermission
Pavillion
Dips 10, 15, 20X w/ BTTW in-between
Rock Pile
2 sets
10 overhead press, 15 triceps curls, 20 curls for the girls
Round 2
11’s
Plank hold bear crawl in between
star Jumps
Mary
15 pickle pounders
2 sets omnit abs – 30 sec each – rocky boboa’s, spoon hold, American Hammers
15 box cutters
Round 3 if needed
trip around the soccer field
stack each corner
10 burpees,
15 diamond Merkins,
20 Monkey Humpers,
25 LBC’s

 

Mary:  1’s got in some work, 2’s did the rock work hoping to watch the 1’s bear crawl but didn’t happen
Announcements:  Bass lake mulch.  Sign up!, Q-Duel coming to FV next week.  Show some love, check Slack
T-Claps (Recognition):  41 strong!
Prayer:  Woodard family (good news on the no cancer front, keep the prayers coming), Prince Family fire dept chief, pray for recovery from Covid.  Etrade (Patricia), Dauber and family for their trip to Texas, Florence and family as he works in Wilmington for 14 weeks (you and Hardy will be missed at Cletus!)

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

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.

If You Build It They Will Come (Carrying Rocks)

24 strong and Determined Pax rolled into Womble park this morning to run some bases and push some rocks. After the warm up, YHC shared a belief statement with everyone and asked Pax to think about it throughout the workout for a brief discussion about its meaning. “If you think you can, or you think you can’t, you’re right.”

FNGs: Nada
Warm Up:

Daisy picker X10, Frankenstien X10, Moracken night club X10, 5 burpees

The Workout:

Counted into 2 groups. Group 1 started with Fanny Pack. Group 2 went with me on a brief indian run around the soccer fields and down to the pit.

Rock Push/Mini Dora: Fanny Pack

Group 1 moseyed to the rock pile for a rock push/mini Dora.

First a round of Balls to the Wall and rock chest presses, then

1 partner rock pushes until the end of a long parking lot, then Wonderbra walks back while partner 2 chips away at:

Groundpounder x 50

Curls for the girlz x 100

Triceps extensions x 150

Round 1 ends with an indian run down to the pit to switch up with Group 2.

Field of Dreams: Tetanus

Modified baseball diamond was laid out with cones and pax counted off by 4. PAX went to the base associated with their numbers. 4’s went to home plate.

First base (1’s) do Febreeze AMRAP

Second base (2’s) perform Catalina Winemixer AMRAP

Third base (3’s) perform Lt. Dan’s AMRAP

Home plate (4’s) complete 15 burpees

Base movement is contingent upon the PAX at home plate. Once burpees are completed, sprint to first base and all others rotate 1 base to perform the next exercise. Groups #1 and #2 performed Field of Dreams for 10 minutes each in a competition to see who could score more runs.

Final score 7-7

Group 1 headed back to Mary Indian Run style with a modified namorama. Since we had a large group this morning with PAX from the Quay, I thought it would be good for everyone to call out the Indian runners name with some words of encouragement as he races to the front of the line.

Mary:

low slow flutter (x20, x15, x10)

Freddie Mercury   (x20, x15, x10)

Homer to Marge   (x20, x15, x10)

Pickle Pounders   X20

Final Thoughts: “If you think you can, or you think you can’t, you’re right.”

“Fundamental to our work (whatever that may be) is the idea that your personality creates your personal reality, and your personality is made up of how you think, act and feel. So in order for a person to make change happen, create a new life and a new reality, they have to change the way they think, act and feel. To transform from the old self to the new self requires us to become conscious of all our unconscious thoughts, automatic behaviors, routines, and emotional reactions that we’ve been conditioned into. To become conscious of any of these unconscious programs is where we can begin to initiate change. Einstein said “we cannot solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them.” That means that for us to resolve our problems, we have to go to a greater level of awareness…a higher level of consciousness than the consciousness that created them.”     -Dr. Joe Dispenza

Announcements:

Need volunteers for mulching

This Sunday food ruck hilltop needmore park to mommas house of thrift

Clean out your closets for featured AO workouts this week and hygiene items next week (no alcohol)

Prayer:

Sprinkler brought our attention to the 14 yr old daughter of the Woodard family daughter

Florence  work assignment in Wilmington

 

Good thing my M knows math or my kids would be screwed.

Another glorious morning at the greatest place on earth. YHC was excited to see Deadbolt doing some weasel shaking last night on Facebook as a pre-blast so I followed up on Slacks.  I had an FNG coming out and it was great to see all the HC’s coming in. Welcome FNG OJ!

I promised simple and effective. If my math was better, it might have been a little smoother. The whole jack webb thing messes with me.

FNGs: Welcome OJ!
Warm Up: FNG Disclaimer, Lot Mosey, SSH x40 IC, Frankenstein x10, Sir Fazio, Seal Claps, OHC all x10 IC. Daisy Pickers x10, Standard Merkin x15.
The Workout: Mosey to the Abyss. Split into partners.  1 Partner at the top cycle through Standard, Wide and Military Merkins AMRAP until partner 2 returns from down the stairs and 10 Star Jumps at the bottom. Cycle through until each person has done the bottom 3 times.  We all went down and picked up the 6 with 10 Star Jumps.

Mosey back to the fields.

Suicide Lines

1st Set: Halfway, all the way.  At halfway, Mt Climbers IC x15, End WWII x15

2nd Set: Halfway: Chilly Jacks x15 IC, SSH x15 IC

3rd Set: Jack Webb 2-4 finish with 10-20 (or something close to that, this is where my math went off the rails)

Mary: Homer to Marge x10 IC (L/R), Box Cutter x10, LBC’s x20 IC
Announcements: HS/FV Q battle next week. Bring “all the clothes” for healing transitions
T-Claps (Recognition): Goldilocks, Bondo for hitting it hard today and FNG OJ!
Prayer: Those impacted by the storm, Families in Beirut, Small Business owners, YHC took us out.

Did You Put Those Deer There?

YHC has been trying to get down to “the Quay” more often. Figured if I sign up to Q, I’ll head down there. So YHC decided to Q a couple FV places he’s only been a couple times. Lemme Q Possum Trot and Kenny’s Grave back to back.  You never know what can happen right? After lagging behind somewhat on the EC, YHC was determined to hit at least 3 spots with challenging intensity. At arrival, Fonzie was already game planning for his beatdown to deliver during Q challenge week coming up. So I figured, I better throw out something good today. 13 pax posted strong today!

EC: Fanny Pack, Fonzie, LED, Shamwow!, And Norm (who did about a 1/4 mile catch up as he rolled in a bit late for EC…impressive).

FNG’s: POTS boy…welcome Meatball.  Swedish Metal Music = Meatball. Good enough!
Warm Up: SSH x 30, Good Mornings, Imperial Walkers, Squatted Seal Claps, Squatted Arm Circles F/R, Squatted Overhead Claps, Moroccan Night Clubs.
The Workout: Moseyed a loop and did 11’s on the big grass hill at the corner.  We did Mountain Climbers IC at the bottom, dips on the guardrail up top.  Mosey to the tennis court for some stacked Suicides on the lines. We stacked up and then unstacked with some extra absolutions for our 6.  Line exercises were: 5 absolutions, 10 burpees, 15 star jumps, 20 merkins, 25 monkey humpers, 30 LBC, 35 SSH.  Then we took the same stack back.

Mosey to the restroom pavilion for each pax 10 ct. of people’s Chair x2, and a 10 ct. each pax of BTTW. Finished down there, with 2 deer onlooking, with a dozen of each: shoulder taps, nipplers, Merkins. LED comments, “man Fanny Pack… Did you put those deer there?”  I aim to please…mosey back to the flag for Mary Mary: Feel the PT road rash… 20 Box Cutters, 20 H2M.
Announcements: Q shift week coming up… check Slack.  Mulch continues.., check Slack.  Sign up to Q…seriously fellas…check Slack.
T-Claps (Recognition): Breach showing great instructional form on burpees and absolutions. LED for doing an extra few lines during the suicide stack. My FV brothers for allowing YHC to come to their turf to practice my trade!
Prayer: In a strong move of boldness, Meatball… the FNG… took us out.  See you tomorrow my FV brothers!

IsaWhaa?

YHC checked a few times last night to see if anyone was stepping in to Q Purple Cobra. The Q sheet has continued it’s struggle and was still open this am at 0430. Pre-blast on Slack and I was off to see who might show. EC was solo – but somewhere passed by 187 as he rolled in to HT Lot along with Cupid and Oboe. We had a team! Let’s do this.

FNGs: Nope
Warm Up: Mosey over to Goodwill, circle up. Varying warm-ups – SSH, Frankenstein, Good Morning, Daisy Pickers, SSH, OHC/Seal Clap, SSH.
The Workout: Not sure what to expect, we did a solo Dora’s. We would do the work in 25 reps starting in GW lot and then jog down to bottom of the hill around the corner. Repeato through 100 Merkins, 200 LBC, 300 Prisoner Squats. We did a double-time runs for about the last 200 and moved up to sets of 50.  With time left, I offered up the exercises to the other 3 PAX.

Cupid – 50 Dippy Dips at Jiffy Lube; 187 2 Sets Shoulder Taps, Mtn Climbers and Pickle Pounders (1st time 10, 2nd 15 IC); Oboe – BTTW 20 count down the line

Mary:  Helped 187 w/ his 25 Merkins for Mental Health and PTSD awareness, 15 Box Cutters, Have a nice day
Announcements: “Q-Swap” next week – bring clothes and toiletries for Healing Transitions – starts Monday in Holly Springs
T-Claps (Recognition): These 3 guys for coming out and pushing this morning.
Prayer: Moment of silence, YHC took us out.

If I had known we would stop early, I would have done more squats…

It’s been a few weeks since I took the helm at Disney. I have had some ideas rolling around and my Q-Plan kept getting pushed based on some great leadership stepping up to fill the Q-Sheet (including Bobby Dahl’s VQ which was brutal). Given the recent postings that kicked off around mental health and PTSD awareness I thought we should incorporate some of that into the beat down. So… We took a friend along with us for the ride today (about a 30lb rock) and we did a shit ton of merkins.

FNGs: NOPE
Warm Up: Quick trip around the lot to circle up. SSH x25, 5 Burpees OYO, Imperial Walker x10, Good morning x10, Daisy Picker x10, SSH x15
The Workout: Bataan Death March – But we’re going slow and low and carrying our friend. 1st man out with the rock and mosey along to exchange with the first person in line. Repeato for almost a mile to the half-circle behind the school.

Count off in 2’s and pair up.  DORA 200 LBC’s 400 Merkins, 600 Squats…..Partner splits first and taking a loop up the stairs and across the trailers with 2 stops before back down the other stairs to return to your partner. 1st stop 10 merkins to the corner past the top of the stairs another 10 merkins back to your partner.  After the first loop around the rock was brought into play. It was exchanged through each group so everyone could get a turn carrying it around. Because of time we had to end early, which I know everyone was not happy about… Nemo – not knowing I was gonna have to cut us off early said he would have done more squats if he knew. Ha. Q knew that this was a risk going in of not being able to finish but also wanted to see how far we could get.

Return with the rock for Mary.

Mary: Homer to Marge x10 RL, WWI x10, WWII x10, We’ll call this one The Crotch (basically your soles of shoes are touching and knees folded out, laying on your back. You reach forward using your abs to move your hands from over your “cup” forward.) x10 and then hold as directed by the Q x10 + 5 holds, LBC’s x10 IC, Iron Cross x10, A standing crunch x20.  HND.
Announcements: “Q Swap” starting 8/10 – opportunity to show off between Fuquay and Holly Springs. Mookie to post details soon.
T-Claps (Recognition): Welcome back Kid Cracker! We’ve missed you. Also – POTS – Dude sprinted up the lot hill to Mary hauling ass and carrying that rock over his head.
Prayer: Full House’s extended family, Hump from F3 Raleigh and his M as they are going through some birth complications.

Did Bambi Smell my Farts???

Four PAX sauntered out on EC ready to improve their mile splits, while feeling like they were wearing a sweater with the thick blanket of humidity.  Shamwow was quick to point out 3 deer about half a mile in as soon as YHC let four very timely farts from his nether regions, Dahmer laughed with amusement as the deer ran off.

9 Eager PAX began warmup, not realizing what YHC had in store, lap around the soccer field and then back to the parking lot for some good mornings x 10 count, daisy pickers x 15, SSH x 20, Fazio arm circles front and back, moving into overhead clap x 10 and then IW’s x 15.

YHC intended to have the Indian run up to go straight to the big parking lot via passing by the abyss, until Nemo happened to pipe up and wondered why we weren’t stopping.  Indian run train paused to let the passengers off for a DORA, two men teams 50 merkins, 100 LBC’s and 150 squats with alternating partner running down for 5 x star jumps.  Post completion of DORA, PAX headed back aboard the Indian run train to head to the originally intended target, big parking lot.

Arriving at the lot DB asked what they did to piss off YHC, nothing, just wanting to serve up a beat down :).  PAX then moved into 4 corners in the lot – two teams – all staying together for 10 x wide grip merkins at corner 1, 10 x lunges at corner 2, 20 mountain climbers IC at corner 3 and 20 prisoner squats at corner 4, rinse and repeat.

All once again hopped on the Indian run train to head to the benches for alternating irkins, dirkins and dips x 10 while other group did 15 x shoulder taps in cadence.  PAX hopped on the train for the last stop back at the soccer field for Mary.

Mary started with 10 x american hammer, 15 x box cutter, 10 x 6 inch leg lift, 10 x low slow flutter, 15 x reverse LBC and 10 burpees courtesy of POTS.  Train came to a stop with have a nice day.

Announcements: Deadbolt 6 year anny at Cletus tomorrow, new job for Bobby Dall, Derrick Davis run sign up, and a special Happy 38th Birthday to Dahmer.

Prayer requests: Crablegs, family of Clay (Roger Roger’s neighbor) who lost his battle with cancer and Flanigan for minor cardiac procedure.

T Claps: All PAX for putting in some sweat equity this morning

 

Burning Down Tatooine

FNGs: No

EC: Pikachu, Skidmark, Cupid, Emeril, DawgPound, Gillette, YHC

  • We split up into 2 groups.  The first 3 gazelles took off fast.  The rest of us were happy with a moderate pace to grab 2-3 miles before the main event.

Commuters: Bernie, Aquaman, ShamWow, Vasoline, Lipstick

  • These guys came in from all directions this morning.  Hats off gents.  We missed many of you at COT.

Warm Up: High Knees, Butt Kickers, Carioca

The Workout:

If you frequent Slack and you happened to be online yesterday evening, you witnessed something pretty special.  You see, YHC was once the site co-Q of R4TJ – the best damn South Wake AO you can attend on a Wednesday morning, not to mention the very best running AO in our region (pre-emtively stop your crying other AOs – haters gonna hate).  Part of the responsibilities I had at R4TJ was to make sure that all of the other Wednesday “workouts” were kept in their place.  One particular “workout” wasn’t even sure if it was now or To Be Determined…  pffttt…..

YHC has been out of the game for a bit.  Call it a Covid pause.  But I’ve decided to get back in the mix with my boys and contribute to the Q-Sheet even if only for a few running AOs (see you at the #2 running workout in South Wake this Saturday BTW).  Since I was back at R4TJ, it was only right to light the warning fires to all those Undetermined Fakers.  Check out Slack…  It was awesome….  They got the message.

R4TJ Checklist

  • AO with style – check
  • class – not enough checks
  • cool names for routes – check
  • YHC – check
  • miles – we’ll check this one off after
  • BRR\marathon\life training – check
  • YHC – double check
  • still better than TBD – DETERMINED check
  • TP – check

The “New Hotness” was now in session.  An old favorite was tee’d up wth a special twist.  We would run the Little Dipper (because it looks like a 6) but today we would have mandatory pick-up-the-six.  Every turn on the route marked the need to turn and catch the 6.  It was a hot and muggy morning and many of the PAX had already put some miles in.  There was a little mublechatter questioning the direction for the route and the need for mandatory pick ups but YHC layed down the law and we were off.

There was a good togetherness this morning with the group.  Lots of pairing off and the pick-ups kept us pretty close together.  YHC held up the rear for too much of the run.  I suppose I can claim that was by design but in truth it wasnt.  DawgPound kept me moving with some words of encouragement, Emeril ran along side of me for most of the run and kept pushing me on.  These HIM are testements to F3 Goodness.

Through the run, many of the commuters returned to their homes wrapping up some considerably long runs.  Great work Men!

  • miles – CHECK

NOTE:  No planets were harmed in this running of The Little Dipper.  There was no sign of Vader.  There was a suspicious and small moon hanging in the sky… wait… that’s no moon!

Mary: Probably Playing Possum

YHC performed some common core math to count the PAX – 14 PAX!!! (pretty sure…)

Announcements:

  • Mulch project keeps on trucking  8 spots (2 hrs of your time) open for this weekend SIGN UP!!!

  • Some men are gearing up for the RDC Marathon in November – Check with Dawg, Emeril, and McNugget
  • Check out posts from Shredder, new 3rd F goodness is in the works

T-Claps (Recognition): The whole gang today for picking up the 6 (aka me).  Specific T-Claps to Dawg and Emeril for the motivation when I wanted to hit the brakes.

Prayer:  Clay’s family, Crableg’s (The FB told me it was his Birthday yesterday – cool pics from some National Park’s in recent posts – safe travels!), Our world – it’s hurting right no – love each other.

JUL, 8 2020: 3RD F LEADERSHIP MEETING

EC: ShamWow!, Dahmer, Pikachu, Bernie, Aquaman, Abe, YHC

Updates:

  • Golf Tournament for HS Food Pantry is likely postponed.
  • Auction for Megs Smile has been cancelled for 2020.
  • HS Food Pantry appears to be in a good place – no new updates or needs today.
  • No specific updates from Mama’s House
  • #acceleration saw an uptick during early months of Covid.  Has quieted lately.

Ongoing \ New Business:

  • Should look for an update on adopted roads, prepare to support – LED / John Deere
  • Bass Lake Mulch Project – Weekends into August (0.4 miles completed)
    • Bring an FNG
  • Continue relationship with FiA, invite to Bass Lake depending on turnout from F3
  • Open questions – what should we be doing in terms of Covid support?
    • Be mindful of PAX in workouts and meet-ups where possible
    • Consider opportunities for outreach
    • Dahmer to send out another open invite on Slack and FB
  • Welcome Bernie as our latest 3rd F site Q
  • Discussed the topic of diversity in all forms for South Wake.
    • Are we doing enough?
    • Are we making ourselves approachable and truly “Open to all Men”?
    • How might we introduce the group to different men to truly represent Holly Springs and ensure we are well rounded?
    • Bernie to setup some initial meetings with a contact that specializes in similar efforts to improve on this front.
  • Shredder to take a look at insights gathered from the 3rd F survey at the beginning of the year
    • We will deermine the most prominent topic and turn it into a conversation/Ted talk/presentation/SOMETHING
    • 3rd F Site Qs will take on the first and generate a list to assist in IDing the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, etc group to present with possible topics.
    • Target is to have monthly, orchestrated topics, that are peer led – idealy by Shield Locks or any group of PAX with a passion for the topic.
    • Should hopefully make it fun, approachable, and be out of the box

Announcements:

T-Claps (Recognition):

  • Breach for RuckedUpToCorona
  • ShamWow! for his leadership in support of Skidmark’s family
  • LED – Adopt a Highway in FV
  • PAX that have already jumped in to help mulch Bass Lake.  Keep pushing #HIM!

Prayer:

  • Aquaman took us out – Prayers for all PAX and especially those that have found themselves in some form of distress based on current events.  May we all look to each other for support and that we find strength in a higher power / purpose.