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When all else fails, bring in the pain sticks

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Pax of 12 rounded out the final W for Flanigan and breach at the nutcracker handing over the throne to norm and wiggly. Breach was under the weather… but a true warrior and showed up hauling some pain sticks

YHC (EC) wanted to lead a beat down that wouldn’t be forgotten to blue hen (EC), slide rule, da business, norm, wiggly, short pole, fromunga, Smithers, Cupid, UTI and breach

Warm Up: jogged around parking lot at the school, met in front for SSH x 20 IC, daisy pickers x 10 IC, morracan night clubs x 20 IC and some leg stretching
The Workout: split into groups of three. One ran counter clockwise around lot with pain stick to his partners who bear crawled/ reversed lunges clock wise. Q had a few cards in his pocket that were randomly called out;

wide grip merkin x 16

hand release merkin x 15

monkey humpers x 17 IC

SSHx 100

calf raises x 100

standard merkin x 25

Oblique crunches x 15 IC

smurf jacks x 25 IC (chilcutt plank jacks)

carolina dry docks x 14

Mary: final beat down was the Bruce lee named after the martial artist who did these core exercises daily in sets of three

american hammers x 10 IC

leg raises x 10

lbc x 20 IC

heel Touches x 10 IC

boat canoes x 10 IC

100’s

pax thought we finished after set one, managed to squeeze one more round out

Announcements: dads 2.0 this Saturday 8:45 at womble, q source todaybat Starbucks, slide rule opening up donation wallet to ALS
Prayer:crab legs, Smithers starting a new job, lipsticks mother in law, norm has national guard this weekend

taken out by YHC

 

It’s been a great run at the nut. Happy to fill in when needed

Flanigan out

Prayers for Crabtree

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The best part of a 5:45 start is getting to experience the sunrise and nothing could have been more beautiful than the sunrise this morning after a week of rain. 13 Pax posted a low intensity, continual moving beatdown.

EC: Emeril, Chips, Aquaman, Shamwow, 187, Skidmark

Warm Up: No warm-up we just got right to it.
The Workout: Started with some slaloms around the bushes on the side of the hill. Pax were in continuous indian run with stops to the following.

  1. SSH x 25
  2. Erkins x 10, Derkins x 10
  3. Derkins on the fence – 10 low, 10 high, 10 low
  4. Lateral steps – 10 r, 10 L
  5. Machine gun up steps
  6. Plank hold right leg up left arm up, switch, then rinse and repeat
  7. Sumo Squats x 20
  8. Shoulder tap Balls to the wall 15 cc
  9. Bear crawl Indian run
  10. Dips x10, Derkins x 10, Erkins x 10
  11. Another round of Latera movement 10 r, 10 l, 5 r, 5 l
  12. Single leg squats
  13. Good mornings
  14. SSH

Mary: Imperial Walkers, Hillbillies, Homer to Marge, H2M right leg up, H2M left leg up, Freddy Mercury’s
Announcements: Yogurt will be doing sprints if anyone wants to join him. No takers. 2.0 workout Saturday 9 AM
Prayer: No new prayers just continue to pray for all those that have been spoken.

Flying Cupids & Dancing Rocks

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11 PAX braved the damp and cool gloom for a virgin Q – and hopefully a proper beatdown.
Cupid flew in at the last moment after the other HIM’s slowly emerged from the warmth of their respective vehicles as though they could foresee the “fun” that awaited them.
No FNG’s
Warm Up:
Mosey around the track to the front parking lot
SSH x 20 IC
Imperial walkers x 15 IC
Hillbillies x 15 IC
Hairy Rockettes (alternating toe touches) x 15 IC – LipSync enjoyed these a little too much. 5 6 7 8…)
Squat kicks x 15

 

The Workout:

Head to the rock pile to get a moderately sized rock suitable for lifting multiple reps.
John Cusack to the corner of the parking lot.
Rock Exercise 1: Rock-a-bye-baby x 15 IC (up, out, left twist, right twist = 1)
Lunge walk to the island (of misfit toys) – Merkins x 10 OYO – run back to your rock – squat hold or hold plank for the 6
Rock Exercise 2: Curls for the Girls x 20 IC
Lunge to island – 10 Merkins – run back
Rock exercise 3: Tricep Extensions x 20(ish) IC
Lunge to island – 10 Merkins – run back
Rock exercise 4: Ruh Roh’s x 20(ish) IC
Lunge to island – 10 Merkins – run back
Rinse and Repeat with a twist: Replace lunge walk with Bear Crawl and replace Merkins with WW2’s x 10 OYO
Return your rock from whence it came a la John Cusack just in time for 6 minutes of…
Mary:
LBC’s x 20 IC
Freddie Mercuries x 20 IC
Gump requested American Hammers x 10 IC
LipSync requested Homer to Marge x 10 IC
Martini requested Low Slow Flutters x 10 IC
5 Burpees in honor of R22 (who is the one who invited me to F3 back in August 2018)
Announcements:
Wrightsville half in two weeks
See Slack/ FB for the rest…

Prayer:

Several relatives and friends who have been diagnosed with cancer (Cupid’s friend’s dad, Modify’s dad – going through Chemo)

Two young guys who have committed suicide recently – lift up their families and friends — Don’t struggle alone or let anyone struggle alone. Reach out to guys you haven’t seen in a while and let them know they are missed.

Crablegs (ALS)

Shredder (knee)

Forgive me if I missed any…
COT:
Wise men build their house on the rock by listening to the words of Jesus and putting them into practice. When (not if) the wind and waves come, the house will stand strong.
Foolish men build their house on the sand by either not listening to the words of Jesus and/or not living them out. When the wind and waves come, that house will come down with a huge crash. (Matthew 7:24-27)
At least this day was built on the rock – quite literally – which made all of us stronger and less likely to get knocked over…once the soreness subsides.
2nd F at Stick Boy for celebratory scones.
It was my great honor to lead you HIM’s in the glorious (and damp) gloom this am.
Until next time…

R4TJ – Relay Racing for beach bodies and PRs

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EC: Skidmark and 187 went out for some bonus miles

Warm Up: Windmills, Daisy Pickers, High Knees, Butt Kickers

The Workout:  PAX of 10 formed 2 teams of 5.  The teams were formed to match paces of the teams as equally as possible.  A member from each team was staged at the infamous 4 corners of Ting Park with an additional station positioned on the main road between the basketball courts and the base of the ramp.  The corner at the base of the ramp served as the starting line for each relay race.  The matched runners sprinted from their station to the next tagging their teammate to start the next leg.  As each of the 5 member teams completed their circuits a score was tallied at the base of the ramp.  With each completion the PAX at each station would advance to the next spot.  Eventually everyone got a shot at each leg of the race, with everyone completing 5 races going clockwise around the circuit and 1 going counter clockwise where our runners continued on through the circuit picking up their teammates along the way.

At the competition of the final counter clockwise circuit.  The two teams formed 1 team for an Indian Run back to the basketball courts continuing on the counter clockwise route.

I promised FUN…  Hope it was 🙂

Mary: Skidmark led us in some stretching.

Announcements:

187 turned the big 40 today!

Deadbolts call for support at the veterans event on Saturday at Hope.

Skidmark gave an epic speech!  Most of us forgot it as he was saying it but the standout moments involved our beach bodies and something about PRs.  You had to be there…  In the moment we all had a vision of this exact scene (again Happy Birthday 187 – you are WELCOME! – Apologies and/or you’re welcome to Cowboy, Short Pole, Yogurt, Banana Seat for not capturing you in this vision…)

Prayer:

Prayers that we all stay healthy and injury free.

YHC thanks everyone for their prayers for Benji

Prayers that you can all erase the image from this Back Blast from your brains… sweet dreams 🙂

Edit: Updated thoughts on Skidmark’s speech

BTW – I was joking around about Skidmarks speech and I realized that I did minimize his message which was about a sense of pride we should all have in ourselves for getting up and getting out there everyday. Even in this very dreary week you can see Strava lighting up with outdoor activity as we know many would opt to stay in bed or maybe hit the dreadmill (cough cough SlideRule). Point is we are all individually remarkable and as a group we are more than remarkable. Hence the beach body and PRs reference which fit into his speech better than my own re-hash. As we often like to say, “Good Work Men!”. Keep it up, keep getting better. Hope I captured the essence of the speech well enough. Please feel free to elaborate Skid but the image stays 🙂

 

Nutcracker Backblast 2/19/19

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Pax of 9 for Nutcracker

Flannigan, Wiggly, Norm, Sandlot, Particle Board, Short Pole, Lipsync, Da Business

Breach on the Q

Warm up– Jog around the school and head toward Green oaks parkway. Stop at corner for 22 counts of SSH and Imperial Walkers and merkins. Continue on down Green Oaks to Rovisys. Stopped 2 more times for 22 counts of Good mornings, squats, hillbillies and daisy pickers.

Main Event: Mosey over to the railing for a cadence counts of traveling and traveling Merkins/Russian typewriter up the railing. Fast feet across the curb and job over to the top of the ramp. Partner up, partner 1 jogs to bottom on the ramp to the light pole and then sprints back up to the top, while partner 2 does LBCs for round 1, reverse LBC’s for round 2 and big boy sit up for round 3. After 3 rounds 22 counts of prisoner squats and goofballs. Job back toward railing with some more fast feet across the curb.

Bear crawl under the pax down the railing when the last man gets to the front entire pax does a merkin for 2 rounds. Regular bear crawl to finish at the bottom of the ramp. On the move back toward the school. Stop at both guard rails for some 22 count dips and Irkins. Stop one last time at the corner for some 22 count WWII’s. Mosey back to school and circle up for Mary

Mary: Around the world 10 count exercises, Wide grip merkins, Diamond merkins,  LBC’s Freddie Mercuries, Homer to marge, Dying cockroaches and Pickle Pounders.

Prayers for a Moby’s dad, UTI’s dog and Lipsyncs dad

Da Business took us out in Prayer

Welcome Rainmaker

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EC: Skidmark and Pablo

Warm Up:

Circled up on the basketball court
10 Fazio Arm Circles Forward
10 Fazio Arm Circles Backward
10 Hillbillies
10 Imperial Walkers
Squatter Pyramid
10 Reverse Merkins

The Workout:

Workout started out with 5 burpees for Kid Cracker arrived late.  A valid reason, but we still need to do the burpees.

Form Two Indian lines.  I made Lucky go in the faster line. 🙂

Three Rounds of the following

Basketball court: 5 Burpees
Corner: 5 Burpees, 10 Merkins
Box Office: 5 Burpees, 10 Merkins, 15 Squats
Bottom of Ramp: 5 Burpees, 10 Merkins, 15 Squats, 20 LBCs

Then as a pax we ran to the guard rail.  Did 10 in cadence Dipplers
Then as a pax we ran to the wall between the corner and the box office.  Did 40 count of Balls to the Wall
Ran to the Box office to do another 40 count of Balls to the Wall.
Ran back to the Basketball court for Mary.

Mary:

Burpee Countdown 5 – 4 – 3 – 2 – 1

Announcements:

See Slack and Facebook

Prayer:
Kid Cracker’s wife and family traveling to Florida
Bullseye
Crablegs

Maybe It’s Maybelline

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24 present at COT and 27 total for the run this morning. Various places and distances. Beautiful morning. Wondered who was up ahead and the comment was “maybe it’s Maybelline.”

Warm Up: Gump did his best virgin Q impersonation.
The Workout: miles miles miles
Mary:
Announcements:
Prayer: Moby’s dad, Dauber’s colleague that passed away, Full House’s father (if I remember correctly)

The Rise of the Tiger Hawks

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The first AO to see the rise of the Tiger Hawks!  The new shirts look awesome, good to see the first ones hitting the streets at U-Turn this morning.  Thanks for modeling Warbucks

EC: Deadbolt, Warbucks, LED, PSI, Roger Roger, THE DawgPound, Cowboy, SlideRule, Full House

Cowboy and DawgPound commuted to U-Turn on foot today from hills of 12 Oaks.  The rest of us rallied at Starbucks for a 3-mile loop through the business park.

Warm Up:  Frankenstein Kicks, Daisy Pickers, High Knees, Butt Kickers, Side Straddle Hops

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Welcome FNG ShamWow! – A resident of Holly Springs that enjoys running (who likes running!?) and has a pretty killer pace.  He is a resident of Holly Springs and is in sales.  Our F3 hivemind this morning went down the infomercial path and gave him a name that is “As Seen on TV

The Workout:  Traditional U-Turn 5mi route was mapped and offered and for the masses.  Plenty of turning for the 6 going on along the way.  A few went “off the map” to hit their personal targets.  Great work to all #HIM for braving the below freezing morning.

Mary:  Nope! No Girls allowed.

Announcements:  Nope! and very sorry to have passed over this.  I guess I was getting cold?  Excited to run?  Still really bad at being a Q?  As always keep an eye on your social media platform of choice.  Please toss them out on the BackBlast post.

Prayer:  Again – BAD UTI, BAD UTI – Skipped over Prayer.  It wasnt intentional…  Please know I realized my error when we got back to Starbucks and I did pray for those unspoken prayers since I’m absent minded.  For those things that we should raise up out in the open, please post them on FB/Slack under the BB post so we can pray for them directly.

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.

Compression packages

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U-Turn continues to grow every week. If this is any indication Wrightsville is going to be a BLAST. A 7+ mile route was developed for the Pax but Pax modified as needed.

Fartsacks: UTI – Alarm Misfire??

Warm Up: SSH x 20, IW x 15, Hillbillies x15, Mountain Climbers x 15, SSH x 10
The Workout: Go for a run
Mary: Coffee
Announcements: Q-Swap – we are going to Carpex next week, BRR meeting 1/22 at Blackdog, 2 Shirt orders (Wrightsville shirt comes with a $5/shirt donation to ALS)
Prayer: Raleigh Police Officer – Special thanks to our First Responders and Military, Daubers mom, Buford