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Which Harris Teeter is it?

YHC was stilled filled with energy after the big Super Bowl win – that and missing Paradise City from staying up late to watch Brady hoist his 6th Lombardi trophy was the reason for this more of a limited run and intense leg and arm beat down.  We had a 2.0 and an FNG to start out.

Warm Up: The usual jog around the parking lot and through the Cobra Sunrise Strava segment.  Circled up at the flag for:

The Windmill ICx15

Hillbillies ICx15

Imperial Walkers ICx15

Good Mornings ICx15

The Workout:

In the back lot near the flag, we lined up on one end and did the following exercises.  First exercise to the next piece of curb sticking out followed by the second exercise and then the first exercise again to the next piece of curb sticking out.

10 reps each of 2nd exercise and mosey back to the beginning for 5 OYO burpees.

Bear crawls and squats

Lunge walks and merkins

Bear crawls and LBCs

Crab walks and WWIIs

The PAX reminded YHC that the Patriots had just won the Superbowl.

One of the PAX showed up a tad late because apparently there are 2 Harris Teeters in Holly Springs and the link to Purple Cobra’s location doesn’t work.  Need to get Gump to fix that…

 

Mosey around the back of the building in a clockwise manner stopping by the loading dock.

BTTW w/a 15 count down the line

15 count rest

People’s chair w/a 15 count down the line

15 count rest

BTTW w/a 10 count down the line

People’s chair w/a 10 count down the line

 

Mosey to Dry Cleaners Lot

Dan Taylor towards the flag

1 squat : 4 lunges

2 squat : 8 lunges

3 squat : 12 lunges

4 squat : 16 lunges

5 squat : 20 lunges

continuing to add on until we reached the flag

Mary:

YHC pulled out a Bose speaker and played Tubthumping for the PAX.  Every time we heard “I get knocked down…” PAX did a Burpish Gettup.  SSH were done otherwise.
Announcements:

Welcome FNG – Shooter (thanks to Rut for bringing him out)
Prayer:

Shredder, Rut’s friend Ken

Maybe It’s Maybelline

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)

Fly like an airplane

PAX of 18 braved another frozen morning for the 2nd edition of a VQ from YHC. YHC cracked open the Exicon once more for a little variety, but not too much.

The clock struck 5:15 and 3 PAX headed out for a 2 mile EC loop: Cowboy, Double Doink, and YHC.

Warm Up:

YHC gave brief instructions to PAX to keep arms out on the mosey while doing Sir Fazio arm circle repeats (5 fw/5 bw/5 hold). PAX reluctantly did their best airplane impression and 3-2-1 blast off for the warm up lap around the soccer field. A few stops along the way for:
20 SSH
15 Imperial Walkers
10 Hillbillies

Circled up on tennis court for:
10 Windmills IC
15 Morocan Night Clubs
20 Randys IC

The Workout:

With shoulders warm, PAX lined up on the sideline of the court for some Bottom Feeders (Tiny 11’s). It looked like this:
Bear crawl to other baseline
10 prisoner squats
Crawl bear back to start
1 WWII
This continued in normal 11’s fashion until 1 prisoner squat and 10 WWIIs were done.

Next, PAX split into 2 groups for some BTTW Bear crawl tunnels. Each group lined up and held BTTW against the fence. The last PAX in the line bear crawled through the tunnel to the front and held BTTW. Each group worked its way to opposite ends of the court and back, well 1 group did. The other group’s bridge collapsed, with no causulties, and the mission was aborted.

PAX moseyed over by the rock pile for some Jack Webbs. PAX went from 1 merkin:3 air presses up to 10:30.

Rocks were obtained and carried to the parking lot.
John Cusack rock around the lot with stops at the 4 corners for Wonder Bras. Starting with 5 at the first stop and adding 5 at each stop, ending with 20 at the last stop. Rocks were returned and PAX moseyed to the tennis courts for a date with Mary.

Mary:

Circled up on the tennis courts for Mary.
YHC led some plank-o-rama then PAX called out exercises.
10 Pickle Pounder IC
15 LBCs IC
10 Low slow flutters IC
10 Burpees OYO (thanks Lucky)
20 Foreign-national hammers IC
Have a Nice Day

Announcements:

NC Spring Classic on 4/27/19
New Running AO Thursday evenings – Sheetz Show (3-5 miles all paces welcome)
Blue Hen wins Breathtaker auction and donations for February to go to ALS.

Prayer:

Moby’s Dad, Injuries: Dumbo, Brexit, other PAX

YHC took us out.

Howling Monkeys, Duck Jousting, and a Virgin Q

13 PAX showed up for a Virgin Q by YHC.  It was a freezing 21 degrees (felt like 14) at 5:06am as 5 PAX headed out on the standard loop for EC: Deadbolt, Full House, Breach, Nemo and YHC.

Warm Up:

Lap around the soccer field for warm up. YHC thought he saw headlights as we began, but was reassured by the PAX that no one was tardy.

Circled up on the soccer field for:
SSH x 20 IC
Windmills x 10 IC
Frankenstein leg kicks x 10 IC
Daisy Pickers x 10 IC
Sir Fazio arm circles 10 forward/10 backward IC

The Workout:

YHC got creative this week and came up with a new routine, dubbed Evolution (crawl, walk, run). Evolution went as follows:
Line up on sideline
Bear crawl 1/4 of the field
10 squats
Lunge walk to center line
10 WWIIs
Sprint to other sideline
10 shoulder taps
For the final leg YHC decided to reverse things and PAX did crawl bear, backward lunge walk, and backward sprint with 20 of each exercise.

PAX then circled up in a tight circle for Howling Monkey.
PAX in monkey humper starting position
Moving around the circle, each PAX do 10 monkey humpers
After 2 rounds, our monkeys were howling and we moseyed to the abyss for some quick stair work.

It was only after our rounds of Howling Monkeys that I heard some mubblechatter to Chips. After further questioning it was determined that Chips was indeed tardy, so 5 burpees OYO.

On the mosey, we partnered up and did the following on arrival:

Round 1: Partner 1 did LBCs at top while Partner 2 ran to bottom of stairs for 10 diamond merkins then switch.
Round 2: Partner 1 did Homer to Marge at top while Partner 2 runs to bottom of stairs for 10 diamond merkins then switch.

Some interesting mubblechatter by Deadbolt about being between a bush and they abyss while looking at the moon. The sky was in rare form this morning as we saw Jupiter and Venus on either side of the moon.

25 LBC’s IC then moseyed back to soccer field for Mary.

Mary:

In preparation for this VQ, YHC spent some time reading the Exicon. As a result, Mary consisted of:

Duck jousting: PAX get down in duck walk with hands on chest (like a duck) and try to knock each other down (joust). If PAX fell, 10 merkins and re-join the fight.

When YHC explained this to the PAX, it was received with uncertainty and reluctance. After a few minutes of walking around solo, PAX jumped in and by the end there were ducks falling all around. This was done as a free for all, but could also be done 1-on-1 (bull in the ring style).

With 1 minute left, YHC wanted PAX to get their money’s worth so time was filled with 45 seconds of Pickle Pounders IC followed by Have a Nice Day.

Announcements:

Wear red tomorrow, cell phone challenge, daddy-daughter date nights (posted links to social channels).
Crablegs challenged us to try and find something awesome in your everyday (like the beautiful sky this morning).

Prayer:

Full House’s dad, Pacman’s vertigo, Crablegs – Way to post in the cold with us!

F3 nutcracker

Cracking nuts, flat or medium… Pax of 13 showed up on a mild morning at the nut

Flanigan (Q), breach, Moby, peak week, brony, norm, wiggly, dawg pound, skidmark, blue hen, the natural, slide rule and Crosby

Warm Up: jogged around parking lot to side lot, good mornings IC x10, morracan night clubs IC x 20, plank jacks IC x 10, mountain climbers IC x 10, merkins x 20

The Workout: went to rock pile, paired up and grabbed flat rock and medium rock. Back to lot, one had flat rock on back, did merkins while partner did squats x 20/monkey humpers/scissor lunges/squats switching after 20. Following this,  Using larger rock, did colt 45 curls, (0-90/90-180/0-180) while partner boo boo bear crawl half of the lot, jogged to end and back, switch. Continues same with wonder bras and tricep presses.

John cusacked around school with rocks to play ground. Did back rows with feet on partners shoudler x20, sets of 2. Got rocks to the pile, back to the front of the school.
Mary: circled up for lbc IC x 20, homer to marge IC x 20 alternating legs up and impressing school workers. WW II x 20, standard merkin x 30
Announcements: long ass run 2/9, breach and I reaching out to get new Q starting 3/2
Prayer:crab legs

 

make it a quality week men!

 

out

I’ve never seen lights worn like that

Wow. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, South Wake loves virgins…Q’s that is. 30 Pax posted for a virgin Q this morning by Aquaman.

The amount of Pax that posted at EC was incredible too. I’ll try to get them all: UTI, Pablo, Lipstick, Crosby, Gumby, Dawgpound, Deadbolt, Double Doink, Slide Rule, Cowboy, Nemo, Peeping Tom, Mookie, , Wiggly, Skidmark (again sorry if I forgot anyone)

New light vests should come with instruction on how to put it on. Said pax had the lights somewhere down around his groin area and through his legs. I think there was some concern with it not staying on his shoulders.

Welcome FNG Boogie

Warm Up: Slight mosey to the bottom of the ramp for SSH x 21, IW x 10, Hillbillies x 10, Fozio Arm Circles forward and reverse, Chinooks, seal claps and over head claps at 10 cc
The Workout: 3 groups of 10 for Indian runs. At each corner do 5 merkins, 10 pickle pounders , 15 LBCs, 20 Hillbilly Squats. Try for 3 loops. Also add in 2 double merkin burpees every time the first pax in the line got back to the front.
Mary: Skidmark led Mary for 30 cc Freddy Mercury’s, 15 cc Boxcutters, Protractors, and finish with some plank hold exercise
Announcements: See announcements on Slack and FB. CSAUP long ass run 2/9 start from New Hill on ATT. Valentines Day challenge. Phones and devices away from 6-8.
Prayer: Several prayer requests, Brexit’s MRI, an aunt’s funeral on saturday (sorry can’t remember right now who it was)

The Rise of the Tiger Hawks

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.

Sideways rain and deep puddles

PAX of 6 for EC and 11 for main event came out for a warm and soggy beat down at the greatest place on earth.

EC: Pablo (foundation:current), Warbucks (foundation), Breach, Slide Rule (foundation:current), Nemo (foundation), Full House

Warm Up:

With the rain and puddles, we avoided running around the soccer field, so 2 laps around the parking lot at the playground, SSH IC x 20, Imperial Walkers and Hillbillies IC x 10, Fazio Arm Circles 10 forward and 10 backward
The Workout:

The PAX split in to 2 groups and did an indian run over to the large parking lot.  The PAX remained in their indian run groups and continued up and down the lanes of the parking lot doing 10 merkins on one side and 20 squats on the other side.  Once all lanes were done and every puddle stepped in, we moseyed over to the faculty parking lot where PAX found an accountability partner and started 11’s on the long and steady climb up the road that goes from the lot to the library and West Lake Rd (burpees at the bottom, squat jumps at the top).  With time running short, we stopped 11’s and regrouped and did an indian run back to the flag for Mary.

Mary:

Catalina Wine makers x 12, LBC IC x 10, Good Mornings IC x 10, Pickle Pounders IC x 10, Low Slow Flutter IC x 10,
Announcements:

see facebook and slack, try and commit once per quarter to travel to ENC to help those effected by the hurrican
Prayer:

Raleigh Police officer who was shot in the line of duty who is still recovering, Dumbo’s Knee, Those effected by the Government shutdown, Crablegs,

She Thinks my Shoulders are Sexy

Great Job today guys!  25 pax including 2.0 Sandlot

9 pax for EC- Fonzie,  Slide Rule wearing breathtaker, Pablo, Dumbo, The Natural, Messi, H1N1,Roger Roger, LED

 

Warm Up:jog to concession stand. 20IC SSH, 10-forward 10- reverse fazio arm circles, 10 count good morning, shoulder and arm stretches, 10 merkins, 20 wall planks IC
The Workout:mosey to tennis courts, count off in 2’s

burpee break down

1st round

1- balls to wall shoulder taps while

2- jog to 1st line, 2nd line…3rd and 4th doing following respectively

4 merkins, 8 in/outs, 12 squats, 16 burpees returning to start each time with backwards run

Switch and repeat

2nd round

1-WWII

2- jog to 4th line, 3rd line…2nd and 1st doing the following respectively

4 burpees, 8 squats, 12 in/outs, 16 merkins

Switch and repeat

4 corners modified

bear crawl to 1st line

10 star jumps

bear crawl to 2nd line

10 star jumps, 20 plank jacks

bear crawl to 3rd line

10 star jumps, 20 plank jacks, 30 SSH

bear crawl to 4th line

10 Star jumps, 20 plank jacks, 30 SSH, 40 alternating lunges

Mary: circles up and took turns through the pax calling set of 10 exercise including the following

alphabet bowelsx2, burpees, American hammers, box cutters, Freddy Mercury, SSH, monkey jumpers, pickle pounders, and one leg merkins

Announcements:long ass att run feb 9th, healing transitions clothes and health product collection Friday at Cletus. Work out at 2:30 Friday, Dauber led q source directly after

Prayer: led by Roger Roger The father of a couple in our small group that is solo for next 2 weeks while wife is having medical treatment.  Dumbos knee and quick healing

Nutcracker 1/22

Pax of 7 came out in the Nutcracking cold

Slide Rule, Blue Hen, Norm, Da Business, Dawg Pound and Wiggly with Breach on the Q

Warm up– Run around the front of the school and circle up for 22 counts of SSH, Imperial Walkers/Hillbillies, Prisoner squats, Frankenstein’s and Merkins.

Workout– Mosey over to the rock pile with some fast feet, side shuffle and up and back up and down the parking lot. Grab a rock and circle up in the side parking lot. 22 count of curls for the girls, move 2 rocks left, Wonderbra’s, move 2 left, Triceps extensions, move 2 left goblet squats. Followed by traveling Merkins around the circle until we got back to our original rock. John Cusack back to the rock pile. Mosey through the parking lot with some weaving around the parking spaces and some backward running to the loading dock.

The school was nice enough to leave us some 4 x 4 so we used them Split into two groups, group1 did 22 counts of Australian mountain climbers while group 2 did prisoner squats, then we switched. Round 2 group did peoples chair while group 2 did 22 count American hammers while holding the 4×4 off the ground with their feet. Round 3 group one went back to Australian mountain climbers while group 2 did V-ins with your feet hanging over the edge of the loading dock. Finished up at the dock with some 22 counts Dirkins and dips off the milk crates.  Mosey over to the basketball court.

Bunny hops around the perimeter of the court and circle up for 22 squat jacks. Catch me if you can run, the last man drops and does a Merkin and then run to the front of the line. Ran to the front of the school and took the stairs down to the playground area. Split back into 2 groups. Group 2 balls to the wall while group 2 runs to the top of the hill for 5 deep squats. Switch it up and repeat. On round 3 group 1 performed Merkins while group 2 ran and then switched. Mosey back to the front of the school for 22 counts of Irkins, Dips, and Derkins.

Mary– Circle up for 22 counts of reverse LBC’s Homer to Marge and side crunched, 22 both side.

Announcements: Crablegs shirt order ends Friday. Q-source with Norm this AM Dauber tomorrow morning and Breach at CBC at 8p. Blue Ridge Relay meeting at Black Dog bottle shop at 6p tonight and Tobacco Long run Feb 9th see Blue Hen for details.

Prayers for Crablegs and Buford for a speedy recovery. Closed in prayer.