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Throwback Day One – Baby Come Back

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Day 1 of our Throwback week. I had the honor of leading 25 PAX from Holly Springs and the Quay in bringing back and taking care of Baby.

FNGs: None
Warm Up: SSH, Fazio Arm Circles, Windmills
The Workout: Our goal was to not drop Baby (the football) throughout the workout. If she is dropped, a 3 Burpee discipline

  1. Combo exercises included: step-ups and irkins, wide merkins and plank jacks, rinse, repeat
  2. Quarterback / receiver drills while other PAX were in line doing planks, squats, high knees
  3. Two Rock Shakur: Colt 45s and Tricep Extensions
  4. Split in to two groups. Bear Crawl around circle drive holding Baby from the inside and passing to the next PAX to reach the outside circle
  5. Mosey to playground: Split in to 4 groups for pull up, swing planks, and a game of Hot Potato
  6. Two Rock Shakur repeat

Mary: Around the Horn starting with those who have been in F3 the longest down to two years…and a few Respects
Announcements: Throwback week. Hope to see everyone at the next workout at Kenny’s Grave. Shield Lock starts Jan 1.
T-Claps (Recognition): Those PAX that have stuck with F3 for multiple years!
Prayer: H1N1 sports hernia, Quiver’s wife uncle with cancer

2nd F at Starbucks!

 

To cool for the parking deck

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YHC is battling an injury and wanted a low running workout, so when Coal Ash was looking for a last minute Q I jumped on it. 7 PAX got after it in the rain for some rock action.

EC: Redenbacher, UTI
FNGs:Not this day
Warm Up:
Slaughter starter (20 burpees OYO)
5 penalty burpees for Red’s tardiness.

Mosey to rock pile and grabs rock for later.Circle up for:
20 SSH
1 burpee
10 Windmills
2 burpees
Sir Fazio arm circles
3 burpees
10 merkins
4 burpees
10 mtn climbers
5 burpees

The Workout:

Grab rock and get comfy for the rest of the workout.

Circle of pain looked like:
3 rock exercises (upper, lower, core) at each rock, plank/squat shuffle to next rock, 5 merkins, and repeato until we traveled around the entire circle. I don’t remember the entire order, but we did all of these:

Upper: OH press, curls, tricep ext, wonderbras, side bends, side throws, rows
Lower: squats, lunges, ground pounders, monkey humpers, star jumps
Core: LSF, WW1, Homer to Marge, LBCs

Mary:
Hundreds
Alphabet
American hammers
Pickle pounders

Announcements:
Throwback and qswap weeks

T-Claps (Recognition):
Strong F3 start for Teen Wolf!

Prayer:
Pilgrim, Slide Rule, remember real reason for Christmas, unspoken

YHC took us out.

Standard Loop at the U

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FNGs: N/A

Warm Up: warm up lap around the parking lot, circled up for 10 X SSH and 10 X Good Mornings IC.

The Workout: Standard 5 mile Loop for most and 3 mile Loop for Dauber (This was one of 3 workouts for him today).

Mary: MIA

Announcements: Check Slack and FB.

Claps (Recognition): Dauber for the Triple Dog Dare to PAX to join him posting at U turn, his Q at GP, and running a 5K with his 2.0. Good work!

Prayer: Sgt. Peppers, PAX with new babies, PAX traveling over the holidays, unspoken

Wet Starsky at U-Turn

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FNGs:

None today
Warm Up:

SSH x10

Warm up lap around parking lot

Good morning x10

Warm up lap of kareokees
The Workout:

Standard 5 mile loop with a 2 mile out and back option
Mary:

Missing today
Announcements:

Christmas party. U-Turn moves to Panera in 2020.
T-Claps (Recognition):

Everyone who posted on this rainy morning.
U.T.I. with the Starsky – per the lexicon that’s fartsacking the workout but showing up for coffeeteria. Must say I hadn’t heard this term before – thanks Slide Rule.

Prayer:

Wallaby. Crab legs.

Did you see that mannequin?!?!?!

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EC: Nemo, Redenbacher, Yogurt, Warbucks, UTI, Lipstick, Skidmark showed up early but opted to stay in his truck

FNGs: Not this day

Warm Up:
SSH, Windmill, lunges, jump squats

The Workout:
Crossway! There was a 3 mile and 5 mile route. The 6 was picked up! There was also a really creepy mannequin in an open garage with a spotlight shining on it. Halloween’s over folks! Lots of good effort out there this morning by all.

Mary: Maybe next time.

Announcements:
Frosty CSAUP 12/7, Christmas party 12/14, Sign up to Q!,

T-Claps (Recognition):
The 3 mile crew! These guys have been killing it lately and are slowly turning into the 5 mile crew.

Prayer:
YHC’s family with baby being born Friday, Slide Rule on his test today, Cowboy’s employee who passed away unexpectedly

YHC took us out. It was a pleasure to lead this morning.

Arms Up!

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10 Pax today at Purple Cobra. Thanks for the strong effort Men.

FNGs: None

EC: Warbucks, Emeril, Dawgound, Axe, 187

Warm Up: Lap, 10 burpees OYO, merkins X 10, SSH x 30, windmill x 10, good mornings x 10

The Workout:

Hallelujah Indian Run around shopping center x 2.

Gathered at loading docks for balls to the wall and peoples chair (10 count each Pax) x 2.

Grabbed rock(s) and moseyed to hill across the parking lot for 40’s. Start at bottom of hill run to top, repeat. Exercises were curls for the girls and tricep extensions.

Moseyed back to loading dock and dropped off rocks. 1 burpees OYO.

Hallelujah Indian Run around shopping center x 2.

Mary: Merkins x 10, LBCs x 50 (in cadence), Merkins x 10, low slow flutters x 10 (in cadence)

Announcements:  M4L is taking up shoe donations for Healing Transitions. Veterans Day is Monday. See a Vet, thank a Vet.

T-Claps (Recognition):

Prayer: YHC took us out.

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It’s been a long time since YHC and Pikachu co-Q’ed a workout together so we figured we give it a shot. Some mumble chatter about how many miles we were going to get in.

EC: Emeril, Dawgpound, Warbucks, Full House, Pablo, UTI, Skidmark, 187 (a little late)

Fartsacks: Mookie with the HC last night. Much like the Patriots last night he didn’t show up.

FNGs: None
Warm Up: 1 lap around with SSHsx10, Good Mornings x 10, IW x 10, Hillbillies x 10.
The Workout: Indian Run Merkin Mile with 12 merkins every quarter mile.

Switch off to Pikachu:

We did some running backwards up the ramp with a variety of exercises at the top including squats, Step-ups, box jumps, Russian Dips. 1 time we did a bear crawl up the ramp. Made our way around the park and did a set of Erkins, Derkins, Dips.

Mary: Plank hold. Side crunches. Have a nice day.
Announcements: CSAUP Frosty Dec 7, Christmas Party Dec 14, Oakwood 24 hour Dec 22.
T-Claps (Recognition): Midget posting after running long on Saturday and attempting 50 miler.
Prayer: Full House’s aunt.

 

We got 3 miles and Pikachu took us out.

Tiger – Ween

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As the Q rode in to TigerBlood with a Tiger in the passenger seat a small group was gathered.  The crowd increased including Spiderman.  A brief discussion was had trying to figure out the mystery Spiderman that wouldn’t talk.  I believe this webmaster likes bananas.

As the clock struck 5:30am the group was off for a quick mosey over to the front of the elementary school around the picnic tables for a warm-up.

FNGs:N/A

Warm Up:

  • Good Mornings X 20 IC
  • SSH X 31 IC
  • Merkin clock – around picnic tables.  Started at noon in the derkin position, moved over to 3 o’clock, to 6 o’clock, to 9 o’clock.
  • Jump Ups X 20 IC

The Workout:

The PAX made their way over to the bloody wall for some H – A – L – L – O – W – E – E – N.  Here is how things went down…

H – Happy Jacks X 20 IC – A SSH was executed and after every 5, 2 jump squats were done, until the group made it to 20.

A – Apollo Creed Burpee X 10 – That’s right, a one armed burpee.

L-LL Cool J X 20 in somewhat cadence – Alternating lunges followed by a burbee and a jump squat.  The burpee is the “cool” in LL cool J.

L – Ladder Jacks – SSH X10 IC, Seal Jacks X 10 IC, smurf jacks X 10 IC,  and plank jacks X 10 IC

O – One -Legged Burpee X 10 IC

W – wave of merkins – The PAX got into a tight circle starting with Emeril (not to his liking) with a 1 making our way around the circle. After reaching 5 the wave of merkins continued back down to 1.

E– Elevens – Balls to wall, merkins on the curb.  Started with 10 B2W and 1 merkins working our way back to 1 B2W and 10 merkins.

E – Elevens – Curb jumps  and dips.  Started with 10 curb jumps and 1 dips working our way back to 1 curb jump and 10 dips.

N– Narrow squats – X20 IC.  Feet together knocking out a squat.

The combination of getting after Halloween, the costumes, and humidity had the PAX working up a good sweat by this point.  Spiderman had yet to identify the real man behind the mask, but certainly had superhuman powers as he crushed the workout. The Tigerman was close to blood, but managed  to get away with just some mud.

The PAX did an Indian Run behind the school back to the parking lot.

The Q quickly pulled out a speaker for Ghostbusters.  With everyone holding the plank as the music started the group was instructed to knock out a burpee everytime “Ghostbusters” was said and plank jacks every time  “I ain’t afraid of no ghosts”.

Mary:

  • LBC X 20 IC
  • Freddie Mercury X 20 IC
  • 6 inch leg hold X 31 IC
  • Flutter kicks X 20 IC
  • Homer to Marge X 20 IC
  • Boat Canoe X 20 IC

Announcements:

Frosty CSAUP 12/07 and SW xmass party 12/14 (?)

T-Claps (Recognition):

Those who managed to make it through this work-out in a costume.

Prayer:

All those going out to collect candy and all unspoken prayers.

Will It Go Round in Circles?

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Billy Preston knows what I’m talking about…

10 PAX showed for some repeat circles at R4TJ. YHC was honored to Q for the first time at the well known AO. Lots of habitual posters were not in attendance due to the high intense training going on for the HSHM. This workout will definitely help those running that race as we visualized the last qtr mile including THE RAMP. Today’s workout was intended to get the PAX running faster each lap while pushing harder each time up THE RAMP. The drizzle was very light throughout the workout until COT. Then the soaking began. Here’s a brief summary of how things went.

FNGs:

Warm Up:
Slow Mosey to bottom of ramp.
Leg stretches
Frankensteins
Mosey to top of ramp.
Calf stretches
Squatted side pulses

The Workout:
Loops from dumpster area near top left corner of loop across the back stretch, down to main road and then down to stop light. Circle back and left turn at the shoot for the close of the HSHM. At top of ramp (finish line) slow mosey back over to dumpster area. Goal is to cut off about 15 secs each loop for a total of 6 passes. Total distance was 5 miles for most and some PAX a lap or two less.

Somewhere around loop 4 we saw white truck leaving and this guy looked and sounded like Dumbo saying he had to leave. Not sure what happened there as YHC has never had a PAX member leave in the middle of a workout. Hope all is well.

Note to self: Beware of running with Yogurt and chatting. You will go a lot faster than intended.

Mary:
She’s still on vacation for this AO.

Announcements:
See Slack and FB

T-Claps (Recognition):
Redenbacher with solo EC run
Yogurt lead sprints in the rain up THE RAMP. Redenbacher joined him.

Prayer:
Unspoken

Good change of pace today! Lots of HIM pushing themselves to get faster. YHC was completely gasped as the garmin watch was stopped. Appreciate the opportunity to lead at R4TJ.

BS Out!

ABSolutely Intimate Pickles

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YHC arrived to an empty parking lot. Flag planted, Tracer vest buckled, and a quick warm-up before heading out on what looked like a solo EC run. But 187 emerges from the darkness with a few minutes to spare. We return to find POTS and Slaughter in the parking lot chatting about the safe side of the train tracks in Greenville. Bobby Dall rolls in and with a little over a minute to go, Banana Seat makes a surprise appearance. 0530 hits and we were off for a core focused beatdown.

EC: 187 (+commute), Warbucks
FNGs: Too scared
Warm Up:
Warm up lap around parking lot.
Circle up for:
Goofball x20 IC
SSH x20 IC
Imperial Walkers x10 IC
Hillbilly x10 IC
Good mornings x10 IC
Sir Fazio arm circles x10 fw/x10 bw IC
Overhead claps x10 IC
Morrocan night clubs x20
Randy’s x20 (YHC called these Ralphies, but corrected it. Their brothers, close enough..)

Mosey over to urgent care parking lot, taking great care to be safe.

The Workout:
YHC advised PAX to partner up, but it turns out we didn’t need partners.

Thing 1: 4 Corners of Abs
PAX ran to corner 1, do exercise, corner 2, do exercise…, until all corners were covered. 3 rounds were performed with reps 20, 25, and 30. Some interesting mumblechatter broke out about eye contact during pickle pounders.

Corner 1: LSF
Corner 2: Pickle Pounders
Corner 3: (American) Hammer Time
Corner 4: LBCs

Carefully cross the street and head down the trail to nowhere.

Thing 2: Muddy BTTW Tunnel
YHC found some wall and instructed PAX to hold BTTW while person at the end of line bear crawls under PAX to front of line, indian run style. This was done by a few PAX, but the mud made bear crawling too slippery for 187 so we modified to bear crawl in front of PAX. After 1 round, we moved to people’s chair. Several rounds were performed. This is where YHC has a partner exercise planned, but audibled for time sake.

Mosey back toward flag and line up on long stretch of parking lot.

Thing 3: Stack-em up Hundreds
PAX found a spot on their 6 in a parking spot, out of the way of any traffic. 1 set of Hundreds was performed, then run to the other end of the parking lot for 15 merkins. Run back to other end of lot for another set of Hundreds, then back across for 15 merkins + 15 squats. Back across for 50 homer to marge + 50 LBCs (100 total) and run back across for 15 merkins + 15 squats + 15 burpees.

Time was up, so a quick mosey back to the flag for an out of breath COT.

Mary: Not today. We got plenty of core work in during workout.

Announcements:
Q-sheet is empty, let’s fill it up for the rest of the year. Only 9 more weeks!
Purple Cobra will need some Q’s while YHC is out after baby is born.
Frosty Dec 7th, Christmas party Dec 14th.

T-Claps (Recognition): Banana Seat for making the trek out to Purple Cobra, the premium Tuesday AO.

Prayer:
Praise for Slots new baby!
Banana Seat’s 2.0 battling sickness.
YHC’s M for remainder of pregnancy.
YHC brother in-law’s father passed unexpectedly.

YHC took us out.