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Dora, Rocks and Nutcracker

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FNGs:  None

Warm Up:  Drove into the Nut parking lot and saw 7 men ready to go.  Doc and Yogurt pulled in right before go time.  Planted shovel flag.  Shared with PAX multiple awakenings throughout the night, fearing I would sleep through my Q.  Clock struck 530 on a cold (mid 30’s) early morning.  Set out for a nice run around the school.  Flanigan shared he and Nemo had got some early miles in.  I reminisced about previous beat downs here with Moby.  Circled school and headed to parking lot next to fence/rock pile.  The following exercises got us going:  25 SSH, 10 Daisy pickers, 10 Willie Mays Hays, 10 O/H claps, 10 Seal Claps, 10 Imperial walkers.  Partner up.  One partner went and got a medium sized rock.  Other PAX held plank.

The Workout:  Pre-blast touted using rocks during a Dora.  Modified the Dora knowing Pots had a wonderful arm workout planned for TBD tomorrow.  Instructed PAX to complete the following with rocks as a team of two:  200 goblet squats, 200 plank touches (slap rocks from GP) IC, and Toe-tappers (soccer drill) IC.  PAX not using a rock, ran a lap around the outside parking lot.  T-claps for Flanigan helping Pots and me out complete our reps!  We had a few more minutes and conducted the following exercises with rocks:  6 inch hold with rock over chest, 10 chest presses.  PAX without rocks did LBCs.  Return rocks.  Headed to front parking lot with shovel flag.

Mary:  Air was better without the smell of diesel (bus warming up).  Cooled down with 10 plank jacks, 10 Mtn climbers, 10 H2M, 10 H2M L leg crossed and 10 H2M R leg crossed, 10 box cutters, 10 dying cockroaches, 10 Freddie Mercury.  YOGA stretches (e.g. warrior I, II, pigeon, plank, downward dog, etc.)

Announcements:  CSAUP run ATT, CPR training, Carpex swaps

T-Claps (Recognition):  PAX coming out today (half of them were over 50!  RESPECT!). And Flanigan for helping with some extra reps.


Prayer:  PAX going through some child custody issues, Colonoscopy for Dauber’s wife today, Military deployed, Australian fires, Unspoken.  Sprinkler took us out.

 

An honor and blessing to lead men. -Dauber

Nimble Minds

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FNGs: None in sight
Warm Up: SSH, daisy pickers, fazio arm circles, seal claps, the flapping bird thingy.  Mosey around a downtown loop with more traffic than expected, then off to the parking garage.

The Workout:
Started with a leg focus by lining up along a parking space and doing Baryshnikovs (squat followed by a one-leg jump), 10 spaces.  Not particularly acrobatic or graceful, but got the job done.  Duck walked back.

Moseyed to the stairs.  YHC was a little too eager and took the PAX all the way to the top of the steps, then had to retreat back down a level to get to the top of the parking deck.  At that level PAX lined up along a parking space and completed three lunge walks followed by a copperhead squat (prisoner squat with a three count on the down) down the length of the deck, then 25 calf raises OYO.

Time for some upper body focus.

PAX lined up facing the opposite direction and went about half the distance of the lot doing bear crawl merkins (three lengths of bear crawl followed by a merkin with arms staggered).  Around half way PAX switched to the Dirty Harry (crab walk with full extension of the stepping leg; not exactly sure what that has to do with Clint Eastwood) to the end of the lot.

Moseyed to the rock pile for a full set of Jack Webbs (to 10 merkins, 40 presses) with rocks, interrupted by one arm curls (X 10 each arm) and one arm triceps press (X 10 each arm).  Some decent mumblechatter but very limited counting by the time we got to 10.

Mary: Returned the rocks and headed back to the start for core exercises, including low slow flutter, dying cockroach, diamond merkins, homer to marge, plank jacks, crab jacks and others that YHC is forgetting at the moment.

Finished with a short focus on healthy minds, including a minute of silent meditation followed by a cross-lateral exercise that’s focused on communication between the two brain hemispheres.

Announcements: Not sure – YHC was retrieving his cell phone – see Slack and FB

T-Claps (Recognition): All the PAX that showed up this morning to continue getting stronger in the new year

Prayer: None spoken, CHIPs took us out with a hopeful message for the new year.

It was a pleasure to lead.  Aye!

Mary Poppins

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YHC knew the rain would be involved at Paradise City for today’s workout. Time to get creative bc I hate getting soaked during a workout. Pulled in at 0540 to 1 car in the parking lot. I looked up and here comes Pikachu running across the parking lot holding 4 golf umbrellas as YHC asked him to bring. I had 5 myself. One more car rolled in with a couple mins to spare. 4PAX were ready to roll…then we see a white truck approaching follow by another car. We waited with umbrellas up as they parked. No late burpees penalized as YHC was feeling jolly. They looked at us funny when I said grab an umbrella though. This was a Mary Poppins workout. Here’s how the fun took place.

Warm Up:
Ramp mosey up/down while holding umbrellas
Top (reg) – one handed smurf jacks x20 IC
Bottom (slides) – one handed mountain climbers x20 IC
Top (backwards) – one handed imperial walkers into Hill billies x10 IC each
Bottom (carioca)- gorilla squats x10 on my up and down

The Workout:
Head to top of ramp
Box jumps and one armed dips holding umbrellas
X10 each 3 rds
Peeping Tom took a spill but was ok

Indian umbrella run to guard rails
One armed irkens w/U x10 switch arms
Monkey humpers x10 IC
3 rds

Mosey to tunnel – put down umbrellas
Ascending and decending testicles with shoulder taps x10 IC @ 30, 45, 90
LBCs x15 to let our shoulder recover
then 90, 45, 30 degrees legs on wall
Reverse LBCs x15 IC

Partner up
P1 holds Al Gore on wall
P2 bear crawl out of tunnel with umbrella (3 legged bear) to designated spot and back
Switch
Repeat but with duck walk
The plan was to stay dry and do mary in the tunnels but Lipstick busted one and we all came close to merlot. So thanks to him we got our backs wet.

Mary (Poppins)):
w/umbrellas
– 4 corners x10 reverse R&R x10
– H2M x10, 1 legged x10, switch
– Windshield wipers x10 IC

Announcements:
Christmas Day AO’s – Site Q’s call
Paradise City time change to 0530
Free CPR class coming, Dumbo has the lead
Throwback week next week. Only 1 AO open per day

T-Claps (Recognition):
No one merloted from Lipsticks bomb releases.

Prayer:
Wallaby and family
Oakwood run successful and HT support
Sprinkler family
Those spending holidays alone or minus a family member for the 1st time
Lipsticks stomach and those around him

This was a fun yet challenging workout while holding an umbrella most of the time. Hope those that attended enjoyed it.
Always a pleasure to lead.

BS Out!

Cletus gets a UTI (╬ ಠ益ಠ)

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It’s been a spell since Yogurt EH’d me for this Q.  I want to thank him for bringing me this opportunity.  I’m again very humbled by the turnout today.  Whether it was for me specifically or Cletus was just the place you wanted to spend your Friday in the gloom – I thank you.  So close to Christmas with all of the things I know we collectively have going on, it is awesome to share the morning with you guys.  I feel humbled to have been the Q this morning and to witness it.  I hope you got your money’s worth.  The year isnt over yet!!!  SYITG <3 UTI

EC: Nemo, Mookie, 187, Pikachu, Redenbacher, LED, Maybelline

YHC hit the olde snooze button this morning and barely made EC.  In fact, I was late.  I chalked up nearly 2 miles in the time allowed and barely got to see any of the HIM that actually made it out there on time.  Good work PAX!

FNGs: No Sir

Warm Up:

  • Mozy from the flag to the lot formerly known as the Ivan lot
  • SSH ~25 IC
  • Hillbillies 14 IC
  • Imperial Walkers (In Honor of Star Wars) 14 IC
  • Daisy Pickers – 14 IC
  • Fozio Arm Circles – 14 Forward 14 Back, IC

The Workout:

Thing 1

  • Groups of 5ish PAX line up in Indian Run formation.  Move to Bear Crawl position.  Indian Bear Crawl to mid lot and Jailbreak.  5 burpees.  Assume formation again and return to other side in exact same way.
  • Repeato 1x

Thing 2

  • Mozy to Amphitheater.
  • Dips, Erkins, Derkins – 20 each
  • Split PAX in 2, half on the wall for People’s Chair, half complete 20 Box Jumps and switch
  • Half on the wall for Balls2Wall, half complete 20 step-ups (10 each foot) and switch
  • Dips, Erkins, Derkins – 15 each
  • Split PAX in 2, half on the wall for People’s Chair, half complete 20 Box Jumps and switch
  • Half on the wall for Balls2Wall, half complete 20 step-ups (10 each foot) and switch
  • Dips, Erkins, Derkins – 10 each
  • Split PAX in 2, half on the wall for People’s Chair, half complete 20 Box Jumps and switch
  • Half on the wall for Balls2Wall, half complete 20 step-ups (10 each foot) and switch

Thing 3

  • Mozy to hand rail near baseball fields
  • Split PAX in 2, half on the hand rail for pull-ups, half complete Prisoner Squats to 20 and Switch
  • Split PAX in 2, half on the hand rail for pull-ups, half complete Prisoner Squats to 10 and Switch
  • Return to the flag

Mary:

  • Dying Cockroach 14 IC
  • Box Cutters 14 IC
  • Homer to Marge – 14 IC
  • Pickle Pounders – ~10? IC – Time caught us

Announcements:

  • 24hr Run Supporting Healing Transitions this weekend – Sat 3pm to Sun 3pm
  • AGS needs a Q – Mookie is suggesting that instead of AGS, make the 24hr run your target
  • Good things coming from 3rd F
  • Call out from DoubleD to take 3rd F seriously – it has an impact on your life and its ok to miss 1st F to make 3rd F a bigger part of your life.
  • Get up with Pikachu about the Emergency contact registry (esp Site Qs so you know how to access it quickly)
  • Be on the lookout for some emergency response training.  Good session in 2019 with the Holly Springs FD

T-Claps (Recognition):

  • The PAX that kept compressions going for Sgt Pepper.  They saved his life an made sure the EMS team had a patient when they arrived.  Way to be!

Prayer:

  • SlideRule and family – new baby TBN (to be named)
  • Sharapova and family – new baby
  • Sgt Pepper and family – suffered a heart attack during a workout
  • Safe travels to all this weekend if you are heading out – be safe

Great 2nd F at Harvest Moon today guys!

Turkey Leg or Lil Dipper?

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FNGs: Not today

Warm Up: 10 X SSH and 10 X Daisy Pickers, all in cadence. YHC informed the group we would be running the “Turkey Leg” today and named of the streets of the route.  Someone mentioned no Crossway?

The Workout:

By the time we got to the corner by Lowes, I turn to the group and say….yeah this is the Little Dipper route…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mary: Ran out of time

Announcements: Check Slack and Facebook

T-Claps (Recognition): Yogurt and Maybelline for picking up the 6. Teen Wolf for showing up at a running AO for his second F3 post. Good work getting the 5 miles in!

Prayer: Unspoken.

YHC took us out. Always an honor to lead.

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.

F3 365

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2019 was the first year that YHC has tracked workouts consisently. Early in the year the goal was F3 250 (250 workouts throughout the year – half marathons count as 1, marathons count as 2, 4+ hour CSAUPs count as 4, black ops runs with F3 brothers also count, nothing else does though) but fairly early on I gave myself an additional stretch goal of F3 365. I’m fortunate enough to have lots of time to work out based on where I’m at in life, and double downs could be a freuent occurence on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays. The only concern was work travel – a long trip to Europe in the spring put me behind early and I didn’t really catch back up until sometime over the summer. It was in the fall that I became confident that I would hit the goal, but I didn’t actually verbalize it to anyone outside of my M until sometime in the past week.

It made for a heck of a year. The biggest thing I’ll say is that we have a ton of amazing pax down here in South Wake – if you’re one of them then thank you for an awesome year. If you haven’t been out to some of the more niche AOs (looking at you Tea Time, Thunder, and Ground Pounder) then I would highly recommend it – not all of the fun happens at 0530 on a weekday morning!

I don’t know what my goals will be for 2020, but I know that repeating this will not be one of them. I’m sure I’ll come up with something stupid though.

Based on all of that – I elected to Q Cletus knowing that I would be really close to 365 (ended up being 364 because of a fart sack at Paradise City that I got so excellently called out for) but we were still committed to 365 reps for the workout.

FNGs: None today
Warm Up:

SSH x10

Half lap over to old Ivan lot

The Workout:

Rep count = 10

 

Four corners on soccer field

 

At each corner – 5x double merkin burpees

10x Turkish getups

10x Breakdancers

10x Star jumps

When passing pull-up bars – 10x pull ups

 

After lap 1 rep count = 160

 

Between laps we did 10x IC balls to the wall at the amphitheater. We also modified the 2nd lap swapping out star jumps for merkins for the sake of Shamwow’s ankle.

 

After 2nd lap rep count = 320

 

Mosey back to tennis courts, line up on near line. Bear crawl across, crawl bear back, with exercises at each end:

 

Breakdancer x10

Diamond Merkin x10

Scorpion dry dock x10

LBC x10

 

Rep count = 360

Mary:

5 double merkin burpees OYO to get us to 365 reps total
Announcements:

Christmas party
T-Claps (Recognition):

Hardy – no way I would’ve been getting after it at 5 something in the morning at his age.
Prayer:

Wallaby. Holiday season. Oboe’s father in law.

MAKING TRACKS ON THE TRACK AT TB

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This BB was posted on behalf of Tetanus.  He was QIC and this was his VQ!!!  Way to be Tetanus

Getting the Backblast up late!!! Momma always said I was a procrastinator. I didn’t get a birthmark until I was 3.  VQ at TB barely slept last night like a kid on Christmas Eve. A little Winter chill didn’t stop 11 HIMS from getting better today. -Tetanus

FNGs: None

Warm Up:  Frankensteins x 12 IC, Fazio Arm Circles front/back x 12 IC, then we mosey to get the blood flowing…..Behind the school and circle up for a couple more warm up exercises…….SSH x 15 IC, The Hillbilly (in honor of VQ motherland, WV) x 15 IC

The Workout:

Mosey to the track and partner up…….

Round 1 – Bear crawl/zombie walk the track…..PAX 1 runs the track while PAX 2 follows behind in a bear crawl, PAX 1 laps around and tags PAX 2 and PAX 2 begins the run while PAX 1 picks up the bear crawl. Rotate back and forth until 1 lap is complete by the bear crawl/zombie walk combo. RECOVER

Round 2: PAX 1 runs a lap while PAX 2 does mountain climber Merkins AMRAP, then recover for a 10 count, then AMRAP again until PAX 1 finishes his lap, then switch it up.

Round 3: Same as Round 2 with overhead claps

Round 4: Same as Round 2 but holding plank

Time flies when you’re havin fun……PAX mosey back to the flag

Mary: Pretzel crunches x 12 IC, Freddy Mercury x 14 IC, LBC x 20, Homer to Marge x 25,  have a nice day

Announcements:  Christmas party this weekend – auction items – proceeds go to Healing Transitions, 24 hr run for Healing Transitions, 3rd F vision meeting next Wednesday @5:30AM @Dunkin Donuts.

T-Claps (Recognition):  Yogurt and Da Business for picking up the 6

Prayer:

Wallaby, Pikachu/POTS for those PAX MIA (check in on them and see how they are doing), Quiver’s family, Kosher’s family, Oboe’s dad, Florence’s friend and family

Cletus gets a younger Q. The year of Katniss!

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EC:  Katniss, Full House, Maybelline, UTI

PAX:  Katniss, Full House, Maybelline, UTI, Yogurt, Doc, Fanny Pack, Tetanus, Kosher, Dahmer, Abe, Roger Roger, Snap, Florence, Hardy, Oboe, and Poop Eater

FNGs: Nope

So I have to poke fun that Cletus indeed gets a younger Q, unfortunately the previous Q can put most 20 year olds to shame and we will just have to see about the new Q, although I expect him to at least carry on the impeccable cadence and count that you have come to expect!

As a side note, Poop Eater and UTI were in rare form, and brought much comic relief to the workout.  Yes, I do think it’s appropriate to group Poop Eater and UTI antics together.

Warm Up: 10 Fazio arm circles forward and back, 10 overhead claps, 10 seal claps, 20 SSH, 10 Imperial Walkers, 10 Hillbillies, 10 Daisey Pickers
The Workout:

1) A modified 4 corner Stack’em around the soccer field, 10 Squats in cadence, 10 Merkins, 10 LBC’s, and 10 Mountain climbers in Cadence.  Sprint log sections, Mosey short sections.  Subtract exercise on the next lap

2) Mosey to the rock pile, 15 curls for the girls, 15 overhead press, 15 tricep extentions.  Split Indian run around the baseball field, repeat exercises with rock and head back for Mary

Mary: Popcorn from the Pax
Announcements: Frosty (well it’s too late you missed it), Oakwood 24 event for healing transitions, Christmas party next Saturday
T-Claps (Recognition):  Yogurt’s leadership for Cletus for the last year!
Prayer:  Kosher’s cousin’s family, Quiver and family

How do you come up with this stuff?

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YHC rolled in with 2 mins to go while others kept rolling in as well. Went to get my shovel flag set up but the M had the trunk full so no time for shovel. Instead stuck the flag in the fencing by the tennis courts. FIA lady wanted a selfie with someone for a game so let me know if I show up on an adult cheating site. YHC was hoping for 6 for the new exercise we would try out and got 9. Perfect! 8 seconds until go time, no FNG’s. Let’s do this!

Warm Up:
Strong mosey around the ball fields stopping 4 times for some warm up exercises.

Plank jacks x20 IC
Windmills x10 IC
Goofballs x20 IC
Donkey kicks x10 IC (off dugout wall)

The Workout:
Mosey to field near rocks (groups of 3)
Ménage Merkin x10 3 rds
– Chillcut position for two PAX while third man does inverted merkins off back and shoes
*Credit to Doc for naming these and also stated “I think it’s harder on the bottom” (That’s what she said)

Grab a schmedium rock
Lunge each leg then prisoner get up with rock across field. 40 yds

Colt 45’s – biceps then triceps (form)
Freddie Mercury‘s x20 IC to catch out breath

Broad jump brockee back across field
Low slow flutter x20 IC
Colt 45’s – biceps then triceps
*Snap’s comment earned the title for this BB “Where do you come up with this stuff?”

Return rocks and mosey to shelter.
Alternating side step ups on picnic table between benches.
True abyss Merkins x10
Mosey back to tennis courts

Mary:
Dying cockroach x20 IC
Pretzel x20 IC (both sides)
J-lo x20 IC

Announcements:
Slack and FB for details

T-Claps (Recognition):
HIM trying new ideas

Prayer:
Quivers family and his new job
Unspoken

YHC’s first post to TBD. Hope to be back soon. Always an honor to lead.

BS Out