Survive and Advance

The VSF was planted in the northern Area51 gloom, and 16 Thursday morning bracket busters set out for another trek around the multi-headed monster Hydra. DK, who is LIFO for life at Hydra, showed up while the pax was on their 22nd SSH.

The Thang:

Jog to field adjacent to parking lot

COP

SSH x 64 IC

Squat x 32 IC

H-R Merkin x 16 IC

6-count Burpee x 8 IC

High Slow Flutter x 16 IC

LBC x 32 IC

Jog to playground area.

Partner up for 32 old-school sit-ups while other partner planks with hands on partner’s feet. Flapjack.

Jog to concession stand area for the following:

16 Jump Ups & 16 Derkins. Rinse & Repeat.

Jog to football field at back of AO.

8 across the field & back AYG runs (1.5 of which were backwards runs). This was partner work, so while one partner was running – the other did the following….or something close to this:

Flutters, H-R merkins, Burpees, Wide-arm merkins, Knee-ups, Freddie Mercury, CDDs, 6-inch hold ’em on your six.

Did lots of plankorama in between runs including but not limited to Christian Laettner, Chilcutt & Dancing Chilcutt x 16 IC, Southern Gentleman, Yankee Agressor

Jog back to concession stand for following:

16 Jump Ups, 8 Incline Merkins

8 Jump Ups, 4 Incline Merkins

4 Jump Ups, 2 Incline Merkins

Jog back to field near launch lot for 2’ish minutes of Plank/6 Inch Wave.

Mosey to launch lot.

Russian Twist x 16 IC

Protractor at 64 deg, 32, 16 & 8….or thereabouts.

COT w/solid prayer by Spackler

Ye Olde Moleskine:

Good crew of pax this morning at Hydra. Good to meet some of the pax I’d not met before.

T-claps as over a 1/3 of the pax ran in some distance to Hydra with Bushwood logging 4.4 mi. roundtrip. The soon-to-be-neutered Semi-Gloss as well as Iron Horse, Puddin’ Pop, Lost Weekend and YHC also ran in from various distances. It’s not so bad SG….#worldwillbesafer #frozenpeas

Also, one more shot across SG’s bow – what’s with donning the Garlock lid even in the mid-50’s temps #sweatlikeyoustolesomething #securityblanket

Puddin’ Pop was Larry Birdin’ on the backward runs – strong brother.

Tackling Dummy was muttering something about how the work on the football field was not how they did things at Auburn. #notaprofessional #disclaimer

There were some strong efforts being put in by Nuke, Olaf, Huggy Bear and others I’m sure but it was almost as dark back there as Death Valley, but not quite.

Not a terribly creative beatdown…the 64, 32, 16, & 8 counts were for March Madness, of course. After the 64 SSHs, the pax was immediately on to my uncreative approach this morning. #boringQ

Who’s Wake Forest playing? #mercy #bringbackTimmyD

Chime in with other observations from this morning’s downpainment….or just random thoughts and/or jabs at your fellow pax members.

Always enjoy the privilege of Q’ing a great group of men. Thanks for the opportunity Bugeater. Heal Up Son.

Announcements:

F3 Golf – Thursday, April 30th – Sign up: http://f3nation.com/2015/02/04/the-2nd-annual-f3-golf-classic/

The One Step race for the homeless Adventure Challenge 5k will be held on the evening (yes evening) of Saturday, May 16 and benefits several local ministries, targeting the homeless of Charlotte.

http://onestepforthehomeless.com/

The location of the race will be our very own AO of Anvil/The Rock (Calvary Church). 5K Adventure Challenge Race and 1 mile Family Fun Run. Click on link for more details.

And if you’re reading this prior to Noon (which is 50 minutes from now) – you can sign up for F3 Bracket Challenges of various sorts to benefit F3 LEAP via F3F….go to the F3Nation website…quickly.