Monthly Archive November 2020

Swarm BB

So…. I wasn’t necessarily forced to Q but when an OG asks and you haven’t posted in a few weeks just go with it. Here we go.

The Warmup:

  • Mosey around the front of school back around to the shed, the long way. Circle up
  • 10 SSH
  • 10 IW
  • 10 LSS
  • 10 Merkins (IC)
  • 10 MC

The Thang:

I was so rusty and didn’t have my Weinke that we almost skipped to the second item on the list…but we didnt.

  • Mosey to the bollards near COT. This was a version of 7’s.
  • 1 burpee at the start and 15 Monkey Humpers at the end…7 times. Finish at the bollards near COT.

Mosey to the intersection near the traffic light.

  • Indian Run back around to the big parking lot…Don’t leave the 6 which was me all morning… I only dry heaved a few times.

At parking lot

  • 10 Bear Crawl/10 Squats across the parking lot

Mosey to the normal 4 corners starting location.

  • 5 merkins
  • 10 dry docks
  • 15 squats
  • 20 BBS
  • Hit each exercise on the way out and none on the way back.

Moesy to the bottom of the long hill beside the drivers ed cars.

  • Backward run-up the hill to the main road that goes in front of the school.
  • Hit the first alcove for 30 DK oyo.
  • Mosey back to COT.

The Moleskine:

I hit 5 miles and thought I wasn’t going to make it a few times… But this is F3 and fellow Pax are always there to push and encourage you to dig a little deeper and keep going. No need to mention anyone, they are all fast.  Thanks for letting me lead, I’ll try to get out more!

See Chastains BB for announcements.

Too Soon for Tights?

Maybe according to Mermaid, but not to the majority of the Centurion PAX posting in the mid-30s gloom. Nine men, most with warm legs, headed out for some pre-Thanksgiving work to get the weekend started. Continuing Sable’s theme from last week, YHC planned a merkin-heavy workout. We’ll see if we can call it a streak next week with Mermaid’s Black Friday impromptu convergence.

The Thang:

Mosey to Charlotte Catholic and circle up for COP at the bottom of the deck:

SSH x 15 IC

Imperial Walker x 15 IC

Low Slow Squats x 15 IC

Mountain Climbers x 15 IC

Peter Parker x 10 IC

Gather at the bottom of the first ramp and stare up (or down?) the Merkin Ladder. Up the ramps for the ladder, stopping at each turn for merkins, start at 20 and step down by 1. Three+ times up the ramp and 210 merkins for those scoring at home.

Re-group at the bottom of the ramp for some Mary: LBCs x 25 IC, Flutter x 25 IC, Rosalita x 20 IC

Mosey over to the aquatics center parking lot, admiring some freshly laid asphalt in the former Centurion AO lot. Three rounds up the hill: Round 1 = bear crawl, Round 2 = lunge walk, Round 3 = burpee broad jump.

Mosey back over to the former launch spot and lay down on the still warm asphalt. Thought about ending it right there, but felt a tinge of sympathy for those cold-legged tights mockers. Instead, more Mary: Boone LBC x 12 each side IC, Freddie Mercury x 20 IC, Heels to Heaven x 20 IC.

Mosey over to the brick benches: step-ups each leg, dips, derkins. Round 1 = 12 reps each, Round 2 = 10 reps each, Round 3 = 8 reps each.

Back to launch and finish out with some Mary – old school sit-ups OYO, dolly IC, flutter IC.

Done.

Moleskin:

Thanks to Mermaid and Margo for the opportunity. Mermaid gave me an encouraging honk while driving by my usual run in on Carmel. Pretty sure the 3 yoga-pant clad ladies tailing me not too far behind were blushing behind their headlamps thinking the honk was intended for them. #notsofastmyfriend Good to see Limey out in sub-40 weather, though I bet he (along with Mermaid) wishes he had gone with the tights. Missed Lorax, something about a plantars injury. No bueno, heal up soon brother. Missed Margo as well, but sounds like he had a hall pass preparing for the annual Centurion festival of lights workout sure to be scheduled in about 4 weeks. Wonder if that qualifies for its own passport stamp? Thanks to Mermaid for taking us out.

Announcements:

Q School tomorrow at Arboretum.

Black Friday workout at Centurion, 7am, Amelie’s lot, Mermaid on Q. Rumor has it as an hour workout, so have an extra slice of pie.

Mark of the Beast

15 PAX braved the frigid, arctic temperatures at Impromptu, though some braved them more bravely than others. The morning found PAX with various amounts of clothing ranging from summer wear to “everything in my closet”. The goal of the morning was to keep us moving and make sure complaints focused on rep counts, bad form, and bad gas during Mary rather than the cold. Myself, being the dumbass I am, once again forgot my gloves. Dasher, I hope you aren’t reading this. I have no excuse. As penance I refused the kind offers of loaner gloves from several PAX.

The Warmup

With a 15 minute head start I figured Deadwood would’ve led the Swarm PAX a little further away from COT than he did, but I guess when he only posts once a month I shouldn’t have expected him to make it far. So right off the bat we audible towards the front of the school at a semi-quick mosey, circling up whenever I felt like it to do a few reps of Side Straddle Hops, Imperial Walkers, Moroccan Night Clubs, Mountain Climbers, and then some stretchy stretches. Two side notes: 1.) Maybe it’s just a Waxhaw thing but I find it weird if the first warmup exercises IS NOT Side Straddle Hops. So recently, in my Passport travels and posting with A51 and SOB, they DON’T start with those and everything just feels off. 2.) Zinfandel is reaching Damascus levels with the “oh yeah” excitement whenever the Q calls Moroccan Night Clubs. I put those in there for you buddy.

The Thang

So we’re back at COT and ready to head down the yellow brick road to Rudy’s Poopy Palace and freaking Deadwood is STILL THERE. Whatever. Screw those guys. There are more of us and we’ll just run them over. So we head down to the little driveway off to the left, being sure to puff out our chests and look intimidating to the Swarm PAX that are coming the opposite way. It must’ve worked because they disappeared after that.

To outsiders, F3 might look like some weird cult: a bunch of dudes forming circles in dark places and using strange lingo while trying to recruit more members. Well, if anyone were paying attention this morning, it would have added more fuel to that fire as the first exercise called was The Beast! That is, 6 exercises, performed 6 times, each at 6 different light poles. And for good measure, if you finish early be sure to pick up the 6. Those exercises were Merkins, Big Boys, Squats, Dry Docks, Heels to Heavens, and Bobby Hurleys. I know counting has always been an issue with this group, so I tried to make it easy. Alas, there were still questions about how many reps we were supposed to do. In jest? Maybe. But with this group, you never know.

Once done, we moseyed, partnered, and grabbed some rocks to start phase 2. No counting this time. Easy peasy. Just do AMRAP on curls, presses, and weighted squats while your partner runs for a while. Repeato until everyone is sick of it. Or until each partner has done all the exercises.

Put your rock back (hurray!) and get in teams of 3 (crap!) while we mosey to the covered awning. Shoot, only 5 minutes left? Audible! (I thought Deadwood was Qing Swarm, not Impromptu.) Grab some wall and do Donkey Kicks. 10 on my up, hold it for 10 seconds. 9 on my up, hold it for 9 seconds. 8, 7, 6…OK, we gotta get. 2 minutes. Time to hit the jets back to COT. YHC prefers picking up the 6 over any form of Mary. Not everyone does, so YHC generally provides an alternative and in this case it’s Burpees. So if you don’t want to pick up the 6 then do Burpees til everyone is in.

Moleskin

The Beast took a bit longer than expected so I had to cut out a good chunk of the weinke. No worries, we’ll just use it next time.

A few of the Respects made mention of their difficulties “getting it up” after the Big Boys. They make pills for that, I hear.

Announcements

  • Ackbar talked about a family in need. A grandmother is raising several kids from ages 2 to 9 and their just treading water. There’s an Amazon wishlist for both necessities as well as gifts for the holidays. Link will be in GroupMe so look for that
  • Q School tomorrow at Calvary Church headed up by Orange Whip. Sign up here: https://teamup.com/ks5u7ww6neyn6uw1g7/events/822708088
  • Commitment SIX Year anniversary tomorrow
  • Catfish on Q at Homecoming

Thanks Ackbar for taking us out

 

Back to the Shadows

11 guys fought the cold to come lift blocks at a 0.0 workout.  I arrive early to get the playlist set.  New faces so I go introduce myself to.  (Kotters Bookworm after a 2 year hiatus).  DiCCs given.  Lets get started.

WARM UP

10 Atomic Merkins

10 Block Jumps

 

THE THANG

Jack Webb of Block Jumps as the 1 and chest press as the 4.  Thanks to Posse, Mayhem, and Dough boy for helping with counting.

Line blocks up on the curb and do an assortment of foot release squats, toe taps, and one legged lunges while one pax at a time takes turns wheel barrowing 6 parking spots.  I don’t have a name for this so I will go with Wheel Barrow – but you take two small plates (2.5 lbs) and put your feet on them.  Plank position and bear crawl except you don’t move your feet….you kind of drag them.   (If you were at my last Diesel Q, we did them then).

Line up blocks at the end of the parking spaces away from curb.  30 air presses block presses (thanks Jwoww for the correction), crawl bear towards the curb, and 10 feet on the curb dry docks.   3 Rounds.  I was called out by Posse for “Don’t Q it if you can’t do it”.  More on that in the Moleskin.

Partner up.  P1 does Curls while P2 is the timer with 50 toe taps.   Bread Bowl living dangerously today asking me if 1 is 1 or 2 is 1 (For those that don’t know, when I asked I always respond with 2 is 1).  Do this three rounds.  Mayhem with the tongue in cheek feedback that Diesel is a no cardio site.  I shut that down quickly reminding him that its a no running site, not no cardio.  Now get back to toe tapping.  Posse with feedback that it looks like we were doing some Irish jig and we needed Irish music.  He jokingly asked if Springsteen had an Irish Jig (actually yes – American Land).

That’s it.  Circle up for COT.   Damn it, winkie is done and we have close to 15 minutes left.  How did all that only take 30 minutes?!

Stay with your partners.  P1 does curb dips and P2 is the timer with (licks finger to check the wind) 12, yes 12 In/Outs.   3 Rounds.

(Sill more time???!).  Jwoww asks if he needs to jump in with some special merkins.  Hell No!  I’ve seen your special merkins and they are only possible for people under 200 pounds.

Back on the curb for Hungarian Get ups???  (Thanks Golden Plates for the attempted naming).  So its a Russian Get up, crawl out to do a merkin, crawl back and do another russian get up.    Do 10 on your won.   Posse with the call out mentioning Russian Get up’s have made an appearance at my last 3 Q’s.  Yes…another sign that I’ve Q’ed too much – same stale workout moves (see mole skin below).

Circle up for more curls.   21’s  7 bottom half curls, upper half curls, and full curls.  Biceps aren’t burning yet, lets do 7 more curls.  And while we are at it lets just finish out a second set of 21’s so bottom half and top half 7’s as well.

Watch Check….3 minutes.   10 block jumps on your own.

Watch Check….2 minutes.  Aussie Burpees.  Watch Check….keep doing burpees.   Mayhem tells us we have 20 seconds left….keep doing burpees…..Time.

 

MOLE SKIN

  • Not my finest work today.  I’ve left some Q’s before and thought “I really kicked their ass”.  I didn’t have that same feeling today.   It was a last minute thrown together Q without much thought to timing.  My apologies guys.
    • On that same note…lets cover the title – Back to the shadows.   I’m typically a 10-12 Q’s a year type of guy.  While preparing for this Q, I was beginning to feel like I was over doing it.  I glanced at the wonderful database Deflated put together to find this is my 26th (is that right???!) Q this year.  What the hell?  Scroll through the names to find I’m in the top 5 and above both Deadwood and Zinfandel….yup, time to slink back into the shadows…I’m Qing too much.  No one wants to be led by the same guy that often.  Time for some of you guys that have only Q’ed a couple times to step up. (Checks calendar to see Draper, Chatter Box, Cat Fish, Schnitzel, High Hat, and Ricky Bobby on the calendar for this next week.  Lets keep it going!).
    • So why volunteer to take Diesel you might be asking (your not, but I’m going to answer it anyways)?  Because week in and week out I look at the schedule and it shows “Diesel – TBD” or one of the site q’s is leading it (yes, there are exceptions).  Are the Diesel Site Q’s bad at asking other people to Q their site, or are the people that go to that site not stepping up to lead (another core F3 principle)?  I actually don’t know the answer to that question.  Maybe my perception is wrong.  Either way, I’m calling out Diesel pax to step up and start leading workouts (Hint, per the calendar no one is scheduled to lead again next week so go get with Brutus and tell him you want to lead.  And Brutus, get off your ass and go find a Q).
  • Welcome back out Bookworm.  Posse has apparently been EH’ing him while seeing him out walking (Sound familiar Drive By?).  Hope to see you out at some more workouts (Mash 6 days a week has no running).
  • And lets give a hand to OG Posse.  Not only EH’ing random guys walking around his neighborhood, but following through to make sure he came to the workout….and also bringing extra gloves just in case he didn’t have any.   Wow.  Way to raise that bar.
  • No Site Q’s today.  Both had semi valid excuses.   Chastain Q’ing another site (is that an excuse though?) and Brutus out with a bad back (is that an excuse though?).
  • Mayhem was near me and giving me plenty of feedback today.  Apparently my constant zingers about mashers being late has been both registering (way to be on time lately guys), but also upsetting.  We learn in Q Source about Candor – graciously telling the truth.  I’m really good about the truth part (or at least giving my opinion) but not the gracious part.  So I will apologize for my communication style, but not for actually telling the mashers to get their act together and be on time to COT (another core principle of F3).
  • So the whole being called out by Posse for “Don’t Q it if you can’t do it”.  (Hint, here is where you can check out because the next paragraph will just be a lot of excuses).  So in addition to the rotator cuff issue that constantly nags me, I have an elbow issue that comes up from time to time.  I hyperextended it playing pick up basketball in my teens and it comes back when we do a lot of bear crawls (or when I play tennis – so I don’t play tennis).  I did the wheel barrow thing at my last Diesel Q and it (elbow soreness) came back with a vengeance.  Its kinda been popping up during bear crawls.  Recently (in the last two weeks, its been hurting more – thus I didn’t do the bear crawls at Watchtower Tuesday).  So after doing the wheel barrow things today, it was really hurting.  Should I have audibled and not called a crawl bear…probably, but I didn’t.  And Posse did the right thing calling me out for asking others to do something I wasn’t willing to do (though in my defense an injury that I had just sustained was preventing me).  Anyways, there’s my defense of violating ANOTHER F3 principle – Don’t Q it if you can’t do it.
  • So I’ve managed to piss off Diesel Site Q’s, Diesel Pax, and Mash Pax in this back blast so perhaps we will just end it here.  I will go back to the shadows to study the chapter on Candor in the Q Source book as obviously I still need to work on my graciousness.

ANNOUCNEMENTS

  • Q School tomorrow at Calvary Church.
  • New <SPACE> Town Elementary Clean up at 8:30. (Thank you Posse for clarifying the space).
  • Christ Closet Saturday Give Away.
  • Prayers for JWoww’s wife struggling with brain micro bleeding.

Listen to the Children’s Laughter

The evening was perfect. The table was set. Candles lighted to bring in the sunset from the Westward sky.

The change of venue to the table on the terrace was a nice touch by the Matre’ D.

13 men with children in tow arrived for the 5:30 at the best eatery in town. The specials tonight were Spaghetti legs and Perfectly charred wings and thighs.

Warmorama:
Mosey from HS lot to the traffic circle via the sidewalk for stretching and planks. We were joined by C3PO, Johnny5 and T1000 as they were fashionably late.

Thang:

Mosey to the awning at the HS gym for Triple Nickel- Run up stairs to wall at gym entrance for 5 Mike Tysons then run down sidewalk to tip of the spear for 5 Big Boys or 5 V-ups(your choice) R/R for 4 more rounds. Planks for the 6.
Mosey to sidewalk near Poop Palace and grab a lifting rock.

Here comes Chatterbox and Ruckin to join the party of 16 to make it 18. (Seems they stayed at the bar a little longer to finish their cocktails). Spread out on curb and do 25 curls. Lunge walk to other side of drive and do 25 squats and Lunge walk back to your rock for 25 Overhead presses. Lunge walk to other side of drive for 25 Carolina dry docks and lunge walk back to your rock.

Return the rocks and mosey to Wood benches at Middle School for 25 dips and run to MS entrance and do 20 step ups on picnic table benches. R/R doing 15 & 10. Then do all again for a second round. Al Gore for the 6.

Return to COT for cool down stretching and ending with 1:00 of have a nice day.

Was nice to end the way we did. The peaceful sound of children laughing and the faint sound of life moving around us for a solid minute where we could put everything we’re carrying down and just lie there and listen. Reflecting on my expectations of the minute-long have a nice day was that it would be quiet without anything to distract from the serenity, however, I found it much more peaceful to hear those kids laughing and really made the brief moment that much better. ”And now deep thoughts… by Jack Handy”

Announcements:

Waxhaw AOs shutting down for Thanksgiving to encourage support for Turkey Trot-like activities that are important to each of us. Several from which to choose.

6 year anniversary at Commitment on Saturday.

Blue Screen took us out with a prayer.

Not Playing with a Full Deck

Starting the morning at 38 degrees can always be painful but feels like heaven after 10- minutes. DiCCS were given two minutes before 5:30 and the team was introduced to a deck of playing cards.

Four PAX were assigned suits with a corresponding pain exercise: Posse hearts Jump Squats, Everyone forget (lol) spades Bonny Blairs, Chatter Box clubs Speed Skaters, and Everyone forgot (lol) diamond Big Boy sit-ups, and Premature joker for dealers choice of 25 of any exercise. PAX started off 600M Mosey to the front of the school for a “simple” warmup.

20 SSH

15 Imperial walkers

Calf stretch 15 seconds per leg

Left and right runners stretch

Mosey around to the side of the school to start the THANG

The Thang

Started with Paula Abdul by running to second light pole and back one to flip first card. After completing 10 Paula Abdul’s and the all cards showed speed skaters, bonny blair, and jump squats. It became clear to me quickly why I sucked at IPC. PAX proceed to next parking lot and circled up to flip 15 more cards. Somehow, no one remembered the correct suit for spiderman merkins…hmm. Yeap, more legs and the PAX was happy! Last card flipped, the joker which meant dealers choice and good time to do 25 burpees.

Mosey another 400M and decided to take a small break from running and started walking lunges the distance of two light poles. Legs were on fire and headed to the cafeteria area to circle up and flip 15 more cards. Again, we all forget the spiderman merkins suit. However, as luck would have it, the joker was flipped. Dealer decided to do 25 spiderman merkins. Mosey back to COT parking lot to flip 15 more cards and at this point legs were shot!

PAX was shy by 5 cards and ran 2.8 miles. All said and done, over 100 bonny blairs, 100 jump squats, and 100 speed skaters plus Joker wild. I am sure walking downstairs will be fun.

Everyone pushed it today and got in a good workout being hump day. Great job!

Announcements

Q-School 10/21 Area 51 Calvary Church

Chicken Little will lead a Turkey Trot Thanksgiving Day and post info on The Playhouse and NewsChannel.

VQ Asylum Schnitzel

Prayer Request

Kelli Niro (premature wife) and decided not to take the medication

Block Party

***POSTING ON BEHALF OF SWEATER SET***

30 brave men dug their cold weather gear out of storage for a below 30 degree workout and signed up for an adventurous morning!

Warm Up:

Mosey to the bus lot and circle up:

  • SSH
  • Imperial Walkers
  • Low Slow Squats

The Rolling Hills of Olde Providence:

Starting at the entrance of OP, run to Foxworth with exercises at each streetlight (5 Merkins on the left, 5 Squats on the right).  Lunge walk up Foxworth and then a Mosey to YHC’s house to begin the fun.

Cinder Block Relay:  Break up into groups of 3 and traverse Bedfordshire to Foxworth, handing the cinder block off to your partner at intersections.  Mary and plank while you wait.

Mosey down Bedfordshire to Knightswood and do 5 burpees at each stoplight on your way back to Windyrush.

Once back at OP Elementary we did a variety of partner exercises (Dips, Carolina Dry Docks, Wall Sits and Step Ups).  Was it variety or struggling to fill time?…..

Mosey back to launch for some quick Mary and DONE!

Moleskin:

The most Epic move of the morning was the turnout and donations of food for Loaves and Fishes.  Blown away at the impact of F3Nation and what the Lord can do as we live out Proverbs 27:17, “As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another”.

Announcements:

  • Orange Whip is hosting Q school this Saturday after Rock Zero.  Come workout at 7:00 then join the instruction.  Whether you’ve never lead a workout, need a refresher, or want to get better, its a great opportunity.
  • Great turnout to start the Area 51 food drive for Loaves and Fishes (see Udder’s picture on Slack), but it’s not your only opportunity to give:
    • Next opportunity is Saturday at Rock Zero – 7:00am workout
    • If those options don’t work for you, reach out to Voodoo, Cheese Curd, Hoover, Orange Whip, Geraldo, Flipper, or Udder to coordinate a drop-off.
    • There is also an Amazon wish list (check Slack for details)
  • There was a peaceful transfer of power as Gummy has fulfilled his reign at Hydra and Sprockets decided it was easier just to move away.  I’m sure there was a big push by Gummy on who would make the introductions, but it was Sprockets displaying his poetic prowess and subtle jabs in introducing Jet Fuel and Slingshot as the new Hydra Site Q’s.
  • Sprockets last Area 51 Q (until we put him on the schedule when he’s in town) is December 5th at Rock Zero.  Come see him off and celebrate his birthday!

 

Rusty The Q

Moving to Waxhaw in August has been great.  Especially meeting a lot of new guys at the Waxhaw AO’s. My first AO nearly 3 months ago was The Body Shop… so how did I get on the Q schedule after so long being absent from it?  Just a driving need to give back.  What everyone finds after joining F3 is the amazing support structure. Like most of you this last year I’ve leaned on a few great guys and really was feeling the need to lead again.  My absence isn’t important, the important thing for everyone, especially the new guys, to understand is – no matter how great or inconsistent your Q turns out – the men of F3 have your back! No exception today.

I had a few inconsistency’s this morning…my cadence was atrocious. At the end, Longhaul said it took me 45 minutes to get it right. LOL My second was planning, these always look good on paper and I had it drawn out perfectly, or so i thought.  My main issue was basic math. In a typical boot camp we get roughly 2.5 miles.  That’s nearly half of the workout.  I had this great idea of looping the AO twice and if you’ve ever been to Rea View Elem, you would know it’s not that big.  Great AO, just bad planning. We covered 1.5 miles after two laps. Unfortunately the basic math here is i would need about 35 minutes of exercises to even get close to 45 minutes of work. This left me ad-libbing for nearly 20 minutes. Much to the chagrin of the group.

The Thang:

Disclaimers are pretty long now covering the headlamps, CPR and a phone, start early!

Mosey down and around the track… it’s not confirmed yet, but looking back, was I supposed to warm up the Mash Unit also?  Was this my third “inconsistency” of the morning? Oh boy…sorry guys.

Circle up by the around track to bball court

Warmup

SS hop – cadence 25

2 burpees

Merkins – civilian 20

2 burpees

Lunges – civ 10 ea leg

2 burpees

Big boys – civ 20

Mosey

Behind school – Center building

Grab some wall for 7’s

Mike Tysons / Donkey kicks

Mosey

Parking lot

Bear crawl each parking spot – Merkin at each stripe x10

Mary – knees to chest / Amer Hammer

Check time – trouble is brewing…we burned about 10 minutes

And here’s what I left off that probably would have saved the day…dang it

Triple nickel on hill, merkins / squats

Lunge walk end of parking lot

Mosey to start / Decline merkins and plank jacks

Repeato – Mosey – around track to bball court – So we repeated the above and I still had about 20 minutes to go.  Adding the triple nickel and lung walks likely would have gotten us there.

Longhaul to the rescue with a rock pile not to far away – mosey to the pile and we did three rounds of bicep curls, tricep extensions and overhead presses. Mixed in a few more burpees and some mary.  Das Boots showed his juggling talents with two rocks and Sugar Daddy awarded the “Chain of Pain” for lifting the heaviest rock through three rounds.

Mosey back to start for plank jacks, mary and rounded out my cadence practice with some squats.

Great work by the crew, very little mumble chatter except during the second round of Mike Tyson’s. We worked the body and the brain today.  Appreciate the opportunity to lead!

WELCOME – FNG Steve Martin – The Jerk

COT – Thanks for the take out Das Boot

Announcements:

There is a lot going on in Waxhaw and SOB. Tons of opportunities to give back. Take a look at Slack and GroupMe for ideas.

– Q School – If you haven’t Q’d yet this is a great opportunity to learn from some of the best (and a great time for a refresher if it’s been a while like YHC). Calvary Church this Sat at 7:00 AM.

– Service Project Saturday 8:30 – New Town Elementary (Watchtower AO) – spreading mulch and various other items.

Back to COT… Psych!

8 strong for The Floater this morning!  That’s a light crowd for this site.  I’m sure the coldest morning we’ve had in a long time contributed to a few fart sacks.

The disclaimer was given, and we were off…

Here’s what went down:

Mosey around the block with Side Straddle Hops at each corner.  Just like that we were back at COT… but the workout was just getting started!

Mosey.   We dodged a car that was going 70 MPH through downtown Waxhaw safely made it through downtown Waxhaw, across the tracks and to the basketball court at the elementary school.

Circle up:

Imperial Walkers x 10

Merkin x 10

Moroccan Night Clubs x 10

Mountain Climbers x 10

Plank Jacks x 10

Partner up!  Partner #1 works while #2 runs two down and back sprints on the court.  Then flap jack.  A total of:

Donkey Kicks – 100

Mike Tysons x 50

Up and Overs (on the large concrete blocks) x 25

BURPEE TRAIN!  Arrghh!

Mosey back to COT… again.  But we ain’t done!

Using the picnic tables under the shelter:

Dips, Derkins and Step Ups – set of 20 each, then 15 each, then 10 each

Mosey back to COT just so we remember where it is… then head down to the bottom of the hill for ab work.

After 7 straight minutes of various ab exercises (in cadence) it was a jail break up the hill back to COT.

The trip to COT was for real this time!

Done!

That’s a Long Damn Way

YHC rolled into the Blakeney park about 5 minutes before launch and wondered if he had the day or time wrong.  Where was everyone?  Finally YHC noticed Mary Kay stretching over by the playground area.  Hey co-site Q, we meet over here.  It was about this time that YHC realized that there were several guys hanging out in their cars enjoying the last few minutes of warmth because this was one of the first “cold” mornings of the year.  Clock hit 5:30 disclaimer was given and off we went.

The Thing:

Moseyed over to the Blakeney medical complex and circled up for COP: SSH, Hillbillies, Peter Parkers, Parker Peters, Yoga stretch right and left leg, Morroccan Night Clubs.

Next up a crowd favorite that YHC learned from a Goonie Q at Davinci.  Partner up and P1 runs down to the end of the complex at the 2nd daycare and runs back while P2 bearcrawls the same stretch doing a merkin at each parking spot.  Flapjack at the spot where each partner bearcrawls to working your way to the end of the complex.  The complex is looooong with the first couple of down and backs being just under a mile.  It was probably about the 4th or 5th trip down when YHC passed Big Tuna who noted “This is a long damn way War Eagle”.  Yes it was Tuna, yes it was…and we are all better for it. YHC called this one about 3/4 of the way through as we had gone for about 25 minutes and there were other things to get to.

Head over to the wall behind Old Navy.  Partner back up with the same partner, P1 does 4 wall climbs while P2 does burpees.  Flapjack for 4 sets.  A few rounds of PAX called Mary exercises.  Mosey back to launch but stopping at the alleyway for people’s chair with 50 overhead presses then Balls to the Wall and a repeato for 1 more set just to ensure that the shoulders are smoked.

Moleskin:

It has been a great start to Firestarter.  There was obviously a need for a Monday bootcamp in SOB land.  And a great mixture of SOB regulars and guys who typically post in Waxhaw so it has been a pleasure meeting new PAX.  The goal of YHC was to keep things moving pretty quickly and get some distance in while burning out the upper body.  Hopefully everyone got their money’s worth.  Thanks for pushing hard fellas and thanks Teddy and MK for the opportunity to lead.

Announcements:

  • Keep stamping those passports and visiting different sites in SOB, A51 and Waxhaw.
  • Q school in A51 on 11/21 at Calvary Church, check Slack for further details.