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Date: 2023-10-18 AO: wamrap Q: rachel PAX: Alf, double_e, Horsehead, poptart, rachel, turkey_leg FNGs: None COUNT: 6 Standard WAMRAP fair today. Good to see Turkey Leg back out.

I Can’t Brush My Hair

Date: 2023-10-18 AO: sacs Q: geraldo PAX: Lafleur, Broken Arrow, Cheese Curd, Dora, Emoji, geraldo, hoover, lex_luthor, purell, sledge FNGs: None COUNT: 10 A fine fall morning for the Pax to gather for some good clean fun. THE THANG:
All reps completed with your ruck on.
4 Rounds 19 Sandbag Clean & Press 19 Sandbag  Front Squats 19 Sandbag Push-Ups (each hand) 400 meter Sandbag ruck
MARY: Dollies Rosalitas Heels to Heaven LBCs 1 more 400 meter lap sans sandbag
Strong work by all. This was a WOD honoring the fallen Rangers in Mogadishu thirty years ago. Check out the movie. Black Hawk Down when you get the chance. Good to see @dora back in the gloom. Purell joined us today for a change of pace from running. The sandbag push-ups were a real crowd pleaser making brushing your hair more challenging. TCLAPS to the Pax with the heavier sandbags. ANNOUNCEMENTS: Blood Drive this Friday COT:

Lou’s what?

Date: 2023-10-17 AO: skunk-works Q: Rudy PAX: Mountain Momma, lois, ChickenWing, Rudy, stonecold, Cage FNGs: None COUNT: 6 WARMUP: mosey to church, around parking lot. Jimmy Doogans, Merkins, runners stretch, downward / upward dog, arm circles THE THANG: partner farmers carry Indian run to parking lot facing hill. 3 exercises- KB swings x20, goblet squats, bent over rows. 2 rounds. Run up hill and around the lot to the left back to bells, next was 3 exercises of deadlifts to press x 20, 10 Greg Louganis, 10 shoulder presses, 2 rounds, run up hill and hang a right and run lap back to bells. 10 goblet squats, 15 American hammers ic, 20 curls, 2 rounds, run full lap of lot, 10 goblet squats, 10 reverse lunges, overhead press, 2 rounds, partner/farmer carry back to launch MARY: 25 lbc ic, flutters and 5 big boys oyo ANNOUNCEMENTS: blood drive Friday COT:prayers for those suffering in the Middle East

More Gear Less Running

Date: 2023-10-16 AO: firestarter Q: war_eagle PAX: Rudy, war_eagle FNGs: None COUNT: 2 WARMUP: Standard COP in front of Jeni’s. THE THANG: Coming off of the Homecoming 5k from this past weekend YHC was looking to keep the running low. So I recycled a gear HIT workout that I did at NOE a couples if weeks ago. And just like at NOE there were 2 Pax doing the workout. Maybe it’s a sign that I need to retire this one. 5 stations, 3 with gear and 2 with body weight exercises. 45 seconds at each station with 15 seconds rest. There were 3 rounds of exercises on the paper at each station, first round was upper body, second round was core and third round was legs. After a round rotating through all 5 stations it was two laps around the Jeni’s Ice Cream island. Station 1 = Wall incline merkins, plank, RDL’s Station 2 (KB’s) = upright rows, swings, deadlifts Station 3 (25lb plates) = tricep extensions, american hammers, squats Station 4 (cinder blocks) = curls, flutter press, calf raises on wall Station 5 = Carolina dry docks, big boy situps, burpees
MARY: None ANNOUNCEMENTS: Blood drive COT: Enjoyed catching up with Rudy. Glad Rudy showed because YHC would have been hard pressed to do this workout solo. Hopeful that Firestarter site Q Franky gets better soon.

Great morning for a run and we even spotted a Halloween 👻

Date: 2023-10-16 AO: chubby-hubby Q: Cheese Curd PAX: Cheese Curd, turkey_leg, Orange Whip, Spammer, Watchita, hoover, Broken Arrow FNGs: None COUNT: 7 WARMUP: nope THE THANG: run 2.5 miles out and back / pain ruck out and back MARY: nope ANNOUNCEMENTS: blood drive and Xmas party review COT: OW for the take out prayer. Good to see @brokenarrow show up after his 31 miles on Sat. wild Turkey back from Chicago taking about his new PR (well done) and @spammer got out for some warm up miles. Quick pace on the back half today

Breaking Records at The Rock

Date: 2023-10-14 AO: the-rock Q: Hops PAX: geraldo, Alf, beaver, Pilgrim, Cottonmouth, Horsehead FNGs: None COUNT: 7 One for the record books this morning! 0.62 miles is a new Area51 record for a 1-hour bootcamp workout. YHC would like to thank the other recordsetting pax for being a part of this historic day. At first I was upset any one posted in 60 degrees and rain. Yet thanks to my 6 brothers and the hotbox, we made history today. Who cares what we did? It’s none of your business, fartsackers. Just messin’ – we had one on the jump rope, station with KB, weight plate, Mary, Merkin, jump up/step & incline/derkin. Lots of rounds, some ohter mary and 10 burpees. Lots of talk about false identities; the 7 of us identified as non-runners this morning. Coffeteria afterwards was glorious, albeit an hour later than I had hoped. Passez un bon weekend, fartsackers!

Bus lot sheltering

Date: 2023-10-14 AO: olympus Q: Pelosi PAX: ickey_shuffle, voodoo, The Worm, MARTA, mighty_mite FNGs: None COUNT: 6 We converged but with the rain it was just us over under a bus lot shelter. One pax had to find a restroom but we suspect reading material was enjoyed due to the duration. Good crowd for a rainy day change of venue. Worm gave us schedule of the weekend rugby world cup quarterfinal matches which are apparently on Peacock – go Ireland. WARMUP: SSHs, Storm Troopers(wrong name), flailing THE THANG: Scaled back Ickey Shuffle workout for first half. Improvised sumo/upright rows, curls, press holds, circles, rack holds, circles. MARY: 90 second plank plus some bridges ANNOUNCEMENTS: Marta wants your blood COT: YHC took us out

Danny Tanner 10K

Date: 2023-10-13 AO: mountain-goat Q: retread PAX: Full House, gullah, lois, Pele, retread, sledge, slim_fast, Spammer, Beefeater FNGs: None COUNT: 9 THE THANG: Accompany Full House for ~ 6 miles of his 20 miler. We headed West on Pineville-Matthews Rd, then up Rea continuing on to Colony for the first 30 minutes. About face and return to SCMS. Super kudos to Spammer and Slim Fast for joining him at 4:15 and getting 10+ miles for the morning. ANNOUNCEMENTS: Homecoming 50K tomorrow! COT: Beefeater closed us out in prayer.

Friday the 13th uphill horror

Date: 2023-10-13 AO: centurion Q: Emoji PAX: Preschool, snowflake, Point Break, Snuka, grave_dancer, GOP, Rawhide, Icarus FNGs: None COUNT: 9 9 Pax enjoyed a tragic Friday the 13th start. YHC “borrowed” and modified some of Point Break’s Centurion favorites
COP -Warm up Imperials, Arm Circles, Merkins, JLOs, Hillbillies….
The Thang Mosey from Amilie’s to Parking Garage Multi-Ramps Run up ramp Exercise at each level, short ramp, down stairs, Level 1- 20 Drydocks Level 2- 20 Arm Raises against wall Level 3- 20 Jump Squats (run backwards to Level 4) Level 4- 20 LBCs Down stairwell, repeat x 3
Outside parking garage, partner up Partner 1 against wall- exercise Partner 2 bear crawl across road to fence, crawl bear back (switch) Two rounds: Mohamad Ali’s first round, Arm Raises second round
Mini Beast Not 6x6x6, but 2x6x6 Bottom of garage stairwell – 6 LBCs Up stairs to top – 6 big boy sit ups Across to top of middle stairs – 6 big boy crunches Down stairs to bottom – 6 superman’s Across to bottom of far stairs – 6 JLOs each side = 12 Up stairs to top – – 6 JLOs each side = 12
Mosey back to Amilie’s lot
10 to 1 Merkins 10 merkins at mulch bed station 1 – run to station 2 9 merkins at mulch bed station 2 – run back to station 1 8 at station 1, 7 at station 2, 6 at station 1, down to 1
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Tomorrow is The Homecoming Ultra 5k (x10) Lower Providence Community House 6:00am f3southcharlotte.com/2023/07/28/the-homecoming-ultra-5k-preblast/ REGISTER: forms.gle/TVVxukAzFSokzPXJ7
Beers and fellowship later Saturday – see Slack
Give Blood! See MARTA
COT: – Thanks for making me do this @snowflake! – Moderate mumble chatter, high spirits, several grunts Just over 2 miles (but mostly uphill) -Thanks to Point Break for the blue prints for most of the workout. I’ll pay the royalties.

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Date: 2023-10-12 AO: meathead Q: voodoo PAX: Uncle Leo, The Worm, high_tide, voodoo FNGs: None COUNT: 4 4 pax assembled in the cool gloom yesterday to regale each other with stories of their glory days and to swing some iron.
Warm up: SSH, Swings, Sharon Towers, Swings, Prying Squats, Swings
The Thang: Workout 2 of Week 5 of Ickey’s Fighting Shape program
5 rounds of: 5 C+P per side 5 high pulls per side 5 snatches per side 10 explosive merkins (not per side) 2:00 recovery between rounds
Carries – Cook Drill (waiter to failure, rack to failure, farmer to failure) as far as you can go. 1x per side.
5 rounds of: 5 lawnmowers per side (this was supposed to be 20 merkins, but we were short on time and long on pec/tricep soreness, so we modified) 5 thrusters per side ~1:00 rest between rounds
Mary: Don’t know her
COT with the Anvil pax with a quality takeout (as always) by Hops
Announcements: 1) Midriff’s Homecoming Ultra is this Saturday, 10/14. Please see the posts on Slack for details about participating, volunteering, or donating. Olympus plans to converge with some pax pre-running the first 5k, then swinging bells at 0700, then running as many more as desired. 2) Blood drive at Wesley United Methodist (across from OP Elementary) on 10/20. Get signed up!
Moleskine: > Thanks to the pax for showing up yesterday and cobains for my exactly on-time arrival. It was a glorious morning for a workout. > Speaking of glorious mornings, where is everyone? I know it was raining today (Thursday), but yesterday was perfect. Cool temps with no precipitation. If you’re not posting in this weather, what are you waiting for? Do you want to get better or not? Do you want to support the other pax or not? Stop taking the easy way out and get after it. We all have those mornings where we don’t want to get up (I did that last Friday), but I have never regretted posting at a workout, even if Cheese Curd was there.