Monthly Archive January 2015

#Dromedary – Peek into the Back 40

7 PAX launched from Marvin Ridge HS at 0530 on a cold but mild Hump Day for the southernmost workout in Western NC.

The Thang:

• All strong veteran PAX, no disclaimer needed.
• Mosey to the front of the school for opening COP: SideStraddleHop, Imperial Walkers, LowSlowSquat, Merkins, and MountainClimbers.  All low counts to get on with the rest of the workout.
• Mosey to side of High School in quiet courtyard for People’s Donkey Balls: 45 seconds of People’s Chair w/ air presses; 10 donkey kicks; 30 seconds of Balls to the Wall. 3x.
• Mosey to practice football field goalposts.  Pair up with a PAX and a pair of discs.
  • P1 Frisbee backwards bear crawl – put each foot on a disc (large or small) in a plank position and push yourself feet first down the field.  Goal of far soccer goal – 50yds?  Run back.
  • P2 Mary until P1 returns.
  • Flapjack, Repeato.
  • P1 Inchworm x20 across the field with feet on discs
  • P2 Mary until P1 returns.
  • Flapjack, Repeato.
• Mosey down to the gravel road leading to the Back 40.  Using the softball, baseball, and small baseball backstop areas each as a location, perform part of BLIMPS at each location.  Run hard between each location.  Reverse course at 3rd backstop to return to football field goal posts for last station.
  • BLIMPS = 5 burpees, 10 lunge each leg, 15 imperial walker (2 count), 20 merkins, 25 plank jacks, 30 squats.
• Plank until six arrives
• Mosey back to COT for 4 minutes of Mary led by most of the PAX.

The Moleskin:

• No rocks or plates this week!  Light plastic discs worked in as substitutes…
• As the PAX slowly arrived this morning, YHC knew this would be just the group to try out the Back 40 with and get it all in on time.  Turns out we covered 2.25 miles and still only covered 2/3 of the campus.  Full report here – https://www.strava.com/activities/247803193
• Whenever Ice9 shows up at a workout, you know you can’t bring your B game and have a “rest” day.  As evidenced by him pushing on the backwards slide thing by going all the way to the soccer “Goal” when most of us just went until failure.  He knows how to push past failure.
• Welcome to Crabcake, a Union County local, as FNG to Dromedary.  A vet from Area51 getting back at it and put in strong work today.
• Brown (learned about his GA roots from his Uga avatar and we’re still friends) is getting back to form by pushing it to the red (and black) line.
• Soft Pretzel may decide to do the run in next week just to warm-up even though it’s cold.  We’ll eventually have 0515 start times for everyone with tabata, core, or running for those interested.  This is PAX-led, so feel free to tweet something out.  Look for a run option next week.
• Chanel and Abacus are fighting it out for an attendance streak.  Chanel may have a slight lead, but you can count on these two vets to be there and pushing themselves whenever given the opportunity.
• Some of the PAX, not looking at anyone in particular, haven’t learned the “tones” of YHC’s Garmin wrist computer that signified the end of the 30sec balls to the wall.  Tone starts sounding 5 seconds before the end, and there sure were a lot of feet dropping when they started…  Doing a lot of PC and BTTW at the beginning of a cold morning makes for cold fingers.  Will have to reconsider moving that one to later in the workout.  Credit to OBT for the inspiration.
• Haven’t figured out the names for the exercises with the Ultimate and disc golf sized discs or frisbees at the feet. Probably will have to keep these in the rotation, for they allow a wheelbarrow like experience for a self-paced movement without the lower back stress. May find these at Foxhole one morning this Spring…
• The four tomatoes we encounter each week are mocking us do to our “low numbers” over the past 2 weeks.  Think they are harkening back to the launch day when ~30 PAX dominated the campus, but we are keeping a strong group each week with new faces all the time.  As the weather warms, there are several EHs lined up to knock the door down, but bring them now to get a head start before the “comfortable” weather returns.  We need to scare the tomatoes again.
• Thanks to Chanel for taking us out!  Prayers for Ice9 (excused for LIFO) and his M for an important appointment later.

Announcements:

• Interested in Q at Dromedary? – contact Bratwurst (@pwuerslin) or Bananas (@bananasF3)

• Team Chepul Hill Race For Brain Cancer Research 3/21/15 – Team Chepul Hill has been created to support our brother Bill who is battling brain cancer. March 21, 2015 at Marshal Park in Charlotte. Sign up to race with Team Chepul Hill here: http://www.braintumorcommunity.org/site/TR?team_id=71982&pg=team&fr_id=2420&et=rooeuNcYZa7hnaNhPhYw_Q

• Mud Run sign-ups will be up soon.  Get 4 guys and do it!  There will be instructions for how to get on a team if you need to join.

• F3 Area 51 weekly newsletter = http://bit.ly/Area51-20150125