Rolled into Asylum right at 5:15 this AM. Thought I had plenty of time. Drove through Wesley Oaks to survey the AO not realizing the cut through to the launch point was closed overnight. Good to know for next time.
Roll up with a 6 men waiting on me. By the time we got to COP in the dark Petco parking lot we had 7. Some standard COP stuff, with additional extra planking and plank like activities.
Mosey past the large iron gates into the depths of Wesley Oaks.
Run around some cul-de-sacs with merkins and Romanian dead lifts AND BURPEES! Then do a triple nickel with exploding merkins at the top of hill and hand release at the bottom. Run back to Petco for some partner runs and derkins. Finish with Mary and excessive planking.
Moleskines: Solid group of regulars out there this morning. Chippy and Big Tuna enjoyed another romantic stroll through the neighborhoods together. Transporter missed 8 mins of the workout when, as usual as he went to see a man about a horse – and came back sans sweatshirt. Swimmers and Smokey were pushing hard up front. Smokey is not wearing his Tennessee hat these days and said he didn’t want to talk about it. (You should bring it up when you see him.) Damascus and Dana stayed rolling the whole time and Damascus was sweating out a weeks worth of food and drink from vacation.
Thanks to Swimmers for the takeout.
-Alf
Announcements – Speed for Need and Susan G Komen race on 10/5. Sign up and get on Heather’s Hero’s team!
On a beautiful Thursday morning, where it was almost chilly, 7 men moseyed on down to Matthews Elementary to see what trouble we could get in. Here’s what we did:
Mosey to the angled parking lot
30X SSH
30XIW
15X LSS
15X Windmill
Mosey to the parking lot by the Farmer’s Market
30X Hillbilly
Mosey to Pizza Peel
30 LBCs OYO
Mosey to the Library
The Main Event
Partner up. Partner 1 is the “Nomad”- they begin some type of moving exercise around the Library Circle. Partner 2 does a called stationary exercise for 30 reps. Once done, Partner 2 meets Partner 1 and they run the Library circle and Flapjack
Round 1:
Partner 1- Lunges
Partner 2- 30 X Squats
Round 2:
Partner 1- Inchworm
Partner 2- 30 x Merkins
Round 3:
Partner 1- Bear Crawl
Partner 2- 30 X CDD
Round 4:
Partner 1- Backwards Run
Partner 2- 30 x LBC
Done with the Main Event
Mosey to the Pizza Peel- and use their benches for:
10 Decline Merkins
20 Step ups (10 Each Leg)
30 Dips
Head back to launch for some Mary and done!
Moleskine
After a long wait, I am officially a 30 year old! And the boys let me know it. Very talkative crowd today Lois and Sensei especially honed in on the hacking chest cough that I had to remind me I’m not a young man anymore (Great Example Site Qs….) Thumper and Sardine were out front looking strong all day- and I learned that Thumper has three daughters with the oldest getting ready to get her drivers license- that’ll be an adventure for sure!
Houdini looking strong, pushing along some guy that I didn’t know…. I think his name was Nomad? He’s finally come home- at least for this one workout. Thanks for showing up in honor of the Dirty 30 celebration.
There was a sighting of Slim Fast. but as soon as he saw me roll up with my intimidating weinke he vanished… or he might have had a meeting. You decide.
Thanks guys for allowing me to lead and for pushing me- as I leave my 20s behind and look towards a new decade, I’m struck again about how grateful I am for F3. Comparing where my health is currently vs where I was when I was at 25 I’m just blown away. Five years ago I would have never thought I’d run a half marathon. I would have never thought I’d have run through the mountains over a weekend and not died. But because of the men in the gloom- guys like Nomad, and SlimFast and Sensei who were pushing me- I’m moving into my 30s better off then I was five years ago. I’m grateful for each and everyone of you. See you in the gloom!
YHC is going to hold the PAX accountable for not holding YHC accountable. After jumping on the Horsehead band wagon about writing timely BB’s, YHC has delayed 3 days to write the Centurion BB. Yet I have not received one ounce of criticism (heck – I didn’t even send out a tweet about being late and that’s easy). The little things matter and we all need to hold each other accountable to do what the job requires. Being Q means you write a BB. We are all fallible and need to hold each other accountable on all things – big and small.
The Thang:
Quick COT with SSH, Merkins, Mt Climbers, Parker Petters and Squats
Jog up to shopping center for a ladder with odds on 2nd level being burpees and even’s on bottom being squat jumps (24 burpees and 30 squat jumps – Q got the order right)
Jog over to Palantine hill and modifying due to construction at the office building (poor recon). Partner up for another ladder with burpees on top of hill and partner hand slap merkins after jogging in opposite directions to opposite side of parking lot. Three rounds (9 burpees and 12 hand slap merkins). Mary while we waited on the six.
Jog back to school for two sets of balls to the wall walk, bear crawl and lunges. Over to brick benches for 10, 15, 10 dips, incline merkins, and step ups.
Over to back side of football field for a suicide run down and back to the three speed bumps. Back to lot for a few minutes of COP.
NM – Small but highly effective group out this am. We mixed up just for Margo and he failed to show. Hops “recruited” Dreyfuss to Centurion and then failed to show. Would have been nice to get pax count to 10 so it’s on those two that we fell short.
Pretty sure that’s the first workout in a long time (probably ever) where neither Champagne nor Mermaid criticized my form. Must be improving in my old age (or not cheating as much).
Announcements – Collecting coats for Westside Ministry on November 2. Please help me gather at different AO’s. Dreyfus moved down from Ohio and indicated he had a trailer full so it was a good start.
Please consider helping out on Saturday with various third F opportunities in West Charlotte, Revolution at 7 at Revolution Park, workout at Men’s Shelter at 9 and Revolution 2.0 at Stratford YMCA at 11. Lot’s of men and teens in our community that could use our encouragement and guidance.
Strong take out by Lorax.
I get the text Sunday evening from PopTart, “You’re good right?” It’s happened to all of us, didn’t check the schedule…doh!! No worries, I got this. Upon showing up on a beautiful Monday morning, I didn’t recognize the guys were there, hence the “manic” feeling, uh oh, I better come up with something good…ha! Fortunately, I was inspired by a RockZero workout two weeks ago and I was pretty sure no one from that workout would be there….yes! Quick disclaimer and off we went.
Mosey around the school, circled up at the lower lot for a Mirepoix of SSH, IW and LSS. Add in some Merkins and Mountain Climbers…that’s a solid soup. I brought my cones with me so it appeared I was prepared, we mosey’d across the soccer fields (with lots of groaning and whining, not sure why) as I placed them approx 10 yards apart, then we ventured to the rock pile where it was quite dark which caused some anxiety about reaching down in the snake pit….no bites. Borrowed from Gummy at RockZero two weeks ago, 10 thrusters with rock, run to last cone and back, move up one cone, 10 thrusters, etc. until all 8 stations complete. Good stuff.
Followed that up with chest press, good mornings with rock, then returned them to the snake pit. Mosey’d to small track for some laps. P1 runs, P2 does called exercise, flapjack and so forth. Carolina Dry Docks, Jump Squats, LBC, Merkins, and Deep (LSS) Squats. Ventured to tables for similar format, P1 runs, P2 does Dips and Derkins at picnic tables. A couple quick sprints followed by some Freddie Mercury and that’s a wrap.
Great group today which always makes it easy on the QIC. A few veterans like TL, OT and McGee along with some new faces like Quill and Jazz Hands. If someone could please respond with one PAX I missed, my audio memo didn’t save and I’m missing one guy, he was 52 I believe, short hair, I apologize I can’t remember, my first time meeting him. Tulip pushed the pace. Squid (the only site Q present) kept it disciplined as always and took us out in prayer. Thanks for showing up. A reminder about the IronPax challenge on Wednesday at Waverly….which is also a reminder to venture out to new AO’s when you get a chance. Cheers!
7 PAX found out how much they could pull out of themselves in a well-rounded workout.
The Warmup
Started by the cars. Ran around front hill & ended at tennis courts.
The Thang
Moleskine
“Don’t we need to be on the tennis courts for Agassis?” Hairband says. Nobody dared him to go fight the elderly man waiting for his tennis partner, so he lucked out.
Chastain requested he be allowed to rename the AMRAP to As Many Reps as I Feel Like (AMRAIFL). He got a look of mockery, considering it had just been renamed AMBAP (As Much Bonhoeffer As Possible).
During our AMRAP airpresses (Jack Webbs w/o Merckens), 5 of us burnt out somewhere after 100, but Siggy and Hairband had a EarFlapper Showdown. Announcement: short arms really do help with airpresses. Nice work with 213 (in a row), Hairband!
El fin.
Announcements:
Q. Mosey to other parking lot COP 15 IW 15 MC 15 merkins
Mosey to Rea forest drive Partner up
One partner runs rea forest to jasmine den Other partner run shefingdell to jasmine. Meet up. 1. Hand slap merkins 20 2. Dips 3. Merkins cumulative 50 Mosey to church school Rock work –
100 curls partner Partner is doing merkins while they wait. Flapjack when you need to. Goal is 150 merkins 100 chest press partner 100 tricep extension
Mosey to front of school. Circuit work 15 Derkins 15 dips 15 step ups Run down to bottom and back. 3 rounds
Burn out. Partner back up On partner sprints from laying flat while other partner jogs in place switching side to side until other partner gets back. Jump down and back up to start sprints
Mary and merkins
Moleskin. Well it was similar to what I did above. Deal with it. I don’t care. The site q’s are busting my chops about a backblast. Here you go. Good group today. Thought we were going to a new area but I was wrong. I was trying to tell the group what to do but Gummy wouldn’t shut up. Got confused on that part.
I’ve tried to get creative and almost had a DW issue on it. Old school guys will get it.
Tons of crap given and was thankful for it. There’s nothing like F3 to keep you humble. Hops was complaining A LOT about really everything. Gummy literally did half the workout so he was complaining about doing nothing. Sprockets was a little too excited about my q. It got a little awkward when he pushed me in the middle. Receda tucks his shirt in just like Jet fuel. I see a duel in their future and pain in the dojo. Since I have brought out Buc-cees and Motorboat along with Receda I am basically keeping Area 51 a float singlehandedly. Pudding was quite the chatty cathy. Kirk was doing a little wayne thing, not sure what that was about.
I’m sure there are other notables in there that I am missing. Please feel free to add your thoughts. Can’t wait to read them whilst enjoying a beverage.
3 Pax made a reservation at Clyent Dinner tonight and enjoyed a 75 degree Palindrome feast! Today, 9/19/19 was the last palindrome day of 2019. For all you intellectually gifted pax out there, you already know what a palindrome is. For the rest of us, a palindrome is a phrase or series of numbers that are the same forward and backward. So it was only appropriate that we did a palindrome themed workout tonight.
Warm up
SSH, Imperial walkers, mountain climbers, and merkins, all in cadence. Then a nice calf stretch for us old guys.
The thang
We all grabbed a half-sized coupon and ran with it toward the shed. We stopped at each light and alternated between 10 merkins at the first light (one hand on the coupon), and then 10 speed skaters at the next one. Running with cinder blocks is a lot of fun.
At the shed we did a Cuthbertson 150 routine. Two pax ran up a ways and back while the other did squats with the coupon, then switched until we got to 150 squats total. Then we did the same with overhead presses, curls, reverse crunches, and then best for last, donkey kicks! I felt like crap after that and had a hard time running from there up to the new wooden benches.
At the benches we did 3 sets of 20 dips and then 20 step ups onto the benches. I had to add in this routine to take up some more time before we headed back.
We ran back down to get our coupons and then reversed the run back to the parking lot. The word palindrome comes from the Greek phrase “running backwards”, so we ran with our coupons backwards all the way to the parking lot, stopping at each light and alternating between the 10 block merkins and 10 speed skaters. Running backwards sucks!
Back at the parking lot we finished up just like we started with SSH, Imperial walkers, Mountain climbers, Merkins, and a nice calf stretch.
I was glad I went with the halfling coupons, the big ones would have killed us and we need to be healthy for Saturdays IPC!
T-claps to Frack who has a broken finger but still did all the exercises, no complaints. T-claps to Legalzoom who is just a machine and hard to keep up with. T-claps to all you F3 Waxhaw pax for pushing me to keep going and to keep trying. You guys are great examples and I’m really impressed as I see all the good things that are happening in the community. I’m proud to be a part of it.
11:50am…I’m sitting with a bag of frozen peas on my nether-region and GroupMe starts blowing up. The STREAK….is it really going to die? Is this really the end?? Well, seeing as how I was no where near a computer it seemed like that was going to be the end of it. Finally, a little after 1:00 I made it home and grabbed my computer so I could at least post a consolation prize of a back blast, but then I got to thinking. “Was this streak still really alive and well after all this time? I can’t really be the one to kill it, am I?” I decided that this needed a little investigation. Much to my surprise, I found out that just over the past 3 weeks, Floater back blasts went out at 2:00pm, 9:00am and 9:30PM. Which leads me to this….
Esteemed gentlemen of F3 Waxhaw, as much as it pains me to do so, I feel it if my solemn duty to inform you all that the Floater Back Blast streak is a fraud. I cannot tell you for sure when it ended, or if it was every truly in tact to begin with, but as sure as death and taxes the floater streak was not killed today.
The THANG:
Moleskin:
In all seriousness, it was awesome as always to get to Q this site. While I may be forever the DW and Carb Loads black list, I appreciate this opportunity every time I get it. The group this morning came to work. Even the newest site Q, Carb Load, who started the day saying that he was going to MASH, ended up being one of the guys leading the pack through most of the morning. We clocked just under 3 miles total. Great work today!
No Announcements
Dromedary will always be one of my favorite AOs because 9 months ago, this is where I showed up as a FNG. Boucher brought me out and despite the physical beatdown I took that day, I remember how welcoming the group was, especially Goodfella and Posse and I’ve kept coming back ever since. Dromedary is also a great campus with a ton of options and a lot of room to roam.
The Thang
5:30 19 Pax show up in the gloom, half asleep ready to roll. DiCCs given and we start the mosey around the parking lot. Get halfway around, near the high school for some warmup
Mosey over to the lane that goes along school towards the globe
At the globe, we take a short mosey over towards tennis courts, more Lightpost reps, this time all the way to the end past middle school
Mosey over to covered entrance at Middle School, partner up, one guy does reps, one runs a half lap around small parking lot
Mosey towards buses, OneStar mentions “this is a nice wall”, I say Great, we should use it! Besides, I need to alter the weinke, I won’t have enough time to get to the rockpile
Mosey over to other side of middle school to Amrap table area
Just about out of time, mosey back to start, 2 min left so we do 30 gas pumps and some LBCs. Time’s up
Moleskin:
There always seems to be a good mix of Pax at Dromedary, between gazelles and clydesdales. As I said there is lots of room to roam, but I know some don’t love a lot of running, so I try to keep everyone happy. We only cover about 2.25 miles and I try to get a little work in on all the body parts, Hopefully some will have some sore abs tomorrow morning. I ran out of time so we didn’t get to the rockpile at the end to do some IPC work. I planned on doing some squat thrusters and burpee jump-overs, Dana would be happy to know we missed those as he did the Meter’s 43 IPC challenge the previous day. It’s always a good start to the day when we can get ourselves out of bed and get to F3, not only to work on getting healthier, but also surrounding ourselves with a great group of guys that help guide us to be better in many aspects of life. Thanks for letting me lead today.
No announcements or Hope challenge volunteers, thanks Johnny Utah for taking us out.
These pythons aren’t at the top of the food chain. I am.
Terry O’Hara
Writing a BB wasn’t on the list for today but I figure if you 1) bring all the gear, 2) make helpful suggestions on the Weinke, and 3) Q-jack the playlist, you, sir, just Q’d a workout. Do the honorable thing and write the BB (with Oxford commas, if you please.)
Some of you new guys are asking, “So you’re saying anyone that leads a workout in Area 51 can write a backblast? I thought it was just for Waxhaw, Horsehead’s multiple personalities, and Gummy’s Chevy Chase quotes.” It would appear that way, but it’s true: you, too, can write a BB. In fact, you can write one even when you don’t Q. To wit…
The handful of runners before the workout went the Spam Runner route, to the right at 51. Now Header gets his little man soccer shorts in a bunch every time you say that, but it’s an established fact that the real Meat Runner is to the left on 51. Regardless, the mesomorphs dominated that day, going 1-2 on the podium while ectomorphs Header, Chin and Two Lips presumably carried on about the topics of the day. By the time we got back, Stone Cold was ready to whip us into shape.
If the Weinke was for one group to push the Prowler and the rest to stand around complaining about the Prowler, pretending to do the other exercises, then you can check that off. We did that. There’s no hiding with the Prowler–it’s either moving or it’s not and it was loaded up this morning. Big props to Turkey Leg; he’s about as thick as a lawn dart but he pushed that thing with the big boys. Then the big boys pushed it with him–on it. Watching TL ride the Prowler was how I imagine I would feel watching midget wrestling: kind of funny and sad at the same time.
Meanwhile, in the Meathead tradition, the Q attempted to get a heavy (but tasteful) metal playlist up on the Spotify but somehow ended up on Horsehead’s wedding reception playlist. With Skid Row and Warrant power ballads failing to inspire the pax, Stone Cold changed over to an indistinguishable hair metal channel before inexplicably settling on Debbie Gibson Radio. I don’t fault the man’s music tastes–we all have our hidden obsessions (see also: Haze, Susanna Hoffs). No, the problem here is that, quicker than you can Shake Your Love, the pax separated themselves into opposing gangs of Sheep (Debbie Gibson) and Goats (Tiffany). We are talking Capulet/Montague, Coke/Pepsi, crunchy/creamy, over/under; quite acrimonious and, seemingly, no middle ground. Even with the receding testosterone, Bananas and Tackling Dummy about came to blows.
Out of this ugliness comes a silver lining. Somehow it has escaped my attention for coming on eight years that Debbie Gibson and Tiffany starred in a movie together: Mega Python vs. Gatoroid. I think it would be fitting for you to just click on over. After a look at the trailer, there’s nothing more to say.