AYE. 15 of Area 51’s finest posted for the weekly Anvil beatdown #highintensities. The bad news is that Old Course Drive in Piper Glen is blocked. For those of you who have blocked it from your memories, that is where YHC led the Pax on a peaks-and-troughs smokefest a few weeks ago. The good news is the YHC remembered where there are even worse hills and closer by. So off we went, after waiting for Scabby…who is always late but this time didn’t show.
THE THANG
30 x SSH
20 x Burpees
Run to White Hall, across Hwy 51
40 x Merkins
Run down to bottom of the hill
10 x Burpees
Run to top of the hill on the other side
Now that the half pipe has been established:
10 x Burpees at the bottom
30 x Jumpsquats at one peak
30 x Merkins at the other peak
Stop when you get to 100 burpees
Partner up and run to the top of the hill from whence we came
AYG back to the flag
Overtime by about 4 minutes (whoops)
YE OLDE MOLESKINE
It sucked. That is all. Sound off in the comments below if you have anything else you’d like to add.
AYE. 15 of Metro and A51’s finest gathered in the Gloom for the weekly DMZ smokefest – but, of course, not as smoky as Tha Motha. It’s hard to replicate a 12 story incline without a parking deck, but YHC tried. Here’s more or less what transpired:
THE THANG
Run to Sharon View through Thornridge
Left on Sharon View to Hardison
Down to the end of Hardison and back
Right at Howland, right on Gorham to the end
Back to Sharon View and then home
3.3ish total miles
+105 burpees
+120 merkins
+untold monkeys humped
+untold squats jumped
+6 minutes of Mary
+planks
MOLESKIN
1. TClaps to all participants today. The group stayed pretty close together throughout. That last hill on Gorham spread us out a bit but we all got back in time for the final 10 burpees at the parking lot #cherryontop.
2. Larry Birds to Frasier and Agony, who were pushing the front the entire way. It’s a good thing Ag was out front so that his extremely loud footsteps could lead the pax in the darkness.
3. Also Larry Birds to Hamlet, who apologized for being the 6 even before the workout started claiming that he’s only posted twice in the last 10 months. No need to apologize, Hambone. You were right in the thick of it.
4. Frasier wanted to know “how I found this place.” Well, brother, YHC and Pellyn Wood go way back. First and only time I’ve ridden in the back of a cop car #notguilty. First time drinking a beer. First time sneaking out of a house in the middle of the night. First time driving a car without a license. I mean, if you trace all of my bad behavior going back to middle school…it pretty much all starts with Pellyn Wood. I know that place like the back of my hand.
When YHC got home, Bootsy (M) was fast asleep but she woke up to ask a very simple question – “did you kill them?” That’s a true F3 M for you right there.
#horseneck OUT
AYE. 14 of Area 51’s finest plus one FNG posted for the weekly Anvil beatdown, but they were all disappointed. It was a sleeper. Real snoozefest. Here’s more or less what transpired:
THE THANG
25 Merkins OYO
25 Monkey Humpers OYO (FNG very weirded out at this point)
#modified_disclaimer
Run to top of Entrance 4 and do 10 Burpees
Run on Rea to Bevington and do 10 Burpees
Run to Old Course Drive and do 10 Burpees
Plank/Mary while we wait for the six
Run to Old Course and Piper Glen intersection but at every:
Hill – 10 Monkey Humpers (70 total)
Trough – 10 Jump Squats (70 total)
Turn around and do 5 Burpees at every hill and trough (70 total)
For those of you counting, that’s just 100 Burpees. Sorry guys. I meant to do more.
AYG back to the church
Plank/Mary while we wait for the six
A bunch of sprints
Some more Monkey Humpers (can’t get enough)
A few more sprints
That’s it.
MOLESKIN
1. Yup, see? Easy. Just 3.2 miles and 100 Burpees plus a lot of monkeys humped. My legs are definitely not sore and I’ll bet no one elses are either.
2. FNG Thin Mint is freaky fast. I’m pretty sure he was hanging behind Alf and Lobsta just because he wasn’t exactly sure where to go or what to do or whether or not this F3 thing is a cult. It is, btw.
3. Larry Bird to Iron Horse. Fact – the guy is 55 and he’s a monster. Other fact – he lives on Old Course Drive but he managed to resist the temptation to post back to the #fartsack. That, my friends, deserves a Larry Bird.
4. Props to Purple Haze who posted this morning just to salve YHC’s wound from Saturday where only 5 pax posted for what had been advertised as a hard workout. That’s why I didn’t advertise this one and I made sure it was super easy. Like, super super easy. Didn’t y’all think it was easy?
ANNOUNCEMENTS
F3 10 Year Anniversary Party on 1/1/2021. Mark your calendars. I think Alf is hosting.
#horseneck OUT
AYE. 5 of Area 51’s finest met in the Gloom for the weekly Day Zero beatdown.
THE THANG
Quick COP – The usuals x 10 + 5 burpees in between
Run a mile – Alf clocked a roughly 6:30 pace
Run the box around the shopping center #RIPTuesdayMorning
Attempted 5-man grinders on the hill – 3 guys stationary while 2 run between
After we sort of failed at that for 15 mins or so, head over to the daycare for the Leg Breaker
People’s Chair/Baryshnikov/Huddle Jump/DWTS/Jump Squat/Squat, etc.
Lots of sprints, then head back home
MOLESKIN
1. Where the pax at? I’m confused. I thought people wanted hard workouts.
2. Tclaps to T&C who posted for his second time today and gave us a lesson in #Diamlernomics, where every employee gets a Benz and the big shots get G65 AMGs. Sign me up.
3. Larry Birds to Alf. Dude is so fast.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Nada.
AYE. 17 of Area 51’s finest and 1 of Metro’s A-Team posted for what appears to be the fastest growing Saturday workout in Charlotte. Allow YHC a moment to opine. I have no idea why this workout is called Day Zero. In my mind, it takes me back to June of 2011 and my first post at Big Hair Monday, where the notion that I was “in pretty good shape” was irrevocably disgorged from my brain #reality. That was my Day Zero. So when we post at a workout with that name, I have to figure that the goal is to humble even the mighty and remind us of what our own Day Zero felt like. The pax and Qs of Day Zero have definitely been delivering on that lately and the numbers have grown. Forgive me while I conflate correlation with causality #APstatistics, but it seems to me that men want hard workouts. Hopefully today’s fit the bill. Here’s more or less what went down:
THE THANG
Trail of Tears
1 mile to Calvary and 100 burpees along the way
Grab a rock and a partner
Hill Hell
Approximately 0.05 miles from top to bottom and back
Round 1 – Up and back with rock
Round 2 – Up and back backwards with rock
Round 3 – 10 Mighty Merkins per partner
Round 4 – 10 Jump Squats per partner
Round 5 – Up and back with rock
Round 6 – Partner carry
Round 7 – Partner carry
Round 8 – Bear crawl
Round 9 – Broad jump
Round 10 – Partner carry
Round 11 – Partner carry
Round 12 – Burpee broad jumps
Round 13 – 10 Mighty Merkins per partner
Round 14 – 10 Mighty Merkins per partner
Round 15 – 10 Jump Squats per partner
Round 16 – Partner Carry
Round 17 – Partner Carry
Round 18 – Partner Carry
Round 19 – Partner Carry
Round 20 – Up and back with rock
(50/50 chance that I got all of that right)
Each round was interspersed with Squats, Mary, Plank, etc
Truncated Trail of Tears
YHC had every intention of knocking out another 100 burpees on the return…but no.
20 Jump Squats / 10 Burpees / 10 Burpees / Mary
AYG about 150 yards
AYG about 25 yards
YE MOLESKINE
1. A huge welcome to an F3 legend, the tilted-head runner himself, Stinger. YHC saw him at the Convergence yesterday and headlocked him for DZ but figured there was about a 5% chance he’d actually trek all the way down here on his own and only about a 25% chance if I included him in the pre-blast tweet. But he did in fact post at DZ, probably just so that we could all become well acquanted with the precise angle of the tilt of his head #12.86degrees.
2. Also, welcome to The Body Bag, who proved the fact that he is a total beast not just by destroying the pax in the AYG springs #soccerlegs but by wearing just shorts and a t-shirt. No gloves. No hat. No long sleeve shirt. Someone tell this silly Englishman that it’s cold outside.
3. TClaps to the many Larry Birds today. Alf, Frasier and Swiper were usually up there with The Body Bag and Stinger as well. It appeared that everyone had a kryptonite and a bailiwick at some point during the workout.
4. There was no one at The Rock. Time to turn up the pain dial.
Thanks again for the chance to Q. #horseneck OUT.
AYE. 17 of Metro’s finest…wait…Area 51’s finest…wait…kind of a mix actually…anyway, a bunch of dudes rolled out into the Gloom for their weekly downpainment. Here’s more or less what transpired.
THE THANG
Mosey to Camilla – 10 burpees
Mosey to Thornridge – 10 burpees (face downhill)
Mosey to Broad Hollow – 10 burpees
Mosey to Kimblewyck – 10 burpees
Mosey to Hartmill – 10 burpees
Back down to the bottom of The Hill leading from Broad Hollow to Thornridge
Man, this hill is steep. Perfect.
Partner up
20/15/10/5 Mighty Merkins each at the top of the hill
20/15/10/5 Partner Jump Squats (jk, just regular) each at the bottom of the hill
Hail Six Minutes of Mary – Keep the feet elevated
20 – Dolly / LFF / HSF / Rosalita / Heels to Heaven / Jackknife / LBC / Russian Twist
50 – Mountain Climbers (25 for Kirk) and LBCs (0 for Kirk)
Partner carry to the top of the hill, then return the favor, then repeat
Backwards run to the top of the hill, repeat
Run back up to Camilla and find a spot on the wall
People’s Chair with arm presses and whatnot
Mosey back to AO HQ
50 burpees
5 burpees – just in case someone miscounted
THINE MOLESKINE
– Oh, Kirk. He was so fast and so strong on The Hill. He even gave Maverick (hate, hate, hate) a run for his money. And then when YHC said “halfway there” at 25 Mountain Climbers…Kirk flopped onto his 6 and started to pout. Just saying.
– TClaps to Maverick, Tardy, Alphabet and other Larry Birds up front. You guys were crushing it.
– Bushwood headlocked me for this Q and then informed me that he would not be showing up because he got snipped. Poor guy. He was probably in the fartsack with an ice pack on his cahones.
– Excellent take-out by Snowflake. Merci, amigo.
Thanks for letting me Q and hope to see you guys in the Gloom again soon. #horseneck OUT