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343

Seventeen pax gathered in the gloom around three shovel flags to pay tribute to the 343 firefighters who gave of  themselves so as to save others.

 

THE THANG  (All pax wore 40 lb packs to simulate firefighter gear).

  • Run to stairs at church, split into two groups.
  • Stair climb x 25  (skip a step every other ascent)
  • Run back to lot.

Stations (bench step ups or plank if waiting)

  • Hose Drag Simulation:  Tire Drag Sprint x 50 yards, tire pull 50 ft.
  • Forced Entry Simulation:  Sledgehammer an SUV tire across parking lot x 100 ft
  • Ceiling Breach Simulation: car tires on lead poles x20, 25 lb dumb bell hanging pull x 20
  • Equipment Carry Simulation: 50 lb bucket carry x 100 yards
  • Search and Rescue Simulation: 50 yard bear crawl
  • Victim Rescue Simulation: Tractor tire drag x 75 ft
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MOLESKIN
  •  The hero is commonly the simplest and obscurest of men.  ~Henry David Thoreau
  • Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death,even death on a cross.  Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name,  so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. (Philippians 2:5-11).
  • As we reflect on the heroes of the day, let us also set our mind to humility, obedience, sacrifice and service; yet not for our exaltation, but for His.

Ark Loader

Two by two, the Pax posted around the shovel flag for a beat down of biblical proportions.

————–Tiger Rag Half————————

Warm Up

  • Fellowship jog x 1/4 mile
  • SSH x 30
  • I-Walkers x 25
  • Frog Squat x 20
  • Scorpion Merkins (right leg high) x 10
  • Scorpion Merkins (left leg high) x 10
  • Mosey to field

 

Thang 1 – The Ark Loader

  • Bear Crawl x 50 yards
  • Backwards Bear Crawl x 50 yards
  • Frog Squat/jump x 50 yards
  • Backwards Frog Squat/jump x 50 yards
  • Bunny Hop x 50 yards
  • Backwards Bunny Hop x 50 yards
  • One legged Bear Crawl (right leg up) x 25 yards
  • One legged Bear Crawl (left leg up) x 25 yards
  • Walking lunge x 50 yards
  • Bear Crawl Karaoke (right) x 50 yards
  • Bear Crawl Karaoke (left) x 50 yards
  • Crab Walk x 25 yards
  • Backwards Crab Walk x 25 yards
  • One-legged Crab Walk x 25 yards
  • Backwards one-legged Crab Walk x 25

 

——————Joker Half-————————–

Mary

  • LBC x 20
  • Low Flutter x 20
  • Dolly x 20
  • High Dolly x 20 (Rosalita?)
  • Plank x 30 sec
  • Right arm high
  • Left arm high
  • Mason Twist x 20
  • Alternating V-up toe touches, “The Slapshot”
Thang 2 – Mini WIB
  • Fellowship / recovery jog x 3/4 mi.
  • 150 Squats per Pax
  • 100 Dips per Pax
  • 30 Pull Ups per Pax
Field Work – “Warm Down”
  • Karaoke (left) x 75 yards
  • Karaoke (right) x 75 yards
  • Backpedal x 75 yards
  • Repeato
  • Sprint x 75 yards
  • Repeato
  • Slow Merkins x 10
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Moleskin
  • Much weeping and gnashing of teeth during the Ark Loader.  Certainly not in YHC’s wheelhouse and in keeping with the Ark theme, many Larry Birds.  Too many for proper attribution, but Donkey Kong, Joker, McGee and Ocho Cinco were always setting the pace.
  • It’s the eponymy, stupid:  Cottontail decimates the Pax during the bunny hop.
  • T-claps to FNG Punky Brewster (fka Steve Butkovich, Floppy Disk’s bro-in-law) for posting.  Wednesday he was just minding his own business, Thursday he got EHed for the Spartan Sprint, and today he posted at Area 51.  #Strong.
  • The Pax fka The Oracle (with some sort of Nebraska pedigree) was renamed Bugeater today after YHC read this article on the origin of football team nicknames (LINK HERE).
  • Joker managed to smoke himself so bad today that not only did he drag the shovel flag (sentence: 25 merkins), but he couldn’t find his car in a half-empty parking lot.
  • F3/Ultimate tomorrow (09-02-12), 2:30 to 400-ish.  All skill levels welcome: 2nd F focus.  Pre-Blast and more info HERE.
  • Latta Convergence on Labor Day, 0700 to 0800 (check Find a Workout section of website for directions).  Word has it that you want to bring gloves.  Our adopted Pax McGee is bringing the pain…
  • NEXT WEEK, 09-08-12:  Charlotte South convergence at “The Rock” at Calvary (No Area 51 workout next week).  Meet at the playground and keep eyes open for the Pre-Blast coming this week.

 

Leg-O-Rama

Twelve men posted and voluntarily fed their lower extremities into the virtual wood chipper.

 

Warm Up

  • Fellowship jog to church parking lot
  • Run up and down stairs
  • Bunny hop up and down stairs x 2
  • Fingertip Merkins x 10
  • Slow Groiners x 10
  • Squats, Low and Slow, x 20
  • Bunny hop up and down stairs x 2
  • Fellowship jog to hill

 

The Thang

PART 1:  The Hill

  • Lunge walk up hill, run back down
  • Backwards lunge walk up hill, run back down
  • Side lunge walk up hill (left), run back down
  • Side lunge walk up hill (right), run back down
  • Peter Parker lunge walk up hill (right elbow to left knee, left elbow to right knee), run back down
  • Backward Peter Parker lunge walk up hill (Crowd Pleaser)
  • Mosey to school drop off lane for something entirely different:  lunge walk x 50 yards (arms overhead)
  • Plank, wait for stragglers
  • Mosey to Plates

PART 2:  The Plates, a Tire and Misc.

  • Plate/Tire Inch Worms x 30 yards
  • Hairburners back to start
  • Plate/Tire Inch Worms x 30 yards
  • Hairburners back to start
  • Plate/Tire Inch Worms x 30 yards
  • Hairburners back to start
  • Speed Skaters x 10 ea leg
  • Warrior 3 x 30 sec ea leg

Mary

  • Dolly x 25 (hold ’em)
  • Flutter x 25
  • Glute Bridge x 60 sec
  • Greatest American Hero x 30 sec.  (Repeat)
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MOLESKIN
  • An under-the-radar Spartan training regimen focusing on legs today.  Hear that Google?  SPARTAN, SPARTAN, SPARTAN.  Send traffic here.  Now go sign up for the Spartan Beast and Sprint at www.f3nation.com
  • Skunk Works attracts the beef-eating, horse-necked Pax, with a few ectomorphs wandering in from time to time.  But with all the BRR training dominating the F3 New Cycle and Twitter chatter,  there was no choice but for the Skunk Pax to go after the legs and lungs today.  Put the grab bars in the loo, gents.
  • Any Qs looking to spice up a workout, YHC offers a nugget of wisdom:  do the same things, only backwards.  The anteriorally-developed Pax is only half the man he could be and leading with the six is a great way to confuse the muscles.
  • What’s a Plate Inch Worm, you ask?  Like a hairburner but suckier.  Plank with feet on a weight plate (ranging today from 45 lbs to 10lbs) or a tire if you are last in (looking at you Donkey Kong).  Next, pull knees to chest, dragging the plate/tire along the asphalt with your feet.  Repeat for 30 yards or so.  No sparks or smell of burnt hair but a full body smoker nonetheless.
  • Unfortunate timing for Devil’s Turn time trials coming this Thursday.  Foam roll, gents.
  • NEW FELLOWSHIP WORKOUT COMING THIS SUNDAY:  After tossing McGee’s “football” in the parking lot a few weeks ago, YHC’s Ultimate (Frisbee) cravings have been reawakened.  Details to follow on the website and through the Qs in the COTs this week.  Quick look:  3 pm at Olde Providence Elementary on Rea.  It will be a Pax-only game but shorties can play on adjacent fields and playgrounds.
  • New CLT South Workout, The Rock, to launch from Calvary (Rea and 51) on Saturday, Sept. 8.  This is our first step towards westward expansion into Ballantyne.  Start headlocking your friends in the S. CLT / Ballantyne area join us.

 

250 Burpees and a Strong Handshake

Eighteen Pax posted for the first installment of Spartan-specific training, Skunk Works style.

 

WARMUP

  • SSH x 20
  • Fingertip Merkins x 10
  • Squats x 20

 

THE THANG

Partner Up for Stations.  1 Pax performs exercise while other Pax performs 30 Spartan Burpees.  Flapjack at completion of burpees.

  • Towel Pull Ups
  • 30 Spartan Burpees
  • Chain – Supine Pull Ups
  • 30 Spartan Burpees
  • Dumbbell Forearm Curls: Std, Twists, Reverse
  • 30 Spartan Burpees
  • Rock Pinch each hand
  • 30 Spartan Burpees
  • Hand Clamp Plate Press (2-10 lb plates, alternate arms)
  • 30 Spartan Burpees
  • Tennis Ball Squeeze
  • 30 Spartan Burpees
  • Weighted One Handed Tire Pull (“The Nibbler”)
  • 30 Spartan Burpees
  • Farmer Carry (2 -35 lb plates)
  • 30 Spartan Burpees
  • One Handed Weighted Bag Carry
  • 30 Spartan Burpees
  • Screwdrivers (All)
  • 30 Spartan Burpees
  • Fingertip Plank (30 sec)
  • Forearm Stretch Plank (Fingertips toward toes)
  • Fingertip Plank (30 sec)

 

COT

 

MOLESKIN

  • With the Spartan Beast a mere 60 days out, the Skunk pax got to work tightening up the weak spots:  rope climbing and burpees (the easy, Spartan kind).  Due to the trivial fact that we didn’t have a climbing rope, we worked on the prerequisite course to rope climbing (and a respectable handshake)–grip strength.  And lots of burpees.
  • Father Time’s brisk pace prevented the Pax from making all 9 stations (the 10th was a duplicate), but most made it through eight.  That’s 240 Spartan Burpees per pax.  Strong Work by all.
  • Why do our #SadClown / #SoloFern friends need F3?  Because of exchanges like Callaway to Joker:  “We’ve already done 240 burpees, might as well make it 250.”  And so they did.
  • Donkey Kong, sensing climbing (#Wheelhouse) might be in the offing at future workouts starts asking about access to the roof of the gym….Um, no.  And send our greetings to Faye Wray.
  • The Skunk Works itinerary will take a decidedly Spartan flavor the next 8 weeks.  Metro Pax encouraged to follow Nibbler’s example and join us.  Actual climbing ropes, barbed wire and mud to be featured in coming weeks.
  • A51 Expansion News:  Area 51 will add a second Saturday workout called The Rock, on Sept. 8, at Calvary Church.  Start EH’ing your Ballantyne and Pineville friends. T-Claps to site Q’s, Mall Cop, Hops and Run Stopper for getting this done. Details to follow.

The 150 lb Cheese Roll

The hill was angry at 13 Pax this day, my friends.  Like an old man returning soup at a deli.

 

WARM UP

  • SSH x 35
  • I-Walker x 30
  • Prison Squat x 30
  • Merkins x 20
  • Grab (2) tires, std;  (1) tire, tractor, (2) 50 lb. buckets, run to lower lot.
  • Pax not transporting coupons: 10 burpees, then run to lot.

 

THE THANG – HILL STATIONS (2 min ea.)

  • Tractor Tire – Roll up hill, flip down hill.
  • Farmer Walk – (2) 50 lb. buckets up and down hill.
  • Plank Tire Pull – Side Elbow Plank (L then R), pull tire up hill.
  • Tire Hill Sprint – Sprint to top of hill dragging tire.
  • Pancake Plates – Hold 45 lb  or 35 lb plates between palms, 6″ off chest, walk up and down hill.
  • DB Lunge Press – 25lb or 15 lb dumbbell lunge walk to overhead press.  Up hill and down.
  • Sumo Walk – 50 lb military duffel filled with weights, sumo walk up and down hill.
  • Mountain Climbers – Pax not at station perform mountain climbers x 2 min.

Transport tires and buckets back to original spot.  Couponless Pax:  3 hill sprints.

 

COT

 

MOLESKIN

  •  After last week’s ego-deflating 30-30 tabata with the Ms’ hand weights, it was time to feel like a man again and move heavy things up and down the hill.  Workman-like effort by all.  T-Claps.
  • Pretty Boy Quarterback started training this morning for his annual trip to the Gloucestershire Cheese Rolling Race by rolling the 150 lb-plus tractor tire down the hill.  Toward the buses.  Toward an unidentified Pax, head down, pounding out the mountain climbers.  Thankfully, all personnel and property emerged unblemished.
  • Incidentally, despite the glamorous handle, Pretty Boy Quarterback prefers to chase his Cheese Roll incognito.  YHC has it on good authority that the gentleman in the green shirt at 2:04 in the clip from the 2009 race is none other than our very own. Link HERE.
  • With 13 Pax distributed among only 7 stations, each Pax got 5 to 7 cracks at the mountain climbers.  At 2 minutes per, that’s ten to fourteen minutes of scratching pavement.  Strong work.

 

 

It Pays to Be a Winner

Twelve big, hairy, American winning-machines posted around the VSF and started the day with some mental math.

 

THE THANG

Number-ama: Count off into three teams or 4.

  • TEAM 1:   Joker, Callaway, Jamboree, Tiger Rag
  • TEAM 2:  Harley, Big Bear, Donkey Kong, 49er
  • TEAM 3:  Mall Cop, Cowboy, Smash, Countertop.

 

Warmup

  • Each team disperse and self-organize 5 minute warm up.
  • Regroup to COP
  • Mental Math Merkins:  multiply two, two-digit numbers in your head while performing Merkins.  Winner gets first pick of coupon (35 lbs plates or 45 lb plates). Five additional merkins for each wrong answer.
  • Jog to track with coupons.

 

Reindeer Games

HAIRBURNER TEAM RELAY x 400 METERS

  • RULES:  Each Pax pushes plate at least once.  Each Pax must also run at least one lap.  Winner is first team back with plate and all 4 PAx.
  • PRIZES:  Winner=Planks; 1st Loser=5 burpees;  2nd Loser=10 burpees
4×100 COUPON RELAY
  • RULES:  None, Thunderdome.
  • PRIZES: Winner=Planks; 1st Loser=5 Squat to Jump Knee Tucks;  2nd Loser=10 Squat Jump Knee Tucks
4×100 COUPON RELAY – BACKWARDS RUN
  • RULES:  Run Backwards.
  • PRIZES: Winner=Planks; 1st Loser=5 Wide Arm;  2nd Loser=10 Wide Arm
4×100 RELAY – BACKWARDS RUN (sans Coupons)
  • RULES:  Run Backwards.
  • PRIZES: Winner=Decline Planks; 1st Loser=5 Decline Merkins;  2nd Loser=10 Decline Merkins
 TUG OF WAR (Plank)
  • RULES:  Tug of war from a 3-point plank position.
  • PRIZES:  None.  Stalemate.

TUG OF WAR (Std.)

  • RULES:  Best 2 of 3 (Didn’t I say that aloud?)
  • PRIZES:  None, out of time.

TEAM SPRINT, COUPON OVERHEAD

  • RULES:  Coupon overhead, straight arms, uphill back to parking lot.
  • PRIZES:  Winners=Warm Fuzzies;  1st, 2nd Losers=You get nothing.
4MOM
  • Flutter x 20
  • Dolly x 20
  • Peter Parker x 20
  • Plank x 1 min
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MOLESKIN
  • Took some lessons from the Go Ruck–problem solving, self-organizing, new leaders, team work–and applied an element of friendly competition.  Good things all around.
  • We started with problem solving: while doing merkins, do 18×17 in your head.  Drop and try it.  It’s almost impossible to do a slow thinking activity combined with something else.  HERE is why (a review of the book, Thinking Fast and Slow).  Other than Joker, it appeared that each Pax came to a plank to get it right.  Some ignored obvious mistakes–it’s got to end in a 6, for instance.  Since YHC was on Joker’s team, it would be interesting to hear how the other teams solved the problem.
  • YHC’s love affair with the Hairburner continues, this time with a 400 meter lap around the track.  Once the few rules were announced, the Pax were given abut 15 seconds to devise a strategy, then take off.  The goals: think on the fly, work with what you got, adjust when necessary.
  • More salutary effects derived from team competition: not wanting to let the Team down pushed many Pax to take it up a notch.  T-Claps all around.
  • T-Claps to Mall Cop for stepping up when tapped for a quick session of Mary.  Area 51 Pax be prepared to step up a lead sections of workouts unannounced.  ‘Tis good for the soul.

 

Pain on Ciabatta, Hold the Rest (or 30-30s)

Twelve Faithful posted around the VSF for an experimental tabatta.

 

THE THANG

Warm Up

Running with dumbbells x 1/2 mile (or so)

Uphill walking lunge, with twist

 

CIABATTA

  • Merkins x 30 sec
  • Mission Impossible Hold x 30 sec
  • Repeato x 3, for 4 minutes total
  • Squats x 30 sec
  • People’s Chair x 30 sec
  • Repeato x 3, for 4 minutes total
  • Dumbbell curls x 30 sec
  • Static Hold x 30 sec
  • Repeato x 3, for 4 minutes total
  • Low Flutter x 30 sec
  • 6″ Hold ‘Em x 30 sec
  • Repeato x 3, for 4 minutes total
  • Dumbbell Skull Crushers (Tri’s) x 30 sec
  • Static Hold x 30 sec
  • Repeato x 3, for 4 minutes total
  • One leg, bent over toe touches x 30 sec
  • Static Hold (aka Warrior 3) x 30 sec  CAUTION:  May contain yoga-like substance.
  • Repeato x 3, for 4 minutes total (2 min L, 2 min R)
  • Dumbbell Overhead Press x 30 sec
  • Overhead straight-arm lockout x 30 sec
  • Repeato x 3, for 4 minutes total
  • Peter Parker x 30 sec
  • Plank x 30 sec
  • Repeato x 3, for 4 minutes total

 

COT

 

MOLESKIN

  • The Skunk Pax can thank Blue and the Cotswold Faithful for the seed idea for this workout and the associated TBQs.  “Pain” it Forward, F3 Style.  Aye!
  • The Pax were advised in an email PreBlast to bring dumbbells in the 8-15 lb range.  Water jugs or “something with handles” were suggested alternates.  Jamboree posts with 10 lb dumbbell and a gallon of bleach.  Not sure what to say about that.  Note to Pax:  This one will be back.  Stock up appropriately.
  • Mall Cop, meanwhile, borrowed Izzy Mandlebaum’s dumbbells from the fitness museum.  Again, stock up.
  • The ironically-named Thin Crust doubled down on oxymoron, rolling up (late, mind you) in a new Mini Cooper, a car better proportioned for Run Stopper.
  • Sign up for Twitter and follow @F3Nation.  If you, like Hops, are flummoxed by all this “tweetering” (his words), go HERE for the F3+Twitter Primer.
  • The Shore and 49er kick off the A51 tempo run, The Devil’s Turn, this Thursday, July 26, at McAlpine Greenway – SARDIS entrance.  The six milers go off at 0515 am, the 4 milers at 0530.
  • HEADS UP FOR UPCOMING SPARTAN RACES:  Look for instructions on sign ups for the upcoming races in October (Beast) and February (Sprint).  Once the page is live, F3 will have an online registration available for a limited time only.  More info to follow. Stay tuned.

 

Cottontail 2.9

Seventeen souls gathered at Area 51.

 

THE THANG

 

Side straddle hop x20

Imperial walker x20

Standing lunge x20

LBC x15

Flutter kick x15

Dolly x15

Merkins x20

 

“The Beast”

Set 1 – merkins x6

Set 2 – squats x6

Set 3 – lbc x6

Set 4-  imperial walker x6

Set 5 – diamond merkins x6

Set 6 – burpees x6

 

Peoples Chair

3 sets with intervals of decline merkins until failure

 

trail run

jump-ups x25

 

trail run

dips x25

 

trail run

jump-ups x25

 

trail run

dips x25

 

trail run

 

2 sets

pull-ups x10

scissor crunch x20

 

peter parker

 

walking lunge

bear crawl

 

parker peter

 

jog to parking lot

 

 

Nakedman Moleskin:

  •  89 recovered from the thrashing he received for missing last week.  He gave us his usual dose of pain on the pavement and a strong round of the beast!
  • Tiger Rag was correct in assuming I would provide the opportunity for us to stretch our legs, this time with multiple laps on the trail.  There was talk of a last minutes star fish but we ran out of time.
  • Triple claps to Cottontail (okay, to MCottontail) for the birth of  their 10th child, Cottontail 2.9.  It was suggested that The Tickler treat him to lunch and maybe have a few words about some, ahem, “things.”
  • The Shore and 49er kick off the A51 tempo run, The Devil’s Turn, this Thursday, July 26, at McAlpine Greenway – SARDIS entrance.  The six milers go off at 0515 am, the 4 milers at 0530.
  • HEADS UP FOR UPCOMING SPARTAN RACES:  Look for instructions on sign ups for the upcoming races in October (Beast) and February (Sprint).  Once the page is live, F3 will have an online registration available for a limited time only.  More info to follow. Stay tuned.

 

 

posted for Slapshot

This IS mud, right?

Seventeen Pax issued forth for a mid-week shellacking.

 

THE THANG

Warm Up

  • SSH x 30
  • Shoulder Circles
  • Diamond Merkins x 25
  • I-Walkers x 30
  • Dry Docks x 25
  • Indian Run to Track

 

Track Work – Victory Mile

  • Lap 1: 10 burpees at whistle
  • Lap2:    8 burpees at whistle
  • Lap 3:   6 burpees at whistle
  • Lap 4:   4 burpees at whistle
  • Plank when finished

 

6MOM

  • Dolly x 30
  • Bicycle x 30
  • Mason Twist x 20
  • LBC x 35
  • 6″ Hold ’em x 1 min

 

Building Work

  • Jog to Building
  • People’s Chair x 90 sec
  • Balls to Wall x 30 sec
  • People’s Chair x 90 sec
  • Jog to Field

 

Mud Work – 4 corners: 5 teams of 3 Pax, 1 team of 2 Pax

  • 2 Pax Wheel Barrow / 1 Pax Karaoke to 1st Cone.  50 merkins (combined)
  • Run to 2nd Cone, 50 sit ups (combined)
  • 2 Pax Fireman Carry / 1 Pax Karaoke to 3rd cone, 50 burpees (combined)
  • Run to 4th Cone, plank
  • Indian Run

Plank-O-Rama

  • Regular, Right Arm Up, Right Leg Up
  • Flapjack Left

 

COT

 

MOLESKIN

  • Virgin QIC, 49er, tumbled from the Providence Plantation Clown Car (with The Shore, Stone Cold and Monkey Joe) and punched the Pax in the mouth with a strong first workout.  T-Claps.
  • Q went traffic cop on the Pax and pulled out a whistle to signal burpees for the Victory Mile.  #Low-Talker
  • T-Claps to Mall Cop, regularly making the downPainments and reaping the benefits.
  • Expect more mysterious skin rashes in the Pax after sit ups in what resembled an overfilled septic field.  Likely source of USMC “mud.”
  • The Shore and 49er are starting an Area 51 run workout on Thursday, JULY 26, at the Sardis entrance to McAlpine Greenway.  The Shore leads the six-miler into the Coyote Park at 0515, 4-miler leaves at 0530.  Note to Shore: either stop getting hopped on the Ritalin from the samples closet or share with the Pax.  We won’t be able to keep up.

Burpees or Beetles

Nine Pax and a beetle posted in the gloom.

 

THE THANG

Warm Up

  • Jog 1/2 mile or so.
  • SSH x 30
  • Mountain Climbers x 30

 

Century Set

  • Burpees x 100 (10 min cap)

 

Main Course

  • Prowler + 70 lbs x 1
  • Naked Prowler x 1
  • Hairburners (Std). x 2
  • One Armed Hairburners x 2

 

Jog to Playgound

  • Swing Knee Tucks x 20
  • Glute Bridge with Heel raises x 10 (ea leg)
  • Repeat

 

Mosey to Hill

  • Hill “Suicide”
  • Run back to weighted tires
  • Weighted Tire Sprints x 3
  • Flutters, LBCs, Dollies, and Plank while in queue for sprint
COT
MOLESKIN
  • YHC spent the last week on a floating buffet to and from Alaska and needed to burn some calories.  Thanks to the Pax for supporting the detox efforts.
  • A large, grape-sized rhino beetle joined the Pax to stretch before the workout and discussion turned to our preference for 100 burpees or eating the beetle.  McGee, still learning the Area 51 folkways, expressed his preference for the beetle.  When given the option in the COP, however –beetle or burpees–his love for burpees prevailed and our beetle friend lives to see another day.
  • Strong work by Run Stopper on the burpees, coming in between 6-7 minutes.  It doesn’t hurt that he only has half the distance to drop as the rest of us.  Just sayin’.
  • The Prowler, with the lease to expire this week, made its last appearance at Skunk Works, for a while at least.  The Pax will no doubt be disappointed, but the Skunk Works Requisition Team already has a replacement (or two) in place.  Stay tuned…
  • The hill work was admittedly more of a weak cry for help than a suicide.  A palate cleanser, if you will, at least in F3 terms.  Enter two passing tomatoes, clucking about our pace.  How they managed to speak at all, what with their torrid 15 min / mile pace, is beyond me.  T-Claps to the gum-flapping ‘maters.
  • New Thursday Area 51 run workout on the boards, led by The Shore….details to be announced soon.

 

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