This was the question on some’s mind last night after I posted about a possible location change due to the weather forecast. Would we have another ReCalc situation where Team Diesel invades another covered section at Cuthbertson? I like to think of it as Team Diesel is the NWO and we are invading WCW.
As luck would have it, once again the weather forecasters were wrong and we had a nice “cool” morning over at Five Stones.
DICCS given
My Q juices, adrenaline and my mind was going so fast this morning, that I forgot to ask about CPR and Cell Phones. Thanks J-Wow for the reminder!
And lets begin!
WARM UP EXERCISES:
A: Moroccan Night Clubs
B: Imperial Walkers
C: Side straddle hops
D. Potato Pickers
E. Stretch to the right foot / Stretch to the left / Stretch down to the center
F. Shoulder stretch: arm across body…each arm
G. Tricep stretch- elbow stretch each arm
H. Downward Dog and Upward Dog
I. Calf Stretch Each Leg
Now to the workout:
I had Popeye start us off with his Popeye 100’s workout. This is a great workout and I love when he does it.
Then we continued on with the rest in no particular order:
1: Squats
2: Bent over rows (coupon)
3: Overhead press (coupon)
4: Canadian Beavers (bricks)
5: Curls (coupon)
6: Merkins
7: Wood Choppers (bricks)
8: Overhead Tricep Extensions (coupon)
9. Weighted Shoulder Shrugs (bricks)
10. Curb Squats (Re Calc style)
11. Scarecrow (bricks)
12. In place lunges (each leg)
13: Big Boy situps
14. Cross Squats (bricks)
15. Bobby Hurley’s
16. American Hammers
17. Lay down chess press
18. Speed Skaters (each side is 1)
19. Plank Jacks
20. Captain Morgan Squats (left..then right foot on coupon)
21. Al Gore for 60 seconds holding the bricks
22. Outer Curl/Muscle Flex Curl
23. 21’s
24. Zombie curls with coupon (curl, then push/pull coupon straight out/in and return)
25. Weighted squats
26. Alpo’s
27. Kettle bell swings
28. Superman’s
29. Popeye led exercise at the very end
30. J-Wow led merkin exercise at the very end
31. Have a nice day for 1 minute…some guys chose to do flutters during this time.
Announcements:
Christ Closet has activities going on tomorrow (Saturday). Check Group Me Service Opportunities Page for all details.
Planting at Five Stones Church tomorrow (Saturday). Check Group Me or contact Bottlecap for details.
Convergence on Monday. 1776 theme workout. Being held at the Cuthbertson Drivers Ed Parking Lot at 6:30am
Ghosted took us out
This is an old backblast that was never written.
Several men showed up to take a run through the neighborhoods of Millbridge.
2 men walked/rucked.
**If you were at the workout and want credit, please let me know so I can add your name** – Turnbuckle
I was asked by Rubbermaid to write this backblast.
We had 4 pax show up for Morning Wood.
2 – Completed a full run through the Threadtrail
2 – Took a walk/hike through the Threadtrail
Trails were soft due to rain the night before. Lots of frogs and turtles were on the trail as well.
Today’s walk was around Millbridge. No one had stepped up to Q and I did not have time to drive around during the week to find a development to take us to so I chose the easy way out and just decided to have Neighborhood Watch here in Millbridge.
Myself and Radar walked 3.07 miles at a pace of 3.5mph. Little Torpedo the 2.0 of Radar rode his bike. While out on our walk, we saw Paper Jam and his 2.0. I pointed out the area’s to Radar to where some of the fellow Waxhaw PAX lived in Millbridge.
We discussed Radar’s upcoming Ruck walk and that him and Jingles did the Ruck event last night as well. We discussed the blood drive, Dad’s camp and now that its summer and Covid is ending we are getting back out full time to workouts.
Next Sunday’s Neighborhood Watch will be at Blakeney Heath, 9201 Autumn Applause Drive, Waxhaw. This is the home development of Kirby who will be on Q. Radar will be the CO-Q as myself and Posse are both out of town next weekend. The address is Kirby’s home where they will be leaving from. Please come out and join the walk and get to know your fellow PAX and support to these two Q’s.
The May 16th edition of Neighborhood Watch brought us to the BC with big lots. Zinfandel promised a big turnout and once again he delivered. We fed off the overnight campout held at BC ran by Gerber. Lots of 2.0’s came out to join us as we went through the trails from one side of BC to the other. Fun was had by all.
So this past Sunday’s Neighborhood Watch brought us to Prescott in Waxhaw. Radar and Posse started off with a Pre Ruck. They returned to the parking lot to meet up with myself and Shriver. We quickly walked some of the streets of Prescott and then headed into their trail where we came out on Waxhaw Marvin Road. Posse then said who knows where the trail across the street at Town Creek Park leads to? So I said…lets go and find out. So off we went. We took the dirt trail which we found out connects to Millbridge at the Creekview extrance. Posse was so excited to find this new trail for us to use. His excitement was then killed by the fact that in three consecutive weeks Neighborhood Watch has hit all three of his forbidden developments to walk in for Neighborhood Watch. As we walked past Wrigley’s neighborhood, I had thought about us gracing him with Monkey Humpers at his home but we were running late so we continued on.
Welcome to Diesel and I am your host and guest of honor for today’s workout here at Diesel. I chose to Q this weekend in celebration of my 43rd birthday.
Due to the busy holiday weekend I am late with my backblast. But like they say…better late then never. Rumor has it that im actually not that late compared to someone like Posse who is still weeks late in turning in his backblast.
The Bottom Line:
Disclaimer provided to the 13 Pax in attendance.
I wanted to do something a little fun for this weeks workout. Since we are a 0.0 site…I had the Q juices flowing and didnt want to just stand around. As Premature stated…man…someone has some energy to move this morning.
So we started with warmups first:
A: Moroccan Night Clubs
B: Imperial Walkers
C: Side straddle hops
D. Potato Pickers
E. Stretch to the right foot / Stretch to the left foot
F. Shoulder stretch (arm across body) each arm
G. Tricep stretch (old baseball elbow stretch) each arm
H. Downward Dog and Upward Dog
I. Calf Stretch Each Leg (The Damascus favorite…told me I wasnt a good Q unless I included these in my weinke)
J. Sit on your six and spread your legs open…stretch down the center, to the left and to the right
The Thang:
Let’s Mosey. Neighborhood Watch…meet Diesel! We took a walk around the campus of Five Stones Church where the Pax talked it up…around Mt.Chiseled and up to Cuthbertson Road and back. Along the way we stopped at different times and myself and a long with others that I called upon led us on different exercises such as Side Straddle Hops, Big Boys, Squats, Merkins and a few others.
Returned to COT area and completed the following:
2. Overhead press (coupon)
3. Canadian Beavers (bricks)
4. Curls (coupon)
5. Merkins
6. Hammer Curls (bricks)
7. Overhead Tricep Extensions (coupon)
8. Weighted Shoulder Shrugs (bricks)
9. Recalc’s Curb Squats
10. Scarecrow
11. Bobby Hurley’s (I love seeing Mayhem cringe when hears the name of a great Duke basketball player)
12. American Hammers
13. Lay down chess press (coupon)
14. Speed Skaters
15. Captain Morgan Squats
16. Al Gore
17. Outer Curl/Muscle Flex Curl (bricks)
Moleskinny:
I absolutely love Diesel. It is my favorite AO to workout at. I one day hope to become site Q here when Chastain and Brutus decide it is time to move on. The workout which doesnt always need to include running brings a change of pace and something different to our region. What I enjoy about this site is the chatter, laughs and good times had at this site. Diesel is a site that everyone should try at least once. We have the reputation of being slackers and the weaker link AO, but when people show up, they learn that you do get a quality workout in at Diesel. Some of the big guns in F3 Waxhaw have shown up recently to Q Diesel and they seem to have walked away with a new found respect for Diesel.
Announcements:
Memorial Day Convergence: 6:30am on Monday 5/31 at Waxhaw Elementary
Beer Run: June 5th. See Zinfandel for more info
Christ’s Closet needs your help. They need help with clothes folding. Please come out and help fold clothes on your free time. Any time you are able to give helps. Saturday’s 10am to 1pm or if you need a week day/night, please contact one us on the CC team to get you access to the building. Family friendly. Can be used as a service project.
Rice & Beans is in need of men’s underwear, socks and belts (men’s, women and kids). See Centerfold or Turnbuckle for more info.
Blood Drive: Saturday, June 19th at Five Stones Church. Sign up now:
https://www.redcrossblood.org/give.html/drive-results?zipSponsor=F3&cid=siebel&med=email&source=bdc_email&utm_source=siebel&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=bdc_email&fbclid=IwAR2RK_sOXpW63KZp0Et6BjKgZZpgS3Sjqa283-YYfvI3sT7SGuC04ue8X3s
This week we met up at the Retreat at Rayfield in Indian Land. Its quite a busy neighborhood/development. None of us really knew anything about this development and were shocked that it was a pretty big development.
Some conversations we had were that Chicken Little never wore blue jeans until he graduated high school. He strictly wore corduroy pants. Chicken also never ate peanut butter up until a few years ago where he ate peanut butter crackers and discovered that peanut butter was actually pretty good.
Due to his diet, TB hasnt enjoyed some of his favorite foods in over a year such as pizza or peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. He hasnt consumed soda in over 10 years. Speaking of soda, a former teammate/classmate of both TB and Rudy has opened up his own beverage company. Its being sold on Amazon…check it out. There are 4 different flavors. https://www.amazon.com/JavaKIck-Coffee-Cola-Fusion-Rebel-each/dp/B08L4CX2JC/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=java+kick&qid=1614018573&sr=8-1
Turnbuckle also recommends you visit and support the new deli in downtown Waxhaw…The Blue Door Deli. It is owned by one of his neighbors. He has taken his family there for breakfast on a few occasions since they opened.
Posse’s son Dallas is named after Posse’s father. Posse is not a Dallas Cowboys fan yet wears a Dallas Cowboys hat to Neighborhood Watch. It was assumed that Posse was a Cowboys fan and named his son Dallas because of it.
Did you know that Posse’s favorite cookie is Oreo’s. Every Sunday he finds himself stopping at Walmart to pick up some things and sometimes finds himself with a package of Oreo’s in his basket. This conversation led to myself (TB) asking him if he has yet to try the new limited edition Lady Gaga Oreo’s. HA…only you TB know about this stuff!
Posse has a points system for not snacking and his whole family is involved. If he hits his goal, his entire family wins! Wife gets a date night, son gets a golf outing, etc.
Sledge discussed that he was having a great second week at his new job.
Sunday Neighborhood Watch on 2/28/2021 will be at Bent Creek in Indian Land (as long as Periscope doesnt ask us to reschedule again). It truly is a great experience.
Did you know??
We have 3 walking/rucking groups per week now. We have Thursday mornings at 5:15am at Pursuit at Millbridge Clubhouse, Saturday mornings at 6am at Nesbit Park (bring 2 pairs of shoes…walking sneakers if we are just doing the roads or trail shoes if we are doing the trails) and we also have Sunday morning Neighborhood Watch at different communities around the area (check www.f3waxhaw.com for the location each week). Hope to see all of you out there
Location: Bent Creek, Indian Land, SC
Our Sunday morning Neighborhood Watch walk had 10 + 2 fur friends show up for our first warm walk of the season.
This week while venturing out on a 2.56 mile walk lead by Periscope, we learned where he was born and raised as well as where he has lived throughout his life.
It was Elmer’s second day out ever at F3. Mad Dog got him to agree to come out to F3 before he even knew what F3 was. Elmer’s was named due to his occupation. Keep showing up! Showing up is half the battle!
Chicken Little got to learn about Dynomite and his life of being an entrepreneur.
Got to learn that Chicken likes to visit different F3 locations in his travels. Posse is putting Chastain up to getting out a new FNG that Posse knows during Chastain’s upcoming travel.
Posse is traveling out to the west coast this summer and we discussed doing a tour of the Goonies movie filming locations. Come to find out, Posse has never seen the movie or any of the Rocky movies! Who has never seen these movies?
We learned that Zinfandel has been taking advantage of the down time during the Covid pandemic by taking road trips around the United States with his family.
We discussed how NJ is the lone remaining state where you are not able to pump your own gas.
Why are we putting the past behind us you might ask? The sole purpose of Neighborhood Watch happened once again. Get to know your fellow Pax. For those that dont know, I (Turnbuckle) have found being a part of F3 over the past 18 months, there are going to be personality clashes. One person I have always found myself being difficult to get along with is the one and only Zinfandel. Whether the cause being my childish and immature antics of being on GroupMe or for one reason or another…I dont know the real reason to be honest. I have always respected Zin for the leadership that he brings to F3 Waxhaw, but felt we have seemed to butt heads and I was always intimidated to be around him. Well at NW this week, he initiated conversation with me and it actually went really well. I felt like he was the cool kid in school actually talking to the fat nerdy kid. Like…you want to talk to me? Glad we finally got to break that awkwardness I have always felt there was between us. Thanks for the chat Zin!
Next week 3/7 Neighborhood Watch will be at Bel Air at Carolina Lakes in Indian Land. Hope now that we are seeing warmer temps, we will see more of you out there. It really is a great time out there every Sunday morning. Do you have a neighborhood you want us to visit…let us know…we will make it happen.