A tale of two routes

A tale of two routes

Date: 2025-11-20 AO: run Q: frasier , PAX: citgo, fleetwood, gumbo, frasier, retread FNGs: None COUNT: 5 WARMUP: THE THANG: We had many different versions. Some are running hills, some were recovering, and others were doing a work out. Everyone went home happy, and there were lots of old men there. MARY: ANNOUNCEMENTS: devil’s turn is never the place for announcements. COT:

No Q, no problem

Date: 2025-11-20 AO: the-devils-turn Q: flipper PAX: citgo, gumbo, frasier, retread, fleetwood FNGs: None COUNT: 5 Ultimate site Q sin… forgot to get a Q or post a route while on short term IR. The PAX got it done anyways, and from a brief Strava survey it appears enjoyed either Olde course or Greenway. Shout out if you were there and I missed a runner.

When 3 means more work than 2

Date: 2025-11-19 AO: the-maul Q: war_eagle PAX: wingman, super trooper FNGs: None COUNT: 3 WARMUP: YHC was hanging out wondering if anyone would join him. Then Wingman rolled up. Waited until 5:32 for late stragglers like Super Trooper to no avail. Off to the Brown Bag parking deck for a warmup then…whats this? It’s Super Trooper. THE THANG: After warmup over to the office complex by Ballantyne Commons for the most underrated and underutilized rick pile in South Charlotte. Partner work modified for 3. Two guys do rock lifting exercise while 3rd guy runs to do called exercise. Then alternate thru all 3. – Curls and run to boulders for 10 derkins. – Overhead presses and bear crawl thru parking section. – Tricep extensions and run to boulder for 10 derkins. – Bent over rows and bear crawl thru parking section.
Next back to the parking deck. Triple nickel with 5 donkey kicks at bottom, up the stairs for 5 burpees then run down the road side back to bottom.
Run back to launch for about 4 minutes of mary. MARY: At the end of the workout. ANNOUNCEMENTS: – Jingle Bell 5k – Turkey Jam – Deck the Halls – A51/SOB holiday party at Hop’s house. Please sign up for headcount. COT: YHC took us out.

Wolf and the Q are Bastards

Date: 2025-11-19 AO: meathead Q: Unplugged PAX: Uncle Leo, The Worm, high_tide, flipper, voodoo, Emoji, Soul Glo, Pepsi FNGs: None COUNT: 9 What a day for the Wolf et al. A beautiful cool day quickly made more glorious with the presence of iron bells, wolf-like exercises, clear instructions, questionable calls by the Q, and worse musical choices (I’m looking at you my chemical romance).
WARMUP: SSH Swings Sprinklers Synovial Circles Prying Squats
THE THANG: 1. Wolf – DFS-DMP-DCL-DFS for Chain-Complex-Chain-Complex-Oreo (no voodoo) – Chain
2. KB Burpee – AKA KBurpee. Merkin-Snatch(L)-Merkin-Snatch(R)-Merkin = 1 rep. Complete 5 reps. 3 Rounds. This was more difficult that it appeared on the weinke.
3. EMOM 2H Swings with heavy-ish bell. Start with 10 reps and add a rep each min. Around rounds 6 or 7 some PAX started cussing YHC choices. Can’t blame them….the grip and hammies were toasted. Total of 145 swings per Uncle Leo.
MARY: Plank – Whilst YHC complete missed swings during a bluetooth speaker malfunction, due to My Chemical Romance. Anvil Joined us for high plank variations and Glute Bridge. ANNOUNCEMENTS: All the things COT: YHC took out the combo Anvil and Meathead AOs.

[brewfood-drive] Brew Ruck Food Drive

Date: 2025-11-15 AO: brew-ruck-food-drive Q: geraldo PAX: Blanks, Starch, Water Works, The Worm, Broken Arrow, turkey_leg, Cheese Curd, Snuka, hoover, gummy, wildturkey, F3 Elsa, Roulette, ToeJam, WaterWorks, deep_dish, slim_fast, beaver, Limey Pico, Landman FNGs: 1 Landman COUNT: 21 16 Pax, including 1 FNG & 1 FIA, loaded their rucks with canned goods and rucked with purpose down the rail trail Saturday afternoon. We stopped at 6 breweries in all, 3.5sh miles and an unknown number of beers consumed but I guarantee @hoover got his monies worth.
Sycamore Hi-Wire Suffolk Punch Triple C Gilde Brewer’s at Yancey
If you stop by Hi-Wire again, be sure to order a pint of CB’s PALS IPA, it’s named for Chris Brown(F3 Rihanna) who was diagnosed with ALS and $1 from each pint sold goes to ALS. It was fun to see all the CLT half-marathon & marathon finishers at the breweries but I bet we had more fun 😃. Welcome Landman (Tony Kosich) from Hamburg NY! Tony is the husband of my wife’s HS best friend and was visiting us weekend. Western NY is such a small community that Tony knew @chickenwing’s dad from East Aurora. I have extra patches for $8 each if you’re interested. Great to see @theworm out the after kicking cancer’s a$$. Kudos to @roulette @wildturkey & @starch for rucking into Sycamore for some extra miles. @brokenarrow rucked 50 lbs, beast mode. @gummy can confirm this was rucking. I’m sure @Limey enjoyed this more than his kid’s dance competitions. He’s also still wating for his burger from Suffolk Punch. @turkeyleg and his M, FIA Pico, proving couples that ruck together have more fun. @snuka from the top rope with his first ruck ever. Big thanks to @toejam for the generous donation. Thanks to @deepdish, @slimfast & @beaver for their donations. TCLAPS to @blanks for picking up and dropping off the donations at the Second Harvest Food Bank Wednesday morning. We donated over a thousand pounds of food through this event. I cannot thank everyone involved with this event enough. It means a lot to the people who will benefit from your kindness. Let’s do this again next year!
-Geraldo

Is political chatter allowed without beers?

Date: 2025-11-19 AO: wamrap Q: Mile High , PAX: Alf, Mile High, Ledbetter FNGs: None COUNT: 3 WARMUP: THE THANG: hit the mile…or “divorce central” as apparently it’s known….perfect weather…burpees…decline pushups…diamonds…etc. MARY: ANNOUNCEMENTS: COT:

It’s pronounced Bouquet

Date: 2025-11-19 AO: sacs Q: wildturkey PAX: Roulette, hoover, Broken Arrow, midriff FNGs: None COUNT: 5 Have you ever thought, I wish I could carry 80lbs in my hands and 30lbs on my back for 3/4 of a mile? Did you think adding an AMRAP and burpees would be the cherry on that sundae? We also got to do some trespassing. Cameo from Tron, too! What a time to be alive!
The morning’s main feature was the Water Bucket Challenge WOD, and it lived up to its name. The weighted carry was a lesson in mental fortitude. The 80 pounds of sloshing water buckets (or sand) demanded every ounce of grip strength for 1,200 meters. Shout out to Hoover who rocked 53# kettlebells.
By the time we dropped the buckets, the 13-minute AMRAP that followed was a test of survival. Trying to hit those lunges, squats, high pulls, presses and D’mericans with completely torched shoulders and then facing a pile of burpees felt less like fitness and more like performance art. It was that kind of beautiful suffering that brings a group together.
It was dumb, it was great! Let’s do it again next year!

Fake Track Day

Date: 2025-11-18 AO: fast-twitch Q: Benny PAX: Runstopper, deep_dish, jet_fuel, retread, Astro (Kyle Kirchhoff), marge FNGs: None COUNT: 7 WARMUP: After a proper disclaimer was given stating that Astro and YHC couldn’t be sued instructions were given to head toward the track including a proper warmup and some dynamic stretches. Afterwards surprise the crowd and head back towards strawberry lane THE THANG: Simple but effective run the speed bumps, 5 jump squats at each one. Rinse and repeat till 6 then moseyed back to launch with a stop at the preschool near SCMS and loops around pros mom. 4.5-5 miles of solid work this morning MARY: None ANNOUNCEMENTS: Christmas Party December 7th at Hops house see slack for sign up, Festivus CSAUP Dec 13th time tbd likey launch see slack for details. Prayers to Jet Fuels family as his sister starts chemo today and for all the pax traveling for the holidays. FT is also looking for a q next week, if available let YHC Astro (Kyle Kirchhoff) know otherwise YHC will send a bad idea to retread COT: Astro with the takeout

1K repeats

Date: 2025-11-18 AO: run Q: frasier , PAX: bratwurst, gumbo, madison, tuck, midriff, bunker, Gump, kirby, jrr_tolkien, Brisket, tag a long FNGs: None COUNT: 12 WARMUP: Traditional, elite runner warm-up THE THANG: after several nervous questions and some stalling, we got to the workout. Pretty basic although the distance was off when everyone’s watches. We did 1 K repeats from Ballantyne Commons up to the fifth floor of the parking deck. MARY: ANNOUNCEMENTS: I have you for one more glorious week. Hope to see more of you out there. It was great having Tuck and Tolken back out after a long time in between. COT:

Guest Q

Date: 2025-11-18 AO: bagpipe Q: lex_luthor PAX: Starch, Blue Tent, taggart, Roulette, wildturkey, lex_luthor, Charms, Charms FNGs: 1 Charms COUNT: 7 Chilly morning out there for the boys. We got off to a great start with a FNG joining us – Welcome “Charms” Did a tour of the West end of Ballantyne. Stopped off at the pavilion / turf field (aka Brixham Park) for bear crawls, lunges, crab walks and drydocks. Stopped over at the waterfall pond (aka Cullman Park) for hills, squats and T merkins. Stopped off at the bull field (aka Our Park) for reverse rows and side lunges. Final stop was the fitness trail (no other name that I am aware of) for pullups or Aussie’s. Made it back to the launch point in time for some Mary. Strong work out there this AM by taggart, Blue Tent, Starch, wildturkey, Roulette and our newest addition Charms

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