Ohio Strong

Ohio Strong

Date: 2025-01-25 AO: the-rock Q: hopper PAX: gummy, Orange Whip, THE Rug Doctor, Snuka, geraldo, madison, Alf, Frosty, Frosty FNGs: 1 Frosty COUNT: 10 THE THANG: Jog to the library parking lot for some Imperial Walkers, Mountain Climbers, Squats. Partner up, Partner 1 performs called exercise while Partner 2 runs a lap around the awnings. We completed 3 rounds. gummy was already asking if we could head for coffee. We moseyed over to Davie Park, stopping for some Mary at the pool near Cary Ridge. We spotted some Run 4 Your Lifers. At Davie Park, we ran to the club house stopping at each light for 5 merkins. WAMRAP master Alf dominated but THE Rug Doctor wasn’t too far behind. We did Carolina Dry Docks at each light on the way back before getting interrupted by cars. We headed back to Calvary Church stopping at the parking with the islands where we did some more running and exercises. gummy was still asking if we could go for coffee. With some time left we moseyed back to launch. We did some sprints (time killer) before finishing up a plank. Done. MARY: LBCs & something else ANNOUNCEMENTS: Welcome FNG Frosty, a recent transplant from Chicago who was EH’d by Orange Whip. Kudos to hopper for back-to-back Qs. Old Man Strong. Snuka is fast. Focker was a no-show after hard committing to THE Rug Doctor last night. Good to see madison adding boot camps back to his routine. He has the Q at Base Camp Monday. gummy is a CPA but doesn’t do taxes. Air BNBs might be worth it during the golf tournament at Quail Hollow.

ABCs of a Gear Beatdown

Date: 2025-01-25 AO: olympus Q: Krzyzewski PAX: MARTA, voodoo, The Worm, taggart FNGs: None COUNT: 5 The gloom was as advertised this morning – bleak and cold. Until about 6:59am, YHC thought this was going to be a solo Q adventure. However, like some sort of deus ex machina plot device, the pax began to descend upon our hallowed pavement. The Worm came from the South. MARTA and Voodoo from the North. And Taggart just plain came in hot.
As Unplugged crushed his swing goals early, YHC modified the weinke, but overall it was a fairly swing-heavy pump to close out this first month of 2025. Mumblechatter ranged from highly educational talks of reservoir engineering to how we’re converting SACS pax into gear heads to hidden treasures at Food Lion. Overall, great way to stay warm. Let’s get into the recap… WARMUP: Swings (10x), prying squats, swings (10x), synovial circles, swings (10x), slingshots (7x e/w) THE THANG: 1) Pelosi Ladder 2) “Brutes” & Ladders (1 set) – A: Clean – L (3x); clean – R (3x); clean – L (2x); clean – R (2x); clean – L (1x); clean – R (1x) – B: Replace ‘clean’ in A with ‘clean & press’ – C: Replace ‘clean & press’ in B with ‘thruster’ – D: Repeato B – E: Repeato A 3) Parking Heavy Bells (2 sets) – Swing – L; hi-pull – L; park bell (5x) – Swing – R; hi-pull – R; park bell (5x) – Two-handed swing; two-handed hi-pull; park bell (5x) 4) 20/10 EMOM (Pax choice on how to breakup each element) – A: Swings (20x) – B1: SLDL (10x) – B2: Lawnmower row (10x) – B3: Snatch (10x) – B4: Bent over row (10x) – B5: Sumo squat (10x) 5) Voodoo / Hoodoo Confusion Complex (2 sets) – Voodoo complex (1x e/s) – Hoodoo complex (1x e/s) 6) Humane Complex (5 sets) – Swings (11x); goblet squat (10x); merkin (1x) – Drop 2x squats and add 2x merkins each set 7) Carries! (6 sets) – Suitcase, racked, waiter MARY: Nope. ANNOUNCEMENTS: – Spartan Race in Concord on the weekend of April 5-6; see Slack for an F3 discount code (maybe? Might be sold out, but also might return – such mystery!) – Prayers for our brothers, who did not post, who are suffering silently, or who need encouragement – you are not alone – T-claps to Voodoo for guessing the dumb playlist theme this week! Rest assured, YHC is hard at work dreaming up subsequent stupidity involving mostly rock songs from the days of yore. Who knows when the all P. Diddy playlist will drop? COT: Joined the pax of the Rock and Orange Whip closed out the joint groups in prayer

1/2 a Chicken

Date: 2025-01-25 AO: chicken-run Q: Paper Jam PAX: jrr_tolkien, Astro (Kyle Kirchhoff), Flip Phone, kid_rock, toolbag, midriff, drive_by, Kielbasa, Paper Jam, Chatterbox FNGs: None COUNT: 10 This was the warm up run for OkiDokey25. Looks like we are ready.

Timber Wolves in Ice Mountain

Date: 2025-01-25 AO: stonehenge Q: wildturkey PAX: lex_luthor, Rousey, Roulette FNGs: None COUNT: 4 Warm up and stretch Run to Premiere Deck 💪 Jack Webb – push-ups and arm raises 1 x 4 🦵Jack Webb – squat and lunges 1 x 4 🫃Jack Webb – sit-ups and Russian twists 1 x 4 2 rounds per Webb per floor up to 10 and 40 reps Assorted exercises in the way down Burpees to close
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Bear Crawls and Mary Oh My

Date: 2025-01-25 AO: davinci Q: war_eagle PAX: Palmolive, Odd Job, wingman FNGs: None COUNT: 4 WARMUP: Mosey to the fountain by the Blakeney office/medical complex for standard warmup with stretches. A round of The Motivator to get the muscles warm. THE THANG: – Partner up at the parking lot by the fountain. P1 bear crawls down the parking lot with a merkin at each parking spot while P2 runs to the day care and back then flapjack. We almost made it down the whole complex. This is an old school Davinci favorite that I don’t think we have done in a while. – Since the upper body was gassed we did leg exercises back at the fountain. – Mosey to the shopping center for some window shopping. At each door we did a called Mary with feet always at 45 degrees and never touching the ground. – On to the playground for a round of pullups and plank. – Back to launch for longest 3 minutes of Mary. MARY: Oh yeah ANNOUNCEMENTS: Waxhaw Trail Fest coming up in April. Keep an eye out on Slack for more details. COT: YHC took us out.

New Territory

Date: 2025-01-24 AO: joust Q: hopper PAX: Orange Whip, Focker, jet_fuel, geraldo, Limey FNGs: None COUNT: 6
WARMUP: THE THANG: MARY: ANNOUNCEMENTS: COT:

5K coyote run

Date: 2025-01-24 AO: _sob Q: HazMat PAX: tuck, Franky FNGs: None COUNT: 3 5K in the cold.

Cold and gloomy, but not alone…

Date: 2025-01-24 AO: scars Q: Roulette PAX: Starch, F3 Elsa, ToeJam, The Worm, Odd Job FNGs: None COUNT: 6 WARMUP: Get moving because it’s 20 degrees out and my hands are freezing THE THANG: 3 mile minimum ruck achievement unlocked… Great to see The Worm keep posting as he continues his treatment, it’s inspiring… Props to Odd Job for getting back out after a bunch of travel, great to have you back. It’s not easy getting out there in the cold and I appreciate all you guys for making the effort. MARY: Who? ANNOUNCEMENTS: GoRuck basic in March, Spartan race in April COT: Be excellent to each other

Cold Brew

Date: 2025-01-24 AO: mountain-goat Q: slim_fast PAX: wildturkey, Sensei, lois FNGs: None COUNT: 4 🏃‍♂️💨🥶❄️🏔️☕

Friday Ultimate Smackdown

Date: 2025-01-24 AO: ufo-ultimatefriz Q: MARTA PAX: MARTA, Smokey, David Baker, Fruity Pebbles, Shank, sweeney_todd, Pfeffer, Victoria, Spyglass, Paris, Slumdog, Crawdad, Spikeball, Yeti, Mayo, biden FNGs: None COUNT: 16 Pink with a Friday Victory by 1
Pink (2s) Vicky Shank Mayo Marta Pfeffer Smokey Slumdog Crawdad
Yellow(1s) Sweeney YETI SPIKEBALL Paris BIDEN FRUITY PEBBLES Spyglass Fly with me
A glorious return by the former commisioner, vicky, in an attempt to execute a deep state coup over 2nd teem commissioner spyglass. Though vicky won, the people spoke and maintained spy in his rightful seat. Many changes to friday ultimate to come.
Lazy game until lax turned on the lights for us at the end. That’s when the smack talk began and the lights were too bright for fruity get away with incessant fouls and or hurt folks like he didwith McGee. Close game to the end but Pink scores the final two with a slick throw from smokey to Shank for the win.
1 more week till football field is ready which is good because the LAX players were eyeing my heated blanket.