It was raining when I showed up.
Run to Foxcroft (60 diamonds along the way). The road was wet from the rain.
3 man Grinders at Foxcroft
-Man 1 at wall: 20 of each: Dips, Derkins, squats
-Man 2 at Ben & Jerrys: 40 of each: LBCs, Flutters, Dollys
-Man 3 running in between
-AMRAP (it rained at all stops)
Run back to Carmel Park (60 diamonds along the way). Still raining…I stepped in a puddle and my shoes got wet.
It rained during COT.
Pothole with a strong takeout in the rain.
MS:
3.2 miles covered; 4 total trips through the grinder (80 of each at station 1; 160 of each at station 2); 120 diamonds.
Chappy and I figured the Heels need to beat Clemson heavily and Stanford needs to lose to USC for the Heels to have a shot at the playoff. We would also have to jump Ohio State. We got this.
It is still raining.
Announcements:
Area51 Christmas party is on 12/12.
Metro Christmas party is on 12/5
Joe Davis 5K/10K is on 1/9. Sign up here.
Much holiday chatter about the convergence, manhood, “intensity”, and general territorialism. Nonetheless, a spring-like crowd of 41 pax assembled for a multi-workout morning. Those with a fondness for sandbags (or others who were just not paying attention), followed Radar 50’ to the near parking lot. The bulk of the crowd fell in for a slow mosey through the lots to circle up for a workout with those who can get along with others.
Thang1
Iron Horse in Q:
Circle up for the disclaimer and COP.
COP
Mountain Climber x 15 IC
Merkins – slow civilian count x 15
IW x 15 IC
LBC x 15 IC
Cruise to far parking lot and line up on the curb for Broken Burpees:
50 meter run across parking lot, then 15 x low squat
50 meter run back, then 15 x groiners
50 meter run across parking lot, then 15 x merkin,
50 meter run back, then 15 x flying squirrel
Rinse and repeat with 10 reps of each exercise.
A little flutter to catch our breath.
Last round with 5 reps of each exercise.
Divide into teams of 3 and mosey to the rock pile to select a lifting rock.
Continue mosey to the playground, and then we begin:
P1 runs to pavilion and does 15 x step up, 15 x dip, 10 x step up, 10 x dip, then run to playground.
P2 has been doing continuous sets of: 5 pullup, 10 merkins, 15 LBC’s.
When P1 arrives P2 heads to the rock pile, where P3 has been doing continuous sets of: 10 curls, 10 press, 10 tricep press.
When P2 arrives, P3 runs to the pavilion and we start all over.
Go continuous through 2 sets – until Mall Cop hijacks the Q.
Mall Cop in Q:
Mosey to soccer fields.
Jacobs ladder on the hill: 7 burpees at bottom, run to top 7 burpees at top.
We do 5-6 sets of this…depending on ambition. Ouch.
Back into our groups of 3 for a Mary Relay.
P1 does flutter on one end, P2 is doing Russian twists 100 yards away, P3 runs to P2, tags off, and P2 runs back to P1….and off we go. At some point, we switch to dolly and heels-to-heaven.
This happens for a while.
Time running out and we mosey back to the parking lot for COT.
Done.
Thang2: The Day Zero (so-called) “High Intensity” Hour
About 3 minutes before 0700, Prohibition gave a quick announcement that Day Zero would be experimenting with a “High Intensity” workout and that those brave enough to volunteer would be the Guinee Pigs. 18 men looking to take it up a notch or 3 stepped up to the challenge and followed Radar. This is what we did:
Mosey
45 SSH
25 imperial walkers
Mosey to get sand bags
Partner up
Sand bag run to North Face
38 Burpees OYO
P1- alternate 10 deep squats and 10 calf raises with sand bag until partner get back
P2-run the loop to the bottom of NF. 10 squat jumps and then up the hill
Flapjack & Repeato x 3
P1- Run to Rea Rd and back with sandbag
P2- Run to Rea Rd, bear crawl 30 yards, then sprint back to P1
Flapjack & Repeato x 2
Overhead press & CDD’s between rounds
P1- alternate 10 side lunge and 10 knee tucks until partner gets back
P2- run the loop and up NF with sand bags
Flapjack & Repeato x 2
Plankjacks x 25
P1- walking merkins on sandbags
P2- sprint to Rea and back pedal back
Flapjack & Repeato x 2
Indian run with bags to southern Rea rd entrance.
P1- ab work
P2- down and up the hill with the sand bag
Flapjack
P1- burpees
P2-down and back with bags
Flapjack
Indian run back and drop the bags
Indian run around the lot
Meet up with the other group doing Mary
3 minutes of burpees while the base group finished the Mary Relay.
Joint Moleskin (that’s not a good phrase)
Well done by all.
Based on the size of the pax, it is good that we had split workouts.
For the base (aka normal, aka social, aka friendly, aka super-fit, aka sans-sandbag) group, good flow and effort by all.
For the weirdos, thanks for helping the experiment with a “high intensity” workout. Going to be asking for feedback on how it went and if it lived up to the billing, and they’ll keep you posted on how that goes forward. Sound off if you need a referral for knee therapy.
Cobains to those that jumped in with that group unaware of what was ahead.
Prohibition ran over to BOG during the warmup to explain what we were doing. As BOG said after, he basically told me not to die (a touching moment).
Also of note, Dear Abby is ridiculously fast doing bear crawls. Strawberry tried to give him a run for his money, but couldn’t hang on.
On both workouts, there was not much, if any, talking moments to catch our breath.
Witch Doctor’s father was stalking us from his car, and the sandbag crew was praying for more car traffic in the driveway to grab a break.
Group 1 got a good dose of burpees in the Mall Cop called Jacob’s Ladder – not fun.
In Group 2, McGee was rooting for more burpees, and got some with the final call for 38 – in honor of Radar’s birthday on Monday.
Might have missed one or two on the pax list above – apologies – sound off.
Announcements
Sign up for the F3 Christmas Party – need to be registered by December 4.
There will be food collection for the benefit of the Calvary Food Pantry – more info to follow.
Great take out by Squid. Aye!
9 men, including 1 FNG, made it out to their favorite Union County Saturday AO and were warmly greeted by a pumpkin pie-erasing beatdown. The festivities went like this:
COP
SSH x 15 In Cadence
10 Burpees
Squat x 15 IC
9 Burpees
Merkins x 15 IC
8 Burpees
Mountain Climbers x 15 IC
7 Burpees
LBC x 15 IC
6 Burpees
Lunge x 15 IC
5 Burpees
Diamond x 15 IC
4 Burpees
Dolly x 15 IC
3 Burpees
Imperial Walker x 15 IC
2 Burpees
Wide Are Merkin x 15 IC
1 Burpee
Mosey over to second courtyard
Wall Walk
Box Jumps x 15, Dips x 15, Derkins x 15
People’s Chair, Air Presses x 30 thrown in
mosey to first courtyard
Wall Plank to BTW to Wall Plank
mosey to rock pile, grab a Partner and one rock per pair
Rock Chasers around Bus island- Partner 1 runs w rock; Partner 2 does 5 Merkins and chases. When he catches partner, flapjack.
2 Laps around island.
People’s Chair
Mosey to bridge: Bear Crawl first half, Lunge Walk second half, Plank for 6.
Mosey to field, find Partner.
Partner 1 does Makhtar N’Diaye while 2 runs to opposite goal and back.
Flapjack
1 does Squats while 2 runs, Flapjack.
1 does Peter Parkers while 2 runs, Flapjack.
Mosey to concession stand.
15 Box Jumps, 15 Dips, 15 Derkins.
15 One Legged Squats (foot on wall), 15 Dips, 15 Derkins.
Mosey to field and take Chin Up Bar into grass.
Pax circle up, hold Plank while each man takes a turn at AMRAP Chin Ups.
Might have been more Box Jumps and Incline Merkins back at concession stand.
#SelfSmoked
Mosey back to bridge
Lunge Walk first half, Bear Crawl second half.
Mosey back to front of school for Mary
MOM
LBC x 30
Heels to Heaven x 30
Dolly x 15
Moleskin
Welcome to FNG Turtle (Josh Berlin)! Great job for your first post. Glad to have you join us. He’s another strong Lawson man, EH’d by Doc McStuffins. Speaking of the good doctor, he flew by YHC on the Rock Chasers. He was carrying a rock and I wasn’t. #humbled Stay tuned for Doc Mc’s VQ coming next weekend! Sure to be a beatdown.
Announcements
The 4th Annual Joe Davis Memorial Resolution 10K/5K Run benefiting Keystone Substance Abuse Services is scheduled for Saturday January 9, 2016 at 8:00 AM starting at Walter Elisha Park in Fort Mill, SC.
All are welcome: your M’s, your 2.0’s, your family, and your friends! http://joedavisrun.racesonline.com/
YHC brought out an oldie but goodie from last year that I picked up at Peak 51 and then Glass Joe brought the icing on the cake.
15 – SSH
15 – Imperial Walkers
15 – Windmills
15 – Hillbillies
15 – LSQ
Now for the main course:
Just like the song, you repeat every day until the end (or you spill merlot)
1- Sprit the busses
2- Burpees
3- Carolina dry docks
4- Lunges
5- Sta jumps/Bomb jacks
6- Flutter
7- Smurf jack
8- Squats
9- LBC
10-Merkins
11- Freddie Mercury
12- Seal Jacks
After all the Christmas cheer, Glass Joe took over for hill work with some snow sleds he stole from his neighborhood that tested to see if anyone would faceplant, Joe of course had to be an overachiever.
Then we headed back to the busses for some hidden EE sticky plates and teamed up to push them to the road and back.
Joe threw in some Mary and we were toast, I mean done.
Nice work all!
Shephered was smoking us all on the 12 days, almost always done with each round of exercises before anyone else. #strong
Welcome Sweetchuck who was an EH of Turnpike’s!
Joe Davis 5k/10k upcoming, A51 Christmas Party deadline is next Sunday! Party on the 12th, Toy Drive upcoming too.
I pray you all have a safe and happy holiday season as we celebrate the real reason for hope in this dark world, and His name is Jesus.
Thanks for the honor of leading.
DT / GJ
It’s basically an Overdrive tradition now. Well, it’s me Qing the day after Thanksgiving and wanting to run off any guilt from the day before. But, I’ve done it the last two years thus it’s a new Holiday tradition. #griswald
The Thang
Half-Hairband mile
COP
SSH IC x 20
IW IC x 20
Enough of that mess, let’s mosey to the side of the parking lot.
‘No parking’ sign suicides. 8 signs thus 8 suicides of increasing distance
Mosey to the bus lot
Cheese weave with a forward run down and backwards run back up between the buses.
Mosey to the lot behind the elementary school
3 laps around the perimeter of the parking lot. When you meet your partner, hand-slap merkins x 10. Since we had an odd guy, the third wheel had AMRAP merkins until the other two finished.
Mosey to the back road for a #crowdpleaser.
A back road run with increasing pace. Basically, we started with a slow mosey and then every couple hundred feet, I would holler out ‘Let’s Go’ (my ode to Horsehead) and we increase pace until you are in an all-out sprint at the end. Roughly .4-.5 miles. #smoked
I get done and realize the pax are not with me. Mosey back down the road and Shepherd’s knee is hurting him from an old injury. Plans are thereby changed. #nomanleftbehind
Original plan: Two laps around the even bigger parking lot behind the high school with hand-slap merkins. Increasing pace run back down the road. Parking space suicides at the elementary school and then finish up how we ended finishing up.
New plan: With Shepherd hurting at about the furthest point away from the parking lot we can get, we do a slow mosey back down the road. I do call for TP and I to do an AYG run at one point to the intersection and then circle back for Shep.
How we finished (in both plans):
Cheese weave back between the buses.
Mosey back to the parking lot
‘No parking’ sign suicides with increasing distance. Shep did a variation of exercises during this time. (there was a plan for a sign suicide ladder up and down originally but alas, look at the time – it will happen….)
3 MOM:
Flutters IC x 20
Dolly IC x 15
Rosalita IC x 10
DONE!
COT:
Thanks to Shep for taking us out.
Moleskine:
I really appreciate Shep showing up for the 3 mile pre-run. You didn’t have to but you didn’t want me running it solo. I was showing up in case anyone didn’t get the one week only time change memo. It’s always better to run with another than solo. #brotherhood
Really hate your knee started hurting you. But you didn’t stop and finished the workout doing what you could. It’s why you are a respect even beyond your age.
We ended up at 3.8 miles. My original plan had us over 5 miles. With our pre-run, that’s 6.8 miles. Solid running effort and room cleared for all those Thanksgiving leftovers.
Great job by Turnpike and great to see you back out. Those Anson guys apparently did a number on your core and then I ran you to death. The #mumblechatter was loud during MOM but you finished strong. Great job Brother!
Drop Thrill and I on tap for Outland tomorrow.
Joe Davis run. Sign up for 5K or 10K option.
Congrats to TP for passing his physical and written tests for Charlotte police academy. Praying you get in!
Overdrive back at it’s regular 5:30 time next week.
Thanks for letting the least lead the best.
Glass Joe
No SF from Joust, Kevlar or Mountain Goat….nor site Q’s for that matter…yet 12 pax mustered nonetheless, were duly disclaimed by Geraldo, and then embarked on a tryptophan-defying downpainment at Mountain Jevlar.
The Thang:
COP: SSH x 20 IC, Merkins x 10 IC, IW x 20 IC, Diamond Merkins x 10 IC, Squats x 20 IC
Count off 1,2,3 stay in groups (Q Fail) P1 bleachers called exercise , P2 Parking lot called exercise, P3 is the timer running between bleachers and parking lot, flap jack rotating stations and timer
Bleacher exercises: step ups, dips, supine pull-ups, incline Merkins.
Parking lot exercises: Merkins, LBCs, squats, lunges.
People’s Chair w/overhead press x 50 civilian count
Run to track and partner-up for the following:
Catch me if you can – P1 5 burpees, P2 lunge walk; switched to broad jump in lieu of lunge walk at about 150 meters; AYG run for both partners for last 100 meters
Over-unders x 11 (P1 planks while P2 jumps over then crawls under P1); Flapjack
Circle up for Domino Merkins (Start in plank, 1st pax goes to 6 inch hold, then 2nd and so on all the way around; 1st pax then goes to plank, then 2nd etc, etc.). We did 8-10 rounds
9.5 minutes of Mary:
All exercises to 11 in honor of the Panthers 11-0 record. #KeepPounding
Knee up, Makthar Ndijaye, High Slow Flutter, American Hammer, Protractor with all 12 pax calling a hold position
Jog to sidewalk & bearcrawl 1/2 way up hill to concession stand (aka Semi-Gloss’ office)
Find some wall for donkey kick x 13, x 13 & x 11
Mosey to launch lot
6-count burpee x 11 IC
COT
Ye Olde Moleskine:
Geraldo had threatened the Gopher, but he audibled due to Turkey Bowl pain & injuries….it still was a painful circuit though. The tryptophan was in full effect as the pax got confused with Geraldo’s instructions for forming teams for the circuit work. Pretty sure Cheese Curd and Joker engineered that confusion train.
Was great to have Telemundo (Witch Doctor’s bro) join us from NYC…F3 Central Park coming soon! With all the pax traveling for work to NYC, that would be a popular AO!
Also awesome to have Grady and his 2.0 Superstar with us from Raleigh. YHC used to work with him…and helped EH him #creditgrab
Gerber was getting after it for sure as I chased him back to the finish line on the track work. Great job pushing Gerber. Ductwork was the other part of YHC’s triumvirate during the circuit work – thankful he was pushing hard thus reducing YHC’s rep count on called exercises!
T-claps to MallCop who posted yesterday at DT and is one of the tri-Q’s at The Rock tomorrow with Iron Horse and Radar. See everyone there!
Dear Abby, would be WB if not for Grady’s 2.0, was hitting it hard as well. Not certain and don’t ever want to test this hypothesis #fearoffailure, but he could probably beat YHC in a race while YHC is sprinting and he’s bearcrawling. #inhuman
Thankful to Strange Brew for tapping me to Q; even more thankful for the brothers in F3. Thanksgiving indeed.
Announcements:
Sign up for Area51 Christmas Party – Saturday, Dec. 12th at Sardis Swim & Racquet Club. Food drive for Calvary food pantry. More info to come from Mermaid.
Joe Davis 5K & 10K on Saturday, Jan. 9th – sign up fellas – you should and you need to
Keep your ears open for Toy Drive to benefit Thompson Children’s Home. Joker Q’ing that effort but we need everyone’s involvement.
5:20 on a lazy post thanksgiving Friday morning. Not a soul to be found. Run stopper must have ate himself silly or succumbed to the desire to join the mayhem that we know as Black Friday. Maybe we were just early.
4 pull in last minute and we launch. Albeit a little sad we would miss out on the classic RS burpee clinic. Frehleys grabs the mic first.
Mosey to the parking deck. Level 1 SSH x 20 (IC). Mosey to Level 2 LSS x 20 (IC). Mosey to Level 3 Mtn Climber x 20 (IC). Mosey to Level 4 Merkin x 40 OYO. Down the stairs and 4 corners with 5 Burpees per corner. Plank it up for some right and left leg up to 6inch holds. Back up the stairs to the top of the deck. Udders turn.
Karaoke left half the deck. Switch to right for next half. Take the stairs down to level 3. High knees halfway. Butt kickers rest of the way. Stairs to 2. Jump skips halfway. Backwards run rest. Down to the ground floor and over to the handicapped rails on the NW side of stadium. Rail walkers first 2 sets of rails. Watch out they are slippery. Recover to the Walsh Blvd lot. Lunge walk the lot. Jog backstretch. Frehleys and BOG take off on a AYG to the end. Backwards lunge walk the length of the entrance to stadium. Back up the deck 2 at a time steps. Over to Mighty Mite. The Pax recover while MM surveys the terrain.
First up. Lunge walk 2 parking space lengths. 2 Squats. Ladder all the way up to 10 Squats. #unsavory. Mosey back to start. Repeato bear crawl/merkins #crowdpleaser. Mighty Mite begs someone to take over and relieve us from his twisted mind full of rediculous exercises. BOG is up.
The voice of reason and experience slows things down but amped up the core. LBC x 20 (IC). Russian Twist x 14 (IC). Protractor. Freddie Mercury x 20 (IC). Dolly x 20 (IC). One more Mary?? Can’t recall. O2 deprivation was taking over. Last up Smash.
Mosey to level 3. Jump lunge x 20. Mosey to level 2. Jump squat x 20. Mosey to level 1. Something x 20. Mosey out to front of stadium. Run to first parking lot break. 10 wide arm merkins. Run to next break. 10 diamonds. Run to next break. 10 merkins. Times up. Mosey back to the start.
Moleskin: We missed everyone out there today. Triptaphan is strong this season. Strong work by everyone. Smaller groups help to make us stronger. We all pull together and work hard. Great takeout by Smash. Truly grateful for all we have.
Announcements:
stonehenge reg time tomorrow
convergence at the Rock for select 7 am workouts. Check the a51 app or website.
Sign up for the A51 Xmas party. 12/12. Food provided. BYOB.
Have a great weekend. Safe travels and warm wishes to all.
Udder out
Talk turkey definition: “To talk serious business; to talk frankly. We’ve got to sit down and talk turkey—get this thing wrapped up. It’s time to talk turkey and quit messing around.”
Main Event:
5 show up – 3 for 6 plus miles and 2 for 4 miles on the route known as Piper Glen Old Course (aka The Hills Have Eyes)
Turkeyskin:
Today’s run was not planned since I needed to be back to the crib early. Thought I would tweet it out and see who would meet. Haggis says “I want hills and I want them fast” and who can argue with a legend. Teddy just smiles and then eyes roll to Frasier to see what his plans are. Frasier a very humble man who makes this look easy just smiles and replies that he will run whatever the group wants. Discussion focuses on the six, this six has learned a few things. 1) Running alone builds character. 2) Chasing the fastest makes you work harder. 3) Someone is always chasing someone else regardless of pace.
Plans were simple for me because Mall Cop had inquired the night before about the route. We decided SCMS. Haggis was convincing and YHC has not posted at DT since September. Mall Cop was not thrilled, but easily convinced of the plan. Plus it was great to run with MC his iron sharpening got me over those nasty hills.
YCH could not see Teddy, Haggis, or Frasier because the hills are so tall. Haggis was happy with his 7.12 pace.
Haggis closed us out with a great prayer about being thankful.
Happy Thanksgiving!!
Up Down Called Merkins until Puddin’ Pop rolled in
Mosey to track and do a lap at 65%
Head to the field in groups of 3
400 Merkins for the group total with one person on each end of the soccer field (120 yards) doing Merkins while the other is sprinting and tagging off
800 Single leg Speed Skater Squats with sprints
400 Dry Docks with sprints
Teams race each other in their group in 120 yard sprints, loser does 40 Merkins, 2nd does 30, winner does 20 X 2
Race as above with Dry Docks x 2
Race as above with Diamonds x 2
Mosey back to parking lot
15 yard Bear crawls with 10 Merkins every 10 steps, then do backwards Bear crawls with 10 Merkins back to the start x 2
Teams of 3 – 1 person Sprints race track style laps around cars in parking lot while the other 2 do Dry Docks until it is their turn x 2
It was a simple workout for the 27 lads that was designed to force hard efforts so everyone could eat as much turkey as they wanted tomorrow after the Turkey Bowl. I think we reached our goal, and I pray everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving!
All workouts converge at the Turkey Bowl tomorrow.
13 men looking for frostbite on their fingers posted at The Maul and were not disappointed.
COP
Thang
Mosey behind Michael’s for rail walk aka the worm up loading dock ramp.
Mosey to St. Matthew. Count off. 1’s and 2’s each form a team. Plank up for instructions.
St. Matthew Mercy Mile
…And Pious People’s Chair
Mosey back to the movie theater parking lot, carrying 2 or 3 pavers.
Moleskine
Honor to lead, as always. The pavers were brutally cold on the fingers this morning. Holes in every glove fingertip didn’t help. Did anyone notice that Mighty Mite showed up dressed for work? #laundryday He still smoked us all. Thanks for carrying the pavers back to the lot. And thanks to Squid for the takeout.
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