First mistake was accepting Hairball’s Monday request to Q. As the week went by I understood the motivation behind that “friendly” solicitation. He must have majored in meteorology. Early reconnaissance noted that the onsite Eagle Scout project of Philmont’s 2.0 was in need of some inaugural testing……so the Soul Crusher was pulled from the weinke file and loaded in the guns for the few brave men who showed. After 36 hours of relentless threats, insults and headlocks, 6 men came to spit into the wind. [T-claps to Fault Line for being the only one of the pax to post willingly and NOT as the result of significant duress].
Thang
Slow mosey around the Day Zero track looking for a dry spot (nope) and circle up on the basketball court.
COP
IW x 20 IC
MC x 15 IC
The SOUL CRUSHER:
1 Burpee
50 yard run
20 Merkins
50 yard run
5 pull-ups [permission to modify to 5 dips]
Mosey back to start.
Rinse and repeat for 20 rounds, moving from 1 to 20 burpees, and 20 to 1 merkins, with the end point (5 pull-ups) staying constant.
Round out the hour with:
LBC x 20 IC
Flutter x 20 IC
Dolly x 20 IC.
Moleskin
Went from Wednesday’s heat to today’s gale storm. I thought we were going to have to tie down during the last 2 rounds when the heavy stuff did, indeed, arrive….sideways. Good work by all the pax today. The Soul Crusher was the result of an ill-planned solo workout last spring. Halfway through I realized, to my soul’s dismay, that this would leave a mark. Our course was a little short on the runs, but the wind and rain compensated for that. Surprisingly no threats directed at the Q. Grapevine pounded these out like it was a stroll in the park. T-Claps to the pax who refused to leave an old man alone on a Saturday workout.
Announcments
None. (Ark building begins at noon.)
Read your email and check out f3nation.com
if you need a 6am workout, fire up the Insanity. Shaun T will Q.
I’m on Q for the Anson launch tomorrow. I’m on Q for Overdrive today. With FNG potential tomorrow and possibly FNGs who hate running, I had a choice to make as I wanted to run. Either Anson FNGs will run in a potential monsoon or we will run. I chose us and the Hairband Mile became the Hairband Ultra. Off we go.
The Thang
Half-Hairband Mile to the empty parking lot
COP
SSH IC x 20
IW IC x 20
3 Count Down Merkins IC x 10
Long mosey to the elementary school big parking lot with some backwards running added in.
Partner up. P1 runs the parking lot perimeter one way and P2 the other way. When you meet your partner, stop and do 10 hand-slap merkins. Keep going until 30 hand-slap merkins and then back to the back road side of the parking lot.
On the inside of the parking lot, suicides back and forth to each island with a tree in it including the last tree at the back of the parking lot. Guessing 125-150 yards from front to back. At each tree, here are the rounds:
Round 1: Merkins x 5
Round 2: LBCs x 10
Start the mosey back to the middle school including some more backwards running.
At the back of the middle school, take a right turn and time to grab some wall:
People’s Chair with Air Presses x 50
Donkey Wall Kicks x 15
People’s Chair with Air Presses x 60
Donkey Wall Kicks x 20
People’s Chair with Air Presses x 70
Donkey Wall Kicks x 25
Back to the Middle school front parking lot for some MOM
4 MOM:
Flutters IC x 20
6 Inch Leg Holds
Dolly IC x 25
6 Inch Leg Holds
Oh look, a minute left, 6 inch Leg Holds until the end.
DONE!
COT
Announcments:
Outland one-time convergence tomorrow (10/3) down to Anson for the F3 Anson Co Launch. Clown car leaves at SV Middle at 6 AM. #giveitaway
Hoodie is on for his Virgin Q at Overdrive next week. Way to step up Brother!
Moleskine:
I went for an early run to the elementary school to scope out how many trees there are and once I get back, I see The Late Show. Oh man, it just took me mentioning poor form in the Anson Pre-Blast and the brother shows back up at Overdrive with obvious concern. And he was strong as always. Great to see you back out and hope we didn’t fail any form today.
Great work by Hoodie too. I can literally tell a difference from months ago when you started coming out to Overdrive. And excited for your VQ next week. Way to step up
My apologies to Hairband. I know your knee issue and this was not a friendly one for you. I appreciate the good nature to not gut me and that you kept working exercises and running when you could. I do promise that I cut out a few things to take it easy on your knee such as the Schedule C parking space suicides.
Speaking of getting gutted, pretty sure TLS threatened my life at some point. I guess I could be offended but I’m going with honored.
Thanks for letting me lead.
They cancelled the Race for the Cure because of a mere Hurricane. But my wife Heather is made of sterner stuff. God blessed Heather with fortitude from birth, and has used cancer to forge her will into one that is now indomitable.
Accordingly, her Race for the Cure team, “Heather’s Heroes,” will not be deterred by a little rain. The Heroes will be racing tomorrow starting at 8am at AG Middle School. There will be a 5k for grown-ups followed by a 1 mile race on the track for kids and anyone else who wants to join. The Heroes who signed up will be wearing pink; anyone else is welcome to join. I would love to see you out there.
19 eager centurions posted early and 1 YHC/Q rolled in just in time (5:28 is still early) for a proper start to the end of the week. Lots of new faces but no FNGs so the disclaimer was absurdly brief, and off we went into the gloom.
The Thang:
Strong work by all today. Great to see a big turnout and a lot of new faces, particularly given the ominous weather forecast. Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these [centurions] from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. Or so it seems. Enjoyed the opportunity to Q such a meticulously planned workout. Pulp Fiction leads the way next Friday. [Insert inappropriate gimp joke here]
8 brave men headed out into the ugly morning weather to get in some miles and exercises. Actually, the rain held off and there was a nice breeze so I thought the weather was pretty good for a workout.
The Thang……
This was a veteran crew so a short form of the disclaimer was given and we were off. We headed to the parking lot by the hotel for a quick warm-up.
All in cadence:
20 – SSH
20 – IW
15 – Merkins
We then moseyed over to Loch Ness for a little bit of fun.
Start at the first building with:
5 – Burpees
10 – Merkins
15 – Jump-ups
Repeat at the next building
Then a 50 yard Bear Crawl by the picnic tables.
Repeato for 3 total laps.
Do a little flutter then off again.
We headed over to the Lance building parking lot for the start of our Tripple Nickle (ala Mermaid) up the hill to the bridge do 5 Burpees. Then back down for 5 Squats. Repeato 5 times. (get it? there are three 5’s, a Triple Nickels. Mermaid hit gold when he invented this one).
Then we do some LBC’s and Heels to the Heavens. YHC asked for the one 10 count for the entire workout (which Bean did in about 2 seconds). Then I was chastised “there are no 10 counts at the Brave”.
Sooooooo, off we go. We headed up to the Premier Parking Garage. I tried to do the slalom but the ground was way too wet.
At the parking deck we did 10 Merkins at one end and 10 flutters for each leg at the other end. Once we all reached the top we headed to the stairs and high tailed it to the launch site.
YHC had not been very good at managing the time and we had about 5 minutes to do an 8 minute run. We got back did a quick circle and YHC took us out.
There was a great group of guys today that pushed hard. Everyone seemed to excel at different times. Wild Turkey was out in front for most of the Loch Ness route and Bean was flying on the Triple Nickel. Cable Guy, Tuck and Champagne were pushing the pace on the parking deck and Gumbo pushed hard all the way through.
There was quite a bit of mumble chatter – “Bean’s only doing half the Merkins…” “Fire Hazard, you call that a Squat????”… Fun was had by all and YHC was proud to lead such a great group of men.
I’ve got the Q at Worm tomorrow. Bring your puddle jumpers.
24 men braved the elements [well, not really] at Joust [or are we still Jevlar?] this morning.
The Thang
Jog down to the track
Run up/down stadium steps, zig-zagging our way across
Standard warm up… SSH / IW / Squats
Field warm up… shuffle right / shuffle left / butt kickers / back pedal… each 50 yards
Lunge walk from 50 yard line to goal line – stopping every ten yards to rep out 15 merkins
Partner up [see Moleskine for more information on what should have been an easy task] and do as follows:
-Partner 1 full speed 400 meter run while Partner 2 zig-zags up/down the stadium steps; meet at exchange point and do 100 merkins [in aggregate with your partner]; then flap jack with Partner 2 doing the 400 meter full speed run and Partner 1 on the stadium steps; meet at the exchange point and do 80 merkins in aggregate
-Repeato
-Repeato
-Repeato… for a total of 4 laps per partner, with some change ups in the exercises we did at the exchange points as we switched from partner 1 to partner 2 each time on the track
Did some planks throughout the workout, threw in some LBCs along the way and Carolina Dry Docks.
Finished the workout with mason twists and 20 merkins OYO.
Moleskine
Great group of men out there this morning. Enjoyed having a chance to lead. Few noteworthy items I recall:
So, I’ve been meaning to get out of my rut and actually post at a Thursday workout. Perfect excuse came this morning by way of text on Tuesday. Not sure if Brown knew exactly what he was doing when he pegged me to join in the Thursday fun, but couldn’t let him down.
Cool temps, sleeveless shirts, music and meatrunners back on location. Time to begin:
The THANG:
Warmup: mountain climbers, imperial walkers, prying squats, figure eights and some halos
The Main Event:
Moleskine:
Announcements:
No site Q’s, no problem. While Strawberry and Heart Breaker were preparing for their mancation, 14 men showed up to Rebel Yell for 45 minutes of fun, and I was not about to miss my third scheduled Q.
Warm Up
Run over to the front of Jersey Mikes 20 SSH and 15 merkins
Headed down Elm Ln to parking lot beside the building beside Wells Fargo. Partner up, partner 1 runs lap in parking lot while partner two does merkins…flapjack until 100 combined merkins completed.
Run over to fountain in fron of the building and partner up again. Partner 1 runs around Well Fargo and back while partner 2 does squats. Rinse and repeat 2x’s
Head over to Stonecrest and did 20 incline merkins on the curb, then 15 derkins. Ran over behind Target for merkin speed bump suicides with 5 good form merkins at each speed bump.
Run back over to the front of Jersey Mikes again for 20 x IW
Head back to launch for 8 minutes of Mary. Done
Great work by all. The smell of bacon while running down Elm was tempting to go explore, but we stayed the course. Everyone was getting after it today.
Today was a reminder for me to always look back to make sure no one is left behind, please all do the same.
Always a pleasure to lead.
Chippy