Gettin’ Ready

Gettin’ Ready

7 SOBs met at 0515 at the Vine Restaurant at the Ballantyne AO to get ready for the spring mud run, running 4 miles in total. Here’s what we did:

The Thang:

Run down Ballantyne Commons, east with some bench jumps and lunge walks thrown in.

Turn left on Ballantyne Commons Pl then some serpentine hill runs and ran down cross the bridge and turn right behind one of the BofA buildings.

Run down behind the BofA buildings – across top of the hill then circled up for COP – SSH X 15, Merkins X 10, Squats X 10.

The we lined up slalom bear crawl barrel rolls around the small trees across the back then did 10 merkins in cadence.

We then ran behind the kids pond and head down the trail thru the woods and Bear crawl up and over the bridge.

Run up hill to short stone walls – 1 lap around the pond and up and over the stone wall x 3.

We then lined up at the 5.5 foot wall for 11s – 10 merkins at the bottom, 1 squat at the top; 9 merkins, 2 squats, etc.

The we lined up for a bear crawl race (or Cheetah, more on that later).

Head towards the exercise trail and did 5 circuits of low arm walks and high arm walks. We ran around lockness to the short wall for LBCs X 20, Dollies X 20, Flutter X 20, ran 1 lap around lockness and headed to the COT.

Moleskin:

The SOBs really disliked the slalom bear crawl barrel rolls. There was so much mumble chatter and complaining the YHC thought I was leading a FiA workout. There was enough whining that I stoped the work sooner than expected. All the ladies we relieved and squealed with joy.

During the bear crawls Frehley’s Comet challenged YHC to race. I couldn’t possible get beat by an elderly man, so I through it in second gear and smoked the challenger. The men then called what I was doing Cheetah crawls.

Always a pleasure leading the men in the gloom.

Announcements:

The Maul and Death Valley will converge at Anvil on Wednesday.

Sign up for The Battle Frog.

Build your spring mud run team.

Great work this morning men!

Charity Therapy Session

8 pax followed 2 Q’s, who have no business giving exercise instruction, into the chilly, wet gloom. Good thing we had 2 shrinks in attendance as things got deep.  Real deep.

The Degenerate’s Q

Jog the ‘track’ around the fields to the left side of the school for COP.  During 35 SSH, the PAX heard probably one of the more well thought out disclaimers known to man.

Mosey to front of school and partner up.  Partner one does called exercise while partner 2 runs around the parking lot.  FlapJack and stop when you reach the called upon #.

200 step ups

200 squats

Wall Chair

Mosey down to basketball courts for sprints but with same idea as above

100 knee ups

200 calf raises

200 Monkey Humpers

The Gentleman’s Q

Mosey up to launch lot to lose half-zip and get a drink.

COP

Merkin x 5 IC
6 inches-10 count
Diamond x 5 IC
6 inches-10 count
Crucible Merkin x 5 IC
6 inches-10 count
5 Super Burpees (5 merkin and 5 Jump Squats)

Rock Pile

Exercises to 20 civilian cadence: Curls/Presses/Tri-extensions.  Drop rock

Mosey to track.  Complete 1 lap with stop for 15 Burpee OYO at mid-point.  Finish lap.

Merkin Set

Merkin x 10 civilian cadence: Regular/Wide/Diamond/Offset Left/Offset Right

Mosey to front of school.

Bench Set

10 Jump up/15 dip/20 Incline merkin/5 Burpee OYO.  Repeat

Short mosey to parking lot.

AYG Sprints x 10 (60 yards) with 10 seconds rest

Mosey to basketball court

Mary/Merkin

Heels to Heaven x 25 IC
Merkin x 25 IC
Flutter x 25 IC
Merkin x 10 IC
10 Burpee OYO

Mosey ½ lap.  Stop for Merkin x5 IC

Mosey back to launch for COT

The Skinny

Opposites attract which is why Mermaid and YHC were asked to lead some ‘*********’ domination this morning.  Styles that are so different yet compliment each other so well.  A loud, sarcastic, refusnik a** and a true gentleman shrink.  Possibilities were endless.  As was the punishment.  Plan was easy, YHC takes the start with a focus on legs and lower body with the #Gent preparing an upper body punishment that would have been appreciated by The Boz.  Besides the realization that YHC is indeed a Clydesdale among this group of men, observations were as follows:

Teddy and Joker are fast but Frasier seems to have another level.  So sick of saying that but it is fun to watch

#TheGent claimed for awhile not to be a runner but he was up there with the leaders during his awful 100 yard sprint idea.  He also had no clue that none of us could do as many merkins as him.  In cadence, exercise…yeah yeah yeah

Haze wasn’t showing his all today which YHC unexpectedly received an answer for during the burpee run – dude has the squirts.  Says he had to leave right after for kids basketball game instead of going to coffeeteria.  Nice try #manpon

While I’d love to say YHC was refusniking the Humpers, that wasn’t the case as Happy Hands Radar caught me with a open handed slap to the teabag.  Wish I’d been a #Eunich today.

Hairball and Pro were quiet today.  Both probably hung over.  #youngbucks

Hats off to IH for putting in some strong work today and having to work out beside YHC most of the morning.  It can be tough working through all the foul language and vulgarities.  Also known as ******* and complaining.

The air was thick and moist which would have made for a wonderful carrier of scents so on behalf of all of us we thank both Radar and Joker for keeping their flatulence in check.

 

Announcements

Joe Davis Memorial on Jan 10th – sign up

‘Unbroken’ movie outing on Jan 10th at Stonecrest- sign up now!  Otherwise PH is going to have to pay out of pocket for all the unsold tickets

Talk to Joker if you are interested in ‘serve’ opportunity working out with underprivileged kids on a soon to be announced Saturday.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

He’s An Angry Elf

It was a cold and rainy morning, there were beasts lurking in the dark looking to outrun Santa and his sleigh, but DT had something up his Under Armour sleeves known as the 12 Days of Christmas.  There was much huffing and puffing and prancing and pawing of each little hoof.

Many decided to fartsack but there was very little rain once we started the work.  Post anyway, you never know what the weather will do.  You might be surprised.

ACOP (Abbreviated COP)

Hairband Mile (patent pending)
SSH – 15
IW – 15

This jolly, er, angry old elf then launched the Pax into the onslaught of the 12 Days of Christmas. This is the DT version, repeato everything just like the song, every time.  Until the song is stuck in your head, or you have to do penalty burpees, whichever comes first.

1- Sprint
2- Burpees
3- Carolina Dry Docks
4- Lunges (each leg)
5- Golden Start Jumps
6- Flutter
7- Smurf Jack
8- Squats
9- LBC
10- Merkins
11- Freddie Mercury
12- Backwards Run

Awesome work brothers.  12 days isn’t easy and always a crowd pleaser.

We have a few minutes till the Q hand-off so it’s:

People’s Chair x3 including some air presses

Son of a Nutcracker!

At this point I handed over the reigns to a jolly old elf known as High Tide.

HT had his silver (KB) bells a-ready to go to bring us some Christmas cheer to one and all.

Bells were a-swinging and Bon Jovi was a-singing his New Jersey mirth and merriment.   Hey, at least it wasn’t Nickelback.  *flashes back to horrible workout at Skunk Works*

Solid KB clinic there HT and nice throwing us under the pull up bus.  Those will come in handy when we’re trying to chase Santa up the chimney.

Moleskin

It was a pleasure to lead and thanks for posting in the nasty gloom, that didn’t turn out to be that bad after all.

Safe travels to all heading out of town.
Don’t forget the Joe Davis sign up.

Prayers for all those dealing with family and friends in the hospital or that have passed away.  This is not an easy time of year to deal with all that.  Remember them and put a hand on their shoulder and be #iamthird all the way.

DT out.

PS – Yes that is me playing Santa.
PPS – No I don’t own the suit, so I’m not coming in it at next year’s A51 party.

 

Where do you think you’re going? Nobody’s leaving. Nobody’s walking out on this fun, old-fashioned family Christmas. No, no. We’re all in this together.

It was a drizzly, chilly morning at The Rock, but twelve angry men (or at least twelve men with a lot of grit and nothing else to do at 7:00 AM) showed up for a workout designed to stretch out those legs!  Gummy started us off…..and away we go:

Gummy:

Jog around parking lot, circle up for warmup.

SSH, IW, Slow Squats, Mountain Climber.

Line up abreast on the curb. High knees 25 yards, run to the other curb (25 yards).

Repeat with butt kickers, carioca both ways.

Finish with AYG 50 yards to the other curb.

Find a partner and a manly rock.

Gather near a light post. Partner 1 does the called exercise (with rock) while Partner 2 runs to the post labeled C2 (50 yards) does 10 good merkins (no Cherkins) and back. Flapjack.

Repeat 4 times with squat, curls, overhead press and lunges.

Mosey to the soccer fields, about 25 yards from the hill. Line up abreast, facing the hill. Tripel Nickel – 5 jump squats at the top of the hill, 5 hand release merkins at the starting line. But wait! There’s more! Bear crawl up and down the hill during each repeat instead of just running up the hill. Good times.

Circle up for Mary – Flutter and Protractor. Turn the Q over to Hopper.

Hopper:

Staying on the soccer fields, we ran a four corner drill, but used all of the area between the pavilion above the fields all the way out to the fence along Pineville-Matthews Rd.  We split into four teams and did the following for three rotations:

Corner #1: 15 dips, 15 decline merkins…..Corner #2: 15 prisoner squats, 15 lunges…..Corner #3: 15 LBC’s, 15 flutters……Corner #4: 15 SSH, 15 jump squats.

Plank exercises in the middle of the field with a Runstopper 10-count twist (which ended up in real time to be a 30 or so count…..my bad on delegating, boys…..sorry).

Six 50 yard dashes with  10 counts in between each one.  Tadpole provided the 10 counts as a penalty for winning each sprint, but that did NOT slow him down.

Mosey to the end of the soccer field and circle up for abbreviated Jack Webb.  We went up to a five merkin count and back down to one.

Mosey back to parking lot for a quick 15 count Russian Twist (it would have been a 25 count, but Mall Cop threw me off by talking about some sneaker sale before the exerise).

That’s all she wrote!

Moleskin:

Great work men!  Welcome Tito (FNG Jackson B)…..you really brought it man and you looked more like a veteran of the pax instead of a newcomer….but, we are glad to have you and see you next week…..and beyond!  Great mumble chatter out there….lots of discussion around the term “abreast” (it does not take much to distract us) and I like how all of the teams stuck together for the four corner drill…..that’s represents the spirit of all three F’s.

Next up on Q is Frasier!!

Announcements:

  • Joe Davis Run is on January 10
  • Unbroken showing is also on January 10
  • Anvil convergence on 12/24 at 6:00
  • Ascent convergence on 1/3 at 7:00
  • Runstopper Qing at Matrix on 12/22
  • Today is last day to order A51 Gear shirt

 

 

 

 

 

Christmas Comes Early at AG Middle School

Seven men of purpose #impact joined friends and teachers to celebrate an early Christmas party with the kids in the after school program at AG Middle School.   Thanks to the generosity of F3 Nation and a contribution from the F3 Foundation, we were able to provide a simple meal, a present, and a book fro each kid.  It was amazing to see the big smiles on many of the kids faces.  The joy of Christmas was seen all around on this day.

The Thang:

Eat, grab a book and a present. Enjoy time to together.

Kids before eating

 

 

Oscar and Barnabus helping the kids select a book.

Kids grabbing books

Rev Florida and a student having a chat

Rev talking with studen

JENGA is back

Boy with Jenga

Ellen, Barnabas, and Laura ready to hand out water to the kidsEllen Barnabus and Laura

 

Excited about the party maybe?

Big Smile

Barnabus and Oscar trying to figure out if “Moby Dick” is too hard (pun intended) for them.

Oscar and Barnabus

Leroy and FOD with some kids

Leroy and Barnabus

 

NM

Special thanks to Barnabas for arranging the food, Leroy and Ellen Babb for helping with the presents, my co-worker for getting the books (for free), and Tryon for being the official photographer.  All your help made this a great event.

F3 Nation should know that the kids really appreciate our gifts and time.    Several expressed sincere thanks.   One kid when asked why he was not eating said he wanted to take it home and share.   Luckily we were able to give him some extra food to take home. It shows that these kids have love and compassion in their hearts and makes me proud of what F3 is doing at this school.

Announcement

We start back on January 8th and invite men interested in our work to contact me at pchepul@gmail.com.   With over 70 kids in the program, we can use all the help (and ideas) we can get.  There are also opportunities to tutor Monday thru Wednesday if Thursday does not work for you.

 

 

General – Mission ASHP

13 warriors met at the General and got lucky to survive new grounds for mission ASHP

 

 

SSH x 20

Frank-stein Squats x 10

Break dance x 15

Imperial Strom Troopers x 15

 

 

 

Mosey to first parking lot

 

Partner up

 

Burpee Partner Plank Merkin

Partner 1 planks while partner 2 does 1 Burpee then jumps over partner then does 5 merkins with feet on partner

Ladder up to 5 Burpees

 

Mosey to the at entrance…I’ll let the Generals name it

 

10 CCD at bottom

Bear Crawl up

10 Squats at top

Run Down

10 CCD at bottom

Reverse Bear Crawl

Run Down

10 CCD

 

1 arm air presses x 10 each arm

 

 

Mosey back to the parking lot

 

Curb Left arm shoulder touch merkin x 5

Dips x 5

Curb air arm shoulder touch merkin x 5

 

 

Mosey to the hill

 

Partner up…

Partner 1 planks, Partner 2 does 5 Jump overs their legs

Run up hill

Partner 2 on back for helping hands

Run down and flip flop – 2 sets

 

Mosey to the rails

 

People’s chair

Grab some ledge, Body holds – 4 10 counts

 

LBC’s with Feet on bars x 15

Partner shoulder presses – 10

Reverse Merkins with bars x 10

 

Mosey to Baseball field

 

Run bases, sprint to first and then recover pace back to home plate

Sprint to 2nd then recover pace to home plate…complete all bases

 

To the bleachers

 

10 Incline merkins then crab walk to other bleacher, then do 10 decline merkins

Repeato

 

Mary

WWII sit-ups x 15

5 Burpees

LBC’s x 15

5 Burpees

Low flutter x 15

5 Burpees

Bull dog Merkins x 10

 

Moleskin

 

– The mission ASHP – Arms, Shoulders, Hills & Pain was successful, the Pax got a little of each in this morning.

– The Po Po, mixed up the routine a little but we still made it to the unnamed hill. Everyone kind of starred at it for a moment; I even got a BS on the reverse bear crawl up….Nice!  Didn’t see everyone, but did see “Freakin Alabama” knock it out, awesome job!!

-I meant to ask, what’s up with no history lesson this morning….alot of chatter but no generals covered.

-S’mores made a pit stop before we hit the hills so he owes us….Glad I got the picture with the helmet out of the way at the start of the workout.  He was going to use that option if the bathroom was locked.

– Glad to see Skipper make it down for a workout, it’s been a while bro. I remember back in the days at the pool house you made those drives up every day! I’ll have to come and check out at your Q at the General.

– First time on the far baseball field, graded nice, was that Big bird that went flying by me….I see you getting strong, a solid 4 or 5 a week now!!

– We finished strong today with some burpees in mary, Hat Trick took his weigh-vest off just in time. You can thank Shaken for the last set, was going to go to another exercise but he shouted it,so gottha oblige.

– The master Q for the General going forward is going to be Kid Rock, good hand-off in Leadership, I know the rest of the clown car will support.

– Thanks to the Shoe, S’mores, and King Fish for the opportunity to lead, it is always an honor!

Living After Midnight!

First thing this morning I saw a text from Countertop bailing due to a crazy late night (after midnight) at work (What is he doing anyway?). So knowing this was a possibility based on an earlier conversation in the week it was time to break out a backup Wienke.

The Thang…

Hairband mile warmup while waiting for GJ & GT’s FNG

COP:

Side Straddle Hop X 20
Imperial Walker X 20
Low Slow Squat X 20… still waiting for FNG
Peter Parker X 10
Parker Peter X 10

Let’s mosey and grab some wall for Peoples Chair
30 seconds on
30 seconds, drop an inch and 30 more seconds

Aaaannd here is FNG #2 zooming into the parking lot.

Under the school cover and partner up
P1 supine pullups, P2 step ups until I call time then flapjack 3 rounds
During round 2 Audible! Same thing but 20 pullups instead of time, too hard to look at my watch while doing pull ups!
A bunch of plankwork mixed in

Mosey to the hill, stay with your partner:
Round 1: Partner 1 run up the hill 3 burpees at the top, Partner 2 Merkins at the bottom. Flapjack when P1 returns. Continue until Combined 100 Merkins.
Round 2: Combined 200 LBCs at the bottom, 10 squats at the top. Flapjack until the 200 are complete.
Round 3: Combined 100 Flutters at the bottome, 10 Carolina Dry Docks at the top. Flapjack until the 100 are complete.
More plank work mixed in including 20 hand release merkins, oooh yeah feel that?!

Mary
Flutters in cadence 20
Dolly IC 20
Backscratcher IC 20
And don…. GJ calls protractor! Ok!
6 inches
90 degrees
45 degrees
20 degrees
45 degrees
Back to 6 inches

DONE!

Moleskin
I hate CT needed to bail but totally understand and look forward to his schedule getting back to normal after the new year.

Great having 2 FNGs at Overdrive this morning and look forward to continuing to grow the region. Candy Crush was named due to his job as an IOS app developer, and Jenner because of his track & field skillset at college, named after the once honored and now creepy old lady looking Bruce Jenner.

Announcements:
Joe Davis Run
Stay tuned for holiday schedule

Strong work out there everyone and alway an honor to lead!

Christmas is a great time to visit old friends (the Webbs)

18 strong men embarked on a tour of Carmel/51 to celebrate that there are only 6 more days until Christmas

The Thang:

Fast Mosey to Wells Fargo on Hwy. 51 for COP

  • 6 Diamonds IC/10 sec. hold 6 Inches – hold it
  • 6 Merkins IC/10 sec. hold 6 inches – hold it
  • 6 Wide Arm Merkins IC/ 10 sec. hold 6 inches – hold it
  • 6 Mountain Climbers IC/ 10 sec. hold 6 inches – hold it
  • 6 Rock Hoppers IC/10 Sec. hold 6 inches – hold it
  • 6 Makhtar N’diayes IC/10 Sec. hold 6 inches – hold it

Jog to Panera shopping center. Partner up – size doesn’t matter. P-1 runs stairs X6 (two sets to choose from); P-2 rotates between 6 Flutters IC and 6 LBCs IC until partner returns. Switch.  Plankerama until everyone is done

Jog across Carmel to large parking lot behind Remax building where cinder blocks await. Partner up again. P-1 does suicides to six points (about the size of a football field); P-2, with cinder blocks, rotates between 6 curls, 6 shoulder presses, 6 tricep extensions, and 6 squats. Switch. Plank until everyone is done.

Jog across 51 to Carmel Professional Business Center parking lot and discover the perfect Derkin wall. With Runstopper leading (b/c it’s his wheelhouse) perform a modified Jack Webb (name yet to be determined). Do 1 Derkin then 6 Air presses while in a Wall Sit, Do 2 Derkins then 12 Air Presses while in a Wall Sit. Continue to 6 Derkins and 36 Air Presses while in a Wall Sit and then back down to 1.

Jog through a couple more office parks and cross over Carmel to the shopping center. Do 6 Backward runs and planking along the way. Jog behind the shopping center (through some dumpster odors) end up at the backside of Pallantyne hill. Run the hill twice and do six Quintuple merkin burpees at the bottom each time (would have done six, but ran out of time). Jog back to start.

Moleskin:

Solid Pax this morning. It was great seeing Runstopper and Philmont back at Centurion after a long hiatus. We covered a lot of territory, but incorporated several pain stations including the perfect Derkin wall that may be visited again. Not sure what to call the Jack Webb modification with Derkins, but I’m sure someone more creative than me can think of something. I also incorporated some stray cinder blocks from a property I manage. With the construction at Catholic, I’m leaving them on the side of the Remax parking lot for future use. I heard a little bit of grumbling at the COP (about not including SSH and IWs and doing too many 6 inch plank holds, etc.), but other than that, the Pax seemed ready to bring it this morning. It was an honor to lead.

Announcements:

Joe Davis Run on January 10th and Brain Cancer Race at Marshal Park on March 21. Sign up for Unbroken on January 10th. Also, meet at parking lot  close to Little Ave.(near where the buses park)   next week if they start construction on the new parking deck.

 

Searching for the Christmas Star

clarke -“look kids, the Christmas Star!”
uncle lewis – “that ain’t the friggin’ Christmas Star Griz, it’s the light on the Sewer Treatment Center”

27 of South Charlottes Finest Sprang from their beds to see what was the matter at Kevlar. There would be quite a bit of running today as the Points on this Christmas Star were pretty spread out. Once the Pax was properly disclaimed – Here’s how it went down.

Drop off a few bells in the field to be used later on (thanks to those that provided the bells)

Circle up in field for Warm up In Cadence – SSH x25 – IWx25 – Squatx25 –Merkin x25

Grab a Partner and a Rock for a lap of catch me if you can with 5 Hand Release Merkins

Plankarama – at the end of the Loop

Mosey to center point of Christmas Star for brief description of the THANG. Quite a bit of chatter at this point – folks must have been eager to get started.

Break-up into 5 groups – each heading to a different point on the star

Return to center for 25 merkins at center of star before moving to next starpoint clockwise -25 Merkins before heading on your merry way

1 runs to rocks for 25 squat press with rock

2 runs to covered benches near tennis court for 25 dips

3 runs to Parking lot Field for 25 swings

4 runs to playground for 25 knees to elbows

5 runs to benches for 25 jump ups

Mary exercises performed while waiting for everyone to finish round 1 – The Flutter x25 In Cadence – hold it six inches – The Dolly x25

Begin Second round Christmas Star this time with 10 reps – Most completed 3 points before time was called.

COT

Moleskin – The objective today was to keep moving around the AO with plenty of strength training exercises mixed in. Hopefully the mission was accomplished for the Pax this morning. TR decided to bring his Gary Fisher to cut down on the running while nursing a sore calf…thank you for keeping guard of the KB’s. The rock collection process before the catch me if you can went slightly awry – but things seemed to settle in after that point. Great effort from the Kevlar Pax as usual. I saw a great mix of KB’ers and Fast Twitchers out there this morning – strength and cardio is what we were after with today’s workout so there should have been something for everyone. Not including COP or Partner Chase – we completed roughly 200 Merkins and covered nearly 2.5Miles during the Christmas Star. A pleasure to lead such a strong group of men this morning. Thank you Sussudio for taking us out with a prayer that really hit the mark as we enter the holiday season.

Announcements –
Two upcoming convergences – check weekly emails
12/24 at Anvil – 6am
12/26 at Charlotte Christian – 7am

Squats and Partners, keep it simple

10 pax posted to Peak 51 this Thursday for a little squat instruction and some simple but hopefully effective gloomy pain.  The way some were dressed out there you’d have thought it was cold but since that is all in your head it doesn’t matter, for those that couldn’t shake the cold idea we set off, almost 1 min late as Slim Fast let YHC know…

 

So now I’m sure you are wondering, what did the Peak 51 crew do on this fine morning?

Run around the school to the back parking lot

SSH x 20

IW x 20

MC x 10

Comments from Slim Fast were funny but invoked 10 boyo

Rock Hopper x 10

Squat clinic (remember, YHC is not a professional)

Over to the wooden benches hmmm too much frost, nix the jump up idea let’s do

10 Elevated CDD’s

15 Dips

20 Squats (gotta reinforce the lesson)

That was fun, let’s do it again

Over to the track

Partner up

Partner run to the far end of the track playground equipment for partner amrap pull ups + 2

Back to the parking lot side for 20 squats

Back to the playground equipment for amrap pull ups + 2 again

Back to the front for more squats

Then to the back for partner paddycake merkins x 10

Back to the front for something other than squats that YHC can no longer remember

Apparently Whitesnake was getting bored and wanted to know how much time was left (11 min)

Off to the school to take a break, have a seat…yes, you’re right Geraldo arm raises WOULD be a good idea, x 30 it is then stand up

Oh no wait, sit down again, let’s hold our arms out in front because some teacher was parking her car and this would look more odd than arm raises

Reminder to modify as needed and btw – YHC was hoping to outlast Geraldo but such was not the case (Meathead beast)

Back to the parking lot where we met up with a woman who said her name was Mary

Sid-The-Kid x 10 each way (don’t get the mumps as an adult, just as Sid)

Dolly x 25

Rosalita x 20

FYI Whitesnake we are now out of time, well done all.

Moleskine:

After the relaxing start the pax pushed really hard today, had only a couple of 10 counts, YHC was clearly out of O2 as he called Hacker the wrong name…twice, sorry brother I’ll get it.  Saw some serious effort out there, Insomniac was YHC’s partner and he sure pushed me on the strength work, I tried to reciprocate on the running.  Sensei was demonstrating some good form after the squat clinic as were many of the pax, also noting many of the pax declaring that the might feel it a little differently on Friday.  Hope you did, form is important, speed less so. Didn’t look like Gullah broke a sweat so either its getting easier or the chill prevents you from sweating but either way, looking good.  Freedom was high fiveing everyone afterwards so must have enjoyed it.  YHC is always honoured to Q, especially this crew, what an awesome crew and great AO.

Announcements:

Joe Davis Run register here: http://joedavisrun.racesonline.com/register identify yourself as an A51 Pax in the team drop down

Convergence Christmas Eve (Dec 24) 0600 at Calvary (Anvil or The Rock site)

Unbroken movie watching 2nd F Jan 10th evening, great 1st F, 2nd F doubledown day

Thursday 1/1 Convergence at the Rock.. 7:00 AM, Geraldo and Slim Fast Q.