— Posted on behalf of Sussudio —
Sussudio stepped up for his first time Q on a soggy and chilly morning. 25 pax gathered to heckle, I mean support, him.
Distance ran 3.2miles,980 calories burned.
1 Lap of track
Circle up
In con cadence
25 side saddle hop
25 Merkins
25 Squats
On your own
25 lbc
Pair up same size, weight and speed.
Partner 1 leapfrog over Partner 2 then crawl under legs 10 Reps
1 then runs 40yards and back
2 does lbc until 1 comes back
Flap jack.
1)10, lbc touching shoulders of 2 on way up, 2) kneels on 1 toes.
1 then runs 40yards and back 2 does hand release Merkins
Flap jack
1) carries 2 piggy back 40yards
2 carries 1 back
1) does wheelbarrow 2 holds go 40 flapjack
Repeat last two
Jog to halfway on track.
1 runs around track to half way on other side, 2 meets him there by slow jog across field.
flap jack
Repeat 3 times.
20 Merkins
10 knees to chest
Jog back to parking lot
20 Merkins
20 Dolly Parton/ the flutter combined.
5 different stretches
Moleskin:
Announcements:
A couple guys ran in, a couple guys arrived early to swing some metal, and a few chose to “only” come for the regularly scheduled workout. All were treated to a simple, full-body beatdown as follows:
– “Good Morning – you have 5 seconds” (YHC was just in time himself).
– “Follow me.” (Mandatory for all F3 workouts to begin this way, otherwise, the Q might as well be wearing pink spandex and carrying a clipboard).
– Mosey around church parking lot, down hill #4, up hill #4, find a nice spot to circle up.
– 100x SSH (now everyone thinks I’m nuts and hopes to God I don’t follow with 100 burpees).
– 10x merkins, 10x flutters, 10x squats
– repeato 4 more times (that’s 100 total of each for you guys counting at home)
– mosey to pavillion and find a bench: 100 jump-ups, 100 decline merkins (all OYO)
– plankorama
– mosey to strategically placed orange cones, which happen to be 100 yds. apart:
– sprint 100 yds, 10 Carolina Dry Docks, sprint 100 yds, 10 LBCs
– repeato 4 more times
– 50 LBCs and 50 CDDs OYO (for those still counting at home, that’s 100 total for each of the LBCs and the CDDs. Only 10 100 yd. sprints. Because either (a) I’m not that nuts (really, 100 100 yd sprints?!?!) or (b) time stops for no man and the morning can only last so long.)
– Mosey back to home base. Stop, circle up and count off.
Moleskine:
When you create a workout that challenges everyone to perform one hundred reps of each called exercise, of course the first title that comes to mind is “The Century Set.” That title also makes me think of a yet-to-be-created F3 workout potentially to be held at either Avante or White Oak Manor. Admirable, but we’ll leave it to our great-grandfathers to create that one. Seeking perhaps a more appropriate and aspirational title I decided to refer to the Centurion — that ancient Roman warrior who we all know led cahorts of 100 men into battle against the Germanic barbarian hordes. (I choose to conveniently ignore the fact that, according to Wikipedia, he only led about 60-80 guys.)
Also, according to Wikipedia:
Centurions had to be literate, have connections (letters of recommendation), be at least 30 years of age, and had already served a few years in the military. The centurion in the infantry is chosen for his size, strength and dexterity in throwing his missile weapons and for his skill in the use of his sword and shield; in short for his expertness in all the exercises. He is to be vigilant, temperate, active and readier to execute the orders he receives than to talk; Strict in exercising and keeping up proper discipline among his soldiers, in obliging them to appear clean and well-dressed and to have their arms constantly rubbed and bright.
I think it’s fair to say that most of us in F3 more or less either resemble this description or at the very least aspire to it. Congrats, I just paid you a compliment.
More importantly, though, thinking about Centurions also led me to reflect on the following from Matthew’s gospel in the Bible. I invite you to consider this with me:
Matt. 8:5-13 (ESV): When he had entered Capernaum, a centurion came forward to him, appealing to him, “Lord, my servant is lying paralyzed at home, suffering terribly.” And he said to him, “I will come and heal him.” But the centurion replied, “Lord, I am not worthy to have you come under my roof, but only say the word, and my servant will be healed. For I too am a man under authority, with soldiers under me. And I say to one, ‘Go,’ and he goes, and to another, ‘Come,’ and he comes, and to my servant,‘Do this,’ and he does it.” When Jesus heard this, he marveled and said to those who followed him, “Truly, I tell you, with no one in Israel have I found such faith. I tell you, many will come from east and west and recline at table with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heavenwhile the sons of the kingdom will be thrown into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” And to the centurion Jesus said, “Go; let it be done for you as you have believed.” And the servant was healed at that very moment.
As I considered this, I wondered to myself: do I share the Centurion’s faith in the power of the Word, His word?
Announcements:
– From Abacus: Below are the links for the team page and my personal page for Team Chepul Hill for the 1st Annual Charlotte Brain Tumor Race on Saturday, 3/22, at Freedom Park:
We started off with beef and ended with stew …. And a little Chowda in the middle. 11 strong men set out in the gloom to conquer the charge.
It went something like this:
Mosey around the loop and mix in some karaoke, head down to the track for a lap and some COP
25 SSH
15 Merkins
20 Squats
Mosey to the field for some Beef Stew:
Sprint 100 yds and back and stop every 20 yds for beef. Increase reps from 2 4 6 8 10, and decrease on return trip 8 6 4 2.
4 rounds
Plank Jack + plank
Burpee + plank
Squat + lbc
Merkin + lbc
Crab walk to 50 & bear crawl back
Mosey to wall and partner up
Partner 1 wall sit + air pres, partner 2 run across field, 10 hand release Merkins and run back, flapjack
Rd 2 partner 1 BTW, partner 2 5 knee slaps
Mosey to bleachers for 3 rds of steps + 10 lbc, 10 dips, 10 derkins
Rd 1 as you please
Rd 2 bunny hop 2 step
Rd 3 bunny hop 2 up 1 back
Mosey back to parking lot for Mary
15 flutter
15 HTH
6 inches
COT
Posted by YHC on behalf of Double D’s
8 men arrived at The Maul to pay tribute to the beast.
The Thang:
COP
SSH X 25
IW X 25
Peter Parker Merkins X 25
Slow Lunges X 10
YHC asked Rolling Rock if he had ever been to the Murderhorn before. He hadn’t. So we ent.
Mosey out of Stonecrest to the base of the Murderhorn.
Scale the Murderhorn. 5 burpees at the top. Descend. Flutters until the rest of the pax arrive.
Scale the Murderhorn. 10 burpees at the top. Descend. LBCs until the rest of the pax arrive.
Scale the Murderhorn. 15 burpees at the top. Descend. Dollys until the rest of the pax arrive.
Scale the Murderhorn. 20 burpees at the top. Descend. Rosalita until the rest of the pax arrive.
Indian Run to the top. Dying cockroach until everyone arrives.
Mosey back behind the movie theater for some wall walkers with verkins at every crack in the pavement.
Peoples chair
Another set of wall walkers + verkins to finished off everyone’s shoulders.
COT
Moleskin:
YHC has been travelling lately and enjoyed making a trip to the Maul for the first time in a while.
The behemoth turns babies into boys, boys into men, and men into monsters.
Mic Check wanted to rename the hill by removing the N.
Everyone had fun.
Announcements:
Check Monday’s backblast to learn more about the race that Frack and The Witness are preparing for and how you can help them raise money for Make A Wish.
So the Thornruck is over (proud to say RT and I made it through) and the Mudrun is on the horizon. Now is the time to work on our VO2 max again.
The plan is to emulate the high intensity running (with some waiting) that will be present in the Mudrun. Warning to the purists out there, this will not be a scientific workout. It is raw and basic.
The plan:
– Launch from the greenway lot at the corner of Rea Rd and Bevington Pl at 5:15am (Haggis and Wingman plan to arrive early so you do not run us over)
– Get in a good 1 mile fellowship pace warmup
– From then on, every uphill should be a sprint with a recovery jog until everyone is back together
– If the leaders reach the next hill before the last person regroups, circle back until everyone can sprint the hill together.
– Once at the S. Charlotte Middle school track, we will divide into groups according to what you desire.
Option 1) 15min boot camp for those on the 4-mile plan
Option 2) 400m (1 lap) intervals with 1/2 lap recovery (5 intervals total)
Option 3) tempo pace 8 laps of the track
– On the way back, repeat the hill intervals and regroup until we reach Bevington Pl and then jailbreak back to the parking lot.
(Haggis posting for Philmont)
16 men and an iPhone gathered in the gloom for yet another frigid fun fest in the Winter Without End. Sporting new smokeboots and the now-familiar not-gonna-shave-it-till-the-weight-comes-off beard, YHC readied for Q #2. The QIC-ship realization generated the first memorable quote of the morning:
“Philmont’s on Q?!? That’s really scraping the bottom of the barrel.”
So with those words of encouragement, off we went!
The Thang:
– Run down the hill to the Marriott packing lot for a little warm up. Feels good to be at the front of the pax for once.
– SSH x 30. Felt good at 25 so kept on going.
– Imperial Walker x 20ish. Now out of breath.
– Unveiling of the first iPhone app. Pushups Coach. YHC is using this app to work up to 100 Merkins. App has 6 week program of increasing number sets and reps of Merkins. Today was Week 2 Day 3. Start with 14 good form Merkins.
– Mosey on down to the lake to get out of the wind. Second memorable quote of the morning:
“Philmont is that your jester hat jingling in your pocket or are you just glad to see me?”
– Unveiling of iPhone app #2. 7Min: A 7 Minute Workout. Series of 12 exercises for 30 seconds each with 10 seconds in between (or plank if you must MM):
– Round 2. This time YHC realized he could pause the application.
– Round 3. By this point YHC did not know if he was pitching or catching. May be missing some details.
– Plank up and wait for YHC.
COT
Moleskin: This was post #125 for YHC. Fartsack, travels, weather and a nagging cold combined to slow my pace since first of the year. Thanks Haggis for voluntelling me to Q. Felt great to lead and even better to finish. Only 136 days remain until Philmonts Big Adventure. 20 pounds to make my weight goal and lose the beard. No way I would be this close without F3. Thanks.
(…posted on behalf of Checkpoint…)
6 strong and motivated men assembled in celebration of the THORNRUCK and Angler’s accomplishment. While the pre-blast had some people confused into thinking that this was to be a recovery day with a lot of 2ndF, that was not the case. The only promise made was that we would not be doing a repeat of any activity that brought us misery at Friday night’s GRT. So no hydro-burpees, log carrying, aqua-tunnel-of-love, buckets of gold or log rafts. Fortunately for those that believe 67 hours is adequate recovery, that left us plenty of options. We would not be discouraged by cold and wet conditions this morning. The request to bring stories of GRT was simply to give us something a little longer than a ten count when needed – which was often.
The Thang: (Note all counts and distances in honor of Angler’s age)
COT
AAR/NMMS
It was great to see everyone out there this am. We definitely needed a few GRT war stories to give us a breather at times during this routine. The Pax seemed quite happy we were stopping at YHC’s age instead of Angler’s on the Jack Webbs. Proud to have been with GRT’s latest rock star, Angler, at THORNRUCK and today. He only needed 67 hours of recovery. Also happy to see Package’s legs were operational again after the freaky symptoms of his hypothermia on Friday night. That was not the night to have the lowest body fat on the team. Good to see him and Clueless not be intimidated by the wet cold today. Crabcakes was really sad that we did not have any coupons to carry this morning. We should have stacked a few bodies on top of him to make him feel at home. Dora was all happiness, still basking in the glow of Fort Bragg Heavy followed by Thorn ruck 2 weeks later. YHC presented him with the team weight (pipes and chains) and he was like a little kid at Christmas – it’s the little things that make Dora happy.
YHC will be back on Q Friday – do not be deceived into thinking it is going to be 2nd F.
16 strong posted at DMZ for some St. Patty’s pain.
The Thang:
Run to Carmel for warm ups:
SSHx30, Imperial Walker x 20, Mountain Climber x 20, Diamond x 12
Run to field. Abort. Almost wiped out in the slop so back to lot for Hoops Drills:
Run to each hoop for excercise, 5 burpees at the end, run back: Merkins x 10, All Cotton Sit Ups x 10, Carolina Dry Docks x 10, Squats x 10, Burpees x 5
Run to back hill, partner up:
Partner 1 balls to the wall, partner 2 run to bottom fence and back, Rinse & Repeat x 4
Run to side street for Jacobs Ladder x 6 with Burpees.
Mary: Russian Twist (Swiper), Heels to Heaven (Snowflake), Slow Sit Up (Hamlet), Dolly x many (Skywalker)
Moleskin:
Great work out brothers. Appreciate the mumble chatter to keep us going.
Playing in mud is one thing, but not being able to stand is another, the audible didnt slow us down.
Boomer was able to keep his Irish hat on through the full churn. Impressive display.
FOD
Most Foxhole workouts involve a good deal of running, and Rock Thrill and Champagne punished the pax over the last 2 weeks, Today, we dialed it back a bit and kept the mileage low.
Lots of reps, most of which I cant recall in order.
Quick warm-up lap around parking lot w/ KB to circle up (ok, a little running)
COP
SSH x 25
Imperial Walker x 20
Merkins x 15
Mountain Climbers x 20
Extended COP
2 hand swings x 20
merkins x 10
2 hand overhead press
squats x 15
Plank rows (left) x 15
5 burpees
Plank rows (right) x 15
5 burpees
Hammer curls x 20
mountain climbers x 20
Upright rows x 15
squats x 10
Goblets squats x 15
5 burpees
Standing rows x 10
merkins x 10
Partner up for Catch Me If You can around lot
P1 sprint w/ KB
P2 = 5 merkins, tag partner and flapjack
Mary w/ KB
Dolly x 15
LBC x 20
Mason Twists x 10
Flutter x 15
Rosalita x 15
Dying Cockroach x 10
Round 2
2 hand swings x 25
merkins x 10
hammer curls x 20
10 burpees
upright rows x 15
squats x 15
KB deadlifts x 15
merkins x 15
Tricep extension x 15
mountain climbers x 20
1 hand swing x 15 (left)
10 burpees
1 hand swing x 15 (right)
10 burpees
Lap around lot to head back home
COT
Moleskin
Welcome to Foxy Lady, good to have you.
Hope all enjoyed the break from the sprints.
Shout out to HB, recovering from GRC. Good job brother.
Announcements
Frack & The Witness are logging some serious miles in an upcoming 24 mile hike to support Make A Wish. Help them reach their goal. All the money stays local:
http://trailblazechallenge2014.kintera.org/faf/donorReg/donorPledge.asp?ievent=1087275&lis=1&kntae1087275=C3999450C83A4591978BD6954C9C6708&supId=402488014&emaillogid=7568958977
Abacus and Chelms race to support brother Bill and brain cancer research.
http://www.braintumorcommunity.org/site/TR?px=3408952&pg=personal&fr_id=2291&fl=en_US&et=nUO88gVsYeG8mCgCuTqQlQ&s_tafId=68694
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