Wiggler – 5:30 am – Mullrich Corners
Corner of Foxcroft and Rothwood – beginner / fellowship / taper pace – 5:30 am – rain or shine…
– KS
Base Camp – Fireman Ed takes the lead
Fireman Ed took the lead as we audibled the entire plan due to the number and fitness level of the PAX, that being two, YHC and Fireman Ed (who despite the downpour still ran to and from the workout).
Jog to teachers parking lot:
SSH x 25
Merkins x 10
Fast SSH x 10
Squats x 10
CDD x 15
IW x 20
Fireman Ed leading the second half of the COP
Audible by Fireman Ed, jog to park (took the road, too many stories of fabled but non existent short cuts and given the rain we ran the road way) ~1 mile
Playground equipment to do 10 x pull ups, 10 x merkins, 20 x squats, run a lap of the parking lot repeato x 3
mosey to hill, run short burpee ladder hill to 3, mosey to road, jog back to school
where we planned to do Mary but realized that we had run out of time so straight to COT
Counting off goes pretty quickly when there is only 2 PAX, remembering Cottonmouth and Coal Miners Daughter in prayer.
Great work today by Fireman Ed, taking the lead in prep for his first official Q (likely Stonehenge, but we’ll get him to do a Base Camp in the near future I’m sure). Had fun in the rain and by the time we finished so had the rain. Who cares this is F3 and we don’t stop for no stinkin rain, if it isn’t hard it isn’t worth it.
Apparently the rest of the PAX took Tiger Rag’s usual advice and didn’t show up, many smelly fart sacks out there no doubt but at least I had Fireman Ed to push YHC pretty hard. Great 2nd F as well, the rest of you lost out.
See more of you in the gloom next week I’m sure…
Crucify The QIC When The Flag Falls
The shovel flag was thought to have been firmly planted (but apparently not firm enough for the wind) and 35 of Area 51’s finest ventured forth in the windy gloom to make a downPAINment on the day.
The Thang:
Mall Cop Lead:
Run to the launch pad for COP (all in cadence): SSH x 30, Imperial Wokkas x 25, Merkins x 15, Mt Climbers x 15, Squats x 25
Run to the base of the hill at the soccer fields for:
Jacobs Ladder with increasing burpees from 1 to 7 at the top. Plank when done, Regular, left arm high, right arm high.
Run up & down the hill 5 times with squat jumps w/ knee tuck x 5 at top, merkins x 5 at the bottom. Plank when done.
Backwards lunge walk up the hill, backwards lunge walk down the hill x 2. Get in a low squat and hold at bottom when done
130 yard combo as follows: 30 yard bear crawl, 30 yard crab walk, 30 yard lunge walk, 40 yard burpee broad jump.
130 yard sprint back to and up the Jacobs ladder hill and 40 flutter kicks at the top on your own.
Handoff to Donkey Kong.
Donkey Kong’s Lead:
Mosey to field & circle up.
20 burpees on your own.
Plank.
Jack Webb ladder up to 7 and back down.
2-column Indian run to back parking lot/ball field area.
5 burpees on your own.
Split into groups of 5-6 for Parking Space Suicides – each group starts at the end of a parking row and runs out and back suicides to each white line up to 20 parking spaces. (Crowd pleaser)
Mosey over to baseball field, avoiding the ant hills.
Flutter kicks x 40 & 10-count hold, LBC
The return of Jack Webb’s – starting with 8 push-ups / 32 arm raises and working down to 1 push-up / 4 arm raises.
Run to picnic tables past the shovel flag (someone in the pax notices it’s been blown over by the wind) and the pax dishes out verbal abuse to Mall Cop as well as punishment. More on this in the moleskin.
3 sets of 10 jump-ups / 10 decline merkins / 10 LBC’s.
Plank.
Run back to start.
COT
Moleskin:
Another great day at The Rock as we have a strong pax of guys ranging from young 2.0s up to our war daddy Iron Horse. Welcome to our FNG’s IPTAY, Howard’s Rock, Sawyer, and Huck Finn. One would have thought that Tiger Rag posted with two Clemson names, however TR posted earlier at Stonehenge. IPTAY put forth a massive effort on his first posting and we look forward to having you back out for many more downPAINments in the gloom.
YHC thought I had firmly and securely planted the shovel flag when we first arrived on campus. However mother nature decided the wind was going to constantly blow and uprooted Old Glory during the middle of our workout. As we ran past one of our pax noticed and started yelling at YHC to drop and give them 50 merkins for punishment. However as we were running past the parking lot Skywalker noticed the railroad ties and thought it would be better punishment for YHC to throw one over my shoulders and run the rest of the way to the picnic tables and benches with it. Then the heckling commenced and YHC heard pax yelling to find some stones to throw at him before he’s crucified. Ah the love we feel and dish out to eachother! YHC thinks I would have preferred the 50 merkins.
Everyone loves it when Jack Webb shows up, but Jack Webb 2 times within 30 minutes during a workout is unsavory Donkey Kong. There was also much grumbling as DK ordered out a 20 parking spot suicide that seemed to take forever to run. I think BS stands for “Great Stuff” as this really got the O2 deprivation going!
Announcements: Let’s keep Cotton Mouth’s M and family in our prayers as she will be having surgery and recovering out in Dallas over the next several weeks. Also keep Coal Miner’s Daughter and his family in our prayers as well.
New Thursday Area 51 workout Hydra launching 5/9/13 at OP Elementary on Rea Rd just down from the Colony Place shopping center, launch is 5:30. Park on the left side of school towards the back of the track. 2 heads of the multi-headed beast will be Qing the workout this week: 49er and Donkey Kong! Come and get some if you dare!
A new rock on the block
10 faithful PAX showed for a Saturday morning pain session. One 2.0 and two FNG’s made for some good representation at Area 51. We found a new rock to climb over and want the ROCK to know we got game too.
The Thang:
Joker Part 1
Lap around the campus, circle up on soccer field
SSH x 20
IW x 20
Squat x 20
Merkin x 12
Star fish circuit, five light poles with drills, back to main light pole each time.
Merkins, x 20, squats x 20, LBC x 20, Mountain Climber x 20, Berpies x 10
Mosey to playground for a circuit
pullups x 10
dips x 30
squats x FIFTY!!!!
repeat 3 times, decreasing the number of squats to 40 then 30 (Thanks Joker!)
Mosey to soccer field for 800 meter run.
Circle up
LBC x 20
Dolly x 20
Far Side Part 2
Mosey to rock pile
Mason twist with rock x 12
Stager arm rock merkinis x 6, switch arms
diamond rock merkins x 6
rock relay with groups:
One person runs 50 yds with rock and back while their group does squats, rock climbers, merkins
repeat with berpies, LBC, merkins
dump rocks mosey to track
JUMP THE ROCK
at track, run two laps, stopping at each corner to circle up for drills:
merkins, squats, rock climbers, CDD, LBC, IW, wide arm squats, diamond merkins x 6 each
peoples chair
decline merkin x 10
peoples chair
mosey for some mary
rosalita x 10
dolly x 10
flutter x 10
bicycle x 10
Great work by all. Welcome Fish Taco and Bam Bam. Joker is officially back to peak form crushing the PAX in the 800 meter. Dennis The Menace at 10 yrs old hung with the pack the whole workout, well done. Welcome back Turkey Leg from injury, looks like you havent skipped a beat. Lobster Roll wore shorts for the first time in F3 history because his wife didnt wash his pants, sorry man, break em out next week. Found the ROCK’s baby brother near the track and the PAX made good work hurdling it. Speaking of the track: Donkey Kong should know that we have weeds growing in the cracks of our track and the paint is faded but we loved every minute of it. #A51dirtytrack4life. Glad to share the morning with some good men.
Market Hijack
14 risk takers took on the Market, and lost.
The Thang:
Market Timer on Q:
Warm-up:SSH x 25, Squat x 20, Merkins x 15, Mountain climbers x 25
Mosey to Lake & grab some wall: dips x 15, decline merkins x 15, dips x 10, decline merkins x 10
Partner up: Partner 1 runs lap around lake, Partner 2 does 15 jump-up, 15 squat, 15 LBCs
flapjack and repeat-o
Mosey to other side of lake:
Partner leg toss, 10 middle, 10 right, 10 left. With partner, alternating high knees x 20, flapjack, with partner, knee-ups x 20, flapjack
Head over to bridge, lunge walk across
Mosey through parking lot, bear crawl up hill.
Head to 521 bridge for peoples chair:, hold for 30 seconds, then tiger press x 20
Mosey over to Aloft Hill for 6’s: Uphill for burpee x 1, downhill for squat x 5, Uphill for burpee x 2, downhill for squat x 4 etc, etc
Pass to Haggis
Mosey up to soccer field
Mary at field: 25 x flutter, Rosalita, Dolly, Protractor, Heels to Heaven
Sprints at field: start with abs, then sprint length of field: 10 heels to heaven, sprint! 10 crunches, sprint! 10 kayaking, sprint! 10 sit ups, sprint! etc a few more times.
Sprints at field: start with Merkins, then sprint length of field: 10 merkins, sprint! 10 merkins, sprint!
2x sprint to end and back.
Mosey back to start with a little plank work at lake on return.
The Moleskin:
- Very strong lead from Market Timer for his first Q: excellent job.
- Ridiculous runs around lake from Bratwurst. Tiger Rag and Haggis both tried to keep up; both failed.
- Tiger Rag got revenge by beating Tadpole at sprints – enjoy it while you can.
- Haggis got revenge from the look on Bratwurst’s face during Mary.
- Freeleys Comet was a little loud during Merkins. Fortunately it was windy.
- Great effort by all!
Who could forget Sacagawea? Nice Try
17 pax stepped into the gloom at the Centurion for their Friday morning beat down.
The Thang:
Head to the unofficial “warm up lot”.
SSHs x 30
Merkins x 20
Squats x 20
Imperial Walkers x 25
Line up for a lunge walk Indian run (not a good time at all).
Jog to the front picnic tables.
Partner up for upside down flutter kicks x 20
Flap Jack 2 times
Jog to the back parking lot.
Partner 1 lap around the lot, partner 2 (20 LBCs/20 Merkins/10 Burpees)
Rinse and repeat 3 times.
Head to the back door for everyone’s favorite circuit! Mumble Chatter Groan…
Wall Walk/Bear Crawl up Ramp/10 Donkey Kicks/ Lunge Walk to the stairs (3 laps).
How does so much pain fit into one line of text?
Jog to the back of the lot for some Mary.
Flutter Kicks x 25 HOLD.
Rosalita x25
Bicycle x25
LBCs x20
Head in for COT.
Mole Skin:
– Welcome to the Centurion Chelms! (Fresh out of Q school)
– Great numbers again today gentlemen, five straight weeks with at least one FNG
– Nice try Sacagawea, not sure who could forget that one after only a week. If that trick actually worked “Escargot” would be a distant memory.
– F3 is collecting books for Billingsville Elementary. Go through your kid’s books and rotate some out that they no longer read. If you are able, post on Wednesdays for tutoring at 4:30, they need our help.
– Welcome “Chop Saw”, that name was a gift. Consider yourself fortunate.
– Back Draft welcome to the Centurion, thanks for binging Chop Saw out.
Merkin Circle
32 (nearly 33) fine men showed up to enjoy some Kevlar pain on a perfect morning. Had new guy Della (Tyler Andrus) bothered to get out of his muscle car the count would have been one more having showed up slightly earlier than our usual LIFO (last in first out) Matlock.
THE THANG
Jog out of parking lot and back around to pick up Backcracker who showed up late. Dilly dally around waiting for Della only to go to our favorite stomping ground for the warm up.
SSH x 25
IW x 20
Squats x 15
10 burpees
Merkins x 15
Della drives by but does not stop despite hooting and hollering.
9 burpees
Wide arm merkins x 12
8 burpees
Stagger arm merkins x 10
7 jump squats
Military merkins x 10
6 burpees
Diamond merkins x 8
5 burpees
Windshield wiper merkins (clap optional) x whatever
4 burpees
Chest fly merkins x 8
3 burpees
One armed push ups x 3
2 burpees
Clockwise merkins x 10
1 dozen burpees
Mosey to school for pain stations
1) Tri dips
2) Two legged jump ups
3) 10 turkish get ups
Repeato
To Hill for 5 ladders – 10 split jumps/10 divebombers/hill/10 merkins
Mosey to lot and sprint to flagpole
Mary’s
Bananas call for dollys no flutter kicks no dollys x 20
Snowflake call for protractor x 12 minutes
Backcracker call for mason twists x 25
COT
MOLESKIN
Slightly delayed start this morning as we waited around for some fartsackers but we got into the workout pretty quickly. Great to see PBQB bring out some FNG Arkansas Razorbacks in Larry Watkins and Parker Watkins named Souey and Chop Suey respectively. In true Tiger Rag fashion we spent the first 15 minutes just standing in a circle doing a few chest exercises with some burpees sprinkled in accordingly. Fellas should be feeling that one a little and we even graduated up to one armed push ups at the end. We got through that one with a few mention of disclaimers and everyones teeth still in tact! Some mumble chatter arose at the announcements of a few new exercises with clockwise merkins and windshield wipers specifically. Pain stations saw Brown really step it up after all the smack talking of his lazy a** attitude from Bananas and he was knocking out turkish get ups like crazy. The hills were tough today with combos of legs, chest, and cardio with Far Side, Busch, and PBQB with strong showings. Q decided to call out a few guys on the Mary’s and Bananas went with the dolly call only to start doing the flutter. Can’t wait for his first big Q with the promise of “slerkins” (sloppy merkins) which may dissappoint our form guru. Moving onto Snowflake who took the lead with an endless protractor call and apparently our War Daddy dictated the ab workout while being attacked by fireants #toughasnails.
Great work by all.
Bulldog
Thanks for coming and remember next week we will be shooting off to Chic Fil A after the workout to study the book “True Measure of a Man” by RE Simmons from 6:30-7:15am. Email me at mcpinch21@aol.com if you want me to shoot you the first two chapters.
Saturday workouts as scheduled.
Tiger Rag in a Kilt??
The Gauntlet has been laid down. Our illustrious Regional Q, Tiger Rag, has publicly stated that if 150 of the Area 51/S-CLT Pax respond to our recent survey, that he will wear a kilt to Haggis’ new workout #Bagpipe. I’m assuming, Haggis, that TR may have to borrow one of yours.
Click on the link below to take the survey. It will cost you less than 5 minutes of your time.
http://survey.constantcontact.com/survey/a07e7co6qh7hfmuz68s/start
Come on men. We are just over half-way to the goal. This is F3. We have to hit the target. Aye!
Hydra Soft Launch, Though Nothing Is Soft About A Multi-Headed Beast!
3 Pax appeared in the drizzling gloom by different means of transportation (some on bike, others by car) to survey the AO (Area of Operation) and test out the facilities of OP Elementary!
The Thang:
Not going to give away too much here except it was a great workout by 2 of the 3 heads of Hydra. You’ll just have to post next Thursday, 5/9/13, to get some of what is sure to be one of the toughest workouts of Area 51! Great campus with lots of amenitites sure to make your arms fall off, YHC is already sore from this mornings campus tour / walk through.
Moleskin:
It was a perfect morning to run with 2 of the 3 heads of the new Hydra workout. All 3 site Q’s (Bug Eater, Donkey Kong, & 49er) are alumni of the GORUCK class of 421 in February and this will certainly be a weekly beat down by them and several veteran guest Q’s. This was a fun but very difficult workout and will be a tremendous beatdown each week. We had fun doing it this morning, but YHC’s not sure you are cut out for it. We’ll do this workout, but maybe you should just skip it and fartsack! But if you think you are F3 man enough then this just might be the Thursday workout for you.
The following are the words of our very own Donkey Kong on how this workout got it’s name: “The Hydra of classical mythology was a fearsome, multi-headed beast. F3 is a strong body of men with many standout leaders. Cut off one of the Hydra heads, and 2 more sprout forth. If an F3 man falls or stumbles, either physically during a workout or spiritually / emotionally in some other aspect of his life, there are 2 more right behind him to pick him back up. The longer the Hydra is battled, the greater the force is multiplied. The greater the problem or challenge, the more forcefully F3 as an organization leverages its resources, skills, and determination to achieve the desired result. Thus the name of our new workout, Hydra!” Wow, who knew Donkey Kong was such a deep thinker!
So come on out next Thursday, 5/09/13, for the hard launch of Hydra at OP Elementary on Rea Rd just down from the Colony Place Shopping Center. Gather at 5:20, Launch at 5:30, COT at 6:15. That is only if you’re man enough!
Q-less
An Unknown number of pax were our running in the gloom this morning. Leaderless, but not unmotivated. If a tree falls in the woods and no one is there to hear it, does it still make a sound? Yes!
The Thang:
If those unnamed pax were checking their @F3Area51 twitter account they would have known the activity of the Month in May is interval runs. They would have warmed up with a mile they for every subsequent mile, sprinted the first quarter, then jogged 3/4 of a mile. If they started at 5:15 they would have run 6 miles total (5 sprints), and if they started at 5:30 they would have run 4 miles total (with 3 sprints).
Of course, if they would have been checking their @F3Area51 twitter account, they would have also known that 49er and YHC would be MIA this morning and would have taken up the Q mantle in our absence.
Alas, we may never know what happened this morning. What happens in the gloom, stays in the gloom?
Moleskin:
Yes this morning the Devil’s Turn was Q-less. 49er was busy arrousing a 3-headed monster by the name of Hydra at Old Providence Elementary. Details on this new workout coming soon I’m sure. Can anything named after a mythical beast be good? Stay tooned!
YHC, I was busy snipping newborn justifiers at the hospitial. Cleaning up the new recruits, so to speak.
For future reference, the daily routine for the Devil’s Turn will here-to-for be relayed to any interested pax in the F3 South weekly email sent out at the beginning of each week. If you missed it and no one is there to guide you – Just Run, Baby. Run.
You may have noticed the ominous sight of the trailers at the entrance to the McAlpine Greenway recently. Alas, the greenway is about to close for at least 2 years due do some scandalous paving project, among other agravances. THe Devil’s Turn will thus be moving shortly to another local, presumably the greenway entrance off Rea Road, near the Trader Joes. If you live close to there, this will give you no other excuses to run on Thursday mornings. If you live near Sardis, sorry. Stay tuned.