Finishing up a nice Mother’s Day and decided to check in on who was Q’ing. Turns out it’s a me!
No big deal, who doesn’t enjoy a Cuthbertson Q amirite? Well that’s fine until I’m woken up around 2AM with the sounds of a torrential rain storm outside my window. I mutter myself back to sleep something about “better not being raining when I wake up”……fast forward to 4:30 Foundation’s text telling me he’s too soft to go out in the rain alarm clock wakes me up and I pull up the old Waxhaw weather to see what’s shaking. Just then Smithers text me to confirm he is also candy and will melt in the rain the radar tells me it’s going to be a onslaught of water throughout the workout.
Well this should be awesome, let’s rage. Got to Cuthbertson in time to launch with ignition and hear Glidah tell them they were doing the Lawson trails. Bullet dodged courtesy of my Q sign up So I head off on a prerun to scope out all of the covered areas the schools have to offer. Circle back around to join 10 other men on what is sure to be a total crap show great workout. We agreed my backblast could just read ” We ran and we did stuff” but I’ll add a bit of color here:
The Thang:
Turns out the rain pretty much held off, I got just as wet as Zinfandel when Side Project releases a new hoppy concoction I would have from just the sweat of it all. It was a good push from all the guys and we stayed in a group. I threw some for a loop when I added that we wouldn’t be counting reps, we would just be doing work until it was time to leave. Seemed to work out ok as I haven’t got an DM’s telling me to go F myself had a number of guys tell me they like the style that allowed us to stay as a group and still get the work in. I think we covered 3.25 miles and did a decent number of reps.
DISCS
WARM-UP * Mosey around Waxhaw Elementary Front Parking Lot
* Rocking night clubs * 20 Side Straddle Hops *Plank Position – Calf Stretches, Jack Knifes, Downward dog, Upward Dog.
THE THANG
* Mosey to left of school by buses to hill in the back for sevens:
Round 1: Top Hill – 1 Burpee / Bottom Hill – 6 (2 is 1) Speed Skaters, 2/5, 3/4, 4/3, 5/2, 6/1.
Round 2: Top Hill – 1 LBC / Bottom Hill – 6 (2 is 1) forward lunges, 2/5, 3/4, 4/3, 5/2, 6/1.
* Mosey across street to Arbor Drive then line up to do Indian Runs through cemetery down cemetery road. Once through cemetery and bear to left (Sharon Dr) do 5 squats at every mailbox all the way down to 1st intersection (Stark Lane). Then on way back up street do 1 Merkin at each mailbox. When get to the top of the hill back at cemetery did Indian Runs until at end of Arbor road. Then crossed back to front of school parking lot.
* Mosey Back to Front Parking Lot sidewalk for Jack Webb’s. 1 Merkin/4 Air Press..2/8, 3/12..up to 10/40.
* Mosey Back to COT for 54 squats as time expired.
Announcements:
Christ’s Closet – Sat. 5/15 – 9am-1pm – furniture clear out
Convergence – Mon. 5/17 – 5:15am Asylum & 6am Mental Health Speaker Coffeteria – Brooklyn Pizza – Wesley Chapel
Blood Drive – Sat. June 19th Blood Drive 9am – 1pm Five Stones Church
MOLESKIN
Chastain pulled up in his SUV before we started warm up asking where we were going as had to use port-o-potty in back of school and got back in record 5 minutes, as finishing stretches, and thankfully refused to make hand contact with us for remainder of workout, and then Chastain proceeded to explode out of the gates during sevens, along with Dunkin & Flip Phone setting the pace.
In Posse fashion on way out during Indian Runs through the cemetery told a scary story, and then on the way back told Chastain & myself, know he knows where he can bury us, as apparently he did not like our gazelle up-tempo pace😊
Welcome FNG – “Norm the Miner” (Will Regalado) who was brought out by Schedule C, as fellow Millbridge Resident that moved here from NJ back in August 2020 and was looking for Crossfit Gym and Schedule C, said I’ll pick you up at 4:50am and let’s try F3 first. Looking good after workout, as Norm the Miner asking to come out to workouts this Wednesday & Friday!
Chastain wants credit for the workouts that Chastain does. No backblast = no credit. So Chastain writes the backblast.
The Boondocks is allegedly a bootcamp workout at Porter Ridge but this day was very gear-ish. Medicine ball and a firehose. Oh yeah, and 0.55 miles according to my watch. Great workout and I’m not complaining, other than it didn’t help me hit my mileage goal for the week.
So lots of stuff was done. Throwing the medicine ball. Slamming the medicine ball. Breaking the medicine ball. Oh yeah, and tugging at the hose. Uh, the firehose. No, I don’t think that’s a pet name.
Welcome to FNG Timothy, now known as Holyfield. Had part of his ear ripped off while playing goalie in a soccer league in his younger years. Can’t tell now, though, as plastic surgery is a wonderful thing. Still gets the name, though.
That should be enough talking to qualify as a legit backblast.
I pulled into Calvary at about 6:59 on Saturday and found 3 pax waiting for me. Ickey and Frehley’s were out of their cars and ready to rock. Hoover was busy strapping on his boot. We got our gear ready and Hoover unloaded his cooler, which doubles as a seat.
After a brief disclaimer (only veterans in attendance), we got warmed up with the usual SSH, IW, Windmill combo. We mixed in a prying squat and maybe some swings, too. Then, we got down to business.
Done. Since Hoover had the cooler, the RockZero pax and Cheese Curd joined us for COT.
Announcements:
Moleskine:
Thank you to Honeycomb for helping me plan my first Q at the Homecoming site. Six strong PAX took on the Weddington Middle School/Elementary School campus with bravado. I had a morning planned so that we would mix it up with running, rocks, pain stations, even a trail run. We circled up at the Middle School parking lot – COT – for the disclaimers. DICCS given.
The Warm Up – Mosey from Middle School parking lot to side parking lot for Toe Taps (curb step-up’s) along the curb to loosen up the legs. Mosey to the bus lot behind the Middle School and circle up. Warm up exercises consisted of:
The Thang – After warm up, our first challenge started with 5 lights to which we alternated between 10 Hand Release Merkins and 10 WWII Sit-Up’s (Also called Big Boy Sit-Up’s). This was headed towards 12 Mile Creek Rd. so loop back around to the six when you finish. We carefully crossed 12 Mile Creek Rd. (trying to make sure Blue Screen didn’t get hurt) and the next pain station was more lights! Five lights at the entrance of the Elementary School started us on: 20 Carolina (North Carolina) Dry Docks and 20 Mountain Climbers, alternating between the two exercises. Flutter till the six gets finished. Mosey to the Elementary School parking lot and line up for suicides. Starting line do 10 Plank Jacks. Run to second line and do 10 Jump Squats. Run back to start for CDD’s, up will be every two lines – six lines in total for the suicides. In the large part of the paring lot we set up for a Starfish…HOLD THE PHONE…we need to make this more interesting. Go grab a lifting rock! (there were some that needed to return their rock) You will keep your rock with you the whole time! Starfish (with rock) consisted of 5 Burpees in the middle each time. Four corners were Curls, Overhead Press, Triceps Extension, Bench (on Back) Press – I don’t know the correct name for that one. Rinse and repeat 3 times. Found a small corridor that had plenty of benches so we did a quick mosey over for Dips and Step-Up’s. 20 Dips and 20 Step-up’s – rinse and repeat 3 times. Another mosey brought us to our trail run (I had never been on this trail so I hope Chicken Little knows where he is going). We had one stop in the trail for some Bobby Hurley’s to collect the PAX (OK me!). Finish run and mosey to entrance of the Elementary School for the final pain station. Partner up! 200 LBC’s as a team – Mike Tysons as a team – we said 100 but we were running out of time, do two sets. Donkey Kicks as a team till we got down to two minutes left. Mosey back to COT.
The Moleskin– Thank you all for getting out of bed (No fartsacking!) today and aiding me through my first Q at Homecoming. I have done some workouts here, but not enough. I must admit, I required the assistance of Honeycomb to help me create my masterpiece. There is a ton of things to do on this campus, so it was fun putting this together and sharing it with the five of you. I am very thankful and proud that I was able to lead this great bunch of guys today!
Announcements – Need help today at 8:30 am with Christ’s Closet. Too late for that one! The Sit Q’s still need help with filling spots. Please step up and contact your Site Q’s to see how you can step up and LEAD!
Prayer and Family Photo – A special prayer request was made by myself for my sister in-law Pat Holman who died last Wednesday from gastro complications. Our thoughts and prayers go out to my Brother John as he goes through these difficult times.
YHC rolled in to The Soon To Be Woody’s So We’re Told parking lot for another episode of The Brave. A solid Friday morning crew of seven rolled out of the parking lot at 0530 for a mashup of recycled Q’s YHC has put on before. It wasn’t a surprise to anyone when we started headed to YHC’s favorite feature of AO’s in this area – The Murderhorn.
The Thing
Moleskin
COT and Announcements
Awesome job out there guys. There were a few times that I was in six position thinking, damn these are some bad asses. Keep up the good work.
Brexit
11 pax made the smart decision to post at Centurion this morning, after a proper disclaimer that would’ve been Mermaid approve had he made it to the workout, off we went first stop on our adventure was the Fish Third Bank lot for cop.
Cop:
Imperial Walker x 15 in cadence
Low Slow Squat X 15 in cadence
Mountain Climbers X 15 in cadence
Following this mosey towards the complex on the intersection for the intersection of Carmel and 51 for the main event.
The Thang:
Split into teams of four PAX each. Two stations, one on the walkway upstairs, another in the lot. PAX 1 does merkins in the parking lot, PAX 2 runs to the close stairs and runs up them, and around to where PAX 3 is doing jump squats. PAX 3 & 4 runs to the lot and commences merkins while PAX 1 runs up stairs to relieve PAX 2 and do jump squats… repeat 3 times. Followed by a 10 count
Round 2:
Head back to the lot for a second set of the grinder using a mary rotation of LBCs, H2H and Box Cutters X10 in the lot, then upstairs we did burpees, then flapjack repeat 3 times. Followed by another headcount
Next we went and grabbed some wall and did Peoples chair starting at 25 air presses repeated this 3 times and worked our way up to 75 air presses. From there we began moseying back to launch, upon this YHC realized we still had time to spare and came up with another terrible idea.
From there we did two rounds of sucides from the end of the lot closest to McDonalds each round 3 times. At the buildings closest to Planet Fitness round 1 we did 10 merkins each time we got there, second round we did 5 squats. From there moseyed back to launch for quick Mary.
Mary:
Dolly
Rosalita
Box Cutter
Snowflake with the strong takeout at the end of the workout. Mileage ranged from 1.5 all the way to 2.6
Done
Moleskin:
Strong work today by the pax, I got this terrible idea from Flipper when he Q’d at Centurion in 2020 but added my own diabolical twists to make it more interesting. Thought it would be nice to show that YHC can lead a bootcamp and not have close to 3 miles of running(yes that is possible). Strong work by everyone today no shocker that Point Break and Sable were out in front just about the entire workout. This q was a long overdue makeup one back when Margo was still a Centurion Site Q I owed him for taking a Fast Twitch Q, unfortunately being on IR pushed this back awhile. Either way it was good to come out and post at Centurion, I don’t normally post there but its a terrific AO with tons of options to chose from. Sable almost gave me the idea to have us run to the neighborhood of site q’s Pre School and Mermaid both of which weren’t present. Pre School adapting to having another 2.0 I figured understandable excuse Mermaid found out that he had overslept his alarm not as much of an excuse.
Announcements:
-Metro is doing a GORUCK this summer see slack for details.
-Keep an eye on the slack channel for a revival of Crane Relay likely happening this summer. Thank you to both Mermaid and Pre School for inviting me to Q at Centurion, always happy to come back and lead anytime. Figured third time is the charm and if I expect Fast Twitch to do backblasts then have to post a Centurion backblast as this site has a tradition of almost always having a backblast posted.
Benny out
Wolverine on Q….modification of typical Swarm workout because of WTF the next day.
Gents, mark your calendars. The HDHH is back. Starting this month on Wednesday, May 19th, Area 51 is kicking off the HDHH summer tour.
It’s no secret, YHC likes to drink beer as much as the next three legged dog in a tuna factory. YHC is a little like that Sam critter from the moldy colored-breakfast food book for children, Green Eggs and Ham. In that beer can be drank here or there, beer can be drank anywhere. Fun fact, YHC has consumed beer on just about every nautical vessel known to man. The fact that most of those vessels were not in the water at the time of said consumption doesn’t need to be mentioned, but it’s not like the people at the Guinness Book of World Records will ever know. Despite numerous attempts by YHC, they just refuse to recognize the fortisitude required to achieve these monumental successes of the human spirit.
But, you may ask, what does all this have to do with the aforementioned HDHH tour? Glad you asked.
Just like those washed up card carrying AARP members of the 80’s rock band Poison, Motley Crue, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, and/or Def Leppard we’re going on a tour this summer. No tour bus, the M won’t let YHC have the family wagon. No hot chicks on motorcycles, surprisingly none of them would return YHC’s calls. And we’re really not crossing state lines here, so maybe less of a tour and more of a jaunt around South Charlotte.
First stop on this tour, Seaboard. Located in the heart of Stumptown, AKA Matthews, AKA that spot between Charlotte and Mint Hill that doesn’t want to be Charlotte but also does want to be Mint Hill. Park nearby in the Sparta AO parking lot and join us at 5:30 PM or 1730 for you military types. Outdoor seating is available.
Have you got a request for the next stop on the HDHH tour? Sound off in the comments below.
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