Hello 2024 Maul

Hello 2024 Maul

Date: 2024-01-03 AO: _sob Q: super trooper PAX: Brexit, madison, Smash, super trooper, patent_pending, kirby FNGs: None COUNT: 6 WARMUP:  hills and burpees.  No nonsense. THE THANG: 4 corners, 15 Big Boys 15 Air Humpers x3 MARY: partners take turns doing merkin variations vs squat variations with a run between sets. ANNOUNCEMENTS: upcoming 5k March 8, upcoming Fort Mill dam to dam run Feb 17 COT:

Monotony

Date: 2024-01-03 AO: sacs Q: fire_hazard PAX: Cheese Curd, Lafleur, Emoji, hoover, wildturkey, geraldo FNGs: None COUNT: 7 WARMUP: Walk to the track with sandbag and ruck. THE THANG: 3 minutes of 2 sand bag pull throughs and two burpees all with ruck on 4 minute walk around the track with sandbag and ruck 3 minutes sand bag toss on the field with ruck 4 minute walk around the track with sandbag and ruck
Repeat all of that 3 times
Walk to the cars and the complete the following: 1/1/1 deadlift/clean/press, 2/2/2 deadlift/clean/press, 3/3/3 etc…. Do this for 10 min
2min walk around the lot with sandbag and ruck MARY: None
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Lafleur took his kids to school yesterday (cms was not in session). Hoover has lost his wisdom (teeth) but is back in action, Geraldo is tall for a Guatemalan, Emoji was eerily quite, Cheesecurd only bitched a little, wild turkey loves monotony. COT:

Hills of Ballantyne

Date: 2024-01-02 AO: swift Q: Wolverine PAX: soft_pretzel, bratwurst, frasier, Gump, midriff, Wolverine FNGs: None COUNT: 6 Warmup mosey 1.5m followed by dynamic stretching 30/60/90sec hill repeats with recovery jog back to start. 5 of each. Well almost Kirby invited PAX to join his 1,2,3,4 challenge Elenanor has big 1st qtr goals, do you?

Last kick of the year

Date: 2023-12-31 AO: soccer Q: Orange Whip PAX: f3-simba, Brian D. Vessels,, Level10, Jose Varela, Chalet, National Treasure, jrr_tolkien, Orange Whip, Christmas, Brody, Kellen, Nick, Pearce, Coltrane, Collin & missing 2 FNGs: None COUNT: 16 Great and pretty even 8v8 games on a below freezing morning for the last day of the year. It’s been a fun 2023. Hope to keep it going strong in ‘24

Poem’s Demise – A Gruesome Twosome

Date: 2023-12-30 AO: olympus Q: flipper PAX: flipper, Emoji FNGs: None COUNT: 2 As Emoji and YHC watched the parking lot for TheRock flood with the vehicles of incoming PAX, it became apparent we’d be a dynamic duo for today’s Olympus. Maybe it was last week’s cacophony of chaos, maybe its regulars being DR. Or, just maybe, the Qs lack of quality poetry was the cause of light numbers… no matter, together we got after it
WARMUP: SSH, IW, Prying Squat, arm circles, swings intermixed THE THANG: Voodoo Complex 3X3 primer Porpoise complex ladder 1-9 (merkins always 1 rep) The above yielded us 108 snatches Deadlift to goblet squat 5 reps x3 Meat and potatoes workout but feeling the burn MARY: boat canoe, flute bridge, elbow plank ANNOUNCEMENTS: January blood drive COT: with the aforementioned army at TheRock, Gummy took us out. Welcome back prohibition for 10 years of F3 today, don’t be a stranger

Come here often?

Date: 2023-12-30 AO: davinci Q: Palmolive PAX: C3P0, wildturkey, Point Break, tagalong, fire_hazard, Kosmo FNGs: None COUNT: 7 7 PAX decided to close out the old year strong with a Stonehenge/Da Vinci convergence. Good to see some guys in the gloom after injuries, illness, and just life.
Plus C3PO made a friend with his recruitment efforts.
WARMUP: Mosey to Alloy for 1-5 sets of burpees with 10x each Moroccan night clubs, SSH, 🥔 pickers, and Peter Parkers
THE THANG: Head to Blakeney playground for 3 rounds of 5x pull ups, 10x jumping spiders, 10x jump ups. Run to the cinder block pile for 3 rounds of musical blocks (3 blocks; 5x blockees as timer; 4 PAX bear crawl around and the one who doesn’t get a block has to keep crawling and sing a holiday song).
Return blocks, head to the other side of Blakeney for 7s of CDDs and Bulgarian split squats. Run up to Blakeney Heath playground and grab two rocks on the way. 3 rounds of 5x prison sit-ups (hang from your knees and sit up), Australian pull ups, and lunge walk with the rocks.
MARY: We ditched the rocks, headed back to launch, and wrapped up with 5-1 sets of burpees with 10x each A-rods (I think they’re Bennifers now…), WW1s, chippy crosses, and protractor while @fraiser, @bratwurst, and the nail salon staff watched us roll around on the ground.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Happy New Year and get ready to Q in 2024!
COT: YHC took us out, remember to be better today than you were yesterday. Support your fellow PAX and be a leader in your family and community.

The route or the reverse route

Date: 2023-12-30 AO: chicken-run Q: midriff PAX: frasier, bratwurst, midriff, Sherpa, Chopper, jrr_tolkien, das_boot FNGs: None COUNT: 7 Seven for a loop through Longview and Munford Lake and Providence CC, or PCC and Munford Lake and Longview if you took the reverse route unintentionally. Hilly, strong 2nd F during the run and afterwards.
COT: Chickenteria

Kevlar

Date: 2023-12-29 AO: kevlar Q: Orange Whip PAX: Big League Chew, Orange Whip FNGs: None COUNT: 2 45 mins of partner carries

2023 Closer

Date: 2023-12-29 AO: centurion Q: Emoji PAX: Snuka, Floor Slapper, O Tannenbaum, snowflake, Preschool, Icarus FNGs: None COUNT: 7 WARMUP: Short run…real short. SSH/LSS/Spiderman Merkins
THE THANG: 1) Parking deck laps 2X with Carolina Drydocks/Arm Press/Squats/LBCs 2) Declining merkins starting at 20 with 50 yard run between each set.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Centurion hats handed out to Snuka/Emoji/Icarus for top attendance this year. Point Break earned one as well! Floor Slapper received an F3 Respect shirt!
COT: Prayers for Icarus wife. Homestretch of her pregnancy!

Holiday Hours at TheDevilsTurn

Date: 2023-12-28 AO: the-devils-turn Q: flipper PAX: Astro (Kyle Kirchhoff), Chopper, frasier, hairball, jrr_tolkien, Orange Whip, flipper FNGs: None COUNT: 7
THE THANG: In what’s become a novel concept, all seven PAX ran the called route today, though there was some debate whether we were to run clockwise or counter clockwise. As per usual, Frasier was out front (way out front) while the other six of us proceeded at a more sedate pace. It was great to see Chopper back out after an extended absence, and Astro is looking strong a couple weeks out from surgery. Tolkien joined as well for the first time in recent memory and we had good 2nd F throughout the 7 miles. Happy new year gents! COT: Astro (The Rev) took us out