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DiCCS 

Your safety is important but not my responsibility so be careful

 

Warmup

Mosey around the block back to COT

SSH x 10

Squats x 10

SSH x 15

Merkin x 15

SSH x 20

Plankjack x 20

 

The Thang

Mosey over the the side road by the apartment complex

Down and back 5 times with 20 v-up at one end and 20 BB at the other.

Every time you pass the bottom of the hill 5 burpees

The pax members that finished first got to keep going until the 6 was done.  I believe some got 6.5 rounds in.

Watch out Zin and Recalc, Smithers might be gunning for you jobs.  Surprising the BB were pretty tough at the end.

Easy Button had a good idea, if you make Ice9 spill merlot or his sounds you get a badge.  Deflated????

Thanks for the push Ice 9

Mosey to the main street for 5 more rounds

10 step ups run 1/2 the block stop at COT for 40 single count J-Lo’s.  I was only going to do 20 but some guys were complaining and Ice yells out 40 so we went with it.

Baio and Schneider crushed this part.

Finished at COT for 23 IC burpees

Pretty simple and effective beat down.

 

Welcome FNG Kendra (Josh).  He flips houses and Kendra is a HGTV house flipper.   Deadwood hit his Q1 quota.

If we all had a dollar for every time we heard NO from a certain Pax member.

It’s been good to have Dana back out in the gloom.

Good luck Chatter in the Rooster Run

 

Announcement

May 1st WTF (Waxhaw Trail Fest) CSAUP.

Pre-blast on GM and sign up on GM.

 

 

 

 

Say Hello to My Little (cinderblock) Friend

2 cinder blocks and 18 PAX emerged from the fartsack for another day in Body Shop Paradise. Posse nearly ran us over on the way in – then again he drives a Prius, so we probably would have done more damage to that little thing. Smuggler, McGee and a few others joining in late were thoroughly confused to see everyone playing rock-scissors-paper as we split up into two teams. Two rules for the remainder of the workout:

  1. You must stick with your team while completing called exercises
  2. One member of the team must always be carrying a cinder block

Warmup: mosey to basketball court for 5 burpees. One lap around small track, 10 mountain climbers on the basketball court. Mosey to teacher’s parking lot for 20 merkins, run loop around the lot, then close out with 15 american hammers. This block is heavier than I remember…

Main Event: Capture the Flag Cone: Set up three stations from one side of parking lot to the other. Each pax must complete exercises at each station with cinder block before proceeding to next station. Teams must communicate and share the cinder block. Upon finishing the final station, sprint back to the other end of parking lot. Fastest pax grabs the cone. First team to grab the cone wins the round! It’s not the fastest or strongest team that win, but the one that communicates most effectively. 

Exercises at each cone:

  • 5 burpees
  • 20 squats
  • 15 mountain climbers
  • 20 squats
  • 20 merkins
  • 20 squats

After each round winning team completes one exercise, losing team completes one exercise. Round 1: 10 Mike Tysons/20 Carolina Dry Docks. Round 2: 20 big boy situps/20 LBC’s. Round 3: 30 LBC’s/30 Monkey Humpers. Assortment of mary between each round and before CoT.

T-claps/Truth Nuggets

  • Solid work by Team McGee and Team Posse. It’s incredible to me how much more we push each other when we’re competing towards a common goal. Consider these totals across the different exercises that each pax completed: 5o burpees, 135 mountain climbers, 200 merkins, 540 squats. This. is. nuts.
  • Really neat to see the teams adapt and improvise as each round went on. I think the strategy session between rounds helped. Despite getting blown out in the first round our team McGee rallied to get our act together for the final 2 rounds. Loved seeing how we worked more as a team to communicate when we could step in and relieve the person with the block. Would love to hear more from Team Posse in the chatter, as I was wrapped up in trying to keep up with my own team!
  • Waterboy and The Juice gave it their all for our team, absolutely gassed at the end of the third round. I still remember the first workout with The Juice – you’ve come a long way.
  • McGee backed up his unending mumblechatter with a rock solid performance. I’m not sure if he really broke a sweat during this workout. Loved seeing you and Smuggler put it all out there with the final sprints.
  • Fredo I needed the push from you in between rounds to keep going strong. Thanks for challenging me to not limit myself.
  • Very impressed by Young Blood NameTag and Herschel. They kept up and even led the pack at times. I told Herschel that it took me about 30 years to get to the point that I could keep up with these workouts.
  • Let’s take a moment to appreciate Posse’s pink (camo?) running tights
  • I brought out the cinder block to not only add weight to the workout, but to share a life lesson during COT. The cinder block represents the anxieties, the pressures, the struggles that we shoulder as broken men in a fallen world. Too often I believe the lie that I need to carry these weights alone rather than acknowledging them and graciously inviting others to carry them with me. I fall into the trap of believing I’m the only one carrying such a weight. When in reality, every man I surround myself with is facing similar, albeit different struggles. Just as the key to success in the Capture the Cone challenge was proactive communication, we succeed as men when we acknowledge our struggles and invite others into them in a gracious and loving way.
  • Through sharing the block, we acknowledge that we are not alone. We acknowledge that we cannot tackle our challenges alone. The block becomes an opportunity to lead, to serve and to be served. We follow the example of the greatest servant who carried the ultimate weight so that we might be freed to lead, and freed to serve.
  • Announcements: Rooster Race Saturday at 6:00 a.m. Teams still needed. Rice n beans service opportunities each week, chat more with Centerfold. Church on the Streets first Sunday of each month. Saturday morning SOB convergence at Stonehenge (no Da Vinci).
  • Thanks Das Boot, Centerfold and Boitano for your leadership of this site. As an SOB regular, I always cherish the opportunity to lead and kick it with the Waxhaw faithful.

midriff out

Improvise as needed

Things don’t always go as planned.  After getting word that PAX needed to switch dates on the Q schedule, then realizing there would be another scheduling conflict, YHC decided as site Q to take the lead in the gloom. Original plan was to divide the workout up into 15 minute segments with a different PAX at the helm.  After the first segment went over 15 minutes and words of encouragement from Funny Farm, YHC decided to keep the whole Q (with recommendations from others along the way).

The Valley EC Loop

0515 start, 1 mile loop with YHC, Funny Farm, Becky, and McStuffins.

Warm-up

After a quick disclaimer of the above mentioned scheduling and improv situations, mosey from school bus parking lot to the front parking lot of the school.

SSH x 20, Mountain Climbers x 20 (Mayreux arrives at this time), Low Slow Squat x 20

The Thang

Mosey down Huntingtowne Farms Ln towards Goneway Rd, take a left on Goneaway into “The Valley”.  Start at the intersection of Goneaway and Vineyard Ln, run up to the intersection of Goneway and Huntingtowne Farms Ln (10 merkins), run back to start (10 squats).  Run to end of Vineyard culd-a-sac (10 diamonds), run back to start (10 squats).  Run to intersection of Goneaway and Red Barn Ln (10 wide arms), run back to start (10 squat).  Repeat x 3.

Hold plank until six are in, then mosey to greenway via Goneaway and right on Red Barn.

Mosey down greenway towards Huntingtowne Farms park.  At the park, everyone grabs a picnic table under the covered pavilion.  In cadence 15 dips, 10 derkins, 10 1-legged squats each leg (1 foot on picnic table, other on ground).   Repeats dips, sub derkins with incline merkins on picnic table, repeat 1-legged squats.

Mosey over to parking lot and 1 lap around parking lot. Half of lap side shuffle facing inward, second half of lap side shuffle facing outward.

Mosey back to launch via greenway and Huntingtowne Farms Ln, stopping halfway on greenway to pick up the 6 and for Mary – in cadence, flutter x 20, Dolly x 20, Rosalita x 20.

Arrive at launch with no time to spare. End workout.

Announcements

King of the Hill – April 24-25th.  6 man teams, 3 different routes around Charlotte.  Check it out on the Metro website.

FNG – Dottie out for the first time.  Originally form Alabama, played professional baseball for the past 10 years, and finishing up his MBA from UNC (virtual due to to COVID).  Hope you see you back out there!

Prayer requests

PreSchool’s family.  Pregnant M’s water broke 8 weeks prior to due date.  They are in the hospital until 2.0 is delivered, then expected time in the NICU.

Thanks, Becky for taking us out in prayer.

 

March Madness Hoop Dreams

Computer problems lead to me having to hand write my Weinke at the last minute before go-time at Chiseled and I came in hot to the Five Stones lot starting the DICCs as I hustled from the car to a great turnout of men in place at the COT ready and raring to go.25 SSH (cadence)…Let’s mosey…

After a mosey to the Five Stones entrance and back to COT we circle up and begin.

WARM UP:

25 SSH (cadence)

10 Moroccan NCs (cadence)

20 Imp. Walkers (cadence)

20 Squats (omd)

10 Potato Pkrs (cadence)

Hamstring Stretch (bend to the ground and hold)

Calf Stretch

Upward Dog

 

First Exercise Set:

Linebackers: I tried to incorporate as many basketball-themed exercises in to the workout so, of course, I start out with…Linebackers?  Yeah, but today we reckoned back to those sweat-filled basketball practices of our youth, the squeak of hi-tops parading the court, and the screams from coaches telling us to get lower into that defensive crouch as we circled the court.  Today we circled our parked cars 2 times.

Second Exerscise Set:

20 Calf Raises  (cadence) – this is a new exercise, I think its challenging and isolates the calf muscles.  They were named Wooden Soldiers when debuted at MASH the day before.  On level ground you perform a calf raise on one foot and switch to the other foot.  This is done in cadence.  Feedback on whether this exercise was worth-while or should be scrapped is welcomed!

20 Chest Pass (cadence)

20 Freddy Mercurys (cadence)

25 Merkens (omd)

 

Third Exercise Set:

20 Bobby Hurleys (omu)

10 Free Throws (omu) – Another new exercise…hold your coupon in one hand poised to shoot a foul shot, brace the coupon with your other hand and let your mind drift back to that championship game, score tied, you’re at the line, no time on the clock…now, let ‘er fly (then flapjack).

20 Heels to Heaven (cadence)

25 Urkens (omu)

 

Fourth Exercise Set:

Sprints (2x, 2=1) – we sprint a 3/4 parking lot distance, stop and do 5 LBCs and sprint back for 5 low slow squats.  We do this 2 times.

10 Over & Back (cadence, 2=1) – I’m sure there is an exicon for this, but I called ’em over and backs…we lay our coupons flat and bunny hop it over and back – DON’T RUSH!

10 Dominique Wilkins Reverse Dunk (omd) – just a different name for the overhead Tri’s…though, keeping with the basketball theme…if you don’t know or never paid close attention to Dominique Wilkins, check out his highlight reel…I think his dunking ability was and never will be matched – MJ was great, but “Nique was the best!

20 Russian Crab Dips (cadence)

25 Heel Curb Squats (omd)

25 Derkens (omd)

 

Fifth Exercise Set:

10 Lunges (cadence)

50 Chest Press (omu)

20 LBCs (cadence)

25 Urkens (omd)

 

Sixth Exercise Set:

Indian Run from COT around Mt. Chiseled and Back

 

Last Exercise Set:

15 Side Bend Ups (omu and flapjack) – not sure if this is in the exicon, but we get in side plank position and raise our hips to the sky, then flapjack.

Time is running short and we Chest Press the last almost-minute…that’s a wrap…GREAT EFFORT BY EVERYBODY…thank you, you inspire me and we all inspire each other…what a gift!

 

Moleskin:

Basketball was my life as a kid and come Big East and  NCAA Tournament time I was on cloud 9. Growing up on Long Island and discovering basketball in the early 80’s, and being the son of a St. John’s cheerleader, Chris Mullin was the one and only basketball giant of my youth.  He wasn’t Bird, but not too far off.  I spent nearly every free minute from ’84-’90 in my backyard with my brothers, friends, or on my own shooting hoops.  What a sanctuary!  My teams were always good, but somehow winning the championship always eluded us.  I played against some of the greatest players NYC had to offer – most notably, Kenny Anderson.  As a freshman at Molloy, me and my buddy (because his brother was on Varsity) got to scrimmage with the Varsity on one occasion and I had an encounter with him that left me in disbelief.  Off some play, Kenny broke free and was driving to the hoop through the key and I hedged to cover him and as he is gracefully barreling down on me I’m thinking…I’m about to make my mark…I was always one for stepping in to take a charge…it seemed to me to be a lost art back then (today it’s very en vogue and too often, in my opinion, called favorably even though defenders are clearly late to the play…anyway)…so, there I am, thinking I’m gonna stop Kenny and make a name for myself, the All-City Senior State Champion…well, no mark was made…I stood there like a tree bracing for impact and, POOF, Kenny blew by me like a whisper, graceful as can be and laid it in…I don’t know he breezed by me without so much as a brush of the shoulder…he was amazing and I didn’t leave my mark then, I was just another in a long line of defenders Kenny, like a magician, made disappear into obscurity.  A few years later Kenny (and Vince Smith, Kenny Smith’s brother) was coaching my team and he gave me the best backhanded compliment ever…in an effort to motivate the team he  said something like, “you may be more skilled than Gallagher, but you’ll never have half his heart and hustle.”  Thanks, Kenny (I really mean that).

I think about that time in my life a lot these days.  I was in great shape and very athletic…weight was never an issue.  Nevertheless, even though I was a  primed athlete, there’s always someone more skilled, more conditioned, whatever, out there.  That’s not a bad thing, in fact, it’s a motivation…a motivation I re-discovered when I joined F3.  I’ll never be the fastest or most in shape in this group, but you know what?  I have improved every day since my first workout and I’m better than myself a year ago and that’s inspiring to me.  So, when you come across an F3 brother or someone outside the group looking to hang it up because he can’t compete with the others…remind that person that you don’t have to be the best to be your best self.

 

Announcements:

The Rooster this Saturday at 6 am in SC – a team marathon with each team member running 5 miles individually and a sixth mile as a team (sign up and see details on GroupMe).

CPR training on Monday, March 29 (I think) at Five Stones (see Surge and GroupMe for more information).

The Fuse Box 100 burpees Asylum this Monday (support Fuse Box by coming out, especially if you are not a regular at Asylum, and bring an FNG so you can reduce that burpee count to as little as 10)

 

Like olden times

YHC was recently looking back on Strava and saw an early post at Swift where we logged > 7 miles and compared that to more recent work where we may be hovering around 6 or low 6+ miles.  On Tuesday Brat’s pyramid of 3/5/7/10/7/5/3 with a mere minute of recovery time after each T-pace segment (except for 2 minutes after the 10) brought back the high mileage days where even someone on the backside of the curve (ahem, YHC) picks up serious miles.  It also helped that we arrived a couple of minutes past 0615, but the point is that the long intervals on little rest are making a comeback and they hurt.  And somehow, southbound on North Community House feels like continuous uphill.

Fahvra was killing it and it was great to see Fleetwood back at it in the gloom.  Kudos to Gruden and Kirby for pushing each out to the be there — until Kirby disappeared.  Some say he was chasing down the gazelles on their 10-mile day, but we may never know the truth.

And why the BB?  Because #waxhawcounts

PRE-BLAST for WAXHAW TRAIL FEST w/ updates and course info

As many of us unwillingly continue to sit around and wait for Covid restrictions to lift, hoping we’ll be able to enjoy our favorite races in person again, we in Waxhaw have decided to take matters into our own hands and just create our own! With several successful years of great F3 presence at The Ragnar Trail series, and having The Carolina Thread trail in our backyard, YHC along with several others figured a F3 trail relay would naturally be the next stupid idea… and with that, Waxhaw Trail Fest was born….WTF!

Here’s the basics:

Saturday May 1st, teams of 3, will run relay style on 3 different trail legs setup at Walnut Creek Park in Indian Land SC. The loops all start and stop at the WTF village where you and your fellow PAX can relax and enjoy some 2nd F until your next leg.  The race is complete when all of your team runs each loop once, totaling approx 13 miles per runner. With a 6:30am starting line time, I would expect the final runners to be coming in around 1pm+ so plan accordingly, and arrive early to find your team. This may be the first time meeting your teammates.

Registration will be as an individual. We just need your info, including best estimated 5k road pace. We will assign all runners to evenly matched teams of 3 through a live draft held at The Waxhaw Taphouse on Wednesday 4/28 at 7pm. Runner presence for the draft is suggested, but not necessary. Every registered runner will get an email with updated Team information.

Cut-off time for registration will be 12 noon on Wednesday 4/28. We will need to assign teams that evening, and want to have everything in order. However, if you are still interested and it is passed the cutoff, please contact one of us. Will are still holding places for race-day alternates.

Link to Registration

In the village we will provide music, hydration, a BBQ grill setup with a selection of food. Please bring your own chairs and a team canopy if desired. Any team snacks or preferred drinks are up to each team.

We are working on sponsors to help cover some of our overall costs. At this point we are taking a $10 registration fee to go toward trail and village setup, food, hydration ect. Any extra money will be added to the F3 Waxhaw fund.

Please send money to YHC via Venmo or Paypal to: @TonyAmore

Unfortunately the deadline to preorder t-shirts has passed. Those that ordered, the shirts should be available at the draft, otherwise they will be given out on race day. If you missed the deadline and are still interested, we have ordered a handful of extras that will be available on race day.

 

UPDATED INFO:

Click here for course preview!

Kid Rock

 

Why is it still cold?

Well, this question has not been answered during the workout, but at least it was not raining. This was only my second Q, which is most likely the hardest anyone can do… you don’t have the “protection and forgiveness” from the VQ, but still don’t know what you are doing! 😉 The good thing is, that I have been properly prepared to Q by Chastain, Fusebox and Paperjam during last Saturday’s Q-school. I wonder what they would have said about today’s workout! When I pulled up, I was all alone  – but boy, by the time we started we were a total of 23 PAX, including one 12-year young FNG! I did not expect such a big turnout and the right to name an FNG… pushing me and my nerves further on the edge…

Warmup

We started right on time with a short Mosey up the parking lot circled up and did the absolute Waxhaw classics: Side-straddle hops, Moroccan night clubs, imperial walkers, Mountain Climbers – each 15 times. Then some calf and runners stretching, upward dog and downward dog… nothing out of the ordinary! Then I informed the PAX that this is my second Q only, hoping not to be bashed entirely.

The Thang

From the warmup circle moseying to the main entrance of the high school, asked the PAX to form teams of 2… One should run around the island (middle lane) while the other is doing exercises. First squats, then lunges, step-up’s and bobby hurley’s. I told them to repeat until I say recover. Basically: don’t use your brain and waste energy counting! Some thought “great, my brain can have a break!” others thou… couldn’t thin… well, we are not going into details here…

Mosey to the back entrance of the High School, again: partner up! This time, the exercises were derkins, dips, merkins, dips, repeat until I say recover, while the partner is lunge-walking across the parking lot and running backwards back to the partner. Well, after the first round, I reduced it to lunges only half-way through the parking lot  – it always sounds easier on paper, than it actually is… I heard someone say, or was this just in my head? And I heard Dana and One Star discussing, that if you crush your back, you can also crush your ballz… maybe I should have listened to the whole discussion to make sense out of it! 😉

Mosey to the entrance of Middle School with a change! Don’t partner up, but find teams of 3! I guess, this was the first confusion after telling everybody to not use their brain… Well,… one partner was supposed to stay at the entrance and do Freddy Mercuries / J Lo’s, two partners should mosey to the start of the path going around the school, one of them is running back and the other should do gas pumps / big boys. When the one running back to the entrance, the PAX at the entrance would run down to the entry of the path,… and so on… Well. It started already wrong with running only to the next curve of the parking lot and ended with a disaster of not knowing what to do. At least, everybody was doing some exercises in a somewhat coordinated way which felt like the original instruction. Maybe I should give instructions in German – I guess, it would have been the same outcome!

Back in the direction of COT around the school, 20 donkey kicks oyo at a wall in the picnic area. Then crossing the bus parking lot – where one actually pulled out – back to the big parking lot. Final few minutes: jail break two trees in front, 1 burpee, backwards one tree, repeat. Finished on time at COT.

Moleskin

Having 22 PAX alone is challenging, add “the 2nd Q situation” and you will understand, that I did not pick up a lot of chittering, moaning,… Or was it just too good of a workout? 😉 I will have the chance to pick up more of that in two days already since I’m Q’ing Last Call – with a very similar workout. I am wondering, who is joining this workout again because it was soooo much fun today, who is not joining, because it was toooo much fun and who will join just because of this Backblast… I promise to use some German, as requested! Note to myself: don’t work on one muscle group only at a time, spread it out!

Announcements

  • Friday, Last Call, same location – hit that snooze button for a 6:00 start! Me Q’ing again
  • One Star tried to promote The Rooster… well, he achieved it since it is mentioned here!
  • FNG – 12 years young, fast, likes football, basketball, Star Wars… named “Herschel”. Hey, Herschel, I also had to google it…! Herschel Walker. Multi-talent! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herschel_Walker

Thank you, Premature, for the closing prayer!

Dog Racing

In trying to continue the high standards of creative fun we’ve been having in these 2.0 friendly evening workouts, I knew I had to bring my ball-crazy Pomeranian to a workout eventually.  We have a tennis ball launcher which is perfect for the kids to have some fun (no you can’t shoot at the adults) and at least that part went according to plan.   The rest, well….

DISCC

Warm Up

Mosey around parking lot to the back where we circled up. I heard we had some FNGs so made sure to explain what I was talking about and not rush. IC SSH x15, IW x15, LSS x15, Merkin x20, hold plank then stretch with can opener left/right, then up into some cossack squat to sun worshiper 4-5 times each side.

The Thang

Knowing we might have cars starting to pull in but not wanting to forsake any use of the rocks I instructed the dads to go to the rock pile and grab a rock then meet the kids and I at the basketball court. The kids (great listeners that they are) half of them followed the dads, but they were quickly corralled and followed YHC to the basketball court.

Everyone grabs a piece of cement or nearby sandy grass patch.

Listening to Linkin Park’s Bleed it Out (a fine motivational tune), hold plank, do 1 merkin for every “bleed it out” or “throw it away” you hear (the song ends with a flurry of those, surprise).  We had  a number of FNGs and 2.0s, so I encouraged resting on your knees a couple of times.

45’s: That’s 45 seconds of an exercise while we listen to music (more 2.0 friendly music than my typical angry metal). We did two rounds of 6 exercise: superman, hollow body, crab cake, squat, side plank left, then right (with all that mutinous mumblechatter I cheated planking to 30 seconds each side).

Dads and kids get into groups of 3 for partner rotations.

Round One
Dads: P1 mosey track, P2 plank, P3 thuster with rock
Kids: with their trio, rotate between: swings, slide/monkey bars, Dog Racing

What is “Dog Racing”?  Using a tennis ball launcher, each kid has a turn to shoot the ball into the field while the other partner(s) run to a cone and return before Chloe gets the ball and returns.  That shooter wasn’t going far enough, or the cone was too far, or that dog is just too fast.  I don’t think the kids won once, but they all had fun trying.

Round Two
Dads: P1 carioca track, P2 LBCs, P3 hernia (V-Up with rock, thank you Twinkletoes)
Kids: same as round one

Wrapping up, dads take your rocks to the rock pile and kids follow me. Some how half the kids ran ahead to the rock pile, fortunately traffic was light. I redirected them to COT and lead the kids in SSH while we waited for the dads to catch up. Having some fun, we started the cadence at 80 and got up over a hundred before all the dads straggled in.

Moleskin

With a workout this complex, groups rotating various activities, I’m lucky it wasn’t more chaotic.  I focused on keeping the kids occupied, and the dads were OYO.  Looking at some of their faces I saw they got their work in and the kids definitely had fun blowing off a lot of energy. So it wasn’t pretty, but mission accomplished.

Big lesson I need to remember is to give the PAX a written reminder of what they’re doing.  With a piece of paper listing the exercises at each round and it will be so much smoother.

Also, at my next adult Q, I’ll recycle Bleed it Out, but with Mike Tyson’s at each “throw it away” & and no breaks.  I’m looking forward to the mumblechatter of discontent.

Good to see Pennywise back out again and all the Appetizer regulars (you know who you are).  Magi also isn’t shying away (Clyent Dinner again too?) and his former FNG Overdraft as well (actually you guys are regulars too).  Also some new faces Nails, Raven, and Schedule-C who brought in FNG Open House, welcome!.   Honeycomb didn’t make it tonight, but he still got two FNGs to show up, welcome John Deere and his 2.0 Wipeout.  Also, welcome, welcome!   And pseudo-FNG, came back for a name adjustment, the formerly Fatso is now Redacted.

Other than Redacted the other 3 FNG names were already in the PAX listing.  So TBD if those are active, and in which region, ugh.  Note to F3Nation, please make an app that’ll retrieve PAX names, per region, with last time posting, and maybe some alternative name suggestions, TYIA.

Also thank you to my enthusiastic co-Q High Hat (if you build it they will come, indeed) and my animal trainer assistant Johnny5.

Announcements

Nails made a strong pitch for Christ’s Closet and the impact it has to families in need in our community. Come and help out & donate. Contact Nails (aka Jim Hendrix) on GroupMe or slack for details on how and where you can help

Rooster On Saturday, or convergence at Stonehenge with Dark Helmet on Q

Rooster Warm-Up

Some idiot (YHC) had the idea to converge at Cuthbertson campus to do a pre-Rooster warm-up just to see where they were at for times on the mile runs. 4 poor souls came out to join me and this is what went down…

Warmed up with a short mosey around the stadium parking lot and did stretching OYO for a few minutes as we strategized how we would simulate the runs since we all had places to be and couldn’t do the full run a mile, wait for 4 others to run their mile in sequence and then run a mile together so we decided to run each mile “together” and then rest a few minutes and run the next and then the next.  We chose the Ignition Mile so Chastain could get his coveted “local legend” in Strava. Three of us ended with 3 miles and two of us ended after 4. You’ll need to check Strava to find out who is who but we all pushed it to the limits and got in some good cardio.

Mumble Chatter:

Brutus and Chastain have a really close relationship that makes some of us uncomfortable. But that’s ok and to each their own…

 

Moleskin:

Go out and have that uncomfortable conversation with whomever it is you need to have that conversation. Get that monkey off your back and don’t let it fester inside.

Bottle Cap took us out

 

WTF!? – In Due Time…

5 PAX converged at Walnut Creek to scope out the next path to stupidity for the Waxhaw and surrounding regions.  Between now and May 1st you will see more on this subject but until then, you’ll just have to hang on.

Kid Rock, Glidah, Wolverine, Dasher and YHC ran from the tennis courts at Walnut Creek via the Carolina Thread Trail at a scary-fast pace (for me at least) and turned around at the Suspension Bridge on the SC/NC border to return to Walnut Creek. All were present and accounted for at the end.  I feel obligated to point out that most of us completed the entire route while one of us took a short cut (you know who you are…)

Pre-Blast for the event will be coming soon and you will feel both excitement and dread (not necessarily in that order or in equal amounts) when you see what we have planned.

 

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