Round 2!
Date: 2025-09-09 AO: bagpipe Q: kirby PAX: Hawkeye, Starch, wildturkey, F3 Elsa FNGs: None COUNT: 5 WARMUP: Go to the YMCA and wonder what the people there are doing. THE THANG: Make the shot and run less lights up Bagpipe hill. Miss run more. NCAA EDITION! MARY: Yep we did the last 2 rounds at the launch. ANNOUNCEMENTS: COT: Pray for my father’s surgery today.
Leg 37
Date: 2025-09-09 AO: fast-twitch Q: Cheese Curd PAX: Joker, Astro (Kyle Kirchhoff), grasshopper, Benny, Mr Brady, turkey_leg FNGs: None COUNT: 7 WARMUP: jog over to SCMS THE THANG: Run 1 min on the track, whistle blows- 1 burpee. Run 1 min- 2 burpees, Run 1 min- 3 burpees, etc until you hit 1 mile
Jog to rounding run. YHC pulled the trigger early and we climbed into a neighborhood and ran out. Then ran to the proper neighborhood, ran to the start of rounding run, ran back to the proper hood again and ran home
2 mins late
MARY: no ANNOUNCEMENTS: blood drive
COT: thanks Astro for leading us out – a few of you did burpees… not sure how many. I made it up to 7 rounds – The old women on the track were not happy with us blowing the whistle or the mid track burpees. Mr Brady got spoken too – Benny took a digger on the flats…bummer – Everyone seemed to pair off today, glad you found a running buddy!
Jog to rounding run. YHC pulled the trigger early and we climbed into a neighborhood and ran out. Then ran to the proper neighborhood, ran to the start of rounding run, ran back to the proper hood again and ran home
2 mins late
MARY: no ANNOUNCEMENTS: blood drive
COT: thanks Astro for leading us out – a few of you did burpees… not sure how many. I made it up to 7 rounds – The old women on the track were not happy with us blowing the whistle or the mid track burpees. Mr Brady got spoken too – Benny took a digger on the flats…bummer – Everyone seemed to pair off today, glad you found a running buddy!
Up your game!
Date: 2025-09-08 AO: firestarter Q: kirby PAX: war_eagle, teddyf3, Adobe, madison, wildturkey, Roulette FNGs: None COUNT: 7 WARMUP: Do a lap around the yoga studio. Do some odd number SSHs MCs and Squats and Merkins. Weird numbers it will make sense in a few THE THANG: A test of amazing eye hand coordination was on display. We had many choke. At this level of competition who could blame us. So much on the line we prayed that eagle eyed war_eagle or the old gunslinger teddyf3 would rise to the occasion! Some played smart like wildturkey and some shot from the farthest and seemingly impossible distance that only a man crazy enough like madison would try. Roulette gutted the entire workout through shear determination. Adobe getting in on the consistency and swapping conversations with old friends was great to see. YHC is not done yet. We have more to bring tomorrow! MARY: During ANNOUNCEMENTS: ultra 5k Oct 4th COT: Pray for madison s father who lost his friend.
PJ Route
Date: 2025-09-08 AO: run Q: frasier PAX: bunker, Dosey Doe, gumbo, Dr Phil FNGs: 1 Dr Phil COUNT: 5 WARMUP: THE THANG: had an FNG out today. We did the classic Paperjam route. No one got lost and only one person fell once. Overall very successful outing. MARY: ANNOUNCEMENTS: polly is in charge next week. COT:
This might get weird
Date: 2025-09-08 AO: swole Q: flipper PAX: Unplugged, Soul Glo, Uncle Leo, Pepsi, flipper FNGs: None COUNT: 5 Ah yes, the unfettered frontier of Monday morning with no spreadsheet to for the Q’s hand into endless repetition of squats and presses, a true thing of beauty. Taking advantage of the freedom, YHC showed up this morning with a few new concepts to try out on the unsuspecting PAX. Mercifully site FNG Pepsi saved us from the worst of my creativity as it seemed only reasonable to call something more meat and potatoes oriented with someone new to bells in the fold.
WARMUP: SSH, IW, Swings, ST, Arm Circles THE THANG: Voodoo Complex, 1 rep through. 2 reps of each movement all the way through, 3 reps of each movement all the way through.
Thusly warmed up we moved into a circuit where the timer was the PAX in deadlifts (28 Kg doubles) doing 10 reps. One PAX on break. The other three stations were planked row static hold, kneeling shoulder press, prying squat curls. We did this 6 times through.
Suitcase Carries followed with eccentric one arm presses at the end of each carry MARY: Boat-Canoe, Flute Bridge, Alternating Plank ANNOUNCEMENTS: 10/10 Blood Drive COT: YHC took use out
WARMUP: SSH, IW, Swings, ST, Arm Circles THE THANG: Voodoo Complex, 1 rep through. 2 reps of each movement all the way through, 3 reps of each movement all the way through.
Thusly warmed up we moved into a circuit where the timer was the PAX in deadlifts (28 Kg doubles) doing 10 reps. One PAX on break. The other three stations were planked row static hold, kneeling shoulder press, prying squat curls. We did this 6 times through.
Suitcase Carries followed with eccentric one arm presses at the end of each carry MARY: Boat-Canoe, Flute Bridge, Alternating Plank ANNOUNCEMENTS: 10/10 Blood Drive COT: YHC took use out
Thrice on Nevis
Date: 2025-09-06 AO: stonehenge Q: ToeJam PAX: wildturkey FNGs: None COUNT: 2 WARMUP: SSH IW Potato pickers Stretching
THE THANG: Ben Nevis runs w/ 3 bro-pees X 3 Artificial field four corners /ladder ‘mericans, jump squats, plank jacks and glute bridge
MARY: 10 minutes at AO ANNOUNCEMENTS: Killer Creek COT: 🥯☮️🙏
THE THANG: Ben Nevis runs w/ 3 bro-pees X 3 Artificial field four corners /ladder ‘mericans, jump squats, plank jacks and glute bridge
MARY: 10 minutes at AO ANNOUNCEMENTS: Killer Creek COT: 🥯☮️🙏
9/6 Ultimate Football Special
Date: 2025-09-06 AO: the-rock Q: spackles PAX: Snuka, MARTA, Focker, geraldo, spackles, Mr. Magoo, Tuna, O’Tannenbaum, ductwork, jeffreymzieminski, 8 Mile, Weck, Snowbird FNGs: 2 Weck, Snowbird COUNT: 12 Ultimate football: Spacklers team with the early 7-1 lead that forced Geraldos team to dig deep and start playing opposite of his beloved Jets to come backup. The effort was there but gap to large and Spacklers team took it with an 18-15 score. ANNOUNCEMENTS: Candlewyck a blood drive 10/3 COT: Spackler
Saturdays are for the chickens
Date: 2025-09-06 AO: chicken-run Q: midriff PAX: toolbag, HazMat, Lasso, soft_pretzel, Green Label FNGs: None COUNT: 6 Run the Ballantyne Country Club route for another Saturday flying with the chickens. Highlights: – HazMat prepped for his VA 100-miler and at one point called himself a little B**CH for turning down Rea to finish his run home instead of finishing the route with us, finishing with 22 miles on the day instead of 20. You are a badass sir. – Lasso completed his longest run YTD and gutted out the final miles as he preps for the Charlotte marathon. – toolbag joined us just in time and initiated conversations around favorite soups, energy drinks and Charlotte divebars – soft_pretzel crushed each Country Club hill, discussing Wake Forest football and the Eagles victory on Thursday night – Green Label had us beat not even halfway through the route and charged ahead of the pack, gliding effortlessly down Ballantyne Commons
Make it a great Saturday boys – I’m grateful for you!
Make it a great Saturday boys – I’m grateful for you!
Cafe Late
Date: 2025-09-05 AO: scars Q: F3 Elsa , kirby PAX: Rudy, Pepsi, Blanks, Franky FNGs: None COUNT: 5 WARMUP: Set expectations with Blanks that this would be a relaxed recovery day only to be outclassed by Franky rolling up with a hot cup of coffee and ready for a leisurely ruck. THE THANG: Standard bowl route through the tunnel of love and over to the Wells garage for a long indoor climb. A mysterious sedan pulled up beside us at the first traffic light, but our hopes of twilight kidnapping were dashed when we realized it was kirby looking for a good time. Snapped a group photo at the top of the garage. MARY: Two extra laps around home base to get our 3 miles in. Franky miraculously held onto his coffee cup through the whole ruck. ANNOUNCEMENTS: – BRR this weekend! – Tunnel of love had a significant leak – use caution when routing through the tunnel especially as we get into cold/rainy weather this fall. Flashlights strongly recommended. – Mega running event coming up October 3; ping midriff for deets. COT: Pray for those at BRR this weekend. Good call out from Frazier this morning that we’ve gone complacent with inviting FNGs – keep bringing folks out and encouraging each other to keep posting consistently