No SF was planted…pretty sure Skunkworks doesn’t have one…Stone Cold took it with him to Joust. Harley – today would have been a good day for the SF on Election Day. #merica But I digress, sort of.
24 hardy lads voted to post at Skunkworks this morning, and it went a little something like this….
The Thang:
Grab your KB (or 2 if you’re Busch, Header?, others?) and head over to the church lots.
Abbreviated COP:
SSH x 18
Merkin x 18
IW x 18
1/2 the pax leave KB in COP lot, other 1/2 take their KB to adjacent lot
Circuit Work:
1. Run 1/3 Mile? (no idea how long the run was frankly) around church
2. 18 2-handed swings
3. Hairburners with 25, 35 or 45 lb. plate – 35 yards? down & back
4. 18 goblet squats
Rinse & Repeat 4x – using different KB each time at stations 2 & 4
Plankorama mixing in some Southern Gentleman, Yankee Aggressor, Christian Laettner (always a “Hate” except for Harley), 6 inches, etc.
Grab a KB, not necessarily your own, and double-time it back to small field next to the high school
Circle up for some more work but not in the order listed below:
Louganis w/KB x 18
LBC x 18
Upright Row w/KB x 13
One-legged Dolly R x 9; One-legged Dolly L x 9
Overhead Press w/KB x 18
Pass KB to the left
Renegade Row w/KB x 9R then x9L
Pass KB to the left
Two-handed Swing x 18
CCV (of course) x 18
COT
Ye Olde Moleskine:
Always a blast to be with the pax at Skunkworks…perhaps the best mumblechatter in all of Area 51. Smack talk, false bravado, hazing….love it! That being said, Semi-Gloss complimenting my beard on more than one occasion was a little unsettling. #creepybigshirtlessdude
Bananas was happy when Night Court wrested the LIFO title from him this morning just as we were starting COP. UnionSkunk coming soon?
Some strong work being put in out there for sure. More running than normal Skunkworks? Perhaps. Navigating the polling place workers, signs, etc. in front of the church added a challenge. #merica
Heard some “haven’t done hairburners in a long time” comments out there. They’re unsavory, to be sure, but for those who went the distance with them – you got your money’s worth. When I collected them after the workout, it was amazing all the gravel, rocks and even a cap to a plastic bottle. How in the world did that cap make it’s way through the hole in the plate?! Did someone eat some asphalt and I didn’t hear about it?
When Horsehead pulled his lighter KB out of his truck tool box, complaining about shoulder pain, I didn’t have the heart to tell him it didn’t matter as we would be sharing KBs at the stations and the work at the end…though he may have ended up with smaller KBs than his own every time. #wheresmychristmasornament
High Tide exclaimed at one point that he was looking for a key chain in lieu of a 50 lb. KB – that was a new one to me…and good humor.
Enjoyed it fellas. Always a good time at das Stinktier!
Announcements:
Lots of them:
Sat., Dec. 6 – A Very Merry Area51 Christmas Party at Sugar Creek Brewery. Probation dressing as Santa Claus
1-Year Anniversary of The Charge – Tomorrow – DD on Q
Any F3 FNG at The Charge = one pair of shoes to #SoleRedemption donated by Baracus
Don’t forget about the Arabian camel (Camelus dromedaries) – the large, even-toed ungulate with one hump on its back. He’s at Marvin Ridge HS every Wednesday at 0530. The also even-toed Bratwurst is your Q tomorrow.
Joe Davis Memorial Resolution 5k/10k – Sat. Jan. 10th. Sign-up. Run. Be on a cross country team or something like that.
10 PAX launched from the Vine parking area at 0515. Somewhere in the gloom, we picked up 1 unsuspecting PAX to join in on the Fun Run.
The Thang:
The Moleskin:
Announcements:
41/42 degrees and a nice drizzle falling on the first Saturday in November. What better conditions could one ask for, for a quick 60 minute workout, to get your day started off right. At least that’s what I convinced myself as I headed over to McKee Road Elementary to Q the Area 51 workout this weekend. Silently I was hoping that maybe everyone decided to fartsack and I could just head to coffeeteria a little early. Pulled into the parking lot around 6:50 and found it to be empty. Have to admit the thought of a quick drive thru and then head on my merry way did cross my mind. However, decided to wait a few minutes to make sure no one else showed up as a couple of the regulars, Floor Slapper, O’Tannebaum, etc, usually arrive right around 0700/0701 on the weekend. Couple cars passed by before a set of headlights turned into the school parking lot and Beaver made his way to our normal meeting spot. Climbed out of car, gathered the shovel flag and greeted Beaver.
As we walked over to the launch area Beaver asked what the protocol was for mornings like this when only 2 PAX members showed up and the weather was less than ideal. Probably did not deliver the answer either he or I wanted to hear but told him that we would soldier on as usual. Again, had to resist the temptation to call it a morning & go grab a nice hot cup of coffee.
Not long after another car slowly pulled into the lot and Donkey Kong climbed out his car. With the PAX all set and the clock indicating that it was 0700 we headed out into the gloom to see what kind of fun we could conjure up.
Slow jog to lower parking lot beside the soccer fields and circle/triangle up for COP:
Properly warmed up, YHC led the PAX to other end of soccer field parking lot and provided directions for what was to come next:
Head back over to other end of parking lot & circle/triangle up for following exercises:
Line up on curb on far side of parking lot for 7’s:
That was fun. Rain is falling pretty good now. Might as well head over to the stumps for a little circuit work:
Mosey to back of school and line up along the wall for PC/BTW combo:
Time to find a little shelter in front of the school. Nice sidewalk area with covered walkway. Wonder why I didn’t find this spot earlier (as DK quickly pointed out). Perfect spot for a little Jack Webb:
OK, 5-6 minutes left. Let’s head back to the launch point and wrap it up with a little 3 man grinder:
COT
Moleskin:
Announcements:
While I wish the F3 Nation site would let me crawl this back blast at an angle moving off into deep space just like Star Wars. It won’t. So you’ll have to just imagine it happening.
Joker has returned to his home planet of The Matrix in an attempt to rescue his fellow PAX from the clutches of the vile Q: Alf the Hutt. Little does Joker know that the GALACTIC EMPIRE has secretly begun construction on a new armored space station even more powerful than the first dreaded AO. When completed, this ultimate weapon will spell certain doom for the small band of PAX struggling to remain warm in the galaxy…
Episode MMCXXVII:
Alf the Hutt takes the PAX on an extra long mosey around the perimeter of the planet Hoth to warm up the bodies. It’s a balmy 30 degrees.
COP:
SSH x 20 IC
IW x 20 IC
Low Slow Squat x 20 IC
Mountain Climbers x 10 IC
Merkins x 11 IC
Mountain Climbers x 10 IC
Merkins x 9 IC
Partner up.
Mosey to end of field, each pair searches through the Degobah System for a block and lines up on end line.
Round 1: P1 Runs to 2nd lamp post and back, P2 Overhead press with block, flapjack to 100 reps of presses.
Round 2: Repeat with block bench press x 100
Round 3: Repeat with goblet squats x 100
Round 4: Repeat with lunges x 100 (Runner runs to 2nd post, then backwards to first post, the turn and go forward to finish.
Round 5: Repeat with Flutters x 100 – Regular run
Round 6: Repeat with LBC’s x 100
Round 7: Repeat with curls x 100, Partner bear crawls to 1st post and back
Round 8: Repeat with triceps extensions x 100, Partner bear crawls
Round 9: P1 Run, P2 10-count rest, flap jack then repeat for 2 runs each. All you got.
Return the blocks to the Degobah swamp. First attempt to do so with Jedi mind trick fails, so we carry them.
Line up jail break to cars (with the first half as backward run)
Circle up for one minute of Dolly ~ 26 IC
Moleskine
Welcome to November and the first morning in a long time with sub-freezing temperatures. There was strength in this group. Lots of running. Little rest there was. Also little light causing the curb to jump up and hit ‘Curd even after it was announced it was there. He recovered in time for the disclaimer.
Welcome FNG Franks (Ben). Nice EH by Back Office who after 2 weeks gets a guy to show up on a 30 degree Monday.
Thanks to Young Love for the send off.
-Alf the Hurt
Announcements:
Swift will launch this week on Tuesday at 0515 from the Vine parking lot in the Ballantyne AO. We’ll be using the 5K course (click for map) from the recent IS Cancer Run to have a little fun with a mini-10K of our own. However, the longest interval will be less than 1mile and total miles will be less than 6.2 for all PAX.
Get your 10K pace from the recent Time Trial by using the calculator at http://runsmartproject.com/calculator
Man I was honored to see 18 Pax out there at Base Camp this morning, I think we had 8 or 10 the for my last Q out three. Someone said it was because I pre-tweeted out serving Lattes and S’mores but who cares, it was nice to see so many new faces and some old (sorry passport).
No Flag was planted, but YHC came in hot listing to something on Pandora that’s probably outlawed on many south charlotte middle school campuses, but I was ready to dish out some pain today and many men would attest I accomplished my mission.
The Thang’
Mosey to entrance of school
Form two lines for fellowship pace jog to William R Davies Park (1/2 mile away)
Mosey to playground:
Form two lines for fellowship pace jog to back to Base Camp
Hold ¾ wrestling stance for 2 mins while reset of Pax returns, switch to holding a squat 1 min.
DONE.
Naked Mole Skin:
Skywalker planted the DMZ SF as he so faithfully does almost every week, and 24 pax followed Swiper, after his 20 second & 10 second warnings, through the woods to CAC for another Monday Morning addition of the Demilitarized Zone.
Thang:
The pax headed over to #GroundZero behind the church.
Mosey back to #GroundZero
13 of SOBs finest decided to ignore the warnings of lots of running and brave the cold to start their week off right at Foxhole.
YHC was almost late due to not figuring into time to get to the AO the time needed to defrost the car. Its only Nov 3rd for crying out loud.
No FNGs, so abbreviated disclaimer given.
YHC had two workouts for this morning, one that went with the preblast Sunday that warned of running and another that was 0.0 but lots of KB work. Deciding to leave it up to the Pax, TR was given a choice – pick the hand with the rock – 0.0 workout, hand without – lots of running. Choice was the hand without so off we went.
The Thang:
* = in cadence
SSH x 20*
IW x 15*
MC x 15*
Prying Goblet squats x 5 – great for stretching out the hips, quats and calves (It will be needed later)
Enough warm-up time for the main event:
Mosey to the endline of the soccer field with bells in hand.
5 x Burpees, Two Hand Swings, and Goblet Squats – AYG 100 yrd
10 x Burpees, Two Hand Swings, and Goblet Squats – AYG 200 yrd
15 x Burpees, Two Hand Swings, and Goblet Squats – AYG 300 yrd
20 x Burpees, Two Hand Swings, and Goblet Squats – AYG 400 yrd
25 x Burpees, Two Hand Swings, and Goblet Squats – AYG 500 yrd
20 x Burpees, Two Hand Swings, and Goblet Squats – AYG 400 yrd
15 x Burpees, Two Hand Swings, and Goblet Squats – AYG 300 yrd
10 x Burpees, Two Hand Swings, and Goblet Squats – AYG 200 yrd
5 x Burpees, Two Hand Swings, and Goblet Squats – AYG 100 yrd
Finished with just enough time to mosey to parking lot for COT.
For those keeping score lots of work done today – 125 burpees, 125 2H swings, 125 Goblet Squats and 2500 yards AYG (roughly 1.5 miles)
NMM
Solid work by everyone this am. YHC brought this workout back out after shelving it for the better part of a year. Last time it was considerably warmer. Today, however, not the case but clearly everyone is getting stronger. Not much mumblechatter as most (YHC was) were in O2 deprivation most of the time.
Its an honor and privleage to have the chance to lead this group.
Thanks for the chance to lead.
Announcements:
Bring shoes to donate – this goes until Nov. 22nd. Men’s Athletic shoes only please and make sure they are in decent shape.
Joe Davis Run – see top of main page and sign up.
The Brave will do the Ranger PT test this Friday – look for the pre-blast – and will continue to do it about every 6 to 8 weeks to provide a good measure of improvement leading up to the Spring MudRun.
(Min standards: 49 pushups in 2:00 minutes, 59 sit-ups in 2:00 minutes, 6 dead hang pull-ups, 5 mile run in 40 minutes)
That’s all YHC has, if something was missed, shout out below in the comments.
Champagne Out
On a cold, dark, rainy, dreary morning 5 of Area 51’s beastliest unshackled themselves from the day after Halloween fog to lift heavy objects, swing large hammers, pull stuff with ropes and do other various alpha male things.
The Undercard (Kettlebells):
The Main Event (Gear Stations):
After a few rounds through the carnival of pain we headed to the covered corridor for some quasi-dry Mary
Announcements – Gullah will be collecting shoes for #SoleRedemption but we all forgot to bring them today
Moleskin – Thank you to Gullah & The Hoff for entrusting me with the reins of Olympus for the week. It was an honor and privilege to lead today in what has become one of YHC’s favorite hours of the entire week. For those training for obstacle course races such as Leatherneck, Spartan, Tough Mudder, etc. YHC cannot recommend Olympus enough. YHC has been posting at Olympus since August and at last week’s Spartan Super the strength based obstacles were no trouble at all compared to the weekly gumbo of manliness that goes down every Saturday morning. Thanks to Big League chew for the takeout prayer, BLC will have the Q next week. Note to self – the basketball hoop is a bit too tall to hang the TRX from so that was scratched. Note to self part deaux – YHC is not very good at throwing the rope through the basketball hoop mounting bracket so the kettlebell hoist was scratched as well.
The superfecta of a Friday night Halloween, candy overdose, cold temps, and rain was enough to keep most inside and YHC posted mainly due to his Q responsibilities. There is a parking deck around here somewhere, but we are already wet so lets get the show on the road.
Mosey to Pei Wei (as Tiger Rag drives the wrong way around the traffic circle to catch the pax at 6:01)
SSH x 25
2 burpees
Imperial Walker x 20
4 burpees
Peter Parker merkins x 20
6 burpees
Mountain Climbers x 20
8 burpees
Head towards Premier Parking Deck
Bear Crawl to Ballantyne Resort lot, mosey, lunge walk to corner
(Frehley upset about low attendance in moderately bad weather)
At The Lodge hill;
6s with squats at the top, merkins at the bottom
(shouts from various pax to get to parking deck)
Hit the Deck:
Group 1 – sprint up the parking deck, 10 jump squats, sprint back
Group 2 – nonstop donkey kicks on wall
Flapjack
Peoples Chair with shoulder press x 40
10 merkins, sprint up deck, LBCs x 20
jog around corner to next ramp
5 burpees, sprint up level 2, flutter x 20
jog around corner to next ramp
15 merkins, sprint up level 3, Dolly x 20
jog around corner to next ramp
10 burpees, sprint up to rooftop….shouts & threats from
various pax about rain.
After brief debate and support from Haggis, Russian Twists x 20
Back down to level 1:
10 merkins, broad jumps to wall, 10 merkins, broad jumps back (or kangaroo hops)
10 plank in & outs, bear crawl to wall, 10 Plank in & outs, bear crawl back
10 squats, lunge walk to wall, 10 squats, lunge walk back
Repeato on various parking deck drills with Pax choice
20 Mountain climbers, backwards sprint up deck, Haggis chooses AMRAP merkins
(haggis does 41, Frehley does an amount less than Haggis)
10 merkins, backwards sprint up level 2, TR chooses 1-legges Dolly x 20 (each side)
10 burpees, backwards sprint up to level 3, Outback chooses Peoples Chair with
30 second hold with leg up (each side)
10 plank in & outs, sprint to roof, Mother Hubbard calls for 10 merkins
Mosey back to home
COT, name-o-rama, coffeteria ASAP
Moleskin
The temp, wind and rain certainly made for a less than desirable morning but Frehley
was not happy about the attendance. Various “we have worked out in weather worse than this”
and sordid tales from last winter’s cold mornings could be heard. He even considered the crime
tweet-worthy, but alas didn’t bring his phone to coffeeteria. Consider your self warned, FC is expecting your active participation.
It was nice to get a break in the parking deck, but YHC thought we are already wet and cold, so
no hurry to get there. Various shouts and disagreement here, but we did spend about 75% of the
morning under cover.
Announcements
Get your shoes in this week to your site Shoe Q.
Joe Davis Memorial Run sign-up is live, see website