Beautiful morning …..

Beautiful morning …..

Date: 2024-10-14 AO: firestarter Q: Franky PAX: wildturkey, Roulette, Hawkeye, Point Break, kirby FNGs: None COUNT: 6
WARMUP: quick run ton131 main. 20 SSHs, 15 pushups, and dynamic stretching. Run to the wall behind Palmetto Moon store and 10 wall climbs. THE THANG: starting with 10 pushups and going down by one at each working light (55 total). Run around target and back to the starting position. Then starting with 50 American hammers and going down by 5 at each working street light (275 total). Yep, this is when the mumble chatter stopped. Run around the building to the starting position. Next, Romanian dead lifts starting with 30 each leg and going down by 5. Then 20 Superman’s at the last light. Run to the yoga studio. Repeat 5 of each exercise we did and run up the stairs. Two rounds of that. Back to launch. MARY: 30 seconds of Al Gore ANNOUNCEMENTS: a few events coming up, Terror Trails on the 26th and Arthritis foundation 5K some time in November – check in with Wild Turkey. COT:

Hills for recovery

Date: 2024-10-14 AO: blakovery Q: frasier PAX: wingman, Dosey Doe, Hippie, bunker, bratwurst, Polly, soft_pretzel, Driveby FNGs: None COUNT: 9
WARMUP: THE THANG: just five easy miles up blakeney heath down to Houston Ridge. A simple out and back. MARY: ANNOUNCEMENTS: sign up for Kid Rock race. Killer Creek. COT:

Threat of hills keeping everyone away?

Date: 2024-10-14 AO: chubby-hubby Q: Cheese Curd PAX: Cheese Curd FNGs: None COUNT: 1
WARMUP: picked up Oona pregame THE THANG: 2.3 out, run past launch and finish 6 MARY: not today ANNOUNCEMENTS: nope COT: Oona is a good girl

A little dab’ll do ya

Date: 2024-10-07 AO: firestarter Q: das_boot PAX: war_eagle, madison, SweetWater, Point Break, wildturkey, Roulette, das_boot FNGs: None COUNT: 7 6 PAX joined YHC with expectations of the strange and hopefully a good workout and they got some of both. PAX were about to head out when a truck came in hour and who was it? Sweetwater! Great to see him in the gloom. Good crowd with plenty of push this morning and YHC felt the SOB vibes going strong and their desire to make it tougher with t-merkins. The Morgans take a bit to figure out and the burpees are always a crowd pleaser.
But yes, a solid crew on Monday and we started the week off well.
WARMUP: Canadian SSH, hillbillies, Hillbilly Rockettes, merkins
THE THANG: We went for a modified version of the Dab, because modified mediocrity is the bar for success that Panthers fans have seen in recent years.
This consisted of: – 10 burpees during minute 1 – 20 T-merkins during minute 2 – 30 Coupon curls, minute 3 – 40 Captain Morgan (20 per leg), minute 4 – 50 LBCs – 1/4 mile run – Repeato for 4 rounds
MARY: Gargoyles at Jeni’s

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Yes COT: Yes again

Haunted Hills and Country Clubs

Date: 2024-10-12 AO: chicken-run Q: midriff PAX: wingman, Franky, frasier, Chopper, Dosey Doe, fleetwood, Happy Meal, Polly, Rob Rosenthal – Drive By, Mr. Jones, fletch, bunker, midriff, Ken FNGs: 1 Ken COUNT: 14 Awesome crew this morning for another edition of Chicken Run! – frasier and Dosey Doe preran 4 miles – wingman and YHC preran 3 miles – Lots of familiar faces and an FNG for the main event – Mr. Jones and I had a lengthy discussion about the NBA and where Allen Iverson lives in Ballantyne Country Club – FNG needs to get a good name after showing up to Chicken Run for his first workout and then running another 10 miles – We found a spooky house in the country club
Don’t forget to donate to Dahlia Grove and log your miles – tomorrow is the last day
YHC got 20 miles today and am feeling nearly ready for Terror Trails in 3 weeks

Better Late than never

Date: 2024-10-10 AO: peak-51 Q: Spammer PAX: Spammer, kilowatt, gullah, lois, sledge, beaver FNGs: None COUNT: 6 .

The Ultimate Penultimate Did Not Involve Footballs Today

Date: 2024-10-12 AO: olympus Q: Krzyzewski PAX: voodoo, The Worm, MARTA, Mountain Momma, flipper, Wabbit, ickey_shuffle, mighty_mite, Fireman_Ed, Omaha FNGs: 1 Omaha COUNT: 11 An absolute swarm of gear-headed pax descended upon Calvary’s paved lots with one mission this morning – pick up heavy-ish objects in one place and then put them down in another place somewhat close to the first place. By all accounts, mission accomplished. Though the dynamic of our usual circular formation became a bit unwieldy for singular mumblechatter, there were some solid sidebars amongst the pax as we dismantled the weinke with aplomb. Unsurprisingly, NFC South chatter has sprung up – we just need a Bucs fan to round out representation. YHC is starting Bucky Irving on his FF team this weekend so maybe that counts? YHC digresses. Great, of course, to see the regular crew come out today. We were joined by Fireman Ed and Voodoo’s co-worker, Omaha. Both pax took our somewhat offbeat workout in stride and we enjoyed seeing some new faces get into the twisted world that are gear workouts. Let’s get into the recap… WARMUP: Swings (10x), prying squats, hi-pulls (5x e/s), synovial circles, slingshots (7x e/w) THE THANG: 1) Sandbags Sets – Partner Work – Up & up (5x) (4 sets) – Merkin monster (3x) (4 sets) – Counter-rotational reverse lunge (7x e/s) (4 sets) – Note: Pax partnered up and in the off-time did either 10x merkins or 10x swings 2) Kettlebell Attrition Sets (3 sets) – A: Alternating cleans – B: Heavy swings – C: Alternating snatches 3) Humane Complex (10x/6x/6x) (2 sets) 4) Various and Sundry Carries with Double Bells – Shrugs, Racked, and Waiters – oh my! MARY: Perhaps the walk from the end of the carries back to everyone’s gear counts? ANNOUNCEMENTS: – “Better to trip with the feet than with the tongue.” – Zeno – Continued prayers for Western NC and FL following the devastation the past couple of weeks – Paper Jam is collecting volunteers and/or donations for a 10/19 trip to Rutherfordton COT: Stonecold took out the joint groups from the Rock and Olympus

RUCKMART

Date: 2024-10-12 AO: davinci Q: Palmolive PAX: Hawkeye, C3P0, wildturkey, Roulette, Odd Job FNGs: None COUNT: 6 Continuing my ruckurious experiences, today’s workout was designed to add coupons for more challenge. As I pulled up to the AO with 1 minute to spare, I was happy to see 4 PAX suiting up ready for our shopping adventure. Get it? Coupons, stores…
Anyway, glad to add one more with C3P0 trucking across the Target parking lot to catch up with us. Because he was late, he got the half block…which ended up being more challenging than expected.
WARMUP: Ruck to Target, grab a coupon and circle up. IC 10x Moroccan night clubs, then make em English, LSS, Imperial Walkers.
THE THANG: Grab coupons then let’s go shopping!! Rifle carry between store fronts and stop at each for exercises. 10x gargoyles, 10x upper deckers, 5x Bulgarian split squats (per side), 5x IC imperial blocker, 10x goblet squats, 10x spiced rum squats.
Leave coupons at Old Navy and ruck to to the stairs for some recovery: 7 laps of stairs with a Yul Brynner at the end of each…7x Yul Brynner (Carolina Dry Dock, Wide Merkin, Normal Merkin, Ranger Merkin, Diamond Merkin, Crucible Merkin, and Chuck Norris Merkin).
Because the other half of shopping is returns, go pick up your coupons and stop at each store for exercises. 10x presses, 5x Grave Diggers (per side), 5x blockees, 5x creature merkins, 5x head shoulders knees and toes.
Deposit coupons back in their place and ruck to launch.
MARY: A little was in there.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Wild Turkey has a charity 5k in December. DM him for details. Terror trails sign up at the end of the month if you haven’t already.
COT: Look out for Fleetwood’s father as he navigates health concerns, and hopes for those suffering and still missing in Western NC.

Ultimate Foosball

Date: 2024-10-12 AO: the-rock Q: stonecold PAX: Mr. Magoo, Cottonmouth, Snuka, Alf, stonecold, geraldo, Tuna, O’Tannenbaum, White lighting, White lighting FNGs: 1 White lighting COUNT: 9
WARMUP: THE THANG: MARY: ANNOUNCEMENTS: COT:
Played ultimate football, like men!!

Bunch of old men

Date: 2024-10-11 AO: joust Q: baracus PAX: baracus, ductwork, geraldo, gummy, hopper, Mr Brady, puddin_pop, ChickenWing, Cottonmouth FNGs: None COUNT: 9
WARMUP: Jogged to soccer field for COP – SSH – IW – LSS – Merkin – MCs
THE THANG: Starfish x2 Round 1 5 Burpees in the center of the starfish with merkins, wide arms, diamonds and dry docks
Round 2 5 jump squats in the center of the starfish with flutters, dolly, heels to heaven and sister Mary Catherine
Jog to stadium Bleachers – Decline merkins at bottom of steps & dips at the top. Repeat 3x
Over to Grandma Triple dickle 10 LBC, run up to blue grey door, 10 merkins, run back down (repeat 5x)
Up to school to kill some time with wall sits and merkins
Finished
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Don’t remember any, but I think there was something
COT: Hopper took us out