Benny Hill to Old Spice

Benny Hill to Old Spice

Date: 2025-06-20 AO: mountain-goat Q: Insomniac PAX: Watchita, Spammer, Pele, slim_fast, mallcop, jello, sledge, fleetwood, drano, Insomniac, gullah, Preston (Swiftie) FNGs: 1 Preston (Swiftie) COUNT: 12 WARMUP: Having given up on my latest attempt at a “Virtual Q”, yhc led a rowdy but able crowd into the gloom at Rounding Run Nexus. After some shin/calf stretches, opening and closing of gates, and a few toy soldiers, the raging throng was unleashed upon the sleepy nooks of Downs Grant. THE THANG: Run hard (~70%) up Benny Hill, then recover down and around Old Spice loop. Repeat amrap. Despite the cryptic and coded directions rendered by the recently conscious Q, @Slimfast didn’t let his orientation get in the way of leading a threesome (incl. @Wachita and fleetwood) out of the nether regions. Turns out Old Spice loop isn’t as flat as memory would have it, so the recovery ended up being fairly rigorous. Spammer was content to modify as needed. MARY: So, who is this girl, “Mary”? ANNOUNCEMENTS: If you gave blood, you probably know it by now; if you missed it, don’t worry, as there will surely be more opportunities to drip some life for someone else. It was good to see drano again, as well as @wachita and his trademark prance 2 weeks in a row! COT: sledge led us to the Creator with all due gratitude and humidity… I mean humility. Consumption of coffee commenced.

Heat wins

Date: 2025-06-23 AO: soccer Q: Orange Whip PAX: Orange Whip, King, Level10, Brian D. Vessels,, Kellen Dargle, Mile High, Joshee10, Moondance, jrr_tolkien, Brody, Kalel, Pearce, Diego, Luca, Tormund FNGs: None COUNT: 18 Missing a few names I believe.
Just a terribly hot day. No relief. 2 separate water breaks which is unprecedented.
Shirts team scored 2 early goals then pinnies took over for the remainder of the morning.
King was unstoppable in the back.

Never to be seen and a FNG

Date: 2025-06-23 AO: dmz Q: Cheese Curd PAX: Cheese Curd, Bumper Sticker FNGs: 1 Bumper Sticker COUNT: 8 To be fair, I wasn’t the Q. But the metro guys won’t do a bb and most aren’t on A51 slack
So we did stuff today
I had a late start, but I did get to claim naming rights… bumper sticker. Welcome!
WARMUP: THE THANG: MARY: ANNOUNCEMENTS: COT:

HillyMcHillHell

Date: 2025-06-23 AO: chubby-hubby Q: Orange Whip PAX: Horsehead, Spammer, Orange Whip, hoover FNGs: None COUNT: 4 No traditional Chubbys today as all 4 decided on hills. You could see the regret in each man’s face realizing that they didn’t even accomplish half of the race that is set on August 2nd.
Pray for the port o John to remain in place.
Hopefully we’re getting stronger each week but it’s hard to say because you feel terrible afterwards no matter what.
Hoover with the ruck sack today. No Oksana Baiul prancing around the hills today. Lots and lots of deer. 3 houses for sale for those of you who may want to train where you live. Just a weird neighborhood in general.

How many presses?!?

Date: 2025-06-21 AO: olympus Q: flipper PAX: taggart, Mountain Momma, Emoji FNGs: None COUNT: 4 At 0659 Emoji was worried he was gonna have to put up with me solo for 60 minutes, but he managed to delay the warmup sufficiently that Mountain Momma rolled in and saved him from certain peril. Thus the 3 of us started the workout and a wise taggart dodged the ABC complex by arriving at 0715. Where were Floyd, ickey_shuffle, Toto, The Worm and Wabbit? We wondered the same thing…
WARMUP: Synovials, heavy bell stuff: hamstring stretches fron and back. Side bends. Half squat rows. Hip openers: staggered stance toe touches and prying squat THE THANG: 7 minutes ABC EMOM 12 sets of 5 single arm snatches starting every 90 seconds (alternate arms) 3 X through of 2,3,5,10 double presses Heavy suitcases w/ 5 lawnmowers 2 times e/s MARY: boat/canoe, Flute Bridge, elbow plank ANNOUNCEMENTS: stupid horsey half COT: YHC took us out w/ the fine men of the rock

Grinding On

Date: 2025-06-21 AO: davinci Q: C3P0 PAX: Odd Job, das_boot, Johnny 5 FNGs: None COUNT: 4 WARMUP: grab medicine ball and mosey across street to townhomes near Chic-Fil-a, circle up for 15x SSH, IW, HB, can opener, up dog, Merkins & MC, mosey to end of neighborhood, LSS and a little more stretching.
THE THANG: Indian Run-like, man in front hold medicine ball over head and starts running down road. Everyone else does 5 reps then catch up to him. Hand off ball to the next guy and repeat. Each round, four pax carried ball once, and did exercise 3 times before getting turn at ball again. We did 2 rounds like this for each exercise: – merkin – lunge walk – big boy – superman – flutter Some how that took us 50 minutes as we made it to the CVS in Union county and back.
MARY: see above
ANNOUNCEMENTS: races coming up, blood drive, sorry I didn’t take notes see slack
COT: good to be out even on a warmer morning like this (you know nothing C3PO, summer is coming). It was a grind but in a good way. Good to see Das Boot for the first time in 6+ months and sort of catch up, not that I had breath left for much mumblechatter. He’s a posting animal so considering how he took off with the medicine ball at the end I think this was a light workout for him. Odd Job also didn’t seem to break a sweat, he says he’s out of shape but that’s only because he thinks doing multiple handstand push-ups or holding a human flag is normal. Johnny5 also got in some work, the hardest part being getting out of bed (that apple didn’t fall far from the tree). Enjoy the extra dose of sunshine we have today.

junetenth lots of fart sackers

Date: 2025-06-19 AO: _area-51 Q: ToeJam PAX: margo, shrinkwrap FNGs: None COUNT: 3 WARMUP: mosey to quail for standard work. THE THANG: mosey to salasaritas hill and do burpees and bear crawls up thr hill. 3 rounds with variations. MARY: 5 min of Mary at the end. ANNOUNCEMENTS: COT: YHQ took us out.

4 man band plays the amp

Date: 2025-06-21 AO: _sob Q: ToeJam PAX: wildturkey, teddyf3, Rehab FNGs: None COUNT: 4 WARMUP: Run to turf at Gelato place. SSH IW arm circles neck rolls MT climbers runner stretch and qalf stretch THE THANG: mosey to steam park. 2 rounds of the below. Ran a lap in between took us 6 laps to find the .25m lap but we found it. Rd 1 20 merkins, 20 lbcs, 20 squats Rd 2 15 dry Docks 15 Flutters 15 jump squats Rd 3 10 burpees 10 big boys 10 Bonnie Blairs.
Went to Amp for some stairs partner work did two rounds of different work outs. Rd 1 merkins Plank jacks and Lunges Rd 2 found some sand bags. Curls pull thrus and big boys
Moseys back to bank and bagel Blvd did a long bear crawl then back to launch MARY: throughout and at the end ANNOUNCEMENTS: a horsey half is coming up COT: War eagles mom and pray for peace

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Date: 2025-06-20 AO: scars Q: wildturkey PAX: kirby, midriff, Pepsi, F3 Elsa, super trooper, Roulette FNGs: None COUNT: 7 WARMUP: THE THANG: Wild Turkey speed Ruck special with all the trimmings MARY: ANNOUNCEMENTS: COT:

Summer Doldrums

Date: 2025-06-20 AO: joust Q: MARTA PAX: Header, MARTA, marge, Day-Z, Limey, new guy? FNGs: 1 new guy? COUNT: 6 MUMBLECHATTER: New fng today.. as header hosts an exclusive airbnb. Dm him for details. The group was quiet as the ever loquacious limey was battling some sort of junk. yHc is not the most witty when sucking wind. But hey, even on an off day, we nearly out drew ultimate.
THE THANG Mosey the long way to track 15X SSH 15X IW 10X LSS 10X Merkins 20X LBCs
4 Corners x3 5 burpees 5 merkins 20 lbcs
Run stadiums x3 with marry in between.
Touch the door with partner Lunges Jump squats Merkins
Airpress + backwards 🏃‍♀️ Mary
ANNOUNCEMENTS Blood drive today! Orange whips half marathon thing
CoT Yhc