Meat and Potatoes

Meat and Potatoes

Date: 2025-03-27 AO: _area-51 Q: MARTA PAX: Foghorn, spackles, deep_dish, marge, jet_fuel, Mikeoelz, puddin_pop, MARTA, limey FNGs: None COUNT: 9 Mumble chatter was strong as normal led by spackes and puddin.
Limey the slackless led us through a meat and potatoes workout that ended up being 2.9 miles. ANNOUNCEMENTS: Blood drive April 4th Q school in April or May COT: limey

Kevlar Tribute at Sparta

Date: 2025-03-27 AO: sparta Q: turkey_leg PAX: Keystone, geraldo, Full House, turkey_leg FNGs: None COUNT: 4 Four pax enjoyed a full Tribute to all our Ole Kevlar classics. After a proper warmup, did suicides, hill repeat 7s and threw in some track work for good measure. Nice return back on the fresh sidewalk down Fullwood. Fun reminiscing about all the old days while putting up some sold work.

Da Vinci

Date: 2025-03-22 AO: davinci Q: soft_pretzel PAX: Palmolive, Roulette, C3P0, das_boot, soft_pretzel, Snake Eyes FNGs: None COUNT: 6 WARMUP: THE THANG: MARY: ANNOUNCEMENTS: COT:

Here we ruck again

Date: 2025-03-26 AO: sacs Q: Starch PAX: Cheese Curd FNGs: None COUNT: 2 WARMUP: pull out the ruck and sandbag out of the car
THE THANG: with no other pax showing up, keeping the Winkie and we are rucking
MARY: nope
ANNOUNCEMENTS: WTF
COT: look out for the pax that is not in the gloom. Reach out, connect, be a support!

Leg day without squats?

Date: 2025-03-26 AO: meathead Q: voodoo PAX: Unplugged, Soul Glo, Emoji, MARTA, Uncle Leo, voodoo FNGs: None COUNT: 6 YHC arrived at Calvary early, which is very unusual and led to questioning from Unplugged, who was already doing his old man yoga warm up. Uncle Leo soon pulled in to begin his warmup and he and Unplugged did a little parallel play. The rest of the pax trickled and we had a half dozen by the time 0530 rolled around.
WARMUP: SSH x 20 IC 10 swings IW x 15 IC 5 high pulls per side Sharon Towers x 10 IC 5 cleans per side Prying squats x 2
THE THANG: Workout 2 of Week 8 of the Kettlebell Only Muscle Gain program from Joe Daniels (with minor modifications)
14:00 EMOM (of course) of 10 X heavy staggered swings, alternating feet each round
Reverse lunge declining ladders of 10/8/6/4/2 on each leg x 2 sets
20 somersault squats (aka weighted monkey humpers
Finisher: 10 snatches (one side), 10 merkins. Repeato with snatches on the other side. Repeato for a second round. This improvisation was thoroughly enjoyed buy the pax in attendance.
MARY: ~1:00 elbow plank
ANNOUNCEMENTS: WTF, Blood drive at Windyrush
COT: circles up with the Anvil pax. Please keep The Worm in your prayers as he continues his recovery and pray for those with silent needs. Thanks to margo for the takeout.

One Last Gasp

Date: 2025-03-25 AO: swift Q: flipper PAX: frasier, Brisket, Gump, Astro (Kyle Kirchhoff), bratwurst, das_boot, teddyf3, voodoo, soft_pretzel, citgo, fire_hazard, flipper FNGs: None COUNT: 12 WARMUP: 3 for marathon training 4 X 1mile launched early, YHC for an extended warmup. THE THANG: Mosey from launch to community house with some dynamic stretching on the way. 3 by 1 Mile intervals at 10k effort, but with the final quarter at 5k effort. Middle interval heading back towards Ballantyne commons was a bit hairy, but the PAX pushed through. Recovery was half a mile in between each, and the PAX kinda scattered due to no explicit plan from the Q, Cobains. After all 3 intervals completed, PAX scattered for the return to launch, with YHCs contingent returning via Upper and The Bowl, while Wolverine took the long way and arrived back post COT. MARY: nope! ANNOUNCEMENTS: WTF and blood drive COT: with Bagpipe, Gump took us out

Crushing on Karoline LeavittX

Date: 2025-03-26 AO: backblasts Q: poptart PAX: Orange Whip, Alf, O’Tannenbaum, taggart, Horsehead FNGs: None COUNT: 6 We did a lot of Wamrap stuff in the parking deck. And covered every topic imagineable, but mostly focused on the brains of OWs girlfriend, Karoline. Rumor has it they are coming out with a Levitt pinup calendar soon.

Classic Routes, Fresh Air

Date: 2025-03-22 AO: chicken-run Q: midriff PAX: wingman, Franky, Gruden, Doublemint, toolbag, bunker, frasier, fletch FNGs: None COUNT: 9 Toolbag calls the way, Country roads greet dawn’s first light, Stride through morning’s peace.

What he doesn’t do in quantity, he doesn’t make up for in quality

Date: 2025-03-25 AO: bagpipe Q: Palmolive PAX: Rousey, ToeJam, wildturkey, Pepsi, madison, Starch, Roulette, Blue Tent, kirby, Yogi (Florence) FNGs: None COUNT: 11 A Q goes from disappointment, to excitement, to “oh man, this is going to be messy” as the PAX count starts increasing from 1 to double digits pre-workout. I came in with a half baked plan that held together like hot banana bread once we got to the upper decks (parking deck, not toilets).
Awesome job by all and it was great to hear the mumble chatter start, stop, then start again, so I knew everyone was putting in work, but also having fun.
WARM UP Some burpees and imperial walkers with LSSs
THANG Run up the parking garage, starting with 5 reps of one exercise, and increasing by 5 reps and adding another exercise every half floor…good audible to change it to every floor when we got to the 4th. Everything fell apart by the 6th (because math in the morning :abacus: ).
1. Jump squats 2. Merkins 3. Burpees ( Roulette :japanese_ogre: ) 4. Big boys 5. Twisted pistons 6. Heels to heaven 7. Back scratchers 8. 2 minute-ish plank
Mosey back to launch

Have I lost all creativity

Date: 2025-03-25 AO: fast-twitch Q: Cheese Curd PAX: Benny, geraldo, deep_dish, Joker, Alf, purell, retread, turkey_leg FNGs: None COUNT: 9 WARMUP: run 2 miles to the entrance of 5 Knolls,
THE THANG: run as many hill repeats as you can, I think I only got 2
Run home
MARY: nope ANNOUNCEMENTS: nothing COT: short and sweet, this crew came out knowing what was coming. Few calculated the miles to 5 Knolls and then we just ran until we got back.
Not a lot of chatter, but pockets of guys paired up. I had Oona and a few fly-byes