A-Team (6 Years Later)

 Posted on January 4, 2021  |  4 minutes  |  802 words  |  

The title of this backblast is a tip of the cap to Nabisco’s original backblast title “A-Team” six years ago. Just like his Q then, my Q today was flawlessly executed. 16 pax 6 years ago, 26 today (27 pax at COT having McCants join us - which is perfect as he was there 6 years ago with 75%) showed up to help YHC celebrate. I enjoy recreating this beatdown each year but with some modifications. [Read More]
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Sevens Three Ways

 Posted on January 2, 2021  |  2 minutes  |  386 words  |  

Site Q Sooey had promised 57 degrees this morning, and he was off by about 13 degrees, so 13 vets and 1 FNG had to deal with an Angry Duck Warm-Up Mosey to the Christmas tree in beautiful downtown Apex and circle up for a few warm-up exercises, including Good Mornings from Crimson. The Thang Mosey around the corner to the T-intersection next to the Methodist church and split into three groups. [Read More]
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Take the Pain Train

 Posted on November 20, 2020  |  1 minutes  |  190 words  |  

Pain Train 1 5 diamonds 10 Squats 15 HRM 20 BBSU Pain Train 2 5 jump squats 10 Wide grip merkins 15 monkey humpers 20 ww2 Pickle lunge walk merkin run = full lunge of the pickle, 50 merkins, 4 laps of running Shelter work Dips/irkins 11’s Dips/derkins 11’s Mary Rosalita Hammers Freddie mercs Announcements TCP Sawgrass this Saturday at 2 No Thanksgiving convergence Be on the lookout for possible modified start times for certain AO’s [Read More]
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Feels Like NASCAR

 Posted on October 14, 2020  |  2 minutes  |  297 words  |  

It was indeed a great day to get up and workout in the early morning gloom! It was also YHC’s first time of leading a high tempo beatdown. So I had been looking forward to that, as well as receiving an FMJ camo koozie at the end, I’m not gonna lie! So after everyone arrived and stretched out: the runners came in, YHC gave the disclaimer, led the Pledge, and we were off! [Read More]
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Truly This Is the Way

 Posted on October 8, 2020  |  7 minutes  |  1341 words  |  

So I have this reoccuring nightmare where I wake up and Term Paper is–wait, Smokey told me not to use real names–so where “John Marriott” is–wait, Smokey said I can’t benefit from any therapy until my check clears. We’ll get back to the nightmare later. Suffice it to say that whenever I run into “John Marriot” at a workout I make sure I am not dreaming by pinching him. In my nightmare, “John” has a high pitched voice and sounds like a smurf getting their tail pulled when you pinch them. [Read More]
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If you can do this, you can do the Odyssey

 Posted on October 6, 2020  |  2 minutes  |  234 words  |  

11 pax gather in the lot with perfect fall weather. No FNGs, 3 headlamps and we are off. Warm up jog followed by SSH, daisy pickers, Good Mornings etc. Mosey to base of bridge for instructions on the Thang from Braveheart From middle of bridge, partners go in opp direction with one way being bearcrawl and the other lunge (both to end of the bridge). Run to base of each hill and perform exercise. [Read More]
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Orpheus in the Underworld

 Posted on September 29, 2020  |  2 minutes  |  390 words  |  

Build-a-Bear relinquished his Q yesterday. I assume he built a submarine, so that he could run up and down the continental shelf. YHC was glad to step in. 2 for EC (Oofta and Staubach) and 2 for 10-Mile ECME (Lookout and Chops). Mosey the long way to Lowes Foods parking lot. Warm-Up. Lots of stretching, inspired by (our boy) Bluewater last week. Thing 1: Santa’s Ladder From the Exicon: “Pick a spot in the distance. [Read More]
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VQ 5 Years Later

 Posted on September 22, 2020  |  3 minutes  |  518 words  |  

47 degrees in September…yes please! 21 pax left their warm cozy beds to suffer a bit in the gloom (even 1 high schooler! William “Braveheart” Wallace Marriott IV). So here is how this Beatdown was birthed…YHC VQ’d at FOD back in May of 2015. This past month I’ve been back to FOD a couple times and was excited to see the path around the baseball fields was FINALLY finished! We used to run the mess out of that loop and it got me thinking back to the early days of FOD…which got me to look up my VQ backblast…which got me to copy it for this morning and not have to think of something new! [Read More]
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Herding Cats for COT

 Posted on September 21, 2020  |  2 minutes  |  289 words  |  

Big crowd mulling around outside the gates. One FNG – disclaimer given. Pledge and we are off. Mosey through some parking lots followed by a few traditional warm up exercises. Head to the lot near the shelters for some pickle partner lunge, run, HRM circuits Shelter for 11’s with Dips and Irkins Crimson suggests heading to powerline hill to find Chewie and Bootlegger Run to crosswalk doing 3,6,9, 12…24 monkey humpers at each lightpole [Read More]
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Back in the Saddle

 Posted on September 17, 2020  |  2 minutes  |  306 words  |  

I’ve been trying to decide when i was ready to Q again and noticed a BO opening so figure that would be a great opp to get back in the saddle again. Solid group of 19 gathered in the parking lot ready to do some work. Burt recites the abbreviated version of the F3 mission and we are off. Mozy to random parking lot near the train tracks for a brief warm with no merkins, but with a on point Nature Boy Good Morning call. [Read More]
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