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Standing around the parking lot at the original CARPEx Thursday AO, one of the OGs dropped a bomb: “I hear those boys in Apex are thinking of a separation. With all the growth in Apex, it may be time for them to get their own region” You could hear a pin drop. Sure, these days it seems like a new AO is cropping up on the west side of 55 every other week and Sooey hasn’t let the fact he EH’ed Frisco from EH’ing most of the rest of Scotts Mill. [Read More]

Angry Elf and YHC had it all planned out. Until 50 guys showed up at Danger Zone! Too many to take down into the bowels of the park. But we have a glorious field that fits 50 perfectly. Anyway, today was a big day. A day of numbers one might say. 6 - Carpex’ 6th Anniversary. Evidence shows the first Cary F3 workout occurred on 5/31/2013 at North Cary Park and was named Danger Zone. [Read More]

On this day five years ago, I started down a path I never thought I needed to go down. My friend David asked me to come work out with him and I obliged. I figured it might be a good way to network, since I was looking to expand my career opportunities. However, 55 minutes into the work out, I found myself hanging over a railing, peering out at the serene little lake in front of me, wondering just how much longer I could possibly hold back from spilling my guts into said little lake. [Read More]

Hermes 3rd f3aversary. Danger Zone. A perfect 43 degrees. Full moon. What’s not to love? 13 of the strongest ever to grace the Carpex gloom showed up to keep Danger Zone great. Former site Qs such as Burt, Largemouth, and Callahan were not among them. Warmup 1½ times around the original pickle and circle up for an arm circle variety pack - regular, overhead, out front. Mumblechatter may have been at an all-time high at this point. [Read More]

Leading up to Friday YHC knew it would be low numbers on Odyssey Eve. The over/under was set at 6. At 0545 YHC, Katniss, Chinese, Pierogi, Flip Flop, and The Count headed out for a trip around the pickle. 6 pax. #NAILEDIT Warm Up Head to the playground 10 Good Mornings - 5 pull ups 10 Hill Billies - 5 pull ups 20 Squats - 5 pull ups 20 SSHs - 5 pulls After the first warmup exercise we saw headlights. [Read More]

18 of Carpex’s finest HIMs arrived in the finally crisp fall morning hours at North Cary Park for a Doogie VQ adventure. Mumblechatter was at its finest with Burt in tow especially after I gave him free reign to speak his mind since he named me 4 months ago at Wolverine (spoiler alert). Unfortunately for Burt he needed to be reigned back in only a few minutes later… After a nice jog around the pickle we completed the following: [Read More]

QIC: Pet Sounds The PAX: Burt, Coney, Flip Flop, The Count, Arthur Murphy, Navin, Ford, Pickles, Leprechaun, Viking Warm up: Mozy around the pickle Circle up for, SSH, HillBillys x20ic, Good Mornings, 30x Merkins OMD, Calf Stretch, Wide Arm Merkins 20x OMD Partner Dora 100 Pull ups 200 Merkins 300 Squats Partner 1 above, Partner 2 run to flag and back, flop Down the Abyss Mozy to stairs Bear crawl down the Abyss Mozy backup stairs, then to the parking lot Mary LBC x30 IC LSF x20 IC Announcements [Read More]

I knew my trail run race was coming up but I was a bit surprised to find out I signed up to Q the day before it. Oh well, guess its good and I can not kill my legs with 100 squats or something. Oh and then Hello Kitty asked to do the meow mile so it was a good warm up. Meow Mile (2 miles): Hello Kitty, CK, Shut In, Ma Bell, and Chanticleer [Read More]