The Den in the Darkness

 Posted on February 17, 2021  |  2 minutes  |  334 words  |  

I showed up a few minutes before 0530 to find some returning EC runners who said the parking lot was dark when they left. This is only my second time at the LD, so an impromptu darkness Q would have been unwelcome. Luckily the Diocese had indeed paid the electric bill and the original plan was in effect. No new folks, although Rock Lobster has shaved and looks like a different human. [Read More]
16-steves-2  chicken-little-2  clockwork-2  crimson-2  hamm-2  intimidator-2  peeping-tom-2  puddles-2  ramsay-2  red-ryder-2  rock-lobster-2  schlitz-2  slim-shady-2  sooey-2  triple-lindy-2  wahoo-2 

PHAT Tuesday

 Posted on February 16, 2021  |  3 minutes  |  428 words  |  

22 brave men and 2 brave dogs assembled in beautiful downtown Cary on the most glorious evening of the year. Warm-Up Mosey around the parking lot in front of Page Walker, past the pocket park, to the parking lot next to the tracks and circle up for various warm-up exercises. I think one of them was burpees. The Thang Mosey safely across the street to the little hill behind the Chamber of Commerce for 7&7. [Read More]
biner  cauliflower  disco-duck  earhart  flint  freebird  full-house  goose  hgtv  horatio  mojo  moped  ollie  one-four  parker  peeping-tom  press-on  riptide  side-out  tang  theismann  vhs 

A Smattering

 Posted on February 15, 2021  |  3 minutes  |  479 words  |  

4 years and a day! Quite a morning today, but first a look back at the last few February 14ths: 2020 // 2019 // 2018 // 2017 (note, way better BB compliance in Raleigh so far in 2021, but it seems like it’s only thanks to Pigpen and Cococrisp. tighten up, this is apparently a lost art) 14 PAX joined me at the flag, were graced with a retrospective about bu_m_ble tea and cheese foam, we checked for FNGs, said the pledge, and were off! [Read More]
bootlegger  burt  coxswain  disco-duck  frisco  happy-gilmore  henny-penny  hgtv  imp  intimidator  jigglypuff  mccants  mr-safety  open-concept  press-on  water-wings 

Leg Day @ Wolverine!

 Posted on February 15, 2021  |  2 minutes  |  382 words  |  

Was pleasantly surprised when I checked the weather this morning – phone said it wasn’t raining! Yeah! However, when getting outside it was misting just enough to continue our amazing streak of wetness…. anyway we do say we love the gloom… Here’s what went down at Wolverine this moist morning: Gather at the flag – no FNGs but I got to meet Back Porch – he has posted 3 days in a row after finding F3 last week – way to go! [Read More]
back-porch  build-a-bear  callahan  chanticleer  flacco  goose  hermes  loom  sabre  squatter 

Bear with me...

 Posted on February 12, 2021  |  1 minutes  |  151 words  |  

33 degrees, gloom, and a light mist greeted the men at Gran Torino today, and didn’t that was the weather that got FNG Back Porch out to his first post…at a High Tempo bootcamp. After a short mosey, we got loose with a pretty standard workflow of side-straddle hops, calf-stretch merkins, mountain climbers, hillbillies, and treadwindmills. Down the stretch we formed up into two lines for a bear run: back runner overtakes the leader, and after each cycle of runners drop to 10 bear crawls in cadence, twice around the double field. [Read More]
back-porch  biner  chanticleer  largemouth  lucky-charms  one-four  parker  pbx  schroeder  torpedo 

Who am I?

 Posted on February 12, 2021  |  2 minutes  |  287 words  |  

Have been wanting to pull this Q out for a few weeks ever since my son’s confirmation retreat. Warm up: Mosey to the big Koka parking lot for GM, Abe Vigoda, SSH, IW, Merkins and Eye of the Needle stretches. Thang: Asked the PAX to think about the answer to the question: “who am I”. Took turns sharing our answers, with answer-appropriate workouts tossed in. In our group we had a hospital name (7x burpees), husband (24 years merkins), lawyer (99 problems LBCs), financial adviser (3 million dollars wolverines), a child of God (WWIIs), a literary and musical hero (star jumps) and a father. [Read More]
augmented  bluewater  captain-jack  cauliflower  chops  full-house  hopping-john  laloosh  snip  usefulengine 

It's gettin' real in the Whole Foods parking lot

 Posted on February 10, 2021  |  1 minutes  |  179 words  |  

Warmup, Sabre is late, 10 burpees Mosey to Whole Foods parking lot. Run each drive lane in parking lot, 10 burpees at the top, 25 LBCs and 10 Merkins at the bottom. Mosey to playground area: 15 step downs per leg, 15 backwards lunges each leg, 15 heels to heaven, 15 merkins, Repeat x 4. Steps downs and lunges completed one leg at a time. To stairs for 100 calf raises [Read More]
augmented  banjo-2  bobby-dahl  build-a-bear-2  chops  coxswain  hoppinjohn  mccants  memento-2  rock-lobster  sabre  the-commish 

It's called Winterfell for a reason!

 Posted on February 8, 2021  |  2 minutes  |  384 words  |  

Super frosty & icy morning in the Far Northeast Kingdom of CARPEX! Maybe it was the cold, maybe it was the over eating attributed to the Super Bowl, maybe it was the over drinking (SB)….. not really sure but the mumble chatter was high & the mosey was slow this fine morning. Here’s how it went down according to my recollection. No FNGs, start with the pledge, mosey back along school to the back where the buses are – painted some lines than circled up for some warm-up: [Read More]
badlands  burt  disco-duck  flacco  franklin  one-direction  rooney  sabre  shoe-horn  term-paper  wreck-it-ralph 

Not Welcome Here

 Posted on February 8, 2021  |  3 minutes  |  572 words  |  

17 PAX gather in the brisk cool morning for a traveling Earhart workout. Good too see a mix of Apex and West Cary HIM to help YHC through a new workout in a new location. Gather the PAX at the flag for a pledge then start with walking down the path, high knees and butt kickers; with advancing age trying to start out a workout with a little warm for the warm. [Read More]
badlands  banjo  clementine  dirty-bomb  earhart  geek-squad  high-school-musical  lucky-charms  nature-boy  overflow  peeping-tom  pom-pom  schlitz  suck-up  the-commish  trike  triple-lindy  wahoo 

Rain? What rain?

 Posted on February 8, 2021  |  2 minutes  |  376 words  |  

Even though YHC and the shield lock had already done a couple miles EC run and were fully soaked, it seemed like a waste not to use the parking garage the AO provides for some cover from the elements. So that’s where we headed. Here’s what all went down: Warmup: No FNGs so I stumbled through the mission statement because it was being recorded for our Q of Culture and then recited the pledge before heading off to the parking garage on the other side of the school. [Read More]
bootlegger  crimson  deuce  honeycomb  peeping-tom  schlitz  silver-fox  triple-lindy  vhs  wahoo