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YHC was a bit groggy rolling into Claymore, looking forward to a thorough Riptide beatdown to wake up. Site Q fail right off the bat, as Frisco had to abruptly leave town to deal with family health issues and YHC had not acquired the shovel flag. Nonetheless, the PAX all stood in a loose circle looking expectantly for Riptide’s signature truck to come rolling in. Quick look at the Steve shows that it’s 5:45 and everyone is expectantly looking at YHC. [Read More]

It was moist today. Humid. Muggy. Sticky. Steamy. Oppressive. Clammy. Soupy. Heavy. Like a Turkish bath. Thank god it wasn’t dank. That would have been too much. Pre: Drive 21 minutes from home to H4T. Check on first option for Thang 1 but decide it’s too dark. Check on second option for Thang 1 and decide it’s a bit too overgrown. Decide to go with third, and most obvious option. [Read More]

Geek Week continues celebrating my 55th BDay and 2 year anniversary in F3. Each day, we will work on a part of the body. Today was a good one. Shoulders, Back and Triceps. Gotta love rocks! 12 PAX including 62 year old FNG Sparky - welcome! Warm up Good morning Sir Fazio Seal claps Overhead claps Michael Phelps Plank calf stretch with alternating arm raises Thang 1 - Ladder work with traveling rocks [Read More]

Lots of PAX got together this morning at SNS. By COT, the count was 22. Even more went elsewhere. Air Brooks was holding Court down at Point Break, Geek Squad pretended to have a birthday, Headroom continued checking boxes on the CARPEx Challenge and, hell, even Flenderson accidentally clicked into the Q sheet to sign up. But only eight were man enough to take to the diamond though. Having expertly introduced myself to the two PAX I had not previously met (and then promptly forgetting their names until basically COT), it was time for the Pledge as those with muscles only below their waist took off for an advertised 45 minute jog. [Read More]

QIC: Riptide. Big crowd for a muggy Riptide Q. Just as we’re about to launch, a car screams into the parking lot. It’s the triumphant return of Joe Smith. Mosey to Koka Booth parking lot for the warm up. Mosey to the rock pile, partner up, and grab a rock. Mosey to American Tower. Thing 1: Partner rock work. Partner 1 stays with the rock for 8-step rock-your-body. Partner 2 runs up the American Tower hill, does 2 burpees, runs down the hill, crawl-bears back up the hill, 2 starjumps, runs back. [Read More]

As we continued in Geek Week celebrating my 55th BDay and 2 year anniversary in F3, we focused on core. At the end of it all we did 240 reps of random core exercises plus some extras all while covering over 2.5 miles. Well done men! Warm up Good morning Side twists LBC Low/slow flutter kicks Side bends Thang 1 - Ladder work Starting point - 10 LBC 1st light - 10 Box cutter 2nd light - 10 WWII 3rd light - 10 Hello Dolly 4th light - 10 Homer to Marge 5th light - 10 T-Bone Thang 2 - 5s on the hill [Read More]

Lionsden 7/8/2020 QIC: Felnderson Pax: Red Ryder, Wahoo, Imp, Ramses, Slim Shady, Duce, Triple Lindy, Sooey Warm Up Arm Circles SSHGood MorningsWMH Thang 1 DirtyMacDeuce 4 sets of 3 exercises done to 12 4-count reps. Each set has one chest exercise, one leg exercise and one core exercise. After each set of three exercises, you run a lap of a track or whatever else is hand Merkins, Squats, LBCDry Docks, Lunges, Freddie MercsHand Release, Right Leg Squat, Homer to MargeShoulder Taps, Left Leg Squats, Hello Dollys [Read More]

YHC rolled up to Carpex’s AO known as Point Break, with 2 minutes to spare, to see 20 men raring to go. There were about 4-5 dudes in full sweat from the pre-run. Also, thrilled to see CarpEXers Khakis and Peeping Tom. Then I couldn’t believe my eyes………standing there like fishes-out-of-water…….3 Raleigh punks……and 1 SouthWake punk S’Midget For Life. I friggin’ hate those guys!!!—sorta. After botching yet another disclaimer, we were off for a short jog to the backside of Cinebistro for some warm-ups of: Invisible Jump Rope, Sir Fazios –> GM –> Phleps, Merkins –> MC, AirForceOnes, and Saturday Nite Stretch. [Read More]

Today we continue with Geek Week celebrating my 55th BDay and 2 year Anniversary in F3. 17 endured chest and biceps plus a few walkers. When all was said and done, including all exercises, we did 174 merkins and 80 rock curls. Way to go men! Warm up Good morning Fazio arm circles, overhead clap, seal clap 10 CFM Merkins 5+5+2 Burpees Thang 1 - Ladder work Starting point - 10 Merkins 1st light- 10 Hand release merkins 2nd light- 10 Big rock Curls 3rd light- 10 Small rocks side curls 4th light- 10 Small rocks chest flies 5th light- 10 Inchworm merkins Thang 2 - 5s on the hill [Read More]

Nine PAX made it out to Kryptonite for a Monday morning Q to start the week off right. I decided to join Kryptonite Sunday evening and saw the Q spot was open. A quick message to Bagels confirmed and I decided to put a workout together. I have a love/hate relationship with F3 high-intensity workouts and thought doing the Q may help make amends. At 530 AM, we kicked it off on-time with the Pledge, and off we went. [Read More]