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Both original plans were thrown out the window with news from Beaker that the Bridge to nowhere was not easily accessed, and the underpass was over a mile away. One day we will journey outside the friendly confines. Go Time 0530 Warm Up Short mozy to warm up SSH x25IC, Merkins x20-OMD, Imperial Walkers, (2)Offset Merkins x20-OMD,Good Morningx11IC, Thang One: Across the field Burpees 5,10,15,20 at 50, far end, back to 50 and back to start Plank Hold Thang Two: Around the Track Mary, at corners 25x Merican Hammers (LR=1) 25x Big Boy Sit Ups 25xShakeras (each side 25x LBC Thang Three: Mozy to Stairs for 3 rounds of Partner 1 run stairs + 25x Squats Partner 2 Merkins to failure 3x rounds of 5 pullups under stairway Thang Four: 4 Rounds of Soccer Field Sprints - All You Got - to mid field then mozy to other end Mary 10x Catalina Whine Makers Announcements [Read More]

Wolverine’s starting time moves to 5:30 next week, and YHC was honored to Q the final 5:45 workout. It’s a special occasion, so I knew I had to bring something special. I pulled into the parking lot and the conditions were perfect. Dark, raining, not really cold but certainly not warm. Perfectly gloomy. Warm-Up Mosey over to the middle school parking lot and circle up for imperial walkers, Sir Fazios forward, Sir Fazios backwards, hill billies and cotton pickers, all x 15. [Read More]

Saturday, February 17, 2018 A.O. Ambassador Qs: My Boy Blue and Banjo 26 Pax including 2 FNGs + 1 Coffee hour; 3 from Carpex and the rest from Raleigh: Banjo, Ben Johnson, Burt, Croquet, Cross Stitch [coffee hour), Dr. Quinn, Drysdale, Edsel, Elliot, Half, Horse Hair, Lt Dan, My Boy Blue, My Pleasure, Namesake [FNG Daniel Chavis], Nacho Libre, No Sugar, Parquet, Peaches, Pork Chop Sammich, Post Fontaine, Quagmire, SBD, Steroid, Toe Pick [FNG Josh], Undertow, Yoda [Read More]

4 Years of ACCOUNTABILITY. Sometimes I wonder how you put up with me Where: BO When: 2/15/18 22 PAX: Banjo, Bartman, Biner, Burt, Callahan, CheddarBo, Chinese Downhill, Disco Duck, Jigglypuff, Joe Smith, Katniss, Lite Brite, Moped, Netscape, Pickles, PBX, Rio, Saban, Shank, Tecumseh, Term Paper, WKRP 10 burpees OYO Warmup: SSH, Imperial walker, windmills, mountain climbers, merkins Jog to parking deck and back with stops on the way for accountability work [2 Men complete 100 total reps of first exercise, taking turns, 10 count at a time, while other pax holds second position] [Read More]

YHC decided that he needed to stretch the legs a little Sunday afternoon (2/11/18). 2.0 Zip Drive’s been laying around goofing off all weekend. “Let’s go for a run” I said on the way home from Church. “OK” the mumbled reply. About 1 I decided 2 would be our launch time. Quick blast on Slack and drummed up some business. Banjo and JigglyPuff dusted off their kicks for a rare daylight tour of Insomnia and Vesper routes. [Read More]

Dow Jones wasn’t the only one that had a rough week. YHC was again bit by some sort of bug and two colleagues went down with the flu. So what better way to cap off the week than rising from the ashes at Phoenix? 20 PAX agreed and all 21 of us hit the gloom. Though rain threatened, we stayed mostly dry. A few hearty PAX ran into the AO from various destinations, working to get in some extra miles leading up to various events this Spring. [Read More]

There’s an ongoing Slack-o-sphere “discussion” over the #1 AO in all of Carpex. I’ll admit, YHC has stirred the pot just a bit over this one. The primary goal for the February 9, 2018 edition of Dante’s Peak was to show the glorious versatility and overall excellence of what I consider to be THE top destination for PAX of Carpex. So let’s get on with it. Solid group of HIMs (HIDAs? [Read More]

Crunch Time, Boo Yah February 6, 2018 AO: Rush Hour Q: Banjo Pax: Aristocrat, Disco Duck, Mojo, Ollie, YHC Banjo During morning mosey to school with youngest 2.0, I was reminded that M will be picking up 2.0 from school. With some new found free time, my cooking dinner responsibilities were last night, YHC pondered ever so briefly on the prospects: post at Rush Hour or Q Rush Hour. Perfect. YHC had a planned scheduled stop at Peak Olive Oil [Read More]

Another glorious day in the gloom is upon us and YHC is ready for his second ever solo Q at his favorite AO, Bradford’s Ordinary (BO for short). As always, there’s been a lot of mumble chatter in CARPex and YHC has been trying to keep up. If only there was a way to organize our chatter in such a manner where one could easily find topics of conversation and @ their favorite PAX in order to provoke an immediate reply. [Read More]

When: January 30, 2018 AO: FOD QIC: Biner Arrived at FOD Tuesday morning to see the Cary police questioning several PAX. Nantan arrived and handled the situation. Read the rest of the story on the carpex-news channel. Warm Up One lap around the parking lot and across the road to the soccer field parking lot. 10 good mornings followed by 7 or 8 dirty birds*. *shuffle in place, Q calls “turn” - turn right then back and keep shuffling Q calls 2nd “turn” - turn left then back and keep shuffling, Q calls “down” - hit the ground and back up and keep shuffling, Q calls “jump” - jump and keep shuffling. [Read More]