Wolverine Duck

 Posted on January 18, 2021  |  2 minutes  |  307 words  |  

Time for this Duck to visit Wolverine, the Gloomiest Gloom in the Gloom. Warm-Up Mosey from the dark parking lot to the other dark parking lot and circle up for cherry pickers, Sir Fazios, imperial walkers, copperhead merkins and copperhead squats. The Thang Mosey over to the church parking lot and line up for 10-10 sprints. 10 monkey humpers, 10 dry docks, run to the first light pole and back; 10 monkey humpers, 10 dry docks, run to the second light pole and back; 10 monkey humpers, 10 dry docks, run to the third light pole and back. [Read More]
big-red  blue-and-out  build-a-bear  burt  disco-duck  loom  saban  www 

HONORed

 Posted on December 29, 2020  |  4 minutes  |  773 words  |  

It was a cold December day, just above freezing, when I pulled into the parking lot of Cornerstone Fellowship Church in Apex. A few PAX were in their vehicles keeping warm, a few out moving around the parking lot doing I know not what. The kettle bells were not out of their container yet, so with TrackStar’s help we pulled more than enough bells out for the 11 PAX that came out to join me in the gloom. [Read More]
paperback  burt  crimson  earhart  intimidator  reentry  side-out  sooey  trackstar  triple-lindy  wahoo  www 

Coming Home and a Whole Bunch of Nickels

 Posted on November 19, 2020  |  4 minutes  |  827 words  |  

Preamble When Respect Week was announced, I immediately signed up to Q BO. You see, BO was where YHC’s first post occurred and where Ma Bell was born. Make no mistake: the couple of other so-called Ma Bells across F3 Nation are but impostors. There is only one Ma Bell. But I digress. Anyway, it is for this reason, as well as the fact that this is the best AO in CarPex in terms of variety and history, that I have an emotional attachment here. [Read More]
burt  callahan  happy-gilmore  joe-smith  kwik-stop  ma-bell  ollie  press-on  suck-up  term-paper  vhs 

One Year and Respect Week

 Posted on November 18, 2020  |  3 minutes  |  523 words  |  

Celebrated Respect Week and my one year anniversary in F3. My first year has been highlighted with a VQ, a Thanksgiving and New Year Convergence, COVID restrictions, Virtual Workouts, a Maynard, BRR training/relay, the Odyssey, and the development of friendships and personal growth. It was a cool evening and 10 PAX (also 2.0’s Sonic & Tails) , 2 dogs, and a visiting PAX Poncherello (works at Cary Police 911 and we often see him going to work when we are waiting. [Read More]
poncherello  burt  freebird  fullhouse-2  kermit  orphan  press-on  shut-in-2  www 

The People's Champion

 Posted on October 26, 2020  |  3 minutes  |  482 words  |  

Davis Drive park has got to be one of the darkest places in an otherwise bright and somewhat beige world of Cary. Wait, is this where the Beige Bros got their name? Nevermind, I digress. It’s dark at Wolverine. Not too dark to know where to do pull-ups before the witching hour of 0530. It’s a busy Monday, with 17 PAX making the journey this morning. No FNGs, so a very abbreviated disclaimer was given. [Read More]
build-a-bear  burt  callahan  coney  goose  hi-liter  loom  one-four  open-concept  pbx  ramsay  red-ryder  sabre  shoe-horn  sour-mash  water-wings 

An ode to ConPAINment Area

 Posted on October 16, 2020  |  2 minutes  |  374 words  |  

Friday’s workout at DZ was supposed to have been Q’d by Mr. Original, the one, the first, the only, Louis CK. Unfortunately he wasn’t able to come out which leaves us only a couple of weeks before The Godfather of Raleigh and Founder of CARPEx takes his leave from NC. Hopefully he’ll be back soon. In the meantime, the workout turned out to be more of an ode to the ConPAINment Area, including a throw back to a couple early BB from Cary. [Read More]
blowout  burt  coney  happy-gilmore  ma-bell  pierogi  saban 

Searching for Bradford's Ordinary

 Posted on September 24, 2020  |  3 minutes  |  561 words  |  

Yesterday YHC did some research on Bradford’s Ordinary…the town. If you’ve been around Carpex a little while you’ve probably been asked “why is it called Bradford’s Ordinary?” so I thought maybe we could take a stroll to the historic site of BO and get our learn on… Well it doesn’t exist. In the 1700s there was an Inn owned by John Bradford called Bradford’s Ordinary and so this area was just called Bradford’s Ordinary. [Read More]
badlands  body-weight  burt  butterscotch  chewie  coney  coxswain  flacco  franklin  gomer  loom  magnolia  nature-boy  sabre  shut-in  sooey 

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]
banjo  body-weight  braveheart  burt  coney  coxswain  disco-duck  hello-kitty  hermes  hi-liter  kwikstop  nature-boy  ollie  pierogi  prodigal  riptide  term-paper  vhs  wahoo 

Picking up the Six...or...S****

 Posted on September 14, 2020  |  2 minutes  |  247 words  |  

Nine (+ 2 Ruckers) PAX made it out to Kryptonite for a Monday morning Q to begin prep for BRR 2021. Oofta screeched into the parking lot at the bell, and at 530 AM, we kicked off on-time with the Pledge, and off we went. Warm up Half-mile jog around the amphitheater to the Symphony Lake Bridge with expected heckling from Burt and Flip (Fleep) Flop. Good Morning Calf stretches First » Nine’s at ABB parking lot/hill Finish trail and head across the street to ABB parking lot. [Read More]
bagels  burt  chewie  chops  flip-flop  fng-brady  grease-monkey  horatio  kiffin  oofta 

A nice jog and some other things 08/25/20 FWD

 Posted on August 25, 2020  |  3 minutes  |  438 words  |  

Does anyone else have problems Tagging names in this Wordpress? I crank through the list of pax hitting the enter key after each name and inevitably about 25%-50% are mysteriously deleted. How irritating is it that in 2020, there is not a technology available that allows someone to simply create a blog post. At least that dadgum Yosh thing is gone. I guess you get what you pay for. Alas, i think 2 were there for the EC run and 17 were there for the main event. [Read More]
burt  butterfly  captain-jack  chops  full-house  greenbow  hermes  hoppin-john  just-one  laloosh  lookout  memento-2  ollie  oofta  puzzles  shipyard  smokey