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Pajama Party @ FWD

Posted on November 29, 2018 | 4 minutes | 776 words |

Little late here in writing this BB….sorry folks! Tuesday, 11/20. 17 HIMS met up at FWD for a morning full of fun, some, 1, still wearing Pajamas. But I am no fashion police. Quick intro to the PAX and we are off. WARMUP Quick jog from the parking lot, to the first playground. Dang its dark. First fail of the morning and we are only a minute in. I did a recon the day before and thought, why don’t we use this first playground? [Read More]

Excuse us Campers

Posted on November 28, 2018 | 1 minutes | 169 words |

1730 - Squatter and YHC launch on a 1 mile scouting run to the train depot 1745- No pledge (my apologizes). 6 HIM leave for the far side of DTC and arrive at the fountain for warm -up. Warm- up: Cotton pickers, Sir Fazio Arm Circles, Egg Beaters, Seal Clap mosey to the other side of the fountain and partner up Thang 1: DORA 1,2,3 100 Dirkins off the fountain [Read More]

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Thankful (especially for FNGs on Thanksgiving)

Posted on November 23, 2018 | 4 minutes | 685 words |

YHC is thankful for many things; my loving family, a full table this Thanksgiving, and a purpose-driven career. But, above all things, I’m thankful for the blessings of FNGs on Thanksgiving Day. More to come, but first: The annual Thanksgiving Convergence means the men of Carpex descend upon the finest AO in all the land, Bradford’s Ordinary, and this year the weather right-perfect for a proper beatdown. EC run waves launched at 0600 and 0630 (psst, Frisco showed up at 0538 texting YHC, “um when are we starting? [Read More]

Fired up for some Turkey!

Posted on November 21, 2018 | 3 minutes | 485 words |

Wednesday morning’s are always a high energy affair with Insomnia runners coming in and the Vesper and SNS crowd ready to kill it. Add to that the pre-holiday excitement, temps near freezing and anticipation of Kitty’s upcoming Thanksgiving extravaganza, New Year’s Eve in Times Square had nothing on the 34 gathered at the Senior Center this morning! At the crack of 5:45, the Vesper’s headed out to explore new trails and the SNS crowd got after it. [Read More]

The 2018 Odyssey: It’s a Journey, Not a Race

Posted on November 10, 2018 | 29 minutes | 6037 words |

In CARPEX, we have a saying “if there’s no Back Blast then either it was a Riptide Q or it didn’t happen”. But the Odyssey did happen (I have the t-shirt to prove it) and so it must to go down into the annals of CARPEX so that someday future generations will read about it and ask themselves “What the #*@(#* were those morons thinking?!?!!” So what the #*@(#* were we thinking? [Read More]

My Backblast

Posted on November 8, 2018 | 0 minutes | 0 words |

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Cherries and Merkins

Posted on October 11, 2018 | 1 minutes | 212 words |

Pre-Blast This being my virgin Q, it was great to do at BO as it was my FNG site. I really appreciated all the help from and support from the PAXs, before and during workout. Hermes brought cherries, Lite Brite provided water, and Burt provided tank tops. Warm-Up Pledge of allegiance Ran to the bank and circled up to do: 10 -good mornings 20 - side saddle hop 20 - Merkins [Read More]

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Disco Duck was the Q

Posted on October 4, 2018 | 3 minutes | 456 words |

Thanks to Term Paper for swapping Q’s with me this week, I’ve been looking forward to leading a downtown Cary workout in the morning for a change. Another beautiful morning in downtown Cary, three PAX (Chipper, Lite-Brite, Yoga Mat) for the Meow Mile EC run, zero PAX drinking EC milk, lots of guys in orange shirts. Thanks to Burt for bringing a bag of extra orange shirts #OrangeForDarth Some of the PAX noticed a TV news crew at the corner of Academy and Chatham, so let’s head that way. [Read More]

Traffic Avoidance Failure

Posted on October 3, 2018 | 2 minutes | 252 words |

8 PAX, no FNGs and we are off Mozy to BO launch area Warm Up (brief) SSH X 15 Hillbilly x 15 The Thang Run through DTC looking for 5 parking lots or open spaces without much traffic to do the following Full BodyLegsChestCore15Burpees10Squats15Diamonds20LBC210Burpees15Monkey Humpers20Standard25Starfish Crunch315Burpees20Jump Squats25HR30Freddie Mercs420Burpees25Squats30Wide Grip35Starfish Crunch55Burpees10Squats15Diamonds20LBCs Occasionally stopping to do derkins or planks Mary Hammers IC x 30 Announcements Carpex picnic tentatively re-scheduled for Oct 13 [Read More]

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From Florence to Flora

Posted on September 20, 2018 | 2 minutes | 239 words |

If you’re like most of us much of your time, mental, emotional, physical and spiritual energy has been spent either preparing for, getting through or rebound from Hurricane Florence. And rightfully so. One of the great things about F3 is that it allows us to escape from the daily stresses and toil in a whole other way. This is how we went from Florence to Flora. Pledge of Allegiance Quick mosey that found us running backwards and high kneeing because I knew Frisco was enjoying himself too much. [Read More]