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Plan B. Think anyone noticed?

Posted on January 9, 2019 | 3 minutes | 542 words |

YHC signed up to Q arguably the toughest of CARPEx AO’s last week and immediately set to thinking about what to bring to the PAX. Pullups? Not at this sprawling hey pull-up-bar lacking site. Celebration Merkins? Ditto no… although the big shelter has plenty, there’s just not that much room? Compass Merkins? There’s a thought. But one of my fave’s are the baseball fields, providing an nice setting for low-mileage beatdowns. [Read More]

Merkinpalooza

Posted on January 2, 2019 | 4 minutes | 783 words |

When you arrive at Tortoises early you have to join Theismann in ECPs. Spartan, MaBell, Red Ryder and Theismann were already knocking them out, so I did a couple sets with them. I had prepared music to last 52 minutes, so at 5:23am the mellow piano of Floyd Cramer (playlist is below) greeted the 29 PAX as they stumbled in from the gloom. At 5:30 we moseyed over to the front lot, circled up and did: [Read More]

Themeless

Posted on December 3, 2018 | 2 minutes | 267 words |

~57 degrees and humid in early December. 11 PAX showed up to enjoy an unseasonably warm morning in the Carpex gloom. My first Kryptonite Q since respect week of November 2017. It’s been too long. Let’s see if it’s been worth the wait… Warm-Up Circle up in parking lot 20 SSH, IC 15 Imperial Walkers, IC 20 Merkins 20 Mountain Climbers, IC Thang 1 Small group Indian Run to the parking lot entrance at top of the hill on Ederlee Plank until all in 20 Death Squats (Thanks, Largemouth) Continue across Ederlee to bottom of hill at Avenue of Estates Thang 2 [Read More]

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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]

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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]

Very Slippery

Posted on November 16, 2018 | 1 minutes | 142 words |

20 great men got up and came out to SWW. We did a slow jog around parking lot to a warm up, standard 23 Merkins for Gibson, 10 Windmills and 10 PlankJacks. We ran over to Hill on Kildare, we did 5 Carolina Dry Docks on every other light pole. Then we did some hill sprints and some LBC’s, back to picnic shelter for some Frey Daddy Speed Racers. We did 15 dips followed by 1 lap, then 2 and finished with 3 laps. [Read More]

Rocks, Rocks and more Rocks

Posted on November 14, 2018 | 3 minutes | 446 words |

Was enjoying chatting up the group when suddenly it was time to go - one burpee OYO i called and then follow me. FIrst Moore came up to me and was very concerned about where we were headed as his FNG had not yet arrived. Dont worry i assured him as we rounded the corner to the back of the parking lot as i had every intention of staying in the exact same parking lot for our warm up. [Read More]

Where's the Rain?

Posted on November 13, 2018 | 1 minutes | 139 words |

So we got lucky on the rain, 10 cool guys showed up and we got after it. Nice slow jog up to a parking lot, did 23 Merkins in honor of my son Gibson, 10 Windmills, 10 Plankjacks and 10 Hill Billies. Part one was some Fry Daddy ’s Speed Racers, 5 Burpess and one lap, 10 Burpees and 2 Laps, 5 Burpees and 3 laps. Part 2 was slow jog to rock pile, we did curls, rows and tricep extension with some running to a variety of light poles. [Read More]

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Cadence Count Cluster warm up followed by flawless Thangs

Posted on November 7, 2018 | 2 minutes | 297 words |

The morning may have gotten off to a rocky start but we finished strong by doing over 2 miles and honoring our beloved Bojangles Warm up 10 Good mornings, followed by 20 or so SSH’s followed by a failed attempt to do imperial walkers in cadence Thang 1 - Moseyed down to the lower parking lot and did Bojangles with Blueberries. 3 laps around the pickle with 5 burpeee’s after lap 1, 10 burpee’s after lap 2 and 15 burpee’s after lap 3. [Read More]