The Minimalist

 Posted on January 12, 2021  |  1 minutes  |  96 words  |  

Semiannual-ish visit to FWD. Warm Up Jog around the park circle and back to the flag. Warm up of SSHs, Sir Fazio arm circles, Steve Earles, Runners stretch and calf stretch. Merkins x 50 The Thang Mosey to my favorite church parking lot. 11s the length of the lot, which is up and down the hill. Burpees at the top, jump squats at the bottom. Finish with the six, do 25 standard merkins. [Read More]
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12 Days of Christmas Rocks FWD 12/22/20

 Posted on December 22, 2020  |  3 minutes  |  431 words  |  

1 For EC EC 1 mile bike ride - Oofta 6 For 2.5-3.3 mile EC run - Chipper, Lookout, Joe Smith, Oofta, Full House, YHC (not Shut-In) 14 circled up, we said the pledge and jogged over to standard warm up area. Warmup: Good mornings, hill billies and merkins (all Metatarsalgia friendly excersises). We then each grabbed a moderate rock and jogged across the Parkway (not the peakway) to lower office building front door. [Read More]
callahan  chipper  flouride  full-house  greenbow  hermes  joe-smith  laloosh  lookout  mamas-boy  oofta  shipyard  suck-up  term-paper 

We Already Did These

 Posted on December 8, 2020  |  2 minutes  |  396 words  |  

Pierogi made an astute observation on Sunday evening - there were 14, count ’em FOURTEEN empty Q slots for this week. Feeling personally called out by that, I scooped two of them. As we’ll see on Friday of this week, it was easy to select the two that I did. More on that on Friday. #foreshadowing I arrived at MDP at approx 5:04 (so as to avoid the pressure of joining the EC) to settle on the plan for the workout. [Read More]
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The Name Game (and Gerald Owens)

 Posted on November 24, 2020  |  4 minutes  |  747 words  |  

It’s been a loooong time since YHC has been to FWD. Wonder if anything has changed? YHC got out of the car and could hear Hermes squeaky, but booming voice, telling dad bad jokes. Nope, nothing has changed. After a lengthy disclaimer orated by YHC, the eleven of us were off on a warm-up run that included the FWD baby gherkin pickle and continued to the parking lot where we used to do Monkey Humpers in front of the Crossfit place. [Read More]
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Pearls on an Elastic String

 Posted on November 19, 2020  |  2 minutes  |  383 words  |  

It was a beautiful, crisp morning in the gloom. Eleven men set out to exercise. Much to the disappointment of the younguns, there were no respects wearing Depends. The younguns thought it would be an easy workout and they’d get a real workout later. They would learn differently soon. The rule of the day was if you arrived at the meeting spot before the Six was in, you were to circle back to Pick Up The Six so that all the PAX would arrive together. [Read More]
bluewater  butterfly  coxswain  greenbow  hgtv  hoppin-john  just-one  ollie  shipyard  staubach 

If you can do this, you can do the Odyssey

 Posted on October 6, 2020  |  2 minutes  |  234 words  |  

11 pax gather in the lot with perfect fall weather. No FNGs, 3 headlamps and we are off. Warm up jog followed by SSH, daisy pickers, Good Mornings etc. Mosey to base of bridge for instructions on the Thang from Braveheart From middle of bridge, partners go in opp direction with one way being bearcrawl and the other lunge (both to end of the bridge). Run to base of each hill and perform exercise. [Read More]
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Orpheus in the Underworld

 Posted on September 29, 2020  |  2 minutes  |  390 words  |  

Build-a-Bear relinquished his Q yesterday. I assume he built a submarine, so that he could run up and down the continental shelf. YHC was glad to step in. 2 for EC (Oofta and Staubach) and 2 for 10-Mile ECME (Lookout and Chops). Mosey the long way to Lowes Foods parking lot. Warm-Up. Lots of stretching, inspired by (our boy) Bluewater last week. Thing 1: Santa’s Ladder From the Exicon: “Pick a spot in the distance. [Read More]
body-weight  braveheart  butterfly  captain-jack  chops  greenbow  hoppin-john  just-one  laloosh  lookout  memento-2  nature-boy  ollie  oofta  pierogi  shipyard  staubach  term-paper 

Swinging Pipes

 Posted on September 25, 2020  |  1 minutes  |  203 words  |  

Beautiful crisp morning. YHC always trying to mix it up a bit and try new things and working to incorporate more stretching and mobility to keep me of the IR . Most of the Warmama was using PVC Pipes to get upper body loose for the Merkins and Pull Ups that awaited the PAX. Some liked it, some looked confused. Warmarama (5) Side Straddle Hop 12 Hillbillies (Hip Opener) 12 [Read More]
staubach-2  banjo  bluewater  butterfly  captain-jack  chipper  chops  coxswain  francois  greenbow  hoppin-john  just-one  laloosh  look-out  ollie  puzzles  shipyard  smokey 

Flirtin' with Q School

 Posted on September 14, 2020  |  1 minutes  |  209 words  |  

Eleven (+1 Runner) PAX made it out to Flirtin’ with Disaster last Tuesday morning for a “Choose your Q” kind of Tuesday. Hermes offered up his Fall Semester of HQS and I offered up the summary below. At 530 AM, PAX made their picks, said the Pledge, and off we went. Warm up Jog over the parking lot near the rock pile Side Straddle Hops Good Morning Calf stretches Arm Circles (Front/Back, Big/Small) First » Rock Pile Grab a partner and a rock…. [Read More]
chops  entitlement  greenbow  hermes  just-one  laloosh  lookout  ollie  oofta  shipyard  term-paper 

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