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First-ever (to YHC’s knowledge) Instagram story of an entire(ish) beatdown! Watch it here: https://www.instagram.com/stories/f3carpex/ While YHC figures out how to archive that, here’s what we did for Offish BB purposes: Warm-up: Good morning, merkins, sir fazio and overhead claps, quick feet and curb merkins Pearl 1: Rock curls, tricpes, press and rows x2 with a pickle lap in the middle Pearl 2: 7 burpees at Burpee Corner Pearl 3: Kiwanis Pavilion for LRSU, Dips, LRSU, Table Deadlift Pearl 4: Other Pavilion for LRSU, Erkens, LRSU, Derkins Pearl 5: To the beach for Merkins, WG Merkins, Diamond Merkins and a Texas Ranger prayer Pearl 6: At the kiosk for partner Dora 1-2-3 with the hill at the run Pearl 7: Over to the south of NH rock pile for Curls, Triceps, Press and Rows. [Read More]

Pre-Blast - 12 workhorses ponied up and pushed their personal limits at BO. Riptide was not there. The Warmup - Pledge of Allegiance at the flag. - Run down and around the church circling back up to the bank for warm-up. - Circle up for: 25 SSH, 25 plank jacks, 25 SSH, 25 plank jacks. The Thang****s - Run to the Chamber pk lot for: 25 CDD, 25 crab cakes, 25 CDD, 25 crab cakes. [Read More]

Team principal Hotspot has stoked the fire of our BRR crew. Since YHC is still getting back in the groove after an overheat at Phoenix, a prudent decision to avoid the Maynard, and an open Q at Vesper, proved a good coincidence. Unlike the last time, where batons, vests, lights, and other paraphernalia were employed, I kept it simple. Bring back the batons, forget the rest. After a brisk Insomnia, there was definitely some Q shopping going on. [Read More]

A gorgeous morning in Cary!!! 60 degrees and 91% humidity after weeks of 80 degrees and 97%+ humidity! With tour-de-Carpex month, the aim was to keep it challenging, but to also not scare off any infrequent Kryptonite visitors in the hopes they come back to this AO! There’s lots of running, sure, but it isn’t JUST about running! YHC was very pleased to see a solid stream of cars rolling into the AO as we got closer to M-Minute. [Read More]

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.” We were all created equal, and these 17 HIMs met in the early morn on this Independence Day Eve 2018 to fight gravity and humidity in an effort to better themselves, and their fellow man. With several pax heavily anticipating the 1776 convergence tomorrow morning, the objective today was the keep the pax moving, and spread the workout focus without overemphasizing any particular body part. [Read More]

As we come up on 241 years as a country, YHC felt it was appropriate to celebrate with a little victory lap. It’s a beautiful lake with wonderful scenery and a typically well maintained Apex trail running around it. The backblasts suggested A-Team hadn’t run a lap in quite some time (YHC found reference to one such effort in ‘16 led by a “McCants”) so here we go. Warm-up: this was sort of done on the run [Read More]

It was a hot June night in the year of our Lord 1981. Judy and Ralph (his friends call him Dice) Jodice welcomed their first born son (of 3) into this world. The heavens shook and the Devil pooped his pants, for life as we knew it would never be the same again. 37 years later and YHC drives a small(ish) SUV, has 2 kids, a wife, an IRA and a 529 account for his children. [Read More]

2nd F event on Tuesday night prior to the Wednesday Q was bad idea. Well the actual event wasn’t a bad idea, but those last 4 Brooksweisers were prolly a really bad idea. But hey, great opportunity for a 2nd F baseball game with your F3 brothers! The mighty Holly Springs Salamanders, affectionately known by the locals as the ‘Manders, are a force to be reckon with…sorta. Anyhoo the plan was to carpool from some shady Cary bar called The 19th Hole Bar and Grill; leaving at 6:20. [Read More]

AO: Flirtin w/Disaster June 26, 2018 Weather forecasts can be an inconvenient distraction. After days of threats (90% chance of rain, thunder!) Build-a-Bear calls a pop-up EC three miler, departing 0430. Not a rain drop in sight. Such was the beginning of a muggy morning at YHC’s first pre-arranged Q at Flirtin’ w/Disaster. Some of the PAX may have suffered a flash back to YHC’s disorderly pop-up Q at this very AO about a month earlier, where we spent quality time on and across the US1/64 pedestrian bridge. [Read More]