The Winterfell Winkie

 Posted on May 3, 2021  |  1 minutes  |  204 words  |  

Waking up just a wee bit earlier this fine morning in order to make the trek to Winterfell as the Q. I was gretted first and foremost by a balmy 66˚. Then 7 of Carpex finest HIM joined me as we toured the AO. Once again the winkie as mentioned and audibles were called. As there were no FNG’s a brief disclaimer was given and the Pledge was recited. From there we mozied around side of campus to the bus parking lot area for warmups. [Read More]
clementine  geek-squad  kidney-stone  lucky-charms  overflow  pom-pom  rooney  the-commish 

Oh my God! They Killed PBX

 Posted on April 23, 2021  |  4 minutes  |  739 words  |  

Preamble OK, everybody just calm the F down. PBX is fine. But there was a period of time where we didn’t know that. “What happened?” you ask? Here’s the way it went down. All statements herein have been verified by multiple sources. The morning began like any other Friday at Gran Torino. Elite EC runners at 0500 followed by a rag-tag group of blue collar EC runners at 0505. PBX was one of those blue collar guys, along with Biner, Water Wings, and YHC. [Read More]
banjo  biner  chanticleer  clementine  hi-liter  lucky-charms  ma-bell  michelob  one-direction  one-four  overflow  parker  pbx  saban  water-wings 

Smokin

 Posted on April 23, 2021  |  2 minutes  |  231 words  |  

Three awesome studs in tanktops and ten plain old regular dudes in sleeves showed up at Olive Chapel Elementary despite the chilly conditions. Warm-Up No flag so mosey down to the park and circle up for the Pledge and a few other execises, including ten burpees to remind our sleevy brothers what day it is. The Thang Head over to the shelter for five rounds of 10 irkins, 10 dips, 10 step-ups and a lap around the pickle. [Read More]
biner  chicken-little  disco-duck  earhart  henny-penny  intimidator  lucky-charms  mandolin  puddles  qwerty  short-circuit  two-factor  yahoo 

Star Wars, Star Trek, Starbucks, Starburst

 Posted on April 19, 2021  |  2 minutes  |  405 words  |  

Warm-Up Mosey around the school to the bus lot and circle up for imperial walkers, arm circles, mountain climbers, good mornings and burpees (only because it was chilly, the pax had been on their good behavior so far). The Thang Mosey over to the basketball court and circle up for Birthday Surprise. Schroeder did this at our Bruisers workout this weekend and I liked it so much I stolt it. One man selects an exercise, then the man to his left calls that exercise with the number of reps matching the day of his birthdate. [Read More]
beaker  disco-duck  kidney-stone  lucky-charms  one-direction  pet-sounds  prodigal 

Acid for the Children

 Posted on April 14, 2021  |  3 minutes  |  547 words  |  

Roll up with 90 seconds to spare. Plenty of time to put the sneakers on and maybe even lace them up! No shovel flag? No bother. Just pledge to the tallest shovel flag in all of CARPEx over the fire station next door. Mosey over for Warmup in the gravel lot that is the Apex Farmer’s Market. Warm-up Let’s start slow to give me time to come up with something. What’s nice and easy and requires no brain cells? [Read More]
banjo  big-red  chicken-little  decal  egon  headroom  henny-penny  imp  lucky-charms  mr-safety  pet-sounds  pierogi  rock-lobster  short-circuit  track-star  viewmaster  yahoo 

DTP Changing of the Guard

 Posted on April 9, 2021  |  2 minutes  |  285 words  |  

AO: Disturbing the Peace Q: YHC Even with the haze of pollen in the air, it was perfect weather in the gloom so the numbers remained high at the best AO in all of Carpex. YHC studied and recited the F3 Mission for hours prior to the post so it rolled off the tongue effortlessly to kickoff the workout, next we did the pledge of allegiance and off we went. [Read More]
16-steves  all-ours  big-red  chicken-big  chicken-little  crew-chief  decal  egon  flenderson  hamm  hanson  imp  lucky-charms  mohawk  nothin-special  open-concept  peeping-tom  revere  rock-lobster  short-circuit  silver-fox  slim-shady  smithers  steaks  track-star  triple-lindy  wahoo  yahoo 

St. Paddy's Day at Lion's Den

 Posted on March 17, 2021  |  3 minutes  |  438 words  |  

With better weather than yesterday or tomorrow (cloudy and 40s versus storms), an insider’s scoop preblast from the site Q, and the opportunity to start off St. Paddy’s Day at St. Mary Magdalene’s, the chances were good for a decent turnout at Lion’s Den. As I tried to put together a decent routine to match, I thought to myself that things could get interesting, depending on how many people wear green. [Read More]
16-steves  biner  chicken-little  clockwork  decal  henny-penny  imp  lucky-charms  ma-bell  pbx  pierogi  ramsay  red-ryder  silver-fox  smithers  snooki  steaks  wahoo 

Moving on to Plan E

 Posted on February 23, 2021  |  2 minutes  |  340 words  |  

Have I told you how sick I am of cold, rainy weather? Luckily today we were expecting highs to get into the 60s. With sunshine. WITH SUNSHINE!!! However this morning, it was still 30s and the ground was wet from rain we’ve had in the past 1,231 hours. Six for EC run of about 3 miles. Return to the flag, and I initially thought I was in the wrong place. Maybe I should post at DTP a little more often - apparently it’s now the place to be in Downtown Apex on Tuesdays at 0530. [Read More]
16-steves  all-hours  big-red  chicken-little  decal  deuce  earhart  egon  hamm  hanson  henny-penny  hi-liter  honeycomb  imp  lucky-charms  mohawk  open-concept  peeping-tom  prodigal  ramsey  revere  short-circuit  slim-shady  smithers  squatter  steaks  suck-up  track-star  triple-lindy  wahoo 

Bear with me...

 Posted on February 12, 2021  |  1 minutes  |  151 words  |  

33 degrees, gloom, and a light mist greeted the men at Gran Torino today, and didn’t that was the weather that got FNG Back Porch out to his first post…at a High Tempo bootcamp. After a short mosey, we got loose with a pretty standard workflow of side-straddle hops, calf-stretch merkins, mountain climbers, hillbillies, and treadwindmills. Down the stretch we formed up into two lines for a bear run: back runner overtakes the leader, and after each cycle of runners drop to 10 bear crawls in cadence, twice around the double field. [Read More]
back-porch  biner  chanticleer  largemouth  lucky-charms  one-four  parker  pbx  schroeder  torpedo 

Not Welcome Here

 Posted on February 8, 2021  |  3 minutes  |  572 words  |  

17 PAX gather in the brisk cool morning for a traveling Earhart workout. Good too see a mix of Apex and West Cary HIM to help YHC through a new workout in a new location. Gather the PAX at the flag for a pledge then start with walking down the path, high knees and butt kickers; with advancing age trying to start out a workout with a little warm for the warm. [Read More]
badlands  banjo  clementine  dirty-bomb  earhart  geek-squad  high-school-musical  lucky-charms  nature-boy  overflow  peeping-tom  pom-pom  schlitz  suck-up  the-commish  trike  triple-lindy  wahoo