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Date: June 22, 2018 Weather: 110 degrees, humid, clear 11 Pax gathered at the original Carpex AO. Warm Up: Mosey to bottom of the pickle. Circle up for standard warm up of SSH, GMs, Cotton Pickers, Hell if I knows, merkins, plank jacks. Thang: Dealers Choice Pearls on a String. Head to the fork in the trail. One pax calls a move and we do said move 15x, then we run a bit and then another pax calls a move we do said move 15x plus the first pax’s move 15x…. [Read More]

Truth be told, YHC is feeling some pressure on this BB. But, in the words of a sage Carpex veteran: “Keep it vanilla and Q to the site.” - Carman Liuzzo, 57, Burt Wednesday, June 20th, will go down as an EPIC day in Carpex history. The menu looked like this: 0430 - 0500 HIMs launching for the 10.7 mile Maynard loop (14 by YHC’s count) 0505 HIMs launching for Insomnia, YHC on the route Q 0545 HIMs gather for SNS + Tortoises + Vesper convergence at Bond Park 0630 COT with 77 strong, followed by 2nd/3rd F fellowship and Chinese Downhill sharing this powerful and emotional story. [Read More]

Not tired, just getting cranked up. Q 7 of 10 at THE Cary/Apex AO, Bradford’s Ordinary. Tclaps to Ollie and Term for escorting YHC in on the meow mile this morning. A sack of tanks are at the ready, Mini Me is in the house, and we’re off sans FNGs at 0545. Warm-up: Mosey towards town hall stopping at the lot by the train tracks. Good morning, SSH, other stuff (I can’t remember anything at this point…) Mumble is strong, even from the Q, this is gonna be a good time. [Read More]

I had a route all set and ready to go. YHC tends to leave the park for a roundabout journey as of late, so I was excited to walk it down, what with all the greenway closures in the area. I pulled up Strava just to review last week’s workout… and Rip beat me to the punch. And it was a more ambitious version of what I had scoped out on Google Maps, so here you go trash can, have a plan! [Read More]

Date: June 13, 2018 Weather: Humid, 83 degrees, cloudy 40 Pax total, including 17 for Vespers. What a group! 5:45. No Pet Sounds (he did make Refinery). Burt takes the Q. Warm up: Mosey to the gate, head to other side of the gate for a standard warm up including 20 burpees, SSH, Merkins, Cotton Pickers, Good Mornings and Little Baby Jumping Jacks. Sprints up the hill (about 40 yards) with a prisoner run back down the hill. [Read More]

Yes, you gotta jog up Tryon past Piney Plains and down past the fancy apartments on the left to get to it. 10 Pax circled up at 0530, we jogged up to the Veterinarian entrance for a standard Shut-In Warm-Up. Jog up Tryon Rd, do some irkins on the guard rail, jog up Tryon Road, do some LBC’s at the Nationwide office, jog up Tryon Road past the fancy entrance sign at the apartments, to the greenway and back down into the emergency spillway aka/greenway tunnel. [Read More]

Banjo hit the Pax with news of his trip to the IR and naturally YHC jumped on the chance to Q Carpex’s premiere AO on a Saturday morning. And with the boys headed out for Crazy Train, we had to get a good beatdown in, in their honor as well. Fellowship run at 0605 (sorry Chipper who had been waiting since 0545 chomping at the bit) and the rest of the Pax arrive on-time for a 0630 start. [Read More]

Sorry for a late backblast but I wanted to piggy-back off the original title. Here is the B.B. for the limited run/walk extravaganza breakaway led by YHC while the other 20 HIMs head out with @Hello Kitty after the warm-ups. Kitty was right. YHC led the mosey (limited run) back to the starting point to pick up some coupons (kettle bells) that @EarharT left behind for us … thanks EarharT for the suggestion earlier in the week. [Read More]

Since Angry Elf and I ceded our actual birthday Q to young Cap’n Hook, YHC grabbed the day after - the first full day at 53 years of age, and first full day at 43 for Angry Elf. Hello Kitty put out the word there would be an EC so I rolled in at 5:11. Upon seeing Largemouth and Chanticleer standing there, I almost kept driving. Luckily, Kitty was of the mindset and we took a nice 2-miler to warmup for what would become a tough morning. [Read More]

It was your typical Wednesday Morning Buffet. Several arrived early for a little Insomnia appetizer. The Ruckers and the Vespers all grabbed their food to go, and the rest of the SNS crowd dined heavily on Turkish Get Ups, Bropees and Absolution. With some Twerkins for dessert. And although we didn’t start with a Good Morning (sorry Nature Boy) we did end with a Have a Nice day. And a new word was created. [Read More]