F.O.D. (Finally On-site, Da*#it)

 Posted on March 8, 2020  |  3 minutes  |  444 words  |  

Despite Bartman setting the bar pretty low for Site Qs (here), I still think I manage to limbo it more than hurdle it. Having missed the past two weeks at FOD due to illness and fartsackiness, I was on the hook for the Q today. Since, as the site Q, I was my own back-up, I kinda sorta had to show. I think there is a lesson here… Beaker’s Beginnings (The Warm-Up) [Read More]
badlands  beaker  bogo  compound-w  dirty-bomb  doggy-paddle  dr-evil  ezekiel  five-hole  gump  ma-bell  moped  mulligan  nature-boy  old-maid  parker  pigeon  pivot  shut-in  sidecar  sky-blue 

A Happy Ending

 Posted on March 7, 2020  |  3 minutes  |  454 words  |  

37 degrees but it feels like 22. Or something like that. Five PAX in various get-ups designed to buffet the wind and cold gathered around where the flag is supposed to be at The Green Mile. The smell of burnt rubber was in the air. Everyone there had on their running shoes, so once Old Maid picked out which gloves he was gonna wear we were ready to begin. Warm Up Yog the 0. [Read More]
biner  old-maid  parker  red-ryder  snots 

Remember the Alamo

 Posted on March 7, 2020  |  2 minutes  |  266 words  |  

The Alamo fell on March 6, 1836 after a 13 day seige. To commemorate the anniversary of the day, 16 PAX remembered the Alamo. We started with the Pledge and then moseyed in pairs up the road to the top of the parking garage where we circled up. Warm up - 13 reps of SSH, Hill Billy, Arm circles, plank jacks, merkins. Thang 1: The Blockade Runner relay with two lines down the length of the parking lot. [Read More]
beavis  bubba  duece  elementary  freebird  hello-kitty  kermit  mommas-boy  parker  schlitz  silver-fox  snots  texas-ranger  the-joker  traffic-cone  water-wings 

Run/Walk

 Posted on March 6, 2020  |  2 minutes  |  345 words  |  

YHC and Crimson haven’t be able to go to the same workouts very often since YHC has been running more and Crimson was recovering from some knee trouble. So, out of that, the theme for this morning was born. Some of us would run and some would walk. Turns out Smokey called an IR so that fit even better. Here is how it went down! 5:30 - no site Qs thus no flag so a quick disclaimer and we were off. [Read More]
bad-company  big-red  crimson  frisco  old-maid  parker  rock-lobster  smokey  sooey  traffic-cone  triple-lindy  two-factor  water-wings  yahoo 

Teaching Ponies Some New Tricks

 Posted on February 25, 2020  |  3 minutes  |  561 words  |  

Preamble Good thing Kittibonz posted the Q sheet on Slack Sunday or I might have forgotten I had the Kryptonite Q. Once reminded, I was all in pre-blasting my intention of throwing some blue collar beatdown on these one-trick ponies that gallop around the AO. Not to worry; I know these thoroughbreds gotta eat. That said, methinks they were all a’skeered they weren’t going to get their miles in - which is why the parking lot was unusually full of cars and devoid of PAX when the West Cary clown car arrived. [Read More]
augmented  biner  box  burt  chipper  coney  denali  full-house  gtl  gump  heartbreaker  honeycomb  imp  largemouth  lookout  ma-bell  old-maid  parker  puddles  snots  staubach  water-wings  wonderbread 

Foggy Day, Sore Shoulders

 Posted on February 18, 2020  |  2 minutes  |  287 words  |  

YHC continued my tour of the AOs, which formed this PAX by traveling south to the Wolverine. One of my first times posting here, Hi-Liter had the Q, and YHC wanted to pay a good memory to that HIM with this beatdown. Warm Up: Mosey to the Basketball courts (allowing for a slight detour on a sidewalk which leads to nowhere, thanks Cary). 15 Windmills (Faster windmills than they cared for according to the MC from the PAX) [Read More]
biner  doogie  geek-squad  parker  schlitz  snots  spit-shine  the-commish  torpedo  water-wings 

Disruption

 Posted on February 13, 2020  |  4 minutes  |  702 words  |  

disruption the act or process of disrupting something : a break or interruption in the normal course or continuation of some activity, process, etc. There were 20 dudes who were at the AO known as Bounty Hunters, by the time it ended. Some of them were doing a run, others did the Main Event. YHC didn’t have a count of exactly who was doing what. And this backblast really won’t focus on that little detail. [Read More]
biner  deuce  frisco  gtl  honeycomb  i-pity-the-fool  imp  kenny  kermit  michelob  mud-buddy  one-four  orphan  parker  red-ryder  rock-lobster  rooney  smokey  sour-mash  wonderbread 

Lexicon P, Q, R

 Posted on February 11, 2020  |  1 minutes  |  114 words  |  

16 PAX for a rainy day workout. Some for a run while some had to endure Lexicon P, Q, R. Welcome FNG Daniel - now called Shrubbery. Pledge Prisoner Indian Ran to lower parking lot. Warmup 10 Peter Parker 10 Plank Jacks 10 Prisoner Squat 10 Randys 10 Red Bull Smurf Jack Thang 1 Quadraphilia - 2 light poles backwards, 5 Prisoner Squats, 1 light pole forward, 5 Red Bull Smurf Jacks, Repeato Thang 2 [Read More]
beaker  bogo  clementine  ezekiel  five-hole  franklin  geek-squad  gump  nature-boy  parker  pivot  shut-in  sky-blue  spit-shine  trike 

Wolver-bata

 Posted on February 10, 2020  |  1 minutes  |  90 words  |  

22 men decided to start their week off right at Wolverine, where we attempted to force our collective Garmin watches to register some anaerobic benefit of a workout while logging few miles for my recently-post-long-run knees. And we succeeded with a custom-built Tabata-timed work out featuring only ONE thang, repeated three times. Each exercise was 45-seconds AMRAP, with 15 seconds to transition onward. Hand-release Merkin Flutter Squat Australian Snow Angel [Read More]
big-red  biner  clementine  free-lunch  geek-squad  gump  headroom  hi-liter  honeycomb  loom  ma-bell  one-four  parker  pbx  pierogi  pivot  red-ryder  shoe-horn  snots  sub  the-commish  torpedo 

Deconstructing Decomposition

 Posted on February 8, 2020  |  1 minutes  |  198 words  |  

It was a good day at the Green Mile. You’d never have guessed that we were recovering from school-closing-level inclement weather that terrorized Wake County just one day ago. Eight HIM avoided the well-advertised long run to Durham and worked their whole body while tooling around Cary. The beat-down began as the just-setting full moon lit up the night. We warmed up thoroughly after the weather had dropped about 30 degrees over the last 24 hours: plyo-jumps for length and height complemented karaoke, butt kickers, and high knees during three loops around the track. [Read More]
biner  chanticleer  i-pity-the-fool  one-four  parker  snots  theismann  torpedo