Did Yoga ask to run?

When: 11/27/2018 QIC: Pet Sounds The PAX: Hermes, Yoga, Ma, Goose, Titanic, LiteBrite, Term Paper, Hello Kitty, WKRP and Pet Sounds #DRP - check 10 HIM made the right decision to get out of the fartsack, and accelerate their F1 Go Time 0530 Warm Up mozy to the grocery parking lot Circle up for SSH, Merkins (wide, reg, diamond) Hill Bills, Imp Walkers Thang One: Mozy to short hill 7s star jumps and Merkins Thang Two: Mozy to Piney Pines Stop along the way for Irkins Mozy down hill Stop along the way for Dirkins Thang Three: Light Pole Burpees ascending Thang Four: Mozy to the Bridge 15x partner pull ups Mary Mozy back to the flag for Mary LBCs, LSFs, J-Lo’s Announcements & Prayer Requests [Read More]

Backblast

Is it gonna rain, or isn’t it. Last night Steve said it was likely to rain. This morning, he’s saying it won’t. 17, er, 18 HIMs braved the uncertainty that is the iPhone weather app and posted on a near-perfect 50 degree November morning. First exercise, the Pledge of Allegiance Warm Up Pet Sounds arrives. Slow count Good Mornings, Sir Fazio arm circles, overhead claps, Steve Earles, Cotton Pickers, and Merkins (on my down AND up). [Read More]

Fired up for some Turkey!

Wednesday morning’s are always a high energy affair with Insomnia runners coming in and the Vesper and SNS crowd ready to kill it. Add to that the pre-holiday excitement, temps near freezing and anticipation of Kitty’s upcoming Thanksgiving extravaganza, New Year’s Eve in Times Square had nothing on the 34 gathered at the Senior Center this morning! At the crack of 5:45, the Vesper’s headed out to explore new trails and the SNS crowd got after it. [Read More]

Carpex Triple down

‘Twas a chilly morning for the first annual Carpex Triple Down featuring a Ruck, F3 Phoenix, and FiA Moneypenny. Then there was also F3 Dads to boot (yes, that’s how you spell it; it’s not ’ta boot’ or ’taboot’ or any other of the bastardized versions I’ve seen afloatin’ around the interwebs). But I digress. YHC rolled in at t0 with some B-52s rocking the ol pickup. A few minutes later (we’ll call it t1) 12ish of us embarked on a cluster ruck (Triple Down Part 1) while a few others embarked on some runs. [Read More]

Where's the Rain?

So we got lucky on the rain, 10 cool guys showed up and we got after it. Nice slow jog up to a parking lot, did 23 Merkins in honor of my son Gibson, 10 Windmills, 10 Plankjacks and 10 Hill Billies. Part one was some Fry Daddy ’s Speed Racers, 5 Burpess and one lap, 10 Burpees and 2 Laps, 5 Burpees and 3 laps. Part 2 was slow jog to rock pile, we did curls, rows and tricep extension with some running to a variety of light poles. [Read More]

Music to My Ears

Pre-Blast 17 HIM joined YHC for 2.23 miles of “The Worst Kettle Bell Workout Ever” at HB Today, CarPex set a new record: most complaining to the Q by the PAX! Congratulations to all the PAX who helped earn this prestigious award!! Aye!! The Warmup Pledge of Allegiance at the flag Run out of the lot to the other lot, mixed run, BC, end up at the circle. Circle up for: SSH, Good Mornings, Slow Count Merkins. [Read More]

The 2018 Odyssey: It’s a Journey, Not a Race

In CARPEX, we have a saying “if there’s no Back Blast then either it was a Riptide Q or it didn’t happen”. But the Odyssey did happen (I have the t-shirt to prove it) and so it must to go down into the annals of CARPEX so that someday future generations will read about it and ask themselves “What the #*@(#* were those morons thinking?!?!!” So what the #*@(#* were we thinking? [Read More]

Figure Eights, PBRs, and Other Stuff

Q DATE: November 2, 2018 23 HIM for the inaugural Gran Torino Q on a fantastic November morning. The workout plan was stolen from inspired by Freydaddy’s Catalyst Q YHC posted at last week. Since Gran Torino is hi-tempo it needed to be tighten up a bit. We covered 3.7 to 3.9 miles and did some other stuff. Warmup • Pledge allegiance • Jog over to the front of the school • Take a lap around the figure 8 formed by the carpool and bus loops • SSH x 30 • Frog hoppers - like a squat jump but just using feet and calfs for jumping - Hi-liter commented that they were a bit effeminate - next time we’ll do kegels [Read More]

Wet Sounds, Rope Sounds, Pet Sounds

When: 11/05/2018 QIC: Pet Sounds The PAX: Dumpster Fire, Ausfahrt, Quiver, Joker, Monkey Nut., Hottie Tottie, Disco Duck, WWW, Intimidator, Rooney, Heisenberg, Puddles, Cross-Check, and YHC #DRP - check 14 HIM made the tough decision to get out of the fartsack, face the rain and accelerate their F1 Go Time 0530 Warm Up mozy through the puddles and rain, high knees, butt kickers, karaoke then circle back Circle up SSH x20IC, Imp Walkers 20IC, Merkins x20-OMD, Parker Peter 15IC, Side Plank Leg Lifts 10ea IC, Sir Fazio arm circles F/R 10IC Thang One: Grab your favorite kettlebell Some KB work, L/R step ups, more KB work Thang Two: Rope a Dope - overhead, right and left all PAX in a line working together Circle around to stage, set rope around pier. [Read More]