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Four Fantastic Floundering Fish

Posted on January 24, 2019 | 1 minutes | 192 words |

A wonderful rainy day for Back in Black with four Pax. I guess the other 3 did not know who was the Q, even the Site Q’s were smart enough to stay away. Start off with a brief run in rain to find some shelter from the rain. When that failed we just stopped under and over hang and did some warm ups: 10 xGood Mornings 10x Side Saddle hops [Read More]

Into the Wilderness

Posted on January 23, 2019 | 2 minutes | 373 words |

6 PAX gathered at 228 Ambassador Loop for the best AO in Downtown Cary on a Tuesday evening. First exercise, the Pledge of Allegience. Jordan Lake Brewing Mosey down to JLB for warmups. SSHs, Cotton Pickers, Sir Fazio forward and back, Control Freak merkins and Plank Jacks. Then we want to use the very faded parking lot lines for a quick round of Bear Crawls with ascending Merkins on each line. [Read More]

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The double Convenience Store!

Posted on January 23, 2019 | 2 minutes | 249 words |

I know Burt doesn’t like themed workouts so I kept my mouth quiet from the start. Warm Up - Jog to the school for the SSH, Good Mornings, and Planks Jacks. Enough of that. Large requested distance so we needed to start the Thang 7s - Merkins and Jump Squats to the light pole and back Jog to recover. 11s - Jump lunges and spiderman merkins Jog to the basketball court. [Read More]

Hot! Hot! Hot!

Posted on January 21, 2019 | 2 minutes | 296 words |

Here’s what 4 HIDA’s did in 19 degree windy weather with kettlebells. First exercise, the Pledge of Allegiance. Pick a kettlebell that you want to use for 45 minutes. WarmUp Leave your kettlebell and jog the pickle, with ass kickers, karaoke both directions and high knees. Circle up for SSHs, Cotton Pickers, Steve Earles, Sir Fazio arm circles both directions, and Merkins (on down AND up). The Thang Split Dora - PAX partner up. [Read More]

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Leading From The 6

Posted on January 17, 2019 | 9 minutes | 1830 words |

So I’ll write my normal Frisco style HIDA BB below but after seeing Half do something at the office today I decided to put some HIM stuff first. As Half was walking down the hall he noticed a hair on the ground behind him and quickly ran back to check to see if it was one of his (it wasn’t). Still he picked it up and dropped it in a small golden case he carries. [Read More]

Powerlines

Posted on January 14, 2019 | 2 minutes | 227 words |

We began the workout bright and early with a strong showing of 25 HIM’s. The weather was cold and damp but none of us regretted leaving the cozy fartsack for a morning of hard work and fellowship. Warm-Up Sooey started us off with a light jog to the parking lot. SSH: 15, Good mornings: 10, Merkins:25, PlankJacks:15, Mtn Climbers:15, The Thang 1 Another short mozy down “Powerline hill”. 7’s Burpies at the top and Merkins at the bottom. [Read More]

Carpex Challenge 2018 is in the Books

Posted on January 8, 2019 | 1 minutes | 171 words |

Congrats to the 36 that participated in this year’s challenge. In the end, very few completed all 3 Fs, and in fact, not many were able to post at every AO in 2018. Perhaps I made it too difficult this year, or maybe I didn’t do a good enough job marketing the challenge. But I think it’s more likely a statement of our growth. In the end, it was successful, because I know that it made some number of PAX push themselves a bit more and get out of their comfort zone. [Read More]

Merkinpalooza

Posted on January 2, 2019 | 4 minutes | 783 words |

When you arrive at Tortoises early you have to join Theismann in ECPs. Spartan, MaBell, Red Ryder and Theismann were already knocking them out, so I did a couple sets with them. I had prepared music to last 52 minutes, so at 5:23am the mellow piano of Floyd Cramer (playlist is below) greeted the 29 PAX as they stumbled in from the gloom. At 5:30 we moseyed over to the front lot, circled up and did: [Read More]

The Forgotten Hill

Posted on December 28, 2018 | 1 minutes | 209 words |

22 PAX of all ages, shapes and sizes gathered in the warm, moist gloom of Apex Nature park for a beat down of epic proportions. Little did they know. Warm up Allegiance is pledged, then mosey to the basketball court for SSHs, cotton pickers, good mornings, hill billies, 10 burpees and merkins (on my down AND up). The Thang At the first entrance is where we begin Double 11s. Monkey Humpers here, Peter Parker merkins at the second entrance. [Read More]

Q What You Hate

Posted on December 24, 2018 | 2 minutes | 416 words |

This Christmas Eve morning beatdown and 2ndF that followed was one of the most enjoyable mornings YHC has had over the past (almost) 4 years! Must be the advent season! After a shoutout by Disco Duck on Slack, YHC went to work planning this beatdown (circa 1930 the night before). 23 Pax in all. Lots came stampeding in from the EC run. YHC had no gloves (because YHC was planning to fartsack being out in Durham at his father in law’s for Christmas) [Read More]