If the glove don't fit...

 Posted on October 12, 2018  |  2 minutes  |  291 words  |  

18 of Carpex’s finest HIMs arrived in the finally crisp fall morning hours at North Cary Park for a Doogie VQ adventure. Mumblechatter was at its finest with Burt in tow especially after I gave him free reign to speak his mind since he named me 4 months ago at Wolverine (spoiler alert). Unfortunately for Burt he needed to be reigned back in only a few minutes later… After a nice jog around the pickle we completed the following: [Read More]
angry-elf  badlands  banjo  bartman  burt  callahan  doogie  flip-flop  goose  hi-liter  johnnie-cochran  nature-boy  ollie  pierogi  riptide  sabre  the-count  wallaby 

Cherries and Merkins

 Posted on October 11, 2018  |  1 minutes  |  212 words  |  

Pre-Blast This being my virgin Q, it was great to do at BO as it was my FNG site. I really appreciated all the help from and support from the PAXs, before and during workout. Hermes brought cherries, Lite Brite provided water, and Burt provided tank tops. Warm-Up Pledge of allegiance Ran to the bank and circled up to do: 10 -good mornings 20 - side saddle hop 20 - Merkins [Read More]
banjo  burt  callahan  captain-kirk  chanticleer  coney  ezekiel  hello-kitty  hermes  jigglypuff  joe-smith  lite-brite  mccants  netscape  red-lobster  riptide  sparky  wkrp  yoga-mat 

Is it Begin or Exercise.... (it's exercise...)

 Posted on October 10, 2018  |  3 minutes  |  501 words  |  

So a little less than 5 Months ago in May, an overweight, really out of shape FNG wandered up to Rush Hour. I was welcomed warmly by Old Maid and Disco Duck, and Riptide showed up to lead the Pax at 17:45. We went to the parking deck and ran the stairs with pain sticks and baked on the top deck of the parking deck. Now I am less overweight and less out of shape so in honor of that work out we would not be going to the parking deck or getting close to pain sticks… [Read More]
aristocrat  disco-duck  kermit  mojo  ollie  quiver  riptide  traffic-cone 

10/5/18, The Liuzzo Scale of Magnitude of Vanillaness

 Posted on October 5, 2018  |  2 minutes  |  272 words  |  

5 for 7800° EC 3 mile run around the glorious Symphony Lake. 22 were there for the start of the standard issue vanilla boot camp, one could not handle the pressure and had to leave early. After the Pledge of Allegiance, we jogged to the parking deck for a standard Shut-In warmup followed by 70 LBCs in Cadence. Then went down the stairs and got in position for BTTW 5 count down the line and back, then we did some more LBCs, then we partnered up for Dora 1,2,3 with 100 Merkins, 200 calf raises and 300 LBCs. [Read More]
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Disco Duck was the Q

 Posted on October 4, 2018  |  3 minutes  |  456 words  |  

Thanks to Term Paper for swapping Q’s with me this week, I’ve been looking forward to leading a downtown Cary workout in the morning for a change. Another beautiful morning in downtown Cary, three PAX (Chipper, Lite-Brite, Yoga Mat) for the Meow Mile EC run, zero PAX drinking EC milk, lots of guys in orange shirts. Thanks to Burt for bringing a bag of extra orange shirts #OrangeForDarth Some of the PAX noticed a TV news crew at the corner of Academy and Chatham, so let’s head that way. [Read More]
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Traffic Avoidance Failure

 Posted on October 3, 2018  |  2 minutes  |  252 words  |  

8 PAX, no FNGs and we are off Mozy to BO launch area Warm Up (brief) SSH X 15 Hillbilly x 15 The Thang Run through DTC looking for 5 parking lots or open spaces without much traffic to do the following Full BodyLegsChestCore15Burpees10Squats15Diamonds20LBC210Burpees15Monkey Humpers20Standard25Starfish Crunch315Burpees20Jump Squats25HR30Freddie Mercs420Burpees25Squats30Wide Grip35Starfish Crunch55Burpees10Squats15Diamonds20LBCs Occasionally stopping to do derkins or planks Mary Hammers IC x 30 Announcements Carpex picnic tentatively re-scheduled for Oct 13 [Read More]
captain-kirk  kermit  mojo  ollie  riptide  term-paper  theismann  traffic-cone 

Stop #3 on The Pain Stick Express

 Posted on August 15, 2018  |  2 minutes  |  327 words  |  

So when Build-A-Bear messaged me on Monday to “ask” me to incorporate the pain sticks into my Q on Wednesday, of course I said yes. You’ve seen him right? So with my original workout put back on the shelf for another day, I started drawing up some new plans. Big group this morning of Insomniacs, Vesperers and SNSers. The boot campers broke off and headed toward the community center to find the afore mentioned pain sticks waiting for them. [Read More]
angry-elf  banjo  bartman  beaker  bogo  build-a-bear  burt  callahan  captain-kirk  chanticleer  cheddar-bo  chop-block  coney  denali  freebird  grease-monkey  half  hello-kitty  hermes  jigglypuff  joe-smith  khakis  largemouth  nature-boy  one-four  quiver  repeato  riptide  saban  shank  snots  squatter  tea-sip  term-paper  thurston  water-wings  wkrp  wonderbread 

FWD Backblast

 Posted on August 8, 2018  |  1 minutes  |  85 words  |  

YHC (anonymous) wants to track his workouts so he’s posting this backblast in order to mark that he was there. QIC doesn’t write backblasts for some reason. Run to office park we go to when it rains Warmup Partner up - P1 run around the building, P2 bear crawl 15/merkin 5 around the fountain - flapjack x 3 or 4 times. In parking garage lunge walk P1 / 6" leg hold P2 Run back to parking lot Mary stuff NMS: 1 pax is missing, sorry! [Read More]
bluewater  chanticleer  chipper  dice  grease-monkey  hermes  joe-smith  netscape  riptide  shut-in  staubach  whirlie