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Half-Century Mountain

Posted on January 30, 2019 | 2 minutes | 411 words |

Upon checking the weather last night, I posed the ‘more PAX than degrees Fahrenheit challenge’ to the Twittersphere. This ended up being way closer a proposition than we thought it’d be! 25 > 22. With our strong crew of 8, take a lap around the parking lot, and venture into the park. Pause for a warmup consisting of 10 x GM (here comes Pivot) 1 penalty burpee 10 X IW [Read More]

It works 60% of the time. Every time.

Posted on January 29, 2019 | 2 minutes | 393 words |

26 PAX gathered at the flag, with rumors of a mysterious FNG who was nowhere to be seen. First exercise, the Pledge of Allegiance. Warm Up Mosey to the heart of Apex Community Park, the parking lot adjacent to the tennis courts. Along the way add in some butt kickers and karaoke. Circle up for a standard fare of SSHs, Good Mornings, Sir Fazio Arm Circles, Steve Earles, and Control Freak Merkins. [Read More]

19 Murphs in 2019 (3 of 19)

Posted on January 25, 2019 | 1 minutes | 76 words |

Pre-Blast

11 HIM for the third of 19 Murphs (in 2019) at SWW.
1 for EC
2 for EC + EC
8 for Coffee with Oofta (post Murph)
Stronger backs, stronger hearts in 2019.

The Warmup

Pledge of Allegiance at flag.
Run to the playground, circle up for a few GMs, SSH, Merkins.

The Thang

Do a Murph (run out and back .5 miles).
Run back to the playground
Mary: H2M, Side Plank Star Crunches

COT

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62 degrees with a 100% chance of rain

Posted on January 24, 2019 | 2 minutes | 295 words |

Its not often that a January 24th morning becomes a Tank Top Thursday. With a mixture of high temps, driving wind and non-stop rain,12 warriors departed the shovel flag, forming three 4-man indian run groups. Warm up - circle up at Thales parking lot 15 Side shuttle hops 15 Imperial Walkers 7 Good mornings 15 standard merkins 15 Mountain Climbers 10 Burpees OYO Back to the indian run groups, head to the pond in the Villages of Apex [Read More]

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Speed-Dating

Posted on January 24, 2019 | 4 minutes | 668 words |

Lots going on at Shakin’ Not Stirred this morning. The Maynerds were off early, Insomnia runners, departed just after the last Maynerd group, and at 5:45 the Vesper and Bootcamp group were ready to get going. The Bootcamp hosted a baker’s dozen, and it went down like this: Tight circle and each man was instructed to identify a fellow PAX that he didn’t really know so well. That was to be your partner throughout the workout. [Read More]

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I would have stayed in bed, but...

Posted on January 22, 2019 | 4 minutes | 775 words |

It was a brisk, dark, chilly morning at Flirtin’ With Disaster. One stalwart HIM, Chipper, got in a little EC run while the rest of us slowly made our way to the parking lot. Well, most of us were slow, one of us were late. Everyone loves that late guy! It’s 5:30 AM and we slow mosey out of the park across the street and into the large Lowes parking lot for: [Read More]

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Windchill Warrioring

Posted on January 21, 2019 | 3 minutes | 436 words |

Advice about being out in the cold from the Boy Scouts: layer up. Advice about being out in the cold from “To Build a Fire”: keep moving (and learn to build a fire) Advice about being out in the cold from Costco: Little Hotties are $30 for a box of 40. Advice about being out in the cold from my wife last night: “You’re an idiot” The PAX at A-Team this morning I think agreed with all of the above. [Read More]

WE READY

Posted on January 18, 2019 | 2 minutes | 372 words |

AO: Slippery When Wet QIC: Staubach It was an honor to do my VQ with this great group of men. I am very appreciative for F3 and all that is has done for me in my life. Thanks to @bluewater for getting me out there last June. Here is my VQ backblast: It was pretty nice, about 40 degrees and a little damp. My nerves were high as I headed out for my VQ. [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]