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 Posted on January 24, 2020  |  1 minutes  |  106 words  |  

Pre-Blast 11 HIM for 3.25 and *. The Warmup Pledge of Allegiance at the flag. Burpee Mile: 48 total 5 GM 5AV The Thang *BLIMPS* From the center of the Preston RoundAbout, run to the edge of the circle, for 10 Burpees, back to the center, AMRAP Monkey Humpers + 10 exercises. Rotate one hour clockwise in the circle, head back out for 10+20, etc. until the BLIMPS are complete. After each set, return back to the center for AMRAP Monkey Humpers + 10 exercises. [Read More]
bartman  biner  build-a-bear  chanticleer  gtl  hi-liter  largemouth  old-maid  spitshine  torpedo  www 

Figure 8 and some healthy competition

 Posted on January 10, 2020  |  1 minutes  |  104 words  |  

Who doesn’t love to get pushed by their brothers? 16 HIM pushed and pulled each other along at GT. Warm-up: Mosey to the greenway parking lot for some cadence-counted Good Mornings, Hillbillies, Calf stretches, Merkins, and Side Straddle Hops. Thang 1: Burpee-intervals, with the winner of each interval earning the chance to rest and pick up the six. But mostly we saw Beaker’s back. Then a group run to the figure-eight flagpole. [Read More]
beaker  chanticler  clementine  crusty  ezekiel  five-hole  gtl  hi-liter  largemouth  michelob  one-four  pivot  squatter  torpedo  trike  wonderbread 

Miles and Merkins

 Posted on January 4, 2020  |  3 minutes  |  558 words  |  

Preamble Last time I signed up to Q Gran Torino, there were some shenanigans. I felt bad about pulling the wool over the PAX’ eyes with that masterful switcheroo in our annual Ninja Q Swap. So when I saw the opening on the Q sheet right after New Year’s I jumped on it to make amends. The pre-blast was apparently just ominous enough that a couple of PAX decided to ruck instead. [Read More]
bartman  biner  chanticleer  ezekiel  ghost-pepper  gtl  gump  largemouth  ma-bell  mate-churham  michelob  pivot  shut-in  toothless  torpedo 

Insomni-Q-ersary

 Posted on December 19, 2019  |  4 minutes  |  659 words  |  

Last night, YHC went to bed and told the Mrs. that he would not be working out. It was our anniversary on Wednesday after all. “Nope. I’m going to sleep in,” I said. Unless I was so excited and couldn’t sleep in which case I might go to Insomnia. “But fear not… I will be back by 6. So no worries. Sleep in.” And with that, Tuesday turned into Wednesday and 14 years of marriage came to a close. [Read More]
16-steves  cataracts  chicken-big  chicken-little  hamm  hello-kitty  honeycomb  pierogi  ramsey  silver-fox  slappy  slim-shady  smithers  sour-mash  steak-knives  the-joker  theismann  torpedo 

Is it mumblechatter or grumblechatter?

 Posted on December 16, 2019  |  1 minutes  |  158 words  |  

The grumblechatter was strong at Wolverine this morning, led by Her-‘I can’t get wet’-mes and Frank-‘a mosey can’t last longer than 0.4 miles’-lin. But we persisted. And YHC is grateful to get to improve. **Warm-up: **Jog (or was it a mosey)? over to the school lot Good Mornings; Imperial Walker; Hill Billy; Calf-stretch w/ Merkins; Butt Kicker; High Knees; Karaoke Thang 1: Groups of three for new-max pull-ups. First time through, set your baseline max. [Read More]
biner  bogo  chipper  dr-evil  flip-flop  franklin  gump  headroom  hermes  ma-bell  nature-boy  one-four  parker  the-commish  torpedo 

Re-evaluating Life Decisions

 Posted on December 14, 2019  |  2 minutes  |  382 words  |  

Early this morning, YHC, Wrench, Flenderson, Two Factor, Jiggly Puff, and some random Maynard participants gather at the Cary Senior Center. For some crazy reason YHC decided to join in on the EC festivities offered by Wrench on Slack last night. We started the morning at 5:30 setting out for a 5 mile loop. 54 minutes and 5.51 miles later YHC arrived back to the senior center for the ME. I was beat and clearly questioning my life decisions at that point. [Read More]
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Rip’s Designee

 Posted on November 30, 2019  |  1 minutes  |  100 words  |  

Pre-Blast 6 for 6.23 at TGM. The Warmup Pledge of Allegiance at the flag. 2.23 mile warmup Indian run around the school 2x. 5 Good Morings The 1st Thang REASE on the track: 10 pull-ups, 20 ‘Mericans, 30 Squats, 40 SSH; Indian run each lap. Un-rack’em. The 2nd Thang Four Corners in the lot: 10 CDDs, 15 Cherry Bombs, 20 Mt. climbers, 25 imperial walkers. Dirkins, dips, irkins on the wall. [Read More]
beauty  hi-liter  look-out  parker  snots  torpedo 

Cinder Block Pyramids

 Posted on November 27, 2019  |  3 minutes  |  454 words  |  

I wanted to make this one brutal so I scoured through F3 Greenwood’s IronPAX challenges and merged a few of them together to come up with this. While I was at my work/geek convention (i.e. KubeCon) in San Diego I ran through this workout at the hotel with a 30lb kettlebell (the heaviest one they had unfortunately). In short, it sucked, but do-able. So I grabbed all of the cinder blocks and two spare KB from Hell’s Bells the night before. [Read More]
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Winter is Coming

 Posted on November 9, 2019  |  1 minutes  |  183 words  |  

But it’s not here yet! After 2 years of F3 I speak from experience when I say 28 degrees in not that cold. It may be colder than any morning in the last seven months but it’s not cold enough to be used as an excuse. 7 extraordinary pax left the comfy confines of their homes to experience the best 90 minute bootcamp AO in Carpex. Disclaimer, Pledge, Follow Me. [Read More]
franklin  gibraltar  hi-liter  i-pity-the-fool  snots  theismann  torpedo