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The Highs, the Lows, and the Long Haul

Posted on November 13, 2018 | 5 minutes | 933 words |

The Highs, the Lows and the Long Haul There are a lot of things that YHC cannot get his head wrapped around. One being how one woman would stay connected to me for 33 years…..I say it, but yet I can’t believe it. Monday’s workout was themed around the stages of our marriage. The Highs…..The 82nd Airborne days were coming to a close. I received a letter in the mail, snail mail that is, that said I was “cleared to come on board”. [Read More]

Service Before Self

Posted on November 10, 2018 | 3 minutes | 535 words |

10 November 2018 – the day before Veterans Day and YHC was ready to lead a bootcamp for the ages to pay honor and tribute to our Nation’s warriors who have worn the uniform to defend freedom at home and abroad. I knew I needed stronger men than myself to lead this epic beatdown, and so I literally called in the Troops. Here’s how it went down, keeping in mind that the pax were well equipped with weight vests and ruck sacks, and 2 men at all times carried a log c/o of our brother Bartman (who was out Rucking his ass off at a tough… what a beast). [Read More]

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

Posted on November 10, 2018 | 29 minutes | 6037 words |

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]

Water Wings Week Part Tres

Posted on November 7, 2018 | 1 minutes | 28 words |

11/7/18 We had a blast doing pull-ups, monkey humpers, rock your bodies, fast feet, curb hops and Australian mountain climbers. Most complained, but all delighted in the punishment.

An Evening of Firsts

Posted on November 6, 2018 | 3 minutes | 499 words |

YHC has finally officially posted at all 21 AOs! (And right away it’s remembered Claymore is spankin new and so that number is changed to 20…either way it was a first time for YHC to post at Rush Hour, let alone Q. But with plenty of experience at BO “going in blind” wouldn’t be the way to describe it. A large sum of pax showed up for this one, 9 of us in all. [Read More]

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199...200

Posted on October 17, 2018 | 1 minutes | 58 words |

Pre-Blast

17 HIM joined YHC for 0 miles at Tortoises

The Warmup

Pledge of Allegiance at the flag
5 Good Mornings IC
110 Burpees OMD

The Thang****s

Grab a partner.

100 Pull-ups while your partner performs AMRAP SSH, flap jack as needed.

90 Burpees OMD

50 Curb Dips OMD

10 Worst Squats Ever OMD

50 Mary (varied)

COT

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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]

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Magic 8 Ball (Dice)

Posted on October 6, 2018 | 4 minutes | 654 words |

It was a calm, dark, and misty morning at Phoenix as I prepared for my (solo) virgin Q, it also kinda served as an unofficial “kickoff” of VQ week, which will officially begin on Monday. As expected the butterflies were stirring and the adrenaline was flowing, but I was definitely ready! By 6:25 a total of 18 pax were gathered and ready for the workout, and after an official welcome at 6:30, we were off jogging to the parking lot of the community center for warm ups. [Read More]

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Brought to you by the Letters D and B

Posted on October 3, 2018 | 3 minutes | 429 words |

I went to Q school a couple of weeks ago. Since I am out of town and will miss the start of VQ week I decided to step up early and get this thang done. In my posts leading up to this I took lots of mental notes. Most of them were forgotten before the first exercise (do you really have to say ‘Recover’?). Thanks to those who helped with time keeping as my FitBit bit it this morning. [Read More]

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]

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