Moving on to Plan E

 Posted on February 23, 2021  |  2 minutes  |  340 words  |  

Have I told you how sick I am of cold, rainy weather? Luckily today we were expecting highs to get into the 60s. With sunshine. WITH SUNSHINE!!! However this morning, it was still 30s and the ground was wet from rain we’ve had in the past 1,231 hours. Six for EC run of about 3 miles. Return to the flag, and I initially thought I was in the wrong place. Maybe I should post at DTP a little more often - apparently it’s now the place to be in Downtown Apex on Tuesdays at 0530. [Read More]
16-steves  all-hours  big-red  chicken-little  decal  deuce  earhart  egon  hamm  hanson  henny-penny  hi-liter  honeycomb  imp  lucky-charms  mohawk  open-concept  peeping-tom  prodigal  ramsey  revere  short-circuit  slim-shady  smithers  squatter  steaks  suck-up  track-star  triple-lindy  wahoo 

Not Welcome Here

 Posted on February 8, 2021  |  3 minutes  |  572 words  |  

17 PAX gather in the brisk cool morning for a traveling Earhart workout. Good too see a mix of Apex and West Cary HIM to help YHC through a new workout in a new location. Gather the PAX at the flag for a pledge then start with walking down the path, high knees and butt kickers; with advancing age trying to start out a workout with a little warm for the warm. [Read More]
badlands  banjo  clementine  dirty-bomb  earhart  geek-squad  high-school-musical  lucky-charms  nature-boy  overflow  peeping-tom  pom-pom  schlitz  suck-up  the-commish  trike  triple-lindy  wahoo 

Rain? What rain?

 Posted on February 8, 2021  |  2 minutes  |  376 words  |  

Even though YHC and the shield lock had already done a couple miles EC run and were fully soaked, it seemed like a waste not to use the parking garage the AO provides for some cover from the elements. So that’s where we headed. Here’s what all went down: Warmup: No FNGs so I stumbled through the mission statement because it was being recorded for our Q of Culture and then recited the pledge before heading off to the parking garage on the other side of the school. [Read More]
bootlegger  crimson  deuce  honeycomb  peeping-tom  schlitz  silver-fox  triple-lindy  vhs  wahoo 

BLIMPS!!!

 Posted on January 6, 2021  |  3 minutes  |  551 words  |  

On Monday this week, Slim Shady made me a deal that if I Qed Lion’s Den, he would go ahead and get on the Q sheet for Wild Wild West. So here we are. I had thought about just running back last week’s Back In Black Q, but that seemed like cheating and then the M decided last night was a good time to take down the Christmas decorations, so I never did get a chance to put the thought I wanted to into the plan, but BLIMPS was close enough to last week so there it was. [Read More]
banjo  biner  clockwork  decal  hamm  imp  puddles  ramsay  rock-lobster  schlitz  slim-shady  snooki  steaks  triple-lindy  wahoo  water-wings 

Baselines and backblasts

 Posted on January 2, 2021  |  4 minutes  |  698 words  |  

January 1. Symbolically speaking, a turning of a new leaf. And while most years are met with some degree of glee and dread, it’s pretty safe to say that the vast majority of us today are expecting much greater things from 2021 than 2020 gave us. So, with that in mind, today’s Dante’s Peak beatdown aimed to set new bars and improve on past glories. Warm-up: I have been working on getting a couple of guys from my son’s BSA troop out for months now and got a positive response last night from one of the dad’s about potentially joining us at DP this morning. [Read More]
blackout  crew-chief  mr-safety  pierogi  ramsay  theismann  torpedo  triple-lindy  www 

HONORed

 Posted on December 29, 2020  |  4 minutes  |  773 words  |  

It was a cold December day, just above freezing, when I pulled into the parking lot of Cornerstone Fellowship Church in Apex. A few PAX were in their vehicles keeping warm, a few out moving around the parking lot doing I know not what. The kettle bells were not out of their container yet, so with TrackStar’s help we pulled more than enough bells out for the 11 PAX that came out to join me in the gloom. [Read More]
paperback  burt  crimson  earhart  intimidator  reentry  side-out  sooey  trackstar  triple-lindy  wahoo  www 

Quest for 8 Q Challenge ... Day 1 Hells Bells

 Posted on December 15, 2020  |  6 minutes  |  1093 words  |  

Date: 12/14/2020 PAX: Reentry, Snots, Ma Bell, Yahoo, Wahoo, Triple Lindy, Earhart, Entitlement, Roasters, Theismann, Side Out, Track Start, Kwik Stop, Free Bird, WWW Q’ing for a whole week to commemorate my birthday on 12/16 & also my F3-versary since 2017. I first heard about F3 while I was in the Cary YMCA. There was a guy in the gym talking about it to his friend. He heard about F3 in Next Door website. [Read More]
earhart  entitlement  freebird  kwik-stop  ma-bell  reentry  roasters  side-out  snots  theismann  track-star  triple-lindy  wahoo  www  yahoo 

Recycled

 Posted on December 3, 2020  |  2 minutes  |  312 words  |  

11 PAX is a decent number for a subfreezing morning at the only AO in Carpex that has an 0515 start time. Welcome to YHC’s annual Back in Black Q! 3 PAX for a 7 minute EC run. Warm Up Pledge of Allegiance, mosey to the big Koka Booth parking lot. Circle up for SSHs, Sir Fazio arm circles, Overhead claps, Steve Earles, Runners stretch and calf stretch. The Thang Run the outer loop of the parking lot, which is around 0. [Read More]
cauliflower  decal  hoppin-john  joe-smith  laloosh  lookout  ma-bell  red-ryder  snip  triple-lindy  wahoo 

Disclaimer: We Won't Run.

 Posted on November 11, 2020  |  3 minutes  |  442 words  |  

YHC hadn’t posted since Hot for Teacher last week as I was dealing with a bum ankle, so when coming up with a plan for this morning, I thought it’d be a good idea to limit the running and just hit upper body hard. I announced to the group how unprofessional I am and made a disclaimer that we wouldn’t be doing a lot of running. I quickly realized in the first mosey that the ankle was feeling pretty darn good so I changed my plans on the fly and incorporated the worst hill I could find. [Read More]
chicken-little  decal  hamm  henny-penny  imp  open-concept  pierogi  puddles  ramsay  schlitz  side-out  silver-fox  slim-shady  steaks  the-joker  theismann  triple-lindy  two-factor  wagon-wheel 

Hidden Agenda

 Posted on October 22, 2020  |  2 minutes  |  422 words  |  

17 pax: Banjo, Bootlegger, Disco duck, Earhart, Headroom, Hummus, Juicy Fruit, Kool-Aid, Peeping Tom, Ramsey, Side Out, Slim Shady, Snooki, Steaks, Theismann, Triple Lindy, Wahoo, Warmup 2 line Indian run around the front of church, back to flag, and then various warmup exercises and active stretching. ME. Though the men did not know it, the following exercises are ones elite trail runners use that don’t live in mountainous terrain. Two line Indian run to the planter boxes, grab a partner. [Read More]
banjo  bootlegger  disco-duck  earhart  headroom  hummus  juicy-fruit  kool-aid  peeping-tom  ramsey  side-out  slim-shady  snooki  steaks  theismann  triple-lindy  wahoo