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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]

YHC rolled into Jones Park with WWW in his truck full of toys, ready to close out the Carpex-to-SW part of #QSwapWeek at Groundpounders. The parking lot filled up quickly with friendly faces, some from Carpex, some from South Wake, and before long we had a crowd too big to fit the workout we had meticulously planned. Looks like we need to modify, so we’ll modify as needed. Warm-Up WWW takes us on a lap around the pickle and circle up for good mornings, hamstring stretches, Sir Fazios forwards and backwards, air presses, seal claps, overhead claps, calf stretches with merkins, mountain climbers, and plank jacks. [Read More]

Day 4 of #QSwapWeek had YHC and Yoga Mat repping the squad…..with no Carpex flag. Whoops… Lots of guys showed up for this one. We can recount them in the blurry picture to be sure. Warmup - Yoga kicked things off with a warmup that by the end felt more like a beatdown! Merkins and shoulder work. The Thang Run to the big giant parking lot one would typically only find in Orlando pulling up to the most magical place on earth. [Read More]

Congrats to the 36 that participated in this year’s challenge. In the end, very few completed all 3 Fs, and in fact, not many were able to post at every AO in 2018. Perhaps I made it too difficult this year, or maybe I didn’t do a good enough job marketing the challenge. But I think it’s more likely a statement of our growth. In the end, it was successful, because I know that it made some number of PAX push themselves a bit more and get out of their comfort zone. [Read More]

Nine HIMs met up this fine morning to run up and down some hills and play some more with YHC’s new CMU’s (aka “pain pills”), debuted last Friday in a very soggy Slippery When Wet beatdown. With Hermes’ return to duty, mumblechatter has resumed to a healthy banter. And, somehow, we managed to turn about 3.0 miles today, almost all of it up and down one hill or another. Here’s what we did. [Read More]

Phoenix, January 5, 2019 Pax: 1-4, Angry Elf, Banjo, Bluewater, Callahan, Clementine, Earhart, Everready, Frisco, Gap Year, Hello Kitty, Hermès, Jiggly Puff, Lite Brite, Ninjago, Ollie, Pierogi, Pigeon, Pivot, Smokey, Snots, Term Paper, Texas Ranger, Theismann, Traffic Cone, Water Wings, Yoga Mat Today was to be Karma Chamelion’s virgin Q, Karma has busted his knee and will be out indefinitely. Prior to starting, YHC invited all pax to consider joining in on the Healing Transitions weekly Saturday 0800 run at Umstead, Harrison entrance. [Read More]

With all the other Monday AOs starting at 05:30, A-Team was the last chance to post in Carpex in 2018. 13 men showed up ready to Finish Strong! Warm-Up Mosey towards the shelter at the back of the park, stopping along the way for imperial walkers, side straddle hops, standard merkins and prisoner squats. The Thang In the shelter grab some bench for irkins, ALRSUs, dips, ALRSUs and derkins x 20. [Read More]

Small crowd post Christmas gathered in the launch area, one FNG, disclaimer given and we are off for a mozy through Bond Park, stopping occasionally to celebrate the 12 Days of Christmas as a group. Warmup 15 SSH (whoops) 12 Hillbillies 12 Good Mornings 12 Merkins 12 Mountain Climbers Thang 1st Day – Mozy 2nd Day – Burpees 3rd Day – WW2 4th Day – Diamond Merkins 5th Day – LR Lunges [Read More]

32 including 1 FNG (Liverpool’s brother) PREBLAST: Kentucky vs UNC this evening at 5:15 pm on CBS, Kentucky and UNC have met 39 times since 1924. UNC leads the series 24 wins to Kentucky’s 15 The series between two of the most victorious college basketball programs of all-time, Kentucky (1st) and North Carolina (3rd), as of the writing of this preblast. WARMUP: SSH x 24 Kentuckys (similar to Imperial Walkers) x 15 [Read More]

The idea for this workout just fell into my lap. On Tuesday, there was some debate on Slack about what it takes to be a champion. Some would posit that showing up and staying makes you a champion. YHC would posit that deciding to get up at butt crack of dawn to attend a workout and sticking around is laudable, but is just a prerequisite to becoming a champion. Since YHC is the QIC, YHC gets to decide what constitutes a champion. [Read More]