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Eight early birds assembled for Ground Assault before the clock struck 0500.  To give the late one(s) another minute we started with the pledge, route reminder and disclaimer.

Finally, Four Ground Assault Runners headed down Eagle Road on our Soldier to Soldier route to Cramerton and back.   Thats four after the squealing tires of the regularly late Alma Mater came to a swift halt on Main Street.

Five Ground Assault Ruckers executed an about face for a modified counter clockwise ruck around town.  Nice change from the same old route we have been rucking since before GA was a thing.

As we arrived back to Stowe park a rucked-up Tiger and his M appeared from the shadows to join us.

Announcements –

Lunch today.

4/27 Clown car to MeCa bootcamp for their 10 year anniversary beatdown.

5/4 Goonie Ruck

5/13 Younglife Golf

5/18 Extinction Run 0900 at Primal

Prayers –

Anchorman, Huck, Turtleman,

Termite – MRI,   Flintstone – MRI,

PAX on IR. Family & Friends suffering illness.

9 HIMs came and went at various times for this version of Prison Break. Haze was sexed on by trees (not Happy) for most of the run. That is all

Announcements – CSAUP May 4, Extinction Run May 18

Prayers – Huck, Turtleman, Jackson Curti chemo ongoing, Haze’s neighbor’s sister passed, Shuford family after Keith’s passing (Sargento clients)

Warm up. 5 big boys at light, add 5 each light.

1. Dirty 11’s at the lot, 11 Mike Tyson’s : 1 Jungle boy

2. Regular 11’s near stables, 11 inv row : 1 Big boy

3. Came back to flag for Mary: cherry pickers, perfect form merkins, flutters, big boys.

4. Ended with COT. Heihei is moving soon so we pray his move goes well.

We had 5 out at Labyrinth this morning.

Warm up was standard: SSH, Mountain Climbers, Hilbillys, Windmills, Gravel Pickers, Overhead Claps, Moroccan Nigh Clubs, and Imperial Walkers

We took the long way down to the playground where we did 4 sets of : 10 Swing Crunches, 10 Big Boys, and 5 Pull Ups

We then found us a hill over at the soccer fields and proceeded to run some hillside 11’s with Mike Tyson’s at the bottom and CDDs at the top

We made our way to a picnic shelter for a few rounds or Bulgarian Split Squats, Step Ups and Calf Raises  and that made it time to go back to COT

We did make time at each light pole to escalate some sqats.

Back to COT !

Five HIMs accepted YHC’s guarantee of a a zero-rain workout and met at The Ricky Bobby last week. They were rewarded with a hole in the clouds lasting a good 45 minutes and a solid workout. We rolled out two long loping runs up and down Winder Trail across from New Hope Elementary, with a variety of merkins, squats, LBCs and bombjacks at each streelight. Hei Hei had to leave early to go beautify the Piedmont so a little Mary made the timing work out perfectly. YHC’s cell phone decided to execute a factory reset while being carried in the pocket, which was rather unexpected, but in the end the day could hardly have gone better. Thank you gents for your participation.

Tesla and YHC posted at Cannonball Tuesday, April 16 in Lake Wylie.

Zamboni was on Q with some exciting games of paper football, beer pong, and nerf gun shooting.

32 PAX were in attendance, which included runners, walkers, and those that worked out with kettlebells.

Aye,
Radar

YHC posted in South Cary on Saturday, April 13 at their Loch-N-Load AO.

Astro was on Q with Masters trivia (all related to Tiger Woods).

There were 14 Pax, plus two PAX that rucked.

Aye,
Radar

A rainy morning kept the PAX cool at the Labyrinth on this early April day, and we got right in it following some basic warm ups.

• Mosey out across the street to the bank were we proceeded with our Triple Nickle transaction: 5 reps, 5 times, of Burpees, Bear Crawl through the covered teller drive through, CDD’s
• Mosey out to the park pavilion to perform bench work, consisting of two separate rounds of 11’s with:
  • Box Jumps, to Diamond Derkins
  • Step Ups to Dips
• Transition to the parking lot for a little Route 66, performing Mike Tyson’s at each light pole
• Mosey back to the AO to finish out the session with a Blueprint special dubbed Around the Clock:
  • Much like Route 66 but instead of adding up to 11 reps by the end, you position your body at each hour of a clock, performing that number of reps, starting at the one o’clock position and ending at the 12 o’clock.  The exercise was Big Boys, adding up to a total of 78 reps.

Slaw ran a perfect 9 route for the win.
Prayers
Leppard’s mom
Haze’s neighbor Sheldon Christy brother passed

Announcements
VQ for Chili co-Q Slaw
Lunch tomorrow
Goonie
Extinction Run
Tobacco Road relay

Masters Thursday starts a 4-day holiday weekend for many, but today wasn’t a picnic for the 5 HIM who put in work at Bulldog.  Here’s what I remember:

YHC led off with the pledge and a warm up, then proceeded to talk about the Masters theme.

“Masters athletes are typically 35 years or older.  World athletics rules define masters athletics as starting at age 35 for both men and women.”

And there we have it.  We all qualify as Masters athletes, so outside of the warmup, we’re going to use 3s, 5s, and 35s.

The Thang:

• 10 x Don Quixotes (IC)
• 10 x Imperial Walkers (IC)
• Tesla Stretches
• 10 x Mike Tysons (IC)
• 10 x Dying Cockroaches (IC)
• 1 lap around the parking lot

First set of 5 x Burpees (OYO)

Masters talk

Routine #1:

• Run to the end of the lot and make a left to the illuminated area
• Jump rope 35 times
• Run back
• 35 x Moroccan Night Clubs (OYO)

Routine #2:  35 Lindsays

10/25  15/20  20/15  25/10  Step-Ups/Dips

Routine #1 (Round 2)

Routine #3:  Core Work

• 15 x Flutter Kicks (IC)
• 15 x American Hammers (IC)
• 15 x Toe Touches (IC)
• 15 x Penguins (IC)
• Plank – 35 seconds

Routine #1 (Round 3)

Routine #4:  5 x 7s

5 Rounds of:

• 7 x Kettlebell Swings (OYO)
• 7 x Double Crunches w/Kettlebell (OYO)
• 7 x Kettlebell Thrusters (OYO)

Routine #1 (Round 4)

Routine #3:  Core Work

• 20 x Flutter Kicks (IC)
• 20 x American Hammers (IC)
• 20 x Toe Touches (IC)
• 20 x Penguins (IC)
• Plank – 35 seconds

Routine #1 (Round 5)

For once in YHC’s career as a Q, we finished early, but with the “35” theme, we had an opportunity for some unique Mary, and the PAX obliged

• 35 x Six Shooters (IC – Orangeman)
• 35 x Mountain Climbers (IC – Clavin)

And that was it.

No doubt Orangeman won money on the Masters.  We all got our money’s worth.

Grab a bell and be here next week.

Yabba Dabba Doo