Tag: Snoballs (Page 1 of 5)

Well not really. Read on.

YHC wasn’t sure he was going to make this morning. Our faithful K9 was accused of eating ~ 1 oz. of my son’s pipe tobacco. Many hours and two different after-hours vets later, she showed no signs of any problems or distress. So at 0130, when YHC crawled into bed, a message to Clavin indicating he may need to sub. Alas, YHC realized the difference between posting and going to work was a mere 1 hour of sleep…who needs more than 3.5 hours of sleep, anyway?

BTW, YHC did not prepare a weinke due to last night’s adventures, so this is what you get from a sleep deprived Watts Up…

When YHC rolled in, 4 were out getting EC. (Way to go get it!) All rolled in before 0530…

No FNG’s on this fine 20+ degree morning, so an abbreviated disclaimer was given.

WarmUp x 1:
Goof Balls IC x 13
Merkin IC x 10

Warmup x 2:
Mosey toward Union, stopping at every other light post on Riverwood Parkway to do exercises. Each stop included at least 1 and up-to 3 of the following:
20 Monkey Humpers
5 Burpees
25 Flutters
5 Flying Squirrels

Once we reached Union Road, frogger/mosey across to the lit, covered walk at Robinson Elementary.

The Thang…
11’s
At one end of the walk, Squats. At the other end, Dips.
Meander back to the middle when done.
(Lots of chatter about this, since the two points were ~150 yds apart)

Next on the hit parade was ascending 4 corners, using the corners of the parking lot.
10 Moroccan Night Clubs
20 Merkins
30 Reverse Crunch
40 Flutters (Single Count)

Since we went up, we needed to go back down, but only half way…
20 Flutters
15 Reverse Crunch
10 Merkins
5 Moroccan Night Clubs (apparantly this is hard to say in 20 degree weather. Luckily Whoopee and Gastone worked it out)

Meander back toward the church…. Scratch that, backward meander…

Once we were close to the church, lets mosey…
Past the Childcare Place, BB&T and into the BP.

Frogger back across Union to the soon-to-be Planet Fitness.

Here we did a little wall sitting and 15 Air Presses IC.

Mosey back toward the flag, but wait there is more…

20 Step-Ups each leg at the bank wall.

And then on to home.

According to the PAX with the fancy watches, we got right at 3 miles.

Your Welcome!

Prayer Requests:
Clavin’s M and Family.
Rock Hill/Fort Mill/Lake Wylie PAX with loss

Easy Rider took us out.

Thanks for the opportunity to lead.

Moleskin:
During today’s workout the PAX made sure I knew this wasn’t The Pub or Coconut Horse. I realize there has been a good bit of running when I Q’d recently. Some of that is purposeful, some of it accidental. I don’t like running, nor am I particularly good at it. I don’t know that I will ever like it, but maybe I can get better at it. Almost everytime I run with the PAX, I will glean some nugget of truth to help improve.

I can’t express how much I appreciate the push, encouragement, support and accountability I have received in 10 months I have been out here. I can only hope to pay it back and forward.

James 5:16
Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.

Watts Up Powering Down

Attendance from participation.

Rock was pushed.

12 HIMs plus YHC converged on Snoballs for a mid week beatdown this morning. 3 got in some EC.

The Q had no weinke (he hasn’t produced a weinke in quite a while).

Disclaimer was approved

Warm Up included IC Imperial Walkers X 10 and the Pledge.

The Thang

Mosey from Snoballs around the outside path at Martha’s to the upper field for some miscellaneous work as follows:

Four Corners  (OH NO…THE FIELD IS WET……THE Q DOESN’T CARE)

1st Corner – 10 Merkins

2nd Corner – 20 LBC’s

3rd Corner – 30 Squats

4th Corner – 40 Flutter Kicks

Repeat in descending order starting with 4th Corner work.

Partner Up for some Field work

Partner 1 performs the exercise while Partner 2 runs across field to the paved path and returns and partner’s switch positions:

Merkins – AMRAP  X 3 sets

Flutter Kicks – AMRAP X 3 sets

Mosey to the closest picnic table area for the Stroganoff Special (every Martha River’s boot camp I Q includes this):

In Cadence reps as follows:

Dips X 15

Derkins X 10

Step Ups X 20

Dips X 15

Derkins X 10

Step Ups X 20

Dips X 20

Meander and Mosey through the parking lot back toward Snoballs with some stops as follows:

50 LBC’s OYO

Mosey some distance

50 Freddy Mercury’s IC

Mosey some distance

50 LBC’s OYO

Mosey back to Snoballs – Workout Complete

Announcements

All AO’s are open as normal tomorrow with exception of Diablo Sammich which will have a Ruck starting at 0600 followed by a Murph option at Martha Rivers.

Several prayer requests

Name-o-rama

Moleskin:

The year is now officially halfway gone.  Where are you today compared to where you were on January 1. Have you accelerated? There is no status quo, that is an illusion.

Honor to lead this morning.

See you in the gloom at the next one.

Aye!

Stroganoff

Little League travels far from home to grace Never Black Sno Cones…or whatever with his presence. What better way for an out of towner to introduce himself than with an out of town workout, modeled on YHC’s experience with Metro workouts.

Options A & B were provided (both involved well over 3 miles of running). A, the flatter, but longer option, was chosen. Essentially the goal was for everyone to run at least 4 miles and I believe nearly everyone succeeded in that, or at the very least, pushed it to the edge of their comfort zone, which is what this workout was all about. And while there was a lot of running (forward and backwards) involved, there were more exercises than I can list here performed as well.

I was incredibly impressed by the effort shown by all, especially those who might not consider themselves “runners”. If you are one of those PAX, I would encourage you to push yourself to get out to a running AO. You have more in you than you think. Even if you start with 2 or 3 miles slow, that’s more than 90% of the population. I can’t think of a better feeling than when you finish a run that you didn’t think you could do. That’s always my motivation to try new running challenges.

GD soapbox moment over.

Announcements: Convergence 6/29 Gashouse, Tuna team 2 needs runners, 7/4 Murph at Martha Rivers 07:00, Christmastown 5K signup open, post out of town if you’re traveling!

Prayer Requests: Montross’ mother

10 men showed up for Snoball’s and to keep the Sadclown at bay.

The Thang:

SSH 26

Imperial Walker 15

Merkins 10

Mosey all the way to Robinson Elementary. 10 Diamonds some place between the 2.

Plank 60’s while we catch our breath.

Elbow Plank an additional 45 seconds for the fun of it.

Mosey behind school to 2 ramps side by side with railings.

Up on the railings for Bear Crawl through the tunnel to the top and then set up on the railings going down.

Bear Crawl down through the tunnel.

Rinse and repeat twice. (Crowd favorite, you know you are doing good when Defib ask why?)

Mosey around to the big staircase behind school.

11’s, 1 Diamond at the top and 10 Monkey Humpers at the bottom. Stinky Bird now realizes that the Monkey Humper is effective.

Mosey to speed bump and Lunge Walk to the next. Probably 100 yards.

Start Mosey to next speed bump. (At this moment I heard Clavin mention Hip Slappers and something else)

So next exercise Hip Slappers to 20.

Head fake to the next wall and then Nurrrrrr. Was just going to go up the hill but again someone mentioned all the way back. So Nurrr all the way back about 3/4’s of a mile to the start.
Clavin finished the last 2 minutes while I picked up the 6 with Defib.

The Moleskin:

2 great addition’s to F3 Stinky Bird and Rainbow Ranger, and I just like saying there names. Stinky Bird is a beast already and Rainbow Ranger will be a future beast. You guys are great.

May 5th is Cino De Mt. Mitchell. Pointless, Little crazy, but owe will we have fun. 5.5 up to the top of the mountain and 5.5 down. Q-Source at the top and lunch when we get back or dinner depending on how long it takes. Clown cars meet at GSM World Headquarters parking lot to head out at 5:30 am.

Prayers, Family members, UNCC students and families, Venezuela and injured pax.

Thanks, Gastone

2 for Whoopee EC, which was terrible, so terrible it was good.

9 for Gastone, everyone thinks we started with 10 but I believe we are good on that number.

The Thang:

6 SSH

6 Merkins

Mosey the way stopping at light poles for 6 Squats or 6 Merkins all the way to Gastone’s Hill.

Bernie Sanders up the hill to the top.

50 LBC’s

Mosey Down.

5 Burpee’s

Mosey up the hill.

Plank for 6.

Mosey down.

20 Merkins.

Lunge Walk up to every other mailbox for 10 Monkey Humpers. The first set of Monkey Humper’s a person opened there front door to us starting to go to work, basically looking right as us first thing in the morning. Good Morning to them, no response back. We went about half way up and then ran Bernie the rest of the way.

Plank at top.

Mosey Down.

Dryrub had to leave at this point, I am sure work or something or anything. Maybe he was the smartest guy.

Next exercise is run up hill stopping at all mailboxes on right for 10 SSH. This is a lung workout.

Plank for 6.

10 Diamonds, 20 LBC’s

Watt’s Up called to lead us down the hill at his pace. I started us in a walk behind him not thinking he would run anytime soon since he was catching his breath. Nope, again this guy is driven and he pushed the rock once again making us run down the hill out of breath. Kudos.

Mosey back to start but we stopped at 2 poles for 20 Monkey’s and 2 more for 20 Squats.

Then Jailbreak back to the start with Defib taking the title. Beast as always.

The Moleskin:

I had a goal of making it to the top of the Hill 6 times, we did not make it but we worked hard. We will make this happen at some point and it will not be easy. Clavin, has been a beast lately if you have not noticed.

May 5th Cinco de Mt Mitchell, meeting at GSM for a departure of 5:30am. You can sleep in the car, unless you are driving.

Watt’s Up is the next Q at Snoball’s.

Prayers

Gastone Finished, literally can’t lift my right arm because of Whoopee.