Month: April 2022 (Page 9 of 10)

No, not 20 PAX at Gashouse.  There were 8 of those, and the groans were plenty when they heard we were combining PainLab and Gashouse for a joint beatdown, but  no running today.  At all.  If you were a F3 Gastonia PAX and wanted to run, there were plenty of options between the relays and the Community Foundation Run.  Today, at Gashouse, we carried.  Went somethin like this.

The Thang:

• 12 x SSH (IC)
• 12 x Hillbilly Walkers (IC)
• 5 Burpees (OYO – Train)
• 12 x Gravel Pickers (IC)
• 12 x Toy Soldiers (IC)
• 12 x Dying Cockroaches (IC)
• 12 x Mountain Climbers (IC)
• 12 x Mike Tysons (IC)

The Footmobile was loaded up with coupons (cinder blocks), so 6 of us grabbed the 6 blocks that YHC brought, and the other 2 grabbed a kettlebell and we were off.

With a combined beatdown, we could go to the track and take our sweet time and not get run off the track by Wojo and sprints, so that’s where we were headed, but a couple stops on the way:

At Garrison:

Core work

• 20 x Toe Touches (IC)
• 20 x Freddie Mercuries (IC)
• 20 x Heels to Heaven (IC)
• 20 x American Hammers (IC)

Got tougher as we went.  Also, the phrase “hung like a gnat” may have been used.  May have.  Wasn’t the last time unit jokes would make an appearance.

The cinder blocks were like the robot babies that the early childhood development classes made students keep to simulate caring for a newborn.  Wherever we went, our coupons went.  The main difference is you can carry them however you want without fear of public shaming.  Or maybe just being in public with these men in the gloom was shaming enough.

Anyways, up the hill to Grier for:

Partner work

1 partner exercise/1 partner hold, then switch roles

• 20 x Merkins / Plank
• 20 x Calf Raises / Al Gore
• 20 x Reverse Crunches / Six Inches

The “Six Inch Hold” strikes again as a PAX mumble chatter favorite.  Needless to say a number of us overestimated our 6 inches.

Drag the baby, errr the coupon, however you want to the track.  Here we hit a little Wolfpack Grinder, but a little different, with PAX choice and call and a different pair of exercises at each stop.  First stop, YHC asked for volunteers to lead an exercise, and Les couldn’t wait to get out “LBCs” before YHC announced that it need to involve the coupon.  So LBCs with the coupon were born, or rather just described as:

• Les Nessman – Some kind of reverse crunch thing x 20 (IC)

followed by

• Voodoo – Squat Thrusters x 20 (OYO)

Carry the coupon 1/2 a lap

• Clavin – Box Jumps onto and off of the coupon x 20 (OYO)
• Bondo – 30 x Curls (OYO)

Another 1/2 a lap

• Flintstone – Chest Press x 10 (IC)
• Castle Rock – Coupon Swings x 10 (OYO)

Last 1/2 a lap

• Linus – Upright Rows x 10 (IC)
• Orange Peel – Overhead Presses x 30 (OYO)

As we came in we noticed some gates were unlocked, so we meant to go explore parts of the school we don’t usually have access to, but time was getting short on us, so we took our coupons up and down some stairs, and around the sidewalk under a covered walkway that was apparently made for vertically challenged middle schoolers to a spot which was a good length for:

• Murder Bunnies

This was a new one for some of the PAX, and I was glad to dust ’em off.  I learned later that Merlot was considered.  No splashing though, and we still needed to finish up.

As we head out, Leslie is telling jokes about twenty six year olds and we start retracing steps:

Partner work

• 20 x Merkins / Plank
• 20 x Calf Raises / Al Gore
• 20 x Reverse Crunches / Six Inches

A quick spell of dizziness, then we hauled our coupons back to the flag, where we dropped the blocks back in the Footmobile, but not before sacrificing one of the weaker coupons to the PainLab deity-of-choice as it was cracked and care was taken not to have the break and it’s mess take place in the car.

One last round of Core Work before we wrapped up:

• 15 x Toe Touches (IC)
• 15 x Freddie Mercuries (IC)
• 15 x Heels to Heaven (IC)
• 15 x American Hammers (IC)
• 15 x Flutter Kicks (IC)

And that was that.

No relevant announcements as all the runs are already over.

Prayer Requests:

• Bondo’s wife
• Turtleman
• Huck

Moleskin:

Strong showing by the PainLabbers today.  Bondo and Orange Peel threw it down and made that work look easy.  Solid little sweat today too.  Voodoo said somewhere along the way that he saw something where someone was asked to hold an 8 ounce glass of water, and it’s not heavy until you’re holding it for 30 minutes, and hour, 2 hours, and so on.  Sometimes your body can get used to some things, and it just doesn’t seem hard anymore, but sometimes the consistency itself, and a perpetual grind can turn out to be the hard thing over an extended time.  The focus can be exhausting.  What can we do to stay sharp and keep accelerating?  Sometimes it’s just hard as hell to stay focused, because the “stay” part has no end.  We’ve never fully won and it’s never over.  That block never really felt light, but we just kept grinding.  At the end of the day, we do it for each other.  Thanks for the push today and every day.

Yabba Dabba Doo

YHC was a little concerned when he rode hot into the Ricky Bobby parking lot and found only a few players, as in just the three of us plus Bouquet coming in hot out of the gloom. What it lacked in numbers it made up for in capability and commitment as the story tells here:

COP:

SSH X 20

2 burpees

IW X 10

4 burpees

Gravel pickers X 20

6 burpees

Grapevine stretches

8 burpees

Mtn. Climbers X 20

10 burpees

Note to all: YHC usually likes to get on the field here at the Bobby. But, YHC is also a seasoned vet and a pro at this! So we kept to the parking lots due to the inundating rains we had the previous night.

Back parking lot for partner Blimps

B- Burpees

L- Lunges

I- Imperial Walkers

M – Merkins

P- Plank jacks

S- Squats

Partner 1 runs the lot and does 5X of the work. Partner 2 does the work until P1 returns. Flapjack. Do all of this together as a team.

Light pole suicides:

Round 1 : Bear crawl then run back.

Pole 1 – 5 jump squats

Pole 2 – 10 jump squats

Return

Round 2 – Broad jumps

Pole 1 – 5 CDDs

pole 2 – 10 CDDs

Return (run)

Round 3 – classic suicide run

Four corners

C1 – 10 hand release merkins

C2 – 10 HRM, 20 squats

C3 – 10 HRM, 20 squats, 30 LBC

C4 – 10 HRM, 20 squats, 30 LBC, 40 SSH

Mosey back to COT, circle ab work. Pledge

NMM:

Great work on a great morning! Everyone put it out there. Fun, small group. Competitive! Love that in a quality group. Wish we could have had more players but small circle of friends.

Our wold has changed in macro and micro ways guys. And more to come! Chaos and disorder are the norm. but, they always have been. Our present generations have not experienced it in essentially a century. Quantum physics rules. Newtonian physics is an illusion. Pray hard and prepare guys!

Tesla

Disclaimer

Pledge

Warm up:

20 SSH IC

15 Imperial Walkers IC

10 Merkins IC

10 Gravel Pickers IC

20 Squats OYO

Mosey to bridge Lunge Walk across, continue Mosey to the parking lot on the other side of the Park.

25 of the following exercises then Mosey back to the light before the bridge

Squats

Merkins

Smurf Jacks

CDD

5 Burpee

20 of the following exercises then Mosey back to the parking lot

Squats

Merkins

Smurf Jacks

CDD

5 Burpee

15 of the following exercises then Mosey back to the light before the bridge

Squats

Merkins

Smurf Jacks

CDD

5 Burpee

10 of the following exercises then Mosey back to bridge. Lunge walk across then Mosey to Gazebo.

Squats

Merkins

Smurf Jacks

CDD

5 Burpee

At the Gazebo partner up for  DORA 123

100 Big Boys

200 Reverse Lunges

300 Flutters count right leg.

With time running down we did

25 LBC

25 Heels to Heaven

Time 6:15 am.

Annoucements

Prayer request

Nameorama

I took us out in prayer.

Thank you for the opportunity to lead.

Warm Up: SSH, Goof Balls, Nolan Ryans,

Mosey:
Tennis courts for some Ball play:
Dora 1,2,3,
100 Monkey Humpers, 200 Shoulder Taps, (count one side) 300 seal straddle Hops, Yeah thats what we are calling them now so Deal with it LOL.
This got the Pax and my self fired up so onto the next.
To the picnic Shelter land of the smooth concrete.
Step Ups, Merkins, LBC’s, Dying Cock Roaches, Swimmers, 20x each and we did this 4 times.
Well YHC still does not know how to offer direction to the effectiveness as others. I am a work in progress per Dredd it takes about 10,000 hours to perfect something I got a few more hours to go. But none the less we got all the werk done and told Stogie good by since it was close to 6am. Only thing left is some 11’s
We had the Great Tonka coming in Hot in a tractor trailer with the J brake sounding like a long fart after an evening at the Golden corral. You know Loud full of vibration you dont know if something will fall out or your greatest symphony will take place.
11’s I see this massive piece of manstruction just hanging out and think. What would Hacksaw do? so I modified the 11’s
we did dips off the flat bed and squats on the other side. I may not be the best at cadence, math, or anything else to do with 1 leg or 2. But By God when I see something cool I know how to put it Werk!
Great job from everyone this morning. I was proud to know Westside mentioned he burned a good amount of calories today. Also we talked about discipline, and Tonka said a field caught on fire he was working the other day. He told them “you can’t start a fire in a mudhole” So thus the title. Maybe wichita said that Im not sure..

Prayer Request:
Turtle man, Pappy, Oompa, Stripers Brother, Westsides Wifes family who recently lost a grandma, Wichitas family, travels for some of the pax this week.

The Bed Pan is full

Pulled into the parking lot at Ingles this morning about twenty after five.
Only Mayor and Purple Haze were visible. The rest had already left to get their longer distance runs in.
Chatted for a minute or two.
Time to start, we took off, scattering in different directions.
All ran various distances and at their own pace.
No ruckers, no site Q, no flag. No pledge either. Q fail.

Announcements
Community Run at the Fuse ballpark 0900 Saturday. Two wheelchairs to push as of today. Show up around 0800 if you want to help unload trailer, assemble chairs, put up tents, etcetera, as needed.

Ville to Ville this weekend.

Smokey Mountain Relay end of month.

Prayers
Huck, Striper’s brother, GSM, Swimmer, Broke, Leppard’s wife, others spoken and unspoken.
YHC closed us out.

No good story telling or embellishments on this BB.

Perfect morning. Lots of HIM. Plenty of Kotters. 2 FNGs. Lots of EC happening. Anticipation was high and the PAX was ready.

It must be the second Convergence of the year! This is what happened…

The PAX gathered in the Bunker, ready for the beatdown to come. Little did they know what we had up our sleeves. YHC welcomed everybody to the jamboree and gave the disclaimer for the FNGs and then handed things over to ex-Nantan Broke.

You Call That a Warmup!?

Broke felt like there was some corner cutting happening of late and brought in the reinforcements, The Form Police! Apparently the guys with the police hats are more qualified to call rep or no-rep than us regular PAX! In this section of the beatdown, Broke called for decreasing rounds of 15 Merkins, 15 Squats and 15 Big Boy Situps. After each round we’d reduce the rep number by 1 until we got to 1. Some of the PAX said this was excessive for a warmup but YHC says it was just right.

After Broke did his thing, the event was handed over to BOS who took us on a lap around the block and up to the track behind the old middle school.

PT Test?!

BOS caught everybody off guard when he announced that we’d all run a full mile around the track by doing 5 laps. This was completed in many degrees of quickness but it was definitely done. BOS then called for varying exercises done to a 60 second timer which was a good change of pace.

Bed Pan then took the reigns to finish off the beatdown. He led a mosey down to the lower pathways and gathered the PAX to explain things.

Triple Nickel and such!

The Pan called for 5 Mountain Climbers at the bottom and then we were to run up to the covereged picnic area for 5 Dips. Do this x5 and then it’s on to the next Thang. Partner Booyah Merkins. Do the Merkins then the partners would run different directions and then come back together for more Booyah Merkins. We did this until about time, where YHC called the PAX to gather under the amphitheather pad.

Time!  Great workout, great fellowship and great leadership by the PAX. Oh yeah, we had 50 HIM here today! Aye!!!

Announcements: Community Foundation Run & Speed for Need, Adopt A Highway cleanup, Honey Hunters game

Prayer requests: Turtleman, Huckleberry, Big Pappy & Family, Tesla, Max Foster chemo, Pilgrim’s Progress’ M, Pizza Man’s pastor Richard Myers

Always be EHing!!!

It’s Monday. I’m down. Natty game on tv tonight. Luckily I am up north doing a pre-startup electrical/mechanical checkout on a new Reese’s cup line.

Know what gets me down? Tarheel basketball.
Not the team itself. Just their fans. The obnoxious ones. The trash talkers. The ones who when you say Franklin they think of Blvd. Who think they wear a jersey and sit on the team bench. Who think when they die, they will go to blue heaven and hang out with Dean Smith.

(I hear Montross saying that GTHC derogatory phrase right now.)

Now I do feel bad for the good Tarheels. Non obnoxious ones. They do exist. The one’s who dropped big bucks to graduate from there. My F3 bros like JJ & Rudolph. Who love the team but have humility in them.

Know what gets me up? Obnoxious Tarheel basketball fans being shut up!

This has nothing to do with the backblast. Just venting.

It’s Tuesday. The day after the biggest chock job in the Finals. Its fricking pouring buckets at Charlotte Douglas Airport. Water over the curbs in Long Term 2. Feet soaked. Luggage soaked. YHC soaked.

Idiots on I85. Shocking.

Finally get to Midoriyama.
Still pouring rain 🌧 like Tarheel tears last night. See the site Q vehicle parked. Yes! At least someone has a set besides tonight’s Q.
Good conversation while waiting for 1730.
Decided to start a few seconds early. Thought with the rain pissing down if you ain’t here by now, you’re not going to be here.
Start mosey to big soccer field. Not a hundred yards in a truck pulls in to the parking lot flashing lights and blowing the horn. It’s Gumby! Circle back and pick him up. Keep moseying at a chatting pace.
Long way around big soccer fields, back past flag, around the corner to playground by pump track, down hill to pond.
Hang left at volleyball court, back up to front gate. Frogger across road, around and back to flag.
Mutiple rounds of: Wall squats. Dips. Calf raises. Squats. Lunges. Inclines. LBCs. Merkins. Pretzel crunch. Flutters. Moroccan Night Clubs. 22 of each all in cadence.
Pledge.
Prayer requests. Huck. Leppard’s wife. Gumby. Broke. Big Pappy. Swimmer. Others spoken and unspoken.

Nice to have a smaller crowd tonight. You can fellowship while still working out, rather than just struggle to keep up with the batflippers.

On my flight back home, I sat with a fellow veteran my age who was returning from one of his F division mates from the USS Coontz wife’s funeral.
A group of eight met in bootcamp, went both halves of A school, sea school and the same division on ship. 45+ years of history. Wives all were friends too. Seven were still married to first wife.

Lots of sea stories shared between the two of us.

If you have a bond like that with college roomies, frat bros, shipmates, cousins, work, F3 dudes, whatever, give them a call and check up on each other.

YHC prayed us out.
Oh yeah, as usual, the rain stopped as soon as the colors were furled.

Change of pace with good idea from Flintstone/Speedracer-site Q swap. Today Speedracer came in from Lake Wylie and Q’d for a day while Flintstone did the same at Crow’s Nest.  We warmed up as the Q was coming in hot then he took over. Mosey to Martha’s parking lot for Walls of Jericho. Supposed to be 7 exercises X 7 rounds with 7 reps each exercise. I think either I remember it wrong or we just did 6 exercises…..could be either. WHAT I REMEMBER IS THIS: Plank Jack, Merkin, SSH, American Hammer, LBC, and Flutter kick with 7 rounds of mosey to the 3rd island and back to start. We moseyed to the picnic tables for the 2nd part: 11’s with Dips (Nur to the sign down the hill by the bench) and Diamonds at the bottom. We got thru this then moseyed back to start for COT and naming of the FNG brought by Boudin. Not much chatter this am due to a lot of counting and keeping track of reps. Solid workout and great crowd, especially Balljoint and other representing from Folsom, Orangeman coming from Belmont area, and (Kotter) Hushpuppy coming out of nowhere.

great idea for the site Q swap

Whoopee