Month: August 2023 (Page 4 of 11)

You can’t end the Summer of Snooze 2023 on an Omaha, at least that is what the Site Q, Short Sale, said. So YHC stepped up for an encore to officially end Snooze for the summer.

The words of the day… Modify as needed, not Omaha!

After a brief warm up where Roscoe blamed a red light for being tardy, four HIMs moseyed to the original parking lot by the river, playing a game of Frogger. Hearing no squealing and seeing no blood, the Pax started off with some 11s with Mike Tysons and squats. Modify #1, mosey one way, NUR the other.

Modify #2, inverted rows on the low pull-up bar to counter-act all the merkins (thanks Bubba Sparxxx for the physio lessons at Bulldog).

Long mosey on the sidewalk by the river, YHC looking for the big hill he knows is there somewhere. We find the hill, or so we thought, and started Jacob’s ladder: run up the hill, do a burpee, run down the hill, run back up, do two burpees, and so on until seven burpees. Modify #3, NUR up the hill. At the top of the hill on the first attempt, YHC sees the real hill, so modify #4, run down the big hill, NUR up the big hill and start the burpee count. Burpees after NURs uphill were tough. Short Sale thanked YHC for knocking out leg day for him.

On the run back to the start, the Pax enjoyed the 5th and final modify, bear crawl across the bridge (no, not the big one at the highway, there is one on the river sidewalk).

Enough time for a final Mary and time was called on the final, 1st annual Summer Snooze.

Announcements: Annihilation at Gas House, Thunder PT at Pain Lab, regular PT at the Yank all this Saturday, and Crowder’s hike on Sunday.

Prayer requests: Norwood, Huckleberry, Turtleman, Anchorman’s father in law, Tiger’s mom and dad, travel for Breaker Breaker.

Roscoe took us out.

It was an honor to lead -Orangeman

5 posted for the Thunder PT test on a mid 90’s day at Midoriyama. Not really a good place to measure fitness unless you are measuring for future global warming. We did all of the reps then we ran a little to kill the rest of the time.

I’ve never been to the Goat before, so I thought a Birthday Q would be an appropriate introduction. We started warm-ups to the smell of mouth watering freshly cooked bacon. That was torture!

Let’s mosey across the bridge over chocolate milk to the playground. We circle up around the diamond with a dozen or more Hims. You won’t get a bunch of running from me, so we’re just gonna do what I like and that’s more core 😁. 

Set1: 50 seconds of work/ 10 seconds to transition.

LBC’s, Rev-LBC’s, starcrunch, flutters, baby makers, superman pullups. Recover. Mosey around the playground. Rinse & Repeat.

Set 2: 50 seconds of work/ 10 seconds to transition.

squat shadow boxing, CDD’s. mountain climbers, merkins, lunges, side lunges. Mosey to the picnic tables, step ups. Rinse & Repeat.

Mosey back to the sweet smell of bacon to do some Mary.

Announcements: Ruck Sunday, Pockets need two Tuna people?, Convergence on Labor Day, PT Thunder @ PL, Annihilation on Sunday.

Prayers: Turtleman is starting PT 🙏, Brian Chub, Jackson Hall, Norwood, Huckleberry, Charlie heart transplant 🙏

Thank you Hims for the Happy Birthday song! I felt like the Chippendales were singing to me 😍. Much appreciated 🥳. Thank you dear Lord for allowing me to Q on my 51st Birthday. Amen!

6 HIM posted at the Pub for a 5 mile run.  Unfortunately despite my recon and studying the map I still managed to run off course (again – made the same error a few months back)  It seems I just cannot remember the route through Bethesda Oaks.  This time however Stroganoff (a true leader from the back) redirected me to stay on course.

Announcements:

Annihilation this Saturday YHC at gashouse

Peak to Peak ruck – meet at Linwood at 8am

Coconut Derby Sunday Sept3 at Coconut Horse – come compete for the belt

Convergence Labor Day at he Fuse 7 am

Prayers:

Turtleman

Jackson Hall

Huckleberry

Diablo Sammich is back at its rightful home for one day as 3 men and a dog went on a journey to the Waffle House. We strolled, on safe sidewalks, up Union Road and mixed in merkins, squats and dips(sparingly) as a garnish to our Diablo Sammich.

It’s Friday. It’s late in the morning. This is what happened…

Warmup – Merkins & Goofballs

Upon scouting out the AO, YHC figured it’s best to stay away from the traffic for our safety. There’s a lot of benefit having a 5:30 start time, particularly staying out of the way of traffic. With that in mind, we moseyed down to the newly paved Thread Trail path for the beginning of the Thang.

Kraken Burpee Mile: Do 5 Kraken Burpees and then lunge 20 paces, repeato for 5 sets. This got us a little way down the way but we had to mosey the rest of the way to the next locale.

Triple Touchdown: On the big dewy field where Broke once scored a touchdown, we did a variation of the good old Triple Nickle but with a football theme using the number 7. On one side of the field do 7 Merkins and on the other side do 7 American Hammers. Do 5 rounds of this.

Mosey up the hill around and around to the front porch of the YMCA for some 11’s. On one end do Step Ups, bear crawl to the other side and do Derkins. OMAHA!!! Apparently, the progress YHC has made recently with the People’s Elbow wasn’t enough and with the current knee problem keeping still happening were too much to take on this particular.

Quick thinking put us on the move again so we moseyed to the backstreet and ended up at one of the alleys for some new 11’s. On one end do Donkey Kicks, lunge walk to the other side and do Little Baby Dips.

Time was winding down so we headed back to start. We recited the Pledge of Allegiance and time was called.

Announcements: Peak to Peak hike, Coconut chase, convergence, Iron Pax

Prayer Requests: Turtleman, Norwood, Hacksaw, Mayor, Huck

YHC’s first Q in a hot minute, so I decided to stick with what I know.

Off we ran to the Mt. Holly pool (after a few distractions) for some mobility work, then back down the uphill to Sake (after some more distractions) for some core work. So far so good.

Now we run down the hill to Main Street for some leg work. Less pleasant. Now down Main to FBC, but stopping at every opening (road, gate, or otherwise) for Leppard Merkins.

Once at the bottom of Baptist Hill (or is it K2?), time for triple nickel with burpees (for SA) and Peter Parkers (w/o a merkin attached, unless you’re Canadian).

Time to work our way back to the flag, now stopping for jump squats at every light pole on the left, until mutiny ensued. We came up a hair short of the promised 3 miles, but some were closer than others.

Announcements: mountain climbing, convergence, and a trail 5K. You know the drill, check Slack.

Prayer Requests: SA’s family, Catheter’s family, Turtleman, Norwood, Huck

Pallbearer took us out.