Author: Gavel (Page 3 of 5)

YHC predicted a light crowd with rain in the forecast and it being Easter weekend. 6 total for work to be done.

Disclaimer while we wait for Tesla to emerge from his car.

Mosey to shelter in park.

Warmup:
Stretches
15 Gravel pickers IC
15 toy soldiers IC
15 plank jacks IC

Mosey up to other shelter with tables near track.

Thang: Deck of Death
❤️-SSH, Ace=2 laps
♠️-merkins of your choice Ace=1 minute plank
♦️-LBC’s, Ace=100 flutter kicks
♣️-CDDs, Ace=100 air presses

Add 10 to each card except aces.
Jack, Queen and King of each suit=25 each

Got through all cards with 2 minutes left, enough time for Tesla to hijack the Q with some bear crawl work. We kept a steady pace throughout the whole hour. Good to see Fruity Pebbles in the gloom again.

COT

Announcements:
Easter this Sunday, all AOs closed
Convergence April 29th 0700 @ Midoriyama, George Poston park.
Time laps 5-19, see Flintstone

Prayers/praises:
Huckleberry
Flintstone’s dad
Tiger’s mom
Tooth Fairy’s daughter doing great

YHC prayed.

Thanks for joining me men.

There’s only been a handful of Sundays this year that it hasn’t rained on us while we ran or rucked and today was one of those days. It was cold but who cares we are here to get better.

We had 8 regulars and 1 FNG. FNG was from Indian Trail and EH’d by Eh Y’all who works with him. He’s a competitive BBQer so welcome Microwave.

Announcements:
Lunch 3-22 noon at JR Cash
Community Foundation run 4-1, need runners/pushers
F3 Dads 4-15 at The Yank
Time laps see Flintstone 5-19
Grow rucks in May and June

Prayer/praise:
P200 travel and runners
Mortimer runners and travel
Orangeman grand Baby doing well
Tiger’s mom
Jane Fond and his daughters new job opportunity

We lost Quiche after COT but gained Tesla for Q Source. We talked about our Ms, both present and ex.

YHC prayed.

Thanks for joining me and getting a little better.

We’ve had great numbers recently at the Yank but I knew today was going to take a hit, Q vs. Q at Gashouse and BOS put out a clown car opportunity to MeCa a few days ago. But we are there for whoever shows so here’s what I remember.

I was hoping for even numbers so we could play with the blocks Tiger purchased last week and left in the Bunker. 7 HIM joined me by 0700 to say the pledge of allegiance. We moseyed down to the Bucker for the warm up and block werk but the blocks weren’t there. After doing a quick scan we realized they were either stolen for nearby construction or by the city since Tesla talked us into leaving them in the open rather than hidden in the trees. Oh well move on.

Warmup: stretch, gravel pickers, toy soldiers and merkins.

My weinke was out the window due to no blocks so I improvised. We ran over to the side street next Everyday Cafe where we bear crawled two parking spaces then stopped for 10 squats, there were about 10 spaces. We stayed close for some Dora 1 2 3. 100 merkins, 200 shoulder taps and 300 LBCs.

Next we ran to Hawthorne hill for triple nickel of CDDs at the bottom and Big Boys at the top 5 times.

We ended at the track for Tesla’s favorite fourth quarter routine bear crawl slalom.

Back to The Fighting Yank statue for five minutes of Mary: burpees, ab work and a few more burpees.

Announcements:
Lunch at JR Cash’s 3-22 noon
Community Foundation run 4-1, sign up and help push three Speed for Need chairs
F3 Dads workout 4-15 0700 at the Yank
Time laps at Whitewater Center, see Flintstone
Multiple Grow Ruck events

Prayers/Praises:
Orangeman’s grand baby to be born very soon
Fannie Mae sister-in-law
Tigers mom
Jane Fonda family’s

YHC took us out

Pleasure to lead this morning and remember to always be prepared.

It was supposed to rain and it did. Solid number of HIMs showed in the rain for a ruck or run. Three more joined for Q Source for a discussion on Group.

COT under Chick-fil-A’s drive through awning.

Announcements:
lunch noon Wednesday at Hillbilly’s.
CSAUP/convergence 2-11-23 at Folsom 0630 start time. All other AO’s closed.
3-4-23 Extinction run at Primal in Belmont 0900

Prayer Requests:
Tiger and family
Sprinkler and health of his eyes
Pockets dad and his health.
Huck
Turtleman
Roundup and wife with baby on the way
People living and working in the rain

YHC took us out in prayer.

I’m glad I had the Q this morning because I would’ve been in bed otherwise. Thanks for joining me men, your hard thing for the day is over.

No that’s not the start to a bad dad joke. It was Pilgrims Progress for a solo ruck and YHC for a solo run. We got 1% better and was joined by Tesla for Q source. We talked about opportunities. You should’ve been there.

Pledge

Announcements

Prayers

Gavel out.

We had 7 at 0530 for an EC Food ruck for Dallas Christian Ministry. Norwood joined and brought food from his pantry at home, sorry Mrs. Norwood. 5 would do the bootcamp, 2 rucked some more and Flintstone left in his footmoblie.

Rain started as we finished the ruck so we took cover under the awnings at Old Stone. Still raining at 0700 so we said the Pledge of Allegiance from our cover. Mosey to my truck to pick up a deck of cards, then to the pavilion at the park.

Disclaimer, man it’s dark be careful and don’t get hurt.

WU: SSH x20 IC, leaf pickers x10 IC, toy soldiers x15 IC, LBC x15 IC, 5 burpees OYO

Mosey to the track for one set of 11’s-HR merkins, big boys.

Rain had stopped but since I had the cards in my pocket we took the long way to the shelter with plenty of tables for more fun. Draw a card and add 10 to the number except aces, those had fun of their own.

❤️-SSH. Ace-2 laps around track
♠️-HR merkins. Ace-1 minute plank
♦️-LBC’s. Ace-100 flutter kicks
♣️-Dips. Ace-100 step ups

Impossible to remember the order of cards pulled but two aces were on the top, 2 laps around the track and 100 flutters were a great start. Reshuffle the deck due to complaints and kept going. Plenty of hand release merkins and dips, a few SSHs but hardly any LBCs. Time was called before we could finish the deck. YHC was seeing stars on the way to the flag but it was good to get out there.

Announcements:
Blood drive 11-9, sign up link on slack
Christmas town 5k 11-26, HC to Broke if you can push the chariots
Christmas party 12-3

Name-o-rama

Prayers:
Huck
Sargento
Nutria’s brother in law fighting cancer
Radar’s sister fighting cancer.

YHC’s head was clear enough to take us out in prayer. Thanks guys.

Norwood is on deck for next week.

Watching the weather all week I had a few ideas in my heads, but nothing on paper. Rain was gone by morning but we still had a light crowd. I decided to borrow a portion of a Def Leopard Q from Midoriyama, here’s how it went.

Warmup – SSH, Don Q’s, Imperial Walkers, and squats.

Mosey to shelter in the park for a round of ab werk.

Mosey to church parking lot for four corner escalators.
Corner 1 – 10 perfect form (PF) merkins, (hand release w/shoulder taps at top)
Corner 2 – 20 American Hammers (count right side as one), repeat 10 PF merkins
Corner 3 – 30 Imperial Walkers (count ride side as one), 20 hammers, 10 PF Merkins
Corner 4 – 40 Flutter Kicks (count right side as one), 30 Imperial Walkers, 20 hammers, 10 PF Merkins
Corner 3 – 30 Imperial Walkers (count ride side as one), 20 hammers, 10 PF Merkins
Corner 2 – 20 American Hammers (count right side as one), repeat 10 PF merkins
Corner 1 – 10 PF Merkins.

Mosey across the street to old middle school for a triple nickel. Squats on one end and calf raises on the other.

Mosey back to shelter for another round of ab werk.

Mosey to track for another triple nickel as time was running low. 5 CDD’s on one end then run half way around track then do 5 jump squats, called by Norwood finish the lap and go again. We got in 4 before headed to the flag.

Time! Great work and fellowship by all.

Pledge of Allegiance.

Announcements:
10-8 Amoeba ruck, see BOS or slack
10-15 co-convergence at Bulldog, WA Bess elementary. All Saturday AOs closed
12-3 Christmas party

Prayer requests:
Victims of hurricane Ian
New babies and families in our region

I prayed us out.

It looked like it was going to be a rainy mess this morning but when YHC got to Members Only it was clear but humid. I saw a few cars of ruckers and two runners getting some EC. 0630 came so I headed out on another solo run. We all came back in one piece and finished COT just as the rain started.

Pledge of allegiance

Announcements

Prayer by yours truly

Gavel out.

My 2.1 & 2.1a had a birthday yesterday and tuned 6. We did some stuff with those numbers. There were a few runners that would meet us at the end.

Warmup at the flag since there were low numbers. None for the Bunker but Doodles is nursing an arm injury so we stuck together. Modify as needed.

Toy soldiers 11x IC
Seal jacks 11x IC
Gravel pickers 11x IC
Over head arm and leg stretches

Mosey to hill where the townhomes are.
9 HR merkins at bottom 2 burpees at top, 6x
This was pretty dumb and took a lot of our time.
Mosey to old middle school.
11’s – dips and calf raises.
mosey to flag for a little ab werk.

Announcements:

Relays for next year are filling up. See slack to HC.
9-17 skate with mayor
9-24 JJ 5k. The Yank has a special quest to Q so come on over if you’re not running.
10-8 convergence with Lake Wylie

Praise and prayers:

Welcome Luke, Buckeye’s newest
Ms with babies
Bos is back
Tesla and family
Huck
Turtleman

Name o rama

Prayer

Gavel out.

Tiger messaged me earlier in the week that he needed to switch Q’s with me and I obliged. Woke up to a nice cool morning and drove to the Yank with a white board in tow. Pulled in to see some getting EC and some high rollers of F3 Gastonia. I was a little nervous but I’d turn that in energy.

Mosey down to the Bunker as a train was leaving, whew! I said in my head no burpees today. Nothing really planned for a warmup but we did Gravel pickers, toy soldiers, SSHs 11x IC. I think there were 11 merkins too, OYO.

We split from the Bunker crew and head to the track. I’m going to hate the day Belmont gets rid of that.

Arrive at the track to see my white board, borrowed from my M. Mayor had a Q at the Goat a few weeks ago and I stole his idea. I switched up the exercises so it wasn’t a complete copy of his. Idea was to perform 10 of each exercise then take a lap, 9x lap, 8x lap all the way to 1 of each exercise and a lap.

Exercises were LBCs, merkins, squats, plank jacks, Freddy mercury’s, shoulder taps, SSHs, big boy sit ups, lunges and CDDs.

Everyone finished and some starting counting back up the ladder. The up and down was bad with the low rep numbers, sorry to everyone’s backs.

Plenty of time left so fellowship mosey to the shelter. Dips and derkins using the tables 20/10, 15/15, 10/20. Mountain climbers and step ups next, same reps. Finish and mosey to The Yank for some Mary. I think we did flutter kicks, American hammers, and crunchy frogs. Pizza man counted 22 push-ups for the vets and we were done.

Great crowd this morning with a few different faces. Thanks men.

Pledge of allegiance.

Announcements:

F3 dads next Saturday 8-20
50 plus mile relay September 10
Iron pax September
skating September 17
JJ 5k September 24

Prayers and praises:

Tesla son new job/travel
Teachers and kids in school
Huck
Turtleman
Courtney, hit while running
Other Runners who were hit. Be careful out there.
M’s with babies
BOS’ Dad
Breaker Breaker’s uncle
Papa Orangeman, daughter with child.
Tooth Fairy’s daughter is showing the doctors who’s boss by pulling up and standing on her own! Awesome news.

YHC prayed us out but forgot name-o-rama. Started to do it but another train came by. You’ll have to believe me in who gets credit 😉

The Gavel out.