Author: Tesla (Page 7 of 17)

So YHC got to the AO early this morning, needed to do a little AO prep and get ready for phase 2 of the planned beatdown with buttermilk! Some pax were on a little EC – if they only knew! Great morning by the way for those who missed. FNG shows up from Eagle Park in Belmont. Maybe we should put an AO over there someday? Went like this:

COP:

SS – burpees X 5

IWs X 20

Cotton Pickers X 20

Grapevine Stretches

Nolan Ryans X 10 each side

Mountain Climbers X 20

Mosey down to the gazebo on the square for an escalator.

5 burpees – lap @ the green.

5 burpees, 10 big boys – lap @ the green.

5 burpees, 10 big boys, 15 dirkins – lap @ the green

5 burpees, 10 big boys, 15 dirkins, 20 jump squats – lap @ the green

5 burpees, 10 big boys, 15 dirkins, 20 jump squats, 25 dips – lap @ the green.

Line up on the sidewalk on the river side of the green.

Bear Crawl mode;

1st stake – 5 Ahs

2nd stake – 10 Ahs

3rd stake – 15 Ahs.

Broad Jump mode:

1st stake – 5 HR merkins

2nd stake – 10 HR merkins

3rd stake – 15 HR merkins

Lunge mode: (easy roll here)

1st stake – 5 LBCs

2nd stake – 10 LBCs

3rd stake – 15 LBCs

OK pax, guess what? It is now the 4th Quarter!  6: 05. Getting tougher in the 4th quarter is the bottom line. The buttermilk gets thick. Let’s find out what we got! And make it better. so, toughness drill on 1. Goes like this:

Triple Nickel

Bottom, 5 plank jacks

Top, 5 Merkins

Now here’s the rub. We generally do this on the small, short hill from the Fire Dept. up to Doffers. And it can be tough. Today, we’re raising the standards here. Because we should do that from time to time. My thought anyhow.  So we put in play. Track would be starting at the FD and going up the big hill 4 lights and back. This is roughly 3/4 of the way up and back which was given the time we had the best we could reasonably test today. So test we did!

After most of the pax had 4 repeats the bat flippers headed up for 5. It was 6:14. So YHC made a call. And that was if we are going to go over, so be it. But, FINISH! 4/5 is 80% That’s a B. Barely, but still a B. Which is good effort. But it doesn’t finish the job.  YHC  came to finish the job.  That’s an A! Best you can be. 100% . Let’s do this thing! All pax were in and FINISHED! Which made them A players. Killers. HIMs. Varsity players. Get it doners.

Got a pledge. FNG talked about spilling Merlot. But didn’t do it!

NMM:

Well, this was all about one thing. Finishing. Getting better, Getting to the horizon or the top. Mission accomplished. Took us 2 minutes over. Had plenty of time for Floyd and Blackie’s.  A good treat after that last roll. Which is why we finish. Also have to admit I was observing the 30th anniversary today of my 1991 Boston Marathon run. 3:03 on near perfect 45 degree cloudy day. What’s called Heartbreak Hill is really four hills between miles 17 and 21. We finished that day too.  So in honor of this day and the Cramerton hill we use so often we will name it Kilimanjaro. Got K2 in Mt. Holly.

Welcome another Eagle Park man – Stagecoach! From Oklahoma. He’ll be back. Tomorrow I predict. And we’ll get back up and get better then too!

Prayers  up for Dolph whose step dad passed and our GSM brothers.

Honor to lead these men. They pushed the rock. And in the 4th quarter just as hard as the 1st quarter.

Tesla

YHC blew into Cramerton this morning completely unprepared to Q The Goat today. Thought it was the 18th i was on deck. Nope! So OK, time ot make it happen! Went down like this:

COP:

SS-B X 5

IW X 20

Cotton Pickers X 20

Foot to hand stretches

Mtn. Climbers X 20

Mosey across the road to the bridge, Bear crawl across the bridge.

Wind up in the lot at the end of the park.

Partner up for BLIMPS,

P1 – Run to the end of the parking lot and back.

P2 – Do the called work.

We do this together so at the end of a round plank for the six.

B- Burpees

L- Lunges

I- Imperial Walkers

M- Merkins

P – Plank Jacks

S – Squats

Mosey back to the park and the shelter for some table work.

1st Round

10 step ups each leg

10 dips

10 inverted big boys

10 dirkins

Lap around the park back to the shelter.

Rinse and repeat above X 15

lap again.

Mosey back across the South Fork.

Triple Nickel time:

Bottom of the hill: HR merkins

Top of the hill: SSH

Repeat 5X

Pledge and COT

NMM:

Got surprised but not blindsided this morning. No biggie. YHC has done this long enough to figure something out on the fly. That is what experience does for you and is why YOU need to step up and lead! I try to keep it down to 4 a month because we can’t build leaders without letting them get their hands dirty and maybe even fail. No one goes through life undefeated. Unless you don’t ever step up and get your ass in the game. And even with the best preparation you need to get that it can go awry real fast. There remains no doubt in my mind that when Neil and Buzz got that 1201 alarm at 35,000 feet coming down to the lunar surface on 7/20/69 their training and experience as combat fighter pilots is why they go the job done. Which means they spent all of their adult lives putting themselves out there and being at risk. No more so than they did that day and became the first humans to set foot on another world.

Now, that’s extreme stuff there but you need to get the point. Which is step up, expect for things to go bad and recover.  And related to that is when it does go downhill there is always one more thing you can do to get to a position of advantage. And after that another and after that another. Three strikes and you are not out in the real world. So push the rock and get in the arena.  We need you to do that.

Welcome FNG Liono. A fellow North Meck Redneck! he doesn’t know it but there is a song written about us. I’ll sing it someday. Show to know!

Tesla

Been awhile but YHC felt like it was time to bring the Blimp to the Goat! On a perfect winter morning it went like this:

COP:

Side straddle Burpees, A Tesla creation.  5 SSH X 1 burpee. Repeat 5X

IWs X 20

Cotton Pickers X 20

Grapevine stretches

Mtn. Climbers X 20

Mosey to the street for Blimps  and partner up. P1 one runs the circle, P2 does the work. Flapjack.

Burpees

Lunges

IWs

Merkins

Plank Jacks

Squats

In the spirit of unity another Tesla adaption of a tried and true formula – Unified Triple Nickel! Which meant we do the mosey together and it is Q called as follows.

Lower side near the gazebo: 5 dirkins

Upperside on the top of the hill on the green: 5 big boys

Mosey 1 – Karoke up and back

Mosey 2 – Nur up, run back

Mosey 3 – Broad jump up, run back.

Mosey 4 – Bear crawl halfway up, Finish with burpee broad jump

Mosey 5 – Run up, run back.

Mosey  back to the flag and some Mary and a pledge

NMM:

Great morning, great group. Goat Brings out the best! Thanks to Pillager for the opportunity to lead. We pushed it pretty good today! There’s more where that came from.

Tesla out!