Fitness, Fellowship, Faith
Warm up:
Don Q x 10ic
Imperial Walkers x 5 ic
SSH x 10ic
Mosey to Field
The Thang:
Mosey to Flag
Joined Painlab for some core work
COT
9 Hims for a hot workout at Midoriyama.
Mosey to Field
The Thang:
Mosey to Flag
COT
7 Showed for the Coconut Horse Run.
We made it and survived.
Gastone Out! BB is complete.
OK all you rednecks and gun toting bearded beasts-
It’s finally here. We’ve got a date for the first shoot ’em up event, hopefully the first of many. This first one is going to be at Foothills Public Shooting Complex on Saturday, September 12. They open at 930 AM so the plan is get there around 930 AM, sign in and get set up to start shooting ASAP. Bring your own lunch and we can use their pavilion and eat lunch there at 12 noon. Anyone that wants to stay and shoot in the afternoon can do it, but I’ll probably have some chores to do and head out after that. By chores, I mean I’ll probably take a nap and get ready for the Tyson vs some other old man fight event at Allen Tate’s house that night-see a separate pre-blast from Huckleberry. I’ll be bringing my 9 mm pistol, 30-06 rifle, and .22 rifle. They also have skeet and trap if you are interested.
https://foothillspublicshooting.cc/ should get you to their website. Need to get on there and sign the waiver thing ahead of time.
Here are some specifics:
Date: Saturday, September 12: 930 AM
Fees:
$12 Admission
$5 per round of skeet/trap (25)
$10 steel target range (pistols only)
$2 lane fee
$1 for extra targets
Address: 283 Fielding Road, Cherryville, NC 28021
Bring your own gun, check out website and sign waiver ahead of time, bring your own ammo (they have some but may still have limited quantities in 9 mm), make sure you have right kind of ammo.
Pack a lunch and we can eat at their pavilion together after couple hours of shooting.
Let Whoopee know if you are a HC. If we have more than 15, I will need to make reservations.
Hope to see you there-Whoopee
It was humid and a little gloomy.
We ran.
Bos posted for the first time at Coconut.
We tried to Articulate after.
It was fun.
Until the next one.
Aye!
Stroganoff
So YHC and 16 pax showed to know in downtown Belmont in the humid gloom for a push to dink the buttermilk promised for breakfast. It id not disappoint. Went like this:
Form up by the park and mosey down behind Sammy’s for a COP warmup:
SSH X 20
IW X 20
Cotton Pickers X 20
Nolan Ryans X 10 each side.
Grapevine stretch
Mosey over to the now named Hamburger Hill at Hawthorne for some serious Dora – Hill work
Partner up!
Dora 1-2-3
HR Merkins – 100
Big Boy situps – 200
Squats – 300
P1 – Up to the top of Hamburger hill and back.
P2 – Called exercise
Flapjack.
Got us to 7:30
Mosey back toward the AO.
Burpee suicides coming back.
Lunge two parking spaces forward. Nur back one. Drop down a burpee. Rinse and repeat until the end of the parking spots which was @ 10.
Got us to 7:40.
Mosey on over to the Field of Dreams for the 4th Quarter. Bear time! Bear Bryant. Bear Crawls. Getting tougher when it’s late in the game, your tired and behind. Make the push!
New version of Bear Crawl Slalom. With 16-17 pax, it was time to make it competitive! And thus we did. Count off by twos. YHC took the 1s. Tiger the 2s. Goal was end of the field which meant at least three rolls per pax. Three exhausting rolls. Loser gets 10 burpees. Winner gets to watch. It was as spirited and tough a 5 or so minute F3 experience YHC has ever had much less led. Saw real guts on display as the effort was fast and furious. So Q at the end called an Omaha. No losers. But 5 burpees for all. Seemed the right thing to do at the time. Sure was too!
Mosey over to Hearbreak Hill for a set of half pipes.
Top – 5 plank jacks
Pad – 5 merkins
Main street – 5 butt to the street Monkey Humpers.
2 sets. gets us to 7:55.
Reassmeble on the pad for pax led Mary. 1 pax calls move. Does 5 burpees while pax does called move. Went around the horn of 16 to finish it off. Had a little OT. Well worth it!
Pledge.
NMM:
Probably about as good as YHC can do for a lead. Most def a buttermilk day. Everyone got pounded pretty good. Again, it’s really all a lead up to the 4th quarter because that’s where you win or lose it, it being life itself. Just keep pushing it and making it happen. Bear Bryant said to his 1957 Texas A&M team (aka the Junction Boys) that winning wasn’t imperative. But getting tougher in the 4th quarter is. And that’s where we find ourselves today. So the question is do we fold and hope for better or push and make the present time an opportunity instead of a problem. It’s up to you. I find the times rather exciting myself. And living in interesting times is a gift. Newsflash: This is just the beginning. So do we lead and make it great or cower and let it overcome us. I choose leadership! Hope you do too. Make it happen! We’re here to help.
Tesla
14 HIMs showed this gloom to push their own rock and to help encourage the PAX.
It’s important to remember the fundamentals of what we do on a daily basis. Disclaimers, picking up the 6, Pledge of Allegiance and COT.
One of the less practiced things that we do is to count off how many PAX are in attendance each workout. Most of the time we stick together pretty close but you never know when someone may get sidetracked or worse. It only takes a few seconds but it can make a big difference to know where everybody is. Just saying…
Warm Up
Don Quixote, Grass Cutters, Goofballs
Mosey to the field at the track for some work in the grass.
The Thang-
Field of Dreams – Count off so there are 4 groups for the 4 stations. Everyone will do AMRAP at their station until the prior group arrives. Everything starts with the group that does 15 burpees. Once they’re done with those they go to the next, that group goes to the next and so on.
Round 1
Station 1 – 15 Burpees
Station 2 – Squats
Station 3 – Merkins (yes from the president of the MHC himself)
Station 4 – LBCs
Round 2
1 – 15 Burpees
2 – Lunges
3 – CDDs
4 – Big Boy situps
It’s somewhere in here that Buckeye said a quiet goodbye and wandered off into the dark (reference 1 for the need for a countoff)
Round 3
1 – 15 Burpees
2 – High Knees
3 – Werkins
4 – American Hammers
Mosey around to the back parking lot for part 2 of the Thang. This was about the time Top Hat said an unexpected adieu. (Reference 2 of the need for a count off)
Four Corner Escalator
Corner 1 – 10 Bobby Hurleys
Corner 2 – 10 Bobby Hurleys & 20 Pickle Pounders
Corner 3 – 10 Bobby Hurleys, 20 Pickle Pounders & 30 Dying Cockroaches
Corner 4 – 10 Bobby Hurleys, 20 Pickle Pounders, 30 Dying Cockroaches & 40 Goofballs!!!
Instead of going back down the escalator like the weinke said we moseyed back to the start due to time constraints.
It think we did a little Mary but it wasn’t long and we’re done. Thanks for the opportunity to lead again today men. Lets look ahead to the 19th when Nutria will bring his VQ!
Announcements- Nutria VQ at TRB August 19th, CSAUP at Folson September 19, JJ 5k September 26, Mt Mitchell hike September 27
Prayers – Beirut, Spam’s daughter Colleen is raising funds to be a missionary, SA’s daughter, Short Sale & Allen Tate’s surgeries, Kids going to school, teachers and the school board for wisdom
Later guys!
2nd Q of the week may have called for a very similar work out. Anyhow, we gathered in a different spot as the ladies have taken over our parking lot. No FNGs so we moseyed around town for a warm up of 10 burpees, 20 lunges, 10 burpees. Then moseyed to the Pavilion area. Picked a partner. You work and partner runs.
10 merkins, 20 squats, 30 flutters X 3 (Run a half lap around town between sets)
10 durkins, 20 dips, 30 dollys X 3 (Run a half lap around town between sets)
10 irkins, 20 squats, 30 heels to heaven X 3 (Run a half lap around town between sets)
10 workins, 20 dips, 30 LBCs X3 (Run a half lap around town between sets)
Time was up so back to the start for 1 minute of stretching. Not much mumble chatter during the workout.
Announcements: Annihilation August 29th at the Gashouse
September 19 CSAUP at Folsom (Broke QIC)
September 26th, JJ5k
September 27th Mount Mitchell Hike
Prayer Requests – Non spoken
Nameorama
Pledge
COT
We snuck into the Mt. Hollywood parking lot as it was roped off for a potential repave!! Yes you read that right, Mt. Hollywood may go from the worst parking lot to the best. Come out next Monday and see what you are missing. Anyhow, we gathered and no FNGs so we moseyed down to Central Ave for 15 burpees to get warmed up. Then moseyed down to Oakland St for 20 walking lunges. Moseyed back to wall by the Elementary School where the real beatdown began.
10 merkins, 20 squats, 30 flutters X 3 (Run a lap in the parking lot between sets)
10 durkins, 20 dips, 30 dollys X 3 (Run a lap in the parking lot between sets)
10 irkins, 20 squats, 30 heels to heaven X 3 (Run a lap in the parking lot between sets)
10 workins, 20 dips, 30 LBCs X3 (Run a lap in the parking lot between sets)
The mosey up and back on Oakland with called exercises by PAX at the light pole of my choosing in route to the flag.
Announcements – Aug. 29 Annihilation, CSUP Soon, Check with Broke for more
Prayer Requests – Sister Acts Daughter, Injuries by many PAX (Def Lep, Short Sale, Allen Tate, and others)
Pledge
Nameorama
Prayer and off we go into the week.
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