It’s that time of year again for the most CSAUP of all CSAUPs. The 2023 Beer Mile welcomes all participants and spectators for the most thrilling 5280 feet in sports. The details are below.

When? Saturday December 30th

What time? 11:00 at YHC’s hacienda, 4333 Winder Trail in Gastonia. We’ll have a briefing on rules and then head to the AO.

Participants are to bring 4 of their preferred 12-ounce canned beers to be consumed during the race. The following are allowed or a Sargento preapproved alternative. Must be 4.2% alcohol or above.

• Natural Light
• Ultra
• Miller Lite
• Coors Light
• Bud Light (if you’re like that)

We’ll have burgers and dogs afterward and hand out awards for:

• fastest racer
• best costume
• best spectator
• best sign

Please HC to YHC and get ready for the most awesome event since last year’s Beer Mile. If you know, you know. See y’all there!

Time to fly 5 by 5.

Gumby began the workout with a warm up routine complete with stretches that a certain doctor ignored ( one day even he will will find value in stretching those joints and ligaments)

No more wooden nickels.

Assemble and collect coupon, meet handicapped parking lot where I continue another warmup

Cue the music ….. Nickelback

50 IC imperial walkers
25 arm circles forward
25 backwards
50 squats
25 lunges forward
25 back
50 SSH single count

Rub two nickels together, try to get them to mate ( paraphrased)

Now

25 curls
10 overhead presses
10 squats
5 kettlebell swings
5 box jumps

This was main event but would diminish curls by one and at each multiple of 5 do another subroutine

Go on down to the 5 and dime.

Instead of four corners or triple nickels we did 5 corners ….. ish.
5 merkins
5 side lunges ( lunge to each side for 1 count)
5 flutters
5 lbcs
5 burpees in center

If I had a nickel for each time……

Prayers and concerns for Turtleman, niece running her first ever marathon today Kiawah Island, others

I am Stephen Sobota ….. one last time 55 … Clavin!

0230 – YHC wakes up with a gut-busting pain.  Send a text to the Site Q, “20% chance I make it today.  Stomach.”  Alarm’s still set.  Back to sleep.

0350 – Alarm goes off.  Eh.  Never called out on a Q and not wanting to start now.  Also, the words of the immortal People’s Champ were ringing through my head from Midoriyama the night before.  For all the accolades, he might be most proud of being the record-holder as the only PAX (that we know of) to, well, soil himself at two different workouts.  Well, can’t do it twice if you don’t do it once.

0417 – Text to Site Q that YHC is gonna give it a go

0430 – Frantic search for all black clothes.  Worst case, at least they won’t see it.  If their noses aren’t stuffy, they’ll still know for sure, as the air will be a different kind of fresh.

0455 – Arrive on site to a big crowd at Ground Assault

0500 – 11 PAX say the pledge.  4 ruckers head out on the usual route.  5 runners launch the Catchy Named Route.  2 PAX wait.

0501 – Sargento arrives to run with Buckeye and Quiche

What happened from there is anybody’s guess.  We all put in miles and met back for COT.

Strong crowd of 12 for a cold Wednesday morning at Ground Assault.  Glad I didn’t spend the morning washing the sand out of… well, you know.

Yabba Dabba Doo

20 PAX showed up for the BD and I had to adjust a little bit with a larger group. I hope your shoulders thanked you for it!

COP

SSH, LSSQ, Mountain Climbers, Zombie Walkers, Imperial Walkers, Willie Mays De Hays,

The Thang

Block Gauntlet with PAX in single file plank perpendicular to blocks.  First PAX drags block underneath and moves forward until all blocks are at the end.  R&R coming back.

Cheddar Shredder – All PAX shoulder to shoulder in single file.  Drop to plank. PAX on the end bear crawls around in front of the next PAX then drops for a Merkin.  Side crawl to next PAX and R&R. Continue until all PAX are in original position.

Rifle carry blocks to bball hoop and circle up.  Q calls out exercise while the timer rifle carries a 35, 45, or 55 lb plate of their choice to the top of the hill and back. Exercises include.

Swings, Overhead Press, Squats, Sumo Squats, Deadlift, Rows, Curls, Skull Crushers, Chest Press, WW 3’s, Big Boys with blocks, for 1 round

Finished with Irkins on the block to Bring Sally Up Bring Sally Down

COT

Keeping with seasonal motif. No cancel culture here.

Started with quickly pointed out Q fail. Parked in time but was a few seconds late getting started. Only accepted answers are Yes sir, No sir, and No excuse sir.

Ran the simple route to Martha Rivers and back. The leaf pile monsters didn’t attack. New yap dog on the route. All returned safely.

Beer ruck.
Beer mile.
New Years Day to be determined.

No new prayer requests this morning.

Thanks for allowing me to Q.

We missed Linus today, so we rucked his last route backwards hoping to find him. No luck.

Ace Hardware opens today so we wrapped up with some window shopping.

I always try to bring something different for my Q’s and I always plan more than I have time for today was no different. We did a proper warm up of course and disclaimer we had 2 FNG from my work. Then headed to the soccer field where I had an 8’ section of power pole waiting roughly 100 pounds the plan was one pax carry pole to end of field and back to group that is doing LLB’s working their way across I can’t thank Easy Rider enough for bringing these to my attention they’re GREAT! Anyhow we took turns carrying the pole until we got to the other side. Then moseyed to a nearby parking lot where I had various coupons set up for circuit training we did 30 seconds on 30 seconds off for three sets of each exercise wich were: sissy squats thanks to wire nut for bringing the rig,deadlifts squats laterals curls bigboys burpees leg raises ab roll outs oh press jump rope SSH we didn’t have time to make it through all the stations but hopefully the pax worked some muscles they normally don’t we discovered stogie is squat illiterate 😆 but he tried can’t fault a man if he’s working at getting better 👍. We went back to soccer field and continued back across the way we started. Then did 22 for the troops counted off by a shirtless gear wrench in 35 degree weather 😆 he’s a savage . Then 10 burpees to finish out. After all was said and done I only burned 175 calories 🤷‍♂️so I guess it wasn’t that kinda workout but PX did some exercises we normally don’t with blocks and body weight so I say mission accomplished. We pledged did announcements and I prayed us out. Men I love F3 and what it’s all about I’m thankful for all the friends I’ve made since I started 👊🏻looking forward to the next one.