Tag: Downtown (Page 3 of 21)

10 total at Downtown this morning for a rare morning time Freight Q. My hours were a little different this week so I took advantage. This is what we did.

Warmup;

seal jacks, butt kicker, high knees, flutter kicks

Let’s mosey

The Thang:

We headed down Main st toward the new ball park stopping on the way a few times to do some exercises. We would continue this for most of the workout. We eventually cut across Franklin to 2nd avenue. We took 2nd back up to Broad and Broad back up to Main for a little over two miles and stopping for said exercises several times. The exercises are listed below.

5 lunges each leg

5 WWI’s

5 Squats

5 Merkins

5 Kracken Burpees

Back at the start we finished of with Def Leppard’s choice of Tiger Kings. That’s squats and lunges at a 1:4 ratio like the iron hulk. We did this to about 7 or 8 when time was called.

COT:

Announcements-Service project items

Prayer Request-2.0’s, those with sickness, pax traveling

The day b4 my Q I noticed that the newly repaved West Main Avenue was open for traffic again so I thought this might be a great opportunity to explore the new FUSE District.  12 PAX showed for what was supposed to be a wet Friday morning but the Lord was good to us and moved the rain out just in time!  5:30 time to go to work…

Warm-up:  SSH / Gravel Pickers / (The Patented) Left over Rights & Right over Lefts / Moroccan Nightclubs / Step-ups (All IC)

The Thang:  We moseyed around the corner for some marching wall sits then lined up at the intersection of W Main / S Chester.  From there it was 1 Calf Raise / 1 Squat / 1 Merkin / 1 LBC at each of the new street lights headed to the ballpark.  Once at the FUSE we moseyed around the field to the front corner, found a sport statue & it was 25 Merkins & Dips OYO.  Another mosey to the upper corner & did Ring of Fire with Flutters and Bear Crawls.  Moseyed back to W Main for the return trip… Rinse & Repeat.  Back at the parking lot it was a short round of Dora w/ American Hammers / Lunges.  Then we finished up with some Mary.

Pledge / COT – And since I’m so late in writing this BB the announcements are no longer valid 🙁 

Name-O-Rama found Pizza Man running up for a “provisional” entry following his run!

Prayers are always current though:  Turtleman’s treatment / scan, Sister Act, Big Pappy, Uranus’ wife, JK2’s oldest daughter, EZ’s wife

Purple Haze:  Excuse Me While I Kiss the Sky!

Quick immediate disclaimer, no fng’s.  Somebody’s pulling in last moment and trying to calculate the perfect parking spot.  But Watts Up will have nothing to do with this, time to roll if we’re going.  So, let’s go.

First stop is short one.  Out to Main St.  Find a partner.

Booyah Merkin Runs

Stop light to stop light, alternating routes.  Meet back with partner and count 10 Booyah merkins, working your way down.  We did this for a little bit.

Mosey to the parking garage.

Modified 4 corners on six levels?  All OYO….but we ran as a group

Ground Floor:  10 merkins

1st level:  Repeat and 20 squats

2nd level:  Repeats and 30 LBC’s

3rd level:  Repeatss and 40 flutters

4th level:  Repeatss only

5th level:  No repeatss, just 50 SSH

Mosey back down using the “You take the High Road and I’ll take the Low Road” approach.  Group 1 (which ironically did not include me) run back down and go to the stairs.  Group 2 will take the stairs and joyfully cheer you on.  Rinse and repeat only Group 2 now runs.  Carry this down to the bottom level.

Some aggressive competition going (well basically everybody was trying to catch Bob the Builder) so we kept it up.

Group Planks/Squats:

Group 1, A, whatever your called runs up one level and back down the stairs.  Group 2 or B or whatever we are holds plank.

Rinse and repeat using Squat or Al Gore position.

Rinse and repeat using/holding feet in 6″ off ground position.  Also ironic that Linus tried to switch groups avoiding the last run.  This was the first or 2nd or maybe 3rd Q fail of the morning.

We are already down to about less than 20 minutes left.

Take a mosey to the murky hill area right below the Masonic Temple (which I mis-pronounced so says Watts Up).  I slid my Weinke under a Bic lighter to prevent my Whoopee Resistant plastic covered Weinke from blowing away.  By the way, that area is way less murky in the daylight but the hill is a bit intimidating.  Partner up.

Merkin Bear Crawls:

Partner 1 does 10 merkins and can get up and run to catch partner 2 who is bear crawling.  All the way to the stoplight.  I think Slaw and company made it back to the pavilion and came back to help finish our rep.

Round 2:  Dips (best you can on a flat surface) and crab walk half the distance.  Somewhere in the process the HIM’s retrieved my weinke including the Bic lighter used to hold it in place.  I think as I type this there is somebody trying to light up fuming about their missing flame.  Doubt their internal anger is enough to light their stick, maybe an incentive to quit smoking?  But I doubt it.

Back across Franklin.  We’ve got about 3.5 minutes to spare.  Continue our last round with squats and lunges.  Roll back to the pavilion at exactly 6:15.

Announcements:

Leadership meeting this Sunday

Blood Drive – Lineberger Park

Service Project – Clippers and Chapstick.  Toenail ‘clippings’ are accepted but not preferred.  Slaw may use to make coconut smoothies.

Monthly 5K – June 27th at Crossroads

Friday Downtown needs a Q this coming weekend.  For those traveling Zoom Q’s may be accepted.

June 17th – Get your Shovel Flags to Whoopee or Gastone for placement at Turtleman’s house.  Anybody got a spare flag for Balljoint?

Prayers and Concerns:

Turtleman

EZ Rider and family

Gumby’s mother

8 at Downtown this morning

Warm-up

The Thang:

555 Standard

5 Rounds

15 Squats

15 HR Merkins

15 Burpees

Run a lap

Route 66

Imperial Walker Squats, using light poles on the left on main street.  Start with 1 IW Squats at first pole, working way up to 11 IW Squats at last pole

Parking Deck 

Start with called exercise at bottom, Joe Hendricks up the ramps, then add exercise each level as we work towards the top.  Exercises were:

5 Burpees, 10 Mike Tyson’s, 20 American Hammers, 30 Mountain Climbers, 40 SSH, 50 Flutter Kicks

COT

Announcements

Prayer Request

Nameorama

SA out!!

1. Over the Christmas holidays my 2.0 expanded more fully into the bonus room ( a benefit of being an only child) and I needed to move some stuff around inc a new better tv and console. Suddenly I unearthed an archaeological treasure almost like time capsule! It was a sheet of paper that Short Sale passed around approximately 3 years ago downtown and I enjoyed it so much I treasured it ( filed away and forgotten more like) hoping to draw upon its energy and purpose at some point in my life! I knew immediately (. 5 months ago!) that I needed to lead a Q downtown ( where I’ve been absent from for almost a year !) and bring this holy object back into the gloom.
   Start with pledge
   Tell all, yep, I’m an idiot! I’m gonna give suggestions … so take them or leave them … I don’t care.
   Toy soldiers IC x 11 ( only because EZ Rider challenges me too !!)

medium arm circles 10 forward 10 backwards single count 
Imperial Walkers IC x 10 ( I think ,,,, might’ve needed 9)
Side lunge each side 10 times each OYO
jumping lunges ( crowd pleaser ) IC x 5 or 6
Nolan Ryan’s OYO 10 times each side
5 burpees
Mosey to street and

5 burpees

To the wall
Wall sits hands in front IC x 10
Purple Haze was going on about something … had to shut it down … because we NEEDED Hip Slappers IC X 10 ( I think)
Mosey about 5 feet to another street and

5 burpees


Mosey to 321 S and ask, “ what’s next?”
Everyone volunteers 5 burpees!” In a loud Chorus …. Had to answer a lot of questions from Police inc a promise to keep it down.

kept up with burpees all the way to First Presby only stopping to “drum up “ business at the Motor inn Lodge with 10 IC monkey humpers

at the stairs for FPC we line up and bear crawl up and then down at a sideways angle because I si not realize how steep these are!! And then over to the other big set ( way away … almost too far ) and so same again .

all talk about how much that SUCKED!

so I said I’ve got another sucky idea 5 Bobby Hurleys ( talk about Bobby Hurley burpees … not today)

 mosey back to pavilion stopping to ask each pax in turn what they wanted and how many … all kept telling me 5 burpees except SA who o thought asked for 20 only to hear him say 10… confusion as pax was excited about the higher number

we also paused to perform crab thrusters in front of the Main PO

So once we get to the Pavilion I introduce the pain, er the next fun exercises !! Yay 

3 rounds of 

20 flutters, 15 lbcs, 10 leg raises 

20 Freddie Mercuries, 15 heel touches, 10 modified v-sit

20 American Hammers, 15 Long Arm crunches, 10 reverse crunch

and there was supposed to be a 30-60 second test in between each , but this group was having none of that !!! D@mn but they kept rolling into the next set and then the last !

plenty o time so deep sea divers 5 each step up 4 steps stop at top one abs recount it first and then down each 

I now ask Slaw, “ How many?” I know … dangerous question especially as he says, “33!”

I clarify and ask what exercise …. Yes! I know that this is perhaps even more dangerous ….. 

hw says Slaw Squats …. Take it all the way as low as you can go ( to the ground, he says)

I accept the 33 and the crowd goes wild !

1:05 left for the beat down …. Yep, you guessed it … they wanted 10 more burpees …. All total I’m certain we did 100 ….and there was no train!

Bunker at Yank Pain Lab 101 w/ Rudolph 

Memorial Day Murph Sandlot 7:00 all other AOs open 

Amoeba  Ruck

Gashouse changing o’ the guard Linus hands off to the Whoopster tomorrow 

Downtown and Labyrinth actively seeking new site Qs 

update on Turtleman from Gastone that due to F 3 and tennis T- mans heart is really strong and that after the first few treatments all cancer is dead!! But needs to complete all for best effect. Lost weight ( to be expected , but doing well)

prayers also for Sister Acts daughter 

Purple Hazes neighbor who fell recently 

lastly I can only say how amazing this group was constantly on top of all the routines … although some were rather gassy….. perhaps I’ll bring some Beano next time 

As one approaches a milestone, it naturally triggers some form of reflection. As you may have heard, I’m extremely close to hearing the word “respect” echo after sharing my name at the COT. So with that in mind and accepting the open Q slot for downtown, I settled on an workout that I did a few months ago at the Labyrinth, obviously this time using a different route, though the PAX did begin to wonder if I may lead them to the SC state line via 321. The disclaimer was something like “we’re going to do some more running this morning, if you’re not up for it, stay here until we get back; modify as you wish.”

Warm-up:

• SSH IC x 10
• Toy Soldier IC x 10
• Don Quixote IC x 10
• Imperial Walker IC x 10
• Pledge

Mosey

Out of base, right on Main St, had to wait to cross York/321 N – lot of cars moving through for 0535 – maybe trying to find gas? Continue down to almost the end of the next block. Time to exercise:

• 10 Hand Release Merkins
• 10 Squats
• 10 Mtn Climbers
• 10 Plank Jacks

This would be the routine for a total of 9 stops along the chosen route. Should have been 10 but I mis-counted along the way. Clavin wondered why only 40 reps and not 50, or 49? Good question – that’s a Q-fail. Probably a lot more of those ahead of me in my increasing age. Oh, well, onto the story. We stopped in front a glass door that led up stairs to a 2nd level office. This was the former office of Adams-Kenley Appraisals, where my career began. A lot of hours spent in that building, well at least a little more than 2 years worth – but it was the foundation of my profession. That will be a theme for this morning.

Left on Chester St/321 S and right on Franklin Blvd. Mumble chatter was picking up, talking about Broke’s new 80/20 method, picking on Slaw with any Navy joke they could imagine, if we were going to the new FUSE stadium or some sketchy parts of town? Stopped just before FUSE, Q crossed Franklin w/o much notice and PAX had to stay on sidewalk to avoid speeding car. Safely across and into the parking lot behind Chamber of Commerce which was beside the little gym at the old YMCA. That was where my athletic career began – youth basketball in the gym and soccer on the outdoor field. Dreams were dreamt but this white boy topped out at 5’9″ and my prowess ended about 9th grade. Do the routine and move down the street to the corner of Clay and 2nd Street. Here is where my grandfather (driving me to a b-ball game in 7th grade) failed to look at the stop sign and smashed into a cop car and causing my knee to pop into my chin breaking my jaw – life lesson – wear a seatbelt. Despite Slaw’s suggestion to continue up 2nd Street, we went south on Clay, hanging  a left on Harvie, going another block to corner of Hanna/Harvie – did the drill. Speculation about which house might be the story – it would be the NW corner – white aluminum sided ranch where my grandparents lived and dad grew up when times were much simpler. Many holidays and Sunday dinners at that house. Baseball games in the back and cut that grass too many times to count – good memories. Up Harvie, right on Chester, down to the parking lot across from Holy Trinity – my childhood church where my foundation of faith was established – shout out to Pastor Setzer. Life lesson – as Def Leppard often says – get to a church. Next stop was quick, the 2-story house on York (#721). EZ Rider knew the family  as he put HVAC in this old historic home – my childhood friends (Keysers) lived there and I was like their 4th child. Life lesson – embrace your childhood friends and memories.

Continue north to the dentist office (Woody, Cooper, Wellons). Lot of fillings – life lesson – brush and floss your teeth. Right on Third, left on South. Arrive in parking lot that I forgot the story spot. It was 0600 and my trip down memory lane went faster than planned. Sister Act was present and why pass up an opportunity to make his day? Use the hilly driveway for an Triple Nickle: Burpees and Mike Tysons…I felt like a man for a second. SA of course led the way. That took up just enough time. I recalled the story – across the street was the law office of Morris Keeter. In high school I drove my friends orange Datson B210 hatchback home from a party. We went through a DUI check, conveniently one of the guys in the back had puked down the passenger side door – nice. It didn’t take the police anytime to flag our vehicle. Swear on a stack of Bibles I hadn’t had a drop of alcohol all night, but as my first time under duress I failed the sobriety test. Mr. Keeter got me out of a possession ticket. Life Lesson – practice taking sobriety tests, or maybe get the puke cleaned up before driving through a DUI check or maybe stay home and watch a movie with your parents?

As we migrated up South Street, we didn’t catch the light – so may as well do the drill a final time (makes #9). We cross and I burn the final two minutes with 49 reps of LBCs followed by 49 reps of Flutter Kicks.

Announcements: Amoeba Ruck 5/22; Clavin Q Downtown 5/21, new AO at TFY; get your backblasts done (check); Prayers: SA and 2.0, Big Pappy, Turtleman, Praise for CPAP and Dirt getting jobs

No need for a detailed moleskin other than take time to stop and reflect on your life and learn some lessons from past mistakes. Build on your successes. Find new ways of doing things (see Broke’s 80/20 method). Don’t pick on Slaw all the time. and lastly carry more toilet paper (see Round-Up’s BB). Wade Coffey – 49 – Short Sale (one last time).

5 Bad MFer’s showed up at downtown this am. Yup, I said it. It’s true and you deserve the truth if you are reading this. We were some bad MFer’s this am. If you weren’t there, you missed out…..BIG TIME. It was great. The weather was perfect. The air was right….until Purple Haze made it not so….but that is ok because it’s a men’s workout. And men do things that are manly. And sometimes it is offensive. But that is ok. We are men and we can handle that.

We started with a disclaimer for SA-try to keep up with the old man. Today is my birthday and 51 years old is nothing to take lightly. I really think I am just hitting my prime if you want to know the truth. Pledge was next then we did a quick warmup with 5 SSH and 1 Burpee (5-1, get it? 5-1 because I am 51 today…..stay with me. We won’t go too fast).

We moseyed a short distance to the round parking lot ? West of the pavilion. Mosey 1 lap, 10 squats. Mosey 1 lap, 20 squats….then I remembered one of our (younger) pax has a bum knee so we Omaha’d to 31 squats for total of 51 squats and cut the mosey/run short. We moseyed over to the other side (East side) to find a nice wall……I then asked a younger pax this question: “What exercise would you like to do?” and he replied with a smile, “Hip Slappers, sir.” We I showed him my electronic weinke and wouldn’t you know it, there it was, “HIP SLAPPERS” for the next exercise. So we started with 10 OYO. Not enough for this old man so we did 10 IC. We did a few more and some were OYO and some were IC. Some were fast and some were slow (but the slow ones were generally ignored). We got to 51 with a few side eye looks from the younger pax-I could tell there was a little animosity towards me….Whatever, suck it britches. We started to mosey but then I thought again. We got about 15 feet and I called for some more hip slappers just for fun. Just to be clear, that was for my fun, not yours. Slaw was leading the pack so I ‘splained to him our destination was the wall. “THE WALL. As in McQuitter’s WALL?” asked the Slaw-bag. “Why yes, Slaw, that is the wall of which I am referring” said I. So we all moseyed to THE WALL. I have not been to the wall in a while so I had to look at the brick-Hazel and Richard McQuitter. AKA Dick McQuitter. (Insert jokes here-especially the long jokes)

At the wall, we did several sets of step up’s and Derkins for a total of 51 reps of each then moseyed to the parking deck for some mo’. At the deck we did LBC’s at the bottom and Mountain Climbers and Monkey Humpers at the top. The goal was 51 reps of all of these but who knows? I said one thing about the number of reps and did almost anything else.  At the bottom we did some flutter kicks then moseyed to the art thing for dips (AKA arm squats) then headed back home. Along the way there was some chatter about getting rear ended, being in the Navy, and dropping the soap. It was kind of a blur for me and I don’t really remember what happened. I do know that I can’t sit down today. Huh? funny, that’s never been an issue. Oh well…..We got back to home base in time for some Mary then finished with a COT. Unfortunately our 5 minutes of Mary turned into 4 minutes. There was an explosion or automatic gunfire or something. All I know is it was bad, we had to stop quickly, and I was thankful the wind was not blowing in my direction.

During COT I was serenaded by Slaw aka Marilyn Monroe. It’s ok, SA. I know you are jealous. It will be your birthday soon and maybe you will get serenaded also. And don’t be ashamed of sloppy seconds. We all need some love sometimes. Just embrace it.

Prayers for Turtleman (among others). If you are reading this-get well, be strong, reach out if we can help.

thanks for coming out for my birthday. SYITG-Whoopee

Thursday night, my phone is exhausted at 4%. I thought I plugged in the cord to recharge (note keyword: “thought”). I set my alarm for 0500 and hit the rack. Friday morning, 0451, I awake – my subconsciousness says get up but I fight back and win that battle thinking my alarm will save me in a mere 9 minutes. Jump ahead 20 minutes where my subconscious kicks me in the knee as a wake-up call. I grab my phone – dead as a doornail. Luckily I recalled the forecast for the unusual mid-30’s in later April and throw on my winter attire. I arrive at the AO with a minute to spare, lucky to have sailed through mostly green lights on the way – fortuitous. The circle was small but all veterans so hardly a disclaimer was required. The suggestion to find a coffee shop was stated several times but I wasn’t falling for that trick.

Warm-up:

Toy Soldier, Imperial Walker, Side to Side Lunge were in cadence at 10 counts. This is my standard but it was cold and needed a little more so added on the fly: Don Quixote and Seal Jacks IC x 10. And because this is the new trend a soon to be patented Sargento’s famous right over left followed quickly by left over right (R*). Still not loose but at this point, that’s all I had. We faced the flag for the Pledge.

Moseyed south down South Street to McQuitter’s Wall. With a total of 7 men I had a four rounds of a few exercises. Break into 2 man teams and YHC remained solo. Each 2 man team took a turn running down South Street to 2nd St and returning to the group – this would be the “timer” for each circuit. Two exercises in each circuit; perform the first until you break form, get tired, or want to change (UvU).

• Set 1: Jump Ups & Derkins
• Set 2: Dips & Plank Jacks
• Set 3: Turtle Crunches (feet 90 degrees on the wall, hands touch) & Mtn Climbers
• Set 4: Dirty Hook Up & Shoulder taps

Just so everyone got at least one round of each, we rotated the order one slot only on round 2, the timers went halfway down the block and returned.

On to the next thing which required a short mosey to the parking deck. As we arrive I inform the PAX this idea had been something on my list for a while. I did a trial run Saturday when a snafu of communication prevented my attendance to the excellent beat-down at the hands of Rudolph, Voodoo, and HIPAA. So I did a version of the HERO WOD – Zach Tellier. I wanted to share asking “has anyone did the Zach Tellier before?” Purple Haze quickly answered “Last night at Midoriyama.” My mind was a bit numb – ‘the hell you say?’ was my internal thought. So I inquire “what’d you do?” Haze begins to list off the routine. I’m a Seinfeld fan and always chuckle at Jerry’s exclamation of “Newman!” whenever Jerry is foiled by his nemesis. So upon hearing the same workout had been recently completed I thought to myself “Montross!” But that stuff can happen to us as there is no “master plan” of workouts as each post is a box of chocolates and you may even get one you don’t like (those nasty cream filled ones for instance). Typical of Purple Haze positive attitude – he was game for another round. Like Montross, I added some running between the sets, otherwise your arms could fall off going straight through burpees and merkins. In the deck, we ran to the top floor and took the stairs down.

Zach Tellier

• 10 Burpees + run to the top of deck and back
• 10 Burpees + 25 Push-Ups + run
• 10 Burpees + 25 Push-Ups + 50 Lunges + run
• 10 Burpees + 25 Push-Ups + 50 Lunges + 100 LBCs + run
• Had we not run out of time, the final set is:
• 10 Burpees + 25 Push-Ups + 50 Lunges + 100 Sit-Ups + 150 Air Squats

U.S. Sgt. Zachary D. Tellier, 31, of Charlotte, NC (USA) a combat infantryman with the 4th Squadron, 73rd Cavalry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, at Fort Bragg. He died Sept. 29, 2007, of wounds sustained while on a ground patrol in Afghanistan.  You can read more about his bravery at the link above.

Announcements: in case you’re not aware – PT test tomorrow at GasHouse 0700. Prayer request: Turtleman, Big Pappy, SA’s and 2.0, GSM, Shook, Lewis, Lesslie, and Phillips families; YHC took us out.

NMM: The group was small but mighty with only light complaining. Stinky Bird led the pack with the WOD and Clavin was hot on his heels. At the COT, Wirenut made a good point in talking about the tragedy affecting GSM as he had a similar incident with his workplace. Events like these will soften over time but the anniversaries will come and deserve some reflection. Life is a precious gift. There are times we have to fight to stay alive. Stinky Bird mentioned the temptation of the fartsack but he resisted this morning, along with the others, including YHC. Thanks for the chance to lead.

Mayor doesn’t like shoulder work. We did a lot of shoulder work today. Here’s what happened…

Disclaimer, I’m a professional. Do what I say.

Warmup as the PAX trickled in – Goofballs, Don Quixotes, the patented Sargento Right over Left In Cadence

Pledge of Allegiance

Fast mosey to US Highway 321 for some Route 66. Some guys wondered why it’s named that. Hmmm. Do escalating CDDs at each telephone pole on the left side.

Once we’re done, mosey to the front steps of First ARP Church (my home church) for some Deep Sea Divers. With feet on the first step, do 5 Hip Slapper IC. Go one step up for 5 more, and so on until we got to the 5th step. AND back down again. Feel the Stupid Sargento Shoulder Buster in action!

Mosey to the atm area of the BB&T for a round of ATM’s. PAX did 15 reps of Alternating Shoulder Taps IC, 10 Tempo Merkins IC and 10 fast Merkins IC. Rest a bit and do another round but skip the fast merkins. That sucked. Another example of the Stupid Sargento Shoulder Buster in action!

Mosey to McQuitter’s wall for some step ups 25 each leg IC.

Mosey to the parking deck for the Thang.

11’s – PAX would do V-Ups at the bottom, run all the way to the top using the vehicular route and do Derkins at the top. We started with 10 V-Ups and 1 Derkin. YHC made it through 6 rounds of this before Wirenut was called to the turd shack and the other had had enough. Stupid Sargento Shoulder Buster complete!!!

Mosey back to the start for some flutterkicks IC until time is called.

Thanks for the opportunity to lead men! AYE!!!

Prayer Requests – Turtleman, GSM & family, Dolph’s step-dad passed, Couch Potato’s grandparents passed

Announcements – Convergence this Saturday, PT Test, Sparky’s 5k, TronMoss 5k, F3 Dad’s Workouts start like the 3rd Saturday of June

YHC took us out in prayer.