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12 total showed up for a little QvQ practice for YHC. I’m testing out some ideas for the upcoming competition. It was a wonderfully warm February afternoon. For all of those that complied with my request to let your cars run all day back when it got really cold, thank you!

Warmup:

Sealjacks ic x 10

Don Quixotes ic x 10

Merkins position for about 45 seconds then 5 Merkins ic

Mosey to get a block and over to the parking lot……good grief!

Tha Thang:

P1 runs a lap around the parking lot. P2 starts doing reps. 3 blockees, 6 merkins, 9 squats. Rinse and repeat until your partner gets back. We did this for about 10 minutes.

After that we lined up along the curb just past shoulder width apart. The person at the beginning of the parking lot bear crawled to the end of the line and got back in place. Then the next person started bear crawling. Everyone else held the Al Gore pose. Picture an indian run but much slower. We did this fully through several rounds until we got to the other end of the parking lot. It was very amusing. We had slow bears, slower bears, and even a happy bear.

Spread out in the parking lot and get on a line for a parking space. Do 1 merkin on the line then plank crawl sideways to the line on the other side of the space. Now do 2 merkins. Go back and forth adding 1 merkin each time going up to 10.

Following the same method as above we did WWI situps and sidewinder crawls.

Next we used the same method as above but used 2 parking spaces lunging in between and doing squats on the line.

After that we moved back over to our blocks for the finale. Do 2 thrusters….ugh good grief! Then do 2 burpee block jump overs. Continue this going up by 2 reps each time until you get to 20. Well actually we ended due to time. I think I made it to the round of 12.

COT:

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Namerama

Announcements-Extinction run 3/4, Community foundation/SFN 4/1 get signed up

Prayer Request-Gumby and family, Clavin and his M, Hays family, My daughter

Moleskin:

Not too bad today. Just some ideas that popped in my head I thought we could test out. You may see parts of these show up in a QvQ near you. Or not, you don’t really think I’d show my cards before we compete, do you? Comeout to Midoriyama on 3/9 to watch me break Broke. If you are looking to push some rocks these QvQ’s are going to be a good place for it. Everyone is going to be bringing their A game so it’s likely to be hard. If you’re not, then meow somewhere else.

YHC picked the Q for Valentine’s day because he LOVES to foster growth through pain. He searched the internet for some Valentine’s day inspiration for the workout. He came across the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre.

Back during the prohibition days, the notorious gangster Al Capone was smuggling Canadian Whiskey into the U.S. via the Detroit river. Another rival gang (The North Side Gang) was intercepting the whiskey shipments and attempting to muscle into Capone’s territory in Chicago. Although it can’t be proven, authorities (and Def Leppard, who was alive then) believe that Capone ordered the murder of George “Bugs” Moran and his leadership.

On 2/14/1929, four gunmen walked into a warehouse at 2122 North Clark Street in Chicago and murdered seven members of the North Side Gang. This event became known as “The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre”.

YHC had plenty of numbers to work with, so this is what he came up with-

Warmup: The usual stuff

PLEDGE

Thang: Mosey to the large soccer field at the back of the park.

7 Rounds of-

• 400 Meter Run
• 2 Burpees
• 14 H/R Merkins
• 19 Big Boys
• 29 Squats
• 21 Werkins
• 22 Reverse Crunches

This took up the whole time allotted and everyone pushed hard. While he was running, Broke was continually looking at his watch and wondering when the workout was going to end. Freight complained to the Q because he couldn’t spread the usual hate and discontent (a.k.a. constructive sarcasm). Hate to see it.

Announcements:

• Extinction Run 3/4 @0900, Primal Brewery
• Community Foundation Run 4/1. Sign up. Speed for Need will be pushing 4 track commanders
• Q vs. Q Challenge
• 2nd F lunch 2/21 at Venecia (formerly Shogun’s) off Garrison

Prayer Requests:

• Tooth Fairy’s 2.0
• Radar’s Sister
• Freight’s 2.0
• Gumby’s family
• Pockets’ dad
• Huckleberry
• Clavin’s M
• Watts Up’s family

YHC took us out in prayer.

L8R SK8RS,

Slaw

With great weather and the pushing rocks challenge there wasn’t many valid excuses not to post at Midoriyama this afternoon. 12 HIM decided to get better this afternoon.

Warmarama:

15 SSH IC

15 Gravel Pickers IC

15 Hillbillies IC

Thang:

Grab some blocks and head to the parking lot between the turd shack and the ball field. 5 different  exercises starting with 25 reps and 1 lap around the parking lot dropping 5 reps and adding 1 lap after each round. After finishing this up we moved to the curb for some Dirty 11’s.  10 Mike Tyson’s to start and a Blockee in the middle, Big Boy on the other side  .  Getting close to time so we put our blocks  up and head back to start.

Announcements:

Convergence 2/11    @06:30

Lunch ?

Viking Dash 2-25

Extinction Run 3-4

Q v Q in March, go vote for your favorites to battle it out

Prayer Request:

Wirenut’s family

Jackson Hall (Ratchet’s) 2.0

Tooth Fairy 2.0

Clavin’s wife

Radar’s sister

Huckleberry

Turtleman

Watts Up family

my family

Great push guys! Appreciate each one of these men and  the opportunity to lead. YHC took us out.

8 men unafraid of the rain posted at Midoriyama Thursday night for yet another workout not led by Blart. You hate to see it! I blame myself. I’ve obviously not done enough to transform Blart into a leader. I shall take him under my wing and sharpen him into the tip of the fiercest dagger.

Warmup:

Under the protection of the picnic shelter, we did some stretches and SSH’s before moving into a tabata style workout.

The Thang:

Kind of the standard for the shelter workout. 1 minute of reps, 20 second break, and move into another minute of reps. We did 3 exercise rounds x 3 rounds then ran a lap around the parking lot.

Diamond Merkins, LBC’s, Squats x 3 rounds

Run a lap

CDD’s, Freddy Mercury, Lunges x 3 rounds

Runa lap

Shoulder Taps, Plank, Step ups

With a few minutes on the clock we did 10 burpees in one minute. Then 9 burpees in the final minute. This is where I realized how much work I had cut out for me with Blart.

COT:

Namerama

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Announcements- Defib leading a heart awareness workout at Gashouse Saturday, I’ll be leading a stress test at Folsom, Convergence 2/11 at Folsom 0630, Extinction run 3/4

Prayer Request (all were quiet and respectful)-Gumby’s family, Huck, Wirenut and family, My daughter

Blart took us out-the sharpening begins

Moleskin:

Can you take a joke? Are there some things you can take and some things you can’t? Are there some things you can take better than others? Just some things we’ve discussed lately you should mull over. If you can’t take a joke, well you better hold on cause life is gonna hurt.

11 HIMs minus one Midoriyama mainstay, Freight showed to push some rocks!  Nice evening for a workout. 5:30, let’s go…

The Thang:  We warmed up with a fun little twist I stole from the brothers at F3 Hampstead. I call it “60 second circle” and basically each PAX continues an exercise while counting up round robin style to 60.

60 Second Circle:

High Knees Running / 1 Burpee

SSHs / 1 Burpee

Moroccan Night Clubs / 1 Burpee

Imperial Walkers / 1 Burpee

Rt Over Lt (30 seconds) / Lt Over Rt (30 seconds) / 1 Burpee

Mosey to middle soccer field

Dirty 11s: Derkins / Jump-Squats

Mosey to K-9 Hill: Triple Nickel:  LBCs / Calf Raises

Mosey Back to Flag Terd Shack Parking Lot

Dora 321 : 3X High or Low Plank / Dying Cock Roaches (200) / Flutter Kicks (100)

Back to the flag for a quick verse: Philippians 4: 6-8

Announcements / COT:  Lunch @ Hillbillies Lowell / Ghost Flag Mission / Folsom Nationals 2-11 / Viking Dash 2-25 / Extinction Run 3-4 / Radar’s sister’s tumors have shrunk / Termite’s brother has cancer / Gumby’s family / Broke’s family / WoJo’s family / Montross’ Mom / Trace Barnette cancer / Purple Haze’s plantar fasciitis

Great weather at Midoriyama for an afternoon workout in January. Work has kept me from being able to commit to Q recently, so I told Slaw earlier in the week that if I made it out today I would take his spot. Most of you know that it ALWAYS rains when Slaw has the Q, so by YHC taking over the PAX stayed dry. You’re welcome!

Dislcaimer

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Short warmup

Grab two bricks and let’s mosey.  You carry the bricks the entire workout. After a short lap through the park we’re back at the big parking lot across from the start. Time for some merkincides.

5 Brickee’s

Run to the first light on the LEFT and 5 Perfect Form Merkins

Back to start for 5 Brickee’s

Run to the second light on the LEFT and 10 Perfect Form Merkins

Back to start for 5 Brickee’s

Run to the third light on the LEFT and 15 Perfect Form Merkins

Back to the start for 5 Brickee’s

Run to the END of the parking lot and 20 Perfect Form Merkins

Back to the start

Rest the arms and work the abs and legs

10 American Hammers IC

10 Bobby Hurleys

10 Dying Cockroaches IC

10 Low Slow Squats

10 LBC’s IC

10 Lunges

Partner Up for Dora

One partner runs to the second light pole on the LEFT, the other works

100 Shoulder Taps

200 Seal Jacks (Omaha to 150)

300 Moroccan Nightclubs (Omaha to 200)

Repeat the abs and leg work

Triple Nickel

Brickee’s and Mike Tyson’s across the parking lot

Put up the bricks and back to the flag.

NMM/COT

We discussed the need to let go of any grudges we may be carrying and how the longer we hold on to them the more they have a hold on us. The basis and scripture we used for the discussion came from a message my 2.1 gave to her youth last Sunday, so YHC made sure to give credit so as not to plagiarize her work. Read Romans 12:17-20 when you get a chance.

Lunch next Wednesday at Hillbilly’s

Convergence 2/11 at Folsom, 0630 start

Extinction Run 3/4 at Primal

Viking dash

Pray for – Huck, Turtleman, Gumby’s family, Slaw’s M, Wirenut’s family, Termite’s family, EZ Rider’s family, Oompa’s 2.0 and many others.

YHC took us out.

I’m Broke

14 total at Midoriyama on Tuesday. 1 seemed hungover. Maybe too many grapes.

The Warmup:

Sealjacks, low slow squats, merkins. Let’s mosey over to the side parking lot.

The Thang:

On one end of the parking lot start with 12 merkins, run to the far end and do 12 squats. Run back to the other end but stop one parking space line short and do 11 merkins. Now run back to the other end, one space short, and do 11 squats. Continue this until you get to the middle and do one of each. This exercise also worked the mind as everyone had to keep counting to figure out which line they should be on.

Mosey over to the long parking lot to the first light pole on the left side near the corner. Do 10 Freddy Mercury’s(count one side), karaoke across the parking lot to the light pole on the right and do 10 burpees. Keep doing this zig zaging across the parking lot. 4 poles on the left and 3 poles on the right. Once complete we did it going back with 10 lunges on the short side and 10 dying cockroaches(count one side) on the long side.

Mosey back over to the side parking lot for the countdown again. 12 CDD’s and 12 SSH’s. We finished this up and Broke said he wanted to run it back going up from the middle doing Mike Tyson’s and WWI’s. We had a little more time so sounds good to me. We made it to about 8 or 9 before time was called.

COT:

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I read a word about being warriors. Having Jesus in our lives puts a target on our backs from the devil.

Announcements- 2ndF lunch 25th at Hillbilly’s, Convergence at Folsom 2/11

Prayer Request-Gumby’s family, Super Dave’s mother, Radar’s Sister, Mrs Lawing, Mrs Patterson, Bos

Namerama-yes I broke my own rule. I prayed us out before I did the namerama. I know! I make mistakes too. I’m as surprised as you are.

Come out next time, maybe Blart will Q.

We had 10 PAX for a modified version of the F3 Cardinal VQ Workout in memory of Taylor Phelps.

Seeing no FNG’s I gave a brief disclaimer and we headed toward the picnic shelter. Nonetheless, we saw Leppard in his truck changing so we played ring around the rosy with him until he started the car.

Leppard and Tonka would join us a few minutes later for Warm Up.

WARM UP:
15 SSH IC
10 Tempo Merkins
10 Fluter Kicks IC
10 Little Baby Arm Circles (forward and reverse) IC
10 Hallelujah (Air Presses).

Prior to the beatdown, I read off a quick bio of Taylor (F3 Cardinal) Phelps. He was 36 years old and was a pastor at Carney Ford Baptist Church. His wife had posted that he struggled with loneliness, until he found F3. She said he became a new man and was very happy.

CARDINAL Workout of the Day: (Perform 36 reps of the called exercise, and then take a lap)
C – Clerkins (merkin with a clap)
A – Amercian Hammers (count one side only)
R – Rockette Dips (count one side only on the kick)
D – Derkin
I – Imperial Squat Walkers (count the squat)
N – Nolan Ryan (count one side only)
A – Alternating Shoulder Taps (count one side only)
L – Lunge (count one side only)

Time was up and we headed back to COT.  Great work men.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Roundup/Hacksaw/Gearwrench – 24 hour run January 14-15. Begins at 5:30 a.m. Saturday. Folsom is closed. Old School begins at 7 a.m.  Sign up for a time to run.
Second F Lunch on Wednesday, January 25 at Hillbillies in Lowell.
Folsom Nationals on Saturday, February 11. Ball Joint will have more information posted on slack at a later date.

PRAYERS:
The family and PAX of F3 Knoxville in the loss of Taylor (F3 Cardinal) Phelps.
My sister (Mackenzie) who was diagnosed with Cancer in September. She is 34 years old.
Termite on the loss of his brother.
Wirenut

Thanks for the opportunity to lead.

Aye,
Radar

14 men joined YHC Tuesday at Midoriyama. Thats 15 total for those of you that struggle with things like math and wear a lite pole is shining.

Warmup:

SSH x 2 ic. Lets mosey. We grabbed some blocks and moved them down the road to the stop sign.

We did this during my last Q but didn’t have time to finish it all so I saved it for another day.

The Thang:

10 block swings, run to the next light pole ON THE ROAD(that means the light pole positioned to shine it’s lite on the road, not just any pole you can see from the road)(for future claritys sake), do 10 V-ups, run back to your block, rifle carry it to the next pole, rinse and repeat to the end of the rode. Good times right hear. We turned around and started working our way back doing the same thing but with 5 thrusters and 5 hand release merkins. Instead of a rifle carry we did farmers carrys. I have to admit I like this style of WOD and believe I will use it often in the future. It works great at midoriyama with the amount of lite poles on the road(if you count them write).

COT:

I read a little from Jocko about remaining vigilant

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Namerama

Announcements-24 hour run this Saturday in Dallas

Prayer Request

Molseskin:

To be clear I filled this BB with grammatical errors for my friend Mayor. Hes into that sort of stuff.

9 Pax joined the gloom of Midoriyama on a wet, cool evening.

Pledge

Warmup: SSH, MNC, Hillbillies, Squats

Mosey to the secret block location to get a block and rifle carry it to the parking lot. Before we use it, let’s roll through the 12 or 10 Days of Christmas. Tis the season!

Start with 1 lap around the parking lot.
2 Diamond Merkins (In Cadence, yes in cadence)
3 Imperial Walkers (In Cadence or Hillbillies if you can’t remember)
4 Goofballs (In Cadence)
5 Burpees OYO
6 Low Slow Squats (In Cadence)
7 Merkins (In Cadence)
8 Dying Cockroaches (In Cadence)
9 Little Baby Flutter Crunches (In Cadence, count the crunch)
10 Big Boy Sit Ups single count
Start with 1. Then 1 and 2. Then 1, 2 and 3, etc. until we got to 10 when we decided to OMAHA for some block work.

30 Curls
30 On Your Six Chest Press
30 Triceps Extensions
Run a Lap

30 Curls
30 On Your Six Chest Press
30 Shrugs
Rifle Carry the block a Lap (Ugh)

30 Curls
30 On Your Six Chest Press
30 Triceps Extensions
Run a Lap

Out of Time. Put up the blocks and back to the flag.

Announcements: Pushing Rocks Challenge Sign-Up by Christmas Day

Prayer Requests: Turtleman, Huck, Mayor, Gumby’s family, Wirenut’s family.

Freight took us out.

*NMM This was about the most talkative group I have ever Q’d. Lots of discussion about my choice of Christmas songs in the playlist, Mexican food before a workout, what might be in SA’s wife’s pocketbook, Pallbearer spending money on a haircut, my ability to count, where to put your hands, when will the Mayor wear a long sleeve shirt and many “that’s what she said’s”. Merry Christmas you bunch of lunatics!