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Nothing fancy and nothing too crazy for April Fools’ Day.

Warm-up
The Goof Ball IC x 10
Don Quixote IC x 10
LBCs IC x 10
Imperial Walkers IC x 10
Nur around Pelican’s

Mosey down the road towards Gastone’s Hill, stopping at the road where counting goes to die.

Route 66 at the light posts for Mike Tysons
Route 66 back at the light posts for Squats

Mosey up Gastone’s Hill. It would be foolish to run up the hill and just run back down.
So Route 78 stopping at each mailbox on the left for some exercise which at this point doesn’t matter (there were 12 mailboxes).

Mosey to the Food Lion parking lot for a round of Four Core-ners. These would be stackes
Corner 1 – 10 Crunchy Frogs
Corner 2 – 10 Crunchy Frogs, 20 Freddy Mercury (maybe)
Corner 3 – 10 Crunchy Frogs, 20 Freddy Mercury (we’ll go with that), 30 LBCs
Corner 3 – 10 Crunchy Frogs, 20 Freddy Mercury (sticking to it), 30 LBCs, 40 Flutter Kicks.

Mosey to the wall in front of Terminix for Dips and Step Ups.

Mosey to the flag for 20 seconds of Mary.

Annoucements
April 13 – Convergence, Speed for Need
May 4 – The Goonie
May 18 – Extinction Run

Prayer Requests
Family members
Bullwinkle’s new job going well

Until next time…

This morning at the Sandlot, I initially counted six of us, but Alma Mater’s arrival made it seven after we realized he had taken a wrong turn. He explained that he had encountered someone riding a bicycle and, instead of recruiting them with an EH (Encouragement to join), he inadvertently frightened them by suggesting he was late for a workout.

Seeing no FNG’s I gave a brief disclaimer followed by the Pledge of Allegiance.

WARM UP:
Two laps around the parking lot at Pelican’s.
Toy Soldiers x 10 IC
Gravel Pickers x 10 IC
Windmill x 5 IC
Stretches

BEATDOWN #1
We headed for a run toward the entrance to Martha Rivers Park. At the entrance there are five light poles, which we stacked the exercise. Of course I called burpees.

• Lightpole 1: 5 burpees
• Lightpole 2: 5 burpees, 10 merkins
• Lightpole 3: 5 burpees, 10 merkins, 15 squats
• Lightpole 4: 5 burpees, 10 merkins, 15 squats, 20 mountain climbers (count one side)
• Lightpole 5: 5 burpees, 10 merkins, 15 squats, 20 mountain climbers (count one side), 25 SSH

BEATDOWN #2
Next we took a stroll around the  Martha Rivers Parking Lot and ended up near the baseball diamond. There are four entrances, and somehow I missed one looking back at my Strava. So at each entrance to the diamond we would run and perform an ab exercise.

• First entrance: 20 Flutter Kicks (IC)
• Second entrance: 20 American Hammers (IC)
• Third entrance: 10 Parker Peter (IC) and 10 Plank Jacks (IC)

BEATDOWN #3
We then headed toward the picnic shelter for some chest work.

• Round 1: 10 dips (IC), 10 incline merkins, and 10 decline merkins
• Round 2: 15 dips (IC), 15 incline merkins, and 15 decline merkins

FINAL BEATDOWN:
We left Martha Rivers Park and headed toward Riverwood Parkway for sprints at the light poles and an exercise at the starting point.

• First lightpole: Crunchy Frogs x 20
• Second lightpole: LBC’s x 20
• Third lightpole: Mike Tyson’s x 20
• Fourth lightpole: Oblique crunches

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Hunchback has the Q Tuesday (2/27) at Midoriyama. He is bringing the rep count from the convergence if you want to see how you’re doing.
Q School at The Gashouse with JJ and Broke – Saturday, March 2 at 7:00 a.m.
Extinction Run on Saturday, April 20 at Primary Brewery in Charlotte.

PRAYERS:
Maybelline’s grandfather. He also mentioned some co-workers who had been sick.
Those PAX on the IR or dealing with illness.

*** Great work by all today. I think we ended up with more than 2.5 miles and a lot of calories burned!

Aye,
Radar

As Site Q at The Sandlot, YHC tries to take the Q from time to time. PAX have been great at stepping up so taking Q this last Monday in November was by choice and not necessity. Little did the Site Q know that this was an unannouced audit. Former Sandlot Site Q and current 1F Q, Flintstone, was part of the PAX shaking off the calorie cobwebs from a long holiday weekend. This felt a little like the two Bob’s from Office Space showing up to see how things were running at the the premiere Monday SOGA AO. “What exactly would you say you do here?” He did such a great job leading this workout for so long, and I’m sure he wanted to make sure we hadn’t let things go downhill.

0530 so let’s get going

Warm-up
SSH IC x 12
Merkins IC x 10
LBCs IC x 12
Imperial Walkers IC x 10

The Pledge

Mosey to the top of the parking lot in the park.

Quick background on the design of the weinke. While watching in horror and embarrassment at what was taking place on that ill-kept football field in Raleigh on Saturday night, YHC tried to distract himself with thoughts of literally anything else. Thoughts of how to better condition this soft team led to the idea of running, lots of running.

Thoughts of using the islands in the parking lot to run suicides seemed a little much given the number of islands and distance involved. So we’d improvise to shifting suicides.

Run to the second island for 10 Merkins. Then, run back an island for 10 Reverse Crunches. Then, forward two islands for 10 Merkins. Then, back an island for 10 Reverse Crunches. Rinse and repeat until you reached the other end of the parking lot. That would be 100 Merkins and 100 Reverse Crunches. This two steps forward and one step back mirrored YHC’s favorite college football team (except it was more like one step forward and two leaps back the last couple of years).

Mosey down to the soccer fields. Here were’d run some Suicide Triple Nickle.
Start at midfield and run towards the sideline stopping at a line conveniently drawn on the pitch for 5 Mike Tysons. Run back towards the line at midfield. Run back past the first line to the sideline for 5 Jump Squats. Then back to the line at midfield. Rinse and repeat this 5 times.

We weren’t done though. Much like Kurt Russell playing Herb Brooks in the movie Miracle, the Q said, “Again!”

Another round of Suicide Triple Nickle with Seal Jacks and Plank Jacks.

“Again!” this time with PAX choice. Flintstone chose American Hammers and Maybelline chose Nolan Ryans.

Time to mosey back. After passing the turd shack, stop at each light pole for 5 Merkins. This continued outside the park and all the way back to Snoball’s.

Back in time for one round of Mary in which Winehouse chose LBCs.

Annoucements
Convergence/Christmas Party ($10 per person) 12/2
Beer Ruck 12/9
Beer Mile 12/30

Prayer Requests
Simpson family – Maybelline’s Co-worker, potential treatment
Bubba Sparxxx family
Jackson Hall
Kids as they finish the semester

Prayer to take us out.

Maybe it was the thoughts of concern for the prayer request, maybe it was the lack of blood flow to the brain after all the suicide runs, or maybe it was the distraction of the bright, flashing “OPEN” sign at Snoball’s, but YHC had forgotten the Name-o-rama. The 1F Q was standing there will his clipboard to call out the oversight. That will surely be a significant point reduction on the audit score. Hoping The Sandlot can retain the A rating.

Until next time…

For being a weasel-shaker at one time, I have gotten super slack in writing BB.

That said, here is this one from October.

We did Route 66s a few times in a few different places …

I could tell you more, but then that would remove all the mystery….

Six Pax were warming up at the Sandlot when Maybelline….I mean…..wait?…….Watts Up joined us late.  This is highly unusual.

We warmed up with a healthy disclaimer.  We even did Press Press Flings because Whoopee LOVES THEM but he wasn’t there to experience the opening and stretching of the rib cage and the swoll chest you get as you thrust it out!

We moseyed to Martha’s House for some Swim Buddy Clap Merkins.  We circled up, I gave a healthy dose of instructions, and we failed again and again but the good news was we did a lot of merkins and held a plank for about five minutes in the meantime.

We then moseyed to the ballfield for the thang.  10 burpees, 10 merkins, 10 squats, 10 Plank jacks, 10 big bois.  A9 burpees….etc….8 burpees…t any time Watts Up could call a lap in between declining sets.  When we completed 7 of each exercise, Watts Up called or a lap and then busted his arse on the run.  We continued the exercises and Winehouse could call a lap.  With one rep to go, he called a lap.  We finished up and then headed to the parking lot and tried our clap merkin clap again.  This time, we called it two claps and a Ric Flair.   That failed.  We finally tried clap merkin clap and after a couple of successful rounds we called it a success.  We then headed back and did 15 DDC’s at each lightpole while completing announcements and prayer requests.  Captain Steubing had to leave for a cruise ship at 0610 so the Q accommodated his schedule.  We did some Navy Seal should stretch things too which Whoopee would have also loved!

Watts Up requested the 48 rep cash out and then we did two rounds of Mary for time and the Pledge and COT.

Site Q figured it was about time for YHC to take his turn at kicking off everyone’s work week. It went something like this…

During the brief disclaimer, YHC made an offhanded comment that we’d see what we could come up with. This was taken by some of the PAX to mean that YHC didn’t have a plan. This was both hurtful and untrue. YHC would work this emotional distress out by beating down the PAX the way the Q was beaten emotionally.

Warm-up
SSH IC x 15
LBCs IC x 15
Morrocon Night Clubs IC x 15
Imperial Walkers IC x 15

The Pledge

Mosey to the park

Stopping at the top of the parking lot, we did the Reverse 66. From previous workouts, YHC knew there were exactly 11 islands in the parking lot. Instead of a 1, then 2, then 3 count at each island, the PAX would start at 11, then 10, then 9, working down to 1 at island 11. Amazingly the math still works out to 11s. The exercise… Perfect form merkins. This was well received.

Mosey to the shelter for some picnic table work
Step Ups x 50 (25 each leg)
Dips x 10
Mtn Climbers x 10

Step Ups for 1 minute
Dips x 15
Mtn Climbers x 15

Step UPs for 1 minute
YHC had planned to go back down to 10, but a PAX said Dips x 20. Didn’t want to look soft, so Dips x 20 it would be
Dips x 20
Mtn Climbers x 20

Mosey to the soccer field behind the playground.
Four Core-ners
Corner 1: Crunchy Frogs x 10
Corner 2: Crunchy Frogs x 10, Flutter Kicks x 20
Corner 3: Crunchy Frogs x 10, Flutter Kicks x 20, Dying Cockroaches x 30
Corner 4: Crunchy Frogs x 10, Flutter Kicks x 20, Dying Cockroaches x 30, LBCs x 40

Time to run it back with Non-Stacking Reverse Four Corners. This was met with silly chatter and questions, but if you think about it, it’s pretty clear
Corner 1: LBCs x 10
Corner 2: Dying Cockroaches x 20 (YHC may have said Crunchy Frogs which caused more confusion and silly chatter, but YHC was probably just thinking about the complaining that was coming with 40 Crunchy Frogs)
Corner 3: Flutter Kicks x 30
Corner 4: Crunchy Frogs x 40

Mosey back towards the flag

At some point stop at the light post for Squats x 5. Did this a couple of times on the way back.

Made it to the flag at 0615

Annoucements
Sandlot and Labyrinth need Qs in October
Half Marathon Ruck 10/21
IPC Relay
Shirts available for Storm and Ruck

Prayer Requests
Turtleman
EZ Rider family
Watt’s Up’s niece’s son Charlie

Prayer to take us out

Until next time…

Nine PAX arrived for a Sandlot workout this morning.  JJ brought the flag.

YHC was feeling the effects of the beatdown Defib put on Saturday along with the hike yesterday and did some moving before the workout to see if the joints would work.  Fortunately they did so we got started.

Disclaimer then Pledge then warmup

SSH until Maybelline joined us.

Merkins, hip stretches/ab things, Morrocan nightclubs, Low slow squats

Mosey to the spokes at the ballparks at Marthas house.  Pick two exercices, do five rounds of one minute each and then take a lap.  The PAX picked one exercise and the Q picked the other exercise and the # of reps for each exercise.  From my terrible memory, it went approximately like this:

15 merkins/10 Heels to Heaven 5 rds lap

10 Jump Squats/15 LBC’s 5 rds lap

30 SSH/something or another 5 rds lap

10 CDD’s/30 Flutter kicks

Mosey back to start for a couple rounds of American Hammers and calf raises until time was up.

Good effort this morning by all the PAX and not a bad workout considering the preparation was about zero.  The humidity ensured the sweat was pouring.  Flintstone was sort of doing his own thing and lamenting his marathon arms and grunting and making small animal noises.  Next time I will bring my JBL 5 to drown out the din!

Announcements:  Bring a glove to the ballpark for the Fuse stadium convergeance on labor day Monday and keep preparing for the Iron Pax Challenge and the Coconut Derby coming up soon.

Prayers for Turtleman, Huckleberry, Norwood

Always a pleasure to lead!  Appreciate the PAX naming some of the workout.

Roscoe

The problem with waiting so long on the backblast is all the details.

We did a warmup, not sure what it was.  We also did the Pledge of Allegiance, although I am not sure if it was the beginning or the end.

Moseyed to Fidelty bank via Old Neal Hawkins.

There we broke out the deck of death.  Each PAX had to pick a card, but before picking decide if their card was going to be higher or lower than the card before it.

If they were correct, then we did the exercise (10+number cards, face=25, Aces=50, Jokers=Pax choice)

If they were wrong, add 3 burpees

After each PAX had gone, a lap around the bank before the next round.

We didn’t make it through the entire deck before having to head back.

Announcements were made.

Prayers were noted and lifted.

0530 arrives with no FNG, but a large crowd.

Knock out a brief disclaimer since these are vets and then The Pledge of Allegiance.

And were off to a mosey.  A sudden bit of traffic forces a rethink on the route, so down Riverwood Parkway we went,

Stopping at the old entrance to Martha’s we did some warmup:

Overhead Claps, Arrows, LBCs, SSH, Merkins

Then on to the new Kintegra office.

Six decks of cards and the board shown below waited on our arrival.

Card gives the count when 2-10 and decoded by board.

Aces and Jokers can be given to your friends.

We finished the decks leaving enough time for an AB-Ring.

Announcements were made.

Prayers note and lifted.

As the garage door opened, YHC was excited with anticipation.  With Weinke in hand, phone, keys, water, towels, and shoes, YHC spotted a wet driveway.  Who knew it was going to rain?  Immediately install shoes onto feet and head out to the sandlot for a wet beatdown.

It was a good crew this morning.  Stroganoff got in some EC mosey mile in the rain and Whoopee, VERY FRESH from an exotic vacation, had lots of big Whoopee energy this morning.
As the clock struck 0530, the Q called a mosey and off we went down Union to the Vet clinic.  We circled up for a warm up and disclaimer.   The PAX probably figured we would go under the covered porch for the warmup but we did not.   Whoopee then proceeded to roll around on the wet pavement like a baby seal out of water.  He loves to frolic about in the rain.  It does lift others spirits to see him so full of glee as he stomps in EVERY PUDDLE HE GETS NEAR!

Next we moseyed to the SECU down the street.  There was almost a challenge to go all the way to the waffle house.  One of the main reasons I don’t have apple pay on my phone is to avoid impulsive decisions to go eat breakfast instead of working out.  Since I didn’t have any cash or wallet, we took to the shelter provided by the drive through lanes and continued the workout.

We performed burpees, jump squats, Big boi’s, and oblique crunches.

Next we called for a daily dose of what you should do everyday.  One minute of Plank, Catcher’s pose, and wall sit.

THE THANG:

Partner up for max reps until failure.  Merkins (take a lap)     Squats (take a lap)      LBC’s   (take a lap)

YHC asked Winehouse if he wanted to do another round or pivot back to the daily dose of what you should do everyday.  He chose another round.  The Q allowed for input from the PAX and therefore declared himself benevolent.

Another round of  Merkins (take a lap)     Squats (take a lap)      LBC’s   (take a lap)  I must say Whoopee and Amazon can do some squats.  The second round was harder as the muscles were getting fatigued.

We went back to the daily dose but this time we did two minutes of plank, Catcher’s Pose, and wall sits while discussing gratitude.  Lots of great points this morning, none better than Whoopee’s.

During the two minute wall sits we did some shoulder raises and air punches before heading back the way we came.  We stopped at another bank for some bear crawls before concluding the workout in the catcher’s pose.

Pledge of Allegiance

Announcements:  F3 DAD’s at the Yank this Saturday the 17th!!!!!   Bring your 2.0’s or just yourself and have some fun with the kids!

2nd F Lunch at Logan’s roadhouse June 21st

Prayer requests:     JJ’s 2.0 travelling today

Stroganoff’s MIL,

YHC’s Uncle

JJ’s church member Joann undergoing cancer surgery