BACKBLASTS

How Many Poles Are There Anyway?

Posted on September 15, 2019 | 2 minutes | 217 words |

A pax of 5 arrived in downtown Cary for another evening beatdown. So after the Pledge of Allegiance we were off and running. Skipper was rucking, so he blazed his own trail, and we’d meet back up with him at the end. With that we headed off to the parking lot just around the corner. Warmup: Good Evening SSH Sir Fasio Arm Circles forward and reverse Windmills Mtn. Climbers Thang 1: [Read More]

Parking Lot Tour

Posted on September 15, 2019 | 2 minutes | 321 words |

20 PAX gather in the gloomy and humid morning for a flashback Q for YHC. I have many fond memories of posting and Qing in this great site and was excited to bring some new faces some of my old-school, vanilla beatdown. Disclaimer and pledge done, we head around the parking lot and down the dark path to the street where we oval-up for: Warm Up Good Mornings Sir Fazio [Read More]

My Buddy & Me

Posted on September 12, 2019 | 2 minutes | 415 words |

On Tuesday, YHC examined the Q-sheet for Bounty Hunter and noticed no one had signed up to lead the beatdown this week. I hadn’t Q’d in a while, other than the Sharknado co-Q with Rooney, so I decided to pick it up. 16 pax showed up. I Pity the Fool was already drenched from an EC run. Orphan ran in from Shepherd’s Vineyard and Bad Company and Scorpion King ran up Hunter Street. [Read More]

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Straight Vanilla

Posted on September 12, 2019 | 2 minutes | 345 words |

14 showed up for a very sticky Thursday morning at Olive Chapel Elementary. 3 for EC runs, 1 for ECP, maybe a couple others I didn’t get sorry if I missed you. And it finally happened, Wake Zone right across the street opened! Let’s Get Started Disclaimer - I am not a professional, F3 has no assets, but our golf tournament apparently has a war chest that you might be able to raid Pledge of allegiance There will be no theme, just running and doing stuff. [Read More]

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18 Years Ago Tomorrow

Posted on September 10, 2019 | 3 minutes | 589 words |

This morning the PAX turned 10 tightly coiled fire hoses into 10 bandoleer-style, carryable fire hoses for the 9/11 Stair Climb tomorrow. We did it as part of a workout. As we lugged around those bandoleer-ed fire hoses for a Corners Thang–on a whim–I asked each PAX where they were eighteen years ago tomorrow. It was like a couple of blood brothers putting their hands together to see where one guy’s scar lines up with the others’. [Read More]

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BRR 2020 - work begins now

Posted on September 9, 2019 | 2 minutes | 247 words |

YHC grabbed the Q at Kryponite on the first Monday post BRR 2019 hoping to have the runners out again but only Hello Kitty and Wonderbread were brave enough to post on the Monday morning after running parts of 200 miles in the mountains. My driver (Miss Daisy) or Nature Boy was coming in slow today so we rolled in at 5:28 and got quickly to work. Two laps of the pickle then some warm up that included, GM, IW, MC and R/L stretch. [Read More]

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Hells Bells 0909 - "Nine"

Posted on September 9, 2019 | 2 minutes | 274 words |

Who: EarharT, Traffic Cone, Triple Lindy, Milton Bradley, Puddles, Rooney, Sour Mash, Johnny Utah, Wahoo, Chipper, Trike, Clementine, Frisco, Ashbury, Meatloaf, Sega, The Departed, Roasters, Betsy Ross, Qwerty, Monkey Nut (Q) Workout: Hells Bells - 09/09/2019 Warmup: Mosey around pickle, Hillbillies, Slow wind mills The thang Mosey to pick a bell of your choice that your friends would be proud of. This one is called “Nine”. Nine exercise, start with 9 reps of each (IC). [Read More]

Iron Pax Week #2 - Meatloaf's Massacre

Posted on September 9, 2019 | 1 minutes | 148 words |

Today at Davis Drive Track - 5 HIMs showed up - 4 to complete the Iron Pax Week 2 Challenge and 1 to do some stuff with a ruck and support the other 4 HIDAs in the BeatDown aka Massacre aka Why?!?! Thang 1: $@#$%@#$#@!#&*%$$%@#$%@#$@#%@##@#$!#$@#%^&#$%@#$!@#$#^#%^#$%@#$%@#(%*#$^*#)(*%#(*$%)@)#(%*$@_(*#$(*%@)(#%*)(%$(%(^*#$(@#(@*#$)(^***#@(#%*@(#$(!)(!*@($*!)@$)(*%(@#$(*@#)$(*!@(#*!*!**#$ Thang 2: See Above Thang 3: See Thang 2 Thang 4: WTF. Why is there a Thang 4? - See Thang 3 Mary: We all laid on the ground and recovered. [Read More]

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Let's Get VQ Week Started Early

Posted on September 9, 2019 | 2 minutes | 338 words |

At 0545 a quick check for FNGs came up empty, which was a bummer because I had absolutely memorized the F3 mission statement. Instead I just let all of the veterans know that I really had no idea what I was doing and they should modify accordingly. On to the Pledge. Warmup: Mosey to the top parking lot to the right and circle up for 20 SSH IC 10 GM IC 10 Standard Merkins OMD Calf Stretches L/R 10 Wide Grip Merkins OMD 10 Daisy Pickers IC Mosey to the back parking lot. [Read More]

People actually showed up

Posted on September 9, 2019 | 7 minutes | 1294 words |

As it was the Friday of the BRR, and having not seen much activity on Slack for people planning to show up for the Rolling Stone workout, and knowing there were only moderate SCs for the only official ruck AO in all of Carpex, I really didn’t have much planned out in advance for the crew that was anxiously awaiting my arrival at 0527. That all being said, there was a surprisingly large turnout for Rolling Stone, which in fact, blotted out the Bootcampers at GT by an almost 2:1 ratio. [Read More]

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