OGs of DZ

 Posted on December 14, 2018  |  3 minutes  |  431 words  |  

Uuuughh Maybe 5 hours of sleep just isn’t enough to fully recover from a holiday party as lit as a Carpex party. It was in the 40’s, cloudy with a chance of rain (and/or merlot), and multiple PAX were feeling ROOOOUUGH. Burt, evidently, wasn’t one of them. He instead was up to his usual antics of yelling loudly. Flacco was not appreciative. Nor was I. YHC saw it was 0545 and took off around the pickle. [Read More]
angry-elf  burt  callahan  coney  flacco  flip-flop  pierogi  saban 

1stF #4 of 6 BD & F3’versary Q-week: Plan B – 11s with multiple burpees taboot

 Posted on December 13, 2018  |  4 minutes  |  697 words  |  

On my drive to Tortoises in the blistering 27⁰ temperature, I took a small detour to scope out the AO. The original area I wanted to do my planned thang would not work due to safety concerns, black ice. Safety is ALWAYS #1 in my mind when leading a group of HIM. I reverted to Plan B. As I got into my parking spot, Theismann and Spartan were getting after ECP. [Read More]
cataracts  deuce  disco-duck  earhart  ezekiel  freebird  garfield  hanson  honeycomb  hotty-toddy  imp  intimidator  jayhawk  ninjago  orphan  puddles  red-ryder  revere  spartan  theismann  traffic-cone  www  yogi 

Double 11’s and a Distance Record Taboot

 Posted on December 13, 2018  |  1 minutes  |  94 words  |  

Pre-Blast 7 HIM joined YHC to set a distance record at BIB: 3.51 miles. Repeato was the lone site Q, but he was not alone. The Warmup Pledge of Allegiance at the…no shovel flag to be found. Run to the parking lot next door, find a hill, circle up for: GM, Windmills, SSH. ****The Thangs 11s on the hill with burpees at the top and bottom. 11s on the hill with dying cockroaches at the top and crab cakes at the bottom. [Read More]
hi-liter  joe-smith  largemouth  lite-brite  ollie  repeato  shank 

Gut Buster Pre-Party

 Posted on December 13, 2018  |  2 minutes  |  266 words  |  

With the Carpex Christmas Party coming up this evening YHC thought it’d be good to work those bellies. Temps were a bit chilly and ice was abound but 15 pax skated right through the beatdown. We started with 12, then Two Factor arrived during warm up, then Khakis arrived later in the warmup, then finally McIlroy during the first Thang. We did burpees for Two Factor but not knowing how many more pax might show up throughout the morning we stopped it right there. [Read More]
biner  clementine  ezekiel  geek-squad  hotty-toddy  khakis  kilmer  lawn-dart  mcilroy  pbx  shut-in  sky-blue  two-factor  uti 

THE SPEECH: The True Story of the 2017 Christmas Party Speech

 Posted on December 13, 2018  |  7 minutes  |  1464 words  |  

In the four months leading up to tonight’s Christmas party, I’ve heard no less than 335 different accounts of last year’s Christmas party speech. These varying accounts - or myths, as I like to think of them - have done severe levels of damage to YHC’s psyche. In an effort to set the record straight, please humor me by considering the truth about the now-infamous 2017 Christmas party speech. For starters, my heart was in the right place. [Read More]

1stF #2 of 6 BD & F3’versary Q-week: Courir le Cornichon with some stuff in between

 Posted on December 12, 2018  |  3 minutes  |  549 words  |  

As I arrived at the Claymore, I thought I was going to be the first one there. I was wrong, Disco Duck was waiting. I didn’t just pull into the parking spot. I drove around the AO to get the lay of the land. DD gave me a perturbed look wondering what the hell is WWW doing. There is a method to my madness. As I drove around, all I can see is water everywhere … there was not a single dry spot. [Read More]
bartman  disco-duck  earhart  pickles  rooney  www 

1stF #3 of 6 BD & F3’versary Q-week: Train Delay! In the nick of time for some F3 Deck of Pain after some Thunderstruck.

 Posted on December 12, 2018  |  2 minutes  |  426 words  |  

As I was making my way to Rush Hour from work, in hopes of minimal traffic, everything looked good until I get to DTC. As I was pulling up to Chatham, I see the railroad bars blinking and start its descent. I have 20 mins to get to the AO, change out of my work clothes and into workout clothes. All I can think of was HOLY HELL, I am going to be late because I cannot see the end of the train cars. [Read More]
disco-duck  press-on  theismann  www 

F3 Carpex Ombudsman: We Did A Terrible Job

 Posted on December 12, 2018  |  4 minutes  |  682 words  |  

As I was running down the middle of the road this morning at Insomnia, I thought about how unsafe I was being. As I was running on the sidewalk covered with ice and snow, I thought about how unsafe I was being. As I was sliding on a sheet of ice at an intersection, I thought about how unsafe I was being. But I kept running. Now, I can’t imagine I was the only PAX this morning to consider how irresponsible this was. [Read More]

1stF #1 of 6 BD & F3'versary Q: Winter Bells Tabata Style

 Posted on December 11, 2018  |  3 minutes  |  458 words  |  

Date: December 10, 2018 PAX: EarharT, WWW (YHC/QIC) Day 1 of 6 for my birthday and F3’versary week. I was not so sure Monday would even happen coming off the tail-end of 8" of snow and rain all day Sunday. I woke up at 0400 hr wondering how it would be outside. I stepped out at O’dark thirty to test out the ground. It was wet but not frozen. I got ready wondering who would show up. [Read More]
earhart  www