BACKBLASTS

Pre-Blast 11 calorie-heavy HIM’s joined YHC for 3.32 miles of the Daytora 500 at Phoenix. The Warmup Pledge of Allegiance at the flag Run the long way out of the east park exit down to the Jersey Mike’s parking lot (1.05 miles) - stop for Good Mornings, Windmills, SFAC, and 100 Standard Merkins on the way. Partner up. The Thang Daytora 500: with your partner, perform 500 St. Merkins, Sumo Squats, LBC. [Read More]

The title is the workout this morning at Dante’s peak. 5 hearty souls braved the 29 degree post turkey day cold. Run to the circle for warmup of SSH, GM, Cotton pickers, MC, SFAC then the Thang - mostly on the tennis courts and pavilion B - Burpees L - Lunge walk A - Agassi C - Carolina Dry Dock K - Knerkins F - Fiddler Crab R - Rosalita [Read More]

YHC is thankful for many things; my loving family, a full table this Thanksgiving, and a purpose-driven career. But, above all things, I’m thankful for the blessings of FNGs on Thanksgiving Day. More to come, but first: The annual Thanksgiving Convergence means the men of Carpex descend upon the finest AO in all the land, Bradford’s Ordinary, and this year the weather right-perfect for a proper beatdown. EC run waves launched at 0600 and 0630 (psst, Frisco showed up at 0538 texting YHC, “um when are we starting? [Read More]

Wednesday morning’s are always a high energy affair with Insomnia runners coming in and the Vesper and SNS crowd ready to kill it. Add to that the pre-holiday excitement, temps near freezing and anticipation of Kitty’s upcoming Thanksgiving extravaganza, New Year’s Eve in Times Square had nothing on the 34 gathered at the Senior Center this morning! At the crack of 5:45, the Vesper’s headed out to explore new trails and the SNS crowd got after it. [Read More]

Pre-Blast 11 monsters for 2.57 miles of deconstructed burpee rack-em-and-stack-em on the track at #ao-tues-fmj with 305 standard merkins taboot. Great to have Zinfandel from Charlotte. Welcome FNG, Butt Fumble! The Warmup Pledge of Allegiance at the flag Run the long way along the road, invade CG’s former? stomping grounds. Paint the lines, mixed run. Circle up for: Good Mornings, Windmills, 51 slow count merkins. Mixed run on the way out of the lot. [Read More]

Warm Up Started off with Good Mornings and then used Kettlebells to do Halos (10 each direaction) , lunges with KB overhead each side, KB squat holds and merkins Mosied to PU bar and did 10 PUs and 20 merkins The Thang Tabata 6 rounds with 6 reps each (20 seconds work and 10 sec recovery) Kettle Bells (Brought the 55, 65 and 75 lb for Intimidator) Punching Bag/Burpees alternate Erkins using Push Up racks Jump Rope 20# Wall Ball toss Turkish Get Up (Unfortunately Joe Smith was not there to enjoy his favorite exercise) Mary KB Swings, American Hammer using KB, Homer to Marge, Diamond Merkins, Have A Nice Day [Read More]

This morning I hosted (what may have been) the first ever Field of Dreams Welcome Party, which started 15 minutes prior to the workout. Invitations went out to the entire PAX however Ma Bell, Largemouth, Biner, PBX, Katniss, Bogo, Two Factor, Liverpool, Sosa, Crimson & YHC RSVP’d. We gathered in the parking lot and ran over to the shelter near the soccer field, but when we arrived I noticed the food I ordered from the caterers hadn’t arrived yet. [Read More]

Feeling like the ankle is getting back to full speed, and with the Thanksgiving convergence coming up, YHC knew he needed to shake a little bootcamp beatdown rust off. There is no finer AO on a Monday morning at 0530 on Davis Drive than Wolverine, for said beatdown. Oh, but first HIM of all HIMs Build-a-Bear called a 0455 EC run and YHC felt obliged to join. Grizzly Bear Ollie was there to boot and it was a wonderful 3 mile loop. [Read More]

11-19-88. It’s a number I’ve recorded a ton of times, and now it’s 30 years in the past. Warmup. This is Kryptonite, you get no warmup. Follow me out to Ederlee and the lake greenway entrance. Pause for 30 merkins, OMD. Partner up for a catch me if you can around the lake with 8 cadence prisoner squats (or just sprint if you’re Flip Flop). Rendezvous at the fence. 10 penalty burpees followed by 30 LBCs, IC. [Read More]

‘Twas a chilly morning for the first annual Carpex Triple Down featuring a Ruck, F3 Phoenix, and FiA Moneypenny. Then there was also F3 Dads to boot (yes, that’s how you spell it; it’s not ’ta boot’ or ’taboot’ or any other of the bastardized versions I’ve seen afloatin’ around the interwebs). But I digress. YHC rolled in at t0 with some B-52s rocking the ol pickup. A few minutes later (we’ll call it t1) 12ish of us embarked on a cluster ruck (Triple Down Part 1) while a few others embarked on some runs. [Read More]