Author: Jake Smith

Still emotional and on a high from the Royal Wedding, YHC decided to take the Pax up as high as he was for a trip to Love Circle.

Conditions were PERFECT for the 13 pax in attendance.

QIC: T-Cell PAX: Princess Aurora, Bad Boy, Trapper Keeper, Hawkeye, En Fuego, The Baptist, Porcelain, Right Said Fred, The Jeweler, High-Viz, Blue Mule, Reveille.

Mosey to tennis court to get this crew stretched out. Good Morning Apocalypse to start out, followed by WMH, SSH, Squats, and some little, tiny baby arm circles to wrap. We had a long journey ahead of us, so we took off from there.

After a LONG mosey to the top of Love circle and a moment to reflect on the beauty of a sunrise from the best view in Nashville, we paid some homage to the Royal Family. First up was King Phillip, in which we did 96 (his age) SSH’s and then made a loop round LC. Next up was the Queen (92) crunches and then a loop. Finally, we gave Prince Charles (69, his age!) due with some Monkey Humpers. A nod to not only his rumored past, but his somewhat monkeyish appearance. These were brutal.

From there we made the long mosey back via West End. All in all, we covered about 3 miles and were feeling every bit of it when we rolled back into Westeros.

Finished with a bit of Mary – Flutters and Freddie Mercury to finish.

Bullhorn:

1. Great showing on Saturday at Sylvan Park fest. Probably good to do a few more of these, just need some better signage, etc.
2. 4:13 kick-off on Thursday. Come out and support these guys!
3. Stay tuned for a new AO on Tuesday’s led by En Fuego and Foggy Pirate
4. Prayers for Jeweler’s mom who is sick
5. Forgot to mention, but NO WESTEROS next week. Memorial Day Convergence at Concord Park.

Q- T-Cell

Pax – Blue Mule, High Viz, Porcelain, and Bicentennial Man.

The 2.0 turned 3 this weekend. Since I haven’t stopped eating cake since Friday, it was time the PAX helped me work off his 3rd birthday. It was snowing. Blue Mule was wearing summer attire. He said his app this morning read 50 degrees. Crap app.

The Thang:

Mosey round the back half of the school to try and find some shelter neath the gym overhang. It sort of worked.

Squats X 30 IC, SSH X 30 IC, WMH X 10, Imperial Walker X 30 IC, Merkins X 10 IC and some tiny and big baby arm circles. Mosey to the tennis courts.

The plan was for 3 laps around the two courts. Broad jumps down the sidelines, LT Dans down the baseline, and ending with a suicide. We got thru 2 of these but we were eating time and needed to make it to the hill, so we pressed pause and headed for Love Circle.

Ran to the base of the road leading to LC. The plan was for 3 trips up with 10 burpees between sets. After 2 trips, we were all thankful the 2.0 didn’t turn 5, or 12. But he will one day and that day will suck for Westeros.

After finishing there, we ran back over to the tennis courts to blow out the candle on our 3rd trip around the court. No time for Mary as we headed back to the cars for COT.

Moleskin

YHC is a man of the people and kept the PAX dry, so it was a leg heavy day. Although the workout was rep light, the trips up the hill are worth the price of admission alone.

Bullhorn:

Need to get a Q signed up for Titan on Wednesday. Vector makes his VQ on his 48th birthday on Friday. Be there!

Still room to join us at the Ruck in Nashville.

30 degree weather, snowing, dark, and a time change to mix in makes this Monday a tough one. Grateful for the guys who made the decision to get up and get better. I wouldn’t have been out there if it wasn’t for you. Thank you.

As I shared coffee with Bagger Vance this afternoon, was reminded once again it’s more than a workout fellas. Don’t ever forget that. Grateful for each of you .

SYITG.

QIC – T-Cell

The Pax – Hi-Viz, Crawfish, En Fuego, Blue Mule, Porcelain

Looks outside at the house, heres the patter of rain, cusses under his breath, walks outside, feels nothing but dry and 47 degrees. That’s a win.

The Thang:

After some Amy Grant mumble chatter, we headed out of the parking lot and straight into a dead end. Not a good start to the workout. Circled back and headed toward the school. Twas a good thing because Porcelain rounded it about the same time as we did. The dead-end saved him some searching.

Warm-O-Rama

Good Mornings X 10, Willie Mays Hayes X 20, SSH X 30, Squat w/ thrusters X 30, Imperial Walkers X 20, BBAC, maybe something else thrown in. It was time to go.

Mosey around the back of the school to what I can only describer as the car-rider circle in front of the gym. The circle driveway was perfect for paying homage to the finale of the Olympic games. And like any good Olympics, we started with a time trial. Took us 57 sec to loop the circle. This was a number we needed to stay in the green with when hitting our splits.

After some discussion on the Olympic ring colors, it was finalized it was blue, yellow, black, green and red. Our workouts would follow these colors. And our reps were determined by the amount of medals won by the US. Luckily it was a paltry 23 or this thing could have turned into a real smoker.

First up was 23 burpees, followed by another lap. If we did not beat our time of 57 sec, the burpees would double on the next trip. We made this next trip by just a few seconds. After a quick warning to the pax that we were close, we settled in for the next exercise round.

23 burpees and 23 Y-Ups. Followed by another lap. This would continue with us each time adding an exercise. The ultimate exercises were Burpees, Y-Ups, Big Boy Sit-Ups, Groiners, and Reverse Burpees.

Upon completion, mosey back to the parking lot via Indian Run.

Moleskine:

Not gonna lie, this workout snuck up on the pax, including the Q. YHC tried not to be too offended when Porcelain said he wore long sleeves because he wasn’t fearing a Princess Aurora smoke show. He was however smoked and I will not forget that comment. Ever.

Bullhorn:

First Friday lunch this week 11:30 at Cookery.  Be there before CCR finishes all the Australian Down Under Meat Bonanzas.

Great to be pack with the fine men of West Nashville Westeros after paternity leave. Luckily everyone was sleeping and quiet when I left the house, so my conscience was clean as I depart for the AO.

5 Pax (YHC, Bad Boy, Megatron, Crawfish, High Viz) departed the parking lot and  wait, who is that appearing in the darkness, PA and Porcelain! Lucky 7 for the morning. Could tell everyone was moving a little slow either from turkey or last weekend’s GrowRuck.  We pushed on..

Here is what went down: 

Mosey to the school for COP under the lights – 30 SSH, Imperial Walkers, Squats, Mountain Climbers, Merkins, and Good Mornings.

Mosey to the playground for today’s route o pain:

Suicide on the tennis court, bear crawl down the sidewalk, 10 pull ups, and  a trip through the tunnel. Rinse and Repeat X5. Doesn’t look like much, but it was. As evidence by my wheezing and the rest of the pax.

Finished with about 10 minutes of Mary with the highlight being a perfectly executed Dixie Stamped. Indian Run back to the parking lot.

Bullhorn:

Great to be back after a few weeks off. Thanks to all the guys who have stepped up the last week or so as we’ve had guys out due to Grow Ruck recovery and holidays. You know who you are and it does not go unnoticed.

Megatron let us know about a great event that Parks Church PCA is hosting on Friday night. Details below. Also, Megatron is making his VQ debut on Friday. BE THERE!