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Titan – 11.21.18 – “Gnarly”

11 PAX previewed YHC’s latest “evention” – the Gnarcourse – at Titan.

QIC: Princess Aurora

PAX: Harvey Updyke, Hi-Viz, T-Cell, Preacherman, Pumpkin Spice, Reveille, Crawlspace, Right Said, Cunning Linguist, Porcelain

THE THANG:

After a nice jaunt around the Parthenon, PAX circled up by Lake Watauga to count cadence with the ducks:

  • SSH x 15
  • Squats x 15
  • WMH x 16
  • LBAC F/R x 12
  • Merkins x 10

Mosey back to the cars to pick up our equipment and explain the rules of Gnarcourse*

PAX are divided into two teams with each man getting a flag football belt to wear. At the starting point, there is a physical challenge – in this case, 20 HRM and 20 Jump Squats – before running a predetermined course (measuring .25 – .50 mi). The aim is to gain as many points as possible in the allotted time.

  • Each lap completed = 1 point
  • Each physical challenge = 1 point
  • Full circuit = 1 bonus point

PAX are not required to do the lap and PC each time, but one bonus point is awarded for completing both each round. As an example, a strong runner might find they will accumulate more points by focusing on laps rather than stopping to do the PC. However, they would miss out on the bonus point of doing the PC for that lap. The same could be said for a tabata machine who would rather do calisthenics than run.

Now for the Gnar: when the PAX lose all three flags, they must stop for a 20 burpee penalty before continuing the course. Flags can be grabbed at any point on the course except the PC area, and there are no tagbacks.

Team with the most points wins.

*rules are still not set in stone, but feedback from this first go and subsequent trials will help shape the event for the 2019 Gnarcourse Grand Prix – oh yeah, it’s coming

In the end, Team Blue barely edged out Team Yellow by a few points with most getting in at least 4 full circuits,

COT/BOM

MOLESKINE:

I’ve been scheming the Gnarcourse for a couple of months now, so I was glad to have a great crew to experiment with the first trial.  There was some swift evasion and steadfast patience exhibited by several PAX, and the experience can only get better from here! Be on the lookout for more opportunities as well as the pre-blast for the 2019 Grand Prix.

BULLHORN:

  • Dec 7 – Friendly Friday
  • Dec 7 – 12th Man lunch opportunity at noon at the Richland Country Club. Ping Umbrella on Slack to get signed up.
  • Dec 10 – Christmas gift giving at Nashville Rescue Mission – see #3rdF on Slack or ping me to get signed up.
  • Go Tigers.

PA out.

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Oregon Trail Part 2

Conditions: 25 degrees

16 PAX in Attendance: 3rd Degree, Tebow, Altidore, CheezWhiz, Stats, Nimbus1500, ShowMe, Netflix, Creeper, Sterno,  SoccerMom, Inspector Gadget, NumbTucks (NimTucks this morning), ragdoll, Barney Fievel & WMD.

PreParty: 3rd Degree, SoccerMom, CheezWhiz, Creeper and Gaylord Focker (Don’t know what they did, I’m more of a Post Party kinda guy)

Warm up:
Started circled up for 10X: Twist Lunges, Knee Tucks, Toy Soldiers, T Merkins, Prisoner Squats & Prisoner Iron Mikes?

Prairie Problems
Partner swap:  PAX 1 Prairie Grass Pullups (Burpups) 10X, while PAX 2 completed as many “side plankups” as possible.  Swap then Rinse and Repeat for 10 mins

Base of the mountain 
The cold is tough on those wooden wheels.  15X (Broken Wheel) One Legged Hops on the Right Leg, 10X Angle Grinders, 15X One Legged Hops on the Left Leg, 20X Mountain Climbers.  Rinse and Repeat from the park entrance to the back parking lot, otherwise known as the Rockies

BurpBack Mountain 
Gotta do what you have to keep warm with your partner.  PAX 1 did Politicians up the Hill and Bear Crawled down 3X, while PAX 2 did Burpees.  Swap then Rinse and Repeat until there were an aggregate of 50 Burpees done by the pair.  Part way through, we lost some feet to frost bite, so the last 25 were one legged Burbees.

Quick Snake Run back to home base

Mary
30 Seconds of: Reverse Crunches, American Hammers, Jack Knife Sit-ups, One Legged Prom Dates (one round per leg, while my name was bellowed in a compromising way be the PAX), Wine mixers, Crunches, Mountain Climbers & Freddie Mercuries.

Post Party
Nimbus1500, 3rd Degree, CheezWhiz, Creeper, NumbTucks and SoccerMom & Barney completed 10 Yurpees

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Winds of Winter – 26 Nov 2018

Conditions: Lots of wind + little heat = solid gloom
PAX: Hi-Viz, Porcelain, Bicentennial Man, Pumpkin Spice, Crablegs
QIC: Crablegs

Starting in the main parking lot, we shook some holiday rust off with a mosey to the back court, AKA Crabtrap, for some WOR including: SSH, WMH, Cherry Pickers, LBAC – F/R, Squats

Next was a mosey to the other cage where the chainlink fence provided ample relief from the elements.

PAX line up on the tennis courts for a ladder of Agassis, 2 courts wide.

  • Agassi, 1 burpee. Agassi, 2 burpees…repeat up to 8 burpees.
  • Agassi, 10 LBCs. Agassi, 20 LBCs…repeat up to 50 LBCs
  • Agassi, 5 Merkins. Agassi, 10 Merkins…repeat up to 25 Merkins

We escaped the cage for a brief mosey around the soccer field and back up to the lot for Mary. PAX alternated exercises until we hit time.

  • Box cutters x 25
  • Flutter kicks x 25
  • JLo x 25
  • Alt Heel Tap x 25
  • Freddy Mercury x 25
  • Alphabet (only to Y)
  • Finish with Perfect form in the peoples chair til the end ~40s.

 

NMM:  Thankful today for the accountability of this group of men to get out there and embrace an exceptionally gloomy day. Looking forward to some redemption at #TheHill on Thursday.

BH (shamelessly copied from BV):
1 Dec STONEWALL MOVES TO FT NEGLEY: this week only due to Winter Warmer
1 Dec BV’s Tacky Christmas Party
7 Dev Umbrella hosts First Friday, 12th Man lunch at Richland Country Club $20/man buffet w speaker (see attached)

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Short Card & The7

Temp: 37ish and Windy
Gloom Factor: High
PAX: Life Champ, Tampa Libra, T Cell, Venus, Foxtrot Talks a Lot, Bagger Vance
QIC: BV

Short slow mosey around the lot, side shuffle, politician.

Circle Up
WOR:
SSH
GMA
WMH
HB
IW
(All IC X 13)

Evolution I

MARSOC SHORT CARD

30 Merkins
30 Air squats
30 Crunches
10 Burpees
10 Windmills

30 Push-ups
30 Mountain climbers
30 Flutter kicks
10 Burpees
10 Cherry pickers (4-count)

30 Merkins
30 SSH
30 Supermans
10 Burpees
10 Chain breakers

30 Push-ups
30 Lunges
30 Hello dollies
10 Burpees
10 Trunk twists

Evolution II


Seven Rounds
(Modified)
7 HSPU
7 Thrusters
7 Supine Thrusters
7 Iron Crosses
7 8 Count BB
7 KB Swings
7 Pull Ups

Time

NMM: Cold and windy. Not a lot of MC due to PAX engrossment with YHCs Ranger Panties. Fantastic to have TL out of the Shire and FTAL, Venus back in the fold. Life Champ wasn’t on the Lam, merely sipping PCs on a boat. Good to have T Cell back in the game after his in laws gave he and his family the runs and hurls.

BH:
1 Dec STONEWALL MOVES TO FT NEGLEY: this week only due to Winter Warmer
1 Dec BV’s Tacky Christmas Party
7 Dev Umbrella hosts First Friday, 12th Man lunch at Richland Country Club $20/man buffet w speaker (see attached)

BV

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Six for circuits

PAX: Edible Arrangements, Bagger Vance, Bad Boy, Care Bear, Boy Band, Porcelain

QIC: Boy Band

As Bagger is still recovering from his ankle/foot issues and there were few HCs prior to showtime, YHC planned a no running circuit workout inclusive of some jump-rope for cardio burn.

We started with a quick mosey to drop some coupons (~30lb cinder blocks and 18lb Ball) to the playground along with jump rope and pullup assist band. Then back to the parking lot for WOR and to pick up Bagger.

WOR:  SSH, Good Mornings, Squats, FLBAC, BLBACs, Seal Claps, Overhead Press.

Thang: 

Six stations for six PAX.  Station 1 was jump-rope to 100 (modified to 50 after 2 cycles due to timing and form).  This kept the pace. The remaining 5 stations were AMRAP exercises that changed with each cycle as follows.

Station 1: Jump rope, Jump Rope, Jump Rope, Jump Rope, Jump Rope

Station 2: Kettle Bell Swings, Bent Over Rows, Overhead Press, Weighted American Hammers, Kettle Bell Swings, Weighted American Hammers, Bent over rows

Station 3: Ball push ups (alt. arms), Weighted sit up, Shoulder raise, weighted sit-up, Ball push ups, Weighted sit ups, Bent over rows

Station 4: Goblet Squats, Single Leg Deadlift-R, Derkins, Crunchy Frogs, Squats,  Crunchy Frogs, Bent over rows

Station 5:  Overhead press, Single Leg Deadlift-L;  Blockees, Plank Jacks, Overhead Press, Plank Jacks, Bent Over rows

Station 6: Pull ups, Pull ups, Maktars, J-Los, Pull Ups, Flutter Kicks, Pull Ups

MARY:  Mosey back to the parking lot with the coupons. As we did a lot of core work during the circuit and YHC’s legs were feeling a little under-worked we circled up for 3 minutes of rapid fire deep squats.  We lost count around 55 and did somewhere near 70 in that time.

COT – Prayers for all those PAX who are welcoming new little ones into their lives.  There are a bunch.

Moleskin: Thanks for the opportunity to lead. We had a great turn out with many of the regulars still out of town for the holiday weekend. My abs are still sore from all the weighted core work, and I suspect tomorrow will be worse.

SYITG

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11-24-2018

15 Pax – Barney Fievel, 3rd degree, Creeper, Rag doll, Cheeze wiz, Soccer Mom, Hush Puppy, Altidore, Mic drop, nimbus 1500, Numbtucks, Hans(FNG), Tom Petty(FNG), Polar Express(FNG), Gaylord Focker

Disclaimer

 

Mosey to parking lot

 

Warmup –

SSH 10 in cadence

High knees 10

Butt kickers 10

Willie mays on your own

Calf raises 10

Windmills (right hand to left foot and vice versa) 10

 

Workout –

 

Suicides in the parking lot run to first line touch line and politician back

 

Bombs – after each exercise run to end of parking lot and back

10 burpees,

15 overhead claps

20 merkins

25 big boy sit ups

30 squats

 

24 plank jack burpees

9 dips

80 mountain climbers each leg is a half while partner does lunge walk

100 pushups – partner does 10 after completion the next person does 10

Indian run around the school

 

Mary

Bicycle crunches  – 20 in cadence

Flutter kicks – 20

Side plank each side

 

COT

Welcomed 3 FNG and pray

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Bomber 112318: Leftovers

CONDITIONS: 40 and calm at 0600 start. Nice sunrise.

PAX: Crawlspace, Tiny Dancer, Norm (F3 Raleigh), Right Said, Porecelain, Cunning Linguist, Shadow, Dutch Oven, Pumpkin Spice

QIC: Hi-Viz

DISCLAIMER

WOR: Quick mosey to the nip, followed by 23 of each, IC: SSH, Merkins, Air Presses.

THANG
T-Cell (who was planning to Q, until a a last-minute logistical issue) provided YHC a turnkey workout, so it was fairly straightforward. Run the greenway and stop at nine points along the way to perform 23 of each of the following exercises to spell out LEFTOVERS.

L Lieutenant Dans
E Elevated Merkins
F Flutter Kicks
T Travoltas
O Overhead Presses
V V-Ups
E E2Ks
R Reverse Lunges
S Squats

We rounded the corner back into McCabe with two minutes on the clock, just in time to find Tiny Dancer and wrap up with Jane Fondas on each side for good measure.

COT/BOM

Great work all around. Nice to have Norm from Raleigh visiting. Enjoy the rest of your long weekend. Viz out.

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MARSOC LONG CARD

TEMP: 37
GLOOM FACTOR: Moderate
PAX: Juan Valdez, Boyband, Dupree, Bagger Vance
QIC: BV
THANG: MARSOC LONG CARD
1.  Side Straddle Hops 30-IC
2.  Half Jacks 30-IC
3.  American Hammers 10-IC
4.  Wind Mills 10-IC
5.  Push Ups 50-SGL COUNT
6.  Chest Press Flings 15-IC
7.  Dive Bombers 20-SGL COUNT
8.  Wind Mills 10-IC
9.  Tricep Push Ups 25-SGL COUNT
10.  Up Back and Over 10-IC
11.  Cherry Pickers 15-IC
12.  Merkins 50-2 SGL COUNT (10×5)
13.  Bend Fore Aft 10-IC
14.  Sit Ups 200-SGL COUNT (25×8)
15.  Trunk Rotations 10-IC
16.  Merkins 50-SGL COUNT (10×5)
17.  Leg Lifts 30-SGL COUNT
18.  Pistol LBCs 50-SGL COUNT
19.  LBAC 10-IC
20.  Quad Stretch 1 min
21.  8 Count B Builders 25
22.  V-Ups 20-SGL COUNT
23.  Lunges 20-WALKING
24.  American Hammers 10-IC
25.  Flutter Kicks 140-IC
26.  Hello Dollies 75-IC
27.  GMA 10-IC
28.  Push Ups 50-SGL COUNT (10×5)
29.  Press Chest Flings 15-IC
30.  Flutter Kicks 50-IC
31.  LBCs 50-SGL COUNT
32.  Inboard/Outboard 10-IC
33.  Up Back and Over 10-IC
34.  Trunk Rotations 10-IC
35.  Tricep Push Ups 25-SGL COUNT
36.  Dive Bombers 15-SGL COUNT
37.  Squats 30-IC
TIME
NMM: Today was a great way to prove you can get an A$$ whipping without any running. We did modify some of the exercises and did break down the higher rep counts but it was still a smoker. YHC, would have woggled snot but couldn’t catch breath long enough to do so. PA would not have approved of the size of YHC’s #Weinke but I challenge any non military PAX to memorize that Q the first time through.
Small but hearty PAX this AM, everyone did their part to pull us through. So good to see Juan out and not in his 7Hills tennis get up.
Dupree kept pushing each time we drew Merkins and there were lots of variations to push through.
T Claps to Boyband for the coffee and the FEBA.
BH:
Room in the Inn on Sunday night at Dupree’s church. There is a sign up genius on Slack. Bring your kids, a great way to serve and to be fed by giving back to others less fortunate.
Speaking of Dupree, his wife is fur weeks away from delivering another baby. Keep them in your prayers.
12/1 Tacky Christmas party at our Hooch
12/7 First Friday lunch at Richland CC @ 1130 with Umbrella on Q and his good friend speaking on overcoming adversity.
Pleasure and honor to Lead yall,
BV
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Thankful Q @ The Pound

Thanksgiving coming at ya like:

14 PAX in Attendance:  Creeper, Sterno, Tebow, TV Guide, SoccerMom Altidore, Gaylord Focker, Nimbus 1500, “Cirrus Black” (FNG Will, Nimbus’ little brother), MuRSA, Netflix, HushPuppy, CheezWhiz  & 3D (QiC)

Surprise! 5:15 pre-party solo showing of YHC doing 5 burpees and then sprint 2 light posts (~50 yds) per round. We did 10 rounds in 10 minutes. Creeper came in midstream and busted out 6 good sets. Gaylord got in 2. BG Music provided by TobyMac, Metallica, Greta van Fleet and others.

Warm-Up/Disclaimer:

  • Jog around parking lot x 1
  • SSH IC x 15
  • IW IC x 10
  • Tempo Merkins IC x 10 (varying cadence)
  • SJ IC x 10
  • Tempo Squats IC x 10
  • 30 seconds GM OYO

The Thang(s) 

Apparently, NumbTucks got voluntold to cook 4 turkeys and hams, so I consulted with him for this part of the Q. Much love was sent his way as we busted out these sets…

We done DID it:
Derkins, Irkins and Dips in sequence. x3, x6, x9 & x12. Then back down the mountain with 9, 6, 3. Arms are pumped! But SoccerMom hasn’t had enough yet, “Is that it?” So we ended with 10 of each.

F3Nolensville Turkey-Trot. Indian Run 1 mile with a speedbump: We have to show our FNG what F3Nolensville is all about… lunge walk the short bridge 10 squats on far side, then lunge walk back.

Run past the long bridge (much to the appreciation of the PAX)…

Our family loves time together and games for the holidays…so we did:

The Deck of Death: 4 suits, 4 exercises. Do the number of reps on the card, all face cards are 10, Aces=11. Joker is 20 of Pax’s choice (mix & match or all of one). For today: ♥ = Iron Mikes (each leg = 1/2) ♠️= pull-ups  ♣️= Burpees ♦️= toes to bar.

Everyone got a turn and for some reason the Iron Mikes were very represented. Had my legs feeling like:

 

MoM: Pax perform a few Mary exercises:

We did: Flutter Kix with arms held up or out (not under butt) & American Hammers

CoT/Numbers/Names/Christening of FNG

Post-party of 26 burpees (3D pulled a 6 and planned to do Yurpees but STERNO was like, “PLUS??????” and YHC pulled a Joker, so modification to Burpees was announced. Strong Showing of most every PAX. Brutal finish!

But wait…There’s More! TVG hid his B-day until SoccerMom let it slip so we did 41 Merkins in his honor.

Moleskin/What we Learned:

  • So cool to see the beautiful Golden Full Moon and the colorful sunrise today, The Heavens declare the glory of God and I’m thankful y’all got out of the fartsack to witness it with me today.
  • Awesome to linger for 45 minutes of coffeeteria after the beatdown. Great to meet Nimbus’ Brother Cirrus and both Nimbus and CheezWhiz plan to bring more family Saturday. Sweet!
  • CheezWhiz has plenty of ideas for future Qs, CSAUPs, Gladiator-style F3 fights to the death, etc. Needs to sign up!
  • Exercise Self-Control and Discipline this weekend/holiday when men are expected to gratify the flesh and serve themselves. I’m not saying not to enjoy and be thankful for the gifts of good food and drink, I’m just encouraging to consider serving and not being a glutton…Aye?
  • I might need some help from Gramma to pass the potatoes after the DIDs though…
  • See you Saturday for a HushPuppy Q!!!!!!!!!!!

3D, out!

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Cochran

PAX: Dilly Dilly, PSL, Black Lung, The Strangler, Boy band, Yard Sale, Big Stick, Tiny Dancer, Red Skull, Prevac, Rooms-2-Go, Blood Clot, Bagger Vance, Venus, Edible Arrangements, Black Widow, CAPS LOCK

QIC: Floppy Disk

Conditions: 42 with a chilly breeze

Disclaimer then quick mosey around the church.

CoP (all IC)
SSH x20
High Knees x15
Butt Kickers x15
BaC F x15
BaC R x15
Overhead Claps x15

THANG
Mosey to the bottom of the Cochran hill, some of us more speedily than others. Simple. Each PAX must mosey to the top of Cochran and back 3x as well as perform 200 reps of each exercise: Merkins, Squats, Big Boy situps. Exercises could be broken up as desired. If you finished early head to the playground and perform the following until all PAX were in: 5x Pull-ups, 10x CDDs, 15x Rows, 20x Dips.

Mary
Flutter Kix x20 (IC)
J-Lo’s x10 (IC)

MS
Great to have Rooms-2-Go back in the fold, if only for a day. There’s a chance that he may be moving back to town next summer. We anxiously await confirmation. Black Lung’s standard practice of rolling up 5 minutes late finally backfired on him. We were not in a regularly visited part of Sir E, so he spent almost the entire 45 minutes scouring the grounds for the PAX. He found us with about 5 minutes to spare. Big Stick had to take care of some business midway through the workout. I wouldn’t recommend picking up a pair of socks if you happen to come across them in the woods near Sir E.

BH
Room at the Inn this Saturday, 11/24. Reach out to Dupree with any questions.

SYITG,
Floppy Disk