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Titan 11.28.2018 – Iditarod/IDIDarod

PAX: T-Cell; Princess Aurora; Rev; Sand Lapper; Blue Mule; Porcelain; Trapper Keeper; Bicentennial Man; Cunning Linguist; Brother at Law (QIC)

10 brave men climbed out of bed this morning, despite their weather app displaying a temperature in the high teens.  Fortunately, the wind was calm and we quickly shook off the chill.

WOR

10 SSH

Mosey, with 15 SSH  speed bump to move all them limbs

Circle up on backside of Parthenon

20 SSH

LBAC x15

Reverse x15

10 low and slow squats

10 GMs

10 WMH

 

THANG

Inspired by Porcelain doing “DID Sprints” a few weeks back, I decided to build a few circuits around DIDs.”

First: DID Sprints x2: 20 dips, 15 incline merks, 10 declines, sprint the ellipse

Mosey to front of Parthenon

Second: Animal Kingdom DIDs: 20 dips, 15 incline merks, 10 declines.  Crab walk length of Parthenon; bear crawl short side of Parthenon (core and SSH for the six); duck walk long side of Parthenon; crawl bear short side of Parthenon.

Mosey to McDonalds Amphiteater (TM).

Third: Elevation DIDs x2: 20 dips, 15 incline merks, 10 declines, then 10 box jumps, 20 step ups.

Mosey to playground with an AMRAP partner pullup finisher.

 

Mosey to statute for Mary

15 J-Lo’s (h/t to CCR for suggesting this one because she can say “I did Arod”)

10 Flutterkicks

10 GMs

 

Always a pleasure to make it out to Titan and see the Westside crew.  Everybody kept up a great pace throughout, which allowed us to get a lot of work in.

 

There were a lot of announcements, many of which I have forgotten, but here goes: First Friday lunch at Richland CC on leadership presented by Umbrella, check slack for details.  Libeery (Beer Library?) some time in December, watch Slack and read Freed to Lead–the F3 bible.  PA is coming up with a winter Ironclad challenge; watch this space.  Cunning Linguist expecting a child (based on my maths) this summer.  Huzzah!

 

Everybody made a hard decision to get out of bed this morning in quite frigid weather to get better today.  Take that attitude with you beyond the workout.  Get it.

 

Many thanks to Mrs. Rev for the cinnamon rolls.  You can really taste the difference between homemade cinnamon rolls (especially the icing) vs. Grands, and I love Grands too!  What a special world.  Grateful.

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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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Pumpkin Parthenon Peril

10 PAX bravely endured a VQ with gloves still wet from a soggy Crablegs Westeros special.

VQIC: Pumpkin Spice

PAX: Blue Mule, Bicentennial Man, Crablegs, Crawlspace, Cunning Linguist, Hi-Viz, Porcelain, Reveille, Right Said

THE THANG:

Quick disclaimer then off for a warm-up mosey towards West End and then half-way back to the Acropolis. Circle up.

  • SSH x 20
  • WMH x 12
  • LBAC x 12
  • Overhead Clap x 12
  • Seal Claps x 12
  • rLBAC x 12
  • High Knees x 20

Off on another mosey past the nearly-frozen water feature to the foot of the temple of Athena herself. The PAX gathered round for instructions.

The PAX pair off for the main event. The exercise included:

  • All the PAX doing SSH until it’s their turn to start
  • With a paired PAX, first group runs up the stairs to the highest point of the parthenon to Corner #1
  • 10 Burpees at Corner #1
    • Each next pair heads up the stairs once the group ahead has done 5 Burpees
  • Sprint long-ways to Corner #2
  • 10 Jump Squats at Corner #2
  • Bear Crawl short-ways to Corner #3
  • 10 Man Makers at Corner #3
  • Bernie (run backwards) to Corner #4
  • 10 Box Jumps at Corner #4
  • Run down the stairs to starting position
  • 30-second recovery
  • RnR with 8 reps, then 6 reps, then 4 reps

The PAX who finish alternate with 1 minute of Low Planks and 1 minute of Air Chair until the Six arrives. The group then moseys to the path in front of the statue for Mary.

LINE OF MARY:

The PAX line up for Mary on their Six, shoulder-to-shoulder. Each PAX selects an exercise for the group to perform in cadence, to a count of 15. We start with PAX #2, with PAX #1 doing American Hammers holding a 25-lb dumbbell. Once the first exercise is done, PAX #1 passes the dumbbell to PAX #2, and PAX #3 selects the next exercise. We go down the line and keep passing the dumbbell, and whoever holds it does weighted American Hammers whilst they pray for the exercise to be over. Exercises included (a couple were repeated):

  • LBCs
  • Freddie Mercury
  • Box Cutters
  • Big Boy Sit-ups
  • J-Los
  • Alternating Heel Touches
  • Slow Freddie Mercury

BONUS ROUND:

There were three minutes to spare, so 30 Lieutenant Dans rounded out the Pumpkin Parthenon Peril before we closed it out.

BULLHORN:

  • Cunning Linguist has a special VQ planned for us on Friday at Bomber
  • Crablegs is Q-ing an OTB workout at West Park tomorrow. Meet in the parking lot past the water tower
  • We need a Q for the Titan next week

 

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Comrade coupons

~12 C and lost some gloom due to silly American fall back from daylight savings time.  YHC Porcelain QIC.  PAX: BnB, Crab Legs, Pumpkin Spice, Crawl Space, Right Said, TK, Hi-viz, Shadow, ABC, Reveille, Minnow Tank, Bad boy, Cunning Linguist.

Scared off a random park lurker again off loading multiple coupons from my own suspicious vehicle.  Coupons to be moved throughout this workout were: 25 kg kb, 12 kg kb, 9 kg large medicine ball, 2×7 kg dumbbells, and 2×20 liter buckets full of sand weighing around 32 kg each.  Disclaimer with Crawl Space rolling in hot.  Started some rock and roll music and a mosey to the rear of great Greek communist temple.

warmarama: 30xssh, 12xwmhs, 10xslow and low squats, 10xslow and low merkins

the thang: hope everyone got out to vote yesterday.  11/7 was a big day for regimes that would love to see our democratic constitutional republic fail.  On this day, Comrade Lenin completed the Bolshevik overthrow of the Russian monarchy in 1917 and Comrade Mao  proclaimed the People’s “Republic” of China in 1931.  Thus we would share our coupons in a five group circuit.  Note with some different movements going on YHC had to move groups closer for guidance.

Stations:

1-the time farmers carry of the 2 buckets up the stairs one by one, waiting=burpees

2-10×55# kb swings, waiting=LT Dan

3-10xmanmakers with 15# dumbbells, waiting=squats

4-10×35# single arm kb swings, waiting=squats

5-20# medicine ball chest passes

2 rotations were all we had time for.  Moleskin: my Bluetooth range on the speaker is weak.  However, we may have attracted some new recruits from those dirty capitalists of camp gladiator including their dog that joined us for keep away with the medicine ball.  Mosey return to front of Parthenon.

Mary: despite my unclear instructions we managed to make a circle with Reveille holding the medicine ball.  Did one rotation around the circle doing American hammers passing the medicine ball until everyone got 5 reps with it.  Finished Mary with 10 lbcs.

COT- Pumpkin Spice stepped up to VQ.  TK gave a great sixth man fun fact about his research lab’s work on colitis.  Yes, I know the shitty problem joke was cheap but I really didn’t recognize the disease.

Veterans Day is Sunday.  Being a vet I just ask everyone to thank a vet that they know on that day and just have fun talking with them.

Honored to lead y’all.  Just pray for further peace and love in this world and thank those that have given much more than me to make this country great.

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Animal Grid

High 60’s and gloomy.  Clouds did break some for a nice sunrise.  QIC: Porcelain.  Pax: Bad boy, hambone, frequency (kotters), TK, crawl space

Slow start after disclaimer.  Mosey around the Parthenon field to the ellipse behind the pagan temple. cop-20 sshs, 14 Willie mays Hayes, 10 slow and low squats, 10 slow and low merkins, 20 seal jacks.

Mosey to Parking lot north of Parthenon for the thang.  Around 50 yards from the first light to the second to last.  Movement repeats back and forth.

First trip out: Duck walk with 20 each leg Zebra butt kicks at the end (plank, one leg hi 90, Kick skyward).

Trip back: Crab walk with 20 crab humpers at the end.

2nd trip out: Frog hops with 20 Werewolf (dive bomber pushups) at the end.

Trip back: Sneaky gorilla (low squat, hands on ground lateral lunge to move turn 180 and alternate) with 20 donkey kicks at the end.

Third trip out-Crawl bear with monkey humpers at the end.

Trip back: Alligator merkin (2/3 back)-Inch worm (last 1/3 back) with cadence 20 low country crab at the end.

mosey to front of Parthenon for Mary.

20 cadence Starfish crunch- hold legs out, 1 left leg right elbow, 2 back, 3 right leg left elbow

20 cadence manatee- Superman position on stomach, left hand right ankle, right hand left ankle

 1 minute Dying cockroach hold

20 cadence Crunchy happy frogs

COT: Q school at stonewall weekend of 29th.  Good news on our prayers for bad boy’s family and spicoli’s remission are progressing well.

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VJ-Lo Day

70F clear and gloomy.  QIC: Porcelain.  Pax: Bagger Vance, hambone, blue mule, plinko, hail state, studio 42, Harvey Updike, Crab Legs, Trapper Keeper, Hawkeye, DaVinci, Reveille, Hi-Viz, Right Said, Crawl Space, Vinyl Signs, BnB

Disclaimer into a quick mosey to the field south of the Parthenon.  Warmarama: 20 don quixotes, 20 ssh, 15 slow and low squats, 15 slow and low merkins, 10 mountain climbers.

The thang: Indian run half mile for Indian Independence Day was but a ruse/setup for the main event.  The Japanese surrendered on the 14th by telegraph but it was not announced to the world until the 15th of August.  Moleskin YHC could not have scheduled better pax numbers.  Shortest to the front of the Indian line to break into even height groups of 6 for the 3 picnic tables.  We won the pacific campaign by an island hopping strategy.

Pinewood Derby Island Hopping campaign: Lift practice 10 ground to overhead.  Travel ~100m with table to different islands (trees) around the south field.  Island 1: Each table Group reps- 48 shoulder to overhead.  Plank for the 6 table.  Island 2: each pax oyo 20 each leg Bulgarian split squat using table bench then 20 air squats, hold low squat for 6.  Island 3: oyo 20 derkins then 20 burpees, plank for the 6.  Island 4: 48 bent table rows as a team then 20 oyo Carolina dry dock.   Island 5: 48 exaggerated leg raises off side of table oyo then 20 crunchy happy frogs off side of table.  Island 6: returned to home base 48 step ups oyo 10 Lt dans oyo.  Moleskin YHC was prepared to talk with the grounds keeper that drove past us but he did not stop.

Mary: Moved to edge of south field and got on line facing the shovel flag 100m opposite of us on the other side of the field.  Vacuum cleaners- wheelbarrow 10 steps then 5 derkins, each buddy 10 j-los then flap jack.  Repeated until time with most pax 2/3 of the way across the field.

COT: always fun seeing BV especially with kotters for hail state. Q calendar is looking sparse at time looking for pax to step up.  I pray we never have a total war like WWII ever again.  6 for coffee at three brothers.

 

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Titan – 08.08.18 – “88, Ain’t it Great”

CONDITIONS: Temp was mid-seventies, not humid, less light every morning.

PAX:  Bad Boy, Reveille, Harvey Updike, Fetch, Right Said, Crawlspace, Razor, Venus, ABC, Craig Thompson (FNG), Vital Signs, Crab Legs, Blue Mule ,Keep the Change, DaVinci, Trapper Keeper, Porcelain, Hambone, T-Cell, Hi-Viz

QIC: Studio 42

DISCLAIMER

WARM-UP/CoP:  Mosey to the amphitheater (aka to McDonalds for that wonderfully greasy aroma) for a warm-up

  • Side Straddle Hops (20 IC)
  • Seal Claps (20 IC)
  • Squats (20 IC)
  • Overhead Claps (20 IC)
  • Clap Merkins (15)
  • Mountain Climbers (15 IC)
  • Willie Mays Hays (10 IC)

THANG:

1st Indian Run

  • 1 mile loop around park, 2 lines in tandem (well, it started that way…), Pax in rear does 5 jump squats, then sprints to the front

88, Ain’t it great… to do this with a partner instead of on your own.

  • Mosey to the playground and partner up, do each exercise for 88 rep’s switching with your partner after 8 rep’s (or whenever suits you), partner counts when not doing rep’s
  • Exercises:
      1. Pull-up’s on the monkey bars
      2. Monkey Humpers
      3. Incline Merkins on the picnic bench
      4. Jump Squats

2nd Indian Run

  • A short run, then back to the start for Mary

Mary

  • Head to the statue platform for Hands of Time
  • Finished with some Burpees and Good Mornings

COT/BOM

BULLHORN:

  • Friendly Friday this week, so bring a friend.
  • Be praying for Bad Boy and his wife as they navigate some difficult waters.
  • Shoutout to FNG Craig Thompson, now known as “Soft Wood” (briefly known as “Hatchet”… sorry brother, it was an incredible name for like 10 seconds).

MOLESKIN:

It was a pleasure leading you men for my VQ today, just what I needed in the middle of a trying week.  I’ve only been with y’all for a month, but it’s been a great month – awesome to be part of a group of men that are pushing me to be a better version of who God intended me to be.

Studio 42 out.

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Mary’s Ugly Sister Dora

70F and clear.  The true gloom is starting to return to 0530.  The challenge is keeping it going through below 40F and rainy/snowy.  18 brave pax there to meet the challenge.  Porcelain (YHC Q), Blue Mule, Hambone, Studio 42, ABC, TK, Harvey Updike, Rocket League, Crab Legs, T-cell, bicentennial man, hi-viz, crawl space, Huggy, DaVinci(FNG), Reveille, Right Said, Stang.

warmarama: slaughter starter mosey 1/2 mile with stops every 200m for 10 burpees.  Circled up at playground: Don quixotes x10, ssh x20, low and slow squats x15

the thang: buddy up for Dora mod.  Partners could start at any workout. Running route around the art center.

50-pull-ups with knees to chest

100-swerkins

150-picnic table step ups

alternating planks for 6 then mosey to the green for extended Mary.  3 orange cones (not placed by Q) there worked out perfect for group on line sprints about 20m with a called an ab exercise for 10 reps called out by each pax working down the line before each sprint then a new ab exercise.  Some of the exercises were: v-ups, leg raises, alternating Superman, burpees, Freddy Mercury x2, American hammer, lbcs, ww1s, inverted crunch, flutter kicks, plank, j-los, the alphabet, crunchy happy frogs

cot: glad to have another FNG DaVinci running strong with the team.

 

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Titan – 07.25.18 – “Run, Run, Rudolph”

17 PAX including one Willy Loman from COLA and one FNG posted for Christmas in July Co-VQ delivered by Santa Crab and PA the Late-Ass Reindeer.

QIC: Crablegs/Princess Aurora

PAX: Frequency, Hi-Viz, T-Cell, Eldrick (COLA), FNG Fetch, Porcelain, Rocket League, Harvey Updyke, ABC, Third Person, Blue Mule, En Fuego, Keep the Change, BnB, Reveille

Quick story: YHC had his alarm set for 4:30 per usual and had promised Crablegs to be there by 5:20 to finalize the “bag of toys” being delivered. Well, much to my surprise, I wake up, notice it being lighter than usual, and roll over to see it’s 5:23. Apparently my volume was basically 1 decibel above mute (probably from watching Instagram vids in bed). Good thing Viz still had his phone when I texted as he led the PAX on the mosey and warm-o-rama.

THE THANG:

Little fuzzy on the details here as I arrived at 5:36, but there was some running and a COP involved. Only I didn’t hear that the COP part and made a fool of myself when I circled the PAX up once again. I took the opportunity to shame myself for my tardiness.

Handed over the reins(!) to Crablegs where he explained Christmas in July and reminded us that we have 5 months to do our shopping. Then it was over to the Hill of Sisyphus for a doozy of an acronym to work through: S.A.N.T.A., each letter corresponding to the mode of transportation up the hill. Plank and wait for six each of the first 4 rounds. Elf Jacks after the final round.

  • S – San Antonio Shuffle (L Lunge, R Lunge, Merkin, Plank Jack)
  • A – Alligator Crawl
  • N – Nadal (creative license on the baseline-to-baseline sprints) x 2
  • T – Traveling Burpees
  • A – Ape Crawl (Bear Crawl with your hips up and legs straight)

Back to me with just enough time to share my gift of C.O.A.L. with the PAX:

  • Crunchy Frogs x 25 IC
  • “O’s” (making circles with legs extended, feet together) x 12 CC, 12 CCW
  • American Hammers x 12 IC
  • Leg Raises x 15 IC

COT/BOM

MOLESKINE:

  • I’ve said enough already, so I’ll keep it brief. While I hated being late, I was glad to know that any one of the guys could’ve taken over if I hadn’t texted Hi-Viz. Tclaps to him and to you all.
  • Welcome FNG Paul Barnett aka Fetch! He’s from Natchez, MS, a Bulldog fan (the maroon kind), and works in supply chain management for Mars Petcare. Apparently he’s been following us on social media for a couple of years but has been afraid to ask us out.
  • Also glad to have Eldrick joining us from COLA. He’s a Clemson Tiger, so he’s welcome back anytime at all.
  • Awesome job by Crablegs today. He’ll be Qing all by himself before we know it. Who’s next!?

BULLHORN:

  • Big thanks to all those who rucked and donated for the TN CAN RUCK this past weekend. It was an awesome event, and we will do it again soon.
  • 4:13 Strong is back in the rotation. With 10 guys in this class, let’s make sure we get enough of our own out there to have 1-to-1 opportunities with them.
  • Third Person’s last hurrah is tomorrow morning at Bomber. Show up (assuming you’re reading this at 10:20 pm).

PA out.

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Everything Under The Sun

Q: Hambone
Pax: Right Said, BnB, Keep The Change, Harvey Updike, Crablegs, Porcelain, Reveille, Hi Viz, T Cell, Studio42

11 Pax showed up for what has already been done under the sun (a lot). My Qs are about as original as a McDonald’s hamburger. I like their hamburgers.

Disclaimer about the Disclaimer: I think it was right.

Warmup
19 x SSH IC
13 x Toy Soldier IC
14 x IST
Good Morning OYO
10 x Willie Mays Hays IC

Thing
Pearls on a string (running with COPs interspersed), but with a little bit of order:

1st Pearl
10 x Merkin IC
10 x Slow and Low Squat IC
10 x Monkey Humpers IC

2nd Pearl
11 x Merkin IC
12 x Slow and Low Squat IC
30 Second Bridge

3rd Pearl
12 x Merkin IC
15 x Slow and Low Squat IC
30 Second Bridge

4th Pearl
13 x Merkin IC
13 x Slow and Low Squat IC
30 Second Bridge

5th Pearl
14 x Merkin IC
14 x Slow and Low Squat IC
30 Second Bridge

Run to Parthenon Facing Hill and Perform “Fours”
Up the hill, 1 burpee, back down
Up the hill, 2 burpees, back down
…
Up the hill, 4 burpees, back down

Finish

Naked Man Moleskin:
Great work by all to go through with the 2.7 mile run total. Porcelain knew what was coming and unearthed the flag to make the journey with us around the ‘non.

Reminder: Warpath and TN Can Ruck are coming up this weekend. Pick one or both. TCell says he will honor you greatly if you do both #TruthNugget