Go Skyhawks!

AO: middle-tooth
Q: Pole Dancer
PAX: Oatmeal, sooner, Hanes, DrRupp, Betty Ford, Cal Worthington, Schnauzer, The Rafter, Smokey
FNGs: None
COUNT: 10
CONDITIONS: Beautiful

WARMUP: Mosey around the school, dynamic warmup, dynamic stretching, static stretching

THE THANG: Hearkening back to my track days we ran 200m repeats with a 150m jog and 50m walk in between. No stopping, rolling right into the next rep. Great pacing by the pack keeping each lap within ~15 seconds.

An anti-running contingent performed a traveling exercise-a-palooza around the loop.

Groups reconvened for 10 minutes of Mary, a round of Big 10 er… 11 (10 merkins, 1 WW1, 9 merkins, 2 WW1 and so on), and some side straddle hops to reach 6:15.

MOLESKINE: Keeping an eye on a future attempt to break the marathon record via PAX relay event; we would have to double our pace on those 200s, and do so across 10 reps instead of 6 (with considerably more rest in between, but point being we’ve got our work cut out for us)!

ANNOUNCEMENTS: No major announcements following last week’s convergences. Brewsday is always on the horizon.

COT: Prayers for the future of our country, and a meditation on embodying the personal improvement path of the ultimate meritocracy; track and field.

PLAYLIST: A varied sampling of my Stonehill College era favorites;
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3xXsbui4e7HtcNwcJK8jxQ?si=c52da93f534748dc

Overtime Pickleball

AO: middle-tooth
Q: Chunks
PAX: sooner, Schnauzer, Pole Dancer, Toothless, Betty Ford, hambone, Hanes, Young and Restless
FNGs: None
COUNT: 9
CONDITIONS: Very Nice

WARMUP: Mosey around the park
Light stretching

5 Burpees EMOM for 10 mins
With Big Boy Sit up, Squats and Rest till the top of the next minute

THE THANG:

Head to the Tennis Court for Overtime Pickleball
Winner Servers and then Winner of the rally stays on the court
Loser picks the exercise for the PAX to do while waiting.

MOLESKINE:

Don’t worry about criticism from someone you wouldn’t ask advice from.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

COT: Prayers for Betty Ford and family, also for Sooner’s coworker battling cancer

Second chances

AO: greenmachine
Q: Wolfpack
PAX: t-cell, Triple Pane, moneyshot, Wolfpack, Topanga, Works for a Guy, Legal Eagle, Hanes, Michelin Man
FNGs: None
COUNT: 9
CONDITIONS: Real nice.

WARMUP: Mosey to the football field and stretch.

THE THANG:

Five rounds of…
– Run 200 yards
– 30 Air Squats
– Run 200 yards
– 30 Merkins

PAX had a certain amount to complete the exercises each round…
R1: 6 minutes
R2: 5:30 minutes
R3: 5 minutes
R4: 4:30 minutes
R5: 4 minutes

Mosey back to flag (Sprint up hill)

Squats Ring of Fire to 5
Merkins Ring of Fire to 5

Mary
4 rounds of 30 seconds work, 15 seconds rest of…
– American Hammers
– Straight leg raises

MOLESKINE:
Michelin Man and Legal Eagle got scared and decided to do their own thing following a ChatGPT half marathon training plan that Legal Eagle has deemed “The best training plan I have ever, in my life, ever, come across. It was amazing!”

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Convergences are coming. Prepare!

COT: Messed up last time I was invited to Q here and had to back out night before… grateful to Focker for giving me a second chance. Reminder to PAX to take second chances when they’re given, be open to handing them out when you can and perhaps take the time to seek them out for yourself as well.

Til the Night Closes In

AO: greenmachine
Q: Hipster
PAX: moneyshot, gov’t mule, Sherlock, Focker, Cowboy, FeelTheBerns, Black Lung, Hanes, t-cell, Triple Pane, Michelin Man, Legal Eagle, Peabody, None
FNGs: 1 None
COUNT: 14
CONDITIONS: Smooth

WARMUP: Mosey to the 50, standard warmup fair

THE THANG:

12 Days of Fitmas

PAX assemble in the end zone
Start with Day 1 – 1 rep of the designated day 1 movement, followed by a hard run to the other endzone, and a mosey back
Day 2 – 2 reps of designated day 2 movement, plus 1 rep of day 1 movement, endzone run and back

…and so forth til we get through all 12 days/rounds.

1 Burpee
2 Merkin Plank Jacks
3 4-count mountain climbers
4 merkins
5 4 count seal claps
6 Dry Docks
7 Iron Mikes
8 Prisoner Squats
9 SSH
10 WWI
11 Star Jumps
12 Diamond Merkins

The PAX had a fair showing with Name That Tune for the Yacht Rock playlist, resulting in only 6 bonus burpies to finish us out after some Mary back at startex.

MOLESKINE:

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Upcoming TN Tussle, happy 7th to Black Lung, upcoming F3 Nashville anniversary and 9/11 convergence, check Slack

COT: greatful to be able to lead this morning, thanks for having me Greenmachiners

Toothy Tuesday

AO: middle-tooth
Q: Goose
PAX: sooner, DrRupp, Oatmeal, Toothless, moneyshot, Cowboy, Hanes, Starblade Mcoy, Steak Knives
FNGs: None
COUNT: 10
CONDITIONS: steamy

WARMUP: Willie mays hays, cherry pickers, arm stretches, arm circles

THE THANG:
– 2 laps Indian runs
– 100 merkins and ww1 in 25 rep increments with run in between reps
– Lunges down and back with 10 squats every 5 strides
– Dora: 250 ssh while partner runs
– Jailbreaks
– Circle of Mary

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Tuesday Brewsday tonight 430pm at 12 south taproom

Back 2 School!!!! :books:

AO: middle-tooth
Q: Toothless
PAX: DrRupp, Triple Pane, Cowboy, moneyshot, Pole Dancer, Cal Worthington, sooner, Hanes, Pollo Loco
FNGs: 1 Pollo Loco
COUNT: 10
CONDITIONS: Honestly, balmier than advertised. Cool breeze cut down significantly on what would have been a bona fide hot yoga session. Sunrise rivaled toratoratora to boot :sunrise:

PLAYLIST: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/04KkhaUX0fj1nwynplCZMW?si=a37a6268af3c4544

WARMUP:
– 30 x SSH
– 10 x WMH (2 count)
– 10 x Windmills
– 15 x Overhead Claps
– 15 x Seal Claps
– 15 x Moroccan Night Clubs
– 15 x Imperial Walkers
– 5 x Scorpions, each side half

THE THANG: Back 2 School!! :books:

School Bus Route :bus: :octagonal_sign:
Start with a one-mile Indian run “school bus” around the perimeter. Every time the rotation completes the stop sign comes out and the PAX have to give 10 Prisoner Squats. After all, schools are basically prisons. Aim for 100+ squats, 10+ stops.

Route went southeast to the corner, northeast past the playground and then up behind the school. Continue to tennis courts and turn left to cut up through the middle of the AO past startex. Turn right at Lone Oak on the sidewalk and reenter the park on the small path. Turn right onto the main field path, make a full loop and return to started.

Core Subjects :male-teacher:
Split into 5 groups, post up at each station with 1 group running around the parking lot loop 2x. The other groups split up and go to 1 of 4 stations, performing an exercise until the runners return. Repeato with the timer group running 1 lap instead of 2.

English
– “Apart” vs “a part”
– Hello Dollys, spread those legs “apart”

Math
– Ratios, multiplication
– Captain Thors 1:4 ratio of Big Boy Sit-ups to American Hammers

Science
– Inertia
– J-Lo’s, it takes force to stop movement in a given direction

History
– First public school in the country predates the country’s founding
– Boston Latin School founded in 1635
– 1 Clerkin, 6 Supermans, 3 Peter Parkers, 5 Mountain Climbers

Once PAX complete each station and are back to their “homeroom”, they serve detention. Complete 20 burpees. SSH in silence to get out of detention, otherwise more burpees, repeat til successful.

MOLESKINE:
YHC was sucking wind after the bus route and appreciated the pace pushers who made it more of a challenge. The sunrise was so nice the Q called a Salute the Sunrise between the sets with a 10 burpee salute. As for detention, the PAX didn’t get out of detention immediately, but they were much more eager to avoid the burpees the second time and got out after only 2 rounds.

Also of note, sooner finally pulled a great name out of his hat and gets credit for Pollo Loco, who was a fantastic EH apparently by Michelin Man though the Mich himself was not in attendance :eyes:

YHC also brought some home-brewed Gatorade for coffeeteeria. If there was ever a morning for it, this was it, and it hit the spot as a preamble to sooner’s excellent carafe of bean juice.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
– U-Haul themed workout this Saturday AM for Detective Pikachu
– brewsday next Tuesday @ 12S Taproom, 4:30p
– 10th Anniversary of F3 Nashville coming up on 9/13

COT:
Prayers for…
– Pole Dancer’s wife in the job search, turned out down, looking for the right fit
– sooner spoke for all parents & kids coming into the school year, prayers for a clean sheet for the rest of summer to start the school year off right
– YHC shared prayers for my wife with the due date 1 month away, prayers for a healthy full term baby and a smooth delivery

Men, Cal Worthington once again mentioned this may be his last week in Nashville, and while that may or may not be true, I do want to share a hearty thank you for the energy and camaraderie he’s brought during his extended time with us. Be sure to say thanks and send him off well throughout the week!

It’s always an honor to lead you men – thanks for an excellent morning, wouldn’t have wanted to spend it any other way!

— Toothless :tooth: