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Secret Q School

AO: the-castle
Q: hambone
PAX: Mr. Pancake, Strutter, Steely, Space Baby, Brown Slip, hambone, Brad!
FNGs: 1 Brad!
COUNT: 7
CONDITIONS: Not cold enough for gloves

WARMUP: A little bit of mosey, a little bit of merkins, a little bit of squats.

THE THANG: Head to the tennis courts–bear crawls, lunges, backwards running, side shuffle, more bear crawls

Run to playground and do a pull up

Get sandbags out of car, line up behind Q, and do pulls at 80lbs and 60lbs.

MOLESKINE:

1. Strutter rejected the tombstone. Good metaphor.
2. Brown Slip being back after being sick was fantastic. He might be the next bear crawl champion.
3. Mr. Pancake tricked his friend Brad into coming all the way up from Lebanon (not the country).
4. Space Baby was not much challenged by the running, but the sandbags were hard (ok I made that up–those weren’t hard for him either).
5. Steely missed the pre-run, but we had a great conversation about diesel engines at coffee.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

You missed grow school by coming to this workout

COT: the usual

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Vector 8th Qversary – A Sampling of the Past

AO: bomber
Q: Vector
PAX: Chunks, CubCadet, DintyMoore, Firefox, Papa Bear, Pep, Sherlock, Strutter, Tim the Toolman
FNGs: None
COUNT: 10
To celebrate a slightly belated 8th Anniversary for YHC (I was EH’d by Ebola in Nov 2017 and had a hambone Q’d beatdown to introduce me to this non-cult cult), I decided to celebrate the musical tradition of sampling by sampling from my first Q. Vector from 8 years ago didn’t give me much to work with, but, like most sampled tunes, the end result is often worse than the original . . .

CONDITIONS: Slightly chilly but warm in our hearts

PLAYLIST: Legendary songs that sampled other works along with the originals

U Can’t Touch This – MC Hammer (which samples . . .)
Super Freak – Rick James
Ice Ice Baby – Vanilla Ice (which samples . . . )
Under Pressure – Queen and David Bowie
S.O.S. – Rhianna (which samples . . .)
Tainted Love – Soft Cell
Don’t Stop the Music – Rhianna (which samples . . . )
Wanna be Starting Somethin’ – Michael Jackson
Anxiety – Doechii (which samples . . . )
Somebody That I Used to Know – Gotye

WARMUP:
Taken from my first Q in March 2018:
GM x 12, WMH x 12, IW x 12, Squats x 12, LBAC x 12, RLBAC x 12

THE THANG:
The Original Vector Q Workout:
[Side note – 1) not sure how you do “reps” of bear crawls, 2) bear crawls AND burpeees? Jeez 2018 me, not cool.]
1) Bear crawl x 12
2) Dips on benches x 12
3) Pull-ups x 12
4) Burpees x 12

The Sample: Taking the original and making it better? worse? indifferent?
DORA with partner
Burpees x 100
Pull-ups x 200
Dips x 300
Run around Rec Center with a Bear Crawl on the last leg

Mary:
Did the 2018 Mary of Elbows to Knees L and R side x 12 each and followed by sampling to make better with “real” bicycles x 12 each side.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
1. Grow School 12/6 (tomorrow)
2. Holiday Party Hair Band house 12/12 6p
3. Night Moves/After Hours 12/18

COT:
Words of gratitude, praises, prayers. Many prayers and gratitude for Pep’s new computer (like there was A LOT of discussion about this). Appreciated the arrival of HRS Chunks-N-Stuff and that they did not leave once they heard 200 pull-ups and 100 burpees on the docket! Thankful for all the HIM who came out and continue to push me to be harder, better, faster, stronger (see the Kanye sample I threw in there?). SYITG, Vec

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SURPRISE – CO Q

AO: bomber
Q: Chunks , Hair Band
PAX: Tim the Toolman, Puzzlah, hambone, Pep, Strutter, Papa Bear, CubCadet, DintyMoore, Firefox
FNGs: None
COUNT: 11
CONDITIONS: Warm

WARMUP: SSH and some other non sense lead by Hair Band

THE THANG:

SURPRISE CO Q.

Hairband took the first half. Took us to the hill for burpee hill repeats.

Mosey to the playground for
5 Pullups
10 Perfect Merkins
20 Split Squats
30 big boy situps
Mosey around the community center

A couple rounds then mosey to upper parking lot

Boo boo bear crawls switching legs after 3 parking spaces then run to first island.

Mosey to the far island.

95% of men over the age of 35 will never sprint again. Not today Satan. Sprint to the end of the parking lot.

Mosey to startex for some Ab work to finish.

CubCadet loved the surprise Co Q idea. :joy: A surprise Co-Q will return.

MOLESKINE:

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Check Slack

COT: Everyone shared a moment of gratitude.

Thanks Firefox for the ask and Hair Band for joining me. Always an honor to lead the most respected AO.

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The Pain Clock

AO: the-castle
Q: Strutter
PAX: Pep, Brown Slip, Mr. Pancake, The Merchant, Strutter
FNGs: None
COUNT: 5
CONDITIONS:
Chilly, but then sweaty.

WARMUP:
20 IC SSH
10 IC Vegetable Farmers
10 IC IW
10 IC Abe Vigoda

THE THANG:
A short Mosey to the hill.

MOLESKINE:
Not only do I care about the fitness of the men of the Castle, I also care about them remembering to fall back tomorrow night. I am hopeful that the soreness from today’s workout will be a reminder for them.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

COT:

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Return of the Sharknado

AO: the-castle
Q: Strutter
PAX: hambone, Chunks, Crawlspace, Dilbert, Butterfingers, Fabuloso, Pep, Strutter, Space Baby, Kevin
FNGs: 1 Kevin
COUNT: 10
CONDITIONS:

WARMUP:

THE THANG:

MOLESKINE:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

COT:

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the Filthy Fifty

AO: bomber
Q: Strutter
PAX: Chunks, Papa Bear, Tim the Toolman, hambone, Sherlock, SalPal, Strutter
FNGs: None
COUNT: 7
CONDITIONS: middle 50’s

WARMUP:
20 IC SSH
15 IC IW
Mosey to upper parking lot.

THE THANG:

MOLESKINE:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

COT:

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Birthday CTF

AO: the-castle
Q: hambone
PAX: Chunks, Space Baby, Squatter, Butterfingers, Dilbert, Hipster, Fabuloso, Steely, Livin’ On A Prayer, Barney, Strutter, SalPal
FNGs: None
COUNT: 13
CONDITIONS: just right to play CTF

WARMUP: lol no. Listen to the instructions. If you don’t, be on a team with hambone or make sure you’re listening to the instructions on the card.

THE THANG:
1. North vs South (side of the shovel flag)
2. Teams have 20 minutes to hide the 80lb sandbag in their territory (200 burpee penalty for all team members if all any team members are late getting back).
3. Each team member must touch the bag after it is placed / hidden (no slackers).
4. Bag must travel between .6 and .8 miles before placement.
5. After 20 minutes, teams switched sides and went to find the bag(s). First team back wins.
6. 200 burpee late penalty (not enforced)

MOLESKINE:
Congrats to the South for hiding the bag with camo and fooling the North-siders. Each man got over 3 miles of running / walking. Many thanks to the South team for making a strong effort to retrieve the bag where we failed.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: check Slack

COT: Thankful for 38 trips around the Sun. Let’s make this next one even better.

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F3 After Dark ™️

AO: 1stf
Q: Focker
PAX: SalPal, Strutter
FNGs: None
COUNT: 3
CONDITIONS: a perfect fall night. Y’all missed out

WARMUP: none! Terrible parking for all meant a prompt start

THE THANG: SalPal and myself buddied up with a 30 lb ruck and went to the base of the Capitol’s grass hill.

Partner 1 Bernied up hill with ruck
Partner 2 did 10 burpees then sprinted to get ruck.
Each man did 100 burpees total

11s of WW1 and heel lifts. The catch was every set was 1 landing higher on the stairs
At the end of our 11s, Strutter finally found parking and joined us!

Mosey to Tennessee map where we did the road trip workout
I-40: 40 merkins in Memphis, 40 squats in Nashville, 40 crunches in Knoxville
I-24: 24 merkins in Chattanooga, 24 squats in Nashville, 24 crunches in Clarksville
I-65: 65 crunches in Lawrenceburg, 20-20-25 merkins,squats,crunches in Nashville and ended with 65 second low plank

MOLESKINE: nice walk over to Von Elrod’s together really filled up our proverbial cups. Strutter and I then got to fill up our literal cups

ANNOUNCEMENTS: check slack as always

COT: really a pleasant night of fellowship and getting to catch up with both these 2 great dudes. Sad to not see as many faces, but grateful for the intentional time together

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Whistle Stop Tour

AO: the-castle
Q: Barney , Chunks
PAX: Steely, Brown Slip, Pep, Strutter, Mr. Pancake, hambone, Anthony, Bobby, Jason
FNGs: 3 Anthony, Bobby, Jason
COUNT: 11
CONDITIONS: Perfect

WARMUP: Burpee Apocalypse. Mosey by the pond to parking lot, commence burpee apocalypse starting at 10, down to 1, led by Chunks.

THE THANG: Q turned over to Barney, counted 1s & 2s. 100 merkins, 200 WW1, 300 squats, interrupted by 5 whistle stops of 5 burpees each. While one PAX is working, other is running up the hill to stop sign and back. Upon completion we did a mosey back to shovel and finished with 20 flutter kicks and a stargaze.

MOLESKINE:

ANNOUNCEMENTS: upcoming Bourbon Chase.

COT: fall break travel.