Hot, Cold, Wind, Rain
Warm O Rama Campfire: Pax started alternating leg lunges. Outdoors/heat or cold. Know you have a good story–coldest or hottest workout, let’s hear it. How do you think this adds to the experience? What’s your...
Read moreTRQ: Bunch of Socialists
Don’t recall how we got to it, but somehow the Q was accused of being a socialist and perhaps F3 all around was…less than capitalistic. Made for excellent MC. Warm O Rama (justified MC about cadence speed and form from your...
Read moreFree, sure, but shoes ain’t free, pal.
Flatline, always a challenge, always glad I came. Cars came in, guys stretched out. 530, and we mosey off. Mosey over to the amphitheater. Circle up. Alt lunges and go for Campfire discussion. Campfire: 2nd Core Principle: Free of charge...
Read moreTwo Pax, Two possible FNGs
Monday morning at our latest AO. Let’s do this. Just two pax? No problem. Warm-O-Rama with the normal stuff. Slow walk-mosey to the track, special care at the dramatic drop-off in the field. We made it. Track work: 25 merkins, 25 LBC Mosey...
Read moretris·kai·dek·a·pho·bi·a /ˌtriskīˌdekəˈfōbēə/: noun, extreme superstition regarding the number thirteen.
The morning started with a clearly working-man’s van pulling in to the lot as Bloodsport and I set up the Orange Cones Of Pain (trademark pending). Either the church was having some work done and we were about to get r-u-n-n-o-f-t or we had...
Read moreGross, Dora.
Prime vacation week, day after Father’s Day, no surprise numbers were low. I’m always grateful for Sour Mash’s presence both online and IRL, but particularly so this morning. I did not want to 1) run around the Y parking lot by...
Read moreAddition By Subtraction
Warm-o-Rama with all the favorites. Mosey to the blocks and grab one, circle up. Time for some addition and subtraction. 5 curls 10 LBCs 15 Overhead Press 20 Penguin Crunch 5 skull crushers 10 heels to heaven 15 bent rows 20 Freddy Mercurys Mosey...
Read morePlexiglass, you say?
YHC had about thirty minutes between dinner clean-up (grilled sausages, sweet potato fries, baked beans) and game 7 of the Canes-Rangers series. So, I kept the planning simple. Wish the outcome of the game had been better than the outcome of the...
Read moreI FEEL JUDGED.
A crisp morning to wrap up February. The EC run with Palin, Greenspan, and Turnover got the blood flowing and had more hills than necessary. Honestly, YHC thoughts Palin was kidding when he said TO was leaving after the run to go to Planet...
Read moreYes, the theme was 2-5 for Feb. 5th…that’s it. Totally planned that.
Lots of reps of 25 (no reason, but it was ponted out that the date of 2/5 was a nice coincidence. Yes, that was the plan…totally. It went like this: Warm-0-Rama with the standard favorites. Mosey to end of Lot Core Work, 25 reps each...
Read moreThe Spirit of ’91
Everywhere I go, I see your ghost The spirit of ’91 You said you loved me more than toast But less than a staple gun. A beautiful bit of pop-punk poetry from the catchy-as-hell jam “More Than Toast” by seminal East Bay band The...
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