{"id":5991,"date":"2018-08-16T14:03:39","date_gmt":"2018-08-16T18:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/?p=5991"},"modified":"2018-08-16T14:08:36","modified_gmt":"2018-08-16T18:08:36","slug":"north-to-alaska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/2018\/08\/north-to-alaska\/","title":{"rendered":"North To Alaska"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PAX:\u00a0 Schneider, Ice Dancer, ShakeNBake, Skidmark, 60 Minutes, Buttermaker, Drama Queen &#8211; also joining for Mary after a 5 mi run &#8211; Drano and Offsides<\/p>\n<p>Early in the week Site Q @SourMash sent the reminder tweet to YHC and after my positive response he even sent a theme idea.\u00a0 On this day in history, gold was discovered in the Yukon beginning the Yukon\/Alaska gold rush of the late 1890s.\u00a0 What the heck &#8211; YHC has been busy but the idea is always the hardest part &#8211; a few discarded exercises that would have been an even greater stretch later, we had a workout.<\/p>\n<p>6 other pax joined me although there were 2 extra cars that we determined to be Drano and Offsides &#8211; oh well they know what time we start so it was off after a very brief description of why we would be doing these gold rush related exercises.\u00a0 As an added bonus, YHC treated the pax to a little music (Q experiment #1) the Johnny Horton classic &#8211; North To Alaska.\u00a0 Tclaps to Skidmark for knowing the artist.\u00a0 The music lasted to our first stop.\u00a0 Oh you want to hear about the workout &#8211; almost forgot<\/p>\n<p>Run to first corner<br \/>\n8 SSHs\/ 16 IWs \u2013 Q fail called 15 on SSHs ID offered to give 7 of his back<\/p>\n<p>Run to corner near 158<br \/>\n8 Breast strokes (might need to swim rivers) \/ 16 Whirlies W\/ clap (watch out for those houses of ill repute)<\/p>\n<p>Run to corner near Broyhill suites<br \/>\n8 jab\/crosses r&amp;l \/ 16 side kicks r\/l (never know when you might have to fight for your gold claim)<\/p>\n<p>Run to corner -back at school parking lot &#8211;\u00a0 getting closer<br \/>\n8 mtn climbers \/ 16 apollo onos aka speed skaters (it\u2019s mountainous and cold up here in the Yukon)<\/p>\n<p>Run to blocks\/bricks<br \/>\nNow we\u2019ve got to mine the gold<br \/>\n12 pick axes \u2013 aka the Haas R<br \/>\n12 get gold out of ground \u2013 aka bo rows<br \/>\n12 gold pan sifters \u2013 make circles w\/\u201dpans\u201d (Q experiment #2)<br \/>\n12 claim filers \u2013 outward push<\/p>\n<p>REPEATO \u2013 do opposite motion on pick axes and sifters<br \/>\nAfter round two \u2013 we\u2019ve done 96 reps so we did some combos of 8\/16\/96 and 15 SSHs<\/p>\n<p>put up blocks<\/p>\n<p>To field<br \/>\nPartner push<br \/>\nPartner pull<br \/>\nPartner carry<br \/>\nDog sleds \u2013 aka Saratogas &#8211; repeato on these<\/p>\n<p>Back to Parking lot for Mary<\/p>\n<p>Q called Snow Angels and Russian Twists.\u00a0 Rest of pax called various standards until we came to Drano the runner who called 10 burpees.\u00a0 We did them and we were done.<\/p>\n<p>NMM<\/p>\n<p>Good to see Skidmark again &#8211; YHC had heard rumors of his return<\/p>\n<p>However, Skidmark may not have been happy to see ShakeN Bake who dropped him at some point of Partner carry &#8211; don&#8217;t believe any lasting damage or skidmarks on the field<\/p>\n<p>The Bronco field was very nice today with freshly painted lines and great grass &#8211; Hope Carla doesn&#8217;t monitor our use of this<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the pax for putting up with the theme &#8211; most exercises were not too much of a stretch &#8211; sidekicks and breaststrokes near traffic raised a little mc as expected<\/p>\n<p>Runners put in 5 miles &#8211; so they say &#8211; glad they joined us for Mary until Drano called burpees<\/p>\n<p>60 Minutes was making Novant connections at the end of workout &#8211; glad he knows more people there than just Mongoose<\/p>\n<p>Finally, the Site Q Sour Mash was noticeably absent for a workout which he suggested the theme.\u00a0 All that work that YHC put in &#8230;ugh. He is quite the runner now and needed a recovery day.\u00a0 Put me down for next August 16 and we&#8217;ll do it again.<\/p>\n<p>ANNOUNCEMENTS<\/p>\n<p>Shmedfest and all related activities next Sat 8\/25.\u00a0 Watch Twitter for specifics &#8211; pax may want to follow FIA twitter site for better info although ID feels that could be stalking if your M is not in FIA<\/p>\n<p>BBBC launches from Emanuel BC on L-C Road near US 421 exit.<\/p>\n<p>COT<\/p>\n<p>YHC took us out with experiment #3 &#8211; learned this in posting last Sat in Greenville SC.\u00a0 At the end of standard thanks and asks &#8211; YHC said something to the effect of thanks for the ability to come out and exercise for the day will come when we are not able to do so (and after preprayer instruction pax responded) &#8230;But today is not that day.<\/p>\n<p>always an honor<\/p>\n<p>DQ<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PAX:\u00a0 Schneider, Ice Dancer, ShakeNBake, Skidmark, 60 Minutes, Buttermaker, Drama Queen &#8211; also joining for Mary after a 5 mi run &#8211; Drano and Offsides Early in the week Site Q @SourMash sent the reminder tweet to YHC and after my positive response he even sent a theme idea.\u00a0 On this day in history, gold [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":191,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-distillery","category-uncategorized"],"acf":{"q":"Drama Queen","date":"08\/16\/2018","pax":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/191"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5992,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5991\/revisions\/5992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}