Five studs posted to No Toll to tour the fields, here’s how it went:
COP – Nope.
The THANG: Mosey with the Stars n Stripes to the lower parking lot, and do two laps (1 mile) around outer perimeter of fields. Plant the flag, then 20 minutes of 4 corners using the outer perimeter AMRAP:
1st corner: merkins x 20
2nd corner: jump squats x 20
3rd corner: burpees x 10 (x 20 if you’re a DaVillian)
4th corner: WWIIs x 20
Grab the flag, do two more laps (1 mile) and BTTCars.
Numberama, name-o-rama, YHC took us out.
Announcements: Prayers for Doozy’s mother in law and Sec Def Dexter Manley — both on the way back from COVID. Memorial Day Murph: Duece organizing main event at Dogpile (Rusty Cage) – 06:00 start; see him for deets. Other nano regions may convene remotely – see Hitchhiker/Bodos for Mary Munford; Phonics for DaVille. For anyone SOJ, YHC will be posting at Twin Team 06:00 for a Memorial Day Murph, Honeymoon 3rd Friday style.
Daphne is still hawt. ‘Nuff said. Four stallions posted at ET for some breakfast this morning — it was a second course for Swirly and Hardywood who had moseyed over the river for some early extra credit. Heres how it went:
Mosey down Cary to Meadow; dodge the car full of college girls honking and catcalling at Swirly and Hardywood; right on Meadow to Swan Lake and past the Vita Course to the flag.
Enjoy the Wojo Dogpile Q.
Swirly and Hardywood mosey back across the Nickel Bridge, YHC and Bone Thug mosey back to ET.
NMMS: Tclaps to Bone Thug who is straight up crushing it with consistency and sustained effort. Like a freakin Timex, he just keeps on ticking. Have a great weekend, gents!
Six stalwarts posted to WDog this morning to see if the recently advertised pile of cinderblocks would make an appearance. Yes, yes it would.
COP – Helicopters x 10, Don Quixotes x 10, Russian Soldiers x 10, Imperial Walkers x 10, Hello Dollies x 10, Flutter Kicks x 20, Mountain Climbers x 10
Mosey to the stage, grab a coupon (pax survey says these are heavier than the last batch), and on to the Carillon field for:
The THANG – Quarter Pounder with Cheese
Run w/ coupon to 25 “yard line” + incline merkins x 25, Bernie S. back
Run w/ coupon to 50 “yard line” + squat press x 50, Bernie S. back
Run w/ coupon to 75 “yard line” + coupon hammers x 75 Bernie S. back
Run w/ coupon to 100 “yard line” + SSHs x 100, Bernie S. back
Mosey to the stage for:
11s
Coupon Lt. Dan x 1, run to Rusty Cage for pull-ups x 10; Respeato.
Called for time at Round 7, and BTTF.
Numbers, names, and YHC took us out.
Announcements: Dr. TryHard is holding up well amid the uncertainty in PNG; drop him a line if you can – he really appreciates hearing from his stateside brethren. Memorial Day Murph is coming up – Duece is organizing. Some interest expressed in participating remotely from other AOs to keep numbers safe — please let Duece know if you have any questions or would like to coordinate a remote Murph site. Old Glory will make an appearance at No Toll next Tuesday.
Two dudes, dig this, two dudes dressed like nuns …. no, wait. Two dudes, dressed like Gloom Warriors posted at Batteau today for a little boat ride. Here’s how it went.
COP – mosey around the circular drive , then SSH x 20, Don Quixote x 10, cherry pickers x 10, Hello Dollies x 20, APDs x 15, APD (4 count) x 10, APD (single leg) x 10 x each side.
Mosey down the walking path to the lake, burpees at the lamposts, for:
Tha THANG –
(M.erkins x 10, I.mperial Walkers x 20, L.ittle Baby Crunches x 30, F.reddie Mercuries x 40, up the stairs and back) x 9
BBTF – to bust out the 10th set of MILFs.
Numbers, names, YHC took us out.
NMMS – Prayers go out to all the pax struggling with injury recovery, or just struggling to make it through this pandemic and lockdown. Stay strong, and SYITG!
After eight weeks of rehabbing a pissed-off piriformis, and armed with some gnarly COP fodder from his physical therapist, YHC decided it was time share the love. Rolling up to Batteau in an F3 tux (black shirt, black shorts), and with an F3 corsage (shovelflag), YHC realized at 05:29 that he’d be going to the dance solo. Here’s how it went:
Mosey to the stone circle for:
SingleOP – SSHs x 20, Don Quixotes x 10, Cherry Pickers x 10, Hello Dollies x 10. Here’s where it gets glute-a-riffic:
Alabama Prom Dates x 10
4 Count APDs (“Marching Glute Bridge” if you went to PT school. 1: up to APD postion, 2: left leg up to 90*, 3: switch legs, 4: recover) x 10.
Single Leg APDs x 10 each leg
Mosey to the boat house (burpee at each light post) for:
THE THANG:
M.I.L.F. Lap [Dance?]
Merkins x 10; Imperial Walkers x 20; LBCs x 30; Freddie Mercuries x 40; take a lap up the stairs to Vinny’s Coupon Spot™ and back down.
Rinse and repeat for 10 sets. BTTF for:
Hands to Heaven x 10: This one is straight from Dr. TryHard’s mountain-top lab in PNG, where he’s working up some non-FDA approved fat killing vaccines to smuggle back stateside. Here’s the protocol for administering, per DTH:
“- Hands to Heaven (Inverse of Heels to Heaven… so from lying on your six with hands raised, sit up quickly to get weight over feet, then stand, hands remain above head so essentially getting from lying to standing without using hands…then sit and lie back down) “
So DTH must be the child of acrobat parents; or perhaps it was YHC’s beer gut getting in the way, but this Hands to Heaven thing was like a greased tapir getting out of a bathtub. YHC was reminded of some of the ukemi drills from his aikido days, so modified to a rolling Never Surrender. Me vs. me. YMMV
SingleOT: Prayers for strength, peace and courage to all the health care workers on the front lines for us (you too Flatty!); and for those of us on the front lines at home holding together families with so much uncertainty about jobs, bills, school and health.
NMMS: A solo beatdown is a different kind of challenge; but its also a chance to flex the “do what you promised you would do when nobody else is watching” muscle. Also got me thinking about the saying that the obstacle is the way — looked it up when I got back home: Marcus Aurelius; Meditations 5.20 “Now it is true that [difficulties] may impede my action, but they are no impediments to my affects and disposition, which have the power of acting conditionally and changing: for the mind converts and changes every hindrance to its activity into an aid; and so that which is a hindrance is made a furtherance to an act; and that which is an obstacle on the road helps us on this road.” Go get some!
Six gloom warriors assembled at Twin Team to master the Beast. The bards sang thusly of their quest:
COP – SSH, Arm Circles, DQs, Russian Soldiers, Sugar Stix, Rosalitas. Mosey to the Swamp for:
The Thang: Beastmaster
Glow sticks at 0y, 25y, 50y, 75y, 100y. Journey In prescribed manner to the 25 and do 6 reps of prescribed exercise; repeat 6 reps at the 50 and 75; Al Gore for the 6 at 100 yards; repeato.
merkin – bear crawl, Bernie, crabwalk, lunge
LBC – bear crawl, Bernie, crabwalk, lunge
Squat – Bernie, bear crawl, lunge crab walk
Dying Quioxtes- Bernie x 4
WWIIs – Bernie x 4
Burpees – run x 4
Collect the glow sticks and BTTF.
Numbers, names, announcements, and Doozy took us out.
NMMS: Way to put out gents — the back to back ab blast of Dying Quixotes and WWIIs was no joke. Mumblechatter was constant and varied. Wilson fart sacking, school plays, pegging — the usual. As always, it was a privilege to lead today.
Fore The Cause – May 15 at Birkdale ; beer, questionable golf, dinner, good times. Dress code: jorts, kilts, Loudmouth PBR trou. See you there!
Are moms hot? Are ball dippers single count or double count? 100 reps then 200 reps then 300 — how does that work? Eight seekers of knowledge posted to Source of Truth; here’s what they learned:
COP: Invisible jump ropes x 20 (Tclaps to OC for the Floyd Mayweather flair); hillbillies x 15; Don Quixotes x 10 (YHC almost blew an O ring in this one); cherry pickers x 10; Suzanne Somers x 10 per side; Heels to Heaven x 20.
IP run (The Six does 3 Hand Release Merkins then pursues) to the track
THANG 1: BBC Catch Me If You Can
Lap 1: PAX A Bernie Sanders, PAX B 3 burpees and pursues; flapjack
Lap 2: PAX A Bear Crawls, PAX B 6 ball dippers and pursues; flapjack (This sucked. Big time).
Lap 3: PAX A Carioca, PAX B 3 crabcakes and pursues; flapjack.
Long mosey to the hill for:
THANG 2: MILFS
PAX A sprints up hill and back while PAX B exercises; flapjack and repeato until team rep counts are reached:
Merkins x 100 Imperial Walkers x 200 Little Baby Crunches x 300 Freddie Mercuries x 200 Sumo Squats x 100
Long mosey around school, the sprint the length of the front drive to the flag.
COT: Numberama, name-o-rama, announcements, YHC took us out.
NMMS: Boberry is Shivering in the River this Saturday and Doozy is organizing a moving crew this evening for a parishioner in need at his church – check Slack channel for deets. That 220 yard bear crawl was a mouthful, but this beast mode PAX chewed it up. Hats off, gents.
Twenty one stud muffins emerged from their Dutch ovens looking for a cup of joe and a side of miles, and here’s what they got:
Tyler Haynes Commons to Westhampton Way/UR Drive (YHC had planned to venture along the Gambles Mill Eco-Corrider a/k/a the Bat Cave, but not yet open for business — audible called — anyone who does NOT have a broken ankle this morning can thank Shakedown for that);
Left on River Road, cut through shopping center parking lot and over Huguenot Bridge, left/East/downstream/thataway onto Riverside Drive
4s: to Rattlesnake Creek and reverso
5s: to Williams Island and reverso
6s: to Riverside Meadows and reverso; or follow Saab and Sippy up the hill on Stratford into the woods. Pro tip: whatever they say, do not get in the van.
NMMS: Prayers for Doozy’s mother in law, Gomer Pyle’s dad (surgery today), and YHC’s dad (surgery last Friday). Great run this morning gents, way to push on the flats and thanks for the chance to lead.
Nine Grown Ass Men posted at the Dog today to handle their business. Heres how it went down:
COP – Russian Soldiers x 20, Don Quixotes x 10, Little Baby Arm Circles x 15, Big Circles x 5 – reverso; Freddie Mercuries x 20, Rosalitas x 20
mosey to small stage to collect coupons, then to the Carillon field for
THANG 1 – Double Quarter Pounder with Cheese
First patty: Run from “goal line” with coupon to designated yardage, exercise (with coupon if able) and Bernie Sanders back
25 yards; 25 merkins
50 yards; 50 squats
75 yards; 75 mountain climbers
100 yards; 100 SSHs
Second patty:
25 yards; 25 Carolina Dry Docks
50 yards; 50 monkey humpers
75 yards; 75 American Hammers (Swirly Hammers with coupons)
100 yards; 100 invisible jump ropes
Mosey to small stage for
THANG 2 – Modified Top Gun Touch-A-Tree
Partner up; PAX1 does coupon curl, squat, press, repeat while PAX2 runs with coupon and touches 5 trees; flapjack. Repeat with 10 trees. Return coupons and mosey back to flag.
COT – numberama, namerama, announcements and YHC took us out.
NMMS: Way to push gents. Fun facts – per Google, coupons weigh approximately 28 pounds. Per Bodos, coupons weigh approximately 1 baby.
Poker night at OCs on Feb. 22 – check PreBlast for logistics.
