Author: Gypsy

  • Nothing was right

    It’s Currahee we always have a Q.. We’ll at 930 Thursday night still no Q.. So YHC is local site Q and means I got it.. Show up at standard time and I’m the only one in the lot. Where is EF Hutton?? He is always 1st to arrive. Did I not read something about a convergence? OK. Checked slack. No convergence and it is in fact Friday. Weird. A few cars coming in a bit early. Holy crap it’s Handshake… early??? Am I being punked? 5:29:30. Um excuse me. WHERE TF is Mr Roger and Wally? Something is not right about today. Set the route and we all head out. 45 mins later we all show up.. Well almost all showed up. Bedpan is missing. He missed a turn and as I’m headed out to find him, I get this text: “Curahee. I took the long road. I’ll meet you at Dunkin. I’m already there.”. Lol. My brother Bedpan ran extra miles.. Didn’t come back to AO where his car was and stopped where he knew we would go for coffee. 🤣 Lighthouse gave him a ride back after coffateria.

    Anyway. It was a circus of random shit at Currahee today. Glad we all were safe. Oh yeah.. I Forgot.. Roger Roger and Salt lick had a car try to take them out as well. CRAZY times in Westhoe.

    SYITG!!

    John (Gypsy) Boles

  • Currahee BroCode

    9 joined up to run the traditional last Friday BroCode. One big square around the Westhoe best running AO. 4 miles if you do not turn back for the 6.

    No Q. Just Cot for a 45 mins.

  • 23 out 22 back

    Picked up Q 10pm night before so didn’t have time to plan a route..

    7 pax joined up for the out and back on Ridgefield. Easiest route in all over F3. (somehow Doozy got lost last time).

    Right out of school parking lot. Left on Ridgefield. Run until it hits 23 mins.. Turn around and go back. This let’s everyone run thier pace, but still finish at same time.

    Nothing to report on mubblechatter.

    Convergence coming for Memorial day

    Call ssomeone you haven’t heard from in a while.

    SYITG!!

    V/r

    John (Gypsy) Boles

  • Swimming for 45 mins

    6 Pax showed up for a 45 min swimming lesson around the Westhoe region. Route was the easy part….the 99% humidity was the challenge.

    The call was the Handshake route:
    Right out of parking lot onto Pump
    Left at Either:
    Three Chopt (4 mile route)
    Dog Park (4.5 mile route)
    Broad Street (5 mile route)
    Left on Pump
    Right on John Rolfe
    Left into parking lot off of Pump.

    Yes the directions are correct.. those of us in Short pump understand that many of the roads change names for no apparent reason and you have another road by the same name fairly close by. No wonder Doozy gets lost running with us.

    TAP for Roger Roger recovery

    2nd F at Fishin’ Pig at Inns Brook on Tuesday.

    Thank you for letting me lead.

    Call Handshake and ask him where he was this morning.

    SYITG!!
    John (Gypsy) Boles

  • WaThoHuk Challange

    The Preblast said it all.

    The WaThoHuk Challenge is a different F3 workout, no cadence, no COP, no Mary.This is you vs you to set a baseline to compare back to at a future challenge (end of October) It goes like this…Perform exercise 1 using whatever time you need to still have the best form you can muster. Once complete you will run, walk or crawl a predefined lap around the perimeter of the parking lot which is about 1/4 of a mile.Get back and complete exercise 2, do lap, etc. Get through as much as you can until time is called.

    If you cheat or cut corners you are only hurting yourself and your baseline. I don’t care if it takes the whole time to get through one or two things, that will be the baseline you will work towards crushing the next time. For example, bend those elbows on a merkin, at the same time do the full rep, don’t race and “bounce” the merkins, etc.

    The THANG:

    • Mountain Climbers – 100 (count each leg as one, i.e. civilian count)
    • Lap
    • Calf Raises – 150 (50 regular, 50 toes pointed in, 50 toes pointed out)
    • Lap
    • Merkins – 100 (25 wide, 25 regular, 25 narrow (elbows close, also called “perfect/Ranger Merkin”), 25 diamond)
    • Lap
    • WW2 – 50
    • Lap
    • Carolina Dry Docks – 100
    • Lap
    • LBCs – 100
    • Lap
    • Jump Squats – 100
    • Lap
    • Dollies – 200
    • Lap
    • Squats – 100
    • Lap
    • Rock Hoppers – 100
    • Lap
    • Russian Twists (American Hammer) – 100
    • Lap
    • Burpees – 100
    • Lap
    • Burpees – 200

    4 showed up to test this challenge.

    All 4 got through the Rock Hoppers.

    Salt Lick and Pinto completed all Rock Hopperd

    Lighthouse finished 3/4 of lap after Rock Hoopers

    YHC finished full lap after Rock Hoppers.

    Hope to see more in October to suffer with us. It’s a bitch of a challenge!! Maybe we should try it at Heartbreak next.

    V/r

    John (Gypsy) Boles

  • IDK someone said a good title and I forgot.

    3rd F: Faith

    Thank you Salt LICK for taking us out. Thoughts for Roger Roger’s Family, Fudd’s family, Gomer surgery, Fireman Ed Cancer treatments, YHC Brother in law Prostate Cancer, and Piglets 2.0.

    2nd F: Fellowship

    CSAUP: 80 mile relay. 5/2 and 5/3 Westhoe team needs some ringers for ruck run. Talk to Mr Roger, Lighthouse, Offshore.

    Breaking Bread: SIGN UP.

    Lets all go watch Whitesnake band.

    1st F Fitness

    11 pax and 1 dog.

    Currahee is a running AO.. So we ran. BroCode pace today. 4.5 miles total with 3 miles of trail running that includes 3 of Westhoe best trails. Lots of mumble chatter.. But it’s a mobile Cot.. So Show to know.

    thank you for letting me lead.

    SYITG

    John (Gypsy) Boles

  • Sping time has come

    11 pax post to Currahee this morning along 2 four legged friends. Route was given and everyone took off. All stayed together for about 1/2 mile then Pax split in 2. Some went the 4 mile route.. others went the 5 mile one.

    Glad to have accountability partners. SYITG!

    V/r

    John (Gypsy) Boles

  • ??!? What exercise?

    3rd F (Faith): thank you Atilla for taking us out this morning. Prayers for pax brothers, family, and friends.

    2nd F (Fellowship) YHC will be hosting a field day at my farm in Mineral (Ataraxia) on Saturday 22nd starting at 11am. Bring your chainsaws, shotguns, and beer steins. We will take out a few trees and run them threw the multcher. Once we wrap, I have 2 cases of skeet and 2 skeet launching machines. Let’s see who has the best shotgun skills. Oh did I mention the Cooling pond beer that will be on tap as well.

    1st F: The Thang: Worm Burners

    This one is an easy one to Q: Called exercise to be completed by the PAX while a single pax pushes a 35lb bench plate across the parking lot and back as a timer: Think Bear Crawl, but both hands on the plate pushing it along. Called exercises were given to each pax. You just tel the guy to right what you did and move down the line as the pacer does a Worm burner.. But some how we ended up with all sorts of exercises that were not orginally called. Run through this rotation twice.

    Finish up with a few rounds of burners (the Kettle bell does not touch the ground) :

    7 up-right rows, 7 tea bag squats, 6,5,4,3,2,1.

    7 clean and press, 7 Swings, 6,5,4,3,2,1

    7 American Hammer, 7 chest press 6,5,4,3,2,1

    7 Plank pull troughs, 7 Merkins 6,5,4,3,2,1

    3 mins of Mary remain.

    All done: time for coffee.

  • February Currahee Bro-code

    It was cold. The Route was the Bro-code. 2 dogs and 5 pax joined up to do a mubblechatter pace 4.5 mile run. Coffee and donuts after.

    no leaders or followers in Bro-code. We go as one and finish as one.

  • The cR4zY 8

    Route was posted Thursday night. It allows for many alterations, but full route was 5.5 miles with 400+ feet of elevation gain.

    Arrive at AO with temps in the teens. Quick discussion of route to hear that the route was “a little excessive”. Pace pairs talked about where to cut route to make it back 0615. Headlamps on.. It’s 0530, let’s mosey. YHC ran solo, so was not part of any Mumble Chatter. Back to flag with a few mins left so circle back for the 6. YHC does like this route. It is a challenging 5+ miler. Rollers the 1st 2 miles. Mile 2 to 3 is a steady grind uphill…a step Incline 4 miles. Then a nice downward grade for a mile back to the AO.

    Enjoy your day.

    thank you for the Accountability.

    John (Gypsy) Boles