4 PAX, led by LegKick, roamed from Central to West Philadelphia to visit the Palestra. Apparently it’s one of the oldest basketball venues still in use. 4.7 miles covered on the snow and slush covered sidewalks with some pain stations looped in. The people out in Philly at 630 in the morning are much nicer than those out at 630 pm.
Onsite coffeeteria post workout.
Visiting my parents in Wilmington NC and made my first downrange visit to Baywatch. Flight Nurse was the Q and 20 strong (including 3 FNGs) got to enjoy a beautiful morning on the beach.
We started at the basketball courts for warmups and the ran halfway to the beach for more exercises. Then we ran to the beach and did 11s (merkins and plank jacks) and then a combo of bear crawls and crabwalks. To make it interesting, the beach is under renovation and there is a 3 foot round pipe across the entire beach (to add sand). A sand hill got you over the pipe but it added elevation to all the workouts. BTW, Crabwalks on the beach should be illegal. We then ran back to the AO. Total of about 2 miles running back and forth to the beach.
Nine GTE HIM’s battled the muddy root-infested trails of Rockwood successfully managing to traverse 3.6 miles in 52 minutes without a single root trip up. Thanks to Mudslide for guiding the way. Enjoyed hearing more of Rodeo Clown’s story. Keep training fellas! Next opportunity is tomorrow 7am from Libby Market! Let’s GO! 🔥💪 ~DTH
9 Satans hill veterans and 1 FNG came out to see what YHC had in store this morning… Here is what went down.
Mosey up satans hill and over to Wilson’s Cul de sac for Warmarama- SSH, Imperial walkers, helicopters, merkins, freddie mercury, lbc
11’s from the cul de sac to the top of the hill with merkins and squats
dora across farham with 100 merkins 200 sumo squats 300 LBS ( all this work while watching the starlink satellite train pass by in the sky)
triple check @ the top of satans hill – arm circles ( compliments of oyster) and merkins- timer ran down 4 mailboxes
time for some satans hill suicides- starting from the top of the hill we did suicides – 5 burpees at every turnaround
Finished it off with a ring of fire- 10 various exercises 10X
announcements- GROW RUCK Prayers for the families of 3 Doors down, Rudy and NTB
Lastly welcome to WebstUR! looking like a veteran out there already. thanks for joining us and looking forward to seeing you out there again soon!
After no shows Wednesday. I tried again with success. BTW bringing a nasty Merkin variant to a post near you. Very new Pax. Good dudes.
Here is copy and paste of the backblast:
BACKBLAST!:
Date: 2024-02-16
AO: #ao-Top City
Q: @Jack
PAX: @Bob Ross, @Mudflap, @Ultra Crunch, @ Heist
Count: 5
Warm-Up: Side straddle hops and stretching
The Thang:
25 count of:
Prisoner Squats
Shoulder Taps w/alternating Knee
LBC’s
Single leg RDL Left & Right
OH Press
Bicep Curl
1 min Skull Crusher, R & L
Mercan 2 Step
Run
Repeat
COT:, @Bob Ross, thankful for freelance work, full time employment, @Mudflap-Finances, @Ultra Crunch-Maintain positive thought patterns, @Heist- safe travel home.
4 manly men showed up at Twin Team for our daily sausage fest of exercise and debauchery.
Warmarama – SSH, Jazzercise, Helicopters, Dead Man Hang, Copperhead squats, Ukrainian soldiers, Merkins, WWII’s.
Thang: Head to the benches for an EMOM. 5 exercises called then over to the parking lot for 3 sprints. 50% / 75% / 100%. The 5 set EMOM + sprints was repeated 2 more times.
Mozey over to the parking lot for some ab work. Various exercises called during the last 5 minutes of the workout.
Announcements a plenty – most importantly, we’re putting the Oyster’s paying lunch back on the calendar for March 29th. Get your wallet out Oyster, you cheap SOB. You haven’t paid yet!
YHC took us out.
A beautiful morning at Twin Team.
Unsure if part of the route actually existed, five men sought the truth while one did his own thing. Here’s where they went:
The Route
Numberama, Nameorama, COT
MOLESKIN
What appeared to be a pretty harmless route on paper, turned into a son of a b*tch of a route with almost all low-grade uphill. Sincerest apologies to all. By the end Lulu’s stomach was in knots. So much so, that she ruined coffee and possibly Handshake’s backseat.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Apologies to the PAX, YHC forgot to log this RAMM workout from last week, and the participants escape me. Let me know if someone needs to be added.
Roll your own version (Super Bowl) LVIII. Marv led everyone down Commonwealth. 4s did the Monument -> Arthur -> Grove rectangle. 6s ran around the Siegel Center a few times in honor of the game that evening and returned home.
Tclaps to TYA for pushing it out there.
Bermuda boys brought 4 PAX to beef up the back and biceps – barbaric body weight brutality to brighten our Friday! #Alliteration. YHC has a love/hate relationship with pull-ups – but given the amount of “push” (Chest, Tris) we do during F3, it takes some focused efforts to target the back/bis/rear chain. Today was all about the pull-up! Nearly 100 were completed (PERFECT FORM! ha) during the following circuits…
The crew seemed to enjoy today – great effort and totally smoked the rear chain of the body. As a plus we got to save the legs/hips/knees a little bit after all the rucking and running we’ve been doing. Hoping Bermuda team can start some OTB on Friday’s as that seems to work for our schedules and helps us avoid the drives to west end. Props to Mudslide for getting like 2 hours of sleep after his Amazon shift and hitting it anyway!
Prayers for my KC community going through the all to familiar pain of a mass shooting in our city at an everyday event. Pray that the children especially heal physically AND mentally after such a traumatic event. Thankful for the PAX today though – to bring some bright light into my life.
-State Farm
9 Gents and one canine arrived for Friday RAMM. 4, 5, and 6m routes were administered. As to how the instructions were received, responses were mixed…
All: 4, 5, 6s take Grove to Locke Ln, left toward Cary. Cross over and head strait on the road that turns into Charmian. Before hitting Hillcrest take hard left onto Charmian ‘jughandle’ which takes you to the bottom of Hillcrest. Take West-Hillcrest up to Cary, Stratford (half) circle back to Cary and cross over into Ampthill.
Take Ampthill down until it turns to Paxton and return back up to Cary…cross over onto Tuckahoe toward Grove….
4’s take a right on Grove and return to Mary
5’s and 6’s cross Grove and continue on Tuckahoe. It eventually curves left and turns into Seneca. Take Seneca back to Grove and head East
5’s head straight back to Mary
6’s take a left on Lexington/Albemarle toward Patterson. Take Patterson to Westmoreland (right) and head back to Mary
Saab Abides