Tag: 45 Minutes of Mary

Eight eager PAX posted to 45MoM confused whether Lockjaw had the Q or not. 5:30 and no official Q so Handshake started us off. COP of normal stuff, including incorrect Scorpion kicks.

Mosey over to Reveille lot for Triple check. All 3 rounds/loops and numbers never worked out correctly. Q passed to Saab. He did a Dora 123 of Merkins, SSH, and LBCs. Q to Bleeder for mosey back to flag and 2 min of mary. Slippin Jimmy took us out.

BB posted for big data posterity. Handshake too buys looking at Thongs on vacation in Caribbean.

Twelve tour vets, a rookie, and one by bike toured the links at Mary Munford National in a quest for the elusive F3 Mudgear brand Green Jacket in perfect 70 and sunny conditions.  EF planted the flagstick.  Here’s how it went down.

Mosey down Magnolia Lane to the driving range in front of the school.

COP (IC)

• Side Straddle Hops x 18
• Copperhead Squats x 18
• Merkins x 18
• Flutter Kicks x 18

Mosey to the 11th

Amen 4 Corners (4 rounds)

• American Hammers x 18 (2c)
• Mountain Climbers x 18 (2c)
• Merkins x 18
• Dips x 18

Al Rory for the nine

Mosey to Rae’s Creek

LIV Guys – Chase the Money

• P1 – WWIIs x 9 and run to P2
• P2 – Caddie Crawl x 18 paces down the fairway and Plank
• P1 & P2 x 9 Booyah Merkins at each turn
• Continue until reaching the Green

Mosey over to 16

Drive, Chip, Putt

• From tee box hit the green around the shovel flag – 5 burpees per stroke, repeato 3 holes

Mary on the 18^th green

• Freddie Couples (Mercurys) x 18
• Alphabet – spell SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER

Mosey along cart path back to the Clubhouse

19^TH GREEN

Hello Friends.

Once Jack and Arnie fired their honorary shots from the 1^st tee, the PAX set off in search of the short stuff, and we are not referring to TYA’s shorts.  After a rather quick warm up on the range, the PAX hit the course with all making the cut halfway through Amen 4 Corners.  Chase the Money nearly resulted in a couple of withdrawals, but the PAX played through.  Conditions worsened during the Drive, Chip, and Putt contest.  Not enough shot lube and poor equipment, but as Slippin Jimmy Walker said, “Drive for show, putt for dough.”  YHC believes the PAX was about 4 over Par through 3, probably too many Burpees to make the leaderboard.  Where’s the cart girl when you need her? Plenty of Caddyshack quotes, drop your favorite in the comments.  May the PAX’s days be filled with Eagles and Birdies.  Until next year…

Numberama

Nameorama

COT

ANNOUNCEMENTS

• See Flatline, Gomer or Gypsy – 2 spots left for each day of CPR training
• May 6^th – CSAUP at Currahee 6am just show up
• Welcome FNG Fergie

TYA took the PAX off campus. He found a perfect number of street lights for 11s. Also did a triple check, a partner Dora, and some exercises at each cross street between Jenny Maraghy Realty and Mary Munford.

Legend has it, here is how the story goes:

Johnny: “Timmy, did you hear what happened at recess today?”

Timmy: “No, did Handshake get caught looking up girls skirts again?”

Johnny: “Not that I know of… You know that older kid that complains a lot but tells those jokes he gets from GQ magazine?”

Timmy: “TYA?”

Johnny: “No, the other one he hangs out with…”

Timmy: “You must be talking about that Saab kid. I heard he wants to buy a british car when he turns 16. My dad says there may be something wrong with that kid.”

Johnny: “Yeah, my mom said he tried to take a girl on a date to see Stripes.”

Timmy: “Man, that’s a $100 shine on a $3 pair of shoes.”

Johnny: “Anyway, there was a pickup basketball game during recess today and that giant 3rd grader who looks like he’s 14 told Saab he had to play.”

Timmy: “Oh man, I wish I could have seen that…”

Johnny: “It was hilarious. Saab’s team started chucking balls from all over the place. I overheard him say he was only good for two things, catching and passing.”

Timmy: “I’d be surprised if that one-legged cheetah could even catch.”

Johnny: “Turns out you are right, kid couldn’t catch a turtle if it was walking right in front of him. Anyway, the teachers had blown their whistle to indicate recess was almost over. All I heard while they were playing was, ‘This game is stupid’, and ‘I was never good at this game’.

Timmy: “He will probably work in IT when he gets older.”

Johnny laughs uncontrollably

Johnny: “So true. Well… the clock was ticking and somehow Saab ended up with the ball. He took one dribble to about 10 feet and chucked it up.”

Timmy: “Let me guess, airball.”

Johnny: “That’s what I would have guessed if I hadn’t seen it with my own two eyes. The Dude made it!”

Timmy: “No way. You must have been talking about another kid. No way that kid made a basket.”

Johnny: “Swear on my Pokemon collection. He stepped back and drained it. Funny thing is, people didn’t even get excited. He just walked away.”

Timmy: “Legendary.”

Johnny: “Cool as a cucumber.”

Timmy: “I hope Sally got a picture of him to put in the yearbook. That’ll be a great story to tell when we make it to the big school, you know, middle school.”

Johnny: “Best recess ever.”

Timmy: “I have to go. Gotta get back to class. Have you seen my substitute?”

Johnny: “No, new?”

Timmy: “Oh yeah. I’ll fill you in on the bus.”

COP

• Single file run over to the basketball courts, where we stayed until the bell rang.
• 4 left hand, 4 right hand layups
• Line up in two horizontal lines facing the Q
• 20x Invisible Jumpropes
• 10x Don Quixotes
• 15x High Knees
• 10x Copperhead Squats
• 15x Buttkickers
• 10x Defensive slides
• 10x Bobby Hurleys

The Thang

As a tribute to the introduction of the shot clock, we did 4 corners. 30 exercises at each corner of the basketball court. Merkins, LBCs, CDDs, Squats.

Huddle up around the goal for Halftime Entertainment. Everyone shoots a layup, free throw, and 3 pointer. Miss the layup and the group does 10 burpees, free throw 10 merkins, 3 pointer 10 squats. The group was 6/9 on layups, 2/9 on free throws, and 0/9 on 3 pointers. Lots of blame on the darkness and the light.

Senior superlatives were mixed in as well. Two seniors were highlighted. First was Antoine Davis. Antoine came up 3 points short of Pete Maravich’s all time collegiate scoring record of 3667 points. Antoine ended up with 3664. Close, but no cigar. Additional context, Antoine achieved his number in 5 years (including his additional COVID year). Pistol Pete did it in 3 as freshmen couldn’t play back then. 3 years, 40+ points a game, no 3 pointers. Let that sink in. 36 merkins, 67 SSHs as a tribute.

Second superlative was offered to Kihei Clark. Kihei broke the ACC record for most minutes played in his career (again, thanks to the additional COVID year). He played 5339 minutes, which by TYAs quick math is almost 90 hours. Crazy, over 5 years, 30 games a year, that only adds up to 90 hours of basketball. Anyway, apparently people keep track of that stat so we did 53 LBCs and 39 Jump Squats as a tribute.

This is where we broke up into teams of 3 and the above storyline played out.

Numbers, names, YHC took us out.

Moleskin

YHC appreciates those that posted but did not know what was in store for the day. It’s been 4 years since my last official March Madness Q at Mary. Stories were strong of years past. Great work everyone.

Welcome to the newcomers who hadn’t experienced a Q like this before. You are only limited by your own creativity!

Splinter out.

The perfect prime of 11 men gathered in the gloom on the 23rd of the 3rd month in the 23rd year of the current age. Here’s what transpired:

COP on the corner of Grove and Westmoreland. Dead man hang / helicopters / DQs / Russian Soldiers / Imperial Walkers / APDs / LBCs / Plank Jacks / Froggers / Elbow Planks/ Pickle pounders/ SSHs

10×10: At the picnic tables, 10 incline merkins, 10 dips, 10 boxjumps or step up, run to the sidewalk and back. That’s one round. Do 10 sets. Mosey to the Tree line.

Treeline: Round 1- 5 Squats at each tree. / Round 2- 5 WW2s at each tree / Round 3 – 3 Burpees at each tree.

Final COP – Various Plank Exercises

NMS: That 10×10 took a lot longer than anticipated! 11 is a great prime number but not so great for parters or triple checks, so good to do group work together today. Thanks for letting me lead! SYITG

11 strong rose to the challenge at Mary today. There was much mumble chatter on this topic of the number 11 quickly confirming the theme of the day. These go to 11 (or not).

COP – mosey to front of school on Grove. SSHs, deadman’s hang, Don Quixotes, imperial walkers and helicopters to get us started.

Mosey to the field and line up for….wait for it….11s! Apparently this 11s is new to the pax so I am happy to introduce a new exercise regimen to them. At each tree (of which there are 11), perform a set of one type of exercise. Round 1 – 3 burpees at each of the ELEVEN trees. Round 2 – 10 LBCs at each of the ELEVEN trees. Round 3 – 3 Lt Dans at each of the ELEVEN trees. The concept of 11 trees was too much for the pax and threw them off for the remainder.

Nonetheless we were able to get some work in. We next moseyed to the pull-up bars and while the pax did dips on the low wall around it, 2 pax would do 5 pull-ups. We did 3 rotations in random fashion as pax was unable to grasp concept of moving clockwise direction like we always do. They were still thinking about the number 11.

Mosey to blacktop for a triple check (not an undecuple check). Wall sits, Flutters, run to fence and Bernie Sanders back. Pax was still thinking of the number 11 and had difficulty forming groups of 3 or 4.

Mosey to front of school for a curb crawl. Bear crawl to other side do 1 incline merkin, bear crawl back do 2 decline merkins, and so on up to 5 and back down to 1.

Mosey to covered pavilion and partner up – one partner does 10 pole smokers and other does step ups on the benches. 5 rounds. We finished with a ring of fire of merkins and hit time.

Based on the fascination with the number 11, YHC may introduce a version of 4 corners called 11 corners or the Hendecagon. Be on the lookout!

Numberama, namerama, YHC took us out. Good luck to the 11 running the Bear Creek this weekend (see what I did there!).

YHC’s luck with rain seemed to have ended as it had started by the time we arrived at the AO. However it was light and while YHC had devised a plan to keep (mostly) dry, things would need to be modified mid workout.

Here’s how it went down…

Mosey around the school to the blacktop to warmup with dead man’s hang, Don Quixotes, arm circles, SSHs and Merkins.

Mosey to covered pavilion which was unoccupied and the site for all of YHC’s original plan for the day. Partner up with P1 running to corner of Grove and Commonwealth and back, P2 does wall sit (against a pole). 3 rounds.

While YHC‘s counting admittedly may have been imprecise the mumble chatter began to grow forcing an audible on my part. Mosey back out to the blacktop for a new concept – “5 corners”. As a group run to each corner and the center of the blacktop to do Carolina Dry Docks and LBCs – 30/10, 25/15, 20/20, 15/20, and 10/30. Not a dry shirt in the house.

The mumble chatter hit a crescendo at this point thus we continued to avoid the dry pavilion and moseyed to the tennis courts for some partner booyah Merkins. Start at each side of one court, bear crawl to center and do 10 booyah Merkins then Crawl Bear back. Repeat 5 times. Heavy breathing was the dominant sound at that point.

Mosey back to the blacktop for a triple check. Wall sits, Lt Dans, run to fence and Bernie Sanders back.

We moseyed to the pavilion and discovered that the tomatoes had taken this spot, so as gentlemen and to avoid potential charges being pressed we moseyed to the parking lot to finish. First we partnered up for a mini Dora – 25 flutters, 50 Imperial Walkers and 75 SSHs partner runs to end of lot and back. Then the last exercise was P1 did 20 donkey kicks while P2 did American Hammers until time.

numberama, namerama, YHC took us out. While my counting may have been imprecise my math I believe is still OK. This group certainly lived up to the “Geri Mary” nickname for this AO given 6 of us are in the respect category. Even with recent birthday boy Handshake coming in hot with 10 seconds to spare the average age of the group was north of 50.

Handshake is Qing Dogpile Saturday for his 5th anniversary.

YHC reminded all to take the time to give a hug to those you love as you never know when you might see them again. Every moment is precious.

9 mighty men and 3 walkers on the IR showed up in the pre dawn darkness for a Thursday beatdown. Here’s how it went down:

COP on the Blacktop: Deadman hang // Imperial Walkers // Ukrainian Soldiers // APDs // LBCs // Hand release Merkins // Pickle Pounders // 21s SSHs, Hitchhiker strikes again

7 of Diamonds: 4 corners on the blacktop with exercises in increments of 7 in each corner: 7 Plank Jacks x 4 // 14 Merkins x4 // 21 LBCs x 4 // 28 Jump squats x 4 // 21 Flutter Kicks x4 // 14 Carolina Dry Docks // 7 Burpees x 4

Steal the Bacon! 2 groups of 4, number called and race to the bacon. Losing team does 5 burpees.

COP: Flutter Kicks // LBCs // Oblique LBCs // Freddy Mercuries

SMS: On this day 7 years ago YHC showed up and received the name Bodos by one Honeydo. It was many months before the 2nd post, and it was several years after that before the VQ. Swirly demands that I subtract the first 3 years from my record, but I’m just grateful that it eventually stuck. It’s the small everyday habits that ultimately define a life, and this is a good one.

Noted that Steal the Bacon always ends up with an injury, apologies to Upchuck for the slide tackle. Ask TYA to kiss your boo boo.

SYITG

Eleven came out

Off the AO we traveled

Elevens, Lindsays

Now for Triple Check

Monkey Humpers, Flutter Kicks

Finish with ring of fire

The warm up, yeah… well, should planed that a little…

Mosey to the church parking lot. Work out based on a deck of cards with burpees, Lt. Dans, WW 2’s, mercan’s and running. It was kind of a mess up but I’m pretty sure we were all breathing heavy, and and I provided plenty of fodder for the peanut gallery!

Mosey back for numbers and names.

No announcements.

In closing, look out for each other, sometimes a few minutes is all it takes and we never know what is happening on another person’s insides. Enjoy!