Tag: DownRange

One PAX threw off the lure of the Fart Sack to inaugurate, not for the first time, the AO now known as The Clinic. Temperatures were 70 and sunny (actually 64, but no complainers here). According to the people preparing to charge other people money for the privilege of working out in the Broward Mall parking lot, this is more or less what happened:

Stretch and moan in the hotel parking lot. Short walk to get the blood flowing. Mosey 1/2 mile, then realize that office key has been left in the car.

Footnote: YHC has a routine. Hotel room, elevator, car (drop hotel key, office key, iPhone, wallet, and mask in the car AND leave them under the driver’s seat). Handshake, remember that part. UNDER THE DRIVER’S SEAT. YHC has been meaning to carry his office key with him; to quote Splinter from years ago, “We have all been a little tied up at some point during a workout.”

Route: Lake loop, cross Peters, office parking lot, past LaQuinta Hotel (no arrests in progress this morning), left on 78th/10th (north), left on Federated to Broward Blvd, and return the way YHC came…until…well, visions of Splinter telling YHC, “We have all been a little tied up at some point during a workout.” For 10 years, YHC has run around this area. Today was the first time YHC carried his office key fob. Building access, check. Clean facilities, check.

Leave the office and BTTVSF.

Number, name, YHC took himself out.

NMS:
After the workout, YHC goes for coffee. To get there, YHC unlocked and opened the car door, reached UNDER THE DRIVER’S SEAT (Handshake, pay attention) and found a hotel key, his iPhone, wallet, mask, and ANOTHER iPhone. YHC supposes someone put their phone under the seat of their rental vehicle and then forgot the phone. Or, perhaps YHC’s iPhone and hotel key had some weird transmorfication. Unclear. The Clinic is never boring. YHC will keep the PAX informed regarding any pictures which may appear on said additional phone.

Schedule update: The Clinic gathers regularly. Like DaVille, the day of the week changes from time to time. Many weeks, The Clinic happens on Wednesday’s at 5:30, sometimes 5, and occasionally 4:30. Sometimes, Tuesdays. Rarely Monday, though on Valentine’s / Galentine’s Day, the schedule calls for Monday. Almost never Friday. Thursdays are less rare, albeit not frequent. It has never met on a Saturday, nor on a Sunday. The precise start time is always roughly 5:30, though the Q does have some leeway to schedule according to local times, traditions, conditions, and decisions. Nonetheless, The Clinic meticulously starts on time every day it happens.

UpChuck spits the bit.

One PAX delivered himself up for physical redemption (from last night’s pizza dinner). Conditions were 70 and sunny. According to the security cameras in the DHL parking lot, the following might have happened:

1/2 mile run to the parking area.

COP:

Standard stuff: SSHs, stretches, DQ’s, IW’s, HRMs, WWIIs.

Lot Loops:

DHL has a large parking lot (large = massive). Everyone works from home now, meaning open lot. YHC estimates 1/4 mile loop. Run the full loop then add 40 of an exercise at the end of the loop. Exercises were:

WWIIs
Flutter kicks
Rosalita’s
Heels to heaven
Dolly’s
HRMs (20)

1/2 mile run back.

Number, name, YHC took himself out.

Announcements:

Ramps. Help build them. Sign up (See Slack). Questions – see Corned Beef.

HDHH coming up south of south of the James.

Monday, Feb 7, Punisher meets at Bingo Beer on Broad. 6 p.m. workout. 6:15 p.m. social.

One PAX peeled off the outer layers of The Fart Sack and scrambled forth into an unseasonably cool morning. Temps were 70 and sunny in the heart, 61 on the skin, and south Florida was there for the taking. According to the early riser in the green Camaro, here’s more or less what happened:

1/2 mile run to the AO.

COP (in cadence, unless otherwise noted):

SSHs, DQs, IWs, Dead Man Hang (sans cadence ’cause still cadence is silly), light stretching, WWIIs, FKs, HRMs…mosey 1/4 mile.

Intermittent running / exercises for 1/2 mile. HRMs, Rosalitas, decline merkins, dips.

4 Corners (but, stick with YHC on this – do it clockwise. Eh? Harder than the normal way):

Reverse crunches
Squats
Heels-to-Heaven
Dips

2 rounds, then for rounds 3 and 4, add a run up the parking garage ramp and 10 HRMs at the top.

50 SSHs.

2 mile run.

BTTVSF. 3 minutes of stretching.

Number, Name, YHC took himself out.

NMS:

Remember when you went to an office building each day? There’s a dude who shows up at 5:45 each day at DHL (building whose garage YHC uses). He parked over there on the outer edge “action style” every day for years. With no one else using the building these days, now he parks “in the middle area.” He’s learned a new habit. Says it keeps his car cleaner. He’s used the opportunity presented to improve things for himself. YHC likes it.

Prayers for Omar and his mother-in-law who had brain surgery in November and is just not the same. Good to catch up with YHC’s friend, even if he can’t join the workouts due to work.

Total mileage today was just under 4.2. Plus the beatdown, not a bad way to start the day, albeit in more than 45 minutes.

UpChuck spits the bit.

One pax scraped himself out of the Fartsack and launched for the first 2022 Lake Florida workout. Temps were 70 and sunny (definitely not 25). According to the construction crew on Peters, this might be what happened:

Run today. Hotel loop across the lake, cross Peters to the office lot, round the spot where HoneyDo rolled his ankle back in the day, north on 30-something street to Broward Blvd, and reverso BTTVSF. Just shy of 4.5.

5 minutes of Chum-inspired stretching.

Number, name, and YHC mumbled himself out.

NMS: nice to be back. Two new apartment complexes have sprung up over the past year. YHC is thinking about starting a group. FWIW, there is a pay-to-workout company now set up with vans in the parking lot of the local semi-abandoned mall. They start about 5:45 or 6, YHC guesses. Free has to be cheaper than what they offer.

YHC was able to post several times in Indiana including my first ever Ruck in the pouring rain, luckily it was a wet 60 degrees that morning (not normal for Indiana in late December). YHC met several new PAX but got to re-connect with some that I’ve come to know on previous trips. I had the M take this pic of a sign that I thought was perfect but I doubt there really is a beatdown that happens in this area of BFE.

Having recently connected with Toga in Richmond, YHC posted in F3Nashville with him on a morning that was literally 70 degrees though not yet sunny.

A 27 year old HIM named House on the Prairie led a descending ladder ground & pound workout with a ton of burpees. He’s about to start OTS at Quantico so I think he was all amped up about that.

Coffee was shared afterwards in the parking lot. a great way to start the week after Christmas.

Miss you guys up there!

Twenty Eight (including 13 from F3RVA) posted for an inspirational and meaningful experience at The Bridge in Buckingham County. It went something like this:

Introductions & Warm-O-Rama (lead by Squirrel): SSHs x 20 / Merkins x 20 / Carolina Dry Docks x 20 / Copperhead Squats x 15 / Third Graders (Cherry Pickers) x 10 / 1 lap around the track.

Thing 1: The Beast. LBCs / Box Cutters / Jump Squats / Nancy Kerrigan / 10 sec Elbow Planks / Chuck Norris Merkins

Thing 2: Jack Webbs

Thing 3: Mini Field Day – Sack Races / Wheelbarrow Races with 10 Boo Ya Merkins at the cone

Yoga-rama: Shakedown lead us in some cool down exercises.

NMS: I’ve been telling many of you about The Bridge since it was started this past summer. It cannot be fully described, but once experienced, it can never be forgotten. The men in this program have all fallen, hard, but are learning how to get back up, and we are their support system. We are inspired to lead, but in truth, they lead us. They show us what it is truly like to face struggle and, in most instances, overcome it.

I was extremely honored to share this experience with you all, and humbled by how many of you came today. In speaking with each of you after the workout, I know you now fully understand what this, much bigger than all of us thing, is. Jay James, the Director, told me today was the most inspired he’s seen these guys, and it’s all because of each of you supporting such a great and meaningful cause. The men at the Bridge are diamonds in the rough. It is our job to help them get polished up and on the other side of The Bridge.

Thank you all for being there today – it meant the world.

One PAX took to the Gloom, Rain, and Wind for today’s edition of the south Florida shuffle. Temps were 70 and sunny. According to Jim Cantore, the following might have happened:

Conditions: winds 30-45 MPH, heavy rain, 75 degrees.

Route: North ~2.5 miles on the boardwalk, then the nature walk, back by the same route. Wise Men not present.

NMS: This was YHC’s second consecutive week to be fortunate in his business travel location – south Florida on the water. Nice. That said, conditions were difficult. Very high winds and heavy rain at times.

This was YHC’s first decent length rehab run (no offense to YHC’s short Spider Run on Tuesday). So far, so good. YHC even outran a man (possibly a drunk man) on a skateboard. Before the PAX assume YHC won a contest that others did not know they were involved in, YHC believes this guy WAS trying to keep up.

Skateboard + alcohol + nature reserve walk + Gloom + rain + wind = YHC smoked him. Rematch scheduled for January.

One PAX launched into the south Florida Gloom. Conditions were remarkably close to 70 and sunny, albeit with a lump of humidity. According to the 80-year old man on a bicycle, the following more or less happened:

Route: South on the Hollywood Boardwalk, then north. R/T just about 3.5 miles. Walking pace, due to calf injury. Number, name, YHC took himself out.

NMS: YHC has been nursing a recurring calf injury since mid-November. It’s painful (see Pyle, Gomer). In addition, it’s a downer. Walking trumps doing nothing, but nothing trumps being fit enough to work out. Important lesson to remember. YHC is glad he jump out of the Fart Sack and made something of the morning.

And, then this gem: YHC came upon a woman with stretchy bands. Good thing she was not strong enough to pull the pole over.

Shortly after this video, YHC came upon the scene of a felony, or at least a misdemeanor serious enough to merit crime scene tape, 6-8 police officers, and a camera man, etc. YHC assumes it was an actual crime scene, not a TV show. But, it’s south Florida, so who knows?

Never boring.

YHC and family made the usual Thanksgiving trip back to Fort Mill, SC just past Charlotte on the map. 3 Beatdowns in 4 days and this is a brief run down on what happened.

Thursday morning (30 degrees) in Fort Mill, SC starting at 6:30 – 70 would be warriors made their way out of the Gloom to be lead by Hardwood (friend of YHCs) and YHC will be bringing some good material home.

Friday morning in Waxhaw, NC starting at 6:30 – 19 Grizzly veterans mosey out into the (42 Degree) almost tropical temperatures following Mad Dogs lead

Saturday morning in Charlotte, NC (Metro one of the AO’s where it all began – Indy) 5 HIM’s lead by C-Span possibly the best (worst) beatdown I have ever been a part of. It was in a parking deck with a spiral drive on one side (run up 6 flights, 12 floors) this made Twin Team look like child’s play. 10 Merkins at the top run across the top floor to the stairs 10 LBC’s, run down steps to start 10 Flying Squirrels ( AKA Groiners) then back up the Dizzy. Repeto as many times as possible. YHC was able to get 5 cycles in 2nd to Cooler who is in his 30’s and has more legs than body. Cooler would be Charlottes version of Fresh Prince.

NMS:

YHC loves traveling and hitting AO’s that make you a part of their PAX. F3 is a brotherhood and YHC for one is very thankful for all my brothers across this country.

Pics are from Friday and Saturday, YHC is trying to get pics from convergence Thursday