Tag: DownRange

Backblast: 11MAR2025

17 ITG!!

Warmorama:
Victory lap
Inch worms
Moroccan night clubs
Tea claps
Copper head squats
Butt kickers
High knees

The thang;
Hero Workout – “Loredo”
24 squats
24 merkins
24 lunge steps
400 m run
Repeat 5 more times

Mary-
Xs and Os
Freddy Mercuries
Circle of merkins

No one had done the Loredo workout, but my online research suggested that under 35 mins was “Advanced”. Great work today, men!

Welcome FNG Nate and downrangers Gomer Pyle and Aikman (sp?)

FNG Steve was named “Stage Fright”

Thank you to @Dunder for bailing me out in my senior moment during the photo.

One very thankful, black t-shirt wearing American said thanks for the opportunity to celebrate 9 years and 5 months of The Clinic. Temperatures, thankfully, were 70 and sunny. According to the front desk clerk (thank you for staying, Mr. Upchuck), the following might have happened.

Ran north thankful for the pleasant breeze. Then, Fudd at the office (thankful for the nice tp). Further north, until Broward, looped back and retraced the route. Just shy of 5.

Number, name, and YHC took himself out.

NMS – The Circus is in town, both metaphorically and actually. Anyone in the vicinity of the Westfield / Broward Mall Metroplex (Gumbo?) should come on out if you have the guts and / or the wrench set required to enjoy safely a circus carried on 20 tractor trailers. Sketchy.

Question of the morning – which PAX member could you picture working at The Circus? Which ride / attraction?

Announcements: already made.

1 ran 5 at 5.

6 men emerged from the darkness for a Wednesday night 1 hr AO in the small town of Waynesville NC. Triple Respect to Holahan’s Q. Once again, when Beaver comes to town, it’s for a coupon workout.

Warmarama – Cherry Pickers, fast run in place, and some side to side punches.

The Thang!
Run a lap gather under the overhang for 3 sets of 5 pull-ups and 30 LBC’s

Run 1/2 to 3/4 mile to the fire station for some coupons.

• 20 incline plank jumps over coupon
• Sumo squat 8 IC
• lateral lunge 8 IC
• goblet squats 8 IC
• incline Alabama prom dates 8 IC
• run to the street and back. Repeat 2 more rounds

2nd coupon round

• curls 8 IC
• overhead press 8 IC
• incline coupon merkins 16 oyo
• Bent over row – coupon each arm 16 oyo
• coupon dips 16 oyo
• run to the street and back. Repeat a second time.

Mosey the trail – stop under an overhang by the baseball field for 50 LBC’s. Every 3rd light post do 3 Bobby Hurleys(squat jumps). Mosey back for CoT.

One hit the mean streets of Plantation in the latest edition of The Clinic. Temperatures were 70 and sunny. According to the Plantation police department staking out the La Quinta, the following, well, since they were watching the hotel, they have no idea what happened.

Lake loop, cross Peters, parking lot (no fudd), 6th, Broward Mall, reverso at Broward and same route backwards back to the virtual shovel flag.

Number, name, and YHC took himself out.

Announcements / NMS:

Wawa opened next to Starbuck’s. Talk about fighting inflation.

Beaver made it downrange for a gear loaded AO called The House of Pain! It was like watching a circus act as I witnessed Funion remove one item after another from his hatchback. Kettlebells, jump ropes, lifting bars, a large tire, and a log! A yoked Tetris master indeed.
Funions routine was complex as we teamed up, all struggled to understand which workout to do next among the many that were available, this included 25 reps of overhead presses and curls with the lifting bars. 25 reps of jump rope, dragging a tire loaded with kettlebells and hauling a log up the hill, burpees and some running to and fro.
we ended with some competitive 4 PAX team tire pull while the remaining PAX planked and ended with some Mary.

Shoutout to my partner this gloom The Exchange!

One lifted himself out of The Fartsack in the most recent central Florida edition of The Clinic. Temperatures were 70 and sunny. According to the man walking his puppet-sized dog, the following might have happened:

Leave hotel, turn right to find the path, nope, not there, turn around, proceed about 2 miles on the path, reverso, and BTTVSF. Number, name, and YHC mumbles to himself in front of the hotel.

Announcements: YHC suggests that now is the time of year to go to Disney. Or, to an indoor call center technology conference.

One chose to throw off the warm lure of the Fart Sack at the latest edition of The Clinic. Temperatures were 70 and sunny. According to the driver of the hazardous hospital waste removal truck barreling through the parking lot, the following might have happened.

Northbound loop. Office park, cross Peters, Office park #2, up to 10th, to 78th, to Federated, to shopping mall parking lot, to Broward, and then reverso BTTVSF.

NMS: Chillier than usual with game time temp around 58. YHC did neither SSHs nor any ridges.

Call it 4.5 today. Not terrible, and the running legs are coming back after a fall hiatus.

White Whale led a hell of a beatdown this gloom down in Midtown Raleigh at the Lourdes of Discipline AO. It was pretty quiet, didn’t get a chance to chatter much. When we weren’t doing burpees, squats or merkins, we were racing to the next point for more reps or running an indeginous form. 3.39 miles of running.

White Whale ended with this quote,
“The opposite of faith is certainty. Where there is certainty, there is no room for faith”.

YHC posted downrange at The Overlander at F3 Roanoke.

YHC was admiring awhat he thought was a huge hill and one of the PAX said “That’s SFH, we have the Long F’n Hill behind it”

Great PAX of 19 with some parking lot coffeerama for 2nd F after.

Here’s the Q’s Backblast:

WARMUP: Circle up, count off, disclaimer, Pax are confused as to why I needed 20 guys for my plan to work….I guess we will never know, various warmup exercises. Long mosey down the road and back to library. More warmup exercises to make sure everyone is warmed up.

THE THANG: Go to the square in front of library. Partner up. 1 pax does stationary exercise while the other travels. R1: 125 burpees, bear crawl “short” sides, spring “long” sides R2: 200 squats, yog square. R3: Mosey back to parking lot, 125 merkins OYO. Some did more, some did less. Recover.

MARY: Dunphy closed us out with a motivator, always a Pax favorite.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Winter Challenge coming soon, get on the Q sheet. Happy to have Pre School DR from Portland, Oregon and Big Rig from RVA. COT: Blindspot prayed us out. Use the ‘New Backblast’ button to create a new backblast