Tag: #SOJ

  • #WINNING

    There were no losers today at the FORGE………only winners. Whatever obstacles were placed in front of the PAX – they were able to overcome. Here is a brief summary for your viewing pleasure:

    Mosey to the lower circle for warm-ups: Jazzercise, Ukranian Soldiers, Helicopers, Suzanne Somers, Hand Release Merkins, Freddy Mercuries, Heals to Heaven, plus Marion Jumps, Karoake, Mummy Bernies, Butt Kicks

    Exercise One: Jog to first light pole, sprint to the next. Repeat until we reach the ramp.

    Exercise Two: The Great Wall: All PAX scale the retaining wall near the track. Was looking for Belay!

    Exercise Three: Lt. Colonel Dan’s: 6 Lunge Walks, 10 squats, repeat. Made our way to the end of the parking lot. All PAX were promoted to Vice Admiral.

    Exercise Four: Triple Check with Dips, Double Tap Hand Release Merkins, run around parking lot

    Exercise Five: Tooth Fairies up the stairs next to the school

    Back towards the flag for Exercise 6: Victory Hill – sprint up hill, jog down until time was called.

    Numbers (10), Names, Announcements, Prayer Requests

    YHC took us out

    Final Thoughts: As usual – amazing effort by all this morning! It was good seeing Fiona and Garbage Plate. The wall climb is definitely in the CSAUP category and, maybe a bit dangerous?? Snuff and I were discussing hitting up the larger section closer to the football field……………..But we all survived and a good time was had by all. Thanks for letting me lead

    SYITG

  • 1k Repeats, walking in between

    2 Swift Freaks descended upon the track at Swift Creek Middle School for the weekly speed work session.

    The day’s workout was a little different in that we would go hard (about 8 minute pace) for 1k (2.5 laps) then get some more intentional recovery with about 90 seconds of walking. We repeated this 5 times. This was sandwiched between 1 mile neighborhood runs at an easy pace. I would say conversational, but I have yet to find a pace that is not conversational for Boberry.

    Always great to catch with Broberry!

  • Ruck-a-ccino

    6 HIMs got out there and got after it today. It was a chilly morning and none of us had coffee, so Fandango and Warby set a good pace out the gates as we left the stop sign and made our way to Alamo. Looped around by McGruff’s house and crossed over to pay our respects to the gas station.

    Worked our way through the rolling hills by the reservoir and looped around back to the start. 3.5 miles in total.

    Conversations varied. Flyboy, a new member of the Pax, joined us with a backpack of various trinkets that included Magic The Gathering (MTG for you cool kids) cards and that got us on a tangent of Pokemon and baseball cards. We reminisced on some good workouts we’ve had of late, and we tackled the very important issue of using another man’s emoji without his consent.

    good to get after it today!

  • Bermuda Abs

    HOT POTATO. I started with a mosey to the lower parking lot to get the blood flowing. I made sure everyone knew i didn’t know what I was doing. The WARMARAMA consisted of SSH, merkins, imperial walkers, lbc’s and maybe something else. Big Rig was looking for legs so I have him some pole dancers followed up with some double clutch stiletto squats. As we hobbled back to the flag I finally figured out what we were doing next. Toys included 30lb kettle bell for plank pull throughs, jump rope, and ww3 with the 20lbslam ball. This turned into a triple set with a emom timer. I tossed the potato to BigRig where with did a step down of 20 reps and various weight for curls. Curls for days talk about a gun show. Speaking of potatoes, I was mashed after a ab ring of fire. We started with a usual freddy mercury and Broadway called flutter kicks. No big deal right false 20 count then stop at 6 inches, up to 18″, then get together and spread. None the less Broadway showed us we weren’t ready. All around great workout with I’m sure a few things missing in this story.

  • Kings of the Jungle….Gym

    2 Ecoff Lions skipped the fartsack and came out to claim their crowns by getting in some extra credit.

    Did the usual warmup and stretching, followed by hollow rocks, pull ups, jerkins, and dips.

    Always great to catch up with Pool Boy, especially outside of work and in the gloom.

  • Celebrating March Madness in Style

    14 men gathered this morning to celebrate L Woods’ 37th birthday and March madness with dragon walks, free throws and lots and lots of suicides.

    Warmerama: side straddle hops, don quixotes, imperial walkers, cherry pickers, lbcs, Alabama prom dates

    COP 1: basketball court. Pax moved around half court doing three burpees at each corner. First leg of half court- dragon walk (peter parker with merkin in between) second leg bernie sanders, third leg bear crawl, fourth leg sprint.

    COP 2: Pax lined up in straight line at base line, with each Pax doing a free throw. If pax missed- suicides. If Pax made it- called out exercise of choice.

    COP 3: Pavilion: Start at pavilion with 7 burpees, 7 merkins, 7 world war 2s, run to end of field and back, decrease to 6,5, 4… etc.

    Announcements: CSAUP May 2nd- Century Class; Chili Cook Off March 22

    Prayer requests: Machismo looking for a new employee

    Thank you all for coming to celebrate my birthday!

  • Do Deer Eat Bananas?

    2 SOJ runners met up at Rockwood Park to get some miles in. Boberry got in 6 or 7 then had to get back to go to work. YHC did a long tour of the surrounding neighborhoods, while fine tuning hydration and refueling strategies for his upcoming marathon. Somewhere early on 2 bananas fell from his pack.

    Steamer was spotted running around trying to find Tin Man and Pierogi for RocknRoll. Word has it there was a hot potato.

  • What Color is Dealer’s Truck??

    The color of Dealer’s truck is predicted to be the hottest debate topic of Spring 2025. As early mornings in the gloom continue to mask parking lots in darkness it will be hard to verify if his truck is dark grey or the olive green he claims. That was just about everything we discussed during the beatdown because the boys got after it this morning!

    Six lean and mean HIMs moseyed down to the backside of the football field for warmarama and then a triple check against the snack bar compiled of people’s chair and donkey kicks while the timer ran. With our legs awake we set out on a journey down light pole alley. We lunged, bear crawled, shuffled, and sometimes walked, between poles where we added a burpee at each stop. After 45 burpees we regrouped in the lower parking lot for a few trips up and down Mt. Chaplain. After 5 merkins and WWIIs we ran from the lower parking lot to the top of Mt. Chaplain, then back down to the next closest parking lot for 4 merkins and WWIIs. We continued that cadence until all parking lots were merkined and then we caught our breath at the top of the hill.

    We finished off the morning with cliff hanger holds at the top of the hill (on your six, facing downhill, hold feet of the ground) and then a plank ring of fire at the flag!

    Announcements

    • SOJ Chili Cookoff – March 22nd @ 3pm – L Wood’s Home – Open to Entire Family
    • The Century Classic – May 2-3 – Your favorite non-golf classic makes a comeback. Sign up!
    • GROWRUCK #59 – October 3-5 – Cary, NC

    Prayer Requests

    • Machismo looking to hire a superintendent/PM.

  • Pie Day!

    11 grown-boys ran around the parking lot at Satan’s Hill today. With songs from American PIE playing in the background, here’s what went down…

    COP #1 – EMOM with coupons. QTY (3) exercises with a run length of (14) parking spaces.

    • Round #1
      • QTY (1) OH Press, QTY (1) Lateral Raise and QTY (1) Merkin – run to the marker and back
      • QTY (2) OH Press, QTY (2) Lateral Raise and QTY (2) Merkins – run to the marker and back
      • Repeat to failure. The PAX completed QTY (16) rounds
    • Round #2
      • QTY (1) Squat, QTY (1) Swing and QTY (1) DC Lunge – run to the marker and back
      • QTY (2) Squat, QTY (2) Swing and QTY (2) DC Lunge – run to the marker and back
      • Repeat to failure. The PAX completed QTY (8) rounds

    COP #2 – Ring of Fire

    • Each PAX member chose an exercise/run for everyone to complete. QTY (10)
    • Some were more generous than others.

    ANNOUNCEMENTS

    • Monday, 3/17 – Fandango’s 1-year at The Alamo
    • Saturday, 3/22 – Hangout at L Woods. Hit him up for deets
    • Monday, 3/24 – Happy 2nd Birthday, Alamo!

    PRAYERS/WINS

    • WIN – Futon’s family weekend to celebrate his mom’s 70th birthday!
    • WIN – Boberry will be a father to a teenager tomorrow!
    • WIN/PRAYER – Ponch going to see LA v Chicago in Japan!
    • WIN/PRAYER – Ponch participating in his first half-marathon next weekend!
    • WIN – YHC is officially putting in a 2-week notice today and is PUMPED for the next chapter!

    YHC had a lot on the mind this morning so things may have been a bit scattered. Still managed to get the juices flowing and enjoyed being able to lead y’all!

  • TWSS aka Low Hanging Fruit

    Two pre gloom zombies got in some miles at the latest edition of the graveyard shift. Work was as follows: 2 mile warm up, 4 miles with Easter mile faster than the last, 2 mile cool down. We managed to hit those marks despite some uncharted road and unexpected uphills. TCLAPS Big Rig going strong in his training for the Roanoke Marathon!