Tag: The Crucible

Blackwell Elementary School

  • Graduating in late August

    11 strong, including 2 FNGs, came out of a beautiful September morning. True to the motto it was 70 and sunny at the start. We did:

    COP: SSH, Don Qs, Imperial Walkers, Freddy Mercurys, Merkins.

    Mosey to park across road for some catch me if you can: Lunges, Bear Crawl, Wheelbarrow. Over to the football field for Dora 123: 100 Derkins, 200 Jump Squats, 300 Benchkicks. Head back across street to school. 4 rounds of: 20 Donkey Kicks while partner does boxing roaches.

    Head over to shaded side of school for: 3 rounds of 20 Dips and 10 WWIIs. Finish with 1 min of Mary.

    Annoucements: Disregard everything YHC said about Converge and 8 Yr anniversary. Monday convergence is 7:00 at Dogpile.

    NMS: Great energy and effort this morning. FNGs put in solid work and pushed themselves. Welcome Soul Surfer and Scripps. Scripps told YHC before the start he was looking for some cardio so YHC tried to oblige. Hope to see Scripps out again soon at Crucible. Soul Surfer is a friend of Joey Chesnut and did not appear to be bothered working out with a bunch of middle-aged dudes.

    BB title comes from Flintstone completing the program at HP and graduating. This man has put in hard work at the Crucible and at the Healing Place. It is great to see hard work and humility payoff.

    Handshake went to the wrong spot and was 5 minutes late. Be on the lookout for a solo BB to discredit Big Data. Extra Credit lived up to his name by running some extra steps getting to the AO. T-claps to Rocketman for leading the run to the AO and back.

  • Bricks, Burpees and Trash

    12 men tolerated a B- grade first Q. Turns out I can count to 3, sort of…

    5 point with Bricks: Lots of burpees, mericans, jumping Jacks, merican hammers, Flutter Kicks, WW II’s. Fudd won the purple brick strictly on good looks.

    Trash run with Burpees: Run to the trash, pick it up, do a burpee, in the park and school grounds.

    Triple check with squats and LBC’s

    Live with Gratitude! Cheers!

  • The Other Side of the Street

    The geese stayed on the field and were too chicken to cross the road because of the following beatdown at Blackwell:

    COP: SSHs, IWs, DQs, LBCs, CDDs, Helicopters IC

    Mosey to the side of the school for a Triple Check. People’s Chair and American Hammers. The timer runs to the playground, up the stairs, and down one of the slides. The directions included an implicit “Weeeeeee!” or “Woooooo!” as PAX went down the slide.

    At each of five sets of picnic tables: 4 Box Jump Burpees, 20 Dips, 10 Derkins. When finished at one picnic table, find an open picnic table and repeato.

    Dora with 100 Freddie Mercurys, 200 LBCs, 300 Squats

    Double Merkin Ring of Fire. Double Heels to Heaven Ring of Fire.

    COT

    Announcements: BRR, Labor Day Convergence, RVA 8 Year Anniversary, Sit and Sip.

    Prayers: YHC’s neighbor, families of bikers and drivers from last weekend’s accident, the men of THP.

    NMS: Tclaps for the PAX who ran from THP to the AO and back again. Their timing was a bit off, though, as they arrived late for the COP. They’ll nail it next week. The other PAX took a lap around the school to check if others had mistakenly posted to the field. Nope, just geese. The runners arrived with two FNGs just as the non-runners completed the lap.

    Welcome to FNGs Kindergarten Cop and No Regerts. Their first concerts were Judas Priest and Reba McEntire. Strong work today!

    Gomer was upset YHC couldn’t figure out the timer on the iPhone camera. If it doesn’t have a CLI with Vim bindings, YHC is lost. Hitchhiker saved the day. YHC still managed to make it look like a photo-bombed selfie, much to Joey Chestnut’s frustration.

    Coffeteria at Cafe Zata afterwards. They are up to 1 cook from 0 last week. The coffee, food, and patio are F3 approved. The parking situation needs some help. THP is 0.7 mi away – too far? It is potentially a location to EH new PAX members.

    The PAX are looking forward to getting Shakedown back out there after he recovers.

  • Iron Eyes Cody would approve

    6 trusted servants arrived post gloom, some post Dogpile, to see what catalysts for change the Crucible had to offer today. Some details remain fuzzy but it went a little something like this…

    We met at the new, official meeting place which is the parking lot for the school and we moseyed over to the fields to see if anyone didn’t get the memo but all was good so we had a bit of COP including some stretching along with the usual suspects of SSH, DQ, LBCs, Merkins etc… Then we took advantage of our multiples of 3 and did a triple check which encompassed some running, some balls to the wall, and some hello dollies. Next we completed a lap around the Charlie D Sydnor portion of the AO where everyone’s feet got wet but we survived, then on to a Dora that featured some SSHs, some 2 count mountain climbers, and 300 Carolina Dry Docks for the win.

    Next we decided that it would be a good idea to explore the rest of the AO since it was only the second time we have had a workout there and as we rounded the school and looked out into a field covered with litter everyone agreed with me that the last 10 minutes of the 1st F could be a little 3rd F and we all picked up litter and filled a lawn and leaf bag that YHC had in the back of his truck. Everyone thought it was a good idea and many of us had the thought at the same time.

    Big love to Joey Chestnut for showing up even with his dad, Offshore could not be there (and to his mom for driving him!!). JC is an inspiring young man.

    We followed up the 1F/3F with some 2F at Cafe Zata where we plan to return next week. We are hoping that this AO catches on with the neighborhood and with the guys in THP (who could not attend on this day due to it being a “deep clean” day). Looking forward to next week! Its on the Q sheet so don’t be afraid to grab the Q, we aren’t stingy 🙂

  • The Crucible is awakened

    19 Redwoods posted for the first version of the Crucible. This is what transpired.

    The Thang: Mosey to field. 20 SSH, 10 Don Quixotes, 10 Helicopters, 20 Lbc, 20 imperial walkers, 20 Merkins. Mosey to stands near football field. Lindseys with jump squats and WWII setups. Mosey to field near road. Triple Check. Box Cutters, merkins, run to other side and bernie sanders back. Mosey to pole in the corner of field and perform a different exercise at each pole. COT and TYA took us out.

    NMM: This AO and workout has been a long time coming. Lots of chatter about starting something near the Healing Place for sometime and August 6, 2022 was the day it was meant to start. Steamy morning out there, but the AO has a lot to offer. Thanks to all the men that had a hand in getting this AO started. Particular thanks to Shakedown for connecting with the leadership at the Healing Place and making this happen. F3 has had a strong presence with this group for sometime, I am glad we now have a F3 driven workout there every Saturday.

    YHC thought that he would have to take it easy from a workout perspective, thinking that there would be some folks that might not be in bootcamp shape. I could not have been more wrong about that. The three folks from THP were in great shape and looked like they were ready to roll from the beginning. Extra Credit earned his name in the first group of exercises when Shakedown and Anthrax realized he was doing 2x the number of reps. He said he wasn’t sure how many, but did not want to do less than was called. So by the time the COT happened, his name had already stuck. Sometimes names come easy, sometimes it is difficult. Our second FNG had run several quarries in his career. Despite lots of other good content to chose from a half dozen people shouted Flintstone simultaneously. Rocket man was the third THP participant. He had participated in F3 in Raleigh previously, so he had already been named.

    This AO is going to be a special place. You could feel the excitement and energy in the air before, during and after the workout. When you post at a workout, you are guaranteed to get the first F. If you want it, you can get the 2nd F. It is a special thing when all three things are present at one AO. Check out the Crucible when you have a chance. All three are there in abundance.

    TYA OUT