Tag: WaThoHuk

E ala ‘oeE ala ‘oe!! e holo ana nā kānaka

There is a best practice that YHC and a few friends came up with many moons back with regard to shopping for the Holidays.  Its call Sh-rinking… yes the name could us a lot of work … but it the concept was perfect at the time. (no way I could pull this off today)
You gather up 3 or 4 other buddies that are seriously procrastinating (like me with this back blast) doing the holiday shopping; with one set as the driver but he has his dinner covered by the crew.
You set out to the 1st store on the list. As soon as anyone in the crew finds something and buys it, you all have to leave that store and go to closest location that serves beer and all Sh-rinkers have just one short beer. Upon completion of that one beer, you all go to the next store (unless someone saw something in the last store and needs to return to buy it.) As soon as the next item is purchased, you go to the closest place to buy a beer and and all Sh-rinkers have one short beer. Rinse and repeat.. You continue this over and over again until one of many options occurs..
1) all Sh-rinkers have finished shopping
2) all Sh-rinkers have run out of money
3) all Sh-rinkers can’t walk to Sh-rink any more
4) the driver is done watching others Sh-rink and wants to go home to drink in peace
or 5) someone thinks it is a good idea to go to Lowes and buy their M a shop vac because they have Sh-rank wayyyyyy to much (True story on that one and it did not go well for him).
Anyway.. it is all in good fun and makes the shopping experience a lot more fun. It also gets you a hall pass for a 2nd F to go have a few pints with the boys because technically you are out gift shopping.

The Thang:

Pre-run at 5:15
BoBerry and YHC put in 1.5 miles while Choppa sat in the truck because it was cold outside and he wasn’t ready yet?? What did VMI teach that boy?

5:30: disclaimer given and the crew is ready to head out for a WTH style beat down.

• Short warm-up run from the AO launch site to the entry of the dog park. (3/4 miles)
• Dynamic stretching around the round-about
  • Toe Soldiers
  • Toes out
  • Toes in
  • Butt Kickers

Conversation starts with BoBerry about Starbucks and how they operate. So there was some questions if there was a Starbucks at Target. Without 100% agreement, YHC figured it would be good to mosey over and see they actually did have one?

3/4 miles to Target and it is determined that yes indeed it is a Startbucks but its owned by Target not a “Real” Starbucks. Roger Roger was right.. but the Target was closed so we cant get any this morning. But do you know what is ALWAYS open:
MC DONALDS!!!! YHC has an addition to admit…when I am on a road trip … I have to stop and get a Quarter pounder with Cheese meal.. a single Cheese burger and a Chocolate Milkshake. I love me some McDonalds. <3

Perfect time for 1 mile of 7s.
This parking lot is just the right length from the curb of Target to the far curb of McDonalds to get in exactly 1 mile over the course of 7’s.
One side is Squats. The other side is Merkins. We finish up on the Target side and decide on the next store to go visit. LightHouse said he was fresh out base foundation from Ulta and there just so happens to be one across the street. Pinto was looking for some all natural earthy Crunchy healthy snack from Trader Joes, Roger Roger picked up some kind of virus on his phone down in Honduras while he was alone in his hotel and needed the help if i-Rite, and Pinto just kept talking about how good the bread was at LongHorn Steakhouse. Sounded like a perfect opportunity for a 4 corners to Fireman Ed, so YHC decided to go with it and let the PAX get in some shopping.

4-Corners around the full parking lot (1/4 miles)
i-Rite: 30 WW2s
Longhorn: 30 LBCs
Ulta: 30 Heels to heaven
Trader Joes: 30 American Hammers

Mosey back to the AO.
Some light stretching.
and Done!!

4 miles and some bootcamp over 45 mins.: a standard WTH beatdown with a little Sh-rinking along the way.

MoleSkin:
As always: If you have read this far. Take the next 30 seconds to text a brother Pax you have not seen in the Gloom for a while. It might just be what he was needing to help him through the day.

Thank you for allowing me to lead WTH for the week.

SYITG!!
John (Gypsy) Boles

    WTH Perspectives

4 rose out of the fartsack to endure a 3 mile run plus bootcamp with insights, thanks, and sharing to start our thanksgiving season. It went something like this:

Mosey to big flag where we opened with an Imperial lunge talk about . Later renamed to Russian lunges. It was a Russian soldier with a lunge around the flag while each pax shared insights, perspectives and thanksgiving. This got the burn going in spirit and in legs. We then did Merkins in cadence to start the 3 mile run.

Next we ran half a mile into the Village where we did a series of sprints while holding-plank and performing mountain climbers, sprint 50% the alleys of the village, plank jacks sprint the alleys of the village, merkins sprint 100% the alleys of the village. We then transitioned into 4 Bernie sprints between the alleys of the village to include 25%, 50%, 75% and AYG at each end of the alley we did either 10 burpees, 20 WW2s, side straddle hops, and Freddie Mercuries. Next we went back to sprinting the Alleys of the village 50%, 75%, 100% to end at the backside of the village. We then did a nice YOG back to the track to work in some Suzanne Summers and one lap around the track with bear crawling the corners around the school and to the circle up around the flag to finish with a a Russian Prayer walk where we shared more insights, prayers, and thanksgiving. Recover! 

The Q then took us out in prayer to recap our time together.

Someone said they are cold so we started 20 seconds early! Almost forgot name-a-Rama but DTH kept us in check. Much thanks for posting today!

Cold clear winter mornings make the stars stand out, and this morning they were enhanced by the last straggling meteors of the Leonids. Since WaThoHuk is a run focused bootcamp (minimum of three miles) YHC decided to combine laps around the track with exercises emphasizing running form and injury prevention. These included: side straddle hops, copperhead squats, superman planks, side planks with leg lifts, lying leg lifts and kick backs, standing leg lifts and deadlifts, and merkins. During the laps we also included carioca, bounding, and skipping. Distance covered was 3.2 miles

YHC led us out.

Post on behalf of WordPress-less Pinto: (maybe a little commentary added in)

Here’s how it went down:
Into the muggy hot gloom 7 men started the day wondering if it was August or November 11th. 

COP: Circle up Disclaimer given (minus the one about Pinto is not awake for calling out cadence and its really an OYO until he stops counting to some random number)
Start with 17 side straddle hops
Next 9 don quiotes
10 merkins
20 LBC

Time to roll:
4 warriors ran by lake and across Three chopt to Culpepper sac number 1, circle back to wait for remainder to catch up.
Nowhere in sight (cuz the Q said they were running around the Goose lake), keep backtracking and get back lake.
Roger Roger whistles and gets reply from across water.
Run continues to meet in the middle, 25 merkins, head back to cul de sacs. At each cul de sac and do
10 burpees,
run to next one,
25 merkins,
run to next one,
10 burpees,
run and repeat until 5 sets of 25 merkins completed and 5 sets of 10 burpees.
Mosey back to flag and meet up with our lost warriors (we were not lost…we just didn’t have our cell phones for GPS and the 1st door we knocked on for direction to find ya’ll offered us some breakfast and coffee so we took them up on it and then decided to head back the AO. Did a few exercises so when you guys got back, it looked like we had been working hard) and did 25 celebration merkins to round out our 4 mile trot.

Name FNG Bacon Bits
Close in prayer, get the day started!!

Writing late night backblasts is not fun.. But I’m just not a write-the-backblast-the-same-day kinda guy. So here we go..

the INAUGURATION of WaThoHuk fell the day after the election of 2020. Too many must have stayed up late the night before watching returns and learning who our next president would be absolutely nothing about the outcome.

2 of us arrived for the 15 min. pre-run. Lap around the West Broad Village lake and back to the flag.

picked up 2 more and Gypsy led us off:
Warm up
30 side straddle hops
20 imperial squat walkers

Track work.
400M AYG followed by 200M recovery jog backward. 30 LBCs
400M AYG followed by 200M recovery jog backward. 30 flutters
400M AYG followed by 200M recovery jog backward. 30 reverse LBCs
800M AYG.

Hand off to Greenbow.

run back to parking lot
15 merkins
sprint to end of lot, lap back
10 burpees
sprint to end, lap back
20 WW2s
sprint to end, lap the bus loop, lap back
10 dips
another lap

mary
20 flutter kicks
20 rosalitas
20 Suzanne sommers 10/side
1 squat

NMS:
great kickoff for a great new AO!
loving the running + PT, is driving me to a new level

Would Q more often, but my contempt for WordPress is strong ??