We had 11 at the Bermuda Triangle with 5 for the bootcamp including Austin Powers, Clutch, Miter, Sparkle, and myself (Captain Jack) and 6 runners including Two Ferns, Peg, Soft Shell, Pitch, Wolverine, and Shakespeare. The 5 of us left warmed up with the typical activities, SSH, merkins, cherry pickers, and windmills, then moseyed over to the basketball court. There we did 4 rounds of work with a lap after each round. Round 1: 10…
0YHC is likely the only guy in the region that was raised by the WW II generation (expect a lot of the pax’s grandads were) so this was a very special day. I grew up listening to these guys tell about it (mostly pretty funny stories) and had an uncle that was the REAL DEAL when it came to war heros in my uncle Roy Fortner who led the 15th Air Force Mission over Berlin…
0So YHC was on deck for Crow’s Nest the day after the famous Lake Wylie Christmas Party, which he did not attend. But apparently a lot of others did so and to great enjoyment! Which is why we only had YHC and Speed Racer in the mix for boot camp and a couple of runners. So YHC fell back on some tried and true things that have worked before. Went like this: COP: SSH X…
02 runners and 7 bootcampers dodged the rain at The Brig. After completing IronPax Week 0 in the AM, Merkins were off limits. Instead we took a short mosey to my driveway and completed a weighted circuit focused on pumping up our beach body muscles. Our poor biceps are often neglected in bodyweight workouts so I thought we would do something that would appeal to the likes of Captain Jack, Dovetail and Ringo. 1/2 mile…
1We had nine at the Brig including Sashimi, KP, Softshell, Carnival, Dovetail, Ringo, Shark Tank, Murdoff, and myself (Captain Jack). We did a few quick warm up exercises as a few stragglers rolled in. Next, we were off to the AstroTurf. We did a quick lap moseying the short stretches and running the long stretches. After that we went back to the flag and paired up for a lazy dora. Partners perform 100 Merkins, 200…
1Its been one year since this night AO started and its been a great year. We have had some great Q’s. EH’d guys on the fly and had a great time doing it. I promoted the anniversary for a few weeks and there was a special request from the Nan’tan, Two Ferns to lead the warmup. I was happy to oblige. Warmup: Ferns led us down to the pool house in paddlers had us…
3Here we are, 10 days later, but better late than never. Quick and dirty backblast – 4 years ago I did a similar Q at the Deep, leveraging their track and football field. We had to change it up this time around to not tear up that field, but I think it was effective. Here we go: Long mosey to warm up the 24 boot campers in attendance and stretched / side straddle hopped, etc…
3We had 7 men at the Brig for the June 2nd bootcamp. This included Dovetail, Gucci, Shades, Soft Shell, O’Reilly, Short Block, and myself (Captain Jack). We gathered up to complaints about the Murph and requests not to run too much. Once we hit 7 pm we moseyed over to the AstroTurf soccer fields. The fields were relatively empty probably due to the closed for maintenance signs. After a quick warm-up, we did three rounds…
3And the Co-Q’s in Lake Wylie continue…O’Reilly and I paired up for a Q at one of the OG Lake Wylie AO’s, and our immediate plan was to make it heavy. I think we accomplished that. Official Tire Count – 10 “normal” tires (thanks Clutch) and 4 tractor tires (2 of which were Goliath and my tire that is as tall as me). At 5:13a we had 16 pax, so we started w/ F3 principles…
4I got to Paddlers Cove a few minutes early went to the pool house set up the Lake Wylie flag, left my speaker and some chalk behind for future use in the night. I made my way back to where we stick the flag and a some guys were already huddled up. Then a few FNG’s showed up and we grabbed up who would later become “Scantron” and welcomed him to our group. He had…
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