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Laces Out Runner, sleeps in, still gets to Q Laces In

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YHC normally posts at #LacesOut on Thursdays and enjoys the banter with the #LacesIn crew, as they get to sleep-in for the 0515 start (LO launches 0500). Thanks to Lil E for the chance to Q with our FMHS AO-mates.

YHC didn’t want to venture too far from my Thursday roots, so we headed for FMHS football stadium and track for our morning DownPainment.

Mosey around practice field x1
COP in center of football field
  • SSH
  • Windmill
  • Merkins
  • Mountain Climbers
  • Squats
  • Peter Parker
  • Parker Peter
  • 10 Count Honeymooner
Mosey to stairs at field level of football stadium
Everest x2
  • (up stairs) – lunge L, squat, lunge R, squat
    • 5 burpees OYO, Plank until the Six
  • (Down stairs) – recovery down
    • Reverse PAX order, Rinse Repeat
Mosey to goal-line of football field
Paula Abdul with Mary —> think 2 steps forward, 1 step back! YHC had placed Blinky running lights to give the PAX visibility in the darkness of FMHS football. PAX commented on how they loved the field of ground rubber pellets between their fingers in the morning.
  • 20 yard forward Crabwalk, exercise
  • 10 yard back Bearcrawl, exercise
  • Going to we hit 50 yard line
  • wait for six to do exercise
  • Crabwalk 20yards (20)
    • 20 LBCs
  • Bearcrawl 10yards (10)
    • 20 Flutter
  • Crabwalk 20yards (30)
    • 20 American Hammers
  • Bearcrawl 10 yards (20)
    • 20 Box Cutters
  • Crabwalk 20 yards (40)
    • 20 Freddie Mercury
  • Bearcrawl 10 yards (30)
    • 10 Captain Thor’s —> thanks to Dark Helmet for the cadence count!
  • Crabwalk 20 yards (50)
Dark Helmet commented “what’s next? Sprints?” So we Omaha’d and did sprints
  • Run 50 to 10
  • Backwards run to 50 (repeat until 20-10)
    • 10 Burpees OYO
Ring of Fire – to check if the PAX abs were still working, we got in circle head-in, feet-out at 45-degree to see if PAX could manage getting lefts pushed down. Maybe this is called Duck Duck Goose
PAX collected all the Blinky lights and moseyed to the stairs again
Box jumps on wall x21
Mosey back to back stadium wall
  • Wall Sits for 1.5min with hand claps on 2-count
  • Balls to Wall for 1min
Back to COT
Boeheim lead the COT
Prays to World Wild Leader and pregnancy, Cake Boss sister, Country, Families

 

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a non running Q’s version of Laces Out

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7 #HIM showed up for my Q at #Laces out

Disclaimer and quick discussion on how I used to be a runner

Warm up one mile run

stretch for 2 minutes, discuss several of my favorite meals…and for a second week almost everyone took their shirts off…weird…

main course – 15 minutes of sprint the straightaways and recovery on the corners

main course – 10 minutes of your 5K pace

main course -10 more minutes of the first 15 minutes

stretch for the last 5 minutes

COT/BOM with Laces In

The fast guys got in 6 miles, the slow guys got 5 miles, everyone got better…

 

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Living the High Life

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5 souls arrived in the mild late-September gloom for a High Life-led Q at Laces In.

25 x SSH, 10 x merkins, 20 x squats, 10 x windmills

Line up on the parking lot line for: karaoke, side shuffles, butt kickers, run backwards (or, nur for Rock Hill familia), and run forwards.

Then all gathered around to hear about “living the high life”.  What was it?  Not Dora-lite, but Dora-heavy.  Grab a partner or two, and crank out:

100 merkins, 200 BURPEES, 300 squats….and 400 monkey humpers.  With running up the hill towards Munn Road.  Modify was needed to 150 burpees.  Don’t Q it if you can’t do it…

We survived and a standing 10 count was provided by all.  Mosey to the FMHS stadium for what Bonsai says is Pink Floyd.  2x Wall Sits, 2x Balls to the Wall.

Circle around around the bleachers for ab work (penguin, protractors, canoe/kayak, etc.).

Mosey back to COT doing Moroccan night clubs along the way.

Ball o’ man – reminder about the Invergence from CSPAN.

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Colombia Mission Trip Sendoff @ The Ranch 9-7-17

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On a cool morning in early September, the men of The Fort gathered together to support the group of 12 men that answered the call to serve those in need in Colombia.

Mosey to the soccer field

The Warm-up (VQ led by Skinny Jeans)

  • 20 4-count side straddle hops 
  • 15 4-count windmills
  • 10 4-count Merkens
  • 15 4-count mountain climbers
  • 20 low slow squats
  • 8 burpees OYO

Mosey to the football field

The Thang

Markers set up every 25 yards on the football field from endzone to endzone. PAX will start from one endzone and run from marker to marker and do the following exercises (below) at each. They will then run on the track back to the starting point.

  • 10 merkins, 2 burpees
  • back to start – LBCs for six
  • 10 Carolina DD, 2 burpees
  • back to start – flutter for six
  • 10 squats, 2 burpees
  • back to start – American Hammer for six
  • 10 bomb jacks, 2 burpees
  • back to start – freddy mercury for six
  • 10 dips, 2 burpees
  • back to start – heels to heaven for six
  • 10 lunges (5 per leg), 2 burpees
  • back to start -diamond LBCs for six
  • 2 burpees per marker

Mosey to COT

Today we focused on the 12 men that are leaving tomorrow to serve in Colombia. We had the privilege of hearing the reasons why each of them have been called to serve during todays workout and then pray over them at the close. We are all lucky to have these men as our brothers and will continue to pray for them as they make their way abroad.

As mentioned in COT, each of us were blessed with passion for certain causes and influence to impact them. Find your passion and your calling and answer that call, whatever it may be.

Ginsu

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Game Set Match

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13 posted to Laces In/Laces Out on a morning when Sky Q provided the natural version of the NFL’s Cool Zone to keep the pax going through the sweat and pain of another gloomy Thurs morning at FMHS.

5 runners launched at 0500 for Laces Out

9 pax posted at 0515 for boot camp (well, 8 posted for Laces In and Trojan posted for Laces Out…fearing the Spartan wrath that was coming, Trojan peeled off during warm up to get his miles in).

The Thang

Warm up run w/karaoke around parking lot between gym and tennis courts

COP

Mtn climbers x10

Merkins x10

Mtn climbers x10

10x Burpees OYO

Mosey to tennis courts

Line up at corner of base line: Bear crawl to net, sideways crawl across to other sideline, backward bear crawl to baseline, sideways crawl along baseline to starting point

Mosey to baseline on other side of the court: Lunge walk to the net, sideways lunge to other baseline, backward lunge walk to baseline, sideways lunge along baseline to starting point

Mosey to other court and repeat same two cycles from court 1

Mosey to third set of courts closest to football stadium

Line up along near sideline for suicides across two courts

Recovery walk to far sideline

Repeat suicides across both courts

Recovery walk back to original sideline

Mosey to other side of court

Repeat two sets of suicides with recovery walks in between

Mosey to Center Court (middle set of two courts)

Each pax positioned at a baseline corner of one of the courts for Four Corners series
Baseline Corner 1: Merkins x10, run to next corner
Baseline Corner 2: Merkins x10, run to next corner
Net Corner 3: Sumo squats x10, run to next corner
Net Corner 4: Sumo squats x10

Shift clockwise to the next corner
Baseline Corner 1: CDDs x10, run to next corner
Baseline Corner 2: CDDs x10, run to next corner
Net Corner 3: Monkey humpers x10, run to next corner
Net Corner 4: Monkey humpers x10

Shift clockwise to the next corner
Baseline Corner 1: Burpees x10, run to next corner
Baseline Corner 2: Burpees x10, run to next corner
Net Corner 3: Bombjacks x10, run to next corner
Net Corner 4: Bombjacks x10

Shift clockwise to the next corner and repeat prior series
Baseline Corner 1: CDDs x10, run to next corner
Baseline Corner 2: CDDs x10, run to next corner
Net Corner 3: Monkey humpers x10, run to next corner
Net Corner 4: Monkey humpers x10

Victory lap around center court

Run home

Few Mins O Mary — Rosalita x10, Dollies x10, Flutter x10, Freddie Mercury x10

COT

NMM

US Open tennis is underway, so it seemed like an appropriate time to capitalize on the tennis courts.  Proved to be a good appetizer for Shady, who left today to head to NYC to take in a couple days of the Open.

Great to meet Ham and Rebar, recently EH’d by Nomad.  Solid young pax…expecting them to be stepping up for VQ soon.

Good to have Kooter back out.  Pretty certain we worked off some of those calories from the recent road trips.

Chicken Hawk broke out the mumble chatter early in the warm up — Santini would have been impressed!

Hope Li’l E was pleased not to miss out on 10 Merkins during the warm up.  Mind reading the Q can be dangerous…those Merkins ended up being squeezed into the middle of 10 Burpees.

Life has been coming fast and furious to me throughout this spring and summer.  Sometimes it has felt like life has been getting the better of me.  It was great to post in the drizzle and dish out pain to some willing and energetic pax.  Thanks to Li’l E for the invite.

 

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Mixed Up Miles

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8 pax posted to #LacesOut for a morning of speed training measured by who could start sweating the soonest.  It didn’t take long, with shirts coming off after the first cycle.

The Thang

COP warm up — SSH, Mtn climbers, Parker Peters, Windmills, Hillbilly walkers

Karaoke across football field

Butt kickers and toy soldiers back across

Run 1 mile at 2nd F pace

Line up on track at 50 yd line on home side

Part 1: Run 2 laps counterclockwise
Part 2: Jog 1/2 lap to 50 yd line on visitor side
Part 3: Turn around and run 1 lap clockwise
Part 4: Jog 1/2 lap back to 50 yd line on home side
Total = 1 mile
(Rinse & repeat 4 total cycles or 4 miles)

Stretch

COT

NMM

Solid work by all pax today in the steamy gloom.  5 miles total and plenty of sweat.  Metabolism was cranking for hours afterward.

Thanks to STH for the invite!  You were missed!

 

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#HypeTrain Coming in HOT!

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13 HIMs bought a ticket for a runaway train at #LacesIn on a beautiful Thursday morning at Fort Mill High.  What train you ask?!?  Well none other than the #HypeTrain itself.  After getting tasked with the Q for #LacesIn over 6 weeks ago YHC went on a all out #Hype Campaign to get as many Pax to #LacesIn as possible.  Did it work?  Meh.  But it was a fun ride.  Worked out for the best – less people to be disappointed by the over#hyped and under delivered beat down from YHC.  Oh yeah – before I forget – 5 other HIMs decided to go yogging (soft “J”) which is apparently running for an extended period of time.  #LacesOut

The Thang:

Static Warmup (apparently the Pax had a real problem with this one – apparently if you do not do SSH, IW, WM, Merks, Low Slow Squats (IN THAT ORDER) you will never hear the end of it)

1 min Squat Sit  (some *ahem* CSPAN *ahem* were not able to accomplish this task)

Deep Squat x 10  (no like….ALL the way down)

Warm-up Merkin (like it came from an alien planet)

On-all-fours Shoulder Stretch (yes – YHC did not pick the best patch of asphalt)

On-all-fours Bad Dog Hip Stretch (see above)

On-your-back Hip Thrusters

 

Whew!  So sorry to try something new.  It will not happened again.  Warmup over.  Pax happy.

Partner Up (size does not matter)

Partner 1 to run to end of parking lot and back (no YHC did not realize how long that really was)

Partner 2 to do perfect form merkins (no count total – just AMRAP with perfect form)

Flap Jack

Next round Deep Squats (no like….ALL the way down)

Final round LBCs with your feet on the ground (just humor the Q please)

Run it back again except partner run shortened to 3/4 but 3 froggers added at each light pole

Run it back a final time – partner run shortened to 1/2 but 5 froggers added at each light pole

CAN I GET A TEN COUNT!?!?!

Moving on to Rugby Sprints x 5 with LBCs with feet on the ground, Flutters, Mountain Climbers, Flutters, and LBCs with your feet on the ground

Next we move to the dreaded Partner Push/Sprint/Push (size kinda matters this time)

Flap Jack then Rinse and Repeat

Little baby jog back to a much better patch of asphalt for 6MOM with “the new one” added in there but apparently not appreciated.

COT

Great work men!  Welcome FNG – Deflategate!  Thank you all for posting to the #HypeTrain.  Very much appreciated.  YHC has been away from F3 for a month for vacations and business travel and got a taste of what life without F3 was like…..not good.  Old habits began to emerge around intake of food and drink so it was great to get back out and see each and every one of you waiting there for me to try and make myself a better man.  Asked the Pax what they saw in the mirror – did they see successes and strengths or failures and weaknesses?  What impact could you make with those around you if you saw the former (as the Sky Q sees you)?  Taking it a step further – what do you see when you look at those around you?  Do you see their strengths or their weaknesses?  Do you see their past sins against you or do you see what they have done for you?  Have you really forgiven them or do you see how they wronged or disappointed you in the past?  It’s hard to do but think about how your relationship would change for the better if you could really give grace to those around you as the Sky Q has given to you.  Thanks for the opportunity to lead gentlemen!  Always an honor.  Be a better man today then you were yesterday.  Aye!

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Standard Fare Track Work at LacesOut

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Five pax gathered at 0500 (15 minutes ahead of the “Hype Train” arrival) for some good, old fashion, interval track work.  Conditions were mild for a summer morning in the Carolinas, but the air was still pretty thick.

Warm Up

We started out with a warm-up lap that ended up being 4 laps, and probably at a pace faster than most would consider typical warm-up speed.  After that, a series of moving exercises to stretch out the legs.  Each half way across the field (with a jog for the rest of the way).

  • toy soldiers
  • butt kickers
  • soccer-style groin stretch
  • high knees
  • pigeon walk
  • duck walk

The Thang

The run exercise consisted of mix of laps and recoveries (big surprise!).  Pattern was as follows:

  • 400m at fast pace, 200m walking recovery
  • 800m fast pace, 200m walking recovery
  • 1200m fast pace, 200m walking recovery
  • 1600m  fast pace, 200m walking recovery
  • 1200m fast pace, 200m walking recovery
  • 800m fast pace, 200m walking recovery
  • 400m at fast pace, 200m walking recovery

Fast pax (McGyver and HiHat) almost complete every round before we had to break for a quick stretch and meet up with the Laces In guys.  Including warm-up laps, we all clocked in about 5 miles.

Great work by all pax!

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Laces In and Laces Out: Back together Again!!

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Long time ago…..in a different AO……Laces Out and Laces In were together. Today we could say that again. Its like meatballs and spaghetti or hot dogs and hamburgers…..its just natural!!

So the Laces out clan arrive at 0500 and take off running to Baxter like the fools they are. Hills and cars and danger Will Robinson!! But they all made it back safely and met us Laces IN  crowd at COT. No water melon ….losers!! haha

Laces In we did a little tour of the High School, with some 4 corners and some other pain stops along the way. There is a ton of potential and no Rosalita calling the 5.0 anymore. If we bother anyone out here, they better join the PAX as they have no other reason to be out there at 0 dark 30.

Great PAX and awesome times. Be sure to post to Laces In/Out and bring an FNG!

Cake Boss Out!

 

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Fast 5 Training @ LO = Bad Idea

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Pretty sure my favorite style of running is trails but for some reason, I love using the track. Schedule was being drawn up a few weeks back and I got pulled in early.  Thus it was my turn to Q Laces Out and like usual, I did a bad thing.

The Thang

  • Warmup Run 1 Mile
  • Partner Up for Fast 5 Training
    • Fast 5 Training is basically Catch Me if You Can on the track. Partner 1 starts walking/light jog while Partner 2 runs as fast as he can around the track. Once he catches Partner 1, they switch. It’s about 2 laps of sprinting, 1 recover
  • Cool Down 1/2 Mile
  • No Yoga or Stretching

NMM

  • Great group out there today
  • I earn the 6 award for just under 5 miles
  • I believe Trojan takes the cake for most miles (just over 6)
  • It’s Chippendales (muggy muggy muggy) season y’all
  • Gears did his typical anti-establishment run (if you want to get better, click HERE)
  • Fast group this AM, thanks for the push guys
  • Thanks for indulging my bad ideas
  • Planning Fast 5 for mid-late October

Prayer & Praises

  • Prayers for Gears work situation (He’s fine just dealing with a lot)
  • Prayers for families
  • Prayers for Injured Pax

Always an Honor. Aye!

Zima

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