20 gathered comprised of 2 paternal FNGs and a slew of Kotters! We took our cue from Pierogi’s FWD Q and started by grabbing a couple of rocks from the flag area. We walked the loop from the Greenway through the Lochmere golf course, around the Lochmere Pavilion, and along Loch Lomond stopping several times for Squats/Merkins, then WW2s/Flys. Sprinkle in some presses. Walk back to the flag at 6:01. Asterisk.

We named Noah (Grisham’s dad) on account of his prolific lineage and being ‘from the water’. We named Como (my dad) because his name is Perry and our ancestry is from near the area in Italy, which was a full override of his self-naming attempt and any PAX suggestions.

Praises up for Jim, praises up for this crew. Prayers up for potential FNGs. Hope to see you back here in 2 weeks for 1776!

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Strong turnout for the inaugural South Cary HDHH! Already looking forward to the next one. I may have missed someone in the count…and I apologize. Definitely taking credit for the Jiggly flyby.

I think we made a strong impression on some friends at a nearby table and expect them to be posting soon!

Let it be known…a Doula always pays his debts as he generously bought both of my beers (and hot pretzel too) along with others’ beers.

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A great group of guys joined YHC this morning to celebrate his birthday a day early, since I travel for work tomorrow. After some warmup and moseying we grabbed rocks and did “42s” with different counts of curls and tricep extensions adding up to 42, with a pickle run in between sets. Repeated with rows and overhead press. Finished up with 42 rock-your-bodies.
Thang 2 was a mini dora with 42 merkins, 84 lbc’s, 126 bear crawls. Then we attempted to do 10 wheel-of-fortunes/Pat Sajacks. A new-to-YHC exercise where you do a merkin, rotate 90 degrees, another merkin, rotate, etc… and each 360 degree rotation counts as 1. We made it through about 6 before the Q looked at his watch and decided to call it due to… time. Incidentally, these are harder than they appear.
Finished up with some Mary and a moving rendition of Happy Birthday. I am blessed to be able to come out and spend time with you all. Thanks for pushing me to be better, and for letting me try out different things when I lead. MIAGD!

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7 studs saw an aggressive pre-blast and decided to show up for the final week of the IPC anyway. It was supposed to be a convergence with the hulkamaniacs, but they must have been scared. Oh well.

Bunnies were murdered. Bears were crawled. Cinderblocks were lifted and put back down. Everybody’s IPC exercise, the blockie showed up. Shoulders are smoked. It was glorious. The quantity of mumblechatter was relatively low, but the quality made up for it.

NMS –
French Lick is an animal. Made this workout look easy
Kirkland found out that you shouldn’t eat tacos at 10pm. Also make sure you cover nipples on long runs.
Term Paper is looking forward to improving his times every day this week.
Olsen’s bear crawl ended up looking like a drum major
Water Wings’s car may need the shocks replaced. Thanks for loading up the cinderblocks, even though our friends didn’t join in.
Spayed was relatively quiet. Kept his head down and did the work.
Great job everybody. Thanks for showing up / encouraging each other.

Announcements
Odyssey coming up. Check Slack

Prayers/Praises
Water Wings brother in law. Marriage is on the rocks, kid on the way, and has to take another job. According to Olsen, you can’t be at your best if you’re stressed.
Shut In’s recovery
Water Wings took us out in prayer

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Non-problematic birthday Q! Great group of HIMs.

Mosey to rich neighborhood for some standard warm-ups then over to the hills for thang 1.

Thang 1 – 40s…it’s like 11s, but different. 10 squats on one side of the hill, then run to the other side for 30 LBCs…then 20-20 and 30-10. Each time stop at the bottom on the way there for 9 merkins, stop on the way back for 24 merkins. Back to the main parking lot for Thang 2.

Thang 2 – 19 homer to marges followed by 83s (like 100s, but stopping at 83). Pickle. 19 poorly counted Astrojacks followed by an 83 second chillcut. Pickle. Then some popcorn Mary.

Odyssey, picnic, new AO chatter, pull-up challenge. Prayers for Shut-in, Wings’ BIL and YHC BIL/SIL.

This is 40!

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Thankful for my 3 brothers who showed up today to help me through the Week 3 edition of the IronPAX23 challenge. This one was extra tough! We thought our pace was really good heading into Round 4… and then not.

The Blockees are everyone’s favorite new exercise and we were excited to pair them with Merkins in the final lap of the Cindy 500.

I’ll post the workout details as a picture.

We continue to lift up Brie in our prayers and also for the work challenges faced by French Lick’s M.

MIAGD!

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Some SCary boys joined the 9/11 Memorial Stair Climb. After 10 flights x 11. All finished and when done we regrouped at the wolf and flags, counted 138 HIM, listened to a firefighter’s story about his experience when he was in a stairwell, we stood for Taps on the horn and Amazing Grace on the pipes. A LOT of 1st timers. Awesome experience.

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YHC had forgotten he’d signed up to Q until seeing the preblast, so the pax were treated to a hastily planned and frequently modified Q.

Thang 1: 13’s in the empty side of the parking lot: Jump Squats, traveling via Flying Nuns, then Knerkins. The nuns became lunges became high steps. After about 20 minutes of that I got bored.

Thang 2: over to the playground for a American Hammer Pyramid. 5 cadence count hammers, bearcrawl around the island, 4 hammers, island, 3 hammers, etc. Once we were all to 1 we bagged the bear crawls and built back the pyramid alternating hammers and Heels to Heaven.

Some quick hip stretching on the soft playground then a walk back to the flag for Mary.

Announcements: AMBRR on Saturday (run or SAG), TCP Sawgrass on Sunday, 9/11
Stair climb on Monday.
Prayers for safe and fun BRR and for the success of the burgeoning FIA AO

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The PAX took no prisoners today in week 1 of the Iron Pax Challenge. It was as grueling as it promised to be. Great turnout and fellowship while we worked through the pain. Shall we do it again next week? Of course.
Each round alternate 10 reps of each until you reach 80 total. 20 yard MOT every 5 minutes.
Round 1
Exercises: Flying Squirrels / WW3 Sit‐ups
MOT during this round: Coupon Lunge Walk

Round 2
Exercises: Block‐Over Burpees / No-Cheat Merkins
MOT during this round: Murder Bunny

Round 3
Exercises: Thrusters / Jillian Michaels
MOT during this round: Rifle Carry

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11 Iron Pax (mostly) completed week 0. Next week marks official launch so it’s not too late to join the fun. Great to finish up with the Hulkamania crowd to see Pick Up bringing the heat down the stretch.

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