Kept it close to home at CARPEX’s finest Tuesday AO Smoke and Mirrors.

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Happy to Q this morning. Despite the cold, it was dry nonetheless. 5 boot campers took off. An easy morning for themed workout. I did not plan a themed workout. Moseyed to the parking deck on Crescent. As we stopped for warm ups along the way, my counts inadvertently landed in 14 so kept that going.

Stair work 7s from the low parking lot up to the top of the parking deck. Shoulder tap merkins and jump squats.

Ran across the street to a parking lot for a random “triangle of exercises “. It was suggested to make it a heart, so I obliged. Sets of 10 ab focused exercises at 3 points on the “heart”

Back to flag for 14 pull-ups each before finishing with a Chilcutt hold.

Great chatter today with a fun group.

7 runners came in at various times. Prayers for Henry in his latest treatment and all the people who just need some love today.

WG Ocho Saturday at 5. DDD Feb.22, etc.

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12 HIMs and a half (pup) happily showed their commitment to fitness today. Took the rain or shine and hot or cold principles seriously.

We were quick to get started, pledge then mosey.

Pulled out the “water proof” deck of cards.

= beach body, 10 count of Mary any heart drawn.
= HIMs best friend, the burpee. Face value 2 to 13.
= merkins, face value 2-13
= get low in the club, jump squats, face value 2-13.

The twist! Any time an Ace is drawn perform the motivator. First ace is 5 reps, second is 10 and so on.

The workout, PAX draws card performs exercise, pickle, rinse and repeat.

Good news for these HIMs that all 4 aces were drawn. Bad news, a lot of diamonds were pulled. However for the 3rd ace drawn, we allowed a 5 burpee opportunity to draw again. We must of wanted it. The redraw was the 4th ace. Three rounds of motivator performed. Excellent job gents!!!

Fantastic day in the gloom. Warm coffee and a new need to learn more about Francois’ high-school soccer coach.

Prayers for the HIMs health, that we can stay strong and keep keeping on!

Duck donuts dash should be on your two week look ahead.

MIAGD!!

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3 South Cary Pax jumped the border over to the premier non-Scary AO for an Astro/Burt BO/UC convergence spectacular.

The pax that attended SNS were begging for more merkins…so they got them!

15s on the stairs with diamond merks at the bottom and standard merks at the top. 5 and 10, 6 and 9, etc.

Then core Dora with H2M, angry penguins, and LBCs.

Great time with the Carpex HIMs, starring birthday boy Burt Reynolds. I think he HC’d for SWW tomorrow as well.

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Big numberz tonight at WELD! Rotating group with 8-10 pax there at most times.

Many noteworthy discussions…some topics covered include cover story bro Kirkland and his overpriced and traditional photos, Spade cancelling his vacation to keep our lights on, flintstone full court press on Promo to save the F3Agents, bourbon scores, forthcoming poker night, AKOA Q odds for tomorrow, the fact that Astro is the most rock solid and premier of the AKOA quartet in peak physical condition, Trickle’s classy attire, Term Paper leaving a marketing meeting early to get points with intentions of being there as short a time as possible, heroic performances by Jiggz and Punch Out to show up, loop collecting Qs, parents whose grandparents antics play well with kids and not adults, pax dogs that humped my dad, recruiting of run club broz and more.

See you guys somewhere tomorrow!

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AKOA week continues. Beautiful brisk morning at Point Break, with a little bit of something for everyone, Cleaver-ites, Ruckers, and Bootcampers. Problematic numberz (probably because of the nut milk advertised at coffeteria.

Anyways, welcome FNG, so mission and core principles. Off we mosey to the Shake Shack lot with an extra loop for good measure. Warm-ups near an unexpectedly sketchy 4-Runner. At this point a new F3 Game was created, look for it at an AO near you soon, Yogi and Bubba-isms Bingo. Looped around the lot again, down past whole foods (and the sketchy 4-Runner for a second time) and onto the green to find…..

THE WHEEL OF PAIN (core-centric edition)
Spin the wheel, 20 of called exercise OYO followed by a big pickle around Shake Shack. Halfway through we needed to balance some things out so merks and squats to restore said balance. Continue on until all exercises had been called. More squats and merks then back up to the big lot. At this point Kirkland was bemoaning the lack of AKOA exercises, so Astro Jacks, Stiflers Mom, American Sledgehammers, and Cat Scratch Fever were all called. Back to pick up the wheel (which Gravel Mouth bore upon his back) and then to the flag.

HAND
Welcome FNG Ratatouille

HDHH TONIGHT! 1730-1900 at WELD

Praises for Marge heading home from the hospital and prayers that in home PT goes well.

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A robust group of 8 JIU regulars gathered this morning amidst the sheep and luxury homes. At 0530 confusion abounded as no one knew who would be the fitness leader for the day. Then, in a shock to everyone, the YHC Astro presented himself as the Q and welcomed the Pax to AKOA WEEK.

We moseyed and warmed up and then on to thang 1. Four corners around the sheep loop with stifler’s moms, cat scratch fever, stingray merkins and Marge to homers. 10, 15, and 10 reps for the three rounds. It was noted that these exercises from last year were fairly hump-centric.

On to thang 2 for rock / pickle work with rounds of
American Hammers
Kneeling tricep extensions
Overhead Presses
Armcurls 4 the girls

Recovery lap before some sprint work that led in to popcorn exercises to close out right on time.

HDHH, DDD, prayers for Lyla and Ruth.

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With some “encouragement” from Shipyard, today we explored some recent phenomena…

I’m not saying it was aliens ….but it was the aliens!

Started with a mosey to warmups. Blew the PAX minds when they discovered the first man on the moon Neil A. Armstrong’s name speeled backwards is A.lieN.

Discussed the apocalyptic scene in New Jersey that has many in panic thinking UFOs were invading. Turns out it was the Goodyear blimp over MetLife stadium. The PAX then participated in inflating BLIMPs.

Burpees x5
Lunges x10
Imperial walkers x15
Merkins x20
Plankjacks x25
Squats x 30

Thang 2 was to represent the Georgia state patrol chasing an UFO across the sky turns out it was just the planet Venus. Thus we did setof 5’s – merkins and CDDs with bearcrawl to and from.

Finished with MARY, where we learned Australia does it differently and Term Paper introduced us to Homer to Martian.

Ended with COT. Prayers to the health of our families, specifically our elders, and Maywe continue to be leaders in our community.

AKOA? Next week
F2 event at Weld Wednesday next week

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Problematic numbers this morning but great to see some neighbors visit from the Peak tribe. Disclaimer then pledge then off we go. No elaborate plans but our friend from the far far west in LaLa Land debuted a new exercise yesterday, so we had to try it out. Warmups with stretching then mosey to the long hill that Bing shared during BRR training.

7’s was the call with the Lt. Dan Tuck Jump Burpee at the top and WW2’s at the bottom. Nope that’s not the bottom of the hill keep going. Finished with 6 regular burpees as a group.

Mosey back to the warmup spot for some post hill stretching. Back to the flag for a few popcorn Mary and HAND with 2.5 minutes to spare. Our lone Ochoer returned safely with mysterious blood stains.

DDD 2.22, HG25 4.19, SCary Picnic 4.27, HDHH 2.5 at Craft

MIAGD!

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2 Andrews and Michael Jordan for a themed beatdown.

Jigglypuff
Jack It Up
January

see the thread

After a mosey to the Birk Bluff culdesac for warmups featuring walking Sir Fazios, back past the flag to the rock pile. Grab 1 or 2 traveling rocks.

Thang 1 – establish two stations and perform the Jackknife between the two spots.

Sheep Loop Recovery

Thang 2 – 7s using our two stations for Jumpsquats and JLos.

Sheep Loop Recovery

Back to the flag for PAX choice Mary. Called it at about 6:12.

Standard announcements and everyone shared a prayer request. Lifted them up and broke for coffee. MIAGD!

It was drizzling at the pledge, and we think we felt a drop during coffee. Might tentatively hold this one for the rainy

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