5 Pain Stations

Cold morning for Alcatraz, but 5 brave Pax still made it out to the ROCC.  We started with a mosey to the pull up bars where Rachel Ray and Hitchcock where finishing up their Murph. They joined us for the warmup and we picked up our frozen...

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Dips Mayhem

Warmarama: SSHs, Abes, Whirlies, Cherry Pies The Thang: First up:  “Hammer Time”: Every time Hammer says, “Can’t Touch This” = Burpee (only 26 in total, but they come in bursts). “Break It Down” = American Hammers AMRAP “Stop, Hammer Time” = Back...

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High Life at St. Timothy’s

Warmarama: The usual:  SSHs, Abes, Whirlies, Standing Hammies, Cherry Pies (too much chitter chatter, let’s go) The Thang: YHC handed out a couple of running lights, Frost Bite had a couple extra as well.  We ran through the dark park to Bellview...

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DAD

Monday the 27th in the year 2025 of our Lord. This happened to be the day after my Dad’s 72nd birthday. No better way to celebrate than create a beatdown in his honor. A beatdown like I used to get with a belt back in the day. Haha, just kidding...

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B is for Bananas

YHC grabbed the keys to #RNG and wanted to mix up the routes a bit. YHC initially looked at Leinbach Park (RIP) but couldn’t find a route that didn’t require going on Robinhood or Peacehaven. With safety first, YHC pivoted to Messiah...

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Warming up at IS

January has been relentless with sub-freezing mornings with no relief in sight, so happy to see some IS regulars arrive to start moving and get Saturday started. WARM UP Start with SSH at launch, then mosey to the track for Imperial...

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WTF Are We Doing

But actually – what are we doing? Alarm goes off at 0455. Temperature is 9 degrees. Is there not something, anything else we could be doing? YHC had the keys to #Conspiracy this lovely morn. After getting a reminder text about my duties...

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Cold morning at Parliament

4 brave PAX joined YHC for Parliament.  Temp in the low teens before we got started, but we all quickly forgot about the cold as we got into the beatdown. It went like this: 4 Corners Corner 1: 20 hand release merkins, then reverse bear crawl to...

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Centuries, Part II

BEATDOWN.   Do 100 reps of each exercise OYO. When an exercise is finished, yell “Greenland!” On “Greenland”, all PAX stop their current exercise and run to the end of the parking lot and back. Resume the exercise from where it was paused...

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No Rain Pivot

YHC checked the forecast and it looked like a cold rainy Saturday morning was forthcoming.  All good – Alcatraz has shelter.  YHC remembered a previous rainy Q where 3 man grinder devolved into a FUBAR and Rubber Ducky played with a hose in...

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