Grad Q School at Alcatraz U
Knowing that YHC would be competing with Q school this Saturday, decided for a ‘Grad Q School’ theme. I consulted “Dr. Grok” on the idea, which he quickly wrote up and titled “The Dissertation Breakout” –...
Read moreDistillery Retro Beatdown
Has been a while since YHC has posted at Distillery and it brought back fond memories of the IPC, so dusted off a highly modified version from one of the challenges a couple of years ago. A solid crew of 9 showed up to enjoy the festivities. WARM...
Read moreWarming 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...
Read moreDe-Icing the Lido Deck at TRQ
It’s been a frigid January with no end in sight, and with no running at TRQ needed to find a way to keep moving and stay warm in the 22 degree gloom. YHC had also not visited the lido deck at TRQ in a long time, so it seemed a good way to...
Read moreNice Monday Morning at the Village
It was a cool pleasant morning at the Village, probably not many more of these before those humid summer mornings hit. YHC was not expecting the large turnout but was able to improvise. It went something like this: WARM UPS: SSH / Downward-upward...
Read moreBear Crawls and Math Challenges
Arrived early and glad to see a number of the WeFoCo stalwarts ready to start a session of Parliament! WARM UPS: SSH, Downward/Upward Dogs/ IWs/Whirly/Army Swirly Things BEAR CRAWL SUICIDES Bear crawl two parking spaces, crawl bear back one, do 5...
Read moreFun things at the Village
YHC always enjoys getting out to the Village and was good to see a quorum of regulars assemble in the gloom. The weather was heading back to normal for January but still an improvement over last week’s arctic wave. Beatdown went as follows...
Read moreTRQ with no rocks harmed
Ordinarily 21 degrees increases the propensity to fartsack for YHC, but after Wednesday’s 15 degrees and Saturday’s arctic forecast it seemed like a little warm spell. Having the Q also increased motivation to post, though I decided...
Read moreNo Coffee at the Distillery
Arrived early in the gloom to set up, Sour Mash was up and ready and three EC runners arrived just in time for the start. WARM UPS SSH, IST, Abe Vigoda, Whirly’s Up/Down dogs and other stretches for the EC runners THE THANG Repeat at each...
Read moreTrip to the Village
YHC always enjoys getting out to the Village, and it was one of those perfect mornings we’ll probably soon be wishing for till fall. A small but solid group got going to start off their week strong. WARM UP SSH / IS / leg stretches / abe...
Read moreBurpees and Blocks at Distillery
It’s been a while since YHC has been to Distillery, and while a few of the regulars were away traveling, was surprised to see that Palin and Schlitz had made the trek out west. 60 Minutes pulled up shortly and handed off a full size...
Read moreAscents, Descents and Cold Blocks at Alcatraz
Was a cold one this morning, especially for an FNG (Matt) who Suede had brought to the workout. Unfortunately Van Gogh couldn’t stay due to family duties but did finish up the warm up before we headed to the other end of the parking lot...
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