Mild, foggy gloom this Saturday as 10 took the red pill for Grants Tomb. In honor of Ulysses S. Grant, our 18th president who adorns the $50 bill, we would mosey around doing 50 reps up and down the Lakefront. Fun Fact: Grant was invited to Ford’s Theater by President …
Cool this morning at the A1C ~ 38 degrees. WARMUP: all IC15x; toe touch, windmills, side staddle hops, arm circles, neck rolls(snap,crackle,pops), hi jack hi jills, shoulder rolls, butt kicks, high knees, merkins, parker-peters, side to side lunges, etc. THANG: set of 11s on the upper ramp; narrow leg squats …
Shifting to a little more weight lifting in the New year. YHC still plans to keep his AO commitments and his down payment of Qing.. My what a surprise he would have on this Scramble with Cowbell rolling up in the man wagon (Suburban) in Cowbell fashion right on the …
We did the usual old guys long and strong warm up. In Shooters honor we used coupons in the beat down. A deck of cards was used to pick the exercise and number of reps. Aces and face cards were all 10 reps. The 4 suits represented one exercise with …
In my former life as an auditor, excluding the requisite beauty and brains, one of the attributes we were told we should have was “professional skepticism”: the ability to question what you see or hear and find the truth. With just a little more thought, I bet I could now …
YHC arrived to Jose rucking in squares at the Marsh dodging the intermittent rain this gloom. Hammer and Pik out for the week, we got to work on 4 corners after a good warm up. On the court: Stone Mountain, Freak Nasty, Apollo Ohnos, and Crunchy Frogs, followed up a …
Hogs breath showed up to a crisp, cold, and wet morning at the 007. Bit seeing any other light, he proceeded to a solo workout. Dodging puddles for a slow mosey around heritage with some Mary underneath the picnic pavilion. +1
Another Thursday, another 5k. The saddle is starting to feel familiar again after the holiday hiatus. The usual suspects arrived at 5:15. Although we miss #The Hammer as he prepares for the Louisiana Marathon. He will return soon! Jose 10k, Steve, Shooter, and I rounded out the group on this …
Late Friday evening, when everyone else was busy pretending their weekend plans were too important to sweat it out, I decided to keep it “simple stupid” and crank out a Murph at the marsh. Because why not combine the serenity of nature with a borderline masochistic workout, right? We kicked …
So there I was, ready to tackle the day in a parking garage, wetter than a swimsuit calendar in monsoon season but warmer than yesterday’s frozen hellscape. Just as I was prepping for some solo misery at 5:14 AM, Fletch rolls in like a spicy savior, hot sauce in hand. …
