To recognize JR Smith’s collapse during the first game of the NBA Finals, I decided to work a basketball theme into the beatdown this past Saturday morning. Before we get that started, let’s get warmed up. Warmarama: Happy Jacks- 5 SS IC- 2 Squat Jumps: Rinse and Repeat 5 times, IWs- …
At 05:30 YHC gave the disclaimer and we were off. A quick mosey over to Touchdown Jesus for the warmup: SSH x 51 IC Mosey to WPM for an Indian Run to the top. Quick round of Mary: LBC’s x 51 IC Mosey down one level to the base of …
This year the first Friday of the month has been RED Friday at The Uptowner. I have to give credit to F3 Greenwood. I stole their idea and sometimes steal their workouts. Today we celebrated the life and service of Sgt. Thomas MacPherson. More on him in the NMM. Conditions: …
So this Wednesday morning yours truly was running just a minute late and joined the PAX in mid-mosey to the track for some warm-ups. The first conversation with Frac-Sac went something like this. Abacus: Good morning Fracsac. Fracsac: Hey Nice of you to join us Abacus – this …
My first Q in a while was core-focused. I rolled in hot and was the last one to join the PAX. We kicked things off with some warm-ups in place: -20 x SSH -20 x plank jacks -20 x mountain climbers Then we moseyed over to fairway near the pull …
A little slow with the bb but here it is nevertheless… Inspired by the new for sale deck of death – and realizing that as far as I know – the Uptown crew has never lived a Deck of Death. So I brought a deck and we did the deed …
YHC was going to fall short by a tenth of a point in the ISI challenge for the month of May. But yesterday YHC saw an opportunity to take the lead, but was careful not to taunt Shooter from the Northshore and chance getting crushed! Those NS Pax are relentless! …
yes… I saw the Gipper statue whip out his hankie and wipe the brow of his over-sized head Guess the cool mornings are gone for the next five months or so. Anyways, it was still a good day to run all-over downtown Covington. and it went like so… short disclaimer …
The Scramble began with upper 70s and what felt like 100 percent humidity. One could break a sweat by merely walking to the flag. With YHC in pursuit of the ISI challenge for the month, profuse sweating should count for .1 or .2 maybe in the ever tight race between …
Growing up, Memorial Day represented the first weekend of summer. This was the first time we would pack up the car, hitch up the boat, and head to Lake Norfork on the eastern side of the Ozarks; a ritual we would repeat every weekend until Labor Day. I loved Memorial …
