Well, summer is clearly here. Humidity, damp air, and sweaty shirts will be the norm for the next 3-4 months. And that means we are left with baseball and golf for the remainder of the summer. So to celebrate the nation’s (past) past-time, we worked in a beat down on …
Lovely Monday morning at Rock City: cool crisp 80 degree air, with 90% humidity. Great way to start the week. Pulling up to the park, I see the train on the tracks – is this going to be a repeat of last week? Momentary panic sets in – but moments …
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: …
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 …
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 …
Nip/Tuck has been leading a band of merry Blue Ridge Runners in a parking garage training run downtown by the dome. We decided to make it official. So if you want to attend F3 New Orleans newest AO, meet near the dome at the corner of Poydras and LaSalle. This …
Sorry, really late backblast. Better late than never, but not much as the memory had faded. I do remember the warm-up, or at least the theme. It is common for a Pontiff workout to start with 31 Side Straddle Hops. Wally Pontiff, the namesake of the park, wore 31 playing …
A half dozen of NOLA’s most elite, middle-aged athletic phenoms showed up on Tuesday to prove we can still run like, or even better than, a bunch of youngsters. After exchanging the usual pleasantries and kicking around some ideas on which route we’d run, it was concluded that we would …
Mosey over for a quick warm up in the great lawn. 15x Plank Jacks IC 20x Elevator Merkins IC 20x Peter Parkers IC 20x SSHs IC Partner up for some Dora 1-2-3. 100 Burpees (at the Great Lawn) 200 Mayweathers (at NOMA) 300 Squats (NOMA neutral ground) Mosey over to …
