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  • The Fairy Ring – from Akbar

    14 strong today – with a little EH help from Shooter’s backblast – on this wet gloom for a pre Saint Paddy’s day celebration.

    Legend has it that fairy rings were caused by fairies, elves, and Leprechauns dancing in a circle. If humans joined in the dance they would be punished and made to dance in the ring until they passed out from exhaustion – or DIED. In 1518, the French town of Strasbourg experienced it and other outbreaks across Europe happened in the 10th century.

    It is an unsolved public health mystery, and the most recent case showed up in Mandeville, La at the Lakefront beatdown. There were exercises, dancing, moaning, and groaning, and yes – Fairies.

    Pax : Baby Yoda, Waterpik, Pass Interference, Jose 10k, Duke of Hazzard, Wicket, Bushwhacker, The Hammer, Brexit, Bird, Steve, Russo, Shooter, Akbar

    Warm Up: x10 IC: SSH, Windmills, Arm Circles, Swimmers, Backstroke, Overhead Claps, Toe Touches, Grass Grabbers

    Mosey over towards Rips, circle up for instructions.

    The Thang

    6 exercises x 10 OYO – while listening to YHC’s high school playlist, with an Irish jig after each song. When the Irish jig came on we would mosey in a circle until finished, and pick back up where we left off. A non-stop 30 minute beatdown with no breaks.

    The idea was full body on the wall – (Jose10k noted this was mostly upper body). Then lower body on the Irish Jigs. YHC did not do the math, but the Irish Jigs were around 50 seconds, and the other songs were an average of 3.5 minutes.

    Exercises:

    Wide Tempo Merkin, Step Ups (2 is 1), Freak Nasty, Renegade Row, Reverse Grip Irkin, Stone Mountain

    Irish Jig: High knees, Hallelujah runs, lunge walks, runs, butt kicks

    Fairies are Real
    A quarter way through the playlist took on a mind of its own, skipping ahead, playing a song for 3 seconds, then all together stopping. Were the fairies messing with Q? We killed the tunes and pushed forward. With no music, it looked like the scene from Halloween when the prisoners escaped from the loony bin.

    Time called and we moseyed back to the Flag for some leg work.

    3 sets x10 IC of Sister Mary Catherines, Calf Raises, Copperhead Squats

    Mary x10 IC: Freddy Mercury, Hello Dolly, Rosalita, Flutter Kicks, Heels to Heaven, Hummingbirds (100 100’s), LBC’s

    Time called, reverse count, name-o-rama, YHC prayed us out, and we headed to Coffeeteria.

    Thanks for coming out and following the lead.
    SYITG – Akbar

  • The Ides of March – from BBQ

    KISS-warmup- lots of stretches, including a BBQ new one, a reverse Al Gore Thorogoods.
    The Thang: 11’s (Burpees and copperhead squats, lunge walk 5 parking stripes, then reverse lunge walk 5 parking stripes, run the rest of the parking garage.) Then Star Jump every 5th parking stripe on the way back.
    Wife pleasers at the end.
    COT- Akbar has a St. Patrick themed beatdown tomorrow. Come on out and support him.
    SYITG

  • Rain at the A1C – from Einstein

    Strong warmup
    Copious calisthenics.
    Moby prayed us out

  • We Were Runninggga or Let Hydrants Be Your Guide – from Bushwacker

    Signed up, semi-planned, but am I really…?🤔

    WARMORAMA

    X10, IC: Darn near every warmup exercise in the book!

    THANG

    OYO mosey towards the beach stopping for 10 Burpees at each hydrant. At the splash pad we circled up for “Raider Pride”, the football drill consisting of running in place and dropping and popping up in turn.
    Returning to the flag doing 10 Jump Squats at each hydrant, and circled up for Al Gore/ Jump Squats.
    Headed in the other direction past the Shaft and over the bridge, doing 10 hand release merkins at each hydrant (and maybe 1 or 2 imaginary ones).
    Circled up for Plank/Merkins.
    Return with 25 SSHs per hydrant.

    MARY

    12 sweet minutes of classic core featuring such hits as LBCs, Flutter Kicks, and 100 100s!

    COT

    Count/name/announcements/prayer

    Gratitude

  • LAST Friday of RunCajunRun – from Jose10k

    YHC, sore calf and all, decided to prethang a little early and a lot slower. 3 other younger HIMs joined me at 5:15 for the last official RunCajunRun beatdown at the A1C. Warm-ups, of course, mumble chatter, check, running…double check. 5 burpees, 10 squats, 15 big boys, followed by a 1/4 mile run. Rinse and repeat. Modify as needed or as wanted to get extra mileage in. Einstein prayed us out. Thanks for letting me lead gentlemen. Pork Chop Express and Unitards Unleashed are meeting next Thursday for a final runcajunrun get together. Reach out to me for more info.

  • The Nashville Nasty in the war torn Gipper – from Jose10k

    YHC arrived to a very, very chilly Gipper. It was a disaster. Trash everywhere, beads everywhere, camping chairs all around, total wasteland. This is were I would love to insert a great GIF to paint y’all a picture of the Gipper. Steve’s right, we need to be able to add pictures and GIFS. Maybe even insert short youtube clips. I began a little prethang run (keep logging in those RunCajunRun miles) to arrive to see 5 others who took the red pill this morning. A little grumble grumble with Akbar for leaving me high and dry (figuratively) on Monday. However, imitation is the highest form of flattery. I decided to use his Nashville Nasty workout from Saturday on the Covington AARP crowd. Squat thruster, curls, rows, derkins, skull crushers, and world war 2 situps. 10 reps each, 1/4 mile run, 11 reps each, 1/4 mile run, etc…Modifications were made, coupons were destroyed, extended laps to log in for RunCajunRun miles were made. I can’t wait for February to be over. COT, Akbar prayed us out. Intentions: Turbo dog is getting a pedicure today. My wife and I are celebrating our 5 year anniversary of our 1st date today. Thank y’all for letting me lead, thank y’all for reading too.
    SYITG

  • Fool in the rain – from Jose10k

    YHC showed up early to the marsh to, yet again, put in some of those runcajunrun miles in. I saw that Hammer took the Q, so I knew he was going to be there shortly. Lap after lap, I saw no “Little Red Chevy” while listening to my usual Prince song. He fartsacked on me, plus no other Mandevillians showed up either. At that moment, the sky opened up and it began pouring down like crazy. What to do?
    Simple: turn up the music, rip off the shirt, and run sprints from stop sign to stop sign all through the streets of Mandeville. As I’m sitting in the office waiting to be scanned by the hottest tech in the world, my wife, I wonder what kept everyone away: the weather, the superbowl , Mardi Gras parades, was it something I said, was it something I did, the train washed away my smell, what was it? Why didn’t anyone show? I now know how Russo feels like at the splash pad…. I’m just a Fool in the Rain!

  • Almost a red SOLO cup type of workout – from Jose10k

    YHC arrived at the A1C early to put in those RUNCAJUNRUN miles. I don’t know why, the TARDS are way behind the leaderboard, but I keep telling myself, Tanked up is about to get ramped up. I know that he’s too old now to really compete, but he’ll put in some miles. Even if it’s using a walker. I got back up to the top of the A1C, and there were no cars. I begin to think of the title of my backblast: 1 is the loneliest number, Han Solo, but with the passing of Toby Keith this week, it was going to be a Red Solo Cup. I was about to embark on a journey through the streets of Covington when at 5:16 I saw Fletch coming up the ramp. 1 minute later Moby came. Quick Warm-up
    The Thang: A lot of sore bodies and bones, so we kept it simple. 5 burpees, 10 squats, then a quarter mile run. Rinse and repeat over and over again. Then of course, 3 calf raises on each step, all the way up. As I heard, it’s not a Jose Beat Down without calf raises. COT, YHC prayed us out. Safe travels to all going parading this weekend. Tank, why are we not seeing you on the leader board?

  • Well that changed quickly! – from Shooter

    YHC rolled up to 2 PAX in Hammer and Waterpik at the Scramble expecting to have a light showing. Out of the darkness Jose10k and Steve appear and the the headlights just kept coming in. Before long the PAX quickly swelled to 10 and so we did a simple warmup of Imperial walkers, SSH, Grass grabbers, Good mornings and Seal jacks..
    Route was down toward Monroe and zig zagged our way through the streets while 4 PAX Rucked out for 20 and back.

    Appreciate the great showing the last two weeks gentleman. Let’s keep it up..

    Keep checkin Slack as Hogsbreath will posting a date at the 007 for his 40 year birthday beatdown to come…

    Until the next gloom 👍🏼👊🏼✌🏼!!!

  • Jose needs PaxMiner credit – from Russo

    Some days the only thing driving YHC to get up before 5AM are the three Fs. Emphasis on the fellowship. So when a humble request went out last night to include at least some running from Bushwhacker, YHC modified what he had planned to fulfill said request, looking forward to the chatter that only he can bring. Alas, Sir Whacker decided he would rather the comfort of bed than the mosey pace of a Granny’s post. Thumbs down. But Steve and Jose10k helped YHC hold down the fort, the latter of which surprised me when his response to his miles tallied thus far was “6” instead of the normal 2-3. That bar can’t keep raising, Jose. Thumbs up.

    Warmup – 10x IC
    – Seal jacks
    – Toe touches
    – Self love
    – Cherry pickers
    – Grass grabbers
    – High knees

    Thang
    Tabata:
    – 40 seconds each with bricks, 20 seconds rest, with some moseying before and after each of the four rounds

    Round 1
    – Plankjacks
    – Cherry pickers
    – Overhead claps
    – Nutcrackers
    – Hallelujah squats

    Mosey around Granny’s to get some run Cajun run miles in.

    Round 2
    – Tricep extensions
    – Arm curls
    – Air presses
    – Squats
    – Arm circles
    – Milk maids

    Rinse and repeat rounds 1 and 2 for 3 and 4. Rinse and repeat the running around as well (creatures of habit and all).

    Mary – 15x IC
    – LMCs
    – Penguins
    – Flutter kicks
    – Crunchy frogs

    COT, with NOR and prayer before heading back to start a Tuesday. RCR is in full swing, and the Ivan is coming up on the 17th.

    Thanks for joining gentlemen.