The title is a quote from Left Eye, and you can understand where he is coming from. Uptowners stay in one place. That’s what you expect. So what’s happened the last three weeks at The Uptowner? Three weeks ago – A Murph, by definition it includes 2 miles of running …
We had a dirty dozen for the Murph this morning at The Uptowner. Given the limited pull-up bar space, we broke up the run into 4 half – mile runs, staggering groups of 6ish. The Murph never disappoints. Lots of us struggle with pull-ups and how do you get better …
The disclaimer was short and there was no warm-up. The Thang A Murph. 1 mile run on the track around Pontiff 100 Pull-ups 200 Merkins 300 Squats 1 mile run on the track around Pontiff We partitioned the exercises in reps of 5-10-15. I think we all modified the pull-ups …
On the tail end of a surprisingly cold November week, four men proved their manhood by posting in the 45-ish degree gloom at Pontiff Park for The Uptowner. The scheduled Q requested a sub days prior so YHC hopped on it as to commit to posting and help ensure the …
Pre-Thang: Over the last three months, YHC has quietly sat back an observed all that is F3. Trying to explain F3 to family and friends makes YHC sound like he joined a cult. “Yea, so me and a bunch of random guys I don’t know show up early in the …
Seven Pax gathered in the gloom of Friday, November 2nd for a beatdown in honor of Chief Petty Office Mark “Badger” Carter. On December 11, 2007, the Badger (the 5’5″ Carter received his nickname after besting a fellow Seal who was 6’5″ in a wrestling match) was killed while fighting …
After learning yours truly had the Q at 5:28am… Disclaimer Warm up : SSHx35/IWx20/ACx10f&10b/MCx20 The Thang… Bear Crawl around Triangle of Trees(30yds)/Goblet Squatsx20 w rock. …
DISCLAIMER…let’s warmup: -SSH x 30 IC -IW x 30 IC -Mt Climbers x 20 IC -Arm Cicles x 30 IC (15 ea dir) -LSS x 20 IC -J-Lo’s (fka Pickle Pounders) x 20 IC Grab your rock and mosey to the field and form a line: -Shoulder Press w/rock x …
Such a late backblast…I’ll try to remember what happened. Hawqcycle was on the Q schedule, but, was out of town for the BRR and suggested I take it. So I did. Warm-up, IC: SSH x 20 Windmills x 15 Mountain climbers x 10 Peter Parkers x 10 Mosey to the …
Walking back to my house from the Uptowner, I met a man and woman walking their dogs. The man was in his 50s and dressed as if he might own a sailboat. It stood out to me that he was wearing sunglasses at 0630, so I will call him Shades. …
