A tradition unlike any other…
Hello Friends…it’s Masters week so we must do a Masters-themed workout, right?! With the Masters theme song, Tom Petty, and Samantha Fox as our soundtrack, we simulated as many holes of Augusta National as we could in 45 minutes. We made to hole 8. So many shanks, 3-putts, and chili dips but it was fun …
April Madness at The Hollow
March has come and gone we’re still in the middle of April Madness, right?!? So YHC was late getting in the annual March Madness Q this year and had to modify it for April Madness. Aside from a name change, our bracket managed to go unbroken yet again. Here’s how it went down. Weather was …
A round of cards at The Hollow
With all the rain lately, YHC opted to stay mobile and out the grass. So a round of cards was in store. We had 2 runners and 4 bootcampers. It went something like this… 1 minute warning, no FNGs, disclaimer, prayer Mosey towards the back of the school for some warmup exercises… 10x SSHs IC …
First appearance of the Mystery 12 Ball
YHC’s 2.0 “Monster Jam” gave me an exercise mystery ball a few years back. He was so happy to give it to me. I had good intentions, but put it to the side and was tucked away for too long. I saw it several times digging through things and kept saying I’d use it one …
Gift Exchange at The Hollow
Tis the season for a little gift exchange. Today’s workout was of course Christmas based with some different exercises thrown in. The “posts” were used – these are sand? filled posts located in the back of the school. Not sure who made them but we need to incorporate them more into workouts! one minute warning, …
The Hollow takes on 7-11s and hopes for good tunes
YHC recycled my 7-11 weinke today. This is a good one for July 11th or November 7th – both of which I missed this year. So I decided to break it out again anyway. Weather was nice and chilly. 8 PAX total covering about 1-1/4 mile. We struggled with the tunes, relying on my small …
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Starting to get chilly at The Hollow
YHC grabbed the Q for today without thinking that I had taken the day off of work – well the kind of work that you get paid for. So no sleeping in for me. 3 for StrideLite. Chilly morning which is a welcome sight. The struggle of wearing too much or too little is here …
Saturdayvergence at The Hollow
YHC took the Q and went with the no plan plan. Blame that on being overworked and underpaid. So the toys were loaded into the Jeep and the Bose speaker was charged. 8 PAX total in attendance which made out for a good morning. Weather was nice. 1 minute warning. Disclaimer. Prayer. Off we go… …
Throwback Amrap + 2 FNGs at The Hollow
We expected a couple FNGs today and were glad to see they made it. I brought back my first Q routine since it’s been a little while since it has been used. I was quickly reminded how for out of shape I am nowadays as this routine can gas you a bit. But we all …
Kenwood’s #54
(sorry, short since WordPress deleted everything right at the end. I hate WordPress!) YHC’s 54th birthday is this Saturday and today was my birthday Q. Here’s what we did… Mosey to the tennis courts. Warmup with 6 sets of 9 reps. Mosey to the planter box. Went up and down “ladder 54″… Reps Exercise 54 …
Benjamin Button goes back to school
YHC had the Q today and figured I’d spin it into the start of the school year somehow. I rebranded by “Christmas of Days Twelve” into “Benjamin Button goes back to school” and away we went. 1 minute warning, disclaimer, prayer Grab a block and mosey towards the softball field walkway. Warm up with… 12x …
Kenwood’s 8 Year Q at Shawshank
YHC had my 8 year anniversary this week and held my anniversary Q at Shawshank. 1 minute warning, disclaimer, prayer Mosey towards the blockpile. There was no warmup since, I believe, everyone did StrideLite. I still had to set out some cones since I placed them in the wrong spot thinking the blocks were somewhere …
52 Card Pickup at The Hollow
YHC has been struggling to make it to F3 over the past couple months. Work keeps getting in the way. With the short holiday week and me being in town, I figured I’d grab a Q while I had a chance. Intro, disclaimer, no FNGs, prayer Mosey to the front parking lot for some warmup …
Probably John Wayne
YHC took the Q today since no one was listed on the Q sheet. We had a convergence of Shawshank men and a Turning Point HIM that YHC hasn’t seen in a while. Fun fact about Pickaxe, he’s from the same neck of the woods as YHC. Love Shack was asked about his favorite movie …
The Hollow rolls with the Eagles
Today’s was filled with another round of dice. Dice weinkes are good to have for when you are up to Q but don’t have time to be super creative – and always do the trick. Weather – just right! 1 minute warning, no FNGs, disclaimer, prayer Mosey to the back of the school to warm …
60/120/180s at The Hollow
It was another fine morning at The Hollow. Work was done by all. Not a whole bunch more to say about that. 1 minute warning, welcome Greg (FNG), disclaimer, prayer Mosey towards the back of the school and warmup with 10x SSHs IC 15x IWs IC 10x Air Squats IC 15x Mountain Climbers IC 10x …
Another round of March Madness at The Hollow
With another round of March Madness upon us, we did a basketball themed workout. Last year’s workout was mostly used with a few tweaks here and there. Weather: nice but chilly One minute warning, disclaimer, prayer Mosey towards to school to warmup with… 16x SSHs IC 16x Merkins OYO 16x Michael Phelps IC 16x Imperial …
Getting ready for the Superbowl at The Hollow
3 PAX ran while 2 did the bootcamp. With the Superbowl around the corner, today’s workout was football based, with some Superbowl trivia mixed in. Here’s how it went down… Weather – nice! 1 minute warning, prayer Mosey a bit before the warmup which was… 12x SSHs IC 12x Mountain Climbers IC 12x High Knees …
Trivia, crazy running, and spooky tunes
YHC blew the dust off the elementary school trivia index cards and made my way over to The Hollow. 9 PAX in total tackled 5 rounds/grades of trivia, broken up with some crazy running laps. Here’s how it went down… Weather: very nice 1 minute warning, intro, disclaimer Mosey over to the courtyard. Start the …
10-4 Good Buddy
With today being October 4th (aka, 10-4) we kinda dedicated the workout to Dangle and Ponch and any other law enforcement pax out there. Thanks for all you do. YHC pulled a favorite weinke out the recycle bin that typically gets the job done. Today was no different. Weather: nice and cool 1 minute warning, …
53 was the # of the day at The Hollow
YHC’s 53rd birthday is tomorrow so the number 53 was used a lot in today’s weinke. Gloves weren’t really needed, but woulda been nice on an exercise or two. The ground was quite moist since it rained overnight. Nothing the hard chargers at The Hollow couldn’t handle! 53 Burpee countdown started at the 1 minute …
Prepping for the 4th
YHC saw Scrum at the pool on Sunday and guilted him on coming back to The Hollow. Once he finally caved in, I told him I’d pick up the Q in return. So there it was. Since I’ve been so busy with work lately, I recycled a work-out that I’ve done several times at Urban …
Saturday Convergence at The Hollow
A few hard chargers (3 to be exact) met in the gloom with intentions to get a little better. Mission accomplished. YHC was out of town the last couple weeks and grabbed the Q yesterday while in O’hare. With little time to prep, a dice workout was the weinke for the day. Conditions – nice …
March Madness Replay
YHC saw the Q slot was open at The Hollow and decided to help fill in the blanks. I’m not an NBA fan by any means, but I do know that the NBA Championship series starts tonight. So what better time to bring back the March Madness workout I did a few months back. 6 …
Abs, Burpees, and Cornhole
Today was definitely a little more chilly than expected – mostly caused by the wind. We managed to get a good workout in anyway. 1 minute warning, disclaimer, no FNGs, prayer Mosey around to the courtyard to warmup with: 12x SSHs IC 12x IWs IC 12x Frankensteins IC Continue to end of the long breezeway …
4 Smart Hollow Fellers
With a lot of PAX out of town and the Q sheet empty, YHC decided to bring out the trivia cards. We had a couple HC’s that were missing – we’ll have to deal with them later! 1 minute warning, help Bling with a headlamp, no FNGs, help Bling with a headlamp, disclaimer, help Bling …
Good Cop, Bad Cop, Runaway Bus
Well half the morning was spent avoid in a big yellow school bus. Somebody musta told the driver to be at LHS at 6 o’clock to pick up a bunch of guys carrying around cinder blocks. He was persistent. But so were we, and we never got on. Today was a good cop, bad cop …
Sweet 16 at The Hollow
This will be a quick backblast – got a full day ahead!!! Today’s workout was a March Madness bracket countdown. At least for 3 of us. The other 2 ran for the duration of the workout. 1 minute warning, no FNGs, disclaimer, prayer Warmup with 8x SSHs IC 8x TTTs IC 8x IWs IC 8x …
Hollow Gets Swole
YHC made a return to The Hollow and delivered a block beatdown with some Frisbee relay thrown in. Good times this morning and it was an honor to lead. Conditions: Clear & 45°F The Thang Time called, no FNG’s, Disclaimer, Prayer, Pledge of Allegiance Warmup mosey around parking lot Head to Courtyard COP (all …
Prepping for D2D at The Hollow
With this thing called the Dam2Dam Relay this weekend, YHC laid out today’s workout to recognize each leg of the race. So we ran around campus. Covered about 1.75 miles. And stopped 12 times for each leg of the race. We did 10x the number of miles in exercise reps. Fun was had! Temperature was …
Fun with the sandbags
8 post to get better today. 3 ran, 5 did bootcamp. YHC brought Saturday’s routine and sandbags to mix things up. Here’s how things went down… 1 minute warning, no FNGs, disclaimer, prayer The warmup was a running warmup with some exercises along the way… butt kicks lunges high knees We stopped at the band …
Saturdayvergence at Shawshank, Sandbag-Style
YHC grabbed the first Saturdayvergence Q for 2022 which was at Shawshank. Lots of tough guys out there so wanted to give them a push. The new AOQ Brick sent out a preblast yesterday that included a few buzzwords like “beatdown” and “creative” and “guarantee”. So I put a weinke together that hopefully covered everything …
Christmas of Days 12
12 Days of Christmas is a popular workout routine this time of year. So that is what we did. Except we spun it around and did it backwards. Why, you ask? More reps! So… 1 minute warning, no FNGs, disclaimer, quick prayer Take a step back to enlarge the circle and warmup with… 12x SSHs …
2021 Turkeyvergence
With Thanksgiving upon us, it was time for the annual Turkeyvergence. This makes ~5 years in a row that we’ve gathered for the combined workout with our neighboring AOs. Fun times were had! 1 minute warning, intro, no FNGs, disclaimer, prayer 3 PAX headed out for a five mile run, while the rest of us …
2020’s Inspector’s Gadget meets The Hollow (again)
YHC decided to reach into the IronPax playbook for today’s Q. Inspector’s Gadget was chosen and was modified to allow for time and other allowances. 1 for StrideLite – the other 6 wheeled in shortly before tee time. Weather: nice and cool 1 minute warning, intro, no FNGs, disclaimer, prayer Take a step back to …
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Old School Thangs
So YHC hasn’t posted regularly in a while so what better way to drag my sorry arse out of the sack than signing up to Q. 7 other hooligans greeted YHC for what turned out to be a throwback Q from yesteryear. As per usual, shenanigans were aplenty and hard work was done. Here’s how …
Just a lil’ GoRuck prepping
With the Veteran’s Day GR Tough fast approaching, we thought it would me good to have some extra ruck based training. So we turned a Saturday Convergence into a GoRuck bootcamp. Muggy Tape and Kenwood put together some ideas and made it happen. Argyle’s work schedule got in the way this time (we’ll have to …
Gut Punch Tuesday @F3TheHollow
It’s been a little while since anyone has dialed up the dreaded Gut Punch at the Hollow, so YHC thought it would be a good idea to serve it up to the PAX for a reminder of how much it sucks! Work was done! Disclaimer Prayer COP SSH x 15 IC Windmill x 10 IC …
Triple Threat
On the first cooler morning of the year 11 PAX defied the fartsack to post for an MR grip strength inspired Q. YHC joined 2 other PAX for Ruck Lite. The Pax are some of F3 Lexington’s finest and just completed the 9/11 HTL in the big apple to hear some of the war stories …
The Hollow gets started with 7-Elevens
YHC snagged the Q today expecting lots of rain. As usual the rain paused during the workout and gave us a chance to loop the school while putting in some work. 7-Elevens was the theme for the day. Frizzle got in solo miles. Cramps squeezed a couple SL miles in and managed to avoid most …
Saturdayvergence at BeechHouse
Coming off the GoRuck HTB in NYC, YHC knew he would be in recovery mode this weekend. Seeing that the Q sheet was open, I grabbed the lead today to make sure I got a chance to work out any sore muscles. I chose to do another run of the 52 card pick up routine …
52CardPickup at The Hollow
YHC’s birthday usually falls on the BRR weekend so I have been doing my birthday Q on that prior Tuesday. Since I’m heading to NYC with Argyle for the 9/11 HTL next weekend, I figured I’d do my birthday Q a week early. I’ll be turning 52 and came up with a 52CardPickup game that …
The Hollow PAX roll with the punches
Coming off vacation, I decided the best way to get back in to the swing of things was to jump into the empty Q slot at The Hollow. So I recycled my dice workout (again) for sake of simplicity. As usual lots of high numbers were rolled – which are all the Pax’s fault! Here’s …
Sure is quiet out here at The Hollow
YHC was hanging out with his good buddy Brick last night and we noticed that no one had the Q at Hollow today. It was assumed that Cramps would just take it over today, but there was no chatter in the Hollow group page. This created a somewhat ominous feeling and YHC worried he may …
EMOM “Fun”
It was great to be back at The Hollow this morning! YHC has been away for the last couple of months attempting to prepare for the BRR. Good group this morning with a couple new guys. Happy to see new faces! A healthy Region always has new faces and thankfully F3LexSC is still doing a …
Bear Crawls and More at The Hollow
YHC hasn’t Q’d here in a couple of months, so he looked forward to this one. After dropping off Shawshank’s shovel flag, YHC arrived to an empty parking lot except for one lone runner. Kenwood showed up about a minute afterwards and then the PAX started to shuffle in from there. It was a good …
Wild Hog’s 3 Year Anniversary Q
(posted by Kenwood on behalf of Wild Hog) Here is what transpired; Weather – 75 Degrees & breezy = great bootcamp weather Disclaimer & Prayer The Thang My Slaughter Starter – 25 Merkins then Mosey to Courtyard and Circle Up Circle Up (in cadence) Frankenstein’s x 10 Imperial Walkers x 10 Thru the Tunnel …
May Homecoming @ The Hollow Continues
This month has been slated as our homecoming month, encouraging former AOQs and Nantans and whoever to come lead the guys. I figured it wouldn’t be a true homecoming if the PVC pipes didn’t make an appearance. So I signed up, threw the toys in the car, and made it happen. Weather was great. A …
The no plan plan
Well YHC had the Q today at Shawshank’s Saturdayvergence. Admittedly I may not have been there had I not Q’ed. I had a long week and coulda easily fartsacked. That is one of the reasons today’s weinke had a few blanks to fill in. The guys stepped up and picked out a few winners to …
Preparing for Summer – #dadbod
(posted by Kenwood on Wild Hog’s behalf) Here is what transpired. Weather – 55 Degrees & very nice! Disclaimer & Prayer The Thang My Slaughter Starter – 25 Merkins OYO then Mosey around Parking Lot and Circle Up Circle Up (in cadence) Side Straddle Hop x 15 Imperial Walkers x 15 Thru the Tunnel x …