32 degrees, 10 PAX. While it would be impossible to pay tribute to every coach who has turned down the Volunteers or rumored to have been associated with this debacle that is called the search for a new head football coach at the University of Tennessee, th...
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15 PAX and 26º DISCLAIMER PRAYER COP Through The Tunnel 10 IC Merkins 10 IC Side Straddle Hops 20 IC THE THANG Get into a line by height. Divide into three groups of 5 or 6. (Note: At start time, we only had 14 so… The biggest guys went with
Nov 28, 2017
Weather: Cold, 32 degrees F – We knew it was cold, because 2A had real sleeves on! COP – Brownie Disclaimer YHC shared a video on Slack last night of Pentatonix singing “Mary, Did You Know?” By the end of the morning, the PAX were familiar with Mary. Pauley...
Nov 28, 2017
There was a turnout of 8 at Wilderness Road on a brisk 28 degree morning. The Q was too ADD to really focus on one type of workout so the group did a little bit of everything. DISCLAIMER PRAYER COP SSH for 20 Merkins for 12 Abe Vigoda for 15
Nov 27, 2017
10 pax DISCLAIMER PRAYER COP run 1 lap – 15 SSH IC – 10 merkins IC – 10 TTT IC – 10 WMH IC THE THANG Run to Topper Palace Hill – 9 Hill Sprints with 10 merkins every :90 sec Run up Red Light hill x 1- Merkin AYG
November 23, 2017 Weather – Approximately 28 Degrees and Dark 10 Pax: Rite-Aid, Pythagoras, Penn-Seagal, Sheppard, Singlet, Swingline, Roadblock, Ponch, Brownie, and Kardashian COT/Prayer – Roadblock Warm Up Side Straddle Hop x 15 (4 count in cadence) Merki...
My favorite evolution of the GoRuck event required the extraction and delivery of a package—a very large tree log floating in a small nook behind a marina on the Tennessee River. It was probably 18-20 feet in length, robust and awkward, with knots and a sli...
Nov 23, 2017
Time: 7:00a Weather: COLD (29 F) DISCLAIMER PRAYER COP Stuff the Turkey (TTT) – 10 IC Whip the Taters (LBAC) – 10 IC Whip the Taters the other way (LBAC Reverse) – 10 IC Motivators – 5 IC Willie Mays Hays – 10 IC Mosey to the flagpole THE THANG
Twas a brisk 29 degree morning, with a heavy frost on the ground. DISCLAIMER PRAYER COP SSH (30) IC TTT (15) IC LBAC F& R (20) IC THE THANG YHC has been out of action for a slight duration due to neck/shoulder injury, so after a slow recovery YHC thought
Nov 22, 2017
GoRuck events have a unique way of exposing your character and revealing motives—often in unexpected ways. You learn things about yourself and you learn things about the people around you. Since planting F3 in Johnson City my approach has been pretty straig...
Nov 21, 2017
It was a brisk 29 degrees as 16 PAX unsacked from the warm confines of their comfort zones and descended upon Arrowhead to better themselves. DISCLAIMER PRAYER COP Warm up: Slaughter starter because this is how YHC likes to begin. SSH – IC(20) LBACs – IC(15...
Nov 21, 2017
WEATHER – 37 degrees perfect for 2A to add mumble chatter about how he was a man with a wardrobe lacking sleeves….. DISCLAIMER – HUGE thanks to the 21 showing up to support YHC. PRAYER – With the sounds of a train in the distance there were a few that thoug...
Nov 20, 2017
Cold (28 degrees), clear, heavy frost. Perfect morning for Honeysuckle to be on the Q. The best defense against the cold when you are scantily clad is to keep moving. 3 PAX showed up and we kept moving for 4 miles. Honeysuckle and Queen stretched hoping som...
Nov 19, 2017
4 Pax braved arrowhead after YHC promised a bit of pain DISCLAIMER PRAYER COP SSH x20 IC Imperial Walkers x15 IC Willy Mays Hays x10 IC Windmill x15 IC THE THANG No mercy Mile (jog from midway point of front strait to turn one, bear crawl to turn two. Jog
6 PAX found themselves unusually lonely for Iron Horse on a calm 48 degree morning. A group of NE TN studs were in Chatty preparing for the GrowRuck event so numbers were down. QIC had reached out to the Ruck group to inquire what type of pain should be inf...
Nov 17, 2017
November 14, 2017 Fielding’s VQ Frost on the ground but the 14 Pax present did not care. DISCLAIMER PRAYER COP LBAC (fwd) x 15 LBAC (bkwd) x 14 Hillbilly Walkers x 13 TTT x 12 Willie Mayes Hayes x 11 Merkins x 10 Static Plank X 9 Motivators from 8 Smarter
Nov 16, 2017
Conditions: 50 and dry 13 Pax made it into the gloom unaware that they would get a nice running tour of Downtown. DISCLAIMER – Kardashian PRAYER – Kardashian COP Warmup- SSH X 20 IC Hand release mericans x 5 oyo (form has been questionable lately so this fo...
48 deg F, 8 pax DISCLAIMER PRAYER COP motivators. dynamic stretching: skips, high knees, butt kicks, open/close the gate, backpedal, backlunge, cherry pickers, dinos. mountains climbers, peter parkers THE THANG Team relay style: running around the loop with...