Fitness Test

It’s the start of a new year and the perfect time to find your baseline and set improvement goals for 2018.  10 PAX posted on a chilly morning for the standard Army fitness test … push-ups, sit-ups and a 2 mile run.  As PAX arrived, they wrote in their name …

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Nothing Finer in the Land…

While the inspiration and backdrop for this beatdown was centered around a football season, it can apply to our society in general these days. The “what have you done for me lately” or recency bias finds its way into our thinking and makes it that much easier to focus on …

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Who Ordered Up a HoeDown?

YHC, was joined by 6 Brave Lads, including a guest appearance from Myrtle Beach’s own HoeDown. We put him to work right away seeing as YHC remembered everything except a watch. Thanks HoeDown. We were blessed with an FNG to boot, courtesy of Mahi-Mahi who decided to Fart-sack. Welcome Chad. …

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Shovel Flag Cover Up – Exposed!

*Reader beware – long post* YHC felt wordy and inspirational this morning. This was our 4th post at the new Hickory Flat (@F3alpha) AO.  Speaking of our new AO, we have not decided on a permanent name as of today. There was much debate and research for AO names yesterday …

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Call Outs Work

Yep, Call out them fartsackers on the twitterverse and they might just show up.  I got two out of three anyways so while 66.66% isn’t a passing grade, it’s a good percentage of success when you are talking about a 5:30 AM Post.  Anyway, it was misty this morning but …

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Rock work, again

Six Pax were treated to perfect work temperature of 54 degree at Caney Creek this morning.  In honor of Ha Ha’s completion of his first Ultra Marathon last weekend YHC had a (nearly) run free beatdown planned.  The Pax all beat the 0515 bell and we mosied for one quick …

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Road Trip

With a Q on the horizon and some of the MW boys threatening to fart-sack another Murph, YHC wanted to bring something fresh to the Wreck PAX that would change things up a bit.  However, given that we’ve covered just about every square inch of the Wreck he figured that an …

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So Fresh and So CLean

On this spring-like day we had 16 show up for a mid-week beatdown. Most were overdressed, and quickly felt the need to shed those layers after the Beatdown began. Warm-o-rama: 15 Side-straddle hops, 10 Abe Vigodas (Windmills, just really slow, “Old Man Style.” Some of us have a long way …

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4 Corners at the Hooch

On this balmy day in January most of the PAX showed up in shorts and t-shirts ready for a beatdown. Thankfully for them, Lion’s find it hard to wake up after a cold snap and Boomer stepped in to lead the warm-up. See below for the plan. Boomer led: BLIMPS …

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Bear Crawls and Fartleks

8 solid PAX posted for a cool damp morning at The Rubicon. Good to be back after a week away. We warmed up with a run to the pool and around the lot, followed by IC cotton pickers, hill billies and merkins. The Thang After warmups we ran over to …

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