109 year Father’s Day anniversary celebration

Temperature:  75 Humidity: varying reports of 80%-92% based on source (muggy) QIC:  Goob   Oh what a day! 13 posted for a beatdown this fine gloom not knowing their fate. The Mosey: 2 quick laps around the parking lot including high knees, butt-kickers, carioca each way, and toy soldiers (though Goob did his best to …

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The Core of….Something

QIC: Manziel Pax: Barron, Big Mac, Bing, Chili Pepper, Deep Dish, Goob, Lambeau, Manziel, Pincher, ShamWow, Trump Weather: 74 degrees, dewpoint 71, light rain As usual, anticipation of the Monday Q was high and with some light rain coming down, we gathered under the pavilion and OMG THE BATHROOMS ARE BACK OPEN! REPEAT, THE BATHROOMS …

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D.A.D.S.

Date: 06/08/19 Weather: 88-degrees and humid.  This was definitely a Gold Bond type of morning. QIC: Recall A strong 21 posted for this Saturday’s beat down.  YHC kicked off the workout with a quick recap of the 5-core principles.  The PAX completed a mosey around the pond and to the basketball court.  The mosey included …

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St. Pete Fun

Weather:  Hot with light rain QIC:  Scrum This was my first trip to the new downtown St. Pete AO.  Beautiful location – right on the Bay.  Great place to watch the sunrise.  We had 7 pax total, with one FNG.  Several of the pax made the trip down from Clearwater.  This AO should hopefully grow …

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Backblast – I’m fighting one!

Here’s a VQ backblast for YHC. Special props to Bing (see what I did there?) for co-qing today with me which included an enroute text that the normal AO was not open to friendly guys like us. A command decision took us to the UTC mall parking lot nearby with nothing lost other than the …

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Mary Queen of Diamonds

Thursday morning at Unconditional Surrender…the weather is clear, no breeze and 77 degrees already. A quick mile run to get the blood flowing produces a good sweat so I know what lays ahead. Two souls roll into the morning gloom to join me in defeating the darkness; Mopar and Papa Smurf. We go quickly cover …

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