Don’t let the smiles fool you

Weather:  breezy and delightful (for Florida in September) Pax in Attendance:  Backdraft, Banjo, BigMac, Bing, ChiliPepper, Condenser, Clutch, Diesel, Goob, Manziel, Mr. Clean, Pincher, Ripken, ShamWow, Steel, Trane, Trump, Wilson, Wolverine.   This was not your normal Friday beatdown.  The weather was cool, cinder blocks lay scatter about, and a tower taunted us in the …

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9/11 – Never Forget Beatdown

The morning started off like any other morning as the PAX gathered up pre-runners returned from many different pre-run lengths and directions.  The morning started off like any other morning back on  9/11/2001 but unfortunately for over 3000 people and their friends and families and the rest of the world it did not end that …

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Still No Respect

49 only comes around once in a lifetime, but then again, so do all the other numbers.  Before you know it, next year will be here, and I’ll be getting all the “Respect” a man could want…just ask Sniper, Big Mac, Lancelot, Brutus or any of the other old farts trying to avoid “moobs.” Crabcakes, …

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Duck/Goofy

Conditions: Continued rain, high humidity, dark and NO lightening.  However, due to all the rain the temperature was better.77 degrees! Great day for a Duck, but you have to be Goofy to come to the Beatdown….. Chore principals covered and Disclaimers. Time to swim…..? Whose tired of the rain? Mozi  We jogged the normal loop …

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Nifty Fifty

Weather:  Cloudy and humid, rain at the end QIC:  Scrum Pax:  Scrum, Drake, Ripken, Manziel, Ace, Baron, Bubbles, Ivanka, Trump, Lambeau, LG, Olympus, Yamaha, Sterling, Bing, Pincher, Brutus, Aquaman, Sparky, Dash, Recall, Cottontail, Rowdy FNG:  Mike (FIOS) Covered the F3 mission, disclaimer and core principles.  Theme of the beatdown was “Nifty Fifty”, recognizing the fact …

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That’s Why We Call It the Echo Chamber

Weather: 82 degrees, stupid humid, with a brief rain shower around 5.45 QIC: Manziel Pax: Bambi, Big Mac, Bing, Crabcakes, Deep Dish, Lambeau, Lancelot, Manziel, Pincher, Ripken, ShamWow, Sniper, Thor, Trump Fun fact: It’s the first day of school today! What’s that got to do with today’s beatdown? Absolutely nothing. At 5.15, the core principles, …

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If the weather is…

Weather: Raining a lot QIC Bing Pax: Dogo, Manziel, Brutus, Bing, Sniper, Ripken Lots of messages in the Groupme cycling channel about watching the radar and if it’s raining, I’m fartsacking…clearly certain pax chose to not obey a core principle. Good news, no rain at 6am at Wawa. Bad news, it’s Florida and we got …

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Follow the Leader

AO:  Nolan Weather:  96% humidity… uggh. Pax:  Bing, Deep Dish, Lancelot, McNuggett, ShamWow, Sniper, Ripken, 6Pack, Olympus, BigMac, Manziel, Goob (QIC) Their were no FNG’s, the disclaimer was stated, members grumbled upon hearing modify as necessary today, and the mozy began.  The mozy consisted of 2 laps around the parking lot and included buttkickers, high …

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