We Mostly Stayed in the Nest

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A second Q down in the Quay for YHC today. For the first time in a while, I just didn’t feel like running much, so I tossed that workout plan out the door and went with a more stationary version.

FNG’s: No sir!
Warm Up: Good Mornings x20, Windmills x10, Sir Fazio’s F/R x 10, Willie Mays Haze x 10.
The Workout: DORA. We partnered up for a lap around the garden loop at the Nest while other partner started in on the exercises which were: Hand Release Merkins, Bulgarian Squats, and Dying Cockroach.

A quick mosey up to the parking lot for a bear crawl train, followed by a lunge walk train. Each train lasted 4 rotations. Mule Kicks x 20IC, and 50 Prisoner Squats.
Mary: Everything x 20. Box Cutters, Supermans, Pickle Pounders, Homer to Marge, Low Slow Flutter.
Announcements: no.
T-Claps (Recognition): Scrapple coming out for day 2.
Prayer: Norm sold his camper, Gamecock’s church needs a new roof. Scrapple took us out today.

Memorial Monday Mutiny

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With May Challenge finally done, it was understandable that the parking lot was somewhat empty this morning as guys are falling back to lick their wounds a bit after a month full of beatdowns. YHC also knew many PAX would be doing the double down today for the Memorial Day Murph, so we stayed away from the Murph-like moves.

FNG’s: None.
Warm Up: Good Mornings x 12, Daisy Pickers x 12, Seal Claps/Overhead Claps x 10, Frankensteins x 12, Imperial Walkers x 10, Hillbillies x10.
The Workout: Started off with 22 Burpees OYO. Everyone grabbed a rock suitable for challenging higher reps work. The series consisted of Curls for the Girls, Tricep Press, Rut-Rows, Shoulder Press, a mosey up to the pavillion, Dips, and LBC’s with a mosey back to the rocks. We did ascending sets of 15, 20, 25, and 30.

Step Ups x 20 IC. People’s Chair for a 10 count per PAX, BTTW for a 10 count per PAX.
Mary: Popcorn Mary for 20 counts of: LBC’s, American Hammers, Pickle Pounders, Homer to Marge, LSF’s, and 22 WW2’s.
Announcements: Murph Today! New Monthly Challenge tomorrow showcasing working on the “guns”.
T-Claps (Recognition): Scrapple getting back out here in the Gloom!
Prayer: Our nation, unspoken.

Everywhere I go I see the same Doe

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I never saw the albino deer in 2020 and now all of the sudden I’ve seen it twice in the month of May.  Most of all I love how it’s been accepted by the herd.   I need to get a selfie with it next time.

FNGs: none

Warm Up: 10x Imperial Walkers, 10x Daisy Pickers, 25x Merkins

The Workout: 1hr ruck for Forceps, 6mi run for 187, Lipstick, Vasoline up to Ting Park and back (picked up 2 tennis balls and a lacrosse ball along the way)

Mary: no time today

Announcements: Memorial Day Monday Murph, First Aid Kits Fundraiser for the HSPD (info on Slack under 3rd F)

T-Claps (Recognition): PAX showing up on a holiday weekend directly following a month long beat down during the May challenge

Prayer: injured PAX, Forceps 2nd round job interview for a possible relo to Atlanta

Where is everyone?

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You could tell the May challenge was over due to the fact that the number of PAX dropped drastically to 2. It’s all good though – I’m sure next week we will bounce back after everyone gets a little R&R after going hard all month.

FNGs: Nope.
Warm Up:

  • SSH x 20 IC
  • Good Mornings x 10 IC
  • Willie Mays Hays x 10 IC
  • Windmills x 10 IC
  • Frankensteins x 10 IC

The Workout:

5-mile loop around FV

Mary:

Stretch it out.

Announcements:

See Slack & FB

T-Claps (Recognition):

T-Claps to Farva getting a PR for 5 miles – average pace was 8:41/mi!

Prayer:

Injured PAX / R&R from May challenge / Martini’s (kidney) stones

Ultimate at Thunder

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FNGs: Welcome Snoopy and Hertz!

Warm Up: YHC attempted some upper body stretches to loosen up before the big game. There was a lot of chatter going on so we all did 5 burpees OYO. Then we counted off, split into the 2 teams, and let the games begin.

The Workout: Ultimate! We had a highly competitive game with the good guys stealing a heart breaker on the last play of the game.

Mary: Not  today

Announcements: Check slack and FB.

T-Claps (Recognition):

Prayer: Unspoken.

YHC took us out.

Birthday Q 1/10

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FNGs:

None today
Warm Up:

Mosey towards the EC route, stopping half way up Sportsmanship for SSH x21 IC

Mosey to the end of the park exit and stop for Sir Fazio Arm Circles x10 IC forward and backward

Mosey across the street and line up for an indian run
The Workout:

Indian run up to Millpass, stopping for Daisy Pickers x10 IC

Mosey to the bottom of Millpass hill then jailbreak to the top for the Strava segment (congrats to 187 on taking the segment!)

Indian run down to the greenway trail off Crossway for the main event – 10x burpees at Crossway, 21x of an exercise at the Veteran’s Monument (merkins, squats, star jumps, turkish getups, LBCs).

We took a moment of silence in observance of Memorial Day

Indian run back to Ting Park through Windcrest and Main street, stopping at the Windcrest pool for 21x LBCs IC

When we got into Ting we went to the bottom of the ramp. Low plank hold into a full sprint to the top of the ramp.

Mosey back to the cars for CoT – Mary was absent today
Announcements:

Memorial Day Murph at 0800

New Tiger Blood location and format – see Slack

2021 Fritter challenge coming in a few weeks – see Slack for details
T-Claps (Recognition):

187 for beating me up Millpass (jerk)

Woody for being on day 12 of a streak to start his F3 career
Prayer:

Emeril’s friend with a recent cancer diagnosis

Praise for YHC and M going under contract for a house

YHC took us out

Fun and Games

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FNGs:

None  today
Warm Up:

SSH x20 IC

Daisy Pickers, Sir Fazio forward/backward, Good Mornings x10 IC
The Workout:

Mosey over to the baseball field and partner up for a game of Wasps. 2 pax start out “it” and do 2x burpees at home base. They then tag other pax who then become “it” after returning to base for 2x burpees. Entire baseball field was in play – even the fence apparently for Pots.

Unfortunately Wrangler had an injury when performing a burpee towards the end of the game. Prayers for a speedy recovery bro.

After Wasps we moved on to some animal races – from the infield/outfield line to the fence we raced in the form of Bear Crawls, Duck Walks, Wheel Barrels, and Sprints.
Mary:

Moseyed back to the flag and circled up for LBCs, low slow flutters, and Freddie Mercury’s.
Announcements:

Upcoming 5ks – Grasshopper and Derek Davis. Sleep in Heavenly Peace bed build on June 12th.
Prayer:

Wrangler for injury recovery

Memorial Day Murph Challenge- 2021

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32 Pax showed up today to help me (Shredder) celebrate my 4 year F3 anniversary and more importantly pay respect to our nation’s fallen during our annual Memorial Day Murph Challenge.

Impressive effort by all, especially after the May Challenge. 30 joined in on the Murph, Dauber (IR) joined to capture the event and support with donuts, and Breach (after doing a Murph at 0600) stopped by to give us his thoughts on Memorial Day and his recent visit to Arlington National Cemetery.

Warm Up: short warm-up with SSH, Good Mornings, Willie Mays Hayes, & Frankensteins. Pax counted off by 2s and headed off in opposite directions for Mile 1.

The Workout: 1 mile run, 100 pull-ups, 200 push-ups, 300 squats, 100 mile run.  Since this is F3 the last mile was an Indian Run race with the slower group having to knock out 50, scratch that, 20 Burpees. After a quick “speech”, the two groups took off in their different directions.

The mental battle was in full effect as my mind kept telling me “you need to quit”, just after I told everyone we needed to learn to Embrace the Suck. But Pax did what they do best and mentally drug me through the last mile.

As everyone wrapped up their last mile and came back together, guess what…..? Yep. We all did Burpees.

T-Claps (Recognition): We raised $425+ for HSPD first response bags. Sprinkler’s team donated 1/2 of their May Challenge winnings to the 1st response bags and 1/2 to the FQV bed building. Great work #HIM.    

: YHC took us out. Remember why we have a Memorial Day. Freedom is not Free! 🇺🇸

That Treat is Stale!

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It was a beautiful morning with cool temps in the mid 50’s. It was good to see Scrapple return from knee surgery. Yogurt had a treat for Java’s dog Latte. Must to of been stale. She turned her nose up at it! Sure did miss the 2nd F at Breaches house this morning.

FNGs: 2- Chad (A-Rod) and Micah (Fire Marshall Bill)

The Workout: M4life rolls out with a 65lb bag everyone had the pleasure of carrying. We hit the blue and the yellow for some miles.

Announcements: Workouts are on for tomorrow with the Murph to follow at 8:00 am.
T-Claps (Recognition): M4life for bringing an FNG and A-Rod for listening to @breach to get him out here this morning.
Prayer: @Fram’s family for travel mercies flying out of RDU this morning heading home. PAX with injuries and unspoken.

Site Q finally gets a chance to lead Ground Pounder again

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FNGs: Welcome Fireball (bartender and military) and YHC’s son Joystick (gamer) 

10 HIMs posted to GP.   YHC brought the music box, basketballs & discs.  

Warm Up: 10x3cts of: Good Mornings, Willie Maze Hays,  Daisy Pickers, Arm stretches, Imperial Walkers and Hillbillies.

The Workout

Circle of Rock (of course): Mosey to the Rock Pile pick a LARGE rock.

3 sets of 10x3ct of each exercise:  Curls for the Girls, Overhead Tricep Press, Bus Drivers, Rut Rows and Ground Pounders. On your six for 3 sets of 10x3ct Rock Press,  1 set each of 10x3Ct Windshield Wipers, Heel Taps, Rockies, LBCs

Heavy Hoops:

Pax line up for a game of knockout. Prisoner squats in line, SSH once you are knocked out.

Mosey to the Wall of Pain

Wall of Pain: 

10x3ct Prisoner Peoples Chair;  Australian Ass Smackers,  Al Gore Peoples Chair, Ascending Testicles, Moroccan Peoples Chair, BTW (5 ct down the line).

Mosey to the disc golf putting green

Heavy Discs:

9 discs in play at all times. PAX put discs; Make it and lunge walk to closest disc, Miss and bearcrawl to closest disc.  YHC stopped tossing four times for exercises: 10x3ct Homer to Marge, Freddie Mercuries, Merkins and Lunges

Announcements: Memorial Day Murph; Fund Raising for HSPD to provide 1st Aid kits.

Prayer Requests: For our military, injured PAX (ShamWow and Wrangler), YHC asked for prayer through an interview process.