Rocks, step ups and a sense of impending doom.

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FNGs: none
Warm Up: Rounded up with the guys from Red October for SSH, Windmills, Imperial Walkers, Hillbillies, Sure Fazio Arm Circles, Seal
The Workout: PAX moseyed over to the rock pile. 3 rounds of Curls for the Girls, tricep extensions, goblet squats, ruh rows and chest presses. 30 each. Quick mosey around the circle and 10 SSH in between each round. Returned the rocks.

Next, we did 30 step ups followed by Urkins/Durkins/Dips. Two rounds of that. Then we moseyed back for Mary.
Mary: Red October joined us again for Mary. WWIIs, LBCs, Homer to Marge, Freddie Mercurys, Windshield Wipers and one i can’t remember the name of (maybe “high/lows”). Finished up with some quick yoga.
Announcements: July 5th volunteers, South Wake picnic
T-Claps (Recognition): H1N1 and Gump for helping YHC get his car started after the workout. Fuquay-Varina ain’t so bad after all!
Prayer: Warbucks’s family

Fathers Day Needmore Ruck

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12 pax and 1 FNG for a Fathers day Ruck around Needmore park

Sprinkler, Wallaby, Banana Seat, Cancun, Pac-Man, Big Ditch, Mookie, Fanny Pack, Redenbacher, Deadbolt, Monsanto, FNG Donkey Kong and Breach on the Q

FNGs: Donkey Kong

The Workout: Ruck around the park with stops at the 1/2 miles marks for some popcorn exercises, (Merkins, Squats, Squat Thrusts, Low Slo Fludders and some Crab Cakes) Took a 2nd F break at the Breachery Coffeteria for some conversation and coffee.

Announcements: Picnic July 30th, Town stil needs some volunteers for the fireworks on the 5th if anyone is interested in volunteering.

Closed in Prayer

Now That We Ran a Little Bit…

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10 PAX arrived ready to board the Downtown Train on a Monday and knock out some hill repeats first thing! Some of those fellas…Moose, Best in Show, Cupid, and Sunshine…blasted up that hill a few times! A great morning for movement and a welcome break from the heat for a day or two!

FNG’s: No
Warm Up: Good Mornings and Sir Fazio’s followed by a mosey down to the library with some but kickers and fast feet on the circle. SSH x 20 and Imperial Walkers x 15 to finish up the warm up.
The Workout: 7’s on Library Hill. WW2’s at the top, Standard Merkins at the bottom. Those that moved faster, we’re rewarded with either Homer to Marge or Pickle Pounders while waiting for the crew during each pass.

A mosey over to the parking garage for a 5 corners…yes…5 corners routine with a partner. Each corner had a certain count exercise, while the partner did AMRAP wall or core exercise, then switch. Corner 1: 30 Derkins/Pickle Pounders. Corner 2: 40 Dips/LBC’s. Corner 3: 50 Monkey Humpers, BTTW. Corner 4: 40 Star Jumps/Peoples Chair, Corner 5: 30 WW1’s/Bear Crawl.
Mary: Monsey over to the flag for 10 more Good Mornings
Announcements: F3 2ndF picnic at Harris Lake, July 30th. Sign up sheet out there. Volunteers needed for July 5th fireworks event.
T-Claps (Recognition): Lot’s of RESPECT in the house today!
Prayer: Small child battling COVID/RSV…friend of POTS. POTS took us out!

Cletus – Spontaneous Q
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EC: LED, Woody, Yogurt. Arrived at 5 am fully expecting to see Breach and his truck full of toys. Oh, he’ll be here for the main event. His pre-blast indicated he was ready to go and bringing coupons. Surely he’ll be here for he main event! OK, 5:30 rolls around–no Breach! I love Q-ing at Cletus, so here goes?
Warm Up: Mosey to top of Ivan lot. Circle up for 50 SSHs, series of arm circles (front, back, seal claps, overhead, chinooks). Gillette rolled in just a minute late, so we all did five burpees OYO. Thanks Gillette, I like burpees.

The Workout: Mosey to amphitheater and the ledge. Lined up for derkins in an Indian Run formation. That is, everybody plank up in derkin position, tight to one end. The phrase “tighten up” triggered the human jukebox–Arthur Fonzarelli (Fonzie) to sing “Tighten Up” by Archie Bell and the Drells–nice! The “Indian” does five merkins, calling them out. Then, runs to head of the line. Cycle through til each PAX had done three rounds. Additional round including step ups and dips. This took a while.

OK, let’s do the same formation, but with balls to the wall (BTW) and preacher’s chair. We went all the way around the back wall of the amphitheater twice. This took a while. But, on the second round of BTW, the wall shifted and we stopped that exercise.

Mosey to the playground. Time for a mini-Murph. Partner up for accountability. Partners do five pullups together, then do 15 merkins together. Next, partners for five pullups together, then do 20 squats together. We continued for as many rounds as possible until 6 minutes before end of workout.

Mosey to pickleball courts with radar guns for Mary

Mary: Popcorn Mary
Announcements: F3 picnic; Expect to see Dr. Ryan next Friday (6/24/22), a Spartan racer that Cupid, Gillette, and I head-locked. Woody rolled by and said, “Never not head-locking”!
Prayer: Stubs and family, 3-Alarm full recovery

AGS Goes Fast!

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FNGs: none
Warm Up: SSH, Frankensteins, Squats
The Workout: Nice and easy 5 mile run down the Greenway, along Bass Lake and back through downtown. The six was picked up and a really solid effort was made by all present. YHC ended up with an 8:52 pace. Faster than I planned, but the weather was right and I was feeling it.
Mary: Very quick stretching before closing things out.
Announcements: Three Alarm run on Tuesdays, Beer Den on Thursdays, July 5th volunteers, South Wake family picnic on July 30th.
T-Claps (Recognition): Sunshine (and the rest of the 75 Hard crew) for their continued commitment. All that hard work is definitely showing.
Prayer: Stubs.

We will rebuild!

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FNGs: Gator
Warm Up: SSH, Frankensteins
The Workout: Had a great mosey around Fuquay-Varina today. 7 PAX strong including one FNG (Gator). The storm last night left branches everywhere, especially on the Greenway. Fumunga assured us that we would rebuild! The six was picked up along the way and a lot of great mumble chatter was made.
Announcements: July 5th volunteers needed, F3 Family Picnic coming up.
T-Claps (Recognition): Gator for coming out to his first F3 workout/run.
Prayer: Stubs

Groundpounder 6/18

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4 PAx for a make-it-up as we go GroundPounder (Cancun, Gump, Forceps and Breach on the Q) 

Warm-Up: 22 counts of SSH, Frankensteins, Windmills and Imperial Walkers/Hillbillies

The Workout:  We started with a little mosey to the rock pile for some medium-sized rocks for circle work. Up and over merkins, Curls for the girls, Triceps, Wunder Bras, Groundpounders American Hammers, and Big boy sit-ups.

Moved over to the wall for some 22 cadence counts of people’s chairs and Balls to the wall, round 2 we got out Al Gore on and did some Australian mountain climbers.

Our tour of Jones park continued with some movement over behind the baseball field for some Irkins, Durkins, Dips, step-ups and some ab work with some bo cutters and heel taps.

We tried some bear crawls on the bleachers and thankfully no one took a nose dive. WE finished up with some lateral plank moves on the outfield bricks back to the parking lot

Mary: Round the horn abs to finish out the day

Announcements: F3 Picnic on July 30th

Prayers for Stubs and his family and for Forceps son David as he gets through his hazing as an electrical apprentice. 

New Amenities

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YHC took the helm at Sheepdog this morning with a carefully planned beatdown to target all areas and encourage PAX to push eachother. New amenities, the track and the bleachers, were used, and no PAX were left behind. In addition, a few stayed for an extra few minutes to finish the prescribed routine. All good things F3 this morning!

FNG’s: None
Warm Up: A quick mosey to the basketball court (also new) for Good Mornings, Sir Fazio’s, Hillbillies, Imperial Walkers, and Frankenstein’s (all x10 IC).
The Workout: PAX paired up to push eachother and pairs were instructed to wait until each PAX in their group moved on to the next phase of exercises. Again…nobody left behind! 10 Rounds total of exercises. Each round began with 5 burpees and ended in alternating fashion with either a 400m run or a 5x up/down the bleachers.

The rounds were as follows:

10 Absolutions

20 Wheelbarrow Derkins

30 Star Jumps

40 Hand-Release Merkins

50 WW2

60 Monkey Humpers

70 Dips

80 Dying Cockroach

90 Squats

100 SSH
Mary: Built in other than the mosey back to COT.
Announcements: F3 family picnic, Saturday, July 30 at Harris Lake, sign up out there, Cupid organizing.
T-Claps (Recognition): Cyclops and Fireball for breaking back out in the gloom.
Prayer: Lipstick and family, Venkman and achilles surgery, Shredder/Cyclops son’s are backpacking in Europe, YHC and skin cancer procedure.

Viscous Cycle 6/15/2022

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The Workout:Ride through Holly Springs and to 12 Oaks and back. About 10.5 miles
Announcements:
T-Claps (Recognition): Thanks for joining us Cupid
Prayer:

Getting ready for Bobby’s 10yr Anniversary!

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FNGs: Floppy Disk
Warm Up: Side Straddle Hops, Good Mornings, Imperial Walkers, Hill Billies, Wind Mills, Sir Fazio Arm Circles, Seal Claps, Overhead Claps, 5 Burpees OYO
The Workout: YHC’s infatuation with a simple-but-effective routine of upper/lower/core/repeat continues. (PAX: “Didn’t we do this on Tuesday?” YHC: “Maybe. Try to keep up!”)
PAX took a trip down the Jeff Wells Trail and made stops at ever other light pole for an exercise. Merkins, Squats, Lunges, WWIIs, Mountain Climbers and Shoulder Taps were all performed in some variation. Either 10 or 20 counts (some of those lunges take too long for a 20 count). We picked up the six along the way. The trail proved just the right length to get us back in time for Mary.
Mary: LBCs, American Hammers, Homer-to-Marge and Pickle Pounders. Finished up with some yoga.
Announcements: F3 South Wake Family Picnic at Harris Lake (July 30th), July 5th Holly Springs fireworks needs volunteers
T-Claps (Recognition): Floppy Disk for coming out to his first workout (and Warbucks for bringing him out).
Prayer: Woody’s family, 16-bit’s wife’s grandmother, Floppy Disk’s father.