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F3 U.T.I. turns 9 and other cool stuff…

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The Friday prior I attended Gump’s 12 Year Anniversary Q at Cletus.  As we worked out Gump asked each of us “How many years with F3?” and “What’s kept us coming back?  What does it mean to you?”.  With my anniversary a week away, I had already started thinking about what F3 meant to me and Gump challenged me to really dig deep and think back on my almost 9 years.

Well that just took me down a rabbit hole.  I started looking at our F3 PAX album, going back to look at backblasts, and recalling all of the people and the things I had experienced.  I started to realize how many classes of F3 PAX had come and gone.  There are still some guys around from 9 years ago but some of them had left for different reasons – family, work, moving to other locations, injury.

How many of them still looked back on their F3 glory days?  Would they come back?

I made a list of names based on the backblasts and photos.  Not comprehensive, somewhat random.  That Friday, I put up a pre-pre blast with my intention to reach out to this list and asked PAX to come up with their own lists and reach out too.  I started to text…

Venkman, Oyster, Lawn Dart, WebEx, R-22, Coal Ash, Tetanus, Yoshi, Soft Serve, Kosher, Straight Cash, Genie, Huggies, Bobby Boucher, Fanny Pack, Sprinkler, Axe (with an E), Martini, Oh Yeah, Cowboy, Aquaman, SlideRule, Warbucks, Lipstick, Skidmark, DawgPound, M4L, Emeril, Redenbacher, Bernie, Wallaby, Stubs, Leftovers, Stickers, Skittles, Particle Board, Pacman, FedEx, Peeping Tom, Wiggly, The Natural, Blue Hen, Flanigan, ShamWow, Dahmer, Master Shake, Snap, Shredder, Fonzi, Lipsync, Patch, Crosby

By Monday, I had about 25 HCs/SCs from the list and another 9 HCs on the post (fitting).  I didn’t get to the whole list, I didn’t have all the contact info, but I did what I could.  I had Gemini make me a little teaser image without the names and updated the pre-pre-blast post.

By Thursday, I had a few extra names from the list.  Some SCs had become HCs, some had to drop.  The Pre-blast launched and it was a flurry of comments and emojis.  By the end, 22 PAX had HCd on Slack.  Some overlapped with my Kotters list, some didn’t.  This was going to be big… Like 30 guys!?  I planned from the start to pay homage to my first FNG workout Q’d by Emeril and CHIPs.  I reviewed it and it checked out as appropriate for this sized group.  Emeril and CHIPs had 33 PAX that morning…  The table was set, the coffeteria plans were ordered (thanks again Pikachu, Gizmo, BnB, Abe, Rico, and Wild Turkey)

BTW – Hit up Rico if you want to order those pastries he brought.  They were amazing and he’s pledged to support my requested 3rd F cause for the day with a portion of any proceeds.

Rico’s Store – https://adoroportugal.com/shop-our-products/ols/products/pastel-de-nata-12-frozen-prebaked

3rd F Cause – https://secure.alsohio.org/site/TR/Endurance/General?pg=team&fr_id=1181&team_id=6540

Oh wait… one last minute addition.  Downrange and Full House are calling for EC…  As Full House reminded me “Go Big or Go Home”  FML ok fine.  I set my alarm for 4:20.

EC: Full House, Gillette, and Downrange for 2 miles

We returned to a packed Cletus parking lot with an overwhelming number of faces and the cars kept rolling in.  Peeping Tom, one of my original EHs from WoodCreek had traveled from JACOGA to be here as promised.  Fanny Pack!  SlideRule! Stickers!  Wiggly!  TomTom (Thanks Bumblebee)!?  Dahmer!  Shredder!  Fonzi too!

There were more but my head was spinning and I felt like I was at a wedding.  So many people I wanted to catch up with and only time for a quick hello but we’d have to wait for coffeteria.

We did a count-off…  50 PAX counted!!!  WHAT!?!?

FNGs: Welcome 404 (Wed Developer), Yooper (Formerly from norther Michigan but not the U.P.)

In my haste to get moving and get this crowd away from the residential, I forgot all about our FNGs.  As the group started their mozy to the back lot.  Someone shouted to remind me and I ran back through the crowd to give em the disclaimer.  9 years of F3 hadn’t prepared me to manage this workout but heck most of my smaller workouts I get the checklist a little twisted.  And we mozy’d on.  TO THE BACK LOT!

Oh hey!  It’s CROSBY!!!  walking the trail to catch up with us for the workout.  51 PAX is now the count

The Workout: Thang 1, Parking lot – B O M B S
Partner up, similar to Dora 1-2-3 but more exercises. Partner up. Pax 1 does exercise while Pax 2 runs to from the back of the lot to the entrance and back. Swap out and continue the exercise until each amount of reps are complete. The exercises and reps are: 50- Burpees / 100- Overhead Claps / 150- Merkins / 200- LBC’s / 250- Squats.

^^^This text was ripped almost exactly as it was written from my FNG workout backblast which was originally posted to our Facebook group on 7/24/2017.  Slight details changed since the original venue was Paradise City.

I did get the chance for some cool exchanges with this crew as we passed each other through the workout.  Fives, fist bumps, and mumblechatter.  It was pretty awesome.

Warm Up: good morning, windmills, willie mays haze, SSH

Once again, I was all mixed up.  We never did a warm-up so I decided to put this in the middle as a palette cleanser.

The Workout: Thang 2, Catch me if you can

Same partners, partner 1 does 2 burpees while partner 2 takes off.  Once burpees are done, partner 1 runs after to catch partner 2.  Once caught, they switch and continue until back at the flags.  The route was from the back lot, around the baseball fields by way of the parking lot entrance, back around to the bridge, right at the shelter passing the playground on the right, around the Soccer fields and back to the main parking lot.

Mary: Despite Lipstick’s prediction based on my first ever Q, the workout filled the whole time and there was nothing left for Mary.  COT began immediately on the tennis courts.

Announcements:  What a amazingly crazy morning with all the PAX at Cletus.  I wanted to post here to put some emphasis on a surprise/not surprise NANTAN announcement this morning.  the surprise… Breach ran along side me on the way back to the flags and said something like “seems like a good time to announce you as NANTAN”  the not surprise, I asked for the job.  I want to thank Breach for his leadership.  He took charge post-covid as we were looking to re-energize South Wake and has done an amazing job navigating tough conversations and building on our already awesome community.  As long as I’ve known him, he has always lived in all 3 Fs.  The Marine in him has given him some special skills in 1st F | For 2nd F, he’s always down for coffee, beer, and a good time.  Especially if there are costumes involved. |  You wouldn’t have had to be around long to know how big of a 3rd F heart Breach has in his charitable giving, his leadership with Travis Manion, road side clean-up, and the list goes on.  Thank you Breach and I look forward to turning to you for your guidance.

T-Claps (Recognition):  All of these men for beating the fartsack to join me on this crazy spectacular morning.  I had a bunch of fun and loved seeing the band back together.  52 PAX in all for a single workout.  So much brotherhood and support felt.

A separate shout out to Crosby for his loving donation of a kidney and his willingness to join us during his recovery.

Prayer: X-Rays mission trip safety and success.  Flip Phone’s family as they mourn their loss.  All others spoken and unspoken.

From my FNG backblast, CHiPS provided —

Proverbs 17:17 – A friend loves at all times and a brother is born for a time of adversity.

1 Thessalonians 5:11 – Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in face you are doing.

 

My first attempt to get the whole group

Breach got ’em all

 

Coffeteria was so cool

 

My original clown car – Peeping Tom and Lipstick

Possums, bears and ants

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FNGs:none

Warm Up: good morning, merkins, imperial walkers, hill billies, ssh

The Workout: First time at Possum Trot so I arrived a few minutes early to survey the dark parking lot. Its almost as dark as Purple Cobra. I had a few ideas in mind, all of which included rocks. We moseyed to a freshly painted line where we lined up holding a high plank and each PAX bear crawled to the end of the line.

Main event

Each PAX grabbed a flat-ish rock for bear crawl rock push between the No Parking sign and light pole while their partner started 100 ground pounders, 100 curls for the girls and 100 triceps for the guys. There was much groaning over rock size and pavement quality. 

10 mins of core (45 on / 15 off)

box cutters, lbcs, pickle pounders, american hammer and homer to marge

Mary: Ended with some light yoga

Announcements: 

T-Claps (Recognition):

Prayer: 16bit’s mom battling cancer and pumpkin spice moving to Clayton

Trotting Two

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YHC was almost ready to kick off a solo beatdown when Flip Phone came in hot at 5:29.  I thought he was going to catch some air pulling in to the park like he did.  There were two of us so my plans of an abbreviated workout and Mary with coffee were dashed so we started.

FNGs: None

Warmup:

Warmup lap around the outside of the tennis courts

SSH x20 IC

Windmills x10 IC

Daisy Pickers x10 IC

Sir Fazio Arm Circles F&R x10 IC

Frankenstein x10 IC

Imperial Walkers x10 IC

Hillbillies x10 IC

The Workout:

We headed in to the tennis courts for a Crab Boil.  This is one of my favorite routines.  Started at the side line of the first tennis court and crab walked to the same line on each subsequent court.  At the first stop we did 10 crab cakes, at the second we did 10 crab humpers, and at the third we did 10 crab jacks.

Once complete we did a quick set of 20 calf raises before moseying to the corner with rocks. We each picked out a rock for two different sets of four corners.

First set, which consisted of two laps.

Rock corner – 10 curls and 10 tris

Second corner – 10 no surrenders

Third corner – 10 merkins

Fourth corner – 10 sumo squats

The second set, another two laps.

Rock corner – 10 rut rows and 10 overhead press

Second corner – 10 LBC

Third corner – 10 Carolina dry docks

Fourth Corner – 10 American Hammers

Once complete we headed to a short part of the big hill for a set of 7s with star jumps at the bottom and dips on the guard rail at the top.

 

Mary:

Reverse LBC x10 IC

Oblique LBC right and left x10 IC each

Homer to marge x10 IC

Heel taps x10 IC

box cutters x10 IC

 

Really appreciate Flip Phone for coming out and helping keep me accountable.  An honor as always.

 

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Tour de Womble

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FNGs: none

Warm Up: string of pearls style- good mornings, sir fazios, willy mays hays, pledge of allegiance. 

The Workout: 11’s in the far parking lot- merkins/squats, grapevine/karaoke to travel back and forth. Colt/Bolt 45’s, plank holds, wall sits also made an appearance.

Mary: Popcorn on the pickle ball courts. Schoolbus educated us that merkins are a core exercise.

Announcements: Service opportunities upcoming- see slack

T-Claps (Recognition): Strong work all

Prayer: Sick and injured pax, folks dealing with sickness and stresses in their immediate families. 

Crabs!

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FNG: None

Warmup:

Lap around the parking lot

SSH x16 IC

Sir Fazio Arm Circles x10 IC forward and reverse

Windmills x10 IC

Imperial Walker x10 IC

Hillbillies x10 IC

Frankenstein x10 IC

Workout:

We moseyed to the front of the school.  YHC counted 20 poles holding up the awning.  I came up with a routine a few years back that I call a crab boil.  We started at the first pole and crab walked 5 poles.  At the 5th pole we did 10 crab cakes in cadence.  Then we crab walked another 5 poles and did 10 crab humpers.  Another 5 poles were crab walked where we then did 10 crab jacks.  We crab walked the next 5 poles and were done.

After that we did something I call a typewriter.  We all got on a length of curb and held plank on the curb.  We did one irkin and then the last person in the line moved in some fashion (bear crawl, duck walk, etc.) to the other side of the line.  Once there we did another irkin and the next person went.  We did this all the way to the end where then, like a typewriter, we had to go back.  We mixed it up on the way back though and did fast feet on the curb while one PAX moved and did 5 calf raises when they got to their spot.

After this YHC called for crab boil leftovers.  It was the same as before just not as much. We only used 10 poles and stopped every two.

After that we moved to a patch of grass for the sake of our knees and got to work on a set of Jack Webb with a 4:1 ratio of air presses to merkins.  This was a bad idea.  Woody and I both got mad at Nemo while we watched him never take a break during the course of the 220 air presses we did.

I had more planned but time was running short so we went in to…

Mary:

We started with an LBC circuit.  10x IC each of regular LBC, reverse LBC, and oblique LBC on each side.

Sleeping Hillbilies x10 IC

American Hammers x10 IC

Pickle Pounders x10 IC

Monkey Humperx x10 IC (I couldn’t remember the name pickle pounder and kept wanting to say monkey humper so we did monkey humpers)

 

An honor to lead these men this morning.  I can’t get anything off a shelf in the cupboard today but that’s ok.

 

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Rock-A-Billy Luck of the Draw at Crazy Ivan

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Warm Up: 

  • yogging, good mornings, windmills, sir fazios

The Workout:

Go around the Circle drawing cards from a mishmash of decks I’ve accumulated for workouts.  Not sure if I have ’em all or how many I have.  I dont actually remember the workouts assigned to each suit so this backblast is representative of the Winky I placed on the ground next to the deck.  As a suit is repeated, switch to the alternate workout assigned to each suit.

♠️ Swings \ Around the World
♥️ Rows \ Thrusters
♣️ Goblet Squats \ Figure 8s
♦️ Tricep Extensions \ Overhead Press
🤡 5 Burpees!!!

 

Mary: We went straight through to the end

Announcements:

  • Q ’em all!
  • Run the Quay is not this weekend
  • SpringFest is Saturday 10-4, we do not have a tent but great 2nd F opportunity

Prayer– 16’s Mom, UTIs Dad, Firefly

The Q Makes The Rules

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32 PAX took the field and immediately felt the difference—this wasn’t standard Ultimate, it was controlled chaos with purpose. With three scoring zones per team, the game forced constant decision-making: grind for the safe 1-point end zone, thread a tight throw into the 2-point bonus box, or take a high-risk shot at the 3-point corner. Early on, teams played conservative, but as momentum shifted, players started stretching the field, launching deep shots and cutting aggressively to the corners.

Communication became everything—sidelines were loud, calling out zone opportunities and defensive switches as handlers scanned for mismatches. By the midpoint, legs were heavy but intensity stayed high, with several clutch 3-point conversions swinging the score dramatically. What stood out most was the adaptability—guys adjusted on the fly, spacing improved, and trust in throws grew as the game went on. In the end, it wasn’t just about athleticism; it was about awareness, timing, and taking calculated risks under pressure, and every player walked off knowing they’d been part of something fast, competitive, and a step above the usual pickup run.

The game was a close one but the score keeping team prevailed. 

Almost 46

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What a beautiful morning it was today.  Maybe a bit damp but no water falling from the sky and temps were just right.  It’s the day before my birthday so I took the Q and promised to make the numbers 16 and 46 prominent and I think that was accomplished.

FNGs: None

Warm up:

SSH x 46 IC

Sir Fazio Arm Circles x10 IC forward and reverse

Daisy Pickers x10 IC

Trunk rotations x10 IC

Frankenstein x10 IC

Burpee x 8 OYO

The Workout:

We built a pyramid of exercises today.  The format was simple, we’d start at 10 and work to 1 and then back down.  The first set would be just the 10, then the 10 and 8, then 10,8, and 7. So on and so forth.  And yes, I left 9 out on purpose because 10+8+7+6+5+4+3+2+1 = 46.  The exercises were as follows:

10 – Swings

8 – Figure 8 (duh)

7 – Goblet Squats

6 – Curls for the girls

5 – Tris for the guys

4 – Lawn mowers

3 – Midget love handles

2 – Turkish Getup

1 – One minute of plank switches or holding plank when you needed a rest

Once we got through that we did another 8 burpees to bring the total to 16.  We then worked our way backwards down the pyramid, removing exercises as we went.  So the first round we eliminated the plank, second round we eliminated the Turkish getup, etc.  This took us all the way to the end.

Mary:

There really wasn’t time for it.  We spent a minute doing a bit of light stretches.

Announcements:

Fram’s mattress move

Prayer Requests:

Tragic deaths in Fuquay.  One was a classmate of my middle daughter. Hold your kids tight.

 

Until next time.

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Into the Dungeon

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FNGs: Not today

Warm up: Mosey around the parking lot and then circle up for SSH, Windmills, Daisy Pickers, Sir Fazio Arm Circles, Seal Claps, and Overhead Claps

The Workout:

YHC promised a Dungeons and Dragons themed workout this morning.  I brought 4 dice with me as well as 8 numbered cards., each with four exercises on them.  The format was fairly simple, we’d roll the dice and they would determine what we did and how much.

The dice were:

D8 – Chose which card we would work off of

D6 – Determined the number of sets we’d do

D20 – Number of reps per exercise

D100 – Number of swings we’d do in between choosing cards.

I have to admit, this whole thing came out of the gate hot.  I was hoping we’d ease in to it but, alas, it was not to be.  As Pikachu said in Slack, the dice may not lie but they are not kind.

The first rolls were

D8 – 3 – This card consisted of Snatch on the left, Snatch on the right, Clean on the left, Clean on the right

D6 – 3 sets

D20 – 15 reps

As was exclaimed many times during this part of our quest, that’s way too many Snatches (not something I ever thought I’d say).  If you’re playing along at home that’s a total of 90 snatch and clean.  That was a lot.  But the D100 would be kind to us, right?

Prophetically, Pikachu called this one before we got to it.

D100 – 90

90 swings.  Nothing fancy about it, just a lot.

The second roll was:

D8 – 4 – This card was Chest Press, Skull Crushers, Overhead Reach, and Turkish Getups

D6 – 6 sets

D20 – 15 (!)

YHC immediately called an audible and said we weren’t going to do 6 sets of 15 Turkish Getups and that we’d save them for the end.  4 sets in and I called another audible because I hoped to get through another card or two.  We did four sets of 15 of the first three excercises.  We began our 15 Turkish Getups but a few minutes in to it I called an end to it because, again, I wanted to get more in.  The D100 couldn’t be cruel again, right?  Right?

D100 – 100

F.  Another audible was called.  We started the set of 100 with just 25 with the promise of sprinking the rest in later.

The third roll:

D8 – 5 – This was single arm lat raise on the left, single arm lat raise on the right, bus drivers, and ground pounders

D6 – 3

D20 – 8

Ok, this was a little more reasonable.  However, after struggling to do the single arm raises with the amount of weight we all had we changed it to double handed straight lat raises for the rest of our sets.  Also, instead of waiting until the end after each set we did another 25 swings.  By the end of this card we had finished our 100 from the previous roll.  Unfortunately we were out of time at this point.  The good news is that there are still 5 unused and unseen cards to be used again.

Mary:

Low Slow Flutter x10 IC

LBC x10 IC

Box cutters x10 IC

Pickle Pounders x10 IC

JLo x10 IC

I might be forgetting something here.

Announcements:

Fire Marshal Gavin – Seriously, congrats!

Prayer Requests:

Injured PAX.

 

As always, its an honor to get a chance to lead you all.

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Chad1000x at Purple Cobra

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FNGs: none (we did hear a coyote in the woods, but I guess it didn’t want to join)

Warm Up: side straddle hops, hill billies, imperial walkers, Frakensteins, squats

The Workout: The Chad1000x hero wod honors Chad Wilkinson, a Navy SEAL who committed suicide after serving for 21 years, and all veterans who struggle with mental health.

The workout calls for 1,000 box step-ups completed as a team, partner or individual for time. We opted to work as a team and did step-ups for 30 minutes. We lost count along the way, but are pretty sure we hit our goal. Solid work all around.

Mary: popcorn Mary followed by stretching

Announcements: Midget’s raising money for Holly Springs Food Cupboard

T-Claps (Recognition): All of the veterans in our F3 community! Thank you for your service!

Prayer: 16-bit’s mother and grandfather, 16-bit traveling