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Q by Committee at Purple Cobra

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FNGs: none
Warm Up: Nemo took the warm up. We did a quick jog and then went into some SSH, Good Mornings, Sir Fozio Arm Circles and a few other things (memory is failing me at the moment).
The Workout: Woody took over for round 1. We gathered at the bank and partnered up. 6 Patty Cake Merkins at the ATMs. Run to the other side, 6 more Patty Cake Merkins. Run back. We did 5 rounds.

YHC (Abe) had round 2. We ran around the back of the shopping center and grabbed 2 palm-sized rocks. Lined up on the wall, we held People’s Chair with arms extended. 10 count down the line for a total of 70. Recover. Side arm raises with the rocks, 10 in cadence. We repeated for a total of 3 rounds.

Next up was McNugget for round 3. We lined up on the guard rail for some dips and durkins. 10 each, 3 rounds.

Last but certainly not least, Wild Turkey for round 4. Over to “that hill” for 7s. Burpees at the bottom, star jumps at the top.

With everyone properly beat, we headed back for Mary.
Mary: Bobby lead Mary to close things out.
T-Claps (Recognition): PAX that stepped up and took turns Qing this morning.

Library Day Part Deux

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shut itFNGs: none
Warm Up: Mosied down Library Hill to the pool parking lot. Circled up for: SSH, Good Mornings, Imperial Walkers, Hill Billies, Windmills, Sir Fazio Arm Circles (forward/back), Seal Claps, Overhead Claps.
Mosied back up Library Hill and met in front of the amphitheater.
The Workout: YHC was looking back through Downtown Train backblasts for inspiration and decided to redo a workout from Nov 2020. It’s not complicated, but it’s effective.

Thing 1: Diamond.
4 exercises, one at each corner. Start with 5 reps, increase by 5 each round, going up to 20 reps. Exercises were Merkins, LBCs, Squats and Side Lunges.

Thing 2: Rocks!
Curls for the Girls, Triceps, Ruh Rohs. 10 in cadence each. Drop the rocks, SSH x10. Repeat two more times.
Mary: WWIIs, American Hammers, Low Slow Flutters, Chill Cut Plank, Pickle Pounders. Wrapped up with some stretches and yoga.
Announcements: Donate blood! Q Source on Wed mornings at Panara
Prayer: Praises for Quiver’s sister on the mend, praises for PAX getting back in the gloom after being out with injury and illness, continued prayers for those still healing.
Moleskin: Sometimes I fall out of the habit of rising early and getting out to an AO. It gets pretty bad if I let it go on for a few days. I have found one way to cure this is to sign up for a couple of consecutive Q spots. The additional accountability that comes with knowing a group of guys is waiting for you to show up and lead is a good motivator to get out of bed. Once you’ve got that ball rolling for a few days, it’s easier to get back into the routine.

AGS It’s Not That Cold

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AGS forecast called for clear and cold. Abe with the early HC, followed by some headlocking, followed by Woody HC, Moose HC, and finally Full House on the EC/HC. All five of us showed up at 0558, right on time. Granted Full House a bathroom pass and we started our warmup. At 18 degrees, this was probably one of the coldest workouts of the year. We kept moving and everybody stayed warm.
Warm Up: 25 SSH, 10 GMs, 20 high knees, 1 minute stretching OYO for whatever YOU need before running
The Workout: With it freezing cold, I knew that the Bass Lake trails would not be muddy, but would be hard packed frozen instead. I was right. Wanted to take advantage of the connection to Sunset Bluffs. Instead of the purely traditional route of running down the Bass Lake Outfall Greenway from Womble, I decided to do a “reverse” route. From Womble, we took Stinson to Bass Lake Road and headed down to Bass Lake. Abe arrived at the parking lot first and led us down the mulch and over the bridge. Then to picnic shelter and DOWN the hill. We connected to Sunset Bluffs and ran about a mile total up the hill and back down. Finally, we took the Bass Lake Outfall Greenway all the way back to Womble.

Mumble chatter. Wolfpack stunk on Saturday. Football NFC and AFC championship games later today. Woody heading to the opera for some culture.
Mary: None
Announcements: F3 continues to run with 3-Alarm on Tuesdays. Many of you have seen the joy. I know it’s a challenging time of day, but it’s totally worth it.
Prayer: Full House’s M in pain from old root canal, surgery coming up. Prayers for all those brothers and families with Covid.

Good Start

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A great start to the work week! A new start for YHC taking on another gig starting today…why not step up and lead out of the gat this morning? Ice spots everywhere…running difficult.

FNG’s: nopes
Warm Up: Did Sir Fazio’s, Frankensteins, Good Mornings, Imperial Walkers.
The Workout: A quick mosey to the long stretch of non-icy road between the parking garage and end of Earp St. Suicides with Star Jumps to each light pole. 10-20-30. Mosey to the garage for some 11’s with Dirkins and Dips. A quick jaunt over to the wall for some People’s Chair x 30 IC, then 30 Prisoner Squats, then 30 SSH IC…repeato except count was 20. Followed by BTTW x 30IC, Foxhole Merkins x 30. Then repeato on that to 20 ct.
Mary: Back to the flag for Mary for LSF’s, Lunges, Pickle Pounders, and Homer to Marge.
Announcements:
T-Claps (Recognition): Moose continues to come out blazin’!!!
Prayer: All those with COVID, injured Pax.

Where did you say you got that dice from?

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FNGs: none
Warm Up: SSH, Good Mornings, Wind Mills, Imperial Walkers, Fozio Arm Circles
workout diceThe Workout: YHC got a workout dice a while back on a whim. Some PAX were unsure what kind of dice YHC brought (with some suggesting that it belonged in the bedroom and not a workout).

The workout was simple; run, roll the dice, do exercise, continue. We did merkins, lunges, LBCs, squat jumps, monkey humpers, mountain climbers, burpees and “In Air People’s Chair” (People’s Chair with no wall). Got about 1.5 miles in as well doing a loop around the high school.
Mary: Popcorn Mary followed up by some quick yoga.
Announcements: Donate blood (freed to bleed)!
T-Claps (Recognition): Sounds like a bunch of guys got out for EC this morning. Way to get after it in the cold cold gloom!
Prayer: PAX dealing with illness and injury.

Who wants to do some Merkins?

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Warm Up: Mosied over to the Hunt Center and circled up for; SSH, Good Mornings, Wind Mills, Sir Fazio Arm Circles, Seal Claps, Overhead Claps, Moroccan Night Clubs
The Workout: Ran around the back of the Hunt Center and down to the pit. YHC isn’t the best at merkins, so merkins were the main course today.

7 of Diamonds (sort of)
First corner: standard merkin x7
Second corner: standard merkin x7, Copperhead merkin x7
Third corner: standard merkin x7, Copperhead merkin x7, hand release merkin x7
Fourth corner: standard merkin x7, Copperhead merkin x7, hand release merkin x7, staggard merkin x5 each side (10 total)
First corner: Copperhead merkin x7, hand release merkin x7, staggard merkin x5 each side (10 total)
Second corner: hand release merkin x7, staggard merkin x5 each side (10 total)
Third corner: staggard merkin x5 each side (10 total)

Mosied over to the hill and lined up in plank on the hill for Clockwork merkins.
12:00 x5, 3:00 x5, 6:00 x5, 9:00 x5

Hopped over the fence for:
Urkins – top rung x10
Urkins – bottom rung x10
Durkins – bottom rung x10
Durkins – top rung x10
Dips x10

Back to Womble and to the rock pile. PAX grabbed a mediumish rock and lined up on one side of the parking lot.
Curls for the girls, in cadence x30
Triceps, in cadence x30
Ruh Rohs, in cadence x30
Bear crawls halfway across the parking lot, mosey back.
Curls for the girls, in cadence x15
Triceps, in cadence x15
Ruh Rohs, in cadence x15

Returned rocks and hopped over to the picnic shelter. More Urkins, Durkins and (French) Dips, 10 each. Followed by People’s Chair with a 10 count down the line for 50 total. Repeated once more and mosied back for Mary.

If my math is correct (and it is occasionally), we did 204 merkins today.
Mary: Popcorn Mary followed by a couple of yoga stretches
Announcements: donate blood, Q source on Wednesdays at Panara
Prayer: Da Business’s surgery, PAX dealing with illness and injury

2022 SLT!

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It is with great excitement that I share your 2022 F3 South Wake Shared Leadership Team!

 

  • 1st F – Fanny Pack
    • Fanny Pack has been our 1st F Q for about a year now and has been killing it. He has an increadible passion for all things 1st F (and all things F3 really). If you have an idea, question, or anything else related to 1st F (new AOs especially!) he’s your guy.
  • 2nd F – Full House
    • Full House is new to our SLT but certainly not to South Wake. He’ll be your guy for anything from a beer to a picnic. Have an idea for an awesome 2nd F that might take some coordination? Drop him a note and make it happen!
  • 3rd F – Abe
    • From 2F2F (that’s 2nd Friday 2nd F) lunches to service projects with the Town of Holly Springs, Abe has an absolute fire for all things F3. He’s your new 3rd F Q – this means he’s bringing the dynamite! Maybe you’ve figured out your D2X and want to put it into practice – Abe is here to help you make it happen!
  • Comz – Warbucks
    • No way you haven’t seen Warbucks all around Slack and all the AOs. He’s taking over as our Comz Q – an easily underrated portion of the SLT but critically important. From Slack to website and even more, Warbucks helps us talk all the crap outside of the workout.
  • Weasel Shaker – Woody
    • Mr. Woody. Quite the fire in this guy and a lot of it is with passion for F3! He’s taking over as Weasel Shaker – a bit of a wild card in the SLT. He’ll be keeping a keen pulse on our culture, helping watch AO numbers and placement, and lots of other things. See something that looks wrong to you? He’s your guy.
  • Recruitment – UTI
    • Fresh off being our 3rd F Q, UTI is working to establish a new position on the SLT. The vision is to identify what needs to be done to adhere to core principle #2 as well as where should we go to spread the word.

I want to stress that all of these men are not in place to be gatekeepers, but rather enablers. No one wants to play mother may I with new ideas, just make sure we don’t launch 3 AOs on the same day 1 mile from each other. Ultimately these pax all have significant vision and passion for their respective positions and I’m very eager to see what they accomplish over the coming year!

 

I’d also like to thank Dawgpound, UTI, and Mookie for their service as 2nd F Q, 3rd F Q, and Weasel Shaker over the past year! When you see these guys in the gloom give them a fist bump and a thanks!

 

As always, it is an honor to lead,

Pikachu.

Greatest Show on Turf

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9 PAX showed up for a Turf Show at Disney. Here’s what we did.

Warm up lap with agility around soccer field
Overhead claps x10 IC
Seal claps x10 IC
Willie Mays Hayes x10 IC
Copperhead squats x10 IC
Copperhead merkins x10 IC

4 corner stack’ems with cones and ladders on the transition
1 – Body builders x5
2 – Bonnie Blairs x10
3 – Crab cakes x15
4 – Bobby Hurleys x20

Bear crawl snake half length of field
– pax plank in line leaving some space for last guy to bear crawl weaving to front of line

Small wall exercises
Dips x10 IC, RLeg up x10, Lleg up x10
Box jumps x20
Diamond irkins x10
R&R half reps

Mary
Banana Seats (FM w/hands out) x20 IC
Heels to heaven x10 IC
Pretzel x10 IC switch sides
Protractor

Breach was called on to share his F3 story. Thanks and t-claps for your leadership.

Happy Birthday Pablo! Thanks for taking us out in prayer.

Thanks for letting me lead.
BS out!

The Nest is the new Disney

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FNGs: none
Warm Up: SSH, Hillbillies, Good Mornings, Fozio Arm Circles / Seal Claps / Overhead Claps. Penalty burpees were waved in light of today’s workout.
The Workout: Falcon Park has a baseball diamond. But today we used the whole park for our 7 of diamonds. One exercise performed at each corner, switching the exercise every round. Starting with 7 count and increasing by 7 each round. It went like this:
– Round 1 (performed 7 times at each corner): burpees
– Round 2 (performed 14 times at each corner): merkins
– Round 3 (performed 21 times at each corner): squats
– Round 4 (performed 28 in cadence times at each corner): LBCs
(Round 4 was performed in the parking lot with karaoke on the long sides. Someone said they felt like a princess and that The Nest was the new Disney AO.)

We then mosied over to the picnic shelter for Urkins / Durkins / Dips and People’s Chair. 3 rounds.
Mary: Popcorn Mary followed by some quick yoga.
Announcements: Jan 17th day of service.
T-Claps (Recognition): Finkle and Gamecock for taking me around their EC route.
Prayer: Kosher’s uncle Frank. Finkle’s family friend, Edna. PAX continuing to heal.
Moleskin: I’m going to steal a thought that Martini brought up at COT.
We have a limited number of days left on this planet. The average life expectancy is 78. You can do a calculation based on that to determine how many waking hours you have left (on average).
For me, 78-38=40. 40x365=14,600. 14,600x0.67=9,782.
So I have about 9,782 waking hours left, on average. This can help put things in perspective. Of course, no one is guaranteed tomorrow. We are seeing that every day.
All the more reason to make the most of today.

The Abyss is DARK (Abe Q 6 of 7)

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FNGs: none
Warm Up: Jog around the soccer field. Circled up for SSH, Good Mornings,
The Workout: Mosied over to the Abyss. YHC has been following a similar routine of four exercises, run, repeat. Simple but effective.

Round 1 (repeat 3 times)
Merkins x10
Squats x10
Lunges x10
WWIIs x10
down the Abyss and back up

Round 2 (repeat 3 times)
Shoulder Taps x10
High Knees x10
Side Lunges x10
LBCs x10
down the Abyss and back up

Round 1 (repeat 2 times)
Wide Grip Merkins x10
Tempo Squat x10
Jumping Lunges x10
American Hammers x10
down the Abyss and back up

Mosied back to start for Mary.
Mary: LBCs x30, Homer-to-Marge with single leg variation, Pickle Pounders, wrapped up with some quick yoga.
Announcements: Jan 17th day of service, sign up to Q!
T-Claps (Recognition): Full House and Miget for getting back out after recovering.
Prayer: PAX recovering from sickness and injury, Sprinkler’s family, mental health this time of year