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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

Noice Ordinance Choppa Q

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FNGs: 2 now Rump and Goldfish

Warm Up:SSH, Good Mornings, windmills, Hillbillies

The Workout:partner Sandbag throw 50 yards while one partner does merkins

roll the dice for workout while one pax carries a 80pound sandbag

 Mary:none

 Announcements:Adopt a highway March 8th 10:30am Vote for Best in Shows of

 T-Claps (Recognition):Breach and Shooting Blanks in The race for the sun. Yogurt in a mountain bike race  Prayer: for guys that aren’t here 

9 MEN vs Hurriane Debby

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Hurricane Debbie is flooding the streets, but that didn’t stop 9 MEN that courageously faced the wind and the rain. Everyone was soaked in about 10 seconds of exiting their vehicles.

EC: 3 miles ShootingBlanks, Downrange, Mr. Terrific

FNGs: Didn’t show, Debby scared them off?

Warm Up: Side-straddle hopps, shoulder taps, plank jacks, 

The Workout: 5 rounds of 4 Corners, escalating. Mosey between corners, sprint to the finish line, pick up the six when done with your round

Round 1, C1 5 burpees /  C2 10 Murkins / C3 15 LBCs / C4 20 squats. 

Round 2, C1 5 burpees /  C2 5 burpees, 10 Murkins / C3 5 burpees, 15 LBCs / C4 5 burpees, 20 squats. 

Round 3, C1 5 burpees, 10 Murkins /  C2 5 burpees, 10 Murkins / C3 5 burpees, 10 Murkins, 15 LBCs / C4 5 burpees, 10 Murkins, 20 squats. 

Round 4, C1 5 burpees, 10 Murkins, 15 LBCs/  C2 5 burpees, 10 Murkins, 15 LBCs / C3 5 burpees, 10 Murkins, 15 LBCs / C4 5 burpees, 10 Murkins, 15 LBCs, 20 squats. 

Round 5, C1 5 burpees, 10 Murkins, 15 LBCs, 20 squats /  C2 5 burpees, 10 Murkins, 15 LBCs, 20 squats / C3 5 burpees, 10 Murkins, 15 LBCs, 20 squats / C4 5 burpees, 10 Murkins, 15 LBCs, 20 squats

Mary: LBCs, Low-slow flutter, Have a nice day

Announcements: Shooting Blanks has some generators for sale

T-Claps (Recognition): Courageous PAX in the hurricane wind and rain.

Prayer: Shooting Blanks’ family member is moving next week, health concerns, safety in the storm

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FNGs: none 🙁

Warm Up: SSH, Good Mornings, 5 penalty burpees, Imperial Walkers, Hillbillies, Willie Mays Hayes, Sir Fazio Arm Circles, Seal Claps, Overhead Claps

The Workout: We moseyed over to the rock pile to get some medium rocks. Headlights came down the drive, 5 more penalty burpees.

Today’s workout was a tabata-style circuit. 3 stations, 2 minutes on and half a minute of rest. We did 4 rounds. The stations consisted of the following:

Station 1
– 20 Jump Squats
– 10 Merkins
– AMRAP Burpees

Station 2
– 20 Reverse Goblet Lunges
– 10 Supine Bodyweight Rows
– AMRAP “Kettlebell” Swings

Station 3
– 20 Step-Ups
– 10 Overhead Press
– AMRAP Box Jumps

We returned our rocks and circled up at the flags.

Mary: LBCs and Homer-to-Marge was all we had time for.

Announcements:
– Suicide Prevention Class
– Bottle Share
– Core Challenge

Prayer: Thanks for new jobs, Jill and Scott’s families for their losses, Downrange’s wife, other’s who are injured

We gathered for parking lot coffee afterwards.

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PSA: Backblasts are important!!!

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FNGs: Nope, also no sign of the legendary Dick Root…

Warm Up:

Mosey from flag to corner of lot, circle up

SSH x 25 IC

Good mornings x 10 IC

Sir Fazio Arm Circles x 10 IC F/R

Seal Claps x 10 IC

Willie Mays Hays x 10 IC

Moroccan Night Clubs x 10 IC

The Workout:

THANG 1:

PAX moseyed to far end of lot to the dead end area. PAX partnered up and completed a partner DORA consisting of 100 Merkins, 200 Squats, and 300 LBC. Partner 1 completed exercises while Partner 2 ran to the flag and back, switch it up until done. Strong work by all PAX here picking up the 6/finishing together.

THANG 2:

Mosey to side wall of the church, where we did two rounds of people’s chair and chillcutt plank holds. The first round we did 10 count each PAX, 2nd round we did 20 count each PAX thanks to some poorly timed jokes from Hasselhoff and Downrange – bet they won’t do that again. 🙂

THANG 3:

PAX moseyed back to area where we completed our warmup. We completed a round of Guantanamo (PAX lay down side by side, all raise legs to 30 degrees, PAX at the end of the line gets up and goes down the line pushing down the other PAXs feet while they attempt to not let their heels hit the ground).

YHC then tried to call something that I’ve never done before and probably isn’t in the F3 exicon. I had the PAX flip over into standard plank, and much like Guantanamo, I had the PAX at the end of the line to down the line and try to push down on each PAX back while they maintained plank. After a few PAX went down the line, Best in Show made a suggestion to stop before we hurt someone’s back…that was definitely the right call so we switched to having the PAX at the end of the line slap hands with the PAX doing planks as they ran by. Think 1996 Bulls theme music here…so if I had to name that revised exercise, I’d call it “Sirius” named after the Bulls theme song. If you’ve never heard it or have no idea what I’m talking about, watch this – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HYj-uV9NGc

Mary: Popcorn including Boxcutters, Heel Taps, Low Slow Flutter, Dying Cockroach, WW1, Freddie Mercury, Homer to Marge, Pickle Pounders, and a little stretching.

Announcements:

  • 2nd F event upcoming for shovel flag builds, see details on slack from BnB and Firefly.
  • Stressed importance of site Qs having flags at their AOs.
  • Also stressed importance of backblasts. The Thanks Pumpkin Spice for raising this. We have gotten bad about backblasts – this is how we keep track of what we’ve done and we help inspire other PAX and guys that may want to Q for the first time and need ideas. Or if you’re like me and you’ve been at it for a while, I always like new ideas and sometimes reference old backblasts to get inspiration and switch it up a bit.
  • Re: backblasts, posting 2 sentences on Slack with PAX name IS NOT a backblast…something like this one I’m writing now IS.
    • Seems like there was confusion amongst the PAX around what a backblast actually is. I’ll own that as one of the guys that has been around longer.
    • Guys, if you’ve been around for a while, coach the newer guys on this. And if you’ve been around for a while and have just gotten Slack about it (see what I did there?), then tighten up…Let’s not lose the plot on why we do what we do!
    • Use the backblast generator on f3southwake.com. You’ll need a login if you don’t have one in order to post these. If you don’t have one, get with our comms Q Softserve and he will get you going.

T-Claps (Recognition):

PAX going after 5 packs this week including Pumpkin Spice and YHC. Even our visitor Bo Peep from F3 Cherokee is 4 for 4 this week and looking to get out before he leaves town tomorrow. What’s your excuse?

Prayer:

Best In Show’s friend Starla who is dealing with a falling syndrome and getting lots of concussions, my friend Trent’s mother in law Linda who was just diagnosed with Leukemia, PAX dealing with job issues/loss/stress of their own or in some cases Ms or family members. Praise for successful carpal tunnel surgery for my dad yesterday.

YHC took us out. Make it a great day, guys!