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Chilly Hills & Thrills 🥶

FNGs: N/A

Warm Up:

– Sir Fazio Arm Circles

– Imperial Walkers

– Hill Billies

– Mtn Climbers

– Good Mornings 

The Workout:

11’s on the half-pipe
– Mtn. Climbers
– Air squats

Grabbed  coupon‘s (x15)
– chest press

– skull crusher
– LBC’s
– Coupon jumps

Mary: 🍿

Announcements:  

🧨Travis Manion Foundation F3 all AO’s shutdown workout coming up – check slack for details from Breach🧨

2023 F3SW TownHall

2023 F3 South Wake Town Hall

BREACH INTRO

Ground Rules for the Meeting – Show Respect to everyone, Let each other talk, be kind

F3 Core Principles were reviewed
 
Everyone asked to remember our WHY
 
Rough Spots Addressed Up Front – Based on Breach conversations with PAX to this point since becoming Nantan for SW
  • Breathtaker – Seen by some as a measuring contest that was limited to those with the budgets to participate
  • Covid – Division based on and still present since F3 SW AO shutdown
  • June/May Challenge – Competition/Points/Rules – PAX pushing themselves rubbed some the wrong way
Let’s use this opportunity here to discuss our perspectives, work on fixing things, and move on.
 
OPEN DISCUSSION
 
What’s the Problem/Solutions?
  • Pre-covid – more comradery, more community, more supportive.  AOs started despite the shutdown
    • Should we have more convergences to bring a larger group of PAX together more often?
    • Growing number of workouts happening at set dates/times weekly that aren’t on the website, not pre-blasted, don’t present themselves as open to all (undisclosed)
      • Concern raised about FNGs going to these undisclosed workouts, are they being introduced to the greater F3 South Wake?
      • Concern raised about a lack of time shared with PAX that only go to undisclosed workouts
    • Point Countered – some have moved away from Social Media including Slack making it harder to share with a wide audience but noted that there are still some that go to 
    • It was discussed that we have ~472 PAX listed on the website, it was estimated that we have ~100 Active PAX in reality with a split of about 20 in FV / 18 “BlackOps” / 40 HS
      • Feeling was that we are losing PAX, folks are falling out, and our division can lead to the feeling that we are lacking in community
      • It was countered that covid or not, this has always been the case.  People decide F3 isnt for them, cold weather, hot weather, life happens, injuries, it’s always in flux
      • The PAX that arent showing up are opportunities for us to continue reaching out and staying in touch – growing 2nd and 3rd F would mean avoiding losing PAX to injury or workout related reasons for not showing up.
      • Lots of good growth and FNGs joining us all the time – great leadership coming from them too.
  • We used to be more grass roots, less structured – No one person calling the shots
    • Lot’s of rules being dictated down from the leadership team, should we remove leadership and be more FREED TO LEAD?
    • Point countered
      • Leadership team is a model that exists throughout the nation.  Part of what F3 is
      • No dictators in the leadership team just FREED TO LEAD PAX trying to help set examples around the Fs
      • Other than Covid there have been no rules or mandates passed down nor should any one F3 person be able to do so.
      • As in Covid, it was suggested that F3 not officially meet in alignment with national and state laws – black ops AOs popped up, no one stopped them.
  • Transitioned to a run club, covid spurred more running for all PAX and it’s continued
    • Bootcamps are pushing 3+ miles, R4TJ is pushing 9-10 miles
      • Was told that if you don’t expect to bring 3 mile minimum to Paradise City, don’t expect to Q by Site Q
    • Point countered re:mileage
      • Strava shows more experienced runners ‘picking up the six’ for greater mileage at AOs
      • Paradise City is listed as a high intensity workout with a 3 mile min expectation every week
    • BREACH:
      • Reviewing website listings to ensure clarity on what bootcamps vs running vs high intensity means
      • Conversations with Site Qs around working to maintain a standard depending on the expectation bootcamps should be less than 2mi, shovel flags, Q School, etc
  • Did we grow too fast?  Should we consider shutting down some AOs?
    • Discussion in the room resulted in the idea that AOs should self-govern, Site Qs should take responsibility/decision to officially close it down based on lack of attendance/Qs
  • We need to plant shovel flags more often
    • Site Qs need to take responsibility for planting a flag
    • It was suggested that we should have a 2nd F for making shovel flags – DOC and VIDEO examples – these are all over the internet
  • We need to keep up with BackBlasts
    • These are maybe largely unseen but a valuable resource for FNGs learning about F3 and eventually running their own Qs
    • Can be valuable to PAX going to a new/different AO to get a sense of what typically happens there.
    • Can be valuable to PAX Qing an AO for the first time
    • BackBlast Generator is now available to make it easier – Ask SoftServe for a website login if you dont already have one.
  • 2nd F
    • Is in a good place – Coffee is shared almost daily and regularly
    • It was asked that there be more emphasis on sticking around after COT if possible, 2nd F can be open to more with a few more minutes in the lot
    • More social events?  Rush Hour Karting was suggested recently, talk of a 75 Hard BBQ Celebration
      • Need more leadership in planning events, just like 1st this is a leadership opportunity
      • Doesn’t have to be well thought out or planned – Pick up BB games, Disc Golf, whatever you’re into just invite others if you are looking for people to hang with.
  • 3rd F
    • We have always been great about stepping up and taking care of our own – family hardships, celebrating new 2.0s, moves, etc
    • HS Food Cupboard is still out there but they are getting alot of support from the Boy Scouts, less needs for us at the moment
    • Holly Springs and Fuquay Town partnerships have been good for F3 SW
      • Can we shift our relationship to be less about manual labor?  What else can we offer?  Professional Services?
      • It was pointed out that things like HollyFest have been great for bringing FNGs to Fuquay
      • FV PAX were set to be at CelebrateFV but it was cancelled due to weather in 2022
      • We are listed as a free exercise class in Fuquay Parks and Rec – has brought FNGs and made our workouts officially sanctioned by the town so we won’t be kicked out of parks.
    • School Partnerships to find more 3rd F opportunities, improve our relationships there as well
      • Will likely need to find local school leaders – NutCracker has had the Principal at a workout before 😀
    • Parade Participation?
    • Abe is our 3rd F Q
      • Reach out if you need support with any ideas on 3rd F leadership opportunities.
      • Freed to lead, we need leadership in 3rd F and 2nd F like we have in 1st.  If you see something worth doing go after it.
    • 3rd F is organic and is best limited to 3-5 guys, shared bible study or book study
    • Doesn’t just have to be about doing physical good, it’s about spiritual good as well.  Great examples out there today on this too.
CLOSING THOUGHTS
  • We can’t force our way back to the way things were.  Things Change.
  • Intentionality.  We should still figure out who we want to be as a region and individuals and work towards it.
  • Negativity spawns negativity – we need to be mindful of how we talk to one another.  Especially on Slack where inside jokes and playful banter can be taken the wrong way.  
  • Slack – Think your messages through and recognize when in-person, phone, or direct text messages to smaller groups are warranted.
  • If you aren’t adhering to the F3 Core Principles, you aren’t running or attending an F3 workout.

1 and Done

3 HIM decided to make their way to Disney on a wet and warm morning in the gloom. YHC had two plans of which both should equally suck. A shelter workout if it was pouring or a trip to the stairs aka The Abyss in the drizzle. We all agreed this was a terrible workout so my vote is for it to be retired. One and Done. Here it is.

We ripped the bandaid right off taking a lap around the track and hitting multiple large puddles.

Warm up back in parking lot.
Good mornings
Willie Mayes Hayes
Frankensteins
Mtn climbers
Merkins

Main Event
We each grabbed a cinderblock from the secret hideout. Then moseyed over to the Abyss. YHC called out the exercises.
100 Abyss merkins using the blocks
100 ground pounders with blocks
100 rut rows with blocks
Break these reps up into 5-6 rounds.
Staggered going down and up the stairs.
1st trip – bear crawl down and run back up
2nd – run down bear crawl up
3rd – run down bunny hop up
4th – run down hit every step both feet up
5th – OYO
6th – OYO
Great support to finish all the reps as we were completely smoked on the last round.

Mosey back to return blocks.

45 secs for Mary but YHC choose to not get our backs wet. You’re welcome.

No new announcements.
Prayers for Breach traveling. Bobby with possible job change. My M with a cough that keeps hanging around.

Men, thanks for the support. I tend to come up with stuff that will challenge myself and others but still be able to modify. This one really pushed me to exhaustion. Great push from all. Pleasure to lead.

BS Out!

Ultimate Frisbee 5 vs 6

FNGs None

warmups:  ssh, Frankensteins, daisy pickers, OYO

great match-ups, lots of extra running on the pitch.  Mis-marked end zones – (I blame Gump not supervising me).  Surprisingly the team of five played pretty well considering they were out numbered and had an a old fat guy trying to keep up with the young guns.  Dropped passes resulted in burpees, merkins, monkey-humpers, star jumps, etc  TDs resulted in merkins, LBCs, SSHs, etc.

no injuries reported.  Hope to see more PAX under the lights after up-coming marathons

announcements:  Breach at the boathouse later this week – see slack for details

prayers:  positive marriage update with Wham-O & his M – (awesome!). Lean on the pax who have been married 20, 25, 30 yrs.  We have all had our ups and downs in our marriages. We may not know the answers but we can give a good listen and possibly share/learn from our experiences.

Thank you Breach for taking us out.
2nd F at Paneras.

 

honored to lead. – Dauber

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Oh brother, where art thou?

FNGs: Bellhop (brought to us by Jigglypuff from Carpex)

Warm Up: 0530 rolled around with no sign of Q, so Abe started things off with the warm up. Into was given to the FNG. SSH, Daisy pickers, Imperial Walkers, Hillbillies, Sure Fazio Arm Circles, Seal Claps, Overhead Claps

The Workout: Breach took over for the first part of the workout. We moseyed over to the rock pile. Let’s if heavy lifting followed by a bear crawl / push the rock and lunge back.

Next, Woody took us over to the amphitheater where things got a little tense as we squared up with the Crazy Ivan crew. Woody had us do arm and legs including step ups, dips, durkins and People’s Chair. The rounds of burpees on our way back to start.

Mary: Kosher moseyed in for Mary and to face the music. Popcorn Mary to wrap things up.

Announcements: Take care of yourselves out there, we aren’t invincible.

T-Claps (Recognition): PAX for stepping up and leading in turns.

Prayer: Wild Turkeys friend who passed away and his family.

Cocaine Bear

Greenway Parking Lot Pain

FNGs: None

Warm Up: slide straddle hops, good mornings, willie mays hayes, sir fazio arm circles, seal claps

The Workout: Moseyed on over to the Greenway Parking Lot to do something I am retrospectively choosing to call, “Build-a-Cocaine-Bear.” Zig-zagging up and down the parking lot, we did bear crawls along each parking space line; skips across the lot; bear crawl over to the next parking space line; reverse burpee (starting from bear crawl mode – 1 merkin, jump up, then back to bear crawl) once up against each parking space curb; back to bear crawl from the curb to the end of the parking space line; skip again across the lot. We did this until we got from the farthest NW side of the lot down to the SE side.

Next, we did 11s of american hammers on one side of the lot and curbside merkins on the other side. Lunges going one way and crab walk going back.

Mary: low slow flutters, LBCs, homer to marge, pickle pounders

Announcements: Breach looking to boost our 2ndF game

T-Claps (Recognition):none

Prayer: Pumps – prayers up that families might be able to get healthy after long season of cold/flu/etc; Abacus – prayers up for Anderson family after the loss of their child. 2 Corinthians 1:1-11

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☠︎ Chrome Dumpster Beatdown ☣︎

Temp was good for a solid beat down! I showed up 2 mins early but only because it’s my Q 🤣 and I knew Breach would give me shit if I was late for my own Q. Respectfully so 🤘. U.T.I. was right on time but had to put his shoes on when he got to Disney so naturally when he joined the warm up circle we all did 5 burpees to honor his lateness. During transition from the wall to the next exercise we stopped and did some LBC’s per usual conversation struck up and some U.T.I. miss heard an old military slang term from Breach as “Chrome Dumpster” 😆. We all had a good laugh and it was the word of the day at 2nd F @ Duncan Donuts.

FNGs: N/A

Warm Up:

  • SSH | Good mornings | Sir Fazio’s – circles front and back, over head claps & seal claps | Mtn. Climbers (x15)

The Workout:

  • took it to the stairs for some 10 x 10’s exercise at the bottom and another at the top (3 rounds)
  • Grabbed :coupon:’s and took it to the soccer field for some interval circuits = front squat :coupon: | frog jump + crawl backs | shoulder press :coupon: | high knees (4) to squat jump (x5) (3 rounds)
  • Wall sits, Erkins, Derkins & Dips (x10)

Mary:

  • homer to marge | pickle pounders | popcorn mary after that

Announcements: Working on getting a list and map of all the A.E.D.’s in the area.

Prayer: Bondo’s Son | Best in Shows Mother in Law | U.T.I.’s Mother in Law

Sheepdog delight – 01/13/23

EC: Farva & Shredder
Warm Up
: Follow the leader up and down the parking lines; front, back, sidesteps. 50 SSH IC, Sir Fazio Arm Circles, seal claps, overhead claps till it all burned and then we held them out a little longer. Good mornings, IW and HBs.
The Workout: The main event consisted of moseying to various locations and then knocking out exercises. 50 toe taps IC, single leg deadlifts while balancing on a curb, TUT dips, Dekin shoulder taps, combo front kicks from parking line to parking line adding one additional Merkin at each line, then lunge walks adding on additional star jump at each line, stair sprints, TUT erkins and lunges.
Mary: 5o LBCs IC and 7 heal taps.
Announcements: TMF proceeds for the SW Beer mile.
Prayer: Breach took us out 🙏🏼

In Memory of Cardinal (F3 Knoxville)

FNGs: none

From F3 Knoxville: “With heavy hearts we share this news: tragically and sadly, we lost our F3 brother, Cardinal (Taylor Phelps), during a workout this morning. He had a big smile, bigger heart, and we loved having him at our Rampart AO. He leaves behind a wife and two young children, and was the Senior Pastor at Caney Ford Baptist Church (Harriman). He was a High Impact Man and we mourn his loss deeply. Please keep his family and the men that were with him yesterday morning in your thoughts and prayers during this difficult time.

To help support Cardinal’s family, a GoFundMe has been created. All of these funds will be given to his wife.”

https://www.gofundme.com/…/in-memory-of-taylor-phelps…



Warmup:

 

SSH x15 IC

Tempo Merkins x10 IC

Low Slow Flutter x10 IC

Sir Fazio Arm Circles x10 IC Forward/Reverse

Hallelujahs x10 IC

Samson Hold 20 secs

MICHAEL PHELPS

Knoxville Cherry Pickers x10 IC

Willie Mays Hays x 10 IC

 

Workout – “Card’s Run and Repeat”

 

3 rounds of exercises. Do set at one end of field/lot, run to other end, repeato. Then go to next round.

 

Round 1 – Burpees, Big Boy Situps, Heels to Heaven x5 each

Round 2 – Burpees, LBC IC, Mountain Climbers IC x10 each

Round 3 – Burpees, Squats, Freddie Mercury IC x 15 each

 

Squat hold for the 6 when you return until all PAX have finished

 

As a group if there is time: (and there was)

 

Burpees x 20, run to other end of field/lot and repeat

 

Mary:

 

Popcorn consisting of WW2, box cutters, alphabet soup, homer to marge, pickle pounders, shoulder taps, LBC, heel taps, and some yoga/stretching.



Notes:

 

Tempo Merkin – 1, 2, 3 lowering. Up on 4.

Knoxville Cherry Picker – aka Daisy Picker

Hallelujahs – Hands up at ear level. Raise up to full extension. 1 up, 2 down, 3 up, 4 down.

Samson Holds – Arms straight out like you’re pushing against two pillars (hence name). Hold until complaining from PAX is sufficient.

Announcements: MLK day of service – opps to serve

T-Claps (Recognition): Abe for HSFC drive

Prayer: Cardinal, F3 Knoxville, his family, sick and injured PAX

Breach took us out.

Honor to Lead.

New AO: Ultimate Frisbee at Ting: U.F.O. (25 PAX)

FNGs:  none
Warm Up:  Grateful for Yogurt leading us with SSH, Frankensteins, etc
The Workout:  12 v 13 Ultimate. Drops resulted in merkins, squats, SSH…

Scores resulted in burpees, LBCs, star jumps…

Some very nice plays on the pitch!  Well done.

Mary:  static stretches OYO
Announcements:

PAX in attendance helped Gump and YHC name this AO;  we offered up three choices with an honorable mention:

Choices:  Paradise Lost, Paradise Gained, U.F.O. & Elenor Frisbee (although a nice recommendation from the crowd – Vicious Discus).   Not sure if the PAX were thrilled with our top 4.  Regardless, U.F.O. was a near unanimous vote.  Questions asked what it stood for? – – – so many recommendations & examples from the PAX – some not permitted in this PG space.

Going forward, each Q will determine the abbreviation.  Let’s have some FUN with it.

Tues nights with 3 Alarm – come out and support another new official AO (great work Wild Turkey, Yogurt, Moose…).
Tea Time tonight

Change of Command:  Nantan – Thank you Pikachu!  Welcome Breach!

 

Q-School next Sunday at 1400.  See Banana Seat.

 

T-Claps (Recognition):  All the PAX who came out this AM

Prayer:  YHC took us out.  UNSPOKEN.
Honored to lead. -Dauber