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To cool for the parking deck

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YHC is battling an injury and wanted a low running workout, so when Coal Ash was looking for a last minute Q I jumped on it. 7 PAX got after it in the rain for some rock action.

EC: Redenbacher, UTI
FNGs:Not this day
Warm Up:
Slaughter starter (20 burpees OYO)
5 penalty burpees for Red’s tardiness.

Mosey to rock pile and grabs rock for later.Circle up for:
20 SSH
1 burpee
10 Windmills
2 burpees
Sir Fazio arm circles
3 burpees
10 merkins
4 burpees
10 mtn climbers
5 burpees

The Workout:

Grab rock and get comfy for the rest of the workout.

Circle of pain looked like:
3 rock exercises (upper, lower, core) at each rock, plank/squat shuffle to next rock, 5 merkins, and repeato until we traveled around the entire circle. I don’t remember the entire order, but we did all of these:

Upper: OH press, curls, tricep ext, wonderbras, side bends, side throws, rows
Lower: squats, lunges, ground pounders, monkey humpers, star jumps
Core: LSF, WW1, Homer to Marge, LBCs

Mary:
Hundreds
Alphabet
American hammers
Pickle pounders

Announcements:
Throwback and qswap weeks

T-Claps (Recognition):
Strong F3 start for Teen Wolf!

Prayer:
Pilgrim, Slide Rule, remember real reason for Christmas, unspoken

YHC took us out.

Field Trip

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EC: 187, Aquaman, Deadbolt, Mookie

FNGs:None
Warm Up:SSH, Daisy Pickers, Frankenstein kicks and off we went
The Workout:2 group indian run to downtown. On the way out, 20 merkins at every intersection, every other bench was either 20 dips or 20 derkins (there are way more benches downtown than you think).

On the way back, benches either 20 squats or 20 LBCs IC and 20 more LBCs IC at every intersection.

Stoped at the beginning of Stinson and partnered up. While one held Chill Cut the other ran 2 poles down and back, then both would run down 2 poles and start over until we reached the Ivan lot for Mary. 2.5 miles were covered.
Mary:20 Fredie Mercury IC, 20 LBCs IC, hard run back to tennis courts for COT.
Announcements:
T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer:YHC took us out.

Cletus gets a UTI (╬ ಠ益ಠ)

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It’s been a spell since Yogurt EH’d me for this Q.  I want to thank him for bringing me this opportunity.  I’m again very humbled by the turnout today.  Whether it was for me specifically or Cletus was just the place you wanted to spend your Friday in the gloom – I thank you.  So close to Christmas with all of the things I know we collectively have going on, it is awesome to share the morning with you guys.  I feel humbled to have been the Q this morning and to witness it.  I hope you got your money’s worth.  The year isnt over yet!!!  SYITG <3 UTI

EC: Nemo, Mookie, 187, Pikachu, Redenbacher, LED, Maybelline

YHC hit the olde snooze button this morning and barely made EC.  In fact, I was late.  I chalked up nearly 2 miles in the time allowed and barely got to see any of the HIM that actually made it out there on time.  Good work PAX!

FNGs: No Sir

Warm Up:

  • Mozy from the flag to the lot formerly known as the Ivan lot
  • SSH ~25 IC
  • Hillbillies 14 IC
  • Imperial Walkers (In Honor of Star Wars) 14 IC
  • Daisy Pickers – 14 IC
  • Fozio Arm Circles – 14 Forward 14 Back, IC

The Workout:

Thing 1

  • Groups of 5ish PAX line up in Indian Run formation.  Move to Bear Crawl position.  Indian Bear Crawl to mid lot and Jailbreak.  5 burpees.  Assume formation again and return to other side in exact same way.
  • Repeato 1x

Thing 2

  • Mozy to Amphitheater.
  • Dips, Erkins, Derkins – 20 each
  • Split PAX in 2, half on the wall for People’s Chair, half complete 20 Box Jumps and switch
  • Half on the wall for Balls2Wall, half complete 20 step-ups (10 each foot) and switch
  • Dips, Erkins, Derkins – 15 each
  • Split PAX in 2, half on the wall for People’s Chair, half complete 20 Box Jumps and switch
  • Half on the wall for Balls2Wall, half complete 20 step-ups (10 each foot) and switch
  • Dips, Erkins, Derkins – 10 each
  • Split PAX in 2, half on the wall for People’s Chair, half complete 20 Box Jumps and switch
  • Half on the wall for Balls2Wall, half complete 20 step-ups (10 each foot) and switch

Thing 3

  • Mozy to hand rail near baseball fields
  • Split PAX in 2, half on the hand rail for pull-ups, half complete Prisoner Squats to 20 and Switch
  • Split PAX in 2, half on the hand rail for pull-ups, half complete Prisoner Squats to 10 and Switch
  • Return to the flag

Mary:

  • Dying Cockroach 14 IC
  • Box Cutters 14 IC
  • Homer to Marge – 14 IC
  • Pickle Pounders – ~10? IC – Time caught us

Announcements:

  • 24hr Run Supporting Healing Transitions this weekend – Sat 3pm to Sun 3pm
  • AGS needs a Q – Mookie is suggesting that instead of AGS, make the 24hr run your target
  • Good things coming from 3rd F
  • Call out from DoubleD to take 3rd F seriously – it has an impact on your life and its ok to miss 1st F to make 3rd F a bigger part of your life.
  • Get up with Pikachu about the Emergency contact registry (esp Site Qs so you know how to access it quickly)
  • Be on the lookout for some emergency response training.  Good session in 2019 with the Holly Springs FD

T-Claps (Recognition):

  • The PAX that kept compressions going for Sgt Pepper.  They saved his life an made sure the EMS team had a patient when they arrived.  Way to be!

Prayer:

  • SlideRule and family – new baby TBN (to be named)
  • Sharapova and family – new baby
  • Sgt Pepper and family – suffered a heart attack during a workout
  • Safe travels to all this weekend if you are heading out – be safe

Great 2nd F at Harvest Moon today guys!

F3 365

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2019 was the first year that YHC has tracked workouts consisently. Early in the year the goal was F3 250 (250 workouts throughout the year – half marathons count as 1, marathons count as 2, 4+ hour CSAUPs count as 4, black ops runs with F3 brothers also count, nothing else does though) but fairly early on I gave myself an additional stretch goal of F3 365. I’m fortunate enough to have lots of time to work out based on where I’m at in life, and double downs could be a freuent occurence on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays. The only concern was work travel – a long trip to Europe in the spring put me behind early and I didn’t really catch back up until sometime over the summer. It was in the fall that I became confident that I would hit the goal, but I didn’t actually verbalize it to anyone outside of my M until sometime in the past week.

It made for a heck of a year. The biggest thing I’ll say is that we have a ton of amazing pax down here in South Wake – if you’re one of them then thank you for an awesome year. If you haven’t been out to some of the more niche AOs (looking at you Tea Time, Thunder, and Ground Pounder) then I would highly recommend it – not all of the fun happens at 0530 on a weekday morning!

I don’t know what my goals will be for 2020, but I know that repeating this will not be one of them. I’m sure I’ll come up with something stupid though.

Based on all of that – I elected to Q Cletus knowing that I would be really close to 365 (ended up being 364 because of a fart sack at Paradise City that I got so excellently called out for) but we were still committed to 365 reps for the workout.

FNGs: None today
Warm Up:

SSH x10

Half lap over to old Ivan lot

The Workout:

Rep count = 10

 

Four corners on soccer field

 

At each corner – 5x double merkin burpees

10x Turkish getups

10x Breakdancers

10x Star jumps

When passing pull-up bars – 10x pull ups

 

After lap 1 rep count = 160

 

Between laps we did 10x IC balls to the wall at the amphitheater. We also modified the 2nd lap swapping out star jumps for merkins for the sake of Shamwow’s ankle.

 

After 2nd lap rep count = 320

 

Mosey back to tennis courts, line up on near line. Bear crawl across, crawl bear back, with exercises at each end:

 

Breakdancer x10

Diamond Merkin x10

Scorpion dry dock x10

LBC x10

 

Rep count = 360

Mary:

5 double merkin burpees OYO to get us to 365 reps total
Announcements:

Christmas party
T-Claps (Recognition):

Hardy – no way I would’ve been getting after it at 5 something in the morning at his age.
Prayer:

Wallaby. Holiday season. Oboe’s father in law.

They Like Me! They Really Like Me!

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As you can read on the social medias TBD (or really Aquaman) and R4TJ (really all of the R4TJ site Qs past and present) have had sort of a love/HATE relationship.  As you can also read about on the social medias…  I was double dog dared into Qing at TBD.  Further back story from the social medias…  Aquaman was not attending my glorious Q that he EH’d me into and was now at R4TJ!?!?  Apparently he was happy to be at R4TJ as long as I wasn’t there.  What a baby!

I wake up and quickly sit down, as I do most mornings, and ponder what workout is in store.  This morning, I was reviewing my winky (not that winky) and making sure I was ready to roll.  As I sit in the quiet of a sleeping house, I hear the loudish sound of rain on the roof.  Not surprised, it was forecasted but it does have me rethinking a few things.  In all of my initial planning I was DETERMINED not to do any running so the workout was mostly stationary anyway.  I wasn’t excited about the rain personally but that’s the F3 life.  Eventually, I stood up, got ready, and was out the door.

So… I arrived at TBD.  Determined like they say are “to be” here.  One truck in the lot.  A car arrives, its FIA.  Minutes to spare and two more cars.  The time is upon us and today’s DETERMINED were out of their cars.  Some PAX were in rain gear but I assured them that we were going to take full advantage of this AOs amenities.  We mozy’d to the big shelter where we were surprised to find the lights on.  Fancy!

EC: My excuses include – it was raining, I was tired, and my foot hurts…

FNGs: I hear they don’t like rain…so no

Warm Up:

  • 10x IC Good Mornings
  • 15x IC Daisy Pickers
  • 15x IC Imperial Walkers
  • 15x Hillbillies
  • 20x Windmills
  • 30x Prisoner Squats

A pause in the rain seemed like the right time to go grab some rocks.  We mozy’d over and grabbed one.  On the return we John Cusak’d our rocks overhead.  Then Left Hand only, Then Right Hand only.  We rounded out Warm-up with a staple…

  • 40x SSH

The Workout:

  • DORA in the shelter
    • Partner Up, We went 3 and 2 based on our numbers.
    • Partner 1 completed a circuit of step-ups, step downs around the perimeter of the shelter on the picnic tables
    • Partner 2 worked through 100 Merkins, 200 LBCs, and 300 squats
    • Switch at the completion of the tables circuit

It was during this DORA that I was shown how empty Aquaman’s rhetoric really is.  He missed me sooooo much, he brought R4TJ through the park and past the shelter to say hi!  Even the PAX formerly known as LipSync was there.  Pikachu and Abe and Red.  We got some junk for being in the shelter but I say… when the AO has shelter and it’s raining… its fair game.  Like Aquaman is ever here anyway…  He probably didnt even know TBD had a shelter…

  • Coyote Ugly
    • 2 stations of 2, 1 was doing row-ups from the end of a picnic bench
    • Rotate to row-up station
    • Each person plays the wheelbarrow role 3x to complete
  • Rock Work – Repeato 2x
    • 20x Overhead Press
    • 20x IC Curls for Girls
    • 20x On your 6 – Chest Press
    • 15x On Your 6 – Pull Over
    • 30x IC American Hammers
    • 20x IC Tricep Extentions

Mary: Aquaman’s Core O’ Rama (a show of respect)

Announcements: Xmas Party – Good 2nd F stuff happening there, 24 Hr Run – Good 1st, 2nd, and 3rd F opportunity all balled into one.  See M4L and slack-o-sphere for details.

T-Claps (Recognition): These dudes didnt know if they would get to be in the shelter today but they still showed up and delivered.  Way to be!

Prayer: Kosher’s cousin Nikki, lost her husband to suicide

Accountability

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FNGs: Mr. Terrific (aka: Quitter)
The Workout:

We worked out, it was hard.  Not a lot of mumble chatter to be heard.  I tried to mix up legs / core / shoulders / chest.  Got a bit more than a mile in, but I know my heart rate was up the whole time.

More importantly, though.  Twice during the workout, instead of a count-hold, I asked the PAX to share.  Why do you do F3?  What makes you keep doing F3?  What do you need from your F3 brothers during the holidays?

A quick sample of popular responses:

  • “Family is my biggest stress during the holidays (and also what I look forward to the most during the holidays)”
  • “I need / look forward to accountability from my F3 brothers.”
  • “I want to pray for a lot of close friends struggling with mental health / family issues (but don’t want to really admit I have the same stuff going on)”

Accountability in Fitness is why we keep coming back.  I hope we take a few moments to think about what Accountability would look like outside of a workout.  I’m glad that I’m 20 pounds lighter, a few minutes faster, a lot of pullups stronger after 3 years of F3.  I’m more thankful that I’ve got a group of guys who are helping me be a better husband / father / son.  In 2020, my goal is to make it easier for the whole of f3SouthWake to find that if they’re looking for it.

Announcements: Christmas Party; Oakwood 24
T-Claps (Recognition): Great to see Shredder back in the Gloom, especially FNG in tow
Prayer: Oakwood 24; Family burdens; Quiver; Mental Health; More Family

Cletus gets a younger Q. The year of Katniss!

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EC:  Katniss, Full House, Maybelline, UTI

PAX:  Katniss, Full House, Maybelline, UTI, Yogurt, Doc, Fanny Pack, Tetanus, Kosher, Dahmer, Abe, Roger Roger, Snap, Florence, Hardy, Oboe, and Poop Eater

FNGs: Nope

So I have to poke fun that Cletus indeed gets a younger Q, unfortunately the previous Q can put most 20 year olds to shame and we will just have to see about the new Q, although I expect him to at least carry on the impeccable cadence and count that you have come to expect!

As a side note, Poop Eater and UTI were in rare form, and brought much comic relief to the workout.  Yes, I do think it’s appropriate to group Poop Eater and UTI antics together.

Warm Up: 10 Fazio arm circles forward and back, 10 overhead claps, 10 seal claps, 20 SSH, 10 Imperial Walkers, 10 Hillbillies, 10 Daisey Pickers
The Workout:

1) A modified 4 corner Stack’em around the soccer field, 10 Squats in cadence, 10 Merkins, 10 LBC’s, and 10 Mountain climbers in Cadence.  Sprint log sections, Mosey short sections.  Subtract exercise on the next lap

2) Mosey to the rock pile, 15 curls for the girls, 15 overhead press, 15 tricep extentions.  Split Indian run around the baseball field, repeat exercises with rock and head back for Mary

Mary: Popcorn from the Pax
Announcements: Frosty (well it’s too late you missed it), Oakwood 24 event for healing transitions, Christmas party next Saturday
T-Claps (Recognition):  Yogurt’s leadership for Cletus for the last year!
Prayer:  Kosher’s cousin’s family, Quiver and family

How do you come up with this stuff?

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YHC rolled in with 2 mins to go while others kept rolling in as well. Went to get my shovel flag set up but the M had the trunk full so no time for shovel. Instead stuck the flag in the fencing by the tennis courts. FIA lady wanted a selfie with someone for a game so let me know if I show up on an adult cheating site. YHC was hoping for 6 for the new exercise we would try out and got 9. Perfect! 8 seconds until go time, no FNG’s. Let’s do this!

Warm Up:
Strong mosey around the ball fields stopping 4 times for some warm up exercises.

Plank jacks x20 IC
Windmills x10 IC
Goofballs x20 IC
Donkey kicks x10 IC (off dugout wall)

The Workout:
Mosey to field near rocks (groups of 3)
Ménage Merkin x10 3 rds
– Chillcut position for two PAX while third man does inverted merkins off back and shoes
*Credit to Doc for naming these and also stated “I think it’s harder on the bottom” (That’s what she said)

Grab a schmedium rock
Lunge each leg then prisoner get up with rock across field. 40 yds

Colt 45’s – biceps then triceps (form)
Freddie Mercury‘s x20 IC to catch out breath

Broad jump brockee back across field
Low slow flutter x20 IC
Colt 45’s – biceps then triceps
*Snap’s comment earned the title for this BB “Where do you come up with this stuff?”

Return rocks and mosey to shelter.
Alternating side step ups on picnic table between benches.
True abyss Merkins x10
Mosey back to tennis courts

Mary:
Dying cockroach x20 IC
Pretzel x20 IC (both sides)
J-lo x20 IC

Announcements:
Slack and FB for details

T-Claps (Recognition):
HIM trying new ideas

Prayer:
Quivers family and his new job
Unspoken

YHC’s first post to TBD. Hope to be back soon. Always an honor to lead.

BS Out

Cyber Monday Shopping

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FNGs:  None

EC:  Not exactly sure.  But Slide Rule was on his six mumbling about questioning whether or not he had made the right decision this morning and a few other PAX looked shwetty (Abe, Coal Ash, Nemo perhaps).

Warm Up:  PAX of 9 came out for some Cyber Monday shopping with Dauber.  Took a tour of downtown with a nice jog to get the body warmed up.  Headed down to check out the deals happening with Dawgpound and the Pax doing Onnit.   A gaggle of shoppers out early this morning looking for sales in the cozy garage.  Lots of kettlebells, yoga mats, a piece of furniture and electronics.  We continued on our jog window shopping the brick and mortar shops on Main Street.  Pace Yourself Run Company had the best holiday lights in their window.  Headed back to the parking lot for the following warmup exercises:  In cadence – 25 SSH, 10 Don Quixote, 10 Daisy Pickers, 10 Fazio Arm Circles (F/B), 10 O/H claps, 10 Seal Claps, static hamstring stretching (L/R) and some Michael Phelps.

The Workout:  PAX followed Dauber (who removed his bulky sweatshirt hoodie) for a nice jog that included some karaoke (both sides) around the library down library hill.  Doc caught up to Dauber and mentioned the pace.  Pulled into the neighborhood’s clubhouse.  I remembered my first Downtown Train (inaugural) and Nemo brought us down here for some Jack Webb’s.  No fond memories voiced  but I did hear some concern about the wet grass. (I’m doing laundry as I write this BB hoping to Shout out the mud stains on the knees).  Jack Webb’s 1 merkin : 3 air push ups (from your knees).  On your six for 25 ic LBCs and 25 SSH ic.  Mosey / jog back up library hill and waited for the 6 at the top of the hill.  Frankensteins were added.  Dauber made sure all PAX were OK and then called a jail break to a parked trailer.  Coal Ash turned it into high gear beating out all the PAX.  Recalling doing rock exercises with Forceps, Dauber had PAX pick a medium sized rock and then had everyone circle up for the following 10 ic count exercises while rotating rocks:  Rut-Ros, Curls, Tricep Extensions, GroundPounders, Wonder Bras, Toe Taps, Side Turns, Toe-taps, Bus drivers, O/H presses.  PAX got on their 6 with the rock and executed the following 10 count ic exercises (rotating rock afterwards):  H2M, Tricep extension, Straight arm Reverse Curl, Chest press, WW IIs, 6 inch with rock above chest, legs up 45 degrees with rock above chest, rock straight out over your head with legs 6 inches of the ground…return rocks to rock pile.  Mosey to library amphitheater for 25 c BTTW and 25 c People’s Chair.  Rinse and repeat increasing count to 30.  FUN!  Mosey to shovel flag for Mary.

Mary:  Yoga stretches.  Runners, Pigeon, Child’s Pose.   Have a nice a day.

Announcements:  Holiday party.  CSAUP.

T-Claps (Recognition):  PAX who did EC today.

Prayer:  Unspoken.  Dauber took us out.

This is always a privilege leading you me.  When I am not leading Red October, I am trying to get around to other AOs.

Best L-E-F-T-O-V-E-R-S Ever!

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EC: Cupid, Katniss, Mookie, Pikachu, ShamWow, YHC.

Lots of anticipation in this workout: Who will take Yogurt’s place as site Q? Will Yogurt be able to stop cadence? Will there be dessert with these leftovers?

Warm Up: Long way to back of Hunt Center. SSH 50x. Started off LEFTOVERS with a round of Wings: Arm circles forward and back, hold ‘em; seal claps, hold ‘em; overhead claps, hold ‘em. OK, so I always forget to stop, so lots of laughs with the various counts. I think I nailed a few at 15!

The Workout:

L-E-F-T-O-V-E-R-S

L Lt. Dan ain’t got no legs. Squat plus lunge with each leg 10x x 2

E Everest over to the wooden steps. Lunge up two steps, full squat. Rinse and repeat

F Forest to Sea. You remember this one from CSAUP 2018. Bear crawl to middle of field, crab walk to end. Run back

T Tony Hawk Burpee. Burpee with 360 spin jump to finish. I think we were all stumbling to this one 10x, rinse and repeat other direction, just like Tony

O Outlaw. Recover on this one. Same as Boxcutter, but feet together. 10x clockwise, 10x counterclockwise

V Vacuum. Wheelbarrow out 10 steps, 5 derkins, backward wheelbarrow back to line. Rinse and repeat

E Empty wheelbarrow. Crab walk with partner holding legs. Up, back, switch, rinse, repeat

R Ranger Merkins together 20x, good form

S Surfer Merkin. What? Merkin with horizonal rolling 360 between. Yes, we got dirty!

Dessert: Needed more S, so we moseyed up to road behind Hunt Center for some SPRINTS!

Sprints to next light pole. Split PAX into two waves. Rinse and repeat 3x.

Mary: 6 minutes: Standard starting position 6 inch hold. Low slow flutter, box cutters, pickle pounders, more Out;aws, end with 1 minute 6-inch hold.

Announcements:

Time to turn my site Q over to PAX who is ready. When I offered Cletus to this PAX, he jumped on it, ready to lead. This PAX joined F3 in March 2019. Initial U-Turn runs were 10 min max pace over 3 miles. In the spring, remember him telling me he had a hard time getting over the fatigue at the 2-mile mark. Man, has he come a long way! Trained like crazy for HSHM and had a great finishing time. He’s grateful for all the supportive PAX along the way!

I’m proud to pass the turkey leg to Katniss!

Prayers: Our F3 brother struggling with addiction. Hardy (Florence’s son) has the flu, possibly spreading through family. Job (friend of Pikachu). Other spoken and unspoken.

With winter time coming up, keep eye out for PAX falling off workouts for whatever reason. Keep everyone engaged!