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Flying Cupids & Dancing Rocks

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11 PAX braved the damp and cool gloom for a virgin Q – and hopefully a proper beatdown.
Cupid flew in at the last moment after the other HIM’s slowly emerged from the warmth of their respective vehicles as though they could foresee the “fun” that awaited them.
No FNG’s
Warm Up:
Mosey around the track to the front parking lot
SSH x 20 IC
Imperial walkers x 15 IC
Hillbillies x 15 IC
Hairy Rockettes (alternating toe touches) x 15 IC – LipSync enjoyed these a little too much. 5 6 7 8
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Squat kicks x 15

 

The Workout:

Head to the rock pile to get a moderately sized rock suitable for lifting multiple reps.
John Cusack to the corner of the parking lot.
Rock Exercise 1: Rock-a-bye-baby x 15 IC (up, out, left twist, right twist = 1)
Lunge walk to the island (of misfit toys) – Merkins x 10 OYO – run back to your rock – squat hold or hold plank for the 6
Rock Exercise 2: Curls for the Girls x 20 IC
Lunge to island – 10 Merkins – run back
Rock exercise 3: Tricep Extensions x 20(ish) IC
Lunge to island – 10 Merkins – run back
Rock exercise 4: Ruh Roh’s x 20(ish) IC
Lunge to island – 10 Merkins – run back
Rinse and Repeat with a twist: Replace lunge walk with Bear Crawl and replace Merkins with WW2’s x 10 OYO
Return your rock from whence it came a la John Cusack just in time for 6 minutes of…
Mary:
LBC’s x 20 IC
Freddie Mercuries x 20 IC
Gump requested American Hammers x 10 IC
LipSync requested Homer to Marge x 10 IC
Martini requested Low Slow Flutters x 10 IC
5 Burpees in honor of R22 (who is the one who invited me to F3 back in August 2018)
Announcements:
Wrightsville half in two weeks
See Slack/ FB for the rest


Prayer:

Several relatives and friends who have been diagnosed with cancer (Cupid’s friend’s dad, Modify’s dad – going through Chemo)

Two young guys who have committed suicide recently – lift up their families and friends — Don’t struggle alone or let anyone struggle alone. Reach out to guys you haven’t seen in a while and let them know they are missed.

Crablegs (ALS)

Shredder (knee)

Forgive me if I missed any…
COT:
Wise men build their house on the rock by listening to the words of Jesus and putting them into practice. When (not if) the wind and waves come, the house will stand strong.
Foolish men build their house on the sand by either not listening to the words of Jesus and/or not living them out. When the wind and waves come, that house will come down with a huge crash. (Matthew 7:24-27)
At least this day was built on the rock – quite literally – which made all of us stronger and less likely to get knocked over…once the soreness subsides.
2nd F at Stick Boy for celebratory scones.
It was my great honor to lead you HIM’s in the glorious (and damp) gloom this am.
Until next time


Birthday Bash at Possum Trot

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Warm Up:  13 PAX took Dauber’s double dare showing up in wet conditions from an overnight rain for a birthday bash arm beat down in 36 deg balmy weather.  Before departing for our warm up jog, Pablo asked for the where-about  of breathtaker.  A Dauber hug was enough evidence for Pablo who pulled a Reagan needing to “trust but verify”.  Dauber had the extra gear under his sweatshirt (did I mention it was above freezing?).   Jog commenced around the tennis courts to the parking lot and began the following exercises in cadence:  20 ssh ; 10 Fazio Arm circles F/B; 10 good mornings; 10 Vegetation grabbers; 10 IW; 10 HB; Michael Phelps; Static arm stretches.  Jogged to the Love Shack for the workout.

The Workout:  10 Star jumps, 10 merkins.  Mosey to grass area with small hill behind ball field for 11’s – SSH on bottom and LBCs on top.  Mumble chatter about counts; More reps is a good thing.  Mosey to the shack for a birthday celebration of balls to the wall.  In honor of Doc’s 47th Birthday, PAX completed a 47 cadence count.  Modify gave a much needed 10 count post BTTW.  Lined up at the bottom of the incline and began alternating strides, 10 strides in length, until reaching the top of the incline/parking lot.  Each PAX then grabbed a medium-sized rock from the rock pile and met back up in the parking lot holding plank for the six.  With rock in hand, the following exercises were completed with 10 reps:  arm curls, arm o/h presses, triceps extensions, rut-ros, one hand on rock merkins (L/R), Squats.  25 SSH, Rinse and repeat.  25 SSH, Rinse & Repeat with a slight modification of completing rock exercises from your six; exercises included chest press, skull-crushers and LBCs/WW IIs.  25 more SSH (inspired by Nemo – keeping the heart rate up).  Rocks back to the rock pile John Cusack style.  Ran out of time so no hill work was executed.

Mary:  Dauber made up Yoga names for some much-needed stretching – – – inspired by a yoga class fresh on his mind from last night with Doc and Double D (missed you DD this morning – perhaps too much stretching or just a clear colon?). PAX were overjoyed performing these stretches on the Action Park parking lot asphalt. Knees, forearms and elbows were so comfortable.  Perhaps the puddles on the tennis courts should have been utilized?

Announcements:  BRR, WB half and full, sprint tri registration.  Q-Source post PT at Stick Boy.  Namerama ended with birth name (junior, junior, junior?).  Happy birthday 🎁🎂🎈🎊🎉 sung to Doc; called out Lucky Charms when he emphatically said he was still 49 – evidently his birthday is May 1st.  Let’s plan for a big celebration.

Prayer:  Thank you Fonzi for taking us out in prayer.  Lots of requests today, spoken and unspoken:  injured/ill PAX including Shredder & Crab Legs; illness/cancer with PAX family members; job interview; HS kids taking ACT today; other prayers…

EC today:  great job Pablo for getting it done.

Always a pleasure/honor leading these fine #HIM men in the gloom.  QIC- Dauber

Rain! What rain???

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February 18, 2019 / Mutiny/ QIC: Fedex

PAX: H1N1, Messi, Dauber, Gump, Modify, Motor Boatin’, Cupid, 16-Bit, FedEx

The call for rain didn’t scare any of the 9 Pax that show up this morning. Breath taker made an appearance thanks to Draber.

 

Warm Up:Circled up in the parking lot for;

SSH  ICx25

Fozio Arm Circles  10 Forward, 10 Reverse

Imperial Walkers  ICx10

Hillbillies  ICx10

Monkey Humpers  ICx10

Streches

Had Pax line up for “Catch Me If You Can Indian Run” around the track which is an Indian Run where the last guy drops and does 5 burpees, while the Pax mosey around the track, after burpees are completed the last guy runs to catch the rest of the Pax tapping the last guy on the shoulder who then stops and starts his 5 burpees while the last guy continues his sprint to the front of the line.  Went around the track twice so everyone got a turn.

The Workout: After Indian Run headed to the parking lot where QIC told the Pax to partner up for partner Merkin Wheelbarrows where P1 holds the legs of P2 while P2 walks across the parking lot on his hands and does Merkins when they reach a line, adding a merkin at each line until they reach 10 then switch and head back to start. Headed to shelter, even though it wasn’t raining, for some 11’s. We stared with urkins and squats, then did step ups(10 each leg OYO) and finished with more 11’s this time derkins and squats.

Mary: LBC                                ICx25

Homer to Marge          ICx15

American Hammers  ICx15

5 Burpees OYO
Announcements: Wilmington and the Mule
Prayer: Crablegs, Shedder’s knee surgery, Double D colonoscopy, H1N1 has a job interview tomorrow and Fedex’s Son to keep lines of communication open

What’s Valentine’s Day without Cupid?

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Ok, finally figured this out so let’s give it a shot.  Thanks to Gump and Banana Seat for the guidance and instructions.  FYI, don’t try viewing the tutorial in Firefox.

Pax of 9 show up including 1 FNG (Cupid) – Thanks for coming out and supporting me on my first Q.  This is a great group of men that I was proud to lead (yesterday).

Warm Up: 1 lap around the track then circled up for 20 SSH, 10 Good Mornings, 10 Daisy Pickers, 10 Imperial Walkers, and 10 Hillbillies

The Workout: Starting at the south side of the parking lot, 20 WWII, 10 Erkins; Bear Crawled to the north side of the parking lot, 20 squats, 10 diamonds; Crab Walked back to the south, 20 LBC, 10 Burpees; Duck Walk back to the north, 20 Star Jumps, 10 Merkins; Alternating Lunges back to the south, 20 Mount Climbers, 10 Shoulder Taps.

Moseyed over to the concession stand for Balls to the Wall while each PAX took turns doing a lap around the building. Followed by Seated Chair while PAX again each took a lap.

Mary: Low Slow Flutter, Homer to Marge, Box Cutters, Heal Taps, Pickle Pounder, Greatest American Hero,
Announcements: This is where I fell short and was not prepared. Only had to check FB/Slack.
Prayer: DD’s Family, Crablegs

Bear Sighting and Shooting Stars

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February 13, 2019 / Thunder / QIC: Aquaman

PAX: Aquaman, Crosby, Gumby, Gump, John Deer, Kubota, Tofu, Quiver

PAX of 3 for EC and 8 for main event came out to crawl around in the dark of the night with shooting stars above!

EC: Crosby, Gumby, John Deer

Warm Up: Mosey to parking lot to circle up for a very short warm-up as everyone could “Bearly” hold back their excitement to get started!

SSH IC x 25, Cotten pickers IC x10

The Workout:There are 32 parking spaces in the middle of the parking lot. There are also 3 handicap spaces on the far corner of the parking lot. Each space had a card with the exercise you were to complete written on it. You were to bear crawl to each space and do the exercise. 2 of those spaces gave direction to bear crawl to a handicap space of your choosing. The 3 handicap space exercises included Dbl merkin burpee x 10 or LBC’s IC x20 then WW2’s x10 or 2 laps around lot then Turkish Get-ups x5. You would then bear crawl back to your next space and continue. I do not feel like typing all 32 exercises but we had lots of fun and Bearly made it around to all of them. Also at any given time, anyone was allowed to call out a exercise of their choosing and we would all stop and complete it b4 moving on. With 8 minutes remaining, we bear crawled to meet Mary.

Mary: Complete the exercise in the handicap space that you had not done.

Announcements:FB, Slack, and a reminder to that just because not everyone has prayer requests, that does not mean that they might not be struggling with something. Keep our eyes open and be available to one another
Prayer:Quiver is moving to HS and the stresses involved, Bullseye’s recovery, those that are struggling and not saying anything to anyone to have strength to speak up and for the rest to have eyes to see.

Q Source “Preparedness”

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“Preparedness” qsource topic last week was key for me this morning.  Encourage everyone to check the source out on F3nation.com if you haven’t yet. It was great to lead you guys and welcome 28 men including 2- FNGs. Randy(China Grove) and Jeff Toke (Centerfold)

Warm Up:Jog around courts

20 ic SSH, 15 ic good morning, 10 each ic hillbilly  and imperial walkers, 10 gazing arm circle forward and reverse ic, 6” extended arm pulses ic
The Workout:count off and partner up. Each group grabbed a medium rock and met at end of lot

Alarms was the exercise of choice

A(arms) p1-curls/triceps p2 -bear crawl50yds Switch

L(legs) p1-goblet squats p2 -alternating lunges 50 yds Switch

A(abs) p1-wwII w/rock p2-peter Parker’s 20 IC Switch

R(run) p1- run around courts p2-sprint to end of lot and backward run to start. Switch

M(merkins) 20- paddy cake merkins, p1-20 diamond merkins p2- 20 wide merkins Switch

S(squats) p1-squats, p2- 5 shuffles , burpee 50 USA and back.  Switch

Mary: Fedex volunteered to take on Mary

lbcs, pickle pounders, homer to marge, low slow flutter, 6”, 45degree hold, 90 degree hold, American hammers, windmills, and 5 burpees oyo.

Announcements: new slack channels for triathlon s, rugged maniac(price increase Friday) run/bike/run event next week(Matt, Randy mentioned this but I don’t recall how to sign up, more details would be great if you talk to him)

take me care of the women in your life this Thursday. They may say they don’t want anything but don’t buy that!!!

Prayer:Shredder speedy and full recovery. Guidance in our marriages and relationships to keep them strong.

A “BREATHTAKING” morning in the Quay

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A “BREATHTAKING” morning with Spring Peeper season right around the corner (see following link): Frog

Warm Up

A fun jog around the track and up the small hill to the soccer field for warm up consisting of: Good mornings, daisy pickers, SSH and Frankensteins

 

The Workout

Jog to the rock pile and John Cusack to the parking lot

Rock suicides with curls for the girls and overhead press

11’s with Wonder Bras > jog around bathrooms to pavilion > Derkins

John Cusack rocks back to rock pile

Jog to tennis courts for partner jumping burpees

 

Mary

WWII, Freddy Mercury’s, Homer to Marge and Have a Nice Days (with meditation, prayer and reflection)

 

Announcements

NC Spring Classic 8K and 16K April 27th. Get 10% off with F3SW2019

7th Annual F3 Raleigh Mule is the same day as the Wrightsville Half/Full Marathon

 

Prayer Request

Crab Legs; Shredder and the many sick people out there

Surf’s Up – Cletus 2-8-19

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Fresh off a week in Costa Rica, I (Yogurt) mimicked surfing in this arm-intensive workout.

Warm Up: Mosey around Hunt Center to front parking lot; SSH 25x; Arm circles 10f/10b; 5 burpees OYO

Mosey to tennis courts. Local surfers would stretch before hopping in the water. Leg stretches: Flat on back, knees up to 45 degrees, left ankle to right knee, gently pull left knee toward right shoulder, feel in the buttocks. Opposite side too.

Star stretch: flat on back, arms extended overhead, left knee up to 45 degrees, drop left knee over right, extend. Simultaneously, reach left arm out to left. From above, you are forming a plus sign. Opposite side too.

The Workout: Mosey to softball field, right field foul line. Got our bearings in the darkness with a quick wheelbarrow out to hula hoops. Switch partners and back.

Workout mimicked paddling out and surfing in. When paddling out, often you have to sprint. You must hammer to make it past the breakers and into the lineup.

Workout: Elevens with squats and Catalina wine chillers. On shore side, squats. Sprint to paddle out. While in the lineup, Catalina wine chillers. Catch a wave and ride it in! Rinse and repeat with Elevens as count.

Mosey to dirt parking lot to ride the tides. How many tides are in a day? Typically four–high, low, high, low

From greenway (low tide side), run to paved driveway (high tide side): 12 Merkins to represent high tide at 12 o’clock; run back down to greenway (low tide side), 6 Merkins to represent low tide at 6 o’clock. Rinse and repeat until we did a couple of days’ worth of tides.

Mary: Mosey to tennis courts. Ab work: Hammock without the hammock 20x; Superman arms to side 15x, arms overhead 15x. Pickle pounders 20x. Low slow flutter 20x. Box cutters 15x.
Announcements: Long a** run Saturday, see FB or Blue Hen for details

January Breathtaker: Over $1,000, tons of clothes, and workout participation for Healing Transitions

February Breathtaker: ALS. 2/9/19 Bid goes to “Men from Fuquay,” bidding $500 goes to Gump
Prayer: Shredder knee injury, Moby’s dad

Welcome FNG Edgar, who is now F3 E squared!

Coupons Back at Possum Trot (Double D happy)

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Warm Up:  Jog around tennis courts; circle up in parking lot with 20 SSH, 10/10 Fazio Arm, 10 Vegetation Grabbers, 10 Hillbillies, Static Arm Stretches, 10 Windmills, 10 Good am.

The Workout:  3 Firehoses, 40lb dumbbells and a PVC pipe filled with water were used by PAX throughout the work that began at the parking lot.  PAX carried coupons to the lower area near the snack building.  Dropped the coupons and headed over to the hill by the fence for 11’s with merkins at the bottom of the hill and LBCs at the top.  Long 10-count on the last merkin for good measure.  Mosey to the snack building and performed BTTW and Seated Chair 3X each with counts of 10, 15 and 20 by Dauber.  Looking at the glorious coupons, Dauber diced the PAX into 4 groups of three.  The idea was each PAX grabbed one coupon and jogged around the snack building 1-2X while the other PAX member cranked out various exercises called by a PAX/Dauber.  Exercises included Burpees, LBCs, Pickle pounders, Prisoner Squats, low-slow flutters, etc. ranging from 10-30 count.  Modify loved the Pickle-pounder cadence/count – 30?   Lots of happy PAX breaking a sweat for sure in the balmy 50 degrees.  Coupons were dropped as Dauber had PAX conduct 10 L/R leg-ups on the wall.  Double D took over for Dauber as he shedded clothing and cranked out Derkins/Erkins.  PAX mosey to the beginning of the wall and began a crossover hand maneuver along the wall to the end navigating through a set of steps.  Dauber led the PAX back to the start and set up in a derkin position with the intent of having PAX crawl under the tunnel that was formed.  Unfortunately, one PAX decided to not follow directions and threw that idea out the window by placing their hands back on the wall and performing erkins.  Regardless, PAX added to their arm workout.  DoubleD and LED helped roll up the hoses and PAX carried remain7coupons up the road back to the main parking lot near Dauber’s car.  PAX held squat until the 6th joined in.  Thinking we were close to Mary, Dauber decided to take the PAX on a cool-down jog back around the tennis courts.  And then he spotted the big hill:  opportunity to do at least one bear crawl up the hill; 10 dips on the guardrail (OYO) and safely hopped over said guardrail and ran down the sidewalk back to the bottom of the hill.  No time for Rinse/Repeat.  Mosey to tennis courts for Mary.

Mary:  Various core exercises including box-cutters, LBCs, WWIIs and then YOGA.  Dauber needed help remembering the names of the poses:  Warrior I, II, Downward dog, cobra, Pigeon, chaturanga,

Announcements:  ATT on Saturday – See Slack; lots of announcements on FB too.

Prayer:  Double D’s dad, Shredder, Moby’s dad, Brexitt, lots of injuries (PAX, family); LED spoke about a family in need and how men were already stepping up with meals/gift cards.  Dauber took us out in prayer.

NOTE:  no EC Run today although LED was ready to go…sorry no Fritter Foundation

Additionally, During name-o-rama, PAX finished with their hospital names.  Interesting fact:  we have a Junior among us (as in first name Junior).  Getting to know our brothers.

Q-Source:  Catan had 4 PAX including Gump, Double D, Modify and Dauber.  Discussed Preparedness.  Nice discussion on “getting right, living right, leading right and leaving right.”

Huge pleasure leading these men.  Thank you.  Dauber

Maybe It’s Maybelline

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24 present at COT and 27 total for the run this morning. Various places and distances. Beautiful morning. Wondered who was up ahead and the comment was “maybe it’s Maybelline.”

Warm Up: Gump did his best virgin Q impersonation.
The Workout: miles miles miles
Mary:
Announcements:
Prayer: Moby’s dad, Dauber’s colleague that passed away, Full House’s father (if I remember correctly)