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This Ruck was the best morning ever to adjust Gross weight!!!

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YHC talked to Breach about a food Ruck for Momas House of Thrift. Put it out on slack earlier in the week so you HIM could prepare. It was not disappointing this morning with 13 PAX for the Ruck and 3 for some miles. Arrived this morning to find at least 8 already packing the food into their back packs. M4life had a little extra pack for each one to hand off and carry along the route. 

FNG: None 

Warm Up: The RUCK 

The Workout: At 6:00 am we were off. Started the Ruck off with lots of mumblechatter. It was noted right off, that someone was already complaining about the weight of their pack. No name calling! After we hit the blue trail towards Breaches house he mentions, hey lets stop by my house. I said whats up? Nothing, I have a case of toilet paper we can pass around OTW. I was the first one to tote the box of paper. It was passed around for the first mile….until it was Breaches turn. He did carry it for a few feet before stopping and we regrouped. (Box of toilet paper no fun to carry.) We removed all the toilet paper and stuffed it into grocery bags and packs. This would have been the best morning ever, to adjust gross weight. Lots and Lots of TP. Back on the route to Momas House. Still heard complaining about the weight a certain HIM pack. No Names! A little over 4 miles we arrived to drop off the food. We estimated it was over 400lbs of food. Way to step up and help out when in need!! We soon found ourselves getting refreshments and coffee at Dunkin. The Ruck back was a much faster pace! The total Ruck was around 8.5 miles.  Breach and I decided we did not need to lead. We walk to fast!

Mary: None 

Announcements: Bass Lake mulch starts back Saturday.  M4life reminded to donate to the 4 families dealing with COVID and can not work.  

This is one of the best ways to get to know everyone. One minute you are walking and talking and the next you are near the middle or rear fellow shipping with another. Come out and join us next week. 

After much discussion when we returned we will make the food Ruck a monthly trek. More details to follow. 

T-Claps (Recognition) Pikachu, Cupid and Skidmark for getting some miles this morning. All the HIM’s for getting up and supporting this worthy cause to assist those in need. 2.0 Slaps LED’s son for joining us OTW back.  

Prayer: Continued prayer for LED’s friend. Victims of COVID. Our Country. Others had unspoken. Those who carried to much weight this morning! 

It was an honor to lead! Sprinkler 

My name is…

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I was awakened by loud booms at 4:20 am, and thought someone was shooting fireworks off… turned out to be a thunderstorm, laid in bed watching the lighting flash and listening to the thunder wondering if the Launch day for the New AO, Helltrack or Lost…, was going to be possible. I also figured it would keep a few pax away. Since this is North Carolina, the rain moved off, and by the time I got the Banks Road Elementary, it was not raining at all. Did a little scout walk, and saw New Mexico pull in and shortly thereafter Darby walking down the hill to the starting point.

 

FNGs: None today
Warm Up: Moseyed to the side of the school for SSH, Imperial Walkers, Sir Fazio Arm Circles, Hillbills, and Good Mornings.
The Workout:

  • Thang 1: Mosyed to the back of the school and use the picnic area as a start point. We split into a single and a pair. While one group was doing 10 Merkins and 20 Shoulder Taps. The other group would go the end of the sidewalk and do 15 Carolina Dry Docs, middle of the concrete pad 15 Monkey Humpers, and end of the concrete pad 15 Squats the run back. We repeated this 3 times with a few variations in the exercises.
  • Thang 2: Moseyed to the side of the school for 11′. of Burpies and Jump Lunges
  • Thang 3: Moseyed to the Front of the school and split our group into 2 and 1 again. One group did Step-ups, and dips while the partner ran the loop.

Mary: Pop Mary with Freddy Mercuries and a few others.
Announcements: Prison Break after Prison Yard, Running focused workout. Mulch at bass lake.
T-Claps (Recognition): New Mexico for starting this AO, it is a great site, in a location that is underserved, but not far from most of other AO’s.
Prayer:  New Mexico son on having a good week on a new medicine for ADHD, YHC daughters improving self-confidence due to horse lessons. Emergency personnel, front line workers, and leadership as they all deal with the challenges that covid and the country is dealing with.

NMS: First time I have Q’d a launch of an AO, disappointed about the thunderstorm that may have kept a few people away. Hope this grows to serve the men in the area around banks road.

Okay, so we’re doin’ this…

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Told Sprinkler I would take care of the pre-blast, rolled up to 3 pax in the parking lot when I got there and 4 more showed up and we rolled of a little slow to let breach catch up with us.

FNGs: none
Warm Up: none
The Workout: Ruck the Red, Blue, and Yellow Trails at the AO
Mary: Not today
Announcements: New AO Opening Tomorrow Banks Road Elementary, Mulch Continues
T-Claps (Recognition): Those who Received breathtaker shirts.
Prayer: Our Country, First responders, and frontline workers.

NMS: If you have not been out for this AO on Sunday, I recommend it, we had a lot 2nd F/mumble chatter during the workout. You don’t need a rucksack just something with weight in it, or if you are injured, feel free to walk with us without any extra weight.

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Officially 1st work out at this new AO (NeedMore Ruck). Sent out a pre backblast Saturday. I was not expecting many since all the fireworks shows and parties the night before except Pots. I knew he would not let me down. To my surprise when I pulled into Hilltop Needmore Park 4 Pax was chatting in PVA.  

 

FNG: Ian (will name him next week) 

Warm Up: None 

The Workout: At 6:00 am on the dot we started. We hit the red trail first for 2 miles. After completing this loop off to the yellow which is 1 mile. After we ended up at the parking lot LED & FNG Ian had to cut a trail. Took a quick pic and we then hit the blue trail. All in all it was 5 miles. Great mumblechatter through out.  

Mary: None 

Announcements: Bass Lake mulch starts back Saturday. We had much discussion on naming this AO. It was decided NeedMore Ruck. This came from Hilltop Needmore Road and the community in which it lies Needmore Community. 

T-Claps (Recognition) All who made it out after July 4th to start Sunday morning off right. LED for bringing FNG. 

Prayer: Silent 

It was an honor to lead! Sprinkler 

Memory is fleeting…

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Been a while since I posted or Q’d PC, on the way in I saw 187 running, but when I got the flag he was not there, however, he timed it perfectly and showed up with 2 mins to spare and then we were off.

FNGs: none
Warm Up: Mosey over to the front of the Jiffy Lube and circle up for a warm-up of SSH, SirFazio Arm Circles, Imperial Walkers, Good Morning
The Workout:

Thang 1: Short Mosey to the goodwill parking lock then Partner up, 1 partner does 10 count Balls to the Wall, 20 count Shoulder tap and holds Peoples Chair, while the other partner crosses the parking lot and does 15 merkins, 15 lbc’s and 15 start jumps, repeato 3 times.

Thang 2: Short Mosey to behind town hall burger for 7’s of Squats and Freddy Mercury’s

Thang 3: Short Mosey to bending the Jiffy lube for 2 rounds of 10 Irkens,  15 Derkins, and 20 Dips

Mary: Back at the flag, we did some arm stretches,  Pigeon and runners pose, then a 2 rounds of popup mary
Announcements: New AO’s: Need More Ruck 6:00 am Sunday at Needmore Hilltop Park.  Unnamed Banks Road Elementary AO, Mondays 5:30 AM
T-Claps (Recognition): The Pax for dealing with my forgetfulness this morning.
Prayer: YHC’s Friend Duane Lindsey who passed from ALS on Sunday, for his Wife and Family.  All of our First responders.

Someone get the Site Q a Shovel Flag

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Last Sunday New Mexico hit up YHC asking him to Q a new Beta AO. YHC respectfully declined for the first week because of Rune. Need them miles. YHC did promise that he would Q the second week so YHC upheld his promise. Also managed to get Pikachu to tag along and received a surprise text from M4L wanting to post. Clown Car!!

New Site, new AO, let’s see what fun we could have.

EC: Pikachu, M4L, Skidmark

FNGs: None, but there will be. YHC handed a stack of F3 business cards and stickers to New Mexico to EH his neighbors.

Warm Up: Mosey around the lot. 1 burpee, 20 SSH, 2 burpees, 20 SSH, 3 burpees, 20 SSH, 4 burpees, 20 SSH, 5 burpees (group getting tired already), 12 Fozio Arm Circles F/R, 10 Overhead claps

The Workout: Modified DORA. Pair up. At the first small wall 50 step-ups, 2nd small wall 100 Derkins, 3rd small wall 200 Dips, 4th small wall 300 LBCs. Start at any wall and one partner runs around the flag pole, after 2nd person returns back from run rotate wall.

Mosey to the flag pole, Pax did squats while one Pax bearcrawl around. Q added in other exercises such as low slow flutter, freddy mercury, dying cockroach while remaining Pax did bearcrawl. Two rounds of Guantanamo’s.

Mosey to the wall. 2 rounds of preacher chair and Balls to wall with Pax doing 10 counts

Finished with Q’s two favorite exercises; 1. Two/Three man Catch me if you can Indian Run with 5 merkins.

Mary: Q’s other favorite exercise – Merkin clock. Sweat left a beautiful clock on the concrete

Announcements: M4L has the Q at the arena on Friday. Mulch at Bass Lake

T-Claps (Recognition): New Mexico for getting a new site going and posting

Prayer: New Mexico’s friend and family, Quiver’s friend and family, Crablegs

American Pie’s Don Mclean brought the tears but YHC brought the pain

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FNGs: None

6 HIMs showed up to GP this morning to help me celebrate my 3 year F3 anniversary.  Mumble chatter did not disappoint. It was a hot and humid day as you might expect and YHC brought the American tunes and started it off with Living in America by James Brown.  I didn’t realize I downloaded the entire Don Mclean albumn instead of just American Pie so the music took on a somber tone during rock work which made Gump teary eyed and a bit sad :(.   YHC rectified the situation (eventually) and Tom Petty picked us up with American Girl.  The biggest however hits were clearly Party in the USA by Miley Cyrus and Born in the USA by Bruce Springsteen.  

WarmUp:

10 American Good Mornings, 10 American Pie Pickers,  10 American Emperial Walkers, 10 American Hillbilly Squats, 10 American Willy Mays Haze, 10 3 ct American Windmills, 20 American SSH, 15 ct American arms stretches

The Workout

Mosey to the Rock Pile. YHC asked the PAX to select rocks and Gump missed the memo on medium to large size and picked out a one hander (well for some of us it was a one hander (ie Farva with his Shrek hands). Rotate rocks based on exercise.

3 set of 10 x 3 ct of each American exercise:

American Curls for the Girls, American Overhead Tricep Press, American Wonder Bras, American Ground Pounders (of course), American Trunk Twists, American Bus Drivers, and American Rutrows

  • 10 x 3 ct American Hammers
  • 2 set of 10 x 3 ct American Rock Spanks (1 without consent; 1 with) Lots of mumble chatter during this exercise about rocks size (something about petite vs bootylictious).
  • 10 x 3ct American Windshield wipers
  • 20  American LBC’s
  • 20  1 Arm American Merkins (10 each side)
  • 10  American WWIIs
  • 20 American Love Haters  (10 for each handle)

Mosey to the Wall of Pain

  • 3 sets of 60ct Wall Sits
  • 1 set of 10 x 3ct American BTW Ass Smackers
  • 2 sets of 10 x 3 ct American BTWs (Ass Smackers optional) only caveat is you can only smack your own ass so no funny business.

Mosey back for Mary

  • 20 ct Amercian Pigeon pose
  • 20 ct American Calf stretches

T-Claps for Tetanus for his first 5 pack;  Fanny Pack for completing not only a 5 pack last week but a 5 pack with ECs every time.

Announcements:  Mulch day at Bass Lake starts up again next weekend.  New AO starting on Monday at 5:30 apparently.

Prayer Requests:  Praise for Quiver’s daughter taking the initiative to be grateful for horse lessons and ask to get up early all week to start walking.   Prayers for  Fanny Pack’s family traveling for the next 10 days across country to Joplin.  For our country’s local and federal leadership and for all those suffering physically or financially. For our military, firefighters and police.

Fully Involved

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A pax came in a terrible mood and left feeling encouraged… maybe it was the burpees. Another pax gave blood yesterday and struggled at times but was asked several times by his brothers if he was alright. Another pax completely hauled ass up the Abyss and was met by pax willing to finish the mosey back to the flag and pick up his six when he was running low on gas. Guys finished SSH’s for the opposing team to pick up their six. Several guys including YHC grind out the workout despite aches and pains and limitations. At the end, a pax needs a kettlebell for tomorrow and like 3 pax talk about how to get him one and 1 gives him his own kettlebell out of the trunk.  All of this and more examples like them happened at Disney today…plus…we worked out.  Why did this happen? Because this is F3. Its great how a beatdown can help us help other brothers and be our best more than just physically. It was my honor as Q today to help set the stage for that.

EC: Mookie, Dawgpound, Shamwow!, Dahmer, Fanny Pack

FNG’s: Today would’ve been a good one for it
Warm Up: Good Mornings, Windmills, Chinooks, Frankenstein’s
The Workout: Split into two even teams for whole workout.  A little competition goes a long way! Teams Burpee Indian run around the soccer field in opposite directions and back to the flag. Team 2 wins! No penalty yet…mercy given during round 1.

Next, teams burpee Indian run to the large lot where the challenge is a 4 Corner stack up.  5 dirkins, run, 5 dirkins, 10 squats, run, 5 dirkins, 10 squats, 15 irkins, run, 5 dirkins, 10 squats, 15 irkins, 20 SSH IC. Team 2 wins again. Penalty is 5 burpees while winners plank hold. Not too bad..,

Mosey to the abyss. Each team on each side of the stairs. Teams send 1 pax at a time down the stairs, 5 star jumps, and back. While pax at the top complete an AMRAP exercise called by YHC. When each pax returns, exercise changes. We did two rounds of the whole team line before finishing.  Exercises were: merkins, squats, Freedom Hammers, Shoulder Taps, lunges, WW2’s, Nipplers, squats, LSF’s, Diamond Merkins, Lunges, and Freddie Mercury’s. All pax came out of the Abyss alive and Team 2 edged it out again. Penalty was 10 burpees with the winning team doing a squat hold.  Then we all did 5 burpees because even though we were two teams, we are all brothers in F3. Burpee Indian run back to the flag where there was ample picking up the six. Lots of smoked pax led to quite a broken line.  But, nevertheless, team 1 finally wins.  Shamwow! Calls 10 absolutions upon team 2.
Mary: H2M southwake style, 15 each side, 5 burpees, 15 Box Cutters, 5 Star Jumps, 15 Pickle pounders. It was a great day!
Announcements: YHC has the Q at Ivan tomorrow to finish the 5 pack Q with EC.  New AO in Garner in lieu of Detox.  Hardy will be the very first F3 ninja warrior.
T-Claps (Recognition): All the pax today… did you see above?
Prayer: FloJoe wife got a good gig, Quiver’s friend with ALS. Shamwow! Took us out.

LipSync’s 4-year anniversary Q at the location where it all started

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AO: Kenny’s Grave

Date: 25-June-20

Warm Up

  • Run to rock pile and grab a rock
  • Circle up for Warm-up: Side straddle hop, good mornings, Frankenstein’s, imperial walkers, Hill Billies and seal and overhead claps

The Workout – My Greatest (aka: favorite exercises)

  • Barely curling across parking lot
  • Hit the greenway with John Cusack’s
  • Two rotations of squat hold Indian runs with rock
  • Curls for the girls with running lap around the group as the time keeper
  • Rocks spaced out along greenway with alternating bear crawls and crabwalks
  • Jack webs in grass next to baseball field
  • Wonder bras at bathrooms
  • Return walks and jog to Mary

Mary

  • LBCs, Freddie Mercurys, box cutters and have a nice day

Announcements

  • Still openings for mulch spreading this Saturday
  • We need more HIMs to step up to Q. Our Q sheets should be filled out 3 weeks instead of looking for Qers each week.

Prayer Request

  • Our Country
  • First responders and hospital workers
  • Gamecock’s 2.0 due this November
  • Traveling mercies during the summer break

Welcome to the Rock

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FNGs: Nil
Warm Up: Moseyed to Stinson-side parking lot to avoid anyone getting ‘possumed, and circled up.

SSH x 20

Imperial Walkers x 10

Hillbillies x 10

Fazio arm circles x 10 (forward and backerds)

Overhead claps x 10

Seal claps x 10

The Workout: Mosey over to the pit and line up on the ghost of what was once the sideline for some 11’s: merkins and star jumps, squat holding for the 6 after each leg. Good work by all PAX keeping it tight.

Next was an Indian run from the pit to the rock pile. YHC instructed everyone to grab a medium sized rock. Lined up along the lines of the parking space where YHC called rock pushes. For those not familiar, it’s basically a bear crawl but you also push a rock. Did the length of the parking lot, then did 10 low slow flutters. Did the rock push back to start where we did box cutters.

We circled up and did some popcorn rock work and pretty much heard all the greatest hits. Returned the rocks to their homes.

Moseyed to the picnic shelter for some irking durkins and dips: 15 each.

numbered off, with 1’s on the wall and 2’s holding plank. Did 2 rounds. Moseyed to the tennis courts mary.

Mary: Circled up, YHC called for Windshield wipers. Called out some random PAX to give us an exercise for quasi-popcorn Mary.

YHC closed is out with good mornings

Announcements: Bass Lake mulch. Check the signup sheet if interested.
T-Claps (Recognition): everyone for sticking with it.

Fanny pack for beating the fart sack

me for rhyming

Prayer: Everybody. But especially those on the front lines, first responders and our service members