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This was my first time at Needmore Park. The routes were great and we had some quality mumble chatter along the way.

EC:  A lot of PAX were there for EC.

FNGs: not today

Warm Up:    10 x Good Mornings, 10 x Spinal Rotations

The Workout:  We ran the Yellow route for EC so I suggested we take the yellow route in reverse. After some discussion to coordinate the coffee stop, we decided to take the blue route and then the yellow route. We made a pit stop at Breach’s house for coffee and then headed bag to the flag.

Mary: Short on Time

Announcements:

Picnic note from Dawgpound:

F3 Southwake is hosting a picnic at the Longleaf shelter at Harris Lake. All Pax and their family are invited. The goal is to have a couple of Pax cook hotdogs and hamburgers at the event. The rest of Pax are recommended to bring either a side, paper plates, silverware or dessert. Everyone is welcomed to bring picnic games like Cornhole. There is a playground nearby for kids to play and we are close to the lake.

Date: June 26
Time: Starts at 11 AM. Stay as long as you want
Who: Every Pax and their family

How do I register: Fill out information here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-nsRCNZUJY2UB43Q6Q9bOX4zG-Nt-JcFFlDd83424wI/edit?usp=sharing

 

Bed Build Note from LED:

Talking with coordinator and she said she will be posting the signup to the public Monday for the June 12th build day.  If your able to help please signup below. They plan to cut and stain 40 beds in fuquay and 7500 across the nation. Come be a part of it and let’s help out the community. It’s amazing how excited these kids are when they get a new bed delivered.

https://m.signupgenius.com/#!/showSignUp/10c0d49aba823a3f4c61-shpncfuquay14/19596328

T-Claps (Recognition): Breach for proving the coffee for all of us.

Prayer: Unspoken

YHC took us out. Always an honor to lead.

Just Hanging Out

FNGs: Nope
Warm Up: Good mornings, windmills, frankenstein kicks, sir fazio arm circles
The Workout:
Mosey behind the Hunt Center and down to the Pit. PAX counted off into 2 groups.
Group 1 did 1 WWII and ran up big hill for 1 merkin. Then 2 WWI+2 merkins.
Group 2 ran the 4 corners of the soccer field stopping at each corner for 10 merkins and 10 WWIIs.
then switch.
After 1 round Group 1 continued their count on the hill with squats and box cutters while group 2 took another lap around the field with 10 squats and 10 box cutters at each corner.

Mosey over to the playground. Poopeater nearly caught a cute bunny, but it was much too fast.

Partner 1 hangs from playground bar while partner runs to corner of parking lot and back and switch.

This was the warm-up for a hang contest. 1st partner hung on bar for time while other partner held chill cut plank.
1st group was won by 187 hanging for just over a minute.
2nd group had Pikachu holding for 1 minute while Hardy and Warbucks held strong. YHC could have done this all day, but we had to get to Mary.

So your challenge rankings looked like this.
1. Hardy
T2. Warbucks – 187
4. Pikachu
T5. All other challengers

Hardy, Warbucks, 187, are not in May challenge. So your favorite 4th place Pokemon took home the Q for U-Turn. Not without some saltiness from some PAX.

Mosey back to the flag.

Mary:
25 Pickle pounders

Announcements:
Check social media

T-Claps (Recognition):
Brexit’s return. Hardy’s grip strength. Pikachu for finishing 4th and getting the U Turn Q.

Prayer:
Florence’s wife job hunt.
Multiple cancer diagnosis
Injured PAX

YHC took us out

Oh, the Places You’ll Go!

FNGs: none, but lots of new riders to VC.  Administered Safety brief, rules of road, helmets…Made sure EVERYONE knew how to change their gears on their bikes, especially bikes that were borrowed.
Warm Up:  oyo
The Workout:  see pic.  Really proud of the effort everyone put in this afternoon and Lipsync for picking up the six and making sure the Q knew where he was going.
Mary:  on tennis courts, good evenings, static stretches, Frankensteins
Announcements:  see FB, Slack; 5K runs, bed build
T-Claps (Recognition): PAX coming out to VC for the first time; Breach for riding his bike from Needmore area and making it ON TIME (gassed, but on-time nonetheless); Sprinkler did drive him home with his bike in the back of the truck.  Nice job Captain.  And special shout out to my mom who graciously supplied water bottles to PAX that just forgot to bring.  Luckily her house was on the route and she was at home.
Prayer:  Unspoken, military appreciation month, less fortunate….thanks Breach for taking us out.

Pledge of Allegiance

Honored to lead.  -Dauber

Oh Deere, Ultimate at Thunder

FNGs: NO SIR

Warm Up: Windmills, Frankensteins, SSH, Irish Potato Pickers

The Workout:  ULTIMATE!  We were down in the pit across from Womble.  Notable MVPs were Breach, Cancun, Maybelline, Redenbacher, Bullseye, and Pumpkin Spice.  Repeated big plays by these PAX.  Overall though this was a great game that was very equally matched.  Who won!?  I don’t remember the specifics but I feel like we all won really.

  • Merkins and Squats were utilized to penalize drops of the sacred frisbee

Mary: NO SIR

Announcements:

  • Be on the lookout for a plan to be hatched to make Wolfie a more prominent member of F3.

T-Claps (Recognition):

  • PAX for Organizing the raffle to benefit Wolfie’s chair.  Lot’s of local good done in a short amount of time.  Money raised buys Wolfie a new chair and sets Wolfie and his mom up with gift cards for groceries through the end of the year.
  • Pikachu on the new gig.
  • Pikachu and Dauber for making sure we had all the right gear for ultimate.
  • Breach/M4L for finding my key on the field – that could have been bad

Prayer:  Unspoken, YHC took us out

May 12 2021 – Possum Trot (Action Park) QIC POTS

May 12 2021 – Possum Trot (Action Park) QIC POTS

EC:

Sprinkler, POTS, Blue Hen, Labatt, Flanigan, Redenbacher, Breach, Rollback, Moby

PAX:

11

 FNGs:

 None

 Warm Up:

 Good Mornings

Windmills

Fazio Arm Circles

 The Workout

2 to 3 rounds through all Stations.

Mosey to;

Station 1 (The Hill)

3 Repetitions

  • 5 Burpees OYO (at bottom of hill)
  • Crawl up the hill.
  1. 10 Erkins on guardrail.
  2. 10 Dips on guardrail
  3. 10 Derkins on guardrail
  • Run down to entrance and back to bottom of the hill.

Mosey to;

Station 2 (The rock pile)

3 Repetitions

  1. 20 Curls for the girls
  2. 20 Tricep extensions
  3. 20 Overhead press

Mosey to;

Station 3 (Concession stand)

3 Repetitions

  1. 20 Step ups
  2. 20 Prisoner squats
  3. 20 Side steps with squat

Back to Station 1

Mary:

Guantanamo’s for all.

 Announcements

May Challenge in full swing

Pledge of Allegiance:

Led by Sprinkler

 Prayer:

Double D’s Mother-in-law

Noah’s Arch family

Sprinkler’s daughters’ friend

Military and First Responders

Unspoken

Dawgpounder

EC: Fanny Pack, Red, Pikachu, Maybelline, Full House, Katniss, Cupid, LED, Nemo,
FNGs: Nope
Warm Up:

Lap around the parking lot. We then circled up in the field.
Bounce
Staggered hinge
Spinal Twist
Bat Wing
Fazio Forward
Fazio Backward
Seal Claps
Overhead Claps

The Workout:

Pax split into two groups

Group one did absolutions while Group 2 did BTTW and vice versa. Group 1 would do Monkey humpers in cadence while group 2 did wall sits. Each pax did 10 absolutions 9, 8 7 … 1.

10 absolutions/BTTW
9 absolutions/BTTW
10 Monkey Humbers in cadence/Right Leg out
10 Monkey Humbers in cadence/Left Leg out
9 Monkey Humbers in cadence/Normal Wall Sits
8 absolutions/BTTW
7 absolutions/BTTW
8 Monkey Humbers in cadence/Right Leg out
8 Monkey Humbers in cadence/Left Leg out
7 Monkey Humbers in cadence/Normal Wall Sits
6 absolutions/BTTW
5 absolutions/BTTW
6 Monkey Humbers in cadence/Right Leg out
6 Monkey Humbers in cadence/Left Leg out
5 Monkey Humbers in cadence/Normal Wall Sits
4 absolutions/BTTW
3 absolutions/BTTW
2 absolutions/BTTW
1 absolutions/BTTW

Moseyed to the playgrounds. This became complicated. Note to self. This is not easy to explain.
Split up into 2 groups. The pax went around the circle. Pax will hold plank. Pax in the back will Burpee and bear crawl to the front. When we got to the fence we did 5 each leg Bulgarian squats. I will think about how I can improve this workout.

Mary:

Circle up around the practice green
Legs Straight up to our hands
Six Inch Holds
Pickle Pounders
Legs Straight up to our hands
Six Inch Holds
Pickle Pounders
Supermans

I’m drawing a blank here. We did abs though.

Announcements:
T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer:
Pax bringing home their kids
Full house’s friend
50 car pile up on 540

Reach out and touch someone (old AT&T slogan)

During announcements I closed encouraging everyone to reach out to someone within F3 that may be dealing with an injury or just flat out hasn’t posted to an AO in a while.  I told Saturday’s U-Turn PAX during the month of April I was personally dealing with a toe sprain and I hadn’t posted nearly as much as I would’ve liked to.  Weekends are usually my only time to post at all during the week and I had missed U-Turn and AGS for 2 weeks straight.  It didn’t take long for me to feel disconnected and somewhat distant from my fellow F3 brothers  (both because I hadn’t seen anyone in a while and I had also lost some of my stamina/endurance).  I can only imagine how a long term injury or a long period of time off (for whatever reason) may lead to a PAX feeling embarrassed or shameful to come back and post.  Although we would never shame anyone and we always welcome any man to any workout at anytime I feel its important that we make an effort to reach out to a fellow F3 member that we know is injured, dealing with another issue, or just haven’t seen in a while.  Sometimes a little encouragement can go a long way.

FNGs: none today

Warm Up: quick mosey, 10x Windmills, 10x Daisy Pickers, 10x Imperial Walkers, 10x Frankensteins, 25x-30x Merkins

The Workout: standard U-Turn in reverse (6mi option or 3mi option).  By far an easier route than standard U-Turn due to less hills/elevation.

Mary: ran outta time

Announcements: congrats to Sprinkler’s son graduating high-school!  Upcoming Grasshopper 5K run, 5K walk, & 1mi fun run benefiting Sergeant Rick Leach Sat June 12 here in Holly Springs.  Bed build June 12th.  May challenge continues…

T-Claps (Recognition): Picking up the 6 as always

Prayer:  11yr old recently involved in dirtbike accident, injured PAX, well being of F3 Friar Tuck and family upcoming move to TX

Crop-duster aka the Toot-n-Scoot

FNGs: None

EC: Norm, Red, Sprinkler, Katniss, POTS, Gamecock

Warm Up: Good mornings, Willie mays haze, Imperial walkers, Hillbillies, SSH, Sir Fazio arm circles

The Workout:

Part 1: Wheel of Misfortune.

Circle up with one PAX in the middle. The PAX on the outside are assigned an AMRAP exercise, and the PAX in the middle acts as the timer and does 10 burpees. Once he’s done, rotate to the next station with the top of the circle coming into the center for his turn at burpees. We made three rotations. Outside exercises were: Sumo squats, Shoulder taps, High knees, Angle grinder, Daft Punk (Around the world lunges), and Crab Cakes.

Part 2: Next Man Up, Crop-duster style

One PAX calls a terrible exercise for the rest of the group then heads off. PAX that called the exercise then “bones the fish” side-shuffling along the parking space lines moving up the parking lot then mosey back.  Rotate and the next man up calls an exercise then leaves. There was revenge, cruelty, anticipation, and way too many burpees.

Mary: There was enough Mary in Part 2.

Announcements: FV 4 mi and bible study black ops on Wednesday, Tequila Sunrise on Saturday

T-Claps (Recognition): All the visitors to KG!

Prayer: Local family with losses in the family, Martini, Praise for Sprinkler and POTS’s kids graduating

Dawgpound Celebrates 4 years

EC:There was 22 plus people running EC. So yeah I don’t have the names here.
FNGs:Pile Driver
Warm Up:

Circled Up and bounced while I went over the Disclaimer. Did a count off to have an understanding on how many Pax where there.

Mosey to the field and circle up.
Bat Wing
Fazio Arm circles Forward
Fazio Arm circles Backward
Seal Claps
Overhead Claps
Ralphies
Good Mornings
1 Burpees
2 Burpees
3 Burpees
4 Burpees
5 Burpees

The Workout:

Moseyed to the Bus Drop off. We split up into pairs and then a pair took one of the three islands.

Run in opposite directions around the island. When you met your partner do 7s counting down of Broke Back Shoulder Tap Merkins. Every time you meet you decreased the number. We went down to 1. Once that was wrapped up we did laps around the island. Partner A did bear crawls and Partner B did Lunge walks. When Partner A needed a break Partner B took over the bear crawls and Partner A did lunges. After one lap we switched to Gorilla Walks and Lunges.

Mosey to the wall for mobile balls to the wall. The pax waiting held their Squat Hold. As pax held balls to the wall and moved down the length of the wall.

Moseyed to the playground and split up in three groups. One group went with Emeril to the hill. One group with Flanigan to the play ground and the last group with me to the wall. The hill group was the timer. 5 trips up the hill running backwards. The folks against the wall held squat while lifting up one leg and switching. The playground group did pull ups. Once the 5 trips where completed group one went to the wall. Group 2 to the hill and group 3 to the playground. Repeat until all groups ran the hill.

Then we made our way up the stairs. We then found our original partners and wheelbarrow to the flag pole/stop sign.

Mary:

Circled up for Mary:
Did a modify Onnit 6 minute Abs:
Plank Hold
Peter Parkers
Mountain Climbers
Big Boy Sit-ups
Freddie Mercuries
Russian Twists
Bowl

Announcements:
T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer:

All unspoken prayers

Thunder Cinco de Mayo Mini Murph

FNGs: Nope
Warm Up: 50 SSH
The Workout:

1/2 Mile Indian Run

50 incline pull-ups, 100 Merkins, 150 squats

Tennis court abs
Halo 30 sec Cw/Ccw
Senor frog lbcs
Rotating piston
Pickle pounders

2 rounds of 10 count – BTTW, Preachers chair

Mary:  PAX choice stretching
Announcements:  JOCO Iliad, 2nd F bed build and HSPD 5K check slack/FB
T-Claps (Recognition):  all Pax for adding some running to Thunder
Prayer:  all injured Pax- Wiggly and ShamWow.  Praise to Gump’s recovery