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F3 U.T.I. turns 9 and other cool stuff…

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The Friday prior I attended Gump’s 12 Year Anniversary Q at Cletus.  As we worked out Gump asked each of us “How many years with F3?” and “What’s kept us coming back?  What does it mean to you?”.  With my anniversary a week away, I had already started thinking about what F3 meant to me and Gump challenged me to really dig deep and think back on my almost 9 years.

Well that just took me down a rabbit hole.  I started looking at our F3 PAX album, going back to look at backblasts, and recalling all of the people and the things I had experienced.  I started to realize how many classes of F3 PAX had come and gone.  There are still some guys around from 9 years ago but some of them had left for different reasons – family, work, moving to other locations, injury.

How many of them still looked back on their F3 glory days?  Would they come back?

I made a list of names based on the backblasts and photos.  Not comprehensive, somewhat random.  That Friday, I put up a pre-pre blast with my intention to reach out to this list and asked PAX to come up with their own lists and reach out too.  I started to text…

Venkman, Oyster, Lawn Dart, WebEx, R-22, Coal Ash, Tetanus, Yoshi, Soft Serve, Kosher, Straight Cash, Genie, Huggies, Bobby Boucher, Fanny Pack, Sprinkler, Axe (with an E), Martini, Oh Yeah, Cowboy, Aquaman, SlideRule, Warbucks, Lipstick, Skidmark, DawgPound, M4L, Emeril, Redenbacher, Bernie, Wallaby, Stubs, Leftovers, Stickers, Skittles, Particle Board, Pacman, FedEx, Peeping Tom, Wiggly, The Natural, Blue Hen, Flanigan, ShamWow, Dahmer, Master Shake, Snap, Shredder, Fonzi, Lipsync, Patch, Crosby

By Monday, I had about 25 HCs/SCs from the list and another 9 HCs on the post (fitting).  I didn’t get to the whole list, I didn’t have all the contact info, but I did what I could.  I had Gemini make me a little teaser image without the names and updated the pre-pre-blast post.

By Thursday, I had a few extra names from the list.  Some SCs had become HCs, some had to drop.  The Pre-blast launched and it was a flurry of comments and emojis.  By the end, 22 PAX had HCd on Slack.  Some overlapped with my Kotters list, some didn’t.  This was going to be big… Like 30 guys!?  I planned from the start to pay homage to my first FNG workout Q’d by Emeril and CHIPs.  I reviewed it and it checked out as appropriate for this sized group.  Emeril and CHIPs had 33 PAX that morning…  The table was set, the coffeteria plans were ordered (thanks again Pikachu, Gizmo, BnB, Abe, Rico, and Wild Turkey)

BTW – Hit up Rico if you want to order those pastries he brought.  They were amazing and he’s pledged to support my requested 3rd F cause for the day with a portion of any proceeds.

Rico’s Store – https://adoroportugal.com/shop-our-products/ols/products/pastel-de-nata-12-frozen-prebaked

3rd F Cause – https://secure.alsohio.org/site/TR/Endurance/General?pg=team&fr_id=1181&team_id=6540

Oh wait… one last minute addition.  Downrange and Full House are calling for EC…  As Full House reminded me “Go Big or Go Home”  FML ok fine.  I set my alarm for 4:20.

EC: Full House, Gillette, and Downrange for 2 miles

We returned to a packed Cletus parking lot with an overwhelming number of faces and the cars kept rolling in.  Peeping Tom, one of my original EHs from WoodCreek had traveled from JACOGA to be here as promised.  Fanny Pack!  SlideRule! Stickers!  Wiggly!  TomTom (Thanks Bumblebee)!?  Dahmer!  Shredder!  Fonzi too!

There were more but my head was spinning and I felt like I was at a wedding.  So many people I wanted to catch up with and only time for a quick hello but we’d have to wait for coffeteria.

We did a count-off…  50 PAX counted!!!  WHAT!?!?

FNGs: Welcome 404 (Wed Developer), Yooper (Formerly from norther Michigan but not the U.P.)

In my haste to get moving and get this crowd away from the residential, I forgot all about our FNGs.  As the group started their mozy to the back lot.  Someone shouted to remind me and I ran back through the crowd to give em the disclaimer.  9 years of F3 hadn’t prepared me to manage this workout but heck most of my smaller workouts I get the checklist a little twisted.  And we mozy’d on.  TO THE BACK LOT!

Oh hey!  It’s CROSBY!!!  walking the trail to catch up with us for the workout.  51 PAX is now the count

The Workout: Thang 1, Parking lot – B O M B S
Partner up, similar to Dora 1-2-3 but more exercises. Partner up. Pax 1 does exercise while Pax 2 runs to from the back of the lot to the entrance and back. Swap out and continue the exercise until each amount of reps are complete. The exercises and reps are: 50- Burpees / 100- Overhead Claps / 150- Merkins / 200- LBC’s / 250- Squats.

^^^This text was ripped almost exactly as it was written from my FNG workout backblast which was originally posted to our Facebook group on 7/24/2017.  Slight details changed since the original venue was Paradise City.

I did get the chance for some cool exchanges with this crew as we passed each other through the workout.  Fives, fist bumps, and mumblechatter.  It was pretty awesome.

Warm Up: good morning, windmills, willie mays haze, SSH

Once again, I was all mixed up.  We never did a warm-up so I decided to put this in the middle as a palette cleanser.

The Workout: Thang 2, Catch me if you can

Same partners, partner 1 does 2 burpees while partner 2 takes off.  Once burpees are done, partner 1 runs after to catch partner 2.  Once caught, they switch and continue until back at the flags.  The route was from the back lot, around the baseball fields by way of the parking lot entrance, back around to the bridge, right at the shelter passing the playground on the right, around the Soccer fields and back to the main parking lot.

Mary: Despite Lipstick’s prediction based on my first ever Q, the workout filled the whole time and there was nothing left for Mary.  COT began immediately on the tennis courts.

Announcements:  What a amazingly crazy morning with all the PAX at Cletus.  I wanted to post here to put some emphasis on a surprise/not surprise NANTAN announcement this morning.  the surprise… Breach ran along side me on the way back to the flags and said something like “seems like a good time to announce you as NANTAN”  the not surprise, I asked for the job.  I want to thank Breach for his leadership.  He took charge post-covid as we were looking to re-energize South Wake and has done an amazing job navigating tough conversations and building on our already awesome community.  As long as I’ve known him, he has always lived in all 3 Fs.  The Marine in him has given him some special skills in 1st F | For 2nd F, he’s always down for coffee, beer, and a good time.  Especially if there are costumes involved. |  You wouldn’t have had to be around long to know how big of a 3rd F heart Breach has in his charitable giving, his leadership with Travis Manion, road side clean-up, and the list goes on.  Thank you Breach and I look forward to turning to you for your guidance.

T-Claps (Recognition):  All of these men for beating the fartsack to join me on this crazy spectacular morning.  I had a bunch of fun and loved seeing the band back together.  52 PAX in all for a single workout.  So much brotherhood and support felt.

A separate shout out to Crosby for his loving donation of a kidney and his willingness to join us during his recovery.

Prayer: X-Rays mission trip safety and success.  Flip Phone’s family as they mourn their loss.  All others spoken and unspoken.

From my FNG backblast, CHiPS provided —

Proverbs 17:17 – A friend loves at all times and a brother is born for a time of adversity.

1 Thessalonians 5:11 – Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in face you are doing.

 

My first attempt to get the whole group

Breach got ’em all

 

Coffeteria was so cool

 

My original clown car – Peeping Tom and Lipstick

Possums, bears and ants

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FNGs:none

Warm Up: good morning, merkins, imperial walkers, hill billies, ssh

The Workout: First time at Possum Trot so I arrived a few minutes early to survey the dark parking lot. Its almost as dark as Purple Cobra. I had a few ideas in mind, all of which included rocks. We moseyed to a freshly painted line where we lined up holding a high plank and each PAX bear crawled to the end of the line.

Main event

Each PAX grabbed a flat-ish rock for bear crawl rock push between the No Parking sign and light pole while their partner started 100 ground pounders, 100 curls for the girls and 100 triceps for the guys. There was much groaning over rock size and pavement quality. 

10 mins of core (45 on / 15 off)

box cutters, lbcs, pickle pounders, american hammer and homer to marge

Mary: Ended with some light yoga

Announcements: 

T-Claps (Recognition):

Prayer: 16bit’s mom battling cancer and pumpkin spice moving to Clayton

Shiver Me Timbers

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Ahoy, ye scallywags! Five seasoned swashbucklers arrived at Mutiny at the crack o’ dawn, keen on an early morning quest fer shiny loot. We followed the faded parchment map and successfully unearthed the hidden booty!

Workout Overview

  • AO: Mutiny (Honeycutt Park)

  • Style: Boot Camp (45 Minutes)

  • Equipment: Bring your own “coupon” (cinder block or heavy rock from the woodline)

1.The Warm-A-Rama:

Mosey a lap around the park to wake up the legs

  • Side Straddle Hops (SSH)

  • Imperial Walkers

  • Hillbillies

  • Frankensteins

2.Thang 1: The Court Grinder:

Mosey over to the courts. This is a stacker-style challenge across the corners:

  • Corner 1: 10 Stack ’em Merkins

  • Corner 2: 10 Merkins + 20 Stack ’em Squats

  • Corner 3: 10 Merkins + 20 Squats + 30 Stack ’em Crab Cakes

  • Corner 4: 10 Merkins + 20 Squats + 30 Crabby Patties + 40 Stack ’em Jump Squats

3.Thang 2: Coupon Dora 1-2-3:

Pair up, run to the drainage ditch where the rocks are, and dig through the weeds to get a rock for each person. Head to the dead end that juts out from the traffic circle. While Partner 1 completes reps using the rock, Partner 2 John Cusacks or rifle-carries a smaller rock around the circle and back. Switch off until the team hits the total reps:

  • 100 American Hammers IC

  • 200 Weighted Lunges 

  • 300 Overhead press

 

Mary:  Not alot of time left so we touched our toes.

 

Prayers:  Rico asked for prayers related to upcoming legal decisions.  

 

Announcements:  Sombrero working on a new date for volunteering with Holly Springs

All you can eat chips

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FNGs:none

Warm Up: GM, willy mays hays, lunges, hill billies, imperial walkers, sir fazio, seal claps and overhead claps

The Workout: Upper body was the focus and the Q was visiting this AO for the first time.

We started with a full length parking round of cocaine bear crawls with a crabwalk return. We found a long stretch of curb for a plank walk with 10 merkins at the halfway mark and returned to the starting point. 
Next stop was the picnic shelter for dips, urkens, durkens with people chair rest in between rounds.

Next was a stop to the rock pile to grab two small rocks for shoulders and arms. Curls for the girls, tris for the guys, front holds, side holds and l raises until we couldn’t lift our arms.

We had enough for 10mins core

45 on 15 off of pickle pounders, home to marge, j lo, wwii, plank jacks for 2 rounds

Mary:light stretching

Announcements: Check slack for volunteer opportunities.

T-Claps (Recognition):none

Prayer: Rico’s family

Murph 2026

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16 HIM for Murph 2026
We met at Herbert Akins MS track where newly built pull up bars were available.
0550 warm ups
0558 Breach speech about Stg. Murphy
0600 Pledge then go time

1 mile
100 pull ups: modify with bands or sand bag rows
200 push ups aka merkins
300 squats
1 mile

The showers started just as the last man finished.

Strong work by all. It was a privilege to lead this years Murph.

BS out!

Hot Potato

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FNGs: none, just FNP (friendly new paint)

Warm Up: mosey to checkout the new paint laid atop the wretched parking lot surface. Some stretching and stuff

The Workout:

thang 1- divide into partners on the tennis court, partner 1 does suicides across all 4 courts, hitting every sideline. Partner two holds a plank. Flapjack

thang 2- pt ankle exercises, 30 sec of single foot hops around a + shape, hitting each quadrant in sequential order; 4 rounds total

thang 3- repeat thang 1, but instead of holding a plank, 4:1 plank jacks to merkins

thang 4- hot potato- pax stand in a circle on one foot for 30 second timer, passing a tennis ball around the circle. Every foot that touches the ground or tennis ball touch is a burpee at the end; 4 rounds

thang 5- elevated hot potato- PAX use a 6lb medball instead of a tennis ball, timer extended to 45 sec; 4 rounds

thang 6- use variety of single leg hops, lunge walks, and leg exercises to travel across the courts- I don’t remember the details 

Mary: yes

Announcements: probably

T-Claps (Recognition): doubtful

Prayer:yes

No cobra, but there was a turtle!

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7 HIM for some several round of rocks, then some stretching and Mary. 

Dang It, You Showed Up

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3 PAX for 3 rounds of legs, 3 upper body, stretches, and Mary

Don’t Skip Leg Day

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FNGs:

None

Warm Up:

Good morning, Daisy Pickers, Willie Mays Hayes, Sir Fasio Arm Circles Fwd/Bkwd, Overhead Claps, Seal Claps, Standard Merkins, Side Straddle Hops.

The Workout:

80ft of walking lunges30 Squats80ft of walking lunges50 Deadlifts80ft of walking lunges20 Squats Clean

Mary:

#corechallenge

Announcements:

Manion WOD, Q’em All, and all the others on Slack

T-Claps (Recognition):

None

Prayer:

Health and Safety for the PAX and their family 

The Q Makes The Rules

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32 PAX took the field and immediately felt the difference—this wasn’t standard Ultimate, it was controlled chaos with purpose. With three scoring zones per team, the game forced constant decision-making: grind for the safe 1-point end zone, thread a tight throw into the 2-point bonus box, or take a high-risk shot at the 3-point corner. Early on, teams played conservative, but as momentum shifted, players started stretching the field, launching deep shots and cutting aggressively to the corners.

Communication became everything—sidelines were loud, calling out zone opportunities and defensive switches as handlers scanned for mismatches. By the midpoint, legs were heavy but intensity stayed high, with several clutch 3-point conversions swinging the score dramatically. What stood out most was the adaptability—guys adjusted on the fly, spacing improved, and trust in throws grew as the game went on. In the end, it wasn’t just about athleticism; it was about awareness, timing, and taking calculated risks under pressure, and every player walked off knowing they’d been part of something fast, competitive, and a step above the usual pickup run.

The game was a close one but the score keeping team prevailed.