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Leading up to YHCs Q of Ultimate, a request came in from Abacus to allow for a soccer game to be played in the extra field.  The hope was to gain enough interest to have the soccer game fully populated while also easing the size of the Ultimate game.  Unfortunately, we didn’t get enough interest for the soccer game and 2 games of Ultimate took shape.  Kudos to Abacus for attempting to create some “game” diversity to perhaps draw a different group of enthusiasts and keep things interesting.

Warm Up: 

  • good mornings, willie mays haze, franks

The Workout:

  • 2 Games of Ultimate, 4 teams.
  • Variables for Gameplay
    • Game Start involved each team lining up at their endzone line with a sprint to the middle where the disc was set.  The first team to get the disc got to start their move to the opposing endzone.
    • On Score, there was no “kick-off”, instead the disc was immediately turned over to the opposing team to start their advance to the other side.
    • No Workouts on drops or scores were included
Mary: None

FNGs: Gatorade and Hotwheels

Announcements:

  • Sombrero getting close on a service day from the Town of Holly Springs
  • Look out for an opportunity to volunteer for HollyFest.
    • Setup, F3 Tent Time, Tear Down, Town Support

Prayer:

  • No OYO – In F3 Speak that means Not On Your Own.  We are part of a community here and we should act as a shoulder to hold up the guy next to us.  If you need help, ask for it.  If you see someone in need, dont wait to be asked.  The cause for sudden loss of Hayden Panettiere (36) has yet to be determined but the news reports on her history with depression, alcholism, and domestic violence.
  • 2.0s return to school and some off to college.  Keep them safe and provide them with the strength required to get back into the swing of school.

@Abacus the OG @Send It @8bit @Rico @Mr. Terrific @Gump @Firstblood @goomba @Extra Butter @Banana Seat @Cupid @Ponzi @Bumblebee @GeekSquad @Red Light District @kazoo @Gillette @Flip Phone @Bleeder @arrowhead @Sombrero @FRAM @Breach @Play-Doh @Friday Night Lights @Wham-O @Jellybeans @Clunker @wildhorse @Jolly @rivers @duplo @WetBandit @heatwave @U.T.I.  and FNGs @gatorade @hotwheels

 

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I’ve been out of town for a few weeks with work and some vacation.  I was keeping up with Slack to see all the great mumblechatter about the Qsheet and the push by Lipstick, followed by Sardine to lead.  I knew I wouldnt be around earlier in the week, looking down the line I could see these dudes werent playing around, not much was left but I did find Cletus open for Friday.  LFG

Warm Up: 

  • SSH, good mornings, windmills, willie mays haze, franks
  • Mozy through the baseball field spectator area and train everyone on the workout for Thang 1

The Workout:

Thang 1: DORA Obstacle Course

From the far entrance of the Cletus baseball fields, pair up and switch off until DORA is completed.

Partner 1 starts on the DORA exercises – 100 Merkins, 200 LBCs, 300 Squats

Partner 2 makes their way to the center snack shack.  On the way they…

  • Complete Carioca in either direction, splitting the distance until they reach the bleachers
  • Picking either set of bleachers, go up and then down the entire height of the seats
  • Once complete, mozy to the dugout and complete ball walkers from one end to the other.  Balls2Walls while walking on hands.
  • Mozy around the snack shack and return mozy to Partner 1 to switch off

*** Quick Intermission for 15 Penalty Burpees for late arrivals ***

Thang 2: 7s on the Hill

We mozy’d from the far baseball entrance around the back of the fields to the small hill between 2 fields.

  • Bottom of Hill start with 1 burpee
  • Run Up Hill
  • Top of hill, 6 Big Boy Situps
  • Run Down Hill
  • Repeat adding/subracting 1 until the last round is 6 burpees and 1 Big Boy Situp.

Mary: Pickle Pounders, Heel Taps, Homer2Marge

Announcements:

  • Look out for an opportunity to volunteer for HollyFest.
    • Setup, F3 Tent Time, Tear Down, Town Support

Prayer:

  • Skittles will be going on a mission trip in September

@Woody @Sombrero @Highlife (Raleigh) @Jolly @Skittles @BlueCrush @Wiggly @School Bus  @Lube @3rdDay @Firefly @rivers @wildhorse @Foot Fault @Shooting Blanks

Hill Loop of Mutiny

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7 lucky crew members showed up to the Mutiny this gloom not knowing what they’d signed up for. YHC kept the plans buried like treasure in the pre-blast, and the PAX found out soon enough: three trips around the Loop, and a wet hill with a grudge.

Warm-Up

Circled up for:

  • SSH

  • Good Mornings

  • Don Quixotes

  • Imperial Walkers

  • Hillbillies

  • Sir Fazio (fwd + rev)

  • Seal Claps

  • Overhead Claps

The Thang

Ran the loop around the soccer field 3 times. One exercise at each of the 4 corners, with a different mode of transportation to get you from one corner to the next:

  • Corner 1 — 10 Merkins. Travel to the next corner: Bear Crawl on lap 1, Crab Walk on lap 2, a BC/CW combo on lap 3.

  • Corner 2 — 15 WWI Sit-ups Mosey to the next corner.

  • Corner 3 — 10 Lunges each leg, IC. Then straight into the hill: up backwards to the nearest fence post at the top, back down backwards, 1 burpee on the pavement at the bottom, then up to the third post (skipping one post on the way), down forward. Laps 1 and 2 ran the full sequence with the burpee. Time was short by lap 3, so the crew ran it forward up and down only, no burpee, to get us through the rest of the workout on schedule.

  • Corner 4 — 5 Burpees Mosey back around to Corner 1 and go again.

Mary

Popcorned exercises across the group: Low Slow Flutters, Pickle Pounders, Homer to Marge, American Hammers, Box Cutters, LBCs, Windshield Wipers.

COT

Announcements: Ruck Sack raffle still ongoing.

T-Claps: UTI named Nantan. Congrats!

Prayer: Prayers for Flip Phone and his family, mourning a recent loss. Prayers for Jolly (and family) as he moves through a season of major transition — retiring from the Navy and starting a new chapter.

Closing Remarks: Proud of this crew. Nobody knew what the Loop had in store and everybody showed up anyway — that’s the whole point. The hill doesn’t care how many times you’ve run it, it’s still going to be there tomorrow. So are we.

YHC out.

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

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

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!

The Happiest UFO on Earth

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FNGs: none

Warm Up: minimal, some crazy people did burpee hill sprints or similar in the abyss as EC

The Workout: ufo- burpees to match your points in the score. 

Announcements: Post as Disney, attendance has been light

T-Claps (Recognition): great teams @sombrero

Prayer: none

STANDARDS for AO’s (Even UFO)

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FNG: Doogie!  Welcome

Warm-up: 5:15am sharp (SSH, Good Mornings, WMH, SFAC)

About the time we were doing GM’s and WMH…over 10 PAX were walking into the Warm-up circle.  YHC noticed a lack of urgency for being late.  We continued with the Mission Statement (3 burpee penalty) Tried again with the Mission Statement (3 burpee penalty). Core values 100% (no penalty) About this time based on the honor system of those that walked up late we did a raise of hands and counted by 5 per person late. Late to ME Burpee penalty administered by Q = 55.  Total Burpee Penalty for Standard infraction = 61. (Could be a horrible F3 record to keep)

Hence the PAX were warmed up for a 4 team split.  3 Merkins on the drop and 2 squats on the drop.  2 point scored if inside the goalie box. Lots of great catches, throws, hustle and knockdowns across the board!

Announcements: Q’em all challenge (QAC), Ruck sack for sale to raise money for QAC, Memorial Day Murph (Banana Seat), If your late to an AO…don’t walk.

T-Clapps:

Prayer: Family lost son in car accident (Breach) and strangers need prayer as all humans are dealing with fear and loss.

Working on the Standard

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FNGs:

None

Warm Up:

Standard Warmup, including the Mission Statement, 5 Core Principals, and the 15 Penalty Burpees associated with the failure to know when called upon.

The Workout:

26 PAX this morning for a crisp April morning game of UFO.  We apparently still need to update the website to ensure the start time is updated to 0515 because we had 6 – 8 of the 26 show up after 5:15, I’m pretty sure they still owe ~15 burpees because they missed the warmup, haha.  Great work to all the HIMs that showed up, it is always great to get out and get our weeks started out right.

Mary:

Cleanup of the field

Announcements:

@finkle stepping up to take over the Nest, the mission is to Plant, Grow, and Serve.  For anyone who is part of the Grow, but not yet taken up the Serve, think about what you can do to take the next step.  Without it, the “Plant” will die.

T-Claps (Recognition):

Good Work to those that stuck around to complete the #corechallenge Day 6.

Prayer:

Fox Family, Struggling PAX both Monetarily, Family, Faith, and Health.  Our leaders and soldiers on the frontline

Huffin’ Pollen @ Mutiny

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5 PAX huffed pollen at 🏴‍☠️Mutiny🏴‍☠️ as we worked our way through stations while 2000s pop-punk sound waves filled the air.

Well done!
Banana Seat Play-Doh Abacus the OG Sombrero