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Throwback 5 – Day 4 – Disney

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Throwback 5 appears to be working just as planned.  End the decade and start a new one with 5 convergences at the “Original 5” Southwake AOs.  Today was Disney’s turn.  YHC turned to Kid Cracker to co-Q with me as we were the Site’s initial Qs.  I always loved Q-ing with Kid Cracker as there would be diversity in the body parts worked and lots of good mumblechatter.

It was a cloudy, 37 degree Thursday morning as YHC approached a gathering crowd in the Middle Creek Park parking lot.  The glows of at least one (Redenbacher) Pax member finishing EC could be seen.  The original Southwake Shovel Flag was planted, fists were bumped and Kid Cracker got us going!

FNGs: None
Warm Up: Short fellowship jog (0.33 miles) around the dark soccer field – we continued this mosey to the small parking lot adjacent to the baseball field house – where we circled up

  • SSH x 20 I.C.
  • Good Morning x 20 I.C.
  • Downward Dog (left and right rocking)
  • Runners pose stretching (Left and Right)
  • Pigeon pose stretching (Left and Right)
  • on your feet to mosey to the High School student parking lot – Pax instructed to partner up on the run

The Workout:

Round 1:  Kid Cracker

  • Partner1 partner carry Partner2 the long distance up the hill in the parking lot.  Resting or alternating as needed
  • Disclaimer was issued by Kid Cracker “if you have back problems, knee problems or are on your (menstrual) cycle – you can lunge walk”  Classic 🙂
  • Alternative to partner carry was lunge walk half way then catch up on the run
  • At top of hill series of exercises were done (too gassed to remember)
  • Mosey back to bottom of the hill
  • Rince and repeat with alternating pax member
  • Fellowship run back to the park toward the Abyss (7 flights of stairs)

Round 2:  Deadbolt

  • Keep your partner – half the partners would go to bottom of the stair (but stay with your partners) and half stay up top
  • DORA with runners going up/down the stairs.  The DORA was
    • 100 Merkin
    • 200 LBC
    • 300 Squats
    • Ab exercises until the 6 gets up
  • Clockwise and Counterclockwise Indian runs (50-50 split) from the Abyss to the concrete area at the bottom on the half pipe
  • Jailbreak to Flag for Mary

Mary:  Alternating Abs by your Co-Qs

  • American Hammers x 20
  • Exaggerated Low Slow Flutter x 20
  • Freddy Merc x 20
  • Wide Grip Merkins x 20
  • Heels to Heaven x 20
  • Good Morning stretches
  • Michaels Phelps to close

Announcements:

  • Final Throwback 5 tomorrow- Cletus – it will be special
  • Carpex – Southwake Q Swap next 2 weeks
  • Dawgpound assisting Eagle Scout with fund raising opportunity and support – details on Slack

T-Claps (Recognition):

Prayer:

  • Wallaby, Crablegs, US Military Forces, some I may have forgot
  • DB Took us out in a ball of man

Throwback Day One – Baby Come Back

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Day 1 of our Throwback week. I had the honor of leading 25 PAX from Holly Springs and the Quay in bringing back and taking care of Baby.

FNGs: None
Warm Up: SSH, Fazio Arm Circles, Windmills
The Workout: Our goal was to not drop Baby (the football) throughout the workout. If she is dropped, a 3 Burpee discipline

  1. Combo exercises included: step-ups and irkins, wide merkins and plank jacks, rinse, repeat
  2. Quarterback / receiver drills while other PAX were in line doing planks, squats, high knees
  3. Two Rock Shakur: Colt 45s and Tricep Extensions
  4. Split in to two groups. Bear Crawl around circle drive holding Baby from the inside and passing to the next PAX to reach the outside circle
  5. Mosey to playground: Split in to 4 groups for pull up, swing planks, and a game of Hot Potato
  6. Two Rock Shakur repeat

Mary: Around the Horn starting with those who have been in F3 the longest down to two years…and a few Respects
Announcements: Throwback week. Hope to see everyone at the next workout at Kenny’s Grave. Shield Lock starts Jan 1.
T-Claps (Recognition): Those PAX that have stuck with F3 for multiple years!
Prayer: H1N1 sports hernia, Quiver’s wife uncle with cancer

2nd F at Starbucks!

 

Cletus Dec. 27th, 2019 Rock Work

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EC: UTI, Katniss

FNGs:  Welcome Cinder! Cary Fireman that was EH’ed by a friend in Memphis
Warm Up:  Random Counts of Fazio Arm Circles, Imperial Walkers, Hillbillies, SSH, Merkins
The Workout:  Rock work in the parking lot

2X rock push and duck walk across the parking lot

Several rounds of tricep extentions, curls for the girls, goblet squats, and overhead press while rotating and sharing everyone’s rock.

Indian Run around the baseball fields

Modified Morning call at the play ground – Pax performing Clock Merkins while one Pax performs pull-ups until everyone had a turn

Mary: 10 Count Plank hold, 10 Count One arm raised Plank Hold, Repeat, LBC’s, Catalina Wine Mixer, Peter Parkers
Announcements:  New Cletus Co-Q TBA soon!
T-Claps (Recognition):  Cinder for completing the workout!
Prayer: A safe new year for all PAX

BRR Taper

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4 pax at tiger blood for an 87 workout in honor of Crosby’s return to the gloom.

EC: UTI, 187, Skidmark

FNGs: none
Warm Up: well Christmas dinner made a hard pass through the Q. Mosey to the port-a-John. Pax did warmup and Q did a squat hold. There were some pickle pounders, plank jacks, Hillbillies, imperial walkers, fozio arm circles, overhead claps, seal claps, and SSH.

The Workout: Mosey back the parking lot. Pax did 8 squats on one side and 7 merkins on the other side of the lot with a different movement between the sites. Pax did lunge walks, duck walks, side shuffles, burpee long jumps, bear crawls. All squats and merkins done all the Q down and up.

We tried pickle pounder crawls. Pax did 5 pickle pounders and then crawl in the chill cut position, so on and so forth.
Mary: 15 count exercises around the circle.
Announcements: throw back week next week.
T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer: UTIs family dealing with loss of family pet. Lipstick who bought his son a BB gun without telling the M.

To cool for the parking deck

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YHC is battling an injury and wanted a low running workout, so when Coal Ash was looking for a last minute Q I jumped on it. 7 PAX got after it in the rain for some rock action.

EC: Redenbacher, UTI
FNGs:Not this day
Warm Up:
Slaughter starter (20 burpees OYO)
5 penalty burpees for Red’s tardiness.

Mosey to rock pile and grabs rock for later.Circle up for:
20 SSH
1 burpee
10 Windmills
2 burpees
Sir Fazio arm circles
3 burpees
10 merkins
4 burpees
10 mtn climbers
5 burpees

The Workout:

Grab rock and get comfy for the rest of the workout.

Circle of pain looked like:
3 rock exercises (upper, lower, core) at each rock, plank/squat shuffle to next rock, 5 merkins, and repeato until we traveled around the entire circle. I don’t remember the entire order, but we did all of these:

Upper: OH press, curls, tricep ext, wonderbras, side bends, side throws, rows
Lower: squats, lunges, ground pounders, monkey humpers, star jumps
Core: LSF, WW1, Homer to Marge, LBCs

Mary:
Hundreds
Alphabet
American hammers
Pickle pounders

Announcements:
Throwback and qswap weeks

T-Claps (Recognition):
Strong F3 start for Teen Wolf!

Prayer:
Pilgrim, Slide Rule, remember real reason for Christmas, unspoken

YHC took us out.

Standard Loop at the U

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FNGs: N/A

Warm Up: warm up lap around the parking lot, circled up for 10 X SSH and 10 X Good Mornings IC.

The Workout: Standard 5 mile Loop for most and 3 mile Loop for Dauber (This was one of 3 workouts for him today).

Mary: MIA

Announcements: Check Slack and FB.

Claps (Recognition): Dauber for the Triple Dog Dare to PAX to join him posting at U turn, his Q at GP, and running a 5K with his 2.0. Good work!

Prayer: Sgt. Peppers, PAX with new babies, PAX traveling over the holidays, unspoken

Planning on Livin’ 3rd in 2020

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You saw the 2020 Leadership update from Pikachu, the 3rd F job desciptions, the pre-blasts about a meeting for 3rd F 2020 planning.  So… what happened?

TL;DR

  • We are going to make 3rd F work like 1st F – Site Qs, Q sheets, AOs, schedules, backblasts, flags, trackers, and shirts
  • We are going to create more opportunities to lead and serve
  • Our goal is to make F3 South Wake synonymous with community outreach and support
  • We aim to rival Fitness as the hook, EHing HIM along the way
  • Site Qs named for our 4 new AOs The Heart, The Mind, The Cloud, and The Accelerator
  • Site Qs are (in order of AOs) YHC, Shredder\Tetanus, ShamWow!\Dovetail, and Dhamer\Abe
  • Next Meeting January 17th, 5:30AM @ Dunkin’ Donuts – feel free to join us!

The Meeting – 12/18/19

Dahmer, Shredder, and Dumbo were the very first to answer the job ads for new 3rd F Site Qs.  We started chatting and figured out that the best time to meet was going to be during the normal operating hours of the gloom.  We set the date, the time, and the place.  I opened the meeting up to the rest of the PAX so that we could get as much brain power and muscle on this as possible.

10 HIM answered the call to sacrifice 1st F and help kick-off 3rd F for 2020.  The same names tagged in this BackBlast.  Others sent their regrets and since the meeting more HIM have approached me with ideas and an eagerness to get involved. :heart warmed:  This crew is astounding!

During the meeting, I threw down the vision that I prepared for the South Wake Leadership team for all in attendance to hear.  I wanted their feedback and to start us off.  This wasn’t a plan set in stone and for us to launch 2020 I needed everyone at the table.  You can page through this awesome and ever-changing PowerPoint OYO – It has changed a bit since the meeting and will likely continue to change as we continue building this thing.  https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/14rcT2XZDKsv2jIorN85W474V0xJVa9p-V8wzzSx7ijw/edit?usp=sharing

At the conclusion of the slideshow, the conversation started and everyone talked about their ideas.  It became pretty clear where everyone fit in terms of their AOs.  If you don’t recall from the job descriptions there is a slide called “AOs High Level” and one called “Site Q job descriptions” that go into detail.  For this post the quick and dirty is that there are 4 AOs to start.  The Heart (Community Outreach), The Mind (Q Source and Small-group internal reflection), The Cloud (tools of the trade and the media front-end to this operation), and The Accelerator (This group will be finding new ways to push us all in 3rd F and driving focus to things we already do for race support)

New 3rd F Site Qs

These are the guys to look to in key areas of focus as described above and in the slide deck.  I will be supporting all of these efforts but these leaders will own their AOs and drive the agendas as they see fit.  Like any site Q, they won’t do it all.  They will be EHing South Wake PAX to take Q through the course of the year at specific dates and times.  They will be creating the schedules and looking for HIM to help.

  • The Heart – YHC will lead this effort for now but technically the position is still open for someone to come on “full-time”.  I think there are a few interested parties and Dumbo has already said he wants to lead up our efforts around the Food Pantry.
  • The Mind – Shredder and Tetanus will be taking point as Co-Qs.  Good ideas already flowing from these guys and I cant wait to find out more at our next meeting.
  • The Cloud – ShamWow! and Dovetail, ShamWow! is very excited to bring the sales skills that you can’t see on TV to 3rd F.  Dovetail knows his way around the a Cloud and is ready to bring those skills to the 3rd F cause.  Updates will definitely be headed to the website and expect our Social Medias to get a bit more attention.
  • The Accelerator – Dahmer and Abe, Dahmer and Abe are already collaborating and putting up ideas on this one.  One of which includes a charity running event.  Nothing is baked but this is another exciting area of focus for 3rd F in 2020 and one to watch with anticipation.

What’s Next

Everyone is hard at work thinking through what 2020 should look like.  A list is being generated of past and new 3rd F efforts.  We are making an effort to focus on South Wake exclusively but some exceptions will be made.  We’ll aim to build a pre-arranged schedule that will include weekly activities (AO Mind Group Meetings perhaps), monthly activities (service outreach), quarterly (not sure yet) and yearly (race support stuff like CSAUPs or Wrightsville).

We’re going to bring all of that back to Dunkin’ on January 17th and aim to get it on the website around that time.  Our meetings will be open so please join us if you would like to listen-in or contribute.  We’ll be happy to have you.

Cletus gets a UTI (╬ ಠ益ಠ)

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It’s been a spell since Yogurt EH’d me for this Q.  I want to thank him for bringing me this opportunity.  I’m again very humbled by the turnout today.  Whether it was for me specifically or Cletus was just the place you wanted to spend your Friday in the gloom – I thank you.  So close to Christmas with all of the things I know we collectively have going on, it is awesome to share the morning with you guys.  I feel humbled to have been the Q this morning and to witness it.  I hope you got your money’s worth.  The year isnt over yet!!!  SYITG <3 UTI

EC: Nemo, Mookie, 187, Pikachu, Redenbacher, LED, Maybelline

YHC hit the olde snooze button this morning and barely made EC.  In fact, I was late.  I chalked up nearly 2 miles in the time allowed and barely got to see any of the HIM that actually made it out there on time.  Good work PAX!

FNGs: No Sir

Warm Up:

  • Mozy from the flag to the lot formerly known as the Ivan lot
  • SSH ~25 IC
  • Hillbillies 14 IC
  • Imperial Walkers (In Honor of Star Wars) 14 IC
  • Daisy Pickers – 14 IC
  • Fozio Arm Circles – 14 Forward 14 Back, IC

The Workout:

Thing 1

  • Groups of 5ish PAX line up in Indian Run formation.  Move to Bear Crawl position.  Indian Bear Crawl to mid lot and Jailbreak.  5 burpees.  Assume formation again and return to other side in exact same way.
  • Repeato 1x

Thing 2

  • Mozy to Amphitheater.
  • Dips, Erkins, Derkins – 20 each
  • Split PAX in 2, half on the wall for People’s Chair, half complete 20 Box Jumps and switch
  • Half on the wall for Balls2Wall, half complete 20 step-ups (10 each foot) and switch
  • Dips, Erkins, Derkins – 15 each
  • Split PAX in 2, half on the wall for People’s Chair, half complete 20 Box Jumps and switch
  • Half on the wall for Balls2Wall, half complete 20 step-ups (10 each foot) and switch
  • Dips, Erkins, Derkins – 10 each
  • Split PAX in 2, half on the wall for People’s Chair, half complete 20 Box Jumps and switch
  • Half on the wall for Balls2Wall, half complete 20 step-ups (10 each foot) and switch

Thing 3

  • Mozy to hand rail near baseball fields
  • Split PAX in 2, half on the hand rail for pull-ups, half complete Prisoner Squats to 20 and Switch
  • Split PAX in 2, half on the hand rail for pull-ups, half complete Prisoner Squats to 10 and Switch
  • Return to the flag

Mary:

  • Dying Cockroach 14 IC
  • Box Cutters 14 IC
  • Homer to Marge – 14 IC
  • Pickle Pounders – ~10? IC – Time caught us

Announcements:

  • 24hr Run Supporting Healing Transitions this weekend – Sat 3pm to Sun 3pm
  • AGS needs a Q – Mookie is suggesting that instead of AGS, make the 24hr run your target
  • Good things coming from 3rd F
  • Call out from DoubleD to take 3rd F seriously – it has an impact on your life and its ok to miss 1st F to make 3rd F a bigger part of your life.
  • Get up with Pikachu about the Emergency contact registry (esp Site Qs so you know how to access it quickly)
  • Be on the lookout for some emergency response training.  Good session in 2019 with the Holly Springs FD

T-Claps (Recognition):

  • The PAX that kept compressions going for Sgt Pepper.  They saved his life an made sure the EMS team had a patient when they arrived.  Way to be!

Prayer:

  • SlideRule and family – new baby TBN (to be named)
  • Sharapova and family – new baby
  • Sgt Pepper and family – suffered a heart attack during a workout
  • Safe travels to all this weekend if you are heading out – be safe

Great 2nd F at Harvest Moon today guys!

Up by 5!

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FNGs: Welcome Teen Wolf!

 

EC: 187 and UTI

Warm Up: Moseyed over to back portion of Planet Fitness parking lot for some warmup exercises to include cadence count Frankensteins, Fozio Arm Circles, Windmills, Good Mornings, and Imperial Walkers.

The Workout: PAX gathered at the back of the Planet Fitness parking lot facing the Butchers Market (great signature steak tips). We ran towards Butchers market, held chill cut for 60 seconds then performed 5 Merkins, 5 Squats, 5 Inverted SSH, 5 Side Plank to Merkins (crowd favorite) and then 5 Jump squats. Pax then ran back to the opposite end of the parking lot where we held chill cut for 60 seconds and increased each exercise by 5. This was rinsed and repeated until we hit the 20 rep count per each exercise.

 

PAX then Moseyed behind Harris Teeter, grabbed some pallets and did 2 rounds of  25 shoulder presses and overhead squats. Finally we headed in front of HT for 3 rounds of 25 dips on the park benches or wall.

Mary: Low Slow Flutter and Homer to Marge for 25 reps followed by 15 Straight Leg Raise.

Announcements:Oakwood 24, Throwback 5 starting Monday December 30th at Mutiny, Healing Transition this Friday (donations clothing always accepted). UTI tomorrow morning at Dunkin Donuts at 5:30am 3rd F 2020 vision for F3 South Wake.

T-Claps (Recognition):  187 and UTI getting some miles in before the workout.

Prayer: UTI’s coworker diagnosed with pulmonary emboli, Teen Wolfs relatives with pneumonia and in rehab from a recent fall, Walaby, and unspoken prayers.

MAKING TRACKS ON THE TRACK AT TB

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This BB was posted on behalf of Tetanus.  He was QIC and this was his VQ!!!  Way to be Tetanus

Getting the Backblast up late!!! Momma always said I was a procrastinator. I didn’t get a birthmark until I was 3.  VQ at TB barely slept last night like a kid on Christmas Eve. A little Winter chill didn’t stop 11 HIMS from getting better today. -Tetanus

FNGs: None

Warm Up:  Frankensteins x 12 IC, Fazio Arm Circles front/back x 12 IC, then we mosey to get the blood flowing…..Behind the school and circle up for a couple more warm up exercises…….SSH x 15 IC, The Hillbilly (in honor of VQ motherland, WV) x 15 IC

The Workout:

Mosey to the track and partner up…….

Round 1 – Bear crawl/zombie walk the track…..PAX 1 runs the track while PAX 2 follows behind in a bear crawl, PAX 1 laps around and tags PAX 2 and PAX 2 begins the run while PAX 1 picks up the bear crawl. Rotate back and forth until 1 lap is complete by the bear crawl/zombie walk combo. RECOVER

Round 2: PAX 1 runs a lap while PAX 2 does mountain climber Merkins AMRAP, then recover for a 10 count, then AMRAP again until PAX 1 finishes his lap, then switch it up.

Round 3: Same as Round 2 with overhead claps

Round 4: Same as Round 2 but holding plank

Time flies when you’re havin fun……PAX mosey back to the flag

Mary: Pretzel crunches x 12 IC, Freddy Mercury x 14 IC, LBC x 20, Homer to Marge x 25,  have a nice day

Announcements:  Christmas party this weekend – auction items – proceeds go to Healing Transitions, 24 hr run for Healing Transitions, 3rd F vision meeting next Wednesday @5:30AM @Dunkin Donuts.

T-Claps (Recognition):  Yogurt and Da Business for picking up the 6

Prayer:

Wallaby, Pikachu/POTS for those PAX MIA (check in on them and see how they are doing), Quiver’s family, Kosher’s family, Oboe’s dad, Florence’s friend and family