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5 miles was had by all

FNGs:

None

Warm Up:

SSH x10

Frankenstein x10

Daisy Pickers x10

Windmills x10

Butt Kickers x10

The Workout:

We ran

Mary:

Various yoga stretching poses

Announcements:

Races up coming

Prayer:

Unspoken

When We Get Up that Hill

YHC found that he had the Q at the “happiest AO in SouthWake” today. My favorite place to Q…so much to do here. Lot’s of EC today, glad I rolled in at the last minute to join lots of other PAX for a couple miles.

FNG’s:no
Warm Up: Good Mornings x12 IC, Everything else x 10 IC including: Sir Fazios (F/R), Frankenteins, Windmills, Mountain Climbers x 25 IC.
The Workout: Moseyed around the soccer field to the big dark disc golf hill. We went up that hill 8 times. At the top we did an exercise and we crawl-beared back down. At the top we did: 20 Prisoner Squats, 20 Shoulder Taps IC, 15 Star Jumps, 15 Merkins, 10 Burpees, 10 Squat Jumps, 5 diamond Merkins, 5 SSH IC.

We did a 2 line Indian Run back to the main lot for a teamwork circle of pain. The objective… work in a team of 4 to bang out 500 of each of the following exercises: Merkins, Squats, Mountain Climbers, LBC’s, SSH.

Lots of help and picking up the 6 to get all groups done.
Mary: 20 Counts of: LSF’s IC, Dying Cockroach IC, Homer to Marge IC, Big Boy Sit-ups, Pickle Pounders IC, and Superman’s various cadence.
Announcements: Breach has the Breach22 discount for the 9/11 5k… do it! Brute CSAUP coming up Oct. 16th…do it.
T-Claps (Recognition): POTS, for showing YHC that hill way back when so I could make use of it.
Prayer: FRAM and his father in law with double pneumonia. Unspoken. YHC took us out!

Possum Trot 8/11/21

FNGs: None
Warm Up: one lap around the tennis court. Karaoke, high knee, butt kick, jog to pick up late PAX.  Jog down to field #2 and circle up.  SSH I/C 50. 2o regular, 20 2x and 10 smurf jacks. Good mornings I/C 10, Windmills I/C 10, Stretching counts. Frankenstein’s I/C 10. Standard Merkin 10. 10 Burpees for late PAX.

The Workout: BTTW and Peoples Chair 30 sec on each exercises.  Ladder down by 5 sec intervals to 15 sec. Broke PAX into 2 teams of 5.  We played kickball with each base earned was a stacked>  1 merkin, 2 squats, 3 lunges, 4 burpees for the defensive team.  Each out was the same for the batting team.  Delta of runs scored after the inning was number of burbees for the losing team.   One team did succeed in achieving the ever elusive triple play!!
Mary: Low slow flutter, Freddy Mercury’s, American Hammer. 60 sec of grateful reflections.
Announcements:  Never Miss a Friday @Kungpow,
T-Claps (Recognition):  Rollback on EC push
Prayer:  Bondo’s granddaughter Piper for RSV, Dead Bolt daughter working long days in the hospital. New Mexico losing a close friend.

Midget finds a new pimp hat

FNGs: none
Warm Up: mosey to the Goodwill parking lot – DP’s, SSH, Sir Fazio front, back, seal clap, over head clap, low slow flutter
The Workout: mosey to the hill – bear crawl up, headed to guard rail for some irkins, derkins and dips, next set ran backwards up hill and repeato on the irk, dirk and dip.  Took for the sunrise parking lot, DORA action partner up for 100 calf raises, 150 merkins, 200 squats.  A 7 HIM took the short jaunt back to the rock pile behind the peeter for some curls for the girls, overhead press, and tricep extensions.  One round of balls to the wall and people’s chair wrapped up this edition of Purple Cobra.  While we didn’t find the Zebra cobra, Midget found a pimp hat on the hill and proceeded to put it on his dome…commenting that is smelled like piss, he immediately took it off.
Mary: mosey back to the cars just in time for have a nice day
Announcements: races coming up – Derek Davis and Travis Manion
Prayer: Crab legs, Midget’s friend from GA on GrowRuck that found F3

Cinder Blocks Seem Good On Paper

FNGs: none
Warm Up: Mosey around the soccer field, SSH x25, Good Mornings x10, Windmill x10, Fazio Arm Circles forward/backward x10, Seal Claps x10, Overhead Claps x10
The Workout: UTI reminded me that there was a stack of cinder blocks, stamped with the F3 logo, ready to go. I appreciate a good coupon workout, so I was down. Here’s how it went:

PAX were instructed to grab two cinder blocks each and meet at the triangle (entrance to parking lot loop). We started out with a simple set of exercises using one block: Curls for the Girls x10, Ruh Rohs x10, Squats x10. Then we farmer carried both cinder blocks from the top parking lot down to the stop sign. Recover. Back to the top. That sucked.

Back at the start, we did another set: Curls for the Girls x10, Ruh Rohs x10, Squats x10. This time, we jogged down to the stop sign. Recover. 10 Durkins off of the curb. Jog back to the top. That was a little too easy.

Again, did another set: Curls for the Girls x10, Ruh Rohs x10, Squats x10. This time, we mosied around the parking lot circle to the far side and lined up at the crosswalk. Bear crawl back to start. Just right.

PAX were instructed to farmer carry again, but this time returning their cinder blocks to their home. Then we mosied around the loop, stopping at the crosswalk. Bear crawl up to the picnic area. We did one round of urkins/durkins/dips (10 each), People’s Chair 10 count x3 and Balls to the Wall 10 count x3.
Mary: Popcorn Mary consisted of Low Slow Flutter x10, Homer to Marge x10 and LBCs x15. Finished up with some quick yoga.
Announcements: Travis Manion 9/11 Heroes Run
T-Claps (Recognition): Woody for getting back out in the gloom after a spell of crud. It’s not easy to get back in the groove, way to be!
Prayer: Bondo’s granddaughter for health and wife for travels.
Moleskin: We face different challenges in life that come in all different shapes and sizes. Today, it was those damn cinder block farmer carries. That was hard. When I first started with F3, it was just keeping up with the group, sucking wind and barely making it through. I realized early on that if I wanted to not suck at running I was going to have to embrace the suck and focus on that area for improvement. Challenges can help uncover areas in need of improvement. That might come in the form of running more to improve aerobic performance. It also might come in the form of relationships. Identify those areas that challenge you (that suck), meet them and develop solutions to overcome them.

The Warden is back at the Yard

10 Pax showed up for an original Prison Yard smoke session.

8-bit, Sprinkler, Pots, Banana Seat, Woody, Midget4Life, MadDog 2020, Smalls, Money Pit and the Warden Breach o the Q
Warm Up: Mosey around the parking lot and then 22 counts reps of SSH, Imperial Walkers/Hillbillies, Windmills, and Good Mornings

The Workout:  8 stations of fun with a partner, partner one is on the apparatus, partner 2 was alternating between Merkins and LBC’s ( 2mins of work with 15 secs rest between sets)

Station 1- The devil keg, Full clean and press

Station 2- Pain Stick- Between the legs Rut Rohs

Station 3- Med Ball Squat and Toss

Station 4- Weight Plate- straight arm lat raise

Station 5- Fire hose- Squats

Station 6- Hurdle- up and over jumps

Station 7- Battle rope- Double arm waves

Station 8-Proud panda jump rope

Mary: 5 mins of ab meltdown- 22 count reps of Lo-slow flutter, Homer to Marge, heel taps and Pickle Pounders

Closed in Prayer:

Backblasts FTW

AO: Crazy Ivan
Workout Date: 07/21/21
While coordinating a playlist with Yoshi last night, It hit me that I could steal one of my own KB workouts from The Blitz for Crazy Ivan. So I looked up my backblast from 10/14/20 (https://f3raleigh.com/about-that-disclaimer), printed it out, and made sure to bring it with me this morning. As I pulled up to Womble I realized the one thing I had forgotten… my kettlebell! Oh, $#!t! Luckily the Ivan guys had a few spares to choose from. My usual is a thirty pounder, but the options were 25 or 35. Nervous, I opted for 25#.

Warm Up:
State the mission, check for FNGs(1), and give the disclaimer. Since this is a copy of the workout where Fazio almost got a concussion, I definitely remembered to give the disclaimer (and put that I did here in writing haha)
Side Straddle Hops x20 x10 In Cadence (IC)
Good Mornings x10 x5 IC
Imperial Walkers x20 x10 IC
Sir Fazio Arm Circles forward reverse x10 IC
Sir Fazio Arm Circles reverse forward x10 IC
Monkey Humpers x10 IC
Standard Merkins x10 On My Down (OMD)
Mountain Climbers x10 IC
Run a lap around the parking lot

Main Event (1/5):
Halos x10 IC, x10 IC reverse
Kettlebell Good Mornings x10 OMD On My Up (OMU)
Curls x10 IC OMU
Overhead Press x10 On My Up (OMU)
Triceps Extension x10 OMU
Bent Over Row x10 OMU
Run a lap
Main Event (2/5):
Figure 8 x10 IC, x10 IC reverse
Deadlifts x10 OMU
Goblet Squat x10 OMD
Around the World x10 IC, x10 IC reverse
Single Leg Deadlifts x10 OMD each leg
Alternating Lunges x10 OMD each leg
Run a lap
Main Event (3/5):
Snatches x10 OMU each arm
Two Handed Kettlebell Swings x20 OMU
Single Arm Bent Over Row x10 OMU each arm
Deadlift with High Pull x10 OMU
Squat Thrusters x10 OMD OMU
Run a lap
Main Event (4/5): (on your six)
Chest Press x20 OMU
Skullcrusher x20 OMU
Little Bell Crunches x20 IC
Flutter Kicks x20 IC
Single Arm Press x10 OMU each arm
American Hammer x20 x10 IC
Run a lap
Main Event (5/5):
Staggered Kettlebell Swings x10 IC each leg
Clean, Press, and Squat x5 On Your Own (OYO) each arm
Overhead Press x20 On My Up (OMU)
Triceps Extension x20 OMU
Pull Throughs x20
Run a lap
This is the point where my original Blitz workout ended as we stopped to check on Fazio, so new territory form here on out
Bonus Main Event (6/5):
I asked the PAX if they wanted more KB stuff or Mary, or if they had requests
Suck-Up took charge and led American Hammers x15
Dahmer led Midget(?) Sit-ups x15 OMU
Woody led his side-plank exercises x20 IC each side

Mary:
None.

COT:
7 PAX. Welcome FNG Money Pit!

Announcements:
1) South Wake/Carpex Q Swap Week(s): Last week of July in South Wake, First week of August in Carpex.
2) F3 ENC CSAUP Sasquatch is 7/31
3) F3 NE Wake CSAUP The Deacon is 9/18
4) F3 10 Year is in Wilmington the weekend of 10/8

Prayers unspoken.
YHC took us out.

Naked Moleskin:
I was a little discombobulated this morning after having forgotten my kettlebell, no doubt.
It was definitely interesting to redo a workout like that. It seemed a lot easier this time, not sure it’s just the fact I’ve been posting a whole lot more or if it was just dropping to the twenty-five pounder. The voice in the back of my head says the workout was too easy.
It was a nice surprise to see Suck-Up from Carpex there in the gloom (supporting our FNG I would find out later). He’s excited to Q Whiplash tomorrow, y’all come out and support him!
Many, many thanks to Yoshi for not just providing the hardware for our tunes, but also my kettlebell (I believe it was Woody who also offered a spare).
While coordinating tunes, I had mentioned three Spotify playlists from which he could choose. He went with the one from my second Monday Murph Q. No Elton John, so the boys on South Wake Slack should be happy.
No Fazios were harmed in the making of or execution of this workout.
This was my eighty-first #F3Q21 #2021Challenge Q (eighty-third overall). Next Q is Monday at Wild Wild West in Carpex for my birthday week!
-Pigpen

QIC: Pigpen
PAX: Woody, Yoshi, Dawgpound, Suck-Up, Money Pit (FNG), Dahmer, Pigpen
Workout Date: 07/23/21

Tennis Courts Beatdown at TBD

YHC pre-blasted a no running option for those not hitting R4TJ. We stayed on the tennis courts for the entire workout.

EC: Dahmer, Warbucks
FNGs: Nope
Warm Up: Walk to tennis courts for ssh, merkins, squats sir fazio arm circles
The Workout:
BTTW Bear crawl tunnels.
We held BTTW on the fence, pax bear crawled through the “tunnel” to the front, then next pax went. We did this until failure.

Tiny 11’s:
Lunge walk to other the baseline
10 squats, Reverse lunge back to start, 1 WWII
This continued in normal 11’s fashion until 1 squat and 10 WWIIs were done.

Bear Crawl Ring of Fire – PAX crawled in a circle until Q called it. Each pax does 10 merkins in succession while remaining pax hold plank. After this, we crawled in a circle until Q called it and each PAX did 5 merkins while PAX held chill cut plank

Mary:
Rosalita, Homer2marge – hold in up position for 1-3 count, down on 4 (thanks Dahmer)
Flower by Moby – Squats on down and hold then back up on the ups
Thunderstruck – SSH w/ burpee each time you hear “Thunder”

Announcements:
Derek Davis 5k and HSHM coming up.  Check Slack/FB

T-Claps (Recognition):
Hardy is a beast, Swisher Sweets for signing up for HSHM

Prayer:
FloJo’s brother with prostectemy for good results, FloJo’s wife has a job!, death in Swisher Sweet’s family, Cancun’s wife with potential job opportunity, Hardy for his trip to Vegas for Ninja completion.

YHC took us out.

Everything but the Tire

YHC took the Q at Prison Yard as part of his self-imposed accountability to get out a bunch this week because…I’m fully healthy again and the body is cooperating, so no excuses! Lots of toys on the Yard today sponsored by YHC, Breach, and Sprinkler and we got to touch just about everything. YHC had a different plan in mind originally, but about 2 mins. before warm-ups, I changed my mind to challenge the “you vs. you” factor. Right now, there’s a lot of items that can be used on the Yard…concrete slabs of different sizes, bricks, pipes, parking signs, steel rebar… they are apparently doing some renovations at Hilltop Needmore. If YHC had known or had enough time to survey, I would’ve told the guys to keep it in the trucks and use what’s here. 12 Strong HIM posted for a mostly quiet battle against the self at Prison Yard today.

FNG’s: No new transfers
Warm Up: SSH x 35 IC, Good Morning’s x15 IC, Sir Fazio’s x 10 IC F/R, Merkins x 22.
The Workout: 14 total stations, 12 of which were set to be 100 rep count stations. The other two were quasi obstacle course style using Farmer’s Carry w/tractor weights, heavy bag carry or Railroad Iron Press x 20, an agility challenge (either ladder or burpee cones) and 1-2’s with the hand weights.

The other 12 stations for 100 reps goal count were: 25 lb. plate Halos, 25 lb. plate Bus Drivers, 45 lb. dumbbell triceps extensions, 15 lb. steel mace warrior squat, 20 lb. kettlebell Midget Cookie Pouch, 25 lb. kettlebell snatches, 40 lb. kettlebell swings, Pain Stick Shoulder Press, Pain Stick Curls for the Girls, Fire Hose Squats, and Blockees.

We did not take accountability counts at the end, but YHC got 7 full-stations, with 75 reps at 2 others. So for next time we do this, remember what you did, and do just a little bit more. I will add that YHC did not do the blockees, which I think was the beast of all the stations most likely.
Mary: Put the toys back into vehicles.
Announcements: Q Swap at Carpex in 2 weeks. Still a spot open at Ragnarok. Carpex Q’s come to us next week…get ready!
T-Claps (Recognition): Thanks Breach and Sprinkler for providing lots of coupons to use today!
Prayer: Those addicted…lots of OD calls to EMS these days right here in our community. Fram and his daughter reading…a praise!!! YHC celebrates 19 years of marriage…it takes work! YHC took us out…great to be back in the circle!

This ain’t no Lipstick route

FNGs: Welcome “TEX”
Warm Up: SSH, DP’s, GM’s
The Workout: 22 HIM’s set out for just over 6 miles.  New route took us out into the neighborhood behind Panera, looping around a few streets before coming back up to Bennett Knoll Pkwy.  A few PAX mumbled this must be a Lippy route….no, no, no, not today boys, YHC called out directions, all PAX stayed on route, although the daylight probably helped.  Heading over to 12 Oaks, down Ivy Arbor, we ran past the park and pond, looking back up for what ended up being a pretty long hill.  From there, normal U-turn route was in play.   Great work by all, a bit schweaty, but great work.
Announcements: Q swap with Carpex next week
Prayer: Friend of Pablo, Carter Mandeville