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Ground Pounder 5/28/22

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FNGs: None
Warm Up: Good mornings x10, Merkins! X15, Willie Mays Hayes x10, Daisy pickers x10, Sir Fazio arm circles x10 forward, x10 backward, Merkins! x15
The Workout: Mosey to the big rock pile. Pick a medium-big rock of your choice.
Curls for the girls, Wonder bras, Rut Rows, Overhead Tricep press, Ground Pounders, Rock Squats, Repeat all sets.
On your six: WW1’s, Box cutters, Low slow flutters
Repeat Rock sets and sets on your six adding Chest presses
Small Circle Rocks (5-10 lb). Pick 2 nearly identical small rocks you can hold in one hand. Individual curls 20 x 3 counts, Individual tricep presses 20 x 3 counts. Repeat.
Mary: Freddie Mercury’s x10, LBC’s x10, Leg Raises: 6 inches, 45 degrees, 90 degrees, 45, 6, done
Announcements: Memorial Day Murph.
T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer: Prayers that David’s interviews go well. Gump’s family traveling to Florida. Davis’ recouperation.

Cletus: Yogurt 4 yr & 57 yr – Takin’ Care of Business

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EC: Abe, Alpine, Bleeder, Cupid, Lipstick, Skidmark, Pikachu, UTI. In May 2018, @Skidmark invited me to an F3 workout. Probably the easiest headlock ever. On May 13, 2022, 27 men posted to celebrate my 4 years of F3 and 57 years of life. When we came rolling in from EC at 5:27 am, I was overwhelmed by more than two dozen men, circled up, ready to go.

Special invitation: Yogi, who was at my first workout. When it was time for my F3 name, after fruitless discussion around Raleigh native, environmental worker, and more, I got the “What was your first concert?” question. Answer: BTO, you know, Bachman Turner Overdrive, who sing, Takin’ Care of Business. Dorton Arena, ~1975. Yeah, Yogi chimed in, Takin’ Care of Business – TCoB! Slide Rule heard “TCB” and immediately thought TCBY – The Country’s Best Yogurt. Ok, your name is YOGURT!

Warmup: 1) Run to top of Ivan lot. 2) Circle up for 57 SSHs. Count off: 27! 3) Mosey to amphitheater lawn area. 4) Jack Webbs to 30; 19 pickle pounders, 19 squats, 19 Catalina wine mixers. (19 x 3 = 57) 5)  Mosey up to greenway, on your six. Guantanamo. Wide range of pushes from nice and easy to brutal by Pikachu. Long time to circulate 27 PAX. Mosey to truck to pick up gloves. Note: Should have picked up speaker too! Mosey to rock pile. Each PAX grab a rock.

During the workout, I missed several counts and received much-deserved grilling. During my days of Q’ing Cletus, I was never known for counting.

The Thang 1: Count off in 1s and 2s. Simple exercise – 1s bear crawl to top of parking lot and back, while pushing your rock. 2s do AMRAP curls for the girls (Round 1), rut rohs (Round 2), prisoner squats (Round 3).

The Thang 2: Circle up in “grassy” lot. Similar to Banana Seat’s and Pikachu’s AC/DC Thunderstruck workout, I used Takin’ Care of Business as the song and we did a burpee with every “Takin’ Care of Business.” That’s 27 (compared to 31 for Thunderstruck). Volume was way too low, so yes, should have grabbed speaker while at truck. Anyway, everyone grilled me for that.

Mary: Circle up on tennis courts, where it all began. Big boy sit-ups, Pickle pounders, Box cutters, Protractor. Have a nice day.

Announcements: #Junechallenge and more on Slack. Highlighter running for Congress.

Prayer requests: Yogi prepared a list of goals at the suggestion of his pastor. Boy George selling house and moving family. Highlighter pointed out those who need help mentally may not be reaching out. Find them.

Message: Thanks for all the F3 support over the years. It’s a real privilege to be part of this group. Each one of you has been a positive influence in some way. Thanks for keeping the F3 SouthWake standard high. F3 is the real gift.

Did you know that whales eat moose?

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Tea Time Murph 5/9/2022

Music Theme: Country that rocks, featuring Jason Aldean; general thumbs up by all PAX
Warm Up: SSH 25x; deep squat to stretch calves, hammies; touch toes, exhale
The Workout: Murph 1 mile run, 300 squats, 200 merkins, 100 pull-ups, 1 mile run

Taking off on the second run, Cancun asks Moose, “Did you know that whales eat moose?” It’s true, seriously. First of all, Cancun said it. Second of all, it was on the Internet: “Orcas occasionally eat moose. While both animals live in different habitats, there is a predator-prey relationship. There’s no evidence that killer whales eat moose regularly, but they do sometimes.”
Mary: None
Announcements: 3-Alarm Tuesday; June Challenge
T-Claps (Recognition): Moose’s M inspired by F3 job/career changes; also became a runner via F3 influence

Prayer: Loss of WebEx’s brother in law–pray for the family

AGS Mother’s Day “I have no idea where we are”

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I was pleased to see @Coal Ash when I jogged up. HCs @Cupid and @U.T.I and @Bird Flu were there. Nice!
Warm Up: No EC’ers today, so at 6 am we took a quick jog around the parking lot and circled up. SSH’s x25 to continue jumpstarting the heart rate. Breathed through some GMs. Stretching OYO to hit whatever spots you need to hit before a run. You know where those are. Finally, a shout out to @Vasoline with 25-30 Merkins, OYO.

The Workout: Knowing that AGS was founded on sunrises around Bass Lake, I try to honor that tradition when I’m Q’ing (@Deadbolt @Mookie). Today was no exception. I explained the route: Across Womble, down Bass Lake Outfall Greenway, along this edge of lake, over to Salem Ridge, around the driving range, connect back to Stinson, on to Womble.

We took the fast route down the greenway. I knew we had no chance of a spectacular sunrise, only gloom, but we’re used to that, right? Maybe a little unexpected the first week of May though. Going down the greenway is super fast. I’ve always said, run fast where you can, and this is one of those places.

Along the way, we made connections. Cupid the flu vaccine plant employee caught with Bird Flu, the bird flu expert who is working to contain the bird flu itself. Coal Ash, UTI, and myself caught up with work and employment.

We dialed back the pace after reaching Bass Lake, because that early fast pace wasn’t paying off for all of us. We headed up Salem Ridge towards Linksland. Someone suggested that we do something in @Pikachu’s yard, but we declined. I would love to work in some of the loops in SSL, but from Womble that would put us over 6 miles and there’s just not time. On the back half of the run, we caught up on mothers and Mother’s Day plans.

We took Gable Ridge back towards Bass Lake Road. Over to Norwalk. “I have no idea where we are,” declared @Coal Ash. Bam, we arrived at Bass Lake Road and the lights came on! From there, it was an easy jog on Stinson back to Womble. Perfect, 5.45 miles and 7 am. COT, photo op with YHC and @Coal Ash stylin’ the same colors. I even turned my hat backwards.

Mary: None

Announcements and T-Claps (Recognition): Appreciation to everyone who contributed the very successful 3-Alarm Root Beer Float Mile. @Bird Flu really led the way, buying root beer and ice cream early on. Then, posting the pre-blast. @Wild Turkey was solid too, as usual. He set up the root beer and awards table and mapped up and set up the root beer course as well. Thanks to all who posted. Plus, we had enough money from our collection to make a significant contribution to the iPad 3-Alarm received for his birthday.

UTI previewed the June challenge. Largely modeled off the 2021 May challenge, but with improvements. Not to be confused with previous “Rune” run challenges in June.

Prayer: Remember your mother and be grateful. Strength to those who may not be having children. Keep all PAX healthy and strong.

April Ultimate

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18 HIM came out for an exhausting game of ultimate. Lots of hustle this morning. Can’t wait until next month to do it again.

BS Out!

Tea Time Murph 8 of 52: Big Hair 80’s Rock

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Tea Time has her regulars….. great to see Moose, Cancun, Yogurt, Dusty & Foul Ball….

Deere & Cancun with some miles for EC….. Big Hair 80’s rock tunes blasting…… mumble chatter about future location as Womble is starting to become a little too busy with kids and Eastern European soccer’s moms.

FNGs: none
Warm Up: arm circles, daisy pickers, high knees

The Workout: MURPH

Mary: None
Announcements: GUMP has the Thunder Q this week
T-Claps (Recognition): Pax at the murph
Prayer: Pax at Wrightsville, unspoken

Lots of frozen fingers at GP

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4 HIMs posted to GP on a perfect morning to freeze your hands on boulders.  YHC brought the music box and discs. Plenty of good mumblechatter

Warm Up: 10x3cts of: Good Mornings, Willie Maze Hays, Daisy Pickers,  Sir Fazio Arm Circles (both directions), arm stretches, 20x3ct SSH

Mosey to rock pile.

The Workout

Circle of Rock (of course): Mosey to the Rock Pile pick a LARGE rock. Alternate rocks between exercises.

3 sets of 10x3ct of each exercise:  Curls for the Girls, Overhead Tricep Press, Wonder Bras, Rut Rows and Ground Pounders.

3 sets of 10x3ct:  Rock Press and  Skull Crushers

1 set of 10×3 ct: Windshield Wipers, Low Slow Flutter, Box cutters

2 sets of 10×3 ct Rock Spanks (with and without consent) and Single Arm Merkins.

3 holes of disc golf w/ exercises between tosses.

Each PAX took turns driving a disc toward basket (squat hold while ya wait). Exercise after a quick mosey to your disc

Hole 1 Exercises: 5 burpees and 10×3 ct LBCs

Hole 2 Exercises: 10 Merkins, 10x3ct SSH,

Hole 3 Exercises: 10 Squats, 10 Star Jumps

Prayer Requests:  Gump lost his father this week, those suffering from mental or physical challenges and sickness.

Announcements: Long Ass Run next Sat, Wilmington Marathon Feb 26th and Triangle Tri in June

T-Claps  – Yogurt can toss a disc a hell of a long way

Library Day Part Deux

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Warm Up: Mosied down Library Hill to the pool parking lot. Circled up for: SSH, Good Mornings, Imperial Walkers, Hill Billies, Windmills, Sir Fazio Arm Circles (forward/back), Seal Claps, Overhead Claps.
Mosied back up Library Hill and met in front of the amphitheater.
The Workout: YHC was looking back through Downtown Train backblasts for inspiration and decided to redo a workout from Nov 2020. It’s not complicated, but it’s effective.

Thing 1: Diamond.
4 exercises, one at each corner. Start with 5 reps, increase by 5 each round, going up to 20 reps. Exercises were Merkins, LBCs, Squats and Side Lunges.

Thing 2: Rocks!
Curls for the Girls, Triceps, Ruh Rohs. 10 in cadence each. Drop the rocks, SSH x10. Repeat two more times.
Mary: WWIIs, American Hammers, Low Slow Flutters, Chill Cut Plank, Pickle Pounders. Wrapped up with some stretches and yoga.
Announcements: Donate blood! Q Source on Wed mornings at Panara
Prayer: Praises for Quiver’s sister on the mend, praises for PAX getting back in the gloom after being out with injury and illness, continued prayers for those still healing.
Moleskin: Sometimes I fall out of the habit of rising early and getting out to an AO. It gets pretty bad if I let it go on for a few days. I have found one way to cure this is to sign up for a couple of consecutive Q spots. The additional accountability that comes with knowing a group of guys is waiting for you to show up and lead is a good motivator to get out of bed. Once you’ve got that ball rolling for a few days, it’s easier to get back into the routine.

AGS It’s Not That Cold

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AGS forecast called for clear and cold. Abe with the early HC, followed by some headlocking, followed by Woody HC, Moose HC, and finally Full House on the EC/HC. All five of us showed up at 0558, right on time. Granted Full House a bathroom pass and we started our warmup. At 18 degrees, this was probably one of the coldest workouts of the year. We kept moving and everybody stayed warm.
Warm Up: 25 SSH, 10 GMs, 20 high knees, 1 minute stretching OYO for whatever YOU need before running
The Workout: With it freezing cold, I knew that the Bass Lake trails would not be muddy, but would be hard packed frozen instead. I was right. Wanted to take advantage of the connection to Sunset Bluffs. Instead of the purely traditional route of running down the Bass Lake Outfall Greenway from Womble, I decided to do a “reverse” route. From Womble, we took Stinson to Bass Lake Road and headed down to Bass Lake. Abe arrived at the parking lot first and led us down the mulch and over the bridge. Then to picnic shelter and DOWN the hill. We connected to Sunset Bluffs and ran about a mile total up the hill and back down. Finally, we took the Bass Lake Outfall Greenway all the way back to Womble.

Mumble chatter. Wolfpack stunk on Saturday. Football NFC and AFC championship games later today. Woody heading to the opera for some culture.
Mary: None
Announcements: F3 continues to run with 3-Alarm on Tuesdays. Many of you have seen the joy. I know it’s a challenging time of day, but it’s totally worth it.
Prayer: Full House’s M in pain from old root canal, surgery coming up. Prayers for all those brothers and families with Covid.

Cancun is acting like a Fa…. You can not say that word

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Warm Up: Arm Circles Fwd/Rev x 10, Knee to Chests x 10, SSH x 10
The Workout: MURPH (Pikachu joined for the first mile during his evening run 👌)
Mary: n/a
Announcements: Nothing Really
T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer: Yogurt Brother, Deere work colleague.