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EC: Dawgpound, Emeril, Yoshi
FNGs: N/A
Warm Up: Bounce, Foot Trace, Hamstring Stretch, Hips in a barrel
The Workout: @Dawgpound asked everyone to come up with one KB or Mace exercise and Yoshi added in an extra.Ā  Exercises were Snatches, KB Swings, Praying Mantis with the Mace, Seated Row, and Death March. 1st Round we did all 5 exercises x10 reps.Ā  Then sprinted the parking lot.Ā Ā  Round 2 was x15 reps, another sprint.Ā  Round 3 was back down to x10 reps.Ā  Another sprint.
Mary: Each PAX came up with 1 Core Exercise and 1 Yoga exercise.Ā  Ran thru multiple rounds of these.
Announcements: N/A
T-Claps (Recognition): N/A
Prayer: Heidi surgery this week.Ā  Kevin.Ā  Laettner.

9×9=81 (Not today)

YHC pre-blasted and threw out 9×9=81 and several Pax have asked what that meant for Tiger Blood. In my mind it means 9 miles at 9 minute pace = 81 minutes with a 9 minute Yoga/stretch session. We did not achieve this today but it was not for lack of effort. Lots of guys accelerating. T-claps to a bunch of Pax this morning.

FNGs: Probably not the best day to FNG
Warm Up: Hell Naw!
The Workout: Indian run stack up and down BOMBS. When Q got to the front do the exercises. 5 burpees, 10 overhead claps, 15 merkins, 20 Big Boy situps, 25 Squats. Finished exactly at Womble.
There are 11 light posts from the lower parking lot to Grigsby/Stinson. 2 man weave suicides with ascending Big Boy situps at each light post and 8 hand release merkin with a one arm reach at the lower lot. indian/fellowship run back to start.

Mary: Some yoga of varying difficulty for each pax
Announcements: 1776
T-Claps (Recognition): Bobby Boucher. Have you seen this guy!!
Prayer: 4th and travels. 1st responders. Watch your fingers with fireworks. YHC took us out.

HHH (Hot, Humid, Hilly)

FNGs: Nope but welcome back cotterĀ  – Goya

Warm Up: SSH and Frankensteins

The Workout:Ran Crossway picking up the 6 along the way.

Mary: N/A

Announcements: Some bike rides coming up.Ā  Check the 1st-cycling channel. 2nd F convergence tomorrow at Harris Teeter Starbucks near Tiger Blood and Disney for Bondo’s retirement.

There will be more bed delivery opportunities.Ā  Sync with 16-Bit.

T-Claps (Recognition): To the bed delivery crew.

Prayers: Kevin and Heidi

Urban Legends

Kung Pow is a fake AO created out of convenience by those Wescott guys and those older PAX from Fuquay looking for an easier paced workout on Fridays. When you travel to AOs over time, you hear things. Sometimes you hear a few things here, you hear few things there, or you get anecdotal accounts from a friend of a friend, culminating in a perception like the one I have painted in my opening sentence. Remember when everyone thought Mikey from the Life Cereal commercial died due to an overdose mixture of carbonated soda and Pop Rocks? Pop Rocks got a really bad rap after that. This morning was all about protecting the street cred of Pop Rocks…er Kung Pow.

Though the perception shared above was all from a good place,Ā  formed out of high quality banter and mumblechatter over the past year with no ill will and a lot of salt, YHC set out this morning to debunk this Urban Legend.

You see, at Kung Pow, we teach lessons. Last week, DB shared with us the finer points of being Edward. After the workout was over, it was clear..Don’t be Edward. This week was extra special as we had one PAX member (after a ton of back and forth on a group chat) that had HC’d early that had yet to step foot inside Wescott on a Friday morning (not even when points were involved for a May Challenge or the promise of a name in large font on a T-shirt).

With the HC in place, YHC began working on the lesson plan. Some Q’s can wake up the morning of without any preparation or planning and deliver, others may drink a bunch of bourbon and put the PAX on auto pilot the next day with a Dora for 45 minutes at Paradise City (circa 2017-2018), but not YHC. Everything has to be mapped out, everything has a reason, it has to be calculated, and there has to be a message. Don’t get me wrong, there is improvisation to speed or slow things down throughout, but you will get a full 45 minutes of whatever was planned for that morning by YHC starting and ending on time.

As I was planning the workout for this week, YHC was also very aware of what was being transferred from pen to paper, so much so that my posting this week started on Thursday. Lesson to all Q’s- “If you can’t Q it, don’t do it”- plan accordingly.

Arrived early to the lot to see a parking lot with many vehicles. Lots of EC this morning- some runners and a few ruckers. Planted the flag and saw a car roll in I hadn’t recognized. Door opens and was pleasantly surprised andĀ  greeted by CrabLegs, who had been headlocked by M4L to come hang out in his old neighborhood. Little known fact about CrabLegs- he is an OG Wescott alum. Was great to have him back in the hood this morning. At about 5:25 our EC’ers and Rucker’s came rolling back in to grab a quick squirt of water before our 5:30 kick-off.

5:30 hit and YHC welcomed everyone to Kung Pow, including one PAX that was a man of his word and showed, Emeril. He had also managed to headlock Yoshi into EC and the ME this morning, but no Dawg.

Damn, Dawg! To think I had “The Man” by the Killers Q’d up for COT and you didn’t show. Next time I guess. Maybe you and 187 can post together as he has been dodging my Q’s for weeks.

Warm Up:

After a pleasant greeting to start the morning off, we quickly transitioned to the warm-up that I affectionately term “The Pablo.” It is named the Pablo after one of the toughest workouts recorded by its namesake at Kung Pow where for 40 minutes we Indian Ran lower and upper Danagher with burpees (which is a long street at the top of Wescott that has a hill at top). Indian Runs stop periodically at 7 separate sewer caps were PAX perform a progressive set of burpees. 1 then 1-2 then 1-2-3 and so forth.

This morning we didn’t do that version of the Pablo. If he posted, we would have, but this morning we fellowship ran all the way to the lower Danagher cul-de-sac and performed 5 Burpees OYO at the first sewer. YHC asked for a quick count off…A total of 15 with 3 PAX- DoubleD, Deadbolt, and CrabLegs on a fellowship walk while solving student loan debt.

Mosey’d to the next sewer cap- 10 merkins, mosey-Fazios X10 F\B-Chinooks at the 3rd Sewer cap, 5 burpees at the 4th sewer cap, Imperial Walkers X10Ā  at the 5th cap, Hillbillies at the 6th sewer cap, Good Mornings X10 at the top. Mosey back down to the 4 way intersection- squat hold for the 6- 5 burpees.

The Workout:

Breathtaker-Kung Pow Style

With 15 PAX, YHC split the group into 3 lines. My man Sprinkler brought dem hoses out this morning. Asked the lead guy in each line with a hose to fall to the back of the line. PAX would stay in their lines the entire time for this rotation. Each line would perform an Indian Run with trailing PAX with the hose double timing to the first. Upon the trailing PAX making it to the front, the entire line would perform 5 Burpees in unison, with the front guys continuing on the run and now the last guy in the line picking up the hose and double timing to the front…more burpees, rinse repeat. Lines continued to the last tree of the fairway down Wescott Ridge and continue back to the start at the pool entrance. Lead lines picked up the six, returned the hoses to the curb and mosey’d to the next circuit.

On the mosey, YHC informed PAX to obey the speed signs. At each speed sign facing them, we would perform 20 merkins. There were 2 on the route to Brightling Way. YHC missed the second of the two, but we have a lot of honest PAX that didn’t want to get cheated this morning, so doubled back to complete the 20 owed. Continued on the mosey to YHC’s home.

Mookie’s Brickyard

Rolled up to YHC’s driveway where PAX were instructed to pull 2 bricks each from a perfectly stacked pile. They were delivered fresh by M4L the day before and with all the rain that rolled through yesterday into the early morning, they may have soaked in a little extra weight. First exercise called was bicep curls. As we were curling, YHC shared a little factual history on Kung Pow and how it was born out of the pandemic.

Originally when things shut down around SW and parks and playgrounds closed, PAX weren’t left with many options. Home gyms, garage-mahal workouts, and occasional neighborhood runs were the norm. Out of strong desire to continue core F3 values within the guidelines in front of us, black ops workouts continued on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays in rotating fashion. This continued until the restrictions started to lift and we were continuously seeing double digit numbers on Friday. I think at one point after numerous post blast PAX numbers of 14, 19, 23 on the 1st F channel of Slack continuously surfaced, Shredder said “Black Ops?…Why don’t you just legitimize this AO.” So we did and we have been serving the geriatric community with these weak sauce routines I’m describing in this backblast ever since. Hell- I made it so convenient for myself this morning, I didn’t even bring the bricks to the pool lot.

As I mentioned earlier, YHC does things for a reason. This morning we were going to transport these rocks back to where they originated-Midget’s truck, which was conveniently parked back at the pool.

After the bicep curls, we quickly transitioned to front raises with the bricks X12, Lateral raises with the bricks X15, Shoulder presses times X10, Shoulder Taps with bricks in hand X10. Recover on the mosey with bricks to the end of Brightling Way.

YHC called Squat hold with tricep extension X20, hold squat, Moroccan Night Clubs with Bricks in cadence X10, mosey with bricks to Roslyn Hills. Squats with Bricks on my up; on my down X15. PAX got into 3 lines of 5 again and performed Indian runs with bricks to the other side of Roslyn Hills. Plank hold for the six.

All 15 accounted for, YHC called brick merkins X20. Recover on the mosey with bricks. Stop at the 4 way intersection-squat hold for the six. PAX got back into their 3 lines of 5 and called for an Indian Run with bricks to the start of the tree line fairway up Wescott Ridge, in front of the 20mph speed sign- 20 brick merkins.

Cusack’d the bricks with alternating lunge walks along the tree line to the intersection at Danagher, squat hold for the 6, continue on the mosey with bricks back to M4L’s truck parked next to the flag. Deposited bricks and circled up for COT reuniting with Deadbolt, Double D and CragLegs with 3 minutes left.

Mary:

Series of stretches- Right over Left, Left over Right, Downward Dog, Calf Stretches, and a 10 count Shawshank.

Dawg- Not sure how you feel about cheating these PAX out of a rendition of “The Man,” but I think deep down they would have thanked you for not showing if they knew I was gonna pull out this additional activity as the finale. Next time- I have faith you will some day show.

Another interesting thing about Kung Pow…COT takes longer. It takes longer because we have to use extra words like “Respect” and “Honor” a dozen times during name-o-rama. What more can I say? The “old” guys like the soft serve they dish out at Kung Pow.

Announcements:

Bed Build, Yogurt looking to gather additional PAX to go on some runs with Davis.

T-Claps (Recognition):

Emeril for trying new things and trying a Fake workout today (see his Strava- 2.79mi and fails to mention “with” phantom bricks and imaginary hoses). Also for headlocking Yoshi for EC and getting him out for the Main Event. A very impressive and notable memory made during 2nd F with Fonzie this morning. Apparently he and Fonzie live almost across the street from one another and Fonzie was unaware of Yoshi’s hospital name…That’s F3 for you. Do any of us really know each other by anything other than our F3 names?

Always an honor and great to see CrabLegs in the gloom. Thank you for posting and hope to see you out and about the neighborhood again soon. All PAX posting this morning. Those bricks are a reminder that running is tough enough, but running with extra weight is tougher. Today we got through it together. Never do life OYO.

Prayer:

YHC took us out. Prayers for Emeril and his family member with cancer. Additional prayers for Sprinkler and Cancun. Continued prayers for first responders and healthcare workers. All PAX traveling and those battling illness.

Always an honor to lead. Thanks for giving me this opportunity this morning.

Officer, I Can Explain

As YHC was pulling into the Ting lot, an HSPD truck turned around and followed in behind me. YHC played it cool and planted the flag and gathered up my headlamp and vest. Officer Clarke explained Bacon asked him to drop off some sweet blinky lights for running. Thanks Bacon! We chatted with the officer while the last few PAX rolled in and everyone got a light. YHC has a few extras if anyone reads this and wants one, hit me up. We told officer Clarke to head over to Womble at about 6:15 to look for some suspicious Pokemon character who was running a workout that may be named later (TBD) and he headed out with a little confusion. A quick count off and explanation of the route and we were off.

FNGs: None

Warm Up: Chat with officer Clarke

The Workout:
There was a 3.5 and a 5+ mile route. We took a moment of silence as we passed by Veterans Park in memory of fallen soldiers. The 6 was picked up and all PAX made it back. Well, Coal Ash’s ankle might say otherwise.
This is the route we ran :D

Mary: Not today

Announcements:
Picnic 6/26, Dauber collecting money for HSPD first aid kits

T-Claps (Recognition):
Bacon and HSPD for the blinky lights.

Prayer:
UTI’s grandmother, unspoken, injured PAX, fallen soldiers.

YHC took us out.

Birthday Q 2/10

FNGs:

None today – tried for the guy at the track but he didn’t bite
Warm Up:

Get all the weights over the fence to the track

SSH x31 IC while we waited for Lipstick

Spinal Rotation, Sir Fazio forward/backward, Daisy Pickers x10 IC
The Workout:

Bells at the start, maces at 100m – we did 4 corners with 4 different exercises. We ran the straightaway “hard” (quotes because there was some sandbagging) after the 1st and 3rd exercises and the turns easy (no quotes needed on that one) after the 2nd and 4th.

We went through each set of 4 exercises 2 times at 10 reps each – the sets were:

Kettlebell swings
Death march
Burpees
Homer to Marge

Snatch
10 to 2
Star jump
Low slow flutter

Turkish get ups
360s
Absolution
Crab cakes

Mary:

LBCs x31 IC
Announcements:

New format for caveman. It was a hit.

Picnic June 26th. Dawgpound to repost – sign up.

Prayer:

Emeril’s friend with cancer.

Memorial Day Murph Challenge- 2021

32 Pax showed up today to help me (Shredder) celebrate my 4 year F3 anniversary and more importantly pay respect to our nationā€™s fallen during our annual Memorial Day Murph Challenge.

Impressive effort by all, especially after the May Challenge. 30 joined in on the Murph, Dauber (IR) joined to capture the event and support with donuts, and Breach (after doing a Murph at 0600) stopped by to give us his thoughts on Memorial Day and his recent visit to Arlington National Cemetery.

Warm Up: short warm-up with SSH, Good Mornings, Willie Mays Hayes, & Frankensteins. Pax counted off by 2s and headed off in opposite directions for Mile 1.

The Workout: 1 mile run, 100 pull-ups, 200 push-ups, 300 squats, 100 mile run.Ā  Since this is F3 the last mile was an Indian Run race with the slower group having to knock out 50, scratch that, 20 Burpees. After a quick ā€œspeechā€, the two groups took off in their different directions.

The mental battle was in full effect as my mind kept telling me ā€œyou need to quitā€, just after I told everyone we needed to learn to Embrace the Suck. But Pax did what they do best and mentally drug me through the last mile.

As everyone wrapped up their last mile and came back together, guess what…..? Yep. We all did Burpees.

T-Claps (Recognition): We raised $425+ for HSPD first response bags. Sprinklerā€™s team donated 1/2 of their May Challenge winnings to the 1st response bags and 1/2 to the FQV bed building. Great work #HIM. Ā  Ā 

: YHC took us out. Remember why we have a Memorial Day. Freedom is not Free! šŸ‡ŗšŸ‡ø

Catch Me around the School

EC: Fonzie, Emeril, Yoshi, Pablo
FNGs: Nope
Warm Up:

Indian Run to the covering in front of the school.
Bounce
Staggered Hinge
Hips in a Barrel
Spinal Rotation
Neck Stretch

The Workout:
Partner up and Indian run to the straight away. We started the exercise with wheelbarrow’s with increasing merkins. Started from 1 to 5 increasing the reqs when the pax got to the next line.

The partners then did Catch me if you can laps around the school. When the pax got to the playground we did 10 Pullups or rows. When we got to the covering we did 10 Patty Cake Merkins. When the pax got caught they did the following exercises.

2 Laps 5 Squats
2 Laps — I cannot remember
2 Laps 5 Seal Claps
1 Lap 5 Overhead claps

Mary:

Indian Run back to where we started.

Did some stretching to finish out the workout.

Announcements:
T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer:

Heidi
Jeff – Pablo’s friend

Tiger Blood 1st 90 Minute Bootcamp 5/6/21

YHC has had a vision for a while of bringing a once a month 90 minute high intensity bootcamp to the Southwake region.Ā  It seemed fitting to make it Tiger Blood after I took over as manager.Ā  The first Thursday of each month will be 0500-0630, remaining Thursdays will stay at 0515-0615.

FNGs: Not today
Warm Up: 1 mile mosey to womble upper lot for warmups
The Workout: First we stopped at womble soccer field and paired up. Pairs took off in opposite directions around the soccer field. When they met, 10 Patty Cake Merkins or (20 total) We circled 4 full times, with a total of 160 merkins.Ā  Next we mosey to cemetery hill for rounds with tyson. 7’s on the hill with Star Jumps, last round was Burpees.
Mary: Mosey back to Tiger Blood HRMS for stretchingĀ  Ā 7+ miles completed along the way
Announcements:
T-Claps (Recognition): All 9 Pax for making it to the inaguaral 90min session. Bobby Boucher for committing to the workout and pushing it out until the end
Prayer:

First time at Falcon Park

FNGs: Not today, but welcome back Princess Cut
Warm Up: Mosey around
The Workout: Lazy Dora with Cinderblock work and BTW hold for partner.Ā  Baseball field suicides
Mary: Plank Hold while each Pax ran the bases once
Announcements:
T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer: