Expecting cooler weather, 5 Pax roll up into the gloom while a mist of rain is still in the air. It was actually very nice at 53 degrees for the set Q. On the ride in, the F3 Folsom group text started tuning in. Roadie, Shingle, and sparky mention they wer n the way. Well, Sparky is usually not on time and coming in hot around 10 minutes in, but not today. Shingle rolls in with a comfortable minute to go, then coming in real hot is Roadie, not sure how that ole Yota handles the turns like it does but it arrives seconds before warmup. It’s 5:30, Sparky still has 10 minutes to be on his time. Let’s hit it.
no FNGs so, short disclaimer
warmarama
SSH, plank jacks, imperial walkers, and cherry pickers?(cotton pickers?) all x12 IC. Mumble chatter about why 12? YHC asks why not 50? But, we are still reminiscing a Gomer Q, where who knows what number of anything you’ll get, maybe 74 or 68? Just depends, anyway, back to it.
tha thang
hold up…….just as QIC said let’s mosey, Roadie yelled “wait” so we waited a second. With the look of something majestic in his eyes, Roadie says, ” hey, look at the shovel flag and how it was flawlessly waving with the wind! We should do the pledge!” YHC abliged, the flag was looking pretty damn awesome so tha Pledge.
now….. Tha Thang.
long mosey up to the horse arena. Mumble chatter, Huckleberry said something about wishing the horse arena were no more, and others saying “it’s never good going up the hill at Folsom!” Through all that, I reminded the PAX of Whoopee’s shadow of Dredd. “Fatigue makes cowards of us all,” that hit home, so the Men dug in. Alright, at the arena Concrete stands, find a spot. Box jump up each of the 5 levels, at the top 10 burpees, come down, 10 dips on the lower step, then 10 Merkins. Once announced, Huck mentioned “I’m not sure box jumps are a F3 exercise!” YHC said it should be, hahahaahaha. Anyway. When finished, take a quick lap around the arena track. Plank it up, then rinse and repeat. Once finished, long mosey down to the pond parking lot. More mumble chatter, something about, “the only time we come to this lot is for bear crawls” they were right. Line up, bear crawl to the center line, 5 Merkins, continue to the end for 10 Merkins, turn around and repeat back to start. Plank it up, now lunge walk to the center for 5 squats, then to the end for 10 squats, turn around and repeat back to start. Long mosey around the lower pond to the shelter. LBCs x20 IC, some slow cadence involved, 20 big boy sit-ups OYO, YHC hears something about a Gomer Q, so 10 burpees OYO. Gomer never Qs burpees. Rinse repeat. Time running short, QIC had to include a favorite of Whoopee, so mosey to the Turd Shed for some hip slappers, 10 IC. Alright, good finishing mosey back to the upper lot, which is always rough at the end, but the PAX pushed tha rock and fought the hill. Time running out, I had to pay respect to the Vets with 22 Merkins OYO.
Man, Sparky must still be on his way?????
Announcements, Snowbird Men’s Retreat, March 9-11. Convergence December 17 at Gashouse.
prayer, YHC
just want to say how thankful I am to be a part of this group and movement. The accountability and encouragement that F3 has set the tone for is Awesome. To be honest, without it, I wouldn’t be up at 5:30 4 days a week doin this! Thanks for the opportunity to Q. Great work Men, let’s keep it up. As Dredd says, “it starts with love!” How could you not love F3? Even though it is pretty ridiculous.