Day: January 26, 2022

Welcome FNG Joey Shell – F3 “Urkel”.  He said he liked the Friday Night Lineup on ABC as a kid so we named him after the most famous NERD of them all, Steve Urkel from Family Matters.

A few weeks ago, Nutria and I arranged for an AO Swap today.  He took the TRB flag to The Labyrinth and I brought The Labyrinth flag to TRB, thus the title………The Labyrinth Annex.

Since we had an FNG, I gave a lengthy declaimer.

Warm Up:

Seal Jacks IC x 25

Hill Billy Walkers IC x 20

Eskimo Merkins up to 7

We paused to go over the 5 Core Principles of F3.  Bubba Sparxx spoke up about how ALL men are welcome, no matter what their physical ability is.  Thanks for the insight Bubba!

Mosey over to the soccer field for 5 x 5 Burpees.  Do 5 Burpees at one side of the field then Mosey to the other side for 5 more burpees.  Rinse and Repeat until 25 Burpees have been completed.

At the bleachers, we did 10 Dips and 10 Step Ups (each leg).  Rinse and repeat x 4.

Run a lap between rounds 3 and 4.

Mosey to the back of the school to Bear Crawl up the ramp.  Lots of debris on the sidewalk so gloves were appreciated during this.

Calf Raises on the steps.  IC x 15.  Rinse and Repeat x 3.

Stop for 5 Burpees for the train whistle.  Virus busted my chops saying I was showing my aged by calling it a train whistle.  He said, “They use horns now and haven’t used whistles for years.”

Line up across the parking lot.  I asked the PAX if they wanted to do routine 1 or 2.  Sargento mentioned that we, in F3, are number 1, so that was the choice.  Here we Lunge Walked to the other end of the parking lot, stopping at every other line to drop, do a Merkin and jump up clapping our hands over our head.  It’s a good thing we didn’t choose option 2 because I wanted to do Burpees at every other line!

Mosey to the entrance to the baseball field.  Stop for 1 more set of Calf Raises since there were steps here.

YHC stepped in the mud at the bottom of the stairs and quickly pointed that out for the other PAX to avoid.  I wanted to use the baseball field but quickly determined that it was too wet there.  Omaha to the road at the side of the school where we climbed a Ladder with the following exercises building upon each other:

20 Flutter Kicks (counting one leg)

30 Moroccan Night Clubs

20 LBCs

20 Reverse LBCs

10 Dimond Merkins.

I had more planned but didn’t have time to complete them.

Mosey back to the flag.

We arrived back just in time to greet Mrs. Breaker Breaker.  Unfortunately, BB is still broken.

Time

Rice n Beans gathered on Broad st at the old Honda shop 1/25 at 6:00.  Pillager, Dirt, Virus and his M, Hey Jude, Sprinkler and Tiger helped.

We served just under 30 meals, and had the chance to pray for four of those served.  We were again thanked not as much for the food, although all were highly appreciative, but more for treating those served with dignity and respect.

Gastonia will be added to the Rice n Beans website within a few days with sign up schedule becoming active.

This was the fourth week for Rice n Beans Gaston County.  To this point, there has been a core group that has been present each week, with some assistance from F3.  The core members are extremely grateful for the F3 support.

Please consider coming out one of the upcoming weeks.  The hope is that a relatively large volunteer base can be established so that the mission is less dependent on a few.

Please keep the mission and those served in your prayers

Tiger

Hey all – Just wanted to put this out there and give some details to what I am thinking for this year.  Take a look and let me know if you want to add anything, help in anyway, etc.  This will be my third year and I am looking to try and make this one a little bigger and more involved, but after this year, I will be looking to pass the reigns to the next leader.

March Service work at AOs.  We did this last year, but we didn’t get many results.  The point of this is to get out in AOs you frequent and improve them by picking up trash and showing the community and our children what it is to care for something, how to care for something and taking responsibility for something.  I am  thinking about just the Saturday workout areas so the community can get more visibility of  us out there working out, sees us out there with our kids putting in some beautification and not just using free space.  If you want to hit a M-F work area, awesome.  Take the lead and make it your own.  I am looking at March 12 or March 19 (weather dependent) at 10:30.  If enough people make a showing or discuss as a group, we can organize and meet somewhere for lunch.

April/May – Maybe a spring fling style thing with some field day events and categories for age brackets. I’m always looking for things to do. Probably need help with this one. I am not all that creative. Maybe this could be a family event for all.

Dad Workouts:  June (6/18),  July (7/23) and August (8/20).  I need two dads to help out with each workout.  We will continue to run around to each AO.  I dont know the rotation yet, but will get that dialed in.

September- Dads night at the Honey hunters

October:  Fall fling .  See April or May above.

Only thing to note about the spring and fall is getting tents and games and a location that can accommodate, but doesn’t charge.  Again, if anyone wants to help, please let me know.

Also – If you have something coming up that would be cool, put it out there and see if anyone shows.  If so, great.  If not, you and your kids will still have a great time.

SYITG