8 PAX at The Ricky Bobby
At 5:20am, as YHC drove secretly behind the school to set up cones for the beatdown, a unfamiliar car rolled up on YHC in the gloom. YHC thought it was likely some do-gooder from the general public who wanted to harass/tell YHC that he shouldn’t be prowling around on school grounds, yadda, yadda, yadda. However, once this person got out of their car, it was obviously a PAX dressed and ready for some work. He asked me where he should park, since he was new to this AO (or something like that). I asked if he was a PAX posting Downrange, and he said yes. I asked from where, and he replied, “Folsom” .
There were 3 new faces, at least for YHC: El Camino, Hannibal, and also Bird-Dog who was making his 3rd appearance in his first week of F3.
During Name-O-Rama, a Truck tried run us down, but YHC and the PAX were quick on our feet and got out of the way. (This was all captured on video, too.)
Added a “QSource Nugget” at COTthat YHC saw while downrange at every workout COT and AO in F3-Katy, TX: ~2 minutes of Leadership- and Character-building talk in the morning never hurt anyone.
Explained Slack to new-ish PAX, who were unaware of it. YHC sent these guys an invitation link to Slack before they left. (We must do better at sharing the basics with PAX, so they don’t go a year without awareness of our primary communications tool.)
WARMUP
(Side Straddle Hops, Goofballs, and Good Morning Burpees)
THE THANG
Mosey to back parking lot
BLIMPS Suicides, Stacked; (I’m not sure what alternative name we’re supposed to be calling them now)
Bear Crawl Plank Relay (All PAX hold plank in a circle, while one-by-one, relay-style, a single PAX does Bear Crawls around the circle.)
Mosey to the Track
11’s with Dips and Big Boys, across the width of the field (Demo for newer PAX this included an math lesson about which numbers you can add together to get to 11.)
Ran on the track, stopping every 100m for unannounced # of reps, IC; Burpees, Flutters, MonkeyHumpers, and Incline Merkins.
Back for StartEx to knock out some Side Straddle Hops, until time was up.
Time!
COT
Pledge
Announcements:
Upcoming Relays in march/April, with some spots possibly available for those interested
Primal happy our, and probably one in Folsom, but no one
Mar 16th – 2ndF lunch at Pita Wheel, we think! See Slack for upcoming details.
March 1stF challenge: Daily Plank Challenge (see Slack, 1st F Channel )
TAPs (Thoughts And Prayers)
Tesla’s family, especially his son
QSource Nugget: “Courage”
Courage is “Setting aside fear to to turn Hardship into Grace”
Courage is not the absence of Fear.
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- Fear is a natural state that can and must be governed.
- Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
- Grace is keeping your head when everyone around you is losing theirs.
Read more about it here: https://f3nation.com/q/courage/
Look out for the Truck that tried to join (or crash) our COT ! Safety 1st!
Glad to be able to lead these men today!
—Bubba Sparxxx