We had a good showing this morning at the Fighting Yank. 19 bootcampers and 1 Rucker. We had a guest from another region “F3 Blackdog” (Led Zeppelin name baby!) Here is what we did…
We moseyed to the Bunker for the warm up and disclaimer. The exercises consisted of whatever came to mind. SSH, Merkins, LBC’s, Imperial Walkers, Squats, and plank jacks. Getting our backs wet from the puddled pavement was refreshing!
Next we moseyed to the Hawthorne Park Hill. 20 Merkins at the bottom, 18 at the top, 16 at the bottom, 14 at the top…down by two merkins until we finished as a group, picking up the six all together. We were covering core principles of F3 and the Credo, leaving no man behind, but leaving no man where we found him. However, there was some good mumblechatter
EXCEPT MAINFRAME” who was solo rucking during the workout and we didn’t know where he was.
We then moseyed to the bottom of Hawthorne Street. P1 would bearcrawl up the hill. P2 would do twenty squats and then run and catch P1. P2 would then bearcrawl. The next time they caught each other it would be 15 squats, then 10 squats. This got most PAX to the top of the hill. While we were waiting for all to finish Pizza Man called a “Plank for the six” and then announced “Recover” when all the PAX were back. He stepped up to lead during some down time. This reminded YHC of one of the laws of combat….cover and move, aka teamwork. (We are studying the book, Extreme Ownership at Q Source Sunday’s at the Coconut Horse. Tomorrow will be on Decentralized Command”.
If there is an absence of leadership and you are trained and prepared on what to do, you can take command when authority is not present. You should also prepare the people you work with to take charge. Lead from where you are! This is certainly an F3 approved concept.
We then moseyed to the parking lot across the street from Heirloom on Glenway where YHC talked about another law of combat…”Simple”. The instructions were simple enough I guess because everyone got the message and executed the plan which was…
P1 lunge walks three parking spaces with P2 burpee long jumps the same distance and then switch. I think I heard BOS say he was voting for Whoopee in the Q versus Q matchup at the Goat next week. This may have been the second of tenth time he said this during the workout. By the way, you should make plans to be at the GOAT on March 2nd. It is going to be fun and you might get a decent workout too! This will no doubt be the most anticipated Q versus Q battle of the entire March Madness tournament. We should probably shut down all the other Thursday AO’s. We should also probably get a noise permit for Cramerton.
In any event, we completed this set piece and decided to do some more burpees. This one is called Burp and Merk. You do a burpee and add increasing merkins each time you drop down. We (sort of) did these in cadence with Breaker Breaker declaring that we should do up to ten merkins.
With limited time left, we moseyed to the parking lot behind the new Pita Wheel and did Dora 1,2,3. The exercises were chosen by the PAX . 100 Toe touches on the curb, 200 LBC’s, and 300 Wall sits/air presses. P1 would do exercises and P2 would run to the Pita Wheel deck and back. At this point the rain was coming down pretty good and YHC can confirm that the gutters at Heirloom LEAK!
Pizza tried to EH a runner and somebody tried to EH some guy that opened the back door to one of the businesses. Good work! The Yank needs to catch up on EH’ing new guys. The Gashouse had two FNG’s this morning!
We returned to the Yank and Mainframe joined us for COT. It was glorious and if you missed, one has to ask themself what the hell else was I doing that could compete with getting in some fitness, fellowship, and faith this morning?
Announcements: Extinction Run next SATURDAY MARCH 4th This will be raising funds for the STRONG LIKE AK foundation so bring your wallets. This is a great local charity formed due to the life and death of Adam Kincaid. Bring your families too. This is a fun first and second F event. It starts at 0900 at Primal Brewery in Belmont. The bar is open at 1000 and the restaurant at 1100. Tell you family to join you at 1130 and you will have already run 12 miles! I challenge you “non runner” types to come set a PR on miles run in a day!
Prayer Requests:
Clavin’s M
Tooth Fairy’s Daughter
Huckleberry
Bubba Sparxx
Tiger’s Mom
Tiger’s travels
Viking Run PAX
Prayers for a family that lost their mother
Prayers for the HAYES family on the loss of their HS aged son
Prayers for the Davenport Family on the loss of Rev. Dr. Charles Davenport and FPC Gastonia
Always an honor to lead!
Roscoe