Month: February 2023 (Page 7 of 11)

It was cold and rainy, but not memorably so, as 11 ignored doctor’s recommendations and played in the rain.  I’ve seen worse.

5 rucked and 6 ran.

We lost 2 and picked up 2 for QSource.  We talked about the Get Right.  Fitness first, then fellowship and faith.  Different times in life require us to accelerate in different directions.  The Gloom gives us an opportunity every day to start the day off right, regardless of what the rest of the day will bring.

Been a while, but glad to have secured my membership card.

Yabba Dabba Doo

No Super Bowl Hangover detected at The Sword, as we had 11 escape the fartsack and start the week off right.

“… we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.” – Romans 5:3-5

The hard things mold and shape us into the strong and prepared HIMs we were called to be.

Thanks for the opportunity to lead.

Yabba Dabba Doo

Some rucked, some ran, and someone fell running!

The Pledge

COT

Announcements

Prayer Request

YHC closed us in prayer and then we went into StarBucks for coffee and QSource.

Disclaimer:  Not a professional, but we will not move to fast or too far that you will not be able to keep up.  Work in between will be done with my count or a count of others who are called on.  Work hard for them. Stay with the group in cadence.  We will not go so fast where anyone gets left behind.

Principles of F3:
1) Free of charge (zero cost, never charge for a workout)
2) Open to all men (no matter the man, you are welcome)
3) Held outdoors (rain or shine, heat or cold we are out there)
4) Peer led (led in a rotating fashion by the men who attend)
5) End with a Circle of Trust (always ends with a COT) – Joke today was I made a faux paux and send lets get back to the COT and end in a rotating fashion.  I owe Pilgrim two burpees.

Mission of F3:  Plant, Grow and Serve small workout groups for men for the invigoration of male community leadership.

Motto:  We welcome men of all fitness levels and all physical abilities to our workouts. We have no requirement for membership other than you show up on time to the location and follow what the workout leader has planned. We will not leave any man behind!

Warmup:  Easy lap, SSHx15 IC, Gravel Pickers x10IC, ROL/LOR, Marching Elephants, MNC x10IC
Pledge
Metcon Work (HIIT) with 40 seconds on and 20 seconds off: Exercise and then run two laps around the school lot.
Split Squat – One leg, next round get the other one.
Step Ups
Squats/Squat Jumps
Dips
Merkins
Mountain Climbers

We got three rounds in and grabbed 25 Tib Raises and 25 calf raises trying to work on muscles not typically worked that help the back and knee.

With a few minutes left we did some trivia for the mission and principles for some burpees as the prize.

Announcements:  Viking Dash 2/25 (5k, 10k, Half),  Extinction Run starts at 9:00 Get there early, May 15 Younglife Golf Tournament, looking for a new site Q at Hollywood.

Prayers/Praise: Huckleberry, Turtleman, Ratchet, DtD team (safety), PAX Injuries, Boudin (Back, Son and Daughter), Clavins M, Radars sister, Tooth Fairy, Wirenut, Pillagers M, Termites brother, Silent prayers by PAX

Name-O-Rama:

BOM: Pilgrim took us out.  Thank you all for coming out.

17 men showed up with what was supposed to be a rain out. This is how it went.  Brought the pipes out and did a circle up 4 feet apart . You are supposed to make the pipe stand and shift over to grab the next pipe without it falling. Needless to say it fell each time and we got to several rounds of burpees… ( or granny burpees as I call them ) anyway went from there to what is called 1st and 10… line up the cones 10 cones 10 yards apart and basically doing 11’s sprint to end and eliminate a cone each run back. Diamond merkins and low , (debatable slow squats). Then back round of mountain climbers and one other exercise… Old people can’t remember all this stuff anyway. After a count 10 down eagle hill mosey and back up the hill through eagle park stopping to wait on the pack with LBC’s… top of the hill still had time to get out the toys again ( pipes ) did Mary’s with whatever exercise was called the pipes were in use. Got pretty interesting. Oh and forgot to describe the fall. Somebody ( me laid out the cones with a blind speed bump) needless to say everyone was tripping over it and I kept warning them till I fell all over the place and busted my knee. In the famous pax fashion IM OK… then the next day my knee was swole up and hurting. Anyway great day thanks for the privelege to lead guys always an honor.

Anouncements: Que against Que march 2nd at goat, Grow ruck schedule also one in Charleston June 10th… talk to Tiger for more details, Extinction run March 4th starts at 9 am. ,

Prayer Request: Radars sister, Tigers mom, Praise from whats up nephew’s heart was good! Tooth fairy daughter, Termites brother

When I first heard about the ghost flag I was intrigued! I heard tales of frozen Shelby convergences and trans regional rivalry’s! Apparently this used to be a big deal! So I started doing some Twitter research to figure out where this thing was. I tracked it down to the Statesville region back in April 2022, things happened and my plan to get the Flag never really got off the ground. Fast forward to January ’23, with my newfound position as 2nd F Q I thought now was the time to go get this thing! I reached out to KnarlyGoat and he said it was still in his garage! We made it to Downtown Statesville with about 15 minutes to spare and quickly found out that we were 1 hour late to a local Army vs Navy 2 hour CASUP. No worries we jumped right in! The order to grab the shovel Flags and let’s mosey was given I grabbed the Ghost Flag and We were off! I was a pretty good work out, we did some sandbag work, we marched in Caidance, ran up a big hill and finally at the end did a couple merkins and maybe a Burpee or 2. The Navy won the Casup , but the real winners were The Gashouse Clowncar as we came home with the Ghost Flag. Thank you, HIM for coming with me! Special shout out to F3 Goodwrench (Danny Barker) for coming across the lake to hang out with us as well. Now lets see how long we keep it this time!

SYITG
Ball Joint

Runners ran.  Ruckers rucked.

Solid crowd of HIMs put in solid work.

Took 2 full days to pen this gem of a backblast.

Yabba Dabba Doo