Freight’s Birthday Celebration

During the Peak to Peak hike/CSAUP last weekend, Bedpan and I talked about a lot of things. At some point, we got to talking about Freight and his real age. Bedpan told some stories about how Freight never liked to celebrate or make a big deal over his birthday, which made some of his friends want to celebrate that much more. Then he mentioned Freight had a birthday coming up soon. He confirmed it was 9/1 so I grabbed the Q at Downtown to celebrate! I knew Freight was probably going to be at work and unable to post, but I figured we’d celebrate without him anyway. This is Freight’s WOD, originally created and Q’d by Def Leppard over a year ago at Midoriyama.

I did throw a twist into the WOD. We did as many reps as Freight’s age but, since he always changes it in the name-o-rama and many don’t know his true age, I made up rep counts on the fly every time so I don’t know exactly how many we did.

Warmups: random numbers of SSH, Toy Soldiers, Gravel Pickers, and some toe touches.

The WOD: We mosey a few blocks to the First UMC parking lot to get the blood pumping and also get a good safe spot to run. We did each set of exercises and took a lap around the block. I had a complicated lap planned but Gearwrench led the pack on lap 1 and simplified it to a lap around the block. Good call GW! Here are the exercises:

Flutter Kicks
Reverse Crunches
Elbow Plank
Imperial Walker Squats (I know we did 56 of these because the sucked!)
Goofballs
Hand Release Merkins
Travoltas (like a Nolan Ryan, but move the arm in a “Stayin Alive” motion)
Seal Jacks

Werkins
Outlaws (flutter kicks, but in circles)
Dying Cockroaches

To keep the bat flippers working, I asked PAX to resume the exercises until the Six arrived. Everyone moved for a solid 45 minutes. I forgot I started my watch late my time was about 5 minutes off and, despite warnings from the PAX, I was running a little over. We moseyed back to the start, arriving at 6:16 (the extra minute of workout was free guys…my gift). Pledge, name-o-rama, and COT and we were out.

Announcements: Coconut Derby Sunday @ Coconut Horse, Convergence Monday @ Caromont Park 7:00 am, Iron Pax Thursdays @ Folsom, Relay version on Fridays @ Folsom. 2nd F lunch 8/20 @ Pita Wheel Gastonia. Keep the Hall family, Huck, Turtleman, Norwood, Wirenut in your prayers as well as Pastor Wells from Morganton (I think that’s the city) and Purple Haze’s friend.

Final thoughts: I hope everyone takes a moment to wish Freight a Happy Birthday. He’s been a big part of F3 for a long time. He’s been Nantan, he’s started several AO’s along the way and consistently demonstrated the F3 core principles. He’s definitely impacted a lot of men in our area. I always know if I show up and see Freight, the mumble chatter is going to be better for it. Also, shoutout to Ball Joint for jumping right back into exercises at the end of each lap. Of course, he’s typically among the first back and he was the first to resume exercises. Also I appreciate the Westside, Gearwrench and a few others who constantly were among the first to return and jumped right in on the reps. It kinda irks me when guys are standing around waiting for the Six, but that wasn’t the case today.

One last thing. He’s 44. Happy Birthday.

–Montross