Day: December 20, 2023

Roscoe’s brainchild.  Developed on the frosty streets of Gastonia, NC somewhere between Union Rd and Robinwood Rd the sand got deep one day and there was an impromptu airing of grievances that would’ve made the late Frank Costanza proud (or Whoopee’s Sandy V Channel).  The notes were few, but the good times many from that day, and so when Roscoe brought it up again this year, we knew we needed to try to capture the magic again.  The rain in the forecast was a perfect backdrop, though in all honesty, last week was way worse.  7 grumpy old PAX got out of the fartsack and hit the streets at 0601 as YHC was busy putting on his makeup and you can’t rush perfection.  No runners, just we with bones to pick and 80 minutes to pick em.

The play by play is gone, but grievances included

•  College Football Playoff
• Guests at a party who overstay their welcome
• Our old man bodies waking us up to post even when we fully intended on fartsacking
• Octogenarians in the Oval Office
• What shouldn’t be done on government property (and what should be done to those that do)
• Menu anxiety
• Smokers (people, not charcoal)
• People who say “I shouldn’t be doing this” while eating their 3rd cupcake
• The weather
• The fact that this was a 5 mile ruck and not a 3 miler
• Faulty sensors in turn lanes that don’t actually trip the traffic light
• This movie starring Ethan Hawke and Kevin Bacon where the world is ending but it’s cool because we can watch Friends reruns
• and many more that I know I’m missing

Light-hearted and good-natured.  We manufactured some superficial anger in the spirit of the holiday, but the grievances didn’t seem to be as deep-seated this year.

2 joined in dry as a bone for QSource and a talk about Compassion.  We talked Gary Sinise, but also that things are complicated.  It’s not as simple as to give a homeless guy $10 or not.  It’s almost like we have to take the time to listen to find out.  But can we be THE GUY for everyone with a problem?  But we should definitely be THE GUY for our Concentrica.  It was one of those QSources where the further we went into it, the more I realized I didn’t know, or at least, don’t do well.  F3, and specifically QSource, helps see those blind spots.  If you don’t have a group, in F3 or otherwise, that’ll hold you accountable for growing into the man the your family and your community need you to be, I challenge you to reach out to any PAX and they’ll help you get connected.

Happy Festivus

Yabba Dabba Doo

10 PAX today for a birthday beatdown where the Burpees just slowly added up, thanks to the input of one helpful PAX.  Here’s what I remember:

Slow crowd to get out of their cars this morning.  With one minute to go, guys started to get out of their cars and showed up to the flag looking like they were about to serve lunch detention.  It was only slightly worse.

The Thang:

• 5 x Burpees (OYO)

We prepaid repeatedly for trains that never came.  Looking for a run & gun style today, so we started weaving through the parking lot.

• Mosey to end of parking spaces
• 41 x Goofballs (IC)

If YHC gets much older, the Q is going to pass out calling cadence.

• Mosey to islands
• 5 x Burpees (OYO)
• Mosey to end of parking spaces
• 10 x Imperial Walkers (IC)
• Mosey to islands
• 5 x Burpees (OYO)
• Mosey to end of parking spaces
• 10 x Toy Soldiers (IC)
• Mosey to islands
• 5 x Burpees (OYO)
• Mosey to end of parking spaces
• 10 x Jane Fondas L (IC)
• 10 x Jane Fondas R (IC)
• Mosey to islands
• 5 x Burpees (OYO)
• Mosey to end of parking spaces
• 10 x Mike Tysons (IC)
• Mosey to islands
• 5 x Burpees
• Mosey to traffic circle

Radar got the picture and was ordering up Burpees as we went.  He couldn’t get enough of those things.

So at the traffic circle, we did

• 20 x HR Merkins (OYO)

Then took a quick lap around the Storm’s carpool dropoff, where YHC just took off expecting some pace out of the PAX.  They lagged and got dusted, enough so that they about got lost.  Is it a Q fail if the PAX take their sweet time and get lost in the process?  Probably.  Luckily, they saw YHC back in the middle of the traffic circle doing…

• 20 x HR Merkins (OYO)

again.  That set was tougher.  Anyways, moving on.  To the Dora side of the school where the walls and concrete barriers are

• 5 x Burpees (OYO)
• 30 x Dips (OYO)
• 30 x Step Ups (OYO – count each step)

To the wall

• Wall Sits
• w/20 x Air Presses (IC)
• w/20 x Marches (IC)

and then just because Radar wanted them

• 5 x Burpees (OYO)

and then another request from Radar

• 20 x Hip Slappers (IC)

(Why am I even writing this backblast when Radar was the Q?)

Next was some “Core-a” with 3 Core exercises and some running with partners.  The catch today is that the runners will mosey to the islands, then Jailbreak to the end of the parking lot, reverse directions, mosey to the islands and Jailbreak back to their partner.  Exercises were…

• 100 x Freddie Mercuries
• 200 x Flutter Kicks (Count Left Side)
• 300 x LBCs

Back to the barriers for

• 5 x Burpees (OYO)
• 30 x Dips (OYO)
• 30 x Step Ups (OYO – count each step)

Back on the wall

• Wall Sits
• w/10 x Air Presses (IC)
• w/10 x Marches (IC)
• 5 x Burpees (OYO)
• 10 x Hip Slappers (IC)

That was a lot of work, so it’s logical that time was running out at this point.  The stacked suicides that were planned will have to wait for another day, but we’d still get to run suicides.  Just not as many reps.

Jump Squat Suicides

• Mosey to the next set of parking spaces
• 10 x Jump Squats (OYO)
• Mosey back
• Repeato for 5 total sets of parking spaces

And I think that was all we had time for.  Probably another set or two of burpees in there, but nothing too stupid.  We got what we paid for.  Seuss and Tiger bailed on COT.  We pledged before we left.  We were there and left a mark this morning.

Moleskin:

A great start to a great day.  Pushed work down a rung or two today to join Watts Up and Anchorman for coffee at Floyd & Blackies.  That’s a couple HIM that keep me headed in the right direction.  Grateful for that 2nd F.

It was everything a 41st birthday should be.  Worked.  Spent time with my parents.  Went out to eat with my M & 2.0s.  Then called it a day.  Grateful for the simple things.

Kudos to Radar for a fine Q this morning.

Yabba Dabba Doo

We started with a nice little warm up in the treacherous cold and wind swirls of the Bulldog.

Arm circles, Moroccan Night Clubs, Speed Bag boxing, Merkins, Squats, LBCs, Flutterkicks

Thang:
1 minute – Curls
1 minute –  Lawnmowers
1 minute –  Shoulder Press
1 minute –  Goblet Squats

Dips, Incline Merkins, Derkins

1 minute -LBCs
30 seconds – Triceps
1 minute – Curls
1 minute –  Lawnmowers
1 minute –  Shoulder Press
1 minute –  Goblet Squats

Dips, Incline Merkins, Derkins

1 minute – Curls
1 minute –  Lawnmowers
1 minute –  Shoulder Press
1 minute –  Goblet Squats

COT: Turtleman, Tube’s brother and his family, Sam

Larger crowd than expected on a brisk morning.  Started with pledge, mission of F3 To plant, grow and serve small workout groups for men, for the invigoration of male community leadership.

Announcements: Beer mile 12/30 at 10:30 – Mtn Candy named as official beer, convergence 1/1/24 at Martha Rivers 0700, Q source opportunities at each AO on Sundays

Prayer requests – praise that Jackson Curti able to spend Christmas at home but has to go back right after, Turtleman, Huckleberry, Jackson Hall, Virus father-in-law, Tesla family, Pax and family traveling, a friend of a friend named Kaitlyn – young mother diagnosed with rare form of strep outlook is not very good at this point, Jane Fonda

Tiger took us out

Always an honor

Tiger

Warmup, Pledge, lap around the track, you know, all the regular stuff.

At the flag, between the lamp posts Pax lunge walked, burpee broad jumped, and bear crawled. Since YHC does not own hip hugging, phone carrying, yoga pants, the phone, aka weinke, got shoved down the backside, next to the tramp stamp, for the bear crawl. Well, the weinke did not stay put and upon reaching vertical, the weinke was all the way down to the ankles, creating a funny sideshow. While YHC dug around for the weinke, Tesla kept the Pax busy with some SSHs.

Mosey to the back lot for some good ol’ fashioned 12 Days of Xmas. 12 exercises, 12 reps each in a stack ‘em style.

Day 1, 12 merkins, NUR up the parking lot, perform a perfect burpee, mosey back to the gifts, err, start.

Day 2, 12 squats, 12 merkins, NUR, burpee, mosey.

Day 3, 12 big boys, 12 squats, 12 merkins, NUR, burpee, mosey… get it?

Day 4 werkins
Day 5 Bobby Hurley’s
Day 6 american hammers
Day 7 diamond merkins
Day 8 Apolo Ohno’s
Day 9 V-Ups
Day 10 CDDs
Day 11 side lunge
Day 12 fox holes

Pax got through 10 days, but time was running out, so we pushed through the side lunges and fox holes  before time to mosey back to start.

Announcements: beer mile on the 30th, 2nd F lunch noon today at Hickory Tavern, convergence 1/1/2024 7am at Martha Rivers Park

Prayers for J2C, Montana, Jane Fonda, those suffering with illness

Kool-Aid took us out.

It was an honor to lead -Orangeman

Of no fault of anybody but myself, I didn’t realize I was on Q until turning into the parking lot and noticing the date on the scrolling marquee. Somehow I had Thursday as the 19th and not Tuesday, Oh well, We still made it happen!

Started off with a F3 typical warm up :

SSH, windmills, gravel pickers, Moroccan night clubs, overhead claps, and imperial walkers

We grabbed some COLD blocks and took them to the tennis courts for a “modified” 4 corners that turned into “escalators” we started with Tricep extensions then added curls at the next stop, then added chainsaws at the last stop. Then we “deescalated the set.

One more round consisting of windshield wipers, chest to block merkins, and block swings

We put the blocks up then made our way to the lower parking lot and traveled Lieutenant Dan style to the middle of the parking lot, and there we ran a triple nickel with 5 burpees and 5 big boys, before Lieutenant Daning back to the top of the parking lot.

We ran back to COT for a little ab lab and that was time.

Thanks Pony Boy for the oppertunity to lead.

Weather : 25 degrees

Men : 4

I was proud to see Pall Bearer this morning at 5:11 am getting some E.C. as cold as it is today.

The beards kept the cold weather at bay.

Prayer Request

Huck, Turtleman, and those traveling for the Holiday.

Praise: Big Pappy and his wife are about to finalize the adoption of the little girl they have fostered for some time.

Pallbearer’s wife starts her knew job/role with her company in January

2nd F lunch today at Hickory Tavern.

The Bed Pan is Full..

My Q pushed everyone to the limit and it was very difficult put we all made it through with many wonderful exercises including merkins, squats, lunges, lbcs, cdds, dips. Plus nurring, bear crawls, crab walks, and more. Plus we never left the parking lot.

Prayers for Jane Fonda and Tesla’s Sister