Fitness, Fellowship, Faith

Day: March 18, 2024

My Whistle, My Rules! 3/16/24

As twelve hard charging HIMS returned from bonus point workout number one for the day; a CSAUP pillaging of the neighborhood Harris Teeter, we found quite a group of guys assembling for bootcamp.   What a great day to get two points for double posting!  A CSAUP and a Bootcamp.

The guys above and a handful of boot campers offloaded their groceries into YHC’s truck and it was time to get busy.

No FNGs this morning but we were blessed with five nomads from Metro on their way to Crowders Mountain for a shield lock hike.  Our usual late arrivals scurried to the flag while the disclaimer was underway and a dull roar of  mumblechatter…already.   After a quick count and another quick count and a fly by from Tiger and his 2.0 we were on our way to the bunker for warm up.

BOS’ usual warm up.  (yawn)  15 reps in cadence – Side Straddle Hop, Imperial Walker, Gravel Pickers (which according to the peanut gallery “is not an exercise”) plank jacks (met with approval).  Followed by Arm stretches, Leg stretches R/L, L/R and Feet Together.   Lots of groaning with these but nobody seems to like them.  Don’t worry you will thank YHC later.

Enough of that on to a Four Corner Stack.  Count off by Fours.  Handed cards to the first four guys and told them to take their like numbers to one of the four bunker corners.  The cards for this stack moved them five times bringing them back to where they started. Each corner starts with Burpees and adds the previous corners work.

First corner – 10 Burpees.  Second corner add 20 Merkins.  Third corner add 30 Monkey Humpers.  Fourth corner – add 40 American Hammers.  Back to corner you started in – add 50 LBC.

While this was happening we had plenty of mumble chatter and some good conversation with our new Metro brothers.  The plan was coming together.  YHC and Anchorman had the plan to slip out early so we could get set on the upper field.  YHC asked Gavel to round up the PAX when finished for a mosey up to meet us.

A little back story…during a ruck, or maybe coffee, probably both YHC talked with Anchorman about the food ruck and the beatdown following that was rattling around in YHC’s head.  Anchorman said sounds fun but not sure its for me.   Well, we need a fair and impartial referee; which actually sounds awful to most anyone who knows F3 Gastonia PAX.   With a laugh or two we came up with “MY WHISTLE, MY RULES!” and it was on.

As the PAX began to reach the top of the hill in Stowe Park our referee, donned in a green referee jersey blew his whistle and greeted the guys to a muddy Ultimate Frisbee field all coned off and ready for battle.  Teams 1 & 3 from earlier and teams 2 & 4 joined forces to make the teams and we were ready to go.  Not quite, our referee blew his whistle and announced he could not tell the teams apart so one team needs to be skins.  Without debate one team started stripping.  Thank the lord it was only their shirts!   Before the first throw the whistle is blown again.  5 Merkin penalty for the shirt team for not volunteering to take their shirts off quick enough.

Play began and the skins scored, and scored again, and scored again and they were the old guys!  Anchorman issued penalties to the team that got scored on.  Penalties for mouthing off, for telling the ref what penalty should be called, for not wearing green and for whatever he wanted because It’s “My Whistle, My Rules!”  There were slips and slides, impressive footwork and a lot of mud.  Best part there were no injuries reported!

Honorable Mentions – Goose (he may be named Goose but he was running some Stealthy plays.)  Whoope (play making on his feet, on his back it didn’t matter.)  Tardi Gras (Highlight reel – Catch of the day.)  Tooth Fairy (He played Rugby you know!?!)  The Skins – (Guess being shirtless on a muddy field in March gets you pumped.)  The Shirts (for fighting the good fight and knowing to mosey to the track when those bullies called LBCs for your penalty when they scored.) The Ref (cuz it’s his whistle!)

The final score needs to be confirmed by the ref but I remember it as “a lot to a little.”

After the final whistle the PAX moseyed to The Fighting Yank Statue for a short Mary.  Orangeman called his patented Six Shooters and when don we were at the final whistle.  Time!

Announcements: 3/20 2ndF Lunch at Bad Daddy’s.  4/13 – Community Foundation Run (Speed For Need – See Purple Haze)  4/20 – Extinction Run 0900 at Primal Brewery (See BOS or Anchorman)

Prayers: Gavel & Family, Anchorman & Family, Fannie Mae & Family, Jane Fonda & Family, Hall Family

“Unity” @ Life Line 3/18/2024

Started the morning with the Word 💪🏽. In Colossians 3:12-14 Paul gave us so many virtues that we take for granted these days. In a world that is desensitized through social media and self focused let’s remember to show one another Love which binds us all in perfect unity. Let’s be leaders in our community and change the world one interaction at a time. Today’s VQ was a win with 17 in attendance! We hit it hard right out the gate with EMOM’s (Blockee Style)! Incorporated some nice station work with Atlas Balls,Tire flips, and more! Finished up strong with some Sallies 🫣. Shout out to @wattsup, Happy Birthday big dawg! Thanks for not wearing your birthday suit! Big shout out to my boy @hotcorner for your help with the winky 😉… your leadership, mentorship, and most importantly friendship is greatly appreciated 🫡 Now let me get 2 claps and a Ric Flair! 👏 👏😮‍💨

Full Court Pressure

It was a nice and clear morning at The GOAT. We had a good crowd. It was a great morning for a workout on the Basketball Court. So that is what we did. I started off with a quick disclaimer and the Pledge. Some of the PAX decided they wanted no part of my workout and decided to Run/Ruck at this point. Those who were so inclined to stay then got to work with a good warmup before moseying off towards Riverside Park stopping at multiple locations along the way to perform 10 Merkins and 20 Squats each time. Once at the basketball court we ran through a sideline to sideline workout that went like this. With everyone lined up on one sideline we performed 50 reps of each: Merkins, Squats, and LBCs. We then ran to the opposite sideline and did 1 Burpee. We rinsed and repeated cutting the reps on the starting side to 40 and doing 2 Burpees on the opposite side then 30/3, 20/4, and finishing up with 10/5. We finished this pretty quickly so we had time for a round of Triple Nickel with Bonnie Blairs on one side Mike Tysons on the other. All done at the basketball court we then headed back stopping again for Merkins and Squats at various stopping points along the way. Once back at the flag we had just enough time to get in a few partner sets of sprints and core work. I’ll tell you that hill in the parking lot is sneaky but we made it through. Thanks as always for the hard work and push today men.

TIME

COT

Coffeerama at Floyd and Blackies

Pookie was found

Seven ruckers, zero runners, and Scrat hit the Coconut Horse – Heatherloch course Sunday morning. Roscoe, Stroganoff, and Shortsale were absent, but we thought after the big Wolfpack win, they may have been too tired to join us. During announcements and prior to QSource, Roscoe stops by to let us know that Shortsale’s black lab went missing Saturday after the game.

Without hesitation, the group took off to Shortsale’s house and helped with the search. Unfortunately, no trace of Pookie was seen Sunday.

Monday morning at 10:18am, the following text was sent from Shortsale:

Announcements, Prayer Requests, No Q Source.

DR: Region: HamptonRoads, AO:Quack Quack Honk

Thursday mornings location was more North of my location and about 25 minutes from the hotel.

0530 and there are 8 PAX’s include me. Q was Funny Car. There were a few guys from yesterday that I had met. I good overall workout and I look forward to seeing these guys more when I’m back up this way. At least once per month.

DR: Region: HamptonRoads, AO: Bear Country

I have several customers in the Suffolk, Virginia area and will be spending several days in the future here, so I found a Hampton Inn that is kind of in the middle of several AO’s, not quite like our Gashouse. Each AO is about 15-25 minutes away from the hotel.

Wednesday morning was first with Bear Country. Arrived at 0515 and there were a few PAX’s getting in some EC. 0530 hits and there are 10 PAX’s including myself. The Q was Bing. Nice group of guys and a solid workout took place.

Stolen Q @ GOAT

YHC took the Q from the infamous Open Q sometime Wed.  Hope he didn’t have too much planned…

YHC has slept a few times since this, so this is the best of the recall… (like pretty sure we did The Pledge of Allegiance, but not sure if it was the beginning or end)

Started with brief mosey the long way to the upper parking lot.

Did some warmup – SSH, Stretching, Merkins?, LBCs?

Move to tunnel for some wall sits and air presses.

Up and over to the street/church rarely used.

Route 66 in the church parking lot – twice.

Calf raises on the steps.

Pair up for some double-dirty 11s on the half-pipe ish – merkins and squats.

Paused half-way to reset the bat flippers and get the group back together.

Back to the tunnel for wall sits, donkey kicks, and dirty hookups.

Then back to the flag.

Announcements were announced.  Prayer Requests Noted.

Thanks to all for coming out in the gloom.

Until next time.

Watts Up Powering Down.

 

Peter

7 Pax posted to Old School on Saturday morning. 3 came in early for this month’s mini misogi: farmer’s carry 25% of your body weight for .5 miles under 9 minutes. I believe all were successful despite GPS trying to cheat us. That’s twice now. Note for next time to use the actual measured area despite what Garmin or Strava will show. That being said it was tough but not tough enough with that much success. Harder dumber things to come.

Warmup:

Some stretching and what not

The Thang:

Mosey down the road toward the Cerebrus hills stopping along the way for some core exercises. Cerebrus is a 3 way intersection in which you have now choose but to climb a hill in any direction. We would climb each one and do a set of reps at the top and bottom each time.

Rd. 1 10 merkins at the top and 10 CDD’s at the bottom

Rd. 2 10 Freddy Mercury’s ic at the top and 10 Mtn Climbers ic at the bottom

Rd. 3 10 squats at the top and 10 shoulder taps, count one side, at the bottom

That sucked for everyone except Slaw. He freakin smoked it!

Now that we are done with that we have to climb one more time to get out of here, your welcome. Over next to First Baptist we stopped for some route 66 with crabwalks and WWI situps.

Once we crossed over the main st we did some catch me if you can for a block. Bear Crawl and 5 burpees. Over one more block we continued this with lunge walks and 10 star burst.

Back at the flag we finished off with a few minutes of Mary.

COT:

Pledge

Announcements-2nd F lunch this week, CSAUP on May 4th announced see the preblast

Prayer Request-Hall family, Wirenut’s mom, several people sick, receiving treatments

NM:

All along the way when we stopped we had some basic Bible trivia. It was great that we got correct and confident answers. I’d like to thank Def Leppard for inspiring me to share some of these Bible messages in my Q. Also I got another 500 points for spreading the gospel so you can just quit now Seuss.

Jester @ Members Only

Eh Y’All brought a Kotter – Greenhouse

Ruckers rucked.  Runners Ran.

All returned safely and on-time.

Many stayed to discuss Jester.

The Pledge of Allegiance, Announcements and Prayer Requests were all included in the post activities.

Eh Y’All took us out.

Watts Up Powering Down

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