Day: April 15, 2024

Shoutout to the 35+ pax who posted to the Community Foundation Run/Fundraiser Convergence.   F3 Gastonia also had an additional 18pax running Ville to Ville therefore 53 pax pushed some sort of rock Saturday morning.  Great job men – Great showing.  With the help of Dr Seuss and Wirenut we led a classic beatdown in front of several community leaders showing Gastonia what F3 is all about.

Standing just outside the ballfield and with no FNGs to start, a quick disclaimer was given by YHC then launched into the warmup with 10 each of SSH, Merkins, LBCs and Imperial Walkers.  Each pax then carried a coupon into the outfield to save for later. My warmup continued with reps of high knees, butt kicks, karaoke x2, and nur across the outfield.  I then turned things over to Seuss for what he called 7 of diamonds. Although we planned on using the baseball diamond unfortunately it was occupied by the sound system and finish line equipment (Didn’t they know we were going to be there??)  Seuss was able to modify a “diamond” into a trapezoid? or rhomboid?  Hell who knows he teaches second grade how is he supposed to know about these advanced shapes.   But needless to say it definitely wasn’t a diamond.  But at each corner we did reps.  First time around was 7 Burpees, second round was 14 Flutters, third was 21 Big Boys and fourth was 28 CDDs.  Yes CDDs although I’m not sure the form quite right so lots of “no reps”.  Despite this we picked up an FNG along the way.  I’m pretty sure Sargento leap into the stands and pulled this guy by the ear onto the field to come join us.   Welcome to Pyle our newest pax who is 21 and from Gastonia.  He wants to go into the marines – thus Pyle – as we already have a Gomer.  At this point Wirenut wrestled Seuss to the ground and handed him a full sized coupon which pinned Seuss to the ground for the rest of the workout.  Wirenut then went full on wirenuts and called rounds of OHP, Curls , Squats and Merkins on the block.  First round was 50 of each exercise then sprint to midfield to do one burpees.  Then return to do same exercises but 40 of each.  Spring to midfield and do 2 burpees and so on with 30 reps and 3 burpees, 20 reps and 4 burpees and 10 reps and 5 burpees.  Our senior pax and crazy ass/formless leader Tesla led the way.  Not sure what exercises he was doing but I can assure you they did not look anything like called exercises.  I mean how do you do a merkin without bending your elbows?  Time was up as we moseyed back out of stadium to parking lot for COT.

Announcements:

The belt made its triumphant return after being snatched from Wichita’s hands.  The belt was awarded to Dr Seuss who amassed 103 points during the Pushing Rocks challenge, including 70 individual posts in Feb and March – that right 70 posts in 60 days.  Way to go Seuss!!

Team 6 won the team based challenge with 306 points – Congratulations to Wirenut (88points), Slaw (97), Def Leppard (54) and Sarlacc (62).  Team 6 has won the rights to the next convergence – more to follow

2nd F lunch Wednesday at Simonetti’s

The Goonie – May 4th – Bring a ruck and water/snack if needed. 3AM at the Schiele – we will be back by 6:30 so you can then post to your favorite AO bootcamp afterwards.

May 18th – Extinction Run  – 9am at Primal start with 13 minute mile and drop by 20 seconds each consecutive mile.  $20 donation to go towards Muscular Dystrophy research

Thanks to all who made this a success – Special thanks to Purple Haze who then led the community foundation run with two track commanders for speed for need.  Shoutout to Hei Hei and Pony Boy who manned the chairs.  Finally thanks to Hunchback who was able to work behind the scenes to get us the venue.  It’s high visibility events like these with real impact to the community that make all the difference and what makes me proud to be part of this organization.

Until next time – Defib out

Let’s get right to the point, our TAXES are out of hand!  We work, we get taxed.  We buy, we get taxed. We “own”, we get taxed.  And year after year “they” figure out how to Tax you some more.

To quote Benjamin Franklin:  “Our new Constitution is now established, everything seems to promise it will be durable; but, in this world, nothing is certain except death and taxes. ”

Tax Day Warm up:

15ic Side Straddle Hops / 15ic Imperial Walkers / 15ic Gravel Pickers / 15ic Plank Jacks

Tax Return is due… Pax drew one return from the tax return bag… Sadly they had to pay.  10 Burpees

The Thang:

Mosey to the park for a days work.  You know those days where your boss doesn’t make sense, but you have to do it anyway.  This was one of those days.  It wasn’t all bad we had our work and tax-day music playing.

Add It Up went something like this –

1 Burpee / 2 Monkey Humpers / 3 Plank Jacks / 4 Squats / 5 SSH / 6 Superman – Banana / 7 Box Cutters . 8 Jump Squats / 9 Merkin / 10 LBC / 11 American Hammers / 12 Flutters / 13 Imperial Walkers / 14 Freddie Mercs / 15 CDD / 16 J-Lo / 17 Mtn. Climbers / 18 Seal Jacks / 10 Apollo Ohnos / 20 Big Boys.

Tax Return Due… Another Pay.  5 Burpees.

The Pax had so much fun the first time an audible was called and we reversed our way back through the numbers 20-1.

Tax Return Due… WooHoo a Refund!  20 LBC

Mosey to the baseball fieldhouse and partner up for a round of DORA.  100 Merkin / 200 American Hammers / 300 Flutters while partner runs around the ball field.

Another Tax Return Due…A Refund again!  20 Morrocan Night Clubs.

And with that we headed back to the flag for some Mary.  Sadly the Qs audible caused us to run short on time and miss out on Bear Crawls and Jack Webbs and two more tax returns.  There is always next time.

A quick round of Mary and we stuck a fork in yet another Tax Day.

Announcements:  2ndF Lunch Wednesday. Goonie 5/4. Young Life Golf 5/13. Extinction Run 5/18.

Prayers:  Pax on IR, Traveling PAX, Anchorman, Huck, Turtleman, Gear Wrench.

And as Calvin Coolidge said it… “Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.”

That sums it up right there.  Til next time!

BOS