Author: BallJoint (Page 7 of 8)

Wednesday has normally been my running day at Prison Break, but since I Kinda shamed or voluntold Maybelline into being the site Q after dirt left us, I feel like I kind of owed him a Q.

Warm up: SSH, gravel pickers, right over left (the non patented version), MRN

Mosey to the Park…pay toll to get in park: 10 burpees. Head down to about middle of parking lot.

The Thang: Modified Seldon Cooper- 8 count body builders, merkins, big boys, and imperial walker squats. Start with 10 run a lap, then 9, 8 etc… After that mosey to playground find a pull up bar. Do some Dirty Linsdays- Lunges and calf raises 30-10, 25-15, etc.. but between each set do 10 pullups. With time running our. Mosey to picknick tables for 20 dips, 20 dirkins and 20 step ups. Scout run back to the flag and finish off with 5 burpees.

Time!

Announcements: Tubing 30th

Prayers:
Goudelock Family
Maybelline Coworker Jennifer
Turtleman
Purple Haze Family
Simpsom Family

Once in a lifetime are you given a opportunity to showcase your AO as the site Q for a convergence.  Sargento being the mighty leader that he is gave me about 8 days’ notice that “Hey Convergence is at Folsom, can you get some guys to Q it?” yeah man I got this…hold my Beer…actually never mind ill just carry it!

As I Roll into Folsom around 6 to get stuff set up and do a little EC , I find cones blocking the bottom parking lot and a bunch of no fishing signs. good thing we aren’t here to Fish…so threw the cones in the grass and carried on. Little did I know Gaston County Park & Rec was hosting a kid’s fishing tournament at 8am.🤦‍♂️

7Am Time to get to work! Sargento welcomes everyone, list the core principle, and disclaimer. (we had 6 FNGs!) Sargento hands me the controls…quick pledge and I hand it off to 1st of the Folsom Hammers GearWrench. This Dude has more post them Alen Tate does and he has only been with us for 8 months.. Rookie of the Year in the bag..IMO.

GearWrench warm up:
SSH-20
Gravel Pickers- 20
Burpees-10
Bruce Lee Abs: 20 of each : Hammers, Leg rasies, Lbc, Penguins, Crunchy Frogs, Flutters
then 30 of each…all the while we are dodgeing cars trying to park for the fishing tournament…we even had two ladys from Park &Rec come see what “a bunch of kids” were doing in the middle of the parking lot…we are workin thats what! Lets get out of here..hand off to Wichita and he takes us to the tennis courts…less traffic there.

Wichita 1st Hammer station:
5 burpees in a minute..if you get done before the minute is up plank until minute is up then rinse and repeat for 4 minutes. well this didn’t go as planned…there was a verbal exchange between Freight and Wichita and it was decided to make it 10 burpees a minute after the first round. After 4 mins of that nonsense, the exercise switched to 20 merkins a min for 4 minutes, then 20 Mike Tysons a minute for 4 minutes. come to think of it that whole thing was nonsense….well just wait to see what Sister Act has for us.

Sister Ast 2nd Hammer station:
Have yall ever heard of the HighTower? 9 reps 5 rounds of burpees:
9 regular burpees
9 Eight count Body Builders(plank jack Burpee)
9 Krackin Burpees (3 hand release merkins Burpee)
9 Triple Jump Squat Burpees (3 jump squats after burpee)
9 Bodybuilder/Krackin/Triple Jump Squat Burpee
Thank you SA that was Dumb

BallJoint 3rd Hammer station:
Mosey down to Soccer field…Grab a Partner and a Block! P1 does the work P2 runs the width of the field and up the hill to the tennis court fence and back.
100 reps of Curls, Trisepts, Squats, Block Swings, Rows, and Chest Press.
After all that, cool down with a rifle carrys block down and back while the other relaxs with some SSH. Time!

We named 6 FNGs! Welcome Jazzy Jeff, BFF, Genius, Helmet, Swisher Sweet, and Chin Strap!!

Announcements: Tubing on the 30th

Prayers:
Turtleman
Tiger SIL
Nutria Family
People Traveling
Termites Brother
Growruck
Huck
Purple Haze SIL/Family
Goudelock Family

We had Country Kitchen Breakfast after! it was awesome…lots of carbs Wichitas favorite.

Thanks for coming to Folsom.

SYITG

Balljoint

We
Did

Work!

Nice morning to grab some miles! Shout out to Mushu for making his debut at PB. GearWrench coached him to 3 miles i think! Good Job!  The Bat flippers were out early getting 7, Broke has walking pneumonia, and sparky didn’t show up. Good work was put in by everyone!

Announcements:

PT test this Saturday @ Gashouse

Trash pick up after Gashouse

F3 Dads/Kids 7/23 at Gashouse

Tubing Trip 7/30

Prayers:

Huck

Turtle Man

Wirenuts Family

Purple Haze Family

Westside Coworkers

SYITG

Balljoint

I promised Dirt i would Q one back when he took over site Q of Labyrinth in January or February…better late than never I guess.

Me an Gear Wrench clowntruck’d down to one of the original bootcamp beatdowns of F3 Gastonia which has been struggling with Pax # as of late… We had 10 in the COT so not bad. Upon arrival we notice a FNG making sure he is in the right place. Turns out he showed up to the Bull Dog the day before and only Hermie showed up and claimed that he doesn’t “Lead these things”…(Come on Man!!!) so i assured him we would doing more then talking this morning!  Hermie did go over the 5 core principles and other aspects of F3, so I gave a disclaimer and off we went!

Warmup:

SSH–1 burpee

Abe Vigoda’s–2 burpees

MNC–3 burpees

Left over right over left–4 burpees

Toy Soldiers–5 burpees

The Thang:

Mosey down to Plant Fitness parking lot, rt66 bear crawl with Mike Tyson’s, then rt66 with crab walk and big boys…extra point if you can EH a sad clown headed in the gym.   No one was successful.  Recover mosey to the Bank, where he Ford F’n Ranger was waiting with a payload full of rotors.  everybody grab one according to your ability. Partner up for Dora!  One lap around the bank while other works.   when the exercise did not include the rotor (Burpees, Merkins, Squats) the partner running carried the rotor for the lap.

50 burpees

100 triceps

150 merkins

200 curls

250 squats

300 chest press

We ran out of time half way through the last one. So mosey back to the flag for COT and naming the FNG.

After being left at the Bulldog and the middle out of 8 kids, I would like to welcome Forgotten (Brandon McCall) to F3!

Announcements:

Trash pickup after Gashouse workout 16th

2nd F Lunch @ Ray Nathans BBQ 21st

Honey Hunters game Sunday 24th

Prayers:

Huck

Turtle Man

Pax Traveling

Pax in IR

Gump and his family and the 2.0 that passed

I picked up the Q this morning for a previous Fartsacker of the year winner…I won’t mention any names….  Any way those of us that showed up ran, rucked or walked their way to an awesome start to the week!

Announcements:

convergence April 2nd @yank

community foundation run 9th

Prayers….my phone has decided to stop working so all my notes are gone. best i can remember:

Huck

Pappy and family

Wichita and family

all Pax on IR

all Pax running p200

Stripers brother

just pray for each other

Honor to lead today!

Balljoint

At 2am I awake to the sound of pelting rain and wind in the big town of High shoals, I said to myself it will be gone by 530…i hope!  I got up and headed to Folsom to do 6-mile EC run@ 530, Wichita and SA had agreed to meet up and run with me( I do this alone most Saturdays…I know how you feel Wirenut!). Wichita had the Q, so i figured we should get some legs in before he made us do 1000 merkins or whatever!  Wichita sent me his standard text at 5 so i knew he was up and ready…I start getting text from SA talking about “Surly your not running in this crap”, and telling me how Hes going to punch me in the face when he gets to Folsom🤷‍♂️.  During our lovely run in the rain , Wichita hurt his foot and had to cut it short, I told SA as we ran along we may have to Q this one…and we did:

Warm up:  SSH then a burpee, Gravel Pickers then a burpee, Abe V’s and a Burpee, MNC’s and a burpee, left over right/right over left stretch…then a BURPEE

The Thang:  Cooper was called to get us to the Flag at the Top.  Every light pole starting at this one. 10 burpees 10 squats 10 merkins, next pole 9, then 8 etc.  If you stop and the triangle along the way you get 10 spots so it works out.

Pledge at the flag

Mosey to the concrete bleacher/steps at the horse arena.  20 derkins at the bottom, box jump to the top, 20 dips.  We did that 5 times. Mumble Chatter was high! Talking about how stupid this was…what ever just get it done!

After a 10 count from the Mayor I let SA take the reigns and we Mosey’d to the top parking lot for Dirty 11s…Mike Tysons and Jump Lunges..dont forget the Burpee in the middle!

Mosey down to the first shelter for some abs.  it was dryish in there we did a ring of fire w/Bear crawly. Everyone had a turn to call an exercise and crawl. After that we did 50 step ups, and to finish it out a round of Iron Hulks. Mosey back to shovel flag and TIME!

Announcements:

2nd F Lunch Pita Wheel in Dallas

Kotter List set up and volunteers to call—see DR. Suess

Rice & Beans every Tues at the old Honda store downtown

Convergence April 2nd @ Yank

Community Foundation Run and Speed for Need April 9th

Prayers:

Wichita foot and his Dad/family

Gumbys Mom, cousin, and back

Sparky’s Hand and M

Westside Grandma and M’s Grandma

Striper’s Brother

Big Pappys Mom and 2.0

I Took us out in prayer.

Honor to lead today, I hate Wichita got hurt, always be ready to jump in when you are needed!

Ball Joint

Nice cool Dry morning to get some miles in! 13 beat the Fartsack to get better this morning!

Announcements:

2nd F Lunch next Wednesday at JR Cash in Belmont

Retreat w/ Sargento  FEB 18-20

Rice & Beans every Tuesday at old Honda Motorcycle shop @ 6pm

Sign up for a relay!

Prayer request:

Wirenut’s Mom

Wichita Mom and ankle (possum attack)

Def Leppard wrist (ice attack)

Gumby’s back (working on concrete 25 years)

Purple Haze and M

Sister Act and Roundup traveling together to Gatlinburg

5 was the number for this morning, kinda light…i guess everyone was up late watching the 49ers get beat. (sorry Huck).  Sarlacc and GearWrench went one way , me and Round UP followed Wichita to the back hills of Dallas.

Much of the Christian experience of spirituality is being present. This is said in different ways in our culture today – being mindful, living in the now, practicing awareness. This is shared by many religious traditions and is rooted in the long history of meditation.

For us as Christians, our theology of this is somewhat unique amongst the other traditions. We believe first that we focus on the now because we serve a God who cares for us, who cares even for every single sparrow, and who counts us “worth more than many sparrows” (Matthew 10:26-33). Further, we serve a God who is eternal, which means more than everlasting. Eternal means that God is utterly outside of time. Every moment of all of history in all of creation from every aspect – past, present, and future – exists fully before God. And God, as an infinite being, can focus on every single one of these moments, without limit, without pressure or the ticking of clocks, without distraction. So when we focus on the present, and “let tomorrow worry about itself” (Matthew 6:34), we focus where God is right now. In these moments, God will grace us with contemplation, where we are able to focus fully and completely on him. Then truly we “will not much remember the days of [our] life because God keeps [us] occupied with joy in [our] heart.” (Ecclesiastes 5:20)

How much time do you miss with God because you are concerned with your status in life, your bank account, your work, your due? Consider this in your holy hour today. Be present…because the present is where God is.

Announcements :

Q school at some point

retreat w/ Sargento Feb 18-20

rice and beans every Tuesday 6 pm at Old Honda store near QT

sign up for roster relay –see Pockets

Sign up for SMR relay –see Purple Haze

Reach out to Kotters!  Wirenut with Kotter Q tomorrow 2/1 @Folsom

Prayer request:

RoundUp’s wife/babys/family

Wichita mom

Big Pappys mom and new kit

Wirenut mom

James Goudelock

Westside Grandma

SA’s family

Gumbys back

Def Leppards wrist

Pax traveling back from Biloxi

Pleasure to lead today!

Ball Joint

Me and GearWrench Rucked in the Snow 2ish miles.

1 Corinthians 16:13

Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong.

Ball Joint/GearWrench