Author: BallJoint (Page 8 of 8)

I will never forget the first Tuesday of 2021 , It was a little rainy, and high 30’s, Sparky had blocks in the tennis court at Folsom.  That was the start on my F3 journey, and what a year it has been.  I have done some things , meet some good people, and basically I am not the same man I was a year ago.  So I have been thinking about how to incorporate one of my other passions in life, Drag Racing, into a Q.   I figured out a rough game plan and with the help of some OG Folsom guys this is how it went.

Warmup:

We ain’t got time for that… count off…20 pax ok cool, count off again …split pax up into 7 teams of 3 (one team had 2).  Yall get your team together and let’s mosey!  Across the soccer field to 2 parking lots right below the triangle.

The Thang:

Welcome to the Folsom Raceway!  In the lower parking our racing crew was waiting.  Montross was the Race Master (he had the clip board), Alen Tate was the official starter, and Huck was the finish line judge and protest dept.  On to the Racing!  I acquired 2 identically prepared 2001 Ford Rangers (one had more gas in it though), they were set up on the far end of the parking lot at the starting line.  The teams were put on a ladder (bracket) and the racing started!  your team of 3 had 1 driver and 2 pushers.  Flashlight start! Chase is a race! Let go!  Push as fast as you can to the other end of the parking lot to the finish line and if your team wins you move on to the next round.  Losers went in the losers’ bracket.  So, every team was cycled in and while not racing we had busy work to do.  Super Dora…one man ran the length of the upper parking lot, one man held a static position (plank/squat/crunch), one man did the work.  Burpees, Merkins, LBC, Squats, all in various amounts this kept everyone busy and warm while waiting on their turn to race.  With time running low and the racing coming down to the semifinal rounds, we switched up and grabbed my favorite coupon the brake rotor! 20 curls, rows, triceps, and chest press then run a lap.  repeato at 19, then 18 etc…   The Final round of racing was Team Sargento, GearWrench, Bedpan  VS Team Sparky, Sarlacc, Volt.   The Nantan cracked the whip and with the power of Florda Man and GW ‘s super calf muscles they pushed across the line victorious!  I’m pretty sure they even thew the hazard lights on as they crossed the finish line! Congratulations!  I’ll get ya’ll a medal or a trophy or something.

We had a FNG!  Good job Mayor!   My man said he his lips were cold and someone shouted out ELSA…and well there you go! Welcome to F3!  Dude had perfect Merkin Form BTW (Mayor maybe he can help you).

Announcements:

Jan 22– Q school after workout @ Gashouse 8:20  Breakfast after

Feb. 18-20 –F3 retreat in Flatrock-watch for preblast from Sargento

June 4–savage race–see Stogie

Prayer Request:

Big Pappy/family,  Gumby, RoundUP (6 kids!), Montross Uncle, Alen Tate’s Friend

I took us out in Prayer.

Thank you to Montross, Alen Tate and Huck..with out those guys the Folsom Winter nationals would not have been possible!  If you missed out we may have another opprouity for the summer nationals.  stay tuned!

Moleskin:

2021 was crazy!  I did things i never knew i could do…  like wake up at 4:30 almost everyday of the week, lost 25 + lbs,  ran a 5k, ran 5 miles, ran 10k, ran a 1/2 marathon!?  do 100 burpees in 10 mins, and 450 merkins before 6:15 on a Tuesday, worked out in the snow/sleet/rain/sub freezing , lead a workout, be in charge of a AO , pay $160 for running shoes,  and the list goes on!  F3 is one of those things you don’t know you need it till you do it. Thank you to everyone that pushed me, encouraged me and just showed up to a workout.  you all inspire me to keep going and accelerating! I can’t wait to see what happens in 2022!

SYITG

Ball Joint

Things did not start off well this morning. Well last night when I announced that EC was at 6 and not 6:15 is really when it started..but i digress.  After a nice 6 mile mosey to deliver the Flag ( The Pole broke in 2 on the way) to Folsom at 7 we clocked in.

Warmup:

SSH 1 BURPEE

GRAVEL PICKERS 2 BURPEES

ABE VIGOTA 3 BURPEES

TOY SOLDIERS 4 BURPEES

MORICAN NIGHT CLUBS 5 BURPEES

Mosey:

On the way to Carr School we stopped at every intersection of a paved street (driveways do not count) or parking lots of major commercial or municipal building we did 5 merkins 20 MTN. climbers (CT both legs), and 10 squats.  We made quick detour to do Monkey Humpers in front of Toe Picks house to show our disapproval of him not posting today.   I kinda got messed up on the back roads of Dallas trying to get to the rear parking lot of the ball fields to access the playground…sorry guys Q fail.  I have lived in Dallas my whole life by not really in Dallas…more like Hardin/High Shoals.

Thang:

Once we finally made it to the playground we did work.  Linsdays–kinda of. 30 Dips and 10 Dirkins to start  but between the dips and dirkins we are going to do 10 pull Ups partner assisted unless you are Pizza Man he can do them himself! Then 25 dips/15 dirkins ..always with the 10 pull up in between.   Was some confusion here and after everybody did it a few times they finally got what i was trying to do .  This sucked toward the end and i even got a #1 signal from Mayor so there’s that.   Mosey back to main parking lot we did Tammy Waynets (stand by your man) Partner 1.. 10 Merkins P2 10 bigboys then switch  total is 100 merkins and 100 bigboys per man.

Mary & Carry:

To finish up with Mary and Carry…1 PAX  calls a ab/core exercise and then sprints to my two 5 gallon pales of c23 (racing fuel) and carry to the end of parking lot.  repeat till everybody has a turn.  5 burpees to wind it down. We said the pledge and Time!

Announcements:

Christmas part TONIGHT!

Christmas work out at Gashouse on the 25th other AOs maybe closed

Prayers:

Sargento on IR

Brokes mom

Towpicks mom

Gumbys mom

People with hard times during the holiday season.

I took us out in Prayer

Good Work by everyone even SA..Sorry i got us lost, we never even got to the court house steps 11s!

It was an honor to Lead Ya’ll today!

Balljoint

Folsom 10/14

Work was done. For some reason I wasn’t there so ask Ozark.

Balljoint

14 Strong at the Prison Break this morning.  The batflipers ran 7, some ran 5 , some did 2 or 3, we all pushed rocks and got better!

Announcments:

*Christams party 12/11 sign up and Pax voting

*Thanksgiving Trifecta- 530 Folsom/700 The Goat/830 The Pub

*Christmas Town 5k on Saturday

*Big Pappy need baby wipes for Foster Closet

Prayer Request:

*Big Pappy Family

*Sister Act Family

*Mayors M

*Chicken Little Family/Racecity F3

*Familys around the Holidays

*James Goudelock

*Jason Black

*Girl @ Purple Haze church need heart transplant

Good work this morning men!  Thanks for allowing me to lead!

Balljoint

7 plus YHC decided to get up and punch Monday right in the mouth.  These HIM not scared of a little cold rain!  After a 30 mins of run/walk/ruck we meet up inside the carwash for some 3rd F.

We talked about the 2 different Kingdoms in the world..God and Satan.  In this secular world it is easy to put your head under the covers and just ignore the spiritual battle that is going on around us.

James 4:  1-4

                      What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that                         battle within you? ² You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot                           get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask                         God. ³ When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that                             you may spend what you get on your pleasures⁴ You adulterous people,^[a] don’t you                            know that friendship with the world means enmity against God? Therefore, anyone                             who  chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.

We have to put on our armor and try to defend our selves and keep your minds and hearts on God and all his gifts.

Philippians 4:8

                        ⁸ Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right,                               whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent                             or praiseworthy—think about such things.

We have to Trust what we can  win the battle over Satan!

John 16:33

                                  ³³ I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you                                       will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.”

Announcments:

*Christams party 12/11 sign up and Pax voting

*Thanksgiving Trifecta- 530 Folsom/700 The Goat/830 The Pub

*Christmas Town 5k

*Big Pappy need baby wipes for Foster Closet

Prayer Request:

*Big Pappy Family

*Sister Act Family

*Mayors M

*Chicken Little Family/Racecity F3

*Familys around the Holidays

*James Goudelock

*Jason Black

*Girl @ Purple Haze church need heart transplant

Good work this morning men!  Thanks for allowing me to lead!

Balljoint

9 plus YHC showed up this morning for a No-Charge tune up at DownTown.  This is how it went…

Standard Ball Joint Warm up:

•  Where Did that lug nut go (gravel pickers)-IC x 13
• Don Quixote ..check that  Abe Vigoda-IC x 10
• What is stuck to the bottom of my boot?(Toy Soldiers)- IC x 11
• Monbacks (MNC) IC x 11
• SSH–IC x20

Extra credit warmup:

• Everybody that was not at the 2nd F lunch owes me 10 burpees!

The Thang:

Ok lets mosey down the block to the wall …wall sit marching IC x 20 and Australian MTN Climbers IC x 15.  Mosey around the corner and Westside sees a coworker in a city bucket truck and he asks if we can do some monkey humpers..so i hand him the reigns and we do some Monkey Humpers his coworker honked his horn in delight or disgust ..not sure which …  continue to mosey down main st..stop at the blinking red light and do some more Monkey Humpers , continue mosey to corner of Main and York for more Monkey Humpers for the North bound traffic…no honks this time oh well.   On the wall at alliance bank , wall sit marching and AMC again.

Frogger across York to parking lot to do route 66  .  Bear crawl 2 parking spaces and do a merkin, repeato till u get to 11.   Comeback the other way. Crab walk and big boys this time.

Back across to the main lot beside the pavilion and grab a Folsom Coupon(Brake rotor) for some Dora.   We had a brake job to do!  First we have to get the car on the lift..so low plank and lets set the lift (French Fries) IC x10. …Stay Down..lifts not set right …redo 10 more IC! First partner runs the length of the parking lot with brake rotor while other does 100 merkins, 100 curls, 150 squats, 200 lbc.  I had more but we ran out of time.  Haze reminded me we had to get the car off the lift so 10 more French Fries IC.   Rifle carry rotor back to the truck, mosey back to flag for pledge and Time!

Announcements:

• Axe Throwing/Laser Tag @ Mall meet at food court 11:30 Saturday 26th (yall wait for me ill be there)
• Jackup Leg 5k @ Crossroads 6:30  bring a $ donation
• F3 Dads/2.0s @ Gashouse 17th
• Shoe donation for Bos 2.0
• OUR service project–chapstick and nail clippers this month
• EZ Rider is looking for a Site Q for downtown (Sorry its not me I have a prior engagement)

Prayer Request:

• All Pax family members
• Turtle Man
• SA
• Pappy
• Uranus
• JK2
• Westside (praise report 2.0 biopsy good!)

YHC took us out in Prayer.

Pleasure to lead today Men!

Ball Joint

7 plus YHC choose the harder thing and turned off the snooze this morning for a dry but humid morning @ Folsom  …here is what happened

Standard Ball Joint Warm up:

•  Where Did that lug nut go (gravel pickers)-IC x 11
• SSH-IC x 11
• What is stuck to the bottom of my boot?(Toy Soldiers)- IC x 11
• Don Quixote (slow so it actually lets you stretch)-IC x 11
• Monbacks (MNC) IC x 11

The Thang:

We moseyed to the Flag stopping at each light to do 1 Burpee, 25 MTNclimbers, and 10 Crunchy Frogs.. add a burpee at each light so we end up with 7 burpees  on the last on.  Plank for 6 or go back and get’m .

Pledge

10 count from somebody that sucks at 10 counts and we are off again. Short mosey to the concrete bleachers  for some Dirty Double 11s.  Dips & Derkins at the bottom, box jump up the bleachers  LBCs and Leg lifts at the top.  Everybody hammered this out and we all bought the 6 in together.  10 count from somebody else that sucks at 10 counts and we are off again.  Around the horse track to the dirt road, and a not quite completed new fence that was perfect for pull ups.  More 11s, pull ups at the fence, run down the grass hill and do jump squats.  Everyone pushed though this pretty well and we all brought the 6 in.  Time running down we head back to the tennis courts for some core work.  Everyone on there back in a circle with heads to the inside of circle and feet to the outside.  Ozark was nice enough to bring us a 25lbs sandbag and we all admired it as we passed it around the circle all while doing flutter kick till time ran out 4 mins or so.

Announcements:

• Snowbird Men’s retreat Sept 24-26
• Jackup Leg 5k June 27 ( Crossroads@630)
• F2 Lunch @ Bubbas 33 This Thursday 24th Noon
• Axe Throwing??? This Saturday @ the Mall?? or something like that see the preblast from Allen Tate (that he hasn’t posted yet)

Prayer Request:

• TurtleMan, Big Pappy, SA, Stogie(Job), Ozark, Pax traveling, all the Kotters

3rd F: Mathew 7 13-14  “Enter through the narrow gate, because the gate is wide and the way is spacious that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter through it. But the gate is narrow and the way is difficult that leads to life, and there are few who find it.”    Everyday we make choices and most time the harder thing is the right thing to do…And I truly believe that F3 helped make these harder choices and be a better man then I was 6 month ago!

Pleasure to lead today men!

Ball Joint