Author: Whoopee (Page 1 of 25)

5 jabroneys (you had to be there) gathered at the best watering hole in Gaston county this morning ready for some running. It was a cool morning and no clouds in site. Waterboy got some EC but still looked ready to get some as usual. Alma Mater got there early. Sargento was early also, especially by his standards. JJ rolled in looking well rested. We had 2 shovel flags and we started with the disclaimer and hit the pledge. It. Was. A. Perfect. Morning……and then we started running. Damn.

Five minutes into running the wheels fell off. It was ALMOST AS IF it was planned……

Waterboy and Alma Mater were just a bit ahead of me, Sargento, and JJ. We came upon some tree limbs on the sidewalk and as I stepped off the sidewalk, Sargento (closest to me) yells “STICKS” as I simultaneously break my ankle landing on the pavement. I have a red mark on my right shoulder that resembles a hand. At nearly the same time, JJ (again, Sargento is closest to him-coincidence???? I will let you be the judge) crashes into the sticks, falls to the ground and while I am not certain, possibly gets kicked in the head by someone (was it Sargento, I couldn’t say because I was seeing stars from the broken ankle) before recovering and getting back on his feet. After a few minutes of limping around by me and a tourniquet on JJ’s right arm, we continue on our route. I needed a few minutes to set my broken ankle back into place then resume the route at a slower pace. We finished the run. If memory serves me right, I believe Sargento finished first…..Damn.

Once we all made it back to start, we finished with COT. I told the group I might suggest a new nickname for Sargento but they would need to wait for the backblast to hear it. We had a quick prayer then JJ and I shared an uber to the ER.

thanks for the opportunity to lead at the pub for the very last time….

Whoopee

Sargento will now be referred to as Gillooly by me (for at least the next week).

Amarillo by morning, up from San Antone. Everything that I got is just what I got on. When that sun is high in that Texas sky I’ll be buckin at the county fair. Amarillo by morning, Amarillo I’ll be there. I wonder if anyone will read this? If you did read this, I will be listening to this song on June 1 when I see the king in concert in Charlotte.

thanks for the opportunity to lead. Sorry about the late BB.

Whoopee

No FNGs. Solid crowd with the exception of 1…..

Started with disclaimer, Pledge, then some warmup stuff. We moseyed across the street for some sort-of-extended mobile warmup across the Terminix parking lot: karaoke, nur, high knees, butt kickers (everybody brought there butt, why wouldn’t we????), bear crawl, long jump, then some lunge, lunge, lunge, lunge burpee or if you wanted, you could lunge, lunge, lunge, lunge, lunge,  lunge burpee-I left this up to the pax discretion. Unfortunately I was next to Bullwinkle who preferred the shorter version with more burpees and I had to try to keep his pace as best as I could.  He is more than 10 years younger and (more than I care to admit) pounds lighter than I am so there is that. At some point, an un-named pax whose name rhymes with Hoganhoff went to empty his bladder bringing back memories of the Mortimer…..jokes were made in his absence, limericks and songs were shouted to the stars while he was relieving himself then things returned back to normal when he got back. I think we did a second round of those exercises.

Next we moseyed to the bank across the street for a quick lap. At this point Hoganhoff was MIA, presumably for a second round of 10-100 (better than a 10-200!!!). We got to the starting point and exercises were ‘splained quickly: 25 SSH for a buy in then 10 reps each of the following exercises focusing on FORM instead of speed-merkin, squat, LBC, SSH then take a lap. Again, 10-100 round 3 for Hoganhoff-man, this guy’s prostate must be the size of a basketball and his bladder itty bitty. Oh well, hang in there Hoganhoff.

We moseyed to the Grace Animal Hospital and thankfully there was a portojohn there for Hoganhoff for round 4-it was a quick one and I am not sure anyone else realized he was gone. Again, exercises were ‘splained:  buy in with 25 SSH then 10 reps each focusing on FORM over speed: mtn climber, imperial walker, big boy, seal jacks. On the first round Hoganhoff did plank jacks instead of seal jacks so he could make sure to empty his bladder while no one was paying attention. He gave me a thankful and appreciative look for not pointing it out (“our little secret, right???” he said with a wink and a nod)…..

We did a second round of above exercises then moseyed back to the bank for a repeat of the previous exercises then moseyed to the wall for some step ups.  We finished with the parking lot mobile warmup stuff with LLLL-Burpee-Long jumps to finish things off followed by Mary in the Pelican’s lot.

As far as I could tell, Hoganhoff didn’t need to empty his bladder anymore after we left the Grace Animal Hospital parking lot, however he was quite interested in moving the COT along at a rapid pace.  We finished with COT then everyone got outta there, some faster than others.

good work men, at least most of you.

whoopee

Goonie kicked our butts but we still had a good showing. I had to do something that would be a true You vs You to allow everyone to push themselves as much as they could with some wiggle room. I figured I would make it to the end, but was not sure how much motivation I was going to be able to provide.

We started with disclaimer, warmup, and pledge then headed with entire bootcamp and painlabbers to the entrance of the museum to use the steps. We did some exercises then moseyed the parking lot with weights. Repeated this a few times along with some tabata workouts. Overall it was not too painful but got the job done. I was worn out from the goonie but thankfully the pax there kept me on track and pushed me.

My BB is a week old so I don’t remember much about the mumble chatter. I do remember I needed a nap after finishing the Goonie then posting. Thanks for the push men.

Whoopee

I got the dreaded text from Maybelline the night before and was reminded that I was Q the next morning. No factor, whip up a quick Weine and all set. There was one problem that I didn’t know was a problem at that time….rain. I checked Slack before going to bed and there was a comment about puddles or rain  in the morning. Well……crap. Gotta come up with something else but it was too late. I’ll wing it tmro, too late, gotta get some sleep.

Then I wake up and hear the rain. Surely it will stop soon. Maybe no one will post. Was that thunder? Maybe just swing by the Teeter and pick up some gift cards for coffee??? Anybody remember that one?

Oh well, get my butt outta bed and let’s get this thing going. Fortunately 4 other idiots posted this am. They made me a better man this morning and that’s really what matters. I really didn’t want to be there. I had plenty of excuses saved up and it really just came down to I did not want to let them down. I told them thanks for posting, and I have done that before. However, this time I REALLLY REALLY meant it. No disrespect for the previous pax I have said that to before. Today seemed different and I’ll say it again-thanks for posting.

We did some exercises. We stayed off the ground for the most part. We did some hip slappers but not too many. We got back in time for COT then everyone went on their way. I thought about this morning multiple times during the day. If you are reading this, just know when you don’t post, you don’t make an impact on someone (for the most part). Not being there once or twice (or more) may not seem like a big deal. However, I’ll argue, at least based on my experience, it’s a really big deal. Think about the opportunity you are passing up. Possibly making an impact on someone who maybe just needs that push to get over something big. We’ve all been there. Hopefully there was someone who intervened before we made that really bad decision. How about reaching out to that Kotter and getting him back out here? Better yet, get that guy you EH’d a lot last year but eventually just gave up and stopped asking?

Be there for your brothers-they need you.  See some of you tmro.

thanks for the opportunity to get out in the rain on a day I really didn’t want to be there-Whoopee

I got some EC with a slow mosey and got back to a growing crowd. There was some gentle mumble chatter then we started at 0530 with Disclaimer and Pledge as the site Q arrived with the flag.  We had a quick warmup then moseyed to front of park for some instructions. Today is the 13th so we will do some exercises at 13 reps each: SSH, Squats, Merkins, and LBCs. Next, mosey to the first island. Plan is same exercises, bear crawl around the island, then mosey two islands down. I don’t like quiet workouts so at this point I was only one counting and when I did the 13 reps we would move on to the next exercise. This didn’t have the complete desired effect, however the mumble chatter got a little better. We did about 5 or 6 of these islands then moseyed to the turd shack for some wall work-Easy Rider mistakenly said we would be doing hip slappers, however I had something else in mind and honestly, the HSers would have been better. We did Jackass Burpee Webbs-found this online last night and looked really stupid so I thought it would be good to try. Get on the wall, do a burpee followed by 2 donkey kicks. Next, 2 burpees and 4 donkey kicks, and keep on rolling. We got to 4 then moved back out into the parking lot for a 10 count then moseyed back to near the baseball fields for work on Clavin’s hill-we did Jack Webbs (merkin + 4 air presses, then 2 merkins + 8 air presses, and keep going) to a 10 count. The exercises were at top of hill with a trip back and forth on the hill with each set. Bullwinkle was setting the pace and I didn’t even hear him breathing heavy.  Once we finished, I called for 1 more round to 11 just because I wanted to see what kind of reaction I would get.  Next we moseyed to the picnic area for some Dips and Step Ups. Mosey back to home stopping at the island for escalator squats starting at 5 and adding 5 at each island till we ran out of time and high tailed it back home for COT.

We had a quick talk about being strict with yourself and tolerant with others. Hold yourself to the highest standards and give those around you the grace to stumble occasionally. Realize others will have different standards that likely will not match with yours. I think this is different from Candor, however there is likely a fine line between the two. Candor originates from love with the intention of enlightenment and improvement, and the other situation I think is more about your own mental approach to a particular situation and how your attitude about that situation  is manifested. Honestly, I think I am still struggling with this and not sure I have it figured out completely yet. Bottom line is, I think I probably should keep my mouth shut more often than I do which is a daily, scratch that, hourly….or minute by minute struggle. Being around F3 guys provides a lot of opportunities for me to learn more about both these situations.

With Mortimer behind me, now it seems like I need to get back on track posting again. thanks Maybelline for the opportunity to lead this am. Seems like I have not been posting like I should. I’ve been less strict on myself than I should. I say this with the hope that if you notice this in the future, feel free to point this out to me. Also, how about reaching out to some of the Kotters you know to get them back out? Sometime it just takes a call to let someone know you noticed they are not around. You never now if this is the push they need to break out of the fartsack. Give them the grace they need to maybe not hold exactly to YOUR standards, but the candor to know they can be doing BETTER than what they are doing and you realize they are not around.

Maybe that’s the sweet spot somewhere between strictness and candor……

Whoopee

Everbody ran in the fog except me-Mortimer was about 53 hours away and I just walked laps in the parking lot, did pushups and sit-ups, and kept an eye on the vehicles. Thanks to Defib for the reminder that I had the Q as my original plans were to fartsack. We fiinished with a COT and some prayers and praises.

As I type this, Roscoe is probably pulling into his driveway with our Mortimer vehicle, Defib is putting on his swimmies for the creek, I mean river, crossings, and the rest of our Mortimer HRBs are trying to get some rest while we watch the clock in anticipation for our event. Wish us luck that we make it to the pizza and beer tmro afternoon.

Whoopee

4 runners, 4 ruckers,  (at least) 1 nut sniffer.

It was cold but not too bad.

COT

Prayers for JJ’s aunt, Turtleman, Huck among others.

Whoopee

A bunch of good guys showed this am thankfully. We had a few for EC. Balljoint and I had our respective Q’s, and it makes me smile when we have a good crowd. I can’t ever roll into this lot without thinking about how all this started and the MANY guys that both got this F3 thing off the ground and continue to keep us in the air.

We started with a disclaimer then warmup which included modified gravel pickers. Even if you were there it didn’t really make sense….

We split up with bootcampers with me and painlabbers with Balljoint. I think they went to Panera and drank coffee for awhile…whatever.

We moseyed into the woods past the farm (sweet smell in the air) to the bottom of the hill. We’ve got the Mortimer coming up in 3 months and I guess I need to start preparing for it.  We did “Elevens” on the hill so I called them “Hillevens” which  I am certain really impressed everyone with my cleverness (as usual). The 2 young pax (Prius and Band Camp) were in awe of my cleverness. Clearly they both grew up in boring homes with no humor or cleverness. We did jump squats at the top and Merkins at the bottom. Next we moseyed to the pond. One day I may jump in that pond, but today was not that day. We tried a little Indian Run thing. Pax 1 drops down and does Merkins while the rest of the Pax run around the pond. When the group gets back to Pax 1 doing Merkins, Pax 2 drops down and starts doing Merkins, Pax 1 falls in at end of line of remaining pax and the group circles the pond again. Repeat until all have done Merkins. This would be better with like 3, maybe 4 pax (we had 10). It got old REALLY QUICKLY so we modified and multiple pax dropped down to do Merkins at a time so we could get thru this quicker.  I shared some wise sayings at this point. I believe the quote was from Confucius and something about violence, nutsacks, and mosquitos (shoulda been there). We moseyed back to bottom of hill then Nurred back up to the top. Shortsale struggled to keep it on the 50 foot wide path, but thankfully there were some experienced pax to help him. It’s ok guys, he’s new and needs some direction every now and then. We got to the top in time to see the painlabbers returning from their trip to Panera so we saluted them with some Monkey Humpers. Why???? Because those monkeys aren’t going to hump themselves. We moseyed on to the side/almost front of the Schiele and as we stopped by the wall, I counted no less than 5 different sets of eye rolls. (long pause then a slow falling tear from my eye-cue the Indian on the 1970’s commercial when he is riding his horse and sees all the trash and litter everywhere). Yes, we are going to do some hip slappers DAMMITTTTTTTTT!!!! We only did a couple sets with some wall sits for (I think) 15 seconds. In my head I was thinking “these guys love Hip Slappers but they just don’t know how to tell me. The eye rolls were probably them just thinking about how to tell me how much they love them.” MFers….bitches……oops, was that out loud????

We moseyed over to the library and dodged the early voting peeps. Once we got to the parking lot, we lined up this way. We moved our arms another way. Then we lined up that way. Then the instructions were given: burpee long jump across the lot. 3 long jumps then burpee, repeat until I get tired. This did not take too long then we lunged the rest of the way. At one point there was a 30 something year old smoking hot Sports Illustrated model that drove thru the lot for early voting and paused to check out Spiderman and his 8 (or was it 9) legs. Insert guttural growl at this point. It was clearly more than just a passing glance. #callmelaterspidey

Short mosey to another part of parking lot, partner up. Partners pick exercise for all other pax to do while the 2 partners run up the steps, 3 burpees, run back to join the pax. The next set of partners repeats the process but gets to pick new exercise for the other pax to do. Again, got old really quick. We moseyed to another part of the lot (are we finished yet??????) for some suicides. I offered to let one of the pax pick the exercise-I didn’t like that exercise so that pax was kicked off the island and I asked another pax and got a better, scratch that, less bad option. Suicides in the parking lot with 5 imperial walkers every time you get back to start. THIS. WENT. ON. FOREVER. We used a longer part of the lot than I originally planned. Why? Because I heart a certain unnamed pax whose name rhymes with Snortpail say something about this probably not being on my original Weinke. Of course it was not on my original Weinke! Why would it be? So I figured I would torture all of us just for the heck of it. (is it over yet??????)

At this point I think it was almost noon so we moseyed back to start with a quick stop by the wall for some Dirty Hookups and wall sits. I think I fell asleep during some of this then woke up with time to get back to start for some Mary then finished with COT.

I’d like to thank Ballsack for his reminder to say the pledge, however I would like it noted that we said the pledge when I damn well wanted to and not when he reminded me. I also went backwards then forwards with the namorama just because I wanted to irritate at least 10 guys. You’re welcome.

We had some announcements: Extinction run, Community Foundation run with chariots, and a few others.

Prayers for a few pax family members as well as Turtleman and Huck. Proud of you guys for pushing thru your issues and trying to be the best man you can be-we all have issues and struggle from time to time. Just make sure to keep getting up every time you fall down. We are here to help-just have to ask or keep showing up so we can help you thru it.

Good group for coffeteeria at Panera.

thanks again for posting this am and letting me Q-

whoopee