With chilly temps in the forecast and a bunch of the regulars running some dam race in SC YHC wasn’t expecting a large crowd this am.  Even with these factors we had a strong showing of 15 in Belmont including two FNGs.  Both of these FNGs needed the encouragement and apparently some time to think about it before joining us.

Introducing – Tardi Gras (FKA Chad Daigle) Pilgrim’s Progress and Anchorman had to work on TG for a year hence the name Tardi Gras.   Anchorman closed the deal with the FNG win in the end.

Introducing – Fireball (FKA Steve Flanagan) Boudin and Roscoe worked on Fireball for a bit with Boudin claiming the FNG victory. Welcome men!

Since we had FNGs we started with our disclaimer before Mainframe set off on his ruck and the rest of us took a short mosey to the bunker for warmup.  It went something like this.

Side Straddle Hop x 15 / Gravel Picker x 15 / Imperial Walker x 15 / Low Slow Squat x 15 / Seal Jacks x 15 / Morroccan Night Clubs x 15 / Stretch to Left Foot, to right foot, to center.  Right Foot over Left and Left Foot over Right.

Partner up for Partner Push across the Bunker and Back followed by Partner Pull across the Bunker and Back.

Mosey to Main Street for Step ups / Dips and Decline Merkins x 25 each.

Mosey around the block to the parking lot behind the Mercantile building for 4 Corners. (x2)

Round One = 10 Merkins at the first corner, 10 Merkins + 20 Apollo Ohno at the second corner, add 30 Squats at the third corner, and end with 40 Flutters at the fourth corner.

Round Two = 10 Merkins at the first corner, 10 Merkins + 20 Calf Raises at the second corner, add 30 LBC at the third corner, and end with 40 Air Presses at the fourth corner.

Mosey to the hill behind the Bunker for another jacked-up triple nickel.

After debate we ended up with a run to the top of the hill for 5 Jump Squats and back to the bottom for 5 lunges each leg x5.  YHC called ten and ten but was overruled as this isn’t a true triple nickel. YHC gave in far too easy on this mutiny.  Next time its burpees!

Mosey back to the Yank for a PAX led Mary and naming of our new brothers.

Announcements

Lunch Tuesday 2/21 at Velencia.  Extinction Run 3/4 at Primal Brewery. Young Life Golf Outing 5/15

Prayers/ Praises

Continued prayers for Tooth Fairy, his M, 2.0 and the medical team they are working with.

Pilgrim’s friend who was in an accident. For speedy recovery.

For the PAX running the Dam to Dam.

Praises for the American Airline pilots who turned Anchorman’s plane around shortly after takeoff Thursday morning due to smoke and sparks in the cockpit.  YHC’s M, and a member of Lake Wiley FiA were on the same plane.

Thanks for playing along!

BOS

Pushing rocks, yeah thats cool, I guess. Concrete blocks for coupons, ahh, kinda boring. But here at the Folsom Raceway we push Trucks and Sling Brake Rotors son!

Ok with Flintstone’s Rock Pushing Challange in full effect, we are having record turnouts ! People are Posting, going to Q source, losing weight, and just getting better! To tie in to that at the 2nd Annual Winter Nationals we decided to have every Rockpushing team to come and see who was really pushing the hardest!
6:30 hits and we have 60!!! I said 60 HIM on the property ready to do battle! It was kind of like herding cats, but Flintstone got all the teams sorted out, at that point I turned it over to the Nantan to warm us up! Normal stuff SSH, Gravel Pickers, Hillbillys, Merkins, etc.. Ok time for the good Stuff!

We mosey across the park to the now Famous Folsom Raceway!

I had a awesome crew running the staging lanes. Rachet, Montross, Huck, and Big Pappy we all responsible for Race Operations. The Idea here is simple, two teams, two trucks one winner! Each 5 man team picked a driver the other 4 pushed. It was a Flashlight start by Montross and Big Pappy calling the finish line.

It was a double elimination bracket, so there was a lot of racing the whole hour. While the teams waited on their turn to race we had some work set up to keep everyone warmed up and ready to go. We had Super Dora! Exercise, static hold, and a lap. Burpees, plank, run. other exercises merkins, squats, MNC, Flutters, and others. But the big hit was the Rotors! 20 curls, triceps, rows, overhead press, chest press, then run a lap. Come back and do 19, then 18, etc.. All the groups had a turn at each!

In the Final round it was Team Bedpan vs Team Doodles with Team Bed Pan taking the win!

Good Work MEN! I don’t know if 60 is a record but that’s the most I have ever seen at a Convergence in my short time here!

Prayers:
Huck
Radar/family
Rachet’s 2.0
Tooth Fariy 2.0
Breaker Breaker/family
Boudians 2.0
Roundups new 2.0
Tirmites brother
Calvins M
I think there were more. Everyone has something going on Reach out to your Brothers and just asking them how they are doing, it can mean a lot!

Announcements:
2nd F Lunch Fat Tuesday 21st @ Venenica (old Shoguns on Garrison)
Viking Dash Feb 25th At Poston
Extinction Run Primal Brewery March 4th 9am
Q vs Q Challange coming up in March

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If you need some extra zing in the morning, try Woke AF…because if your going to be Woke..might as well be AF! The Official Pre-Workout of the Folsom Winter Nationals!

Moleskin: Thank you to the SLT for letting me run with this! I did this last year on my 1 year anniversary Q and 20 men showed up! I was worried how it was going to go with so many but I feel like it was a success! Thanks again to Montross, Huck, Rachet, and Big Pappy for running the show! I cannot wait till the Next event at Folsom Raceway Park! Stay tuned…

And Welcome Cheeze Wiz!!

Thank for letting me lead!
SYITG
Ball Joint

Warm up:

• Side straddle hops
• Squats
• Merkins

Mosey to Food Lion

• 11’s
  • Burpee & Squats

Wall squats 60 sec 3x

Twinkle Toes 20 3x

Flutters 20 3x

Whoopees Fav, Hip slappers 10

Mosey down Riverwood Pkwy

• Jail break 3x up Village Ridge Dr.

Mosey to 245 Riverwood

• Alligator merkins
• Tie Fighters: Baby Arm Circles in a lunge position

Mosey back to AO

Diablo Sammich was Blessed with a Kotter this morning, welcome back! We had some great mumblechatter this morning during our Ruck. Ya gotta show to know. We Rucked through Colony Woods, stopped for Merkins, Monkey Humpers, more Merkins and more Merkins. We Rucked back towards the Urgent Care and did Mary for a few minutes, that’s all we had time for. 

Good work! Many prayers were mentioned. God Bless those and the one’s that couldn’t make it this morning.

Everyone has a mountain to climb. We all have our own struggles and challenges. The second F is for fellowship. While I may be going through something hard, somebody else out here may have experience and insight that can help. And if nothing else, a sympathetic ear. It starts with fitness but it is so much more. That was the theme this morning with 13 in the gloom at the Goat. After a warm up, we moseyed across Goat Island, bear crawling the first bridge and lunge walking across the second. We ran a triple nickel across the back parking lot, Mountain climbers and American hammers. Then we circled up for a Merkin Mountain and with a group of 13 it had all of our shoulders feeling the burn. We moseyed back across Goat Island completing a Route 78 (that’s an extra light pole at the end) with Bobby Hurleys. In the top parking lot we did 11’s, Mike Tysons and Big boys. We circled up again for a dealers choice – each pax takes a turn calling out an exercise for everyone else to do during the time it takes them to bear crawl around the outside of the circle back to their spot. Back to the flag and one more burpee to call time. We said a pledge and had the following announcements (Extinction run 3/4 09:00 open to all, sign up with BOS, Community foundation run, 4 teams available details on Slack, 2nd F lunch next Tuesday 2/21 at Venecia Italian Gastonia) and prayer requests (Tooth Fairy’s daughter and work assignment, Turtleman, Huckleberry, Wirenut’s family, Eh Y’all’s friend in car wreck, F3 teams traveling for Dam to Dam relay on Saturday).

Honor to lead.

-Gator

Maybe the weather has turned for good? Yet another dry Wednesday morning with nice temperatures. There isn’t much better weather for running. Bedpan has picked up the Hal Dopey plan so he may begin turning into version 2 of Sarlacc. We’ll see! In the meantime, it was nice to get in a little over 3 miles with he and Oompa this morning. Other guys ran further and a few rucked. Mainframe has become a consistent rucker the past few weeks. Of course, Camelia has been doing the same for a while now. If you are looking for a spot to ruck on Wednesdays, Prison Break is a good choice.

Announcements – Trail Run @ Poston park 2/25 (see Mayor if you want to run…he was trying to give away a spot) – 2nd F lunch 2/22 at Venicia (the old Shoguns) – 3/4 Extinction Run at Primal Brewery – Community Foundation Run coming up on 4/1, sign up under F3 Foundation or No Brainer Foundation. No Brainer is a charity started by Ratchet raising money for families of children going through cancer treatment. His son is a survivor and is currently going through some some treatment for some concerning spots on his brain so this is near and dear to Ratchet as well as myself and many others in the Dallas/Folsom area.

Prayers – Tooth Fairy and his family, Ratchet (MRI for his son on the 20th), Radar’s sister, Clavin’s M, Termite’s brother, Huck, Wirenut and his family

-Montross