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The Mayor made me do it

9 HIM showed to the craggy lot at the bottom of the park for some Folsom action. It was a perfect day for a beatdown, so let’s get it on! This is what happened…

Disclaimer

10 burpees OYO. The Mayor made me do it.

Don Quixotes x10 IC

10 burpees OYO. The Mayor made me do those too.

Pledge of Allegiance

Mosey Indian Run style to the field beside and line up for Bear Crawl Slalom. You guessed it, the Mayor made me do it! Some of the guys hadn’t done this one before so it was lots of new fun! We did a couple cylcles through the line and moseyed on to the smooth parking lot at the other end of the field.

The PAX gathered together to hear the directions for BLIMS. After each exercise, mosey to the other end of the lot, so back and forth.

B – 5 Burpees

L – 10 Lunges each leg

I – 15 Imperial Walkers

M – 20 Merkins

S – 25 Squats Hold on a minute! Isn’t there supposed to be a P in this routine? Yes, but why would Mayor ask me to leave out the P in this routine? Actually, he didn’t. YHC was writing up the weinke too late at night and the P was just forgotten. No worries, we caught it before it was skipped and we kept rolling to the end by doing 25 Plank Jacks and  then 30 Squats. Plank for the 6.

Mosey across the street to the lot near the pond for BLIMPS!!! This lot was longer than the first one so there was extra burn to the mosey part. Plank for the 6. Volt decided to make sure Mayor was doing his fair share by sitting on his back during plank. GOOD

Fast mosey to the really rough lot further away for the next thang. BLIMPS!!! It was at this point that Westside offered to help with picking. Maybe next time. This session was really great. Plenty of sweat was shed.

Mosey down the sidewalk to the tennis courts for 11’s. Do 10 Big Boy Sit Ups, Crab Walk to the other end of the court and do 1 Jump Squat, then NUR to the start. We did LBCs until the 6 finished too.

For the last few minutes we did Karaoke Left to the other end of the courts. Then Karaoke Right. Then Skip to the other side and last we NURed back to the start.

Mosey back to the original lot for a round of Bring Sally Up. Most everybody whined about how long the song is. Sounds like some of y’all need to HTFU!

Announcements: 2nd F Lunch this Wednesday at Sammy’s in Dallas, CSAUP

Prayer Requests: Turtleman, Huckleberry, PAX on IR, Chad McGhee cancer

All joking aside men, it was a pleasure leading today. We had plenty of high quality mumblechatter and we all enjoyed ourselves. I think… Aye!!!

 

 

Apocrypha Time

The Sword is a great way to start a Monday

This morning verse was in the The Book of Wisdom verse 1-2:

Love righteousness,* you who judge the earth;

think of the LORD in goodness,

and seek him in integrity of heart;

Because he is found by those who do not test him,

and manifests himself to those who do not disbelieve him.

 

Big Pappy

Save the Comma, Save the World

10 HIM’s got out on a nice Sunday morning and got a little better. Most stayed for Q Source on the topic of Language.

It was an amazing discussion.  We solved most of the worlds problems by the use of proper punctuation.  If you have never gone through Q Source or if it has been a while, get out to Crossroads. You will not be disappointed.

 

Big Pappy

Members Only 5-15-22

Great group of guys to log some miles. Some more and faster than others but work was still done.

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Announcements:
Lunch this Wednesday noon at Sammy’s in Dallas.
CSAUP this Saturday 0630 at The Storm.
Memorial Day Murph at Sandlot at 0700.

Prayer requests:
Turtle man procedure Monday morning.
Doodles recovery from surgery.
Huckleberry
Tesla’s family
PAX on IR
Gump and family
Buckshot and Pillager’s M’s with child
EOG tests
Breaker Breaker’s son’s girlfriend traveling.

Sargento took us out in prayer.

Name-o-rama

Great discussion on meeting with coffee.

Gavel out, thanks for the push.

There once was a group in the gloom…

Thats right, National Limerick Day!  The PAX were blessed with limericks instead of 10 counts this morning.  Most were enjoyed, none will be repeated.

Warm up
Moroccan night clubs
CDD’s
Grass pickers
Abe Vigodas
Sweat Angels

Mosey up the hill to the church.
11’s at the Church
Squat Thrusts
Hand Release Merkins

Mosey back down the hill with 5 LBC’s OYO at each light.

Lunge across Bridge

Stop on island for BB Sit ups OYO

Mosey to the Back parking lot
11’s in the parking lot
Imperial Walkers
Tie Fighters

No time left for Mary

Plenty of prayer requests, PAX and their families, Covid patients.

Humbled and honored to lead, thank you for the opportunity!

Rebar

Deck of Fun

Disclaimer

Pledge

Warmup

20 SSH IC

15 Imperial Walkers IC

10 Merkins IC

10 Gravel Pickers IC

20 Squats OYO

10 Burpees

Mosey to parking deck with 5 burpees for the speed bump.

At the bottom of the parking deck we partnered up for a DORA 123

One partner completed the following exercise while the other partner moseyed to the second level of parking deck and back.

100 Merkins

200 Squats

300 Flutters count right foot

Mosey to the very top of the parking deck. We started with an exercise then moseyed down a level to complete the next exercise.  The exercises were:

25 Burpees

50 Overhead Claps IC

75 Merkins

100 Flutters count right leg

125 Monkey Humpers

Time starting to run low we started on a mosey back to the start, but stopped at building for some wall work.

2 rounds of

Wall sit

10 Dirty Hook ups

30 Shoulder taps

Mosey back to the start with 5 burpees for the speed bump.

Time 6:15 am

Announcements

Prayer request

I took us out in prayer

Name o rama

Thanks for the opportunity to lead.  SYITG

Folsom 5/3

20 SSH IC

15 gravel pickers IC

5 burpees OYO

 

Grab your favorite Rotor

 

Dora 123

100 Thrusters

200 LBC

300 Lunges

50 American Hammers

100 Presses

Plank for the 6

10 Merkins

50 Weighted V ups

10 Mike Tysons

10 Merkins

 

Announcements:

Snowbird late Sept/Oct

Rice and Beans Tuesdays @ 6

Murph at Martha Rivers on Memorial Day

Prayer requests: Turtle Man, Huck, Broke, Oompa, School Staff, Leopard, Pappy, Patrick, Striper’s Brother

Share the Load

3 of F3 Gastonia’s finest ruckers got some work in holding each other’s sacks.  Here’s what I remember:

Tube’s been leading the charge, EHing guys to get back out in the Gloom, and doin a great job of it.  Nobody took the bait this week though, and it was just YHC and Tube at 0530.  Castle Rock rolled in hot, and we skipped a warm up and got after it.

The Thang:

Ruck to the parking lot of the Dollar General and stop and unstrap the rucks for some work:

  • 10 x Overhead Presses (IC)
  • 10 x Double Crunches (IC)
  • Circle up hold your rucks out straight.  YHC put down his ruck, so we had 2 rucks being held, and we just held the rucks in front of us with straight arms, then turned clockwise to pass the ruck to the guy with empty arms.  Complete 10 passes, then flapjack and go counterclockwise for 10 passes.  Let’s call this “Hot Potato” so YHC doesn’t have to describe it over and over again.
  • 6 inches (Count down from 30)
  • 10 x Squats (IC – Pack on)

Ruck back to Riverwood, and down Plantation Trail to the back entrance to Martha’s.  After passing through the woods to the park, we did it again:

  • 10 x Overhead Presses (IC)
  • 10 x Double Crunches (IC)
  • 10 x Hot Potatoes CW
  • 10 x Hot Potatoes CCW
  • 6 inches (Count down from 30)
  • 10 x Squats (IC – Pack on)

Ruck through the park, up the gravel entrance, and back to the bank besides Snoballs for some Group Work:

  • 1 person in the group keeps their pack on and grabs another group member’s pack and rucks around the bank, carrying both however they choose
  • 2 of the group members do Wall Sits until the other partner gets back
    • If they have to break the Wall Sit, stop for
    • 10 x Dwight Howards (OYO)
  • Each partner takes 1 turn carrying 2 rucks

Wrapping that up, we were close to time, and finished a little more work before heading back to the flag

  • 10 x Overhead Presses (IC)
  • 10 x Double Crunches (IC)

45 minutes on the nose!

Announcements:

  • Memorial Day Murph – The Sandlot @ 0700
  • 5/21 – CSAUP

Prayer Requests:

  • Turtleman
  • PAX Traveling & on IR

Always a good time and good mumblechatter at Diablo.  It really is a fun place to Q.  If you haven’t, you should.

Yabba Dabba Doo

Core group of HIMs

Warmup at the flag.
18ish Seal jacks IC, disclaimer given
18 overhead claps IC
18 toy soldiers IC

A good group of regulars so this didn’t go as planned but we did it anyway. Test on core principles as listed on our website. A wrong answer = 5 burpees for the group. Correct answer = 10 squats for the group. They were solid on the order once it was clear what my instructions were so only 5 burpees and 40 squats.

  1. Free of charge
  2. Open to all men
  3. Outdoors, rain or shine
  4. Peer led
  5. Ends in COT

No bunker crew so we stuck together.

The thang:
Route 66 hand release merkins.

Mosey to the parking lot behind the station for 11’s – big boys and CDD’s

Mosey to the track through the park and partner up for booya merkins starting at 10 counting down to 1 but needed to Omaha stopping at 5.

Fellowship mosey to old middle school for Dora 100 shoulder taps, 200 calf raises, 300 LBCs. Partner one runs while #2 does the work then switch.

Mosey to The Fighting Yank for a little Mary.

Time!

Announcements:
Lunch May 18th noon at Sammy’s in Dallas.
F3 Dads this summer see posts from Mayor.
CSAUP next Saturday at 0630. Yank will be open at 0700 for those of us that need it.
New F3 shirts are in the works, lookout for them and support.

Prayer requests:
Marathoners running and traveling.
Turtle man
PAX on IR
Huckleberry
EOG tests for kids and teachers giving them.
Growing families Buckshot and Pillager’s M’s and babies.

YHC took us out in prayer.

Pleasure to lead this group, thanks.

Gavel out.

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