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I agreed to Q Pain Lab, and created what I thought was an awesome chest-heavy workout.

Then came the rain and the cold.  I didn’t think anyone would show up, but I knew my prepared workout wouldn’t work.  I wasn’t going to ask everyone to lay in puddles.

Instead we carried our coupons into the trail and found several covered areas.   At each we did different workouts. At the final one, we did most of that original awesome chest workout.

The gentlemen of Diablo started with an obscene number of calf raises.

Afterwards rucked into the neighborhood and up Gaston’s Hill.

At the top we planked (almost to failure), each man gave a 20 count.

At Diablo Sammich we did a Rocky 4 themed workout.  We listened to The Rocky Story soundtrack while we worked out.  Lots of shadow boxing while rucking.

My favorite parts were doing the pledge during James Brown’s Living in America, and step ups to Gonna Fly Now (the long version).

I don’t know if we forgot our Russia concerns, but we got a good workout.

I awakened this am to nice quiet peaceful bedroom with the soft whispering snore of our dog. My M rolled over and said, dang, can you hear that rain? I didn’t hear a thing. I’m sure it has nothing to do with me being 51 years old. It’s probable from listening to Rush all those years as a teenager. Ahhh, the memories….so then I got up and checked my phone and saw it was raining and there was a wind advisory. Oh well, back to reality and time to get dressed and get to GasHouse. I pulled up a little early and saw Strog’s car there. He’s getting over some sinus-type infection. So much for getting some rest. He and the rest of the guys eventually get there about the time I am dozing off to sleep.  We started talking about Q School which was planned for right after this workout. To be honest, there was not a lot of excitement….from me or anyone else….even with Tube offering to make a coffee run to entice people to stick around. I really didn’t have any interest in sitting in the wind advisory cold weather to listen to some bone head speak…..oh wait, I’m one of the boneheads so maybe I should take a different approach. In my head I though about what my M often does in situations like this. She looks at me and smiles and says “We can talk about that later.” This is code for STFU, I’ll decide, and you won’t remember we even had this discussion sort of like a Jedi mind trick…..Note to self, when I hear the M say “We can talk about this later” I need to think “These aren’t the Droids you’re looking for. You can go about your business. Move along.”

Start with the WU then split with PainLab heading 1 way and 5  bootcampers headed up to Grier Middle School parking lot. Last week Boudin did some suicides and I liked it so much I planned for some more of the same with a twist: new exercise called IndianRunPlankJumpSquatSuicides. Everyone lines up on one end of parking lot in plank position. Guy on far right jumps up and runs to first line, jump squat and runs back to start. When he does jump squat, next guy jumps up and runs to first line, jump squat…. on down the line. When we get back to first guy, he can move to next line. We did a bunch of these so we got our plank time in for sure. I liked this, but burpees or merkins might be better next time. Next we moseyed to the track for some leap frog stuff. We split into 2 groups. Group 1 did exercise while group 2 started to mosey around track. Whenever group 2 wanted to stop and yell, then group 1 would stop the exercise and mosey past group 2 as far as they wanted then stop/yell/start exercise while group 1 repeated same until we got around the track back to start.  We did 3 laps with Merkins, SSH, and Squats. There was only one puddle at the track so we were all VERY CAREFUL to avoid splashing in the puddle. I think JJ might have stepped in the puddle so we chastised him severely so he would be more careful.

Next came a bit of a decision for me. My plan was to go to the grassy hill near the famous Long Baseball Field, you know, that famous field with the pitcher’s mound built with the blood and sweat of our own Stroganoff BACK IN THE DAY. However, the grass was a bit wet, and all of you know how much I really don’t like to get in the water while exercising…..well I didn’t want to let the guys down so we did it anyway. We did Hillevens (elevens on the hill) with Imperial Walkers at the bottom and (I think) plank jacks at the top. Apparently Gator and I cannot count and got in some EC. That has never happened to me before. I checked my watch and figured it would be cutting it close, but thought we should follow the Weinke anyway. We moseyed to the steps at First Presbyterian Church for what ended up being almost my favorite part of the morning (favorite part was dodging the puddles of course). We got to the steps and I “splained the plan: start at the bottom and hop up touching each step to the top then mosey back down to bottom for 5 merkins. Repeat and add 5 merkins until we hit 20 merkins.  After quick time check, I figured we could bring  it back down so we kept this up but worked the merkins back down to 5. Part way through I got a 10 count from Capt Stubing to let me catch my breath-the legs didn’t get too tired, but the hopping really worked the cardio and breathing. That will be on my list of things to do next time-I think the pax really liked it as well. There were lots of happy faces while we were doing this. I had some other stuff planned for the trip back home, but I forgot to get the sandbag out of my truck on the way in so I will have to save that for later. We moseyed back to start with a quick stop for some wall sits and hip slappers before a few minutes of mary at the end.

No FNG’s but we finished COT and had another discussion about Q School. In the end, I don’t think anyone wanted to let the guys driving in from other AOs down so we fired up the grill and got started. Bubba Sparxxx jumped in on the teaching and Sargento came in strong with condiments and supplies then handled the grill like Chef Ramsey. We chowed down on some good burgers while getting some good learnin’ in. A few others arrived and think we had a total of about 15 guys for Q school with a lot of input from new-ish guys and veterans along the way. In the end I think it turned out better than I expected even if we had good weather.

You can find a lot of F3 info including what we discussed at Q school today if you google “F3 the steve.” The one thing I would add is what we talked about at the very end: Know the power of the shovel flag. If you don’t know what I mean by this, ask me or anyone else that was here.

One more thing…..those burgers were really good and we will be doing this again sometime soon. Gumby knows a thing or 2 about breakfast.

Whoopee

We rolled outa Ingles right on time. Rain. Check. Wind. Check. Friends. Check.

Hacksaw shared stories about cocks. The fighting kind, you dirty minded scum.
Then a story about milk dud sized substance rolling on a Walmart bathroom floor on the road to Rock Hill.
After much laughter we arrived at the Rooster.

It was raining hard enough at the Rooster to make Noah nervous. Windy enough to make tent fly through the air like witchipoo on a broom.

It was cold. It was windy.
It was wet. Enough belly aching.

The FOLSOM HAMMERS ran in the following order:
YHC, Bedpan (ran with Bigfoot as moral support), Sarlacc, Hacksaw, and Gear wrench.
26 miles. One lap, one person at a time. Averaged sub 9’s as a team overall and finished well under 4 hours.

Enjoyed the fellowship with the other F3 Gastonia team and the various other PAX from other AO we all know.
Didn’t cheat. Finished dead last. Really?

More funny Hacksaw tales on the way to grab some chow.
That titled this BB.

The one eyed king drove the blind mice with bad directions from the back seat driver.

A couple rucked and the rest ran!

Pledge

Announcements

Prayer Request

YHC closed in prayer

Coffeeteria and QSource afterwards King was the discussion.

Warmup

Mosey to American Legion

Pledge

22 Merkins

20 American Hammers I/C

Mosey to church

BLIMPS

5 Burpees

10 LBCs

15 I/W I/c

20 Merkins

25 Plank Jacks I/C

30 Squats

Triple Nickel

Burpees x5

run across parking lot

Squats x 5

Mosey back to the school

stop for some merkins and should taps

Back at school and circle up for some fun core work.

LBCs x 20 I/C

Flutter Kicks x 20 I/C

American Hammers x 20 I/C

Rinse and repeat but at 15x I/C

COT

Announcements

Prayer Requests

YHC closed in prayer

The Disclaimer

Welcome to Downtown … my name is Doodles and I’m not a professional. I’m going to suggest some things … do what you can do and then do a little more!

The Warmup

With apologies to SA for an extended warmup … but we will get through it rather quickly in a 10 to 1 descending fashion!

10 – GP IC … 9 – IW IC … 8 – SSH IC

7 – Mtn Climbers IC .. 6 – Plank Jacks IC

5 – Freddy Mercurys IC … 4 – LBC’s IC

3 – Monkey Humpers IC … 2 Abe V’s IC

1 – 8 Count Man Maker

The Pledge

The Workout

Lets Mosey around the Block to the Top of the Parking Deck!

At the top of the deck, I explained that we would run down and around the deck completing a series of exercises in a descending order from 10 to 1 ending at the bottom of the deck and then climbing the stairs to rinse and repeat … dropping 1 exercise off each cycle until we were down to only 1 exercise!

It went something like this… Round 1

Top Level … Run to the next lower level

Next Level … 10 Squats at one end and 9 Big Boys at the other end. Run to the next lower level.

Next Level … 8 Bonnie Blairs at one end and 7 Burpees at the other end. Run to the next lower level.

Next Level … 6 Flutter Kicks at one end and 5 Mtn Climbers at the other end. Run to the next lower level.

Next Level … 4 Merkins at one end and 3 Plank Jacks at the other end. Run to the next lower level.

Ground Level … 2 Squat Jumps at one end and 1 Hand Release Merkin at the other end. Climb the stairs to the top.

Round 2 … Top Level, run to the next lower level  skipping 10 and going to 9 Big Boys. Run to the next lower level … rinse and repeat all the way to the Ground Level. Climb back to the Top!

Round 3 … Top Level, run to the second lower level skipping 10 and 9 and going to 8 Bonnie Blairs. Run to the next exercise … rinse and repeat all the way to the Ground Level. Climb back to the Top!

Round 4-10 … Rinse and Repeat, skipping one more exercise until you are down to only 1 Hand Release Merkin.

Needless to say … we got a good bit of running in up and down the deck while completing 10 Squats, 18 Big Boys, 24 Bonnie Blair’s, 28 Burpees, 30 Flutter Kicks, 30 Mtn Climbers, 28 Merkins, 24 Plank Jacks, 18 Squat Jumps, and 10 Hand Release Merkins.

We moseyed back to the pavilion for a total of right at 3 miles in time for 60 seconds of SSH’s!

The Word

John 10:10, The third comes to steal, to kill, and to destroy; but I have come that you may have life, and have it more abundantly!

The thief had done a great job at stealing, killing and destroying the last couple years … and it’s time for some HIM to live an abundant life and show this world that they can as well!

YHC took us out in prayer!

Prayer Requests

Swimmer and his Family, Roscoe and his Family, Turtleman and his family, Big Pappy and his Family, a 3yo named Hunter, Pastor Eddie from CPC, Sparky, and the Country!

Announcements

Community Foundation Run, Q School, SMR needs a Runner!

As always … it’s an honor to lead leaders and men … you are all leaders in your own right. As I stated in the beginning, “ do what you can do and then do a little more” … and every time I’m with you HIM, I find myself doing that very thing. Doing what I can do and then doing a little more … thanks for the push!

Until next time…

YHC is back Qing for the second time this week and theme remained similar.

SSH and Gravel pickers to get us ready

Mosey into the park with a stop for 5 burpees

Made it to the parking lot for a couple rounds of fun.

Round 1: 10 CDDs crab walk to designated spot then 10 Freddie mercurys, crab walk back then repeat for 5 rounds

Round 2: 10 Star Abs then bear crawl to designated spot then 10 squats, bear crawl back for 5 rounds

Mosey back to down with a 5 burpee stop

Round 3: Main Street – 10 Rocky Balboas then run to other end of town for 10 Mike Tysons, run back then repeat for 5 rounds

There was some time left so we did Dips until failure and some stretching

Pledge

Announcements: 18th q school, Community Foundation Run

Prayers: Orange Man’s M’s job and his manager, Tesla’s son, Mayor’s progress in health and fitness keeping focused on healthy living, Ukraine

COT and Prayer for Ukrainian people via Breaker Breaker on 3rd F channel. Applies for them and us.

Until next time, keep crab walkin

It was a beautiful Monday morning at Mt. Hollywood, we had a nice and even 13 HIMS starting off their week strong.

Started with the pledge and then some SSH and then hit a mosey down to Truist for some back lot fun.

Round 1: 10 squats then crab walk to the other side of the lot for 10 LBCs then crab walk back for 5 rounds. (Q might have called too far of a crab walk)

Round 2: Wall Sit with 30 overhead presses then lunge walk to the other side of lot for 10 werkins the lunge walk back for 5 rounds. (Werkins may not be official but it is wide arm merkins)

All this took much long than expected so quick mosey up to the wall by the school.

Round 3: 10 derkins then short run down the street and back for 10 dips the run down and back for 5 rounds total.

Made it back to the flag just in time.

Announcements: 2nd F Lunch at Pita Wheel in Dallas on  3/16, Rice and Beans each Tuesday – Use the sign up genius

Prayer: Tesla, Bos’ Wife, Termite’s brothers cancer

COT

Off we go into the gloom