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The warmer weather brought 21 PAX out of their fartsacks and into the heavy fog of the Gloom at the Goat.   It’s awesome to see how much energy, camaraderie, and mumblechatter there is, when there are that many PAX out in the Gloom together.

YHC dragged two FNGs out of their comfy domestic surroundings, after 6+ months of EH’ing them both.  They will now be known in the Gloom as ‘Vegemite’ and ‘Radiohead’.   There were a few Kotters, too, notably Clampett.  He has been MIA since possibly September2021, so we all weren’t sure if we needed to re-name him or not.

Fannie Mae ventured back down Cramer Mountain for Post #2, after his Tuesday FNG-debut at The Storm.

It was a great spread of PAX ages, too.  There were at least 2 PAX from every decade of life, with a 21-yo and a 62-yo,  To put that in perspective, for those keeping score at home, that likely translates to birthyears of 2001 and 1960 respectively.  I believe Tesla has underwear older than that 21-yo PAX, possibly even twice as old.

Very strangely, I  don’t believe I heard a Train this morning.  The PAX definitely weren’t going to point it out to YHC, if he had somehow missed it.

The PAX all put in some solid work today.   Seemed like about 10 grabbed coffee afterwards at Floyd and Blackie’s.

Here’s how it all went down:

WARM-UP

•  Lawnmowers, Side-Straddle-Hops, “Good-Morning-Burpees” (YHC learned this combo from F3-Katy,Texas,  and gladly added the Burpee to YHC’s signature Alarm Clocks)
• Mosey

THE THANG

• Mosey, through town, across the Goat island bridges, to the far-side parking lot.
• We made a few stops along the way for:  Merkins, Big Boys, and probably some other exercise(s) that YHC can’t remember…
• Once the PAX arrived at the parking lot of the far-side of Goat Island, they lined up for:
• Suicides – Hard Run to each of the three cones and back
• Suicides – Hard Run, adding 5 Reps;  Cone1-Bonnie Blairs, Cone2-Bobby Hurleys, Cone3-Side-Straddle-Hops
• Suicide Stacker:  Hard Run, adding Cone1(10 Burpees); Cone2 (10 Burpees + 10 Bonnie Blairs)  Cone3 (10 Burpees + 10 Bonnie Blairs + 10 Bobby Hurleys)
• Mosey back towards StartEx. We stopped for a Wall-Sit (technically it was a Bridge-Sit), later stopped for some American Hammers.
• Mosey continued, when YHC called for the PAX to “Triangle Up” around the Goat Island Triangle (It’s not a Circle, so we couldn’t “Circle Up”).  There, we did:
• MerkinJax Mountain, IC:  1Merkin-4 PlankJacks, building up to 5 Merkins-20PlankJacks, then back down the Mountain to 1Merkin-4PlankJacks
• Jacob’s Ladder on the 9th Street hill.    Run up, 1 Burpee at the top, Run back down.  Repeato until you get to 7 Burpees.   Most PAX finished before it was…

TIME!

COT

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Announcements

• This weekend’s retreat in Flat Rock still has availability spots
• Happy Hour on Friday at Primal

Prayer Requests

• Families DownEast with friends/family affected by a plane crash
• Pillar’s dad’s cancer treatment
• Orangeman’s mom’s heart
• Pilgrims’ M’s upcoming surgery
• Tesla and Family
• For the country, and the world – to quote a PAX:  “There’s too much goofy stuff going on!”

Doodles took us out in prayer.

Name-o-Rama on Twitter

As always, I consider myself very lucky to be able to lead and to strive alongside the PAX in the Gloom.

—-Bubba Sparxxx

On the way to AO on Upper Armstrong round I came across a few PAX getting in some EC.  At least 1 or 2 of them had lights.  You guest it the one with camouflage on was Dr. Suess. When they returned Quiche checked out, but Sargento and Dr. Suess stayed for the beat down.  Clock stuck 5:30 a.m.  Sargento and Dr. Suess took their time joining.

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Disclaimer

Warmup

15 SSH IC

15 Plank Jack IC

10 Gravel Pickers IC

10 Merkins IC

20 Squats OYO

5 Burpees OYO

Mosey to the back of the school. We did the following exercises moseying in between the rounds from back to front of the school then to the back again.

3 rds

10 Squats

10 Inchworm Merkins

10 Smurf Jacks

10 CDD

5 Burpees

With the blood flowing we moved into the next phase where we partnered up.  On partner ran while the other did the following work

50 Big Boys

100 Overhead claps

150 Merkins

200 Squats

250 Flutter Kicks count  1 leg.

The PAX crushed these exercises. With under 9 minutes left we started on a mosey back toward the start.  Stopped at the front of the school for some Curb Crawls.

The PAX planked on the curb.  We moved Right and we Moved left at the direction of the Q with the occasional Merkin.  Time getting short we moseyed back to the start.

Back at the start, we closed out the post with 4 rounds of Mary.  Time 6:15 a.m.

Annoucements

F3 Gastonia lunch today at 12 pm at JR Cash in Mount Holly.

Prayer request

Name o Rama

I took us out in Prayer.

Thanks for the opportunity to lead this morning.  I have the Q at the Pub tomorrow, so come on out and get some miles in.  SYITG.

5 including myself put in some miles

Some long some short

The days are getting a little longer, so with the Super Bowl Sunday coming up, and this being my first Q in a long time I decided to do some ultimate rules football. The game was fierce, Leppard lost per usual. We celebrated with some Bud Lights and water during COT.

8 men showed on a cold rainy Monday to push the rock at Mt Hollywood.

Warm-Up:

Gravel Pickers, Hillbillies

First exercise called was Jacked Up!!

1. 50 SSH (ic)

2. 40 Seal Jack’s (ic)

3. 30 Plank Jacks (ic)

4. 20 Crossover Jacks (ic)

5. 10 Smurf Jacks (ic)

Mosey to elementary school across the road to the covered bus drop-off.  Routine called here is Walls of Jericho.  Perform 7 exercises, 7 reps each, run a lap, for 7 rounds. Goes like this:

7 Rounds

1. 7 Burpees

2. 7 Big Boys

3. 7 Imperial Walker Squats

4. 7 Hand Release Merkins

5. 7 V-Ups

6. 7 Jump Lunges

7. 7 Mike Tyson’s

Run a lap

Short mosey to wall in front of school.

3 Rounds

10 Dips

10 Derkins

Mosey back to flag. Time for some Route 66.  Called with Mike Tyson’s.  1 Mike Tyson, bear crawl to next line, 2 Mike Tyson’s, bear crawl, 3 Mike Tyson’s, and so on.  Had to Omaha this one. Parking lot had standing water, and with 30 degree temps, flashback of Shelby trip from years past. We finished up to 5, then switched to Bobby Hurley and lunge walk in between lines. Head back to COT. Time!!

Announcements

Prayer Request

Nameorama

Honor to lead you men in the gloom today!!

SA

YHC first Q at Mt Hollywood.  The PAX began to show up.  Out of the dark Red Ribbon appeared as if from

nowhere.

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Warmup

20 SSH IC

15 LBC IC

10 Merkins IC

15 Gravel Pickers

20 Squats OYO

Moseyed to Ida Rankin Elementary School parking lot. On the way had a Q fail with crossing the street.  I contest the car sped up, so everyone couldn’t cross at the same time.

Tabata 20 seconds of work and 10 seconds of rest for 4 minutes

CDD

Monkey Humpers

Merkins

Mtn Climbers

Once done 5 burpees and mosey two times around parking lot

Tabata 20 seconds of work and 10 seconds of rest for 4 minutes

Squats

Merkins

LBC CDDOnce done 5 burpees and mosey two times around parking lot.

Now that we were back to where we started from we did the following exercises then take two laps around parking lot.

100 Squats

90 LBC

80 Lunges (Count both legs)

70 Merkins

60 Flutters (Count 1 leg)

50 Mtn Climbers

40 SSH

Once two laps were completed headed back to the start for Monkey Humpers and SSH until time 6:15 a.m.

Annoucements

Rice and Beans

Retreat

Prayer Request

Name o rama

I took us out in prayer.

Thank you for the opportunity to lead.  If it wasn’t for this Q, I probably would have stayed in bed.  Thanks for the push.  SYITG

No. Not the movie. About what was expected the morning after the super bowl.

No Huck. No Allen Tate. No Montross. Some things never change.

Had a FNG. Some ran. Some rucked.

Shared Hebrews 3:13, James 1:22-25, and Hebrews 4:12.

Announcements. As previous backblasts.
Prayers. As previous backblasts.

Shout out to Gear wrench for EHing the FNG. And entering his information in the system.

It was a perfect morning to make it a great day at the Gashouse. 8 HIM were there to push the rock and show their knowledge of all things F3 and other letters. This is what happened…

Disclaimer, no FNGs

Pledge of Allegiance

YHC began the questioning with one that we don’t cover too often. What is the mission of F3? The answer was given by past Nantan Stroganoff, “To plant, grow and serve small men’s workout groups for the invigoration of male community leadership.” Past Nantan Whoopee explained that it was originally “for the re-invigoration of male community leadership.” Either way you say it, F3 is obviously more than just a workout, it’s also a leadership organization! With that, the PAX split up and the bootcampers followed YHC away to destinations unknown.

We moseyed up Garrison and ended up in the back of 1st Presbyterian church. YHC asked the PAX how many letters are in the alphabet, with the answer of 26 given by some wise PAX. With that, the Thang was revealed.

The Alphabet!!!

A – American Hammers x20 IC

B- Big Boy Situps x20 OYO

C – CDDs x20 IC

D – Daniel Sons x20 OYO

E – E2K x10 IC each leg (look it up)

Take a lap around the church. Upon return and the 6 arriving, YHC asked for one of the core principles of F3. Someone said it was Open to All Men. That right it is! Mosey, stopping for a few seconds of wall sit and then resuming until we reached the parking lot of Parkwood Baptist where we returned to the regularly scheduled programming.

F – Flutter Kicks x50 IC

G – Goofballs x50 IC

H – Hillbillies x 25 IC

I – Imperial Walkers x25 IC

J – Jingle Balls x25 IC (YHC joked around and called this something silly during the workout but Defib called it correctly)

Take a lap around the church. Upon returning, YHC called for another of the core principles. “Peer led” was the call I think. Mosey across the street to the Grier track and our regularly scheduled programming.

K – Knerkins x20 OYO

L – LBCs x50 IC

M – Monkey Humpers x25 IC

N – Nolan Ryans x10 IC each side

O – Whoopee called something I can’t recall, which we did IC. Then we did Outlaws x10 IC each direction.

Take a lap around the track. Upon returning YHC called for another core principle. “Men only” was the call I think. Mosey back across the street to the library and our regularly scheduled programming.

P – Plank Jacks x25 IC

Q – Quick Step (a Sargento original) x25 IC

R – Rocky Balboas – x25 IC

S – Side Straddle Hops x25 IC

T – Turkish Getups – there was dispute about whether you can use a hand to get up. Because of this dispute, most PAX didn’t do the exercise. Whatevs. Take a lap!

Upon returning, YHC called for another core principle. “Ends in a COT” was given. The final core principle of “Free” was called out as well. Mosey across the street to the museum for the finale of the the beatdown.

U – Up Downs x 1 OYO

V – V-Ups x 10 IC

W – Werkins x20 IC

X – skipped it

Y – skipped it

Z – Zombie walk across the parking lot.

Time! Great job hanging with plenty of mumblechatter to boot!

Announcements: Rice N Beans Tuesday, 2nd F Lunch at JR Cash’s Wednesday, Inaugural HIM retreat next weekend.

Prayer requests: Gumby’s back, T Square, Tube’s brother in law, Living Hope church plant, Tax Break’s family on the loss of his mom

Great group of men out at the original AO this morning. Keep pushing the rock men and remember, Always Be EHing!!!

Some ran, some rucked, and there some EC miles.

The Pledge

COT

Announcements – Rice & Beans on Tuesday, Retreat this coming weekend, 2nd F lunch on Wednesday @ JR Cash in Mt Holly.
Prayer Request

Tesla and M

Sargento’s M

Tiger’s M and step son

Bos’ friend of family with cancer

Breaker’s uncle

YHC closed out in Prayer and then coffee and QSource.