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Eleven HIMs braved another cold and frosty morning for some Moderate Monday work, and after the pledge and a brief (and slow) warm up, the pax moseyed across the street for a short round of “Dirt”y calf raises.

Another mosey down to the Dr’s. office, with a side of slip and slide in the parking lot, and everyone was ready for the thang.

The Thang:

Count off by three: 1s to the top of the lot, 2s and 3s to the bottom. Pax at the top and bottom perform an exercise AMRAP while the third group bear crawls/lunges up to the top to relieve the top group where they begin to AMRAP. Top group mosey’s down to the bottom and starts an AMRAP of a second exercise, sending the bottom group bear crawling/lunging back to the top. Once at the top, this group starts the new exercise, the top group mosey’s down and starts the second exercise. Back and forth, up and down, the pax continues. It took a little bit for the pax to get the flow, but once we did, we flowed through merkins, squats, dying cockroaches, werkins, Bobby Hurley’s, American hammers, ranger merkins, lunges, gas pump LBCs, CDDs, Apolo Ohno’s, and big boys. A lot of conversation, and a little mumble chatter, and we learned that Stinky Bird is teaching his 2.0s that “stupid” is an adult word.

Mosey back with more slip and slide, and safely to the flag for a quick bit of Mary and time!

Announcements, check Slack for dates and times on Q school and hamburgers, Sargento’s Retreat, and the EH Ruck

Keep in your prayers family members, and Tesla

YHC took us out.

It was an honor to lead -Orangeman

13 for a themed work order in honor of medal of honor recipient Bennie G Adkins.

This hero passed away from COVID in April of 2020.

Listen to his Medal of Honor citation:

Please take 10 minutes and to the story in his own words:

A couple of quotes from Mr Adkins:

• “You just do. Quitting isn’t an option.”
• “The medal doesn’t really belong to me. I’m just a keeper of it for those other 16 in the battle, especially the five who didn’t make it…”

Thanks for the opportunity to lead and Purple Haze please keep your pants on.

-Big Pappy

Some ran, some rucked, it was great to see everyone this morning.

Announcents:

Q school 2/5
Flat Rock 2/12
4 runners needed SMR 2022

Prayer requests:
Gumby
Hucks dad
Wichita mom
Haze’s mom
Montross mom and uncle
Goudelock family
Wirenut’s mom
Bedpan’s family
Parker triplets

Since the opening of The Bulldog there have been a total of 3 Site Q’s.  These have been HIPPA, Voodoo, and myself (Timeframe).  Now beginning in February this list will expand by 1 adding Spiderman as the new Site Q.  He for several reasons is an excellent successor and I am fully confident that the Bulldog is in great hands and well positioned to move forward.

We were blessed with great weather for the final Q of my time as the Site Q with a strong group of PAX that showed.  The idea coming in was to have a simple (not to be mistaken with easy) workout that would keep the PAX together and mumblechatter strong.  The KISS method.  I do believe that this was achieved.

5:30 – Pledge

Some lite stretching to get started.

We did 4 corners.  Much like the Walls of Jericho workout but no building to revolve around.

7 excercises of 7 reps each to be completed at each of the 4 corners.

SSH’s

Toy Soldiers

Squats

Merkins

Mountain Climbers

LBC’s

Windshield Wipers

This was done until around 3 minutes to go.  I think roughly 5 laps around the parking lot.

Circle for Mary.

Orangeman called 6 shooters

Tube called American Hammers

Time

Nameorama

Prayer

It has been an honor to serve for the past year and a half as Site Q of this excellent AO.  The PAX have been excellent and very supportive with volunteering for Q’s and being generally great guys.  Encouraging and helpful at any chance.  I cant say thank you enough.

Next week is Spiderman’s inaugural Q as the new Site Q.  Please come out and support him, sign up for Q’s, and continue being the awesome guys that you are.

AYE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Timeframe

2 for EC, small crowd but solid in quality

Today is Hermie’s 70th birthday. Dang, how many 70 year olds do you know that exercise on a regular basis? Me….just 1 that I can name right now. Lotta respect for him. He shared some wisdom with us at the end, but no way was I going to miss today. Had a few regulars heading to Biloxi for a half marathon, but other than that, what was your excuse? Think about that all you fartsackers who are MUCH YOUNGER than 70 years old.

We started with disclaimer, pledge and warmup. Common practice is that on the birthday, you do that many reps, right? Today is 70 for Hermie so here was our WU:

7-ssH                                0-burpees          H

7-Elbow plank             0-burpees          E

7-Reverse lunge         0-burpees          R

7-Merkins                      0-burpees         M

7-Imperial walkers    0-burpees         I

7-Excellent flutters   0-burpees        E   (thanks for the suggestion on this exercise Strogi)

Bootcamp with me and the rest for PainLab. It was me and Stroganoff. Hills were on the menu so we headed to a neighborhood across Garrison that had some hills and we ran 3 different hills 3 times each with exercises at the top and bottom as follows:

Hill #1: bottom 10/20/30 Squats, top 5/10/15 Merkins

Hill #2: bottom 20/40/60 air presses, top 5/10/15 BigBoys

Hill #3: bottom 20/40/60 LBC, top 25/50/75 Flutters

Few jokes along the way to keep us entertained. Too bad you were not there to enjoy. #queensgate

Mosey quickly back to start for COT and Hermie dropping some wisdom on us. A few nuggets I (sort of) remember: Don’t make your life about your work. You don’t stop playing when you get old, you get old when you stop playing.

A lot of us are in the 40-50 year old range. Think about this: Who is NOT going to be here over the next 20-25 years and why? Who will still be posting at 70 years old? Who is gonna move out of town, stop posting, or get the celestial discharge (if you know what I mean)? All I can say is I am much more likely to make it to 52 if I keep posting with you numbnuts. And if that helps me get to 52, I’m pretty sure it will help me get to 60 or 70. I am also more likely to keep posting if you keep posting so do me a favor……pretty please? Get outta the f’ing fartsack and post. I need you and so do the other guys who posted at the Yank and in Folsom today. Keep “suggesting” another CSAUP that I really don’t want to do. Keep pushing me to get better and I’ll make sure I do the same for you. I’d say that’s a pretty good deal if it helps both of us eventually post on our 70th birthday.

Thanks Hermie. You are that rock someone just threw out in the lake causing a bunch of ripples I hope to benefit from.  #ISI

Special prayers for Linus whose father passed away this week. I know him from church and can say without a doubt he was a HIM before I knew what a HIM was.

Also prayers for the fools traveling to Biloxi/NOLA to run in some stupid race that I wish I was going to running in also…..safe travels guys. Have a great trip and get home safe.

SYITG-Whoopee

18 strong at the Yank and Bunker on a cold, breezy morning made the choice to get a little better.  FNG joined us, welcome to Finkle!, on an invite from Bubba Sparxx.  I think when  Q school happens there should be a lesson on greeting your FNG upon arrival.  YHC gave disclaimer and talked about the mission of F3 with a squeaky voice.  Also encouraged all men to give it their very best every single time.  Your why deserves nothing less.

Time hits warmup with SSH, IW, Burpees, merkins, and some stretching.  Bootcampers with YHC.  Mosey up Main to the tennis courts at Sacred Heart.  Time for some blocks and murder bunnies.

Blocks get disbursed, 9 super size and 3 regular.  The big ones are really tough.  Not to mention that there are a lot of tennis courts as well.  10 blockies and murder bunny to the opposite end for 10 more blockies, murder bunny back.  Lots of moaning and groaning on this, YHC included.  Time to omaha the weinke.  Drop the big blocks but hang on the small ones.  3 Pax get on the small ones for 10 thrusters and muder bunny to the end.  Everyone else bear crawl suicide to each sideline of the tennis courts and do an exercise.  Exercises were hand release merkins, burpees, LBC and american hammers.  When pax on the blocks reach the end, three pax replace them to do the exercise and murder bunny back to start.  Rotate until all pax get a turn on the blocks.

Few minutes remain so line up on near sideline for suicides to each sideline of all courts, touch with hand.  Almost completed, time to mosey back to start.

Pledge

Announcements: retreat to Flat Rock in February, CSAUP ruck next Saturday, upcoming Grow Ruck events, Rice n Beans on Tuesday at 6:00

Prayer concerns:  praise for Hippa mom positive health news, Tesla, Tiger M and stepsons, Brutus mission trip, Nutria traveling, prayer list

YHC took us out

Always an honor

Tiger

Only bad news as Oompa Loompa was the Q. The weather geeks missed the massive snowfall amount, so all the fartsackers have no excuse either. Enough bellyaching. Let’s get to it.

Four runners out getting 10 miles this morning. Eight got stuck with a Countdown Beatdown. No new bees, pledge, disclaimer.
Warmup
All in cadence: SSH, ABE VIGODA, MNC, TOY SOLDIERS, Helicopter twists, trunk twisters.
Mosey to tennis court.

The Countdown Beatdown
Start at the corner by the gate. 20 merkins. Run to next corner. Counterclockwise. 19 LBC. Run to next corner. 18 CDD. Run to next corner. 17 Freddie Mercury’s. Run to start and plank for the six. Rinse and Repeat until we countdown to one.

Next circuit. Clockwise. Did this to keep the abs and arms reps equal. 20 Freddie Mercury’s. Run. 19 CDD. Run. 18 LBC. Run. 17 merkins. As above.

Next circuit. Counterclockwise. As first set above.

Last circuit. Clockwise.
5 every corner same exercise sequence. Three of the runners joined the party. Someone else CHERRY PICKED so didn’t join. Got 3 or 4 circuits. Lost count after brain freeze.

Back to flag in the parking lot.

Name o rama

Announcements
10am next Saturday 10 mile Ruck at the Ricky Bobby to distribute F3 flyers.

Other events as previous

Prayer requests
Huck’s dad
Wichita’s mom
Pappy’s mom
Volt
Roundup’s babies
Hacksaw
Others that YHC forgot

Word from the wise:
Hacksaw spoke on family relationships and how important they are to men. Second only to Jesus.
You were expecting YHC to impart wisdom?

YHC took us out.

I’ve been EHing a guy thru his mom (Lorri), a nurse who works in our office for a LONG time. The last time I saw this kid was 12-13 years ago. I was at a pool party for our office within a year or 2 of moving here (sometime around 2007) and there were two 13-14 year old kids in the front yard playing wiffle ball. I have kept up with Matt over the years-his mother is someone I really respect and she would share with me how he was doing at Clemson then his time in the army and most recently when he proposed to his girlfriend. My advice to her was to tell him to give her the ring ASAP if she was the one. No more waiting around. Lorri, his mother, made it clear she thought this was THE GIRL and all I could think about was me in that situation sitting around waiting for the right time and letting her slip away. Jump ahead a few months and they are engaged and he is planning to move back to G-town. He was in town and wanted to post so Nutria was gracious enough to let me hijack the Q. I had 1 goal: make him Merlot. I figured I could PROBABLY do it. He’s only 25 years younger. He’s only been in the army doing crazy stuff for 8 years. He’s only 6’3″ and less body fat than I ever was. What could go wrong…….?

We started with a brief disclaimer and intro of Matt to the group, hit the pledge, and mumble chatter ensued quickly during the WU. We did some SSH, squats, and merkins then moseyed to the Planet Fitness parking lot for some starfish/4 corners thing. Each corner was exercise X 10 reps and every time we crossed the center we did 3 burpees. The exercises were SSH, BigBoys, Jump Squats, and Merkins. Next we moseyed to the wall for some of my love language, as JJ put it. Hip Slappers were on the menu. We discussed the 5 core principles as we moseyed across the parking lot after each set of HS. We did 5 then moseyed, did 10 then moseyed, did 15 (Merlot was rumbling at this point) then moseyed, did 20 then moseyed……….Son of a Nutcracker, I am about to die…….did 25 HS all in cadence. During the mosey we talked about each core principle. JJ corrected us with the “men only” which really is “open to all men” principle-good clarification…..that is why we still have Mayor with us, right? Move on after I swallow some Merlot to keep it down. Mosey to the wall at Food Dog for some Donkey Kicks-extra points for Stinky Bird for the donkey noises. Think we did either 2 or 3 sets of 10 then moseyed to Gastone’s Hill. Somewhere along the way we also talked about the mission (to plant, grow, and serve….) as well as the Credo (leave no man behind, but …). Thanks again guys for being thorough.

Quick question: At what level of Kotter-ness do we need to re-name this hill? Anyone checking on Gastone? Anyone? Anyone? If you are reading this, how about sending him a text (704) 995-2497 and see how he is doing? I know he would appreciate that.

We started at the bottom and ran up doing 2 Merkins at each mailbox on the way up. Defib and FNG led the way, and I made sure no one got left behind…..if I was not the 6, I was pretty darn close. Props to Defib for pushing FNG-he apparently got his money’s worth finally at this point thanks to Defib. We nurred down the hill then headed home with 10 Merkins and 10 Monkey humpers at each light. I thought we would get back too soon so I added 10 big boys for the last 8 or so lights….not a wise move on my part but WTH? We got back in time for COT and namorama. FNG Matt was a groundskeeper at the golf course in high school so we named him Spackler from Caddyshack. I kicked my own butt with hip slappers. I think everyone got a good workout but unfortunately no Merlot…..

I checked with Spackler’s mother later in the day. She said he had a great time and was so tired he could only go to 1 CrossFit workout later that day…..so much for me pushing him so hard he would Merlot.

thanks for the opportunity to lead-Whoopee

I wasn’t expecting anyone to show up to Mt. Hollywood because of the snow and ice.  But one brave soul did show up Pilgrim’s Progress ventured out.

Started the workout moseying to Ida Rankin Elementary beneath the shelter.

Warmup:

10x SSH

10x Toy Soldiers

Workout:

Set 1:  5x Burpees, 10x Merkins, 20x Squats – Run a lap around the parking lot.

Set 2:  20x Flutter Kicks, 30x CDDs, 40x Bobby Hurley – Run a lap

Set 3:  20x Plank Jacks, 30x LBCs, 40x Mtn. Climbers – Run a lap

Next,

One person did People’s Chair while the other person ran a lap, and then we would flip-flop.  Next, we did People’s Chair with Air Presses while the other person ran a lap.  Finally we did People’s Chair with a march while the other person ran a lap.

Moseyed back to the Middle School Parking Lot.  We then found a undisturbed  patch of snow and created Snow Angels (in cadence).

Did the pledge of allegiance,  announcement and prayer.

The End.