It’s Christmas Eve at the greatest running AO in F3 Gastonia, so we all ran, 3, 4, and 5 miles.
Pledge
COT
Announcements
Prayer Request
YHC took us out in prayer
Thanks men and Merry Christmas!
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YHC hasn’t been to Labyrinth or SandLot in a long time, in fact, last visit had the name Snowballs. So it was time for another visit and Q for the first time. In 2020, YHC has Q for the first time a few AOs and plans to visit Q several others in 2021.
Its 5:30am and time to go to work…
Disclaimer
Warm-up
Mosey to ball fields and then partnered up for some BlackJack 21…At the center building, concessions & bathrooms, which has four sidewalks between the four ball fields, each twosome performed 1 merkin, then moseyed to end of ball field fence to perform 20 American Hammers for a total of 21 reps. As you moseyed down and back, 2 burpees about midways. Back at the center, each twosome would rotate clockwise down the sidewalks, 2 merkins and mosey to end with 19 AHs. Continue until we were at 20 merkins and 1 AH was the goal, however due to time, had to omaha so we could get back in time for OT.
COT
Announcements
- Convergence on January 9th
- New Years Day 10 mile Run/Ruck
Prayer Request
- Flintstone and family
- Whoopee’s daughter
- Sister Act’s surgery
- Our Country
YHC closed us out in prayer
Great work by all PAX. Thank you men for allowing me to lead you this morning! It was an honor and privilege!
YHC celebrated a birthday, F3 style, and all reps were know, so the only thing left to do was push the rock, and 15 HIMs showed up.
W/U after the pledge: Merkins x12 I/C, SSH x29 I/C, immediate calls for a petition to remove YHC from the MHC.
Continue the w/u with a mosey of the Termite Mile. At each stop sign (2) do 12 burpees and 29 squats, and at each round-a-bout (s) do 12 burpees and 29 squats.
Finish the w/u at the loading dock with 12 diamond merkins and 29 hand release merkins. The MHC becomes move vocal, but YHC carries on.
A quick mosey to the main parking lot for a little island hopping. There are 15 full islands (some are peninsulas and do not count!) in this section of the lot, so the PAX was directed to jump lunges, escalator style (1 each leg at the 1st island, 2 each leg at island #2, etc.). No walking, running, nor Nurring between the islands, only bear crawls, crab walks, and lunge walks allowed (Omaha for karaoke on the last row).
Mosey back to the start where YHC called for 8 contra burpees (increasing merkins with each burpee), which gave the PAX a total of 56 for the morning. A little time left for some Mary, reps of 12 or 29 only, no burpees of any flavor allowed. Sargento called out LBCs, 12 i/c. Nutria called for Nolan Ryans. 15 i/c were called out before the switch… Sargento was quick to catch Nutria’s error. However, Nutria “kindly” reminded everyone that he had indeed heard YHCs rep request, and promptly called out the final 14 i/c.
Time was called.
Announcements: Coconut Horse 10 mile ruck/run on the 1st, Downtown open Friday (Pockets w the Q), Convergence at Folsom on the 9th beginning at 7am.
Prayer Requests for Tiger’s family, Flintstone’s family, YHCs daughter, Sister Act, and El Tigre’s brother-in-law.
Namorama, where YHC officially joined Club 56.
Tiger took us out.
It was an honor and a privilege to lead – Orangeman
8 men at the last Pub of 2020. It was real simple, we ran.
Announcement: 10 miler tomorrow, Convergence at Folsom on January 9th. New modified Q source starting at the Coconut Horse on January 10th.
Prayer requests: Linus’ family, Stroganoff’s family, Broke and family, Gold Digger and his M, Sister Act
Def Leppard took us out in prayer.
Philippians 4:13
Huckleberry
8 of us got a little better and were grateful Slaw escaped a close call.
Be safe out there.
Prayer Request
- Barrell Racer
- Sparky
- Sister Act
- All those on IR
Announcements
- 10 for 10 on Friday at the Coconut Horse
- Convergence Folsom Jan 9
Colossians 4:2 – Continue steadfastly in prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving.
Big Pappy
4 Pax, no Q, a moonlit sky and a thirst for muscle disruption were the ingredients for the special on the menu Tuesday morning. No wasted time, thought or worry, we went right to it. All agreed, 25 reps per exercise callout. Depending on your stance, we circled clockwise to begin the procession for the next 44 minutes.
Pledge
25 reps per callout, in no particular order.
Moroccan Nightclubs
Shoulder Taps
Merkins
Derkins
Calf Raises
Box Cutters
Burpies (5)
Curls
Squats
Bent Rows
Farmer Pulls
Dips
LBCs
American Hammers
Big Boy Sit Ups
3 Laps parking lot
Dying Cockroaches
Plank Jacks
Mountain Climbers
Shoulder Press
Tricep Extensions
Incline Merkins
Overhead Pulls
Supermans
EZ joined YHC for a short mosey around the block to get the blood moving. When 0530 hit, 6 more had already won the war against the fartsack to emerge from the gloom to prepare for war.
No FNGs were present and apparently YHC hadn’t scared off Monday’s FNG, Sausage, as he too was among the gathered.
No FNGs = No disclaimer, No warnings, No nothing….lets get to it.
We worked our way through a Tesla style warmup, concluding with 15 merkins. If you don’t know what that is, go ask Uncle Ted or better yet, attend one of his workouts.
Mosey to Fidelity Bank via Old Neal Hawkins Rd for some war with the Deck-o-Death.
2 teams of 4
A member of each team draws a card.
High card wins. – Do it the F3 way
Low card – Face value.
Ties – Do Both F3 way.
After each member of the team goes, mosey around the bank before starting another round.
Can’t recall exactly how many times we got through,.. When time got short, the cards were gathered and we slipped out the back to get to the “Flag” on time.
(Pay no attention to the suspicious white car, nor the fat cat that had appeared at the rear of the bank)
Wedged in the Pledge of Allegiance and that is time.
Announcements:
- F3 10 Year Celebration at Metro 1/1
- 10 Miler on 1/1 at Coconut Horse COT @ 0800 (Downtown will be open as normal – Pockets with Q)
- Convergence 1/9 @ Folsom 0700
Prayer Requests:
- Linus’ family at loss of FIL.
- Family Members
- Those with Covid
YHC took us out.
Watts Up Powering Down
Attendance from participants.
Work was done.
13 posted at Folsom on a fine Tuesday morning. This is what we did.
Warmup:
SSH x 20 ic
High knees
Butt kickers
High knees
Butt kickers
Merkins x 10 ic
Grab a block, head to the tennis courts, and line up on the line
Tha Thang:
21, 15, 9
3 exercises, 3 rounds, reps for each round 21, 15, 9.
Run a lap, 21 reps of each, run a lap, 15, run a lap, 9, run a lap
Exercises were starting at the line Thrusters. Rifle carry your block three courts and do curls. Rifle carry your block three more courts and do french curls. Rifle carry your block back 6 courts and run your lap.
Once that was done we did 10 burpee block jump overs.
Lets run 21, 15, 9 again. Exercises were alternating block merkins, KB Swings, Alpos.
We finished this just in time.
COT:
Pledge
Announcements-10 miles for 10 years this Friday at the coconut horse route. Bring clean and gently used blankets or throws for donation and bar soap. Start whenever you need to COT at 0800. Convergence at Folsom 1/9.
Prayer-Witchita took us out
Moleskin:
YHC watched Froning on Netflix yesterday and got all fired up! I’ve been watching a lot of fitness docs lately and that usually happens. I watched one about ultra trail running the other week and had my mind all but made up until the next time I ran and remembered I hate it. Either way this morning was still great and I need more like this. Everyone was pushing and barely even talked(even me). All I heard was grunting which made me believe people were getting after it.
It seems every PAX and their 2nd cousin has led a “12 Days of Christmas” Q over the last week or so, but YHC did it before it was cool. Show to know. Next Christmas.
Until then,
GD