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The site Q for Downtown asked YHC if he’d step up and take the Q on 5/3. He’s been working the late shift at work and has realized that the testosterone levels fall off dramatically at age 45. YHC takes the Q and makes a mental Weinke that morning. As YHC arrives, the guys are rolling in. Sister Act looks like a broken old man with broken knees after he attempted to cover Wikileaks during frisbee football last night. Looks like YHC will attempt to put the final nail in his coffin today! We circle up and the the show started at 0530.

Warmup: 1 Seal Jack IC, then LET’S GO, MFR’S!

Thang:

Expedited mosey across 321 north, down the hill across 321 south, then stop at the first light pole on the corner. Once the 6 is in, we perform 5 H/R Merkins and 10 Mountain Climbers at each pole (there’s a LOT of them) until we get to Leather and Lace. YHC asked the PAX if they brought any singles, to which Wirenut replied “We’re in Gaston county. All you need is a roll of quarters!” We run up to the wall at L&L double-fisting our rolls of quarters. We performed 2 rounds of Dirty Hookups (of course) and Monkey Humpers. Figuring we got our money’s worth, we ran the rest of the way to FUSE ballpark. A train goes by, so 5 Burpees. We cross the road to set up for escalator 4 corners.

• Corner 1 – 10 Mike Tysons
• Corner 2 – 10 Mike Tysons, 20 Squats
• Corner 3 – 10 Mike Tysons, 20 Squats, 30 CDD’s
• Corner 4 – 10 Mike Tysons, 20 Squats, 30 CDD’s, 40 SSH (Single Count)

If Wirenut ever gets renamed, it has to be Pole Dancer. The mix of pre-workout and the stop at L&L got his “creative juices” flowing, or he’s practicing for his side hustle. You see, there are these baseball bat decorations that stand up on their end out in front of the ballpark. They stand roughly 4 1/2 to 5 feet tall. To our horror, Wirenut is doing his best pole dancing routine on one of the bats. YHC supposes it wasn’t that bad, since he got a couple of horn honks and cat calls from folks driving down Franklin. It seems as if power poles aren’t the only poles he climbs! He tries to throw shade YHC’s way, but no one was buying it (except for SA, and he doesn’t count). After a 10 count to get the image of Wirenut pole dancing out of heads, we de-escalated the 4 corners. We stopped for the pledge at the backside of the ball field, and headed back to base.

Once back to the pavillion, we spend the last 5 minutes performing the BEARMUDA TRIANGLE. Start with 1 burpee, bear crawl to the next corner, 2 burpees, etc. We made it to 7 burpees when time was up.

COT

Announcements:

• Goonie 5/4 at 0300 starting at the Schiele Museum
• Extinction Run 5/18
• 2nd F lunch 5/22 at Ray’s Smokehouse in Gastonia
• Speed for Need event Runway 5K in September

Prayer Requests:

• Anchorman
• Turtleman
• Huckleberry
• CMPD
• U.S. Marshalls
• Westside’s Father-in-Law

YHC took us out in prayer

NMM:

We had a lot of fun today. Everyone pushed hard even though YHC was keeping us moving the whole time. Bring some singles next Friday. Wirenut might pick up where he left off! Great work, men!

L8R SK8RS,

Slaw

12 PAX(some points whores) posted to Downtown on Friday. Broke was down in his back and I just happened to be off work for Good Friday so I took the sub Q. I scrolled through the Google map looking for something new and came across the cemetery on Franklin which had a cross made of asphalt in it. I figured that hadn’t been done before so that’s where we went.

Warmup:

You know some stuff. Well Pallbearer doesn’t know because he wasn’t there. More on that later. We hit the road stopping for some exercises every block and made our way to the cemetery via the mid-town motor inn. We discussed what all you could get there and the number of people there getting it.

Tha Thang:

At the center of the cemetery we started 11’s with flying squirrels and hand release merkins. Run in a different direction each time you get back to the center. It made a pretty cool cross on Strava. It was also a bit longer than I anticipated and took a little more time. Somewhere in here SA explained to me that Pallbearer was attempting to get the FRC to Downtown double points but drove like a Grandpa and was probably still in route. #HTSI. About midway through we were running in the direction of someone walking and SA was about to trash talk them when we noticed it wasn’t one of us and he was attempting to light a cigarette. I assumed it was a homeless guy and realized we must have woken him sleeping in the cemetery! Wow! Slaw said he asked him his name and he replied Legion and said he was many. It’s the Mid-Town Motor Inn. You never know what you might get.

After that we hit the road again making our way to the old central school. You old guys know what I’m talking about. We partnered up for some Dora. P1 runs to the top of the stairs and back P2 starts the reps. 100-Starburst, 200 Dips, 300 feet on the wall toe touches. We had to cut this short and made our way back to Main St. All along the way Sargento kept asking how many PAX we had. I informed him the Q had counted and was counting. Apparently for him to understand it has to be out loud and slow. #HTSI. Side note if you or your IRA has been impacted by Sargento there is a support group. Contact me or SA for details.

On Main St. we stopped at each light pole for a burpee. I think it’s about a dozen.

Back at the flag we ran into our old friend PB who said he’d run 3 miles in search of us. This has been verified via Strava. He seemed to believe he was due credit for the post even though he wasn’t there on time, didn’t work out with the group, or do anything but run at a bootcamp workout. I have mulled this over for a few days and have decided to give it to him even though he has not met any of my reasonable request for the makeup work. Now as I understand it he will not qualify for his bonus points because he didn’t post this morning but that isn’t on me now.

COT:

Pledge

Namerama

Announcements-SFN and convergence 4/13, Ruck CSAUP 5/4, Extinction Run 5/18

Prayer Request-Lost souls

The site Q of Downtown knew YHC owed him a Q due to my persistent sickness through the months of December and January. YHC finally got to feeling better and took the Q on 2/2/24. Being the blissfully ignorant idiot YHC is, he completely forgot it was groundhog day! YHC could’ve compiled a better Weinke if he would’ve remembered it was groundhog day! Oh well. 0530 struck and it’s time to clock in.

W/U: SSH, Don Q’s, Arm circles

Thang: Mosey to the parking deck. Along the way, a former Nantan was heard saying “slow down!”. You really hate to see it! Once we get to the parking deck, the Q calls the exercise.

The “Laredo” consists of 6 rounds of:

• After 24 Squats
• 24 Merkins
• 24 Walking Lunges
• 400 meter run

Since we didn’t have 400 meters (that’s what she said), we ran the straights and nurred the ramps. Once at the top, take the stairs back to start. This took longer than the Q anticipated, but it was a burner.

Next, we lined up at the top of one of the ramps for some triple nickel. 5 rounds of:

• 5 Mike Tysons at the top
• Bear crawl down the ramp
• 5 Flutter kicks IC
• Joe Hendricks back up

After the first round, the realized that only he and Short Sale were the only ones doing the bear crawl down, Joe Hendricks up. Everyone else Joe Hendricks’ed down and bear crawled up. Whatever. At least work is getting done.

Mosey back to the start, stopping along the way for 10 H/R Merkins, 20 SSH. A train rolls through, so 5 Burpees.

Finish up the last 2 minutes with some Mary.

Announcements:

• Folsom Nationals on 2/10 @0630. Park in the lower lot.
• Bring canned food to the Folsom Nationals. BOS will be collecting cans for a canned food drive.
• 2nd F lunch on 2/21 @ Estia’s in Belmont (the old Quincy’s in Belmont for the RESPECT crowd)

Prayer requests:

• Wirenut’s family
• EZ Rider’s dad
• Luke Newsom
• Anchorman
• Turtleman
• Huckleberry
• The family of Dr. Skeet

Thank you for all the PAX who came out to support YHC. He truly appreciates it. Keep pushing the rock, men!

L8R SK8RS,

Slaw

I have the Q Downtown in place of Slaw who has some sort of fungus they haven’t identified yet. I always expect a large crowd at Downtown but alas, many Pax are no doubt resting for a strong 2024 so with a solid 6 strong men, we endeavored to persevere!

Warmup
Pledge
MNC’s
SSH
Cotton Pickers
Hillbillies
Leg Stretches
In honor of Slawbag, 5 Burpees OYO.

Mosey to back of truck for quick block work, or as I was reminded, these are half-blocks.

Curls x 30
Triceps x 30
Shrugs x 30
Swings x 30 and Repeat.
There was a train and we obliged with 5 more burpees.

Mosey to top floor of the Parking Deck running up the ramps.

20 merkins and 24 LBC’s then run to the bottom floor using ramps for 20 Mike Tyson’s and 24 Reverse Crunches and run back up using stairs as yet an unannounced number of cycles. I think Wichita and Clutch did 5 and the rest did 4.

Mosey back to the truck for a one more round of half-blocks.
Curls x 30
Triceps x 30
Shrugs x 30
Swings x 30 and back to the flag for time.

I was studying the Book of Titus and noticed a theme that is good for everyone to employ. Do good. There are many verses in Titus all pointing to this simple but powerful lesson. DO GOOD.

“Rather, he must be hospitable, ONE WHO LOVES WHAT IS GOOD, who is self-controlled, upright, holy and disciplined.“ Titus‬ ‭1‬:‭8‬ ‭

“In everything set them an example by DOING WHAT IS GOOD.”‭‭ Titus‬ ‭2‬:‭7‬ ‭

”….. a people that are his very own, eager to DO WHAT IS GOOD.” Titus‬ ‭2‬:‭14‬

“Remind the people to be subject to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready to DO WHATEVER IS GOOD” Titus‬ ‭3‬:‭1‬

“And I want you to stress these things, so that those who have trusted in God may be careful to devote themselves to DOING WHAT IS GOOD. These things are excellent and profitable for everyone.“ Titus‬ ‭3‬:‭8‬ ‭

“Our people must learn to devote themselves to DOING WHAT IS GOOD, in order to provide for urgent needs and not live unproductive lives.” Titus‬ ‭3‬:‭14‬

Announcements:
Beer Mile at Sargento’s Saturday 12/30 at 11 am
Convergence at Martha’s 1/1/2024 at 7 with EC run or ruck at 6.

Prayer Requests:
Slaw, Jackson Hall, Turtleman, Oompa’s coworker’s family, Wichita’s dad, Clutch’s coworker’s daughter, GUmby’s mom, Broke’s mom and Wirenut’s mom and also remember our guy Ball Joint.

*NMM Lots of discussion about getting older, taking naps, antique shopping, the idea of being a grandpaw someday and inflation. Problems were solved.

The forecast for today looked rough earlier in the week, but the rain held off and a solid number of PAX turned out to end the workweek on a good note. Here’s what went down:

Warmup – various exercises all x22 reps

Mosey to the parking deck

22 Merkins, Squats, Big Boys and Mtn. Climbers then run up two levels and down two flights of stairs

Rinse and repeat x4

22 CDD’s then bear crawl the ramp and do 22 hammers at the top, karaoke the flat then repeat exercises and lunge walk the ramp. All the way to the top then down the stairs. Rinse and repeat.

Still a little time for some “rugby” sprints on the way back down the parking deck and back to the flag.

Announcements

Convergence and Christmas Party tomorrow

Beer ruck 12/9

Beer mile 12/30

Pray for Turtleman, Jackson Hall, Huck, EZ Family, Bedpan niece, Wirenut Family, SA surgery

YHC took us out.

I’m Broke

10 men posted to downtown on Friday. It was nice and warm for a November morning. Sweat was spilled. It was mostly mine as it was just my second BC in the last 2 months. It would have been my third had Slaw not shat all over me the previous day when I accepted the Q at Midoriyama upon his request. Once he found out the 1st F Q was available it was like I wasn’t even alive! Anyway.

Warmup: Doesn’t really matter

The Thang:

On the steps at the pavilion-hop up the steps. 5 Cdd’s at the top, hop down and do 5 at the bottom. 5 rounds

Next we did some deep sea divers for a few steps until I ran out of vertical/horizontal distance

Let’s mosey down to Main st.

1st corner 10 merkins, Around the block we went stacking them. 10 merkins, 20 lunges, 30 lbc’s, 40 mtn climbers.

Over to the Methodist church parking lot and partner up.

11’s. Run in opposite directions and do 1 little gumby in the woods. Run back and meet your partner for 10 booyah merkins. If you undertstand 11’s you know what happened next.

Mosey to the parking deck and partner up again

P1 does BTTW while P2 runs up a flight of stairs and back. Do 5 rounds. This sucked!

After this we did a few rounds of wall sits and dirty hookups before heading back.

COT:

Pledge

Announcements-Get signed up for the Christmas party and vote even if you aren’t coming(Freight 2023 most supportive/pickup the 6), help Broke out by showing up and helping SFN at the Christmastown 5k.

Prayer Request-SA took us out

When Sister Act reached out about taking a downtown Q, YHC knew it couldn’t be a lightweight weinke. It needed to be something that would be tough but also foster the mumblechatter that is so valued Downtown.

YHC arrived to find a few PAX waiting and several other screaming into the parking lot close to time. 0530… so let’s get after it.

(Very) brief disclaimer
Warm-up
SSH IC x 12
LBCs IC x 12
Merkins IC x 12
Imperial Walkers IC x 12

The Pledge

Let’s Mosey towards the bridge. YHC knew that Whoopee was doing the Chad1000 at Bess that morning so the plan all along was to incorporate as many step-ups into the workout as possible.
We stopped at the planters over the bridge for just that opportunity.
Step-ups – 25 each leg

Mosey towards the parking lot across Long Avg below the stairs. Time for what I named Stairway to Seven. Not step-ups, but we did go up steps.
Partner up – Partner 1 does the exercise AMRAP (not the missle system) while P2 runs up the stairs, across, and then down the other set of stairs. Once P1 returns, P2 runs while P1 does same exercise. 7 trips up the stairs for each partner
Round 1 – Seal Jacks
Round 2 – Squats
Round 3 – Flutter Kicks
Round 4 – Perfect-form Merkins
Round 5 – Calf Raises w/ Morrocon Night Clubs
Round 6 – Big Boy Sit-ups
Round 7 – Burpees
Then, Burpees until all groups were done

Mosey back over the bridge. First time through, Wirenut mentioned there were bars that were perfect for pull-ups. Great idea.
2 by 2 like Noah and the Arc, the PAX would do 5 pull-ups each while everyone else did Step-Ups at planters on bridge.
When all pairs had finished, YHC decided we needed another run of that. So we repeated down the line again. Just to note, a little better the second time, but not much.

Mosey to the parking deck. PAX would do 10 count of each of 7 exercises from Stairway to Seven. So…
Seal Jacks x 10
Squats x 10
Flutter Kicks x 10
Perfect-form Merkins x 10
Calf Raises w/ Morrocon Night Clubs x 10
Big Boy Situps x 10
Burpees x 10 (5 were called, but Q gave into peer pressure to not seem weak)

Mosey up stairs and around to next floor. Repeat of 7 exercises x 10.

Mosey up stairs again to top floor. Time only allowed for 10 burpees.

Mosey back to the flag. Flutter Kicks until a false stop was called with 20 seconds to go. As to not cheat anyone, 2 burpees were called. Time…

Announcements
Post tomorrow to honor Veteran’s Day – Hero WODs at each AO
11/18 F4 Trail Run – see Freight
Thanksgiving – Ultimate Frisbee @ 0700
Christmastown 5k – see Broke
12/2 Christmas Party and Convergence @ The Yank

Prayer Requests
Flintstone’s son
Montana
Turtleman and family
Southern Bell’s son
Safe travels in upcoming weeks
Jackson Hall, praise that tumor appears to be shrinking
Wirenut’s mom
Pallbearer’s son

Prayer to take us out

Until next time…

Whoopee posted that EC was at 0500 so we got a little running and merkins and lbc’s around the town square and the parking deck roof.  A little EC never hurt anyone!

We had a nice crew roll in for the start time with a couple tardies.  We began with the disclaimer and pledge before a brief warmup consisting of 10 merkins, Imperial walkers, SSH, and squats before moseying to the wall.  We completed 50 squats oyo and then wall sits with air presses and marching. We moseyed to the top of the deck.

The PAX counted off in one’s and two’s and locked arms for some formation lunge walk.  Pretty bad q fail but line 1 had it together.

The THANG:

At the top of the deck, do the following:

25 burpees, lunge walk to the other side of the deck, mosey back

50 merkins, lunge walk to the other side of the deck, mosey back

75 shoulder taps lunge walk to the other side of the deck, mosey back

100 CDD’s lunge walk to the other side of the deck, mosey back

75 shoulder taps ,lunge walk to the other side of the deck, mosey back

50 merkins, lunge walk to the other side of the deck, mosey back

25 burpees, lunge walk to the other side of the deck, mosey back

For those that finished first, take the stairs to the bottom of the deck and run up the ramps to the top again.  Repeato for the six.

This took most of our time so rounded up the PAX and moseyed back to start where the clock rang 0615 and we ended the workout.

Some quick reflection on  F3 and what it means…the brotherhood, the mental and physical acceleration, the energy to go and serve, the hardest part of your day is already over…

What a blessing!

Announcements:  Second F lunch next Wednesday at noon at Hillbillies in Lowell

The Folsom Winter Nationals (Convergeance) on February 11 at 0630.

Extinction Run March 4th, Primal Brewery in Belmont

Prayer Requests:

Wichita’s Family,

Gumby’s Family

Wirenut’s Family

Mayor

Big Pappy

Captain Steubing’s (former) co-workers

Several FIL’s need prayers

It was a great morning to be a part of something like F3.  The numbers are looking good in 2023 but we still need to be hunting FNG’s as there are men out there that need what we share.

Aye!

Roscoe

Nice crowd at Downtown this morning. It started quite but quickly ramped up to form bashing and trash talking.

Warmup:

SSH, low slow squats, LBC’s. Let’s mosey down the street about a block.

The Thang:

Pretty simple workout this morning. 5 exercises then a lap around the block making all left turns to return to where we started. First part of the block mosey, 2nd part pick up the pace, 3rd part slow back down, 4th part pick it back up again. After that we made our way to the next block and continued this for 4 blocks.

Exercises were 5 burpees, 10 Bonnie Blairs, 15 Merkins, 20 Monkey humpers, 25 Freddy Mercury’s.

The goal would’ve been to get to Garrison but we had about 3 more laps to get there. The trash talk quickly ramped up as SA was defending his stance on Rev Low Carb’s(aka BLL) Merkin form. This turned into others pointing out lunge and squat form. Brotherly love runith over!

Time to head back we stopped at each intersection for 10 squat jumps and 10 WWI’s.

Time! Most got in about 2.75-3 miles all uphill both ways!

COT:

pledge

namerama

Announcements-beer mile tomorrow

Prayer Request-Wirenut’s father and family, Huck, Gumby’s family, Turtleman

Moleskin:

Great job this morning guys. Mostly on the mummblechatter. It’s one of my favorite things about working out with y’all. If you didn’t know. The best part of trash talk between men is there is usually a smidge of truth sprinkled in with some humor to help you take it a little better. We all make mistakes. We all rush sometimes. We don’t always have the best form. We all short stroke it(that’s definitely what she said) sometimes. You just have to be able to take the constructive sarcasm and improve upon it.

11 pax posted at Downtown on Friday. It’s been a busy few days so I’m just getting to the BB. That said it’s only day 3 so I’ve still beat Pockets and SA by 27 days.

Warmup:

Blah blah blah lets mosey

The Thang:

Starting at the intersection of Main and South we did 1 rep of 2 exercises and hit the road. We continued this throughout the workout adding 1 rep at each intersection. We made it up to 13 before we ran low on time. Should’ve made it to 15. The exercises were burpees and seal jacks. I believe that comes to about 91 reps of each.

Along the way we stopped at various places for some other work. Behind the police department we did Miranda Rights x 10 ic. Lots of complaining about these meow! At the wall of Leather and Lace we did Dirty Hookups x 10 ic, seemed fitting. In the parking lot behind the baseball stadium we did route 66 Bobby Hurley’s. We also threw in some broad jumps and squat jumps using the long line of handy cap parking spaces. Along the front of the stadium we stopped for some Nolan Ryan’s x 10 ic on each side. We stopped off in front of the police department for another round of meows and Miranda Rights. As we ran short on time we made our way over to the South st hill. We NURed up stopping for a WWI at each light pole. A few confused PAX stated they added a rep each time.

COT:

AAR-After Action Report-Since the purpose of F3 is to create leaders I talked a little about what an AAR is and why it’s needed. If you don’t know how you did then how can you improve? I asked the PAX to give me 2 things I did well and 2 things I need to improve. Give it a try on your next Q.

Pledge

Announcements-F3Dads next weekend at The Yank, Dad skate 9/17, JJ5K 9/24, Rumor of a CSAUP 9/10.

Prayer Request

Moleskin:

As I write this I’m still a little wired from the move to our new home this weekend. There were 15 HIM at the house to help unload the truck. There was another roughly 5 that were at the apartment to help load. That is insane! My wife has been showing everyone the picture we took and telling them about how you guys knocked out our move. My daughter was even quite impressed by “Tha Boys”(that’s how she refers to you) and she isn’t impressed with much these days(the teen years are gonna be hard). I’m so thankful for F3 and meeting you guys. I can’t imagine not having men like you in my life! Anyone that doesn’t is surely a sadclown compared to what I have.