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Rewind

January 30, 2018 / Sargento / 0 Comments

It was a beautiful morning at the Yank. YHC didn’t realize it but this would be his first Q of the new year. Man time can fly by when you’re having fun!

Today 10 brave men and 1 overgrown pubescent youth found their way out of the trappings of their fartsack to the glory of the AO. Let’s get it on

Disclaimer

Mosey across the street with boombox in hand (insert moans from PAX) for a little alleyway warmup.

Sidestraddle Hop x25 IC

“Flower” by Moby was played. Of course, that lets us bring Sally up and bring Sally down. Man that was fun!

Mosey back across the street, drop off the speaker, and continue down the sidewalk. Watch out for the dog poo ahead and take a right at the corner heading for the front of the middle school. Once the PAX comes together, it time to explain the Thang.

The Figure 8: At each stop each PAX performs 20 reps of each particular exercise.

1 – Merkins

2 – World War 1 Sit Ups

3 – Goof Balls

4 – Flutter Kicks

5 – Dips

6 – World War 1 Sit Ups

7 – Goof Balls

8 – Monkey Humpers

Plank for the 6 when done. After each round, YHC talked some and heard from the PAX that they wanted more because they loved it so much! Aye. In all we finished 3 rounds.

Mosey in front of and away from the school until YHC noticed a usually closed off area of our AO. There were plenty of sturdy picnic tables that almost begged to be worked on.

A few rounds of step ups and derkins had the PAX whining and moaning which YHC takes as a compliment. Thank you!

Mosey back toward the back of the school.

After a brief Wall Sit, the PAX was instructed to do do 10 Hipslappers. The FNGs really liked this one YHC thinks.

Mosey down to the covered picnic area for the last leg of our morning workout. Thanks to Whoopee’s Q a couple months ago where he unveiled the awesome game known as 5 or 10 along with JJ’s mention of a theme at Gashouse using the number 8 for the days of our current challenge and 40 for the total days in the challenge, YHC came up with the game 8 or 40!!! This was so much fun it’s sure to become a staple in all of our workouts! Unfortunately this was harder to than it seemed for the Q to find an appropriate exercise when a number was called by the PAX. Some weren’t so bad, like LBCs, Dying Cockroaches, or even burpees. The worst came when the juvenile known as Queso asked specifically for 40 Merkins at the end of all this. My own blood betrayed me!

One last mosey down to the hovercraft for a quick Nolan Ryan to send it home. We’re done!

Moleskin: YHC having posted Friday morning and getting in a 4 mile run that evening was beyond the point of creativity for building a good weinke later that night. It’s a good thing that I save most of my weinkes and was able to pull an old favorite. Hence the Rewind. Also let if be known that Tiger EH’ed FNG Cam for today’s workout but was conspicuously absent. There was plenty of razzing and mumblechatter aimed at Tiger but he later showed up at Cherubs and explained that his family has the stomach bug. Thanks for staying away brother!

My apologies for not remembering the prayer requests or announcements men. I’ll do better about that and obeying the 24 hour rule.

Until next time, Sargento is out…

I Got It, You Take It!

December 30, 2017 / Norwood / 0 Comments

There were 19 on the schedule to Q this morning, but ultimately YHC showed up with biggest weinke and was given the honor.

Keesh and Pizza Man were finishing a run, but were scared when they found out YHC had the Q and backed down.

We moseyed to Hawthorne for a triple nickel. Burpees at the bottom and monkey humpers at the top. Flush, Tool Time and Boudin all thought it was a triple triple, but were quickly corrected.

Then we moseyed to the back of the middle school for a little wall work. It went something like this:

30 second wall sit
10 hip slappers
40 second wall sit
10 hip slappers
50 second wall sit
10 hip slappers
60 second wall sit
10 hip slappers

Then we partnered up and did some Dora 1-2-3 with a couple extra exercises, so essentially some Dora 0.1-0.25-1-2-3:

10 pullups (each)
25 leg throws (each)
100 merkins (combined)
200 squats (combined)
300 LBCs (combined)

It was now time for some Corewood! Tool Time did some “back seat driving” and was highly critical of how YHC ran this portion of the beat down. Here are the exercises we did:

Crunchy Frog
Heels to Heaven
Pretzel Crunches
Dying Cockroaches
American Hammers
Freddy Mercuries
Protractors

Short mosey back to the flag for the pledge where Pizza Man met up with us after what I believe was his SECOND run this morning!

Being that this was the last workout of 2017 at the Yank, I decided to mix in some 2017 trivia. Some things we learned – The one hockey question I had was answered correctly, but not by Tool Time. Tool Time thought Bitcoin showed a 1,792,632% gain during the year. And the pax do not know their horse racing.

Announcements:

Speed for Need race next week
Convergence at 0700 at Dark Knight/Pelicans/Snoballs/Martha’s on 1/1
Rooster marathon relay 1/20

Prayer Requests

Rusty and his family
Amy and her family

COT

Thanks guys, I had a blast!

Anybody got a dime? Kings to Crowders Backblast

November 23, 2017 / Roscoe / 0 Comments

I apologize for the delay but since this was a pseudo CSAUP event the 24 hour backblast rule is a little gray.

Unfortunately my plans to eat at a decent breakfast eatery near Crowder’s Mountain went awry when everywhere decent I checked was closed on Sunday except for McDonald’s. I arrived about ten minutes early and sorted my car out and wondered to myself if anyone would bother to show but I had a good feeling that my hiking partner Stroganoff would and at 0600 hours there he was. The pre-blast had a 0600-0640 breakfast timelime and no one else showed so I wondered how many would actually come for the hike. About 0645 JK2 showed up and ordered some food to go so I knew we would have at least 3.

I pulled out right on time and wondered why Stroganoff wasn’t behind me. I waited and figured he was being a good wingman for JK2. Only later did I learn that someone left their phone in the head and had to go retrieve it.

We pulled into the Linwood access at 0658 and the gates were open and there was the Nantan and his crew waiting to go. Kotter Richard Simmons let me know he was coming since he signed up for a HTL Ruck in 2018. Once he appeared nine PAX got in two clown cars and off we went to the Boulder’s access at Kings Mountain. Defib and I registered our vehicles while everyone hit the head and got organized. Before I could set the tone for “church on the mountain”, Stroganoff ripped JK2 with a quip about his Ron Jeremy mustache. JK2 didn’t know who that was and some others pretended they didn’t either. This was the first of many Ron jokes the rest of the day. I decided we needed to read the “Mile One” verse before we started. GENESIS 2:15 “Then the Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to tend and keep it.” God intends for us to work and through our efforts we can honor God by fulfilling our purpose to work.

We then headed out on the trail. It was clear and brisk to start. We went up a hill and down a hill and I walked past some signage and kept going. Fortunately the wiser group in the back called to us and said we were heading towards South Carolina so we returned to the sign and made the appropriate adjustment. It could have been a very long day.

We had a good pace and there was lots of fellowship along the way. The group of nine all stayed close together. I learned all about Richard Simmon’s training for the GoRuck in Charlotte next year. He had a 40 lb plate in his ruck which made the rest of feel pretty weak in comparison. He also had a feisty female voice on his phone telling all of us constantly to pick up the pace.

Everyone had on a pack of some sort from Camel-backs to first aid kits and food. Monk, the stoic that he is, only had his thoughts with him and a few snacks in his coat pocket. He had a water bottle that probably held about 3 ounces. Fortunately I had at least half a case so I gladly gave him some of mine later in the day. At every mile we stopped to read another verse of scripture and share a lesson. For the first 3-4 miles we only saw one person…an odd man sitting on a bench who seemingly came out of nowhere. Both Monk and JK2 had foot problems during the hike. Monk later declared that his boots were too small. However between some quality first aid and fresh socks there were no complaints.

On the Ridgeline trail there is an option to climb to King’s Pinnacle. There was a discussion about whether or not to do this but Stroganoff didn’t hesitate and led the way and the others followed. We arrived at the top with the mountain to ourselves. We had a snack break and Stronagoff ate a delicious looking smashed PBJ sandwich. Then Freight tried in vain to get his phone to take our picture by balancing it on a near vertical steep rock face. Suddenly two strangers appeared and Monk asked them to take our photo. When they asked if we would take theirs, I believe Monk said “NO”! It was a pretty well timed joke but of course we took their photo.

From this point of the trail and we were about halfway and we past many hikers coming from Crowders or the Sparrow Springs parking lot. At one point near Sparrow Springs the trail was closed as indicated with about a fifteen foot section of Crime Scene Tape. Someone said, “anybody got a dime? Somebody’s going to have to go back and get a sh%tload of dimes!”

We crossed another road and had a Mayor of Charlotte sighting. She was walking her dog and actually passed us twice on the trail. From this point the elevation increases towards Crowder’s Mountain. Eventually we made it to the Crowder’s Pinnacle where there were what seemed like hundreds of people. After a mosey down the stairs we ended at the Linwood parking lot where we finished with a COT. JK2 drove Defib and me back to the Boulder’s Access and we called it a day.

During the times we stopped for bible verses, Def Leppard could almost always repeat the verse with just a few hints. He is a wise sage and I appreciate his impact on me.

All in all it was a great day with all three F’s on the Mountain. Next time we will start from South Carolina for the whole trail. I don’t think it would add much distance but at least it would resolve the feeling of unfinished business.

Psalm 1 18:6 “The Lord is on my side; I will not fear. What can man do to me?”

Live without fear and you can be free knowing that your ultimate destination is in heaven.

I appreciate all the F3 brothers that I have crossed paths with over the last several years. The hike was right around the 11 mile mark. I know that Def Leppard thought this was a CSAUP. I can’t argue with that especially since the soreness I experienced this week was ridiculous!

It was a pleasure to lead as always.

Kings to Crowders pre-blast

November 15, 2017 / Roscoe / 0 Comments

So we are going to have church on the mountain this week so get your hiking boots on and come clear your mind on the mountain. We will hike from Kings Mountain to Crowder’s Mountain. Everyone has their own pace so you should plan on getting a partner or group of partners who will walk your pace. You will need a partner to carpool back and forth from the parking areas. It should also be someone who will walk your pace. This is cafeteria style so you can choose what you want.

Menu: Optional start for breakfast- meet at Trackside Grill located at 109 E Hudson Blvd, Gastonia, NC at 0600 for a hearty breakfast. From Trackside we will leave at 0645 to get to the parking lots. If you don’t want breakfast, be at your State Park parking area at 0700 when the park opens.

Parking: . Head to Linwood Parking area. Be there at 0700 when park opens and leave cars and then proceed to the Boulder access area.

***If you want to cut your hike short, you should drop your car Sparrow Springs access at 522 Park Office Ln, Kings Mountain, NC area with your wingman. This will cut the hike basically in half (approximately 6 miles or 3 hours)

No matter where you park, you should clown car over to the Boulder’s Access Area at 108 Van Dyke Road. When you get there, fill out the required forms for the Ridgeline Trail hike and grab a park map. I have found decent cell coverage at Crowder’s to include MapMyRun. You may consider a mobile charger since cooler weather may drain your cell batteries.

0730: Operations/Safety Briefing by Roscoe and quick 3^rd F. Prep your gear and get ready.

Begin the hike before or no later than 0800.

Click to access crowders-mountain-park-map_0.pdf

Begin on Ridgeline Trail

Merge with Pinnacle Trail

Merge with Crowder’s Trail (This is near the Sparrow Springs access so for those that choose the shorter route you can head to your cars here)

Decision Point… Choose either Rocktop Trail or Crowder’s Trail.

Rocktop is shorter but more strenuous and Crowder’s Trail is longer and less strenuous.

The Rocktop trail takes you to the Overlook at Crowder’s near the Radio Towers. The Crowder’s Trail connects you to the Backside trail which ends at the Linwood Parking area.

End at Linwood Parking area and clown car back to Boulders Access at 108 Van Dyke Road.

What to bring: Comfortable shoes or boots with good traction in wet weather. It appears that we will get rain Saturday night. The rocks are slippery. Bring water and quality snacks or lunch. Charging device for phone if you wish. If you want to add difficulty to the hike, put a sandbag or weight in your pack. Bring a first aid kit. Bring a shovel flag. Bring a change of socks. Dress in layers with a waterproof outer layer. Sleeves are optional. HAVE YOUR CAR KEYS AT ALL TIMES. We don’t want PAX stranded because they can’t find their keys. Wear F3 gear. You never know how many people we can EH on the trail.

They say you can average 2 mph and we are looking to cover about 12-13 miles. We should be done by 2 or 3pm but it depends on your pace. Plan accordingly.

I am sure I left something out so DM me or comment with your suggestions.

AYE!

Updated PREBLAST: GASHOUSE SPEEDFORNEED Christmastown 5K

November 12, 2017 / Tool Time / 0 Comments

SPEEDFORNEED!!!! Gashouse men many of you have seen my Tweets and Retweets for SPEEDFORNEED!!! TCLAPS to JRR Tolkien for bringing this opportunity to us! If you’ve Never heard of SPEEDFORNEED? Watch this cool YouTube Video “The Making of SPEEDFORNEED” which shows in ~4min what and why F3 Nation is doing this charitable initiative.

RACE EVENT: Christmastown 5K in McAdenville
DATE: November 25th(Saturday after Thanksgiving) ~ 6:00 PM Start time please arrive at least 1hr earlier ( we will be running through the Christmas Lights so streets will be closed at 5pm and traffic will be heavy allow extra drive time)
WHO’S INVITED: F3 Nation PAX, their M’s and 2.0s (spectate & support or register to run)
REGISTRATION WEBSITE:https://www.mcadenville-christmastown.com/ct5-K.htm
OTHER DETAILS:$30.00 Cost thru November 21st / / No race-day registration (RACE LIMITED TO FIRST 1,200 RUNNERS)
MEETING POINT: F3 Nation SPEEDFORNEED tent in front of the Pharr YMCA (look for the racing chairs!)
HOST F3 REGION:F3 Gashouse
DRIVERS:T-Square, Dolph, Pizza Man , Edison
TRACK COMMANDER (TC):Amy, James, Mason , 4^th TBD

If your region wants to host a SPEEDFORNEED race, please let us know ASAP! We already have races on the annual schedule and would do our best to enable you to provide the ride of a lifetime for kids with disabilities, while showcasing what F3 Nation is all about to your local community.

Contact: Twitter @F3SPEEDFORNEED or @JRRTolkienF3 or email SPEEDFORNEED@yahoo.com

SFN… HELP Kids; GROW F3 Nation ~ JRR Tolkien & Tool Time

F3 Dads at Martha’s House Pre-Blast

November 4, 2017 / Roscoe / 0 Comments

UPDATE…

Update: So the temperatures should be in the high 40’s so make sure you bring an extra sweatshirt for your 2.0’s and M’s for after the workout. The planning committee has also updated the menu for the after workout replenishment since only the truly hardcore PAX will eat ice cream when it is cold outside. (If you still want to bring it, I will help eat it)

Here is what is being provided thus far….

Guts and I are providing the hot water for a hot chocolate bar. I am also bringing some green tea for your hauty tauty types that drink with your pinky raised (you know who you are). I am bringing about 30 coffee cups, spoons, waters.

Hush Puppy is bringing the charcoal for a smores bar. If you want smores, bring the requisite ingredients.

What is still needed? We need cookies, waters, hot chocolate packets, smores, granola bars, and anything else you want to eat and share with the PAX.

What else do I need? I need a few 1st F Q’s to help lead the workout. YHC torqued his Achilles running with Rob Jones in Charlotte Thursday. When something hurts when you are running with Rob Jones, you keep running. It is just the way it is.

So….be prepared to help Q the workout Mary style and remember who the audience is. Whoopy reminded me the last time we did F3 Dads I may have been a little too “default aggressive” in pushing the young PAX. We will be better this time! See you tomorrow!

Without reading the rest of the original post, here is the most relevant information cut and pasted for your simplicity.

Bring volleyballs, frisbees, footballs, soccer balls, boomerangs, but no My Little Ponies, or Teletubbies. There is no power at the shelter so someone bring an old school boombox so we can jam out.

If someone wants to prepare an age appropriate lesson or two along the way, let me know and we will make time for that too.

Gentlemen,

My six year old has been wanting to attend an F3 workout for the last few months and I can’t let him down. So….back by popular demand, we return to Martha’s House for another rendition of F3 Dads.

Here is what you need to know.

Where: Martha Rivers Park I have picnic shelter #1 reserved from 1500-1900. This is the one beside the sand volleyball area and first one on your left as you enter the park.

When: Next Sunday, November 12th. The kid and family friendly beat down begins at 1430 hours. To be clear, sons and daughters are welcome as well as spouses. All ages, all inclusive, pets on a leash, etc. Bring a friend….everyone gets a nickname.

What: The workout will start at 1430 hours. I will have a weinke but if anyone wants to Q some of the workout that is fine with me. In fact, I am on call next weekend so please have some ideas in case YHC uses Q privilege and calls on you to lead. This will be a fun filled event for all ages. The workout will end at 1515 for a COT and BOK. (Ball of kids)

After the workout we will have an ice cream social. All family members are welcome!

What to bring: We need a few coolers with water. We need bowls, spoons, ice cream, and ice. I will bring some but we will need more. Bring friends who need F3.

Bring volleyballs, frisbees, footballs, soccer balls, boomerangs, but no My Little Ponies, or Teletubbies. There is no power at the shelter so someone bring an old school boombox so we can jam out.

If someone wants to prepare an age appropriate lesson or two along the way, let me know and we will make time for that too.

Wear your F3 swag and represent and maybe we can EH some bystanders during the workout.

Remember that the next Sunday the 19th we will hike Kings to Crowders Mountain. That pre-blast is yet to come so be on the lookout.

Top Hat Didn’t See the Warning!

November 4, 2017 / Tool Time / 0 Comments

YHC sent out 3 separate warnings this week on the Twitter….That YHC needed to train for the Charlotte Marathon Relay next week with http://www.Speedforneed.org …Top Hat didn’t see them….

Pledge

Warm-up:

None

The Thang:

We moseyed from the Yank toward the downtown Belmont Turned Left on Woodrow and then left on N Central …we continued to the New Harris Teeter on South point Rd. this was 2.0 Miles.

When we arrived at the Teeter

Corewood by ToolTime was initiated (Show To Know about the Name)

In and Outs with arms up -25

Freddie Mercury’s forward with arms up in seated V position – 25 /Then Backwards for 25

Crunchy Frog – 25

Wide leg sit-ups – 25

Fifer Scissors- 25

Hip Rock and Raise – 25

Heels to Heaven- 25

V-Up/Roll-ups -25

Oblique V-ups Right Side -25 /Then Left side -25

American Hammers -50

When Corewood was completed we did a short count off and then headed back to the F’ing Yank another 2.0 Miles!!!

Once we arrived at the Yank…

On your 6

50 Flutter Kicks IC

25 Pretzel Crunches each side

Before YHC could say recover….Top Hat decided to stand up…..sooo

25 more Flutter Kicks IC.

DONE!

Announcements: Advisory Board Meeting Nov 12^th at Cavendish in Gastonia, Christmas Party Dec 1^st See Freight and Preblast for Details, Christmastown 5k SpeedForNeed!!! November 25

COT

Prayer Requests

Brownstreak’s Father fighting for his life, Quiche is in Pakistan prayer for his ministry to be IMPACTFUL for the Kingdom and for his safe return home.

YHC asked Top Hat to take us out in Prayer as he is a Mighty Prayer Warrior and YHC hasn’t had the pleasure of hearing a Top Hat prayer in far too long!

Proverbs 27:

¹⁷Iron sharpens iron,
and one man sharpens another.

It was an honor to lead today men!

Tool Time

Return of the Mac (n’ cheese)

October 7, 2017 / Sargento / 0 Comments

It was a beautiful morning for a beatdown, at least as far as YHC could tell in the gloom. Eight strong men showed for the event and YHC hoped not to splash merlot due to his lack of posting of late. This is what I remember.

Pledge of Allegiance

Warm-Up:

Goof Balls (what else?!?) x15IC, Don Quixote x10IC, Imperial Walkers x15IC

Mosey around the corner, up to the picnic shelter, back down to the amphitheater for a second attempt at the Bearway to Heaven. While Led Zeppelin’s classic song Stairway to Heaven plays, the PAX would bearcrawl up to the level step of the amphitheater, do 1 burpee. Crawlbear back to the start. Bearcrawl up to the second step, 2 burpees, crawlbear back. Rinse and repeat all until 7 burpees was reached. We finished before the song was over. AYE

Mosey up to the picnic shelter for the main event: The Deck of Death!!!

Clubs – Peter Parkers

Diamonds – Dips

Spades – Merkins

Hearts – LBC’s

The number of the card pulled corresponded to the number of reps. Aces meant a lap around the track. Joker were a wild card for the drawer to pick their own exercise. YHC knew that the deck wasn’t all square beforehand, I think it got messed up when Dolph and Tiny Tank got their mitts on it at Goat Island earlier in the year. There was an extra Ace and extra King of Hearts! AYE

Mosey back to the amphitheater for Mary. We did LBC’s, Flutterkicks, 6″, Dying Cockroaches and many more I can’t remember. AYE

Announcements & Prayer requests.

Moleskin- It’s been over a month since I’d Q’ed and until Thursday’s Goat Island VQ by Dr. Suess, hadn’t been at a weekday workout in a month either. It was time for me to start getting back in the groove and being with you men reminded me why I love F3. You guys are awesome!!!

Until next time, Sargento is ooooouuuutttt!!!

F3 Gastonia 50 mile relay dry run

October 2, 2017 / Pizza Man / 0 Comments

Well this F3 Gastonia 50 mile relay has been in the works for sometime and with the Tuna 200 coming QIC figured it might be a good time for a dry run and to get some of the PAX to start training for it. With that being said…we ran…took a break…ran some more…took another break…and ran a little more!!! Around 50 miles to be exact. During the run we ran through or ran by all 10 AO’s in F3 Gastonia. This was a good time with my F3 brothers…I think starting at 4am brought the best out of everyone. I can’t really explain what these events are like but the reasoning behind this 50 miler is to give a relay race opportunity to everyone within F3 Gastonia and so that you wouldn’t have to be away from the family for a couple days. Trust me when I say that this 50 mile relay will be no walk in the park but when you are with the HIMS in F3 Gastonia there are no words that can describe it. This BB could go on for days with all the mummblechatter that went on, so I highly suggest that you start training NOW because you do not want to miss this event, IT WILL BE EPIC!!! There will be more information about the event coming soon!!!

Special thanks to all the HIMS that made this dry run happen!!! There is absolutely NO way this would have been possible without each of you!!!

Until next time Pizza Brah is OOOOOOOUUUUUUUTTTTTT!!! (Show to know)

First Murph at the Yank

September 23, 2017 / Tool Time / 0 Comments

Pledge

Warm-up:

None

The Thang:

This one is real simple

1 mile Mosey

100 Pull-Ups

200 Merkins

300 Squats

1 mile Mosey

After Last mile mosey we did some core..

LBC’s by the studs that came in first

Flutter Kicks- 20 IC

V up -Roll up’s – 25

Oblique V ups – 25 Right 25 Left

Great work by all PAX today this is a real mother of a beat down.

COT

Moleskin

YHC read Dredd’s post on courage and spoke about why we are out here day after day. The physical gains we are able to achieve as we post mean nothing if we don’t use the strength we are gaining for the betterment of others. We need to rise up and lead at home, in the work place and in the community. This will take courage which is NOT the absence of fear, quite the contrary it is the ability to rise up in the face of fear and do what needs to be done!

To quote Dredd “To give over completely to one’s instinct to avoid danger, regardless of the consequences, is the opposite of Courage. It is cowardice. If we were all to flee from danger all the time, the Community would be slowly devoured, starting with the slowest man and ending with the fastest.”

“Courage begins with the recognition that there are some hardships that confront us that simply must be fought”

Men we are training out here day after day to be leaders. Ask yourselves where you need to step up and lead more? What fear you need to slay? There are people counting on you men and God created us to rule! YHC encourages all of you and myself to step up and do this daily!

Prayers:

Sargento’s Mother in Law for healing, PAX on the IR and PAX with some serious issues going on in their lives for strength.

1 Corinthians 16:13 (NLT)

¹³Be on guard. Stand firm in the faith. Be courageous.^[a] Be strong.

1 Corinthians 16:13 (HCSB)

¹³Be alert, stand firm in the faith, act like a man, be strong.