3 years in and feeling fine

  • When:06/16/17
  • QIC: Flipper
  • The PAX: Mermaid, Rachael, Fragile, Hoover, Geraldo, McGee, Dear Abby, Icky Shuffle, Sydney Cup, Dewalt, Deep Dish, Runstopper, Boerwoers, Prohibition, MallCop (kotters), Dingo, Blazing Saddles, Teddy, The Swede, Sledge, Hammer, Marlin, Nemo, Flipper


3 years in and feeling fine

As YHC rolled back into the AO after a quick pre-run and a full 5 minutes before official launch, a comment was made “surely all those cars cannot be for F3…”  Wow was that wrong.  By the bell of 0700 24 PAX had assembled to aid YHC in acknowledging the end of the 3rd years of gloom, humbling to say the least when RockZero has been averaging 12-14.

THE THANG

Mosey from launch point around the outside of the parking lot passed the ball fields up to the parking lot across from the hotbox where YHC had staged party favors.  While Runstopper made a cameo for COP leadership, YHC and Hoover set the table.  As such, no recount of COP will be available in this particular missive.

For the main event, weight plates had been set out on the lines of the lot in the below order:

45,35,35,25,25,10,10… The suicide was set to run out, grab a plate and stack it in order smallest to largest, then in reverse order returning plates to the designated line.  Due to size, PAX were divided into 2 groups.  While one group of 12 ran back to the launch and then out and around past the ballfields and back (around .75 miles), the other group began.  Once a pax either retrieved a plate, 4 stations were completed:

5 inside to outside merkins (using bumper plates to elevate for the “out” rep)

10 ball touch squats with 20 pound slam ball

10 over-shoulder ball throws with 40 pound slam ball

10 squats with 60 pound sandbag.

Upon return of the running group flapjack for a lap.  After both groups ran 1 lap, mosey to the hotbox for peoples chair passing slam balls in various forms.  Repeat cycle above and then line up in two lines facing each other to throw the 20 and 40 pound balls back and forth up the line (with burpee after throw.)

One final round then carrying the party favors back to the launch.  With 15 minutes left we moseyed to the far end of the lot for some elevator merkins with an AYG back to the cars.  Finally circle of Mary and 3 minutes of burpees (target 40 reps) due to the 8 mens worth of missing rice (rough estimate on that one I’ll admit.)

MOLESKIN:

Despite the mumble chatter complaining about the complexity of the weinke, there was plenty of sweat and maybe a few tears shed over the ~3.5 miles and 60 minutes.  Here in the dog days of summer its hard to gauge difficulty from sweat volume, but we were all winded at the end of the hour.      Incredibly solid effort from all in attendance including 2 of 3 OG Rock site Qs (where was Hops?!?)  Kotters to MallCop, good seeing you out there.  We also had a guest appearance from Fragile who has been terrorizing Charleston for the last year after being a Rock regular prior to that.

Once we got to COP YHC had a chance to talk for a few minutes, including a retelling of the wheelbarrow and the Dolphin (yes Runstopper we know you won that particular race!)  The opportunity to tell 23 PAX about the privilege it has been to be part of TheRock(zero) for the past 3 years and the honor it is to be a siteQ at the greatest darn AO in all of southtown was humbling.  I have never been prouder to be part of a group than I am of A51 F3.  The value of brotherhood, the examples of leadership, the personal growth both physical and otherwise have all been formative in my development to the man who I am today (good, bad or indifferent.)

Here is to another 3 years and beyond brothers, its a pleasure to lead.

AYE!

Flipper

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