One Year…and a Few Speed Bumps Along the Way



One Year…and a Few Speed Bumps Along the Way

12 men showed up to celebrate my first twelve months in F3.  Hard to believe it’s already been a year.  Time flies when your having fun?  True statement. Great group of guys this morning. Chopper was in attendance – It’s his 1 year anniversary as well.  We both started with an Outback Q at The Maul.  I remember it was cold, and I thought this f3 thing was something I could get into, more about that later.

I had a plan…here’s what we did.

Mosey from theater to Jersey Mike’s

  • 12 Low Slow Squats
  • 12 Mountain Climbers
  • 12 Imperial Walkers
  • 12 Side Straddle Hop

Mosey over to speed bumps behind HT

  • 2nd bump: 5 Merkins, back one 5 squats
  • 3rd bump: 5 Merkins, back one 5 squats
  • 4th bump: 5 Merkins, back one 5 squats
  • Etc to end at 6th

People’s chair: wait for 6

Mosey around by Sally’s and out, crossing BC Prkwy to St Matts

  • 1st bump clockwise (Add Chopper chatter here): 6 Mountain Climbers, add 6 to each bump – 10th should = 60

Mosey counterclockwise to St Matts school lot. Start at bushes…

  • Sprint to 1st bump: 5 Diamond Merkins (stay together in plank)
  • Sprint to 2nd bump: 5 Dia Merkins, (stay together in plank)
  • Sprint to 3rd bump: 5 Dia Merkins, (stay together in plank) run backward one, 5 dia merkins
  • Sprint to end of lot

Mosey out and across Williams Pond to Bradshaw’s staircase

Partner up – One partner goes right, one left, up staircase and meet at top in middle for 5 hand slap merkins back down to courtyard for 5 each WWII sit-ups. Repeat x3

Mosey out and down Elm towards Target to Ballantyne Trace on left.

Triple burpee something…

  • Down to stop sign: 3 burpees
  • Up to stop sign: 3 burpees
  • X3

Check time… hustle back to Cinema/start. Just a few seconds over time. Close one. Mileage ~3.1

Mole:

The guys really got after it today.  No real 6, solid effort all around. Found a way not to get lapped by Teddy, partner with him.  Drago (20) and Bucky were out front most of the morning.  Great to see Chopper twice this week, back at it after a hiatus. Olaf is a SOB regular now.  Escobar and Market Timer were unusually quiet today, maybe the math problem was just too much.  I was feeling those mountain climbers at 48, 54, 60 a bit more than I thought.

I had Strawberry add me to the calendar back in December so I could Q my anniversary workout. Perfect number of guys (12) showed up. Glad Billy Goat promoted so much. 🙂  I thought the speed bumps where a good theme after 12 months. Had a few along the way…stupid things like alarm clocks and travel, but I stayed on track and did at least two workouts every week for a year. I jumped out early and was doing 3, 4 sometimes 5 workouts a week.  As Mario once said “I remember when I was this excited”.  Well a waist size smaller, a site Q “promotion”, pushed a chariot in a 5k and I’m still showing up.

Don’t let your own personal “speed bumps” get you down. Come work it out with the guys in the Gloom, you’ll be glad you did.

Thanks to Mary Kay and Billy Goat for the opportunity.

Thanks Chopper for the take out!

Fredo

Announcements:

-Brolympics February 24th.  Sign up to participate or volunteer. Here:  https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wv7Iep3nhR-G2n1Ftwe6Ut-CGAGAWNLCIBcYIUcHYrQ/edit#gid=0

-Madison has sign up for the CPR class February 17th.

-Epic Friday: Bucky’s Birthday And Groundhog day PLUS – Tuck @ The Brave, Mermaid @ Centurion, Doc @ Cerberus

-Need a few good men to lead #daVinci in March. Hit me up if you are free.

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Cheddar
6 years ago

Glad Chopper is back! I hope I catch him soon. Liked the speed bumps liner.

Also to add to EPIC friday Goodfella @ Impromptu

Bucky
6 years ago

Great 1-year and backblast Fredo. You stepped up into leadership quickly, which we all appreciate. And thanks for the friendship. Here’s to another 12 strong years. I mean 12 months.

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