5 Years of F3

5 Years of F3

Thursday: 2pm.
Oh crap, I have the Q. Its my 5 year anniversary of starting F3. Better look for plan…

Original plan had something to do with the presidential fitness challenge. I found the patch in my drawer.

After googling a bit and realizing this wasn’t a thing anymore. Apparently shame inducing. Plan scrapped. Original was something like: 1 mile run, pull-ups, sit-ups, sit-and-reach, 30 yard shuffle… idk.

However, this is The Brave, obstacle heavy, at least 4 miles… Google spartan race. How many obstacles are in a sprint. Answer: ~20+

Plan is forming. I know a four-mile loop. Divide 4 miles approximately into 400m you get ~16 “obstacles” or pain-stations. How many intersections are there on said loop? About the same, skipping unimportant or heavy traffic areas. Stopping for the smell of donuts not at an intersection. 5 years, we need 5 miles today. Will run to deck, up the ramps and down stairs back home.

Make weinke. Print. Several of them.

Backup plan based on crowd-size and speed would have been to divide into groups of unimportant size. Not needed today. Disclaimer approximately given, we clipped off at a fast-rate to the first stop.

The Thang:

20 merkins (Briarwick)
30 crunch (paradise Ridge Rd)
20 high knees (bryant farms Rd)
30 american hammers (ymca)
20 burpees (hawk ridge)
30s plank (houston ridge)
20 Flutter (Kingston Forest)
30 Merkins (Sugar Donuts)
20 Dolly (Millwright Lane)
30 Wide Arm Merkins (Camfield)
20 Regular Situps (williams pond)
30 diamond merkins (Ballantyne Commons), announced as 15 DM twice to trick the pax
20 heels to Heaven (Ballantyne Trace)
30 squats (Stone Briar)
20 mountain climbers (Meadow Run Lane)
30 jump Lunge (Dowington Dr)

At Ballantyne Commons and Community House. OYO run to Wells Deck, up to top, down the steps, meet back at Brazwells.
10 Perfect form Merkins to finish it off.

The Route:

19 today counting YHC. Grateful. 5 years of anything is tough. Moved to Charlotte about 5.5 years ago. Didn’t know anyone besides family. Met markettimer. He tried to convince me to come out to the start of Stonehenge. I was a three month EH. Glad to have a great group of guys to hang with.

My First Post:

Unhinged at Stonehenge

Cool to see quite a few familiar names in there for other PAX that are still coming out today as well.

Announcements

• Cheese Curd and Cheddar are looking for runners for the smokey mountain relay
• Spaghetti Dinner fundraiser for Waxhaw Fire Department benefiting family of Michael Starnes.
  • Saturday March 3rd 5-7pm, 3500 Waxhaw Pkwy, Waxhaw, NC
  • Cant make the dinner? Consider donating. https://www.gofundme.com/the-starnes-family-medical-fund
• Richard Sheltra 10k, 5k, 1mile fun run in Pineville on April 28th
• See Soft Pretzel about new opportunity to give back to the community. First opportunity coming up soon doing yard work for a local family.
  • Preblast: https://f3southcharlotte.com/2018/03/02/the-sandbox-is-here/
  • Slack: #the_sandbox