After a night of excessive tweeting and “uncomfortable chatter” from Alf, 24 PAX showed up for another session of Fast Twitch. After a 3:30 wake up call (#dadlife), I decided to surprise the PAX 10 minutes early. Van Pelt arrived at 4:15 and was catching up on his #TweetBox and re-runs of Golden Girls on Netflix. When I got out of the car, I heard Purple Gaze asking if I’d show up on time. [Editorial Note: Empirical researchers, aka Purple Haze, predicted my BB execution at a whopping .33% probability rate…]
El Thang:
Run to first pseudo major intersection for merkins, interrupted by multiple vehicles. Millennial impatience overtook Rachel and we left.
Run toward Arboretum in Raintree with lunge walks somewhere in there. Attempted dips on wooden fencing (ill advised), so we left. Attempted dips on steel structure (advised) X 30.
Run to the nasty hill north of Raintree CC with nastiness on either side for an A51 Matterhorn.
Main Entree: 5 burpees on one side of the mtn., run to the summit for 5 burpees, run to the other side for 5 burpees, run all the way back for 20 over/unders (4 count), repeat X4. [Editorial Note: Gummy noted 3-4 ghost vehicles with “car up” before slowing down personally. Hops and Hannibal didn’t buy it.]
Mosey back to said steel structure for dips X 20, derkins X 12.
Mosey to bottom of some street in Raintree for Mosey: insert exercises.
Mosey back to AO.
Naked Moleskin:
When did S. Charlotte Middle become a Run 4 Yo Life signup center? There were more .036 oz. belly canisters and gel pouches than I could shake a stick at when we got back to COT.
More happened on Twitter before, (possibly) during, and after this workout.
Gummy called out more actual, real vehicles than fake vehicles even with 3-4 assists.
Hairball was an active participant on the Tweetbox but nowhere to be found. Sightings of his Miami Dolphin tattoo (signed by Dan Marino), shirtless were reported in NoDa this morning.
Rachel was his normal, polite self. After lap 2, he finished reading me Chapter 2 of his favorite fiction novel and took off.
Hops was Mr. Brady-wet when he arrive at COT. It was gross.
Mr. Brady was Mr. Brady-wet. Gross.
Semi Gloss wasn’t there. #sigh#
One Eye tried to rekindle SOFAWIB on yet another Tuesday morning, to no avail.
Strawberry wore his customary Fast Twitch F3 camo-red sweatervest which is an effective wardrobe choice during reenactments of Red Tornado. In all seriousness, I have sweater-envy.
I expected a lot more out of Alf today. Minor, uncomfortable chatter for the first 50 feet and then he went silent. I hope things are okay.
Joker’s legit dudes. Crushed it per usual. He’s 45 and beats me on the Matterhorn. His claim is that he’s in better shape at 45 than his 31 year old self. Amazing. He talked a lot…I listened.
Hops crushed the takeout per usual. Solid send out.
Thanks for the chance to bring the heat this morning. Customer satisfaction surveys are in and we have an average of 4.8 out of 5 stars. Only Mermaid dinged me for not providing a state-compliant disclaimer before leaving. Next time…
24 showed up for another rendition of Centurion. Abacus turns 50 on Sunday so his brother repaid the favor with a paver, a bottle of booze and a creepy New Orleans Mardi Gras necklace. Chelms swore he had 50 more in his trunk if others wanted one. We didn’t.
Warm up:
SSH X 30, Merkin X 15, Parker Peter X 20
Mosey to deck:
Head up the stairs, 5 burpees, run across, 5 burpees, run down the stairs, 5 merkins, run back to start, 5 merkins. Repeat with 10, repeat with 15. This hurt.
Mosey to your local State Farm agent’s office on 51 for People’s Chair X 2 and then 3 man grinders in the State Farm lot. We did a lot of things there, many of which I can’t remember. Semi refused much of the exercises and claimed to see the big dipper 3 times while “resting.”
Mosey back to deck at Catholic. Run up the ramp with 7 diamond merkins at each u-turn. Head back to COT.
NM:
Abacus wore it well today. He ran over the beer his brother bought him while leaving and then proceeded to drink it, glass and all. Hope he’s ok.
Chelms and Mermaid were pushing me hard today. Thank you gents.
Semi posted this morning and others on a not-to-be-named text string did not. T-Claps Semi.
Hops has 36 bats, 16 packs of quickrete, two painters buckets, an assortment of flat head screwdrivers, and 168 pack of zip ties in his trunk. He says he collects “stuff.” I say he’s a wholesaler of construction equipment and baseball paraphernalia.
Van Pelt quickly de-robed this morning, dropping his High Point U. beanie and jacket. President Qubein cried a tear at the exact same moment.
T-Claps to Shrinkwrap for his first workout. Well done sir.
A lot of other things happened. They’ll be annotated accordingly.
And then there were 3. We showed up to start Tuesday off right and to continue the detox before Thursday’s binge. No plan so we made it up.
Run Chadwyck mile for warm up with 20 merkins at every turn.
Run to jungle gym in the back for 10 pullups, 20 dips, 30 squats.
Run to the entrance off Rea for 10 burpees, 20 Carolina dry docks, 30 over/unders.
Repeat until 6:08. Chadwyck mile.
NM: During pullups, it was cold. The sky was crystal clear. Cold Cuts saw 3 perfectly aligned stars and went into an astrology lesson, ending with “3 guys, 3 perfect stars. Coincidence?” Needless to say, it got weird after that. Regardless, we sweat it out and put a good deposit on the day.
It’s official that Semi Gloss has begun winter hibernation.
I’m Q with 3 others at AG Middle for Thursday’s Turkey Day convergence. 7AM. Be there.
Excellent work getting 460+ turkeys to CRM by the men of F3. #HIM
14 came out to the 2nd showing of Rock Zero. Instead of occupying the 32 square miles of parking lot, we left campus rather quickly for a nasty hill.
The Thang:
Mosey to the “amphitheater” for warm up: SSH X 27.5, Merkin X 12, Bear Crawl around said “amphitheater,” Derkins X 10, Imperial Walkers X 28.3, whatever else we did.
Mosey across 51 to a Pulte Homes establishment. Head to the base of a nasty hill we’ll call The Woof.
10 burpees at the bottom, run up to home site 35 (Woof) and 20 over/unders (4 count). Repeat X 3.
Mosey toward Colony/Rea.
Stop at a mailbox we all know but a house we don’t. Teams of 3.
Partner A – Freddy Mercury, Partner B – 200 yards away, low slow squats, Partner C – run in between, Repeat until Gummy complains (again)
Run to entrance (Colony), plank
Run back to cul-de-sac, 7’s with burpees/diamond merkins.
Run to the base of the Woof AYG, run backwards up it. Waive to a chatty Cathy in her wardrobe with labrador in tow. TR was overly chatty. Head back to the Concrete Castle known as Calvary.
NM:
Gaffer was day 2 today. T-Claps brother. Keep coming out.
Nemo tried to gas it on the AYG to the Woof. Didn’t work out. He bottle rocketed to the second mailbox and then hit the e-brake. E-trade brought the heat the whole way, #oldmanstrength. Nemo’s crushing it for his age. Keep it coming brother.
TR pushed me all morning. Much appreciated brother.
Horseneck has new shoes and therefore a new lease on life. Watch out.
Gummy brought the mumble chatter. No effect on the Q.
Missing one on the roster list thanks to my breathy phone recording. Sound off.
Thanks for the chance to Q men.
22ish posted for another session of DMZ. Site Q, Bushwood, was at home nursing an “IT band.” Orlando ran in, as usual, with 6 seconds to spare.
Thang:
At 5:31, Kirk claimed that he invited a FNG who he swore was coming. We tweaked the plan by circling up in the parking lot. SSH X 20, Merkin X 12, Imperial Walker X 20, Over/Under X 20. Still no sign of Kirk’s imaginary friend so we left. Kirk’s indecision to stay or go was palpable.
We ran to Kingswood, stopping at each street on the right for a merkinfest.
12 Merkins…12 Diamonds…12 Wide-arms, 20 Freddies…12 Stagger Rights, 20 Freddies…12 Stagger Lefts, 20 Freddies…We arrive.
We *insert skateboard verbiage* into the halfpipe. Partner up. A goes right and at top, 5 burpees. B goes left and at top 7 diamond merkins. Meet in the pipe, 10 handslap merkins X 5.
**Omaha from 7 to 10 diamond merkins for timing purposes.**
Mary to wait. Run over the hill and through the woods for peaks/valleys. At valleys, 10 jump lunges (10 each leg), at peaks, 20 russian twists.
Run home, stopping at the same streets for the same awful merkinfest.
At COP, 12 burpees OYO.
Shirtless moleskin:
Tank tops are back. Stock up while you can.
Agony’s head scarf was odd and confusing. Coupled with his long socks, very short shorts, Princeton Running Club tank top, and Jesus fish necklace, it was a site to behold.
SemiGloss crushed the burpees Spackler style. He was shirt off by COT and laying down.
Kirk should have stayed…Phillip (FNG – Plan B) arrived at 5:35. He spent 5:35-6:15 exploring the neighborhoods of South Charlotte looking for Kirk. T-Claps for not driving home and mailing it in Plan B. Come back out and we’ll see you in the gloom.
Run Stopper insists his Twitter handle is logical and easy to locate. False. This just in that he can be found @CarrySwan. Look for the “I Know What You Did Last Summer” mask as his profile pic and you’ll know it’s him.
There was a report of 2.8 miles covered and 4.3 miles covered. Who knew that Garmin satellites could be inconclusive?
Thanks to Agony for the take out and for praying for the QC.
BRR 2017 is coming. Start running a lot now. Ragnar is coming in a couple weeks so there’s that.
5 gathered for a recovery day, of sorts. Even Semi Gloss was there. Voodoo – “Hey Semi, feeling FOMO for not doing BRR?” Semi Gloss – “No. Unapologetically no.” We were off.
Run to the cannons and back. Partner up-ish (5 ppl).
One partner runs to school entrance while the other does 7 pullups, 14 derkins, 21 dips. Flap jack. Repeat.
At 6:05, run to cannons (again) and back.
Skin:
All this time and I never noticed this. Voodoo has a Tesla with a 32″ big screen GPS device on the dash. How he sees traffic, pedestrians, stoplights, I have no idea.
SG has 99 problems, knees being one of them. He’ll be at the convergence tomorrow at The Rock (5:15-6:15) with both his bad knees and his commentary. Don’t miss it.
High Tide ran in and out of the workout. He lives in Ft. Mill and insisted that the BRR has turned over a new leaf. Hammer LIFO’d though his consistency for SOFAWIB is noteworthy and respectable. All others should take note.
Sun Dancer was absent and therefore we had no music. Tisk Tisk.
Kirk was sleeping I’m sure.
Talk Box, Iron Mike, Belair, they were all absent. Everyone gets demerits today.
We finally get back to working out, full body. No more soccer arms. Fast Twitch is sure to be at 2-3 ppl by month’s end. #SOFAWIBRising.
Here’s what we’ll do:
Run to the cannons and back. Partner up.
Partner A does 7 pullups, 14 derkins, 28 dips while Partner B runs to the main school entrance and back. Flapjack. Rinse & Repeat.
At 6:05, we take off for the cannons and back.
Sundancer will have the tunes, won’t you Prancer?
See you in the AM. Bring a FNG to the SOFAWIB.
10 men gathered for another session of Death Valley. The numbers were thin as nearly all of F3 is deep into BRR training at this point. #MtnGoat
The Thang:
Ran into Raintree to a T intersection. Circle up for SSH X 20, *vehicle interruption*, Merkin X 12, Diamond Merkin X 7. Mosey.
Mosey to Raintree bowl for some partner work. Size, speed, credit score, Myers Briggs, it all matters so choose wisely!
Partner A goes right, B left. A to the top of the bowl for 10 diamond merkins, B to the other top for 8 monkey humpers, 7 handslap merkins when you meet in the middle. Rinse/Repeat 5 times. *constant vehicle interruption*
Mosey to Big Bridge Cleaners. Commercial Break: Nice folks at BBC, all green (whatever that means) operation, cleaning done in house, affordable, quick turnaround. Highly recommended.
Commercial Break: Mike Gminski has an intermodal transportation company upstairs. Or was it Mike Gymkee? Or Mike, Jim, and Steve? Whatever.
Wall sits for a bit, break. Wall sit, right leg up, break. Wall sit, left leg up, break.
Mosey back to HQ for 7 MOM, Total Request Live style. We did things, it hurt.
Naked Moleskin:
Mike Gminski was somewhere in there, suspenders, earring and all.
Turkey Leg was imitating McGee with some aggressive handslaps. T-Claps.
Square Root has been doping again. It shows.
Pool party this weekend for F3 A51/SOB. Check any BB from the last 12-18 months for details.
Great work fellas. Thanks to Semi Gloss for the Qpportunity. Get well and back out there bud.
In typical fashion for late summer, BRR fear-stricken PAX stuck to Fast Hitch and ran a lot, keeping their soccer arms in solid tubular form. 5 men (including a 13 yr old stud) refused the temptation and hit SOFAWIB for another rendition.
Here’s what we did: http://f3nation.com/2016/08/08/sofawib-pb/
Naked Moleskin:
When I wrote this out, it seemed quite simple and easy but I knew the humidity would be punishing. Given all the BRR workouts I’ve frequented, I think the heat and cardio/strength mix makes for a nasty cocktail. Cold Cuts crushed it and drug me along for 45 minutes (6 rounds). Kirk blew the doors off again (7 rounds) and went solo. Hammer and Sledge wandered around confused for a bit but began to understand the course and settled in.
Pool party coming up this week. See the website and sign up. $10 per family, allegedly.
SOFAWIB is looking forward to getting our regulars back after Hurricane BRR blows through and even some new PAX. Even One Eye took a leave of absence. Stocks have plummeted a bit but recent data is showing a pending resurgence. Now is the time to buy, buy, buy. SOFAWIB will never be this cheap again.
Solid work men. See you next week, same bat time, same bat channel.
Here’s what we’ll do:
Run to Colony/Rea (HT shopping center intersection), right on Colony, turn in shopping center at Walgreens and run back through parking lot to normal entrance (HT).
Partner up because the misery is easier with a partner.
HT entrance – 20 partner derkins each
Iconic water feature – 25 dips
Benches near Lodge – 25 jump ups
Run colony to intersection – 10 burpees
Run back to HT entrance – repeat until 6:08.
Head back for COT.
Come one, come all to the OPE for a 5:30AM launch.