2 men for a 4:45am #meattwitch KB session set the tone and proved that DST is our &$*%* and anyone who uses that as an excuse is weak and meager. The exception being the remainder of the 12 pax who came this morning that call FastTwitch home on Tuesday mornings. The challenge today – The ‘modified’ Balloon Knot. Another Spackler special stolen from either TL or Alf who did not name this correctly the 1st time.
The Thang
‘Mosey’ down through Raintree for a stop at Raintree CC for a quick stretch and rundown of the activity.
The ‘modified’ Balloon Knot – kinda like a starfish but with 3 loops
Using the corner of Raintree and 4 mile creek as the center of the #BKnot – Each time you get back to center perform 30 squats and move onto next loop. Each pax performed #BKnot x 2.
Loop 1 – the massive hill on Raintree
Loop 2 – corner of Rtree/4 mile down to Providence and back
Loop 3 – down smaller hill on 4 mile to the ’causeway’ and back
Mosey back to Rounding Run – line up and Indian Run back to SCMS.
Total mileage: 6.5 – 7 miles
Moleskine
Beautiful morning for a little ‘run’. Strong work by all with Mr Brady and TL outpacing everyone. Good job gents. Mr Brady put in more miles than anyone (7) as he is a glutton for punishment and decided to take on the massive Raintree Lane hill one more time #showoff Great to see Gummy come out for a little #biketwitch and enjoy some fellowship with the pax. And by fellowship I mean confirming to the pax verbally how awful it looked. And this we knew. At one point I considered knocking you from your huffy and taking a little break. Radar showed up covered, and I mean covered, in poison ivy. Thankful he left early so we didn’t have deny him from BOM. “ITS NOT CONTAGIOUS! I’VE GOOGLED IT. BUT WE PROBABLY ARE GOING TO BURN OUR SHEETS” We weren’t taking any chances. Really needed Runstopper in his fluorescent tights today, not for the visual of the pax, but for the visual traffic aid. Lastly, that was no Indian Run at the end. That was ridiculousness. Pretty sure TL tried to Q jack and lead that Cowgirl thing. But then again, that
Thank you Haze for taking us out in prayer
Announcements
HDHH to benefit F3 trip to Nicaragua – Wednesday at Mellow Mushroom in Ballantyne. #LibatedCamel will tweet something
F3 Golf – http://f3nation.com/2015/02/04/the-2nd-annual-f3-golf-classic/ – anyone want to put a team together?
Support team Chepul Hill for brain cancer research –http://www.braintumorcommunity.org/site/TR/TeamraiserEvents/CharlotteBrainTumorRace?team_id=71982&pg=team&fr_id=2420
The goal was to tell as many pax as possible how cold it was going to be in an effort to get no one to show up and then I could crawl back in the sack with the M and maybe do a little spoonin. I digress. In the end, that strategy didn’t work and 9 (er 18) sharp diamonds came to work for a solid 45.
The Thang
Slow mosey down Murderhorn with 20 CDD’s at each street lamp.
Pick a non running stone and mosey up to the neighborhood pool parking lot for COP
25 SSH
25 IW
She/He/Them/They Hate Me – 10 minutes
10 merkins
20 curls
30 overhead press (#cp)
Return the stones and line up for the Native American Shuffle up Murderhorn. Stop at top for 30 dolly in cadence. Repeat down and back Murderhorn keeping the shuffle format. 4
Mosey back to lot for some plankwork.
Triple Nickel on hill – jump squats at bottom and monkey humpers (the true #cp) at the top
Mosey to stairwell behind theatre. Each pax bunny hops up/down stairs while rest of pax perform wall chair with air presses (we got to 110 air presses in cadence)
Mary – 30 Flutter, 30 Rosa, 15 J Lo, finish with protractor which included a 180* aka The Nantucket aka San Francisco Treat.
Moleskine
YHC had not remembered that I had the #F3RY Q this week until I was reminded by Semi G on Monday. He was in a typical rant complaining (#ImagineThat #SoAngry) that he had to Q his own site, #F3DeathTwitch, on Wed and that it was going to be sooooooooo cold. Well Wed came and went and it was in the mid 20’s. But on this morning you could cut glass with the diamonds we were smuggling: 14* according to BBC.
For the record, it was noted that neither site Q attended this morning. I may need someone like to Joker to fill me in what the by-laws state on what the statute of limitations are for site Q take back.
Hairball made my day with the Nantucket reference. I added a little spice with the San Fran Treat. Either way, it needs to be added to the lexicon. Not it…..
Semi Gloss was dressed to impress yet again. I can’t wait to see what he has in store for the BRR.
Great to see some new faces today at Rebel Yell – Sussudio (site FNG?) and Iron Horse. I was shocked to see IH as he made sure to be clear at #HDHH that he might show but that wasn’t an official #HC. Glad you showed as you know you would have caught crap, which you are probably going to get anyway from Bug for cheating on #Hydra. Sussudio must be trying to get in every AO before he jet sets to Orlando. Hope you enjoyed it fellas.
Rumor has it Chipotle has taken quite the liking to the relatively new Sat gig , #F3FightClub. Pretty sure I saw him shadow boxing on occasion today. Haggis, you’d be proud to know he is selling it hard and yours truly has HC’d for Sat 2/28. Just to let you know though, I’m a bad man. I float like an anchor and sting like a moth. Wait. Float like a…..nevermind. Point is, I am all chin from the waist up. Damn!
Thank you Sussudio for taking us out in prayer. Many things to be thankful for and please keep in prayer those that are struggling emotionally, physically etc.
Announcements
Check the website – lots of things going on (Mudrun, BRR, Golf, F3 Beach weekend (?) – I’m onto something there and you smell it and like it.
22 of the finest gents from A51 and metro got their week off to a good start at #F3DMZ. And it went a bit like dis:
The Thang
Circle the parking lot for the stragglers. Off to Carmel Middle School we went at a fairly good clip.
COT for a brief round of 20 SSH
Partner up and each pick out a rock (one ‘heavy’ rock and one ‘running’ rock)
Line up on lacrosse field for Triple 200’s – one partner perform called exercise with ‘heavy’ rock while the other runs 200 yards with the ‘running’ rock – flap jack until you get to 200 on called exercise. Elbow plank when done.
1st 200 – curls
2nd 200 – overhead press
3rd 200 – T baggers
Quick plank work with a few 6 inchers
Drop the rocks and head to the hill by the baseball diamond for Triple Nickel.
Diamond merkins at bottom, wide at the top on the hill x 5
Mosey to front of school for Triple Sprints – 80 yard (roughly) sprints x 3 (actually 4)
AYO pace back to parking lot with 20 CDD’s at each speed bump
40 Dolly followed by 20 Dolly
Moleskine
So I got the call on Saturday to replace Agony who was going to be sick today. I thought, no problem I’d be up for it. Then came Sunday. I decided it would be a good idea to build a fire pit in the back yard. For those that know me, you would know that would not be a simple task, especially for me. Now I know that just like dry wall and painting, building fire pits are something you pay to have done, right Haggis? I completely underestimated the work and for that I was sore as all get out this morning. Soooooooo, decided to go with a little different plan and run a bit more this morning. If that upset anyone, I apologize. I do know it would have been seriously disappointing to Semi Gloss who has been planning his entire last week on attending Fast Twitch tomorrow. But he decided to fart sack this morning so…..I digress. Not a lot of breaks today and certainly no 10 second countdowns. It’s only 45 min. Gotta get after it.
Good to see some familiar faces out there today but I really need to start making DMZ more often and get a chance to meet more of the metro guys. Lot’s of noticeable strength out there. However I will say that it was very obvious some of you (not just metro but A51 as well) could have had some bigger eyes for your ‘heavy’ rock. However, there was one eager gent who’s eyes were bigger than he needed them to be when choosing his rock and unfortunately he was my partner. Bug, I don’t know what the heck you were smoking this morning but that thing was ridiculous. Felt like I had a bad case of elephantitis during the T bags.
The Weinke called for Triples all morning but had to audible during the Triple Sprints and call for one more. Blame Hopper. I think he was attempting to Q Jack.
Learned that Cheesecurd had quite the Saturday night. He had to ask what the weather was like yesterday (beautiful and 70…in Feb) as he and his M marinated in their post libation caves all day. Go big or go home. Next time calls for a little hair of the dog for recovery bro.
Sound off if you have any other observations.
Enjoyed it gents. As always, its a pleasure to lead such a fine group. Thank you Snowflake for the prayer send off.
Announcements
Mud Run sign ups are underway. Check site.
BRR sign ups are underway, atleast in A51. Check the site.
Quarry Crusher is on April 18th in Columbia. Run down the quarry and back – 3.75 miles and 10% grade. Clowncar is the plan from S Charlotte. DM Spackler for details.
22 beasts, including 4 KB tossers, dealt with it and dominated life on this lovely Wednesday morning at DV
The Thang
Mosey across the lot for COP
20 rapid squats
20 SSH
30 sec clockwise plank walk – 30 second elbow plank – 30 sec counterclockwise plank walk – 30 second elbow plank
Mosey to pick up the new DV Donations – cinder blocks – Partner up and mosey down to the bleachers
Partner 1 – runs up path toward school, up ramp and back down stairs returning to his partner
Partner 2 – perform exercise with cinder block
Flap jack
Exercises performed: 100 overhead press, 200 merkins on cinder block, 200 t-baggers, 200 dips (partner ran with cinder block), 200 supine pull-ups (partner ran with cinder block)
We also did some plank work in between sets.
That’s it. Boring.
Moleskine
YHC had only seen cinder blocks used at The Matrix or Area 51 and remembered how much fun they were so I made a pit stop at Lowe’s yesterday and introduced them to the DV pax this morning. They will remain on the property so use them at your own risk *disclaimer. I’m not a professional but maybe we can get Tiger Rag to come in and give us a safety class on cinder block technique.
Chatter was at a minimum today. Probably because Bananas, Hops, Bulldog, Brown etc all decided to take a day off or head up to the rainbow parade at Calvary. Oh not necessarily for #Anvil, they could have simply been showing up 3 days early for #TheRock. Keep your panties on fellas.
Great work by many today. Sussudio killed it on the runs. Not so much on the plank walks. “Which way is clockwise”? Fireman Ed was very disappointed the Q didn’t call for curls with the cinder blocks. So was the Q as they were planned but forgotten #NextTime. 2nd time in a week YHC has partnered with DK. Still not positive he knows #tSpackler after 2 years. Upon each return from his run all I got was “PARTNER” to flapjack #Priceless. Thankful with such a mild morning in that both DK and @F3Bighairy kept their clothes on. Date for the @F3Bighairy waxing event is still TBD. Keep an eye out for that pre-blast. Thanks SG for the prayer send off.
Announcements
Threshold is in 30 minutes – southpark – good luck getting there
Email Turkey Leg if you planning or thinking about doing the BRR. Sign ups are under way soon.
Happy Hour today – Lodge at 4:30
8 pax followed 2 Q’s, who have no business giving exercise instruction, into the chilly, wet gloom. Good thing we had 2 shrinks in attendance as things got deep. Real deep.
The Degenerate’s Q
Jog the ‘track’ around the fields to the left side of the school for COP. During 35 SSH, the PAX heard probably one of the more well thought out disclaimers known to man.
Mosey to front of school and partner up. Partner one does called exercise while partner 2 runs around the parking lot. FlapJack and stop when you reach the called upon #.
200 step ups
200 squats
Wall Chair
Mosey down to basketball courts for sprints but with same idea as above
100 knee ups
200 calf raises
200 Monkey Humpers
The Gentleman’s Q
Mosey up to launch lot to lose half-zip and get a drink.
COP
Merkin x 5 IC
6 inches-10 count
Diamond x 5 IC
6 inches-10 count
Crucible Merkin x 5 IC
6 inches-10 count
5 Super Burpees (5 merkin and 5 Jump Squats)
Rock Pile
Exercises to 20 civilian cadence: Curls/Presses/Tri-extensions. Drop rock
Mosey to track. Complete 1 lap with stop for 15 Burpee OYO at mid-point. Finish lap.
Merkin Set
Merkin x 10 civilian cadence: Regular/Wide/Diamond/Offset Left/Offset Right
Mosey to front of school.
Bench Set
10 Jump up/15 dip/20 Incline merkin/5 Burpee OYO. Repeat
Short mosey to parking lot.
AYG Sprints x 10 (60 yards) with 10 seconds rest
Mosey to basketball court
Mary/Merkin
Heels to Heaven x 25 IC
Merkin x 25 IC
Flutter x 25 IC
Merkin x 10 IC
10 Burpee OYO
Mosey ½ lap. Stop for Merkin x5 IC
Mosey back to launch for COT
The Skinny
Opposites attract which is why Mermaid and YHC were asked to lead some ‘*********’ domination this morning. Styles that are so different yet compliment each other so well. A loud, sarcastic, refusnik a** and a true gentleman shrink. Possibilities were endless. As was the punishment. Plan was easy, YHC takes the start with a focus on legs and lower body with the #Gent preparing an upper body punishment that would have been appreciated by The Boz. Besides the realization that YHC is indeed a Clydesdale among this group of men, observations were as follows:
Teddy and Joker are fast but Frasier seems to have another level. So sick of saying that but it is fun to watch
#TheGent claimed for awhile not to be a runner but he was up there with the leaders during his awful 100 yard sprint idea. He also had no clue that none of us could do as many merkins as him. In cadence, exercise…yeah yeah yeah
Haze wasn’t showing his all today which YHC unexpectedly received an answer for during the burpee run – dude has the squirts. Says he had to leave right after for kids basketball game instead of going to coffeeteria. Nice try #manpon
While I’d love to say YHC was refusniking the Humpers, that wasn’t the case as Happy Hands Radar caught me with a open handed slap to the teabag. Wish I’d been a #Eunich today.
Hairball and Pro were quiet today. Both probably hung over. #youngbucks
Hats off to IH for putting in some strong work today and having to work out beside YHC most of the morning. It can be tough working through all the foul language and vulgarities. Also known as ******* and complaining.
The air was thick and moist which would have made for a wonderful carrier of scents so on behalf of all of us we thank both Radar and Joker for keeping their flatulence in check.
Announcements
Joe Davis Memorial on Jan 10th – sign up
‘Unbroken’ movie outing on Jan 10th at Stonecrest- sign up now! Otherwise PH is going to have to pay out of pocket for all the unsold tickets
Talk to Joker if you are interested in ‘serve’ opportunity working out with underprivileged kids on a soon to be announced Saturday.
16 of us met at the usual Fast Twitch stomping grounds for this weeks episode “Even if you Q it, you can still finish last”.
Plan was quite simple. Constant movement. We meandered somewhere in Raintree and performed what I will now call the “Triple Nickel Loop”
Partner up
Partner 1 does the Triple Nickel (merkins and squats) on Rising Meadow Rd while Partner 2 runs the loop down Rounding Run and back
Flap Jack X 2
Indian Run back to AO.
2 mins of elbow plank
25 LBC in cadence
1 min of elbow plank
The skinny
Am I in good enough running shape to lead a Fast Twitch right now? Nope. So YHC had that going for him. But I would never admit that before the fact. There was going to be nothing methodical/Swift about this day. Just pure madness and utter confusion with the hope the pax got a good workout.
We did a lot of hill work last week. Knew there would be some marathoners attending so I thought I’d keep the hill work to a minimum. Triple Nickel wouldn’t be that much hill work. I thought. Well it took longer to make that Rounding Run trip than was planned. Ole Chelms knocked out 9 times up the hill on the first round. Oh yeah, #Kotters to you. You looked really hurt. Ha. But no, I saw the look in Purple Haze’ eyes and he really missed you. #teary Heard Bout Time say that he finally knows what it is like to play soccer – running the whole time. That was the goal brother – minus the ball. Great to see the unselfish wily vets in Slim Fast and Mr Brady circle back for the #six which included Geraldo and myself. Only to arrive and say, “We got it from here Spack. Go ahead and catch up and lead”. No really guys. I was quite fine with the #six gentlemen as G man and I were sharing that handle today!
Wasn’t a whole lot of other backblast material that I caught. Sound off if you got it. I’m sure Hairball has something. Normally does. Oh yeah, glad to see that you didn’t have to take off being on call and all. Whew. No #Ebola in Charlotte yet.
Always a pleasure. I hate running. Fast Twitch is the worst/best hour of the week.
Announcements
Purple Haze has now been named co site Q to Fast Twitch. Well done.
Then my phone cut off.
1st annual Area 51 Turkey Bowl is in the books! Congrats to the Low Slow Squantos for taking the crown as champions of Area 51.
To say that I wasn’t nervous about how this thing would go down would be a lie. But in the end, I think everyone had a good time and hopefully we will continue this in the years to come. Just some general observations below and feel free to add in your own in the comments section:
I will end this by saying that I am very thankful for each and every one you guys. F3 is an amazing organization but it’s the PAX that make it special. Here’s to everyone having a safe and fulfilling Thanksgiving day with family and friends.
Spack/Brown
What: 1st Annual Area 51 Turkey Bowl
When: 7am – 8am Next Thursday November, 27th 2014
Where: Old Providence Elementary School (same AO as Hydra)
Why: Why Not?
Somehow Brown and myself have ended up as co-Turkey Q’s this year. After much debate, we decided to do something a little different this year for a Turkey Day Convergence. We are planning on having a competitive two hand touch (sure to be a few tackles) football game and award a Turkey Bowl Champion. Why are we doing this at 6:30am? Well some of you have expressed interest in doubling down and doing the Turkey Bowl Convergence in addition to the Turkey Trot in South Park. We aim to please all. Some typical Q and A will be provided below but if you have a question then ask and it might be answered.
**IMPORTANT**
IF YOU PLAN ON ATTENDING THE TURKEY BOWL WE ABSOLUTELY NEED YOU TO HARD COMMIT BELOW IN THE COMMENTS SECTION BY TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 25TH . SERIOUSLY, IT WILL HELP US TO MAKE THIS RUN MORE SMOOTHLY
Q AND A
Q: Is it just a football game or will there be a workout as well?
A: Depends on how many folks sign up. We have a plan to do both or just the game. However, there will be penalties during the game that will involve hashtag downPAINment.
Q: Is this going to be a 2.0 friendly convergence?
A. Yes, but this is meant to be a competitive Turkey Bowl. None of this let me hand it off to my 2.0 and let him score a TD to make him feel good. However, we will have smaller footballs for 2.0’s and we can plan a game for them off to the side somewhere.
Q: Will it be two hand touch, flag or tackle?
A: We don’t need anyone getting hurt. It will be two hand touch with a few accidental tackles. If anyone has flags then let me know. We would need at least 24.
Q: Will there be a referee?
A: That is the plan
Q: Is there a trophy?
A: TBD
Q: Could this be an epic disaster?
A: Without a doubt
Comment below and let us know if you are IN. If you don’t comment below and then show up, you will be ostracized.
19 supporters joined Spack today for a little pyramid and partner work at #F3RebelYell. Here is how it went down:
No warm up and really no disclaimer (sorry TR)
Jog around theatre. Pyramid work around the theatre.
10 squats
20 hand release merkins
30 CDD’s
40 calf raises
2 min of plank work then complete the pyramid
40 squats
30 calf raises
20 CDD’s
10 hand release merkins
2 min of wall chair with hand raises
Mosey behind dumpster to get a rock. Partner up.
Partner 1 runs up/down hill 3 times while partner 2 performs exercise / flapjack. Exercises included:
Curls
Overhead press
Good mornings
LBC w rock
Alternating merkins with rock
Burpees
Dolly with/without rock
Backscratcher – partner has to run hill backwards 3 times (crowd pleaser)
Time runs out.
Moleskin
Great work by all today. Going to be the last ‘warm’ morning for awhile I’m sure. Hope your legs enjoyed all the hill work. Went through a few ‘one last times’ but it just felt too good to give up. Some observations/thoughts for the day:
Announcements
#SoleRedemption is coming to an end. Get shoes in by tomorrow to whichever site you attend.
Sign up for the A51 Christmas party by the 20th of November. Check site for details
Sign up for the Joe Davis Memorial 5k/10k. Details are on the website as well.
21 pax including 2 FNG’s (welcome Go Daddy and Bout Time) showed great determination and stamina this morning at Rebel Yell but ultimately had their hearts broken and will stomped upon to start out their day.
The Thang
Spackler Q
Mosey down Murderhorn up to pool parking lot for a short COP.
20 SSH
Partner up – Partner 1 does called exercise while Partner 2 run down to stop sign and back. Flapjack
Dips
Incline Merkins
Squats
Plank work
Heartbreaker Q
Mosey to base of Murderhorn
15 merkin OYO
2 groups Indian Run up Murderhorn back to parking lot.
LBC’s while we waited on the six
Partner 1 does called exercise while Partner 2 runs lap around parking lot
Merkin
Heels to Heaven
Squats
Dolly
Partners run opposite ways when meet complete 20 hand slap merkins then return to base.
IW
SSH
Rosalita
15 Burpees OYO
Completo
Moleskinny
Big Thank You to Heartbreaker for stepping up for his VQ at Rebel Yell. You did a great job brother.
Welcome to the FNG’s : Joel Palmer (Bout Time) and Dan Rutledge (Go Daddy). Joel has been hearing about F3 for the last 3 years but is just now posting for the 1st time. Must have been some pretty weak EH’ing going on I guess. Bout Time you showed up brother! Dan humbly stated he worked for an internet site but was quickly called out by our very own Mic Check as Dan is the owner and creator of the site. If you want to find out what it is, find him, introduce yourself and talk to him. It’s not Go Daddy nor some XXX site (which by the way was thrown out as a potential nick name – and no Purple Haze, it wasn’t me with that idea). Great to have you guys out and look forward to posting with you in the near future.
Certainly an M&P kinda day. Not a lot of creativity but I can guarantee that everyone got their cardio fill this morning. Frehley’s was happy, and no doubt we all were as well, that he took care of his business prior to posting #smokebombs. Bunch of guys were flying out there today – Throat Cotton aka Hairball, Mic Check, Freud, Rump Roast (think it was you). And making the Rebel Yell Not Top 10 of the day – Peaches rolling around like a dead cock roach after cramping during the Rosalita.
Thank you to Mic Check for taking us out in prayer and congrats again to your MadBums.
Announements
If you haven’t done so already, sign up for the Joe Davis Memorial Run. Attached is a link to the pre blast and registration instructions. I highly encourage everyone to sign up for both the 10K and 5K even if you don’t play to do both. It’s for a great cause.
We need more shoes for #SoleRedemption. Thank you Crab Cake for your donation today. I want to see @F3BigBlack weighed down.