You asked for it (well actually, you didn’t)
HERE IT IS ANYWAY
What: F3 Area 51 BroLympics
When: Saturday 9/24/22 @ 0700 – 0900
Where: South Charlotte Middle School, former home of F3 Death Valley AO (RIP)
Who: Those who are strong, fast, or morbidly curious how they stack up physically against a bunch of middle aged bankers
Why: Great question
You can stop reading here if so inclined, and just show up. It’s that easy. Just sign up so we will know you are coming. Bring a water bottle and a snack. I recommend room temperature Viennas with some of that Hawaiian punch in the blue can.
EVENTS:
FORMAT:
3-man teams selected by organizing committee based on signups. Each person completes 5 events to represent his team. Each team completes all 15 events. Some events are team based relay race style.
FAQ:
If you are still reading this, you are really overthinking things. SIGN UP and show up. It’ll be a good time.
your friend,
Horsehead
12 Friendlies Stepped into the swamp for a YHC lead beatdown.
Disclaimer.
Warm-Up
2/3 mile lap for warm-up. PAX where actually calling for Side-Straddle Hop midway through.
20 SSH IC
20 IW IC
20 Potato Pickers IC
20 Hill Billy’s IC
Thang
Use the parking lot rows between the competing bank ATMs to make a bank-2-bank transfer.
Run down the lane
10 Merkins
side-shuffle
10 Squats
Repeat until you reach the other bank ATM.
Mosey to the Fountains.
Three Rounds of Partner Flap-Jacks
P1: Dips
P2: Take a lap around both buildings
Flutter, LBC waiting on the six
Mosey to Taco Town
Two Rounds of Partner Flap-Jacks
P1: Lap around the island
P2: Step up with High-knee on the wall
Plank, R arm Hight, L arm High
Back to the Banks
Deposit Denied. Return money by repeating the first in reverse
Mosey to the Wall
Wall Squat with 50 Air-Press
10-Count
Wall Squat with 85 Air Press to time.
Thine Only MillyTineTown
Great chatter today. Lot of hard work. Soft Pretzel wins the The Maul “shopping” award for today. Shredding time way out in front of all of us.
Of Note
3rd-F Lunch on Fridays (see slack, for realz)
Looking for a lead to take over Blood Drive
Iron Pax SOB is Friday at 530a – Upper Fields of the Morrison YMCA (the one with the dirt track)
Prayers for my Dad who busted his head open on the way to Cali yesterday getting of the plane.
Quick Moleskinny from this morning’s “Respect Q” for YHC at Hydra.
One of the first to greet and notice my F3 “Respect” t-shirt (Snowflake gave it to me yesterday) was Site Q Jet Fuel. The quick-witted Respect himself said: “I see you’ve already got the t-shirt. That’s like wearing a concert t-shirt at the concert itself.” Hilarious and true.
So we worked out. Nobody sang happy birthday or brought cake. M. Hops threatened to do that several years ago. Cupcakes actually…but I feared a re-name.
Did 50 burpees. Well, I think about 10-12 of the 26 pax did 50 burpees. Did some partner rock work & runs; and some other standard fare for a bootcamp. No SSH’s, of course.
1.65 miles according to Geraldo. I’ll do better next time…which is to say less mileage.
Spackler was nice enough to not pull a group of pax out to go for a run.
Foghorn & Veg-O-Matic were flying on the runs. Runstopper did his 50 burpees in 1 minute and 13 seconds.
Cobains to Huddle House for calling him Waffle House…to which he replied, “I’m his uglier, nastier cousin”.
Semi-Gloss rubbed his schweaty self up against YHC at one point….oh the humanity!
Clover was exactly right on the 1972 price of gas per gallon: $0.36 #rainman
Pop Tart tore up the asphalt at OPES when pulling out in his hotrod. Thank you very little.
Some other stuff happened I suppose.
Thank you, men, for posting. Grateful for the friends the Lord has put in my life. Grateful for the F3 fellowship we have. I’d be remiss if I didn’t encourage all of you again (as I did in COT) to make the 3rd F a priority in your lives. We all know we’re on this Earth for a limited time. Do you have peace in your life?
Not sure who will read this obviously, but I mentioned my mom’s passing from cancer in 1995 as the event that triggered the 3rd F importance in my life. After hanging up the phone with my dad who gave me the news, I went and found an old, barely-used, dusty Bible, and randomly flipped it open. The page that I “landed” on were words from a man named Jesus of Nazareth, as recorded by one of his top lieutenants named John. These very words, as I read them through blurry eyes, rescued me and give me great peace and assurance; and I know they always will:
“Don’t let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God, and trust also in me. There is more than enough room in my Father’s home. If this were not so, would I have told you that I am going to prepare a place for you? When everything is ready, I will come and get you, so that you will always be with me where I am. And you know the way to where I am going.”
“No, we don’t know, Lord,” Thomas said. “We have no idea where you are going, so how can we know the way?”
Jesus told him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me.” John 14:1-6
6 old dues (5 respects) showed up at the Body Shop
This is what went down:
Warm Up: The Usual aka SSH, IW, LSS, slow mosey with dynamic running to scope out the AO (YHC’s virgin post at this awesome AO), plank-o-rama while waiting for the final member of the team.
It’s Your Thang: Welcome to the Curb of Pain where we had 10 stations set up with gear. Time keeper ran around the parking lot loop while the other 5 did strength training. After all had run we moved to the next 5 stations.
Time for recess on the playground: 1000 (ish) team reps of bench dips and air squats
Back for round 3 with the gear, pax choice – we got rid of the sand bags and jump rope.
Carry gear back to launch. Time for some sprints (no time for Mary). Done.
Gear stations included: kettle bells, ruck plates, sand bags and the following exercises:
chest press, curls, tri extensions, lawn mower rows
goblet squats, step ups, jump rope
sandbag thrusters (clean, squat, press), sandbag bear crawl drags (pax favorite)
maybe a few more, that was hours ago
Music playlist included songs from: Twister Sister, Beastie Boys, Bodeans, Funktown America, Quiet Riot, Tom Petty, Guns N Roses, and a few others
Mumble Chatter: Didn’t catch much due to the above but apparently Twister Sister (or was it Quiet Riot) has a Christmas version of their hit single, nobody wanted their jump rope form video’d, in fact the jump ropes were told to go back to good will, that’s all I caught.
Everyone worked hard this am and we covered a surprising 1.5 miles just running in between sets and back and forth from launch to the playground.
“twas an honor and privilege to celebrate YHC’s B’day with these new friends and was worth the early alarm and long drive. It you haven’t posted down here before it’s a great AO and a great group of pax.
Take Out: Gratitude: Get some. Share some.
Announcements: Iron PAX Challenge starts this weekend and there are several AOs around Waxhaw that will be participating if you don’t want to do the work outs alone; a cool event I didn’t catch the details of that includes brews and BBQ and biking or running? Carolina Thread Trail from one of the pax’s home – ask around, sounds great; CPR RUCK 11/5/22 – look for the pre blast in the BB section or on slack – good livin’ while learning CPR.