Too many titles to go with.
Let me start by saying this “new” Pursuit sucks. Especially the Site Q’s.
In my day, there were no Pursuit Q’s, period. You just got told by Tuck what the route was and you go. I got to have the runner’s stench on me, but no one outside of Pursuit would know how not a runner I am. And not in the Paper Jam chrysalis-to-butterfly runner realization crap. The only thing I have in common with runners is the same number of legs.
I could stay in the WAY back, maybe get seen a time or two, meet back at COT with just as much sweat as the others, but do about half the miles. It was working fine.
Now this bastard, Ghosted, becomes a Site Q and goes insane with power. He pretty much bullies me into Q’ing Pursuit literally minutes after being named Site Q 2 weeks ago. He thinks I owe him for Q’ing The Lycan. Technically, I don’t, since I asked him to Q before he became Site Q. #Rulez
But I, too, am a bastard. Like any man trying to get out of doing work, I’m gonna do stuff to piss off gazelles so I won’t be asked to Q again.
Warmup
Run up Millbridge Parkway to the pocket park on the left so everyone can wait on me. As usual, I come out of the gun hot, so Pax wrongly believe I have some extra gear I only use when Q’ing. Not true.
Run to the 2nd entrance of Millbridge to cross into Kensington Place as a group. #WholeNewWorld
KP is a single street neighborhood with nice homes, 1 nice Pax, & 1 hill. It’s also the safest place to run backwards up hill about 3 or 4 times. No cars, no dogs, just #CoronaQuiet and groans of fast people who apparently don’t run backwards?
Top of the cul-de-sac, stretch a little. Dogs, can openers, etc. Most were leery of touching the pavement with their hands.
Run back into Millbridge, first road on the left.
There is a set of 3 blocks that I tried to do a WTF version. Run 1 of the blocks, then 2, then all 3.
Thankful to have Turnbuckle with us, as Chastain’s shin started bothering him & they walked together to the next station.
Run to Kensington Elementary for some Four Corners
(Almost) Always facing Nesbit Park, side shuffle across the short sides of the parking lot; run backwards up one side, front ways down the other.
As we were headed to KES, Robocall was eager to head to the school, but let me know he did NOT want to run backwards in the parking lot. Disappointing gazelles never gets old.
The Thang
Run through the back of KES parking lot to Kensington Rd. We’ve been through 2 entrances of Millbridge; now we’re headed to the 3rd.
Now Brat & Flip Phone finally feel unshackled & take off on this downhill jaunt!
Just inside the 3rd entrance is the Ridgeview paved trail. Run in (MORE downhill) & keep left. What goes down, must come up. And it’s almost all in the last 20 yards of the trail. Stay left to come out the 2nd entrance and make a loop of it. You should have enough time for 3 loops, unless you spend some time in the porta-potty…
Here again, TB saves the day, this time walking with Footlong.
Head back to COT.
Moleskine
I hate being pushed out of my comfort zone.
Great to see Footlong back out after injury. Sad to hear he’s moving to Cary. Fuse was eager to tell him the southern acronym for Cary. He’ll tell you, too, even if you don’t ask.
Announcements
I took the Q at Centurion last minute from Mermaid, who seemed hopeless and desperately needed a Q this am. With a plan already in mind, I said I would take it. He said, “I am waiting to see if anyone else is interested.” As the hours went on, he finally agreed to handover the keys to his pristine site and then continued to answered countless questions on the locations of rocks and such. I am sure he is now regretting the approval. However, the wonderful host provided me with a google map (sign of a strong Site Q) of the rock pile. The thing is, I knew within minutes of accepting, we were doing parking deck and the centurion mile. #nexttime
Fast forward, I arrived early, like a child on Christmas Day. It was great to meet many Pax that I have not seen lately. 5:29:30, eventually 15 Pax showed up, sloppy disclaimer provided and we were off.
The Warm Up
From the lot we headed straight for the parking deck. Lots of traffic crossing the road, but eventually we made it up the ramp to the top deck. Man, there is nothing finer then starting your morning at the top of a parking deck. From there we did the following:
IW x 15
5 each of the following (so we could skip the demo after)
SSH x15
Again, 5 each of the following (so we could skip the demo after)
The Thang
Finished with that, I asked if any Pax knew what the Centurion Mile was? Mild response. Of those that replied, do you know how fast you ran it? Crickets. Haver you ever done it backward (in reverse)? Nope. Ok, shady directions provide and with that, we took off…well I did.
Upon arrival at the normal starting point, there was construction blocking the normal cut through. Sorry boys, another 1/4 mile to the parking decks.
At the middle, the plan was to hit each stairwell with the following workout. Since there are only 3 stairs, we had to repeat the middle one.
Stairway 1 and 3
Level 1: merkin x 15 / Level 2: wide arm merkin x 15 / Level 3: diamond merkin x15 / Level 4: Hand release merkin x 15…then 5 burpees (well, these could be done when and where ever)
Stairway 2 and 4
Level 1: Narrow Squat x20 / Level 2: wide squat x 20 / Level 3: monkey humper x20 / Level 4: jump squat x20…then 5 burpees at some point
Once we completed that, we meet at the top for some extended marry. Headed back down the stairs to the benches
20 dips and 10 step ups per leg…. then repto
More Mary…head back to launch
Introduced a new exercise…more on that…more Mary and DONE
Take Out prayer- Mermaid
Announcements:
Not mentioned..Flippers run on Mondays at 5:30/ Calvary and the Functional Strength Challange…sign up and see High Tide
Ye Old Mole Skinny:
Chilly May morning but 7 pax fought the below average temps and chose to not be average
DiCCS were given (Disclaimer, Cell phone, CPR, Safety)
Warm-up:
The Thang:
The four cornered cirlce:
Donkey Merkin Big Boy Web:
Mosey across Cuthbertson road to the sidewalk and into The Courtyards at Wesley Chapel (an Epcon Community)
Cross back over Cuthbertson and mosey to the front of the Middle School to the benches
Mosey back to COT
DONE!
MOLESKIN:
Great crew this morning and everyone was moving.
Bottlecap was riding high after blowing the doors off of DC and kept the momentum going by leading from the front all morning.
Ice 9 was crushing it as usual.
Dunkin is getting stronger and faster every week and pushing the pace.
Hollywood has finally healed from running 1000s of slow trail miles and back to mashing the gas pedal at workouts.
Sugar Daddy kept his smile the whole time and didn’t get distracted with the 55+ community and rocked the back neighborhood
Ghosted continues to push himself and it’s showing as he’s getting faster every week.
Thank you for the opportunity to lead today.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
68 Degrees and Sunny. Doesn’t get any better than that.
Seven dads and ten 2.0s apparently agreed.
DiCCS were given (Disclaimer, Cell phone, CPR, Safety)
Warm-up:
The Thang:
To Rudy’s Shed:
Grab a Rock:
Rocks down, run to other side of field in the shade and soft grass
Rocks back, Run back up the path
Run back down the Alcove
DONE!
MOLESKIN:
What a wonderful night for Clyent Dinner. The weather was perfect and the kiddos seemed to have a great time. I love nights like this because I can get a little goofy with my kids while we workout and let loose. And the kids get to see us Dads working out and building and shaping positive life habits.
Great to see Dunkin come out for his first Clyent Dinner and he brought out 3 of his 5? Kids. Welcome Blades (likes roller blading), Kermit (loves reptiles and frogs), and Sprinkles (likes ice cream and had an ice cream shirt on with sprinkles).
Downrange at the Forge at Crofton Elementary School.
This was a running specific or run heavy workout that’s 45 min. We did the loop around the parkway/golf course. Got in around 5 miles with four stops for Merkins x 25.
Great group of guys lead by Chew Toy. He moved to the area from Toledo and their strong F3 presence.
Goes to show how one guy can lead the charge to build an area. They have 7 workouts a weeks now and are growing. While running with the pax every time we passed a sad clown they would yell (and I mean yell), “Free men’s workout every Tues and Thurs at the Elementary School, 5:30am”. It would have made Posse and Rubbermaid proud. The cool thing is that TWO of the seven pax at the workout that day had been recruited by the very same method running by themselves in the morning in that neighborhood. Don’t be bashful about giving away what we have freely been given.
DICCS Given- normal stuff
Warm Up-
25-SSH
15 Imperial Walkers
Jimmy Dungan stretch into plank
While in Plank ask the PAX what are the 5 CORE principles of F3
Free to All
Open To Men
Outdoors- rain/shine/hot/cold
Led by men in rotating Fashion
End with COT
The Thang
Explain the Workout– 7 stations 1:20 seconds each with a 15 second break to move to next station ( but while moving complete 1-2 blockees)– 3 full rounds ugh!!
station 1- Curls
station 2- Sit Ups then push your coupon to the sky
Station 3- Hit the tire with sledge hammer
Station 4- Squat Thrusters
Station 5- Military Press with coupon
Station 6- Merkins on your block
Station 7- Flutters with coupon over your head
When finished explain the next stupid exercise
4 Murder Bunnies/1 Blockee– Get to 20 murder bunnies and 5 Blockees– DONE SON!!!
Moleskin
I am really starting to dig Diesel although I miss the running the different exercises you can do and push yourself is really intriguing to me and challenging. So for all you peeps like Schneider and Ricky Bobby who are scared of Diesel due to the lack of running, I would say come get you some and get out of your comfort zone.
Today was a tough one I must say and the Blockees between stations was ridiculous and someone like Chastain, Centerfold, Premature, Jwow, and or 0-69 should have Q jacked me to stop that madness ( ya’ll are suppose to be leaders in F3) LOL !!. Not only did they fail the Pax by allowing that to happen they even let the Murder Bunnies show up and go unchallenged at the END OF A WORKOUT!! GEEZ GUYS.. Step up and say something guys.. hahah
Heck of a job by all today and appreciate the opportunity as usual to led this group of men.
Announcement
Folding/ Giveaway party tomorrow at Christ Closet- there is some confusion but just show up. 9AM-NOON
Welcome FNG- Martin Head – 38 years old- aka Yellen– for Janet Yellen since he is in the treasury dept. at Truist bank. Jwow and him hit it off right away talking about work since they are with the same company– pretty cool. He is from New York, Cleveland, Buffalo, and lived in Concord for awhile before relocating to BRIARCREST…..WHOOHOOO.
6TH Man- Baklava- got his name since he is from Greece- Lives in BRIARCREST works for United Airlines as a mechanic and been in BRIARCREST 7 years and was brought out by Chicken Little and 0-69 who are also from BRIARCREST
Everyone please pray for Premature and keep him in your prayers- MRI is today that he has been waiting for months to get scheduled. PRAYING BROTHER..
All sites closed Monday except ASYLUM…. 5:15AM Monday 05/17/2021 afterwards mental health awareness speaker– PREMATURE THANKS FOR SHARING YOUR STORY WITH MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS coming up….
When was the last time you’ve been to a workout the feature 2 main exercises? For me it was today. The pain for me came quick and early, but it really came when my left calf turned into a rock. Did I mention I was also carrying one… a rock that is.
Warmup
The Thang:
Mosey down the Farm to the soccer fields for leap frog plank series
Mosey to the bottom of Piss Your Pants.
Trade your rock if you need to grab more or less weight for a seven’s carry up Piss your Pants
Time to Mosey back to the flag already! Oh but we’re having so much fun.
COT
Announcements: Growruck 24
Maradona Took us out.
8 men gathered at Cuthbertson after our workouts to welcome our 2 newest Board members and discuss removing the Bot from the Playhouse how we are accelerating in all 3 Fs. This backblast is an attempt to share with the PAX what the Board discussed and the actions/takeaways from the meeting.
MEMORIAL DAY CONVERGENCE:
I’ll end this backblast with the same message from a couple meetings ago . . . A SINCERE AND BIG THANKS to all the leaders of F3 (and especially these Board members).