Thirsty Thursday at Hydra
- LaZboy, Gummy, Cotton Mouth, Harley, Jet Fuel, Sprockets, Leprechaun, Hannibal, Queen, Marge, Kirk, Pudding Pop, Bug Eater, Clover, Lewinsky, Tackling Dummy
‘Marge’ showed excellent leadership in volunteering me for the Q on delightful ‘dry’ Thursday AM- one problem…I wasn’t in the know – I was not on the email that notified me of my Q responsibility. Thanks to Gummy for watching my “six” and a light travel week gave me the opportunity to lead a great group of guys at one of my favorite workout spots. The Hydra clan missed some of the old timers and regular attendees like Hopper, Hops, Spackler, and Purple Haze. Cottonmouth came out to support a friend even though he had been taking care of sick family all week.
This was a rusty Q for this old guy… like my short game, the exercise intro and cadence is the first to go and was immediately targeted by the PAX as woefully deficient. I do think, despite my amateur Q status the Pax got their money’s worth and burned enough calories to warrant a few beers for the big time ACC basketball matchups to be played that evening. I was in my a zone… But there was plenty of mumble chatter to go around during the work out and Gummy provided plenty of hazards/warnings and clarifications to the workout regiment while running to and from Harris Teeter. Pudding Pop always provides irritable bowel symptoms and smells to spice things up…Jet Fuel (fellow Tar Heel) and I got to discuss our basketball hopes for the evening. Thanks Marge and my email is bcrottsaia@gmail.com for the next Q!!! 🙂
Warm up
- In cadence….
- SSHX20 (except for Gummy)
- PLANK- 10 count by Pax volunteer- Cottonmouth
- Mountain Climbers x20-
- PLANK- 10 count by Pax volunteer- Gummy
- Imperial Walker x 20
- PLANK – 10 count by Pudding Pop
- Squat (low and slow)- x20
- PLANK- 10 count (can’t remember)
- Burpee 1X
The Thang
- Run to Harris Teeter – .06 miles – collect pax and mosey to Donut Run launch point- Dunkin Donuts- .015 miles
- Abreast on curb- Bear crawl 60’ /180 and bear crawl back 60’- 1X – (before dinner cocktail)
- Begin Colony Place Restuarants tour – complete 5x of said exercise at each restaurant then “yog” to next restaurant – full course meal. Appetizer- Merkins 30x, 2nd course was Squats 30x, 3rd course, LBC’s-30x, and for dessert 30x of the “American Hammer”- approximately 1 mile earned.
- Abreast on curb again – Bear crawl 60’ /180 and bear crawl back 60’- 1X – (before dinner cocktail) – 10 count
- Burpee 1x X 5 on Q command
- Return to AO (Old Providence) “AYOP” with 5x squats at every 2nd street light- collect PAX at launch- more time left than expected so the Q implemented his back up plan. .06 miles earned
- pax jogs around the rear of school to the bus parking lot and to the contemplative “tree” with benches- PAX completes – Durkin’s 10X, Dips 10x, and decline Merkins 10x – jogs back same route to achieve 3 TOTAL MILES.
- COT/cool down – Flutter 10x/ Dolly 10x- good for 10 count
- Burpee 1X OYO
- Huddle – ‘Sprockets’ did a great job closing out the Pax in prayer.
No announcements
Chatter Head Kotters Party
Wow, where to start. Well, let’s start in the corner some people would call, “TMI”. I had a very active dump this morning. Probably wouldn’t fall into the category of “seat belt on toilet” or anything, but a really good full body release. Hmm, what would be the cause of this? Probably the many Dos Equis (plural?) I had watching the Heels dispatch Louisville (fake ACC), and then stayed up for Zion’s eighth dunk in the first six minutes, and hit the sack. Random thought #1, why Dos Equis? I’ve been watching Bloodline on Netflix, and it seems that they are drinking Mexican beer in every scene. They got me hook, line, and sinker…good marketing.
Why am I telling you this? Well, the primary and secondary defecation (in the same sitting) caused me not to leave the casa untilt 5:17, which puts me coming in hot on two wheels at Covenant Day. Day prior I had called out for all chatter heads to come on out for a standard Fun Friday at Kevlar. Upon dismounting the vehicle in time for the disclaimer, some of Area 51’s finest were in attendance. Heck, even Tiger Rag and Young Love dusted off the crusty F3 shoes to post this morning, more on this later. I knew from the start we were all in for a very special one this morning.
Mosey from lot, pick up a late arriving Joker and head down to the courtyard in between a bunch of buildings.
IW
LSS
MC
HRM (I love abbreviations)
Pick a guy that you don’t want to talk to for most of the workout.
P1 stays in courtyard to perform exercises (R1 merkins, R2 LBC, R3 CDD)
P2 runs around the church
Plank for the six, then mosey to the benches in front of pre-school? Get back up with that guy.
P1 does exercises on benches (R1 dips, R2 step ups, R3 inclines)
P2 runs up and around the grassy knoll
Gather everyone and mosey to upper lot by the grassy hill, get back up with that guy.
P1 does exercises a base of hill (R1 dollys, R2 rosalitas, R3 jump squats)
P2 runs hot lap up around hill and back down steps
Mosey up to rock pile, grab one lifting rock between you and that guy.
P1 does exercise with rock (R1 curls for TR, R2 overhead press, R3 tea bags for Bulldog)
P2 runs down the entrance hill to the church and back
Mosey twenty yards to the street sign, Gummy 10 count, then AYG back to launch.
3 mins of Mary
Flutter
LBC
Backscratcher (the finest oblique exercise this side of Yorkshire)
done
Chatter Time
My goodness, the chatter was amazing this morning. If you weren’t there, you wouldn’t understand.
Sucks that we really had two groups of chatter the whole time, but that’s the way the cookie crumbled. Guess we could’ve done a Bulldog Bro Gym workout, but I’m too lazy for the setup that has to happen for that (and remember how long my dump took?).
Anyways, things started during COP when, at the end of an exercise, Horsehead asked me if I had my shorts on backwards. Umm, yes, I had to look, and no, for the record, I had it right.
On our first run (group 1), Alf and Joker were lamenting about their Hokies getting Criminoled yesterday. You always need an active dude on the inbounds play on defense, they deserved what they got IMO. Right before round 2 was called, Cage shot himself out of a cannon, almost like he knew what I was thinking. #strange Right about now Joker was asking if there was a porta-potty around, or anything of the like. I can attest (from my Defcon1 episode here about a month ago) that, in fact, no, no there isn’t. Just stop and hold. He seemed to have worked it out internally (I don’t have that power) as he and Rhapsody were leading most of the way. Most of Group 1 was doing zero of the exercises.
Upon arriving to the second loop site, Spackler decided to defect from Group 1 to Group 2, as he thought he could definitely finish first in every run. #vetmove
Bulldog and Manziel got into a little race back to the rock pile. We all know Bulldog’s capabilities, but Manziel has some wheels! Uphill no less. And, they are both Tottenham Hotspur fans. #cute
Great to see TR and Young Love back in the fold. TR let us know after ball o’ man that “go ahead and get your jabs in now, before too long, you’ll know who your daddy is”. Yes fellas, the OG A51 Nantan is back. Young Love has been spending time gallivanting the US, looking for a wider client base. Who knew attorneys go on sales calls? I didn’t. Go forth and prosper young (love) man.
I’m sure there was a lot of chatter in Group 2, please inform us in the comments. Like Gummy for example, he and I were partners, and I’m sure the he talked a little, probably about nothing, which I always love.
Differences in GPS devices had us anywhere between 2.75 and 3.13 mileage today. BLC commented to me afterwards, “dang Puddin Pop, wasn’t expecting you to run that much, dude!” All good in the hood. Speaking of…Random thought #2…satellite radio selection sucked when I was on two wheels heading to CD, but heard Let Me Ride by Dr. Dre on the way home. Top 10 hip hop song for me of all time, so good on so many levels. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
Thanks to Bulldog for taking us out in prayer this morning.
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Thanks also to Fault Line and Orange Whip for the ability to lead, great times this AM.
Et tu HIPAA? YHC’s First Year of F3: A Story Told in Interpretive Dance and Burpees
15 true #HIMs betrayed the comfort of their own beds and instead crushed a workout fit for Ceasar this morning on the Ides of March. This is their story.
Vitals:
Launch Conditions: Glorious 60 degrees. Dry. Aggressive.
Pax: HIPAA (QIC), HIPAA (Gastonia), Brushback, Clover, Brilleaux, Lorax, Champagne, Dr. Belding, Mermaid, Escargot, Thunder Road, Tagalong, Marconi, Ickey Shuffle, Chelms
Mileage: A sneaky 2.60 miles
Difficulty: I’ll give this a full Teddy on the Herman-Willink Scale. Should have been a Hugh Glass, but YHC came up a few minutes short.
Disclaimer: Given and legally accurate.Important to disclaim/blame Ironsides for most of this workout. He was QIC at my first workout ever. Little did he know it would come back to haunt us all.
Strava:
The Thang:
Mosey to Tartarus
COP
11 SSH
16 IW
That’s it. That’s the whole warmup. Accurate and faithful to the original, down to the rep count….
7s up the long ramp – Squats at the bottom, hand-release merkins at the top.
Plank for the six.
7s up second long ramp – LBCs at bottom, burpees at top.
Plank for the six.
Starting at Top Level of Tartarus:
5 X Partner Merkins –> Ollie North aka Partner Carry. Flapjack.
Mosey Down Ramp
10 x Plank Jacks –> AYG sprints
Mosey Down Ramp
10 x Plank Jacks –> AYG sprints
Mosey Down Ramp
10 x Plank Jacks –> AYG sprints
Mosey Down Ramp
Head to middle and split in two groups.
Group 1: 10 x Derkins
Group 2: 10 x Pullups
Mosey to Launch
Merkin lineup thing. Shredder?
Mary
GMs
10 leg raises IC
15 flutters IC
16 LBCs IC
Protractor
CDDs
World’s Worst Merkins
EC Burpees
Moleskin:
One year ago today I began this F3 thing in the school parking lot at Olde Providence Elementary. It was 34 degrees, wet, and I wore a full winter coat. For reference, here is what we did that day:
March 15, 2018 – https://f3southcharlotte.com/2018/03/15/hair-of-the-dog-2/
- QIC: Ironsides
- Pax: HIPAA, Hopper, Ironsides, Marge, Maybe, One Eye, Pudding Pop, Queen, Semi-Gloss, Sleepy, Slumdog
I tried to accurately recreate that workout at Centurion this morning (with some adaptations and creative license for the different AOs). For reference, the italics is stuff I added. Everything else was verbatim from last year.
There was a lot of pre-Post online mumblechatter on The Twitters and The Slackmachine. I had to stay up late last night studying for the “test” Chelms claimed to have waiting for me. I was hoping for a decoder ring or maybe a nice lamp instead.
I felt like I simply had to include some man-to-man contact (ONIONS!) in honor of March Madness with the partner carries.
The Pax today absolutely crushed it. To be honest, they chewed through my entire Weinke with a few minutes to spare. Did not think that was going to happen at all. #AmateurMove. I owe you guys a couple of minutes’ worth of #refund. Pro rated I think that is $0.00. Nice work, gentlemen (I use that term loosely).
Pax Notes/Tribute:
I was absolutely blown away by HIPAA (Gastonia) being there. Total surprise out of the blue and completely unexpected. Not a short commute, from the GasHouse either. And lest there be any confusion, he was HIPAA first (by a few days). I move for some disambiguation – HIPAA vs. HIPPA. I’ll take the misspelling. How do we get that approved.
Maybe (F3 Metro) – Forever indebted to you for dragging me out to my first workout. I think you only had to ask 3 or 10 times. #tclaps
Hopper – My nickname is your fault. I think of you every time I hear A Boy Named Sue. Thank you.
Hops and Pudding Pop – You were two of the first people who welcomed me to the fold. Wil never forget that. From the first few minutes, I was welcomed with open arms.
Thanks to Mermaid for the tough love and some choice tips at my first Q last year. Nuanced, veteran nuggets like “HIPAA. Did you even read the Q instructions on the website? Have you ever counted before? It goes like this….”
Clover informed me that this workout set a record for most calories burned according to his Tim Apple Watch. Thank you for making the trip down (several times a week!) from Dilworth/South End/Greater Myers Park Metropolitan Area to post with us down in Area 51!
Ickey was sneaky fast on the sprints. You kind of expect Lorax and Mermaid and Brileaux to be up there, but saw Ickey and imagined this was running through his mind.
Champagne was still sore from Wednesday, but somehow still made it out today.
Finally, I wanted to thank all of the men of F3 who have been part of my life for the past year. It’s amazing what a difference a year makes. From Day One, I couldn’t get enough and haven’t looked back. You’ve got a great thing going here and I can’t wait to see what the next year holds.
Announcements:
- Community Foundation Run – April 13 – Gastonia – HIPAA (Gastonia Version) leading the charge here. Speed for Need will be running with 8 (?!) chairs. #HIMs all over the place.
| 4/13/19 | 9:00 am | Race | Community Foundation Run | Gastonia, NC | Gastonia | F3 HIPAA |
- F3Metro has a program coming up at the Stratford Y – First Saturday morning of each month at 11am – Starting April 6. Workout for 45 mins for kids without dads. Chelms has details.
- 3rd F – The Stand – Meets at Panera down the street from CCHS. Feel free to join. See Champagne for details or just show up.
- FNG/Kotters Day Saturday March 30 at DaVinci.
- Boone F3 Launch – March 23 – 7am – There was some interest in getting a couple/few clown cars together to make the trip up. Any volunteers to organize???
But I purchased sunflower seeds here once…
I arrived at #87 early to drop a few cones along N Providence St…little did I know one pax would drop the kids off at the pool and ruin a local store owners morning, not to mention his shi%*@&. My Q’s are pretty predictable, low reps/high run, but today I wanted to change it up. Informed that an FNG would be amongst us I decided to scale the running back while making the exercises a bit harder. With my track record, I knew the B & C presence would probably not exist. Banjo is on IR after being owned by a kid playing ultimate frisbee and Zin was on hiatus at a weak AO in ATL. Thank you, no modifiers today…but wait!
A large black truck rolled in and I knew it must be spring and hibernation was over, Dancing Bear in the house!! But will he smell pee during the merkins? Will he break the B and C stereotypes (it’s not a stereotype, its fact) and not modify? Can he give it 110%, not complain and get stronger? Hell yeah he can and he did!! Way to crush it DB!!
The Thang:
DICCS mentioned – Lets go!!
Mosey to the Dream Chasers
Warmup:
30 SSH
15 Crab Cakes
Merkins – R/W/D/R/6”
10 Burpees a Min for 5 mins
Mosey Down Noth Providence St. – 5 Cones
2 – Splinter Masters at each Cone down – (That’s with the bomb jack)
5 Merkins at each Cone on the way back
Mosey to main Street – Bear Crawl from pole to pole – 7 poles
BAlternate 10 Jumps Squat / 20 LBC
Mosey To Keith Jong Hill – Grab Wall on the way
10 Mike Tyson IC / 10 Squats OYO – 2 rounds
Top of Hill – 40 LBC/
Bottom 2 Burpees – repeat x 3
The Moleskine:
I have to say for an FNG Yeah Yeah killed it! He hung right in there with the running and I didn’t see him modify (I don’t police), nice work and welcome aboard!
Bottle Cap as usual crushed the work but Keith Jong Hill slowed the gazelle a bit. It did seem steeper today.
Easy Button and Moneyball talked about basketball or something as they moseyed behind me a while but pulled a $&@? And bolted by me in the last hill run…ummmhumm
It was good so see Deflated’s face although he was still bundled strong with it 53 outside! He’s an old soul and always cold. I’m sure when Foundation and himself car pull the heat is on blast! Do you have AC in your car..asking for a friend?
Foundation, hard worker as usual and a master fng namer!
Trogan is looking strong! The consistent posting, positive attitude and max effort is paying off. Well done!
As I am running up the KJH for the last time Damascus catches up with me and all I hear him saying is a weak raspy half dead voice is “I need carbs, I need carbs, I need carbs” haha.
Shake n Bake glad you could join us, strong showing as per norm. Get out here more and those burpees wont roast your Boston as bad! Nice work!
Last but not least lets discuss the incident that went down at Marathon Gas station on this fine morning and left one store owner wondering what he did to deserve such rancid smells in his establishment from a non-paying customer.
MB turned to me with a look of desperation, pain, and energy and said (very fast) where you going next?????? ha. I said we are grabbing wall on the way to KJH…Boom he was out! Like missing.
We are arriving at the wall and I see his running posture doesn’t look at painful as he is coming from the laundry mat. He then goes on to tell us that the store owner “shouldn’t go in there for 30-45 mins” and “someone needs to open a window”. The relived pax felt bad momentarily for not making a purchase after his deposit but then realized that he had previously purchased a (1) pack of sunflower seeds from the poor man months ago. I suppose a $1.89 pack of sunflower seeds give you the green light to do the work.
Well done men..no 6 today!!
Announcements:
Clyent Dinner was at 5:30 w/ Dasher
Fix it for Christ – June 18th – 22nd Volunteers needed for house renovations – 34 houses in the community need assistance. 14yrs and above must be supervised 16yrs can work solo.
Qwutchayalike
Take it from my friends in the Digital Underground. Do what you like!
You don’t have to be superman to post with F3, you just need to get out of bed. Four men proved it’s better to be present than perfect.
COP
SSH x 15
MC x 10
IW x 15
MC x 20
LSS x 15
MC x 30
The Thang
Dragon’s Backside
7s
Burps at top Heels-to-Heaven bottom
Johnny Bench
Using the bench, 20 step ups, 20 split squats & 20 single-leg deadlifts
Pull Yourself Together
10 pull-ups, lap
10 knee to elbow, lap
Monkey bars and parallel bar traverse
Wally World
On the wall – air presses, calf raises, shoulder rotation and flys
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Plank walk with hands on the curb, sprint x 4
Moleskine
Wow, when I took a show a ridiculous amount of woodchips were washed away.
Ringer and Cobbler both coming off bouts of injuries, but still pushed hard all morning. Cobbler did burpees for the first time in weeks. That’s cause for celebration. For me, it’s ok to modify just don’t stand around. Atlas put in 5 miles before the workout. He bolted early, but he still earns a gold star today. Cheers to everyone who posted today at any AO.
Good morning at the Peak
Editor’s Note: Lois posting on behalf of Sensei
8 smart dudes took advantage of the cool-ish weather this morning and posted at Peak 51. It is March, so at best we have a few more weeks before the temps and/or humidity starts to rise. No FNGs, so the standard disclaimer was given and we took off and did the following …
Mosey around the front of FBC to the side parking lot.
- SSH x 20
- Hillbillies x 20
- Merkins x 10
- LSS x 20
- Forward arm circles x 10
- Backward arm circles x 10
Gather at the bottom of the church parking lot and partner up. P1 runs suicides to the other end of the lot, while P2 does called exercise.
- Round 1 – LBCs
- Round 2 – CDDs
- Round 3 – Flutters
- Round 4 – Lunges
Mosey 20 feet or so to the bottom of the paved hill behind the church for counting exercises:
11s on the hill, Merkins at bottom and Squats at top
Everybody on their 6 for Mary!
- Dolly x 20
- V-Ups x 10
- Freddie Mercury x 20
Longer mosey to the wall for some PC — 2 rounds, 50 air presses each
Mosey over to the bus parking lot for some AYG sprints … we got in 4 total
Head back to launch and time.
Moleskin and Observations:
- This was a fantastic morning. Perfect shorts and t-shirt weather without stupid humidity.
- Great to see Beaver at Peak. Come back anytime.
- The chatter during Hillbillies is always worth the price of admission.
- Apparently Slim Fast does not like, or approve of CDDs. Something to do with naming rights and how they have nothing to do with actual dry docks.
- The 20 feet mosey offended Tweetsie, duly noted sir.
- V-Ups were as awful as expected, and candy bars / cookies are not a good pre-workout meal when V-Ups are on the agenda. I didn’t catch who offered that advice, but I do concur.
- Everybody always loves sprints at the end of the workout, so you are welcome.
That’s it, as always it is an honor to lead the good folks at Peak 51.
Tweetsie with the strong takeout.
Tried and True
9 pax joined YHC on a cool March morning for some kettlebell action. My legs were sore for about 5 days after Alf’s deadlift-fest last week, so I decided to go a little lighter on the legs. 3 for the pre-run (YHC, Chin Music, and Header) – they ran at their 2nd F pace for me.
After a thorough disclaimer, we began thusly:
- SSH x 20 IC
- Swings x 20 OYO
- Merkins x 10 IC
- Swings x 20 OYO
- Prying squats x 3
- Swings x 20 OYO
- Halos x 5 (each way)
- Swings x 20 OYO
On to the Main Event, beginning with 5 reps per side of each of the following exercises. Complete all exercises for the left side, then move to the right:
- 1H swings
- Cleans
- Snatches
- Racked reverse lunge
- Lawnmower
- Carry something (sandbag, 32kg bell, 28kg bell, 24kg bell, 2x 16kg bells, or your own bell) to the far curb and back.
Repeato for a total of 3 rounds
Next up is a little set I found online called 9 Minutes of Hell (#soundseasy). I broke out the #Fembot and we got moving:
- :30 per side of swings
- :30 per side of cleans
- :30 per side of snathces
- :30 per side of presses
- :30 per side of reverse lunges
- :30 per side of single leg deadlifts
- 1:00 of swing burpees (merkin + swing instead of jump)
- 1:00 plank (:30 on hands, :30 on elbows)
- :30 per side of thrusters from the racked position
Although there was no rest built into the timer, the pax made time to catch their breath.
Grab a medium size bell and head to the playground for 3 rounds of:
- 5 goblet squats
- 5 presses per side
- 5 pull-ups
Back to the lot for some Mary:
- Flutter press x 15 IC
- Louganis x 10 OYO
COT: Thanks to Header for the takeout
Announcements: Meathead Q2 Q schedule release date coming soon. Keep an eye on your inbox and let me know if you need a switch or substi-Q.
Naked blister moleskine:
- Thanks to the pax for posting and pushing through the workout. YHC is pretty smoked and could use a nap. Horsehead finally came to his sensese and came back to us after he left us for that other Thursday workout for a while #kotters. Cooter 2 also joined us, coming off of IR. We hope you keep coming back! Young Love is on a strong Meathead posting streak – keep it up!
- Thanks to Header and Chin Music for the push on the pre-run. T-claps for the coaching and mentorship of the 2.0s that you do.
- It had been a while since we listened to the Fembot. I might need to change up the accent a bit next time so that Horsehead doesn’t just think it’s Siri talking. The Fembot and Spotify didn’t get along too well, causing some volume issues, but we worked through it (and it allowed me to grab a rest during the 9MOH).
- While I know Tiger Rag has returned to F3 and is one of the fathers of the kettlebell in Area 51, he hasn’t posted at Meathead yet. Let’s see what happens when I put him down to Q…
Happy Birthday to YHC! Hope you like bricks.
Launch Conditions: 39-ish degrees (Some disagreement on this point. Spackler informed us that he had to ditch WeatherBug when it caused a foot of snow one time, so now he relies on AccuWeather. I’m a Weather Underground guy, but I’m not convinced of its accuracy, either. Suffice to say that it was not freezing or raining or windy.)
Pax: HIPAA (QIC), Spackler, Scabby, Prohibition, Puddin Pop, Champagne, Mermaid, Brilleaux, Clover, Moana, Snowflake, Jet Fuel, Lorax
Mileage: 1.83 miles
Difficulty: Hugh Glass on the Herman-Willink Scale. Just short of a full Jocko due to relatively low distance.
Disclaimer: Given and legally accurate.
Strava:
After the birthday confetti and streamers had been cleared from the dance floor, all that remained was 13 Pax who were full of swoleness and comradery (but still hungry for cake). More on that later.
The Thang:
Warmup saunter
Oh, what’s that? Someone has thoughtfully arrangement a crapton of brick pavers near Ye Olde Rock Pile? Grab a coupon.
Saunter back to launch.
COP
SSHx40
IW x 20
LSS x 20
Merkins x 20
Mountain Climbers x 20
Mosey to tree-lined Avenue.
World’s Worst Merkins (w coupons) — 10 trees x 2 reps tree.
Plank for 6.
Heading Back = 5 trees x 2 WWM’s each..
Hang a Ricky. Partner one does lunge walk-press to other side while partner 2 does curls. Partner 2 launches when partner 1 reaches end.
Hang another Ricky. Partner one bear crawls to end while partner 2 squats. Partner 2 launches when partner 1 reaches end.
Run it back.
Finish out the WWM set with final 5 trees.
Mosey back in general direction of launch.
Catch me if you can. Give all coupons to one partner. Second partner does 5 burpees and then tries to catch Partner One. When, caught, 5 burpees and flapjack.
Mary
Moleskin:
Thank you to everyone who joined for my 40th birthday extravaganza and thank you to Lorax and Brushback (in absentia, but with us in spirit) for the opportunity to lead these fine men.
The inspiration for the workout was kind of juvenile. Thought process went like this: 40 years old → 40’s → Birthdays Past → Edward 40 Hands → Bricks → Edward Coupon Hands. The concept, if unfamiliar, is as follows. Edward Fortyhands involves duct-taping a 40oz beverage to each of your hands and you can’t remove until finished. This is a real thing because Wikipedia and Youtube. I don’t recommend anyone do this ever. Googling this also yields some interesting results. Like this guy (NOT a Pax):
So basically we had coupons in our hands the whole time. Fun.
A Fishing Hole-like sub-2 miles today, but made up for it in max swole/pump. World’s Worst Merkins aka Worst Merkin Ever is really tough.
| Worst Merkin Ever | 1 Wide Arm Merkin, 1 Regular Merkin, 1 Diamond Merkin performed in succession with no break in form = 1 Worst Merkin Ever. |
Prohibition and Mermaid sniffed out the Strava art attempt fairly early. Let’s just say it was not a good attempt. It was “s’posed ta” look like “4 0” but instead it kind of just looks like a twisted stethoscope.
Some of the vertan Pax turn the coupon bear crawls into hairburners. #innovation
Spackler is faster than I thought. Made the mistake of partnering with him on CMIYC and almost didn’t catch him. I think he slowed down for me a little.
#kotters to Champagne who has been on the shelf with some sickness/general crud the last month or so. Good to have you out and hope it was worth your time!
Fitting that we had 13 Pax on the 13th. Also was my number in sports growing up. #NoCoincidences
Thank you to Clover for the kind words about YHC. I owe you a few beers for that. Also, it was Clover’s Mom’s 72nd Bday and would have been his grandmother’s 102nd Bday.
I just wanted to say thank you to all of the HIMs, PAXs, QICs and men of F3 for the past year. Friday is my one year anniversary of my first post and I have never looked back. More on that on Friday. Every day I am grateful for the support, fellowship and common bonds I’ve formed with you guys. I am always amazed (yet never surprised) at the encouragement and support (and accountability!) everyone provides to their brothers. Here’s to 40 more!