14 men gathered at The Ridge today for a muggy beatdown.
Warm Up:
Mosey to the wall –
Mosey to the lot for Hands of Time
12 and 6 – 5 burpees
all other stations 5 merkins
Mosey to field for wind sprints.
Mosey back to the lot for Hands of Time repeato
Mary:
COT –
The moleskin:
Have a blessed day,
– Escalade
On a muggy morning, 27 guys posted for a mid-week workout at Death Valley. Start with a jog around the parking lot across the parking lot. Head down to the baseball field.
COP:
Mosey over to the bleacher area.
Circuits:
Partner up for leg circuit:
P1 – Perform called exercise
P2 – Run to outfield foul pole and back
Mosey to open field behind the T-ball field
Mary:
Line up along fence for the Triple Nickel:
Jog over to edge of field and circle up again.
Push-o-rama:
Run back to the lot along the trail behind baseball field.
COT
Moleskin:
Announcements:
The thang:
After all were properly disclaimed, we took a short jog to the parking lot with the CMPD K-9 Unit SUV (and big officer and bigger dog).
Warm up
Mosey to top of North Face & Partner Up (size doesn’t matter)
Partner 1 runs lap while Partner 2 performs called exercise
Mosey to large parking lot on south side of church
Mosey to bottom of Entrance 4
AYG home for COT
Moleskin:
A great, beautiful morning to be working out (there was even a layer of light fog hanging over the big field in front of the sanctuary. Lots of mumble chatter, particularly at the outset. Purple Haze was anxious to get going, as at 5:30:15 he asked, “What time is this workout going to get going?” Gummy gave YHC some lip about a lack of creativity in the warm up. #justwaitgummyitscoming
Great work on the hills of North Face. YHC had made a special request of the Church staff to have it mowed to 3” in preparation of our arrival. They obliged, and we hit the hill hard. The Ring of Fire in theory was a good idea, but based on the form looking around the circle about halfway through, I don’t think the pax liked it all that much. The final beat down at Entrance 4 proved to be a killer, and even with having to audible based on time constraints (the group can thank Champagne for that one), we still got in 70 burpees ON TOP OF the exercises going up the incline.
T-claps for Intel, who posted remotely from San Francisco at the same hour as we were working out at Anvil (yes, 2:30 a.m. PT). YHC had sent him the wienkie Tuesday evening, and rumor has it he was complaining as much as the pax in Charlotte.
Purple Haze closed us out strong in prayer in the middle of a wet, stinky BOM.
Announcements:
[Posted on behalf of Hopper on the occasion of his most excellent Q job this day]
Nine pax including one Charge FNG (Snowflake) posted at PDS this morning. The break in humidity seemed to be broken itself as the air felt a little thicker this morning. After the Q admitted he was not a professional (not a real surprise to anyone) here is what the pax got into:
COP:
Mosey to basketball court with high knees, butt kickers and lunges mixed in.
SSH X 25
IW X 15
Arm Circles Forward X 15
Arm Circles Backward X 15
Freddy Mercury (normal speed) x 25
FM (slow speed) X 15
The Thang:
Mosey to Upper Field.
Circle up for plank exercise. Plank shuffle ten strides to the left, hold, six inches, hold, six inches, plank shuffle back to the right ten strides, hold, right arm behind your back, hold, left arm behind your back, regular.
Repeat
Pick a partner. Partner 1 planks while partner 2 does 20 decline merkins with feet on partner 1s back. Flapjack.
Mosey to Headmaster’s House. Line up single file for Indian Run. Ran through school ground entry way, down to Sardis Presbyterian Church, back up Sardis Rd. and back down the entryway of PDS.
Mosey to parking lot in front of fieldhouse. Time for a Mary break:
25 LBCs OYO
20 Flutters
20 Rosalitas
Mosey to Football Field:
I did not have a name for this drill so I self-dubbed it “Glory Days”. Each member of the pax stood at the goal line of the field and one at a time threw a football as far as they could. Once the football landed they shouted out an exercise and the pax dropped, stood, whatever and did 5 of said exercise, ran AYG to the ball, did 10 of the exercise, picked up the ball and ran AYG back to the goal line and completed 15 more of said exercise. With 9 pax here is what we did:
Squats
Turkish Get Ups
Merkins
Heels to Heaven
Hand Release Merkins
Side Lunges
Diamond Merkins
Knees to Chest
Burpees
Mosey to track/stands wall for Wall Work:
Hands out
Left leg up
Right leg up
Arm raises (x2)
Mosey back to the parking lot with an AYG stretch from the stadium entrance to the gate.
Moleskin:
As I say, the air was humid this morning and once we started the plank work, I did not have a dry spot on my shirt. The pax really hung in there and gave it their all. Frankly, everyone’s pace was right on board with everyone else so it was a strong push by all! Thanks to all of you men for contributing to the Glory Days drill by coming up with an exercise. It’s nice to have crowd participation. One last thing….I had made a commitment yesterday that this workout included zero burpees……and I stayed true to that until one unnamed pax (fine…..it was 50 Shades) made that the last exercise of Glory Days. The truth is that was the right way to end it, so thanks for keeping on us on task 50! Great job men…..it was a pleasure leading today!
Announcements:
Snowflake…..thank you for taking us out in Ball of Man!
More of the same extended pain at Devil’s Turn this week. We leave the greenway parking lot at the corner of Rea Rd. and Bevington Place at 5:15 and return by 6:10 for COT.
Two or more options available:
1) Warmup 1 mile at fellowship pace and then hit “Marathon” training pace out to the South Charlotte Middle school track and continue until it is time to head back.
2) Warmup 1 mile, run out to track at “Marathon” pace, once at track go to “Threshold” pace continuing at this pace until time to head back, then on the way back go back to “Marathon” pace.
Many other options available. Do as you wish.
Swift launched with 12 PAX at 0530 on Tuesday morning from the Vine restaurant. There would be heavy breathing through the Ballantyne Country Club that would be sure to wake the neighbors.
The Thang:
The Moleskin:
Annoucements:
Thirteen runners took to the streets of Raintree and SCMS track for a good old fashioned cardio workout at Fast Twtich.
COP
SSH 20
IW 15
Jog off campus to Rising Meadow for hill work. Divide into two groups with Group 2 starting once Group 1 reaches the midpoint of each run.
– 75% effort run up hill, job back
– 75% effort run up hill, jog back
– All you got up hill, jog back
– Karaoke R up hill, job back- Karaoke L up hill, jog back
– Backwards run up hill, jog back
– All you got up hill, jog back
– All you got up hill, jog back
– Group 1: Suicide (First light post, back, brick mailbox, back, second light post, back), Group 2: Deep squats
– FlapjackIndian run back to SCMS, down to track
1600M run, 400M jog
1200M run, 400M jog
800M run, 400M jog
400M run, 400M jog
Mosey back to parking lot LBC x 25 (IC)Merkins x 20 (IC)
Great effort by everyone today. We covered 6.11 miles between the hill work and track. Not a lot of frills – this was designed to be a pretty straight forward, albeit hard, running workout. Happy birthday to Stage Coach, who conveniently/strategically didn’t make the announcement until 6:14. Otherwise, I’m sure we could’ve done 41 of something. Special thanks to Mr. Brady for the sendoff. Please keep Chelms’ brother and family in your thoughts and prayers as he continues to fight brain cancer and prepares for tomorrow’s return trip to Duke for evaluation.It was a pleasure leading this group – Thanks, TL for the opportunity!
June 5: New Thursday night run option starting at the ABC store in Arboretum.
June 14: F# Olympics, Pool Party, Farside’s ride with the kidsJune 21: Start of F# Dads (pushed back one week due to June 14 schedule)
posted on behalf of Soul Glo
On May 29th, 2014, 136 men, two (2) Official Historians, and the ugliest and least efficient beer girl ever to set foot on a golf course descended upon Old Sycamore Golf Plantation to raise money for the F3 Foundation.
This is the official record of the first annual, but certainly not the last, F3 Golf Classic. For a dropbox folder with all photos we’ve collected, click here. For the #F3Golf live tweet recap, click here.
There are also reports of propaganda accounts of the event, which should be dismissed outright.
From the moment of its announcement, F3Golf generated significant buzz. As we all know, creating a new twitter account and a hashtag is the first rung on the ladder of greatness.
If your @F3MudRun team was subpar, exact your revenge on the #smokeboot crowd at #F3Golf. Benefits @F3Foundation. http://t.co/3W0EQoqTc8
— F3 Golf (@F3Golf) April 22, 2014
As expected, unsubstantiated claims of greatness spread far and wide among the pax. Rumors circulated before the event included the following:
Just before launch, F3F Chairman Haywood reminded us what it’s all about with a recap of the good the Foundation is doing in the community. The message focused minds and hearts and all made ready to put the talk to the test. Foursomes assembled, carts loaded, pencils sharpened, and erasers tucked into pockets, all 136 men rolled out to designated starting tees.
@F3Golf F3 Nation about to descend upon Olde Sycamore. #F3Golf pic.twitter.com/fubEjOuAgd
— Greg Frampton (@TalkBox_F3) May 29, 2014
Hey Talkbox — our editors say it’s “descend” but I’m sure nobody will notice. Hitman didn’t. We liked the photo so we used it anyway, but you might want to stick to mustache-growing instead of spelling.
YHCs just don’t know where to begin; there were so many good stories that we could relate, to say nothing of the many tales, of questionable veracity, that were shared with us by you. Below are a few highlights. We’d encourage you to click here to read the play by play, to which many contributed.
Charity golf events are made or broken by the quality of the servers, who provide not only libations but also a friendly smile and encouragement throughout the day, especially when things get tough out there. Two beer carts roamed the course: one, piloted by F3F leader Haywood, spread cheer and witty tweets for all to enjoy; the other, piloted by world’s-best-weaselshaker OBT.
@F3Golf does OBT mean One Beer Thursday? Where are you? @F3Area51 @f3metro #F3Golf @trwhitmire_OBT
— Chad V Blankenburg (@HopsF3) May 29, 2014
That’s right, the same guy who brought you this video (yep, it’s on the internet forever). Not all agree with that assessment; DriveThru was somewhat more charitable:
Honestly @trwhitmire_OBT not the worst looking beer wench I’ve ever seen. #F3Golf
— Chris McDonald (@drivethru_f3) May 29, 2014
Longest drive and shortest drive awards are always fun additions to a tournament. While Busted Paw winner Cindy held the shortest drive lead for much of the day, it was host Area 51 Q Alf that came through with a drive off the cart path curb that went 8 yards. Behind the tee. Masters’ fan Early Bloomer Brobee scored the longest at 324.
#f3golf Team 5A longest and shortest drive. Alf – Short drive: off curb for -8 yards. Winner winner chicken dinner. EB for the distance
— Alan Lochridge (@Alf_F3) May 29, 2014
Which is all beside the point; your longest drive winner also presented YHCs with the gift photo of the day, taken by OBT showing Early Bloomer quintuple-logoing his Masters’ gear.
Upon seeing this photo, YHCs were confounded and debated at length how such a thing could happen. We concluded that only one of two explanations was possible:
A. EB doesn’t know what he is doing; or
B. EB knows exactly what he is doing.
Jury’s still out.
While the generosity of our sponsors and players was truly inspiring, that didn’t stop Haywood and Judge Smails from running a couple side gigs to take more of your money.
Judge Smails ran a beat the pro and racked up an astounding $702 making you look ridiculous.
That wasn’t the only way F3F raked in additional support; YHCs, Haywood and Belk, solicited bribes for favorable twitter coverage and raised something in the neighborhood of $500. Whiffs were overlooked, clutch shots were “made,” and non-contributors were heckled. For example, if you saw a tweet like this, it may have been aided by a donation.
Passport sinks a chip from 40 yards. Easily the clutch shot of the day. He also is an impeccable dresser #F3Golf
— John Dillard (Belk) (@johndillard) May 29, 2014
Conversely, non-donators were heckled mercilessly. This telling video shows Cindy coming unraveled with the Official Event Historians’ harassment:
http://youtu.be/pPY6D6qUwmI
What kind of golf tournament doesn’t get hammered by a torrential downpour, hurricane force winds, flooding and hail? The F3 Golf Classic delivered. There are countless stories on this one but this is my favorite, submitted by FNG Jason McKinstry (lightly edited):
We were on the 15th hole. I stepped up for my mully, and addressed ball… A tornado like wind from my back started and I hoisted one high into the gale force wind… As I walked to cart, drops of rain the size of lacrosse balls fell… It didn’t stop, and as we hid under the bag lid in cart, waiting for what was to be a short storm, we saw the creek turn into the Colorado River and engulf my drive into a goonga, goongalagoonga type crevice…Afterward as we drove cart to hopeful safety, a trashcan “spiked in” course, came loose and floated under the murky roaring rapids that was the cart path at 17th. A young assistant of the course found me in light rain, on the fairway, laying down in mud, surveying undercarriage of cart where I pulled over, fearing massive cart damage.
You will be happy to know that said FNG made it out safely and no one has informed him yet that in F3 he should avoid saying things like “laying down surveying the undercarriage.”
According to Bananas and Tiger Rag, there was much uproar over the effect of the rainstorm on scoring, which forced the Pros to score based on a front 9 and back 9 winner. Some men sucked it up and kept playing, like this guy:
http://youtu.be/blQnXoGSW6Y
We named a winner, a shortest and longest drive, and even recorded a hole-in-one. Here’s the breakdown:
For a breakdown of our generous donors, click here. A very special thanks to the Main Sponsors Skywalker, KC, Pate and Spandex/24 HoB. Old Sycamore Plantation and especially Summer deserve our gratitude; they couldn’t have been more responsive, accommodating, and helpful.
Overall Winners***: Package/Santini/Menthol and FNG Ray Coker.
Superb play and the team hailing from the smallest contingent, The Fort. Like SouthBeach’s marred victory in the Spring 2014 MudRun (kidney stones**), this win will be disputed all year due to the rain cutoff.
Top Regional Participation: Area 51
The hosts took the top prize. NoCo was 2nd with 40 and Metro a disappointing 36. The Fort brought 8 but took home the trophy. Metro as usual wins the trash talk contest but this time fails to deliver, whiffing on both top scoring and participation.
Longest Drive: Early Bloomer (Metro)
Shortest Drive: Alf (A51)
Putting Contest: Derek Ezell (FNG)
Cases of Beer Consumed: 30. All of them. There were leftover snacks, which Bananas donated to his church, which should cover his Sunday School responsibilities for the fall.
HOLE IN ONE: FNG Brandon Dyer, nicknamed Bar Tab
A thing of beauty that we almost certainly won’t see every year. Here’s his triumphant description:
http://youtu.be/JyflQ4y-gAY
What a day. YHCs have been at this a while and rarely are there opportunities to get this many men together in fellowship and faith to support a great cause. No matter your score, whether you were there or just reading the updates, or handing out beers, this was a tremendous success for The F3 Foundation, and F3, and the men who worked their tails off to pull it together. If you see one of the event sponsors, Tiger Rag, Bananas, Cottonmouth, Haywood, or one of the many who made the event possible, shake his hand. The money raised will make a real difference in our communities.
If you weren’t there, and this gets you fired up, write a check or click here to make a donation. It’s worth it.
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29 men ventured into the gloom to take on the clock for some running and kettlebells at Skunkworks. Strong work by all. Swiss Miss emerged as the overall winner, but I think we all took a beating from the clock.
Warmup
– SSH
– Imperial Walkers
– 2 handed KB swings
– Full situps
– KB snatches
– Merkins
– Mosey to parking lot
The Clock
– 9 minutes: run big lap around church and parking lot (0.66 miles), 2-handed KB swings
– 8 minutes: run small lap around church (0.45 miles), full situps (hands touch over head and palms touch by side)
– 6 minutes: run to exit road and back (0.3 miles), KB snatches
– 5 minutes: run to stop sign and back (0.2 miles), proper form merkins
– Slight rest between each set
– Keep running count of all reps
Mary
– Mosey back to flag
– Plank
– Crimean Twist w/ KB
– Luganis w/ KB
Solid work, always an honor to lead this group. My apologies if you did not get the warning on twitter that there would be running. Although it was each man against the himself and the clock, Swiss Miss was the overall winner with close to 300 reps. DK was up there as well but somehow he put himself in the Clydesdale running group with a slightly shorter track.
Welcome FNG Scratch & Win, you narrowly missed Scratch & Sniff. Keep an eye out on lottery TV commercials.
– Harley