Elon Park Loop

Elon Park Loop

Date: 2025-07-07 AO: run Q: frasier PAX: bunker, gumbo, Polly FNGs: None COUNT: 4 WARMUP: 4 for the normal warm up THE THANG: We ran a little further than the promised five miles but I knew this group could handle it. MARY: ANNOUNCEMENTS: Wingman slept in. COT:

Elon Park Loop

Date: 2025-07-07 AO: run Q: frasier PAX: bunker, gumbo, Polly FNGs: None COUNT: 4 WARMUP: 4 for the normal warm up THE THANG: We ran a little further than the promised five miles but I knew this group could handle it. MARY: ANNOUNCEMENTS: Wingman slept in. COT:

Chubby Hills

Date: 2025-07-07 AO: chubby-hubby Q: Spammer PAX: Spammer, fleetwood, retread, turkey_leg, Mr Freeze FNGs: None COUNT: 5 WARMUP: not this week THE THANG: AMRAP Horsey laps including Wilby xtn. MARY: Pledge at the Flagpole 0610 COT: fleetwood

The Rock 7/5

Date: 2025-07-05 AO: the-rock Q: Tuna PAX: geraldo, ductwork, Alf, Mr. Magoo, Tuna FNGs: None COUNT: 5 3.2 miles ran
15 Side stratel hops 15 imperial walker 15 hill Billy 10 merkins 15 mountain climbers Stretch
Four corners: -2x Upper/lower body: merkins/middle, Carolina dry docks, jump squats, wide arm merkins, lunges -2x Abs: mountain climber/middle, LBCs, Freddie mercuries, heels to heaven, flutters
Pavilion – Pick a bench 3x 20 Knee ups 20 dips Run to street and back
Rock work: 3x Curls Shoulder press Squat Run
Playground: 25 Pull ups 100 Merkins
End with Mary – Abs
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Dad camp August 15 COT: Tuna

[mountain-running] South mtn clockwise

Date: 2025-07-04 AO: mountain-running Q: frasier PAX: bunker, bratwurst, Polly, Chatterbox FNGs: None COUNT: 5 WARMUP: THE THANG: we had a great day at a great state park. Anywhere from 12 to 16 miles or covered. Lots of elevation, great views and manageable temperature. MARY: ANNOUNCEMENTS: COT:

That’s not important right now

Date: 2025-07-05 AO: chicken-run Q: tuck PAX: midriff, Franky, gumbo, Green Label FNGs: None COUNT: 5 Was there a long and needlessly complicated PreBlast associated with this run? Yes. Yes there was. There’s no need to rehash that here. All you need to know is that we ran from one Chick-fil-A to another and then back again. Did I wake up 12 minutes before 6AM and arrive 5 minutes late? Uh-huh, but that’s irrelevant. Did the route contain a short diversion onto a trail for no good reason? Yes it did, but we don’t need to get into that. Did we run through both lanes of a Chick-fil-A drive-thru, slowing down actual paying customers and grossing out customers and staff alike with our sweaty middle-aged bodies? Well, sure, but that’s not important right now. Did I have a code brown with less than a half a mile to go? Inconsequential! But yes I did. Did this run increase the odds of us running to three Chick-fil-A’s in the near future? Well yeah, obviously, but we can discuss that later. All you need to know right now is we went for a run.

Redcoats Wouldn’t Stand a Chance…

Date: 2025-07-05 AO: olympus Q: Krzyzewski PAX: MARTA, Wabbit, Emoji FNGs: None COUNT: 4 Despite having to knock loose a few cobwebs from 4th of July revelry, the pax embraced the cool-ish morning air to take on the latest installment of spreadsheet punishment. Verily, the presses were copious and the armor was built, but not without some solid mumblechatter. Wabbit threw down some hot takes on Mexican cuisine. Emoji helped us remember why house cleaning can be deceptively nefarious. MARTA helped point out why photographing restaurant staff is generally frowned upon. And YHC delighted in the rhythms of stuffing 160 presses (each one was a double!) into a somewhat cohesive weinke. Solid morning that also saw the introduction of backwards farmer’s carries (for our HEALTH!). Let’s get into the recap… WARMUP: Swings (10x), prying squats, hi-pulls (5x e/s), synovial circles, one-handed swings (5x e/s), slingshots (7x e/w) THE THANG: 1) ABC EMOM (10 min.) – Double clean (2x) – Double front squat (3x) 2) Double Presses (4 sets) – Double presses (2x) – Double presses (3x) – Double presses (5x) – Double presses (10x) 3) Snatchy Pyramid Thing (5 sets) – Snatches 2x e/s (add 2x e/s each set until 6x e/s and then subtract 2x e/s until back to 2x e/s total) – Heavy swings (15x) – Lawnmowers (6x e/s) 4) Hinge Complex EMOM (3 min.) – Deadlift -> upright row (5x) – SLDL (6x e/s) – Reverse lunge (6x e/s) 5) Carries! – Mostly regular farmer’s, but threw a curveball once Wabbit spoke about the benefits of backwards walking – remember to get your 5 mins each day! MARY: Naw, fam – not today ANNOUNCEMENTS: – :drop_of_blood:Blood drive….in October? – :camping: F3 Dad Camp @ Lake Wylie from 8/15-8/17 (Look for details on Slack) – :horse: Horsey half marathon and ruck is on 8/2 (see Slack for details) – :kettlebell:+ :shirt: Order your KB shirts by 7/13: f3gear.com/products/f3-area-51-kettlebell-reorder-pre-order-july-2025 COT: – Tuna took out the joint crews and this one was in the books!

Runners wear red

Date: 2025-07-04 AO: the-brave Q: midriff PAX: drive_by, Doublemint, tuck, Franky, teddyf3 FNGs: None COUNT: 6 Celebrate by running six miles on the McAlpine Creek Greenway. Each pax carried Old Glory for a mile. Doublemint taking us home during our final silent mile as we remembered the fallen, prayer for our leaders and cherished our freedom.
Kotters to drive_by for making his return to The Brave. Shoutout to teddyf3 for taking the red pill and joining his red-shirted brethen for a challenging run. Enjoyed having Franky join us after initially planning to go to South Mountain. And donning a pretty badass PBR shirt. tuck had a red shirt on that lasted a whole 10 minutes during the prerun before he ran shirtless the rest of the way. YHC was criticized for wearing an off-red shirt. Coral counts, right? Stay tuned for Hippie’s backblast, detailing the bootcamp adventures.
Happy Birthday America!

Atomic Farts at Firestarter

Date: 2025-06-30 AO: firestarter Q: midriff PAX: Ryan, Roulette, Hawkeye, ToeJam, Point Break, fallout, Odd Job, kirby, taggart, madison FNGs: None COUNT: 11 Warmup next to Target. Get our concrete blocks and 2x half blocks for some shoulder work, with shuttle runs mixed in. Jumpsquat celebration at each light on the way to Blakeney Heath hill. Merkins and LBC’s and hill runs. Pause at the top of the hill for more rock work. Make our way to shopping area down Ardrey Kell, stopping for more jumpsquats. Kudos to ToeJam for counting, we got about 300 in during the whole workout. Introduce donkey merkins, which was Ryan (aka @Melons) q to grunt loudly. I dropped an atomic fart bomb on the pax before we made our way home to launch.

Happy Birthday

Date: 2025-07-05 AO: davinci Q: Palmolive PAX: Odd Job, Cheese Curd, wildturkey, Bottle Rocket FNGs: None COUNT: 5 Nice group for the convergence with an out of towner joining for the celebration.
WARMUP: The usual SSH, jumping spiders, and plank before 3 rounds of derkins, pull ups, and Bulgarian Split squats at the playground
THE THANG: Head to the yoga studio for 250 merkins, 250 squats, 250 big boys with rounds up and down the stairs. Completely uncreative grind.
Finish with 10 burpees and some air humpers.
MARY: Included
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Pray for Oddjobs niece.
COT: I took us out