Conditions: About 30 degrees and FROSTY. Polar Bear Playground weather…Beautifully clear sky with constellations on display and a nearly full-moon. Gorgeous…
Pre-Party: YHC led Kermit in a classic Bear-Crawl and Crawl-Bear over the Bridge. I timed the crawls and brought the timing up later to a couple PAX who sought to break the sound barrier in an attempt to beat the time…
13 PAX in attendance: Kermit, Inspector Gadget, Nimbus 1500, Stats, Altidore, RoadRash, Sterno, Scrooge, Tebow, Barney Fievel, Gaylord Focker, Netflix & 3rd Degree (Q)
Warm-up/Disclaimer:
- Jog around parking lot x 1 (then circle up) (ShowMe Lap)
- SSH IC x 50
- Goofballs IC x 50
- Tempo Merkins IC x 15
- Tempo Squats IC x 15
- Tony Horton/Michael Phelps stretch OYO
- GM OYO
Explained the concept for today: I had planned a completely different workout, but the frost killed it. Another time then…ADAPT AND OVERCOME! What follows was the sadistic spontaneity that sprung from my mind:
The Thang(s)
Bearway to Heaven: Bear crawl and then crawl-bear sprint the parking lot lines (every 2 lines = 1 station) with Burpee Speedbumps at every station (10, 8, 6, 4, 2) all set to the 8:16 minutes:seconds of Stairway to Heaven. It rocked! Some lucky PAX were able to finish with a 10 burpee buy-out since they had time to spare. YOU TRY IT! All Pax gave max effort. HIM Inspector Gadget gave up his time to get some gloves for newer PAX RoadRash. Well done…
Then…
Dancing Bear Pyramid: PAX perform 1 Merkin and then recover to perform 1 Dancing Bear (Andean Bear from Nashville Zoo on news…basically a jump squat and OHP). R&R going up in reps of each of 1:1 ration until at 10 & 10. Then back down the other side of the pyramid back to 1 each.
Then…
EmBEARassing Partner-Carry Variations: Piggy Back & Wheel Barrow the parking lot and flapjack with partner for the return. Apparently, some PAX are very comfortable with each other. Others get tongue-tied and cuss at each other on accident…SHOTS FIRED, #4thF
In between sets Nimbus wanted to pulse-plank, and we accommodated his request to Van Halen BG music. J-los were thrown in for good measure.
Lastly…
It’s kinda my thing and we have to show our newbie RoadRash what F3Nolensville is all about… Bear crawl and Crawl-Bear the bridge (3 squat bonus for any stoppage)…Time was called due to YHC poor time management while some PAX were modifying or finishing the crawl-bear…Cobains…
CoT/Numbers/Names/ShoutOut
Stats was the 9th man AGAIN, so Scrooge took the plunge and shared about family (wife and 3 kids under 6), church attendance (with Sterno in Brentwood) & hometown/college UT Martin (wide receiver with a PR of 4.5 40yd dash time), he plans to Q and smoke us all with football drills…stay tuned…
What we Learned:
- Thanks to Tebow/Nimbus for Coffee!!! Rifle Coffee, MudRuck, hair on the chest kind of coffee! Please let the PAX know how and when to donate for supplies PRN.
- The MEDIC needed its own MEDIC & Nimbus was happy to accommodate. There were songs about Jumping, Toad-sucking and Country boys surviving…Inspiring…
- Glad to see RoadRash come out and push hard! He said it sucked worse than the first time. Thanks bud…welcome to F3Nolensville. (was that a second Merlot Splash?)
- Netflix was lured from the FartSak by <32* temps. He loves that toboggan hat, and so do we…
- Barney and Nimbus crawled the bridge and sought to break records like:
- I’m glad to know and be sharpened by each of you. Thanks for BEARing with me. Keep posting!
- I love bears…the end.
Post Party: 15 HRCs, a BEAR of a woman & a strong finish to the morning!
6 PAX stuck around for coffeeteria. (Kermit, Barney, Tebow, Nimbus, Gaylord & YHC)
BullHorn:
- F3 Nolensville will launch our 4th AO, DEFIANT, on 3/25/19 (next Monday) at Nolensville Elementary 5:30-6:15 Bootcamp style workouts. (one more step to becoming our own region)
- Make sure to sign up for Q slots for F3 Nolensville on F3nashville.com under Q Sign up (created a link in this sentence) or I will gladly take them all!
- The Gauntlet is coming! 5/4/19 F3Nolensville’s first CSAUP event. 2.5-3 hours, ~8 miles, 5 AOs, endless memories…JUST SAY YES!
- ThirdThursday lunch (2ndF) will be this Thursday starting at 11:30 at Los Cabos (new Mexican restaurant in new buildings off Nolensville Road and Clovercroft/Rocky Fork Rds.) See you there!
3D-out!