This Is Not a Running AO

Temp: 50
Gloom Factor: High
Morale: Higher
PAX: Money Shot, Hambone, Care Bear, Tampa Libra, Bagger Vance
QIC: BV

Trust Mosey Train over to playground, scrapped for two man Trust Mosey to Rec Center Lot for

WOR:
SSH X 13 IC
WMH X 10
Imp Walkers x 13 IC
Hillbillies x 14 IC

THANG

EVO I

1. 30 Merkins
2. 30 Air squats
3. 30 Pistol LBCs
4. 10 Burpees
5. 10 Windmills
6. 30 Merkins
7. 30 Mountain climbers
8. 30 Flutter kicks
9. 10 Burpees
10. 10 Cherry pickers (4-count)
11. 30 Merkins
12. 30 Lunges
13. 30 Supermans
14. 10 Burpees
15. 10 Chain breakers
16. 30 Merkins
17. 30 ?
18. 30 Hello Dollies
19. 10 Burpees
20. 10 Phelps

Trust Mosey to Picnic I

EVO II

AMRAP 20 Minutes
1. 5 pull-ups
2. 10 Merkins
3. 15 air squats

Walk to Main Lot

EVO III

Plank Progression
5 Merkins
Plank Progression
5 Merkins

EVO IV

Bear Crawl/Crawl Bear w 5 Merkins +/- 30 yards
Karaoke Rt w 5 side lunges
Karaoke Lt w 5 side lunges
Side shuffle Rt w 5 Burpees
Side Shuffle Lt w 5 Burpees
Politician w 5 Rev Burpees
Politician w 5 Rev Burpees

Mary
Plank Pointers R
Plank Pointers L
Plank March R
Plank March L
20 Pistol LBC IC
5 Burpees
Divers R
Divers L
GMA X 3 IC

TIME

NMM:
This is not a Running AO.

BH:
NO HILL THIS WEEK. ALL OTHER AO AS SCHEDULED. STANDARD IS ON, FUNYUNS ON Q.

413 Strong Supper 5 Dec on Campus

YHC,
🎒🐜

3S, 2Turkeys – 14 for a gloomy gobbler at Bomber

We had 14 PAX + a brief coupon delivery man (PA) for a gloomy gobbler. We fully utilized the 3S2T philosophy – Sauce, Sides, Serious Precipitation + Turkey & Turkey. Joke still didn’t land…We all learned that the human body don’t rust in the rain.

PAX: Porcelain, Blue Mule, Duplex, Right Said, Toothless, Hambone, Cub Cadet, Black Lung, Bicentennial Man, HiViz, T cell, River Dawg, Covenant Eyes

QIC: Crablegs

Conditions: Gloomy. ~58F with a nice, progressive rain shower that finished conveniently at the same time as the workout.

GETTING WARM:

  • Most Thanksgivings begin with a bit of travel so PAX took a meandering road trip mosey around the McCabe clubhouse area. We were fortunate for no unnecessary slowdowns or disagreements about the radio.
  • Next was a brief, non-creative Warm-a-rama with highlights of the moroccan night club and OYO good mornings.

THE THANG:

  • PAX counted off and picked partners because nobody should be alone on Thanksgiving.
  • We all headed to the coupon corner to gather up the necessary tools to prepare for the feast. We had cinder blocks, kettle bells, Ruck Plates, Bumper plates, Mule bricks and others – shout out Blue Mule, PA, Cub Cadet, EnFuego, T cell and Porcelain for the coups. Sorry if you brought a coup and I missed you here.
  • PAX began to prepare the Thanksgiving TURKEY. One partner took a turkey trot to the top of the hill and made room for the meal with 3 burpees at the top while the other was going for AMRAP of the Turkey exercises below.
  • T-U-R-K-E-Y
  • Turkins- strongly resemble Merkins
  • Upright Coupon Rows – to row the Mayflower
  • (plymouth) ROCKERs – similar to a coupon side lunge
  • Korn bread Koupon thrusters (like the band)
  • Elf on the shelf – American Hammer style movement with a coupon thruster in the middle, in order to both retrieve and place said elf on said shelf.
  • Yam Yurpees

PAX then brought their air chairs to the air table and passed the plate. Once the plates were sufficiently passed, we went back for seconds and modified the Turkey to swap the 3 burpees up top for 1 Yurpee and the Yam Yurpees with American Yammers, which are exactly what you think they are (+coupon).

PAX returned to the table for more plate passing, this time with double the plates. Perfect form was needed to impress the in-laws and most succeeded.

MOLESKINE:

It was a pleasure to get back and lead the PAX at #Bomber. Many thanks to all getting out in the rain and making the most of the DRP. We missed our brothers in the Vandersack (s/o Pumpkin Spice, Vector, $$$nake). Prayers for Covenant Eyes’ friend Nathan and their family after the recent loss of his mother and for all of those lonely and without family during the Thanksgiving season (esp River Dawg’s Wife’s Ministry). There’s no room in the backblast to express my gratitude towards the PAX of F3 for helping my own acceleration.

BULLHORN:

  • Be on the lookout for info regarding Thursday workouts next week. #Atlantis is likely out, but we’ll see.
  • 11/23 – The FitTest Challenge at Nolensville High – 0600
  • 12/1 – 3rd F opp with Crievewood Baptist and Room at the Inn – details and sign up here
  • 1/16 – Gentleman’s Dinner at Jimmy Kelly’s – 1800 – HC here

Gobble gobble,

Crablegs

Westeros – 11.18.19 – “Woooow”

13 PAX kicked the week off with a short but sweet Owen Wilson birthday tribute and not so short hardcourt throttling.

QIC: Princess Aurora

PAX: Black Lung, Crablegs, Crawlspace, Drago, Harvey Updyke, Hi-Viz, Pumpkin Spice, Right Said, Siri, T-Cell, Vector

THE THANG:

Mosey over to the WEMS circle drive for a little COP:

  • Overhead Claps
  • Werkins
  • E2K
  • Newton’s Cradle
  • Werkins
  • Imperial Walkers
  • Lunges
  • SSH
  • Overhead Press
  • Newton’s Cradle

Happy birthday, Owen Wilson. Now let’s mosey over to the tennis courts for 4-line suicides across both courts. RnR x 3. With the last one complete in 55 seconds, the PAX were challenged to complete one more in 45 seconds or less or else do it again. First try was a success!

Still on the tennis courts, PAX lined up for some 11s with Prisoner Squats and Hand Release Merkins traveling by Broad Jump out and Crawl Bear and back. (For the sake of time, once 8 HRMs were completed, running was subbed for the Crawl Bear)

All in and the PAX split into two groups to head over to they playground for some Pull-ups. Each team would complete 150 Pull-Ups while the other did Flutter Kicks.

Mosey back to the parking lot for some Mary:

  • LBCs
  • Alabama Prom Dates
  • Single Leg APDs
  • American Hammers
  • Long Slow Flutters

COT/BOM

MOLESKINE:

Not much to report other than Crablegs not catching on to the Owen Wilson COP until the very end of the workout. I like to this he’s focusing his mental energy on doctor things.

BULLHORN:

  • 11/23 – The FitTest Challenge at Nolensville High – 0600
  • 12/1 – 3rd F opp with Crievewood Baptist and Room at the Inn – details and sign up here
  • 1/16 – Gentleman’s Dinner at Jimmy Kelly’s – 1800 – HC here

Pleasure as always, gentlemen.

PA out.

FitTest preview at Sir E

PAX: Dupree, Too Tall, Foxtrot Talks-a-lot, Black Widow, Prevac, Boy band, PSL, JK, Red Skull, Pedialyte

QIC: Floppy Disk

11 on a drizzly morning at Sir E.

Disclaimer dispensed, head up to the big house for some Warm-o-rama.

WoR (all IC)
SSH x20
Windmills x10
Good morns x10
Willie Mays x10
High Knees x10
Squats x10

THANG – taste of the FitTest in Nolesville this coming weekend.

50x hand-release burpees
Mosey to the big lot
Bear crawl hopefully about 100 yards
Crawl bear back
Mosey upper loop (a little over 0.5 mile)
Crab walk hopefully about 100 yards
Broad jump back
Mosey upper loop (a little over 0.5 mile)
Bear crawl about 30 yards
Crawl bear back
25x hand release merkins
25x jump squats

Mosey back to the church lot for some Mary

Mary
20x Flutter kix IC
10x Good morns IC

Tough workout today. These are a few of my least favorite things. When I announced the 50x hand release burpees PSL said, “That’s unfortunate”. Indeed! Everyone worked hard, though, and pushed through the discomfort.

Until next time,
Floppy D

FitTest Prep + Some Block Work

Conditions: 42 and almost raining, not as bad as the weather app said.

12 PAX in Attendance:  Barney Fievel, ShowMe, SexEd, Nimbus 1500, STERNO, Gaylord Focker, Stats, Mickey Mouse, GlenGarry, Professor X, Huggy, & LMP.

Warm-Up/Disclaimer – Did the ShowMe lap, totally missed the disclaimer.

In Honor of/Preparation for fit test, we got some reps

First THANGs First: Hand Release Burpees on the 48 seconds

As a trial run to improve times, we did 5 sets of 10 hand release burpees every seconds to shave some time off our opening act Saturday.

Mosey to the BC Bridge for more FitTest reps

Second THANG: BearCrawl/CrawlBear the Bridge

Then Run Half Mile Loop

Third THANG: CrabWalk/BroadJump the Bridge

Then Start the Half Mile Loop in Indian Run

In the interest of time…stopped at the sheds

Forth THANG: Partner Block Work

50 Block Merkins between partners – Rotating run to the Batting Cages

100 Block Squats between partners – Rotating run to the Batting Cages

150 Block Curls between partners – Rotating run to the Batting Cages

Finish the Half Mile Loop back to the parking lot

CoT/Numbers/Names

Moleskine

  • 3rdF (Faith) opportunity: We’re raising funds for Safe Families that will be our “buy in” to the FitTest on November 23rd. Any raised funds can be sent to the @F3Nolensville Venmo account or can be handed over in another fashion to Numbtucks.
  • 2ndF (Fellowship) opportunity: GAME NIGHT this Thursday Night (the 21st).  Starts at 8:30ish – Location details coming…
  • 1stF (Fitness) opportunity: FitTest face off against the fittest from the other Middle Tennessee regions at Nolensville for the FitTest Challenge, Saturday November 23rd at Nolensville High. Please come and be a part of this. Even if you’re not competing, we need at least two non-competing participants to help monitor and time people.
    • It also appears that there there is a bit of a convergence pre-party in the works, stay tuned for updates from Barney on slack…5:15am is what it’s looking like.
  • Prayers For LMP & Fam – They’ve got a Doctor’s appointment today and are expecting some results.

~N1.5K

Blackjack at Defiant

PP: 3rd Degree, Mursa, and someone else.

GLOOM: cold, dark, and ready to roll

PAX: 3rd Degree, NumbTucks, Staples, Stats, Mursa, Professor X (Respect), Typo+ (QIC)

Q rolled in hot and set up the shovel flag while PAX were doing a ShowMe lap.

 

 

Warmups/Disclaimer/Etc

12x SSH IC

12x Low-in-Slow Squats IC

12x Low-in-slow Merkins IC

Run 1 lap around the school and meet back on the Pain Ground.

 

THANG:

Let’s play some BlackJack.

20 reps of Exercise 1; 1 rep of Exercise 2

mode of transportation from 1 to 2: Lunge Walks

Mode of transportation back: BroadJumps

Exercise 1: using a swing, get into plank, put your feet on swing and bring your knees to your chest.

Exercise 2: Good ‘ol fashioned Pull-Ups!

 

We made good progress, but what was most impressive was Professor’s epic Mumble Chatter about Roger Staubach being the best Cowboy ever, and something about his mom being from Oklahoma.  Oh, and NumbTucks got a splinter…only a problem because of your Ranger Panties!

 

CoT/Count-o-rama:

Prayers for SoccerMom and he and his family come home for 6 weeks on Furlow.  Look forward to seeing him again soon.

Game Night in SilverStream Thursday night…once NumbTucks gets permission.

Stay Tuned for Christmas Party info.

 

Typo+

Explore the space

PAX:
CCR, Bagger Vance, PSL, Too Tall, AR, Rooster, Grisham, Dine N Dash, BoyBand, FTTA, Faulkner, School Girl, Ocho Cinco, Movin On Up, Prevac, JK, Floppy, Ludwig, Paul Blart

WOR:
Mosey the ball field loop. Circle up under pavilion for 30 SSH, 12 GM’s, 10 Squats, and 20 Hillbillies

THANG:
YHC was excited to explore an unused area of the AO. Mosey to the gully for instructions.

1. 2:4 Jack Webb with Irkins on the slope. 2 Irkins, 4 AirPresses..4 Irkins, 8 AirPresses……up to 20 Irkins, 40 AirPresses

2. Partner up. Partner 1 does 1 Burpee, ~5-6 ft Wall Climb, 1 Lt. Dan, back down – going up 1 rep each time.

Partner 2 runs to the swings and back. Switch.

RR until around ~8-10 reps.

3. 1:2 Jack Webb with Dirkins on the slope.

4. Partner 1 starts moving Lt. Dan on the bus loop while Partner 2 runs to the swings and back. Switch.

MARY:
After a mosey back to the lot circle up, on your 6, for 10 minutes of MARY.
20 Captain Thor OYO
20 Flutters IC
20 Alabama Prom Date IC
20 Flutters IC
25 Single-Leg Alabama Prom Date IC
25 Single-Leg Alabama Prom Date IC
20 Flutters IC
10 Fire Hydrant each side
10 Fire Hydrant with kick each side
20 Captain Thor OYO

COT:
For I will pour water on the thirsty land,
and streams on the dry ground;
I will pour my Spirit upon your offspring,
and my blessing on your descendants.
– Isaiah 44:3

Magnificent 7 @ The Pound – 11/14/19

7 PAX chose wisely; they were Kermit, Staples, Prof X, Huggy, Hot Dish, Stats, & Tebow (QIC)

After the last couple of frigid days, this morning’s ~30 degree temps felt balmy.

WARM UP:
Quick lap, SSH, HB, IW, BACs, Lunges, Squats, Merkins, MC

Brief explanation of a minor theme for today: injury prevention. We do a lot of forward/backward movement, but not much lateral movement. This means we’re no doubt deficient in some of those critical stabilizer muscle groups that can help us bullet proof our knees from injury. With that being said,

LET’S DO THIS

Bear crawl two light poles down
*every 4 parking space lines perform 20 lateral hops
Then, Crawl Bear/Crab Walk back

Partner up, 4 Rounds:
P1 – hop on one leg (seriously)
P2 – side shuffle down two light poles, sprint back, switch
*5 burpees for each partner if P1’s second leg touches the ground before P2 returns (no penalties were awarded)

10 burpees, 10 lungees

Short mosey to the concession stand, Partner up, AMRAP 6min
P1 – wall sit
P2 – (4 MC + 4 Low MC + 4 Merkins) x 4, switch
*these were pretty nasty; we’ll see them again

Flutters IC (get those soft, bent legs outta here)
AH IC

Mosey back to parking lot for
10 burpees, 10 lungees

MARY: bear crawl stance shoulder taps x 20, Huggers, GMs

Prayers for Staples’ mom and LMP’s wife.
Great job by all,
Tebow

Stone Cold Cooper at Broken Wheel

stone cold steve austin GIF

Conditions: The temperature was 15 degrees but the wind made it feel closer to zero. Combine that with a nice layer of ice on everything and you’ve got yourself some premium Gloom.

10 PAX in Attendance:  Barney Fievel (YHC), ShowMe, SexEd, Nimbus 1500, Hot Dish, Tebow, Gaylord Focker, Kermit, NumbTucks, and Staples.

Warm-Up/Disclaimer – Just as we start to take off for our ShowMe lap, another vehicle pulls up. That’s right, its your boy, ShowMe showing us why we call it a ShowMe lap!

First THANGs First: Stone Cold Cooper

Mosey up to the sheds where we stored the cinder block coupons from the Gauntlet. Bust out 20 blockees and take a half mile lap. Repeat, decreasing 5 blockee reps each round. Equals 50 blockees and two miles.

Second THANG = Pull-Up Apocalypse

PAX form several lines in front of the swing sets and perform a pull-up apocalypse starting with 10, OYO.

Bear Crawl the bridge and back because we love it.

CoT/Numbers/Names

Moleskine

  • 3rdF (Faith) opportunity: We’re raising funds for Safe Families that will be our “buy in” to the FitTest on November 23rd. Any raised funds can be sent to the @F3Nolensville Venmo account or can be handed over in another fashion to Numbtucks.
    • GlenGarry also recently put a call to action out there for any PAX that want to help organize us better as it applies to 3rdF opportunities. He and Staples are looking for others to form a 3rdF Committee. See them for more details if you’re feeling led to mobilize F3 Nolensville for the good of our community.
  • 2ndF (Fellowship) opportunity: Seriously, I want us to have another game night. I hosted last time and will do so again! NumbTucks, O master of games, what game do you have for us next?!
  • 1stF (Fitness) opportunity: The Gauntlet and IronClad Challenge were total successes. Props to each PAX that participated in either. Next up, our fittest face off against the fittest from the other Middle Tennessee regions at Nolensville for the FitTest Challenge, Saturday November 23rd at Nolensville High. Please come and be a part of this. Even if you’re not competing, we need at least two non-competing participants to help monitor and time people. We’ll all be thick in the fog of war and can’t really be trusted to do anything for ourselves (at least I can’t).
    • Finally, I’ve been running the F1 aspect of F3 Nolensville since we got started and would really like to take on one or two others to form a committee. Let me know if you’re interested. It would entail organizing our CSAUPs, coordinating fitness-related events and Convergences with other regions, ensuring we have the needed number of AOs, and making sure F3 Nolensville always has a plethora of opportunities for PAX to sharpen each other physically.

-BF-

THE FEW, THE PROUD, THE…[ones who show up at 0530 with a wind chill of 11 degrees]

244 years ago this week the “most powerful fighting force on the planet” was established: the United States Marine Corps.  YHC’s father was a Marine officer in Korea and landed in Incheon on 10 November, 1952.  Happy Birthday Marines!

QIC: Silver Medal

PAX: En Fuego, Moneyshot, Bicentennial Man, High Flyer

CONDITIONS:  Wind chill of 11…what do you think it was like?

MOSEY (“slow calculated ice dance”)

Started with a long mosey trot around the church parking lot then back up around the back of the retirement center g-i-n-g-e-r-l-y placing every step.  Heading back to the main parking lot a skidding/sliding noise was heard by all, but alas, it was just bicentennial who had discovered that sliding on the ice [on his feet] was easier than running on it.  Pretty impressive.  Skipped typical WOR because who really needs to warm up anyway in these temps?

THANG (modified heavily)

Audible 1- The impending ice looming, YHC decided the night before to pivot and not go off-campus…some “field” training would be perfect.  So three on-campus main events were planned. (Audible 2- we only really got to one of them).

  • MARSOC Short Card.  Straight from the USMC Special Operations Command website.  If you haven’t done this, try it.  Simple 15-20 minute routine but a good one that will get the heart pumping without moving out of a 3’ radius.
    • 30 Merkins
    • 30 Squats
    • 30 LBCs
    • 10 Burpees
    • 10 Windmills
    • 30 Merkins
    • 30 Mountain climbers
    • 30 Flutter kicks
    • 10 Burpees
    • 10 Cherry pickers (4-count)
    • 30 Merkins
    • 30 SSHs
    • 30 Supermans
    • 10 Burpees
    • 10 Chain breakers
    • 30 Merkins
    • 30 Lunges
    • 30 Hello dollies
    • 10 Burpees
    • 30 American Hammers (modified count)
    • 50 dips (modified from AMRAP pull ups as bar was inaccessible)
  • In preparation for his Korea deployment in 1952, my father attended the USMC’s Mountain Warfare Training Center in Pickel Meadow CA (in the Sierras).  So to remember that we headed up to field for second and third acts that would include plenty of mountain “crawling” training.  Gate is frozen shut.  The locking device was plastic so we decided not to break it.  Ice was everywhere so jumping it posed risks.  Mosey around to Bernie Hill gate (which was also in the same frozen condition).  But who would have thought, Bernie Hill was [almost] completely dry.  So….
    • 3 rounds of El-Capitans/Everest combo (Lt Dans uphill);
    • 4 rounds (I think) of uphill Bearcrawl.
  • Long mosey back to main parking lot for some Mary that included ample J-Los, Freddie Mercurys, WWIs, Flutters, WMHs, and extra stretching that didn’t occur during WOR.

Lots of time was wasted with slow mosey and botched plans.  The lack of continuity was frustrating but on a day like today, you just keep moving.

BULLHORN:

  • Prayers for Hipster’s recovery
  • Prayers for High Flyer’s “you know, um, procedure” this Friday.  Moneyshot’s prep advice was duly noted by all.

I appreciate you guys making it out there this morning.  Had some curveballs thrown but we kept moving and made it through.

Silver Medal