Category: Bomber

QIC: Princess Aurora

The PAX: Hambone, Porcelain, Hollister, T-Cell, Hi-Viz, Right Said, Reveille, Tongue ‘N’ Groove (FNG), Bad Boy, Blue Mule, Bicentennial Man 

It was a wake ‘n’ bake kind of morning for 12 PAX at Bomber this morning. YHC has never touched the stuff, but, never one to pass on a themed workout, the PAX got their taste of 4-20.

The Thang:

Medium mosey around the circle drive and through the upper lot with some High Knees, Butt Kicks, Backpedaling, and Side Shuffling thrown in. Circle up for the disclaimer and the following:

• SSH x 20
• SnL Squats x 20
• Good Mornings x 20
• WMH x 20

Mosey down to the long lot and line up along the curb. The PAX would be doing 4 rounds of 20 movements, taking S.M.O.K.E. breaks in between. After each round, PAX planked for the six and started the next round together. The S.M.O.K.E. break consisted of 5 reps each of the following:

• Star Crunches
• Merkins
• Overhead Squats
• Kraken Burpees (Burpee with 3 HRM)
• Elbow Plank Jacks

The rounds consisted of various means of travel, counting out/up as 1 and back/down as 2. The rounds were as follows:

1. Shuttle Run (across lot, touching each curb)
2. Hill Run (up and down driveway)
3. Backpedal/Mosey (up driveway/down driveway)
4. Broad Jump/Backpedal (across lot)

Enough time for 7MOM:

• Flutters Kicks x 20
• LBCs x 20
• Freddie Mercuries x 20 (Right Said)
• J-Lo’s x 20 (Porcelain)
• Hello Dollies x 20 (Reveille)
• Hollow Hold for final 30″

COT/BOM

Moleskine:

We welcomed FNG Andrew Trammell aka Tongue ‘N’ Groove to F3 Nashville. A woodworker who had a kissing experience that prompted him to brush the taste away. He loves his name, so I think that’s enough to get him back. Mumblechatter about the low temps in late April was heard, and YHC spared the PAX by leaving the pull-ups out of the mix today. #frozenhands

Bullhorn:

• Walk for Williams is May 12 and is May’s 3rd F service opportunity. See Brother-At-Law for details.
• Nashville’s inaugural brew ruck will be June 23. This is your service opportunity and CSAUP rolled into one on, though I hesitate to call it CSAUP as we will be supporting Second Harvest Food Bank in fighting hunger across Middle TN. That’s certainly not completely stupid and utterly pointless. See the poll in the #nashville-rucking channel on Slack.
• Nolensville is launching next Tuesday, April 24 and needs your support. Post!
• Prayers for Spicoli, Olan Mills’s father, Foggy Pirate’s back, and Tebow’s knee.

Lastly, I want to ask all of you what I asked the guys this morning:

Why do you do F3? 

Please ponder that question this weekend and respond in the comments.

PA out.

Pax: T-Cell, Princess Aurora, Vector, Bicentennial Man, Third Person, High Viz, Porcelain, Hambone, Firefox, Blue Mule

QIC: En Fuego

A near full moon and 37 degree temperatures greeted the fine Pax of Bomber this morning – near ideal settings for YHC to bust out the winter gear again despite multiple showings of t-shirt / shorts pairings from his fellow Pax.  5:30 alarm goes off, YHC asks the 10 Pax to line up in alphabetical order, form two lines.  Teams are set, we’re ready to mosey.  Wait, up pulls Porcelain.  Ten becomes 11, teams are reset, mosey begins toward the Pro Shop.  Disclaimer, followed by COP mix of SSH, LBAC, RLBAC, WMH and GMs – 51 reps in total to celebrate tomorrow’s 51st running of the Iditarod – which leads us to…

The Thang:

We mosey to the driving range where YHC enlightens the Pax on the history of the Iditarod – something admitably YHC knew nothing about until the oldest came home this week with her 2nd grade class project.  Cliff notes – diptheria outbreak in the town of Nome, Alaska in 1925.  Nome is running on short supply of medical supplies to contain outbreak – in come a sled of dogs with antibiotics in tow, with none other than lead dog Balto leading the way.  Tomorrow, over 60 Mushers will lead their dogs through the 1,000 mile journey to commemorate this 1925 event.  Today, two Bomber Mushers got our Friday started right.

5 races, two teams, 1,000 total miles, er reps, (before adjustment to 1,200 to account for extra Pax on pack 2) with Musher Hi Viz in command of pack 1 and Musher Vector of pack 2, thanks to their respective HC first responder slack status.

B – Burpees; 200 total as a team (240 for Team 2).  Musher is responsible for ensuring accurate collective count, and upon completion / Musher command we race down the length of driving range (just over .2 miles).  Instructions to stay in close pack, with Musher ensuring no Pax left behind.  Team 1, aka, Good Guys, take race #1, despite some ensuing Mumble Chatter regarding some rules violations of a separated pack.  Winning team Musher picks exercise of 5 reps for losing team – goes with SSH.

A – Atomic Merkins; 200 / 240, upon completion teams perform Fireman Carry across width of driving range (approx. 100 yards).  YHC made his most strategic move of the day – deciding to quickly hop on the back of Mule vs the opposite.  Despite such winning strategy, Bad Guys take Round 2 – squats our penalty.

L – Lieutenant Dans; 200 / 240, upon completion wheelbarrow race back the 100 yards we just came from.  Bad Guys now on a winning streak, clerkins the punishment.

T – Turkish Sit-ups; 200 / 240, upon completion, team backward mosey back the .2m to start of driving range.  Folks, we now have a tie ball game with one race to go,  with a punishment of Groiners dished out.

O – One-legged Deadlift, whereby upon completion, each team’s Musher has pre-selected two from the pack to race down the .2m stretch and back while teams holds plank.  A confident PA and T-Cell raise their paw in call for duty for Team 2, with Firefox and YHC being tasked to stage the upset for Team 1.  Despite what YHC would deem a strong to quite strong drafting strategy on the way down, team T-Cell and PA were too much to overcome down the stretch, winning by a dog’s nose length.  Perhaps it was more like three body lengths – I can’t recall.

Officially dazed and slightly confused, YHC and Pax head back for final 5 minutes of Mary.  YHC starts off with flutter kicks and quickly passes the baton to Around the Horn format, still gassed, with proper Mary form and count in high debate at this point.

Close out in prayer – off to coffeeteria for those that could partake.   Great work by the crew.  Appreciate the opportunity to be a part of all things F3 with you.

Winning Team – Vector, T-Cell, PA, Hambone, Third Person, Porcelain

Close Runner Ups – Hi Viz, Bicentennial Man, Firefox, Blue Mule, YHC

En Fuego

PAX: 3rd Person, Porcelain, Ebola, Firefox, Vector, EnFuego, Pop-A-Lock (LIFO), Bad Boy, T-Cell, Princess Aurora

QIC: Hi-Viz

11 HIM ignored the siren’s song of the fartsack and were rewarded with a rare 70-degree February morning in Sylvan Park, along with burpees, bear crawl, and a fair amount (2.2+ miles by my count) of running.

Quick mosey to the pub parking.

SSH X 25 IC
Good Mornings X 10 IC
IW X 15 IC
Hillbillies X 15 IC
WMH X 10 IC

THANG:

Mosey to Edley’s for People’s Chair. (Wait, is that Pop-A-Lock coming in hot? Indeed!)

Mosey to the top of the hill for 7s. Burpees at the top. Jump Squats at the bottom. The change of direction and longer run was a definite crowd pleaser.

Mosey to the Murphy Bench. One PAX runs to the roundabout for a bear crawl lap and back, while the remaining PAX perform a dealer’s-choice exercise. Burpees, Durkins, Crawl Bear, Lt. Dans, VeryBigArmCircles (VBAC???), etc. (YHC is running short on memory and time to recall all of them. Great variety, however.)

Mosey to home base for Mary. 

Hello Dollys X 20 IC
LBC X 25 OYO
Plank
J-LOs to Finish

Done.

NOR/COT

Good spirits and great work this morning, men. Always a pleasure to hang with you.

BOLO for details on PA’s BeerRuck coming this June. Should be a good time. Also, he’s planning a September CSAUP.

Also, check out the Slacker for 3rdF opportunities and snag one if you’re interested in Qing one of your own.

SYITG.

Viz out.

QIC: Princess Aurora

The PAX: Firefox, Bad Boy, T-Cell, Hi-Viz, En Fuego (LIFO), Bicentennial Man, Megatron, Vector, Porcelain

10 PAX hit up Bomber to help welcome the “warmth” back to Nashville.

The Thang:

Mosey up to and around the upper parking lot and back down to the playground for the COP. All exercises IC:

• SSH
• Squats
• LBAC F
• Chinooks
• LBAC R
• Merkins
• Mountain Climbers

En Fuego coming in fuego after seeing blue lights this morning. Apparently they don’t put stop signs where you expect them these days. Thankfully, he dropped the F3 bomb on the officer, and she let him pass with a warning.

Mosey back over to the cars and to the bottom of the drive to explain the leg blaster circuit we were to perform. 20 Squats, 20 Lunges (10 ea), 20 Jump Lunges (10 ea), and 20 Jump Squats. Bernie Sanders up to the stop sign. 20 Clerkins. Run back and plank for six. Repeat for three more rounds, dropping reps by 5 each time to end with a Quarter Leg Blaster and 5 Clerkins.

Line up single file for a Prisoner Indian Run. Like a regular IR but with your hands laced behind your head the ENTIRE time. This sucked, but we managed. Normal IR back to the start point and hit the sidewalk for some Mary. Given that it was Edgar Allen Poe’s birthday, I already had the PAX mumbling “nevermore,” but we paid one last tribute with the following exercises IC:

• Reverse Crunch x 30
• American Hammer x 20
• V-Ups x 15
• E2K x 15 ea
• Newton’s Cradle x 20

COT/BOM

Moleskine:

I think double digits are the new standard at Bomber, and soon, it’s only going to get warmer. Guess we gotta get through February, though. Glad to see Vector so regularly now as well.

Bullhorn:

Many events on the calendar. GoRuck Bataan, Rock’n’Roll Marathon, GoRuck Constellation, and many more. Look for the resurrection of the Nashville CSAUP come June. I mean it.

PA out.

QIC: Princess Aurora

PAX: T-Cell, Megatron, Porcelain, Firefox, Bicentennial Man, Crawfish, Hambone, The Baptist

9 HIMs posted at Bomber for a taste of some fresh-baked ciabatta.

With four PAX coming off of a 2-mile warmup, the rest of the crew rolled in and we got going.

THE THANG

After a .4 mile mosey of a circular nature, we hit the COP back at the starting point. All exercises IC

• SSH x 20
• WMH x 20
• LBAC x 10 F
• Big “Baby” Arm Circles x 10 F
• Big “Baby” Arm Circles x 10 R
• LBAC x 10 R

Enough playtime. Step over to the path and whip out the timer for some tabata. Each round of tabata was followed by another .4 mile run.

1. Merkins
2. Squats
3. BBS

With some help from Hambone, we broke out the rucks to use as coupons. PAX split into threes. P1 does 10 walking lunges with the ruck overhead while P2 and P3 bear crawl beside him. Rotate through and RnR back to the starting point.

Next up was a 50-yard Farmer’s Walk. Switch sides on the way back. P2 and P3 performed burpees .

Out of time! COT/BOM

MOLESKINE:

Glad to see Bicentennial Man back in the mix, and thanks to Hambone for Qing the warmup trot. Murphy Mile WILL happen

BULLHORN:

GrowRuck training is happening. Check Hambone’s blast for info on times, places, and routines.

Prayers for T-Cell as they’re expecting 2.1 this week. And praises for Grisham as they welcomed 2.2 Friday!

PA out.