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20 PAX in Attendance : Scrooge, Mickey Mouse, Playboy, Mufasa, Inspector Gadget, Creeper, Barney Fivel, Nimbus 1500, Stats, Staples, Altidore, TVG, Swinger, Hot n’ Ready, 3rd Degree, Ragdoll, Typo +, Show Me, Bear Grylls, and YHC Kermit on Q. (It’s possible I am missing one)

Pre-party…. @ The Bridge

Staples on lead, 3rd Degree, Kermit, Creeper, Typo +, & Show Me

Bridge and a Smidge , great work gents and thanks to Staples for the lead!

Medic –

Absent…. ?

5:30a.m. starts with a quick intro and the fine print details.

WarmUps :

GM’s OYO

20 SSH’s IC

Tebow stretch

Finish off with some Willie Mays Hayes

Thang

Today Q had us doing a little “everything shuffle”. MOT today was a light mosey to and fro. First stop is the church pavilion for a few:

I mean 50, Copenhagen’s.

Squats 10x in tempo with variable Al Gores mixed in for full comfort.

Proceeded by a mosey to Cabo’s parking lot for a little rail work. Q had PAX run through:

50 Irks

50 Dirks

50 Underdogs

After each completion we had a little “Plank and Wait” mixed up with a few “Flutter Kicks” and so on.

Followed by….

Mosey to the church,…. again, ….where Q noticed a lonely sloping driveway. Each PAX executed:

20 WW1 Declined

20 Carolina Dry Dock Inclined

From there the PAX moseyed to The Bridge Parking lot.

PAX again hit their 6’s for a few more core exercises. After a little confusion and some help from the elders we confirmed that we were originally suppose to do American Hammers, but some of us were doing Warhammers, eventually we did 20x / 20x & maybe 20 more of a hodge podge of core exercises… but at this point there were few actually counting. Several PAX were witnessed lounging so for a reprimand we moved into high plank, to low plank, to left and right leg raises… ?

From here Q played a little trickery to make everyone believe that we weren’t going to Bear Crawl the Bridge,  some were disappointed, others were not so disappointed, both reversed roles once they realized we were actually going to Bear Crawl the Bridge. HOWEVER!!!

Slight curve ball, FNG Bear Grylls, AKA Swingers son, appx age 7-9 maybe… joined us for festivities today. So the modification was Bear Grylls was to lead us and PAX were not allowed to pass the leader, once Bear Grylls couldn’t go any further Q instructed BG to climb onto the back of whoever was first behind him. BG went straight BEASTMODE and about cleared the bridge on his very first try, and who of course was right behind him, none other than Nimbus 1583.99996735. Nimbus took the reigns and drove us to the finish line with BG clinging securely to his back!!! T-claps to both PAX for being good sports!!!

Q led the PAX clockwise around the track to the upper shelter were 50 more Copenhagen’s were dished out.  Q also dropped a few more tempo Squats with some Al Gores blended in.

3rd Degree insinuated that he wanted to do Balls to Wall On the mosey back, and Q obliged, PAX pounded out 5 for good measure.

Final mosey back, and ended with the…

Mary-

Tempo Squats interrupted by Al Gore…

10 or so…

Post Party – 

Facilitated by Ragdoll

Staples, 3rd Degree, Kermit, Nimbus, Creeper, Barney Fivel, Stats, Typo +, & Altidore (May be missing one or adding one)

Other News-

• 3rd F opportunity:

Continually lifting up our brother Soccer Mom in his fight to spread the Kingdom in Africa.

Scrooges mom MRI results

• 2nd F opportunity:

Ragdoll is putting together a F3 Dads event May 19th. THIS SUNDAY!!!! 3:00pm!!!!

Brisketfest May 25th at Staples place, brought to you by NumbTucks.

Check Slack for details on both of these events.

Lastly. Gauntlet gear went live on Mudgear today. I believe Nimbus is organizing a bulk purchase to save on shipping. Again check Slack for details.

Great work today fellas. Lookin string and lookin fast.

Peace out!

-Kermit

PAX: Umbrella, Offshore, Bedpan, Leatherneck, Lifechamp, Doublecheck, Pennyloafers, Blackwidow, Olan Mills, Boonesfarm, Loveboat, Big Bang

QIC: Tiny Dancer

(Mosey to parking lot of parking garage)

Warmarama

12 SSH, 10 LBAC (forward and reverse), 10 slow and low squats

Buy in: 100 merkins OYO; soundtrack: Come and Get Your Love, Redbone

Thang: 

Part 1: Assault on Parking Garage

Pax made their way from ground to 5th floor of parking garage as follows:

– odd ramps: burpee broadjumps

– odd flats: bear crawl

– Even ramps: walking Lieutenant Dans

– even flats: crawl bears

At 5th floor, PAX sprinted up to the top stairwell of parking garage and back down stairs.

(Mosey to Racetrak)

Part 2 – Short Dora

Pax split up into pairs. The non-exercising partner ran one lap of the racetrack

– 80 merkins and 100 Happy Crunchy Frogs

– soundtrack: Crossroads, Bone Thugs and Harmony, Ace of Aces, The Fearless Flyers

(mosey to starting point)

Buyout: 10 merkins

Welcome back Bedpan and Loveboat after long hiatuses!

Prayers for Spicola!

Remember that the F3 Spring Hill launch is Saturday, May 18, 2018, at Harvey Park, 6-7am!

It was an honor to lead you men.

17 PAX in Attendance : Scrooge, Mickey Mouse, Playboy, Mufasa, Inspector Gadget, Creeper, Barney Fivel, Nimbus 1500, Sterno, Tebow, Stats, Staples, Altidore, TVG, Old Hickory, Swinger (FNG), and YHC Kermit on Q.

Pre-party…. @ The Painground

Kermit, Creeper, Staples, & Stats

5-4-3 on the Minute

5 – Pull Ups

4 – Merkins

3 – Toes to Bar

With a little Colter Wall on the speaker.

Medic –

NTB, Judah and the Lion, Greta Van Fleet, and Dubstep to keep our minds right.

5:30a.m. starts with a quick intro and the fine print details.

WarmUps :

GM’s OYO

Q describes the Thang for the day

15 SSH’s IC

Finish off with some Willie Mays Hayes

Thang

Pax number off in 4’s and Q explains the exercise.

Image below should help to explain:

At each zone (Labeled as Group) the group completes assigned exercises OYO while 1 PAX traverses via MoT to the opposite corner of their zone and completes assigned exercises then PAX traverses back via MoT to group zone and next PAX repeats. This continues until all PAX have completed 2 rotations or the 9 minutes is up. After 9 minutes each group rotates clockwise to the next zone. Exercise continues for 4 rotations equaling 36 minutes.

Mary-

We polished it off with a few more GM’s OYO

Post Party – 

Facilitated by Sterno, and off course it was,…. (DUN DUN DUN!!!!)…..

10 Blockees, cause that’s what Sterno does when we have Block Coupons.

Other News-

• 3rd F opportunity:

Continually lifting up our brother Soccer Mom in his fight to spread the Kingdom in Africa.

Staples mom with a possible dementia diagnosis

Scrooges mom MRI results

• 2nd F opportunity:

Ragdoll is putting together a F3 Dads event May 19th

NumbTucks is in the process of scheduling a brisket night

Check Slack for details

Big thanks to all you guys. Im very thankful for each of you and allowing me an opportunity to serve in your lives.

Peace out!

-Kermit

8 HIM showed up Monday morning to get a little better today than they were yesterday.  Weather was perfect 50 degrees and the only gloom present would have been self induced.

PAX: Offshore, En Fuego, Boone’s Farm, Leatherneck, Black Widow, Olan Mills, Penny Loafers, Umbrella (QIC)

WOR:  Mosey the long way to Brentwood High football field and track for:

24 x SSH, 24 x BAC forward and reverse, 24 x squats and a few good mornings and WMH OYO while Q laying out the Thang.

Thang:

Today we honored SSF Edwardo Loredo who sacrificially gave all on 6/24/2010 leaving behind a wife and three children.  The workout today first posted in his honor on 12/31/12 and consists of the following:

6 Rounds:

24 Merkins/24 Squats/24 WWI’s/400m run – we subbed in the WWI’s for walking lunges.

Upon completion of 6 rounds of work the PAX moseyed to the goal line of BHS football field for 4 x 50 yard sprints followed by 3 x 100 yard sprints to close out the Thang.

Mary:

24 x J-Lo’s & 24 x Flutters

COT: Closed out the morning with a reflection from yesterday’s gospel reading at mass taken from John 21 when Jesus reappears to the disciples as they are fishing.  He asks them how many fish they have caught and as they respond “none”, he instructs them to cast their net on the other side of the boat.  When they do, their haul is so large they can’t get it back in the boat.  The takeaway for me was this….How many times do I try to do things my way as the disciples were when they were fishing?  When I consistently try to do things my way, my results are often like the results the disciples were having on their own.  But once Jesus got involved, their nets overflowed.  What would happen if we all died to ourselves a little bit more this week and asked God to be a bigger part of all aspects of our lives?   Just this week…

It was an honor to lead this morning.

Peace out,

Umbrella

The first ever running of The Buffalo was a great success.  13 strapping men turned out to see what Shelby Park had to offer.  We have only scratched the surface my friends.

PAX: Hipster; Tampa Libra; Razorback; Ludwig; Sidewalk Prophet; White Cloud; Dick Whitman; Hot Route; Vector; Princess Aurora; Pumpkin Spice; Hambone; Brother at Law (QIC).

WOR: Jog the long away around the tennis courts, through the parking lot, and back through the playground to the parking lot for some…

Side Straddle Hops x20; Good Mornings x10; Willie Mays Hays x10; LBAC w/ lunge x10; reverse that x10; Slow and Low Merkins x10.

THANG: Mosey to the tennis courts for DORA 123 partner suicides.  Partner 1 runs a suicide (all 3 alleys and back) while Partner 2 starts work on Dora: 100 merkins total; 200 LBCs total; 300 squats total.  Plank and wait for the six.

Mosey down the winding stretch of Shelby Ave south of the community center to the Mission Picnic Pavilion for the following:

1 set of DIDs (10 decline merkins; 15 incline merkins; 20 dips)

30 seconds AMRAP Split Squats

Rinse and repeat on opposite leg

30 seconds AMRAP box jumps

Then do that whole super set over again.

 

Mosey back out of the park up Shelby Park Greenway, which is a real bastard.  Stop at each alcove to gather the troops, with planks and merkins performed while waiting.

6 MOM: Only had a few minutes left, so finished it up holding some high plank.

 

Announcements: An excellent first day at The Buffalo.  3 FNGs came out and were named (Sidwalk Prophet; Dick Whitman; White Cloud).  Many thanks to the Crieve Hall and West Side residents for bringing them out and coming to support us.  We have more FNGs ready to come as well, so there will be plenty more where that came from.  We got a nice little taste of what this AO has to offer but we’re only scratching the surface.  The one constant is that brutal hill coming back out of the Park.  That’s not going anywhere.

It’s been a really great 18 months for YHC being involved with F3 and launching an East Nashville AO has been on my to do list for about 12 of those months.  So excited to finally get it going and so appreciative of everybody’s support.  Especially my main man Hot Route, whose support finally made the East AO happen.

Second East Nashville AO?  Hipster is ready to launch a Cornelia Fort AO next.  Let’s do it!

Many thanks to Hipster for the coffee.  Great coffeteria after.

The drug dogs (bomb dogs?) at Shelby Park Community Center were very reassuring and reminded us that we were safe.

Shouts to the first officer on the scene who yelled at us as we mosey’d.  Turned out he was nice though and thought we were rucking.  I told him to join us, he said “This is what I’m doing at 530 am on Friday’s.”  Touche.

I led us out with a short prayer expressing my gratitude for F3 and all that it does for me.  Sentiments outlined above.

Brother at Law

Bad boy, black lung, edible arrangement, the jeweler, Bagger, me and the San Antonio guy   Rounded out the crew this morning

The 80’s play list with the JobRocker was in full effect…… Freeze frame – J Geils Band , Hot for Teacher – Van Halen, What I Like About You – The Romantics Footloose – Kenny Loggins , Would I lie to you – eurythmics , Take on Me – Aha, The Power of Love – Huey Lewis, Let’s go crazy – Prince, The Bird- The Time, She Blinded me with Science -Thomas Dolby, Dancing with myself – Billy Idol, Walking on Sunshine – Katrina and the Waves, Let it Whip – Dazz Band, America the Beautiful- Ray Charles to finish..

We began at the dog park because Stonewall was shut down for a festival. Mozy to gather BV on Leland and then back up Gale across 12th to side grassy knoll area. 

25 SSH, 10 GM, 10 WMH,  10 cobra stretch’s, 10 back arches, 10 merkins, 10 Baby arm circles, 10 air presses, 10 seal claps

Mozy down gale to Belmont and enter the soccer field area. 

The thang:

80 count ladders between end lines, thus a ‘tribute to the 80’s’ .

1st set

20 merkins,run, 60 squats

40 merkins, run 40 squats

60 merkins, run 20 squats 

2nd set

20 Fence holding leg ups, run, 60 line jumps (back & forth count as 1) 

40 fence holds run 40 line jumps

60  fence holds run  20 line jumps

3rd set

20 Dry docks, run, 60 Jump ups

40 run 40

60 run 20

4th set 

20 Sit ups hands thru fence, run 60 air presses with coupon

40 run 40 

60 run 20

Quick soccer penalty kick interlude. 

BV had 3 remarkable saves, brought back memories from high school. 

Mozy back to grassy knoll. 21 burpees to commemorate 21 year old who gave his life to save others in Chapel Hill, NC this past week. 

Quick hustle back to dog park and close in circle. 

Foxtrot talksalot

PAX: Money Shot, Razor, Big Stick, Frugal MacDoogal, Renegade, Zinfandel (F3 Charlotte), Razorback (Q).

CONDITIONS: Couldn’t be better.

WOR: Mosey to and complete one lap around football field. West goal line for the following: SSH x50, Good Mornings x10, WMH x10, BACs x10, Hillbillies x50, Scorpions x5 each side, Merkins x10, Squats x10, Butt Kickers/High Knees/Heel Taps x10 in place. On to the NW corner of the field for…

THANG: X sprints with exercises in the 4 corners of the field. Starting at NW corner x5, run to SE corner x10, run to NE corner x 15, run to SW corner x20, run back home = 1 round (1 full field X sprint + 50 reps of exercise). We completed 8 rounds with the following exercises: HR merkins, jump squats, V-ups, Carolina dry-docks, split squat jumps (that was a burner), box cutters, close-grip merkins, squats. Aspired to 9 rounds but Q inserted some much needed (for me) 60-second rest breaks between rounds. 

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Razor heads out on tour next week and will be on the road for a month. 5/1 in Chattanooga and, for those degenerate PAX among us, also in Atlantic City on 5/4. Good luck on the road brother.  

Lots of open Q spots at The Hill in the weeks ahead.

Pleasure to be with you men this morning.

#wps

Location: Bomber

Conditions: low 50’s and misty

PAX: Princess Aurora, Porcelain, Bareback, Toothless, Hambone, Pumpkin Spice, Harvey Updike, Hi Viz, Right Said, Gus, and Bookworm. (I know i forgot one of you – sorry!!!)

QIC: Tiny Dancer

Part 1: Modification of Zachary Tellier Hero WOD

Mosey up to the parking deck where we completed the following:

10 burpees

10 burpees, 25 merkins

10 burpees, 25 merkins, 25 WW1’s

Mosey down to playground for the Rosary

Part 2 – Rosary – The Sorrowful Mysteries

(QIC would announce the Sorrowful Mystery then PAX would complete a series of workouts while contemplating said Mystery as follows:

1. Agony in the Garden – 40 merkins, 10 pull-ups, 15 squats, 20 burpees, mosey around the gym
2. Scourging at the Pillar – (we scaled back the reps due to apparent time constraints) 5 pull-ups, 10 merkins, 15 squats, 10 burpees
3. Crowning with Thorns – rinse and repeat,
4. Jesus Carries the Cross – rinse and repeat
5. The Crucifixion – rinse and repeat

Every Rosary is finished with a prayer entitled “Hail Holy Queen” wherein we ask our Blessed Mother to pray for us to her Son. Accordingly, for our Rosary, I found a rendition of the prayer by the University of Notre Dame’s folk choir performed on Monday after news of the Notre Dame fire broke. Though I had some technical difficulties with the blue tooth connection between my new iPhone and my old speaker, we completed the following while the beautiful and haunting song played:

• each Pax began with a dead hang with chin above the bar until muscle failure and then planked. Once all PAX were planked, QIC led a series of calls for low plank, high plank, and 10 merkins until the song finished.

Mary – dealer’s choice

Hambone – LBC’s

Porcelain – V ups

Due to time constraints, QIC had to cut Mary short to remind PAX of Peter learning from Mary Magdalene that Christ’s tomb was empty on Easter Sunday. Though none of the other disciples believed her, Peter got up and ran to the empty tomb, where he found Christ’s burial cloths rolled up in a separate place. See John 20:1-9. In honor of Peter’s faithful response, PAX sprinted back from the playground to the parking lot.

PAX were reminded during COT that, whatever you believe regarding Good Friday, Christ’s actions on that day are the ultimate acts of sacrifice and selflessness; true men are givers, not takers. Be a faucet, not a drain!

Welcome Gus and Bookworm from Memphis!!!

It was an honor to sweat with and to share my faith with you this morning. You are all inspirations to me. Have a blessed Good Friday and Easter Sunday!