12 HIMs skipped beach week and instead joined a VQ on a 70 degree morning with sauna-esque humidity. A few sleuths noticed signs on buckets and boxes spread throughout New Market, foreshadowing what their Friday morning beatdown had in store. There’s been chatter about SOJ needing to work biceps more. Perhaps another day, today was leg day (don’t skip). A quick mosey to the stop sign and back got our morning started right.
WARMORAMA: Being YHC’s VQ and with an FNG in attendance, started with our mission statement and F3 educational information/principles. SSH, Imperial Walkers, Copperhead Squats, Ukrainian Soldiers, Merkins, LBCs, and Heels to Heaven got the blood flowing.
The Thing: The Loop
Our motto is to leave no man behind, but leave no man where you found him. Split into two groups and went through the two “rules” – 1) No man left behind – can’t move to the next station until everyone has finished the exercise, and 2) each team grabs two 40# sandbags and HIMs rotate carrying them between stations. Groups headed in different directions working their way around Satan’s Hill, crossing over to the cul-de-sac, then down the path past the dog park (or in reverse).
- 100 single count toe taps
- 75 monkey humpers
- 30 no surrenders
- Hardest mile – 10 bear crawls, 10 lunges, 5 broad jump burpees
- 50 WWII
- 50 jump squats
- 30 merkins with resistance band
Next Up: Sandbag relay race. Spread out 10′ apart. Low crawl and push sandbag to next HIM, go down and back. Squats or merkins in between.
Triple Check: Runner to end of parking lot and back, carrying sandbag. Merkins and Squats. 3x
Closed out with a Ring of Fire with each HIM picking 10 merkin-versions of their choosing. Chatter was light throughout, exhales and groans could be heard in unison, and FNG thought out loud how he should’ve worn kneepads. YHC was flattered. It was a pleasure to lead today and I truly appreciate the camaraderie and support I have received since joining F3. Today was a little pay-back for tough Q’s I’ve been through, but also a pay-forward with an FNG, Stud Finder joining his 2nd Q, and Lurch coming back from a break.
Welcome to TSG – The Southern Gentleman. A friend of Heist’s and Stinger, who was down range with us last week, and glad to have him out with us. TSG is the Southeast Regional Manager for Blue Bunny ice cream so we had a few creative names tossed out there. He said he’s a Roll-Tide kinda guy so I expect some good SEC chatter in the fall. Today was one of those days where you had to join right in, props for pushing through! We discussed the other Q’s in SOJ, looking forward to seeing you out there.
Announcements: Ultimate Frisbee tourney 8/6, sign up on Slack. Homegrown Runathon, 10 year Convergence. Gathered together for prayer and YHC took us out.
