Author: Bacon Bits

  • Triple Triple-Check

    9 warriors of the gloom descended upon the earliest AO. Some surprised that Bacons Bits was leading the Q and brief discussion on whether this should be a VQ or VQ#2 since its been some time but the clock struck 5 and we were off.

    Short jaunt over to the end of the lot to pick up Hitch and around the lot to the front of the Church for COP. Appreciated the guidance and chatter to keep me in line during COP, as mentioned its been a minute.

    COP: various stretches, cherry pickers, side straddle hops, hand release merkins and then some.

    Headed back to auxiliary lot to pick up some coupons for the days work.

    The Thang:

    Triple check #1 – timer ran to far end and back while others did bench press and overhead press

    Triple check #2 – same timer, block swings, and Alabama softball players

    Triple check #3 – same timer, squats and curls for the girls

    Wrapped up with a couple minutes to spare with flutter kicks and reverse crunches.

    YHC appreciates the opportunity to lead this morning. Mumble Chatter was great since there wasn’t much focus on counting! Prayers to all with injuries and illness. Enjoyed the coffee after as always!

  • Heartbreak Ridge BBQ

    13 warriors of the gloom came for a rare BBQ (Bacon Bits Q).  The pollen was strong and the decision was made that there would be no rolling in the grass, blacktop work was on the menu, no smoked meats today.

    Mosey to back of school for COP:

    Arm circles to the side and overhead – forward and reverse
    Merkins
    LBCs
    WWIIs
    Heels to heaven
    Don Quixote
    Cherry pickers
    Touch your toes
    Stretch to the sky
    Scorpion kicks


    Quad check – break off into groups of 4, 1 group of 5. Timer was the runner from the wall to the pole while others did the following:
    Round 1 – Wall sits, Merkins of your choice, Side straddle hops
    Round 2 – Balls to the wall, LBCs, Squats
    Round 3 – Wall sits Mike Tyson, Lunges, Heels to heaven
    Round 4 – Balls to the wall, WWIIs, Carolina Dry docks


    Mosey to the corner for 4 corners round 1 – 5 reps and round 2 – 10 reps of the following:
    Squats, Side straddle hops, Merkins, Reverse crunches

    Mosey to the main Parking lot for some line work, everyone lines up perpendicular to the parking spaces, and lunge across the lot skipping every other spot and stopping to complete an exercise. Round 1 merkins, start with one and increase by 1 until the last round was 10, round 2 repeats with squats, round 3 LBCs start with 5 and increase by 5 for each space skip, I believe we got to 35 and that was time. Slowsy to the flag.

    Appreciated the opportunity to lead and the encouragement from Handshake to take the Q. The thing I enjoy most about F3 is the people I have met and the support, stability, and accountability it brings to my life, and all it took was a little encouragement. Remember to reach out to folks or just a simple hi when passing by. If anything, it could brighten a day or remind them to get back out of the gloom.

  • Coupons’ Last Hooray

    8 warriors of the gloom graced First Watch for a coupon party. We have been requested to remove them or they would be removed. Time to take them around the block. Here is what went down:

    Mosey to front of church for COP:

    20 – SSH

    Stretch it out – touch toes and sky

    Helicopters

    Arm Circles Small and Big – reverso

    10 Hand Release Merkins

    10 Imperial walkers

    The Thang:

    Since coupons are being relocated to Kubota’s, thank you Kubota!, as mentioned above it seemed fitting to carry them around with us today.

    Mosey to former coupon staging area to pick our block and then slowesy  to the corner of Henrico’s smallest/finest park for a triple check. Timer ran to the light on River and back with partners completed Swings and Over Head Presses with Coupon. Splinter arrived about this time since the swim team found the light switch, glad to have him join.

    Mosey back to main lot so Splinter could get his very own coupon. Time for 4-corners around the parking lot, exercises were

    • First corner – 5 WWII presses
    • Second Corner – 5 WWII presses, 10 Curls
    • Third Corner – 5 WWII presses with coupon, 10 Curls, 15 Squats
    • Fourth Corner – 5 WWII presses with coupon, 10 Curls, 15 Squats, 20 alternating merkins on coupon
    • What goes up must come down, repeat descending order

    We made it back to where we started and YCH called for 20 bench press and 20 ASP.

    Mosey a short way for block the plank, real crowd pleaser – would recommend, partner lunged across parking lot and back while other held strong with coupon on back. 3 rounds.

    We gathered all coupons and played tetris getting them arranged in the truck and had enough time for a Mary, exercises were 30 flutter kicks, 20 APDs, 60 LBCs (oyo).

    Appreciated the opportunity to lead, great work today fellas. YCH took us out, please keep those in need in your thoughts this holiday season.

    Announcements:

    West End – Friday Canned Goods Ruck

    HDHH – Next Tuesday

    See Slack

  • Too Early for Merkin Challenge?

    Brisk morning with 8 warriors ready to hit the ground running YHC 2nd VQ, as Handshake put it, argued if Hot Potatoes counted, no conclusion. Clock struck 5:30 and heres what went to down:

    Mosey to the front of school for COP:

    • SSH
    • Touch your toes, center, left, and right
    • Cherry Pickers
    • Reach for the Stars
    • Helicopters
    • Arm Circles small/big and reverso
    • APDs
    • WWII (on your on in cadence)
    • Scorpion Kicks
    • Merkins

    The Thang:

    Mosey to the bus loop grab a pole and hold 6 inches while we rotate to the end, timer did 5 pole smokers and ran to the next available pole and so on.

    Mosey to the basketball court back of school, watch your step for the raise concrete pad, nice recovery from Pigskins trip, its like he practiced for it and kept going. Split into 2 groups with 3 sets of exercises: 19 Squats, 86 LBCs and 36 Merkins in honor of YHC Birthday yesterday. The exercises were the timer and other group ran to far end of the court and back.

    Mosey to the larger court area for a Dora. Exercises where 100 Merkins, 200 Donkey Kicks and/or Squats and 300 LBCs. Timer ran to the far end of the court and back.

    Time for who can last the longest with a Balls to the Walls and Australian Mountain climbers, Pigskin won. Wrapped up with a people’s chair arm stretch to the sky and ankles, knees, and shoulder taps in cadence.

    Mosey to the large parking lot at side of school, line up on parking space lunge every 2 spaces and complete 2 squats and slowesy on the return with 10 merkins every 2 spaces.

    BTTF: circle up for a Mary of APDs, Flutter Kicks and WWII (truly on your on this time) to wrap up.

    Thanks for the opportunity to lead this morning. YHC didn’t have much of a plan today and ended up with lots of Merkins completed and everyone knocked it out of the park, just getting everyone prepared for any upcoming Merkin challenges. Really enjoyed leading and YHC will make more of an effort to sign up on Q sheet more frequently. Appreciated the mumble chatter mixed in with all the counting. Look forward to leading again soon. Attila took us out.

    Announcements:

    Beer Mile and Clydesdale shirt Pre-Order – See Slack

  • The Potato was Hawt

    Hot potato or Hawt Potato, per Handshake, was called for this morning’s beat down. As our start timer rolled in Hawt, we got an early jump with a mosey to the front of the school for COP and timer caught up quickly and didn’t miss a beat.

    Attila kicked us off with a variety of COP:

    • SSH
    • DQs
    • IWs
    • Helicopters
    • LBCs
    • Arm circles big and small forward and reverse
    • Merkins

    Attila kept the potato and took us on a short stride to the curbs on the far end of the school parking lot  for some bear crawl bears curb to curb with merkins up to 6 and back down. Attila’s workout nearly set the tone for mumble chatter, strong start the morning with little said to being with.  Passed to Offshore.

    Offshore took us on an even shorter journey the corner of the curbs we were at, but he made up for the short mosey with 4 corners. Offshore kindly defined the 4 corners exercise ending the debate of how and what was to be done. It was decided 15 Carolina Dry Docks, 20 WWIIs and 25 Storm trooper were to be completed at each corner for 1 round. Passed to Handshake.

    Handshake now with Hawt potato, rather than hot, assuming Hawt is hotter than hot here, we moseyed to the field for a Triple Check. P1 Bernie 100 yards and run back, P2 hand release merkins and P3 American Hammers. There was some questioning of the distance at which we had to Bernie but obliged anyway and legs were definitely Hawt after the Bernies. Attila, we appreciated the demonstration of the spirit finger hand release merkins. Passed to YHC.

    YHC with the Q now, we moseyed back to the school parking lot to try and squeeze a Dora in with the remaining time. Partner up, runner to far end of the lot and back. Exercises were 100 merkins, 200 squats and 300 LBCs. I think all group got to LBCs but we unfortunately had to wrap up as time was called before finished.

    BTTF.

    Announcements, Blood Drive and the Bridge coming up. Check slack for details.

    Prayers to all and our visitor Cartwheel’s community as they remember a fallen officer.

    Great work today guys, appreciate the opportunity to lead.

    -Bacon Bits

  • VQ at First Watch

    Today was my VQ and what a great day, 70 and sunny! 8 Stubs arose to tackle the earliest AO and according to the van that ran over the sign at N Ridge and River here is what went down.

    Mosey to church pavilion after completing a lap in the auxiliary lot, so Handshake could catch up to us

    COP:

    • 20 SSH
    • 10ish Helicopters
    • Stretch to touch the sky
    • Stretch to touch the toes
    • 10 Cherry pickers
    • 10 Heals to Heaven
    • 10 Hand Release Merkins

    The Thang:

    Mosey to church parking lot. P1 runs to mini buses and back while P2 works on their numbers with a Dora and switch.

    • 100 Merkins
    • 200 Squats
    • 300 LBC

    Mosey to point of Henrico’s smallest and most favorite triangle park. Note we distracted a driver with our studliness as we ran and they took out a sign, only reported injuries were to a sign and maybe someone’s ego. Split in to groups of 4 and runner to the stop light and back while other completed the following:

    Round 1

    • Carolina Dry Docks
    • Flutter Kicks
    • WW2s

    Round 2

    • LT Dan’s
    • Reverse Crunches
    • Heals to Heaven

    Mosey to collect blocks for 1 round of block work, we did:

    • Curls
    • Triceps curls
    • Overhead Press
    • Block Swings
    • Block Squats
    • Mississippi Prom Dates
    • Bench press
    • 40 2 count flutter with block as timer

    Deposited blocks back and lined up on the rail for 11s, dips and box cutters were called, Lunge and run back. We didn’t finish these but got close. Circled up for COT and Handshake took us out.

    Handshake, EF Hutton, Ronnie and myself met for coffee and fellowship afterwards.

    Really enjoyed leading today. Appreciate all the support and fellowships that F3 brings to us and our community. Looking forward to Q-ing again soon!

    Announcements:

    Shoes and clothes/suits for donation to our community. See Slack or reach out to Gypsy.

    Vinny looking for other to join him in Charlottesville on 12/18. See slack for details.

  • There was a breeze

    Three warriors of the gloom arose to tackle F3RVA’s earliest AO and a hot potato was called. With a nice breeze in the air we were off with perfect numbers for the triple checks. Kubota took the lead the for a nice mosey to the front of the church for COP: Deadman Hang, Stretch it up on toes, Don Quixotes, Crab Cakes and tempo Merkins.

    Kubota Q: Time for a Triple Check at front of the church. Partner leg tosses while time bear crawl crawl bear, lunge and reverse, and bunny hop. Hotpotato passed to Pucker.

    Pucker Q: Mosey to the back parking lot chasing the breeze we found at front of the church. Time for 11s with Merkins and Crunches (2 count) called. Mosey around parking lot to back corner for more Bear Crawls and the breeze was lost. Pax lined up and bear crawled to each parking and did one merkin at each, lunge back with 3 jump squats at every other line. Time to turn around bear crawls with American Hammers every other line. Hotpotato passed to Bacon Bits.

    Bacon Bits Q: Lets find that breeze, started with a slowsey that evolved to a mosey to the coupon stash. Breeze still not found. Circle up for some coupon work 1 round with 40 Block swings a timer, curls, and bench press. Time to mosey to corner of parking lot for Triple Check Timer lunged and Bernie Sanders 1 round and audible was called to run and Bernie back to get the triple check in, partners did curls and over head press. Time to turn in the coupons and mosey back for 10 merkins oyo and squats until time and the breeze was back for a cool down.

    Names, Numbers and YHC took us out.

    Nice work today, Kubota was missing Lockjaw and Honeydo since they told him they’d be here, guess the fartsack was too strong. Mumble chatter low today as we covered a lot of bear crawling and the leg toss have been felt all day long. Appreciate the opportunity to lead with Kubota and Pucker this morning. First Back Blast here, hope I got it all in and posts right.

    Bacon Bits