Author: Doublemint

  • Waaay SOJ for a pre-roller coaster beatdown

    YHC went full Clark Griswold yesterday, packing his 15 y.o. twins into the family vehicle for a five hour trek down I-85 for a day of high velocity coaster riding (and maybe ralphing) at the Carowinds amusement park.

    Park opens at 10:00, leaving plenty of time to find a nearby AO. (They have F3 down here in Charlotte, right?) F3 app reveals an AO a few miles from the hotel in the Fort Mill SC region – F3TheFort – so YHC emerges from the Comfort Inn fartsack at 04:30 this morning to post by 05:15 at The Coop.

    Southern hospitality is alive and well, as 17 PAX welcome YHC for a beatdown that went something like this:

    COP: IW, SSH, Hillbillies, Flutter Kicks, The Merkin

    The THANG:

    • Mosey to the hill by USMC JROTC building for Jacobs Ladder: 1 burpee, run up hill, 8 pullups, run back, etc. etc., flutter kicks for the six.
    • Mosey to the parking lot for suicide windsprints: 40 yards and back, 60 yards and back, 100 yards and back. Reverso., curb dips for the six.
    • Mosey to a wall for The Peoples Chair and Wall Merkins, 3 sets. Hot potato to call cadence for the last set of Wall Merkins landed on YHC, who promptly lost count and gace the PAX and extra couple of reps — doubling their pleasure, if you will.
    • Mosey to main parking lot for:

    COT: numberama, nameorama, and QIC Deacon (F3TheFort) took us out. Confidence is high that YHC has earned a fried turkey leg and funnel cake for lunch at the park later today.

    SYITG –

    Double Mint

    NMM: Great crew down here in Northern South Carolina, and a solid beatdown. Sounds like F3RVA has a rep down here for lots of hill runs. Great to meet Site Q Punch List, Q for the day Deacon, Dirty Harry, Sasquatch, Spiderman, and others. Was encouraged to post at F3TheFort The Ranch for another smokefest tomorrow morning before heading back up I-85. Looking forward to it.

  • Dirty Dozen in The Boat

    Twelve studs rolled up to Batteau today for YHC’s VQ. The gloom was deep, the soup was thick, and after welcoming a fellow traveler from South of the Border – Stumpjumper (Charlotte) – here’s how it went:

    COP: IC Don Quixotes, Imperial Walkers, Russian Soldiers, Freddie Mercuries, Mountain Climbers

    THE THANG:

    Mosey to the sledding hill for 11s: Hand Release Merkins + WWIIs

    Mosey to a line of six trees and pardner up. Pardner A bear crawls to first tree, runs back; Pardner B does ABCs AMRAP, then switch so Pardner B goes a bear crawlin while Pardner A works on his penmanship. Travellin mode to trees 1-3 was the crawling bears, trees 4-6 was Bernie Sanders. The PAX was feelin the Bern, and mumble chatter mentioned a “bonus tree,” so a backpeddlin we went, with a taste of Al Gore for the six.

    Mosey to the tennis courts for some four corners: 25 Carolina Dry Docks, 50 squats, 75 SSHs, 100 LBCs with crabwalks in between.

    Mosey to some picnic tables for 5 incline merkins on the table + 5 dips on the bench + 5 merkins of choice on the ground. Set of three then repeato to double your pleasure. Sippy Cup was observed to be doing some sort of Bruce Lee merkin variant with one hand and one foot in the air; nunchucks likely tucked in the weight vest.

    Serpentine mosey up and down the sledding hill then back to the flag for some Mary: Heels to Heaven, Hi/Lo Flutter Kicks, Freddie Mercuries and then – of course – The Burpee. 10 OYO.

    Numberama, nameorama, and YHC took us out.

    — Hump Day Happy Hour this Wednesday at 6:00; park at Palani Drive. Kubota has the deets.

    — Puppy Pile this Saturday; bring your 2.0s!

    Thanks to the PAX for putting out today and supporting the VQ!

    SYITG

    Double Mint