What guy doesn’t love exploring cevasses. Noone knew what aerial acrobatics may be in store on the grounds of Huguenot Highschool. It was a canyon run not unlike the new Top Gun as 15 spelunkers explored the deep indent.
Cocaine bear crawl on the lot. Stopping at each line to grab sniff a line and do a merkin. Arrive at school for canyon exploratory wall conveyor. Here’s where we moved with purpose alternating to wall sit when we reached a window. This could have been done with more speed.
Thang:2 Partner up for Dora the Explorer 1-2-3 50 No Cheat Merkins, 100 Dips, 150 Step ups – Partner touches 1 then 2 then 3 trees not the same. This could have been alternating 1 then 2 then 3 trees to keep it interesting.
Mosey to next lot
Thang 3: Wilt Chamberlain famous 100 point scoring basketball champ 94 foot identified start 100 LBCs, 100 squats, 100 Flutters, 1…ish apds with a premature finish.
BTTF
Numbers, Names, Announcements:
Tomorrow meet at Snuffs for a 3rd F gathering 5-7 prior to the convergence Saturday. Crazy people begin at 5am, Ruck/Run options begin at 6am. 7am Convergence with awards and food to follow. 1:30 cookout for family’s at Huguenot park bring your family bring a side. Contact Flat Line to sign up for CPR
Prayer request: Maria – Machismo’s church friend got home from surgery this week. Pray for recovery from liver surgery to remove cancer. Pray for Gumbo’s Childhood friend that just got diagnosed with breast cancer. Pray for Gumbo’s 16 y/o daughter Luci suffering with postural tachycardia syndrome (pots). This is a chronic condition pray not only for alleviation of her symptoms but also for her mental health. Pray for remission.
Naked Moleskin: PS 133 says “How good and pleasant it is when brothers dwell in unity”. Reflecting on the word remission. YHC likes to think in double meanings and this one has a powerful effect in prayer. We pray for both the remittance (remission) of a disease or malody sending it away. Also, we think invigorating us to move with purpose (re-mission). As we gather this weekend to celebrate 10 years of F3 in RVA let us move with purpose.
20 High Impact men traversed the courts fields and parking lots of “No Toll” seeking advantage. Pax included the return of Neutral (Martin Krebs), Downrange Pax from Knoxville “Rev Sleepy”, and an FNG that spent the last year on vacation with his wife traveling the world jealous welcome to Griswald.
With 20 pax there was a stutter to Machismo’s side straddle hops and the Q drenaline was flowing but what a pleasure to lead such a crowd.
Warmarama included. SSH, 20 count “On my Up” Merkins and WWII (both need a bit more rehearsal), DQs, Imperial Squat walkers, Ukranian Soldiers, Cherry Pickers.
Mosey to the first field:
Triple check with Squats and dips.
Eye of the Hurricane: 20 merkins, 20 Squats, 20 WWII, 20 Double Count Lunges. with a 5 Burpee center.
Ascending squat jumps on the parking lot lines.
Indigenous people run to around the field and back to the court to circle up.
Mary. and YHC took us out.
Announcements: we have convergence on Labor Day at a new Nuckhols road A.O. name T.B.D. some creative suggestions were given. Also there is a new A.O. in Moseley Elementary school. Both announcements can be found at F3RVA.org.
YHC took us out with a reflection on the leadership organization that is F3 and the opportunity that we give our kids to lead when we allow them to share what happened during their day with us. It’s called transfer of learning. Great work pax. YHC out.
10 No Tollians circled up for a Queso Q at the three fields and a parking lot of No Toll. Here’s what they did.
WARMERAMA: – – Welcome & F3 Disclaimer and Mission Statement. The Mission of F3 is to plant, grow and serve small workout groups for men for the invigoration of male community leadership
-SSH, , DQs, Merkins, Opus, Obliques, etc.
The quadrants of the Q source are Get Right, Live Right, Lead Right, Leave Right. The quadrants of No Toll Burnout are:
Parking lot: 25 ea. Merkins, Diamond Merkins, Opus, and air force merkins
Field 1: WW2, LBC, Mountain Climbers, Scrunchy Frogs
Field 3: Arm Circles, SSH……and Time. Mosey BTTF: – COT: Counterama #10 Namerama Announcerama: Starting 9/4 Ruckhenge is leading a charge for Q training over a ruck. Join for Coffee or the ruck+
I’m reflecting on what it means to be a leader from reading the book by Simon Sinek called Leaders Eat Last. If we are a leadership organization what does that look like:
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
The true price of leadership is the willingness to place the needs of others above your own. Great leaders truly care about those they are privileged to lead and understand that the true cost of the leadership privilege comes at the expense of self-interest.
HC thankful for you brothers.
Find your Why here are 3:
Don’t cry for Last Call, he is in South American bird hunting, but do say something kind to someone, because you never know what they are going through.
We are lifting up a particular brother today struggling with thoughts of Suicide.
Intro: 13 studs picked themselves up and made it to a brotherhood inspired workout also welcoming a new member is one of the best parts of F3 and we got to name one today. Thanks for allowing me to lead.
WARMERAMA:- Mosey to the Tennis court. High kneesKaraokeButt kickers. –
Welcome & F3 Disclaimer-
SSH
Merkins-
ukranian soldiers-
Don qs
ISW
V ups on my up
Alternate leg v up
WWII
COP #1: Triple checkCalf raisesCindy curlsRunner to the end and back –
COP #2: 11sWalking Lt Dan’sBurpees–Mosey
COP #3: Dora runner across field and back100 merkins200 LBC300 Squats-
BTTF:-COT:Counterama #NameramaAnnouncerama:Convergence July 4 7am at Forest Hill. Ruck henge Wednesdays. YHC took the PAX out in Prayer
Naked Moleskin:.sometime the hardest thing seems to be just getting up. I’ve thought about how f3 makes me just a little less lazy. How the barrier to just pick up something your dropped when your you’re fit or work on a relationship is slightly smaller. You have the energy to do the small things and that adds up to being able to do the big things. My friend Maria was at church this Sunday after having her abdomen sliced open and her insides moved around in a seek and destroy mission for the cancer that is llaguing her body. She was able to do this because she was firA friend Andy Rice ambled into church this Sunday half leaning but by himself one step in front of the other. He did that because it was his habit. At F3 our mission through fitness faith and fellowship is the invigorate male community leadership. We exercise our 3Fs because it reduces the barriers when things get hard ..Surround yourself with people who have the same goals as you. rise together. ============
9 Hims circled their sixes around the glorified fields of No Toll. We all came expecting some Gumbo and all we got was some cheese. We had three OG virgins in Rudy, Blue Moon, and Coin Toss. On the Q sheet Blue Moon and YHC found room to enter our names and numbers for the OG but something seems off on this sheet. If someone else knows of an old Glory tally sheet please post on slack.
I’m thankful for the expansion of my tribe through F3 and encourage others to go out and find theirs.
Prayers for Maria who just got out of an invasive surgery to eradicate cancer yesterday. For Wildcat going in for scans to manage his stage 4 lung cancer. For Huton’s sister who’s cancer returned. I encourage everyone to find their tribe and then circle their wagons around those people. Lift eachother up.
For those who can looks like June 24th is Wildcat Q at the Alamo.
14 not 15 disc hucking studs whet the fields of No Roll and one left his sole in the turf. No seriously,
Snip ran right out of the bottom half of his cleats.
The THANG:
WARMERAMA:
– Mosey to the pitch and circle up
– Welcome & F3 Disclaimer and Mission Statement.
The Mission of F3 is to plant, grow and serve small workout groups for men for the invigoration of male community leadership
-Helicopters, DQs, Merkins, arm circles, jazzercise,
Ultimate Frisbee. Dark side v the not so dark.
Mosey BTTF:
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COT:
Counterama #15
Namerama
Announcerama
YHC took the PAX out in Prayer
Naked Moleskin:
Throwing around UFO makes me think a bit of supernatural things. I believe that we live not in a natural world with supernatural events but in a supernatural world suppressed. We see only what the light illuminates. As a Christian I reflect on these two passages:
John 8:12 I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.
Psalm 18:27-29 You rescue the humble, but you humiliate the proud. You light a lamp for me The LORD, my God, lights up my darkness. In your strength I can crush an army; with my God I can scale any wall.
I want to recognize two people that are facing challenges right now. The first is my Friend Maria. Maria has desmoplastic small round cell tumors a type of sarcoma that develops in the connective tissue of the body. She goes to NY today for testing in preparation for a future surgery to take place there. They will analyze the effectiveness of the chemotherapy she has undergone. Our prayer is that cancer has receded from her liver.
Second, is for my nephew Bollywood (Josiah Renes). Who spent his first night in accommodations provided by the US Military. My prayer is that he will grow in his faith and he will expand his limits.
8 macho men took the trails of Machismo’s backyard for a multi-wooded ruck. We started heading through waterlogged fields, crossed a damn, over the hill, through the woods, but to Grandma’s we dare not go. No, there on the return, there was yet another log. This one weighing in at a speculative 800#s together we hoisted said burden to varied shoulders and marched near 300 yards. Maybe this log is better left in the woods.
Prayer requests for DTHs acquaintance going through detox from Alchoholism. Dad’s family bearing the burden of his father’s death. Also add Machismos neighbor Kerri at the time of the ruck YHC didn’t know she had passed on from her battle with Cancer.
9 Prodigal sons including 7 FNGs spent 2 mornings (8 Saturday, 4 Sunday) of their Men’s retreat prostrate and visiting darkened corners multiple times. The statement was made “To plant, grow, and serve small workout groups for men for the invigoration of male community leadership.” Our core values were shared: Free of Charge, Open to All Men, Outdoors (rain or shine), Guys lead in a rotating fashion, and ends in the circle of trust. A disclaimer was given if not believed.
Warmerama: YHC led the pax through various renamed and demonstrated exercises including SSH, UKS, Copperhead Squats, Lunges (why doesn’t this have a name?), WWIIs, Merkins, Heels to Heaven, LBCs.
Q1 (Saturday) Thing one: 8 Pax Ran to the Elders lodge in the pouring rain and led a four corners prostitute workout with American Hammers, SSH, WWIIs, and Merkins. Various fart sackers heard the herd rumble past their rooms and one sleep walker came to see what the commotion entailed.
Q2 (Sunday) Thing one: 4 Pax led a prostitution ring moseying to the four corners of the tennis court with 5 Burpees, 10 Merkins, 15 Squats, and 20 WWIIs.
Q1 Thing 2: Pax moseyed weaving around the four corners of the remaining two lodges with lunges, bernie sanders, high knees, reverse lunges, and Karaokes alternating as they passed rooms of sleeping men.
Q2 Thing 2: Pax moseyed to the dining hall for 11s with UKs and SSH.
Q1 Thing 3: Pax moseyed through the rain to the picnic shelter and did a dora. 50 dips, 100 squats, 150 monkey humpers.
Q2 Thing 3: Pax greeted the sun with a trip for a triple check including incline merkins, and squats.
Q1 Pax finished with 5 minutes of merry.
YHC had the pleasure of introducing F3 to 7 FNGs this weekend including 2 repeat customers. Multiple Middle Eastern Patriarchs who, unlike Luke 15s father, decided not to run to greet the sun; expressed a desire to engage. Gentlemen Richmond needs more pax. The call from Flight Nurse was put out, we want pax in the gloom we want pax at grow school, we want pax at grow ruck. If you don’t believe you are prepared we will carry you! Let’s get the GrowRuck up to 47 let’s start maxing out AOs. Let’s continue sharing the mission!
9 HIMs low on vigor gathered round for a motivational chat led by Machismo. According to the disturbed car sleeper, this is what happened.
The THANG:
WARMERAMA: 25 fast straddle hops, 10s of Ukrainian soldiers, ESWs, DQs, Plank jacks, Groiners, rosalita dips, 10 No Cheat Merkins.
COP #1: Toll step up 11s crossing the bridge of no toll 10 step ups followed by 1 dip a the opposite log.
Mosey to the dumpsters for Racoon Rattle triple check.
COP #2: Triple check with donkey gongs on the dumpster with Machism adding a little too much cow bell (hence the woken car sleeper) Runner traverses parking lot and returns to the dumpster to find a Cindy-Swinger and no it wasn’t NTB pretending to be a woman in his Subaru Forester.
Mosey to the pavilion
COP #3: Eye of Absolution.
Missing DTH and wanting to add an eight count exercise the pax started with a 10 count in cadence precursor and then divided into 4 corners to do 25 of various exercises before returning to perform 5 Absolutions. (Groiner, to elbow plank, to chillcut plank jack, back to plank and 1) Corners were No Cheat Merkin, SSH, Copperhead Squats, and WWII
Mosey BTTF and pay a 25 count dip toll on the way.
COP #4: Circle up for Mary preceded by some arm circles. In a rotating fashion guys led various plank position exercises that were supposed to hit abs but apparently the abbs were sufficiently smoked to throw a few merkins in there.
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COT: Counterama # Nueve Announcerama: Ruck leaving from forge tomorrow at 5:30. Oyster might be paying for something soon??? Prayers for O.C.s family friend Sophia who at 18 her life was cut short in Georgia in a high speed car accident. Hug your kids. Prayers for DKs friend suffering through loss.
Naked Moleskin:
9 Invigorated HIMs left the absolved pavement of No Toll ready to lead their communities. YHC was freed to lead nearly 2 years ago and is grateful for this Band of Brothers whose silhouettes he recognizes in the darkness. Provers 17:17 says “A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.” 17 A friend is always loyal, and a brother is born to help in time of need.
Through all our mumble chatter and off count exercises YHC is grateful for the pax and the opportunity to lead. If you’re struggling let a brother know.
