4 men shucked the fart sack and shod their feet to run or ruck their way to start the week. YHC and Mudface did our usual 3 miles under weight, while Spit and Lab Rat ran 3.5 miles. Creatures were out and about this morning, as Lab Rat (almost) ran over a possum, and a beaver ran away from YHC but not before startling us just a bit…
As usual, I have No Idea what I’m doing.
6 (less than 7 and one more than 5) Davilians gathered in the gloom to kick start a rainy Friday. We ran around the church one time and then….
COP–merkins, SSH, LBC’s, arm circles, DQ, Imperial walkers and helicopters. Mosey over by carillon, time for 4 corners, a.k.a. 4 Rings. In 1970, Terry Bradshaw was the first pick of the NFL draft, and led the Steelers to 4 Super Bowl titles. He was paid $25K a year under his rookie contract. To honor this YHC and the PAX ran to each of the parking lot’s 4 corners, stopping at each to first do the Ickey Shuffle (’cause the Q said so), then do 25 each of HRM, boxcutters, 2 count American hammers and Helix squats. Plank for the six.
Next, find a spot of grass for Abs of Glory: 17 LBC’s, 12 heels to heaven, and 7 sets of six inches, holding each set for 7 seconds, then reverso, 7 LBC’s, 12 H2H and 17 sets of six inches, holding each for 17 seconds this time. These numbers chosen because in 1970 (YHC’s birth year) there were 17 rounds of the draft, reduced later to 12 and then to 7.
Time for parking lot tracer fun. YHC let the PAX in tracers of a different sort (would have driven Lab Rat crazy), with YHC occasionally yelling out “Omaha,” making a PAX submit an exercise to do 32 reps of (32 NFL teams), followed by a trivia question. If the PAX got it right YHC would let them pick the next exercise. Sadly the PAX only got one right, nicely done Rounders.
Mosey to flag for 1 minute of boat canoes led by Chewy, numberama, namerama, YHC took us out.
NMS
YHC was gassed this morning and would have fartsacked if not for having the Q. This is one of the ways I love F3, the desire to push through and lead by example is reinforced through Q’ing. YHC challenges more PAX to take advantage of this and sign up to Q. The PAX came through with the tracer exercises, especially when Mudface selected 32 burpees near the end. The trivia, for those playing at home, was to figure out where the following Hall of Famer’s played collegiately: Mel Blount (Southern U.), Jack Youngblood (Univ. of Florida), Art Monk (Syracuse), Jerry Rice (Mississippi Valley State), and Andre Reed (Kutztown, PA). The last question was which college did Troy Aikman attend before transferring to UCLA (Oklahoma). Rounders correctly guessed Art Monk’s alma mater. YHC thinks Yardsale guessed “USC!” for everyone, which makes him a Trojan Man I guess.
Announcements: Mudface brought up starting a new AO, on Thursdays, potentially located off Atlee Station Rd. past Memorial Regional. Would this interest anyone? Talk to Mudface if so as he’s spearheading it.
Thanks for allowing me to lead, as usual I have No Idea what I’m doing.
7 men and 1 2.0 showed up for a 70 and Sunny workout. Here’s what happened.
COP SSH, arm circles, merkins, flutter kicks. Mosey to bus loop for The Suck, Mudface style. Line up, one PAX to each parking space, one exercise for that space. The timer for Round 1 was a PAX completing 10 sandbag burpees with Deadweight (do the burpee, throw Deadweight over your head, repeat). Other exercises were: halos, Helix squats, situp press, battle rope (non-KB), jumprope (non-KB), lawnmowers, merkins on the KB. Round 2, no rest, timer does 5 sandbag burpees, PAX repeat other exercises.
Through both rounds, the timer walks to the last parking space doing slingshots, all PAX move up one until everyone has done each exercise. After THE SUCK was done, Mudface tried to teach the PAX a new exercise, with limited success.
Mosey to flag, numberama, namerama, Chewy took us out.
NMS
Spit riled up Mudface last night, didn’t show up for MANNdate, and the rest of us paid the price. Fantastic workout, trying to jump rope after sandbag burpees was almost impossible, and the battle rope looks easy until you have to do it for a few minutes nonstop. This workout hit legs, arms, back, abs, shoulders, you name it, it’s sore today. A shout out to Gumbo for inspiring Mudface. The second round had different exercises, but it’s late and YHC can’t remember them. YHC also thinks he’s forgetting someone from this morning, so if that’s true, my deepest apologies to that PAX. Mudface shared something that rang true for all of us–while F3 is you versus you, when a PAX steps up to Q, his pledge is to make each of the PAX a better man, through pain, effort, will and dedication, than you were when you escaped the fartsack this morning. He certainly succeeded today. Well done.
As usual, I have No Idea what I’m doing.
2 men with noble purpose set forth for the first ever stealth ruck. YHC and Mudface, clad in non-reflective black clothing, tromped quietly through the pre-dawn stillness, talking loudly of feats past and imagined, logging a little over 3 miles in the gloom.
As usual, I have No Idea what I’m doing.
3 hardy men avoided the construction barrels, if not the fresh asphalt, and slung around some iron.
COP, some exercises, with counts of 15, 12, 4, 5, 1 and 8, the margins of victory for the Cavaliers in their March to a championship
Mosey to bus loop, 10 rounds of 2 PAX doing a non-KB exercise while the 3rd carried 2 KB around the loop, switch up.
A bunch of other KB exercises, is sets of 25 (4 times) and 2 sets of 31, adding up to 162, the number of points scored by both teams in the championship game.
Have a minute left, 27 SSH’s, crazy Daville style, to honor the 27 points De’Andre Hunter scored against the Red Raiders.
Numberama, namerama, YHC took us out.
NMS
YHC, his M, both 2.0’s and friends were up really late on Monday watching UVA win their first men’s college basketball championship, and YHC is still dragging today. These are perhaps halcyon days for the hoops team, so YHC will enjoy them while he can. Emoji and Yardsale provided plenty of mumblechatter today, including tales of Yardsale’s interesting new neighbor. Getting to the AO was a little tougher this morning due to fresh asphalt being laid down by an overnight construction crew, and both YHC and Emoji dragged some with them on their tires.
As usual, I have No Idea what I’m doing.
YHC showed up to Tomato Run and quickly figured out it would be a solo ruck. Mudface is out of town on business, and YHC later learned Spit’s household was besieged by a stomach bug. YHC set off at a pretty fast clip, mainly because it was cold and the pace made it slightly less so. 3 miles later, with nary another soul (F3 or other) sighted, the day was off to a good start.
As usual, I have No Idea what I’m doing.
7 men arrived for a Q not fit for any 2.0’s, and barely for us.
COP: SSH, arm circles, LBC’s, DQ.
Mosey to Mudface’s truck to pick up Deadweight, our 75 pound sandbag, for Native American sandbag lunge–first PAX puts sandbag on shoulders, lunges 10 steps, drops sandbag, runs to back of line, next PAX picks it up. Rinse and repeat around the parking lot and to the middle of the field, each man taking it at least 3 times.
Time for grass drills! PAX runs in place, high knees, while one member does a combination of lifts, squats with sandbag, then toss it over their shoulder yelling “drop!.” While it’s in the air, rest of PAX drops to ground and bounces back up before it hits the ground. Repeat through whole PAX, then add in a burpee with sandbag, repeat through whole PAX again.
Next, PAX lays down side by side, head to feet, starting on end, do WWII situp with Deadweight, at top of situp, carefully give sandbag to next man in line, repeat until everyone has done it 6 times. While waiting your turn keep doing WWII situps.
Repeat Native American sandbag lunge back to the flag. Numberama, namerama, Rounders took us out.
NMS: YHC is not fond of Deadweight, whose last appearance was at the never to be repeated Sandbag Mile. The PAX was similarly enthusiastic, especially Bulkhead, who kept getting the extra rep in somehow. PAX also had to deal with a dog being walked nearby, who kept being spooked when Deadweight hit the ground. The grass drills were rough, but Rounders kept the PAX laughing by doing a good imitation of someone who had 20 too many Red Bulls, often at a loud volume, hoping to wake up Flounder, whose house abuts the field. No such luck, but Rounders is probably up for another go at it. YHC doubts even Emoji thought the grass drills were a favorite–high knees is really tough after lunging with 75 pounds. All in all, the Q kept the PAX moving and the PAX responded with gusto.
As usual, I have No Idea what I’m doing.
Nine men ventured forth into a chilly spring morning to let iron sharpen iron.
COP: No COP, we’re doing the Murph! Mile run around the perimeter of the school, then straight into the fun. 100 snatches, 200 sit up presses, 300 goblet squats, run another mile if you have the time (only 2 did).
NMS: We found out a few things this morning
Thanks for leading, Mudface! As usual, I have No Idea what I’m doing.
3 men shucked the fart sack and donned the ruck sack on a beautiful 55 degree morning. Rounders joined YHC and Mudface, and set a very brisk pace with a very heavy (55 pound) pack. While getting in 3 miles, much was discussed, including what irritates us and what amuses us, interrupted by a lot of vigorous 4th F announcements—a LOT. We felt sorry for the runners going in the opposite direction.
As usual, I have No Idea what I’m doing.
8 Davillians came out to embrace one of the first mornings of spring, 63 and sunny. Here is what we did..
COP SSH, merkins, invisible jumpropes, DQ, LBC’s, arm circles, more SSH
Mosey to end of parking lot by tower, partner up. One partner runs to first island, other does HRM, switch, run to second island, Bobby Hurley’s, switch, run to end, Freddie Mercury’s.
Mosey to picnic shelter, OYO, 16 each of dips, box jumps, derkins and LBC’s. All warmed up, time for some fun. The field’s right there, let’s do partner carry! Forward 10 steps, both do 10 merkins, bear crawl back, switch, 20 steps, 20 heels to heaven, bear crawl back, 30 steps, 30 box cutters, lunge back, switch, 40 steps, 40 squats, lunge back. Head over to parking lot for 11’s, calf raises, lunge between, HRM. Head over to the flag, hold canoe for 60 seconds. Numberama, namerama, YHC took us out.
NMS-YHC agreed to swap Q’s with The Carpenter, who is under the weather, and 2/3 of the way through today realized not enough was planned, so audibled to 11’s, which the PAX just love, especially Mudface. It was great to see Wild Thing out again, and hear that his M is doing better–keep her and their family in your prayers. There was plenty of the 4th F this morning, that’s okay, just helps move the PAX along. Kudos to Chewy, who YHC asked to give an exercise for the last 60 seconds, “But not boat/canoes” so Chewy just said, “Okay, canoe.” Well done sir.
As usual, I have No Idea what I’m doing…