We first ran to the tennis courts and broke out to do merkins, squats, burpees, and WWII’s. At each quadrant of the courts. Then we did lunges and dips at the stadium. We ran to the basketball court and did suicides then ran back to the flag.
We ran 3.5 miles and returned a few minutes late.
no surprise to the regulars. I forgot to post the back blast. Gotta make sure Handshake gets his Big data point. 🙂
10 pax and 2 dogs took on Currahee. Temps were nice Fog was high. 2 routes. 3 groups and 2 solo. All math checked out by Lighthouse over coffee after Sunday 7@7.
enjoy the Coffee and Donuts.
prays for everyone.
Cold, rain, miles, and misery: the perfect combination for a CSAUP to kick off 2025.
Here is how it all went down:
20 Ruckers and a few straight through runners (Doozy and Big Rig) set worth, with the remaining 16 or so Pax joining Hitch for beatdown #1.
Hitch Beatdown (stretch session). Dude. Thank you. Hitch basically warmed us on under the amphitheater and did helped get us ready for the run.
Interesting side story: During the stretch session, a popping sound, followed by smoke came from Beaver’s head. Well, turns out his battery in the headlamp exploded. Damn dude!
Grabbed the flags, ran to Punisher in freezing rain. Runners arrived around 7 a.m. Had a few snacks and sips of Gatorade or Water. Ready for whatever NTB had in store.
NTB Beatdown aka the never ending fire bucket brigade: I saw the GrowRuck-style sandbags and started having GTE 47 flashbacks, but it wasn’t too bad. We were basically shoulder to shoulder, with our backs against the wall, in a squat position—handing over three bags repeatedly around the entire perimeter of the school (which took about sixteen minutes). One bag (sand-filled) was heavy as crap and became even heavier as it got waterlogged. The other two bags were not too heavy, and there were many guesses as to their contents (charcoal, Lincoln Logs, COVID spike proteins?).
Looking around at the cold and soaked guys, Rosie and I could tell people needed to keep moving…off to Mary.
Run to Mary was fairly uneventful, runners arrived around 7:45 a.m. Triple claps to the pit crew who had all the refreshments ready to go!
Beaver Beatdown: Triple check on the basketball courts. Runner to the fence and back, other Pax on merkins and sloppy donkey kicks. Next up, a very wet and cold Beast (all abs) on the tennis courts. I think this is where everyone’s hands started to freeze.
Everyone was eager to get moving, so away we went for the final stretch back to Dog Pile.
Runners arrived at Dog Pile around 8:40/8:45 a.m. and very much ready to get out of the cold rain. Everyone back by 8:50 a.m.
Numbers/Names.
Very cool to have an FNG brought out by Broadway to join the Pax today. Former Army and retired police officer. Murtaugh (Lethal Weapon) was the perfect name. Even at 54, Murtaugh is “not getting too old for this shit.” Please watch this classic clip from Lethal Weapon 2
Announcements (and sorry for rushing these, I was feeling pretty miserable):
Ball of man. Wildcat took us out.
Hey – Big Thank you to everyone that showed up today, pushed through the weather and physical challenge of Frozen Triangle. Made me proud to see all the HIMs out there this morning.
And…HUGE thank you to the guys that volunteered to stand in the rain and make sure the participants had refreshments. Bulkhead, Cornbeef, Faceplant, Fudd, and UpChuck.
Everyone deserves a nap!
Stats below: Looks like runners go over 10 and ruckers just under 9.
Here is what went down on this beautiful Feb morning. Mosey to the covered Pickleball courts for warm-ups: side straddle hops, Don Qs, helicopters, LBC’s, Merkins. We Attempted a four corners, cumulative with five Merkins, 10 jump squats, 15 LBC‘s, 20 reverse crunches. The area was just too small to really make work so we mosied over to the bus loop: 26 pole smokers and 26 Merkins. Next: Triple check: American hammers, squats, and runner as the pacer. Mosey towards Striker Park with a stop at the pull up bars, three sets of 10 pull-ups and 15 dips. Mosey over to striker Park soccer field. We divided into two teams since it’s a Super Bowl weekend. four vs four with tater as the full-time quarterback, so he didn’t injure himself. The field had a nice layer of sleet covering it which proved to be slippery and made for an entertaining game. Piglet was the star of the day scoring three touchdowns. Highlight of the day was Pigskin’s kickoff return for a touchdown while juking out three opponents avoiding the tags. The game ended with a Handshake 200 yard touchdown run on a slight diagonal path outrunning the opponents and scoring a touchdown(hmmmm) about 100 yards out of bounds. We laughed and enjoyed ourselves in the sleet and cold, escaping without any additional injuries. We headed back to the flag and finished with 26 merkins and 26 reverse crunches to complete the “52” needed because Atilla complained when we left the bus loop that I didnt hit my 52 of each. Numbers & Names, I took us out in Prayer. J-ville joined us a coffee afterwards. Thanks for allowing me to lead and coming out for my 52nd birthday Q. F3 has truly been one of the best things in my life and I am grateful for this body of men. See you in the gloom!
A mix of runners, walkers and ruckers convened for this week’s edition of RAMM. YHC posted the routes the day before but reviewed them once more. Then, off we go.
4s: https://onthegomap.com/s/bbca4qkj
5s: https://onthegomap.com/s/a9kdl0qg
6s: https://onthegomap.com/s/k631stum
Conditions were ideal for a good run and mumble chatter.
Announcements – Frozen Triangle tomorrow. See Slack for Details.
Numbers / Names
YHC took us out with a paraphrase from Luke Chapter 6 a former Rector of my church said at the end of each service: Do good to those who hate you, lend expecting nothing in return, for the measure you give is the measure you will receive.
6 grown-boys ran up and down the street at Satan’s Hill this morning. YHC wanted to push a little extra to proactively burn some calories before Sunday. Here’s what went down…
WARMARAMA – Moseyed down to the bottom of Satan’s Hill and back to the starting point. Gave the F3 Mission and stretched out while staying dry.
COP #1 – “Jake’s” Latter
COP #2 – Triple Check
ANNOUNCEMENTS
PRAYERS/WINS
3 pasty white dudes could be seen coming from miles away out of the gloom! With tanks and shorts riding high (well just the shorts, the tank was an appropriate length. No belly buttons showing out here) the lights on the park reflected off our pasty legs and into the windows of the neighborhood! Choo Choo will bring the tanning lotion next time!
Warmarama!
COP 1 – Walls of Jericho
COP 2 – Triple Check – Timer Runs to dugout for 10 Donkey Kicks and back. Table top body weight dips. Incline Merkins.
Mosey to the end of the parking lot
COP 3 – Light Posts – Run the entire lot, at every light post stop for 6 plank crunches
COT – Numberama, Namerama! Announcements and Prayer Requesterama! YHC took us out!
The Lounge looked bromantic with just Rosie and DTH doing some loungy lazy latecomer loops in the lot until Salt Lick showed up to make it a perfect Menage A Trois. The trio ambled down to join the hottest Swamp Party of 2025 and found a gaggle of endorphin-driven Draper-lovers making casual conversation as they finished Mile 4. The bootcamp trio joined the pack for a lap, then broke off for a brief warmerama. Triple Check was the obvious choice, with one man joining the Draper-ites for a lap while the other two stayed for variable reps. Each bootcamper got in a total of 4 laps and a ton of reps, then bid farewell to the Birthday Boy and moseyed up to the playground for a Mini Murph Sesh – which consisted of x3 rounds of x5 Pullups + x10 Merkins + x15 Squats. Mosey BTTF.
COT:
A loungy fun time was had by all. No STD’s were harmed in the making of this intimate gathering. Happy Birthday Don Draper!!! 43 has never looked so young and manscaped. Yours AYE! ~DTH
Announcements (SEE SLACK!)
4 gents came out to start their day off on the right foot.
COP — lots of exercises I can’t recall
mini dora #1
50 burpees
100 DK
150 smurf jacks
mini dora #2
50 pull ups/merkins
100 dips
150 SSH
4 corners
20 am ham
20 SSH
20 flutters
20 FM’s
native american bear crawl
stretching
Three grown-boys were able to get a workout in before the Midlothian monsoon this morning at Timberwolf. Here’s what went down…
Moseyed over to the parking lot with a couple 25lb dumbbells in hand. Stretched out.
COP #1 – Triple Check
COP #2 – 11’s – Running width-wise in the bus lot
COP #3 – Slowzy around the bus loop/back to the starting point with dumbbells in hand.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
PRAYERS/WINS