Tag: Bermuda Triangle

With Posh stuck in the 3rd Dimension tending to his kids’ needs and State Farm posting out of town, Big Rig and Florence stepped into the 4th Dimension known as the Bermuda Triangle. Only squirrels were there to witness the following potato recipe :

Florence starts skinning potatoes :

Warmarama : Lap around parking lot, 20 SSH IC, 20 Ukrainian Soldiers IC, 20 IW’s IC, 10 Merkins IC

THE THANG :

Mosey to exercise station behind school

3 sets of 8 pull ups, then 3 sets of 10 Jerkins, then sideways swing across monkey bars from end to end 3 times

Big Rig starts mashing potatoes :

Mosey into grass

2 rounds of the following : Move uphill doing 1 WWII followed by 1 Crab Walk step to the top of the hill. When you reach the top, run a lap around gravel track

Florence adds cream and milk to potatoes :

Mosey to basketball court

Lunges across both courts to the end then Repeato back

10 One Legged LBC’s on each side, 5 One Legged LBC’s on each side, 10 Flutter Kicks IC

One set of Merkins AMRAP

Big Rig adds spices then heats up the potatoes :

20 SSH IC

Line up on sideline

2 Rounds of the following : Bunny Hops to mid court, do 20 Mountain Climbers DC, Reverse Bunny Hop back to starting line, Bunny Hops to opposite sideline, 40 Mountain Climbers DC, Reverse Bunny Hop back to starting line

Suicide sprints across both courts with stops for 10 IW’s SC at quarter length, 20 IW’s SC at halfway, 30 IW’s SC at three quarters length, and 40 IW’s SC at opposite end (Bernie Sanders every time you go back to starting line)

Florence serves the finished mashed potatoes :

Mosey to parking lot where our cars are for 1 set of AMRAP Merkins

Mosey to football field for 4 sprints from goal post to goal post

Mosey to benches for 50 dips

Bear Crawl up the hill to the top then mosey BTTF

20 LBC’s IC

DONE

Numbers, Names, YHC took us out

Announcements :

-Shaw Shank’s M had their baby last month. Contact YHC or State Farm if you’d like to drop off a meal for them at their house in Chester

-Thanksgiving Day convergence at Mary Munford. Keep an eye out on Slack for an announcement for Start and End Time

Prayer Requests : Big Rig’s Mom healing and ability to travel ; Florence’s Dad ongoing assisted living search and frustration with the Senior Living Consultant in Florida

NMMS : Fart Sack was strong this morning but glad I came. Thanks for joining Big Rig. Brought us back to our Graveyard Shift days!

The boys were back in town for another version of the Bermuda obstacle course! This AO has over a dozen features (steps, playgrounds, picnic tables, track, curbs, etc…) that sort of make it feel like a PAX Playground. Was nice to have our numbers up to 7 today – great energy and effort by all. Props to Big Rig who hit his 1-mile PR of 6m:44s during morning wood! Here’s what the early voting poll workers at Ecoff might have seen…

• Warmarama: Welcome and Disclaimer, Imperial Walkers, SSH, Plank + Credo, Principles

BERMUDA SPARTAN RACE COURSE

1. Indigenous Curb Crawl, Group Merkin after each makes it to the front
2. Pole Drills: Sprint forward and bernie back around each pole, burpee after each pole
3. Playground 1: 20 Toes2 Bar, 20 Mountain Climbers
4. Gazebo Picnic Tables: Crawl over each table side to side, 20 yard sprint (x 2)
5. Coupon Circuit: 1 PAX Rifle Carry end of lot and back, 1 PAX Curb Toe Touches
6. Hill Circuit: 1 PAX doing dips, 1 PAX bernie up the hill and back (x3)
7. Football Field: SPRINT! 100 Yards
8. Stadium Step Burpee Crawls: Crawl up the stairs 1 merkin and mtn climber, climb down reverso (headfirst if you’re insane)
9. Playground 2: Group 1 Obstacle course through playground (Monkey bars, Wall climb, Pull-ups, Jump overs) Group 2 1/4mile run around track (x2)
10. MBTFF FINISHER: Pax 1 Coupon Curls Burnout, Pax 2 LBC’s,

• Names, Numbers
• Announcements
  • Saturday Ruck for food! Few of us starting at SOT at 6am and doing 2.5mile down and back + bootcamp (Can’t hack the 4 hours hall pass). Will bring plenty of food!!
• Prayers
  • Shank and continued good health for his new baby, Big Rig’s mom’s recover, Mudslide new career prospects, Florence continued exams for Police

Thanks for a little bit of sunlight at the end of today’s AO! Something about a sunrise after a beatdown with the PAX is really uplifting. All did great today challenging the body and moving in some new sequences and variations to keep us fresh. This AO and these PAX are awesome. SYITG!

-State Farm

5 zombies ventured into the cold mist of the Bermuda Triangle. It was a great morning for the living dead to put this AO to some good use on Halloween.

Mosey over to the picnic pavilion for a typical warmarama

SSH IC, Don Quyotes IC, Imperial walkers IC, LBCs IC, American Hammers IC

Multi tasking

Slow and fast calf raises while doing arm circles

Dora

run to the parking lot and Bernie back and complete the following

100 chair dips

100 squats

100 merkins

100 ball dippers

Mosey to the playground inside the running track for a clunky triple check

PAX does the following

Toes to bar

Walking jerkins (walk hands to each end of one dip bar and do a jerkin)

timer does a lap

Mosey to the Graveyard (basketball court) for zombie suicides

Sneaky lunges (walking lunges on tippy toes wit hands out like zombies) for the duration of Thriller. Stopping at each quarter of the yard for mountain climbers, then kick throughs on the second round.

State Farm had to jet so we chased him back to the flag. He made his departure as the PAX headed for the wall of the bathhouse for the people’s broken chair (one legged wall sits) followed by a standard people’s chair.

Made a short run around the parking lot with multiple Burpee stops to finish off with 5 burpees.

Names and numbers

Announcements

Ruck for food on November 11th. No Rocknroll. Meet at Twin Team at 6 am

Prayers for Florence that he is guided on his career path. And Prayers for Shaw-shank and his family with his newborn.

Have a Happy Halloween!

3 men woke up out of their fart sacks to join the Bermuda gloom in the 2nd coldest morning for F3RVA this season!

Warm-ups:

• Side straddle hops
• Don Quiotes
• LBC’s
• Merkins

We brought our coupons and kettlebells and F3 shuffle cards, each had to pick a card that named the workout, and we modified that workout to use with coupons and kettlebells. While the timer ran around the parking lot island. Rinse & Repeat for 45 minutes!

Announcements:

1. Ruck for Food 11/11/23. Ruckers will carry a backpack full canned goods from Twin Team to SOT & back to Twin Team, also at each location we will do a 20 minute bootcamp!
2. Congratulations to @Shaw-Shank who just brought Sophia Marie into this world 🌎…. Welcome to fatherhood & a whole new aspect to life!

4 Obstacle Course Runners showed up to the inaugural Bermuda Triangle 5k OCR Course. The walker that Big Rig tried to EH witnessed the following :

No Warmarama or Disclaimers

THE THANG (We did the following without stopping for any breaks) :

Mosey to wooden poles. Do 20 Pole Smokers

Mosey to Workout Station behind School. Do side swinging monkey bars across to other side and back again to start. Go up and over the vertical ladder. Do 10 Pull Ups. Do 20 Jerkins.

Mosey to basketball court. Do Lunges across to other side and back again to the start.

Mosey to wooden poles. Do 20 Pole Smokers.

Mosey to Pavilion. Do 10 Step Ups on one leg. Switch to other leg for 10 Step Ups.

Mosey to bottom of hill. Crawl Bear up to the top.

Mosey to benches. Do 50 Dips.

Mosey to football field and go straight into a 100 yard sprint.

Mosey to bleachers. Do 1 Incline Merkin on each step up to the top then mosey back down.

Mosey to benches. Do 25 Dips.

Mosey to bottom of hill. Do front facing crab walk up to the top.

Mosey to Pavilion. Do 10 Step Ups on one leg. Switch to other leg for 10 Step Ups.

Mosey to wooden poles. Do 20 Flutter Kicks DC.

Mosey to workout station behind school. Do side swinging monkey bars across to other side and back again to start. Go up and over the vertical ladder. Do 10 Pull Ups. Do 20 Jerkins.

Mosey to basketball court. Do Lunges across to other side and back again to the start.

Mosey to wooden poles. Do 20 Flutter Kicks DC.

Mosey to Pavilion. Do 10 Step Ups on one leg. Switch to other leg for 10 Step Ups.

Mosey to bottom of hill. Crawl Bear up to the top.

Mosey to benches. Do 25 Dips.

Mosey to football field and go straight into 100 yard sprint.

Mosey to bleachers. Do 1 Incline Merkin on each step up to the top then mosey back down.

Mosey to benches. Do 25 Dips.

Mosey to bottom of hill. Do front facing crab walk up to the top.

Mosey to Pavilion. Do 10 Step Ups on one leg. Switch to other leg for 10 Step Ups. (State Farm had to head out here)

Mosey to wooden poles. Do 20 Flutter Kicks DC.

Mosey to workout station behind school. Do side swinging monkey bars across to other side and back again to start. Go up and over the vertical ladder. Do 10 Pull Ups. Do 20 Jerkins.

Mosey BTTF

DONE

Numbers, Names, YHC took us out.

Announcements :

-Big Rig has the Rock N Roll Q this Saturday.

-DTH leading Scott’s Addition Brewery Tour this Saturday starting at 3 pm at Veil, then Starr Hill, then Vasen

-See Slack SOJ Channel for Orange Crush’s announcement on 11/11 Ruck details

Prayer Requests :

-Big Rig’s mom healing from surgery

-YHC’s Dad’s health/assisted living needs, job search, and peace for Israelis and Palestinians

NMMS : To be honest, I didn’t want to get out of the fart sack today but I’m glad I did. Really struggling with motivation lately, probably due to a lot of trials going on right now. Thanks for coming out today and putting up with my twisted invention of doing an OCR during a Q

With the annoyances of modern life (downed internet) ruining Florence’s plan for the Q, the remaining 3 Bermuda boys said let’s Yahtzee this Q. Since it’s the fall – we enjoyed a Sweet Potato Q. And with a nice tight group – some cinderblocks, and even dumbbells fell out of the trucks and into the AO. Yikes!…

• Warmarama – Big Rig
  • Various IC xos
• COP 1 – Triple Check – Mudslide
  • Cinderblock Thrusters
  • Dr. W’s (Thanks DTH for this idea from rock n’ roll saturday!)
  • Farmer’s Carry Dumbbells 100m
• COP 2 – Crossfit Nightmare – State Farm
  • 9 Toes2Bar
  • 15 Bench jump overs
  • 21 Super Inclined Merkins
  • 400m run
  • 4 rounds (Vomit face)
• COP 3 – Triple Check – Big Rig
  • LBC’s w/ Dumbbells
  • Bernie + Broad jumps to end of lot (we were smoked so ended up more like bunny hops!)
  • Ball Dippers

MBTTF

Close out with some stretching and cool down. Great 45 minutes with some classic bruiser PAX.

Prayers for Posh to heal up from Rugged, for Mudslide and him to be safe at Tough mudder, and for Big Rig’s mom’s surgery upcoming. SYITG!

-State Farm

I woke up this morning motivated to take the Q at the Triangle.  I climbed out of bed feeling chipper, and ready to cause some hate and discontent.  Now all I had to do was get ready, I walked into my newly renovated bathroom without turning on the light because I didn’t want to wake up the Misses.  This turned out to be a fatal mistake as I walked full force into our newly placed bathtub, stubbing my toe in the most painful way imaginable.  I immediately fell to the floor and began crying in agony as if I was a boy who had just been punched and had his milk money stolen.  As I lay on the floor in fetal position, I considered throwing in the towel, and giving up on the morning Q, but I realized that I had motivated brothers who depended on me to lead a great workout.  I immediately stood up with the adrenaline of a bull on red bull, wiped the manly tears from my face, put my big boy pants on, and sprang into action.  These are the events that followed. 

Five hard chargers gathered for some morning work

The Warm Up: side straddle hops, Ukrainian soldiers, Imperial walkers, Don Quixote’s, arm circles, Super Mario jumps, Karaoke, Bernie Sanders.

The Work: Elevens, Merkins on one side, sprint the length of the basketball court, squat jacks on the other side.  

Suicides with Bernie Sanders.  Sprint to free throw line, 1 burpee, Bernie back, Sprint to the half court, 2 burpees, Bernie back.  Keep this same fashion to the end of the court.

Mosey to the parking lot.  Stop on the way to do 10 monkey bumpers… just cause.

Next up, Chaplain’s world famous indigenous pole smokers, hard charger in the rear either had to bear crawl, lunge, or crab walk to the front. 

Next, The Viking ship (formerly known as indigenous canoe) everyone in a single file doing American hammers, hard charger in the rear does five Merkins and lunges to the front. 

Mosey to the football field.  Stop on the way to do 20 Alabama prom dates… just cause.

Four corners, Corner 1, 10 burpees, Corner 2, 20 Merkins, Corner 3, 30 WWII, Corner 4, 40 Lt. Dans.  (It is important to note that my original plan was to do 40 flutter kicks, but for the life of me, I could not think of the two words “flutter” and “kicks”.  Not wanting to sound stupid in front of my peers, I asked someone have a good work out to which Big Rig responded Lt. Dans.  This is a perfect example of why you should keep a winkie on hand.)

Mosey back to parking lot with three minutes to spare.  Merkin ring of fire. 10 hand release Merkins, 10 Ranger Merkins, 10 Wide Merkins.

COT

No announcements.  

Prayer request:  Florence’s wife had an Aunt pass away, prayers for the whole family

Big Rig’s mother requires a surgery, prayers for a safe recovery.  

It was good to jump in the Q spot again, it’s been a while.  GO VIKINGS!! Looking at you State Farm, the Chiefs are going down.  They may as well not even bother coming to the Twin Cities as the Vikes are going to row all over them.  Maybe they should go see Taylor Swift live in concert instead.  

YHC had the Q for another version of the Bermuda Triangle. We started to mosey to the basketball court when we saw a car that looked like it was going to pull into the entrance. YHC called for the PAX to welcome them by doing some monkey humpers at the speed bump. Surprisingly, the vehicle decided to pull away after watching for a moment, so we moseyed over to the basketball court for the standard warmup with some side planks at the end.

YHC remembered doing some donkey kicks in last weeks Q, and decided to try a different variation.

Donkey kicks

10 from left side plank position

10 right side

10 normal

Then walking lunges to basketball goal and back

YHC hates lunges

11s

Lieutenant Dans down from 10

Groiners up to 10

Mosey to the playground inside the track

Quick trial of partner assisted muscle ups (need to figure out a better way to do this) Mosey back to the parking lot

Mankillers counting down from 10

OYO 50 DC Imperial walkers then

50 DC toe taps

Mosey over to the football field

21s

Merkins counting down from 20

Jump squats up from 1

I believe all PAX made it down to 8 merkins before YHC called the PAX back to the flag to stretch for about 2 minutes.

Names and Numbers

Announcements

SOJ lunch Thursday @1145

Final Iron PAX @Satan’s Hill on Friday w/Boberry

State Farm has the Q @Rock n Roll on Saturday

Dr TryHard’s 5 year Q @The Forge on Thursday (No Thursday Bermuda Q)

Check Slack to stay up on upcoming events.

Prayer Requests

Pray for a family friend of State Farm dealing with Mental Health.

Such a great crew at Bermuda Triangle. I hope to make it on a Thursday soon!

8 Crusty Crabs crawled into the dimension known as the Bermuda Triangle. Here’s what the sketchy car parked at the other side of the parking lot witnessed :

Disclaimers

Warmarama : 20 SSH IC, 20 Ukrainian Soldiers IC, 20 IW’s IC, 10 Merkins IC (Side Note : Big Rig is a great counter)

THE THANG :

Mosey to wooden poles

Chaplain’s Indigenous Pole Smokers : Line up one man at each pole. Last man Bear Crawls to front while the rest do Pole Smokers. Rotate and Repeato until all PAX have gone once.

Mosey to workout station behind school then split into Two Groups

Group 1 : 3 sets of 7 Pull Ups

Group 2 : 3 sets of 10 Jerkins

Groups switch Stations

Mosey to wall on the side of the school

2 Sets of 40 Donkey Kicks

Mosey back to parking lot

Lunges for about 100 yards

Mosey to football field

4 Corners : 30 Merkins, 30 Flutters DC, 30 Jump Squats, 30 SSH

Mosey to grass hill

Various Animal Movements up to the top of the hill : Started with Shaw-Shank’s favorite Front Facing Crab Walk then did Crawl Bear, Backwards Facing Crab Walk, Bear Crawl, Murder Gorillas facing parking lot, Murder Gorillas facing football field, Murder Bunnies

Mosey to bench for 50 Dips

Mosey to football field : 2 sets of Sprint from back of the end zone to other back of the end zone

Mosey to bleachers : 20 Step Ups on each leg (do 20 straight on one leg before you switch to the other leg) , 20 Incline Merkins

Mosey to parking lot

Running Kicks BTTF

1 minute of Rapid Fire Punches while holding Al Gore

DONE

Numbers, Names, YHC took us out

Announcements :

-F3 RVA 9 year anniversary Convergence this Saturday at *7:30 am* at Crucible AO (Blackwell Elementary School)

-F3 RVA Sit N Sip hangout in Amelia this Saturday late afternoon/evening (BYOF, BYOB, Camping overnight optional)

-State Farm is leading a Kettle Bell workout at Bermuda Triangle starting this Thursday and will be offered every Thursday going forward

NMMS : Great to have EF Hutton join this morning. Strong mumble chatter. I wasn’t planning on Front Facing Crab Walks up the hill until Shaw-Shank gave me a friendly reminder on how much he loved them 🙂

YHC was ready for a 1 year F3 anniversary Q last week until some crazy bug hit me the night before. PAX started rolling up and we moseyed on over to the basketball court for what was to be a Big Rig Beatdown. Here’s an idea of what happened in the dark.

Warmup

SSH IC

DC IC

Imperial Squat walkers IC

On your 6

Legs in and out while doing arm circles IC

Heel taps IC

LBCs IC

10 merkins oyo

Warmup complete

Time for some real Ab work

Alternating stiff legged LBCs IC. Like Freddie Mercuries only slower and slightly different motion

American Hammers IC

Oblique V ups both sides IC

one more round of Alternating stiff legged LBCs IC

This is where things got interesting. With Florence having to push back his 5 year anniversary Q, YHC felt a deep dive into the Exicon was necessary to truly honor our fallen brother. We did a modified triple check on the basketball court.

2 PAX would perform a broken wheel barrow (holding only one leg) while the other PAX performs Ascending Testicles on the wall. (Basically Balls to the wall starting out at an angle and walking hands in to vertical)

Only 1 round of this seemed necessary

We moseyed our way towards our vehicles but stopped for some of Chaplain’s Indigenous polesmokers PAX got to choose their own traveling exercise.

Moseyed over to the hill next to the football field for A Dora

100 DC Ball dippers for Florence

150 DC Mountain climbers

200 merkins

PAX would Bernie Sanders up the hill and run back down. The ball dippers followed by Bernie Sanders up the hill were real quad killers.

Mosey back to the flag and break up in teams of 2 for merkins and toe taps followed by a few minutes of Broga led by Mudslide.

Great to be back after being hit with some type of bug last week. Been a great 1 year being a part of F3. I am truly blessed to have found this amazing group. God is truly great.

Names and numbers

Announcements

Love for LIV on this Saturday. Check Slack for details

Prayer requests

Pray for a close family friend of Posh who just passed away last night.