Completely Stupid and Udderly Pointless
7 SOJ stud-ruckers crushed the 8.6 mile Frozen Triangle course in just under 2.5 hours, keeping a 16min/mile pace. We enjoyed excellent conversation, some cramping calves, and only one stop for Broadway to drop a mighty deuce at MM Elementary causing the fire alarm to go off. 😆 Way to get after it fellas! GTE #47 is only 91 days away. Let’s GO! 🔥👊💪 ~DTH
18 Gloom Studs stepped onto the Frozen Tundra of Rock&Roll, some already swolt from crushing the Hardest Mile, but every warrior fixing hard eyes on the grueling DTH beatdown to come. Here’s how these hero HIM’s quenched their appetite for conquering the flesh:
The THANG:
WARMERAMA:
COP #1:
COP #2:
COP #3:
COP #4:
Mosey BTTF for COT:
NMS: Fellas! Way to GOOOOO!!! Absolutely awesome work, especially to the guys who also completed the Hardest Mile. SOJ continues to embrace each and every challenge and shows UP with solid numbers. My deepest thanks to each of you for permitting me the honor to lead, and to celebrate my firstborn’s 7th birthday. Happy Birthday Penniella Mae, AKA Oreo! YHC is sure the PAX really “appreciated” all the painful reminders. Fatherhood is one of the greatest honors of YHC’s life, as many of you can relate, and it gives us EVERY reason we need to push hard to get prepared for the expected and be prepared for the unexpected. YHC has transformed an unbelievable amount in the last seven years, and with you guys by my side, it’s only getting better! Here’s to even BETTER and stronger in 2024! Yours, DTH
Announcements (SEE SLACK!)
Exactly that! When I posted the idea to Slack, I didn’t really think anyone would want to do this nonsense. Enter Hardywood! Who originally suggested we do it that first weekend in December, with less than a week to prepare. Luckily, he forgot that weekend was Magnum PI day, and our schedules didn’t align until the final Saturday of the year. YHC got some training in for this CSAUP, but it would have been challenging even with 3 months of training. As I heard Hardywood say last week, to paraphrase, “True growth comes when there is some doubt”. I definitely had some doubt about this one. But all 7 PAX pushed and got it done! Here’s what we did. It was simple, but oh so challenging!
1/4 mile of each
Walking Lunges, Broad Jump Burpees, Bear Crawl, Run.
YHC, got out early to mark each 100 meters to give PAX the option to split up the exercises to get them completed(Thanks DTH, for this idea) A couple of PAX, completed the exercises unbroken. Monsters!
YHC did the lunges unbroken, but split up the burpees and bear crawls.
Props to Offshore for making the trip down, and even made it for an even earlier version of a Morning Wood run with Hardywood, and YHC. And all PAX gutted through a DTH beatdown at Rocknroll. (No burpees were held back!)
Let’s Go!! F3RVA, as announced at the 12 Days of Christmas workout this morning, the registration is open for the “River City” GTE #47 May 3-5, 2024. Sign up before the January 7, 2024 price hike and let’s get training. This hometown event is the CSAUP we have been looking for to accelerate F3RVA and each man individually. Check out the link below for more info and CLICK HERE for registration information.
The weekend will consist of:
More information will follow on specific locations and timing for each of the events. If you are considering participating and do not have a ruck, reach out to me, there are loaner rucks available that we can get in advance for training and the event but we need to get those requests in soon.
The important thing is that you sign up now before the price hike, we don’t want to be outnumbered by out-of-towners.
Lockjaw and others will be leading ruck training at AOs around the region along with separate ruck centered events in the next few months to prepare us for the GTE.
Twenty tryptophan trekking titans turned loose at various times to attempt to all finish a 10k by 0615. The route was well rehearsed and published in advance. Most everyone got it. One group left at 0510. After Saab recognized the stranger standing beside him, Hutton called 0515 and a large group took off. Four more of the fast gobblers took off at 0525.
The Route
https://onthegomap.com/s/fmrolial
My watch had exactly 6.2.
Moleskin
Great to see a wide variety of the region’s best join us at Spider Run today. Always good to catch up with the broader PAX. Best to all with their Thanksgiving Day festivities and celebrations.
Announcements
Have a great week everyone
9 PAX posted and survived to tell the tale of week 4 of the 2023 ironPAX challenge. It was a greatest hits of the worst exercises they have come up with. Some were smart enough to stretch/warmup a bit before 530. Time hit and this is more or least what was done by the PAX:
The Thang
Round 1
Round 2
Round 3
Some took less than 45, some needed a little more time but all pushed themselves!! Tclaps to all who posted to any week of the IPC. This was a true time to push yourself and better yourself. To me that’s what F3 is all about!! SYITG.
“I want to punch you in the face”
“I’m glad it’s over”
“Let’s not do that again”
Sounds like success!
Half Route: https://www.strava.com/routes/3112796937793176008
10K Route: https://www.strava.com/routes/3116918211220378194
10 Completely Stupid and Utterly Pointless Thrill Seekers decided to get wet this morning with not just sweat, but rain water and river water. After all boats had captains at 0500, the task force steamed over to the North Bank of the mighty James River.
Paddle up the little creek to our new beach area and waddle up the sand dunes for:
COP:
Dead Man Hang, Reach for the Sky, Helicopters, DQ’s, Sand Merkins, LBC’s, Flutter Kicks, Sandy Scorpion Kicks 🙂
5 Burpees OYO
TRIPLE CHECK:
Using the three coupons that were collected on the voyage over, we did:
Partner 1: Carolina Dry Docks
Partner 2: Squats
Partner 3 (Timer): Carry coupon Hallelujah-style across the knee, then waist, then shoulder deep creek and back!
Three rounds, of course.
Lunge Walk 50 yards back to the boats, stopping on the way for 5 more Burpees. Go ahead and do your burpees in the water, Machismo 🙂
Hop back in boats and head out of the creek into the main river for:
INTERVAL PADDLING:
60 seconds on Hard Paddling upriver/30 seconds light paddle
10 minutes of this. Time is now 0545. Gather together and spend a minute of silently reflecting, praying, meditating. Turn to the American Flag on the South Bank and recite the Pledge of Allegiance out loud.
15 minute paddle/float at your own pace back to the landing! No pretty sunrise this year.
Circle up on the landing for 5 more Burpees OYO. Time!
COT:
Numbers, Names, Announcements, Pictures and Upchuck to us out!
NMS:
What a fun time this morning, Men! We knew we were going to get wet, but that did not slow us down or make it suck. The new beach wasn’t too bad to workout on compared to the old beach the first couple of years. No one flipped over this year like last year, but there were a couple of near full immersions with cinder blocks that occurred. The rain didn’t get heavy until the float back, but who cares, we were already wet.
Thanks for coming out this morning, gentlemen! This will be done again in June 2024 as close to the Summer Soltice, as possible.
Happy Summer, everyone!
SYITG!
Kubota
16 fearless HIMs gathered in the waning gloom for a little ruck action. 3 mi route below.
YHC took us out.
NMS- It was great to see PAX from all over the region today. Thanks for making it out to Currahee gents!
Rucking was something we did all the time in the Army. YHC needs to work at it to get back to the standard of 15min / mi for 12 miles.
YHC enjoyed walking with Prairie Dog and Brimstone today who are visiting us from New Orleans and Mississippi for an extended mission trip out toward Rockville. Found out that Prairie Dog was in the Louisiana National Guard where he was a Gun Bunny and then a Chaplain. They love rucking and do it much more often than Bootcamps. Interesting to talk about the regional differences.
Get Some!
8 runners, 3 walkers, and one logistics expert made it out to the third phase of runs. After a little reorganizing and realizing that we had planned team members missing and an odd number to make three full relay teams, we decided to split the Pax into runners and walkers and simply take breaks between 5, 3, and 4.5 mile runs.
Offshore took us out. We are all grateful for something. Thanks for sharing.
NMS – Enjoyed talking to local citizens as they finished up a photo shoot with a candidate and sharing the F3 mission. The camaraderie and 2f between runs and hanging out with this crew was truly enjoying. The weather was perfect and training goals were accomplished. Some PAX have never run that far in their lives, and some haven’t done it in a long while due to injury. Looking forward to the next CSAUP.
TCLAPS and special thanks to Upchuck, Shakedown, and Offshore for extra logistics. Thanks for stepping forward men!
Also thanks to the PAX for thinking through an audible on the relay. It was much more fun running with the group and YHC was able to make my Senior’s last ballet recital!
Get some!