Tag: DownRange

  • A Titanic Run

    One intrepid traveler launched from the banks of the River Lagan in the latest edition of The Clinic. Temperatures were 70 and sunny. According to crew of the HMS Tyne, the following may have happened:

    Depart Donegal Quay, heading north / east along the River Lagan. Weave among the office buildings and former slips to the trucking terminal. Expressed condolences to Frank Sobotka.

    Reverse direction moving one street west weaving eventually back to the banks of the Lagan to the foot bridge. Cross the Lagan and turn left / east, passing the HMS Tyne. A fine Belfast morning to the skeleton crew on deck. Proceeding north / east until arrival at the Titanic Museum, proceeding through the slip where Titanic was built and launched. Continue along the Lagan to the HMS Caroline until fencing ended the available territory. Reverse and head back to the launch point, continuing an extra .15 miles and back to make the full loop a flat 5.0 miles.

    Number, name, and YHC took himself out.

    Announcements (a mixture of up-coming events of YHC’s choosing):

    Westhoe Meeting. Sometime this week. Already happened. Couldn’t make it.

    Convergence July 4. Can’t make it.

    YHC Qing Hoedown and Spider Run Q’s for July 15/16. Took name off Q sheet. Can’t make it. Sorry, Kubota, YHC is not the man you are.

    July 17 Woodsman VQ, The Crossing. Can’t make it.

    July 18 Meatball, Vinny’s Baseball (aka, Wiffleball). Can’t make it.

    July 27, The Bridge. 07:30 a.m. This is a Beat Down in Buckingham. Join me in helping some men transitioning from detention to a free life. Provide a role model. Leave no man where you found him.

    NMS:

    Belfast is not hot. Belfast is not humid. 50, clouds, and 20 MPH wind. But, sea level here remains flat along the docks. The BRR, this was not. This solid training run on a seasonally modest morning provided a nice tour of the Belfast waterfront.

    It was interesting to run through the dock / slipway (the actual space!) where Titanic was built. Far smaller than YHC expected, or perhaps YHC is faster than YHC expected.

  • Downrange at The Shed- Houston TX

    WARMUP: Mosey Lap 5 Burpees Motivators from 7 to 1 10 Abe Vigoda 10 Batwings (LBC, Flapjack, Ray Lewis, Seal Claps, Moroccans) 10 Speed skaters OYO 10 Feet together Push Jacks ( Plank position, jump right center left center)  THE THANG: Carry coupons to Slappy’s steps Thrusters with coupon, No Cheat Merkin, Dips, Step Ups (10, 15, 20) OYO Run big lap in between sets  Mosey back to flags and circled up 10 Curls on cue 20 KB swings Everyone holds coupon in position while one pax performs exercise at a time in rotation Overhead hold/ 5 OH presses Goblet Hold/ 10 Goblet Squats Plank/ 10 Merkins  MARY: Flutters until time ( 1 minute)  ANNOUNCEMENTS: Pizza night at Wolf’s this Thurs Sign up for Texas Coastal Relay ends this week  COT: Taps for Halftime  Use the ‘New Backblast’ button to create a new backblast.

    Great group of guys down in TX. Welcoming a fellow downranger again. Total sweat show this morning.

  • Downrange in the Nooga

    Posted this morning while visiting my sis in our home town – Chattanooga, TN. A good beatdown, lots of coupon work and ended with playing knock out on the bball court. Nothing notable other than the fact that the Tennessee pax call the APD exercise “Pickle pointers.” I informed them of the correct name but apparently they thought they were too close to Alabama and could potentially offend their southern brothers. eyeroll emoji.

  • We Men Get Away

    14 holy river rollers escaped their sleeping bags to honor a beautiful Charles City sunrise with a ride on the DTH pain train. The three FNG’s were not disappointed with the following 45min Thang:

    WARMERAMA: 

    • Circle up around the Shovel Flag
    • Welcome & Disclaimer
    • Variable IC Reps to get the muscles warm top to bottom

    COP #1: 

    • SHE HATE ME
    • Traverse a long stretch of paved driveway by completing sets of 20 lunges, stopping between sets to complete x10 Groiners & x10 Merkins

    COP #2:

    • THE WILT
    • Run twice around the field doing x50 reps of the given exercise at corners
    • LBC’s, SSH’s, Flutter Kicks, Squats

    COP #3:

    • OVER UNDERS
    • PAX line up in the field in plank, with last man taking turns jumping over then crawling under each planking PAX

    COP #4:

    • Moseyrama around the driveway loop to collect a frisbee from the truck
    • FRISBEE FARTLEK
    • Throw frisbee, first man to frisbee calls x20 reps of an exercise, then gets to throw next
    • Merkins, V-ups, Squats, WWII’s, Burpees

    COP #5:

    • Mosey down to the river and form up at the base of the ridiculously steep incline
    • HILL REPEATS
    • x20 Incline Mericans
    • Run up to the top of the hill
    • x20 Donkey Kicks 
    • Run back down
    • Bear Crawl to the top
    • Run back down
    • Sprint AYG BTTF 

    COT:

    • Counterama # 14
    • Namerama
    • Announcerama (see Below)
    • YHC took the PAX out in Prayer

    NMS:  Sunrise and seventy with a gentle river breeze and an eager PAX ready to roll in the dewy lawn, let’s GO! This was maybe the fourth F3 “The River” beatdown for the annual WEAG men’s getaway, and a few F3 regulars welcomed back some of last year’s FNG’s, as well as a few new ones. Chaplain’s 2.0 Armadillo was given the long-awaited opportunity for renaming – as a young man who can outpace most adults on a long run, welcome PACER! We nearly lost Slapstick early on, gassed with just the warmerama, but the loving accountability of the F3 Credo held him in the pocket for the duration of the bootcamp. Also almost had a Merlot Splash from Slider but YHC was not fully honored as he was able to hold it together. It was an honor to lead as always brothers. Living Third, DTH

    Prayer Requests:

    • Traveling mercies for Trig heading to Germany and Broadway leaving for on a missions trip to Kosovo later today
  • Double Bird Surprise

    Double Bird Surprise

    5 Amelia warriors rose to greet the dawn of a new day. According to legend, it went a little something like this…

    Wamerama: SSH x 20, DQ x 10, LBC x 20, FC x 15, AC x 20, HRM x 10

    Mosey to Field of Dreams (aptly named youth soccer field behind the courthouse)

    Beast of The East: This is an F3 classic! 6 rounds of 6 sets of 6 exercises. Round 1 squats, round 2 two count flutter kicks, round 3 two count lunges, round 4 strict merkins, round 5 WWII and an extra special round 6. When a Q respects his pax to the highest order he calls the grandaddy of exercises for the final round. Round 6 was burpees and if you are doing the math at home that is 6 sets of 6 burpees for 36 total burpees to close out the round!!

    Lamplighter: Making our way back to the courthouse stop at each lamp post and complete 10 of a prescribed exercise. Light 1 squats, light 2 LBC, light 3 merkins, light 4 squats, light 5 LBC, light 6 merkins, wrap up on the courthouse steps for 10 final squats.

    Numberama, namerama, Woodstock took us out.

    Moleskin: At 5:20am an unknown vehicle drop slowly past the AO (we are using Judgement Day as a placeholder). YHC (your humble correspondent) watched carefully for a potential FNG. As the great Gomer Pyle (not to be confused with F3 Gomer) would say, surprise, surprise, surprise! The great EF Hutton emerged from the darkness to share his light. It was wonderful to see a familiar face and join us for a beat down. Beast of the East is no joke and one of the hardest workouts in the F3 Richmond Exicon (funny enough this was not in the F3 Nation Exicon). YHC ended up eating lunch at 11am. The Amelia boys are freaking bringing it. Woodstock and Boo Boo have posted at every single workout!! Welcome Kingpin (former Amish, turned Mennonite, turned Presbyterian, turned barndominium builder).

    Announcements: Get in a run with Woodstock and his M (F3 name for wife and short for “M”ost important relationship) with the Amelia 10K training team. Come out to walk or run. Open to all ages and abilities.

    Join Boo Boo sharing the good word at the River Run Presbyterian services held every Sunday on 10am at Amelia Academy. Bonus points this week for eating your weight in shrimp at the low country boil on Wed. See Boo Boo or Kingpin for details.

  • F3 Race City – Honeymoon’s Roots

    YHC and fam arrived at Lake Norman at zero-dark-zero and checked to see if there were any AOs nearby. The Glen at Stumpy Creek Park of F3 Race City is 6 minutes away – no excuses. Lots of mumblechatter and good vibes. The PAX sends their regards to Honeymoon, who started in this region years ago. PAX did a mix of bootcamp, exercises with coupons, and finished with some Ultimate.

  • So a Thai Pad Is Not a Wet Noodle

    YHC jogged from the Prudential Center, past Upchuck’s old smoke break spot at HBS, to the Harvard Stadium to meet up with the PAX. Dunder led a brief warmup then brought out his kickboxing gear, including boxing mitts and a Thai pad. YHC was not expecting to learn how to be kicked in the early morning gloom but got the hang of it. Dunder sends his regards to Heist – so does YHC! Tclaps to him and the other men who participated in the GTE last weekend!

  • F3 Hampton Roads : Ignite AO

    18 Brothers from near and far assembled for the 2024 edition of the seasonal launch of the Ignite AO on VA Beach. Here’s what happened :

    Warmarama : 20 SSH IC, 10 Hill Billies IC, 10 IW’s IC, 10 Up Dog Down Dog IC

    THE THANG : 

    Run from Beach Marker 36 to 37 then do 5 Burpees, continuing running to Marker 38 then do 5 more burpees, turn around and repeato 

    10’s : 10 Dips, mosey to Monkey Rings for 5 swing ups, mosey down to Surfline for 10 LBC’s 4 count, Repeato circuit descending by 1 rep each time on the dips and LBC’s but keep a 5 count on the Swings

    Split into 3 teams (1 at each station) for 10 minutes of the following :

    Station 1 – hold plank

    Station 2 – running Rifle Carry with cinder block until you reach Station 3

    Station 3 – ball dippers

    Circle up for ring of fire – 5 minutes of PAX passing Cindy around with each pax in Al Gore doing 2 curls and 2 overhead press while 1 PAX is doing WWII’s; Repeato down the line 

    10 burpees

    3 minute cold plunge in the ocean

    DONE 

    Numbers, Names, Hot Corner took us out 

    NMMS : 3rd year in a row for YHC at this AO and hotel. Love posting here and vacationing here. This morning was in the high 50’s with 10 mph winds and cold water for the Q. I’m glad my family got in our sunny beach days before today!

  • SCary Four Corners

    YHC posted downrange with the South Cary, NC (SCary) PAX today. Pretty cool to do a beatdown in my childhood neighborhood, even if childhood wasn’t that long ago for me.

    Launch at 0515 with the pledge of allegiance at the shovel flag, followed by a half-mile mosey to circle up for Warmarama. The main COP was 6 rounds of four-corners with each round isolated to one movement (mostly abs) and increasing reps at each corner. Forty curb/step calf-raises at the completion of each round. Welcomed one FNG who was named Cornell because he went to Brown.

    Ended in COT and then met up with two other AOs for coffeteria nearby. About thirty men including Water Wings who posts in Westhoe from time-to-time.

    No immediate sign-ups for GTE-47 despite YHC’s sales pitch.

  • Did a Hurricane Blow Through?

    One weary traveler shook off the cobwebs of a hockey-filled evening to report for the latest edition of The Clinic. Conditions again held constant at 70 and sunny. According to the person obviously committing insurance fraud by claiming their Jeep Liberty engine hood was “stolen” from the hotel parking lot, the following might have happened.

    COP of stretching and SSHs interrupted by Omar reporting that the police were investigating a crime in the parking lot. Someone stole the hood from a car. Uh huh. Same guy had asked when he checked in whether the parking lot was monitored by cameras. You know, because a Jeep Liberty needs some serious security. No chance there was an actual theft in this parking lot, but so be it, YHC was off for a run.

    5-ish miles. No pit stops. Out to Broward and back.

    Number, name, and YHC took himself out.

    NMS: Good opportunity to meet the police on friendly terms today. YHC mentioned his workplace and the fact that he runs through the La Quinta parking lot. The officer was well familiar with the La Quinta. When you find yourself at the LQ, something is not right in your life. Amen.

    Announcements: A bunch of New Yorkers from Brooklyn choked last night. No amount of medical help could save them. 5-3 loss, with three goals given up in the final 3:20 of the third period. Epic collapse.

    Motto for the day: Get Right!