Tag: DownRange

YHC found himself down range in Roanoke for Overlander beat down. Q had messaged the PAX to bring rucks which I did not get. Still got the beatdown experience nonetheless. At 5:30 Q called for a run up a hill that made Twin Team or Satan’s hill look like a speed bump.

Standard warm up with a new one Willie Mays Hayes which I will be bringing to an AO soon.

5 stations consisting of burpees, merkins, squats, lunges, cocaine bear crawls, etc. 3 exercises per station. Cycle through 20 sets of each exercise for 5 minutes. At timer rotate.

Let me tell you, this PAX got after it.

COT at top of hill with a beautiful sunrise over the mountains in the background. My phone was 3/4 mile south so I did not get a picture.

Got a little downrange action in Race City. Great group of men who take hospitality seriously. Chainsaw hadn’t Q’d for a while so he had the idea to leverage a deck of death and then have us rotate in leading each exercise. The ultimate delegation! Still it was a good workout.

NMS- let’s remember to provide backblast and pics front downrange guests.

Headed down to CLT to check on Tippecanoe and we did some SUP. Tough outside the cove with the speedier boats going by. Prayers for children starting school.

Gitty up!

Two PAX from F3 RVA posted DR at Lightning Rod. After the COP, the Q led us on a mosey around the neighborhood. He brought a staple gun and fliers. Stop at every telephone pole and staple an F3 flier. PAX took turns calling exercises.

RVA PAX were introduced to Scorpion Taps – from a plank, tap each heel, then do a Merkin.

PAX did Monkey Humpers at an intersection in front of cars which elicited a reaction and probably made someone’s Monday.

PAX served coffee after the beatdown. F3 Oregon Territory implemented a policy of renaming 2.0s when they turn 18.

Joey Chestnut and YHC are looking forward to returning home today!

YHC had a chance to Q this morning in SoFl. Solid group of dudes. They write BBs slightly differently, name FNGs on Day 2, and carry coupons when everywhere. And, these guys push themselves in some brutally humid conditions. Enjoy the BB.

Backblast: UpChuck
Date: 2025-08-07
Time: 05:30
Where: #ao-the-possum
Q: UpChuck (Tim)
PAX: Apehangers , 5K , Starbucks , Pre-blast (DR), 007 (DR), Sandbag, UpChuck (Tim)
Coupons: Technically, yes, but, meh.

Six, ahem, seven, men of action threw off the lure of the Fart Sack in the latest edition of The Angry Possum. Conditions remained 70 and sunny. According to the burping frogs and local legend, the following quite possibly happened.

Note: YHC is including the names of some F3 Hall of Famers who taught YHC these evolutions. Where YHC miscredits the person, YHC apologizes.

Slow-sey around the parking lot. Circle up for the COP. 100 SSHs (thank you to Starbucks for the welcoming smiles while counting with YHC). Dead Man Hang, right leg high, left leg high, pigeon R, pigeon L, cherry pickers, hill billies, copperhead squats, flutter kicks, and some guys did some weird bent knee thing that looked like a flopping fish.

Touch-a-Tree (@hardywood): Partner up. Rounds of 10, 8, 6, 4, and 2. You run and touch the appropriate number of trees. Your partner does an exercise until you come back, or, if your partner is Sandbag (our FNG), time expires. Exercises were reverse crunches (10, 8), hello Dolly (6, 4), and burpees (2). Sandbag is still out there doing the round of 6, we think. (YHC is considering re-naming him “Charlie on the MTA,” after the song by The Kingston Trio. Look it up.)

Parking Space Trio (@chum bucket): 3 merkins, 3 WWIIs, and 3 squats. Optional Pencil Roll (@handshake) between spaces. Any man can call “Leroy Jenkins” (@splinter) at any time during the exercise, and the PAX runs to Winn Dixie. The PAX adopted this enthusiastically. Kudos to @pre-blast for knowing the back story.

Wrap up the Parking Lot Trios, mosey back to the shovel flag, and one round of 20 curls for the girls. Numbers, names, and Starbucks took us out.

Announcements:
Starbucks has the Q this weekend. See Slack for details.
There may be a ride this evening. Pull for strong evaporation between now and 6 p.m.
Welcome, Sandbag! He’s an FNG who has joined the United States Navy! Boot camp starts in a couple of weeks. Thank you for your service, and all the best!

Upchuck spits the bit.

Ole Beaver is back on the road! This time in Nashville TN on Music Row and by golly was it hot this week(by a country mile some would say). Run a country mile from hotel to AO. 13 F3 studs emerged from the gloom to have Copycat Q a 2 round decathlon around Centennial Park. We also had a young man passing by our workout we invited in and so he did! Turns out he just came in from Kenya yesterday, now known as Raddish. I met Wolfpack – claims he’s been to Timberwolf, visits his sister in RVA. Spinal Tap says hi to SaltLick, not the first time I’ve heard Spinal Taps name. Run a country mile back to the hotel.

Moleskin – reach out to a close relative or friend you haven’t spoke with in quite sometime.

Three, yeah, 3, hit the mean streets in and around 1230 South Pine Island Road in the latest edition of The Clinic. Conditions were 70 and sunny. According to the Miami Dolphins players headed to training camp, the following might have happened.

Apehangers (F3 SoFL Nantan) and Fletch rucked 2 miles, covering multiple loops around the lake.

YHC ran 4.1 after the group started a tad late due to the new guys at the AO.

Numbers, names, and YHC took us out.

NMS: great to have additional guys out at The Clinic, now officially an OTB site for F3 SoFl. These guys started in December, and they are up to about 7 AOs already across Broward County. Good group of dudes.

Announcements: This will continue as an OTB AO for the time being, but YHC suspects we’ll have a regular AO as we pull in more local guys. Second, no takers among the Dolphins players headed to Training Camp, but clearly a couple dudes wondering who we were to be ready to run even as they boarded SUVs for their work.