Tag: DownRange

One man launched from the previously mentioned rucking ground. Temperatures were, again, a seasonal 70 and sunny. According to the young man enjoying some sweet weed at 5:15 a.m. (not me) on the hotel’s back patio, the following might have happened.

60 minutes under 38 pounds.

Number, name, and YHC took himself out.

NMS: always fun to see people’s faces when they mistake a weighted vest for a police vest. This young man took about 3 seconds of “about to poop his pants” before YHC said,”Good morning” and continued walking past. YHC thinks weed might not even be illegal in Florida anymore…who knows?

One man stepped onto the rucking ground. Temperatures were 70 and sunny. According to the game warden patrolling with her hound, the following might have happened.

55 minutes under 38 pounds. Cup of coffee in hand, podcast on tap.

Number, name, and YHC took himself out.

“It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.” – Sir Edmund Hillary

Three PAX from F3RVA, NTB, Pad Thai, and L Woods, traveled to Cary, North Carolina for GTE 59, led by Cadres PowerClean and Uncle Rico.

For NTB and Pad Thai, this was their second GrowRuck after Richmond’s event last year. For L Woods, it was a first—completely new territory. After Friday night’s rally, the group started off with the KingBuilder at Carpex AO Shaken Not Stirred in Bond Park.

At 6:00 PM, the adventure began. L Woods was immediately thrown into the fire as Platoon Leader, learning how to form up, march two by two, and lead a unit on the move. After a few rough starts, the group found rhythm and launched into the darkness.

The first stop was a gym, where the PAX rotated through stations: tire flips, sled pulls, box step-ups, air bike, medicine ball slams, and dead hangs.

Stopping at an elementary school 5 hours into the event- we did the PT test. A minimum of 40 hand release merkins and 50 butterfly situps, along with a two mile run to boot.

After rucking back to Bond Park, the Cadres had us link arms and crawl into one of the nastiest ponds in the area. Pad Thai took over as Platoon Leader and led a brutal overnight grind through downtown Cary, which included a three-man sandbag “snake,” a two-man 120-pound carry, and a mix of 60–80 pound bags that made everyone dig deep.

At Cary High School, we dropped the sandbags—only to pick up something worse: a 500-600 pound log that had to travel a quarter mile. Every man took a turn. After it was finally cast into the woods, we picked the sandbags back up and moved on toward the Cary War Memorial.

There, PowerClean gave a powerful talk before calling for a Laredo: two laps, 24 merkins, 24 squats, 24 lunges, repeated until it hurt.

As the sun rose, we rucked back to Bond Park, rotating sand bags. The Cadres had one last test—two simulated casualties that had to be carried across the soccer fields. NTB took one of the larger PAX over his shoulder. Once we arrived at the evac point, the rest formed a protective circle on the ground.

YHC posted with 5 of Charlottes finest. Workout was kettlebel and lucky for me the Q Toby lent me one.

Warmarama: Standard set of warm ups.

COP: Completed various kettlebell exercises taking a lap around parking lot after each set. Sets consisted of 3x3x20. Exercises included overhead press, skullcrushers, curls, lawnmower, squats, pull ups, front raises, bench press, WWIII’s, etc.

Q took us out in prayer

When your down range and there are 4 AO’s within 3 miles of hotel it hard to make an excuse not to post. The closest AO was .3 miles which is closer than Satan’s Hill to me (.4 miles). So I pulled myself from the fartsack for a beatdown at Hollywood provided by Blackbeard.

Warm up jog then right into it. Mosey around large portions of the parking lot in a square. Cards were placed along the way. It was our job to match them or do exercise. Copious amount of about 20 different exercises were completed as well as copious amounts of running.

Blackbeard took us out in prayer.

5 took to Red Pill. Temps were 70 and sunny. According to the Karen in the black Ford pick-up, the following might have happened:

Some nutty circle of pain in which F3 trivia was hurled at the Pax. Wrong answers merited burpees. One star. Not recommended.

SSH, IWs, Toy (Ukrainian) soldiers, Hip Circles (new to YHC), and Hillbillies (which weren’t our hillbillies, but YHC digresses).

Pick up your coupon. YHC exchanged his 38 pound ruck-sack for a 32 pound Cindy. YHC’s pal Starbuck’s carried that ruck for almost all of the next 45 minutes, perhaps 40 minutes in total. YHC managed the Cindy for almost as long. Que joder. Monster workout.

Somewhere in there, we each picked exercises. YHC picked duck walk while doing presses with the Cindy over our heads. In retrospect, that was easy. YHC duck walks very, very fast. But, lunges – terrible. Squats – terrible. The other crazy nonsense that was created – terrible. Apparently, this business of walking with a Cindy above the cranium is all called a Zamperini.

Numbers, names, TackleBerry took us out.

Zamperini’s…Coming soon to an AO near you.

20 questions about religion at coffee. YHC asked basically zero of the questions. True story (no one will believe that, but it’s true). These fellas love themselves some Bible talk.

Backblast below is the electronic Weinke from Alabama Tick from AO Old School in F3 Alliance – Fort Worth

Welcome to F3  Fitness/Fellowship/Faith  F3’s Mission – “to plant, grow and serve small workout groups for men for the invigoration of male community leadership”. 5 Principles: · Free of charge. · Open to all men. · Outdoors, rain or shine, heat or cold. · Led by men who participate in the workout in a rotating fashion, with no training or certification necessary. · COT: Ends in Circle of Trust. I am not a professional, please modify as you see fit.  Counterama –  WARMUP:  10 – Good Mornings 10 – Willie Mays Hays IC 25 – SSH 10 – LBRC 10 – Flap Jacks 10 – Motivators  The Thang First PAX to 25 reps yells out done 25 Merkins – Every PAX Mosey passed the bridge and back 25 Overhead Press Every PAX Mosey passed the bridge and back 25 Curls for the Girls Every PAX Mosey passed the bridge and back 25 Goblet Squats Every PAX Mosey passed the bridge and back 15 Burpees Every PAX Mosey passed the bridge and back 25 Bent-Over Rows Every PAX Mosey passed the bridge and back 25 Burpees Every PAX Mosey passed the bridge and back 25 Block Presses Every PAX Mosey passed the bridge and back  MARY:  25 Coupon LBCs (hold coupon overhead) 25 Heavy Freddy’s   CoT: Each PAX discussed an area that they are accelerating in their life and a blind spot they are working on.   1,2,3 LEAD Use the ‘New Backblast’ button to create a new backblast

Great to be downrange and get a few ideas and thoughts from the F3 Alliance PAX. Doozy would be happy to hear they did motivators but started from a number chosen by the PAX (increased to 10 for LIFOs). Happy to have Bobber come out with me and maybe get back in with F3RVA.

On a rainy Wednesday near the nations capital YHC went out to discover what the DC metro area had to offer in form of a beatdown. YHC was not disappointed and remained dry most of the workout? In Arlington apparently there are a lot of parking garages and this AO happened to be right next to one.

Standard warm up of SSH, DQ’s, Willie Mays Hayes, Merkins, LBC, etc.

Perform 1 round of 5 burpees, 10 Merkins, 15 WWII’s, 20 squats. Run up parking garages to 3 level out onto road and down hill back to starting point. Round 2 perform 2 rounds of exercises above, same run, Round 3, 3 rounds of exercises, same run, and repeato for round 4. At 610 time was called.

11 HIM’s of God carved some pain gain out of a beautiful crisp morning on our annual mountain men’s retreat at Windy Gap YoungLife Camp near Asheville NC. Here’s how 11 conquered 14 out of 18:

WARMERAMA: 

• Mosey a bit to circle up at a better lit area
• Welcome & Disclaimer
• Warm-up Reps IC, slightly extended total reps for a full body warmup

The THANG: 

• Mosey down to the start of an epic mountain frisbee golf course
• Outlined the plan: escalator burpees to match the hole number, with a movement exercise to complete each hole, and variable reps (mostly called IC) at the end of each hole
• Movements included runs, Bernies, sprints, broad jumps, lunge walks, low crawls, bear crawls, and others
• After getting up to 9 burpees completing the first 9 holes, we switched to WWII’s at each hole for the back 9
• The reps called were highly variable and too many to list, but the PAX got their money’s worth
• Completed 14th hole and then mosey BTTF

COT:

• Counterama # 11 
• Namerama, naming 2 FNG’s
• BOM Prayer

NMS:  Back for YHC’s 6th time on the mountain, and this place is absolutely majestic! Such amazing mountain beauty and the company of 300-400 wonderful men celebrating Jesus. YHC has led a lot of bootcamps here over the years but this was the first time tackling a workout based on the frisbee golf course, and it turned out to be an awesome smokefest. Thankful for being here and the other 10 HIM’s who joined for this morning’s victory lap. We’ll have the pleasure of enduring a beatdown delivered by Voltage tomorrow. Yours AYE! ~DTH

One intrepid warrior of The Gloom threw off the pull of the Fart Sack (and last night’s tequila old fashioneds) to hit the mean (ok, the office park) streets of Plantation. Temps were 75 and sunny. According to the restaurant worker (lady) who came out of the office building at 5:20 a.m. to see YHC unexpectedly 15 feet away, the following might have happened:

2 loops around the lake, using various routes / paths / etc. No scream (thank Heavens) when the lady came flying out of the building, never looked to her right, and then realized someone was close by. Disaster averted. All good.

This brought to mind a question. When startling a person (but, mostly, a woman) not expecting you in the dark, what’s the etiquette? YHC chose, “Good morning. I’m back behind you. Sorry to disturb you.” (Pause for slight gasp). Then, “Sorry, didn’t mean to startle you. Just out for a walk” (With my 35 pound massive chest weights).

Number, name, and YHC took himself out.

NMS: Marriott provides two coffees cups, paper. YHC now makes two cups, takes one to the car, and leaves it. The first cup goes along for the first lap. Swap for the second cup on the second lap. Suddenly, YHC does not detest rucking as much.