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One launched for a few weighted loops around the lake. Temperatures were 70 and sunny. According to the residents wondering who the guy in black shoes, black shorts, a black shirt, and a giganormous black flak jacket was, the following might have happened.

Loop Lake Florida 3 times. Rough distance 2 miles. 40 pound ruck. 2 cups of coffee.

Number, name, and YHC took himself out.

NMS: YHC has been traveling a ton. And, with traveling / working comes…a smidge more “drink” than is probably either healthy or desirable. No running after a night out…so, thus begins the upside / downside of having a ruck. It makes exercising easier, but it makes drinking easier. Gonna have to figure this one out.

All that said, rucking has one huge advantage…can carry coffee with me while working out.

Announcements:

The Bridge is December 27. Kubota with the Q.

Need a Q for January.

One nocturnal man and uncounted rabbits launched at the stroke of 04:00 in the latest edition of The Clinic. Conditions were 70 and sunny with dense fog and intense blackness. According to the rabbits silflaying, the following may quite possibly have happened.

Mosey to the edge of the golf course for the COP.

SSHs x30 (4 count, unless otherwise noted)
Imperial Walkers x20
LBCs x20
Flutter kicks x20

Mosey about 200 yards, pass the Dana Point Vietnam Veterans Memorial, and perform 20 HRMs.

Continue moseying another 200 yards, stopping for a variety of squats, LBCs, WWIIs, merkins, and so forth, generally following the fall-line of the trails towards the beach. Ignore the darkness. Embrace the isolation.

At the top of the bluff, continue right / downward to the beach path, then down the steps to the sand, forward 50 yards to the water line. Turn 80 degrees right / north, until intersection of water / sand, then proceed 6-10 feet west of intersection of sand / water (i.e., run in the water).

Note: Water temp 66 degrees.

Proceed to intersection of rocks / water / cliff. Find appropriate sized rock. 20 merkins. Find different appropriately sized rock. 20 boat / canoe. Do so without ingesting water / sand.

Proceed south on beach, repeating 6-10 feet from water’s edge, always on the water side. Approximately 1 mile run. Glorious.

Repeat rock exercises at south end of beach.

Proceed north / east to beach road and follow road uphill. Grade as much as 14%. Unforgiving. Lower speed, force continued run. Do not walk.

At top of hill, repeat exercises.

Continue east / northeast through city park and back to golf course, repeating exercises 3-4 additional times. 3 MOM at edge of golf course.

Number, name, and YHC took himself out.

NMS: YHC finds this workout to be the pinnacle of experiences, approximately 2x per year. Few things like exercising along the beach anywhere in the world. With the time change and the jet lag, YHC did this a bit earlier than normal. Good for the soul.

Announcements: EF Hutton leading The Bridge this weekend. No finer person to help our fellow men. Sign up, join up, and experience all 3 Fs in one morning.

Ol Beaver is on the road for work again. Thi time he finally hits an AO in the Chicago area named War Horse. You guessed it, we hit the coupons! It’s a thing! I feel like I’m always doing coupons DR. Luckily one of the HIMs grabbed an extra for me. A variety of coupon workouts were repped. I will certainly have to come out again.

VQ’s moleskin in a nutshell: Don’t pass up opportunities to help others when they present themselves

After a quick search for additional PAX, Joey Chestnut graciously offered YHC the Q. Game on!

The THANG:

Mosey for a lap around the park and return to the parking lot for the COP: SSHs, Hammer Dance, Power Dance, Dirty Birds, IWs, DQs, Merkins, LBCs, IC.

Move to the pickleball courts for Bearicides across two courts – Bear Crawl to a line, run back, and do 5 Burpees; Bear Crawl to the second line, run back, 5 burpees, then repeat for the third line. Next round, Lunge to the first line, run back, 5 Burpees, etc. Last round, one PAX Wheelbarrow to the first line, other PAX Wheelbarrow back, 5 burpees, and so on for lines 2 and 3, with a 10 count and 20 count in between.

Mosey to the playground for two rounds of: 5 Pull-Ups, 10 Derkins, 20 Dips, 25 WWIIs. Then two rounds of: 5 Jerkins, 10 Incline Merkins, 20 Dips, 25 2-count American Hammers.

One more lap around the park for the COT.

NMS: PAX did the best they could making a circle with 2 PAX, but then again, can you even make a circle with 20 points, anyway?

What do you do when you are on vacation in a city with F3 and you can’t sleep? You post! YHC took the opportunity to check out another region. Things were a little different but not dramatically. Good times. Their Elementary Schools have multiple perfect Turf Fields…

WARMUP: SSH,IMP,MTDEW, WILLY, PHELPS, RVE, MOROCCAN, DD, WGS   

THE THANG:    Fellowship Lap Then Modified Four Corners, Reps: 10 Shoulder Taps (IC) 10 Mountain Climbers (IC) 10 WWIIs 10 Squats,  Run a Lap 10 Shoulder Taps (IC) 10 Mountain Climbers (IC) 10 WWIIs 10 Squats,  Then Run 70% Lap At the Wall:  Step Ups/Kovar Jumps x10 Merkins (20) Step Ups/Kovar Jumps x10 Merkins (15) Step Ups/Kovar Jumps x10 Merkins (10)  Fellowship Lap on the Upper Field  Line Up  Frankenstein Dora:  Dora but mode of travel is the newly created “Jagilton” Bear Crawl from Sideline to Penalty Box, run width of Penalty Box, then Crawl Bear to opposite sideline. Repeat to come back.  The reps were (First team to make calls it and we move on):   100 Merkins 125 Squats 150 LBCs  THEN, Regular Dora, but with skipping as mode of travel The reps were (First team to make calls it and we move on):   50 Perfect Merkins  75 Bobby Hurleys 100 Flutters  Then, we moseyed over to the wall for “Kiki Hernandez Wall Sits” PAX would do a wall sit for the 30 seconds, then do 30 seconds of “pair juggling” throwing and catching a total of three balls simultaneously. Great for the cognitive functioning!  We alternated about 3x rounds of this, and it was very suitable fuster-cluckery to get the week started.   

MARY: built in the Thang  

ANNOUNCEMENTS:  Bible Study tomorrow night The Grunt Saturday  Book Club Saturday Happy Hour WED NOV 19 Charlie Brown Thanksgiving at Ignite  

COT: A basic one. Keep a positive outlook. Keep the dialogue in your head positive. Look for the positive. Be the positive! SYITG!

NMS – I would encourage any Pax Member to take the opportunity to post in another region. You will always be welcome and you can appreciate the slight dialectical difference between their region and ours. BB Title comes from the fact we played a game with the last 5 minutes in which we tossed Smashballs back and forth in the mist. This BB won’t earn epic Marv-Level Mumblechatter but hopefully the title gets some nostalgic recognition.

Beaver was doing a little travel for work up in Northern VA this week after taking a few weeks off to spend time with the M and 2.0. So I looked up the nearest AO and there she was…across the way from Dulles airport tucked into what looks like some sort of secured area where Astro turf soccer fields where 5 arrived on time and Running Man was running about 10-15 mins late, no that’s not how he got his name unfortunately.
we did a little bit of everything and brought home a couple new moves to introduce to the men.

In solidarity with YHC’s 2.0, who posted at Heartbreak this morning, YHC posted at Terminus in Atlanta. Another Proud Dad day!

TBR works at Chik fil a and had visited VCU’s location recently. He was very impressed with RVA, including the trail system. YHC hopes he posts next time!

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.