Rucks and headlamps on, and we hit the streets of Rockwood at 6 am sharp. House and I had some great conversation about bad movies and Hopewell High School football.
Towards the end of the ruck, a runner approached us and said there was someone looking for the F3 workout. We spotted “Mark” and were able to guide him back to our usual starting point.
Overall, a solid workout before Purple Pain made his debut.
SYITG
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Non-Respectable Ruckers
Nine (the best of the single digit odd numbers) PAX took an extra lap around the Stony Point Shopping Center while the tardy Q got his act together and then set off for a 3.5mi journey around the north end of Larus Park! Dr. Try Hard’s pesky 60lb friend once again joined us for our trek. Too tired to walk itself, Mr. Sandbag was shouldered by many a strong fellow.
It was a great morning to be with these HIMs once again. At the end of our ruck we shared several announcements about the SOJ chili cookoff and father-daughter dance planned before diving into prayer for Broadway’s recovery from a heart attack, L Woods’ dad recovering post-op, and for Bru’s family finding a nearby home for his mother. It was at this time that the not-yet-respect members of our band were encouraged to get their hearts screened. Their ages may or may not have been inflated, YHC’s memory is fuzzy.
After COT we continued the discussion in Einstein’s Bagels where we reviewed habit stacking from chapter 5 of Atomic Habits and something about only drinking water for an extended period of time.
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New Baby Daddy!
0530 hit and I threw on some music as I started my ruck, fully expecting it to be a solo mission. Then at 0532 I spotted a familiar truck rolling in. Out of nowhere I heard a whistle behind me. I thought “That’s odd… I’m not even wearing my hoochie daddy shorts today.” I had to turn around and investigate. There he was BEAVER emerging from the darkness. We hit the trail and knocked out about 3.5 miles give or take. Most of the ruck was filled with good chatter about his new little girl him trying to balance the whole gang, family life, and everything that life throws at you. During our little adventure we were being stalked by an owl all morning. Thing was massive it was pretty much the same size as us.
Don’t Waste The Day!
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Ruck Bros
Ideal ruck weather this morning. At 6am House and I hit the streets of Rockwood Park. We completed the paved nature trail, 2 laps around the park, and the big parking lot. Many of Americas problems were solved. We might have went home had we known what Purple Rain had in store.
A good time was had by all. -
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On this potentially wet morning we had 8 of our RH regulars join for a brief venture into the woods of Larus. We kept the pace comfortable given our men returning from GrowRUCK this weekend.
Coffeeteria was focused on the building of awareness of our daily habits (Chapter 4 of Atomic Habits). The challenge has been set to identify a habit that we would like to change….permanently and not just fleetingly, a change that will get us closer to being the person we aspire to be. As always some solid humor and good banter was appreciated. Thanks for joining.
Announcements/Prayers: Congrats to L Woods, NTB and Pad Thai on completing the GrowRUCK this past weekend. By all accounts they represented F3RVA excellently. Prayers for L Woods and the family as his old man deals with a cancer diagnosis.
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GTE #59
“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.
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Winning = 2 pounds and 1 year lighter
Seven ruck studs embraced a cool morning to celebrate OC’s successful weight and age loss program. The secret to his success is simply believing he is a year older than he actually is for a while, and then DK reveals the best birthday present possible – “bro, you’re turning 49, not 50…”
The THANG:
YHC set an EMOM timer to go off every 5 minutes at which point all PAX stop rucking to complete x3 Burpees (ruck packs ON), and the #60 sandbag is passed to another HIM.
The PAX completed three loops around the Stony Point Business Complex, and stopped a couple times at the patio area outside Gelati Celesti for variable core reps and review of the F3 Mission, Core Principles, and Credo.
Variable mumble chatter included, but was not limited to, advice on how to survive Grow Ruck, making and breaking good and bad habits, and the weather. We enjoyed a lovely coffeerama at Einstein afterwards discussing chapter 3 of “Atomic Habits” and the PAX was fully satisfied with all three F’s being honored.
Yours AYE! ~DTH
COT:
- Counterama # 7
- Namerama
- Announcerama (see Below)
- BOM Prayer
Announcements (SEE SLACK!)
- Iron Pax at Timberwolf & Lumberyard
- Monthly: Breaking Bread, Bridge
- 10/2 NOS Meeting, 8pm at DTH’s
- 10/3-5 GrowRuck in Cary NC
- 10/4 Handicap Ramp Build (see Gomer)
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The Things We Do For Beer
”You attract bees with honey” is a famous saying. Tonight showed you attract ruckers with beer! 12 (but then 13 after Cookie ate his pancakes and 14 after Ponch was told to get his ass out there) came out for what will be the first of many CSAUP Rucks!
THE THANG
Swoop kicked it off with ruckless 11s and ruck-on 4 corners around Alamo and we proceeded on our way. Crabgrass had a surprise for the PAX at the top of a dirt mound at a construction site where we found 6 sandbags waiting for us. Quick triple check with runner carrying sandbags + planks & SSH.
We carried our 6 new sandbag friends with us as we made our way to Satans Hill. We split the group in half Team A) carry the sandbags to top of hill with rucks on and back. Team B) line up and do snake order merkins until Team A returns. Round 2 same thing but with jump squats.
made our way to Old Hundred and Warby had a diabolical chart of exercises associated with letters. Spell your name and pay the price. Those with 5 or less letters had to spell their name twice!
Began our 2.5 mile trek home to Alamo
4 hours, 9.5 miles later we gathered around Alamo parking lot and began cracking open beers and enjoying some much earned guy time! Great work everyone, we pushed it hard today and no doubt each of us will be exhausted tonight and feeling it tomorrow, but we had smiles on our face the whole time and we all are glad we made it out tonight. One thing is for sure – we need more of these and there will be!
THE HIGHLIGHTS
1.5 miles in and Warby’s sole separates from his shoe. Thanks to some McGyver gorilla tape, we fix his “flat”. One mile later, his other shoe disintegrates and we need even more tape to get him back on the road. The fact that he completed another 7 miles in this janky setup is beyond words (see photo)
Ponch’s daughter arrived home while we ascended Satans Hill and she was given a message to give her pops…”Get Your Ass out there”…and he obliged!!
Special shoutout to Focker who answered a 10pm SOS call for some size 8.5-9 shoes for a ‘vagabond’ barely surviving.
Thanks DTH for cranking the tunes even though one PAX was concerned the ‘house in the woods’ would be awoken by Bittersweet Symphony and seek revenge. Crank it up!
14 HIMs have never had a beer that tasted so good. It’s so good when it touches your lips!
Thank you to those who organized and thank you to those who supported. A great night for F3 RVA!
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10 of F3RVAs men gathered at Einsteins Bagels for this weeks edition of RH. Weather was perfect and after the usual welcome slagging off from the crusher of oranges, we were off. We began on the red trail, linked to green and then slipped under Chippenham parkway for the Stony Point sections. We passed around a very light 60lb sand bag for some extra fun and covered just over 3 miles this morning. As always the conversation was great and our follow up coffeeteria was full of humor. Good discussion on how identity drives our habits and vice versa. Thanks for joining lads!
Numbers, Names, Announcements, NTB took us out.
- CSAUP this Friday the 26th September starting at the Alamo @8pm, check Slack for details.
- Nancy Lopez is collecting shoes till the end of the month and any donations to cover costs of shipping. QR code on Slack.
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Watch out for them cobras!
Three familiar faces got together this morning for a crisp 3-mile ruck and some snake wrangling.
- Beaver is on baby watch could be any day now, so keep him and his M in your prayers.
- Commando educated us on the reality of auto insurance once the kids get on the policy.
- Choo Choo is still coasting through the early, easy stages of parenthood.
Exciting news: we’re working on getting New Kent High School on board for a new AO on Friday mornings. They just wrapped up the new turf on the football field. It’s about 13 minutes past the Lumberyard so not sure how many PAX will make the trip but, we can always send out postcards
Don’t waste the day!