Seven frequent ruckers pounded the pavement for another 3.5mi trek around Bon Air. We pushed back from the gate a minute or so late, but after encountering some turbulent hills YHC landed the rucking plane perfectly at 0600. Great mumblechatter by all as is accustomed on these Wednesday mornings and the group once again attempted to understand the chasm between men and women to no avail.
Announcements: 9/6: SOJ Evening Ruck 9/13: SOJ Family Cookout at L Woods’ 9/26: SOJ Night CSAUP Ruck @ Alamo Check Slack for Nancy Lopez’s announcement on collecting donations for our F3 brothers in Africa.
Prayer Requests L Wood’s Dad – Cancer Diagnosis Dr Try Hard – Recover from illness and injury.
Recently, life has been one where it hasn’t been easy. The reality that nearly 2 years at Amazon, it’s time for me to look for something new. 4 straight 10 hour shifts then try to get my body to shut down, relax and enjoy a little quiet time in my head hasn’t been easy. Plus I don’t sleep real well (the type of sleep I get versus what would be best for my body doesn’t even come close). So with the unification end of summer approaching, 5 brave souls came out for a classic Mudslide beatdown(another one probably worse coming tomorrow). There was also some extended broga today close to 15 minutes worth get the muscles stretched. The only adjustment to the workout due to the darkness, I had to change up the final run which ended up being a full Satan’s hill stop sign all the way up and back(a mini twin team style hill). This is the workout(if you were here, a good practice for the IronPax starting next week. I
i will post the workout obj the Satan’s hill page, it’s a good simple one that will get you ready for Iron Pax
Fifteen F3 aficionados gathered at the Forge for YHCs birthday beatdown! This 33rd trip around the sun was celebrated in the following fashion:
Warmarama – Mosey down the hill to the tennis courts and circle up with a welcome and disclaimer. – Various IC exercises head to toe and then mosey onto the football field.
COP 1: Triple Pounder – Rather than the traditional quarter-pounder, we split the field into thirds and added a punishing twist that will likely not be seen again for a long time. – Goal Line: 33 SSHs – 33 Yard Line: 33 Squats – Opposite 33 Yard Line: 33 Lunges (two-count) – Opposite Goal Line: 33 Hand-Release Merkins – Similar to a quarter-pounder, always Bernie back to the starting line. However, each time a line is crossed the PAX stopped to perform those 33 specified reps in either direction. Quads were absolutely smoked at the end.
COP 2: Triple Check – Flutter Kicks & American Hammers. Timer bear crawls (sheesh) to the 33 yard line and back.
We ended our time with an Indigenous Peoples’ mosey back to the flag for COT.
COT – Monday 9/1 – Labor Day Convergence @ Dogpile – Saturday 9/13 – SOJ Cookout at L Wood’s – October 3-5 – GrowRuck #59 – Downrange in Cary, NC – Prayer’s for YHC’s brother-in-law who broke his fibula. – Prayer’s for L Wood’s dad who received a cancer diagnosis earlier this week.
The brightest lights and the biggest stages are where icons are born. Today, a new one cemented their legacy. Today was the Grand Finale of our first annual Boys of Summer event at Timberwolf. After weeks of ultimate football, frisbee, disc golf, knockout, dodgeball, and variety games…One rose to the top and two came to challenge for the title. We settled it on the field.
First up was Team Warby (Warby, Matlock, Festivus, Woodsman, Shiver) vs Team Flyboy (Flyboy, Rudy, The Duke, FNG, Crabgrass)
Competition 1: 2v2 Dodgeball. First matchup went to Festivus after a stellar 1v1 with The Duke. Second matchup went to Crabgrass and Flyboy as YHC snagged two catches in the dark. Third matchup went to Warby after Rudy dropped what was the first of many balls on the day. Team Warby 3-1
Competition 2: Knockout. Went through a couple of rotations before we started to fall. FNG deployed an interesting tactic of missiling the ball through the hoop to deter his opponent. Flyboy sent Woodsman into the abyss to search for his ball, but eventually Team Warby members fell one by one. Points to Team Flyboy, up 6-3.
Competition 3: Par 5 disc golf with defender. Team Warby played the hook a little too much and got in trouble early. Team Flyboy used precision strikes to advance quickly. Rudy (5) and YHC (6) were the low scores and put points in the Flyboy basket to secure the win!
Flyboy and his sidekick Rudy challenged Fandango for the title! Down to the field for Ultimate Football
Team Fandango – Fandango, Crabgrass, The Duke, Matlock, FNG, Warby Team Flyboy – Flyboy, Rudy, Woodsman, Festivus, Shiver
To make it interesting, we played Ultimate rules except Flyboy, Fandango and anyone who got an interception could be a free runner until tagged. Also, only Fandango and Flyboy could score touchdowns.
It started off as a tight, contentious match. Each team bending but not breaking. Different strategies were deployed to take advantage of the free run rule, but the tides turned when The Duke said “F*** it, Fandango’s down there somewhere!” and launched a missile to the deep middle of the field with Fandango catching it in stride and taking off for the first score of the game. A mere prelude to the greatness still to come.
If you remember the Randy Moss in-his-prime Patriots days when he would throw a hand up signaling to the world that he was going to be open, that’s what happened today. Fandango next caught a TD from Warby despite triple coverage in the end zone, followed by two bombs from YHC. The man couldn’t be stopped today. His stat line was 7 receptions, 350 yards, and 5 touchdowns. For Team Flyboy, as Mudslide would say, they had the YIPS. There were some chances to put points on the board, but fell short on execution. Final Score: 5-0
Congratulations Fandango on being crowned the CHAMPION! your trophy is bigger than Flyboys!
10 gloom studs hit the mean streets of Bon Air for the latest edition of sherpa training. YHC brought a 50# KB for the PAX to bring along and share around. Dealer showed off his hulkish hand strength by just palming the ball-side. We covered 3.6 miles in just a few minutes over an hour. Glad to have OC and Scram join us again. Prayers for L Woods’ dad just diagnosed with lung cancer yesterday, and for his M’s pregnancy ultrasound tomorrow. Coffeerama at Einstein afterwards was lovely – took in a history lesson from our Double Respect veteran (Scram), heard about how NTB is going to make over F3 Cville, and ran into Machinehead who swears he’ll post again once his knee ?meniscus heals up. See ya’ll for NTB’s sweet-16 (JK, 33) Bday Q tomorrow at The Forge. Yours AYE! ~DTH
Today 8 HIMs came out to help Heist reach his pre-COVID VO2 max levels. According to the speed walker, here’s what went down.
Mosey around the parking lot to get a sense of what was to come. Quick warmup Nancy-style. To honor the love shared between Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift, we partnered up, grabbed a cinder block and headed to the far end of the parking lot.
P1 runs around the clubhouse the other day end of the parking lot, P2 performs exercise until they get back. Move up one parking lot space, P2 runs. Rinse and repeat until we get through every parking space. Exercises were curls, skullcrushers, squats, swings, merkins.
Feeling dangerous, YHC mixed it up for the last 10 parking spaces. P1 sprints while P2 SSH. Returned the blocks and did some jazzercise to take us out!
prayers for Wildcats brother in law as he recovers from a scare. He was out running and collapsed due to a heart issue but the grace of God was present as a nurse witnessed him pass out and was able to perform CPR until medics arrived. Woodsman brought up a good point, for $100 you can get a calcium scan to see how your heart is doing, talk to your doctor. Good reminder of why we’re out here!
TWENTY THREE grown-boys came out to The Almo this morning to run around and get their weeks started off right! YHC had 3 fantasy football drafts over the weekend and locked in on a few players that will either make or tank the season. QTY’s were based on “my Guys” for this season so here’s what went down.
WARMARAMA – Moseyed to the nearest cul de sac and back. Gave the mission, stretched out and got into it.
COP #1: Drake London #5
Ran through 5 cul de sacs and did (5) burpees at each one.
Three rucker compadres took to the Rockwood Green Loop, joined later by Big Rig who’d been up early running with Boberry. The uses of AI/Chat was an interesting topic of discussion, and we all appreciated the massive cock at the Latino Market (large rooster statue) as we completed four loops total. Weather is currently perfect. Get out there and enjoy it fellas! Yours AYE, DTH
For the third year in a row, YHC’s disorganization and lack of social promotion led to yet another successful homegrown half, 10K, and 5K!
Feedback from the PAX identified that the route last year kept everyone wanting more hills, so we brought back the OG double hill climbs and it was a big hit for all the half marathoners.
There was lots of mumble chatter along the way, but also a lot of camaraderie and shared disdain for the sudden resurgence of heat and humidity. At 6am, we kicked off to a true 70 and sunny, and the temp kept climbing throughout the race.
After the race, there was lots of speculation that our downrange guest, Dementia, was actually the infamous Bryan Kohberger, which turns out to be Fake News.
Special thanks to DTH for organizing a family, friendly 5K ruck with lots of participation.
