Tag: #SOJ

  • Capture the Flag

    6 HIMs came out for a new rendition of grown men doing grown boy things – Capture the Flag

    Rudy led the pax to the front parking lot for a warmarama. Then split the group into teams of 3.

    Round 1

    Team Blue headed to basketball courts, Team Black to the front of the school. YHC headed around to the bus loop and surprised the piss outta Rudy, spooking him into the 1-2 combo of a Dumar Hermey defensive trap. With the advantage we pressed to the flag. McGruff is really good at hiding in bushes and gave YHC a good chase. Hermey and Crabgrass couldn’t find the flag and eventually were tagged out. Dumar and McGruff were locked in to a draw. Lesson learned, don’t hide the flags and condense the field of play

    Intermission – BLIMPS on the hill

    Round 2

    Team Blue in the bus loop, Team Black at the Tomahawk Creek sign. Both teams felt the best strategy was to loop around from the street. Aisle 5 and McGruff struck early, grabbing BLUE flag but Dumar turned on the speed and recaptured the flag. Hermey knows that you attract bees with honey, and he gave Rudy some honey to look at. Enamored by Hermey’s fluid movements, YHC maneuvered along the tree line and made a move in the flag. A quick snatch drew Rudy’s attention and the race was on. Rudy forgot YHC got some new shoes and never stood a chance – smoked him! (YHC reserves the right to embellish)

    BTTF for a ring of fire Squat style.
    announcements and prayers and we were out. Prayers for Dumar’s dad and celebrate Rudy’s recent victory with his job search.

    Was fun out there today. There may have been some uncertainty of what Crabby and Rudy had in store, but we all walked away with a big smile on our face today.

  • No Speeding In the Parking Lot!

    A swarthy seven were kind enough to wait for a last-minute NTB arrival for this week’s rendition of Ruckhenge! YHC launched out of bed late (really need to check the alarm settings) and that same rush of adrenaline to get to the AO on time set the tone for our fast pace through the forest and around Stony Point mall. We returned to the parking lot where we narrowly escaped an assassination attempt by a Karen who was eager to get her bagels before us even if it meant running us over.

    Announcements:

    • SOJ Chili Cookoff – Saturday 3/22 @ 3pm – Families encouraged to attend
    • The Century – May 2nd-3rd – More details to be posted to Slack. Don’t read them though, just sign up!
    • GrowRuck #59 – October 3-5th – Cary, NC

    Prayer Requests

    • YHC’s M’s grandmother passed away over the weekend.

  • Bermuda Boys Back At It

    Four Horsemen came out to The Bermuda Triangle, for the hottest potato Goyne Park has ever seen.

    Hard to remember everything, but there was a vicious version of arm circles from Pool Boy, a trio of ab exercises from Posh, a leg circuit in Pole Alley from YHC, and a merkin mosey from Broadway.

    Great time with the Bermuda Boys. Looking forward to some warm weather.

  • Dude Wipes vs Huggies

    3 Amigos did some extra credit on the playground at Ecoff Elementary. The usual pull ups, dips, jerkins, and I think I saw Posh doing some calf raises?

    Many important topics of conversation. Left me wondering… What’s the difference between a Dude Wipe, and a baby wipe?

  • Metamorphosis

    17 HIMs came out to workout and help YHC celebrate his one year F3 anniversary! Shortly after joining F3, I read The Comfort Crisis and became inspired to ruck, do GORuck events and take on challenges I had not previously in life. I listen to the authors Two Percent podcast and have incorporated some of his workouts into F3 Qs

    I’ve been thinking about what workout I wanted to do for my one year, and I hadn’t landed on anything, but then this week the head of F3 joined Michael Easter on his podcast to talk about what F3 is. Afterwards, he sent Easter an F3 workout, Kool Aid, and he posted it on Friday. To have the two things I have leaned on heavily in my fitness journey to intersect ironically at my one year was incredible! Funny how life has a way of doing that from time to time. So today, we did Kool Aid (Extra Sugar)

    • Quick warmup and then grab a coupon and circle up.
    • 800 meter run
    • 20 bench press with flutters
    • 20 WWIII
    • 20 Squat Thrusters
    • 400 meter run
    • 20 curls
    • 20 manmakers
    • 20 bent rows
    • 400 meter run
    • 20 squats
    • 20 calf raises
    • 20 kettlebell swings

    Complete that circuit, take a quick breather, then do it again in reverse. Finished up with a few seconds to spare!

    Whew, gonna feel that one tomorrow.

    announcements and prayers and YHC took us out.

    I want to thank everyone who has been a part of this journey since I started a year ago. The truth is, every time I chose comfort over effort, I was making a choice to settle. I chose to ignore things in my life, but eventually came to the realization that I had every opportunity to change, but yet I chose to stay the same. That’s a burden that no amount of time will change.

    The best time to plant a tree was 25 years ago, but the second best time to plant a tree is today. It doesn’t matter what you did or did not do yesterday, you can make the choice to change things at any time. The hardest part about F3 is showing up. If you can commit to getting out of bed, the rest is easy. I made the commitment to myself that I wanted to be better and I haven’t looked back since. Thank you for all the support, it’s meant the world to me!

    Enough sappy talk for one day, let’s get back to complaining about how much YHC made us run today…

  • 7 Heaven

    2 Premature Accelerators took to the trails and streets in and around Rockwood Park for a nice easy 7 miler this morning. Final mile was a good push to finish strong. Great conversation with Broberry as usual. We both headed home to pick up our 2.0s for Bo and Rubble’s Co Q of RocknRoll

  • Twin headed demons takeover at Satan’s Hill

    KB day today at the Hill this a.m.  

    Warmorama: Disclaimers first. SSH, Windmills, Murica territory touch, Merkins, LBCs, scorpion kicks, Fudd’s wife, and Wilson’s wife. 

    COP 1: Heist says, “To the Hill!”

    Started at base of hill for a classic Lindsay workout

    1. Round 1: 10 KB swings, farmer carry KB up hill, 30 KB press, farmer carry KB back 
    2. Round 2: 20 KB swings, OH rifle carry KB up hill, 20 KB press, OH rifle carry KB back 
    3. Round 3: 30 KB swings, sprint farmer KB carry up hill, 10 KB press, sprint farmer KB carry back 

    20 seconds. Off to Warby

    COP 2: Warby leads Pax along “Satan’s rim of dispair”. 

    Hands on curb, KB pull throughs about 40 yards right, and then back the other way switching arms. Not good for the teeth yanking muscles. 

    COP 3: DORA of Death

    Partner up for 100 KB curls, 200 KB skull crushers, and 300 single count KB murican hammers. 

    Runner travels with KB from coupon pile all the way across the lot and back. 

    Time. Numbers. Names. 

    A few thoughts:

    1. Welcome back to Rosetta and Cookie
    2. Focker rucked with like 100 lbs of KBs to share. 
    3. Oyster came to renew his SOJ membership card. 
    4. Wildcat literally farted out fresh fried chicken today. 

    Announcements:  Celebrating lots of things at Alamo next three Mondays: Crabgrass 1 year, Fandango 1 year and Alamo 2 year (featuring three Qs from class 1.  Oh and Heist turns 40 at Green Mile on 3/26. 

    Prayers: Find strength in your fellow man. Seriously guys – F3 is the place to be for all men. We all need a laugh, some exercise or even just a pat on the back. We men often carry a heavy burden that goes unnoticed or takes a back seat to our family needs. 45 minutes each morning goes along way in changing perspective on both the good and bad times (see third F). 

    Fun leading with Warby today. What a HIM! That man has transformed a great deal over the last two years. I hope to see many more Warbys come out of our 2 year Alamo celebration. 

  • 12:1

    7 grown-boys ran around the parking lot at Timberwolf this morning. Here’s what went down.

    WARMARAMA – Moseyed around the perimeter of the parking lot and pulled up to stretch. YHC slowed things down to buy some time for Ponch. Gave the mission and stretched out.

    COP #1 – 11’s. Started at the bottom of the bus loop and ended at the top.

    • Exercise #1 – Merkins
    • Exercise #2 – Carolina Dry Docks

    COP #2 – The F3 Exicon has this labeled as “The Jeffrey Leonard” but YHC made some tweaks so it shall now be known as “The Cycle.” Cones were set up to mimic a baseball diamond. The PAX started at home plate, spaced out to give each other room and began…

    • Sprint out a single, jog back to home, QTY (1) called exercise
    • Sprint out a double, jog back to home, QTY (2) called exercise
    • Sprint out a triple, jog back to home, QTY (3) called exercise
    • Sprint out a Homer, QTY (4) called exercise
      • Round #1: Burpees
      • Round #2: Squats
      • Ring of Fire (Abs)
      • Round #3: Lunges
      • Round #4: Lt. Dans

    ANNOUNCEMENTS

    • Tuesday, March 11th at 7:00pm- SOJ Leadership meeting at Heist’s place

    PRAYERS/WINS

    • WIN – Ponch has hit the 20-year service mark with the Army. Appreciate you, Bro!
    • PRAYER – YHC has final interview today for a new gig.

    Love y’all and am always so proud to lead!

  • That’s 9 Happy

    Two PAX intent on getting in some tough training met this morning for this weeks Graveyard Shift on location at Mt Midlo. After a loop around the pond we hit the hill. 9 times to the top, with a 30 second walk and a job back down each time. Final tally 4.4 miles, and between 500-600 ft of elevation change. Great work this morning. Big Rig and YHC are feeling good about our races coming up. Feel free to join where the training takes us next week. #graveyardshift on slack SYITG

  • The George Noory Hour

    A fabulous five ditched their leotards and instead donned their packs in the pursuit of rucking gold. Along our nearly 4mile journey we listened to Purple Rain’s recounting of what he picked up from the morning’s finest radio program, Coast to Coast with George Noory. Lizard people, aliens, and flaming skulls at Indian burial grounds were the highlights of what we assume is a daily listener, long time caller situation for our friend PR. Many other tall tales were told along the journey and we barely escaped a shakedown by a Stony Point mall cop to return safely to Einstein’s for coffeerama.

    Prayers for the Hendersons as they are just getting settled in PNG and prayers for Dealer’s family as his step mom battles health issues.