19 F3 men made it out to The Coop on a memory maker morning. Prior to F3, a 40 degree morning with heavy rain at 0515 may have not inspired us all to get out of the fartsac. Now, who really cares what the gloom brings? We know that our fellow F3 brothers are each counting on one another to make themselves better men each and every day. We cannot do this alone, and with that foundation, it is one of the cornerstones of why I look forward to each and every day with my fellow PAX. To hear the stories, praises, prayer requests, community outreach, and fellowship announcements, it makes you proud of the group that surrounds you.

With that said, I asked Chicken Hawk if I could bump him on the schedule and have a send off Q. Without hesitation, CH offered up the spot and we recollected about how The Coop has grown from averaging a consistent 6 or 7 PAX each week to about 20 in over the year that the name was changed from Abundance of Pain to The Coop. Well done PAX. I will be leaving Ft Mill, but not the fellowship that I have greatly enjoyed since joining F3 with the men of The Fort. Look me up when you are in Charleston and we will grab a workout together or hit a 2nd F. It has been an honor to get to know you all.

The Thang
Change Order starts us off with a mosey into the gloom over to SCES under the cover of the overhangs and out of the rain for a line of pain that went something like this.

x30 SSH IC
x25 Mountain Climbers IC
x20 Merkins IC
Wall Squats
x20 Low Slow Squats IC
x25 Mountain Climbers IC
x15 Merkins IC
Wall Squats

Hand off to Chicken Wing

Moving out from the cover to let the cool morning rain hit our faces, we kept it going with some work at the playground

10 pull-ups, 20 merkins, 30 low slow squat, and a sprint out of the playground up the hill to the ROTC building and back.

Rinse and repeat for a total of 5 reps.

As the PAX were finishing, started a rotation of LBCs, Carolina Dry Docks, and Merkins. Once the 6 was in, we moseyed to the band lot.

At the band lot, we finished it out strong with our last few minutes of a merkin, broad jump, jack web combo. Start with a merkin, then broad jump, merkin, broad jump, and so on until you hit 10 yards. At the 10 yard marker, jack web 1 to 4 and increment to 2 and 8, 3 and 12…we made it to the 80 yard line until we hit the end of the game. Nice work all across the board.

Mosey to COT.

Finished us out with The Lord’s Prayer.