Saturdays are already longer workouts then most…but our buddy Witch Hunt likse to make things even harder. So Friday night he throws it out on twitter, “Hey anyone want to ruck before the Deep tomorrow?” I just spent a billion dollars on a GORUCK rucker so I thought it was a fine idea. And somehow he talked Da Vinci and Wild Thing into this nonsense as well…so…the day was almost 2 hours – and here’s how it went.

Show up at The Deep around 5:40am and plant the shovel flag. If you would have asked me 1 1/2 years ago why in the world I would be out of bed on Saturday at 5am…I probably would have told you I didn’t go to sleep the night before! But not these days when you surround yourself with true HIMs.

The four of us gathered and strapped on our rucks. We walked the long way over to the new elementary school to give it a look. They have a newly completed track that Witch Hunt wanted us to recon for this ruck. His suggestion so he’s in charge right? He put together a nice extra credit ruck for us around this new space. On the long stretch of track we walk, on the turns we double time it. After about 30 minutes and 5 laps the sweat was going…and the mubblechatter was excellent. To me it’s one of the best reasons to get out with the men of F3. To finish off our extra credit we partnered up.

1st partner 10 Merkins with ruck on
2nd Partner continues to walk, 1st partner then has to run to catch up. Rinse and repeat for a lap.

So this completed the rucking extra credit, and we moseyed back to the gathering area of the Deep for the 6:30am launch.

One car pulled up and Kenyan joined the four of us. Still better than last week, but I’ve got to get the message out there to more folks!

The Thang

I was one Q for the first half, gave the disclaimer and then we were off.

Long warmup lap around the school, ending in the soccer field

COP
15 CDDs – 15 IWs – 15 Ski Abs – 25 MNCs – 10 Merkins – 25 SSHs – 10 Windmills

We ran over to the front hill for some 11s

Merkins on Top –> Run down the hill –> 1 Plank Jack at Bottom

Up and Down until we reverse to 1 Merkin at Top 10 Plank Jacks at the bottom

This was a lot harder than I thought, and we had a couple ten counts to finish. Poor Kenyan didn’t hear me right, and was doing 10 Merkins each time…that about made up for him missing the rucking session!

Mosey behind the school for a new York favorite of mine. Lt Danger’s! (Thanks Orvis)

Complete Lt Danger’s for about 100 yards.
Lunge – Lunge – Squat – Merkin all the way down

OK I’m done and tired…time for Wild Thing to try out this Q thing!

Wild Thing wants to open with it being the start of training camp for football season. Let’s do some of their drills! The rest of us spill out an un-enthusiastic “YEAH!”

Mosey back to the soccer field for 21s (Maybe I should have conferred with my co-Q, my bad PAX)

21 Merkins sprint across the field 20 LBCs sprint 19 Merkins sprint 18 LBCs…you get the idea down to 1 Merkin

I think we were all ready to pass out, and still had 20 minutes to go.

Wild Thing pulls out Thunderstruck so we can do a few Up – Downs just like the football pros. It went well as expected but hey, no one splashed merlot, I think only 2 of us blacked out.

We’re getting CLOSE to the end so Wild Thing takes us to the wall to relax.

People’s Chair PAX 10 counts, once with right leg lift once with left. Mosey into a circle for

Freddie Mercury’s –> back to the wall –> Hello Dolly’s with Kenyan on count.

That’s it, mosey back to COT

Announcements

Prayers for teachers getting ready to head back to school.

Prayers for my father as he struggles with job loss, new living arraignments and addiction.

Witch Hunt wanted to share praises for this group of PAX. Their were only 5 of us their today, but all five were there at the start of the Deep and would consider it their home AO.

I concurred with Witch Hunt, we’re so very happy that we have the honor of helping bring F3 to Lake Wylie! Spread the word PAX!