What a morning! This was YHC’s 1st Q out at Trinity in York. Love this AO and we have a lot of fun in downtown York on many a Tuesday now. But this one started a little differently than I’ve seen in the past. BTW, it was like 80 degrees at 5am with 90 humidity…but I digress.

So I was planning my Weinke before fireworks the night before. So you pull up the AO on google maps to get a good baring on where I needed to go. I wrote up my plan and at 5am Tuesday I was in downtown York ready to put it in place. I needed to drop a few cones down a backroad to set up the main pain stations. Well, I missed my carefully planned turn and did a u turn to get back to the right side street. I drove me car slowly down the road, every once and a while stopping, opening the door, and dropping a cone in the road. Once complete down the street I turned the corner and parked in our regular AO gathering location. I pulled out my notes for a quick review before getting out the car, and wondered why the light was so good in my vehicle. Oh well must be under a parking lot light. I get out of the car, and next thing I know a couple of York’s finest are standing there flashlights in my face telling me to “Stop right there!” I looked up a little confused, saw that this had gotten the attention of the other 13 men standing in the parking lot, and I asked “What can I do for you officers?”

“Seems you’ve been driving suspiciously around the neighborhood and a few people called the law to check you out.” I stated, well that makes a little sense, I was setting up for our morning workout here with F3. If you go down that road over yonder you’ll see some cones I was placing this morning.
Then Realtree starts walking over EHing the policemen to join us for Tuesday mornings here at Trinity…

I apologized for the misunderstanding, thanked them for there time…and they took off. No harm no foul. But if you ask me in person, there might be a few more truth nuggets in the next version!

Well that was a new way to get my blood flowing in the morning. We all got a good laugh and a little extra mumblechatter, but now it was 5:15am. Time to put in the work!

We had a new FNG, I gave the long disclaimer, and we were off!

Mosey to the library across the street for COP
25x SSHs
20x IWs
10x Merkins
20x LS Squats
15x CDDs
15x Ski Abs
a little Yoga stretching

Before the next phase, I prepared a little message. I wanted to share with the group we should not forget the basics. Every now and then we need to keep the newer members of the group up to speed with what F3 is all about, and we started with the 5 core principals.

We gathered and shared that F3 workouts are:
1. Free 2. held outdoors, rain or shine 3. for all Men 4. led in a rotating fashion by members of the group 5. and ends with a COT

Next we moseyed to the Wall over by Congress Street
Bear crawl with Peoples Chair
BTTW 2 10 counts
Rinse a repeat 2x

Mosey down Congress Street to the next intersection. Stopped for Dragon Walk Merkins, but had to audible half way because I was a little too ambitious on the distance. We switched half to Lt. Dans.

Shared another back to basics story on Principal #4. A goal for all PAX should be to lead these workouts. I’ve been very proud to see how quickly many of the PAX in York have stepped up and Q’d multiple times in a very short period of time, better than anywhere else I’ve been. But EVERYONE should be preparing to Q. That opportunity for leadership is one of the many things that makes F3 great!

Final stage, and the one the got me “busted” this morning. We made it to the road by the Coal Yard Restaurant & Lounge where I had set up my cones this AM.

Complete long lunge walk to the cone – complete 30x Ranger Merkins – next long leg bear crawl to cone – 25 Ranger Merkins, rinse & repeat – down to the 6th and final cone with 5x Ranger Merkins. This was a long, hot crowd pleaser… but we all made it!

Mosey back to our AO start for a few minutes of Mary.
15x Hello Dolly
15x Dying Cockroach
25x LBCs

COT
Welcome FNG “The Dude”
Announcements
HDHH Lake Wylie 7/6 6pm
F3 picnic 7/23
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Praises & Prayers
Realtree’s daughter safely moved to Seattle
Praise that Scorekeeper is out here working hard

Always a pleasure not getting arrested!

Royale