It was a perfect morning to show up early to setup and prepare my beatdown for the Pax. Then it all quickly changed. Pax kept flowing in, one after another. 5, 10, 15, 25, 30 and on. We truly have something special going here with F3. What a showing!!!

After quick circle up of over 35+ pax and no FNG’s present I gave an abbreviated disclaimer and we were off.

The thang….

Ruckers, led by Cobra Kai, headed back to Starbucks.

We mosied over to the parking lot on McCammon Street.

Circle up, a big circle with 35ish guys

• 35 SSH IC
• 20 hill billy walkers
• Moroccan night clubs

After quick word on hope, our monthly theme. We took off and mosied over to upper parking driveway.

Count off in threes and split up into 3s. 1’s with Backdraft (who was a 2), 2’s over with Flat Tire & Bubba Bump, and Taf and I with the 3s.

Group 1 – positioned by the driveway hill
20 lbc at the top
Run to the bottom
10 Merkins
Run back to the top and repeat 5X

Group 2 – pyramid of Merkins
10 Merkins
Rest
10+3
Rest
10+3+3
Repeat this sequence for 8 minutes and modify* as required

Group 3 – Legs
20 LSS
20 Lunges
20 Sumo Squats
20 Calf Raises

With the three groups split up and off and running, the pax were cruising. Unfortunately, it wasn’t that easy. A little organized chaos ensued regarding when are we roating, who’s leading the roation, etc…etc… but after each group roated through, I called the Ace Santini.

Santini rounded the pax up into a platoon of 5 squads. I called exercises while one at a time each squadron ran from the parking lot down the hill on Massey St. then bear crawl half way back up the hill and finish up into the platoon. When the six was back, the next squad took off. We continued until all squads made a trip down the hill and back. While the squad ran, exercises called out included:
15 Merkins
10 Diamond Merkins
10 Wide Arm Merkins
10 Carolina Drydocks
15 SSH
10 monkey humpers (favorite for all not in the front of the squads)
10 Mountain Climbers
10 Flutter kicks
20 Freddy Mercury’s
20 American Hammers
15 Hello Dollys

We rounded this up with a mosey back down McCammon and into the parking lot of WEP for COT.

NMM
Where do I start..??..?? The fact that I had a full weinkie planned that included pre planned and pre setup pain stations along the Joe Davis run was quickly thrown out with 35 pax in attendance. The first thing the Q needs is a solid weinkie…but that weinkie needs to be flexible for anything. Ironically, as many of the pax called out, after our first COP my weinkie fell on the ground. It was symbolic of how much of an audible I was calling.

Today we had some pax from Gashouse (Gastonia) and Metro. The Nomads from GasHouse where in attendance. These Pax pick different locations on Saturday and post up. Awesome idea Pax. I enjoyed coffeeteria with you and looking forward to posting together again. Here’s there BB from today: http://f3nation.com/2016/12/03/hope/ Taf was representing from metro. This HIM introduced me to F3 a few years ago. Honored to have him in attendance.

Mumblechatter – it was Saturday after all. Time to have some fun and mumble chatter was high. From Barry Manalow pushing Lug Nut up Massy st to CSPAN bantering with Bubba Gump during the platoon of pain. And of course, the organized chaos chatter on rotations.

There was a challenge thrown out by all…with no FNG’s present and 30+ pax in attendance, we need to EH our neighbors, co-workers, family, the guy at the grocery store, anyone….we all know the unique value F3 brings to our lives. Let’s give it away.

Announcements
Christmas party – sign up and go. CSPAN will help sponsor any pax looking to go. Connect with him for details.

Joe Davis run – That was my theme for the day. It’s 1/7. Sign up. Bolt and Mary Lou (voluntold) will be doing burpees for each pax that beat them in the race and those that we sign up. Bolt has the details.

Prayers
Keep all of our pax family and friends in our prayers.

Keep Bounce House friend Jordan in your prayers. Jordan, who is in his teens, has suffered a number of sports related concussions.

As always, it’s an honor to lead leaders. Ginsu, thank you for giving the me the Q. You’re doing a great job on running this awesome AO we call The Fort.

WhatDid out!