Category: The Bubble

Bubble for 3

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WARMUP: we ran over to the Y and warmed up
THE THANG: ran all over Baxter including steps, down past the school and steps, to the park and playground, and back to COT.

We did lots of exercises in rinse repeat fashion – about 2-4 different, and two counts 10-20 range. You had to be there – it was glorious and Twister was in his element.
MARY: stretching and gas pumpers
ANNOUNCEMENTS: last bubble the following week
COT: prayers for Rob’s friend, Davis.

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Stairway to Fortune

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WARMUP: Light Mosey w/ a few exercises

THE THANG: Stairway Climbs at the Exchange Building on Market St. paired with The Board of Fortune

MARY: Just enough time for 2 minutes of stretching

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Upcoming workout to honor 9/11, D2D sign ups.

COT: prayers for patience

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Bubble about to burst?

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The buckets of pain made a return to the Bub, with YHC and The Twister participating. It was a repeat of a few weeks ago, when YHC and The Twister were also then the only Pax available to participate.

The mumblechatter was as equally satisfactory as before. We chose the pain from each of three buckets spread about and there was sweat. I’d like to thank The Twister for the opportunity.

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Popped bubble

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WARMUP:
THE THANG:
We did an escalator workout with the following exercises.
Merkins
Squats
LBCs
CDD
Calf raises

Started with 2 reps each and ran a lap (5 cycles increase by 2 up to 10 and then back down)

MARY:
Back down by the fields by Baxter for Airborne specials and some stretching
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:

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Bubble of two

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We had buckets with printed beat down material.

After a brief warmup we tackled the bucket stations placed around the AO including down the trail in the woods.

The suggested pain included overly abundant reps of our favorites including merkins squats planking SSH’s flutters… the usual.

Excellent fellowship and discussion about why we are at F3 and what we should be doing to come along side our brothers who may be struggling.

Prayers up for DT and Small World. And ourselves.

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The Bubble Reboot

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In a post/not post Covid world, it felt good to kick the tires and fire The Bubble up again. Four HIM accelerated in some 1st & heavy 2nd F this morning.

Warmup Round 1
20 Side Straddle Hops
10 Windmills
10 Cherry Pickers

Moseyed up a giant hill for round 2 of warmups.
20 Dying Cockroach
20 LBC’s
20 Gas Pumpers

Moseyed down to the pocket park down the hill.

The Thang: We worked our way down the list running a lap around the park and adding an exercise after each lap.

Burpees – 3
Ultra Carolina Dry Doc – 6
Big Boy Sit-ups – 9
Bomb Jacks – 12
Lunge – 15
Elevated Merkins – 18

Moseyed back to Twisters house for some pancakes, breakfast sausage and 2nd F. 🥞🌭🥓

– JWOW

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F3TheFort Holiday Drop-In

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The Forts annual holiday party will have a different feel this year.
With COVID still lingering we have decided to have a gathering but it will be a bit different.

We are encouraging The PAX to go to dinner with your M and either your Shieldlock, Whetstone, or small group of fellow PAX and their Ms. After dinner we will all gather for an hour or so of a social hour(s).
This will give our Ms the opportunity to meet the crazy fellas we spend the early mornings with but more importantly their M.

We are all fortunate to have this crazy group it is also just as important to try and let our Ms meet some other ladies in the community and possibly let them start great friendships as well.

Make it a day of F3. Start with the golf outing, go to dinner and then grab a couple beers, a bottle of J Lohr wine, a cocktail and let’s kick off the holiday season.

If COVID worries you or your M we will have an outdoor area to hang out at as well as indoor areas.

Where- Springfield Community Center- by the tennis courts/pool
420 Horton Grove, Fort Mill, SC 29715

Time- 7pm-9pmish

When- Dec 3rd, 2021

Contact- Backdraft with any concerns…

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F3 The Fort Anniversary Party

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Get ready to celebrate the Anniversary of The Fort. Location will be next to The Springfield neighborhood pool under the pavilion. but the date is set Sept. 17th, 2021. 1830-2130 or 630pm- 930pm for anyone that dosn’t know how to do military time. Cant wait to see you all. It will be the same as last year and bring your own dinner and drinks. We will have a few people speaking.

Look forward to seeing everyone.

location- Springfield Neighborhood Pavilion, next to pool

time- 630pm- 930pm

what to bring- whatever you want to eat and drink.

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Old Glory and Burpees

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13 PAX gathered in the almost gloom
That 0600 start time does feel friendlier on my legs…just saying

NMM:
Honestly as a FM native, I love Baxter and all the folks that have migrated to Fort Mill. The diversity of backgrounds and influx of culture has made Fort Mill a better place on many levels. Traffic is rougher, but c’est la vie. Every time I drive through Baxter, I notice the inordinate amount of American flags hanging, and there was some recent controversy over someone flying a Trump flag as well (which, as someone who doesn’t live in the neighborhood, is quite funny). When I see the American Flag, I have a lot of different thoughts. I want my country’s to flag to be a symbol of hope that truly represents for liberty and justice FOR ALL. But in reality, I know that’s not what the flag represents to everyone.

Thinking specifically about the “Soiling of Old Glory” by Stanley Foreman
By Source, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=24874670.

Look at this photo (1976). It’s pretty clear the American flag might mean different things to you based on where you grew up, the color of your skin, the country of your birth (or your parents’ birth…), etc. Something we should all be mindful of when so many flags are flying on a quaint southern street.

To make the workout mindful of the flags, we did a burpee for every American flag we passed. (it was a good amount of burpees)

Warm-up:
SSH
IW
HW
Squat
Split Squat
Merkin (slow count)
Yoga
Peter Parker

Mosey through Baxter:
stopped along the way and called some exercises in cadence for the 6 to catch up
Hit the clubhouse/swimming pool lawn
Started Jack Webbs w/ merkins and overhead claps went to 9 and 36
– bear crawled the entire lawn
– finished the 10 merkins and 40 overhead claps on the other side of the lawn
Keep Moseying
Sprinted the Lower Assembly hill up to Sutton (monkey humpers for the 6 on Sutton)
Regrouped in the Urgent Care parking lot
Did some Mike Tysons –> lunge walk –> burpees across the parking lot
Mosey back towards COT
– did not stop for burpees at each flag, but YHC kept count. We had 12 burpees at COT counting the shovel flag. I chose a judicious path; it could have been MUCH worse.

Prayers:
Cooter’s mother-in-law
Remembrance of family members that have passed on

Thanks Sugar Daddy for the opportunity to lead!

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Band Camp dismissed

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21s in the gloom

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YHC has only been to the bubble once before, and that was a 0515 pre-ruck in early December 2020. Any Q with Sugar Daddy and the ability to breath is an opportunity for some good mumblechatter. The guy is always bringing up all these “obscure” facts and information that confounds me. Things like “sports” and “Wayland Jennings”…

This is why I was looking forward to my Q at the Bubble. I didn’t know the area (unless we’re talking about the patio outside of  Grapevine… I know that area well). Unfortunate that the Daddy of Sugar couldn’t make it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

the gloom

I arrived in the S YMCA parking lot after reviewing the potential running path, which I determined to be too dark without having notified PAX of needing lights and reflectors. The lot was full, but I didn’t see anyone.  I was prepared to do a few solo miles when 98 Degrees appeared (he was already there, I just couldn’t see him).

warmup

Mosey up through the N parking lot and around to the entrance and back to the N parking lot.

SSH x20
Imperial Walker x10
Full Orbit stretch x3 each side (see this post, warmup #6 for a description)

the thang

Keeping it simple, these were 21’s. The south island to the north island in the north lot. Starting with one BBSU and 20 regular merkins… and go.

This kept us busy, it’s almost like BBSU dilate time… When we finished there was about 5m left. So mosey back out the N entrance and around to the central entrance and back to CoT.

< 2m left. SSH until you drop. 30 down and the buzzer hit.

cot

Talked about the Yeti and encouraged 98º to try running part of it. Me? No, I’m not going to be able to do it this time.

Prayer for 98’s M, a teacher, and the insanity that is this school year. Prayer for YHC and struggles with getting the weight back off.

nmm

Good chatter today. That seems pretty easy when it’s just two PAX who have never met, but for YHC it’s hard to strike up a conversation. Glad to have someone who knows how to carry a meaningful conversation while doing 210 merkins and 210 BBSUs.

We spotted Cobra Kai, Dinghy and one other PAX whose face I didn’t catch as we were about to start our 21s and invited them to stick around. They did not take us up on this offer.

98 recognized a walker out of a trio of women and greeted her. Then, after she left the other two remained to walk laps around the N lot and offer criticism of merkin form.

It’s a good start to a morning.

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