The Q still recovering from Kiawah did some run/walk laps at TCES while Rad, NASA, and Router went for a run to Alcatraz and then joined for a few laps at the school
Its Christmas time and the word of the month is giving so I am asking if you would take moments pray about giving to help a fellow pax. Last year Stang got the Fort and the Rock pax to donate gift cards, cash and presents for me and my family. This was huge for me and my family, with that being said I feel the need to help a fellow pax and give back. I have been in touch with our pax of the Fort looking for someone to help out. This morning in COT it was mentioned by Destiny that a fellow pax’s son has just been diagnosed with leukemia and his wife is pregnant with twins. Then again Ginsu and Rock thrill had a tweet about it and come to find out it is an Area51 pax named Bout time his sons name is Jennings. This hits close to home and just knew this is who we need to help this year. a few
If I have never had the pleasure of posting with you in the Gloom I would like to take a second and share my story, Dec 2015 on Christmas eve my 2.5 year old daughter was diagnosed with Leukemia ALL Type B, on Christmas day she had surgery to have a port installed and her first 3 rounds of chemo. We spent Christmas in the hospital and I broke down never cried so hard in my life. I reached out to God prayed that everything will be okay and about 10 min later after the took my daughter back for surgery he answered my pray because a peace just came over me and heard the words its going to be okay. The last 2 years have been a hard 2 years with ups and downs but also have enlightened me, allowed me to get closer to God. It also allowed me to become apart of F3 with out the men of this group not sure where I would be mentally and physically today. I like to thank you for the push the words of encouragement.
I am asking pax to give what your heart tells you. Prayers gift cards, cash etc. I have seen what awesome pax you can be when challenged to give you all always go above and beyond.
See your site Q’s for collections and or Dark helmet , Stang, Witch hunt, Royale and Cornerstone
Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.
A gift opens the way
and ushers the giver into the presence of the great.
Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.
Thanks Again HIMS
Cornerstone
Conditions clear and very cold…around 33 degrees at kickoff
Disclaimer
Quick discussion on the combo workout and modify as needed
and walk off…about half had rucks…make large pile of rucks…near Office depot
Warmup-O-Rama
Partner up
Partner 1 run .33 mile, partner 2 does exercises…and then flapjack
Round one ruck curls, ruck upright rows, ruck curls, ruck upright rows…each partner got 4 turns at running…mumblechatter stalled…it started to suck…so as a good Q, I made bad into worse…
Partner 1 run .33 with ruck (crowd pleaser) while other partner exercises…and then flapjack
Round two squats, LBC, squats, LBC
Mumblechatter quickly turned into “bitching”…
Same partner, smaller lap, flying squirrels for each
Mosey to COT area
60 seconds of flying squirrels
COT/ Prayer or praise/ BOM
14 #HIM went inside for Romans 13
AYE!
CSPAN
Friday mornings are my favorite. Back at the place this whole F3 thang all began for me. The men started gathering, and by 5:14 it was a large group…but no one that wanted to ruck…so NASA got to join the bootcampers. I’m sure he was ready for his Q, but lots of guys were probably holding back for the Capital Ruck Tour on Saturday night. 20 PAX with me, so a quick disclaimer and we’re off.
A little dynamic warmup on our run with high knees, butt kickers, side shuffle. Made our way to the back parking of the old River Bleu.
COP: 15 IWs – 25 MNCs – 25 SSHs – 10 LS Squats – 10 Merkins – some yoga stuff – 15 planks jacks – 10 Parker Peters
Mosey over to the Fountain to put in some work
3 rounds of following:
10 Step Ups each leg
20 Durkins
30 Dips
quick 10 count time to mosey.
Move to the red balls for Burpicides
Shared a quick word around Control. See Moleskin.
run to each ball – 3 burpees – run back all the way down to the other side
Read to write, hard to do. After a FEW 10 counts time to mosey again.
Made our way closer to the COT, stopped at a nice patch of grass.
I saw someone had pulled out the Jack Webbs this week, it had been too long…
Jack Webbs to 10
Back to COT:
Ab Lab with American Hammers – Freddie Mercuries – LBCs
Announcements – Praises – Prayers
Moleskin:
I had something to share planed for the PAX. But on the way to the workout I was listening to the radio. Not something I normally do. A song came on by Logic. It’s posted here. Popular song about depression and suicide. My nephew had previously shown me the video. That morning it almost brought me to tears. I modified my message about control. The trials of life and heartache of loss or depression show us many ways that we are not in control. That even when things are good we can feel like there are bad. Give that control to God and ask him for guidance.
Too many kids I’ve been hearing about locally that have lost that control and found no other way out than suicide. We should be those men making a difference in kids lives so they know there is another way. Start with your own kids. Talk to them about life, and pain and failure. Let them know that everything’s not perfect like social media makes it out to be. Tell them about your failures and how you overcame them. Just talk…
An honor to lead,
Royale
A cool and drizzling day didnt keep the Pax away. 19 was the number with 5 ruckers and 13 bootcampers. Rad took the ruckers and I had the bootcamp.
We started with a short mosey to the parking lot behind Just Fresh where we circled up to stretch and loosen up. COP involved:
Pax were ready so we started The Thang:
I had the Pax split into groups of 3 with one group having 4. Each Pax would be performing a different excercise using the Pax running the stairs as the timer. Each Pax would rotate the excercises until each Pax had run the stairs twice. The cycles were:
With that completed we were out of time so we lined up for an Indian Run back to COT where the Ruckers were waiting.
Thanks to Cable Guy for the opportunity to lead.
Until next time, back to the hunt…
On a cool morning in early September, the men of The Fort gathered together to support the group of 12 men that answered the call to serve those in need in Colombia.
Mosey to the soccer field
The Warm-up (VQ led by Skinny Jeans)
Mosey to the football field
The Thang
Markers set up every 25 yards on the football field from endzone to endzone. PAX will start from one endzone and run from marker to marker and do the following exercises (below) at each. They will then run on the track back to the starting point.
Mosey to COT
Today we focused on the 12 men that are leaving tomorrow to serve in Colombia. We had the privilege of hearing the reasons why each of them have been called to serve during todays workout and then pray over them at the close. We are all lucky to have these men as our brothers and will continue to pray for them as they make their way abroad.
As mentioned in COT, each of us were blessed with passion for certain causes and influence to impact them. Find your passion and your calling and answer that call, whatever it may be.
Ginsu
Record breaking 16 PAX at Tempo. Dash to Windjammer and Back was The Thang. Lots of 2ndF during the 1stF with a 3rdF pause in the middle to give thanks to Sky Q at the Windjammer Dock.
Prayers:
Aging Parents, Marriages, Job Situations.
Much thanks given to Sky-Q at the dock this morning… Praise to the King.
Announcements:
G-Fit tomorrow at 1900
CAH Guidance Saturday Sept 2 at 1600
Invergence Sept 29th
Read Your Newsletter
Conditions were sweaty and humid…it felt like August in South Carolina
Gekko was the running and nobody ran with #HIM
Cornhole had 10 for his Ruck Q
I had 11 for the bootcamp
13 stayed for Romans 4 that Gekko Q’d
All had fun, you should have been there…
Pantheon (Tega Cay Elementary)
Disclaimer: As I’m not a professional, no one even bothered to pay me for the free beat down this morning
Warm-a-rama I: Short mosey around the big loop, including high knees, butt kickers, side shuffles, toy soldiers
Warm-a-rama II: To ball field for some SSH, Merkin, Moroccan Night Clubs, Imperial Walkers, Hillbilly Walkers
Thang I: Indian Run: Last man drops, does 5 burpees, sprints to front of the line
Thang II: Line up on baseline, first guy runs a suicide while the rest do exercises listed below, then the suicider does a 10-count (Sputnik with the Russian 10-count and Straight Up with the Spanish 10-count, hence “Tower of Babel”)
Thang III: People chairs for 10-counts from 10 PAX, balls-to-the-wall for 10-counts from 10 PAX (note: someone called out no hands balls-to-the-wall to no avail BUT Crash called out one-handed and did it, both hands – impressive)
Mary: we had 2 minutes for abs: protractor angles were quite specific this morning (27 degrees???)
COT: 10 PAX posted this morning, including Jedi in his first week, prayers for family health, travel, and for PAX to be a light in a dark world.
Skin: Nothing like your very own personal sweat splatter puddle along the court baseline. Smells like… victory.
Enough PAX posted to the annual Millstone Loop 10.5 I felt a BB was in order. YHC posted a link to the FREE registration a few months back to those PAX I knew would be interested and willing. After discovering that Sir Topham Hat was not running in the race I emailed the Race Director to see if there were any spots open. The director emailed back and stated registration was open for just the next 3 hours. Text sent to STH and @channel blast to Slack that if you wanted to register, now was your chance. So on Saturday morning 9 PAX showed up to run 10.5 miles of uneven terrain (more on that later) on the Anne Springs Close Greenway.
0800 Nothing Fancy, On your marks, get set, GO!!!
A number of things can happen over the course of a trail race. Thrills, spills, classic rock, dodging horse droppings, getting lost, more spills, quality 2ndF, etc. Towards the end, this is how the numbers shook out.
| Place | Last | Time |
| 9 | Spud | 1:28:49 |
| 18 | Rad | 1:38:22 |
| 23 | STH | 1:44:32 |
| 25 | Gekko | 1:47:46 |
| 26 | Photobomb | 1:47:49 |
| 28 | Zima | 1:51:18 |
| 57 | NASA | 2:13:38 |
| 65 | DaVinci | 2:24:18 |
| N/A | Gears | 1:18:51 |
NMM
Trail Races are a lot of fun and a lot can happen. Here are some insights and comments.
All in all it was a great race, great community of runners and Legal Remedy on tap at the finish. The Rock Hill Striders know how to throw a party. I try to keep an eye on these somewhat CSAUPy events and will continue to try to keep the PAX updated.
Aye!
Zima