Headed toward Walmart for FP this morn.
Prayers for the Young Family
Prayers for Hank today (Anchorman’s dad)
For our kids
For tough work conversations
Dam to Adam guys
The Tomahawk was awaked and is not pleased with what it sees. This fabled AO is riddled with mystic and lore. Did it ever exist? Was there ever really an F3-Indian Land? Where did it go?
YHC is here to tell you Tomahawk was too much for this modern world. It was a place where men wore weight vests for the 5-mile pre-runs, then did kettlebell work outs for cool downs. I can assure you, the worst stories you have ever heard are watered down at best.
We are getting soft, and mushy. We talk too much. We lift things that weigh under 30LBS. We video stuff and talk about trendy topics. It’s time for a rebirth by fire. Tomahawk is coming back to take teeth and kick names. There will be no fluff. Leave your Lululemon at home.
Launching 2-22-23 we will begin a Legends series where you can expect to see the royalty of AO pasted. YHC has an abundance of devilish delights for the coming months…so stay tuned.
There seems to be a vacancy at Catawba Ridge so we will plant our flag there and reclaim what is rightfully ours. You got what it takes?
WARMUP: slow mosey to the farthest parking lot for Destiny. A few stretches followed by cherry pickers, Imperial Walkers, SSH, Hillbilly walkers.
THE THANG: took off running to the next stop. Did a few more weird things lunges to basketball goals mosey back; toy soldiers more running. Now on to the meat. 50 of everything: merkins, dips, seal jacks, big boys, LBCs, squats, more merkins. Lap in between exercises.
MARY: no time except for gas pumpers
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Q source, D2D fundraising, CSAUPs, FNG training
COT: prayers for all
WARMUP:
SSH, Morrocon NC, Hillbilly Walkers, and Cherry Pickers
THE THANG:
15s= Plank Jacks & Shoulder Taps
4 Corners = 20-15-10-5:
Corner #1 – Dips & LBCs; Corner #2 – Merkins & Squats; Corner #3 – Carolina Dry Docks & Mountain Climbers; Corner #4 – Monkey Humpers & Seal Jacks, Round 1 Transportation- Bear Crawl, Round 2- Crab Walk, Round 3- Lunges, Round 4- Mosey
MARY:
American Hammers
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Read the newsletter
COT: Prayers and Praises
WARMUP: @Double D kicked us off with a disclaimer and quick mosey around the parking lot before we circled up to do a handful of warmup-y type exercises…I would list them out, but can’t recall exactly what we did as (unbeknownst to most of the PAX) I was more concerned with concealing the speaker I was carrying for my portion of the Q. Kudos to @Pusher for noticing. I do, however, recall the group providing the 5 core principles of F3 as we had an FNG EHd by @OldBay
THE THANG: After warmups, @Double D mentioned the theme for the day, which was Adaptability and Agility and then handed off his Q to YHC. I proceed to expand upon Adaptability and Agility and the need as leaders to be both Adaptable and Agile as there is always something that comes at us unexpectedly. We then proceeded to mosey to the Lowe’s parking lot where we circled up for 15 mins of EMOM (every minute on the minute) of the following exercises:
1 burpee
2 lunges each leg
3 merkins
4 low squats
5 SSH
*Music started off on AC/DC radio and switched halfway through to 90s Hip Hop to accommodate @Pusher’s musical preference.
The PAX then mosey’d to the top of the hill by the gas station for a few plank jacks before moseying back down to the lot for what started out as a quick broga session that didn’t feel right due to the 90s Hip Hop, which was adapted to a 16-PAX circle of PAX-led mary.
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS: D2DB tomorrow, D2D Relay in 3 weeks, read your newsletter
COT: what’s shared in COT, stays in COT!
Mosey to Harris Street. Repeat hill up to 5 times and mosey home.
WARMUP: COP – SSH, Mtn climbers, Peter Parker, Parker peter, inperial Walker, Merkin
THE THANG:
Grab partner and discuss a non-F3 mentor who helped you in life while doing partner leg throws
Different partner, now discuss non-F3 man you helped mentor in life while doing partner planks/merkins/shoulder taps
Different partner, now discuss missed opportunity to share a mentor relationship with another man in your past
hand off to Long Duck
Series of exercises marked in parking spaces. each pax chooses a space, completes exercise, runs 1 lap, then moves to next space/exercise and repeats the cycle.
Run home
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Long Duck is The Fort’s Whetstone Q. Don’t be confused by the lexicon…Whetstone=Mentorship. it’s that simple. Long Duck shared his experiences (which are vast considering his long service as a sponsor in AA). Tap this HIM to learn more about starting or improving in the area of Mentorship.
COT: Prayers for Slash’s dad and Escargot’s son and Long Duck’s friend Tyler struggling with drug addiction.
thank you Shower Curtain for the opportunity to lead the pax!
WARMUP: Run behind Earth Fare out past bank into Brayden around back to parking lot by the pool and muster.
THE THANG: 10 Hand release merkins OYO + 10 Shouldwr taps IC
Then we sprinted up to Inizios and onto several other establishments along 160, stopping each time for 10 merkins of varying flavors and some abs. last sprint was to HT lot. pax moseyed back home with some extra running and Mary to wrap up. Great push by all!
ANNOUNCEMENTS: D2DB slated for Sat and will have outstanding 2nd F so be there!
COT: Words on Whetstone from Olaf + prayers.
Life is full of sprints, some long and some short and some of unknown duration or finish lines. We do this crazy stuff in the Gloom to prepare ourselves. Now you know you’re prepared when the next sprint arrives in your life.
Thanks to Badlands for the invite!
WARMUP: Making fun of HappyHour with tights but no shorts. Pulling a Menthol…
THE THANG: Munn, Harris, Massey, Academy, Banks, back up 160.
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:
Three buckets full of pain suggestions were spread out over .25 mile to get in some running as well.
Three groups moseyed around agonizing over what they would draw from the buckets, with one bucket containing only burpee counts.
Breaking into groups gives us a great chance for fellowship, perhaps with guys we see all the time, but may not know very well. Thanks @weezer for the opportunity. ASSASSIN 🔫