Ran and Rucked
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Cannoli Run
Ruck
COT:
Mental abd physical health
My last day as site Q for Minnow Pond / Thursday Block Party, so I wanted to revisit some of the more fun workouts had here in the past.
WARMUP: None
THE THANG:
Part 1 – Harris St Hill Work
Proceed down White/160, left on Ardrey (by WEP), take it to corner of Ardrey and Harris St. That is the start. At start do 10 merkins and 20 LBCs, then run downhill to very bottom, across from Harris St park, do 5 burpees, then run uphill to corner of Harris St and Business 21, do 10 merkins, 20 LBCs, run back down to bottom, 5 burpees, back to start for 10 more merkins and 20 LBCs, then wait for 6. Others went back down to bottom for more burpees to pull the 6 back to start. Everyone LOVES Harris St hill!!
On to round 2. Proceed back down Ardrey to meet up in front of WEP amphitheater.
Round 2 – WEP Swing Loop
The walking path loop around WEP is approx 3/4 mile or so, with around 10-12 swings or swing stations (one of these days I will get the accurate count). Start from amphitheater towards large hill first. Stop at every swing and do 10 merkins, 15 squats, 20 LBCs. Due to time, rep count was cut to 10/10/10 about 2/3 through. By the time we all got back to the start, we had 2-3 minutes to get back to COT, perfect timing!
MARY: We had about a minute worth of flutters and something else.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Read the newsletter, get involved, invigorate your male community leadership.
COT:
Alot lifted up.
Today I handed off the shovel flag to a HIM that I know will maintain the standards set for Minnow Pond, Farmer's Only. Shady started MP up back in mid-2017 to be a place that will push you to your limits physically (1st F), but also fostered a strong 2nd F there as well. A minimum of ~3.2 miles (5K) with pain stations mixed in, so you HAVE to push your pace to get all that in within 45 minutes. That is the standard set. Other past site Qs – Longshanks, Jekyll, and Funhouse – all maintained that standard while putting their own flair on things to continue growing the 2nd F there. It was an honor, privilege, and blessing to take the reigns of what I feel is a premier site in The Fort.
When you have a strong fellowship to share your pains and burdens, it makes those pains and burdens much more bearable and manageable. When those two things come together like that, it is an awesome thing to be part of, and the result is growth in your 3rd F too, for you gain more faith in what you can do as well as who will be there to do it with you. This is a great microcosm of what F3 is all about. Planting a small workout. The black diamond aspect of it that pushed everyone to their limits drew them out. The magnet. The strong fellowship cultivated from it and by it drew you and others out, and kept them coming. The glue. Then you and others realized there is alot more to things than just working out, that you can get through hard things, that others will be there with you to help push/pull you along, and in turn you do that for others. Then it spreads outside the gloom. The Boom or explosion of growth. It is awesome.
Farmer's Only will be a GREAT site Q! He lives for pushing himself in all three Fs, and will do the same for others. Be warned, he LOVES burpees and pull-ups. HA HA!! Congratulations Farmer's Only! Well deserved and earned.
Thank you everyone for being a part of Minnow Pond / Block Party lore. Excited to see where it goes from here.
Blessings and SYITG
-NASA
QvQ Format:
20/20
PAX Vote in 4 categories
V.A.P.E.
Rabbit:
Divide into two teams
Every man runs 25m and nurs 25 back and the completes 2 squat jumps and 2 burpees.
WWR but add 2 reps to each exercise after each trip out and back. Team with the most reps in total wins.
In addition, each team selects 2 pax to hold Cindy’s above head … Cindy can't drop below the head… if they do the team loses their count and starts over at zero
15 minutes of work.
After time expires, Hold AlGore and plank while the preacher preaches about asking for help and looking for a brother that might need it. (Let's do this for each other men!)
Last 4 minutes jail break 50m and do 5 Big Boys… again but do 10… keep adding 5 and sprinting until time expired.
Stage Coach:
Partner work
Partner 1 will run to the other side of the field and back to partner 2. Partner 2 will be doing an exercise that slowly progresses across the field until Partner 1 returns and switch. Continue switching off between running and exercises until you’re across the field.
Exercises – Bear Crawl, lunge, broad jump burpee, crawl bear and reverse lunge
Results:
Stage Coach won two categories, but Rabbit also won two and had the most overall votes. Win goes to Rabbit.
Great work by both Qs sharpening their leadership today.
WARMUP: NA
THE THANG: run Dobbys Bridge towards downtown, left on Fairway, if you are over 20 minutes when you get to the end of Fairway, just turn back the same way. If 20 minutes or less, left on Banks, left on FM Parkway, back to Blue.
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:
WARMUP: Windmills / Cherry Pickers / Worlds Greatest Stretch
THE THANG: Light Pole Circuit with ascending and descending reps
Archer Merkins x 5
Squats x 10
CDD x 15
LBC's x 20
Lunge x 15
Merkin x 10
Burpee x 5
Repeat twice then mosey around campus with pain stations.
Finish up at COT with some Mary
MARY: Present
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Newsletter
COT:
WARMUP: SSH, Imperials, Hillbillies, short mosey
THE THANG:
4 corners of chestish 25 reps each. 2nd round of abs.
Railroad track run one way and then back.
11 of buckets of surprise.
Partner wall sit/bear crawl to close it out.
MARY: No time for her today.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Flounder’s 80th, Masters lunch, Cannoli Fun, er Run.
COT: Always
QvQ Format:
20/20
PAX Vote in 4 categories
V.A.P.E.
Rabbit:
Divide into two teams
Every man runs 25m and nurs 25 back and the completes 2 squat jumps and 2 burpees.
WWR but add 2 reps to each exercise after each trip out and back. Team with the most reps in total wins.
In addition, each team selects 2 pax to hold Cindy’s above head … Cindy can't drop below the head… if they do the team loses their count and starts over at zero
15 minutes of work.
After time expires, Hold AlGore and plank while the preacher preaches about asking for help and looking for a brother that might need it. (Let's do this for each other men!)
Last 4 minutes jail break 50m and do 5 Big Boys… again but do 10… keep adding 5 and sprinting until time expired.
Stage Coach:
Partner work
Partner 1 will run to the other side of the field and back to partner 2. Partner 2 will be doing an exercise that slowly progresses across the field until Partner 1 returns and switch. Continue switching off between running and exercises until you’re across the field.
Exercises – Bear Crawl, lunge, broad jump burpee, crawl bear and reverse lunge
Results:
Stage Coach won two categories, but Rabbit also won two and had the most overall votes. Win goes to Rabbit.
Great work by both Qs sharpening their leadership today.
Warmup
Side straddle hop
Imperial Walkers
Merkins
Honeymooners
Downward Dogs
Shippin up to Boston – Mosey to the back
Dora Rounds
2 minutes each station timed with 1 minute in between.
Move the Blarney Stone – Slam Ball
Paddywagon shuffle – Hillbilly Walkers
Climb up Carrauntoohil – Mountain Climbers
Jailbreak – Prison Burpees (standard burpee)
Kiss the Blarney Stone – Merkins
Irish Car Bomb – Seal jacks
Irish Jig – Jump rope weighted or not
Passing the keg – Wall sit with slam ball pass back and forth
Repeat sequence
Mosey to COT
Mary
COT
Health
Brotherhood
Job Market
WARMUP: 2.25 mi pre-run
THE THANG:
50KB Swings
100 KB Pullovers
200 Merkins (100 with each hand on the bell)
300 goblet squats
50 KB Swings
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Dam2Damn Bar
COT: Dojo’s sister, Spectre’s son
WARMUP:
SSH for an indeterminate amount of time.
Light stretching
Several OYO Merkins followed by 5 super-slow 8-count tempo merkins. Down for seven, up on 8.
Several OYO Squats followed by 5 low and super-slow squats in the same fashion
THE THANG:
Mosey to loading ramp behind main building.
Partnered up for BOMBS:
B – 50x Burpees
O – 100x “Outlaws” or “Big-O’s” (On your six, make circles in the air with legs together)
M – 150x Merkins
B – 200x Big Boy Situps
S – 250x Squats
MOT/Timing Mechanism: Non-Bombing Partner nurs up loading ramp and runs back down
MARY:
Circle of Hate: Each pax barked out an exercise, then ran a lap around a section of the parking lot while the rest of us put in the work. Made it around the circle a little more than once and JCruise had us end with a single 15-second pushup.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Christmas Party! Read ya newsletter.
COT:
Prayers & praises lifted. Especially thinking of the holiday season and the time for reflection and being with loved ones. Hopefully a time of rest and relaxation for each of us.