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Always have gloves for a F150 workout

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

PAX: Big Tex, Oatmeal, Alright Alright, Plus One

QIC: F150

AO: The Harbor

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER:

WARM-O-RAMA:

21 SSH, 21 IST, 21 Arm Circles F &  4 R, 21 Annies

THA THANG:

Wounded Bear Crawl parking lot

Mosey to playground

Humpty Dance – 100 Balboa, 100 step ups, 50 curls

Murder Merkins 50 yard and back (10 murder bunnies, 10 Manmaker Merkins)

Mosey back to flag

MARY:

60 sec of A-Rods (J Lo, Pickle Pounder, J Lo)

Box Cutters x10

Hello Dolly x10

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

No matter what our view on Covid-19, remember our families may differ. We need to think creatively on how to engage our families and encourage them during this time. 

YHC challenge the PAX to think who in the LH and surrounding area we need to be EHing. Some sad clowns will not cross 75 because of its mystical powers to those who live on either side of it to not cross it. There have only been a few brave Eastsiders to cross the mystical barrier. We have averaged 6 PAX for The Harbor workouts in 2020, there are men who need F3 in and around LH and surrounding areas it our job to EH them.

MOLESKIN:

A lot of mumblechatter from Alright Alright about it would have been nice to know we were going to have coupons at this workout. YHC purposefully didn’t ask the PAX to bring coupons in the preblast, always bring gloves to a workout YHC leads. You never know if YHC will have coupons or not. Something about Starbucky hands was muttered, but YHC quickly ignored. Plus One mentioned that when he read the preblast he figured there would be coupons. Not sure what gave him that idea, except that YHC challenged the PAX to know who would HC. It was more for knowing what to plan for the workout. 

Even with the slight mist/rain it was a good workout. We can’t 

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

New Year’s Eve CSAUP workout – Dec. 31, 11:59 PM

7 AM New Year’s Day workout

February 5th-6th CSAUP

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Merkins & Wind Sprints… Please!

Date – 12/30/2020
Weather – 60° & a light rain/drizzle

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA:
PAX: Ina & Slushii
QIC: Rump Roast

AO: Coffee Park
F3 DISCLAIMER & WELCOME: Given 

WARM-O-RAMA:
20x SSH (DC)
18x NC Groiners (OYO)
14x IST (DC)
10x Veggie Pickers (DC)

THA THANG:
Capoot WOD F3 Style
100x Merkins OYO (pick up the 6 or do 4×4’s)
4x 40yrd Sprints

75x Merkins OYO (pick up the 6 or do 4×4’s)
6x 40yrd Sprints
 
50x Merkins OYO (pick up the 6 or do 4×4’s)
8x 40yrd Sprints
 
25x Merkins OYO (pick up the 6 or do 4×4’s)
10x 40yrd Sprints
 

MARY:
You-Call-It
Slushii – 10x Box Cutters
Ina – 15x Rugby Sit Ups
Rump – 12x Big Boi Sit Us
LBC’s till time

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Slushii prayed us out

MOLESKIN:
A week or so ago, I believe Sex Panther had us team-up and run old fashioned wind sprints. Running isn’t my strong suit so I thought this would be a good one to build on that. I also enjoy tweaking these Hero WOD routines to fit an F3 workout and honoring guys that go out serve us so that we can have the freedom to get up and do this.  I would say the pax didn’t enjoy the Merkins as much as I hated the running. As with 40yd sprints in football practice, I appointed Ina to keep us honest and if we weren’t all giving 100% all the way thru to make us repeat. Luckily, we all pushed hard and didn’t have to do any extras. I’m pretty quick when I know how far I’m going… For an old guy!

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
F3 Golf, blah blah blah, F3 10yr delayed. Blah blah blah
Oatmeals NYE “Thing” 
CSAUP 4x24hr Comming up in Feb???? I think…

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Happy 6th F3 Birthday Plus One and Glencoe

PAX: Big Tex, Bleep, Classified, Oatmeal, Rump Roast, Slushii
QIC: Alright Alright, Plus One

8 PAX posted this morning and 6 were surprised and perhaps disappointed to find out that Teasip had delegated this morning’s Q to Your Humble Correspondent and Plus One. Conveniently, this week is the sixth anniversary of Plus One’s first F3 workout and the first F3 workout at Glencoe Park. We decided that we would throw it back (sort of) to the theme from that day six years ago…

YHC led the PAX to the football field for Warmorama…
Side Straddle Hops x15
Upright Rows x6
Curls x6
Kraken Burpees x6
During the Kraken Burpees, Classified made a comment about my loss in the Q of the Year Quarterfinals …. and I took that personally (insert MJ meme)… so I scrapped the original plans and decided to punish the PAX.

Fast mosey to The Bridge with #burpeerule in effect.
17 Burpee Penalty.
12 Jumping Spiders OYO, run across The Bridge. 12 Burpee Penalty.
12 Freddie Mercury’s IC, run across The Bridge, 12 Burpee Penalty.
12 Merkins Single Count, run across The Bridge, 6 Burpee Penalty to be made up later.
Run Back to Glencoe Park and our Coupons. (We were supposed to complete American Hammers, Monkey Humpers and Jump Squats, but ran out of time)

Plus One took the reins from there.
Rifle Carry 50 yards
31 Curls
7 Merkins
Murder Bunny 50 yards
31 Overhead Presses
8 Merkins
Rifle Carry 50 yards
30 Curls
9 Merkins
Lunge Walk 50 yards
31 Curls 10 Merkins
30 LBCs
11 Penguin Crunches
12 something else…

6 Penalty Burpees

Only 8 men in attendance today with lots out of town and lots exposed to COVID. Keep checking on each other. And keep working out OYO if you have to. You don’t want to just take a week or two off. You will feel the pain.

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Germany Park 12/28/2020

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA:
PAX: Bleep, Cougar Bait
QIC: Slushii

AO: Germany Park
F3 DISCLAIMER & WELCOME: Given 

WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH x 15
IST x 15
Hillbilly x 15
Windmill x 10

THA THANG:
Lap around track
20 of each exercise on the concrete bleachers – derkins, irkins, step up kicks, box jumps, plank jacks
Lap around track
20 of each exercise on the concrete stairs – WW1 sit-ups, LBC, jump squats, monkey humpers, JLo’s
Lap around track

Mosey to tennis courts
7’s (merkins and LBC) – lunge walk between lines
DORA – 100 merkins, 200 Freddie Mercury, 300 lunges

MARY:
Box cutters to time

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Thankful for each man and prayed for all of the fartsackers that didn’t show up

MOLESKIN:
YHC was a bit worried when we pulled into Germany Park. Bleep said “it might just be me and you today Slushii”. We saw a guy wandering around looking like he was looking for someone. We got out of the car and Cougar Bait immediately said “are you guys with F3?”. Was excited to have another PAX join the #westside crew this morning since all of our fellow #westsiders decided not to show up. 

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
1. F3 Golf
2. NYE workout at midnight 

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MRM/DT

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA:
PAX: Princess Turtlehead, AlrightAlright, Stingray, Big Tex
QIC: Oatmeal

AO: Flag Pole Hill
F3 DISCLAIMER & WELCOME: Ooops

WARM-O-RAMA:
None

THA THANG:

Princess Turtlehead, AlrightAlright and YHC ran the 2.5m loop x 2

Stingray and Big Tex rucked the loop once

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
YHC prayed us out. 

Jan 1 @ midnight: Oatmeal’s Completely Unplanned and Utterly Solo workout at Klyde Warren Park

Feb 5/6: Sauce’s 4x4x24.  Even if you cannot run every four hours, show up and ruck, walk, bear crawl, duck walk the four-mile stretches!

MOLESKIN:
Obviously no mumble chatter between the runners.  Ruckers, I assume were on the verge of solving for world peace.  I’ll let them comment if there was anything less pithy. 

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Run, Run Rudolph!

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA:
PAX: AlrightAlright, Pepper
QIC: Oatmeal

AO: La Madeleine (KTT)
F3 DISCLAIMER & WELCOME: Given

WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH x 15 IC
Kim Jong Il’s x10 IC
IST’s x 15 IC

THA THANG:

KTT Mosey to Hillcrest and then north on Hillcrest to the Christmas tree in Snider Plaza stopping at random corners to perform the following exercises (rep counts are approximate since YHC omaha’d on the fly)

Jump squats x 10 OYO
IST’s x 20 IC
Nipplers x 10 OYO
Groiners x 15 IC
Lunges x 15 IC
Elf on a Shelf x 20

Once at the Christmas tree, YHC and PAX performed the following with a run up to Rosedale and back:

Reverse crunches x 20 IC
Up downs x 20
Derkins x 10 IC
Overhead press x 20 IC
Little merkin boy*
Pretzel stick x 10 IC
Hurpees x 20

* Listen to Bing Crosby’s Little Drummer Boy in plank position.  For every Pa rum pum pum pum do 2 merkins.  About 3:00 plank with 42 merkins

 MARY:
Jingle balls with remaining 2 minutes

 CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
YHC prayed us out and reminded us the real meaning of the Christmas season and to continue hopeful as we approach 2021.

MOLESKIN:
YHC literally arrived with bells on and a Christmas hits list for the workout.  While not up to the level of Icebox’s Christmas hits list, YHC threw in some old school soul classics along with a few Latin carols to spice things up, which included the workout theme song: Run, Run Rudolph!  With a PAX vote, we agreed to extend the workout to an hour and with that we were off.  As we rounded the turn at Hillcrest and completed the jump squats, Pepper was visited by the ghost of Christmas poo and made a bee line to 7 Eleven for his first-round matchup with Mr. Hankey.  Once at the foot of the Christmas tree, we commenced YHC’s Rudolph exercises and were nearly run over at one point.  There was random talk until YHC rolled out Little Merkin Boy, which sounded too easy with a single merkin for every pa rum pump pum pum so YHC called for two.  It sucked!  Then AlrightAlright piped up about the pretzel crunch YHC had planned equating it to an Uptown crunch, so YHC audibled to a pretzel stick, which added to the suck and will be rolled out again in the future.  At this point, Pepper went to round two with Mr. Hankey and missed the round of hurpees, so YHC and AA graciously agreed to complete another 20 with him before we all began to mosey to Burleson to catch the Second Choicers before they finished their peppermint lattes.  YHC had them join in a few extra Jingle exercises before Pepper, AA and me ran it back to La Mad with two minutes to spare!

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Burleson 12/24/2020 “4 guys and 2 cars”

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA:
PAX: Rump Roast, Sound Machine
QIC: Bleep, Slushii

AO: Burleson Park
F3 DISCLAIMER & WELCOME: Given – kind of

WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH x 20

Windmill x 10

THA THANG:
Bleep – Prisoner NA Run around park x 4 laps, each lap stop at tennis court and do the following exercise (Lap 1 – LBC x 30, Lap 2 – Squats x 40, Lap 3 – Merkins x 20, Lap 4 – Prone Cobras x 20)

Slushii – Mosey to parking garage – partner up DORA (30 4×4’s, 100 Monkey Humpers, 150 JLo’s) while other partner runs up to next level of the garage, across to the opposite side, and back down the stairs. Bat wings (20 forward, 20 backward, 20 overhead claps, 20 seal claps, 20 forward pulse, 20 backwards pulse)

MARY:
Completed during workout

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Thankful for the men this morning, seeing the #KTT guys for a post workout 5min beatdown, and for bringing Pokey (Alex) to our group

MOLESKIN:
Bleep started off the workout with calling out IST and doing a SSH. Atypical westside warmup only doing 2 warmup exercises. Lots of F bombs dropped by Rump Roast during out running….a bit more than usual. Bleep had promised a 750cal workout and according to the highly sophisticated Apple iWatch I got 684cal. Pretty good beatdown for #secondchoice. Per norm – 2nd choice brought out more PAX than KTT. As we made our way back to the park from the garage (6:16am) I looked over and saw some runners I recognized heading out way. Alright Alright, Oatmeal, and Pepper joined in for a 5min quick circuit before their run back to the launching point for KTT. Sound Machine gave them a good #westsidecropdust and sent them on their way. Merry Christmas Eve men! 

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
1. F3 golf
2. NYE workout that is a mystery 

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Nesting!

#backblast 12/22/2020
PAX: Aaarrrggghhh Armpit  Bleep Dirtbag Icebox Meatball Oatmeal Slushii Special Sauce Teasip Pokey
Q: Alright Alright

Warmorama:
Mosey with blocks to field
6 Burpees for #BurpeeRule punishment
Curls x10
Side Straddle Hops x20

Tha Thang:
Murder Bunny the width of the field
Mosey to Bridge – 4 Burpee punishment
Burpees x5 OYO
Mosey Across Bridge
Lunges x10
Mosey to Stairs Leading up to The Nest
Crawl Bear up the stairs
Mosey to more stairs
Bear Crawl down the stairs
Mosey to benches
Irkins x10
Dips x10
Derkins x10
Box Jumps x10 OYO
Mosey to Garage
Imperial Storm Troopers x15
Burpees x5
Hillbilly x10
Merkins x6
Mosey full lap around garage
3 burpee penalty
Mosey to bottom of garage
Squats x15
Mosey to top
Burpees x5
Yeah Thrusts/Sky Pickle x15
Mosey to stairs
Bear Crawl down
Mosey to Bridge
Bear Hunt to the top (Partner 1 crawl, partner 2 burpee then run down partner, flapjack and repeato)
Mosey down bridge
Mosey back to Glencoe field
Murder Bunny the width of the field
1 minute of LBCs

Naked Man Moleskin:
YHC arrived early to stretch because YHC is getting old.

Much to YHC’s surprise, Teasip was in attendance after getting back from Boston yesterday.

At 0528 we still hadn’t seen the Westsiders and YHC was beginning to plan the Germany Park workout from Hell to punish them… fortunately for Rump Roast, Slushii and Bleep posted as we were about to launch.

YHC didn’t hear much Mumblechatter, but the groans were audible during the first set of murder bunnies.

Pokey joined us during our Bench session at The Nest, and put the PAX to shame for the rest of the workout.

Pokey told us that he just got out of prison and is trying hard to turn his life around. He told us that he needs a group of men to be a family for him and to help him grow. We told him that this is the group for him.

All in attendance learned what F3 is all about today. Pokey joining us is a great opportunity for this group to help a man change his life. And he’s also going to push us all to be better… especially physically… watch out Special Sauce.

#tclaps to Teasip for giving Pokey a ride back to The Nest after the workout and then downtown.

Pokey doesn’t have a phone and is going to need a ride to workouts in the future. We’re going to have to work really hard and think old school on how we can coordinate that with him. I think Bleep and sound machine can help us understand communication pre-phones.

Right now we are working to get him a ride from the Target near City Place to tomorrow’s workout.

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Fighting HUNGER Black Diamond

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA:
PAX: Dirtbag, AlrightAlright, Siesta, Big Tex, Double Pane, Oatmeal, Ice Box, Meatball, Sound Machine, PowPow
QIC: Classified

AO: Lindsley Park
F3 DISCLAIMER & WELCOME: Performed robotically

WARM-O-RAMA:

  • SSH X 15
  • IST X 10
  • Produce Pickers X 10

THA THANG:

Fight HUNGER Black Diamond

Competition to complete most rounds of the following:

  • ***Rifle Carry Coupon Between Exercises***
  • Hammers X 25
  • Upright Rows X 25
  • Newton’s Cradle X 25
  • Gorilla Squats X 25
  • Extensions X 25
  • Reverse Lunge X 25
  • Big Lap Around Park

MARY:
None, arms and legs only today!

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
YHC prayed us out. Thanking all the PAX for coming out and hoping everyone finishes this holiday season healthy and safe.

MOLESKIN:
Found out no one reads Band as we had 3 of 11 PAX forget their coupons. I also found out that editing posts on Band does not throw out another notification as many PAX were confused about how food donations would reduce their rep count. The incentive ploy may not have worked as planned, but we got a proper workout in and piled up some donations. Those Newton’s Cradles were probably the worst and AlrightAlright mentioned his displeasure multiple times. Meatball forgot his coupon, but instead of taking the 30 sec run back to his place he used the mini-coupon I had. Needless to say he won the competition, but since his coupon was ~10lbs lighter, I’ll give the crown to Dirtbag, 2nd to Meatball, and YHC rounded out the field.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

  • Get more food donations into PowPow!!!
  • Oatmeal is hosting a New Years midnight workout
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Coffee Run!

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA:
PAX: Aaarrrggghhh, Bleep, Slushii, Big Tex, Agnes, TikTok, sound machine, Rump Roast
QIC: DFIB

AO: Burleson Park
F3 DISCLAIMER & WELCOME: YHC forgot but Slussii saved the day!

WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH, Hillbillies, ISTs, Tempo Merkins (X13 each except X10 Tempo Merkins) all in Cadence 
Run short lap and end inside the Tennis Courts

THA THANG:
J – Jingle Balls (yes it’s on the Exicon Bleep I didn’t make it up!) X10 In Cadence
A – Agassi’s X2 – Short to Long, Long to Short
V – V-Up Roll Ups X15 OYO
A – Agassi’s X1 Long to Short but run backwards on the return to home

Coffee tends to pass through you, so had to get it out with Mexican Jumping Beans – X15 OYO

Native American Run to the bottom of Caruth Hall outdoor amphitheater.
C – Catalina Wine Mixers X10 in Cadence
U – Up Downs X10 (some mummblechatter here on reliving glory days)
P – Pamela Anderson’s X10 OYO (Burpee with Nippler on the pushup)
O – Outlaws X15 in Cadence
F – Flutter Kicks X15 in Cadence
J – Jump ups (to the top of the amphitheater)
O – Obama’s (to the bottom of the amphitheater – did 16 Merkins as part of it)
E – Everest (back to the top – Lunge up step with a squat every step)

Had to empty the chamber pot with Mountain Man Poopers – X15 in Cadence
Native American Run back to Burleson, but lost a member, so everyone had to pick up the 6. Leave no man behind!

MARY:
Rosalita’s X15, Box Cutters X15, J-Lo’s X10; Freddie Mercuries X15 and Marge/Homers X15 all in cadence

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
We welcomed back Cotter (TIKTOK), YHC prayed us out.

MOLESKIN:
YHC stopped by Starbucks on way in served it post beat down. YHC has been getting shade all week from Oatmeal about our slow start last Thursday and wondering if we were just going to mosey to Starbucks today and make it an F2 event – Hence today’s theme. The post beat-down Coffeeteria turned into a 30 minute F2 event with 7 of the PAX not only welcoming Big Tex as an official Westsider #westside but also intently listening to sound machine impart his wisdom to the PAX. Lot’s of fun today and the camaraderie is very strong in this group. Thanks men for the hard effort today!

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
F2 Event Sunday at 1pm Glencoe Park – wear your gear!; PowPow’s F3 food drive – get Germany AO credit; Potential NYD at midnight Ruck.