Siesta Oatmeal Ant Man Teasip Special Sauce Rump Roast Coach K Toto, AlrightAlright and Draper joined YHC for what Draper is starting to dub “Games with Icebox”
After a quick, PAX guided disclaimer, we warmed up and ran out to the Mustang garage
The thang:
Partnered up and P1 ran a mustang lap (first lap included the merkins and LBC’s but Omaha’d after that to be just the lap to get more cardio in) while P2 did ring of fire until P1 returned
Ring of Fire was set up with 20 stations and we spent 30 seconds at each one before rotating. Rump Roast threw away my cards so here’s my best guess of what they were:
Apollo Creed Burpees
Plank
J Lo’s
Lil Baby Arm Circles
Overhead Press (with 25 lb free weights, thanks Special Sauce)
Jump Rope
Workout dice 1
Workout dice 2
Freddy Mercury’s
SSH’s
IST’s
WWI sit ups
And some others
Decent mumble chatter since no one had to count out anything, AlrightAlright is pretty proud of how far he’s come on jumping rope proving that if you keep doing what you’re not good at you’ll improve, except me bear crawling, I still suck big time at those
A healthy debate towards the end about the route of the mustang with Coach K concerned that some PAX were taking alternate routes so we did a AlrightAlright guided fun run of the lap at the end before mosey’ing to the park for COT
Announcements: Plano is this coming Saturday, get all your wildling friends out there
Cole Park again tomorrow for the late brunch crowd, 0615
https://open.spotify.com/user/martijos/playlist/57xT1bLrsqsjauCb6FXLGS?si=XjeNXB0DTnyxgOznIEeKCw
Wimps
PAX: Aaarrrggghhh, Alright Alright, Draper, Sex Panther
QIC: Coach K
AO: Burleson Parking Garage
Warm-O-Rama:
SSH x20
IST x20
Cotton Pickers x10
Tha Thang:
Ascending BLIMPS with bear crawls (Burpees, Lunges, Irkens, Merkins, Peter Parkers, Squats)
10-9-…-1 Burpees, BBSU, Squats
Mumblechatter:
Thankfully lightning forced us to merge our workouts today, otherwise Aaarrrggghhh would’ve been left with a few good men and YHC would’ve had to workout alone. Skies looked clear at midnight flying in, but the sky fell out this morning. We couldn’t decide if it was the weather or rampant vagititus that kept everyone home today. Aaarrrggghhh decided to merge the workouts, so YHC put something together that probably was not in the back of the Katy Trailers’ minds.
Aaarrrggghhh had a hilarious pun/theme workout, so the next time he leads a Katy Trail workout all y’all best be there.
Gimpy (YHC) asked Aaarrrggghhh to lead some side-straddle hops for the people before YHC took over. We started with a bear crawl up the first ramp followed by 5 burpees. Then bear crawled another ramp followed by 5 burpees. PAX meandered off at this point, and YHC just waited for the lost sheep to realize Gimpy hadn’t moved. We kept on with the lunges and so on up the garage. It was truly a “hot box” kinda day despite the absence of running. YHC mixed up the usual ISTs with some Irkens, which only lasted for two rounds. It was also at this point that YHC got called out for errant multiples of 5, to which YHC blames the jetlag.
The Peter Parkers opened up a conversation about F3 disabilities as YHC has a bum foot. Oatmeal has a bum wrist (which for some reason precluded him from a running workout). Alright Alright now has a bad hip flexor, which he blames on his dog (really just old age, but we’ll let grandpa say what he wants). We all powered on before the 10 to 1 circuit. Lots of comments about disrespecting the tail bone when having to do big boi sit ups. We offered him a spot in the grass outside. COT ended with a long discussion about kids.
Not the ideal morning, but we rallied on and had a good time (to my knowledge). Cole Park launches tomorrow. Weather looks questionable tomorrow as well, but YHC believes vagisil can be found at your local grocery store.
Oatmeal’s Birthday Beatdown – 1/11/2020
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA:
PAX: Draper, AlrightAlright, Icebox, PowPow, Coach K, Ina, Rump Roast, Siesta, Sweet Baby
QIC: Oatmeal
AO: Burleson Park
F3 DISCLAIMER & WELCOME: Given
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH x 44IC
IST x15IC
Cotton Pickers x 10IC
THA THANG:
Mosey to parking garage:
11 burpees, backward run up ramp x4
Bear crawl down ramp, 11 burpees x4
Obama (44th president)
– Duck walk x4, jump squat
– Crab walk x4, crab cake
– Lunge x4, Bonnie Blair
– Peter Parker x4, merkin
Lazy Dora
Merkins x120, plank x10 (44+76=120)
Squats x240, squat hold x20
LBC x360, 6″, x30
Mary
Ring of Fire:
Heals to heaven x 44
Rosalita x 44
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
YHC prayed us out.
MOLESKIN:
It was YHC’s 44th birthday and PAX seemed to be in high spirits (although YHC believes this to be the result of sorority rush activities rather than YHC’s planned beat down). YHC put together a greatest hits playlist from 1976, which must seem like ancient history to most of the PAX (@Sally)! We commenced birthday burpees in the parking garage. To give the PAX a reprieve from 44 straight burpees, YHC had PAX backward run up the ramps in between sets of 11 and seeing that YHC looks forward to at least another 44 years, we did another 44 burpees back down the ramps. However, this is where things got dicey as YHC’s wish for another 44 years almost ended before it began. As YHC descended a ramp on a bear crawl, a late-arrival for class or rush made her acquaintance with YHC with the bumper of her car! Fortunately, she braked and I narrowly avoided becoming her new hood ornament. Unfortunately, YHC managed to sprain his wrist in the process so happy birthday to me! The drama receded throughout the rest of the workout with random mumble chatter about the choice of songs in YHC’s Spirit of ’76 playlist, spattering of sleet and general dissatisfaction with the pain YHC brought today.
Where is Williams Park?
PAX: Chairman Mao, Island Time, Oatmeal, Plus One, Sally, Sex Panther, Special Sauce, Teasip
QIC: Coach K
AO: Burleson – Williams Park
Mileage: 4.35
Disclaimer: given quickly but thoroughly for AlrightAlright and YHC
Warm-O-Rama: none, we had places to be
Tha Thang:
-Run down University Blvd to Williams Park Pavilion with a couple stops on the way
-Partner DORA with 50 burpees, 75 merkins, 100 squats
-Run to south portion of Williams Park for a Dirty McUno
-Run up McFarlin Dr back to the main quad at SMU with a couple stops on the way
-Jacob’s Ladder starting with 6 gorilla squats and 1 burpee
-AYG sprint up the Burleson parking garage
-Brief Mary and 10 burpees before moseying back for a 1-minute plank hold
Mumblechatter:
YHC did some extra credit, which started off our lovely mumblechatter this morning getting called out for specifically creating a beatdown to avoid that. A little stressed this week, so YHC broke his own rule but still delivered a running intensive beatdown. PAX had some other comments about YHC he overheard, but we’ll let those fizzle out. YHC halted the chatter at 0700 on the nose and disclaimed the two workouts (disabled Alright Alright led a non-running alternative). The running group immediately took off. The run was your warm-up – best there ever was. PAX were surprised at the brevity of the intro and let their thoughts be heard before we stopped and did some SSH and ISTs on our route to Williams Park – you know, that place not close to Burleson. YHC promised Sally last night that we were going somewhere never before for a Saturday. Oatmeal and Special Sauce made hesitant jokes about running to Germany Park, but YHC will save that for a future workout.
Highland Park is notorious for quarter mile (slight exaggeration, but barely so) blocks, so there were only three brief stops for PAX to recover. A group of female runners caused us to part like the Red Sea, and they apologized saying “we’re just giving you extra time to catch your breath”. YHC responded that “they didn’t need it”. Pronoun choice was quickly noted, but YHC apologizes for nothing. We made it to the Pavilion and a few PAX reminisced about not having been to that AO in months before jumping right into the DORA. We started with 25, 50, 100 reps but YHC called an unfavorable audible because why the hell not? Once the six wrapped up, Island Time gave quite the rapid 10-count and off we ran to the southern portion of the park for a Dirty McUno with some Irkens, Derkins, and Dips. We carried on like wayward sons passing some really fine benches just around the corner. Everyone must’ve been a little delirious because we were all a little too impressed with the comparable comfort we could’ve been using.
Our trip back to Burleson was just as eventful. On the way to the first intersection Special Sauce called out that we need a six roundup. One of the PAX made YHC out to be the villain implying they should learn to run faster, which…we’ll circle back to in a short while. All the six were accounted for in true F3 fashion whereby 2-3 PAX who arrived early went back for the six while the rest were led in some ab/core exercise. This is the typical means by which PAX are picked up rather than the whole group returning – casual sidebar. We got caught at the longest light ever on Hillcrest before making our way to the quad staircase for a Jacob’s Ladder. Not too much chatter here except for some complaints when burpees were announced. There was a brief mention about Boy Scout politics before we got back to it. Sex Panther did us all proud EH’ing a Troop Leader (Scout Leader? Not sure what the title is). Oatmeal offered up a business card, so hopefully Plano will have a new addition in the forthcoming weeks.
With 10 minutes left, we moseyed to the garage before an AYG sprint to the top followed by some abs and 10 burpees to remind the PAX who YHC is. Somewhere in this endeavor Special Sauce mentioned that someone should’ve had a Go-Pro because the beatdown would’ve triggered some heavy FOMO for Alright Alright. Hopefully word of mouth and this garrulous backblast will accomplish the same thing. PAX finally corralled back at the flag for a 1-minute plank hold while time expired and we reunited with the rest of the crew.
Sauce clocked us in at 4.35 miles on the morning, which brings us back to some comments made this morning. Last night, YHC mentioned wanting harder workouts in the mornings to which people responded that others can’t keep up. If anything can be learned from YHC’s Amazing Race, the 220+ Burpee Beatdown, and today it’s that people can. We had a six today, but they were never left in the dust. Everybody completed every rep of the workout, and we did it together. While you certainly aren’t required, YHC would challenge Q’s to find one workout and do everything you can to beat the living shit out of the PAX the best you can because it makes us all better (you’ll also appreciate the schadenfreude). If 200+ burpees are the hardest part of your day, then YHC will argue that’s a pretty good day. And by now, unfortunately, every single one of y’all have proven that you can do it.
COT:
The two groups reunited giving Ant Man a hard time for being out and Chairman made a right-hand joke regarding a post-Valentine’s day CSAUP event. During the Name-O-Rama, an elderly scout woman walked into the circle and asked for directions. The Scouts were hosting some convention/meeting on SMU’s campus. One of the PAX gave the most nondescript directions telling her to “walk in that direction and eventually you’ll find them”. Sex Panther then offered to give her a ride. 5 minutes later, we could only assume that Sex Panther had EH’d this woman for some personal reasons, but he drove his truck back solo and joined the group as it made its way to Bubbas.
Announcements:
-2nd F this coming Friday. Harass Ultra for details
-CSAUP event February 15th
Elf on a Shelf
AlrightAlright Sally Ina Draper Rump Roast Hostage (Willy Loman from Houston) Thunderlips Flinstone (FNG) joined YHC for a rainy beatdown at the Burleson Park garage
Disclaimer: given twice as Flinstone showed up after I gave it the first time and wanted to make it clear to the FNG that I’m neither a professional nor liable
The thang:
AlrightAlright doesn’t know how to take it easy so I made up a workout that would keep him from running, Rump Roast was a good sport and volunteered to take the day off from running so that he and AA could be our elves on the shelves.
AA and Rump started on the first and top floor of the parking deck respectively, both wearing ruck vests and holding onto an exercise dice. The PAX ran up and down the garage ramps to AA and Rump to have them roll the die and have all PAX complete. Exercises included planks, one arm planks, jump lunges, jump squats, burpees, and Ina’s favorite, the wall sit. Eventually AA and Rump ended up getting on the same level and moved together and when the PAX caught the elves they both rolled dice.
Not explaining it all that well but my watch had me at over 3 miles and 800 calories burned, so it was a half way decent beatdown.
Announcements: Hostage from Houston is organizing a mission trip for F3 Texas men, will be sharing info soon
And the thunder rolled… 11/22/19
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA:
PAX: Sally, AlrightAlright, Rachel, PowPow, Draper, Ant Man, Pepper, Plus One
QIC: Oatmeal
AO: Burleson Park (parking garage)
F3 DISCLAIMER & WELCOME: Given
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH x 15 IC
IST x 15 IC
Windmills x 15 IC
THA THANG:
Up east staircase and back down.
Line up on handicap row for merkin suicides. Far to near parking lines with merkins x 10 at the beginning each time for a total of 100 merkins. Up west staircase and back down.
Ramps of pain:
Up ramp at each turn x10 squats and return to the bottom for LBC’s x20. Squats increased x10 to a max of 40 and LBC’s increased x20 to a max of 80. This consumed all but a few minutes at the end. (Pepper, please add the totals that you calculated to the comments, please.)
YHC proudly ordered PAX out into the driving rain to the benches just to live up to my prebast promise.
Dips x10 IC
Irkins x10 SC
Clay Makers x10 each leg SC
And to complete the workout: Supermans x 15 IC
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
YHC prayed us out.
MOLESKIN:
PAX all met at Burleson and then the heavens opened and the rain fell in torrents so we jumped in the cars and headed for the safe confines of the garage, which was closed to outsiders. We headed back to the park, left the cars and made a jailbreak for the garage as the lightning flashed and the thunder rolled…
Once inside, YHC started a few minutes late because of the Omaha.
Mumblechatter varied as we ran stairs since YHC didn’t specify one or two stairs at a time. My goal was to get up the stairs so the how that was accomplished was left to the PAX! The light-heartedness continued with the merkin suicides until about 50 or so in and the midwife noise began taking over any chatter. There was a bit of surprise when YHC explained the ramp work and the number of reps we would be doing, but I fully understood the pain (or at least thought I did) when we started. Afterward, the rain routine was met with less groaning than YHC expected and I was a bit disappointed with the response.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
1. Q Source
“Relentless”
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA:
PAX: AlrightAlright, Coach K, Draper, Icebox, Oatmeal, Pepper, Pow Pow, Rump Roast, Siesta, Special Sauce
QIC: Sally
AO: Burleson Park
F3 DISCLAIMER & WELCOME: Given
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH x 15
IST x 15
Hold-a-plank/groiners while 2 PAX do burpees
THA THANG:
Pearls-on-a-string
NW corner of Burleson, 1 block north, and 1 block west. Exercises included squats, merkins, ski abs, and flutters. Backwards run 1 of the blocks.
Jailbreak to the top of the parking deck – use the stairs
15 irkins, 15 derkins
Dora 1-2-2
P1 runs around the top level of the parking deck. P2 starts completing:
100 merkins
200 calf raises
200 gorilla squats
Parking deck gasser (suicide)
Starting line is the top of the parking garage – run down 2 ramps (to the next “level”) and back up the stairs. Repeato with each level going down. 10 Carolina Dry-Docks each time you reach the top.
Run down to the bottom of the deck. 15 burpees.
Grab-a-bench (a-what) and partner up
P1 does bear cakes (hold a plank and alternate touching hand to opposite foot). P2 does 10 box jumps before switching. Go to 100 total.
Mosey to fountain in front of Dallas Hall
Upper-Body Time
Moroccan Nightclubs and The Bird x 20 IC
Grab-a-bench, 4 sets of 10 dips and 10 derkins
Mosey back to fountain in front of garage
15 get-ups (no hands)
Mosey back to soft-top
MARY:
Done intra-workout
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Done
MOLESKIN:
11 PAX emerged from the gloom for a Saturday-morning beatdown. Beautiful weather at around 40 degrees, minimal wind – Ina would have loved it.
Warm-up included some good mumblechatter directed at the Q, which was quickly Corrected with penalty burpees. Can’t stop mumblechatter forever, though.
Wanted to get in some early cardio, so quickly left Sorority Row on a mosey. Somewhere around the first pearl Pepper revealed that the Burleson workout did about 175 merkins and 220 squats yesterday. The next routine, unfortunately, was a Dora with 100 merkins and 200 gorilla squats, which YHC swears he pre-planned. (Focus on those fundamentals, baby!)
When PAX were given the chance to run to the top of the parking deck via the stairs or the ramps, the first couple PAX chose the stairs. This led to some jeers from the backPAX, but in truth we were all appreciative of the choice.
Much discussion was to be had about what to name the alternating toe touches – bear cakes, cake crabs, and at least one other YHC can’t remember were among the suggestions – bear cakes seemed to stick. Those were kind of terrible, in YHC’s humble opinion.
Some of the memorable mumblechatter directed at the Q:
“You picked the hardest exercise to do the most of?”
“There is no plan.”
“Why did we have to run here to do this?”
“Out of all the exercises that you didn’t count, you chose to count these?”
“There’s a soft-top about 100 yards away.”
“Sally we aren’t friends anymore.”
Good stuff.
Several PAX went to Bubba’s and had some good coffeeteria – mumblechatter included the Big 4, Christmas cards, old methods of playing music (cassettes, Walkman, 8-tracks), and a recent cool business/tech conference.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
1. Lots of stuff coming up in December. Martin Mingle and Jingle, Official Holiday Party, Marathon Relay
The Almost Solo SCT
YHC thought he was going to have to run down to the trail when at 0529 no PAX had shown up yet but then Sex Panther texted me saying he was running 20 min late and finally, like a Phoenix rising from the ashes AlrightAlright came and made his first ever 2nd Choice workout and his first posting at one of my Q’s in approximately 17 months.
Started with a mosey to the parking deck and the usual warmup of SSH and IST’s, then ran up the ramps of the deck to the top and down the stairs to the bottom and then up the stairs to the top and then ramps to the bottom.
At this point the rain wasn’t too bad and decided braving the elements was better than hot boxing in the garage and we moseyed back to the soft top and did the first #sparetireringoffire which is 30 seconds of each of the following 10 exercises in succession:
J Lo’s
Rugby Sit-ups
LBC’s
Plank
Rosalita’s
Flutter kicks
WWI’s
Freddy Mercury’s
American Hammers
Penguin Crunch
VR
After round one we ran a big lap around the park and finally Sex Panther showed up so we did another warmup of SSH’s where we alternated doing burpees until we got to 45.
Took a moment and rolled the workout dice and did some stuff and went into another ring of Fire
Another big lap around the park and then rolled the workout dice 3 times and landed on 20 burpees, 15 tuck jumps, and 15 Bonnie Blair’s, ran the big lap again and did one of previously mentioned exercises at each corner.
Closed out with another ring of Fire, ended a few minutes late so Sex Panther could get his money’s worth
Dora the Coupon Explorer
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA:
PAX: Boomerang (FNG – welcome!), Chairman Mao, Draper, LiveMau5 (FNG – welcome!), Island Time, Pow Pow, Rump Roast, Sally, Sex Panther, Siesta (FNG – welcome!), Special Sauce
QIC: Teasip
AO: Burleson Park
F3 DISCLAIMER & WELCOME: Given
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH x20, IST x15, Vegetable Picker x 12
THA THANG:
Native American coupon run.
PAX partnered up and did DORA for the following exercises (Partner 1 did exercise with coupon, while Partner 2 ran to the other side of the field and back. Flapjack).
Bicep curls x100
Squats x100
Tricep Press x100
OH Press x100
Lunges x100
Upright rows x100
Next did some DORA Mary with the same partners. This time partner 1 did the below exercises while partner 2 ran to the other side of the field with a coupon, did 5 Man Makers, then ran back. Flapjack until time.
Freddie Mercury x100
Cross Climber x200
LBC x300
MARY:
Done with the second partner DORA
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
YHC prayed us out
MOLESKIN:
YHC was eager and ready to disperse the coupons to up his MPG in his truck, so YHC grabbed the Q and decided to incorporate heavy coupon use (also inspired by the IronPax challenges this year. The Native American coupon run was inspired by Sally’s Bucket Brigade challenge and it became more of a Native American coupon power walk, but still was effective. Some decent mumblechatter considering we had to count, most of it relating to reliving the pain of Iron Pax through more coupon work (YHC obviously has a short memory since none of the Iron Pax workouts were pleasant). Based on the highly scientific Rump F bomb scale, the workout started off easy, but accelerated to a very high difficulty based on the quick succession of F bombs dropped by Rump during the last couple of exercises for the first DORA and the second stream for the Man Makers. A special welcome to Boomerang, LiveMau5, and Siesta for joining us (and tclaps to Pow Pow for EH’ing them). YHC missed Bubba’s, but hoped it was fun.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
1. Happy Hour next Friday, October 11
2. CSAUP Nov 1 at 11:59 pm. Meet at Burleson
College Gameday is Back!
#backblast
Draper Island Time Oatmeal Chairman Mao Teasip Sally joined YHC for #gameday
Thunderlips joined Sally for the EC run then had to head home to be with the kids before they woke up
After calling me out for not having “My Truck” in the ESPN College Gameday playlist, Chairman shows up after the warmup and mostly through My Truck (which was a last minute edition because I’m not going to get called out and not deliver)…the PAX were a lil pissed at the Chairman because for the song I had us doing grassers for the duration and dropping every time they said “truck” it was a lot of burpees.
After My Truck we played Stingray Sling, where you throw the football and sprint after it while it’s in the air and then lunge to it after it hits the ground, all the PAX got a turn and there was a lot of name calling for some of us not having the greatest arms
Then we moseyed back to the PlayStation where I had the rest of the games and we rolled a lot of foam workout dice, 2 PAX would roll and then play Rock Paper Scissors and the PAX would do whatever workout was on the winner’s die. There were a lot of burpees, jump squats, and merkins
After Die O Rama we tried what I’m calling F3 Oklahoma, where the PAX lined up against each other 10 yards apart and put a football in the middle, we rolled a die to choose our exercise that we had to do before racing after the ball, we rolled 20 burpees and Teasip kicked our butts, then we tried it where we lined up in one line and put the ball 10 yards out and rolled again, this time it was 15 calf raises followed by picking up the ball and running to the end of the park and back, Teasip again crushed us
Quick mosey back to the PlayStation for Dora Die, we rolled the die 4 times and drew 15 jump lunges, 15 calf raises, 15 burpees, and 15 jump squats. PAX had to do one of the exercises, do a lap around the park, move on to the next exercise, etc. Dora is harder when it’s solo
Then we had some halftime arms brought to you by Mrs Icebox, lil baby arm circles forward and backward until the PAX dropped their arms, but it was a nice break from the running
Next up we threw out both die and chased after them, the first 3 to get to the blue die did those exercises (which have fewer reps) and the rest had to do the green exercises which had more reps
Then back to the PlayStation where we grabbed the 2
basketballs and played the longest, worst game of knockout of all time, but it was still fun, Teasip won again and we did a lot of burpees, IST’s, and Freddy mercuries while we waited to shoot, missed shots, and waited for the game to end
Grand finale was some 3 on 3 2 hand touch football with a rotating QB, after a couple quick scores the pace of play went from Big 12 to PAC 12 and became an. Incompletion fest, monthly because the ball got wet and the traction on the turf was nonexistent. Oatmeal was the undisputed QB1 and all agreed we were glad Rump Roast wasn’t the all time QB this round
Had a few minutes to spare and did some rugby and big boy sit ups
Thanks to all who came out and played games this AM, maybe one of these days AlrightAlright will stop protesting fun and come out to a #gameday
Announcements: keep an eye out on band for Monday’s workout