03/06/2020 The Woodshed Backblast: Traveling
Friday, March 6, 2020 | The Woodshed AO
Elmwood Park (Omaha, NE) | 26°, clear and fair
28 PAX: Stella, Hard Hat, Gunner, Armbar, Folsom, Bloodshot, Othello, Room Service, Pony Express (Hate!), Ponzi, Tater Tot, Smash Mouth, Huffy, Chiclets (Respect!), OMT, Safe Ride, Honey Stinger, Curtain Call (Hate!), Khakis (Respect!), Two Step, Slick, Honey Badger, Swinger, Samples (Respect!), Bubbles, Fury (FNG), Big One, Rancid (Hate!)
Q: Rancid
In the gloom of a mild March morning, men of F3 Omaha met for a fast and fresh beatdown a la Rancid. Pulling in to park, PAX arriving for the regularly scheduled program noticed a dozen or so vehicles belonging to the 0500 group of pre-ruckers and pre-runners (t-claps, gentlemen!!)Furies of fist bumps and how’dya do’s brought us all to 0530, and it was on! Rancid welcomed his brothers to F3 – fitness, fellowship, and faith. Mission statement. Five core principles. Introduction and disclaimer. Shout-out to FNG Ryan (EH Big One). Count-off for good measure, and we mosey.
0533 – WARM-A-RAMA @ CREEPY CORNER
20 IC – Side Straddle Hops
15 IC – Mountain Climbers
10 IC – Windmills
15 IC – Copper Head Squats
15 IC – High Knees
15 IC – Monkey Humpers
0537 – THE PRE-THANG @ THE POOL HALL
Alternating-Alternating Shoulder Taps
As we moseyed in to the front of the clubhouse, Rancid assigned each man to either Team 1 (balls to the wall) or Team 2 (plank to the walkway). Both teams move for Alternating Shoulder Taps. Rancid asked for a # between 1 and 5 (4!) and for a # between 5 and 10 (8!). 4 X 8 = 32. 32 AST in-cadence. Groans. Mumbles. We begin, and Q quickly modified all to split count (16). Teams switched places for repeat, then mosey to the parking lot east of the pool for The Thang.
0542 – THE THANG @ PARK ROAD TRAIL
Circle-up in the center of the lot, Al Gore for the six. Rancid introducedPAX to Park Road Trail and offered instructions for a successful beatdown.
(1) The Woods
15 – Bobby Hurley’s
15 IC – Imperial Walkers
15 – Bonnie Blare’s
15 IC – Cherry Pickers
Push when (5) begins to mosey
Teams (2), (3), (4) wait for push
(2) The Bleachers
15 – Squats
15 – Dips
15 – Step-Ups15 – Decline Merkins
(3) The Lot15 IC – Tappy Taps
15 – Carolina Dry Docks
15 – Jump Tucks
15 – Plank Jacks
(4) The Ramp
1 Burpee at top/bottom
(5) The Stairs (pushers)
Bear Crawl (stairs or hill)
Al Gore at top for the six
Team push to (1) from top
0603 – POST-THANG @ THE PAVILION
Failure to Launch
Oh-Yeahs! for the six on the south side. Circle-up in the open field behind The Pavilion. Rancid quickly demo’d the full PAX exercise (hold squat for ten-count, launch on the up – shout-out to Uncle Rico and all other birthday-week HIMs!!). Rancid directed different members to lead each countdown, and approximately seven launches later, we made our mosey return to the Shovel Flags.
0607 – MARY
15 IC – Scissor Kicks
15 IC – LBCs
20 – Low Dolly’s
20 – Big Boys
28 (full PAX indv. cadence) – American Hammers
0612 – COT
Count-off. Name-O-Rama. FNG (Welcome, Fury!!). Announcements.• Splinter Food Drive – F3 Omaha emailed sign-up to provide food/support as Splinter’s M recovers from surgery this month. 7 kiddos to feed. Contact F3 leadership if you have questions or would like to help in anyway.• March 13th – Freed to Lead discussion group. 2nd and 4th Fridays, 12-1PM at Paradise Bakery (Regency). See Lemon Law or #third-f on Slack.• March 27th – Girls Inc. of Omaha – Strong, Smart, Bowled!Fundraiser. #second-f opportunity at The MARK. 6-8PM. Sign-up in teams of six. See Two Step to find out more. • April 1st – Top Rope (brand new AO) launching at Boys Town. Wednesday boot camp. Site Q’d by Armbar. Follow on Twitter.
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“A man does not have to travel from town to town searching for something hard and purposeful to do. Nor does he have to wait for an expert to tell him what he should do. He can find what he believes needs doing right in his own Community”
(Freed to Lead, 119)
A few weeks ago, when I came across this paragraph in F3’s Freed to Lead, I took a photo of the page with my cell phone just so I could remember to bring this up to our PAX at my COT. In a time and place of our existence, when and where we often feel helpless to the news of the world beyond our reach, it’s important to remember. Prioritize those people whom you can have a direct and positive impact every single day.
Many (if not, most) of our brothers are husbands and fathers. I see you, and I whole-heartedly admire you. I am neither at this point in my journey, but this is not without wanting. My life is blessed many ways, but I admit I feel a missing-ness, and, sometimes, purposelessness.
That feeling, however, is squashed when I am shoulder-to-shoulder with fellow HIM of F3 Omaha. You men warmly welcome me back each and every morning, and I will pay that forward to all the FNG’s who, like me, will make their way bleary-eyed into the gloom in order to make their way back better than they could’ve ever imagined.
Who are the people with whom you care to share your time?
Thank you, brothers, for traveling here with me today.
Closed out in prayer. (Thank you, Sky Q!)
½ PAX attended Coffeteria.
SYITG
Aye,
Rancid
