The Danger Zone Backblast 9/27/2023
Q: Sweet Sweet
23 PAX: Feeney, Levy, Stranglehold, Uncle Jessie, Beanstock, Longboard, Black Tuesday, Ear Tag, Sparty, Khakis, Truck Stop, Pusher, Dozer, Sphinx, Echo, Stapler, Larry Legend, Tater Tot, Mortar, Switchfoot, Rooney, FNG (Gundy), Sweet Sweet
There were prerunners but I am not sure who all ran.
5:15AM:
Sweet Sweet welcomed the Pax to F3 reminding them of the F3 Mission, 5 core principles, not a professional so modify as needed, leave no man behind, but leave no man where we found them.
Warm-O-Rama
Jogged down to the middle of the field. 15 tappy taps, 10 sun gods, big ones, reach and touch toes, squat and hold, downward dog stretch.
Pre-Thang
Jog to stadium steps and spread out to all the steps in groups. Run up and down twice and do 20 dips, hop up on two feet and repeat 20 dips, hop up on one foot and then the other foot + 20 dips, finish is off by running two more sets of steps and do 20 last dips.
Thang
Whole group start on Goal line and bear crawl to the 40 yard line – Bernie Sanders back to goal line then sprint 100 yards to the other end zone and jog back 100 yards. Once the whole group was back we did 100 Squats in 40/40/20 increments.
We repeated the bear crawl, Bernie, Sprint, Jog again and did 100 LBCs with same 40/40/20 Count
Repeat again and did 100 Side Straddle hops in 40/40/20
Repeat again and the goal was to do 100 Merkins with a 40/40/20 count. As we got to the 2nd set of 40 on about 26 my arms gave out and I couldn’t do any more merkins. I tried on my knees for 4 and screamed “Halt” at rep 30. I decided to make an audible and change to Carolina Dry Docks for the last 30 count as a survival tactic.
With time running out, I decided to have the group skip the bear crawl and bernie and just sprint down one more time 100 yards and jog back to an Omaha call. I was physically spent and had birthday treats on my mind so I forgot to have us do Sarpy Slammers but no one seemed to mind.
We did name-o-rama and named our new FNG. I had been working on Gundy for over a year and he was well aware of F3 and plenty of the PAX members. I got him with it is my 40th Birthday so you should come check it out. He was actually Rooney’s college room mate so that was awesome he was there as well as he knew Feeny and Levy too.
Prayers and announcements:
Shovel flag pass at Block party – Village expansion – Heartland Hope gifts for kids check Slack for details
Prayers Bill and Bev as Bill has Cancer
Prayers for Uncle Jessies kids teacher that has cancer
COT
I’m a Man, I’m 40! Those great words spoken by Coach Gundy in 2007 made an impact on my life and I loved that quote. I was 23 at the time fresh out of college and thought to myself I can’t wait until I turn 40 and have it all figured out. Wife, Kids, House, Car, Job, Money, just everything I thought would make me happy and a man. Well, I have all those things but sure don’t have it all figured out yet. All those things are important to me but have found that adding the 3 F’s of Fitness, Fellowship, and especially Faith are vital as well. A few other letters to add are P and G for Pain and Gratitude. Adding those two letters helps push you over the top as a Man. Two years ago, Grad called me on my birthday and made plans for us to party the next weekend together. He loved to celebrate and always got me to go harder than I preferred. After he passed away, I went to a dark place of hate and anger but have come out the other end with the help of F3. I gave a special shout out to Tater Tot and Sparty as they kept checking in on me the first 4-6 months and encouraged me to keep coming out and helped open my eyes to overcoming where I was and to lean on others and my faith. I told a story that I used to love sleeping in to 6:45 and would always wake up to a text from Grad that he had sent about 4am while he was getting ready for F3 more recently, but he was always up early getting ready to dominate the day. I miss those early morning texts and now I am up early sending them to my friends. I finished with a message of Lean on your brothers in the tough times and when the time comes to celebrate let it Rip and have a blast! I’m a Man – I’m 40!I handed out Scotcheroos to most of the Pax in attendance and got rave reviews. A big thanks to my M for taking care of the Sweets for Sweet Sweet’s 40th birthday celebration beatdown.
