PAX – 8 (or 10 if you use Amadeus math…) Lemu (respect) Laser Jet (respect) Cannon (respect) Bobsled, PigPen, Hindsight, Cosmo
QIC – Amadues and Bobsled (weeeeee)
Weather – 17 degrees, clear skies with a slight breeze.
0430 – Amadeus and Bobsled arrived early for a pre-ruck and headed out… On their ruck they first ran into Cosmo – doing a little pre run. His pace was strong, and he was focused but pleasantries were exchanged. Next thing you know but who do we see Lemu coming around the corner – conveniently we were just in the midst of having a conversation about this HIM. As we headed back to the parking lot to get ready for the beatdown we noticed some of the other fine PAX getting a little ruck in ahead of time… It was going to be a good day in the gloom!
5:30 – We gathered at the Shovel Flags to go over some stuff to start… F3 Stands for Fitness Fellowship and Faith. We started right out the shoot with the disclaimer… We are NOT professionals and to modify as necessary. Let’s do a burpee… We have 5 core principles…
- Free of Charge – 2 burpees
- Open to all Men – 4 burpees
- Led in a rotating fashion – at this point everyone said it was their pleasure to have Bobsled and I still – 6 burpees
- ALWAYS OUTSIDE – 8 Burpees
- And of course we will end in a COT – but first.. 10 burpees
Bobsled took over from here as the PAX were tired of burpees apparently. He went over the Credo – To leave no man behind but to leave no man where you found him. Much to everyone’s surprise Bobsled had us do 5 burpees.
We have a Mission – To plant grow and serve small workout groups for the reinvigoration of male community leadership – to which we decided to do 5 more burpees.
At this point some slight mumblechatter started in regard to burpees. Little did I know that Cosmo thought it would be a good idea to count. He revealed later that it was a total of 41 burpees – I think that this would have even made Duracell proud! We moseyed down to the field for a little bit of a pre-thang
Pre-Thang
I mean why not start with 5 burpees. So, we did Amadeus jumped right out of the gate with some more burpees. His plan was to continue Burpees until the start of a revolution, revolt, mild frustration, or trash talking started. But he could tell already 46 burpees into this mess that these PAX weren’t going to bend that easy. Their individual fortitude shined through, and we jumped to the next part of the pre-thang. A little bit of you call its. Amadeus has become a fan of this exercise as it is sure to mix it up. Lemu started us off and we worked around the horn while enjoying each other’s company. When we got back to Amadeus he had us complete 15 heel touches the “right” way after doing them wrong for almost 2 years! And because we hadn’t had enough Burpees Amadues suggested cranking out 50 – once again no COMPLAINTS – this is a tough group. We adjusted to 5 instead and then moseyed over to the hill for the thang…
Thang
Bobsled filled us in on his love of the murph and the ability to make anything into a murph…. We started with Bobsleds modified murph completing 10 supermans, 20 merkins and 30 squats. At the completion of each round we bernie sanders up the hill and did a wall stand until the 6 was in… back down the hill to repeat. On the completion of our even number rounds (2,4,6) we added in some core – because… well why not… We were able to complete 7 rounds and had a little confusion at the end but started working on heading back up to the shovel flags.
Hammer Time – completed 8 American hammers
NOR – see above for pax and video on X (formerly twitter)
Announcements – Respect Pop up on Thursday moved locations, Abide Dec 9th, Dec 15th Freed to Bleed, Impact Retreat in January… Lemu had a few others but I forgot to list them… Please check slack for details.
Prayers – Prayers for Parka’s mom who just had some surgery and needs some help recovering.
COT – Amadeus talked about what else? The soundtrack… that we listened to today. It was split between some of Bobsleds picks and Amadeus’ picks from their childhood. I talked about how F3 is a lot to be thankul (F left out on purpose – you had to be there…) and that it brings together a huge group of people from different backgrounds and experiences. I talked about the ability to create something special and learn from each other. But also talked about sharing our thankfulness. As many among us may not have everything we have… reach out and try to be there for people not just during this time but all the time.
Bobsled prayed us out…
Amadeus and Bobsled – AYE!