9/16/19 – Mothership
Another Saturday morning, another Friday Night decision to choose the gloom over old habits.
A warm and inviting morning of about 40deg met the pax and everyone loved it. Greetings and disclaimer, mosey to the peristyle for warmups.
WARMUP
Mix of arm circles, grass grabbers, squats, round robin merkins (all pax holds plank while each pumps out 10 merkins in succession, complete the circle).
THE THANG
Mosey to the base of Roosevelt Mall. Using the concrete benches – 10 box jumps, run to next, 10 incline merkins, all the way up mall. Plank for 6 at the practice track.
Practice Track – Partner up. Catch me if you can, one lap.
Keep your partner – double up with another set of pax partners. (we had 10 total pax, evenly split to two lines of 5, do not recommend going over 5) The exercise is Bear Crawl Inch worm. Make two lines in plank position, hands lining up behind feet of pax in front of you. Pax at rear bear crawls to front of line, holds plank, next pax at rear bear crawls to front, holds plank… keep going. Half the football field. Cause why not.
Count to 20 for a breather (quickly). Back to your original partner. 200 squats. Set of 20 while partner holds a tree (Al Gore).
Mosey, listen to the mumblechatter, recalibrate, make a democratic decision to take the long way. All will celebrate. Back to the great lawn. Tclaps to Triple shift who led some mary while six was swept.
Great lawn for 11s. LBCs and Bonnie blairs across the lawn. Finished exactly on time. Mosey to flag, circle up.
Thanks to whoever tracked, we ran 3.6 miles with the workout. Tclaps to all. I didn’t exactly intend on it being quite so long… oops. We did some serious work. So for those who completed all the above… Respect.
THE NOTE
A special huge shout out to F3 Kansas City!
YHC was out in Kansas City for work this week and it’s worth mentioning how re-energizing it is to visit another outfit. When I reached out, their lead, Blistex, went out of his way to organize with other pax. Someone went out of their way to give me a ride from the hotel to beatdown, and some one else covered me for the ride back – every morning! Just awesome that the beatdown means so much and the spirit of F3 would connect people to go so out of their way, for a stranger, to workout on a freezing cold morning, in the gloom. I mean how totally weird, and awesome is that?? I hope we NOLA Pax are representing ourselves and treating our visiting brothers even half as well.
Our F3 brothers founded their pax just in April of this year and they are already big enough to be holding steady AO’s 6 days a week. Their push and their attitude was great to see and a solid reminder of just how needed, beneficial, and empowering F3 nation is. You’re not just showing up for yourself, even though that’s how it starts. Once your life vest is on and you’re hooked, you’re showing up for the next man. For your neighbor. For some one who needs this just as much as you, but hasn’t started yet.
Speaking with one of the KC founders – Tapps (a great example of the F3 spirit) – he talked about how just like when you’re born in the hospital, you don’t get to chose your name, when you’re born in F3 you don’t get to chose your name. You earn it by showing up and going through the pain of birth (or beatdown) and getting named by your new F3 family. So we are all born in the shadows, in the gloom. That’s the start of the new us, committed to being a little bit better, every day.
Thanks for the F3 community. Thanks for letting me lead. Thanks to the gloom.
