F3 New Orleans

Author: Grundy

  • The Milestone Globetrotters

    I guess there were a lot of people who broke the first rule of the Northshore F3 rulebook. That is, don’t skip Mondays!!! Regardless, the real men showed up this morning (Shooter and the Captain) and worked their butts off extra hard with all of our fallen brothers in mind (fallen into bed I mean).

     

    So YHC was feeling a little nostalgic this early morning so I decided to bring some exercises in that I used to do during my basketball days.  But first a quick warm up:

    Warmup (or what I can remember of it)

    SSH 20 IC

    Shoulder rolls both directions 20 IC

    Windmills 20 IC

    10 OYO Merkins (No Cap, not burpees. But you can go right ahead).

    Basketball warmup that I used to do:

    • Start on right lower corner of the court and sprint to the top right corner, shuffle to left corner, backpedal to lower left corner, and shuffle right to the start. Continue for 5 laps.

     

    The Thang

    I decided to do an interesting take on a suicide. Why don’t we bear crawl the entire thing!!!

     

    Bear Crawl suicide! Man that was “fun”.

     

    After that we did a conditioning drill we used when we were trying to simulate fatigue in games to work on our late game free throws. The objective was to sprint the width of the court back and forth with the goal of completing 12 trips in 1 minute. If we didn’t all make it then there was a penalty of 10 burpees for everyone. Well I guess these guys just hated the idea of burpees because they got right under the time every time we did it. Even on the last trip when I dropped it to 55 seconds. I am a man of my word and I didn’t make them do any burpees. Another day gentleman, another day.

     

    We then did Wilt Chamberlins. He famously scored 100 points in a game so we did 100 reps of 4 different exercises in succession.

    100 lbcs

    100 squats

    100 flutter kicks each leg

    100 Merkins.

    We were out of time so we circled up and quickly counted off (counting to three goes by very quickly) and gave our “real” names. And Cap closed us out with a great closing prayer.

     

    After we finished, YHC was looking forward to getting home and showering and getting to lay in bed for a few extra minutes before my day had to start. But there was some mumble chatter that rose up and struck the right chord to get me to do one more thing. Captain said he and Shooter were off to be “above average”. I guess I can’t go home to sleep after that challenge. So off we went to get in our 1008 steps at the Mandeville trailhead.

     

    AND… Now we’re done. I hate you guys, but I love you more!!!

     

    Have a blessed one!

  • Gotta Be!!! F3!!! Good For You!!! Good For Me!!!

    18 men (yes you read that correctly) showed up on this “beautiful” morning ready to start off their day right. With three new faces (and one pair of some very fashionable jeans) the PAX did it’s best to circle up to get this beatdown started. I shared with the group a simple concept that I wanted them to keep in mind going into today. I wanted them to realize that in the moments when you want to quit arise (and there were many of those moments that were about to come in this beatdown), your desire to succeed has to be greater than your desire to quit. And when that desire is waning, look around you and draw strength from your brothers around you.

    With that in mind we started moseying towards the playground. But this wasn’t an ordinary mosey, this was the debut of an F3 running Cadence that YHC threw together that morning to inspire the troops. It went something like this with the PAX sounding back each line:

     

    Wake up, wake up, brothers F3…
    If you want results you’d better stick with me…

    Now I’m not a trainer can’t you see…
    So you can’t sue me legally…

    Set some goals that will stretch you…
    And you’ll get better through and through…

    Now I can’t promise a body like Tank…
    But if you don’t fartsack you’ll lose some weight…

    What does F3 do for me?
    It gets me stronger physically…

    What does F3 do for you?
    Better workers and husbands too…

    Gotta Be!
    F3!
    Good for you!
    Good for me!

    Gotta Be!!
    F3!!
    Good for you!!
    Good for me!!

    GOTTA BE!!!
    F3!!!
    GOOD FOR YOU!!!
    GOOD FOR ME!!!

    Ended with a battle cry.

     

    Way to go everyone for bringing some enthusiasm to the cadence!!! Ocho sounded like he was about ready to be deployed!

     

    The Thang

    PAX stopped to circle up for our first exercise:

    Peter Parker holds. Hold your knee to your elbow for a 10 count and then do the other side. Total reps were 12 (6 per side).

    Moseyed to the park for the six pack exercise:

    1 merkin(with leg raised for added difficulty) in the fountain area and 5 pullups at the swing set and continue increasing and decreasing the numbers until you are at 5 merkins and one pullup. The QIC called it after everyone reached 5 merkins without attempting to reverse since it was incredibly sweaty on the bar. We started to mosey back and stopped for our next exercise. WMD crawls.

    WMD crawls are where you do 10 steps with a wide stance crawl and then do 10 wide merkins. You then do 10 steps at a regular merkin hand position and do 10 merkins. You finish with another 10 crawls this time in a close hand position and do 10 diamond merkins.

    After that we did 12 IC reps of Freak nasties and Curb Alberts

    Then we did circle burps. Or line burps. Everyone does quick steps or high knees while everyone takes a turn calling down. When someone says down everyone hits the deck and then returns to quick steps/high knees. With 18 people, the burn was real. But the burn was only going to get worse.

    At this point is where we began our Burn Series. The burn series is a sequence where we work legs in this pattern. 15 full motion reps, 15 pulsing reps where you don’t completely raise out of the rep, and then immediately followed by a 30 second hold. Sprinkled after every burn series exercise was a non leg exercise as well and a slow progression back towards the “flag” (The flag was MIA today).

    The first in the series was the sumo squat. One immediately realized that this was going to be an extremely painful endeavor. This is where mental toughness was so important.

    The burn series then progressed as followed:

    • Alternating dancing staggered merkins (12 reps).
    • Regular Squats (burn series)
    • Inch Worm Pushups (12 reps)
    • Donkey kicks each leg (burn series)
    • Worst merkin ever (series of crucible, regular, and diamond merkins to 24 total reps alternating each rep)
    • Lunges Each Leg (burn series)
    • Bridge Burner Core Exercise (start in a banana, come up to a boat, do 4 Putin’s, and return to a banana for 8 reps)
    • Mosey to rips
    • Calf raises on parking twinkies (burn series)
    • Mosey to “flag”
    • 12 IC alternating shoulder taps
    • 12 IC Carolina Dry Docks
    • Jane Fondas with a raised hip on second side(burn series)!!!
    • Burn series complete

     

    Circled up for the paparazzi (Captain Sparkles) and counted off and named our newest members. Welcome to Milkman, Bushwacker, and Wrangler!

    Splice prayed us out.

     

    Who knew that not moving could be some of the hardest exercises ever!!! What a tremendous showing from each and every one of you guys today!

    It was amazing seeing the determination from the PAX to get through this devious little beatdown. I couldn’t be prouder to be a part of this group and to call myself an F3 brother.

     

    (P.S. By the way turtle, the workouts aren’t getting easier you’re just getting stronger my friend!)

     

    GOTTA BE!!!
    F3!!!
    GOOD FOR YOU!!!
    GOOD FOR ME!!!

    Until next time!

    Grundy

  • Sometimes…You Just Need to Splash Some Merlot

    YHC stumbled to center court knowing the next 45 minutes probably were looking bleak. There was an ever rising feeling that sweat wouldn’t be the only thing leaving the body during this beatdown. It turned out that the premonition was spot on. But that’s just how it goes sometimes. Let’s get to it!!!

    Warmup:

    SSH 25 IC

    High Knees 25 IC

    Head Rolls 4 per side

    Arm stretches

    Chest Stretches (In low wide hand merkin slowly slide over each hand and then come back to the center and complete the merkin) 2 rounds

    Superman (yellow sun red sun) 15 IC both directions

    Leg stretches

    The Thang:

    Kept it relatively simple today

    1 minute of three point merkins (start in a military merkin and step out hands to a normal width merkin and finally to a wide merkin. Continue stepping hands in and out until the time has been reached).

    1 minute of situps (proud to say I hit 60 situps this A.M.!!!)

    1 minute of pullups

    Half mile run. The PAX went for it to try to hit their goal mile time pace for the half mile to see what pace they’d need to make their goal a reality.

    Walk/slow mosey back to the playground for round 2.

    1 minute of normal merkins

    1 minute of shoulder elevated flutter kicks

    1 minute of pullups (Or 1 minute of intense merlot splashing if you chose. Weirdly enough everyone else left the QIC to do this solo…)

    Circled up (somewhat closely) and counted off and Cap’ prayed us out.

    Thanks for letting me lead! This is so much more than a workout group. You guys are my brothers and I couldn’t be happier to get stronger alongside each and every one of you.

     

    See ya for Saturday’s beatdown!!!!

  • Quit Hitting Snooze!!!

    Quit Hitting Snooze!!!

    In honor of our favorite new reptilian PAX member, YHC built a workout that was all about what happens when you hit snooze. Namely, the ALARM keeps going off!

    Here is the abbreviated account of what went down on Tuesday at the Mandeville Trailhead.

    Warmup:

    SSH 20 IC

    Mummy Kicks 20 IC

    Butt Kicks 20 IC

    High Knees 20 IC

    Windmills 10 IC

    Superman Red Sun Yellow Sun 15 IC both directions

    The Thang:

    We moseyed to the playground (albeit in a roundabout manner). But we made the moseying a little more interesting by doing something called the 5 corner escalator.

    5 Corner Escalators: Start with 5 burpees (officially the first of the five corners) and start moseying. At the second corner you do another 5 burpees and add 10 high knee jump-ups. At every corner you do what you had done before and add another set of exercises with an increased rep count of five additional reps for every new exercise. On the last round we did 5 burpees, 10 high knee jumps, 15 merkins, 20 squats, and 25 mountain climbers. Well that escalated quickly…

    Arrived at the park and began what would be the main course of this morning breakfast beatdown. What’s that sound? It’s an ALARM!

    ALARM:

    A routine where you do an (A)rms exercise, (L)egs Exercise, (A)b exercise, (R) exercise, and a (M) exercise.

    ALARM 1 = Shoulder Taps (20 IC), Lunge (Court Length and back), Monkey Crunches (25 OYO), Reverse Crunches (25 OYO), Mountain Climber Merkins (15 OYO).

    Someone must have hit snooze, because a familiar sound rang once more. The ALARM went off again!

    ALARM 2 = Curb Albert (10 IC), PAX Called Up-Downs, Rosalita Wip (15-20 IC), Mini Chesto. The QIC cut this last alarm short so we could head back for our last exercise.

    We were running long but everyone obliged the Q to go a little over. They might have regretted doing that. It was time for the 5 minute plank challenge!

    5 Minute Plank Challenge

    • 1 minute elbow plank (Chilcutts) and rock back and forth past your hands.
    • 30 seconds side planking hip drops each side
    • 1 minute Dancing Chilcutt (Elbow plank with alternating straight leg raises)
    • 30 second side planks Nolan Ryan’s each side.
    • 1 minute Plank alternating feet stepping outside of your shoulders and back.

    That was brutal!!! Way to go guys for hanging in there! And man… Ocho… That story you told… Stunk…

    Circled up and Ocho closed us out in Prayer. Thanks for the select few who braved it this morning! What a pleasure it is to grow stronger with you men… And turtle.

  • Cinemassacre

    Little did the PAX know, but they were going to more than just a workout in this morning’s gloom. No; they were also going to a premiere. A premiere that may have been more appropriate to be wearing a tux then some gym shorts. Today was the premiere… of the Cinemassacre workout.

    Every exercise in today’s workout would be based on or related in some way to a movie, including one that was created by the QIC as well. Too bad we couldn’t have had the movie man himself give his opinion (we all missed ya Steve). And to make it even more special, there was a rare sighting that can only be summarized with this line:

    “It’s a bird…It’s a plane… No! It’s Collard Greens!!!”

    That’s right! Mr. Shoulders himself returned and it was actually him (along with Turbo) who correctly identified the theme of today’s workout. Welcome back man!!!

    Without further ado, let’s get to the beatdown.

    (I hope you have your popcorn ready)

    Warmup:

    Smurf Jacks: 15 IC

    Imperial Walkers (Star Wars): 20 IC

    “The Mummy” Kicks: 20 IC

    Don Quixotes (Windmills): 15 IC

    Peter Parker Peter (Spiderman): 10 IC

    Frankenstein’s: 15 IC

    Daniel-Son (The Karate Kid): Assume the Karate Kid crane kick position. Alternate legs in quick succession. “If do right, none can defend.” 10 reps OYO

    The Thang:

    Turbo kept asking me why I kept messing with my bag. It reminded me of another scene from a movie..

    “What’s in the box bag! WHAT’S IN THE BOX BAG!!!”

    The item in my bag was none other than what would be the “score” of today’s cinematic adventures. My phone plugged into the speaker in my bag would serve as both as an accompaniment to our exercises, but sometimes also as the decider of what our workouts would be. The first song would fall into the latter category.

    The first song came on to break the silence and fill us in on our first “scene”. It was the Rocky theme song!!! So we did Rocky Balboas on the stairs until the song finished (I can feel us “getting stronger” every day gentleman!).

    The next song faded up to let us know that we would be doing some moseying. That of course was the iconic “Chariots  of Fire” theme! The running felt inspired and before we knew it we were all at the school board with the song still driving us on. So how about another lap around the building everyone!? The PAX obliged and we finished the lap just as the song was fading out.

    The next exercise was the “Moon”… Wait, I hear a voice.. Ben Kenobi?! What’s that? It’s no moon? It’s a death star?!?!

    Death Star: We 5et 5 points/cones out in shape of star. Bear Crawl to each cone and perform 25 each of merkins and LBCs rotating. Plank until everyone makes it around.

    Way to go guys! We all conquered that death star. All we had to do was use a little “force”…

    The Chariots of Fire theme once again rose from the ashes of the smoldering Death Star and we moseyed to the second ramp of the parking garage. If you haven’t already gathered from what we’ve done so far, with this workout “you never know what you’re gonna get!”

    Forrest Gump strolled in and introduced us to his good friend “Lt. Dan”. The only thing is that Lt. Dan “ain’t got no legs”. And neither were we in a minute. Lt. Dans up the ramp to 10 and then sprint the rest.

    After that we made our way to the far divider at the top of the parking garage where Tom Hanks was making a back to back appearance. The next exercise was “Catch me If You Can”.

    Catch Me If You Can: Start with two partners. Partner 1 performs 3 Burpees and then sprints to catch Partner 2 who has been running backwards around the divider at the top of the parking garage. Once caught, the two switch roles and the first partner now runs backwards while partner 2 does 3 burpees and chases partner 1. Continue this process until the team completes 2 full laps.

    This was a quad burner (especially if one determines to try to beat his partner backpedaling for an entire lap… Sorry Shooter).

    The workout was winding down in time, but it was building towards something else as well. And the PAX felt its imminent arrival. A looming finale that was hinted at only slightly by the ever increasing grin of the QIC who had “seen the end of this movie before”. A finale which the QIC had watched the night before in the midnight showing. In fact, he directed it himself. An exercise that will have you seeing things “not of this world.” But I know one thing is certain, once you finish this exercise, I know “Who you’re gonna call?”…

    I’d like to introduce everyone to… Gut-busters!!!

    Gut-Busters: Everyone starts in and holds a plank during the Ghostbusters song. Every time they say “Ghost Busters” you complete a burpee [20 burpees total (11 in last 55 seconds)]. In the “I ain’t afraid of no ghosts” sections do plank jacks in rhythm (16 for each section. 64 total). Way to push everyone on Captain Sparkles! Bustin’ makes everyone feel good!!!!

    We moseyed/limped back to the flag with the Chariots theme once more.

    Normal closing procedures issued.

    I had such a blast creating and participating in this workout with you guys! Thanks for indulging my nerdy ways.

    May the force be with you… always!

     

    Roll Credits…

  • The Walls of Jericho

    This morning the PAX embarked on a journey inspired by the days of yore. It was an ambitious attempt which ultimately wasn’t entirely successful, but every man who showed up came out a little bit stronger by the end. And that is what F3 is all about.

    Disclaimer issued for what I knew was coming and it was time to get rolling.

    Warmup:

    20 SSH IC

    1 Burpee

    No time for a long warmup so off we ran to the parking garage for our one and only item we would be doing this morning.

     

    The Thang:

    The Walls of Jericho:

    This exercise was one meant to bring fear into the hearts of those facing it. It derives it’s creation from the story of the Israelites  and the city of Jericho. In the story the Israelites overcame the mighty walls of Jericho by walking around it 7 days. On the 7th day the walls came crashing down. The challenge was this: 7 exercises done7 times and finished by one lap around the garage. The goal is to make it around the garage 7 times.

    The 7 exercises were:

    1. Depth Charges (a 4 count squat finished with a jump at the end)
    2. 25 foot sprints
    3. Hurpees (Hand release Burpees)
    4. Lt. Dans up the ramp
    5. 15 foot bear crawls
    6. Merkins
    7. Dr. W’s

     

    The PAX gave it all they had (and often highlighted the forgetfulness of the Q to ensure the maximum downpainment was achieved. You can thank Steve and Shooter for those extra bear crawls in round 2) but only 4 trips around the wall were completed. So to quote Einstein “The Walls of Jericho are still standing.” But one thing is sure, the walls will be torn down by our group soon enough. To paraphrase Ronald Reagan, F3 PAX tear down this wall!!! Victory will be ours.

     

    Moseyed back to the flag for our normal ending procedures and had the great pleasure of welcoming Sgt. Guns to our group!!!

    Thank every one of you for letting me lead. It is and always will be an honor.

     

  • Where there’s a will, there’s a “Relevé Pli-ay”

    Hey gentlemen. So I’m sitting here at the airport and my flight is delayed, so I thought I’d go ahead and put up the backblast. This will be slightly abbreviated though.

    So 9 men showed up this morning and I’ll get right into it. A disclaimer was given before we started because it was needed for what was coming.

    Warm up:

    Run in place,SSH, butt kicks, seal jacks, and high knees. All of them were 15 IC and there no breaks in between. 10 push-ups and 10 squats.

    The Thang:

    Started off with some yoga and did some Crescent Chair. We then did some crawly plyometric merkins. We then did a ballet move that looks silly, but one didn’t make fun of it after a little bit. The move is called Relevè plié and turbo put it best, “I wanted to start making fun of these moves, but then my legs started burning”.

    We moseyed to the justice center for the main workout. (Well there also was a spur of the moment bear crawl merkin challenge that got us to our final destination). We then partnered up and did a heartbreak 1,2,3,4. As a team you had to do 25 burpees, 50 box jumps, 100 merkins, and 200 LBC’s. When one partner was exercising the other would have to run up and down the justice center staircase and replace his partner where he left off on his exercise count. Heartbreak is what the PAX experienced. I’m just glad we didn’t need to call an ambulance, but if we did Einstein pointed out that there was one nearby.

    We walked to the parking garage for our last stretch. We did sneaky lunges (heals can’t touch the ground) halfway up the ramp and sprinted the rest. We then did some gate bridge lifts. We went to to the other ramp and did some reverse Groucho walks (or duck walks) halfway and sprint to finish.

    We moseyed back to the flag to wrap up. Counterama and Name-o-rama and closing prayer.

    Shoutout to Crawfish for joining our group this week! With a name like Crawfish I’d argue you really belong with us here full time.

    And also welcome to our newest member Dr. J!!

    Thanks for letting me lead guys. If the disclaimer didn’t give it away, it’s obvious I’m not a trainer. I hope you guys have a great day (and no, my flight isn’t here yet… the wait continues). I guess this wasn’t quite as abbreviated as I thought it’d be. Oh well.

  • A Deck of Cards Will Never Look the Same

    In blackjack there is the common phrase to ask for another card. That phrase is “hit me”. Well today we also had a deck of cards, but the cards were the ones bringing the punishment. Whether you asked for it or not.

    Warmup:

    • Windmills 20 IC
    • SSH 20 IC (At least I wasn’t Chewy and make you guys do 40 IC. My revenge is coming Chewy. As sure as the sun will rise, so will my revenge be sure to be exacted upon thee.)
    • Mountain Climbers 20 IC
    • 10 merkins
    • 10 copperhead squats
    • Shoulder Series (4 directions 15 IC)

     

    The Thang:

    Moseyed to an open spot for a Chattanooga Choo Choo. All PAX got in a low plank side by side and the one farthest to the left got up and leap frogged through the line and rejoined the group in a plank. The entire group continued this until we reached our mark (about 35-40 yards). The Pax was certainly out of gas at that point (or would the proper expression be that they were out of coal?).

    Moseyed to right before the park for some good old fashioned up downs. The PAX would do quick feet with their hands up until I said down and then they would hit their chest to the ground and return to the quick feet. We went for about 1 minute and then for the last 30 seconds we turned the quick feet into a high knees sprint. One thing we learned for sure was that Tanked Up could still be playing some football. And to answer your question Turbo, I was invited to the group by Triple Shift on the south shore. Aren’t you glad I’m here?!

    We then moseyed to the park for the real beatdown. Everything up to that point was just a warmup. Turbo was aware of what would be coming when I pulled out that deck of cards. Thus began our battle with the deck of death.

    No amount of card counting could have helped you with this one (although shooter seemed to have some expertise in this area). The beatdown has a simple premise. Every suit is an exercise (hearts were merkins, diamonds were squats, clubs were situps, and spades were 15-20 feet sprints), and the reps were the card number. Face Cards were 10 reps and Aces were 15 reps. And you can’t forget about those jokers. When a joker popped up the PAX did 5 burpees and a lap around the park through the playgrounds. Of course the last card was the Ace of Spades (okay, so you got me, it wasn’t a completely random deck).

    Shooter took over for the last sequence where we did 4 corners (moseyed to a corner of a street and did 10 burpees, moseyed to the next street for 20 hand claps, moseyed to next corner for 30 lunges, and moseyed the last block and finished with 40 SSH (Tanked Up made me do a bit more there)). And of course it took us right up to the flag. Good planning there Shooter!

    We finished with some core exercises

    We circled up for the Counterama and Namerama and Chewy closed us out in prayer.

    Great job today guys! Let me know when you guys want to play some cards! As long as Shooter isn’t allowed to come (Do you have a checkered past we don’t know about there?).

    Thanks for letting me lead guys! As always, sorry if I missed anyone

     

     

  • I always thought our workouts needed a little “Feedback”

    I guess I was so worried I would miss my first ever Q that I woke up that morning at 2:00 and 4:00 A.M. jolted awake by the fear that I had overslept. Not thinking rationally at all since if I had thought about it, I would have remembered that I had set two alarms on my phone just in case. If there ever wasn’t a definition for a balmy morning, it would have come into existence after one walked out the door that morning. 77 degrees at 5:30. But that didn’t keep 6 loyal PAX members (and one determined FNG) to brave the elements for a good old fashioned butt whipping. So once 6:00 hit, we went to work…

    Warm up:

    Side straddle hops (20 IC)
    Imperial walkers (15 IC)
    Windmill (15 IC)
    Mummy (15 IC) (I wish tanked up could have been there)
    10 Merkins
    10 Copperhead Squats:
    Regular squat but lowering body slowly on first 3 counts, then lifting up on 4 count for first rep. 

    Kept arms up for the entirety of the next three subsequent exercises:
    Arm circles thumbs forward small circles (15 IC)
    Hitchhikers (thumbs back small circles) (15 IC)
    Pterodactyls big circles thumbs forward (15 IC)

    Butt kicks (15 IC)
    High knees (15 IC)

    Workout (The Thang)

    Moseyed to the back of the School to get our beat down going. 

    Started off by doing a Duck Walk:
    The duck walk is an exercise done by squatting and walking slowly and staying down in the squat the entire time and walking as slow as you can take! Go 2 times to line (about 20 feet) and back never raising out of the squat position. Who would have thought that such an innocent name would have left the PAX groaning so much?

    Next we did some elevator push-ups:
    We started in a plank and on my Q we would go to the bottom floor (few inches off the ground), second floor (halfway up), and top floor (plank) for 1 1/2 minutes. 

    We walked to front of the school for some partnered wall squats:
    We partnered up and had the other partner hold a wall squat while the other did 5 burpees and ran up and around the front stairway and back and then replaced you on the wall. 3 rounds total. 

    Next we moseyed to parking garage ramp where we did some Bay City Scissors (core workout) followed by a Bernie Sanders halfway up ramp and then sprinted the rest.

    We went to the other side of garage and repeated that to the top level. Shooter looked like he was shot out of a cannon on this round! Once we were on the top we did a sprint to other side, did three Erkins, sprinted back and did three Derkins.

    As the workout wound down, we also went down and moseyed to the courthouse benches for our final series. We did a move that I am not sure has a name that I’m calling… 4 count exploding Derkins: Do a Derkin with feet on the bench going slowly down using a four count and explode up on 4 for 1st rep. 10 reps. 

    We closed out our final sequence with Aiken Legs:
    Done in succession with no rest — 20 Box Jumps, 20 Squats, 20 Lunges (10 each leg), 20 Seal Jacks. On account of all of the mumbling, I can guarantee that all of our legs were in fact aching.

    We moseyed, gingerly I might add, back to the flag.

    We circled up for a COT and did our counterama and Name-o-rama

    In our closing we got to meet our brave FNG (I knew him quite well already actually). EiEi wasn’t there for his usual input, but I feel we landed on a great one for our FNG. Please welcome to our PAX Feedback!!!

    I loved being able to grow with you guys in both strength and fellowship and look forward for that to get even stronger every morning I meet you guys in the gloom. Until next time, see you guys and thanks for letting me lead! (I apologize if I missed anyone who posted. I could have sworn we had 8 so if there was one more I missed I’m sorry about that)