F3 New Orleans

Author: RevSox

  • In Honor of a Legend

    In Honor of a Legend

    YHC arrived hoping no one else would arrive, so he could skip working out in the cold. As it turns out, 39 degrees and no wind are ideal weather conditions for F3. It’s too bad only 5 were out at Popeyes for this gloomy yet beautiful morning, but those five received a quality beatdown to start their day. The Freedom Hammer also enjoyed another good southshore workout.

    Warm-Up

    SSH – 27 (Derek Jeter played for the Yankees’ 27th World Championship Team)

    Imperial Walkers – 26 (Derek Jeter played for the Evil Empire’s 26th World Championship Team)

    Peter Parkers – 25 (Derek Jeter played for the New York Yankees’ 25th World Championship Team)

    Seal Jacks – 24 (Derek Jeter played for the Yankees’ 24th World Championship Team)

    Mountain Climbers – 23

    (Derek Jeter played for the Yankees’ 23rd World Championship Team)

    Elevens

    YHC planned to run elevens at the standard Popeyes location, alas it was chained off still due to the Christmas displays (come on Jefferson Parish Parks Dept!). Quick audible – elevens begin now at the nearest park benches with 1 decline merkin and run around to the far wall for 10 incline merkins. Add and subtract one rep each round, so the pax always hits 11 reps each round.

    Conquer the Hills

    Derek Jeter is the only player in MLB history with 3,000 hits, 250 home runs, 350 stolen bases, and 1,300 RBIs. In honor of the Captain, the pax will climb all the hills at the Popeyes and celebrate with burpees on the top.

    Run to the top of each hill and do 1 burpee on first hill, 2 burpees on second…and 10 lunge steps between each hill. There are 7 hills surrounding the concert stage.

    Global Warming

    It’s cold so circle up for some global warming. Hold Al Gore and the first pax member drops for 6 Catalina Wine Mixers, second pax member drops for his six once the first is done with 3. Two trips around the circle completes our global warming

    Mary

    LBCs – 20

    Wife Pleasers – 20

    Monkey Humpers – 15

    Hello Dolly – 20

    Penguins – 20

    Flutter kicks – 20

    Closing Time

    Count-off, Name-O-Rama, and the naming of our FNG. We welcomed Sam this morning to our F3 brotherhood and named our good Catholic brother Martin Luther. Prayers for SOGOs healing and for all of us to use our endurance and strength for the glory of God. -RevSox

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    -Rev Sox

    Thank you for the opportunity to lead and pushing us all to continue, especially on days when we are all tired and sore.

    6:15am

    Count-Off, Name-O-Rama, Intentions, and Prayer

    6:10am

    YHC leads the Pax in a series of stretches and finishes with a round of 23 flutterkicks, so War Eagle needs to lay on his back in the wet grass before the workout is over.

    6:08am

    FracSac arrives at the track to discover the Q’s original instructions and workout with the Pax for the final ten minutes.

    6:00am

    The Pax returns to the starting point after running the 3 miles of the two loops. The Pax runs 4 laps around the track to hit 4 miles for the morning.

    5:33am

    FracSac arrives at the Wally Run to find the Pax gone and out of sight. In hopes of finding the Pax, FracSac takes the route backwards in hope to find his F3 brothers mid-run and finish with the pax. Little did FracSac know, he was going in the same direction of the Pax and perfectly following the Q’s instructions only 3 minutes behind.

    5:30am

    YHC started the Wally Run promptly at 5:30am with a short disclaimer and instructions with a slight wrinkle for this morning’s run. The Pax will run the standard Wally Run route backwards. The Pax will go left instead of right at the start and go around the neighborhood hitting Woodvine first and Duplessis last in reverse of the standard loop. The Pax was off and running in less than 60 seconds.

  • First Stomp of 2020

    First Stomp of 2020

    22 men came out in the darkened gloom to kick off 2020 with the 610 Stomp. No better way to start the year than a good run with your 22 best friends.

    The Thang

    YHC started with the basic disclaimer and gave the instructions for the morning run. Run out to the Wisner Bridge. Celebrate our run to the bridge with 10 celebration burpees. Run and back and forth over the bridge until the Q calls the time. Celebrate the end of the bridge runs with 10 more celebration burpees and run back to the flag.

    Important lesson learned this morning: Don’t follow Shuffles. Shuffles will go the long way. Shuffles can run faster than you, so take the short way to arrive at the same time as Shuffles.

    The Pax followed Shuffles the long way to the bridge and completed the 10 burpees at the base of the bridge. The pax proceeded to run back and forth over the 610 until YHC rounded everyone up to do 10 more burpees at 6:05. The pax ran back to the flag for the end.

    The Conclusion

    Count-off, Name-O-Rama, and one FNG. The Pax was off their game with name suggestions outside of Hawg who wanted to name the FNG something Canadian since the FNG was from Detroit. YHC went with Crazy Cat Guy. I hope he returns.

    Thank you for the opportunity to lead. May we all lead and push one another throughout 2020.

  • Reindeer Games

    You know Charmin and Hokie and Tool and Sogo
    Heisenberg and Mop and Rev Sox and Belloq
    But do you recall
    The most famous reindeer of all?

    Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
    Had a very shiny nose
    And if you ever saw it
    You would even say it glows

    All of the other reindeer
    Used to laugh and call him names
    They never let poor Rudolph
    Join in any reindeer games

    Then one foggy Christmas Eve
    Santa came to say
    “F3, with your fitness so fine
    Won’t you do some burpees tonight?”

    Then how the reindeer loved him
    As they shouted out with glee
    “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
    You’ll go down in history”

    The Warm Up

    SSH – 25

    Imperial Walkers – 20

    Peter Parkers – 20

    Grass Grabbers – 20

    Hillbillies – 20

    Reindeer Games

    The Pax split up into two teams of 4:

    Mop, YHC, Tool, and Heisenberg vs. Charmin, Sogo, Hokie, and Belloq

    The teams will play the reindeer games while one pax member plays the role of Rudolf. He misses out on the reindeer games while doing burpees. Finish 30 burpees and tag another pax member to take your place as Rudolph.

    Game One

    F3 dodgeball – standard dodgeball but once you are out, you hold plank or do merkins until a teammate catches the ball and you can reenter the game. The team with the most players out at the end of 9 minutes loses. Each team had one player out so dodgeball was a tie.

    Game Two

    Rarajipari – get your team’s baseball to the dog park statue only using your feet. Once you get to the dog park, travel back to the top of the largest hill. You can’t kick the ball twice in a row. Team Belloq wins game 2 by climbing the hill first.

    Game Three

    Ultimate Frisbee – standard Frisbee rules but do 3 merkins for every turnover and 5 merkins when you are scored on. Team Belloq wins game 3 at a score of 2-0.

    Game Four

    Merry Christmas Ya Filthy Animals Race – Relay race: bear crawl round one, crab walk round two, duck walk round three. Race down to the cone like an animal and back. First team to finish wins. Team Mop wins game 4.

    Mary

    You can’t skip Mary on Christmas Morning

    American Hammers – 20

    Hello Dolly – 20

    Flutter Kicks – 20

    Penguins – 20

    Circle of Trust

    Count off, Name-O-Rama, and announcements. Remember to pray for all those who are alone or experiencing loss this Christmas season. Find a way to bring family and community to someone who is on the outside. Pray that we will continue to push one another to improve in 2020.

    -Rev Sox

  • The Three Caballeros

    We’re three caballeros
    Three gay caballeros
    They say we are birds of a feather
    We’re happy amigos

    No matter where Rev goes
    The one, two, and three goes
    We’re always together

    We’re three happy chappies
    With snappy serapes
    You can run how you want if
    You run around Pontiff

    We’re cold as a ice-o
    Who says so? We say so!
    The three caballeros

    Ahhhh!

    We have the stars to guide us
    As we stroll down Duplessis
    Take a right on Friedrichs


    Tua sings and he samba
    Two Yutes shout ‘aye caramba!
    Rev Sox is the bomba
    Oh I don’t think so

    Through fair and stormy weather
    We stand close together
    Like books on a shelf


    Rev Sox leads down Nassau
    Tua tries to dash off
    Two Yutes speaks of babies
    These are three handsome daddies

    Ahhhh!
    We have the stars to guide us
    Park Road is behind us
    To run as we go


    Tua sings and he samba
    Two Yutes shout ‘aye caramba!
    Rev Sox is the bomba
    Oh I don’t think so

    – or the Pax ran 4.6 miles in 44 minutes.

  • Rev Sox’s Birth Story

    Rev Sox’s Birth Story

    On a brisk and windy November 11th, at the lake front on the Northshore YHC was birthed into the world of F3 kicking, complaining, and crying. It wasn’t pretty for anyone involved. Hawg may have denied knowing YHC. Two years later, at the 610 Stomp YHC led 20 men in the remembrance of his birth into F3.

    YHC’s brain has wisely blacked out and refused to retain the memories of his first workout in F3 as he complained through the entire workout with fellow FNG bootsies. The only thing YHC can remember from that fateful day is lots of running alongside the lake with step-ups as the Q’s go to exercise in each stop (sadly there is no Backblast to commemorate the workout).

    The 610 Stomp recreated this workout by running a shortened version of the standard route with step ups thrown in (lots of step ups). Following the disclaimer, the Pax was told to run the standard route without leaving City Park, but this morning they were stop at every bench for 10 alternating step ups (one is one). Only 4 men are allowed per bench, so if the bench is full, they are to pass it by and run to the next bench.

    Each lap from the 610 Stomp start to the City Park entrance on New Carrollton and back has 40 benches. Each lap is aprox 1.5 miles.

    With not enough complaining for YHC’s plans, they set out. Everything worked out well for the first lap, but YHC needed to modify the number of step ups on lap 2, so all the Pax could finish. YHC estimates that each Pax member did 300-500 step ups while running 3 miles.

    Don’t forget the Christmas Party on December 9th and the Krazy Ivan on January 18th as we had a special guest of the Freedom Hammer this morning.

    thanks for 2 years of agony,

    Rev Sox

  • Two for the Price of One

    Danger Zone 11/4

    YHC was not at the latest running of the Danger Zone on Monday. No one was at the latest running of the Danger Zone other than Hawg. Hawg did many dynamic stretches. He sprinted 5 times. No one was injured. His legs were sore the following day. Hawg will continue to sprint 5 times every Monday morning at the City Park Track in preparation for the 2049 Boston Marathon. Join him at your own risk.

    Wally Run 11/7

    Six men came out for the Wally Run on this delightful fall morning. In an attempt to establish a standard route, Rev Sox led the men on the same course as the first three Wally Runs.

    Following the disclaimer, the Pax ran around Pontiff to the park exit opposite of the imaginary flag (where are all the flags lately?). The Pax ran the two mile lap around the big houses in Metairie while engaging in profound conversations. Mambi truly missed out this morning.

    The Pax finished the lap around Pontiff at our return, and we ran a 2nd lap around the park for a 4 mile run in total. The Pax ended with stretching and the discovery that YHC knows nothing about stretching.

    Count Off, Name O Rama, Announcements, Prayer

    -Rev Sox

  • All Hail Sir Shuffles! or the 7th Running of the H8

    All Hail Sir Shuffles! or the 7th Running of the H8

    On a windy Thursday by the shores of Lake Pontchartrain, history was made in F3 New Orleans.

    Triple Shift and Kuch kicked off the festivities for the H8 VII! They split the Pax up into two groups due to the great showing of 33 men to take on the challenge. Little did anyone know that someone was about the conquer the H8 as never seen before.

    YHC was the first and only one to bow out early due to struggles with his shoulder. The rest of the pack ran hard, bear crawled hard, and burpeed with everything they had through 40 minutes of pain and exhaustion. These are the men YHC is not ashamed to call his brothers.

    Then what men said could never be done……….. it happened.

    They said no one could run 100m in less than 9.6 seconds and on August 12, 2009 Bolt became the fastest man in the world at 9.58.

    They said no one could run a marathon in under 2 hours and on Saturday, October 12, 2019 Eliud Kipchoge ran a marathon in 1:59:40.

    They said no one could run 9 laps on the H8 and on Thursday, October 17, 2019 Shuffles ran 9 laps of the H8 with 30 seconds before the 40 minute mark.

    Tclaps to Shuffles for 9 and Tclaps to all of our finishers for setting the bar and giving the rest of us something to strive for. Your Fall 2019 H8 finishers: Shuffles, Breadsticks, Mahatma, Sogo, Rudy, Tua, Col Mustard, Quarterpipe, Screwtop, and Tanner.

    The Pax counted off, Name-O-Rama, Welcome to FNG Crackles, Intentions, and Prayer for the Pax

    -Rev Sox

  • The World’s Shortest Backblast

    3 men came out and pushed through the IronPax Challenge at Popeyes while one man kept time. The total reps are below. Tanner is a beast.

    Tanner – 815

    Chips – 500

    Tua – 500

    Count-Off, Name-O-Rama, and Prayer

    -Rev Sox

  • The Best Chicken IronPax

    Popeyes not only holds the crown for the best chicken sandwich in the Fastfood wars but also holds the crown for the best location for the IronPax challenge.

    12 men came out in the heat and humidity to conquer the IronPax challenge and all 12 men finished the task at hand.

    Challenge One: The Killer Bs

    10 Yard Bunny Hop

    10 Burpees, 10 Bonnie Blairs, 10 Big Boy Situps

    10 Yard Bunny Hop

    10 Burpees, 10 Bonnie Blairs, 10 Big Boy Situps

    10 Yard Bunny Hop

    10 Burpees, 10 Bonnie Blairs, 10 Big Boy Situps

    30 Yard Bear Crawl

    Rinse and Repeat for 5 laps

    SoGo won the day with a time of 21:15 but all 12 men pushed themselves through the dirt and grass to complete the challenge. YHC, SOGO, Tua, Shuffles, and Tanner all completed the Challenge for the 2nd time this week and each improved on his time before. T-Claps to Tua for knocking 7 minutes off his Rock City time.

    The End

    Count-Off, Name-O-Rama, Prayer in the Sweaty-Ball-O-Man

    Thanks for the opportunity to lead,

    Rev Sox