It was the same ole, same ole this morning at the mandeville city hall scramble. But that’s the beauty of F3, it’s the consistency. Yes, some of the regulars were out, and yes, there have been some AOs where numbers are low, but it’s still good to get out there in the gloom and hit the streets of Old mandeville for our weekly 5K. Here’s to a strong close to the week, men!
Category: Northshore
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And there were two… – from Hogs Breath
So first as YHC headed toward grandmothers house, the entrance to the trailhead on Girod st. was being repaired….not to be deterred I skirted the block to enter on Lafitte st.
When as I pull up, only Zoolander and myself were present. The mumble chatter went something akin“Do you have the q?”
“No, do you?”Well in the absence of a Q, what would we do?
Make our own of course! We decided to wait a few minutes with a warm-up to see if any others should show…Imperial walkers x 15
Touch touches x10
Hairy rockettes x 15
And maybe some side straddle hopsWhen we determined that no one else would show, we headed for a mosey to the lakefront and North on lakeshore to the pier wall and back. On the way we had some good mumble chatter of life, nicknames and reasons both of these make us sore…
Returning to grandmas house with about 10 mins we did some Mary. Zoolander preformed a Mary exercise (Big boy sit-ups, crunchy frogs, flutter kicks, LBC, Obliques) while YHC would run to the top of the tower and preform a Burpee at the top, the run down and switch. We rounded the Mary out with a 40sec plank.
Where two gather there will be pain!
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First Ever Northshore F3/FiA Mixer – from Cowbell
If you ask someone that rhymes with mushtacker when is the best time to post a back blast, he would probably say within 5 minutes of it ending. I, on the other hand, like some time, a week give or take, to reflect on what the workout meant to me and the pax.
Just kidding, I’ve been busy, and enjoy making mushtacker wait to see in writing form what it is he did himself.
25 pax met at the Covington trailhead for the first ever joint F3/FiA workout
COP #1 Warm Up (all IC X20)
SSH, Seal Jacks, IW, Arm Circles (F/B), Toe Touches, OH Arm Claps, Mtn climbers, WindmillsThe Thang
Tabata Style (45 sec work, 25 sec rest) 6 stationsExercises included:
Burpees
Freak Nasties
Chest press with block
Bobby Hurley
Big Boi Sit Ups
J Lo’sRinse and repeat
COP #2 6MOM
20 X Hello Dolly (Hey zoo)
20 X LBC
20 X Crunchy FrogCOT: Count, Name (a lot of FNG’s), Jose Prayed us out
We met at the Covington Tap Room for post work out beverages.
All in all I think the first mixer was a success. looking forward to doing another one in the next month or so.
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Springtime couponing at the A1c… – from Shooter
YHC was looking forward to leading the A1c this week and seeing some guys from the Gipper crew. I had unfortunately (not) missed Akbars Wednesday Q, which I heard and read about as being quite intense with a block and high rep count. Ideas swirled my mind throughout the week and Sir Wacker resurrecting the Dice of Doom the previous day at the Scramble helped with finalizing what the A1c should and would expect on this mid 50s Gloom. Leaving the house a few mins early YHC stopped by the supply shed at the trailhead to scoop up 6 coupons. Arriving to the likes of Jose 10k and Backdraft atop the parking garage with Einstein arriving shortly after. As we chattered and started to get ready the PAX could see the ascending BBQ arriving right on time.
Warmarama
15IC Imperial walkers, Mummy kicks and SSH
10IC Toe Touches, Good mornings, and Torso twists.Thang
PAX instructed to grab a coupon out of the roomy Honda FIT mid section, which I know impressed a few as this was not to be expected coming out of YHCs clown car.. but hey as I like to say everything fits in the FIT..
We assembled at the Southern end with coupons in tow and utilizing the Dice of Doom count block for our called rep count. Q rolled out the first 25 at which we completed Chest press and Freak Nasties followed by a mosey down the steps and back up the parking garage. Next roll 20 Military press and Squat thrusters R/R the Mosey. Third roll wouldn’t you know 15 Curls for the girls and Rows for the _____…….. R/R the Mosey. Passing the roll off to Jose he drops a 50 which the YHC could not have planned out had he tried. This time he completed 50 rep counts of all of the above finished by our Mosey.. 😢😢 With time to spare upon completion each PAX rolled both dice for the next series of work to complete while incorporating our coupon along the way. BBQ rolled 25 Merkins using the coupon as a tight military style. Einstein rolled 10 Burpees which we converted to Man Makers. Backdraft rolled 15 2xPutins which we included at 5s 15 LBCs with coupon. And to finish Q rolled his lucky number 50 jump squats which after 10 we included a squat thruster. Finished off with one more Mosey and then wrapped things up with our count, name and COT as BBQ took us out..Thanks for posting men and following my lead… Until the next Gloom 👍🏼👊🏼✌🏼!!!
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Oh I Bet! – from Russo
If you’ve ever seen YHC at a beatdown, there are certain things you can bet money on:
(1) There will be sweating. A lot of sweating. Shooter in a sauna sweating. Tanked up on mile 10 sweating. (Even money)
(2) At some point the phrase “Yeah you right” will be uttered (2:1)
(3) A deck of cards might find its way into the beatdown (5:1)If you had found a way to find a casino willing to take a three-bet parlay on those things happening at Granny’s this week, you would have made at LEAST $4.17.
Pax of 4 this week to see what the cards had in store.
Warmup (pretty much all IC)
Seal jacks
Toe touches
High knees
Arm circles
Butt kicks
Torso twistsThang before the thang
Pax did a quick course YHC refers to as a “conveyor belt”: lunge walk to each column at granny’s, and drop to a burpee there. Up and around the pilot house, then lunge walk backward, hitting a burpee at each column on the way back as well.
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It had been a few months since breaking out the stinky, dirty, stained deck YHC loves to use, so Pax did another deck of death (!!!), this time splitting into halves instead of fours1st half:
Diamonds: Merkins
Spades: jump squats
Clubs: shoulder tabs (2 is 1)
Hearts: Six inch drill (IC)Halftime: Almost as much fun as the puppy bowl is to the super bowl, a quick slalom mosey among granny’s columns, just to say we, ahem, “ran”.
2nd half:
Diamonds: Makhtar N’Diayes (which morphed into more merkins because exposed elbows and forearms don’t much enjoy smacking pavement repeatedly)
Spades: Suicide squats
Clubs: Freak Nastys
Hearts: Leg RaisesHaving a little time left, Pax gave it a go for another mosey around the warehouse and past the stage.
COT and Name-A-Rama closed us out. You can say it was, err, um, ahem: Aces!
Thanks for joining me and we’ll do it all again soon.
SYITG