F3 New Orleans

Category: Northshore

  • Hurry up and Hang Around

    The pre-thang ranged from 1-3 miles and EVERYBODY was running around somewhere! The eventuality of 3 groups of sub-PAX converging on the flag(s) within the cock’s crow of 6am gave way to the somewhat unorthodox beatdown that went something like this…

    THANG

    Gathered in the driest area near the flag, the PAX commenced to SSH while Sir Einstein the Gallant galloped to the rock garden area and back, an approximate 10th of a mile. And so it went, changing exercises, as each man departed and returned. These included Imperial Walkers, Windmills, High Knees, Overhead Claps, and Scorpion Kicks.

    After moseying to the Justice center, the PAX continued to exercise in the absence of each man who, in turn, ran on back to the rock garden area before rejoining his comrades. Fully and properly warmed up, the next set of exercise included Merkins, Jump Squats, Groiners, Burpees, Monkey Humpers, Carolina Dry Docks, and Apollo OH NOs.

    Staying with the same running route, the PAX next made use of the stone benches in their midst by doing Box Jumps, Freak Nasties, Hop Overs, Irkins, In & Outs, Dirkins, and Prayer Squats.

    So as not to ignore a perfectly good set of steps, the PAX carried on doing L Calf Raises, R Calf Raises, Irkin Plank, and “Step Up/Step Down”. QIC and Cowbell ran out of time and so ran an extra lap on the way back to the flag where…

    COT

    Count/Name/Einstein prayed us out with customary short, sweet and to the point words.

    I know we didn’t do much but stand around in a few different places, but I appreciate y’all following along any how!

  • One long mile with a strong… draft.

    Man it’s been a long time since YHC has written a backblast. And while I’d love to blame it on that insanely good BB Hawg dropped on us last week (I mean, who wants to follow that?), it is of course out of pure laziness. So thanks to today’s special guest for helping to get me back on track.

    Usual warmorama, went something like this: arm circles, cherry pickers, windmills, imperial walkers, seal jacks, toe touches, all IC at or around 15x.

    Thang: Started things off pretty foolishly, considering the Nightmare was a mere two days ago: a Merkin Mile to the tunnel. That’s 1/4 mile, x25 merkins, 1/4 mile, x25 merkins, etc. Once we hit a mile at the tunnel, and 100 merkins, we partnered up for:

    Wilt Chamberlains, or some modification of it: 100 LBC’s, 100 squats, 100 flutters (2-count) and 100 lunges. Cumulative count, with P1 running down to the base and backwards back up for the flapjack.

    Modified Merkin Mile back to the flag, with only half the merkins (that’s right, only 50 this time, that’s it. Not like Hammer and I didn’t do 400 two days ago), back for just enough Mary with a guest appearance by our own Backdraft, back from Gitmo! In his prolonged absence he had all the times wrong, but hey, we were happy to catch even a few minutes of him.

    Mary was leg raises, Putins, Jane Fonda’s (including all three stages: plain jane’s, quick pulses, and heel-to-knees).

    COT with Pik praying us out. Welcome back-Draft, it’s great to have you posting again. Start recruiting some of your friends for next year’s Ivan, seriously, it’s never too early to start plotting.

    Thanks to Goose for stepping up to Q ( a VQ no less!) this Saturday, let’s all post to support… and thanks men for posting this morning, for getting me out the sack, and allowing me to lead such a great group of men. It’s always a pleasure.

  • Deck On The Upper Deck

    With rain forecasted, the plan was to work-out inside of the parking garage, using the F3-Deck-Of-Death routine. But the major rain held off, so we headed up to the upper deck for some fresh air and a modified D-O-D.

    Warmed up with 20xIC: windmills, s.s hops, arm circles, high knees, imperial walkers, seal jacks, good mornings, butt kicks, toe touches, smurf jacks.

    With the Deck-Of-Death, clubs=burpees, diamonds=merkins, spades=squats, hearts=crunchy frogs. Modified on the J,Q,K, face cards with; a run down the ramp, up the stairs, and across the upper ramp. Modified on the Ace card with a 50 yard bearcrawl and run return. Modified on the Joker with an exercise choice of whoever drew.

    Time expired about 3/4 through the card deck.

    Back at the invisible flag, we counted off, someone blurted out some stuff about Bushwacker. And Bart2Steve prayed us out.

    Thanks Gents. See you next Wednesday.

  • Round RRR Robin-ing ‘Round the Marsh

    And so it came to be that 50% of today’s PAX found themselves running to the Marsh in the gloom. After all, it’s February. And, while most anywhere else that statement may require a bit more explanation to cover the nuance, round these parts…’nuff said.

    THANG

    So after gathering at center court, the Warm-O-rama became the Thang and the Thang became the Warm-O-rama, as the collective PAX returned to the street to tour Old Mandeville a la Wednesday night’s F2 beatdown. Moseying here and there, each man took a turn, at Q’s random call, to lead a round of an exercise of his choosing. With the 1st round being reserved for those exercises belonging to the warm up class, it was an easy going first mile or so filled with revolving mumble chatter of the most casual nature. And when the leash was removed, and Shooter commenced in dishing out a round of OYO Burpees, the continuously elevated heart rates climbed ever higher.

    MARY

    After the whip that cracked thunder upon our collective heads was passed all the way around, center court was reestablished as our base where we gained our 6 and blasted our common core with what was left in the chamber.

    COT

    count/name/Q prayed us out

    Thanks gents for roamin’, ramblin’ and rangerin’ with this simple man in the gloom of the place we all call home.

  • Smile for the Camera

    YHC decided that today would be the perfect opportunity to try out his new action camera. Perhaps this could be a new feature for the F3 website. Perhaps with Steve’s editing prowess the PAX of the Northshore could be a You Tube sensation! Perhaps YHC should have made sure the battery was fully charged.

    PRE THANG

    A solid crew ran the out-n-back 2 mile route to get the morning started with good rhythm.

    WARMORAMA

    A brief, but full-body-appropriate warm up consisting of:

    Goofballs

    Cherry Pickers

    Torso Twists

    High Knees

    Fire Hydrants

    Scorpion Kicks

    THANG

    Starting at the south end of Marigny, the PAX did x10 Burpees OYO then ran north to the next corner, planking to wait for the 6. Then x10 Burpees and x20 Squats – run north again. x10 Burpees, x20 Squats, x30 Putins. And so you see the pattern forming: x10 chest , x20 legs, x30 core north to the trace, over to Lamarque, and again southbound. Merkins/Lunges/Crunchy Frogs, T Merkins/Apollo OHnos/Flutter Kicks, Diamond Merkins/Copper Head Squats/100s, Partner Clap Merkins/Step Ups/Extended Plank

    Back at the flag, Q more broadly introduced the Motivator – a single count, decreasing, arm-level descending exercise that is sure to take you on a ride on the “pain train” (a la Akbar). Starting at 10 for each arm level, counting down to 1 with no rest. I can’t wait to hear about the cornucopia of calf soreness plaguing the PAX over the next day or 2.

    MARY

    LMCs (lil MANNY crunches)

    Freddy Mercurys

    E2K

    Banana/Superman

    To include Cowbell the 10mile man , who wandered up like a glowing beacon in the gloom, we wrapped up with a Circle Burp with SSH

    COT

    Count/Name

    Grundy’s Nightmare AFTER Christmas tomorrow at 1pm?

    Mick prayed us out.

    Thanks for coming out to join the communal casualties of the Saturday morning Lakefront beatdown, and for pushing yourselves under my humble leadership. Until next time…

    SYITG

    Author’s note: I apologize if I missed anyone. YHC is used to weekday PAX;)

  • Chatter in the rain…

    Brief warmup 10IC Windmills, Toe Touches, Good mornings OYO 10 squats.. Time to start running with hopes of missing the rain.. Well we were good till about 20 mins in before our first monsoon of sorts. We turned up a side street to get some cover, however once we made it to Florida that’s when the buckets of water from above and below hit us.. Finished at the AO with 4.22 miles logged as Waterpik took us out with COT…

    Thanks for posting and staying the course through the tough weather this morning PAX..

    Till the next Gloom 👍🏻👊🏻✌🏻!!!

  • Not accepting coupons anymore!

    With intentions of some strength training, followed by some Restorative Chewy actions. YHC had to call an audible like Mahommes and the Chiefs did in the 4th quarter of the Super Bowl.. Thankfully the Wacker was there with the Dice of Doom!!

    warmup

    All IC 10. Good mornings, Windmills, Arm circles, Cherry pickers, Arm Circles, Air presses, Arm Circles, SSH and Butt kicks.

    Thang

    Play ground for 5 rounds of 5 pull-ups, 10 Merkins and 20 Little Manny crunches.. Walked around behind the commodes to realize we had been trumped by the city of Mandeville cleaning up our cylinder blocks.. Audible called at this point for the Dice of Doom. Took turns rolling around the PAX with YHC starting us with 20 SSHx4 count, followed by Akbar with a double down roll repeat, Hammer putting the 🔨 down with a 50 count on Jump squats, Waterpik with 25 Putin’s x2 and closed with Wackers wacky 50 x4 SSH. Forgot to mention Bear crawls between each sideline to sideline. Circled back at center court for plank holds while each PAX alternated completing 10 Merkins round 1 and closed with 5 Merkins round 2..

    Q needing some attention to stretches finished the PAX with 10 mins of Chewy’s favorite Restorative 🧘‍♂️🧘‍♂️..

    Count, announce and Akbar closed the COT!!

    Thanks for posting men and till the next Gloom 👍🏻👊🏻✌🏻!!

  • 6.2 and more

    The boys joined up this morning for a cool run. Temps were cold but it did not take long to warm up. Clocking the distance will help with the RRR. Shooter prayed the group out where we then moved to coffee, water and deep discussion.

    See you next week.

  • Nolan Richardson modified +35 lbs!!

    With rain in the forecast YHC planned the beatdown in the parking garage across from the Justice center.. After searching the Lexicon for workouts that would take up the full 45min beatdown, Q arrived on the Nolan Richardson. Knowing the Gipper crew loves using coupons from weeks past I decided to incorporate our cylinder blocks stored behind the trailhead.. With no time to waste let’s begin.

    warmup (brief)

    20IC SSH, 10IC Windmills, 20Butt kicks, 10IC Toe touches.

    thang

    Gathered our coupons and moseyed to the garage. Upon arrival Q desperately tried to dispatch the instructions only to have interruptions occurring from our mumble chatter correspondent sir Bushwacker 🤫🤫.. PAX partnered up with coupon in front and got to work. We cut the reps in half 75/150/75/150/75/150/75 all cumulative count. Consisted of Burpees, Squats, Big Boys,Kettle Swings, Merkins, Mountain Climbers and Imperial Walkers.

    P1 did reps while P2 backpedalled 50 yards completed a Bobby Hurley and Sprint at first back quickly modified to mosey back picking up count..

    👏🏻👏🏻 to Bart for making his 2nd post even after posting to Beans intense rep count tear down on Saturday.. Glad to have you part of the Gipper crew!!

    After returning taxed with our coupons, we circled up for count and announce.
    Maverick took us out with COT!!

    Much appreciated to you men for following my lead!!

    ✌🏻👍🏻👊🏻 till the next Gloom!!

  • Double down or split the 8s?

    Maybe the Q should have thought this one out a little more.. Arrived to the Scramble with light numbers expected. However this Gloom would produce a first timer at the Scramble, welcome Goose! Lacking 2 regulars (Wacker and Cowbell) the PAX enjoyed a moderate pace beating the rain drops..

    warmup

    All IC10 Good mornings, Imperial Walkers, Torso twist, Scorpion kicks, Superman, High knees and Butt kicks..

    Moseyed our traditional route with a 9 min pace returning to the AO with some “Black Jack” planned..

    Well the PAX started in with Burpees and Jump Squats.. 1-20, 2-19, 3-18, etc. etc. etc.

    Hammer quickly multiplied the numbers and stated the PAX would have completed well over 200 reps of each. However, the time paused the PAX at the number 8 which if given in a game of “Black Jack” in pairs would prove to be a great split hand so presumably we will pickup this hand in the future..

    Appreciate the post men and thanks to Waterpik for closeout in prayer!!

    👍🏻👊🏻✌🏻 Till the next Gloom!!