F3 New Orleans

Category: Northshore

  • Three Robins share the Q

    With no one on the Q sheet for Grandmas house, 3 PAX posted on this chilly 35 degree morning. I guess these 3 Robins didn’t fly further enough south to escape the temptations of getting in some work on this gloom..

    warmup (Shooter)

    20IC SSH, 10IC Toe touches, 20IC Imperial Walkers, 10IC Good mornings and 20IC Cherry 🍒 pickers.. Mosey around the block past the Treen center returning to the Trailhead..

    Shooter:

    Wilt Chamberlains consisting of 100 LBCs sprint 100yds, 100 Lunges sprint 100yds, 100 Flutter kicks sprint 100yds, 100 Squats sprint 100yds. Another loop around. “Yul Burnin” consisting of 7 Variations of Merkins 7 reps each without pause. (Merkin, staggered left/right arm forward, Wide, Diamond, Neil Diamond thrusts (👏🏻Hammer) and Merkin.

    Pelican:

    Sprint Up/down steps 10x followed by 20 Freak Nasties…

    Sprint Up/down steps 5x followed by 15 Derkins…

    Sprint Up/down steps 2x followed by 10 box jumps…

    Gassed at this point 🥵🥵!!

    Goose:

    Closed with Rock, scissor, paper Burpee to 10x.. Pelican proved to be the mind reader on this one, watching Goose and Shooter perform most reps majority of the time. However, being the true team player Pelican voluntarily joined in on a few rounds including the final..

    Goose closed the PAX out with COT!!

    Appreciate the post men, knowing without your commitment to post this guy would not have worked that hard..

    👍🏻👊🏻✌🏻 Till the next Gloom!

  • A Measly Two Blocks

    It wasn’t particularly gloomy this morning (instead it was crisp, bright and clear). But it was pretty darn cold, at least compared to the warm winter we’ve had thus far. Given the conditions, it might’ve been a wise idea to make the trip down to the lake and witness the rare, clear night sky. But YHC is not, in fact, a wise man, so instead we opted for a simple trip around the Marsh, x2.

    YHC has gotten into the bad habit of trying to lose the always-fashionably-late Cowbell during the warmorama. So after a quick set of SSH, we took the warmup on the road. A short mosey down Lamarque and we heard a car behind us, accompanied by flashing lights. Then we heard some loud grumbling and realized it was actually the Wacker of Bushes that we had left behind.

    After some hustling, he caught the group at our first cross street, just in time for the first of 3 warmup stations: Seal Jacks, toe touches, and high knees. Mosey to the next street for: torso twists, windmills, butt kicks. And onward to the final intersection for: squats, imperial walkers, and x10 merkins OYO.

    Back to the start the make the trip once more, but this time:

    • Bear crawl to first cross street, then shoulder taps x40 IC.
    • Lunge walk to next street, big boy sit-ups x40.
    • Broad Jump/Bunny Hops to next street, T – Merkins x40. (ouch!)
    • Mosey to final cross street, 180º jump squats, x40.

    Each block is about 200 yards, so this one took a bit off the clock. But the simplicity of the routine made it a good time to catch up with the guys: talk about the Ivan, talk about our weekends, talk about the new neighbors on Lamarque who, unbeknownst to us, have been watching us each Monday morning, fondly referring to us as, “those crazy guys.” We saved the 180º jump squats specifically for their intersection to further our reputation. (Yes, of course I had considered monkey humpers, but then thought that it was a) too obvious, and that b) by the way the refer to us, they had likely already witnessed that one.)

    Next up we quickly hit the pull-up bars for x15, then the benches for x20 freaks (IC), before settling back in center court for some Mary (Putins, Freddie’s, and Leg Raises, x20 IC).

    COT with Pik praying us out. I’m incredibly thankful for the beautiful weather this morning, and for you three men who reliably post each week.

  • Krazy Ivan III

    Well, it may not have been how EiEi originally imagined it, but on this January night the weather couldn’t have been much better, especially considering the threat of torrential rain from the west. The PAX began to gather after sun set as the electricity of the evening’s main event began to spark and hum along the lake front in Old Mandeville. Brethren from the southern reaches were welcomed with open arms as old friends reunited and new friendships were soon to be forged in sweat, adrenaline and beer.

    With a large contingent of The World slipping in under the wire, the tense anticipation simply could not have been any sharper. F3 fellows of all stripes were mulling about when, without warning, the score keeper’s cow bell (speaking of conspicuously absent) rang out in a clanging cacophony sending the runners off into the night.

    Now, every man ran his own race. Some took off faster than they oughta, while some found their rhythm and pace quickly. Some could’ve gone another mile, while some dropped to the earth at the finish line. Whether he completed 1, 2, or 3 laps, every man put the hay in the barn.

    Special recognition in the HEART category goes to SOGO, who, shortly before completing the 1st half of his 1st lap, caught a pot hole near the “horse-shoe playground” and suffered a severe ankle sprain. YHC, personally, would have called it then and there, thinking of the work week ahead, but this specimen of fortitude got his happy ass up and, not only finished his remaining 2.6 laps, but finished in 13th place!

    The Top 10 finishers were as follows:

    1. In Time

    2. Catfish

    3. The Hammer

    4. Speedy Gonzalez

    5. Bushwacker

    6. Beignet

    7. Steve

    8. Zoolander

    9. Belloq

    10. Brushburn

    With 60% of the top 10 finishers one might expect the Northshore (God’s Country) to have reclaimed the Freedom Hammer, but, alas, it was not to be this year. The dramatic announcement of the results by THE Manny sent shock waves through the reveling crowd, making disbelievers of both North shore and some South shore PAX alike. For the record, after two recounts, concessions were finally made with the the original tally of 366 to 288 verified.

    And so another year of trash talking and insidious photo bombing by the World’s hard-won spoils lies ahead. There’s still the summer time interlude of the trophy-less Gnarly Nutria to look forward to before we prime up the orchestra for the Krazy Ivan IV: Drago’s Revenge. Until then, thank you to everyone who showed up for some fun competition and fellowship. CSAUP stands for completely stupid and utterly pointless, but we who participate know that there’s nothing pointless to gathering, growing, and bonding; pushing ourselves and leading by example. Until next year…

    SYITG

  • 5 Years of F3?

    I should be in better shape by now. I haven’t been as intense as many of you, and I’ve definitely taken some chunks of time off, but I keep coming back. I come back because of you. Thanks for pushing me harder than I ever would have gone on my own.

    We did a workout that followed the evolution of what types of exercises were popular in each of the last five years (at least through the eyes of Maverick – maybe your experience was different).

    We kicked things off with a 2015 style warmup:

    Side straddle hops, imperial walkers, peter parkers, parker peters, and some arm circles.

    And then off to what I remember doing lots of in 2015: Animal Planet. Spider Crawl, Bear Crawl, Crab Walk, Backwords Bear Crawl.

    Then in 2016 running workouts with stations became popular:

    To re-live that we had four stations around Noah’s Arc. 1st: 5 burpees, 2nd: 20 merkins, 3rd: 30 squats, 4th: 40 LBCs. oh – and from this point forward anytime we heard “Sudden Change” shouted we all had to stop where we were and do 5 burpees. This happened several times during the workout. A pax popularized this in 2016 but it hasn’t been much since.

    In 2017 I remember partner exercises being in vogue:

    So we did a partner carry, leg throws, swap, repeat. Then a wheelbarrow with our partner, leg throws, etc..

    In 2018, I moved to the Northshore and remember several rounds of Tabata. I might have brought a few of those. Quick modified Tabata with high knees, butt kicks, flutter kicks, and mountain climbers.

    In 2019 games became popular. These have been some of my favorite workouts. We brought back a game played on the southshore one crazy morning in 2016 which was ultimate frisbee but the catch was we could only move by bear crawl. Ugh. We used a football and only got to do a couple of drives because of time.

    That brings us to 2020. Who knows what new exercises we’ll be doing this year, but we’re off to a good start. We did partner merkins. Maybe its new, I don’t know. Saw it in a NYC subway station a few weeks ago. Strange. Face your partner – merkin together, come up and give your partner five with your left hand, repeat with right hand, we did this x20.

    And finally we brought back something I did on my VQ. I was scanning the F3 wesbite looking for something unique to bring and not disappoint. I found Roxanne which has been a staple ever since. It doesn’t disappoint – still feeling it.

    That’s it. Thanks for a good 5 years. Hopefully many more to come.

    Welcome Diplomat!

    We closed with these words which are possibly attributed to Mother Theresa:

      People are often unreasonable, irrational, and self-centered.  Forgive them anyway.

            If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives.  Be kind anyway.

            If you are successful, you will win some unfaithful friends and some genuine enemies.  Succeed anyway.

           If you are honest and sincere people may deceive you.  Be honest and sincere anyway.

          What you spend years creating, others could destroy overnight.  Create anyway.

         If you find serenity and happiness, some may be jealous.  Be happy anyway.

      The good you do today, will often be forgotten.  Do good anyway.

    Give the best you have, and it will never be enough.  Give your best anyway.

       In the final analysis, it is between you and God.  It was never between you and them anyway.

  • Lazy Q

    WARMORAMA

    20x SSH

    20x Imperial Walkers

    1 Squat/1 Leg Swing…up to 5 OYO

    THANG

    Run to the end of the pier and back (cut the loo[p out of the normal route)…plan was to go easy and get some good recovery in with the Krazy Ivan coming up.

    COOL-O-RAMA

    52 Crunchy Frogs IC

    Shooter-lead restorative yoga to finish up

    COT

    count off, name o rama

    Thanks, guys, for putting up with my lazy Q and to Bushwacker for posting my BB. If that’s not the laziest Q you ever saw I don’t know what is…

  • Akbar Invents an Exercise

    In searching the F3 ether for a titular experience from today’s Marsh beatdown, there were many to choose from. Unfortunately none of them really spoke to me. That is until I rewound the footage in my brain and saw our own Akbar slapping the ground in gorilla fashion…you’ll see.

    WARM O RAMA

    Continuous stream of F Arm Circles, R Arm Circles, Cherry Pickers, Overhead Claps, and Air Presses followed by Imperial Walkers, Windmills, Torso Twists, and 20 crunchy frogs

    THANG

    The Motivator – they laughed… but not for long! – 10 full SSH, shoulder level, down and out, then hands at sides, then 9 each, then 8, etc, non stop

    Next we circled up and did continuous High Knees while each man took a turn at: 5 burpees, 5Bobby Hurleys, 5 Monkey Humpers*, 5Clerkins (hand clap merkins), 5 Imperial Squat Walkers, 5 Pull Ups over at the playground

    *Akbar started us off and , thus, was the 1st man to start each new exercise. When it came time for monkey humpers (an exercise conspicuously absent during his tenure to this point), he was unfamiliar enough that he squated down an started slapping the ground like a worked up ape. Our collective snickers queued him to try to modify and began , with arms outstretched head of him, doing ankle-propelled hops in the low squat position – quite an amphibious feat. The Akbar Hop? The Troubled Toad?

    Mosey to the lake for 10 Freak Nasties, 10 derkins, 10 Freak Nasties, 10 Derkins, 20 more Cowbell-lead Crunchy Frogs, 10 Freak Nasties and 10 Irkins before moseying back to the Marsh.

    MARY

    Australian Sweat Angels (lookin’ at you Shooter;)

    100s

    E2Ks – L&R

    Never Cross Dolly – Hello Dollies with arms in Iron Cross position

    Little Manny Crunches

    Cowbell was kind enough to close us out with just 10 Crunchy Frogs

    COT

    Count/Name Crunch Frog Cowbell prayed us out after YHC reminded those present of the impending Krazy Ivan this Saturday at 7pm

    Thanks for following my goofy yet challenging lead today guys. It’s always a sign of a great beatdown when every man breaks a sweat and gets a chuckle in the same session!

  • Scrambling for Substitutions!!

    With Cowbell on the Q sheet for the Scramble YHC awoke with preparation of attending knowing the EHs had been set by Waterpik and Wacker. Shortly after waking the illumination of my phone signaled there would be a Substitution on this Thursday. It was Cowbell informing he was under the weather and would need assistance.. Like a teacher in the school system he put out feelers to others as well to find out who would lead the class.. YHC won the response before the Wacker and took to the chaulk board.

    warmup

    IC 10 Windmills, Good Mornings, SSH

    IC 15 Seal Jacks, High Knees, Butt Kicks

    Moseyed our route through Mandeville with chatter and Illumination along the way.. T-claps to Amnesia for lighting up our path as we completed our 5k and returned to the flag with a decent pace.
    Closed with IC 10 Merkins, IC 10 Scorpion kicks and a handful of welcomed stretches and Yoga. Sorry for leaving out the crunchy frogs Cowbell, but I am sure the PAX will get them done remember men D-5 IC 25.

    Amnesia prayed out the PAX

    Appreciate the lead and you men following till the next Gloom 👊🏻💪🏻✌🏻

  • Purple Haze 😈

    With the emotional pain 😢of the Saints last-play, crushing defeat at the hands of the all-to-familiar Minnesota Vikings, coupled with the immediate aftermath of Frankie C’s Hundo 👏🏻👊🏻YHC figured spirits would be subdued and the PAX of F3 Northshore might just Opt for an extra hour of sleep 😴 in the gloom. But, as Lee corso✏️ likes to say, “Not so fast, my friend.” YHC was delighted 🤩to greeted by Akbar and The Hammer upon arriving at the AO.

    YHC led the men through a brief warmup consisting of SSHs, arm circles, HK, and BKs.

    With the intent to provide the PAX (YHC wanted to gripe about the Saints game) a chance to vent about the saints game and to also recap the Hundo, a running beatdown (👎🏼Sean-#7 💪🏻was bruising 🏋️‍♀️Sunday) Full of FUMBLE 🏈chatter was on today’s gloomy 🌒menu.

    Start by moseying toward the lakefront 🌊, stopping 🚦at each intersection to do 10 reps of the following 6 exercises: merkins, smurf jacks, stars, squats, rower sit-ups, and plank jacks. The PAX took a circuitous route through Old Mandeville eventually Heading back to the marsh just in time for the closing 🔔.

    Count off, cot and thanks to the hammer for praying us out.

  • Records Were Meant To Be Broken

    While a few soldier Pax were recovering from Tanked Up’s overnight 100k Hundo, the rest of us got to work on a clear Breesy Saturday before the Saints stick it to the Vikings on Sunday.

    Pre-thang 2 miler with Turbo, Pik, Freon, Zoo, and FNG Paul.

    We warmed up with Imperial Walkers, Squats, Imperial Squat Walkers, Side Straddle Hops, Sleep Walker 123 (up to 5), and Merkins

    Mosey to Noah’s Ark where Freon took the Q / VQ, and led the beat down, which like Brees’ and Thomas’ records, was nothing short of spectacular. It went like this:

    3 Rounds:

    High Knees 60 50 40

    Mountain Climbers 30 40 46

    Straight Leg Sprints 50 40 30

    —Recovery Run around the Ark—

    Gorilla Crawls 16 20 26

    Jimmie Jumps 50 40 30

    Triple Bear 15 20 21

    Frog Burpees 25 20 15

    —Recovery Run around the Ark—

    For a total of 684 reps equivalent to the sum of Brees’ and Thomas’ record breaking stats (540 all time touchdowns + 144 receptions = 684)

    YHC resumed the Q for some work on the Lake Wall. Irkins, Box Jumps, Derkins, Freak Nasties, Burpee Box Jumps

    Indian Run back to the shovel flag where the Pax indulged QIC with a Kenpo Kooldown.

    Excellent work, Freon! YHC was not feeling creative for this beatdown and enlisted Freon last minute for some hurry-up offense. Not only did he Co-Q/VQ, but he EH’d Psycho and brought FNG Paul, now known as Jukebox.

    Psycho, having escaped the Bates Motel to support Freon, prayed us out.

    Thanks for following our lead men. SYITG.

  • A Walk In The Park

    Was it easy-No Would we do it again-Yes Why would a person subject themselves to such pain? We know the answer.

    First and foremost,the strength of our togetherness made the difference. 18 hours on the trace gives one much time to share our lives. To make one stronger when we felt weak. To know that you only die once but you can live everyday.

    The obstacles were there, rain-38 miles worth, cold-it gets you when you are wet, aches-pretty much the entire body below your waist.

    The Hammer set the pace cranking out a 8:45 pace for the first 10 miles. Hammer was clearly our psychological booster lifting us at the 40 mile mark. Sort of like reinforcements when you needed it most! As he approached , nothing looked better than smiling face as he ran toward us.

    Steve was our steady force! We all know Steve. Does not slow up, does not complain, keeps on truckin. To him, mile 64 was like mile 1! The only thing that beat Steve was his cell phone😬😬. It never died even when tracking our progress for 18 hours. No charge. All other phones quit 20 miles earlier.

    Bushwacker- it is no secret his legs endured the most pain in this adventure. I wondered how this man almost always finishes first during our lovely boot camp workouts. Let’s remember he is a guy that could be 6 feet under right now. If you ever wonder why he runs funny, blame it on his motor cycle and that crunching sound when two objects collide. Yet, with his rebuilt body, he is my six million dollar man. The fortitude was clearly visible for all to see.

    For me, I always wanted to be a Roman Centurian. Maybe now I can join their ranks.

    In closing, we want to thank our wives for supplying us several times in this adventure. And you guys, texting us to make sure we were ok. And finally our pre hundo buddies prepping us for the final show.