F3 New Orleans

Category: Northshore

  • What I Did On My Summer Vacation

    on the first day of my summer vacation
    I woke up…
    then I went downtown…
    to look for a job…
    then I hung out in front of the drugstore

    on the second day of my summer vacation
    I woke up…
    then I went downtown…
    to look for a job…
    then I hung out in front of the drugstore….. “Cheech and Chong, Sister Mary Elephant”

    T-claps to any PAX member who can tell me the job Chong got on his day three.
    And double T-claps to any PAX member who can tell me who Sister Mary Elephant was substituting for.

     

    The PAX, on their Summer Vacation…traveled Route 66. Starting with One Burpee at the first station, we headed to the next station,
    increasing the burpee count by one, for a total of 66 burpees per PAX member at 11 stations. Or in Einstein shorthand: total burpees=((N*(N+1))/2)

     

    To the best of my recall; here is how it went

    Short Disclaimer …I don’t know why the PAX was laughing at this point

    warmup
    all 20xIC; side straddle hops,windmills,imperial walkers,toe touches,hillbillys,arm circles,lunges,side straddle hops in squat position

    mosey to the school board building (Taj Mahal) parking lot
    Two Burpees
    pillar push for 20 count; rinse and repeat x3

    mosey to the front of the Taj Mahal
    Three Burpees
    circle up by the flagpole – step back about 5 yards out
    bearcrawl in, shoulder taps, crawlbear out, merkins; rinse a repeat x3

    mosey to the back of the St.Tammany Parish Courthouse Annex parking garage,
    Four Burpees
    backwards lunge walk halfway up the first floor ramp
    turn and sprint up rest of the way
    Five Burpess
    jog/walk across the second floor ramp
    Six Burpees
    backwards lunge walk halfway up third floor ramp
    turn and crossover hop up rest of the way
    Seven Burpees

    on the top deck of the parking garage
    enter Senor oCho nUeve, just in time for…
    Eight Burpees
    some more merkins
    scout run across the parking deck with front man sprinting out 10 paces, turn around then queue at the back of the line
    Nine Burpees

    mosey to the front of the St. Tammany Parish Courthouse
    circle up around the military monuments
    merkin and fiddler crab crawl counter-clockwise,9 more merkins all around the cicle
    merkin and fiddler crab crawl left clockwise, 9 more merkins all around the cicle
    Ten Burpees

    mosey back to the trail head
    ELEVEN Burpees

    mary
    20xIC bicycles
    20xIC dollys

     

    count-o-rama, prayer led by Grundy, we bid our adieus and head out to take on the day.

     

  • The Modifier at the Trailhead

    As the title suggest this Gloom would prove to be a day of Modification. As we circled up to begin with our warmup the shadows produce a late arrival it’s a bird, it’s a plane nah it’s Grundy shoes and all..

    Warmarama

    20 IC SS

    20 IC MK (Tanked up favorite)

    20 IC WM

    20 IC IW

    20 IC BK

    the thang

    The PAX began our Mosey over to the Milestone Marsh site for some court action. The YHC picked an exercise called the “Bearbees” with an aggressive number of 20 being the goal. And so with horrible math skills the Q tells the PAX of 6 that it should equal to 120 as a group. Shortly in realizing that the YHC spoke one way and demonstrated another that number was quickly modified. 1 Burpee bearcrawl (1,2,3,4) 2 Burpees bear crawl (1,2,3,4) the PAX started at 1 each time 😩 you get the idea so the 20 initially set turned into the PAX getting to round 14,which if my math is correct (double check me Grundy) that would be 105 Burpees per man x 6 =630 total then finished with a Bearcrawl last half of court. Steve being the hidden ninja that he his would have completed, however the YHC felt the need to save the PAX (most importantly himself). Once complete began to Mosey back to Trailhead for a game of “Black Jack” the PAX split into 3 teams upon arrival and the series consisted of partner in wall squat while the other did 1 Merkin up the stairs for 20 Sister Mary Katherine’s  down partner the same and the next series 2 Merkins upstairs 19 SMKs YHC didn’t account for the time this would take so realizing the clock was our enemy we made yet another modification stoping at 7 Merkins and 14 SMKs. Capt Sparkles made the suggestion to reverse the order with 3 min remaining so basically completed 9 rounds each. YHC will bring the Black jack to the table again with a modified method of execution for future Qs. Even with the modifications the PAX was taxed and trenched so in the Qs eye mission accomplished.

    Countarama, announcements, COT (Capt. Sparkles)

  • We Don’t Gamble In This House!

    Pulling up to the AO the YHC notices some pax gathered around 1 particular clown car. At a closer look not 1 but 2 flats on a Cadillac… well not so much a Cadillac… more like a scion or Nissan or some kind of import that any union guy would love to bring a baseball bat to.. “well how the hell did that happen??” is the common question amongst the mumble chatter.. either way the show must go on!!

    THE WARM UP

    SSH x10 IC

    IW x10 IC

    okay enough of that let’s get to the thang…

    THE THANG

    inspired by Ray Lewis…out comes the Deck of Death 😫. A short grumble is quickly silenced by shooters instructions who had done this with me on a previous endeavor.

    Black cards merkins

    Red cards lbcs

    7s pull-ups

    JQK 10

    ACE 25

    JOKERS 50 merkins or 20 merkins 20 lbc and 10 pull-ups

    in a pearl the pax takes turns flipping the cards over in much anticipation to what the next card will be. Grunts and grumble along with Grundy over spirited chatter broke the silence of the gloom…

    after the last card top it off with

    10 burpees oyo

    10 j-Lo ic

    10 heel taps ic

    COT BOM

    big thanks to shooter for praying us out and helping night train and rainbow unicorn with their flat tires even after the beatdown…. and I personally volunteered Ocho for his virgin q for  next week marsh beatdown…

    over and out

    Butt Splice

     

     

     

     

     

  • Gettin’ Jiggy With It

    17 PAX strong this morning, a record for the Northshore mothership?  Perhaps.  I’ll leave the numbers to a shoeless Grundy.  All I know for sure is we got lucky with the (slightly) cooler weather and everyone pushed themselves hard this morning.

    It started as it usually does, with a little foreplay (t-claps to Butt Splice for the proper terminology): the 6:10 warm-up run.  With the improved speed the PAX is turning in, it seems like this foreplay just isn’t enough.  I wouldn’t be surprised to see this warm-up run expanding in the near future…

    Warm Up:

    SSH, Windmills, IW’s, Butt Kicks, High Knees, MC’s, all 20x IC, with the exception of the MC’s, which we took to 40x IC just to keep everyone on their toes.

    The Thang:

    Mosey to the seawall to kick things off with a set of 11’s, derkins on one end, Sister Mary Katherine’s on the other.

    Everyone then partnered up to do some one leg squats (10x each leg).  Then partners lined up back to back for a People’s Chair, held for one minute.   Next up, one partner elbow planked while the other did lateral hops over him (20x), then swaparoo.   Finally, Moonshine had a modification on the first exercise that added a twerk (I believe it was called the… Badonkadonk), so we threw that into the mix at the end.

    Slight communication breakdown as YHC attempted to split the PAX in two for a relay race.   Both teams lined up in a plank, while one man from each team sprinted about 30 yards and back to tag the next man.  Round 2 was bunny hops there, bear crawl back, while PAX performed continuous squats.  Ei noted Cap’n Sparkles was running like he was saving a baby (or a cat) and Rainbow Unicorn unleashed the fastest bear crawl we’ve seen yet, together they gave their team the edge it needed to win.

    Back in to partner exercises with Pray to Gods 20x, and some leg push downs (20x), which are now officially called Tea Baggers, compliments of Moonshine.

    Then we circled up for some T-Plank arm circles: left arm (10x IC), flip onto back for LBC’s (15x IC), right arm (10x IC), flip to front plank for merkins (15x IC).  Back over to left side up t-plank for left knee-to-chest (10x IC), LBC’s (15x IC), right knee-to-chest (10x IC), flip back to front plank for final 15x merks.

    Mosey back to the flag for a cigarette and some cuddling: Scorpion kicks (15x IC), superman hold (1 min), raised scorpion kicks (15x IC), Hello Dolly (15x IC), and Rosalitas (15x IC).

    Countorama, nameorama (welcome FNG’s Firewall and Lucky Charms), announcements and coffeeteria.  T-claps to Moonshine for dropping in from Raleigh, hope to see you again brother.  Thanks for letting me lead guys, always a pleasure.

  • Gnarly Nutria 2017

    The night was hot and humid and dark.  By 8:45, lots of PAX and a few coolers started rolling in (thanks Brown Bag!).  Uptowners, Mid-city denizens, a clown car from the Northshore and a lone rep from Destrehan.  All gathered to see who would hoist the coveted Gnarly Nutria trophy for 2017.  Could the influx of young guns in Uptown be enough to hold off the growing World presence?  Could anyone or anything stop the unstoppable force called TurboTax? Would Da Parish show up in running clothes or spandex cycle suit?

    But first, Yankee gave his best Amnesty impersonation with a 10 minute disclaimer, attempting to explain the overly complex uptowner scoring system (and thanks to Quick Draw and his daughter Katie for taking on the scoring duties).

    Finally – its time to line up under the first lightpost, and Yankee mumbles a “ok, lets go” under his breath.  Slowly the group of confused PAX begin to move, before the front runners (TurboTax, Barcrawl and the soon-to-be-appropriately-named FNG Ringer that the Uptowners recruited just for this event) took off.

    3 laps in the humidity.  Yuck.  YHC enjoyed the run with SOGO, Butt Splice and Hawg.  Great conversations, even as they all passed me by as the humidity and fast out-the-gate pace took its toll.  Meanwhile, out in front, Cowbell took care of some competition by gently nudging last year’s winner, Nip/Tuck, off the path and out of the race.  Sayonara, Nip/Tuck.  Hope you learned a valuable lesson – watch your back.

    Final Standings:

    Place
    Name
    Where
    Laps
    Place Points
    Total Points
    1 Barcrawl Uptown 3 35 38
    2 Ringer Uptown 3 34 37
    3 Turbo Northshore 3 33 36
    4 Mulligan Uptown 3 32 35
    5 YSR Uptown 3 31 34
    6 Cowbell MidCity 3 30 33
    7 Jadaveon Uptown 3 29 32
    8 Sogo MidCity 3 28 31
    9 Hawg MidCity 3 27 30
    10 Rudy MidCity 3 26 29
    11 Butt Splice Northshore 3 25 28
    12 Shorty MidCity 3 24 27
    13 EIEI Northshore 3 23 26
    14 Landing Strip Uptown 3 22 25
    15 Sandbar Uptown 3 21 24
    16 Revit Uptown 3 20 23
    17 Brownbag Uptown 3 19 22
    18 Walleye MidCity 3 18 21
    19 Roots Uptown 3 17 20
    20 Triple Shift MidCity 3 16 19
    21 Stub Hub MidCity 3 15 18
    22 Tool MidCity 3 14 17
    23 Reverend Uptown 3 13 16
    24 Hasselhoff Uptown 3 12 15
    25 Buckle Bunny Uptown 3 11 14
    26 Ocho Northshore 3 10 13
    27 FracSac MidCity 3 9 12
    28 Joe Dirt Destrehan 3 8 11
    29 Da Parish MidCity 3 7 10
    30 Yankee Uptown 3 6 9
    31 Colonel Uptown 3 5 8
    32 Splash Uptown 2 0 2
    32 Whoop Uptown 2 0 2
    32 Seaman Uptown 2 0 2
    32 Milkman MidCity 2 0 2
    32 Nip/Tuck Uptown 2 0 2

    Uptowners led the way, taking 5 of the top 7 spots.  Kudos to Barcrawl on his victory.  And welcome to F3 Ringer!

    The final tally: The World: 363 (249 from MidCity, 103 from the NorthShore and 11 from Destrehan) Uptown: 360  A final difference of 3 points.
    Participants
    Total Laps
    Place Points
    TOTAL
    Uptown 19 53 307 360
    MidCity 12 35 214 249
    Northshore 4 12 91 103
    Destrehan 1 3 8 11
    World 17 50 313 363

    Finished with our Countoff, Name-o-rama (was there ever a doubt on the name of our FNG) and a prayer.  Then dive back into the coolers (thank you again Brown Bag) to grab a cold one (YHC was very very pleasantly suprised with the Mango IPA), and enjoyedanother hour of F2.

    Kudos to the few, the proud, the strong who made the follow on Thursday am post: FracSac, Cowbell, DaParish, Milkman, Butt Splice, Ocho (Hrm… What do they all have in common?  Oh yeah – THE WORLD!)

  • The Scramble Sprint #2

    The PAX at the Scramble journeyed another new course on this Gloom from the Mandeville city hall. As we started our journey the YHC noticed a late arrival pulling in, to no surprise Sea Bass who is quite the regular at The Scramble exited the vehicle headlamp in the on position and quickly caught up to the PAX.

    The thang

    3.2 mile run.

    2:00 min timed Mosey with intervals of 20 sec sprints in between at 100%. YHC can’t help but notice that we are making strides in our running abilities as most PAX are still able to mumble chatter with less restrictions in their wind pipes. Upon return we circled up for a little work in the parking area, which we noticed another PAX member had apparently arrived after we had left and proceeded to journey it alone (Ocho) down the standard route. Stop hitting the snooze Ocho we are on US time brother. (Compliments of 🐢)

    15  IC Manly Merkins

    15 IC SS

    15 IC BK

    on our 6 for some Mary 15 IC flutters, 15 IC LBCs, 15 IC Rosalitas and round it out with 15 IC LBCs. Finished with some stretching.

    Countarama, announcarama, COT

     

  • Simple but Deadly

    11 PAX gathered under the Gipper’s gaze in the Gloom this morning for a simple but deadly beatdown.

    Warmup:

    SSH, Merkins, IWs, Plank Jacks, Windmills, Butt Kicks, High Knees, Seal Jacks and Torso Twists, all 20x IC except for the Torso Twists at 10x.  Enter Ocho, precisely timing his arrival to miss the warmup.

    Mosey to the top deck of the Parking Garage for

    The Thang:

    Burp Back Mountain-Partner up and hit 100 burpees as a team; one PAX burps it up while his partner runs down the ramp and the backpedals up the ramp to tag and relieve the first PAX.  Much Mumble Chatter to start but that petered off fast enough because O2 was soon in short supply.  500 burpees total for Cadre Danny.

    Recovery walk to the Justice Center alley for a Princess Tea Party-Partner up again, plank up facing your partner and play pattycake IC for 10x, then Partner back to back Al Gores for 30 seconds.  Rinse and repeat in ladder fashion so 15x and 45 seconds for round 2, 20x and 60 seconds for round 3, back down to 15x and 45 seconds for round 4, and then 10x and 30 seconds for the last and best round.

    Mosey back to The Gipper for a little plank work then Countorama, Nameorama and Moby prayed us out.

    Welcome FNG Brat!  Great to have you in the PAX.  It never gets easier; you just get better.

  • Looking back on the day we turned 21

    8 PAX converged on the Mandeville Trailhead to look back on what it was once like to be 21 again.. Aside from the all nighters, swollen mulligans and the “what did I do memory of the night before”  your YHC decided it was worth creating a memory of fatigue, sweat and memorable  beat down…

    warmarama

    20 IC SS

    20 IC BK

    20IC WM

    20IC IW

    the thang

    Moseyed over to the David Treen center around the corner to bring back the love of 21!! At least the intention was there but soon enough the memories would fade and the perspiration would begin as if we were all being cooled down by a fire hose at an out door festival or concert. (Capt. Sparkles we may need a hose from the station.) Your YHC introduced the one and only thing the PAX would  do this morning “Super 21.” It goes like this 1 Merkins 1 LBCs lap around, 2 Merkins 2 LBCs lap around. Sounds routine and most probably wondered is this it? Well then came the addition on number 7 to add MC, round 14 add PJ and finishing at 21 rounds.. Butt Splice, Grundy (OA) and Steve (welcome back brother) showed there animalistic abilities and went to town eventually lapping your YHC. The YHC pushed along with the rest of the PAX and enjoyed hearing the mumble chatter as the intensity rose. Ocho, Turtle, The Manny and Capt. Sparkles all working extremely hard showing fatigue but never quitting..  In fact Capt. Sparkles finished at the flag with determination to get the 21… Great job guys!!

    End result 236 Merkins, 236 LBCs, 210 MC, 140 PJ and roughly 2.52 miles (thanks Grundy) of Mosey around the center..

    countarama, annoucearama, COT

  • Milestone Marsh Inauguration!!

    Even before the crack of dawn 4 warrior pax made a decision this morning to start their week off in beast mode!!! Before beginning I myself welcomed the eager eyes with an official introduction to the new AO of the northshore division. Going back to the basics fundamentals are key. And form is everything . So with that being said we bounced right into it!!

    01:00 push-ups to time or failure

    01:00 sit-ups to time or failure

    01:00 pull-ups to time or failure

    1 mile run (all in under 08:03!!)

    rince and repeat…( exclude the mile run)

    and for a small finale we circled up on the court for some time in some plank variations my count of corse was extremely slow (that’s so unlike me)  j-los 10 ic and heal taps 10 ic. COT BOM giving the man upstairs all the glory!

    On a side note every pax there has shown growth in some way shape or form. it’s awesome to see a man transform in front of your eyes..so guy keep showing up!! dig deep and give everything you’ve got!!

  • Newton, Euclid, Archimedes, Gauss, Descartes, Pythagoras

    What these men have in in common with each other, they most assuredly do not have in common with the Northshore Pax.  More on that later.

    Pre-Pre-Thang.  0600

    Ei’s personal goal of running 20 miles this week crept its way into the F3 workout this Saturday.  Our normal Pre-Thang 2 miler would have put your humble narrator 1 mile short of previously mentioned goal.  Consequently, a GroupMe pre-blast was, well, blasted…inviting one and all to get 1.1 miles in before the 0610 Pre-Thang.  Takers were Shooter, Turbo, and Splice.  Out to the yacht club and back.

     

    Pre-Thang.  0610

    Back to the flag after Pre-Pre-Thang to pick up the rest of the Pre-Thangers (can’t remember who all we picked up, so just imagine whoever you want here; it will not affect your experience as a reader of this backblast).  Two mile mosey to the West Side (till I die) of the lakefront.  During Pre-Thang, Grundy timed him self for 1.5 miles and came in at 26 minutes 42 seconds.  Not bad Grundy.  Keep it up.

     

    Thang.  0630

    Started out with a sarcastic disclaimer (would that make it a “claimer”???), wherein YHC declared himself a professional trainer, expert in all areas of medicine, and recited the Hippocratic Oath (that part is a lie).  Next, brief disclaimer and straight into:

    • SSH X 20 IC
    • IW X 20 IC
    • Mountain Climbers x 20 IC
    • Arm Circles x 20 IC
    • Seal Jacks x 20 IC
    • Windmills x 10 IC
    • Toe Touchers x 10 IC

     

    Mosey to the wall for:

    • Bulgarian Split Squat, each leg x 12 – Blackbird claimed he did not know what a “Bulgarian” SS was.  Suspecting jest and that no human could possibly be unaware of the BSS, YHC replied in similar jest that it was the same as a Regular Split Squat, but Bulgarian.  This jest volley was returned with confusion; therefore a description of the exercise in question was given, and Pax proceeded.
    • Freak Nasty’s (actually, Nasties) x 15 IC
    • Baby Box Jumps x 12 OYO – Splice assisted YHC in exercise name modification.  We came up with “Baby BJ’s”
    • Irks x 15 IC

     

    Mosey west for:

    Improperly described Route 66.  Shoulda been Route 55, however, please refer to preamble.  Route 66/55 consisted of:

    • 30 yard run to headless penis (you had to be there) for 1 burpee
    • 40 yard run to base of bridge for 11 Mountain Climbers
    • Back to you-know-what for 2 burpees
    • Back to start for 9 MC’s
    • ad infinitum (Another lie.  We didn’t really go on forever.  I mean, I have a job and a family. We just descended to zero.  Just wanted to use a little italicized Latin lingo)

     

    Mosey across bridge for:

    • Bizz Buzz – Without going into details, this was a total joke.  Penalty for an error in arithmetic by any one member of the Pax was declared to be 5 burpees for the entire Pax.  We never made it to 50, but we made it close with the aid of some assistance (read: cheating).  Cumulative penalty assessed on the Pax equaled 15 burpees.  The Pax was simply unable to muster much morning mathematical manpower.
    • Hip Slappers x 20 IC
    • Jack Webbs.  1:3 Ratio from 10 to 1

     

    Back to flag for ninety seconds of Mary:

    • Flutter Kicks IC.  At count 3 we had a request for Fondas.  Count halted immediately at 4.
    • Fondas x 10 IC

     

    Countorama, Nameorama, Announcementorama, Prayerorama, Coffeteriaorama.

     

    Ei