Well, as they say… that happened. The FBI physical fitness test pre-thang Q’d by Grundy started promptly at 0545 as promised, but it would require a prodding Bushwacker to keep this thing on schedule. You see, until this morning, none of us (least of all Grundy) realized just how patriotic our lakefront residents were. After knocking out as many sit-ups as possible in a minute, we slow-moseyed down the street looking for Grundy’s starting line… “a bench lined up with an American flag.” Turns out there are a lot of American flags, and a bunch of benches out there. A bit of confused back and forth and finally, worried about respecting the time, Wacker just took off on the 300 meter sprint. The rest of the PAX quickly followed.
T-claps to Grundy who got us out there, and to those men who got up early to complete the PFT: 1 minute of sit-ups, 300 m sprint, max out on merkins, 1.5 miles in less that 12:50. YHC would call out each man individually, but the fog of being thoroughly beaten has settled in, and it’s a miracle I even remembered the 20 PAX who posted today. Not sure who passed and who failed, but all men did admirably and with all the turnover going on at the Bureau these days, it’s a good thing they’ve got some young men like Grundy coming in.
So yeah – 20 PAX this morning! All the EH’ing and warm weather is paying off. FNG’s are rolling in each week and that’s got the rest of us posting more regularly and upping our game. Speaking of upping our game – YHC had sincerely thought last night about doing… well, not an easy beatdown, but maybe a more mild one? But nah…
Alright, enough rambling, here’s what went down:
Warmorama: Toe Touches, Imperial Walkers, Seal Jacks, SSH, Butt Kicks, High Knees, Mountain Climbers, Plank Jacks. All 20x IC.
The Thang:
Mosey west for a COP: 20x IC side to side plank hops, plank jacks, partner up for jump overs (20 OYO), in-out jump squats, and everyone’s favorite, monkey humpers.
Ei said it best when he noted, “Well, now that we’ve embarrassed ourselves there…” onto the next location! Mosey to the loading dock for what I knew would be a real crowd pleaser: burpees down the street! More mumbling from Bushwacker (you really can’t be fasting that much with all today’s chatter), trying to tell me that I can’t eat an elephant one spoonful at a time, or some such nonsense.
Because there were so many men this morning, YHC decided we’d partner up and P1 would hold plank while P2 burpee’d down the street. It goes like this: burpee with the standard 1 merkin, but on the jump up do a broad jump forward. 2nd burpee has 2 merkins, followed by 2 broad jumps, 3 x 3, and so on, down the road. It was fun. Even better than I imagined on paper.
At about this time a few 10 counts were needed (in espanol for Cinco de Mayo), and then we moved over to the playground for a few stations.
P1 holds a wall sit and does air presses while P2 hits the three padded stations: Sister Mary Katherine’s x15, hand-release merkins, and LBC’s, all single-count x15. After 2 reps each, P1 does heels to heaven while P2 hits the stations, flapjack, 2 reps each.
Next up, formed two lines to indian run back to the flag. Finish up with Hello Dolly’s x25 IC.
Countdown, nameorama, naming of our two FNG’s (welcome Doolittle and Vel-Vito!!), and Splice prayed us out. The only thing that would make this beatdown more complete would be a drive-by from Choppa…
On to the Coffetería, which looked to have a little more action than usual with the table dancing, but you’ll have to check the groupme for that report. A sincere thanks to this great group of men – despite my body’s response, YHC had a great time out there this morning. Keep posting, keep the FNG’s coming, and hey, let’s try to get some of our missing comrades (ahem, Turtle and Bubba) back in action. See you guys out there.
EDIT: One (hopefully) final edit on this unusually long backblast: this was likely Carpool’s final posting as a Northshore resident. As his family makes the trek over to the Woodlands, we wish them nothing but the best. He’s been a great addition to the F3 family over here, and Houston will be lucky to have him. Stay tuned for info on Carpool’s Woodlands launch (potentially mid-July?), would be great if a couple of us could make it out there to support him.
