F3 New Orleans

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  • 6 Year Anniversary (10-14-2020) – The Birdcage

    Woke up early to this beautiful, cool, dry morning to setup the field in front of Audubon Zoo with our F3 flags. Then I moseyed to our usual Birdcage COT spot to meet up with 45 other PAX to celebrate F3Nola’s 6 year anniversary. Before the disclaimer, I told the PAX that this is our actual anniversary date, and The Birdcage was our very first weekday AO. We then headed over to the field in front of Audubon Zoo with our warmup exercises in cadence. To honor our 6 year anniversary, we started the day with 6 burpees OYO.

    1.) SSHs x 20

    2.) Windmills x 10

    3.) Self Love x 10

    4.) Imperial Walkers x 20

    5.) Peter Parker, Parker Peter, MCs x 15

    We divided the PAX in 2 groups in the middle of the field. One group was facing the Zoo while the other was facing Magazine Street. Each group had their own marker to reach to (which was about 50 feet away).

    Round 1 – moseyed to the marker and did 10 hand release merkins. Then moseyed back to the middle of the field and went back out to marker to do 15 hand release merkins. Then moseyed back to the middle of the field and went back to the marker to finish off with 20 hand release merkins. Then converged back to the middle of the field to wait for the Six (SSHs until the Six was done).

    Round 2 – similar routine as round 1 except we did 10, 15, and 20 big boy situps.

    Round 3 – similar to round 1 except we did 10, 15, and 20 jump lunges. Also, instead of running, we were side hopping.

    Round 4 – similar to round 1 except we did 10, 15, and 20 leg raises.

    Round 5 – similar to round 3 except we did 10, 15, and 20 squats.

    Round 6 – similar to round 1 except we bear crawled to the marker and moseyed back to the middle of the field with 20, 40, and 60 overhead air presses in between.

    Round 7 – similar to round 6 except we bunny hopped to the marker and moseyed back to the middle of the field with 5, 10, and 15 burpees in between.

    At some point during the workout, we saw a shooting star with a crescent moon in the backgound.

    Round of Mary

    We did the following in cadence:

    1.) American Hammers x 20

    2.) LBCs x 20

    3.) Hello Dolly x 20

    4.) Low Country Crabs x 10 (Yankee’s lead)

    5.) Dying Cockroach x 20 (Hawgcycle’s lead)

    COT

    We finished the beatdown with COT. Announcements and prayers. Someone mentioned Bogey is buying for everyone who shows up at the Deutsches Haus tonight. We thank Sky Q for giving us the strength everyday so that we can do this on a regular basis. Always grateful to be out in the AM with the PAX and hopeful for many years of this.

    Few of us had some F2 coffee at PJ’s on Magazine. Always entertaining conversations with the PAX. SYITG

  • Thirsty Thursday

    The mid-August air was heavy, but the feet were fast and light this morning. Nine of us gathered for a choice between two routes, each with a midway convergence on some cold refreshing water that had been placed strategically for these PAX to indulge in. Or you could show up late, play your own version of “catch us if you can” and join us back at the flag for the COT.

    As usual it was a great run. Some fast times this morning despite the deep Southern August air. Thank you for the chance to lead this beatdown, and thanks for trusting the route. Motivated and inspired by all…always.

    Our thoughts and prayers to all the families starting back to school, and of course for all the intentions that weigh on the hearts of the F3 family.

    Thank you to F3 Nation for being there for all of us.

  • Opportunity Q

    Today’s Q-less AO provided someone an opportunity. As luck would have it, I took it. Perhaps feeling guilty of “fartsacking” it last week, perhaps knowing I haven’t seen the Q sheet since June…a quick “I’ll take it” at 5:31 and we were off..

    Disclaimer and mosey to the Kickball field in front of the Zoo for the warmup: SSH X 20, Hillbilly X 20, Mountain Climbers X 20, Peter Parker X 20

    The Thang Part 1:

    Mosey to the front of Zoo staring down the driveway towards Magazine St.

    Complete a lap of the driveway in a figure eight manner, forward run on the downtown side of the driveway, complete 10 burpees on the way down, backwards run on the uptown side of the driveway, complete 10 squats on the way back. Rinse and repeat for 15 minutes. Most of us completed 3 laps, some 4.

    Part 2:

    Grab some bench at the front of the Zoo…Right Leg Step Up X 15, LLSU X 15, 10 Incline Merkins OYO, Right Leg Power Up X 15, LLPU X 15, 10 Decline Merkins OYO, Bulgarian Split Squat (Right Leg) X 15, BSS (Left Leg) X 15, 10 Wide Merkins OYO

    Next we gathered for some Mary.

    LBC X 25, Flutter Kick X 25, Dying CockRoach X 25…Short Jog

    Real Freddie Mercury X 25, Nolan Ryan X 15, Sandy Koufax X 15, Jog to the Kickball Field

    Part 3:

    Merkin Ring of Fire…10 reps (ring of fire begins on 5)…3 total rounds.

    Back to the flag for Count-o-rama, Name-o-rama, announcements and intentions.

    Announcements: Q-Source Tuesday at the Felipes near Tulane. 7pm pre-discussion gathering, 730 discussion…check Mumblechatter for Zoom info. Also, on Tuesday the 18th the Q Source Meetup will involve a run with the 504th running group. Check Mumblechatter for details. TClaps to those who joined the meetup with Black Men Run and Son of a Saint on Saturday. Hoping to hear about more opportunities with BMR and SOAS in the future.

    Intentions: Continue to strive to be the best version of yourself everyday. Your community needs you…especially now. Special prayers for school leaders, educators, support staff, parents, and students as we all embark on this school year. I can’t even think of words to articulate the challenges that I know the families in our city (and beyond) will face in the coming weeks as school starts. School provides so much more than just curriculum and academic/technical training. For many of our students, the school building is the most consistent and supportive place they’ve known, a place for meals, a place for friendship, a place to be encouraged to “become the best version of themselves”…all that beyond the academic/technical learning. Let’s all pray that for the sake of that (in addition to a 160,000 and counting other reasons)…we get some flattening of the curve as quickly as possible.