F3 New Orleans

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  • Two Kings and a Joker – from Russo

    Temp was below 40 for the entirety, what YHC feels is the last bit of cold weather we’ll see for a while, but I’ve been wrong before.

    Warmup – all IC 10x

    – SSHs
    – Arm circles
    – Toe touches
    – Cherry pickers
    – High knees
    – Self love

    Thang – Deck of Death (count and exercise based on card turned over)

    The deck provided the inspiration for the title: YHC the Joker was joined by two kings:

    (1) Steve – King of making it look easy. I don’t doubt that he struggles on occasion. But you’d never be able to tell it. Effortless floating from one to the next. Smirking the entire time.

    (2) Waterpik – King of Form and perfect execution. Flawless. Even the most demanding judge is mystified by the way he fully executes. No shortcuts. Watch him jump squat. While YHC is struggling to get down to a 135 degree angle, he’s headed all of the way down and back up. Amazing.

    Back to the deck, we split the deck into 3 groups for rounds. Rounds included:
    Spades – durkins
    Clubs – freak nastys
    Diamonds – Bulgarian split squats (2 is 1)
    Hearts – leg raises

    Spades – shoulder tap merkins
    Clubs – calf raises (2 is 1)
    Diamonds – SMCs
    Hearts – Crunchy frogs

    Spades – step ups
    Clubs – Monkey Humpers
    Diamonds – jump squats
    Hearts – box cutters

    Before and between rounds, we moseyed around Granny’s to accumulate some mileage.

    Mary (all 15x)

    – LMCs
    – Gas pumps
    – Penguins
    – Heels to heaven
    – Flutter kicks

    Finally, 3 calf raises each step of the pilot house.

    COT, name-o-rama, announcements and prayer closed us out.

    SYITG

  • Mystic Krewe of Frizzledrip – from Steve

    If you’re waiting for YHC to explain that title, you’re gonna be waiting a while. And don’t go googling that stuff… seriously, it’s dark web material and your IP address will be added to some government list and that girl from The Ring will crawl out of her well, pop out of your phone, and take you down. (Note to Rudy: this is when we could use the option of using a gif / meme / pic to help out where words can’t do justice. Honestly, I don’t know how Jose 10k writes any backblasts without the gif option).

    Alright, this is another tardy backblast and so there’s not much that I can remember about the splashpad beatdown at this point except that it was good to catch up with Pelican and that the chatter revolved around parades, conspiracy theories (or are they!?!) and, of course, Taylor Swift. Usual warmorama before this Krewe took to the streets for a trip to the tunnel.

    No surprise that there were merkins along the way: 20x at each of the three intersections. Then YHC backpedaled up the ramp while Russo and Pelican did one of the following exercises (swaparoo after each run): plank jacks, lunges, burpees, groiners… something else… Big boys?

    Return trip was similar to the route out – stopping for 20x merkins – though we also added a depot stop for some leg action. Usual mix of Bulgarians, freaks, step ups, and my recent fave, step downs. It was Pelican’s first experience with step downs and they did not disappoint.

    Quick round of Mary, COT, and Russo prayed us out. It’s been great joining the Friday crew the past few weeks, t-claps to these two guys for holding this AO down for so long.

  • Well that changed quickly! – from Shooter

    YHC rolled up to 2 PAX in Hammer and Waterpik at the Scramble expecting to have a light showing. Out of the darkness Jose10k and Steve appear and the the headlights just kept coming in. Before long the PAX quickly swelled to 10 and so we did a simple warmup of Imperial walkers, SSH, Grass grabbers, Good mornings and Seal jacks..
    Route was down toward Monroe and zig zagged our way through the streets while 4 PAX Rucked out for 20 and back.

    Appreciate the great showing the last two weeks gentleman. Let’s keep it up..

    Keep checkin Slack as Hogsbreath will posting a date at the 007 for his 40 year birthday beatdown to come…

    Until the next gloom 👍🏼👊🏼✌🏼!!!

  • Jose needs PaxMiner credit – from Russo

    Some days the only thing driving YHC to get up before 5AM are the three Fs. Emphasis on the fellowship. So when a humble request went out last night to include at least some running from Bushwhacker, YHC modified what he had planned to fulfill said request, looking forward to the chatter that only he can bring. Alas, Sir Whacker decided he would rather the comfort of bed than the mosey pace of a Granny’s post. Thumbs down. But Steve and Jose10k helped YHC hold down the fort, the latter of which surprised me when his response to his miles tallied thus far was “6” instead of the normal 2-3. That bar can’t keep raising, Jose. Thumbs up.

    Warmup – 10x IC
    – Seal jacks
    – Toe touches
    – Self love
    – Cherry pickers
    – Grass grabbers
    – High knees

    Thang
    Tabata:
    – 40 seconds each with bricks, 20 seconds rest, with some moseying before and after each of the four rounds

    Round 1
    – Plankjacks
    – Cherry pickers
    – Overhead claps
    – Nutcrackers
    – Hallelujah squats

    Mosey around Granny’s to get some run Cajun run miles in.

    Round 2
    – Tricep extensions
    – Arm curls
    – Air presses
    – Squats
    – Arm circles
    – Milk maids

    Rinse and repeat rounds 1 and 2 for 3 and 4. Rinse and repeat the running around as well (creatures of habit and all).

    Mary – 15x IC
    – LMCs
    – Penguins
    – Flutter kicks
    – Crunchy frogs

    COT, with NOR and prayer before heading back to start a Tuesday. RCR is in full swing, and the Ivan is coming up on the 17th.

    Thanks for joining gentlemen.

  • This Is 40 – from Steve

    Hammer hit us with an interesting study (from Harvard, no less!) yesterday at the Scramble: middle aged men who can do 40 pushups in one attempt have a 96% reduced risk of suffering from heart disease over the next 10 years. YHC had to look up the actual stats post-beatdown, and was unaware of this 10 year qualifier. Here I am promising Russo and Groupie that they were good for life with these 40 merkins!

    So, after a brief warmup, we hit the road to the lakefront, stopping at each intersection for a set of 40 of the following exercises:

    – Merkins
    – Leg Raises
    – Step Ups (40 ea leg)
    – Shoulder Taps
    – Monkey Humpers
    – Freak Nasties
    – Hello Dollies
    – Jump Squats
    – Hand-Release Merkins
    – Air Presses
    – Big Boy Sit-ups

    YHC got to know Groupie a bit, enjoyed the always good mumblechatter with Russo, and logged an extra 1.2 miles for RCR. (You can assume all of my Q’s this month will at least involve a mile of running.) Little bit of Mary there at the end, followed by COT, where Russo closed us out. Thanks for the post gents, always a pleasure to be out there with you guys.

  • It’s The Most Wonderful Time of The Year – from Steve

    Pik strolled up to the Scramble this morning to find a pax of 9 already huddled (and another with his weathered Charity sweatshirt coming in hot), and he wondered what the hell was going on. Then he remembered, oh yeah, IT’S FEBRUARY.

    That’s right, the second most wonderful time of the year, where if you miss one day of running, you realize you’ll need 8-10 miles the next day just to make up for it. Or, if you’re Frank, simply run a full marathon instead of a half (and, of course, 4 murphs instead of two).

    Anyway, big pax assembled today for the start of RCR 2024, even turning some ruckers (JV and Russo) into runners, and bringing out old familiar (yet clean shaven) faces like Chewy.

    Lakefront route today, all the way to Girod to get us a little past 4 miles. Went a little over on time also, my apologies fellas.

    COT with straggler ruckers still rolling in, and Hammer prayed us out. T-claps to all the pre-thangers – Jose, Hammer, Waterpik.

    Don’t forget to log your miles: https://www.runcajunrun.com/mileage-log/ It is a leap year, so hey, with that extra day now is the time to shoot for the RCR record of 403 miles.

    Oh, and even though there’s been no buzz about it and no one even knows where the hell the Freedom Hammer lives and there’s an event in Thibodaux that morning, the Krazy Ivan is indeed still happening on Saturday, Feb 17th, at 8pm. If you don’t have a tank top, Sogo can probably lend you one.

  • Trio of Tards on this Tuesday!! – from Shooter

    Rolling up to Granny’s with just one car in sight could only mean one Tard was already getting after it.. You guessed it, Jose10k was already Moseying through the streets of Mandeville looking to get out to a BIG lead in 2024 ahead of Russo on the PAXminer report.. YHC would soon be joined by another Tard in Steve, as he rolled up on his bike out of the dark..
    We started our warmup completing Arm circles, selflove, windmills, grass grabbers, toe touches and SSH.
    Workout included a deck of cards as we went zigzagging through the streets..
    Exercise’s were ❤️8 count body builders, ♦️Merkins, ♠️Flutter kicks and ♣️Carolina dry docks. Moseyed to each corner, flipped over cards till each suit got played before moving on. First corner proved to have the luck as each time we visited 4 cards flipped and each suit played. Other corners were not as friendly..

    Appreciate you both for posting and until the next Gloom 👍🏼👊🏼✌🏼!!

  • Mandevillians ASSEMBLE! – from Jose10k

    Lost my first one, so here’s my 2nd one. We ran, Mandevillians represented well, and Bushwacker brought a trailer for a 4 foot ladder

  • 3 on the Escalator – from Russo

    Muggy and not cool this morning at Granny’s, as low 60s returned, as did the sweating for YHC. Jose was wrapping up his pre-thing run, all business-like and ready to kick some tail. Steve joined shortly thereafter. Reason number 104 to come out to Granny’s: to catch Steve coming out for the darkness riding his bike, not looking a whole lot different than when Jigsaw wanders out to tell his next unsuspecting victim “I want to play a game.” Now I will ponder what a Saw-inspired beatdown would look like: “you have two minutes to complete 20 burpees with Waterpik form, or you’ll be subject to feeling the Jose summer sweat splashdown”.

    Warmup – all 10-15x IC
    Sealjacks, grass grabbers, high knees, imperial walkers, self love, toe touches

    Thang
    I had hoped to compete what YHC calls the Escalator, 8 exercises, varying rep counts 1 through 8, total rep for each of the 8 at 36, as we moseyed in a figure 8 pattern around Granny’s. Alas, it’s a farther mosey than expected, so we were only able to complete 4 of the 8 rounds. All told, even without a fancy Garmin, my phone said we did about 2 miles, or about 3200 meters. Which is 8 times around a standard 400 meter track. Math, Jose!

    Exercises:

    8 count bodybuilders
    SMCs
    Imperial squat walkers (2 is 1)
    Donkey kicks
    Big boy sit-ups
    Wide merkins
    Kid N Plays (2 is 1)
    Murder bunnies

    Mumble revolved around Mardi Gras, leaks, appliances, episode 8s, and New Year’s resolutions.

    COT, NOR, Announcements, Prayer, in that order.

    RCR, Camping, Ivan, all coming up.

    Major T claps to both Steve and Jose for posting after Sunday’s nightmare, made all the more impressive because of Jose’s IronPax / Au Lait / Nightmare trifecta. He continues to set the bar high.

    SYITG

  • Calf Raises and… calf raises? – from Steve

    You’d think that you wouldn’t be able to build an entire beatdown around calf raises. But you know what? You’d be wrong. You’d think that the pax – which consisted of a Bushwacker still on duty, walkie in hand, and a Waterpik who did his own warmup running to the AO – you’d think, hey, these guys would be very unhappy if they got up this early, braved the cold and ice for… calf raises? But again, you’d be wrong. You might also say, but Steve, can calf raises alone keep you warm, what with arctic blasts rolling through the area and sub-freezing temperatures?

    Well, ok no, let’s be honest – no they cannot. But still….

    It started off as it always does, with measly side straddle hops, a few wimpy butt kicks, some piddly grass grabbers and lame imperial walkers. Then a warm up lap around the trailhead before we got to the heavy stuff, the real meat of the workout and, that’s right, we’re not talking about absolution or kraken burpees or even those beloved Bulgarians, we’re talking about calf raises.

    Now Russo has always maintained that 3 calf raises per step up the pilot house is the perfect amount. And I’d agree, except that I think there’s poor form on the first one, since you are stepping up to that step and probably haven’t quite settled before you begin. And of course, by that logic, there’s also poor form on the last one, as you start to jump up to the next step. So what happens in this 3-per-step scenario is you’re only really getting one good calf raise with proper form per step. Now, at 5 per step, you’re actually getting three good calf raises per step, as intended.

    Lucky for us, form was not an issue. With icy conditions, we were forced to take things slow up the stairs for fear of slipping. With so many trips up the pilot house steps, YHC had time to reflect on the mechanics of calf raises, how they engage your core, help with balance awareness, heck, maybe even improve your posture. It’s very nearly a full body workout. Nearly. And to do this for 45 minutes would probably be some sort of record, right? Is there a Guinness World Record for calf raises? If not, I’m just going to go ahead and claim that Waterpik owns this record. I mean, who’s to say?

    Ok, ok, perhaps there were other options at this beatdown, which were determined by a roll of the die:

    1- 10 derkins off stage, bear crawl to platform and back
    2 – 5 calf raises up each step
    3 – 20x freak nasties, 20x merkins
    4 – race down corridor, winner 5x merkins, losers 5x burpees
    5 – 25x burpees
    6 – Jane Fondas, pulses, and heel-to-knee x12 IC

    BUT… Waterpik did roll a hell of a lot of 2’s in a very short period of time, and Bush was rolling 6’s like nobody’s business (and then pondering how appreciative his wife might be of his sudden glute development). It was a vicious cycle of calf raises and Jane fonds for a very long stretch.

    Anyway, t-claps to these two men, who were gracious enough to get out there when even the Q didn’t want to go. Pik prayed us out with intentions for everyone to stay safe in this icy weather. Thanks for the opportunity to be out there with you gents, appreciate you guys.