F3 New Orleans

Tag: Two Yutes

  • Barefoot Led Bedlam

    Warm-up

    SSH x ??; Plank Jacks x 25; The Frac (Burpee Shock and Awe made famous by Fracsac); Don Quixote x 10; Low Slow Squats x 10; Justifier contemplation x 15;

    The Thang

    Mosey to the Rock Pile For A Stack

    • 5 Rock Burpees
    • 5 Rock Burpees; 10 Squats
    • 5 Rock Burpees; 10 Squats, 15 Shoulder Presses
    • 5 Rock Burpees; 10 Squats; 15 Shoulder Presses; 20 Curls
    • 5 Rock Burpees; 10 Squats; 15 Shoulder Presses; 20 Curls; 25 Rows

    Lt. Dan – 2 lunges:1 Squat ……20 lunges 10 squats

    Dying Cockroach x 20; Penguins x 20

    Lt. Dan Repeato

    Dying Cockroach x 20; Penguins x 20

    Unstack the stack

    • 5 Rock Burpees; 10 Squats; 15 Shoulder Presses; 20 Curls; 25 Rows
    • 5 Rock Burpees; 10 Squats; 15 Shoulder Presses; 20 Curls
    • 5 Rock Burpees; 10 Squats, 15 Shoulder Presses
    • 5 Rock Burpees; 10 Squats
    • 5 Rock Burpees

    Recovery walk back to the flag and the top of the levee

    Levee Sprints x 5

    NMM

    • Two Yutes took charge and made up for my tardiness by starting the pax with some SSH and Plank Jacks.  I had decided to smoke a couple of pork shoulders Friday.  Smoking takes very little attention, but I somehow managed to give it less attention than it requires.  When I woke up at 0530 my fire was out, so I worked as long as I could to save the pork before heading to The View.  That’s my story.
    • We did the stack when I Q’d last week and it sucked just as much this week
    • Rumor has it that Papa Smurf showed up to a few workouts barefoot last week.  He was asking me a bunch of questions during the sprints about Earth Grounding.  It was hard to act cool and contain my excitement.  It’s hard going it alone.

    Papa Smurf never seems to get tired.  It’s worthy challenge to try and wear him out.  It may take a round robin Q or CSAUP to do it. 

  • The Inaugural Running of the War Eagle Half-Marathon

    The Inaugural Running of the War Eagle Half-Marathon

    On Saturday, May 16th, six men arrived at the parking lot of Metairie Baptist Church to run 13.1 miles around New Orleans and Metairie. Two weeks earlier War Eagle made the mistake of telling YHC that he was considering running his first half, but he didn’t know when it would be possible. Well, when Hawgcycle is involved anything is possible. A few days later: a date was picked, a time was set, a route was created, and the War Eagle Half was on!

    4 other F3 brothers responded to the announcement of the race as Two Yutes, Shurly, and Yoda (FNG) with Tool promising to join the race once we have crossed the border into the land of Orleans. Two Yutes was also running his first half with an impressive jump of going from an 8 mile run as his PR to 13.1.

    At 6am, the six of us took off at a steady pace of 9:45. Tool, as promised, joined the group in Orleans and ran with the Pax for about 6 miles but became the hero of the day for providing us with much needed water at the 10 mile point.

    Most of the group remained together for the first half of the run but as one to stand out from the Pax, War Eagle took off for the back half of the race to finish with a respectable time of 2:08. Two Yutes finished his first at 2:15 while Shurly and Yoda both came in shortly thereafter. Tclaps to Yoda for finishing the half as his first F3 workout at the age of 61 – double respect!

    But it was one non-runner who arrived at the start and showed us all up before the day was over. Hawg’s M and 2.0 arrived on bikes to ride beside our swift running. Sadly, we were not fast enough for Hawg’s 2.0 as she biked a marathon on Saturday while leaving us all in the dust.

    Those who have never ran a half-marathon, look to Saturday, May 15, 2021 and do something you have never done before.

    -Rev Sox

  • Catfish Semi-Challenge (Mothership 2020-03-07)

    Nice chilly spring Mothership with 18 PAX in attendance: iHeart, Hokie Pokie, Tool, Angie’s List, Landing Strip, Jingle Vader, Triple Shift, Gabrielle, Willie, Squeal, Douille, King Kong, Two Yutes, Beignet, Belloq, Blowout, War Eagle, Catfish (Q).

    Started at the peristyle with Abe Vigoda, Grass Grabbers, and Side Straddle Hop. On to our faces with Peter Parkers, Plank Jacks, Parker Peters, and Mountain climbers. Finished out the warmup with some 8-count bodybuilders.

    Moved to the Great Lawn and partnered up for B.O.M.V.S. (combined 50 burpees, 100 overhead claps, 150 merkins, 200 V-ups, and 250 squats). Once completed, moved to the southeast end of the lawn for some Mary while waiting for the six (got in some LBCs and dying roaches).

    After a quick 10 count and a quick side straddle hop, moved to the base (south end) of the field, then did a quick throwback round to September 2019 Iron PAX Challenge – hop a tree length, 10 burpees, 10 bonnie blairs, 10 big boy situps, rinse and repeat 3x. Did plank jacks waiting for the six.

    Once we got to the end, split into two circles for some rings of fire. First ring was monkey humpers (2 rounds, hold the position between rounds), next ring was al gore position with bonnie blairs.

    After the rings, moved on to one of the Q’s personal favorites – Jack Webb. Got up to 13 today, not too shabby.

    Returned to the peristyle for calf raises and 8-counts to finish up.

    Great day, great workout. Thanks to all what participated!

  • Post RRR Wally Run

    With RRR finished, what would YHC do at the Wally Run? Run! A brief disclaimer, followed by the regular route where all 3 pax stayed together for a good run with some great F2.

    Finished 4 miles with 5 minutes to go, so the pax got some good stretches in.

    COT with count off, name o rama, announcements, intentions, and closed with a prayer.
    Good times!

    SYITG

  • Trading mental mistakes for Burpees

    YHC hasn’t been to the Mothership in awhile, and it was great to see 17 eager Pax ready to join in some pre-Crazy Ivan activity. First thing was the disclaimer, followed by a shout out to the Freedom Hammer, an honored prize from last year versus the North Shore.

    Mosey to the Great Lawn, taking the long way, circle up for the warmup

    SSH IC x 31
    Hillbillies IC x 20
    Grass Grabbers IC x 10
    Arm Circles x 20
    Peter Parker IC x 15
    Mountain Climber IC x 15
    Parker Peter IC x 15

    Have the Pax count off and remember their number…..for later

    Mosey to a long side of the Great Lawn for BLIMPS:
    Burpees x 5
    Lunges (each leg) x 10
    Imperial Walkers x 15
    Merkins x 20
    Plank Jacks x 25
    Squats x 30

    Continue until the lunges take you to the other side, each Pax completed 3 cycles. 15 Burpees so far…..

    Mosey to the cones set up on the Great Lawn for suicides:
    The cones are set up like a basketball court.
    Sprint to quarter line and back – 5 merkins
    Sprint to half and back – 5 merkins
    sprint to three quarter line and back – 5 merkins
    sprint full court and back – 5 merkins

    Next up was involving the cones again:
    Start at baseline and Burpee broad jump to quarter line, then bear crawl to half line, then peter Parker to three quarter line, then bear crawl to end.
    Note: bear crawl and PP are similar yet different…..

    Pax averaged 4 burpees, so 19 so far….

    Next up was a mental exercise to test the Pax when tired:
    YHC asks two pax for their number, say 5 and 12. We count SSH IC to 5 and complete 12 in silence, on YHC’s SSH. If all pax stop at the same time, we’re done. If any pax continue counting or fail to stop at 12, a penalty is administered.

    First penalty administered:
    SSH IC x 5
    10 Burpees OYO
    SSH IC x 5
    9 Burpees OYO

    Back to the mental test. Let’s say it was 3 and 11. Result? Next penalty was administered:
    SSH IC x 5
    8 Burpees OYO
    SSH IC x 5
    7 Burpees OYO

    Back to the mental test, and onto the next penalty….gotta stop when YHC stops!
    SSH IC x 5
    6 Burpees OYO
    SSH IC x 5
    5 Burpees OYO
    SSH IC x 5
    4 Burpees OYO
    SSH IC x 5
    3 Burpees OYO
    SSH IC x 5
    2 Burpees OYO

    One more chance for Pax to get it right: but one pax started counting during silent count…..
    Penalty followed….
    SSH IC x 5
    11 Burpees OYO…surely some Pax anticipated 1 Burpee….
    That was 65 more burpees, for 84 total

    Back to the cones for more suicides:
    5 Burpees, complete a full set of suicides like before, end with 5 burpees.

    That’s 10 more, so 94 total. If YHC has been counting, 6 more would have made it in…..

    A little Mary:
    LBC’s IC x 20
    Flutter kicks IC x 20
    American Hammer IC x 10

    Belloq, Willie, and Gabrielle take us out with some stretches…..

    Mosey back to the Shovel flag for COT:

    Count off, name-o-rama, announcements, intentions and closed out a prayer to the Sky Q.
    Name-o-Rama included the freedom hammer being passed around! South shore looks to hold the prized hammer for another year!

    SYITG!!




  • nuR yllaW

    -Rev Sox

    Thank you for the opportunity to lead and pushing us all to continue, especially on days when we are all tired and sore.

    6:15am

    Count-Off, Name-O-Rama, Intentions, and Prayer

    6:10am

    YHC leads the Pax in a series of stretches and finishes with a round of 23 flutterkicks, so War Eagle needs to lay on his back in the wet grass before the workout is over.

    6:08am

    FracSac arrives at the track to discover the Q’s original instructions and workout with the Pax for the final ten minutes.

    6:00am

    The Pax returns to the starting point after running the 3 miles of the two loops. The Pax runs 4 laps around the track to hit 4 miles for the morning.

    5:33am

    FracSac arrives at the Wally Run to find the Pax gone and out of sight. In hopes of finding the Pax, FracSac takes the route backwards in hope to find his F3 brothers mid-run and finish with the pax. Little did FracSac know, he was going in the same direction of the Pax and perfectly following the Q’s instructions only 3 minutes behind.

    5:30am

    YHC started the Wally Run promptly at 5:30am with a short disclaimer and instructions with a slight wrinkle for this morning’s run. The Pax will run the standard Wally Run route backwards. The Pax will go left instead of right at the start and go around the neighborhood hitting Woodvine first and Duplessis last in reverse of the standard loop. The Pax was off and running in less than 60 seconds.

  • Hokie Pokey’s 60th Birthday Party

    Hokie Pokey’s 60th Birthday Party

    Warm Up

    After a brief welcome and disclaimer and pointing out two FNG’s we moseyed over the great lawn for 15 SSH (some jeering the Q was already winded and thus we stopped), 10 Arm Cirlces and 10 Abe Vigoda’s we the explained today’s 6oth birthday celebration.

    The celebration of 60

    We divided into 6 groups (Four groups of 4 and two groups of 5) and established 6 starting positions around the great lawn (the 4 corners and the two “midfields”). Each group would perform 10 reps at each station for a total of 60 reps in each round.

    After each round, the fittest of the fit would run to Café du Monde and then to the Peristyle Pavilion where Catfish would lead them in 60 reps of his cardio intensity choice while waiting on the six.

    We the returned to our starting points at the great lawn to start the next round.

    Round one ~ Burpess

    Round two ~ Lunges ( 2 is one)

    Round three ~ Imperial Walkers (2 is one)

    Round four ~ Merkins (Hand Release)

    Round five ~ Plank Jacks (4 count)

    Round six ~ was performed while staying under the Peristyle Pavilion as we were running tight on our 60 minute time cap.

    COT

    Countarama, Name-o-rama, naming two FNG’s (Hokie’s son-in-law from DC is Beardo and Hokie’s brother from PA is CoatTails), announcements and prayer intentions.

    Rudy was kind enough to then close us out in prayer!

    Gratitude

    I am humbled to be able to call my F3 NOLA guys my brothers in Christ and friends. I am also appreciative of Catfish moving his Muscleship Q to Mothership and Co-Qing this 60th birthday celebration. To each of you, please know I am honored to be in your presence and have you pushing me to grow physically and spiritually. To each of you, RESPECT RESPECT to you!

    Thanks to the 26 PAX who were able to celebrate my birthday with me
    Two FNG’s ~ Coattails and Beardo

  • HEY, IT’S CALLED A CO-OP!

    Last minute switch on Q for Screw Top as he ran a marathon a few days before! YHC was happy to help out.  T-claps Screw Top! Meanwhile, (“unbeknowanstince” to us) a prepared and excited Catfish noticed an empty slot on the list and couldn’t wait to jump in.  A short conversation on site and we decided to split the difference for a progressive Co-Op Q; to which there was much applause and general excitement from the Pax. As we know, everybody loves change. Here at the Mothership, we call it growth.  Off to the Peristyle… DJ Diver had the tunes for the beatdown.

    WARM UP

    Arm Circles (front/back)
    Grass Grabbers
    Hill Billies
    Peter Parkers
    Parker Peters
    Run to Marconi and back, plank for 6

    PART ONE 

    10 Pax (and one K9) – Break into 2 lines of 5 pax, plank position with hands at feet of pax in front of you, straight line all facing forward, at bottom of the Great Lawn.
    Last Pax bear crawls to front of the line, shouts, next pax bear crawls to the front… etc
    At every second tree all pax recover to feet, ring of fire with your group, 20 squats while others hold Al Gore, back to crawlin’ maggot! We’re doing the whole lawn! The length, not across..

    Make it to end. Took longer than YHC anticipated. Partner up. Move to side of lawn.
    DORA 123
     -Merkins 100
     – LBCs 200
     – Squats 300
    Partner runs across lawn. 2 burpees on the other side. Back to trade off.

    PART TWO

    Complete and hand Q to Catfish who started us off with his favorite crowd pleaser:

    Jack Webs.. in perpetuity… (to 15 merks, 30 air presses)

    Back by popular demand, his world famous 8 count body builders – Couldn’t count that high.

    Run to Marconi and back

    20 Box Jumps

    20 Monkey Humpers

    Infinite Donkey Kicks…


    Back to the flag for COT, announcements etc. Lots of health and life and death concerns today. As a general announcement to all – the holiday seasons are of course a special time and there is a lot to get caught up in and fun to be had. As leaders in our community, don’t forget that little voice at the back of your head reminding you that folks around us are still going through real challenges. Think of those struggling with addiction, depression, and isolation as well.  Don’t forget to reach out to that person struggling, without any pressure. Let them know there is a door open for them somewhere, with warm food, good spirits, no judgement. At this high pressure time of the year, these small gestures can have huge impacts for those walking through a tough cycle of their life. Just another way for us to strive to be good HIMs in our community. Always sweep the 6.

    Thanks to all for showing up in the gloom yet again, to hold each other accountable to another victory in the morning. Accelerating in to the new year.

  • The Three Caballeros

    We’re three caballeros
    Three gay caballeros
    They say we are birds of a feather
    We’re happy amigos

    No matter where Rev goes
    The one, two, and three goes
    We’re always together

    We’re three happy chappies
    With snappy serapes
    You can run how you want if
    You run around Pontiff

    We’re cold as a ice-o
    Who says so? We say so!
    The three caballeros

    Ahhhh!

    We have the stars to guide us
    As we stroll down Duplessis
    Take a right on Friedrichs


    Tua sings and he samba
    Two Yutes shout ‘aye caramba!
    Rev Sox is the bomba
    Oh I don’t think so

    Through fair and stormy weather
    We stand close together
    Like books on a shelf


    Rev Sox leads down Nassau
    Tua tries to dash off
    Two Yutes speaks of babies
    These are three handsome daddies

    Ahhhh!
    We have the stars to guide us
    Park Road is behind us
    To run as we go


    Tua sings and he samba
    Two Yutes shout ‘aye caramba!
    Rev Sox is the bomba
    Oh I don’t think so

    – or the Pax ran 4.6 miles in 44 minutes.

  • My Qs are Impetuous

    Conditions:  70 and light rain

    Our curiosity had us gather near some type of Rock ‘n Roll Series race starting at the Peristyle.  Triple Shift said it started at 6:30. I think he was trying to get a free t-shirt and some post race pastries.  YHC gave a well thought out disclaimer and we headed toward NOMA

    The Thang

    In the aforementioned disclaimer, YHC had warned the pax that we would attempt to get in some miles and that if a pax member was not interested in running miles they could peel off and join the Muscleship.  Apparently the Mothership pax came ready to run. 

    Warm-up:  Hillbillies x 20; Low slow squats x 20; Merkins (IC) x 10; BTW

    Foundry: The Democratic Convention – Pax 1 with a Bernies Sanders; Pax 2 holds Al Gore.  Flapjack when Pax 1 falls off the monkey bars.  Did roughly 3 rounds

    Football Field:  Ten rounds of Tyson – Sprint 50 yards, do 10 reps of exercise, Sprint 50 yards, do 10 reps of exercise, Sprint 50 yards, do 10 reps of exercise, Sprint 50 yards.

    • Round 1 – Burpees
    • Round 2 – Jump Squats
    • Round 3 – Diamond Merkins
    • Round 4 – Dying Cockroach
    • Round 5 – Sumo Squats
    • Round 6 – Wide Merkins
    • Round 7 – LBT
    • Round 8 – Bonnie Blairs
    • Round 9 – Carolina Dry Docks
    • Round 10 – 8 Count Body Builders

    Hustle back to flag

    NMM

    • A lot of talk about the blistering 9:30 minute mosey pace we started with. My reputation for speed precedes me.
    • BTW was NSFW
    • All agreed that the greatness of the football field we used for 10 Rounds of Tyson was well worth the long run to get there (and back).
    • Ten Rounds of Tyson was introduced at the F3 NOLA launch by Chung-Li.  We did 5 rounds that day I think.  To my knowledge this was the first time that the full 10 rounds were completed in NOLA
    • I was afraid that some pax might quit on me if I called out burpees for Round 10.  The Body Builders were well received.