7:05am March 16
\nNicholls University Campus Police Blotter <\/p>\n
Early calls from the freshmen dorms reporting a group of middle aged vandals loitering around the soccer fields and hollering \u201cdo your burpees\u201d at each other . Several shirtless. Smells like Mountain Dew. Others with matching insignias and new member initiates forced into green mullets. Clear gang affiliates. The tall one responding to honks seems to be the gang leader. And looks like the goalie is the enforcer, clearly he\u2019s done some time but gosh he looks familiar. Like I just saw him teaching supply chains familiar\u2026weird
\n.Student Officers in bound\u2026Tasers on the ready\u2026<\/p>\n
\u202640 minutes earlier <\/p>\n
Peltier Park Tennis Courts <\/p>\n
**YHC and Gecko putting out cones in a beautiful gloom at the tennis court, walking though the game plan and contingencies. <\/p>\n
YHC: \u201cChillier than I expected , did you bring your gloves bud ?\u201d<\/p>\n
Gecko (looking at the blueprint):
\n\u201cI think I might get warm when we do burpees , if not we should just run more.\u201d<\/p>\n
YHC : (silence) *A single tear of pride rolls down one cheek. \u201cYou\u2019re right buddy, you\u2019re so right..**adds more burpees to notes section **
\nLet\u2019s go find some bully boys! \u201c<\/p>\n
Duke!!
\nthose beans are not magically delicious!
\nRoll that beautiful footage! <\/p>\n
Warmup
\nYHC and Gecko rolled in from setup to unveil the newest F3 Thib Logo shovel flag to 13 other Pax ready to roll. <\/p>\n
Wet Tap has been working overtime in the studio to crank out a high quality shovel\/pole setup and we finally put the components together for a world premiere. It was glorious.
\nWill be a great addition to rep our crew at major gatherings. <\/p>\n
ParO\u2019dox McBurpee and GeckOCallahan took care of the rest of warmup with the usuals.
\nSome pax commented the Irish accent had declined with a whole year to improve and these pax were politely asked to write their local representatives with further complaints. <\/p>\n
Proper Irishmen Run <\/p>\n
Drop off man does 3 Bonnie Blair\u2019s on our way to Tennis Court. <\/p>\n
At Tennis Court : <\/p>\n
Irish Trivia Opener <\/p>\n
AB, our most Irish heritaged Pax, lended YHC a beatdown consult with the below trivia opener. <\/p>\n
YHC tried to give this nugget of info but the caffeine and nerves sometimes make me delete entire words . It came out \u201cyours Truly Americas Best made these trivia \u201c
\nNot accurate but I think \u201cyours Truly , Americas Best\u201d has NYT bestseller potential.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ll wait on my royalties check. <\/p>\n
The Questions : <\/p>\n
1.) Contrary to urban legends (possibly meant to deter tourists from fully experiencing the attraction), local teenagers and drunkards do not pee on this Irish landmark.
\nAnswer: The Blarney Stoney <\/p>\n
Goose picked this one up immediately and YHC Introduced the Blarney Stone\u2026<\/p>\n
We would roll a large dice with 6 options
\n1: Trivia
\n2: Trivia
\n3: Burpees
\n4; Merkins
\n5: BBSU
\n6 Bonnie Blair\u2019s <\/p>\n
We did assorted rounds of the above with 10 reps each and the below trivia mixed in . 10 merkins correct , 10 burpees in correct<\/p>\n
2.0 question for the next generation of Llamas: <\/p>\n
What\u2019s the tagline for the cereal Lucky Charms?
\n-\u201cthey\u2019re magically delicious \u201c<\/p>\n
**FNG (soon to be named Daryl Starwberry) took care of this one! Strong Work <\/p>\n
According to legend what is a Leprechsuns occupation?
\n-shoemaker <\/p>\n
What meat and vegetable dish is trademarked as the St Patrick\u2019s Day meal.
\n-corned beef and cabbage <\/p>\n
*late edition asked post beatdown <\/p>\n
This common term defines something \u201cbroken into many pieces\u201d
\nIt comes from the Irish word, \u201cSmidrini \u201c<\/p>\n
Smithereens ! <\/p>\n
Next was a clover Dora to honor the Prayer of St Patrick a
\nD work the quads into Smithereens! <\/p>\n
In this prayer St Patrick asks God to remind him of his presence during all things.
\n(Excerpt below) <\/p>\n
\u201cChrist on my right, Christ on my left, \u2028Christ when I lie down, Christ when I sit down, \u2028Christ in the heart of every man who thinks of me\u201d <\/p>\n
So we would honor this with a Dora with multiple exercise positions . <\/p>\n
Partnered up for :
\n100 Apollo Ohno (1:1) Lunge walk
\n200 Heels To Heaven – Nur
\n300 SSH- Mosey <\/p>\n
YHC cut this a bit short so we would have time for some proper Irish competition <\/p>\n
The Grand Finale <\/p>\n
F3 Gaelic football <\/p>\n
Rules
\n-goals scored by kicking the ball in , this can be accomplished by kicking the ball from the ground or dropping the ball from your hands to feet. <\/p>\n
– You can only take 4 steps then must pass advance the ball by throwing or kicking BUT every time you pass you must pay in burpees kick (1 burp) or throw (3 burp)
\n– after score opposite team inbounds the ball <\/p>\n
To be honest this was one of those F3 games that YHC thought could either be fun or turn into a raging chaotic lava dumpster of epic proportions (like a Maui thang but with a soccer ball if you need a visual)
\n But with the pax help on some minor tweaks (shout out to YJ for the \u201conly kick goals in \u201d idea and Goose for switching us to shirts\/skins) we settled in for a fiercely competitive yet tremendously fun game of Gaelic foosball.
\n One of YhCs many favorite things about F3 is watching Pax of all ages switch into their respective competitive modes\u2026it\u2019s pure magic.<\/p>\n
Tough to describe but A few examples may suffice. <\/p>\n
Goose turned into a field general seeing every angle of competitive advantage. Lox turned shimmering golden and started calling his quads \u201cGoku\u201d and \u201cGohan\u201d. Dilly had eyes every where, seeing passes with Lebron like court vision and flexing lightning fast twitch pickle ball calves. YJ turned back the clock 20 years diving on saves, you can replace those joints later my friend . Valve was basically imported straight from Real Madrid and kept saying \u201cOlayyy\u201d and doing knee slides . Captain D\u2019s transformed into Captain Defense locking up the opponents top talents. Ronnie\u2019s eagle vision noted pax rule infractions from 100 yards away as he led a legion of 2.0 goalies. Suckle was simply every where , in every play floating butterfly like on defense, only out done by his offensive sting! Pope did athletic Pope things that only a Sports Science episode could break down. Smooth broke the all time Gaelic football assist record despite previously asserting he would only participate in American football.
\nThe 2.0s scrapped about biting ankles and popping up from falls that would put their Dads in the stretcher.
\n No clue where we ended on the scorecard , yHC just knows he was ready to announce we were going to play till the street lights went out and our wives came looking for us but alas 7:30a came too soon. <\/p>\n
A mosey back to the Flags (plural!) and some Mary to wrap a bow on it. <\/p>\n
Announcements: <\/p>\n
Getting rolling with some Brothers Keeper work. <\/p>\n
Check GroupMe for updates and marathon commitments\/decommitments. <\/p>\n
COT and YJ prayed us out <\/p>\n
Welcome Daryl Strawberry !!
\n(Genius name) <\/p>\n
It\u2019s a privilege to lead you men. <\/p>\n
Epilogue <\/p>\n
University Police
\n7:25 am <\/p>\n
The officer walked back to his car slowly as he reported his findings to his superior on the radio. <\/p>\n
\u201cNo arrest , not even a ticket to show! \u201c <\/p>\n
His hands were raised in disbelief. <\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t get it. The reports were clear. No vandals, no gangs, no lewd behavior\u2026heck not even a mid life crisis !!\u201d <\/p>\n
He paused and stared out the window of his car as the men cheered at a final goal scored. <\/p>\n
\u201c Just a couple men playing a hybrid soccer game\u2026diving into stickers to do burpees and calling each other weird names \u2026seemingly in the prime of their life. It\u2019s crazy , my Psych 100 class says these are the guys that are lonely, depressed , and mad at the world and I tell you the crazy part \u2026it looks fun \u2026like they are really having fun\u201d <\/p>\n
\u201cHuh\u2026just lucky I guess \u201c the supervising officer quipped <\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know ..\u201d he said back as he watched them disappear into the gloom. <\/p>\n
\u201cDoesn\u2019t seem like luck has anything to do with it \u2026.\u201d <\/p>\n
SYITG<\/p>\n
Dox <\/p>\n
