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  • Preblast: Rebooting The F3 Super Bowl – The Mud Run

    F3 is gearing up for the next installment of our annual Super Bowl, the Ultimate Mud Run. We aren’t just doing another Mud Run this year. The men of F3 Summerville are rebooting the whole dang thing.

    After many successful events put on by the Columbia regions of F3, Ken Doll wrote “you may have noticed a steady drop in attendance over the past few Mud Run events. In addition, the enthusiasm for our Super Bowl has waned.”

    It’s true. Very true. So we’re starting over and giving you a reason to come back out and fellowship with over 500 of your brothers from every F3 region.

    Some things will remain the same. We’ll have a big tent. We’ll have a beer boat. But you’re going to see a lot of changes.

    For starters – only one Mud Run in 2017. It will be the Spring one held on May 20th. And it’s going to be epic. Bet on it!

    Best of all – more competition and more partying!

    You’ll see:

    1. A longer after party.
    2. A new tailgating row (Second F Village if anyone asks) with tents from every region.
    3. More competition before, during and after the run. Think awards for a Respect crew, Rucking crew, F3 Olympics and much more. We’ll announce all that soon.
    4. A more competitive starting order.
    5. A competition to see who can chug more beers than Team Unicorn Slaughterhouse Death Match – certainly going to happen, maybe, probably not.

    What: 2017 Mud Run – The Super Bowl of F3

    When: Saturday, May 20th | 0700

    Cost: $60 per person

    How: Click here – http://f3summerville.com/mud-run-spring-2017/
    (after signing up here you will be sent to a page with the PayPal link for payment)

    IMPORTANT: You will sign up for the Mud Run individually. Your Region Nantan will appoint Region Mud Run Q. You should report your team name and members to your Region Mud Run Q. Additional information will be sent to your Region Nantan and Mud Run Q later.

    UPDATE 1 | May 8, 2017

    • We currently have about 325 F3 men doing the race.
    • Sign-up ASAP. YES, you can still sign up today. http://f3summerville.com/mud-run-spring-2017/
    • Donate to the Hidden Wounds foundation at the below link. This is a worthy cause and we will be presenting them a check at the race site. https://facebook.com/donations-f3-summerville-causes/
    • Form your team and let the Mud Run Q for your AO know who is on it and the team name prior to 10 May. If this is not done by 10 May, you will be placed on a team of our choosing. Don’t assume just because you put it in some hidden thread or mentioned it over a beverage two months ago that he has your team info. POC for this is Banjo cupoe13@gmail.com
    • If you “think” your team is a competitive team and worthy of being placed at the front of the pack with other studs, contact the Mud Run Q for your AO prior to 10 May as well.
    • Contact the Mud Run Q for your AO prior to 10 May and sign-up for F3 Village games. POC for this is Goose r.w.martier@gmail.com
    • Team Captains print and sign the race waiver which can be found at the below site. Each team must have a waiver signed by all team members with them upon checking in for the race. http://www.ultimatechallengemudrun.org/

    DAY OF EVENT TIMELINE:

    • 0730 gates open for the masses.
    • 0815 BOM
    • 0830 Race starts
    • 0852 First F3 team steps off
    • F3 games will go at approximately 1130 or as determined by Goose.
    • Food and beverage vendors will be on site. Please support the vendors that support the race.
    • ENDEX is TBD, expect late afternoon/early evening.
    • If you plan to drink, plan NOW for a Designated Driver.

  • Where are the Side Straddle Hops?

    YHC came in hot as the clock ticked over to 6:31 while 28 Pax already waited in the dawning of a beautiful morning, two others were running in as I barked out the disclaimer and tied my shoes. We made a tiny mosey into the peristyle and the 31 of us filled the place.

    Warm up COP

    YHC clearly called out the first exercise at Low Slow Squats and the Pax shouted it back.. “in cadence, begin” and Bogey and his buddy (was it FracSac or Rudy, I can’t remember) started doing SSH instead. Bogey continued to mumble about wanted to side straddle throughout the beatdown.

    LSS ic x 30
    Imperial Walkers ic x 30
    Peter Parkers ic x 20
    Merkins ic x 15
    Burpees oyo x 15

    Now that everyone was good and warm, we took a mosey down past the coffeeteria to the big grassy area next to NOMA for a parade of animals. We lined up about 25 yards from the train tracks to begin.

    Backwards bear crawls
    a nice flowing skip on back (stretching humility and masculinity while stretching the hips)

    Booboo bear crawls (switch lags half way)
    skip on back

    Burpee Broad jumps
    plank and wait

    YHC let the Pax (and himself) get a 30 count. I think I let Bogey work the numbers. Then we took a long mosey over to the Foundry. Rudy was driving the pace, and continued to do so for the rest of our moseys. What’s with that guy?

    Foundry Circuit (groups of 3 +1)

    1. Burpees had the count x 10
    2. step ups
    3. hanging leg raises
    4. pullups
    5. hip slappers
    6. step ups (yes, again)
    7. dips
    8. merkins
    9. squats
    10. plank

    Rinse and repeat with the Burpees on a 5 count

    At this point, Squeegee had to make like a baby and the mumble chatter was getting mildly mutinous. Everyone got their panties unbundled as we took a Duct Tape 30 count then chased Rudy back to our grassy spot by the tracks and NOMA.

    Mary’s COP

    Mountain climbers ic x 20
    LBCs ic x 20
    cross body mtn climbers ic x 15
    flutter kicks ic x 15
    spider monkey climbers ic x 15
    spider man merkins ic x 10 or 8?
    hup hup lung jumps in hup hup cadence x 15

    YHC was struggling on the cadences; breath was getting hard to come by. Hup hups got the Pax rejuvenated and the nearly silenced mumble chatter kicked back in. YHC called someone else out for a 30 count then the Pax moseyed over to the great lawn, chasing Rudy. Rudy didn’t know what awaited him at said lawn or he might have slowed his roll a bit.

    Sprints

    20 yard sprints with a jog back on your own for 2.5 min

    And the Pax mostly stumbled back to the flag after making sure Flyboy aka Simba got up from the grass. Dude flew a couple yards before kissing the big ball with his six. A couple of guys were still sprinting back to the flag. Probably Rudy and definitely Hawg. They must not have worked hard enough.

    COT

    We lost Mulligan somewhere, but named the FNG Cupcake after his father, Cake Man.

    Closed out with the Lord’s Prayer aka the Our Father.

    YHC thoroughly enjoyed qing this large Pax – largest ever for me.

    Great work fellas #tclaps
    the mumble chatter was spirited and hilarious #keepitup

    #howmanyentendres?

  • Almost Famous…

    Pre-Thang: Unbeknownst to the pax that showed up 19 strong, YHC got the word Thursday evening that our roving reporter would not be posting with us in the gloom, so the spectacular beat down planned was put on the shelf and we did this instead…

    The Thang: Mosey over and around to the Tulane lawn for a short warm up cop: SSH, Mtn. Climbers, Plank Jacks x 25 IC. Mosey to the Loyola corner: 10 Burpees at the bottom, 20 LBC’s at the top, 30 Squats on the side. Plank at the bottom and repeat. Mosey to the Danna Center quad benches for a decline plank to wait for the six. On to the Mtn.

    Run OYO to the top w/ stops on the church side for Merkins at each level. 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35 and plank for the six. This was where we saw World Peas in the middle of a solo workout. He joined us for the remainder to make us 20 strong.

    Mary at the top: Russian Twist, Hello Dolly, Dying Cockroach, Real Freddie, Flutter Kick x 25 and LBC x 52. Stairs to the bottom and a slow mosey to the benches at the flag area.

    Dips x 25, RLSU x 15, Derkins x 10, LLSU x 15. and CUT!

    COT w/ Shout out by YHC.

    T-Claps to the PAX for banging out a total of 155 Merkins along the way. Sorry it wasn’t recorded for posterity.
    T-Claps to Shorty and Cowbell for knocking out 300!

    Good Times!
    Roots

  • F3 Trip: Israel, May 2018

    I BELIEVE yet I’ve never BEEN. I’ve never walked where Jesus walked and I’ve never seen the land that Jesus saw.

    That’s gotta change.

    Have you been? Don’t we have to go at least once? If you’ve been once…why not twice? If you’re like me you’re a Christian and have been for decades. Yet I’ve never set foot on the same soil that Jesus walked on when he was here on earth. I don’t know about you but that is an itch I have to scratch. Have to. Call it the pilgrimage of a lifetime – because that is exactly what it is.

    Turns out there’s a F3 brother in Hickory, Walk-On (David Wachter), who leads trips to Israel on a regular basis. He’s nearly completed his seminary education and has a thing for taking groups to Israel. A former college quarterback, Walk-On is on his self-described “third vocation” after spending much of his twenties, thirties and forties as an engineer and then financial planner. He’s long had a call to seminary and is fulfilling that call now at 46 while maintaining his financial planning business.

    Like a lot of people who do this regularly he’s “got a guy” on the ground in Israel, his name is Boaz (naturally), to help coordinate that side of the pond and then grab him and his groups when they get off the plane in Tel Aviv. So what had happen wuz…I was talking with my father, Abraham (this is all a bit too cliché perhaps?) and mentioned not for the first time that I really want to go to Israel and he put me in touch with Walk-On. This was all pre-ordained (yep, I’m a Presbyterian) because Walk-On is leaving in May to take a group and wants to do another trip in May 2018. His trip this May is a run of the mill, on the path, touristy trip but Walk-On really loves the other kind of trip. The other kind of trip is a bit, shall we say, harder. Walk-On likes leading an “intense trip” for 30 people OFF the beaten path. We will still stay in hotels every night so, no, this is not a camping trip or a no shower mission trip but what this sounds like to me is a PERFECT F3 trip. Don’t just go look at the mountain, climb it. Don’t just go look at the desert, hike across it just like Jesus and his disciples did. The trip will of course include all of the Israel “must sees” like Masada, Qumran, Jericho, Galilee and the Golan Heights, Tel Dan, Jerusalem, Mt. Arbel, Mt. Tabor, Mt. Carmel, Garden of Gethsemane and the Garden Tomb but with a different, off the beaten path, approach. Check out a sample itinerary here: http://www.insightsintravel.com/utica-israel-trip-2017.html and a video promoting that trip here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0zk-6kOSpU.

    So, how does all of this work? Walk-On’s wife, Noelle, has a travel agency in Hickory (http://www.insightsintravel.com/) and she does all of the nitty-gritty planning and coordinating work with flights, hotels, meals, etc. We will fly out of Charlotte together (centrally located for most of F3, “New Jerusalem” as Dredd calls it for some reason). The ideal trip size is 20-30. Walk-On likes to travel Israel with a group about the size of Jesus’ group (naturally right?). If we have more than 30 that are ready to HC then we’ll coordinate a second trip.

    Who: F3 men and their wives (from anywhere, this is not region-specific, put the F on your chest and come on). My approach is that I really want to walk where Jesus walked and see what Jesus saw and I want all of that for my wife also. We are capping the trip at the first 30 total people to HC and then will form a waiting list in the event something comes up (30 total people, not 30 couples). If we have enough for two trips then we’ll plan a second one around the same time. We can take singles as well but if there is not another single to bunk up with then there is a “single supplement” to be paid on top of the trip price (more on that below).

    When: The dates are not 100% set in stone but we’re looking at May 18-30, 2018. If we have a heavy contingent of people that need the trip to be later in the school year we can shift into early/mid-June if that makes sense. Plenty of time to commit to this, set your calendar, get family/sitter set up for the children, plan and save money…about that…

    Cost: Israel is not cheap but that’s mainly because of flights. For some reason flying to Israel is a good bit more expensive than flying to other locations of similar distance (someone reading this may know why that is but I don’t). The price is all-inclusive and includes mandatory travel insurance (seriously, everything is included except any gifts you buy and any incidental beverages you put in your mouth) and will likely come to ~$4,200 per person. Steep yes but not much more than “canned trips” and a WHOLE lot more bang for the buck. Plus the price tag is broken up into payments with an initial deposit, second payment and then a final payment (like this http://www.insightsintravel.com/pricing-and-terms4.htm). If you’re going to do this once in your life then the price is the price. I don’t say that about many things but I do about this.

    How do you HC? Send me an email (pjasonreynolds@gmail.com) and I am going to keep a list. You can HC below of course but make sure to send me an email as well so that my list stays solid. If you can’t HC just yet but you are pretty interested then email me and I will put you on a “maybe” list and ask you before I give away your spot. Our first payment, likely a $400 per person down payment, will be due in September or October, so you have time but first come first serve on reserving your spots on the list.

    So, who wants to go to Israel and take your wife and have a trip of a lifetime? I do and in May 2018 I’m gonna do it. Come with me. We’ll do burpees in the Holy Land. Email me now to reserve your spot: pjasonreynolds@gmail.com.

  • Water World #4; Blinded By The Plank

    Blinded by the light, revved up like a deuce; another PAX in the gloom

    Blinded by the light, revved up like a deuce; another PAX in the gloom

    Blinded by the light, revved up like a deuce; another PAX in the gloom

    • (Hold a plank for the duration of “Blinded by the Light” and switch your plank from left to center to right to center every time Manfred Mann says “blinded”)

    Uptown drummers bummers; Okwata in the summer with a teenHATE diplomat

    In Pontiff with the mumps as the Adolescent pumps his way into his hat

    With a sprain on my ankle, Feeling kinda older (RESPECT), I tripped  at the skinny

    With this very unpleasing, sneezing and wheezing; The Jingle Vader crashed to the ground

    • 4×100 Free :20 rest, start easy and increase your speed
    • 4×100 Free 25m Sprint/75m Recover :10 Rest
    • 4×100 Free w/ Paddles & Buoy (no kick)
    • 100 Race Pace till time

    Hawgcycle always told me not to look into the blue of the Speedo,

    but Hawgcycle, THAT’S WHERE THE FUN IS….

    movie big piano 80s movies tom hanks

    • Moped – 1200?
    • Triple Shift -1200
    • Hawgcycle – 1200 – TClaps for the 16.8mi ride to and from UNO #RRR17
    • Da Parish – 1300
    • Jingle Vader – 1300

    PAX got down but we never got tight, PAX’s gonna make it through the night

    Da Parish

    Moleskin: Next time you see your SO; hug them, kiss them, and look at them like the first time you knew you love them.  Remember those moments because they are too often overshadowed by the times when anger and frustration took over.

  • Gone with the Wind

    One of the worst things about posting at Okwata is well the wind is wild at times. The PAX that made an appearance did not need a heated cozy pool or wanted to workout with a local news website reporter asking annoying questions. The six that showed up just wanted (what I hope was) a good beatdown. The PAX wanted to do extra work by completing the 300 merkins in 30 days.

    The Thang

    • SSH x20
    • IW x20
    • Merkins x15
    • Peter Parkers x10
    • Parker Peters x10
    • Good Morning x10
    • Polka stretch x10
    • Standing hip mobility aka Cowbells x10
    • Karaoke facing the lake about 30ft and then bake facing the levee
    • Mario jumps same distance as above
    • the sprints
    • Merkins x10

    My first workout brought “great” memories from my time in the Army. So I pulled out the deck. Ace-10 were face value. J=20 Q=30 K=40  At some point some cards got lost in the crazy wind.

    • Hearts= b/c we love them so much burpees
    • Dimond= SL tricep raises
    • Clubs= supine rear delt pushes
    • Spades= prone Y’s
    • all OYO

    When the King of hearts showed up broke the 40 count down my 10 and between 10 and 20 we did 10 merkins and between 20 and 30 did low slow squats. Rested between 30 and 40.

    Back at the flag for some slow Mary. All exercises were in a slow cadence.

    • Dying cockroach x10
    • Slow LBCs x10
    • Tall side plank x10 on R&L in a normal cadence

    COT for prayer and reminded the “As iron as sharpens iron, man shall sharpen his fellow man.” Proverbs 27:17. We must push each other not just a workouts but in life as well to conquer the evil one .

    Thanks for letting me lead.

    Kimchi

  • The Show Must Go On

    Thanks to an APB from the New Orleans F3 Director of Media Communications and General Supplier of All New Orleans F3 News You Need to Know, Reluctant Yankee, the QIC was informed on Q eve of a special guest at The Birdcage this morning.  Apparently it has been leaked to the media all of the hilarious mumble chatter and half-ass workouts that New Orleans F3 has kept quiet these past two years and now NOLA.com would like to run a feature on us.  What better way to get the scoop but to send a reporter with video camera to film our workout.  With so much on the line I was not going to let a little chest cold that had me sweating like 86 on the counting segment of Sesame Street last night keep me from posting my Q.  16 other F3 finest felt the same way.  Casey Jones was so moved by a chance at a feature spot that he even pulled a Kotter.

    Our kind videographer let me know that she couldn’t stay for our whole workout as she had to get to her own real physical endevour of Loyola Lady Wolfpack basketball practice.  I just knew we were going to have her laughing inside at some point during the warmup.

    Warm Up:  Action!  F3 disclaimer and away we go for a quick mosey around the golf course parking lot and back to oak alley.

    • SSH IC X 30 (Featured Pax based on the glare of the camera light: QuickDraw)
    • IW IC X 30 (Up-Short shot of Douille)
    • Smurf Jack X 30 (Yankees untanned thighs catching the lens for sure)
    • Plank position for Peter Parker X 20 -> Plank Jack X 20 -> Mountain Climbers X 20 (With the camera rolling no one was cussing)

    Mosey to the Shelter for some bench work (keeping it close by for the crew):

    • R leg step ups X 20
    • Dips X 20 (Jadaveon in the spotlight as I think she wanted to feature as least one pax who actually looked like they were physically benefitting from the workout)
    • L leg step ups X 20
    • Decline Merkins X 10 -> Shoulder Taps X 10 -> Decline Merkins X 10 (A lot of knees on the ground at one point and about all our camera crew needed to see to determine we might be hopeless)

    Free to be ourselves again mosey to the pull up bars for some group activities.  Groups of 4 or 5 with rotation from station to station:

    • Partner pull ups. 10 pull ups and then rotate with the partner for support.  This station is the count.  Some were sharper than others on how to pull this off.
    • Bobby Hurleys
    • Lunges
    • Mission Impossible.  The possibility of group pulling this off for the duration of the count was tough and in Q Karma the guys in the pull up group during my Mission Impossible I think were holding hands between pull ups.  Oh Well.

    Mosey to the levee for some 7’s as time was running a little low to pull off 11’s. By this point my cold had me sucking wind and I couldn’t even finish this- sorry.  The aim was 6 burpees at the bottom and 1 incline merkin at the top with respective count down and count up.  Nice job to everyone else for busting this out.

    Mosey back to the flag with 4 minutes to spare for some Mary in the dirt.  This would have been great footage.

    • V-ups X 20
    • Superman X 3 sets of 10s
    • Pickle Pounders X 10
    • Putin X 20 and donesky

    Count-off yielded 17.  Nameorama.  Intentions included thanks for Yankee’s mom’s discharge from the hospital.  Casey Jones works in New Orleans East and has many coworkers who were affected by the tornado yesterday and he offered their recovery as an area of special prayer.  I thanked God for sparing us any causalities during the potentially deadly storms of yesterday.  Thanks for the opportunity to lead!

     

  • Incremental Gains At The Trailhead

    Seven men strong on deck this wonderful morning.  The PAX had to help Tanked Up with the lingo, but he didn’t mind as it is all for fun. After the workout I am sure it was fair to say everyone went home knowing they worked their butts off! Can’t wait for Saturday to turn it up another notch!

    Warmup–side straddle hops, imperial walkers, squats, merkins, windmills, 20 reps per

    Onto the courthouse with 5 cycles of  20 reps De-Construct Burpees

    Mosey to the parking lot to take on 5 laps of Bernie Sanders hill climbs… The 5th lap you could feel the “Bern”

    Onto the roof for 100 merkins, 200 imperial walkers, 300 leg thrust from a merkin position..with  50 yard runs at intervals.

    Wrapped up the  activities with a rotation of Bataan Death March…Picking up the foot pace at the end to punish Tanked Up😀

    Mosey back to the starting point for some cool down Jane Fonda’s and Flutter Kicks

    Closed out prayer led by Chewy..

    Up Next– Collard Greens..

     

     

     

     

     

     

  • Now Accepting Entries for the Official 2017 F3 Race Jersey Logo

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    The F3 Marketing Team will soon select and unveil a new national Official F3 Race Jersey Logo for 2017. PAX from all regions are invited to submit ideas for this year’s design.

    Like previous years, we plan to keep the standard F3 logo on the front, uniting us as one F3 Nation, and feature a new design on the back to commemorate this year of F3. As before, the logo will be retired at the end of the year with no additional printings, so you can always tell who has been putting in down-painments the longest. The official yearly F3 Nation Race Jersey has become a cherished collectible for PAX across F3 Nation – a reminder of your years in F3, suitable for framing retired jerseys above the mantle as trophies to your manhood.

    This year we are encouraging the use of Google albums for posting your ideas and enabling comments on them.  Images can be fully developed or just sketches that need refinement.

    Link to Google Photo Album To View Entries and Submit your own:
    https://goo.gl/photos/pP9nhp9p4JQmyA568

    You can also comment to applaud the creativity of others, or voice your opinions.  Remember that this will be the fleeting image that countless sadclowns see passing them by on the course or track next year – make it memorable. There are no design requirements this year, meaning you do not have to incorporate the f3 URL or twitter handle – just make is something that unites us across all F3 regions and nomad groups.  F3 Marketing will be making a final selection before the end of February, and then get some shirts going for Spring races.

    Thanks and good luck. Aye!

  • Werkin on Merkins

    A PAX of 11 strong gathered around the flag on a perfect warm February morning… to conquer 300 merks and maybe some other stuff too.

    After a quick disclaimer and looking around for Hawg & Rudy, we were off…

    80s evil deal with it sunglasses binoculars

    Did the Bogey special and moseyed across the street to the neutral ground for:

    COP #1) WARM UP

    • Merkins X 10
    • SSH X 20
    • Peter Parkers X 20
    • Hillbillies X 20
    • J Lo’s X 20
    • Merkins X 20
    • Arm Circles X 15 F&B

    Split up evenly to either side of the street at the benches for descending Merkin ladder.

    • Derkins X 10
    • Ierkins X 9
    • Derkins X 8
    • etc etc

    Mosey to the refinery and split up into 4 groups for circuit work.

    • Group 1: Merkins X 20 (Timer)
    • Group 2: Hanging Knee Ups
    • Group 3: Pull Ups
    • Group 4: Dips

    Rinse and repeat X 2

    Line up for Indian run, BUT each time YHC or Bogey get to the front, 5 merks IC.

    The mumble chatter was music to my ears!!

    At some point during this adventure, we lost Tinker & Kenna Brah.  I guess they couldn’t handle the heat!

    doe

    Arrive to the museum fountain for some leg time.

    • LLSU X 15
    • RLSU X 15
    • LLSU X 10
    • RLSU X 10
    • LLSU X 5
    • RLSU X 5

    Reverse suicides up the museum strairs, high-kneeing on the stairs.

    Time for another Indian run to the foundry, yep you guessed it… when Mr. Awesome or Frac Sac get to the front, 5 merks IC.

    COP #2) MARY

    • LBC X 50
    • Dying Cockroach X 20
    • Penguins X 20
    • Flutter Kicks X 20
    • J Lo’s X 20

    Indian run back to the flag, this time when Shorty gets to the front, 10 merks IC!!

    Finished with 277 Merkins. (Tcalps to Short for keeping count)

    COT- reminding the PAX that the smallest gesture can change someone in more ways than we are aware.

    YHC was determined to finish 300 merkins.  half the pax got down like this and knocked out the remaining 23. Tclaps!!!

    Cheezburger sports win ouch push ups

    As always, a pleasure to lead you fools.