Category: Northshore

  • Is it really warmer away from the water?

    Three above average men converged on Captain’s Cove in search of some warmer conditions on this 10k journey. Started with a COT and off we went. Traveled north on Jackson hooking a left on the Trailhead. QIC was in search of a warm street without the wind as he realized his bare knuckles were not warming up as quickly as expected. Enjoyed a 9 min pace and some great mumble chatter along the way… Completed the trek in just under 57 min, clearly a pace that will be improved upon in the upcoming Krazy Ivan as the Northshore intends on taking home yet another trophy for the case..

    Appreciate the opportunity to lead gentleman.

  • 7 COOL DUDES

    “temperature wise that is, not demeanor”

    6 Pax showed up on time
    1 Pax showed up late AGAIN. I won’t mention his name. But he likes to sidle-up.

    I was reminded of my university P.E. class, taught by the basketball coach. The DIV I basketball players would always straggle in late.
    The coach would admonish them, “three tardies equal one absence, and one absence equals a tardy.”
    As a “C” student, I could only look around, to see if anyone else was confused by that, shrug my shoulders, and wonder how different things would be if I were 6 foot, eleven.

     

    Anyways…time to jump on the Polar Express. To the best of my recall, here is how it went

    short disclaimer …

    warmup
    all 20xIC; side straddle hops, good-mornings, windmills, imperial walkers, toe touches, butt-kicks, hillbillies, arm circles, single leg lunges, squats, mummy kicks

    mosey to Bedrock; pick up a 10 pound, coarse crystalline texture, gray, limited porosity and permeability, limestone boulder.
    all 20xIC; curls, overhead presses, rows, outward presses

    mosey to the front of the Taj Mahal for the MERKIN HONOR ROLL
    here we have lots of brick pavers, each with a name and date, honoring former St.Tammany Parish school board employees.
    circle up at the flagpole outer ring
    one pax, at a time, bearcrawls in toward the flagpole to a brick, reads the name and from the last two digits of the date, chooses the higher number and this dictates the number of merkins for the PAX to do.
    for example if the brick reads “Joe Joblotz 1930-1967.” We call out Joblotz,Joblotz,… while doing 7 merkins. That pax bearcrawls out. The next pax bearcrawls in, reads the stats off his brick and we merkin to the stat, repeat with each pax taking a turn.
    We got in a lot of merkins, bear crawling, and planking, to keep us warm.

    mosey to the St.Tammany Parish Courthouse promenade
    In forward motion; One Burpee, Two Burpees, Three Burpees, Four Burpees, then up the steps, down the ramp, down the block and around. Repeat four times.
    Then to the benches for 20xIC dips, 20xIC step-ups

    Indian Run back to the trail head

    mary
    20xIC flutter kicks
    20xIC Jane Fondas

    count-o-rama, prayer led by THE MANNY

    Thanks guys, for showing up on this cold day!

  • 22% Do I NEED TO SAY MORE!!!

    Man I hate to admit this publicly but this Q on this day was really hoping to have a bunch of fart sackers so I myself could go back to my warm house!!! Sitting in my truck posting my soon to be morning routine on Facebook wondering if I’m helping or hurting F3 chances of getting any new FNG’s. Posting at 4:45am in 22% weather might or should I say probably sounds crazy to most! But the second thing I realized is how strong the fellowship is to bring brothers together in such extreme temperatures to get in a good beat down. There truly is no other group like F3!!!
    Thanks again Captain Sparkles

    Now for Warm ups in cadence
    40 Side straddle hops
    20 windmills
    20 Imperial walkers
    20 Butt kicks
    20 High Knees
    20 LBC’s
    20 Putin’s or American hammers

    The Thang

    5 times up down the stairs

    Up stairs every step doing the number of calf raises that coincides with the step your on. Step one 1 calf raise step two 2 calf raises step fifteen 15 calf raises all the way to step 27. That’s 378 calf raises.

    Down steps same thing except squats. That’s 378 squats

    3 times up down the stairs jog pace.

    20 Merkins on your own.

    Lung walk to end of covered trace area.

    Mosey to bus stop for
    10 box jumps on benches
    10 Freak Nasty’s
    10 box jumps
    10 Freak Nasty’s
    10 box jumps
    10 Freak Nasty’s

    Then hands on bench hoping over bench together on Q’s count to 15

    Mosey back to Flag area for the finish

    10 in cadence LBC
    10 in cadence Putin’s
    10 in cadence flutter kicks

    Holding legs 6” above ground for count to 60 ok that was to easy again

    Holding legs 6” above ground for 60 mississippi Little harder.

  • Santa’s Last Stop

    Twas the gloom before christmas when all through the marsh not a creature was stirring except for c. sparks. The shovel flag dug in the cool of the air, knowing the rest of the pax would be there!!

    These Pax must be loco! we all roll up sharing our stories of the Ms calling us nuts for posting on Christmas! but this is f3 and we can’t stop won’t stop!! Sparkles filled the prophecy of the santa suit minus the belly with a dazzling santa sweatshirt! Bushwacker in the christmas spirit wore his santa hat too!

    WARMARAMA

    Ssh 20 ic

    toe touches legs apart 20ic

    half mile mosey to the lake

    THANG

    20 box jumps and 20 squats oyo rinse and repeat x3

    20 derkins and 20 freak nasties oyo  rinse and repeat x3

    mosey back with 10 stride sprints at each stop sign

    20 dips and 20 pull ups oyo rinse and repeat x3

    20 australian pull-ups oyo

    MARY

    20 lbc ic

    20 freddie mercuries ic

    20 flutter kicks ic

    rinse and repeat

    cot, bom

    shooter with a pray out!

     

     

  • Moroccan Nightclub

    PRE-THANG

    The faithful pax roll up in the gloom of the morning for their last beatdown of 2017! Those that are hungry for more get up extra early for 2miles of foreplay. QIC, shooter, steve, and turbo break the ice.

    WARMARAMA

    Committed pax are stirring up some mumble chatter as we roll up bringing in a sunrise to remember. The flag waves and we start on schedule as some late risers are rolling in to join the pax.

    50 SSH IC  to keep the pax on their toes.

    neck rolls and shoulder shrugs (f&r) 20 ic give Mash a hint that there is something brewing here.

    Sun gods f&r 20 ic, Moroccan nightclubs 20 ic, overhead claps 20 ic, another set of moroccan nightclubs 20 ic, and lastly another round of sun gods f&r 20 ic this stirs up much mumble chatter as the burn is almost to much to bare! but this is F3!!!

    good mornings 20ic

    bend to the side in a standing position .. something tells me good afternoons would be a good name for these 20ic l&r

    and finally…

    seal jacks 20ic

    Thang

    mosey to a stretch of the sea wall for some..

    derkins 12ic

    and freak nasties 12ic

    rinse and repeat 10ic

    and to keep the pax lower body proportional we do some 11s

    squats into a lunge walk into sister mary catherines with a sprint back in a ascending and descending order.

    mosey to an oldie but goodie (obg) round of rips as if our legs weren’t jello already

    this is 7 long minutes of

    rocky balboas 10 oyo

    run up the steps and back down

    apollo creeds 10 oyo

    rince and repeat until time! yikes!!!

    and to top it off QHC utilizes the longest block in mandeville to have the pax mosey half the block (equivalent of 1 city block)  and full blown sprint the second half. and when QHC seen Captain Sparkles belly up on the floor looking for his next breath… QHC thought it be good to do the same for the way back!! these guys have jet packs!! crazy ivan prep!!

    at that point QIC need to catch his breath so decided to take a knee and share with the pax my philosophy on life and vision going into the new year! NEW YEAR NEW MIND

    and back into the beatdown we continue…

    wife pleasers 20 ic

    heal taps 20 ic

    wife pleasers again 20ic

    jane fondas 15ic

    pulses 15 ic

    toe to knee 15 ic pulses

    rince and repeat on other side

    MARY

    lbc 20ic

    freddie mercury 20 ic

    russian twists 20 ic

    heal taps 20 ic

    v ups 7 ic

    COT, BOM, coffeteria with a surprise visit from Grundy!

    Thank you Maverick for praying us out!

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

  • A-Wash at the Gipper

    There’s been a slew of cold and rainy days here on the Northshore, and while YHC can’t attest to PAX attendance earlier in the week, I can say it was no surprise finding the usual gang ready to go at The Gipper (minus Maverick, that is, who materialized immediately after the warm-up).

    Warm Up: Good Mornings, IW’s, Seal Jacks, Windmills, SSH, Butt Kicks, High Knees, all IC, either 15x or 20x.  Followed by 20 Merks, OYO.

    The rain wasn’t coming down hard, per se, but there was enough of it to make YHC shuffle things around a bit.  We moseyed to the covered parking garage for a set of suicides.  Looooong suicides.  Rest was a set of Peter Parkers, 20x, IC.  Another set of long suicides.  Parker Peters, 20x IC.  Then Burpee Dans across the length of the garage, to finish with a set of slow squat jumps, 20x IC.  Rain had slowed to a light mist by this point, so….

    Mosey to the back of the justice center and partner up for The W.A.S.H: Partner 1 runs the length of the lot, up the stairs, around the ramp and back, while Partner 2 starts what would be a cumulative set of: Werkins (50x), American Hammers (100x), Step Ups (150x), Hip Thrusts / Wife Pleasers (200x).  Because these are above average men (ah-hem, Tanked Up), we had to adjust and make it a cumulative set of 100x Werkins, so the other partner could get his in and wouldn’t miss out on the fun.

    Back to the flag for a Burp n’ Merk, ascending to 10 merkins.  Quickly down for an abbreviated Hurricane Hoedown (Tropical Depression?) which we’ll tackle again some other day.  Countdown, nameorama, and Einstein prayed us out.  Thanks men!

  • Unusual conditions with the usual F3 Brothers at the Scramble!!

    QIC arrived on this cold and wet Gloom at the Scramble to the usual Thursday crew awaiting at the AO. After some brief chatter we jumped into the warmup.

    20SSH IC, 10 Merkin plank twist, 20WM IC Staggered Merkins 5 each side, 20BK IC T-Merkin (possible new military push-up), 20GM IC 20 Regular Merkins IC.

    The thang

    3.2 on the standard route with some nice chatter about Santa 🎅 and the joy he brought to some little ones..

    Returned with 6 min and hit the pavement for some wet Mary. 20 LBCs IC, 20FK IC, 20 Left crunch IC, 20 Right crunch IC, 20FC IC, 20LBCs IC and closed with Putin’s or American Hammers 20 IC.

    Much appreciation to the Pelican and Waterpic for posting on such an unusual Gloom, but usual  F3 brothers always post in unusual conditions…👍👊

    count off, announcements, COT

    QIC closed in prayer!!

    Thanks again for the opportunity to lead.

  • Two’s Company Three is a Crowd

    Well thanks to Steve I had some really good F2 and got in my 10K this morning. After pondering the thought of only running a 5K using the Foggy morning as my excuse. Knowing the causeway would be convoyed or one lane. But the chatter was nice and it may the run short. Thanks again Steve for being a part of F3 Seal Team! Enjoyed our conversation!

  • Covington Trailhead- nice morning

    Was a beautiful morning for a workout with 8 strong.

     

    Warmup– merkins, side straddle hops, merkins, squats, merkins, and various other wonderful warmup exercises.

     

    The Thang–jog to workout position 1– Point 1-Balboas run to point 2-merkins,plank jacks, and mountain climbers. 3 sets of various rotations.

    Jog to position 2 flagpole  sets of arm and chest exercises,  we rotated left to right. Good upper body workout.

    Jog over to position 3  The Maverick– 100 Merkins with partner with running in between. That got us.  Bushwacker team 115 of those bad boys.

     

    Jog over to position 4–1 round 1 minute with Ali.. Had to be there to know what that involved.

     

    Jog over to our starting point— Side Stradle Hops, Squats.

     

    Close out with prayer led by Bushwacker!  On with our daily activities

     

     

     

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  • Blackjack at Grandmas House???

    Four PAX gathered at Grandmas House with the air  heavy, as if we were meeting in a smoke filled poker room at the casino. The QIC had thoughts all night of repeating a previous Super 21 beatdown delivered a few months back, but he decided we would just implement 21 troughout the beatdown instead. Having lost my father Saturday, I felt it appropriate to remember him with one of his favorite past times of playing Blackjack.. Big appreciation out to my fellow F3 brothers, who I can’t thank enough for their compassion and support in this time..

    warmarama

    21 SSH IC, 3 (8 count body builders), 21 WM IC, 6 (8 CBB), 21 IW IC, 9 (8 CBB), 21 BK IC 3 (8 CBB)

    the thang

    Moseyed to the tunnel for some Dora. Partnered up 50 Burpees, 100 Merkins, 150 Squats, 200 lunges. As one partner started the series the other moseyed down through the tunnel and up and back. Upon returning picking up the count of his partner to completion. Once complete the PAX moseyed back to the AO for some core work. One PAX held plank while the other journeyed up the steps to the top completing 21 LBCs, next 21 MC and finally finishing with 21 Peter Parker’s.

    Count off, announcements, COT

    Much appreciation to the Pelican for leading us out in prayer. Reminding us to truly remember what this season is all about..

    Always appreciate the chatter and fellowship with you men in the Gloom. Definitely sets the tone of my day and inspires me to be a reflection of what we at F3 strive to live for “Faith, Fitness, Fellowship”

    Thank you brothers for the opportunity to lead..