Tag: EiEi

  • First at the Marsh for ole EiEi Oh? Literally/Figuratively

    YHC arrived at the Marsh to the sights of an unfamiliar truck.. As I exited, so did one EiEi now that’s a pleasant surprise but certainly a welcomed one.. Then the likes of another arrival not seen in sometime with Pelican pulling in as Steve and Bushwacker make there way to center court.. Of course the Marsh would not be complete without the pillar of Monday posts Water Pik rolling in right on time.. We circle up at center court to warmup for our “Marsh 500” on this heavy humid Gloom.. Not sure of the track temperatures but most of the PAX would soon be cooling things down with much perspiration as we embark down Lamarque street..

    Warmup

    15 IC Toe Touches

    10 IC Good Mornings

    15 IC Windmills

    10 IC Arm circles forward/reverse

    15 IC SSH

    Thang

    Assembled on Lamarque for the first bit of instruction. Simple Mosey to the first cross street for our 1st of only 5 exercises.. 20 8 count body builders OYO, as the YHC knew that he would not be able to maintain an accurate count as we progressed down Lamarque. Corner 2 20 8 count body builders, 25 Merkins. Moseyed on to our next block 20 8 count body builders, 25 Merkins, 34 Squats. By this point Q was beginning to wonder what possessed him to elect 8 count body builders as one of the exercises, but then Bushwhacker noticed the Ragnar t-shirt YHC was wearing which states “It’s not crazy if we all are doing it!” On to the fourth corner for 20 8 count body builders, 25 Merkins, 33 Squats, 50 Plank Jacks.. Arrived on the 5th corner at Lakeshore and Lamarque for completion. 20 8 count body builders, 25 Merkins, 33 Squats, 50 Plank Jacks and 100 LBCs.. By this point the objective of the PAX is to just complete in whatever order necessary or as we like to say modify to your abilities… PAX began some mumble chatter of a possible Uber pickup, which made the YHC feel as though he had delivered a quality product for a great price… “Marsh 500” complete 5 corners, 5 exercises and 500 Total reps.. Moseyed our 1/2 mile return to the court arriving with 2 mins to spare for a chill cut Plank followed by 10 IC J-lows..

    Glad to have all you men post this Gloom, especially EIEI. Looking forward to seeing you at other AO’s as well 👊🏻!!

    count, announce, COT

    👏🏻👏🏻 to EIEI for closing us in prayer!!

    Always appreciate the Gloom with you brethren of F3!!

    👍🏻👊🏻✌🏻 til the next Gloom!!

  • Got TAXES??? Here’s a Beatdown

    With the new, recently constructed, tax payer funded workout equipment at the Mandeville City Hall playground, YHC decided it was time to take full advantage of it’s convenient location. Funny thing is, this new equipment is about 15 lunge walk paces (we found that out today) from where Shooter plants his American Flag and where we form our COT, so it’s almost as if the equipment was meant for F3 Northshore. And this hasnt been lost by our group, as nearly every week we have utlized it and have even joked about who it was intended for.

    WARMARAMA

    SSH, HK, BK all IC x 15. Lunge walk to end of cars (thanks, EiEi, for parking nearly to East Causeway Approach)

    THANG

    Off we go…our routine 5k through the gloomy streets of Old Mandeville and Sunset Point.

    POST THANG

    We all pay taxes, RIGHT? Ok, let’s enjoy the fruits of our labor. PAX lunge walks about 15 paces to F3 Workout Equipment at the Mandeville City Hall.

    PAX rotates through all of the equipment. Presses, Pull-ups, Merkins, Freak Nasties, Knees to Chest…heck, I dont even know the name of those things we were using, but it felt good.

    MARY

    Putins x 20 IC, Crunchy Frogs x 10 IC, Freddy Mercs x 20 IC.

    Countoff, COT, and thanks to Zoolander for praying us out.

    Many thanks to the men of F3 Northshore for following my lead and always inspiring me to become a better man.

  • The Substitute Q

    We all remember having a substitute in school, it was almost like a free period… well this is F3 and there are no free periods, especially here on the north shore! With @the-manny being out of comission for the moment he had to call is a substitute Q.. and who better than @butt-splice himself!!! 16 men including myself decided not to fartsack and overcome the sad clown syndrome! 6 got the worm with 2 miles of foreplay and @josemourinho showed us all what a 10k foreplay looks like. With excitement we return back to the flag with smiling faces awating us and an almost unrecognizable @eiei (because of the beard not the belly!) Glad to have you back brother! An eastern sunrise on the shovel flag meant it was time for action!!!

    WARMARAMA

    20 SSH IC

    20 Toe Touches IC

    20 Seal Jacks IC

    20 Windmills IC

    20 Mummy Kicks IC

    20 Good Mornings IC

    20 Knee Highs IC

    20 Butt Kicks IC

    Mosey

    THANG

    1 min Plank

    5 Hand Release Merkins OYO (at least i think thats what their called…. either way do 5 of those)

    30 sec Side Plank Left

    5 Hand Release Merkins

    30 sec Side Plank Right

    5 Hand release Merkins

    30 sec Plank

    20 Shoulder Taps IC

    30 sec Plank

    recover, 10 count

    Mosey

    3 of the longest block in Mandeville make for a perfect Substitute assignment!!!

    headed north pax jog first block

    sprint second block and

    walk third block

    rinse and repeat… headed back south

    10 count,

    and to make it more like detention Q had something in mind that was meant to crush a man… but not f3 pax cuz we beast mode!!

    Qs original assignment for groups of 2 pax… 500 accumulative Jump Squats and 500 Lunges while the other backpedals the long mandeville block and sprints back…

    this creates a stir amongst the men that goes ignored by Q.

    and we begin!!!!

    once the 500 Jump Squats were accomplished Q calls an audible and saves the lunges for next time.. only for the sake of Mary… Q loves Mary!!

    but first… to top off the quad crippler….

    50 Box Jumps OYO

    return back to the flag

    MARY

    20 LBCs IC

    20 Freddie Mercurys IC

    20 Flutter Kicks IC

    20 Dying Cockroaches IC

    20 Hip Ups Left

    20 Hip Ups Right

    and recover….

    COT, BOM, @tankedup prays us out!

    Welcome our FNGs Slap Shot and Strange Brew

    Over and Out… your favorite substitute Q,

    Butt-Splice


  • The Morning before the Nightmare before Christmas

    18 strong on the Mandeville Lakefront this morning, our warmup circle of pain expanding as the sun rose with long lost veteran EiEi finding his way out of the fartsack and back to the PAX just in time for the standard disclaimer.

    Off to the races with a warmup of Seal Jacks, Imperial Walker Squats, Toe Touches, Windmills, and Side Straddle Hops, all 20x IC.

    Mosey towards the Harbor for the next COP:  T Merkins, Jane Fondas, Wife Pleasers, Merkin Circle, Nolan Ryans, and Flutter Kicks. All IC with various rep counts.

    Mosey again towards the Harbor with another COP stop for front to back lunges, monkey humpers, and copperhead squats.  Again IC with various rep counts.

    Then all the way to the Harbor playground.  YHC divided the PAX into six teams of three for some rarajipari variations around the playground.  Good times and all in line with YHC’s diabolical plan to run the PAX as much as possible this morning to train surreptitiously for the Krazy Ivan without wearing them out for tomorrow afternoon’s Nightmare Before Christmas beat down.

    Indian Run back to the shovel flag for our countorama, nameorama and a prayer.

    Welcome FNGs Big Ugly, Bolt and Hawk!

    Thanks for letting me lead guys.  YHC always appreciate you playing along with my hare brained ideas.

  • return of the Ei

    3 faithful pax posted in the gloom this morning.

    Eiei came out from hiding toting a few extra lbs but  willing and ready for a challenge!

    The thang:

    warm up in parking lot:

    hip crossovers x 10

    fwd lunge w forearm to floor x8

    back lunge with twist x 8

    lateral lunge x 8

    hand walk x 4

    sumo squat to stand x 8

    mosey to the lake front with intermittent sprints

    and mt climbers in rough gravel x20 ic

    seawall

    irkins IC x 20

    leg extensions x 50

    dirkins x10

    mosey back with sprints interspersed.

    trailhead COM: LBCs, deadbugs, HTH, JF, glute bridges with reach x 20 ic

    cot, prayer, peace out.

    thanks guys for showing up and working hard!

    chewy

     

     

  • Evening Karaoke Q Workout and F2

    Nine pax posted last night for our evening workout and F2.

    We passed the Q from pax to pax throughout the workout in what turned out to be a memorable beat down as the sun set.

    Throughout four circles of pain the pax went through several warm up exercises, merkins, dips, burpees, unique games, and some Mary to wrap things up.

    Shout outs to three pax who took the Q  for some unique activities:

    • Bushwhacker a series of animals that he had been planning all day
    • Coconuts for introducing a new paper rock scissors burpee penalty game
    • Turbo Tax for a balance game that started out with skeptical pax holding hands, but turned into an intense challenge

     

    Three more pax joined us for F2 after the workout: EiEi, Ocho, and Captain Sparkles.  And special shout outs to Coconuts for buying the first round of beer and to Shooter for the second. We owe you one (or two).

    Wishing Ocho the best as the final decisions of the 610 Stompers are announced.

  • yada yada yada……gimme a 20 sack: The Misadventures of Seal Team 2

    That one time when I woke up at 4:10am, having experienced a bizarrely rough night of sleep, and ALMOST texted the only other guy with the determination and drive to join me in the gloom for a 10k to say I wouldn’t make it…yada yada yada…he and his babysitter ended up lost in the pitch black woods of Maryland with spray paint and a brush looking for the water tower.

    There’s only so much you can learn about your F3 brothers posting every saturday, or even with a few sprinkled weekday workouts. If you really want the opportunity to learn about a guy, run 6.2(+.05) miles  at the butt crack of dawn with him. YHC has had that privelage with a number of his fellow F3, and treasured each valuable moment. A rarer treat is the one-on-one. Today’s lesson was the intro course of Who is Mike “EiEi” Farmer, with a refresher course on The Woes of the Wacker.

    Two individuals on 2 distinctly divergent life paths, both of which helped shape who they are, converge on Mandeville’s lauded Lakeshore Dr with one distinct piece of shared knowledge – scales are for white people!

    A better-than-anticipated pace of 9:03/mm was determined with the use of some alternative math.

    Seal Team Hollywood’s a no go with weak walrus reasoning having to do with an event to be c0-attended by mini-wackers.

    And, finally, the grass is not always greener…sometimes it’s the color of an awe-inspiring sun set.

  • Revival, Repost and Reverance!!

    The Scramble proved this YHC wrong on this Gloom. As I awoke this morning thoughts came over me knowing that a few of the regulars (Steve/Waterpic) would not be posting. I began wondering if it would be a solo post of sorts. Those thoughts were quickly erased with the revival of the Wacker of Bushes/Pelican and the repost of Sprocket who has become a regular Scrambler and the Reverance to a Hall of Fame Wrestler welcome (FNG) JYD. Nice job to Choppa for EHing!! With Chewy and EiEi arriving with 15 seconds to spare the numbers quickly swelled to 8 men, which is a great number considering all the past men who were once regulars (Captain Sparkles/Butt Splice/Burgundy/Sea Bass) and had they posted we would have surly shattered any previous record the Scramble had seen in its past..

    warmup

    All IC 20 SSH, Imperial Walker and Windmills.

    thang

    Standard route on this Gloom would provide the PAX with a community activity along sunset point where what appeared to be a setup by the Wacker. It  was as if the test of trash pickup needed to be taken to another level and indeed it was as half his journey consisted of carrying a garbage bag filled with the goods collected along our path to the return of the AO. We wrapped up with 15 IC Merkins, 15 IC LBCs, 15 IC cross crunches left/right and closing with 15 IC Hello Dollies. Naming of JYD proved to take us all back to a time of Reverance to the WWE and WWF.. Welcome JYD!!

     

     

    Appreciate Choppa for praying us out!!

    ✌🏻 to everyone on this holiday weekend!!

     

  • Dice of Doom’s Hard Opening and The Battle Old Mandeville

    With the winds died down and the hail unscathingly passing us by, it seemed like a good morning to bring out the Dice of Doom for and official hard opening. 12 PAX made sufficient numbers for a team battle of epic proportions.

    WARM UP

    each x20 IC:

    Toe Touches

    Windmills

    Imperial Walkers

    THANG-A-LANG

    Ok, so it went down like this – team 1 rolls the dice and then attempts to answer a trivia question for a point. While they perform the resulting exercise, team 2 planked. After each team had a chance to be “plank-in-waiting”, they each took a round to hold and Al Gore instead… and so on and so forth. The team with the most points at the conclusion won the right to casually watch the losing team do an exercise of team 1’s choice to whatever rep count team 2 rolled.

    Adding a lil lagniappe to this beat down, the PAX started at the flag and mosied down the lakefront to Marigny for the next roll, then up Marigny 1 block for the next, east 1 block, back south the the lakefront, and finally east to the playground/splash pad for the final roll.

    Considering A. this was an idea that YHC was conducting semi-on the fly and B. YHC was also doing all of the exercises along with both teams, the exact numbers and order are a little jumbled in my Wackie mind. However, there were a superlative amount of jump squats, some putins, a WILD Q set of freak nasties, a sparse sampling of merkins, and a round of 50 side straddle hops.

    QIC felt that the PAX was enjoying themselves a little too much, as shown by the over-abundance of mumble chatter. Thusly, the whoopin stepped up a notch with and abbreviated version of the B.I.T.E.M.E. (inspred by B.O.M.B.S.) better recognized as B.I.M. – 50 burpees, 100 iron hulks, and 150 moroccan nightclubs. That changed the PAX’s tune, or at least winded them enough to give their gums a little respite.

    Broken back into team 1 and 2, the indian run back home commenced. Big props and T claps to Moby who kept moving at his best pace after pre-thanin’ it and recently returning full time from IR. Double respect was duly shown by a majority of the PAX circling back to join Shooter in rolling in with the great White Whale.

    MARY

    All x20 IC:

    LBCs

    Flutter Kicks

    Freddie Mercury’s

    And finally, with a Dice of Doom trivia tie hanging over the PAX like spring-time storm clouds darker than 50 shades of gray (absolutely not erotic!), there was a final showdown still to be played out. Steve representing team1 stood eye to eye – nay, brow to brow with Ei of team 2, as these 2 titans of F3 lore faced off, each with a stare of intense animosity and rivalry that would have slain a fire-breathing dragon! With fists clenched, sinewy muscles taught, and lightening flashing in both of their eyes, their respective teams chomping at the bit with flared nostrils of wild stallions, QIC handed the numbered die to Steve to roll like a steel gauntlet slapping with indignation the faces of each of the battle-worn members of team 2. And what a blow! 50 – there would be no topping it, only another roll of 50 would agonizingly drag this battle out. Alas, it was not to be, for the brave and venerable Ei’s roll, as though time was moving at a near stand-still…..came up a 20. With the sweet taste of victory like honey on their lips, team 1 doled out the harshest penalty to their vanquished foes, BURPEES! As team 2 collapsed to the earth with the weight of the world on their backs to serve their sentence, a ray of sunny good will began to shine when team 1, under no obligation to do so, dropped to salute their worthy foes with planking of of superiorly perfected form.

    Ok it wasn’t EXACTLY like that, but more or less.

    COT, Bubba prayed us out with solemn vigor, and The sharp-dressed man himself, Waterpik pick up the forth-coming coffee. Many thanks to you both, and to all of the PAX who put forth a mighty effort in the wake of my humble lead!

    PS – I’d also like to give special T Claps to the stellar beard that Turbo picked up in Colorado! Clean up the edges a little and you may look like a respectable lawyer of some sort.

  • (Erotic?) Dreams of TurboTax, Mowing Grass, Wherethehellissparkles, and a Pair of New Shoes

    That pretty much says it all….

     

    Start off with COT as is reasonable and customary at the Captain’s Cove.

     

    Good mumblechatter this morning with a couple of great guys.  Whacker seemed particularly pumped up this morning, detailing the twisting, turning story of his dream that included our very own Turbo Tax in a nocturnal F3 AO setting.  Really, you’ll have to ask Bushwacker about this one.  Not withstanding the many praises I have received for my supposed and alleged high brown and cerebral writing skillz, I am in no way prepared to recount this dream.  I will say that the recounting of Wackie’s dream was complete with a disclaimer that mind altering drugs were not in fact ingested prior to the dream.

     

    For any tips on either remaining hydrated or being extremely efficient at solo lawn mowing, also please consult Bushwacker.  These etherial musings were also debated during our 6.3 mile tour along the lakefront and amongst the Quercus virginia.

     

    Where the hell is Captain Sparkles?  Demotion to Seal Team Zero is imminent.  Hollywood movie sets are actually not F3 AO’s.  Sparkles – Come back!!!!

     

    Shooter got a new pair of running shoes.  His shoe size did indeed increase.  I am sure Ms. Shooter appreciates this.

     

    Thanks for getting me out there guys.  And thanks to whoever put me down as Q.  I needed an extra point in ISI.

    Ei