F3 New Orleans

Tag: Mariah

  • Bacon Rarajapari with a slice of ultimate burpee bacon

    It’s my birthday week so indulge me and let me do what I want with this beatdown. 70 degrees cool and beautiful outside. Showed up with my bucket of baseballs, and a frisbee. The pre-beatdown chatter focused on the Bourbon Rodeo on Monday night – total FOMO from me. I had a great B-Day with the fam but totally jealous of the food and booze beatdown hosted by Sandbar, Squeal, and 86.

    Started off with grabbing some baseballs out of the bucket. We ran to the parking lot in front of the zoo. SSH x 20. Imp Walkers x 20 and Morning Glories x 10. Drop your ball and run to Audubon Statue.

    At Audubon we did around the clock merks x 15 at 3,6,9,and 12 – That means inclined merks, right arm raised merks, decline merks, left arm raised merks.

    Drop the ball and run to the FLY beach playing Rarajapari with partner – only rule is that you can’t kick the ball twice.

    At the FLY beach we did Monkey Humpers x 20 and Mtn Climbers x 20

    Drop your ball and run the big hill with your partner and your ball – finish by kicking your ball over the hill.

    At the FIELD we played Ultimate Frisbee. We divided teams based on F3 shirts. 2 burpees for a change of possession. 7 burpees for a score. Final score was 7-3. So my team did 49 burpees and the bad guys in F3 shirts who enjoy ruining birthdays did a mere 21 burpees. Not including turn overs.

    Some observations–Angie’s List is the Honey Badger of ultimate – knocking frisbees out of peoples hands with reckless abandon, Bones used to play professional ultimate – he even knew the correct terms for different plays,etc. If you ever need a ringer call Bones. Nip Tuck has a ridiculous wingspan – he was pulling out some crazy plastic man long arm catches. Peaches can sail a frisbee – his first kick off was two football fields away–guess I made the field too small for him, G-Spot has Drew Brees like accuracy with the frisbee – he landed 2 kickoffs on the goal line, Quarterpipe also may have played ultimate in Division 1 – punk, King Kong got attacked by the wet grass monster – I hope your knee and your groin are OK, he is not afraid to dive and finally Wipeout is a post up beast. Just throw it up in the air and he will come down with it. Nice TD. Sorry to the guys who didn’t get a mention.

    Rarajapari back to Audubon Statue. At the Statue LBCs while you wait. Also had a minute for Low Country Crab x 20. It wouldn’t have been my beatdown without them.

    Finally back to the FLAG with some Rarajapari. Careful crossing Magazine. Got back 30 sec early so we did MISSION IMPOSSIBLE to finish.

    Thanks for allowing me the chance to lead. Always a pleasure. In the prayer I asked everyone to BE THE BACON. Be the thing that people look forward to in everything that you do.

  • H8! #6

    The Thang

    Event: The 6th running of the H8!

    Conditions: 72 degrees, 90% humidity, winds out of the SSE at 4 mph.

    Participants: 30 Pax including, 7 H8!ers, and 14 first timers.

    Each lap consists of running south to the top of the levee, crossing canal (bear crawling the neutral ground), running south to the bottom of the levee, cross canal and run north to the top of the levee, cross canal (bear crawling the neutral ground), running north down the levee and back across canal to the starting point.  At the starting point you do a descending burp and merk pyramid starting at 8 (burpee with 8 merkins, burpee with 7 merkins, …..burpee with 1 merkin)

    At the end of the 2nd lap the burp and merk pyramid starts at 7, etc.

    The goal is to complete 8 laps in 40 minutes.  According to MapMyRun, each loop is approximately 0.4 miles.  Therefore, to conquer the H8! you will have to do the following in 40 minutes:

    • Run just less than 3.5 Miles of Hills
    • 550 Yards of Bear Crawls
    • 36 Burpees
    • 120 Merkins

    We did AMRAP and then moseyed back to the flag.

    The Skinny
    • 12 finishers for a 40% success rate: SOGO, Cowbell, Smooth, Mahatma, 86, Thighs, Mariah, Triple Shift, Dirty Dell, Ya Mom N Dem, Screwtop, and Hawgcycle
    • No one got nine. Who will be the first?
    • I feel like YHC spent most of my energy chirping at Mahatma, at least until the 5th lap at which point he left me far enough behind he couldn’t hear me anymore.
    • I may have to put cones out next time to protect the integrity of the H8!.
    • Rudy had his first DNF at the H8! but it was for medical reasons. His doctor says no burpees. I would like to find a doctor like that.

  • We have 23ish…

    23 PAX posted at WPM for ILoveYouMan’s VQ. After a quick introduction and disclaimer we were off with a quick run down St Charles and back to TD Jesus.

    WARM-O-RAMA

    • 20 x Grass Grabbers, 20 x Self Love, 15 x Windmills, 25 x SSH, 20 x Mt Climbers, 20 x Peter Parker

    THA-THANG 1

    • Head to the ledges in front of Loyola, Group 1 is the count with 20 x merkins w/ peter parker in between, Group 2: Dips, Group 3: Crunchy Frogs

    THA-THANG 2

    Chumbawamba Burpees – Music  = “Chumbawamba” (their only song), SSH and then Burpees done every time the words, “I get knocked down, but I get up again” are said.  Total = a lot of burpees and complaining

    THA-THANG 3

    • After the amazing music routine, the PAX headed to the mountain where we did an Indian run to level 3 followed by 20 x wide arm merkins. We then side shuffled and sprint to the next level followed by 20 x pickle pounders. Backward run the next flat with an attempt to Alligator merkin+ bunny hop the incline followed with 20 x diamond merkins. Finish off the mountain with a run to the top of the mountain and complete 10 x dirty hookups, 8 x partner decline merkins while partner is in plank + 10 x leg throws.

    Head back to TD Jesus for a quick circle of Mary + Stretches

    • 20 x low country crab, 20 x penguins, 20 x LBC, Grass Grabbers with stretching

    Wrap it all up with a quick count off that was botched by Angies List and name-o-rama. Thank you all for enduring my VQ!

  • 1 lil 2 lil 3 lil running men

    Nice cool April 15th morning, tax day at its finest.

    Started out with a casual jog to circle up near the track. A few stretches and a 15 count of windmills (yes I said count).

    Then to the track to preform exercises, descending at every walking man(5 walking men per exercise).

    The following were the exercises:

    5-1 hand release burpees (hurpees)

    10-2 lunges

    20-12 merkins

    10-2 groiners

    20-12 air presses

    10-12 v-ups

    20-12 Russian twists

    50-10 lbcs

    10-2 monkey humpers

    5-1 hand release burpees (hurpees)

    Almost made it all the way around the running path but had to finish up with 2 line Indian run to the flag.

    COT, count off, name-o-rama, announcements, intentions and prayer.

    Thank you to the PAX for entertaining my workout.

    86

  • Dog Poop on the Levee

    20 strong PAX showed up on a damp, muggy Monday morning. Two showed up late. One eventually found the group by the levee while the other PAX ended up working out on his own. Audubon Park is one AO that you have a 10 percent chance of finding the group once the clock strikes past 5:30 a.m. Needless to say, at 5:30 a.m., YHC gave his standard disclaimer and off we went!!!

    Moseyed on Magazine Street towards those overpriced condos on Walnut by the levee. YHC found a well lit field and decided to do the warm ups there so the PAX can wake up all those affluent condo owners.

    Warm-ups in cadence

    Toe Touches x 10

    Windmills x 10

    SSHs x 20

    Self Love x 10

    Hill Billies x 20

    The Levee with Dog Poop

    Walked over to the levee. We did the following sets.

    Set 1

    Started at the base of the levee. After each exercise, each PAX ran up the levee and back down to the base. By the end of the first exercise, YHC saw Jingle Vader running towards us. He first ran all the way to the only Hill in New Orleans at the Fly to look for the PAX. Somehow, he ran along the levee from the Fly to where the PAX were. T-claps on finding the group in the middle of darkness. JV is the 10 percent YHC was referring earlier.

    • 10 Burpees OYO
    • 20 Lunges IC
    • 20 Imperial Walkers IC
    • 20 Merkins IC (slow version)
    • 20 Plankjacks IC
    • 20 Slow low Squats IC

    Few PAX recognized YHC was leading a modified BLIMPS workout in the middle of it.

    Set 2

    Started at the base of the levee. After each exercise, each PAX ran BACKWARDS up the levee and back down to the base.

    • 10 Burpees OYO
    • 20 Mountain Climbers IC
    • 20 Peter Parkers IC
    • 20 Parker Peters IC
    • 20 Shoulder Taps IC

    Set 3

    Started at the base of the levee. After each exercise, each PAX bear crawled up the levee and ran back down to the base. However, during the first round of bear crawl, a lot of mumblechatter about dog feces. YHC didn’t feel any while bear crawling but definitely caught a whiff of massive dog poop from Catahoulas, Great Dane, Mastiff, Saint Bernard, Ridgeback, and Chihuahua. YHC quickly called for modification from bear crawling to running up the levee for the remaining rounds of exercises. Many PAX showed signs of gratitude toward the Q for making the change.

    • 10 Burpees OYO
    • 20 Genuflex IC
    • 20 Jump Lunges OYO
    • 20 Jump Squats OYO

    Moseyed to the front of Audubon Zoo and did the following:

    • Curb Jumps x 20 IC
    • Slow Derkins x 20 IC
    • 6-inches Boxcutter x 15 IC
    • Little Holding Crunches x 20 IC
    • Dying Cockroach x 20 IC

    COT

    Moseyed back to the flag at 6:16 a.m with COT. Upon arriving at the flag, YHC realized Iron Horse from Tallahassee was there. He was late. He falls in the 90 percent category where it’s almost impossible to find the PAX after 5:30 a.m. However, he looked like he gave himself a great beatdown. We are happy to have Iron Horse back for the week. Thank You all again for the opportunity to lead. Always a pleasure to workout with my F3 brothers. SYITG.

    King Kong

  • Lightening don’t strike twice. Please.

    YCH needed no alarm early Friday. Sky Q took care of that with a pretty spectacular lightening storm that got cranked up around 4:50. I have yet to miss a workout due to weather but I do have a decent amount of mouths to feed so I reached out to Yankee. Yankee let me know he generally sits out the lightening workout but he had a guy in from Chicago and he felt he couldn’t say no. Not wanting any electrocutions on my watch I tapped out a quick message about not judging anyone for sitting out due to lightning. As it turns out storm blew through and was completely done by 5:15 or so. So 23 PAX assembled at St. Charles and Audubon Park. After a quick disclaimer, we were off.

    Warm ups at Palm Circle

    • SSHX20
    • Arm Circles forward and reverse X10 each
    • WMX20
    • PPX20
    • MCX20
    • PPX20

    Mosey to Wolfpack Hill then on to Wolfpack Mountian.

    After warmups we headed to the rarely visited Wolfpack Hill. 2 lines at the base. Indian up. Indian down.At the base of Wolfpack Mountain, you guessed it, 2 lines/ Indian up to the top.

    The Dora Thang Up top

    • Partner up.
    • 1st round 60 burpees. Partner runs to opposite end of garage and back.
    • 2nd round 120 plank jacks, partner runs.
    • 3rd round 240 LBC’s, partner runs.
    • Plank and wait for 6. Inspired by Fracsac I burpeed and waited for 6. Much respect.

    Stairs to the benches

    • Grab a bench.
    • RLSUX20
    • DipsX20
    • LLSUX20
    • DipsX20

    Mosey back to the flag

    We arrive 3 minutes early so Mahatma leads the group in a circle of merks. 10 is the count, 5 is the start from the man next to you. After that with time to burn I offer up more merks. 10 in cadence quickly changed to 15 cause they just feel so damn good.

    We wrap up with COT count off, name o rama, announcements, prayers.

    I am very grateful for the opportunity to lead twice in one week!

    (Also after the beatdown I let everyone on mumblechatter know that because I had shown up i rwas recanting my “no judgement” position to one of full and total judgement.

  • Fiat Lux

    Seven PAX convened for YHC’s virgin Q. The disclaimer was initially botched and we rudely cut off a biker so it was a rocky start.

    Alas, got the blood flowing along St. Charles for a few blocks before turning around for a warm-up in Cowen Circle:

    • SSH x 20
    • Windmills x 15
    • Mountain climbers x 25
    • Slow merkins x 15

    Next, headed out on a mosey, missed the originally planned turn, and eventually arrived at the Tulane ROTC pull-up bars. There we:

    • Round 1: Pull-ups to failure + 10 merkins + 15 jumping air squats
    • Round 2: Pull-ups to at least half of Round 1 number + 10 merkins + 15 jumping air squats
    • Round 3: Pull-ups to failure + 10 merkins + 15 jumping air squats

    Then we continued on a mosey to the LBC Quad where the University had graciously set-up spotlights for us; it was a sight to behold:

    Let there be light!

    In honor of Bones and my beloved San Francisco Giants beating the Dodgers last night, we played “baseball” under the lights, performing different exercises at each “base” of the diamond:

    • Home plate: 9 burpees
    • 1st base: 18 Nolan Ryans
    • 2nd base: 27 jumping lunge squats
    • 3rd base: 36 LBCs

    Multiples of nine since it’s both eponymous with my namesake and baseball games have nine innings. Bases were longer than MLB standards at about 40-50 yards apart; we did two rounds.

    Mosey back towards towards our AO with an initial pitstop at the Loyola Rec Center garage.

    Side note: does this garage have a name? If not, I’m going with Freret Street Summit or Wolfpack Pinnacle. To be discussed at our next F2 event…

    Nonethless, ran up the stairs, performed a round of Mary at the top with each of the 7 PAX leading their favorite ab workout, and headed back down the stairs.

    Continued the mosey homeward with the final stop being WPM for 15 decline merks on the first ramp followed by 15 incline merks. Popped over to the stairwell, did a quick up-and-down the Mountain, and made it back to the flag with 30 seconds to spare.

    Special shoutout to the fine gentlemen of this morning’s Tsunami (namely Mariah) for enduring my horrendous navigational skills and poor sense of timing…

  • Partner Up the WPM

    28 PAX gathered on this beautiful, calm, cool Friday morning. Still very dark at 5:25 a.m…. but YHC noticed he wasn’t the only one using passports frequently these days… Your Mom’n Dem and Half Nelson traveled ALL THE WAY from Lakeview to Uptown just for this beat down. Seconds later, YHC noted 2 more Lakeview Pax, Screw Top and Jesus Juice, were also here for their WPM debut. T-Claps to all the out-of-towners including Dr. Quinn from St. Louis. Welcome!!! YHC gave his standard disclaimer and off we went!!!

    Warm-ups

    Short mosey to Loyola campus and did the following in cadence:

    Grass Grabbers x 10

    Windmills x 10

    Imperial Walkers x 20

    Self Love x 10

    SSHs x 20

    Mountain Climbers x 20

    The WPM

    Moseyed to the base of the WPM. YHC told the PAX to sweep the Six by running up and down the ramps instead of planking.

    1.) Ran up the first ramp so that the PAX were at the base of the 2nd ramp. Partner up. First exercise – burpees jump over. One PAX was doing the burpee jump over the other PAX, who was in the low plank position. Each PAX did 5 burpees jump over then Flap Jack. Then ran up the ramp and repeat the same burpees jump over. Ran back down the ramp, rinse and repeat. Then ran back up the ramp and did the final set of burpees jump over. In total, each PAX did 4 rounds (total 20 burpees jump over each).

    2.) Side hopped on the flat level from one end to the other and switched direction in the middle. Now at the base of the 3rd ramp. Picked a different partner. 2nd exercise – synchronized air squats. Started off at the base with 20 air squats, ran up the ramp then did 15 squats, ran back down with 10 squats. Ran back up the ramp and finished with 5 squats.

    3.) Karaoke on the flat level from one end to the other and switched direction in the middle. Now the PAX were at the base of the 4th ramp. Picked another different partner. 3rd exercise – patty cake merkins. Started off at the base with 20 patty cake merkins, ran up the ramp then did 15 merkins, ran back down with 10 more. Ran back up the ramp and finished with 5 merkins.

    4.) Prisoner ran on the flat level from one end to the other to get to the next ramp. Now at the base of the 5th ramp. Picked a new partner. 4th exercise – decline merkins. One PAX (while in a squat position) was holding other PAX’s legs, who was doing 5 derkins. Flap Jack. Then ran up the ramp and repeat the same reps. Ran back down the ramp, rinse and repeat. Then ran back up the ramp and did the final set of derkins. In total, each PAX did 4 rounds (total 20 derkins each while the holder was in a squat position).

    5.) Prisoner ran on the flat level from one end to the other to get to the next ramp. Now at the base of the 6th ramp. Picked another partner. 5th exercise – synchronized big boy sit-ups. Started off at the base with 20 sit-ups, ran up the ramp then did 15 more, ran back down with 10 reps. Ran back up the ramp and did 5 sit-ups. Then ran back down the ramp and waited for the SIX.

    6.) Now at the base of the 6th ramp again. Picked a different partner for one last time. Wheel barrel up the ramp. Flap Jack at the PAX discretion. Each PAX finished the beat down with 30 LBCs at the top of the WPM.

    Ran down the stairs back to flag and finished at about 6:17 a.m. Couple minutes late but no mumble chatter. Yes because Rudy wasn’t there.

    COT

    Count-O-Rama 28PAX, Name-O-Rama, announcements, intentions. YHC invited the PAX to stop by Deswine Intervention tent at Hogs for the Cause. Thank You all again for the opportunity to lead. Always a pleasure and honor to workout with the PAX. SYITG

    King Kong

  • Techno-Free Beatdowns

    YHC knows he’s old school, old fashioned, and just plain old.  #RespectHasItsDrawbacks.  For the COT, he utterly–and proudly–failed in his effort to record the names of the 28!!! PAX who posted in the gloom.  Even with Mariah’s held (#TClaps), it was hopeless.  Thank God our beatdowns are (generally) techno-free.

    With a quick disclaimer (and YHC’s failure yet again to ask whether there were any FNGs, of which there were none), the PAX was off to the soccer fields in front of Audubon for the first COP:

    • SSHs 25xIC
    • Imperial Walkers 25xIC
    • Grass Grabbers 25xIC
    • Merkins 25xIC
    • Low Slow Squats 25xIC (with a lagniappe of 5 burpees OYO in the middle)

    Mosey over to the levee for some Elevens: ten burpees down to one at the bottom of the levee, and one jump squat up to ten at the top.

    Then mosey over to the Audubon statue for some Dora 1-2-3: PAX paired up for 100 dips, 200 squats and 300 LBCs.

    Then mosey back to one of the soccer fields (to get our of ears’ reach of the Clipboard barking out numbers and orders to the hapless Wallets in Tights) for a quick round of Mary:

    • American Hammer 20xIC
    • Dying Cockroach 20xIC (keep feet up for next round)
    • Flutter Kicks 20xIC (keep feet up for next round)
    • Hello Dolly 20xIC
    • Crunchy Frog 20xIC

    Mosey back to the flag for COT and YHC’s complete inability to work either a video or audio stream on his cell phone.  There was a PAX of 28, but YHC (with the help of other PAX, @TClaps) could recall all but one.  So apologies to that one PAX, who gets credit from the SkyQ even though he’s anonymous (at least for now) to us mortals.


  • Back to Skinny 2.0

    There was a solid group of 20+ waiting In The Gloom this cool Monday morning. We kicked things off with a warmup in place:

    -15 second left-over-right and right-over-left stretches

    -15 SSH

    Then we ran. We headed up toward the Fly, then upriver along the levee, stopping every .5 miles:

    -Leg 1: mosey followed by 15x LBCs.

    -Leg 2: Indian Run followed by 20x Peter Parkers and 20x Parker Peters.

    -Leg 3: mosey followed by 20x LBTs and 20x Dying Cockroaches.

    -Leg 4: Prisoner Run down the levee followed by Indian run and then 15x Mountain Climbers and Pickle Pounders.

    -Leg 5: mosey followed by Flutter Kicks and Hello Dollies.

    Leg 6: mosey back to the flag. Repeat earlier stretch routine, 15 more Pickle Pounders and then 10 Bburpees OYO.

    3 miles = great start to the week!