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Tag: Milestone Marsh

  • Akbar meets Solo and Cindy Crawford on the Payne Train – from Akbar

    YHC arrived early this gloom for a Hero beatdown, and by 5:15 there was still 1. With Cowbell out of town, no late arrival was expected so it was time for some Solo work to honor 2 fallen soldiers.

    Corporal Randy Payne and Corporal Matt Dinning were killed together on April 22, 2006 in Afghanistan while conducting a Close Protection mission, when the Armored G-Wagon they were riding in was struck by a roadside bomb near the Gumbad platoon house.

    WU – 10 Slow high knees, then 10 fast IC
    10 Slow Butt Kicks, then 10 fast IC
    10 IW, Hillbillies, self-love, arm circles, toe touches

    THANG

    The Cindy: 5 pull ups, 10 merkins, 15 Squats. Complete 5 rounds, 300-meter run, then 4 round, 3 rounds… down to 1 for time.

    Finished at 24:36.

    MARY

    What’s a Cindy without the Crawford?

    20 LBC’s, 25 Calf Raises, 5 rounds, 4 rounds, etc to 1

    COT – Corporal Payne and Minning, their families, those who serve our country, and past fallen soldiers. Shooter, Cowbell, and BBQ on vacation.

    Announcements: Amnesia’s 3 year anniversary at Granny’s tomorrow.

    Till next gloom,

    Akbar

  • Not Draggin’ Around – from Akbar

    YHC arrived at the gloom right on time after hitting the snooze this morning too many times. The AO was vacant, with one unidentified truck. Out walked Bypass and his FNG, Waterpik ran up as usual, and Hogsbreath was the last to make it 5. T Claps for the EH Bypass, in your second week nonetheless. Still burning from Saturday, there would be minimal shoulder work today.

    Warm up SSH, IW, Arm Circles (F/B), Self-Love x 10

    Short Mosey to the playground for Pull-Ups and Swing Tucks: 10, 8, 6 each OYO

    Thang : Mosey to the Lakefront wall. As we started, a man in his car rolled down the window and said “stop draggin’ arse!” That’s really the definition of a Mosey sir, so we did Mosey and stopped for some exercises

    Block 1 10 Apolo Ohno’s (2 is 1), 25 Merkins

    Block 2 10 Apolo Ohno, 25 Merkins, 50 Lunge walk (1-1)

    Lakefront 25 Dirkins OYO, 20 Freak Nasties IC, 20 Peter Parkers IC

    Mosey back to the court stopping along the way for:

    Block 1 10 Apolo Ohno’s (2 is 1), 25 Merkins

    Block 2 10 Apolo Ohno, 25 Merkins, 50 Lunge walk (1-1)

    Back at the beginning, line up on court for 10 Apolo Ohno’s, 25 Merkins, 50 Squats OYO. Move to center court for 50 LBC’s IC. Mosey to playground for Pull-Ups and Swing Tucks: 10, 8, 6 each OYO

    Mary Leg Raises, Hands to Heels x10 IC

    Count, Name, Welcome Deep Six!

    YHC prayed us out with thanks for health & leadership. Thanks for Deep Six’s service to our country and save travels on his trek to NC.

    Announcements

    Gnarly Nutria Wednesday at 9am. Meet at the old Winn Dixie/Acquistapace for Clown Car at 7:45pm.

    FIA/F3 Mixer will not happen this week. It’s been changed to every other month, starting in August. More to come.

    Thanks for letting me lead,

    Akbar

    NMM

    Bypass’s friend Danny was on his way from San Diego to Fort Pendleton in NC. A Marine, he was a beast. He must have done 50 pullups to our 10 at the playground. He loves to Scuba Dive, so Deep Six was appropriate for his F3 name. Bypass and Deep Six said they’d be at Grandmas tomorrow. Great mumblechatter as always on the mosey to the lakefront and back.

  • A Few Card Games – from Hogs Breath

    YHC showed up 5 mins prior and was greeted by the sight of a few pax milling about. We even had a FNG waiting for us!!

    The warm up

    We began with 10 IC mountain man poopers. How YHC found that warm up was by searching through the Exicon and picking funny names. Using the same formula, YHC went to the exicon on my phone began scrolling and had my M say “stop” and that became this mornings workout. So what we we ended up with;

    Boat / Canoe – 60sec
    Burp and Merk – 5 oyo
    Crab Jacks – 10 ic

    The Thang

    An Obama the length of the basketball court.

    Originally a coupon workout was planned, however YHC was told the coupons had been taken, again. At this point the city is probably moving them, if YHC had read the back last from 2 weeks prior YHC would have realized and could have brought some coupons….

    [If anyone wants we were going to preform a workout modified from an iron pax workout:
    10 man makers
    20 overhead press
    30 kettlebell swings
    40 curls
    50 incline merkins]

    So YHC was a great Q and adapted on the fly. Even thought YHC had previous said minimal running and mostly upper body, he had to modify! A Deck O’ Death was pulled out and various games were played:

    War: highest card was the exercise and the low number was added up. I.e. 9 of spades [low slow squats] and 7 of hearts so all pax performed 16 low slow squats.

    After everyone had a turn we moseyed to the Woodlake elementary school and back.
    Then we drew a poker hand and performed all exercises of the highest poker hand. A mosey back to the school.
    Then we drew cards and lined them up highest to lowest, and performed all exercises, and then drew a second round but went lowest to highest.
    At this it was time to wrap up.

    We welcomed, and named, Bypass, a new addition to our Northshore Pax! Named because he had heart surgery last April, he was EH’d by one of our Uptowner pax. Hopefully he’ll return out to us again!

    Ended with a COT with plenty of prayers for upcoming surgeries, travels, and allowing the Great Q to be leaders in our communities as we carry forward.

  • Impromptu 3rd F Beatdown – from Hogs Breath

    Checking the Q sheet after last nights fireworks I didn’t see anyone sign up. So I grabbed my Deck O’ Death (available at Mudgear) and headed out to Taylor Thomas Park. Planting a shovel flag five mins before, I was at least expecting one other pax to show….
    But alas at 0515 I was alone, so I began

    Warm-up
    50 self cadence SSH
    10 mountain man poopers
    10 Hillbillies
    10 toe kicks

    The thang
    Obama the length of the basketball court
    One lap around the block and then I began the Deck O’ Death, turning over a card I would perform said exercise, as I was sweating away in the muggy air I looked around at the refuse and litter left behind by the previous day’s Fourth of July. I can either complain about it, or I could improve my community and be an example and leader. Taking on one of the F3 tenants and “leave no [park] behind, but no [park] where you found him” after each card, I would sprint to a piece of litter, run to the trash can and back to center court to overturn the next card. After performing the nexts card’s exercise, I would rinse and repeat. I made it my mantra to clean the entire park by the time 0600 rolled around.
    I finished a sweaty mess, but accomplished the goal.
    And Pax, this is a beatdown I will be repeating!
    I ended with prayers for y’all! Until next time pax!!

  • Hold it now, hit it – from Akbar

    5 strong today with the Wacker of all Bushes and Steve in the mix. Noticing that everyone brought gloves without a reminder, YHC felt like laying off the blocks today for a traditional mosey to the lakefront and back. Listening to the Beastie Boys song Hold it Now, Hit It! last week, a thought emerged and became a beatdown.

    Warm Up: IW, Cherry Pickers, Self-Love, Grass Grabbers, Arm Circles (f/b), SSH, Torso Twist x 10 to 20

    The Mumblechatter started early, slightly delaying the start of the beatdown, and kept up all the way past COT. Pixie Stix’s lacrosse, Grover’s graduation dinner and work, weekend plans, trips, Bush’s tower of doom, are firemen are stronger than policemen? Billy’s departure from Reigers (will he actually post one day?); Sandbar’s trek across the lake from Nola to the Marsh last week (should we go knock on the FNG’s door? Its’ only 3 houses down) Baby Yoda making Bush chase balls, and then him. Pickleball is getting serious – how about taking all the courts one Friday night? YHC’s anniversary spend the night party with mama, most of us need more time weekly with our beloved wives. On and on, one of many things to look forward to every Monday at the Marsh.

    Time to get to work:

    The Thang

    Mosey down to the lakefront wall stopping along the way. Start with a 10 count hold mid exercise, then return to the top for ICx10 each. Example: Hold Al Gore for 10 count, then return to the top of the exercise for Squats x10IC. Exercises are below.

    Mosey to the playground

    1. Chin up, Supine Pull up

    Mosey to the swings for plank tucks on the swing x10 IC no hold

    Mosey to the lakefront, stopping along the way for:

    2. Stone Mountain, Shoulder Taps
    3. Squats, Monkey Humpers
    4. Dirkin, Freak Nasty
    5. Irkin, Freak Nasty
    6. Stone Mountain, Shoulder Taps
    7. Squats, Monkey Humpers

    There’s inherent danger when passing counts off because you know some jackwater will mess it up. In this case, you guessed it, Bushwacker brought out his painfully slow count in an Irish/Scottish voice during Monkey Humpers. More pain, more gain though.

    Mary: Merkins with 10s hold, Hello Dolly x10 IC low, mid, high, LMC x20, finish with 100’s (Hello Hummingbird)

    Count, Name, and YHC prayed us out.

    Announcements: WW2 trek sign up by July 4th; Gnarly Nutria July 21st

    Thanks for letting me lead, always enjoy a Monday morning at the Marsh.

    SYITG – Akbar

  • Request honored – from Waterpik

    YHC got a text from Jose 10k asking if an extensive amount of running was planned for Monday morning’s beatdown at the Milestone Marsh. Just glad to have a hard commit, YHC would have let Jose lead the workout if he wanted.

    After a Brief warmup consisting of AC, SSH, GM, the pax quickly got to work grabbing the saturated cinder blocks from their hiding spot.

    Beatdown consisted of 4 corners with the pax carrying the coupon (walking) to each of the 4 blocks surrounding Lamarque and Livingston Sts.

    The pax stopped at each corner and did a series of exercises consisting of squat thrusters, presses, goblet squats, big boy sit-ups, leg raises, kettle bell swings.

    After 2 laps around the block, we hit the pull-up bars for 2 sets of max out pull-ups (that’s like 3 for me).

    Then it was off to center court for mary.

    COT and YHC prayed us out. T-Claps to F3 Nola’s Sandbar who posted for the workout, even though his NS friend who was supposed to show up as an FNG stiffed his buddy due to a “cold.”

    Have a good week, guys.
    Thanks for allowing me to lead.

  • Rested and Ready – from Akbar

    Not so gloomy at the Marsh this morning with humidity down just a touch. YHC and Hammer arrived about the same time and had some nice mumblechatter when Waterpik arrived on his typical run from the house to the AO. YHC was ready and rested after NOT staying up for the 9pm start of Ole Miss and Arizona.

    Warm up: x10-15 IW, Torso Twist, Arm circles (front/back), SSH, high knees

    Head to the hidden block stash, which Hammer noted were heavier than the Gipper’s, and mosey to center court.

    Thang: 4 corners, 11’s, 4 corners

    4 corners: start at center court with block, 5 Grave Diggers (2 =1) then to each respective corner for 50 reps each of Chest press, curls, Alpo’s, & triceps.

    After each corner exercise, block carry back to the center for 5 Grave Diggers.

    Mosey to playground for 11’s: pull ups and squats. Modification of supine pull ups was needed for all, especially Hammer after a recent double Murph.

    Back to center court for a second round of 4 corners and 50 reps each corner.

    Leg Raises, E2k, Jane Fonda’s, and Little Manny Crunches.

    Blocks up and back to the circle for a Mary of 10 Merkins and 10 LBC’s IC

    Count, Name, and Hammer prayed us out with thoughts of my Uncle Jimmy and a few folks with stuff coming up Waterpiks office.

    Thanks for the post guys and letting me lead.

    Til next gloom – Akbar

  • Hello Humidity – from Shooter

    Northshore has had some great weather the last few weeks with small mild fronts passing down mild 70s with little to no humidity.. All that has changed as 4 PAX posted at the Marsh for a heavy humid gloom. We didn’t need much to get the perspiration flowing but coupons sure do accelerate it.. Arriving to the AO with Steve and Akbar awaiting YHC started to stretch and then soon Waterpik arrived by foot which has become his regular means of transport as of late. T👏🏼 to him for logging the lagniappe as we like to say in Southeast LA.. Much respect for the discipline needed to awake extra early to log the extra Waterpik…

    Warmup
    10IC Hillbilly’s, self love, Grass grabbers, Imperial walkers, Arm circles and Cherry pickers.

    PAX retrieved our coupons, which by the way has surpassed the longest stay at the park in recent memory, as the other stacks have fallen victim to maybe a fire pit or possibly someone’s chain wall for a fence.. No one really knows, but I am guessing the F3 logo applied by Grover and Akbar has simply given this stack the awareness needed to the removers of the past that these blocks are here for purpose and not just something to litter up the park.. Carried to the corner for instructions. Simply 3 rounds consisting of 15 reps and 4 exercises to start adding another on each round. R1 Overhead press, Kettle swings, Squat thrusters and Chest press. Moseyed the square around. R2 R/R adding in Curls and the loop this time included carrying the coupon. R3 R/R adding in 8 count body builders which thinking back as I write this YHC short changed the plank Jack. Maybe it’s the remembrance of Hammers Saturday beatdown that haunted my internals to stop this motion… Anyways, finished with another Mosey around picked up our coupons to return them to their resting place.. Assembled back at center court for some Mary and Jane…
    LBCs 20IC
    Jane Fonda’s left leg 20 IC toe to knee 15IC and pulses 10IC
    LBCs 20IC
    R/R right leg
    LBCs 20IC to close..

    Akbar closed us in prayer with remembrance of those 77 years ago 6/6/1944..
    Also praying for Uncle Jimmy and family as they go through a difficult time!! 🙏🏼🙏🏼

    Appreciate you men following my lead and until the next Gloom 👍🏼👊🏼✌🏼!!

  • The punching bag coupon – from Waterpik

    YHC started the pax out with a brief warmup at the marsh consisting of SSHs, arm circles, Wind mills, imperial walkers. Then mosey to grandmothers house for some coupon work.

    Having utilized the cinder blocks about a half dozen times recently YHC felt the pax needed a change of pace. So, it was raid the garage time. YHC found an old punching bag that looked like a perfect weight to drag back and forth on the grass. It was tough after a while , but make no mistake, it did not compare to moby’s chains.

    YHC also utilized some buckets of chlorine. They looked perfect to use for carrying up the stairs and they were just that. After some 5 reps Apiece it was time to Head back to the marsh.

    Cot and thanks to hogs breath for Praying us out.

    P.S. welcome to FNG, pee wee Herman, and welcome back to nacho who made his first post about in over a year.

  • Cashing in on the coupons – from Shooter

    Following up from my Q on Friday at the A1c with coupon work I wanted to bring my Mandevillian brethren into the mix in similar fashion.. For a moment it looked as if it would only be Waterpik and YHC, until of course Cowbell returned back to his old ways of rolling up slightly behind to join Pik and I as we started the warmup with a lap around the first block.

    Warmup
    All IC 10 Windmills, Arm circles F/B, Imperial walkers and SSH.

    PAX collected a coupon and returned to the court. YHC pulled out a deck of cards and instructed the first exercises represented by the suits of the first 12 cards turned over. Lots of high numbers ♠️ (block squats), ♦️ (shoulder press) ♣️ (Curls) ♥️ Chest press. After turning 12 we moseyed another lap. Returned for round 2 ♠️ (Squat thrusters) ♦️ (Kettle swings) ♣️ (Curls…why you ask? For the girls!) ♥️ (LBCs) flipped a Joker on this round so a mixed rep count of 10,10,10 and 20.. Wrapped up the block work and returned to center court for a core closeout..
    IC 20 Peter Parker’s, Parker Peters, Mountain climbers and Shoulder taps.. IC 15 Flutter kicks, Hello Dollies, Rosalitas and Crunchy Cowbells…

    Appreciate Waterpik closing with our intentions…

    Till the next Gloom 👍🏼👊🏼✌🏼!!