F3 New Orleans

Tag: Milestone Marsh

  • May, I have your attention please! – from Shooter

    With beautiful conditions on this gloom, 6 HIMS decided to take the red pill 💊. YHC arrived with dice, rope and block in hand. We circled up for some warmups of Good mornings, Toe touches, cherry pickers (don’t follow the Q), Abe vogoda’s, and arm circles. Made a warmup lap and returned to center court for instructions. I thought I was explaining well but you know if don’t come out quick enough Jose10k will surely let you know… Funny thing was this educator would still need more instruction along the way..
    Alternated 2 PAX at a time for rope and coupon work of overhead press and curls for the girls. Block work was the timer. Other PAX took turns rolling the dice for stated exercises. After all 6 completed we took a lap R/R until we all got in the work.
    Finished with plank and 20 2/1 mountain climbers and 10 2/1 peter Parker’s.

    Appreciate the post and until the next Gloom 👊🏼👍🏼✌🏼!!

  • Thunder Moon – from Akbar

    YHC arrived a few minutes early to Jose10k on the pull up bars and Hammer/Pik stretching after their run. Regular Milestone Marsh run this morning to the Lakefront and back.

    Warm Up: SSH, Self Love, Arm Circles, High Knees, Butt Kicks, Toe Touches, Windmills, Imperial Walkers

    Playground for 3 sets of 10 Pull Ups and 10 Copperhead Squats

    Milestone Marsh run to the Lakefront stopping for Stone Mountains and Supermans x 10 OYO on blocks 1 and 3, x 15 on blocks 2 and 4

    Arrived at the Lakefront Wall for the Thunder Moon. Full moon on the right with heat lightning on the left. Bulgarian Split Squats each leg, Freak Nasties, and Dirkins IC x 10 each for 3 rounds. Substituted Irkins for Dirkins on the last round.

    Rinse and repeat on the mosey back for some Mary.

    Hello Dolly, Rosalita, Heals to Heaven, Seat Angels, LBC, LMC, E2K right and left – time called.

    Announcements:

    Captain Sparkles 911 beatdown at Grandmas House 9/10. Bring a weighted pack for 91 Memorial. Various runs in the fall, 2 months to Spartan race.

    YHC prayed us out with intentions for Hammers friend whose child almost drowned – for a safe recovery. Prayers of thanks and intentions to lead those around us.

    SYITG,

    Akbar

  • Block of Ages – from Akbar

    Good to see the Whacker return to the Marsh this gloom. 5 men suffered the humidity with a block beatdown, and we all got better for it.

    Warm Up: SSH, Imperial Walkers, Arm Circles, Self Love, Shooters Self Love, Toe Touches, Grass Grabbers, Windmills, run to the stop sign and back.

    Thang:

    Chest Press, Goblet Squat, Curls, Shoulder Press x15 OYO, descending by 1 each round. After each round, mosey to the playground for pull ups and 10 second dead hang. Run to the stop sign and back.

    Rinse and repeat until time.

    Whacker waxed us all, and Dark Wing prayed us out.

    Announcements:
    Spartan October, multiple races through November.

    Thanks for the post! SYITG – Akbar

  • A round of this and a round of that should do it!! – from Shooter

    YHC implemented some of the ISI for those participating in Zoolander’s July challenge.. After a brief warmup of Cherry pickers, selflove upright and 90 degrees, toe touches and Grass grabbers the PAX made the block.
    Returned for 5/10/15 pull-ups, Merkins and jump squats.. Loop around the block. Bear crawl suicides (half court) while each PAX cycled through the jump rope.. Loop around the block.. True suicides with 10 Merkins on the finish cycling through the jump rope..
    Finished with choice of plank hold for a minute..

    Closed with announcements and prayers for our Country from the PAX.

    Appreciate Waterpik taking us out and until the next Gloom 👍🏼👊🏼✌🏼!!!

  • Dang, I need to turn off my music for this conversation!!!! – from Jose10k

    5 HIMS took the red pill this morning to get out of bed early to push themselves to get better. A cool 76 degrees outside in the gloom was a nice “break” from the heat.
    Warm-ups- the usual
    The Thang: A slight version of Steve’s nickels and dimes. We ran from the marsh to the wall and back, stopping at each intersection to do 5 burpees, 10 leg lifts, and 10 big boy sit-ups. We back peddled, lunge walked, and just jogged from stop sign to stop sign. The conversation centered around this weekends assassination attempt of Trump. I had to turn off my music, yes you heard that right, the music was off. Who done it, why, which party, conspiracies out the wazoo. It all stunk bad, wait, that was Hammer with his usual morning gaseous releases. Finished up at the marsh for 3 minutes of pull ups. COT and Hammer prayed us out with special intentions for our country. In total: 55 burpees, 110 big boys and leg lifts. Hammer and myself added some regular and krakken burpees beforehand. Thanks for letting me lead and/or reading this backblast. SYITG

  • Downrange visitor,- welcome – from Waterpik

    The heat and humidity in full effect these days at all AOs. A couple of more months of that, 3 to be exact.

    Warmup SSH, arm circles, hill billys, imperial walkers.

    Mosey to playground equipment for 4 sets of pull ups.

    Next, the pax headed toward the lakefront, stopping at each intersection to do some work.
    Start with 5 merkins ascend by 5 at each block and also do 10 crunchy frogs and 10 leg raises at every intersection.

    On the way back it was Bobby hurleys and Smurf jacks X 10 at each block.

    Good to be with you all in the gloom.

    And a big welcome from down range visitor, crawfish, from Charleston , South Carolina, who is in town visiting his parents.

  • 6 Corners – from Akbar

    PAX: Akbar, Waterpik, Fletch, Shooter

    Great to see some part time visitors this gloom with Shooter on hiatus from Hanz and Franz Monday with Tank, and Fletch off of work. Hammer was fart sacking with much needed recovery from Spartan training. After some greetings and mumblechatter, we got started with Self-Love, Arm Circles, SSH, Grass Grabbers, Windmills, hillbillies, imperial walkers, 10 count hamstring stretch.

    Lunge walk to the Playground – 3 sets of 10 pull ups, 10 Hanging knee raises, 10 Merkins OYO

    Lunge walk to the street – for 6 Corners

    Starting out at Livingston, left on Marigny to Madison and back. Different counts and variations at each intersection consisting of Stone Mountain, Superman, Apolo Ohno. 20 to 5 on Q’s call – IC and OYO.

    Mosey to the benches for: Freak Nasty, Bulgarian Split Squats, Dirkins – 2 sets x10 IC. 3rd set was a 40 count hold in the middle for each exercise, dropping to 20 count hold on Dirkins – we were spent.

    Mary – Crunchy Frog, Jane Fonda, Hello Dolly, Rosalita

    Count, Name, and Fletch prayed us out
    Intentions: Little girl who lost her sister and mom in the weekend Amber Alert. Bird’s extended family with the loss of his brother’s son. Pik surgery this week.

    Announcements: 4 on the Fourth, 911 run, Spartan Dallas race in October, YHC 5 year anniversary next Saturday.

    Always a pleasure to start my week out right with y’all.
    Until next gloom – Akbar 👊💪

  • Spartan Murph – from Zoolander

    A random shout out from Zoolander for an evening Murph , with Spartan related coupons, gathered the likes of Bushwacker, Bird, Jose 10K, and Baby Yoda to the Marsh for some extracurricular activities on this wet Sunday.

    YHC showed up early after dropping Yoda off at OLL for his Eagle scoutmaster’s conference, and starting unloading a bevy of intensification items to be sprinkled into the workout. A lone basketball player was on the court and, after being approached by some weirdo with a couple of logs with handles and a huge tire, was 100% in for some F3-style pain!

    Grundy was the next to show. After a quick introduction to our new addition, he was off early. You see, he was going to be a little slow…because he had a 30lb ruck sack on!

    Next to appear was Jose, always an exuberant advocate of La cosa nostra F3, he started preaching to the already converted upon meeting Devon Marques (Mr. Right Place at the Right Time).

    Bird and Zoo rolled up having finished a 2 mile pre thang, and we got down to brass Tax.

    THANG

    1 mile run from Livingston to the Lakefront and back, then beginning 20 sets, as a group, of 5 Pull ups (varied grips called out by Zoo throughout), 10 Merkins ( some using the logs for deep reps), and 15 Squats (some using the logs as weights or for Squat Thrusters). Random lagniappe as desired was a rope climb set up by the swing sets, Tire Flip (or carry if you’re Grundy aka Tank Jr), and Lunge Walks with the logs.

    Baby Yoda walked up and jumped right in around round 4 or 5 and started Sweating with the Oldies! Devon was really giving it hell for an unexpected event of such retarded proportions, and thrilled to be just where he needed to be… and then proceeded to splash merlot! But that didn’t keep the young buck down, as we finished up round 20 and prepared for an extended final mile, looping back down Marigny. Now, as the PAX was departing on our closing mosey, Devon planted his phone in a front yard on Lamarque so as to avoid losing it on the run. Upon our return, well, he lost it! The PAX gathered to assist him in his search, and Baby Yoda who can find anything from lost phones to lost trails turned up the prize.

    COT

    Count/Name special intentions for Devon’s quest of self-improvement, Jose prayed us out. Welcome ET (phone home)! Thanks to Zoolander (Chaka Zulu)for pulling this together. SYITG

  • THIS IS SPARTA!!! – from Zoolander

    Steve and Shooter are right, we need to be able to insert a GIF into backblasts. Y’all had the same image in your mind when you read the title, be honest. Welcome to a Spartan Murph!
    A regular murph intensified with obstacles. 100 pullups, 200 merkins, 300 squats. The obstacles: rope climb, two logs used for squats or squat thrusters, and a tire flip station. Once you finished your 5,10,15, you got your choice of which “extra” equipment you wanted. As always, Grundy went full on beast mode doing the entire thing with a 30 pound pack. At one point, he picked up the tire and carried it around like a child. Bird, as always, intensified. Using the dip bars to do his deep merkins. Zoolander called out various grips and types of pull ups. The group even added an extra half mile at the end. We had a FNG, Devon, who kept repeating over and over again: “Yall are crazy”. He even splashed a little merlot in there.
    COT, Jose prayed us out, and we named the FNG. We were thinking Merlot, Pignot…but once he lost his phone(the youthful eyes of Baby Yoda found it) we decided to call him E.T. Hopefully he’ll post tomorrow. Thank everyone for posting or if you’re just reading this backblast. SYITG

  • Milestone Memorial Day Murph – from Akbar

    13 for the Memorial Day Murph at the Milestone Marsh. Mumblechatter was strong and the weather was stifling hot, muggy, and brutal.

    PAX: Speedy Gonzalez, Bird, The Hammer, Parrot, Zoolander, Steve, Shooter, Tanked Up!, The Manny, Chewy, Jose 10k, TruCoat, Akbar

    Warm Ups: SSH, Self-Love, Arm Circles, Grass Grabbers, Windmills, Overhead Claps, Slow Squats

    Thang: The Murph

    1 mile run to the Lakefront wall and back

    100 Pull Ups

    200 Merkins

    300 Squats

    1 mile run to the Lakefront wall and back

    Count-o-rama, name-o-rama

    Trucoat shared personal experiences of how tough battle can be, reminding us that the wars fought don’t end on the battlefield – but can carry on for a lifetime. Shooter prayed us out with thanks and honor to all U.S. Military who have served and will serve, honoring those who died while serving our country.

    Announcements:

    Spartan Dallas in October – se Zoolander or Hammer for sign up information

    T shirt order ends in 6 days.

    Coffeeteeria at Zoolander’s house

    SYITG,

    Akbar