F3 New Orleans

Tag: Rougarou

  • On Constancy – from Charmin

    This was the first time in a long time where YHC was the only Rucker/ by myself.

    Being fine with some alone time, YHC was able to reflect on the benefits on being constant, namely that that is where the benefits come from. YHC doubts that every Pax wants to wake up and post at 5:30 every morning, however, the benefit is that we are able to prove to ourselves that we can step out of our comfort zone and do hard things.

    It was also nice to end the workout seeing that Mahatma had joined us part way through the workout. He said that he was listening to a book and that caused him to miss the 5:30 start. What he later revealed was that the book was ‘100 short ways to take a nap’.

    COT focused on filling our jars of oil with the time we have and praying for others who need some oil in their jars.

  • Rock It, Rock It Real Good – from Fracsac

    Conditions: 77 degrees with 86% humidity

    11 pax total with 3 splitting off for KnOT’s.

    Walk backwards on the track. I read over the weekend it’s good for you.

    Mosey to the rock pile for the warmup. Usual stuff finishing with 10 Catalina Wine Mixers IC.

    Partner up and grab one rock, a big one. Pax 1 rifle carry while pax 2 does 5 ‘mericans and 5 squats then run to flapjack rock.
    Return the big rock and grab a regular rock, partner stuff is over. Head to the parking lot.
    Starting at one end using the parking lines as guides, do 5 curls, then run to gym for 5 burpees. Run back to rock and move one parking line closer. Increase by 5 curls each time up to 30.

    Head to pavilion for OP, Rows, step ups, dips, and some rock calf raises.

    Return the rocks, bear crawl for about a minute, then return to flag.

    CoT

    NMM
    Humidity is back
    Scantron convinced me walking backwards is good for the legs by putting it on the internet. Everything on the internet is true.

    SYITG

  • The Ascension – from Charmin

    At length he appeared to the eleven as they were at table: and he upbraided them with their incredulity and hardness of heart, because they did not believe them who had seen him after he was risen again. And he said to them: Go ye into the whole world, and preach the gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized, shall be saved: but he that believeth not shall be condemned. And these signs shall follow them that believe: In my name they shall cast out devils: they shall speak with new tongues. They shall take up serpents; and if they shall drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them: they shall lay their hands upon the sick, and they shall recover. And the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken to them, was taken up into heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of God. But they going forth preached every where: the Lord working withal, and confirming the word with signs that followed. Mark 16:14-20

    13 men came into the gloom to improve themselves.

  • The Rocks are Recovered – from Fracsac

    YHC was asked the night before to sub for Gabby as he was recovering from rolling his ankle climbing Mt Everest.
    8 of us headed to warm up while 3 headed to KnoT it out.

    Warmup was regular stuff. YHC then moseyed in the opposite direction of the rock pile, and Mr Rogers knew exactly what that meant. You see, several weeks ago he disrupted the balance at Pontiff by creating a new rock pile and the powers that be reacted with a rainstorm so powerful that floods were seen akin to what was experienced in Katrina. With another round of storms coming, the balance must be restored.
    Speaking of balance we hit the playground with the merry go round after recovering the rocks. Partner up and do some rock squats, pull-ups, burpees and derkin style rotation of the big wheel as the timer.

    Head back to field for CPR:

    Curls x 10, OH Press x 10, Rows x 10
    Bear crawl 20 yds for 5 burpees and lunge walk back. Repeat x 3 with other MoT.

    Head to playground nearest rock pile.

    Ring of fire:

    Hold rock overhead waiting. Burpees x 10 moving around counting to 5.
    Next was curls while holding rock.
    Next was big boi sit-ups sans rock and chest press con rock.
    Next was flutter kick waiting con rock and chest press x 10.
    When asked which was the hardest of the last ones, pax unanimously demanded to repeat the burpees ring of fire.
    Return the rocks to their rightful place and do a round of Mary.

    Horses to the barn.

    CoT

    NMM

    The stickers are bad, so bear crawl was revoked and did bunny hop and duck walks.
    The ring of fire was held on the mulch area by the playground. Burpees in a ring of fire are brutal. We need to do it more.

    Thanks for posting and doing stupid stuff with me. The opportunity to lead is always invigorating and much appreciated.

    SYITG

  • Run,Ruck or KNOT – from Kenna Brah

    A motley Krewe assembled with the FNG looking sharp in his PRO running togs and ready to experience F3. Unbeknownst to him, many were plotting his ascent to regain the Hammer from the NS heathen. You see, this guy is FAST.

    Each group split off to chase their dreams, leaving me to SOLO ruck on the rough railway rocks.

    We reassemble late, named the FNG “HIPAA”, being that he is a Dr.
    Brief COT – Out!!

  • S&M is for KnOTers Too… – from Bolt

    As the magic hour struck Vagabond took off as the lone runner and the KnOTers joined the ‘Mat-ers for S&M. KnOT walk the track path to the pavilion where we focused on hammies and hippies (IT band). COT.

  • St. Joseph’s Day Run – from Charmin

    YHC took the day off of work since it was the Feast Day of St. Joseph (Jesus’s foster father). Posting in the gloom, YHC did not plan on being the Q, but this tends to happen on Running days, where everyone ends up doing their own thing.

    With Knotters going backwards, and runners going forward, it wasn’t long before YHC was approached by what appeared to be a Mummy, but ended up being someone looking to cause a little Mayhem.

    Speaking of Mayhem, the Chaos Monkey himself was in rare form, although no one is quite sure what he was doing.

    Having enough of this, and curious as to what the Knotters were doing, YHC walked over to see that Scantron and Triple were doing one thing and Rou was doing something else. Not surprised by this, YHC decided to follow Scantron’s lead.

    We all ended up back at the proverbial shovel flag to end in a COT.

    Prayers were lifted up, and the intercession of St. Joseph was asked to help us all become better men and men who search for the heart of Jesus.

  • 80s Music and Burpees – from Rudy

    twas going to be a slopping post-rain morning in Pontiff, so YHC decided we’d head straight to the Pavillion. After saying good bye to our walkers and KoTers, the 8 PAX grabbed a rock and moseyed.

    Bogey and Fast Tax in particular seemed to enjoy a collection of 70s and 80s tunes. So we’ll use that as the Sound Track for Tabata.

    10 sets, 45 seconds on 15 second off. 4 Arms, 4 Abs, 2 Legs.

    Then head to the parking lot for 25 yd out-and-back sprint, 5 burpees then SSH for the 6. Repeat x4.

    Back to the Pavillion to repeat a round of Tabata. Then back to the Parking lot to repeat the burpee sprints.

    Back to the flag, via the Rock Pile sending our implements into splash-down mode in the swamp.

    At the flag, many prayers for health and comfort to those who are sick and suffering.

  • Do Hard Things or KnOT – from Hawgcycle

    I stole the title from Mayhem. It’s too good not to use.

    The overarching lesson of the book Do Hard Things is that toughness is not created by mercilessly driving someone past their limitations. That’s the old-school way of thinking about toughness. Think Bear Bryant’s Junction Boys or any Indiana Hoosier Basketball team under Bobby Knight. But science shows that people must be given some level of control over their situation to develop true toughness. The theory being that if everything you ever do is for a dictator, then when faced with a tough situation, you will likely give up in the absence of the dictator.

    Tuesdays at Pontiff are not the typical F3 workout. Pai Gow takes the Q for almost all of them and he prescribes the sprint workout for the day. The pax has no control over designing the workout. That is always done by Pai Gow. However, he is far from a dictator. He gives instruction and goals for completing the workout, but leaves the rest up to the Pax as to how they want to complete the workout.

    Today PVC, Two Yutes and I were faced with a Pai Gow – less workout. We started with a slow one mile jog. At the end of our warm-up we had a decision to make. Do we continue to take it easy and slow jog the rest of the workout or do we borrow one of the sprint workouts that Pai Gow has given us in the past and push ourselves? Suddenly the most recent chapter of Do Hard Things started to make sense. The temptation to slow jog the rest of the workout was there, and had we been beaten down souls every Tuesday, we might have taken the opportunity to take a Tuesday off. But we are not beaten down souls. Our pre-fontal cortexes are fully engaged and they encouraged us to do the hard thing:

    The Thang:

    One Mile warm-up. Sprint a 100, 200, 300 and 400 with a 100m recovery between each. Finish with a 400m recovery lap. Then repeat the entire set. We did 3 sets and covered about 4.5 miles.

    Meanwhile Tenderloin did his own thing on the track, while Scantron dictated the KnOT workout to Rougarou. Does Rougarou have any control? Is he building toughness or just hatred for Scantron? Only Roug knows.

    Things we learned:

    • Mosquitos eat bitcoin
    • More NHL players are born in January than any other month.
    • Dentists open at 7:00 am

  • 9 to the Left is 2 to the Right – from Hawgcycle

    Warm-Up:
    Moseyed to the t-ball field by the tracks. SSH x 20; IW x 20; LSS x 20; Tempo Merkins x 15; Windmills x 10; Jack Web to 10 (2:1 Air Press:Merkin)
    The Thang:
    We ran back to the rock pile to pick a rock and then returned to the t-ball field. We circled up and did a Rock Stack. We paused between each set of exercises to share the number of children each man has. Once we finished that we shared their names.
    • Man Makers x 5;
    • Man Makers x 5; Presses x 10
    • Man Makers x 5; Presses x 10; Squats x 15
    • Man Makers x 5; Presses x 10; Squats x 15; Curls x 20
    • Man Makers x 5; Presses x 10; Squats x 15; Curls x 20; Rows x 25
    • Man Makers x 5; Presses x 10; Squats x 15; Curls x 20; Rows x 25; Bench Press x 30
    We returned our rocks to the pile and finished with some Mary before Horses to the Stable back to the flag: LBC x 20; LBT x 20; Crunchy Frog x 15
    What we learned:
    • Hand Grenada named his kids Davis and Beauregard. Beauregard is a girl.
    • The Wedding Planner is a virile man (but we already knew that).
    • The most popular names among the pax kids were Colin, Christian, Colleen, Carrie, and Caligula
    • Mahatma and Boge named their kids the exact same thing
    • The Architect has never uttered a two-syllable word
    • Rudy originally told us he had three kids. When it came his turn to name them he only named two. He had originally miscounted.