F3 New Orleans

Tag: Screwtop

  • No, Not Doing That – from Rev Sox

    YHC arrived at 5:15am to pray and Q for his first beatdown at the Foundry. While he prayed alone with no one else present at 5:15, he is confident the Birdcage will show up in numbers to pray next Wednesday at 5:15.

    5:30 and time to start, so YHC presents the disclaimer and begins the mosey to the exercise equipment that he thinks are the center of the Foundry. The Pax arrives at the exercise equipment but is told to circle up in the grass at the side. Much mumblechatter begins as the Pax is led into the grass. Grass is long and wet and scary in City Park but it will only get worse. Time for the warm-up.

    The Warm-Up
    SSH – 28 in honor of the Yankees’ 11 game win streak in their pursuit of WS 28
    Shoulder taps – 20
    Grass grabbers – 10
    Arm circles, in reverse, seal claps, overhead claps, and Moroccan Nightclub – 10 each and don’t put your arms down from start to stop

    The Thang
    YHC has never worked out at the Foundry. YHC didn’t know that the Foundry avoids the grass in the middle of the track. YHC didn’t know the grass would be so long and there would be so much mumblechatter about the snakes and spiders. YHC kept his head up and continued with his plan through the complaints. YHC felt like Rudy with some many people complaining about his idea.

    PAX completed the SLAM through the knee high wet grass in the middle of the track. What is the SLAM? Glad you asked. The SLAM is 2 Squats, 2 Lunge steps, 2 American Hammers, and 2 Merkins for each round. Add 2 more reps for each new round. The Pax was to travel from the side of the track near the exercise equipment until the Pax made it to the track on the opposite side, but the Pax ran into a fence in the middle of the field. YHC was hoping for 10 rounds of SLAM, but the fence stopped us after 7 as the Pax made it to the round of 14 reps.

    At the announcement of the SLAM, YHC had something he had never experienced before while leading an F3 workout. A Pax member who will not be named simply declared – “no, I’m not doing that. I was bit by a spider at Okwata and I am not sitting or doing merkins in that grass.” Thankfully the rest of the Pax endured the tall grass without a single spider or snake encounter.

    Republicans vs. Democrats
    In honor of politicians who hang on too long, the Pax broke up into two teams of Rs vs Ds. We competed to see which team could dead man hang the longest from the monkey bars. While one Pax on each team was hanging, the rest held plank or Al Gore. Once you drop, you are replaced by the man behind you until everyone on your team hangs once. The Republicans won a narrow battle hanging on longer than the Democrats.

    Circle of Fire
    Circle up and hold Al Gore and do 8 burpees around the circle, Round two is 10 merkins while holding a plank.

    Pull-ups and stuff
    Pax broke up into 4 groups of 2 and 1 group of 3. The count was 10 pull-ups. The other stations: rows, step-ups, Rocky Balboas, and Big Boy Sit-Ups. One trip around and then it’s time to get back.

    The Cool Down
    Mosey back to the Flag

    COT
    Count, Name-O-Rama, Announcement, and Prayer

    Thanks for allowing me the privilege of leading the Foundry and a special thanks for following me into the tall grass.

  • My Return to Okwata

    My return to my home base, Okwata, was exciting since I haven’t been here since the Murph in May. I know this AO always offers the potential for the toughest workouts between the elements and structures/obstacles offered. I was excited to know that there was no Q on the sheet because I wanted the challenge to lead this morning.

    When I arrived, I was greeted by the beautiful sight of 4 newly-minted shovel flags that we were hard at work last night finishing. It truly is amazing to see this when you arrive to workout.


    5:30 hit and after the disclaimer, we moseyed to the fountain for some high knees, butt kicks and carioca left and then right. We circled up in front of the fountain for warm-up.
    SSH x 20

    Imperial Walker x 20

    Peter Parker Peters x 20

    Arm Circles 10 front and 10 reverse

    20 Seal Claps

    20 Overhead Claps

    Self Love

    Moseyed to the House of Pain for a circuit workout which was divided into:

    Low Slow Squats

    Merkins

    Lunges

    Pull-Ups

    Timer was a run to the first oak tree on the sidewalk toward Canal and back to the HOP. We completed one round, and I decided to poll the PAX for the next challenge. We had one vote for a run and the rest chose levee work. They chose wisely…

    We hit the levee for 11’s starting with 8-count body at 10 reps, 5 plank jacks at the top of the levee (both ways) and low slow squats 1 rep. I called it when our six got to 6 eight counts and 5 low slow squats. We moseyed back to the grass in front of the fountain where we completed the 11’s as a group with 15 eight count body builders and 21 low slow squats.

    We concluded with 5 minutes of Mary.


    30 seconds of Halos clockwise then 30 seconds counter-clockwise

    1 minute reverse crunch twists

    1 minute dynamic planks

    1 minute chainsaws

    1 minute controlled, slow big boy sit-ups

    We closed with count off, name-o-rama and prayers of gratitude/safety from the storm. Always an honor to lead.

  • Trail Run #2

    Tclaps to Amnesty for getting this trail run idea started back during the beginning of Covid. Here we go for round #2!

    Stayed up late trying to plan a workout in a space with a lot of unknowns. Then, naturally, my youngest woke up at 2:30. The fear of oversleeping kept me mostly awake until 4:30 when I popped out of bed. I thought I would get out there early to scope things out again to make sure we didn’t get too lost. I arrived at about 10 after five, strapped on my headlamp, and mosey my way over to forest. I wasn’t even a few steps in when I saw a possum crawling towards me, a turtle to my right, and what looked like multiple sets of eyes starring back at me! I decided it was probably best to just trust my instincts wait for my brothers to join me on this adventure!


    Fifteen brave souls showed up for the adventure. There was lots of stretching going on pre-workout and not much talking, except when Ya Mom n Dem tried to give away his hat lamp! It was only a minor crisis when High Rise decided to wake up some peacefully sleeping ants. I was pleasantly surprised to see that Sandbar had gotten his passport just in time to attend the work out. Also, good to see Screwtop out for the second day in a row! 5:30 struck and with the normal disclaimer we were off. Started off in the open field to get things warmed up.


    SSH x 20

    Imperial Walker x 20

    Mountain Climbers x 20

    Left leg hip stretch

    Right leg hip stretch

    Peter Parker x 20


    Moseyed into the forest with an army of 14 behind me to the big open area by the swing. Split up into five groups of three. The count was 10 pull ups on the tree branch while one of the other PAX did dips on the fallen tree and the other did full body ab extensions on the swing. The other four groups were:


    Low slow squats

    Decline merkins

    Flutter kicks

    Decline merkins


    After everyone got their turn on pull ups we went into the thick of the forest! The tree branches were low so we decided to bear crawl through the narrow pass. When the trail opened back up we mosey through the forest and found our way to the gravel path. Headed down the path to the big open field. I had noticed when planning the work out that in this open field they had what looked like two big cement circles that resembled a figure 8. With the HATE8 on the horizon I thought it was a good opportunity to get some work in. Exercise was for 10 minutes:


    Bear crawl The stretch of grass between the two circles, run around to the top of the circle, five Burpee‘s, run down to the bottom of the circle, bear crawl across the grass, run to the top of the other circle, five burpees, run to the bottom of the circle. Rinse and repeat for 10 minutes while listening to Van Halen‘s greatest hits!


    Next, we moseyed to a separate gate back to the forest. This led us to the hill which is apparently the highest point in New Orleans. I thought Monkey Hill in Audubon Zoo was the highest point in New Orleans but I guess it’s for debate! At the top of the hill we squeezed in on the concrete pad and did some Mary:


    Pickle pounders x 20

    Freddy Mercury x 20

    Dying Cockroach x 20

    Reverse Crunch x 15


    Moseyed down the hill and headed to what I thought was the way out. We weaved back-and-forth through a very narrow trail head and ended up all the way in the back of the forest! We eventually found water and knew that we could follow the water back to the bridge that would get us out of the forest. There were several wrong turns and a couple of dead ends but we made it out and back with all 15 PAX! The unexpected detour caused us to be three minutes late. We got together in the open field for COT. Count off, Namorama, and a prayer for the upcoming hurricane with the sounds of what we think was ol’ Puke Dick in the background! This was a fun one. Thankful for the opportunity to lead!

  • Stomp #260 – Barefoot and Barechested

    Another 610 Stomp in the books…the 260th one to be exact-ish.  Strong showing with 14 PAX ready to run and test the limits of our middle-ages chassis.  This was the 3rd Summer Series 2-mile time trial, with several of us gunning to break our previous times, and perhaps set a new PAX record.     
    Started with a warmup mosey on a Palm Dr with a pitstop COP to make sure all cylinders were firing, then moseyed to the Festival Grounds track for a 2-mile timed run/race.  Times were as follows:


    High Rise 17:23

    Einstein 16:07

    Rudy 16:15

    Bongo 16:37

    Boo Boo 18:08

    Belloq 18:34 *ran barefoot! 

    Catfish 13:20 

    Kuch 16:00

    Snooze 18:54

    Screwtop 15:10

    Breadsticks 15:15

    Tool 16:44

    Sheetrock 13:45

    Saban 17:00-ish *modified/planked


    Mosey back to base via the “short route” after zero enthusiasm was directed towards the long route option.  Capped things off with LBC, Flutter Kicks, Dying Cockroach, followed by a minute of stretching and COT.   

     
    NMM:

    Good to see Sheetrock back in the gloom, running shirtless in case the ladies were out.  


    Very little traction could be gained for the rename of Catfish to Barracuda or some other fast swimming fish.   

    Saban ran, likely to defend his first-place title, even if it meant he could blow his third knee out. 


    Belloq continues to be a beast.  He ran barefoot again as he deals with an injury…most would take a few weeks off from running, but not this guy.  

    A new 2-mile record was set today, by over 1 minute.  T-claps to Catfish and Sheetrock for being the first to run sub-14:00 times! 


    T-claps to Kuch for the mid-workout EH on a fellow runner at the track.

       
    Einstein posted 2 days in a row!  Welcome and glad to have you in the mix.  


    Boo Boo posted despite an iffy knee.  Way to stay committed and always good to see some PAX from the western parts pop in from time to time. 

     
    Rudy implied that 20 flutter kicks were sufficient, no need to do 25 like everyone else.  YHC was glad to see the quarantine has not affected the rudyisms that we’ve all grown to enjoy.  

    Good stuff, great way to start the day. 
    -Tool 

  • The Wis

    The Wis

    Conditions

    Overcast, 63 F, Feels like 63 F, Humidity 90%, Wind 8 mph from the South

    The Thang

    27 Pax tried a new route today, crossed the Cabrini Bridge and then went over and back on the Wisner overpass.  We ended up on the back side of the track and ran laps for the 6.  Distance ended up being about 3.5 to get to the track.

    NMM

    • T-claps to the Ruckers that got started at 4 am and got in close to 8 miles – Hokie, Gideon, and Thumbwar
    • Good to see SFx this morning.  He also rucked.  Will rucking become a thing in NOLA? 
    • I like that this route involves the Wisner Bridge, but it’s a little short.  Maybe next time we do it we will add another small loop that involves the Bridge a second time.