20 of F3 Raleigh’s toughest warriors accepted the challenge, made sure they were packed, and came out to play. The call went out and no one backed down. We good. Villa was so amped up for what was about to go down, he arrived 20 minutes early. Mr. Hand and Shake & Bake flew in on two wheels from ITB, skirting the border patrol and scaling the wall, but making it just in time.
First up was a quick lap around the AO. Mexico was quick to note we were spiraling outward. Costco wondered if this would continue for the rest of the morning like a Chippendale Q gone bad. Larry David wore his best one-dollar shirt. Yeah, let’s do this.
Circle up at the base of Snelling Road for Windmills x15, KD Kicks x15 and Good Mornings x10. Then the shit got real. One Burpee OYO, one double merkin burpee, one triple merkin burpee, one quadruple merkin burpee, one quadruple merkin burpee, WAIT, I just screwed that up. Where’s the accountant from Chapel Hill? Oxymoron, I mean Epoxy. Quintuple, sextuple, octuple were next, but 5 hours of sleep does wonders for the mind. So we just went back down somehow and closed the file on that one. Crossing fingers YHC doesn’t get audited for it.
Quick save, 5 burps OYO and partner up for a little chase. P1 does 5 diamond merkins while P2 backward runs up Snelling toward Six Forks. Then flapjack. This led to more than one collision including an event where Overdraft and Epoxy became so entangled that it looked like they were playing Twister. It was just wrong. Two grown men should not be playing Twister. Warriors don’t have time for these games.
Next we moseyed over to the parking loop in front of the school and the bike rack. P1 would stay at the rack and AMRAP an exercise, while P2 ran a lap around the loop. Drop off and pick up your partner for 3 laps each with Dips, Irkins and Australian Pull-ups. Some questionable handholding going on here as sometimes you had to share a rack with your neighbor. It all worked out in the end and we made quick work of this segment.
Follow me around the corner to the hill and find a spot on the wall for BTW. Time for the Triple Nickel. YHC explained this involved 5 reps at the top, 5 at the bottom, with 5 trips up and down the hill. But the mumble chatter grew trying to understand how it was a Triple. “Shouldn’t it be 3 trips up the hill?” “Is that 50 reps or 45 cents?” “Can’t we just go get doughnuts now?” No, no and no. But if it helps put your mind at ease, we’ll do 3 rounds. A Triple Nickel Triple so to speak. First round Merkins, then Dying Roaches, polished off with Burpees. BTW or Peoples Chair between each round. #CrowdPleaser
With that complete and running on fumes, we continued around the building and to the basketball courts. Circle up for modified Jack Webs with WWIIs and Hammers in a 1/4 pyramid up to 5/20 and back down. Then 25 LBCs IC. And for the coup de grace we did Chillcut to failure, then squat hold. This ab crusher started merrily with the group following Villa’s lead in a whistled rendition of Yellow Submarine. Oh the harmony. But the joy quickly turned competitive with contestants dropping like dominoes after the 2 minute mark. Macgruber, Huh? and Tuck hung on for at least 2 more minutes as the Pax “cheered” them on. Once it was down to two, Goobs and Tuck, we did our countoff. Then Goobs dropped and we crowned Tuck the Chillcut King. Great work. The cheese is strong in that one.
COT ended with announcements, prayers and praises. 3rd F dinner on Nov 3 for N2N. 2nd F cookout at NHC on Oct 22. See newsletter/website/twitter for details. Prayers for M Pergo who’s due date is today. Praises for M Villa who survived 36 hours of labor and a hurricane. Prayers and praises for Villa as he enters the world of fatherhood.
As always, an honor to lead this group. Gather your weapons and go kick the rest of this day in the teeth like you did this morning.
Shaggy out.
