Fruity Pebbles messaged YHC to be a backup plan! YHC was confident that he wouldn’t need to backup the possible starter. Then the news broke yesterday @ #TheGoodFight that YHC would be the man! All throughout the day IT was a struggle to come up wITh the plan. The only thing that seemed to be frequent was that Mom would have had another birthday yesterday! The news also broke of a possible FNG showing. YHC offered to be gentle. Then the FNG turned into an HC along wITh his sponsor, Grout! YHC put this out and also there was some BIG news to share. Patch said that YHC showed up earlier because of the Q. Normally YHC might have been the guy we waITed for the last 20 seconds before 0530. A good number of PAX were waITing and IT was time to…

Fruity Pebbles, Patch, and Whatley were dedicated enough to show up for some Ruck Extra Credit before hand.

Warm-up

10 Good Mornings IC

10 Collard Pickers IC

10 Copperhead Squats IC

Told the PAX about Mom and her birthday being yesterday. YHC talked about F3 wITh her, but she always referred to IT as 3F!

So 3 Burpees for Mom!

The Thang

Due to IT be very dark in the original starting location, we moseyed to the second location – The Church Square. The BIG news was share here with the PAX that the church was going to buy some of the property next door, which would enlarge #WestSideStory! PAX was excited about some new EC Rucking territory!

Here we did 10 Reps at 4 Corners for 3 Rounds wITh a mosey in between, when finished go back for the six and finish wITh them. The exercises were:

Squat Jumps
Jump Lunges
Mule Kicks
Tuck Jumps

Rafiki quickly reminded YHC of the race tomorrow. YHC was well aware and Whatley was on the same page. We did IT first for a longer recovery. Makes sense right, hmmm…

We then moseyed back to the School Parking lot for another round of 10 Reps at 4 Corners for 3 Rounds wITh a mosey in between on the long corners and backwards on the short corners, going back for the six and finish wITh them. The exercise was the same:

Walking Crossover Merkins

Patch exclaimed during the first round of 4 Corners that he wanted to do some Merkins, YHC told him the time would come and he wish he would be doing legs instead. YHC was wishing during this round that we did a smaller amount of reps and almost changed IT after the first lap. There was not much #Mumblechatter and the PAX were putting in work so we trudged along.

Light was finally breaking though so we moseyed over to the inITial starting point, the field beside the Playground. Here we did, yet another round of 10 Reps at 4 Corners for 3 Rounds wITh a mosey in between on the long corners and caroike on the short corners, going back for the six and finish wITh them. The exercises were:

WWI SIT-ups
American Hammers (2 is one)
WWII SIT-ups
Peter Parkers (2 is one)

Glad we waITed doing to some of the holes and dITches over there!

We then moseyed to the small storage shed near the playground. Here we lined up shoulder to shoulder for Peoples Chair. The PAX at the end of the line would run around and then to the front and tell the next PAX to go. After 3 PAX we would rotate to Balls to the Wall. We ended up doing an 2 rounds of each.

IT was time to mosey back to the #ShovelFlag!

BOM

Injured PAX, especially Pied Piper (Patch was repping one of his sweatshirts)!

Safety on Free 5k tomorrow.

YHC closed us in prayer.

COT

Lunch today @ Sam Jones BBQ – 11:45am.

Free 5K tomorrow.

Basketball right here tomorrow @ 7pm, got good number of 40 something year olds…

Captain Obvious has his VQ @ #TheCollardPatch on Monday!

Ma Bell has the Q next week right here.

CoopStrong Race/Ruck next Saturday with a F3/FIA Convergence 2 hours beforehand (0700 – 0800).

Moleskin

An awesome number that pushed through the work today! Always awesome to have an FNG. He had a recent doctor report and is looking to improve his physical fitness. No better option or one any cheaper than F3! I explained after that I offered to be gentle, however the 2nd 4 corners was not so gentle. Each Q and workout is different. Awesome to have 2 1/2 (Pothole was from there) Village People join us today. Awesome to have many of the regulars out here and some venturing over for the first time – Deep Dish, NoIDeer, and Grout!

Though Mom was not very athletic, she was ALWAYS behind me in my endeavors to attempt athletics. I wrote a eulogy (https://www.f3enc.com/backblasts/your-story-here/tough-cookie/) about her and I would have had her nicknamed Tough Cookie!