9 Years For Cookie

AO: Rubicon

When: 2025-01-09

QIC: Cookie

PAX (10): Cookie, Devito, Irene, lumbergh, No-See-Um, Pinkey, Schnitzel, Special K, Stu, Sweep3r

Preamble:

YHC was EH'd by my good buddy, Flo, 9 years ago this week. I was a sad clown in sorts, aimlessly trying to stay in shape and wanting to connect with other men, but couldn't quite find a solution. I had 2 little kids and soon another on the way, so finding time to exercise or do anything outside of family obligations was near impossible. I was 35 years old and in the worst shape of my life. I had just moved from Decatur to Alpharetta and most of my friends lived 45 mins or more away. I was primarily working from home so finding male connections was harder than ever. I was leading a big team at work but I was failing as a leader. Fortunately I found the men of F3 and my life has been gratefully enriched ever since. For today's manniversary beatdown, the pre-blast stated 1) I would keep the PAX warm and 2) we would not do 100 burpees.  YHC did his best to fulfill these 2 commitments. 19 degrees and feeling like 9 degrees, the frozen dirt barely gave way to the shovel flag. 9 PAX were there ready to go at 5:30AM with another out running in the park who would later join up.

Warm-O-Rama:

Run over to the side parking lot on Wills Road for:
  • DB Drills
  • SSH
  • Imperial Walker
  • Weed Twister
  • Circle Burp
Sufficiently warm, YHC explained that I pulled an old backblast from 2016 from one of my first Q's and we would be imitating that today. Next up, we moseyed over to Brokeback Mountain for THANG 1.

The Thang:

  • THANG 1: Partner up, 1 partner would stay doing exercises and the other would run up the hill to the gas station and back, switching, each partner running 3 times.
  • THANG 2: Now over at the playground, 1 partner would wall sit and the other would do pull-ups, 5-10 reps each. 2 rounds
  • THANG 3: We moved over to the Field of Dreams for Cookie's Mucho Chesto Cycle. 10 merkins at home, bear crawl to 1st base. 10 wide arm, crab walk to 2nd. 10 diamond, reverse crab to 3rd. 10 stagger, cheetah crawl home. 10 opposite stagger to finish off. That was half of the mucho chesto but time running out, we came back to the frozen flag for 2 minutes of Mary.

COT:

Praise to Irene for organizing the blood drive this weekend. Prayers for Goose and his cancer battle. YHC spoke a few words about how much F3 has meant the past 9 years. Coffeeteria followed until our hands and feet were too frozen to stick around. Honored to lead.

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