Muthaship’s Final Voyage
All All MECA BackblastsJune 27th, 2016
So how does one say farewell to something as epic as the #muthaship? For starters, your invite all your friends, your friend’s friends, call for the clown cars, light some fireworks and haul ass uphill for 0.8 miles and then grind your way up the spiral. How else?
What we did was simple;
Pirate Ship Suicide
Round One
-Up to Level 4, 4 burpees, back down
-Over to the stairs, up to Level 4, 4 burpees, back down
Repeat to Level 6, (6 burpees), Level 8(8 burpees), etc. to the top
Round 2 w/ 10 Knee Ups
What’s not so simple is describing the impact she’s had on not just F3 Metro, but our surrounding brothers.
There’s nothing, absolutely nothing that compares to the Muthaship. She’s an institution. In her prime she represented Metro. She was the dumbest, hardest, angriest, most challenging thing you could do any day of the week. Her legend grew over time. She’s a monument to F3 Nation. She’s the only AO that could lure people to meet at 4:30 in the morning to drive past a dozen other workouts to visit. Just so guys could say they did it. So they could tell their boys. So those boys would venture in for a taste. It was stupid and it happened week in and week out. Most CSAUPs are done annually, this was weekly – 52 times a year we ran in, spend 45 minutes on the verge of death and ran out. Who does that?
We do. Dudes looking to accomplish what they once thought was far beyond possible. And then they’d come back to do it better next time. Bunny’s 18 Times will live in history. 18 times, up and down that beast is sick.
So why shut it down? Because it’s time. John Wayne had to step down from his horse, Michael Jordan had to walk off the court. Gone are the days when 56 scratched their names on a sweaty piece of paper.
So back to how you send her off one last time…you don’t, you let Cindy decide. I didn’t intend to talk about any one person b/c it’s about the group. But over the last few weeks in thinking about what to do, this clown kept coming to mind. Cindy and the Muthaship have a love affair. A sick, twisted love affair. And they’re so much alike. The Muthaship is the hardest, dumbest thing we do…Cindy is the hardest, dumbest of the bunch. The Muthaship pisses people off week in and week out…Cindy pisses people off week in a week out. The Muthaship pushes like no other physically and mentally…try to not want to beat Cindy when’s he’s out front, tell me he doesn’t get in your head. The Muthaship was the heart and soul Metro…like it or not, so is Cindy. The attitude, the challenge, the insanity of it. They’re the same. So the man decided to shoot off some fireworks, we do our thing, and he leads us up the spiral for the last time and in a fitting end there’s a CMPD Officer waiting in the parking lot when we get back…
That’s all I’ve got, less is more for the Muthaship b/c she speaks for herself. Appreciate her significance, she’s now part of F3 lore.
Fish, not a better man to take us out one last time. Thanks for always speaking from the heart.
-Bllz
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This was my first time posting to the muthaship. Now I see why so many guys kept coming back. I wish I had started doing it two years ago. The spiral kicked my ass, but I’m glad I did it. I look forward to seeing what you guys come up with next.
Epic #ballzwash
When we are older, we will tell our grandkids epic stories of the days we used to run up and down the Muthaship.
Of course we won’t tell them it only had 12 levels instead of the 14th they are putting in now.
Thanks for one last go around at the Mutha. The hardest one I’ve done in my 5-6 posts to the Mutha.
The Muthaship workout will not soon be forgotten, as every time I see a tall parking deck I think of her and still will. Thanks Fishwrap, Ballz, and the rest of you Metro guys for pushing me, trash talking me, and even letting this SOB Q the dang thing. SYITG
Decommissioning a ship is always a bittersweet affair. Thanks to Captain Ballz and Captain Fishwrap for leading. Glad I was there for the fireworks.
What a moment…there I sat listening to someone say something nice about me for the first time in 2016. My eyes welled up like I had just spilled some #IrishSpring in my eyes. And that someone is one of my favorite whack jobs this side of the Mason Dixon. I don’t publicly ball wash dudes because it tarnishes my glowing stature in this city but I’ll ride and die with Fish any day of the week. Dude put in a Randy Johnson size dip 3 minutes after I hid the pyro evidence from the cops POST workout.
And the only other person with enough ballz to Q this thing happened to be Ballz himself. Spoiler Alert…when I release my F3 Metro rankings in the coming weeks, Ballz is 1. You know what sucks…he does everything better than you. Loses rich people’s money better. His wife is better looking than yours. His kids get in more trouble than yours. AND he has more Geto Boys tapes than you. I’m the only human being he really has trouble with. But this isn’t about me.
This is about that bitch Mutha. I’ll have to be honest. Mutha was starting to win. After a Lou Gehrig like streak of 467 straight Mutha’s with the best color by numbers artist in Charlotte SwampCam, body was starting to take a beating. I tried everything to fight back…left my MountainDew Rip It’s in the hallway…left my XL Trojans on floor 7…couple weeks ago I actually took a Patrick Ewing size shit in the hallway…and then finally I’m actually trying to build the biggest Hooter’s in North America on its side. But no matter what, it’s still the Queen B. And because of that, only folks I really care about show up. And that was the case today. Except Egypt of course.
Some dude that wrestles Coyote’s down in Fort Mill was there.
Horn with the worst shoulder tat ever was there.
Muggsy who is actually Buddy the Elf was there.
Downtown Danny Dirk Diggler was there even though we didn’t let him in the tall staircase.
Boomer who actually graduated from Texas was there.
Steven and Ice carried the Promo Rainbow flag proudly.
And of course my main man Aqua Man was there throwing sweat ballz at people.
BUT no Dredd. Not only did he not come, he went to another workout 5 minutes away. I’m sure glad I once knew the old legend. It’s long gone by now. Thankfully he created the outside workout. #campos
That is all. Congrats to the 40 gentlemen who showed up today. Your already better than everyone else you see today. Except me of course. #bangbang
Unbelievable. @Cindy kills another workout and Fowl writes a love letter to him. With F3, I have officially seen it all.
Y’all fools stay away from 8@8 and Richie Run.
Peace be with you,
Subway
I sailed a few voyages on that ship. I brought jugs there. That was dumb. Always sad to decommission a proud warrior. Maybe we can start a sign-up genius to staff some sort of museum there? Or guided Segway tours pointing out the various highlights? Time for all hands to report to #bonesaw. It’s sort of like MS without the urine.
I was there for one of the Jug-a-lug Muthas. It was beyond dumb for me, but, I loved it. I DO remember the urine, too (not mine). While I don’t understand the decision to close it because “it’s time”, it’s not my decision to make, and I respect that & those that see it gently into it’s good night. #RIP Mutha.
Love you back, Champ.
Heck of a finale, Ballz, and thanks again for the opportunity this morning. I love the #MuthaF’Nship and her ability to unite men through that feel good pain #incadence
To all the attending PAX and regions, thanks for making this last hurrah a memorable one.
It was horrible. It was always horrible. And I was always last… And I didn’t care… It was fun to try and tame it… to try and keep up for 1/4 mile or so with JRR Tolkein and Mario (SOBs) and Fishwrap and Guantanamo (Metro) and feel for about 1000 feet like I was part of the fit kids… Then, of course, reality sets in and you quickly realize that being in front in our little baby suburb workouts doesn’t mean shine-ola…
Now, to go try and convince Mudgear to re-open a shirt order so I can say that at least a few times, I posted at the worst AO known to The Nation…
What’s the over-under on how long till somebody resurrects this as Muthership Wednesday, ‘Ship Saturday, or something equally creative? 4 weeks? 5 weeks?
The muthaship (and F3 in general) have been breaths of fresh air to this old school runner. I’ve met a ton of HIMs in MECA and this old dog has learned a lot of new tricks over the past 2 1/2 years.
It has been fun making the trek from Cabarrus County to meet and run with Pax from all over the Charlotte area at the muthaship….the most intense run/workout I have experienced
Thanks Ballz and Fishwrap…and to all the muthaship Pax
Also … Exit54, I kind of like your new name, Agent54 … a bit mysterious
One more thought from the hinterland…I have legitimately heard the terms muthaship and bucket-list used in the same sentence on multiple occasions in the far reaches of MECA….that’s pretty significant. The Nation is losing an icon. I hope something else will rise up to that level of inspiration.
I second that Minnow. It’s been on my list of workouts to attend. Now that I finally made it, I’m sad I never did before. I would like another shot at the muthaship.
Damn guys, I head to Nantucket and you kill Mutha and HHM. Tears are streaming down. Fish and FB, thx for ur leadership. Hate I missed the fireworks. Cindy, nice Gehrig reference but Ripken owns #thestreak. #o’srule
Reluctant Yankee from New Orleans here! Damn I am jealous I never got to post at this AO. Cindy – I don’t know you but you had me laughing at the comment. Tclaps to all of you crazy PAX for taking that AO out in a blaze of glory. Great BB BALLZ!
RY, if you come up to visit, we’ll make a special trip to the Muthaship. It really is as bad as it sounds.
Truly, I thought this was a head-fake. But I get the logic. Still, I think MuthaShip.HD is likely.
Had I not known it was a head-fake, I’m not sure I would have Posted. Sadly (boo-freaking-hoo) I doubt I could make it up a single time.
As horrible as it was, I’m going to miss this most horrible stop on the #ParadeOfHorribles. It is an idiotically simple idea that turned out to be truly Effective.
Goodnight sweet Mutha.