August 18th, 2023 By Spud

AO: ASEC

Date: 8-17-23

Pax: Tombstone, Mayweather, Homeland, Private Ryan, Beaker, Total Package, Mayhem, Marlboro, Crabgrass, Neverland, Gooney, Spud (Q)

12 men showed up on a gloomy August morning to hang out as the Q rode in like a basic bitch and celebrated 5 years the only way he knew how…rockin’ out.  Felt a bit cooler than some previous mornings, but didn’t stop us from staying hard.  Did some butt kickers and high knees on the way up to the upper rock lot at ASEC for the

WARM UP OF CHAMPIONS

• SSH x 20
• IST x 10
• Loose Change x 10
• Arm Circles

Then all grab a rock and head down to the second row from the bottom for

DAT THANG

Pretty basic, at the top lot, you do 10 reps of curl into overhead press into skull crusher, run the length of the lot around to the bottom lot and back to the end for 10 Chernobyls (corekiller into a WWII with a 4 count KGB at the top), then back the way you came to get to the rocks and repeato.

There was also many 90s Butt Rock jams playing, if you arrived at a station with a new song playing, you precede your reps with 5 Burpees, and repeato until you just gas the hell out.

Songs were: Dammit (Blink-182), Zoot Suit Riot (CHERRY POPPIN DADDIES), Santeria (Sublime), Today (Smashing Pumpkins), Santa Monica (Everclear), Flagpole Sitta (Harvey Danger), My Own Worst Enemy (Lit), Cumbersome (Seven Mary Three), The Impression That I Get (Mighty Might Bosstones), Come Out and Play (The Offspring)

Time called around 0609 to return rocks and go to

MARY

In honor of Q’s first post, we did Alphabet at Mary, as PR had done 5 years ago during Mary.

COT

Prayed for some stuff, remember TP’s Tour de Saints on 8/26.

MOLESKIN

Was a tough but fair workout.  The Chernobyls are awful, and I will say that as the person who officially invented them.  Nobody did those ever in the world before we did them today.  Of course, people bitched, because that’s what people do.  Most got just over 2 miles.  I enjoyed myself and the tunes.  It provided a nice backdrop to Tomby telling me to Suck it.  Mayhem skipped Tigertown to honor the Q which is much appreciated and acknolwedged.

5 years is a pretty long time, almost 15% of my life, that I’ve been dealing with you jackwagons.  Over those 5 years people have come and people have gone.  I think that of the people who were at my first beatdown, PR, Homey, Gooney and TP bookended things.  F3 truly is an awesome thing.  Some folks get it and some folks don’t.  The best thing about F3 is that you can essentially make it exactly what you want it to be and need it to be for yourselves and your Pax as long as you stick to those 5 Core Principles.  Outside, Free, Men, Rotating, COT.  We may mot be doing it just as anyone intended, but by doing it our way, we’re doing it exactly as intended. It matters.  This is truly a group of men that I’m proud to know.  Those of you just starting (Beaker, Crabgrass) stick with it.  It’s a life changer and combats more than just a gut, it combats male loneliness.  Rates of suicide are highest in middle aged white men.  While we are open to all men, middle-aged white men comprise the great majority of F3 in our area.  Not our intent, just what it is.  This helps to combat those demons, wandering thoughts, the Dark Stranger as El Ab calls it.  It’s an outlet, a brotherhood, so much more than just a workout.  This matters.  Let F3 make the difference in your lives that it’s meant to me and so many others, and give the gift where and when you can.

Thanks to all of you for being there and holding me, and so many others, accountable to the mission.  Except those who didn’t show up today.

-Spud

“The crest and crowning of all good, life’s final star, is brotherhood.”- Edwin Markham

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