Here it is. The backblast you’ve all been waiting for. What a day men. Just want to start with some acknowledgemtn of all the HIM that made this day possible. All the guys that stepped up to Q sites, Jigglypuff for taking the SAG Q, and the entire SAG team. Without those pax none of this would have been possible. TY4YL!

Let’s get at it though. What a gorgeous weather day for this 2025 version of The Highland Games. Couldn’t have dialed it up any better. After getting every checked in and assigned their clans for the upcoming festivities we kicked it off promptly at 0545-ish with Squeeze Bag on the bagpipes. THANK YOU Squeeze Bag for coming over and absolutely crushing it on the pipes this morning (check Nextdoor for a glowing review). Announcements made, pledge pledged, and Squeeze Bag played us off on our way.

Over to the Point Break side of Waverly for some warm-ups led by YHC. Pax were high in spirit and full of mumblechatter at this stage of the Games. Once properly warmed, including a full set of SCary Stretches which blew our visiting pax’s collective minds, off we set for the first proper thang at FWD.

Thang 1 – Homegrown took the lead at stop one assigning each clan a task. The tasks were, shotput across the back field, coupon carries down the greenway, dips/irkins/derkins at the bunches by pavilion, and rockwork. Each clan rotated through each station and crushed it. Nobody was taken out by a flying stone, so off to a good start. Let’s continue!

Thang 2 – Lengthy mosey all the way to the home of the premier 0530 Friday AO, Shepherds Watch, for some Ultimate Frisbee led by the pax formerly known as Spayed. The clans paired up and had admittedly a ton of fun. Lot’s of slipping, sliding, spectacular defense, amazing catches, and of course, plenty of burpees for drops. Both teams claimed victory in the end and perhaps the true victor will never be known. In higher spirits than ever off the pax set for the next stop.

Thang 3 – Cross Tryon and head down to the top of the hill before the tunnel. Pax were gathered and WebMD took over. Pax were instructed to storm the tunnel complete with battle yells while running through. This was definitely one of the high points and the effect was truely nailed. Well done Web. Grab the rope and mosey down the greenway a ways for some…. tug of war led by WebMD and rookie of the year candidate Promo! Clans were paired up again and multiple rounds of tug of war were completed with a sprint in between each round. Pairings changed each time and resulted in some riveting mtachups. Indigenous peoples run to the end of the greenway and then regular mosey onto the next stop.

Thang 4 – Amway took the lead at the bottom of the dam hill, where lo and behold pain sticks were awaiting us. Pain stick dora-esque beatdown ensued. Each pax in the clan took a turn carrying the pain stick to the top and completed overhead presses to failure for points (one rep = one point). Bring the pain stick back down and the next pax goes. Pax at the bottom completed a Dora of 100 squats, 200 curls, and 300 rows. At one point Yogi decided to come up with his own method of returning the pain stick and almost broke multiple pax’s ankles, but thankfully nobody was hurt. Score was actually somewhat accurately kept and the winner was determined to be the Blue clan (Let’s go Blue clan!). Next up…. SAG STOP!

SAG team crushed the refreshment pit stop even if Chris R’s music did upset a gentleman who apparently sleeps in his polo shirts. Also, unfortunately (?) no plantains this year. Properly refreshed and refueled off we go for…

Thang 5 – One of the newer AOs launched in SCary is the Saturday morning 3rdF – The Accelerator that runs in conjunction with Loch N Load. The Accelerator is a 4-5ish mile run with a purposeful 3rdF discussion topic selected by the Q that week. Amway gave an overview and clans stuck together to discuss the topic of, “Which of the 3 Fs do you need to focus on most in your life right now?” I can only speak for my clan but the conversation was great, thought provoking, and really encouraging to hear other guys share. TY4YL in launching this great addition to our region Amway!

Thang 6 – Our Accelerator portion ended at Lochmere Village where none other than Fruit Loop was await us with a bucket of golf balls, how very Scottish. Next up was a golf ball relay race. Legs consisted of bear crawl golf ball push, merkins while holding the golf ball between your knees, bunny hopping while holding the golf ball between your hands with your palms down and not using your thumbs, and finally a lunge walk followed by tossing the ball into a bucket (10 penalty burpess if you miss). This was a ton of fun and resulted in many good laughs. But the fun wasn’t over, off we go!

Thang 7 – As we rolled into Ritter Park, the (un)official home of SCary, Kitty Litter took the lead. Clans were paired up and completed caber toss and giant tire flipping. At one point a tiny dog was almost impaled or flattened by cabers until successfully captured by HGTV (who proceeded to tell the lovely lady what all these crazy dudes were doing). Throwing logs and flipping tires is always a great time and this was another highlight for many of the pax. After we were done throwing heavy stuff around Shipyard stepped up and had a surprise for us… We needed the logs at the next stop, and there was only one way to get them there. One log per pax, and lets mosey. But don’t forget the flags!!! This ended up being quite the task and admittedly a lot harder than I thought it would be. TClaps to all the pax for carrying the logs and flags, nice work!

Thang 8 – Around we made our way to the back lot of the adjacent office park for what promised to be an experience with Shipyard at the helm. And boy did he deliver. With the help of CPR construction some pallet sleds had been created and were staged at one end of the parking lot. Our task, use the logs as rollers and pull the sleds to the other side, heaviest pax on top of the sled. At this point a lot of rule bending occured, but the Blue clan absolutely crushed it and completed the task to the letter of the law, and blue everyone out of the water. Well done Blue clan. Apparently according to Shipyard though, everyone lost and had to carry everything back to the start. This was arguably even worse than rolling the sleds down. Done and dusted time to head for home.

Our fearless SAG guide Astro on his trusty segway scooter led us back to Waverly where we were greated by the sweet, sweet sounds of Squeeze Bag serenading us with the bagpipes once again. Simply lovely. And with that it was a wrap.

COT: SCary picnic 4/28, 4-7pm, eating at 5:30p. See Sbarro for the sign-up sheet. SIGN UP!!! Several prayers lifted up.

Thanks again to each and every one of you for coming out this morning and making the effort to be there. Even moreso, thanks to each of your families and friends for putting up with us and the crazy stuff we do, the true heroes. It was an outstanding morning and an honor to your HG Q this year. F3 and this group of guys is incredibly and I’m lucky to have found my way here (shoutout to Astro for the EH almost two years ago now!). Way to crush it this morning!!

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6 PAX did the hard thing this morning and crushed it

Mosey to the workout area from the flag.

Pledge

THE THANG: Fight-Gone-Bad WOD
(5×5 minute Rounds, 1 minute rest after each round – 29 minutes total)

5 stations – 1 minute at each station AMRAP – no rest in between stations

— Station 1: 20lb wall ball shots

— Station 2: 70lb/40lb sumo deadlift high pull (or 95lb hex deadlift)

— Station 3: 16in bench box jumps

— Station 4: 70lb/60lb sandbag/55lb dumbells push press (kip optional)

— Station 5: Seated row machine/60lb sandbag/ double 30lb KB bent over rows

The soundtrack was invigorating was victorious

MARY – assist YHC loading 500+ lbs of into truck

Mosey back to the flag

Announcements:
Highland Games and 3rdF Escalator upcoming weeks: Fasting / Charing / Sacrifice (Stations of the Cross with HGTV to finish the set)

COT:
Prayed out to the God that opened the water for Moses, in thanks we are WELL able to do He has called us to do TODAY

Yoga Mat friend is retiring – well done
YHC 2.0 getting cast this morning for fractured tibia

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February 28th, 2025, 4 run clubbers and 8 bootcampers, what a glorious day at SCary’s premier 0545 Friday bootcamp. It also happened to be the 42nd anniversary of the air date of the LAST episode of M*A*S*H. So today we paid tribute to one of the worlds all time great television shows. The pax were informed of this and many questioned whether I even knew the show, to which I responded I enjoyed watching it on Nick at Nite. Fun trivia fact, current Nick at Nite shows include, The Big Bang Theory, Friends, and Modern Family. Wow.

Off we mosey, with one very dark patch on the way beware, to the office park. Continue past the sketchy car for some warm-ups further in. Standard warm ups. Then instructions given to follow me closely. Off we go to pay our respects to M*A*S*H by outlining the iconic Bell 47 helicopter from the shows intro (which we nailed btw). The pax were very confused by the route which led to some great mumblechatter. Along the outline of the whirlybird we completed 42 Merkins, 42 American Hammers, 42 Squats, and 42 Heels to Heaven. One last round of 10 Merkins, 10 American Hammers, 11 Squats, and 11 Heels to Heaven. Art time was completed so pearls on a string back to the park.

For thang 2 we partnered up and completed a “classic PT exercise” Dora with 100 pull-ups, 200 merkins, and 300 WWIIs. Back to the flag for LSF and maybe something else, I can’t remember.

Props to IC Light for the best helicopter.

Announcements
Merkin Madness – SIGN UP NOW
Pet Sounds Blood Drive
Highland Games 2025

Praises and Prayers lifted.

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Speaking of unreliable backblasts…

8 gathered to talk about distractions and focus. We are distracted and should seek to eliminate the distractions that we can. Try to pick one distraction to eliminate one from your work life and one from your personal life. Try turning off non-critical phone notifications for starters.

Great discussion, gents!

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With all of this AI creativity and madness, YHC decided it was time to get a good grip on what is real! So a grip focused workout was Q’ed up, not by AI. There was also a playlist to remind us of all the cliche sayings for grip. Great group on a much cooler morning under the Pavel’ion.

Walk for hearing, The Odyssey, camping trip, bowling night, culture week all coming up. MIAGD!

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“In true Swwinger fashion,” this SWW site Q went “next door to spice things up.” And came with a spicy playlist to fit the bill.

The sets and reps were meant to align with the 15 points the Giants scored last night. They kicked 5 field goals, so the significant numbers of the day were 3, 5, and 15.

After some warmups, the main Thang involved working through supersets of 15 reps of each exercise for 3 sets per superset. There were 5 rounds and we ran a pickle after each round. 3 different pickle routes were run, since a true Swwinger needs to go out and get little samples all around.

Round 1 = 3 sets of 15 goblet squats + 15 American Hammers
Round 2 = 3 sets of 15 chest press + 15 WWII’s
Round 3 = 3 sets of 15 arm raises + 15 V-ups
Round 4 = 3 sets of 15 swings + 15 LSF
Round 5 = 3 sets of squat jumps + wood chops (descending reps)

Finished with some more kettlebell swings. Had a good time today. Got a few laughs from the playlist. Gonna be sore tomorrow. Thanks for having me today fellas. MIAGD.

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9 bootcampers and 7 run clubbers this AM.

One last trip to the beach this morning to send out summer on a high note. Swimsuits were highly encouraged but YHC didn’t give that disclaimer until 5:44 so only YHC was appropriately dressed. Nevertheless we prevailed and started off on our journey with a mosey to the rest area. At this point one of the kids naturally started yelling ‘Dad I gotta go!’ so we pulled in, did some warm-ups, stalled and discussed pigeons on the beach, and something about ground hogs….

Anyways, continue back on our trip to Ritter for….

The BEACHBALL

Grab a beachball from the Qs trunk and lets begin. Various exercises together followed by a pickle where the mode of transit was beachball thrusters (throw your beachball at the top of the thruster then go get it). Exercises were heavily skewed towards Mary (gotta get that six pack for the last beach trip):

B ox cutters
E lbow to knee crunches
A merican hammers
C ockroaches (that are dying)
H eels to heaven
B urpees
A l gores
L ow slow flutters
L unges

Then we closed out with 3 amazing rounds of F3 Beachball Dodgeball which was enjoyed immensely by all.

HAND

Announcements
Deacon in Wake Forrest tomorrow
Odyssey in Green Level next month
Happy 7 yrs to Punch Out

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Quick warm-up then mosey to the Greenway Trail for some partner work and 11sfosome partner work then some 11s
Ltrail trail to the first stop for some partner work on the hill. Trail to the first stop for

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Another AMBRR is in the books fellas. A huge shout out to the entire SAG Crew for all they did to make this a successful event. There is a lot that goes on behind the scene leading up to the event and during. I can’t thank them enough for their leadership.

Under the darkness of the early morning sky at 0600, 31 runners set out to achieve something. What that “something” was was different for each of us. Some ran for fun and fellowship, others ran to beat a previous time or distance and others ran to prove to themselves that they could run a 10K or a Half Marathon. Whatever that something was, I am hopeful we all achieved what we intended to.

I am grateful for F3 and how it has impacted my life and for the relationships formed over the past couple of years…

You all crushed it this morning! Do the same the rest of today as well. MIAGD!!!

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Yogi started with the mission, but then quickly assigned 10 penalty burpees when Biles arrived one minute late. Yogi explained to “piles” the importance of being on time. Off we went sans pledge and finished the mission and core principles on the mosey to the Lowe’s parking lot. From there we did 10 reps of different exercises at 5 different stations. Yogi pushed us all in both form and execution. 40% effort was promised but 100% effort was delivered. “Piles” was reintroduced to Yogi as Biles and we continued with more exercises including balls to the wall. Back to the flag we moseyed for a round of merry.

Announcements were announced. Praises for Yogi and his 8 year anniversary in F3. Praises for Biles and new addition on the way. Continued prayers for Deet and his family. MIAGD!

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