1 joined our Carpex bros at Dollywood. One of my Parker Poe co-workers was an FNG. Keep this between us, but he’s going to be a South Cary guy (lives east of Shepherd’s Watch). I’ll get FNG Indy on Slack soon. TClaps to our Q, Coco Crisp, who was celebrating his 7th anniversary and is a good dude.

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The PAX learned how it feels to be programmed this morning.

for(i = 0, i < 20, i++) { for(b=0, b. Some Rucked. Honored to lead men! MIAGD (what is left of it.)

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On May 6, 1527 Spanish and German imperial troops sacked Rome, ending the Renaissance. Since TikTok tells us the average man thinks about the Roman Empire at least daily, what better way to commemorate such a significant, yet tragic occasion.

We began with the march towards Rome, a running loop around the block. The obligatory South Cary stretches were incorporated as you can’t sack a city with cramped calves. On the way home, we stopped for some rock work to build our strength.

Upon our return, a four corners with 15 Flame Throwing Burpees against the mighty city walls, climbing Mt. Olympus 27 Mountain Climbers (just go with it), down the hole 15 CDDs, and crush their spirits 27 jump squats.

Charge Palatine hill 4x in a brave attempt to take the city, and then some themed Mary — Discipline Bear Holds, Roman Shield Lock Plank Shoulder Taps, Rubble Twists, last stand hollow hold. We finished with what else but Warrior yoga cool downs.

Sic transit gloria mundi. Don’t take for granted the gifts showered down on us from our Creator, the beauty of everything given to us on this Earth, and the time we have with loved ones. Even the mighty and glorious Roman Empire fell. So someday shall we all.

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What does it truly mean to “Trust in God?” That was the topic for this beautiful Saturday morning Accelerator. Aside from the obvious, we went deeper than surface level passing around the discussion-football over 5-ish miles.

3 laps of The Snail were completed and personal stories were told. It was good enough for a good morning of running and the gleaning of biblical wisdom.

COT – @Texas Ranger did us the honors.

and .

Make It A Good Weekend!!!

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We walked.
Actually, I was a little surprised by the number of PAX who turned out to simply walk. In fact, many folks said they posted specifically because we were simply walking.
Food for thought.
So, we walked. We traveled from Ritter Park to Hemlock Bluffs. I am happy I listened to the wise counsel of the PAX who suggested we go in the park. Suck it Apex! In the park, we spent precious distance time doing squats but at the end of the day, a new distance record was set so all is well. I called “Have a nice day” at 5:59 AM and I think we logged a tick or two over 2.5 miles. I suppose I need to remind the PAX that I’m not dead yet as folks stepped up to eulogize me during announcements. Again, I suppose, food for thought.
Thank you everyone for coming out this morning. As it appears there is a desire for this kind of workout, I suspect it will come around again.

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The New York Times launched countless apps, articles, and variations of the original “Scientific 7-Minute Workout” with their article covering the research on HICT back in 2013. archive.nytimes.com/well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/09/the-scientific-7-minute-workout

So today, we set out to make our morning the best version of itself by adding weights to it — for science.

Ruck to Waverly, hitting as many stairs/steps as possible. Round 1. Ruck the stair loop. Round 2. Back to NYBIII. Selects for Round 3.

Thankful for the mild temps. Doing that two months from now would be nasty work.

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Good morning for getting the HR up! Not a big group but a good one nonetheless! Started with quick pickle followed by some warmups (SSH, good mornings, worlds greatest stretch, merkins). Thang 1 – combination of Turkish Get Ups and Swings. Did enough to hear complaining! Thang 2 – partner Dora: 200 squats, 100 renegade (plank) rows on the picnic tables (50 each side), and 100 merkins while partner farmers carries the pickle.

More Get Ups and Swings, a few other exercises to hit some different muscle groups and keep the HR going, round of Mary and HAGD.

Oofda really pushing hard for attendance at the SCary picnic. Praises for all F3 brothers and having access to this group outside of just Cary.

Shirts were drenched, hearts were pumping, and muscles were bulging!

MIAGD!

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Even thoughts of watching Talladega Nights this weekend cannot keep this Q from his most important task of the morning, the backblast. No music. What? Yes. We had nature sounds as we traveled with one heavy bell each. The same set was repeated in multiple places: Swings, Goblet squats, deadlifts, RDLs,OH presses, Switch rows, Hi pulls, thrusters and bell-your-body. Goblet walk between location. Did some ground work mixed in between some sets and some bell mary at COT, which was a robust. Lots of prayers on guys’ hearts. And some strong dudes hit the pull-up bars to continue the pull up challenge. I’d like to say i made the fellas sweat it out but think the humidity had a lot to do with it.

PICANIC time is fast approaching…come get your Fruit Salad, yummy yummy! That’s a Wiggles reference btw.

Full Metal Jacket has a great annual weighted workout for a good cause – fast approaching on 4/29…check COT. Is there any CLOWN CAR heading out that morning?

SCary’s Friday Escalator is FIRED UP. Q sheet filling fast and stuff is HAPPENING there.

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9 graciously gave up their morning mileage and sat in a circle and talked – about goals and fears and pride and obstacles. I’m so grateful for it. I have so much respect for each of you. I wish we’d had twice as long together. Let’s look for opportunities to continue these conversations.

Announcements: Picnic Sunday

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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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