A call back to these!

f3southcary.com/2023/01/13/202313-qd-by-jigglypuff/

og.f3carpex.com/time-to-get-a-little-spooky/

Spookiness was the theme. Playlist in the thread.

Warmup by the greenway.
Running around to the secret deck, pearlzing squats on the way.
Spooky Jack Webbs up to 13 on the deck.
Webbicides featuring Spider Merkins under the deck up to 13. This is where the rain really picked up.
Pearled squats otw back, stopping for a half-hearted haunt of the Swwingers crew.
HG called Superman’s and LBCs at the flag.
Since Trickle was our only repeat PAX from last time, he got the last call honor and called Dying Cockroaches. So very spooky.

We accomplished more of my original goal from 2018 by pressing on with the merkins in the Webbicide. Rain and the lightning at the end were beautiful touches.

MAKE IT A SPOOKY DAY!!

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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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Warmup with a few combinatory moves then a shoulder circuit that HGTV particularly appreciated after his 100-burpee EC.

One pax showed up late, so we did 5 penalty burpees (and no, that pax wasn’t Shut-In despite the HC and late text).

ME was a tabata in two parts. Each exercise was 20s on/10s off, x4.

Cardio
1. Wide High Knees Hop
2. Skydiver Pullbacks (superman position)
3. Lateral Lunge Hops (side to side)
4. Bear Plank Cha-Cha
5. Sumo squats
6. Wide to Narrow Merkins
7. Hip Up + Sit Up
8. Around the (Flat?) Earth (hops in a square-shape)
9. Predator Jacks

Bench
1. Bulgarian Squats
2. Derkins/Irkins
3. Bench Squats
4. Leg raises off the bench

Some closing yoga to open up the chest and hips.

COT:
– Ruck in Apex in August, to raise schools supplies.
– AMBRR in Sept.
– Prayers for Carson (Cauliflower 2.0) and Bubba.

Stop 4 of 4 for this week’s Ghost Flag. Coffee/Bagelteria with the B-in-B crew, who I learned also were unfortunate enough to have endured a Clockwork Q, lol

Good to see everyone, YHC needs to post more often in SCary…maybe at the new SUP AO at swampmere :thinking_face:

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11 for a moist jog through a state park. If I missed anyone on the tag, I apologize.

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Started with John 10:10 – I have come that you might have life and have it to the full. Then we had a thought provoking discussion on the podcast below.

Big take away for me is that what you want to do and physically can do changes throughout your life. Be very intentional about understanding what those things are for you and where they fit into your life.

You are going to miss a lot by grinding it out for 40 years so you can live the ultimate life in retirement. Problem is, you won’t be able to do the same things at 70 that you can do now. And your relationship with your kids is going to change dramatically. Etc.

Does it make sense to pull some thing up and do them now while you can and/or you have kids who still want to do them with you? Maybe you need to reevaluate some of your financial and/or career goals to make it happen.

The one element notably missing from the podcast was faith. For most of us, that is another important consideration in all of this. But I think the same principles apply. Be intentional about that and make sure you are pursing the right things at the right times in your life in your faith journey.

Always happy to sit down and talk with others on this and related topics. Thanks for the opportunity to lead this morning.

www.madfientist.com/bill-perkins-interview/

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The Q slot was empty this morning….or was it? Confusion ensued when The Invisible Man emerged from the darkness at 0544 to save the day. After reciting a modified version of the mission, principles, and disclaimer to include all men visible AND invisible, we moseyed on our way.

After a quick warmup our first destination ended up being slightly flooded so we had to do a disappearing act and go somewhere else.
Everyone knows The Invisible Man cannot get wet because that would betray his cloak of invisibility. Found a new location where a brutal beatdown ensued, consisting of 3 stops, with 3 exercises at each stop then run up stairs to the next stop. First round was 10 reps of each, then 15, then 20. Lot’s of complaints and the FNG almost died but he loved it. Then some catch-me-if-you-can with burpees before heading back to the flag. A big reveal came at the end which caused the PAX to gasp in shock and disbelief.

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In Honor of D-Day, we completed one of the most dangerous workouts ever and launched an attack on SCary. Did a warmup at the prime regency office parking lot, did some 7’s at the big Koka Booth parking lot, high fived the BiB crew in route to rendezvous with the 82nd Airborne aka Stonecutters. Did some native people group sprint races a little Balls to the Wall and then charged back to the flag.

Great work men!

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And that’s all she wrote for the 3rd annual South Cary CSAUP; The 2024 Highland Games.

First things first, BIG UPS to the allstar SAG crew led by @HGTV. You HIMs made this entire CSAUP as effortless as it could be for the participating pax with the support you provided. The crew spent their time, energy, and even their personal funds making this happen for us. TY4FL. YHC, for one, feels surprisingly fresh after running the 12.5 miles and I am going to attribute that to the support crew.

Also a big round of applause to Poncharello, who travelled all the way from the other side of the county (Wake Forest Region) to play the bagpipes and send us running into the GLOOM. SCary is entirely grateful. After a short speech by our very own Nantan, Pocharello wowed us with his musical piece (star spangled banner) in theme with the Scottish Highlands. With that we picked up the shovel flags and collectively hit the road.

@Kitty Litter and @Jigglypuff led us to the entrance of the Greenway where we were instructed to do some warm ups and light stretching. A nice appetizer to what was to come.

First hiccup of the day when the peloton took a wrong turn and ended up on the wrong trail, which we quickly remedied. On the right path and a mile of jogging, we arrived at #ao-fri-slipperywhenwet.

Thang 1 – Our Qs @Amway and @Spayed had the pax teamed up in 3s and had each team find a throwing rock. One team-member handled shot putting the rock over a swampy field while the second and third team member performed dips in the shelter and bear-crawls in parking lot, respectively. When the shot-putter finished his turn, duties were swapped among team-members. 4 rounds and we were done. Winning team won the prize of having to do 5 less burpees than the 10 the losing teams had to perform. Mosey on to the next site.

Thang 2 – Arriving safely, we were greeted by the @Hallmark and @Water Wings at #ao-wed-pointbreak. We were broken up into several teams and we went team vs team pushing two vehicles up the parking lot. The pax were skeptical of the claim that the vehicles were separated in weight by a mere 10 lbs. This was one heck of an effort pushing those vehicles up a slight incline. Done and dusted, we all picked up the shovel flags and moseyed onto the next site a mile up the road.

Thang 3 – #ao-tue-flirtinwithdisaster was our next destination and the Qs here were @Joe Smith and @Banjo (Carpecker). Pax were divided into 2 and one half went to the muddy field near the Greenway entrance for some stubby log tosses while the other half stayed to do a round of caber toss. These strong man exercises were accompanied with Popcorn Marys. Tough stuff here.

Thang 4 – One of the few climbs in the route to reach our destination at #ao-fri-shepherdswatch. @Astro and @Flintstone divided the pax into 4 teams and YHC was marvelled at the efficiency at which the teams were assigned. Almost like grabbing a ticket at the DMV in the form of @Flintstone assigning each pax a number as soon as we entered the location one by one. Good stuff fellas. Tug-O-Wars was the main course here and the smiles on the faces of the pax made it known that we all had a jolly good time. YHC has a grievance that almost all the rounds were won by the team that was pulling on a slight downhill. Conspiracy theory maybe? Shovel flags in hand, the pax headed to the next site, the longest stretch of 1.6 miles.

Thang 5 – Arriving at #ao-sat-lochnload we were surprised to see flag poles, pallets, cinder blocks, ropes, and @HGTV’s smiling face. This surely meant he had something deviously painful in store for us and indeed he did. 4 teams pushed a pallet with a bunch of cinder blocks. The challenge was to go from flag to flag while pulling these pallets with one teammate on board. At each stop, we had an assigned exercise administered by a SAG crewmember. Tough stuff again.

Like the half-time intermission for any competitive event, we were rewarded with one at this point. A cornucopia of cut up fruit, rice-krispies, pickles, mustard, water, gatorade, etc. awaited us. YHC has another conspiracy theory that the guy who was in charge of the bananas accidentally bought plantains instead. I should probably have put eating those plantains as Thang on its own.

Thang 6 – Refreshed the pax were surprised by the unveiling of 4 heavy and dusty tires and a 12-foot long 4×4. This pole was used to carry those 4 tires all the way to #ao-mon-kryptonite and the pax were expected to chip in and take turns without ever laying the contraption on the ground. Running was kept to a minimum because of the awkwardness and weight of the whole operation.

Thang 7 – @Life Alert and @Texas Ranger awaited us at Java Jive and the makeshift #ao-wed-hulkamania site. We threw kickballs into surprisingly flexible and mobile human basketball hoops while lunges were performed for a make and burpees for a miss. It was deemed a race by the Qs so I don’t know if YHC saw even one properly executed lunge or burpee. Regardless, we can all agree that the human-basketball-hoop was the real MVP of this basketball operation. It wasn’t about the shot, it was all about how well the human-hoop moved to assist the making of the errant shots.

Flags on hand and the tire and pole contraption in our collective hands we were off to our final destination, #ao-mon-kryptonite. These final 1.5 miles were tough sledding, but in the end we all made it back, which YHC was grateful for.

COT: SCARY picnic on the 19th of May, various blood drives for you to be a part of, Respect and Honor week coming up, and the naming of FNGs Tide Pod, and Sunkist. Prayers and Prayers!

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. This is how YHC feels after completing the whole route wearing a 20lb ruck-vest (well, the floating part, not the stinging part). It was a great honor to be a part of this operation and once again I want to point the spotlight to the SAG crew. Even though they did not shed a single bead of sweat they still managed to become the MVPs of the CSAUP. Also great thank yous to all the volunteering Qs who showed us a great time all while challenging us at the same time.

Love to all.

MAKE IT A GREAT DAY!!!

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Leg Day!
Banjo and Clockwork apparently used the hill climb challenge as a warmup for an upcoming gazillion K race up Mt. Mitchell. As the Hill Climb challenge ended, Banjo announced Leg Day and now I can’t walk. We did a circuit of Single leg squats, lunges, pirouette squats, and monkey humpers with a touch of running in-between. My legs are toast. The coffee was delicious and the fellowship even better! MIAGD!

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Started with Ecclesiastes 5:10 – “Whoever loves money, never has enough: whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with their income.” I then shared the cliff’s notes of how my wife and I got into some bad debt early in our marriage. Then fortunately found Dave Ramsey and got out of that bad debt in about 3 years and broke some bad habits. Then we coasted for the next several years. Never really fell behind in our finances, but never really got ahead. Expenses seemed to always match income.

Then a bit of a work/early midlife crisis led me to an amazing blogger names Mr. Money Mustache. I realized that I was focusing way too much on stuff for my happiness. Over a several year period, my wife and I become aligned (more or less…) on making some rather significant financial changes. We significantly reduced spending and significantly increased saving and investing. I ultimately decided to quit my full time job in 2019, but ended up being offered a great part time remote opportunity with the company, which I accepted.

We continue to spend less money than we did when I was working full time, yet don’t feel like we are missing out on anything. Quite the opposite. The substantial increase in time and flexibility with the new job has given us the opportunity to be together more and travel a lot more as a family. My wife was very skeptical of these changes at first. But now, I don’t think she could imagine what our life would be like if we hadn’t made those changes.

Some important take-aways from the discussion:

-Work is way better when you don’t need the money. Even if you like your job as-is, save, save, save. You never know when that situation can change. And having that extra money does make work feel different.
-Those with kids – you are not getting this time back. You can always make more money. You only get once chance to raise them. Make sure you’re balancing your time right.
-Consider what your purchases are really costing you. That vacation home is great, but maybe it means you’re going to have to work another 5 years. Is it worth it?

For those that haven’t watched the video embedded in this article yet, do it! It will be worth your time. Tip, you can increase the playback speed to 1.5X and it will only take 20 minutes, and is still completely understandable.

www.mrmoneymustache.com/2016/10/10/how-to-be-happy-rich-and-save-the-world/

If you have any questions or want to talk more about anything we discussed, hit me up. I would love to talk.

Finally, if I left you off this backblast, I’m sorry. I forgot that I needed to create one and didn’t do a great job memorizing who was there.

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