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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We won’t leave you behind, but we also won’t leave you where you started.

5 runner broz and 12 bootcampers started their Saturday off right. Since it’s AMBRR season we logged some mileage, moseying down to the lake trail. We executed M&Ms around the lake, with a merkin variation and monkey humpers at each stop.

Several were worried about our timing half way through the lake lap but YHC wasn’t scured. We made it back right on time +/- 2 minutes.

Welcome FNG Out Cold!
MIAGD!

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6 ran – 8 chose the bear

IPC 2022 Week 3 Mrs. Burns

Format
* 5 rounds
* 7 exercises per round
* 1 additional run

5 ROUNDS OF:
* 20 OH Press w/ C
* 20 Burpees
* 20 Curls w/C
* 20 V-Ups
* 20 Goblet Squats w/C
* 13 Blockees w/C
* 400M Run
AFTER THE 5TH ROUND
* 400M Run

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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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Another strong ending to another action-packed week! Let’s recap it together… but only after 5 (make that 6) on the 1.1 mile EC, at least 3 others for other various ECs, an FNG Check, a mission, and a pledge.

Mosey to the docks for a warmup. After some standard options, honor the kickoff of the EC battle with 15 mountain climbers (since although the official EC doesn’t hit the Birklands, it very well should).

Pause on the Lochmere guard rails for quick Dips, Erkins, Derkins. Next, we travel over the wall and head toward the rock pile, but not before executing some Catalina W(h)ine Makers.

Round of BRAVEs to remember the Andrews in our midst, but this time with a traveling rock. Stops 1, 3, and 5 at the bottom of Heartwood Hill, stops 2 & 4 at the top. Start with Bigboysitups, add Rocksquats, add . TY4YL Sbarro in calling out that the top was right next to a house and we had some volume this AM. We’ve lasted in Lochmere this long, let’s not throw it away now.

Rocks back to the pile, gather by the pickle. Thursday reminded us that some leaders are so unlocked that the rest of us are just trying to catch up. Partner up, catch me if you can. The catched partner does Fruit Loop’s most memorable exercise from this week’s Stonecutters – 5 World’s Worst Squat. Three laps, then circle up to celebrate the EC Challenge victor with 18 Astrojacks.

Back past the flag via Lilly Atkins for some Bolt 45s, pickle, Boat Canoes, back to the flag for one burpee.

Prayers up for Astro’s SIL/baby, and Yogi’s journey. Super honored to lead. Thank you all for leading by posting for the men to your left and right.

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11 hit the road for a Saturday loop that ended in a perfect cup of coffee with the Loch n Load crew. 6-7 mil es we’re covered and fellowship was at an all time high. Prayers for this amazing group of men!

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Some SCary boys joined the 9/11 Memorial Stair Climb. After 10 flights x 11. All finished and when done we regrouped at the wolf and flags, counted 138 HIM, listened to a firefighter’s story about his experience when he was in a stairwell, we stood for Taps on the horn and Amazing Grace on the pipes. A LOT of 1st timers. Awesome experience.

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17 bootcampers and 5 cleaver runners came out this beautiful morning. Bootcampers started with an indigenous peoples run around Waverly to the back corner lot. Little warmup stretching and then Thang 1 was the BMW, the ultimate workout machine, of burpees, merkins (world’s worst), and WWII’S with running between. Then we hopped like gorillas and lunged like lungers do. Catch me if you can back around Waverly to the flag. Strong work by all.
COT: culture week & VQ week coming up. Prayers for those affected by fires on Maui, for kids returning to school, for gentleman in Lowes parking lot.
God bless, men. It was a privilege to Q.

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Great to join Franklin and da boys for Das Boot ! Beautiful 6 miles. MIAGD fellas.

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Great turnout for the summer solstice- longest day of the year deserved the longest workout of the year (46 minutes)!
We welcomed one new FNG.
Mission, principles, pledge, and mosey north on Kildaire to the medical facility parking deck for warm ups.
Thang one was a B.O.M.B. pain train up the parking deck- 5 burpees, 10 overhead claps, 15 merkins, 20 squats. Thanks to Astro for identifying that squats does not start with a B, we are all smarter because of this. Big squats it is (credit to Olsen).
Thang 2 started back at bottom- parking deck inspection (bear crawl) up level one, lunge walk up level two, feet first crab walk up level 3. Since the PAX enjoyed this so much we reversed it back down the deck- hand first crab walk, reverse lunge walk, crawl bear.
Mosey over to first flight building for some COP; Moroccan nightclub was enjoyed by all. We saw the cleaver crew passing by and jumped in line following them back to the flag, trying our best to make it look like we also just completed a 10 miler. Finished with some Mary.
Welcome FNG Hopper, the second of our fine F3 softball team members to now join the F3 ranks.
MIAGD!

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