14 booters and 1 runner helped cap off the 2024 Ambassador Tour. We paid respect to each sub region and the number of AOs in each. X and Y squats were crowd favorites. 2 Hello Dolly’s in IC Lights driveway thrown in for good measure. Prayers for the family of The Commish. Always an honor to lead.

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17 came out on this frigid morning to ride the F3 . A lot of running with a sprinkling of 11s (sumo-squats on one end and a heels to heaven on the other).

Made it back on time for a pretty wild COT.

YHC signing out and headed to The Oakwood 24.

MIAGID!!!

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6 bootcampers and 1 rucker showed up on time for SCary’s premier Thursday 0530 AO. 1 bootcamper, subbing as site-Q, scrambled for a ruck to be a HIM to our lonely South Wake ruck brotha. All for not tho as the second HC rucker appeared “only a minute late”. The HIM (Kitty Litter) now had to search for the bootcampers among the many route options this premier AOs has to offer. Fortunately, on his way to 300 posts this year, Kitty has a lot of practice searching PAX after the workout has gotten started. His success rate increased today!

With a plan in place, the bootcamping PAX headed straight through the hood to our brotha Sherpa’s home. Hello Dollys were performed flawlessly, possibly the best Hello Dollys ever performed in a driveway. To our chagrin, this was not caught on doorbell cam, bc this high tech brother has a low tech doorbell.

The route back to our starting point was a little more haphazard than our departure. A palm tree was found, hills were climbed, CDDs and jump squats were performed. The PAX rounded out the morning with a couple of 80% sprints to stretch the legs a little and push ourselves. Mary was present.

YW4ML this morning, MIAGD!

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Temps were low, numbers were low, but morale was high! The Pax that did show up came ready to do great things.

We started off with what many are calling the World’s Greatest Opening Mosey. After that spectacular 1 mile jog we went over to the tennis courts to complete the other 11 days of Astro’s 12 Days of Christmas Challenge (see replies for your opportunity to sign up).

Thang 2 was up in the top lot where we partnered up for what is indisputably the World’s Greatest Pumpkin Dora. 100 pumpkin CPRs (Curl, Press, tricep Raise), 200 pumpkin H2M, 300
Pumpkin squats while the partner ran alternating short pickle and then the hill pickle.

Thang 3 was the pumpkin roll/throw in to the woods where Tonnage was the winner.

Many announcements and some praises/prayers as well. MIAGD, gents.

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Brisk Saturday a.m. with fortunately not much wind to deal with. Decided to throw everyone off with an immediate plank into Ring of Fire. The ROF would feature prominently several times throughout. After starting off on the wrong side of the road, quickly course corrected for safety reasons into a warmup near the dock. Tour through Lochmere’s lovely, wooded vale passing an insanely bright red maple. Stopped several times for pax inspired original exercises. If everyone gets points, no one gets points. Some rock work by the dam and back to the flag.

Lots of announcements: World’s Greatest Maynard, Christmas Party, Thanksgiving convergence at Stonecutters, pre announcements for Tour de Lightmere, and a highly anticipated first F announcement to be revealed by Astro. MIAGD

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WWW8 installment #6 (ish)

Warm-up : After the pledge, we headed to the boat launch for a few regular exercises

The Thang: 4 corners around the disc golf course with 3 rounds of ascending 5, 10, 15, 10 reps of burpees then CDDs then Bonnie Blairs

Mary: 5 mins of plank hold exercises with as close to 100% participation as you’re going to get with Astro in attendance

Big numbers for Saturday!

COT: Freed to Bleed today
TCP at 2pm tomorrow

75ish% coffeeteria attendance

And with that, WWW8 comes to a close. Thank you to all that have had an impact in my life over the last 8 years. Without F3 I would have never ran more than 3 miles, done the BRR, Tuna Run, various CSAUPs and definitely would not have done R2R2R. Other than the physical benefits, I’ve appreciated the diversity of thought that comes out in the gloom and coffeeteria. As humans, we tend to gravitate to like minded people and F3 has provided an opportunity for conversations with men that have challenged my opinions and point of view on many topics.
Thank you again and MIAGD!

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Gathered at the upper pickle, a few introductions made, fumbled through some preplanned recitations, pledged some allegiance, and then moseyed to the lower lot to warmup, sharing some workout directions enroute.

Returned to grab some of the most beautifully crafted with love pain sticks my eyes could behold.

The thingy:
– partner with someone you least know.
– partners mosey to the lower pickle, each farmer carries two CMUs filled with concrete around the pickle (prolly 50 lbs each), mosey back. Collaborate en route.
– rest of pax perform called exercise, some with pain stick and some without, till their return.
– repeato with next group and so on.
– pax call the exercise. No counting, rather discussing this past week’s culture discussion.

COT. Thanks for the opportunity to lead and close out Culture Week

NMS.
– Got this from Astro in the DMs about 30 minutes after coffeeteria. “Oh, so great coffeeteria, meh on the Q. But hey, you tried, that’s what counts, right?! I mean, it’s only been an hour since the workout, and I was just sitting here, twiddling my thumbs, waiting for that backblast. No rush, though! I know you’re probably busy with, you know, breathing and blinking. Just thought I’d check in and see if you needed any help with, say, typing or finding the “send” button.
– I loved hearing the FNG stories. Did not know that Texas Ranger was brought in by YOGI. Boom
– Term Paper’s reaction not knowing most of the leadership questions was priceless, he’s taking this Ambassador position serious.

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What a great way to start the weekend. Today’s workout started with the Pledge and off we went. Moseyed to the boat ramp for warm ups and they headed down Lochmere Drive. We stopped a few times for dips, irkins and monkey humpers on the long way to the spillway hill.

Thang 1: 11s on the spillway hill. Rock Thrusters at the bottom ( 10 to 1) and Star Jumps at the top (1 to 10). The hill was dry yet wet so we did get feet wet, but I heard no complaints b/c everyone was enjoying themselves. Since we didn’t have enough fun with rocks on Thang 1, we incorporated rocks into Thang 2 which consisted of curls for gurls, OH tricep extension and standard rock press (on back). As a group we did 10 to 15 reps of each (YCH’s counting was a bit sporadic this morning) and ran the pickle around the island. We got in two rounds of that and then headed back.

We returned the rocks to the rock pile (except Kitty…pretty sure he missed the pile), bear crawled up the hill and moseyed back to the flag. We had a few minutes to kill so we did some monkey humpers, planks, chill-cuts and wrappped up with a few merkins.

Lots still going on in SCary and Greater Carpex this month and next. Check Slack for deets. Kinda quiet this morning on the prayers and praises, but know we all have some. YHC took us out and after several headed out for coffee.

MIAGD Gents!!!

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7+ for a stonecutters style workout replete with hidden messages and unanswerable questions. After a lap and brief warmup we moved on to the Thang. Run to a corner, do reps of an exercise, return to the middle for 7 star jumps, repeat on the other 3 corners. Repeat counts were 19, 20, 15, 14, 5 which French Lick figured out spelled STONE. Exercises were Gas pumps (by the CircleK), Overhead claps, Alabama asskickers, and Turkish getups (which everyone realized spelled GOAT). We actually skipped the final round in order to get to the trivia questions which were intended to be a mix of impossibly arcane and just plain unanswerable. We ran or flying nun’d from corner to corner based upon the whims of the Q. Questions:
1. Why was Stonehenge created? The pax got this wrong.
2. What structure won the “Supreme Award” at the Institute of Structural Engineers annual Structural Awards in 2010? Though there was an attempt, the pax were unfamiliar with the Stonecutters bridge in Hong Kong.
3. What does the Latin phrase “Novus Ordo Seclorum” mean? French Lick nailed the translation of this phrase found under the pyramid on the dollar bill: New order of the ages
4. Which came first, the chicken or the egg? The pax got this wrong too.

Mary included LBCs and CFH2M (held awkwardly long in order to give a show to OTW and TP who joined from the premiere Thursday AO).

Amway and Badda rolled in a little after COT having run to and from BiB

Sometimes in our lives we are the keystone and sometimes we are another brick in the arch. In all of those moments we are connected to, supporting, and supported by the ones around us.

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The First Annual Tour de PAXmere in the “North Central” side of Lochmere, within manageable distance of the flag! We dedicated a CORE exercise to each PAX and a Hello Dolly round. 3 miles were covered and fun was had.

Camping trip, The Bull, bowling night, Culture Week all coming up. MIAGD!

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