21 for a micr-ocho featuring the exercises from that fateful morning at the Valentine’s Day Convergence at Pullen Park’s The Forge, 8 years ago to the day!

We moseyed across the street for warmups in front of Forge Chiropractic (not planned, but too good to pass up). Continue mosey through the Bojangles parking lot to the north lot of Macedonia for bearcrawls in the lot. Mosey back to the flag to finish the right half of the micr-ocho. Continue through the woods into Franklin Chase and find the greenway. Partner up and do a janky round with sets of Partner Derkins. Finish out the left half of the micr-ocho through the Coventry neighborhood, pausing for Quick Feet at the intersections. Mary with an attempt at a real Have a Nice Day. That’s it!

Super grateful for 8 years and for Water Wings bringing me out to a workout that was closer to my side of town. I think it’s true I still have never revisited The Forge, but hard to say after all this time.

CU@T8 tomorrow at 0505!

Self-Indulgent Retrospective.
2024 BB currently missing. It was at Thunderstruck.
2023: f3southcary.com/2023/02/14/2023-02-14-qd-by-jigglypuff/
2022: f3southcary.com/2022/02/14/2022-02-14-qd-by-jigglypuff/
2021: og.f3carpex.com/a-smattering/
2020: og.f3carpex.com/three-years/
2019: og.f3carpex.com/get-off-my-lawn-2/
2018: og.f3carpex.com/jps-vvq/
2017: https://twitter.com/F3TheForge/status/831474426319425536

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12 HIMs and a half (pup) happily showed their commitment to fitness today. Took the rain or shine and hot or cold principles seriously.

We were quick to get started, pledge then mosey.

Pulled out the “water proof” deck of cards.

= beach body, 10 count of Mary any heart drawn.
= HIMs best friend, the burpee. Face value 2 to 13.
= merkins, face value 2-13
= get low in the club, jump squats, face value 2-13.

The twist! Any time an Ace is drawn perform the motivator. First ace is 5 reps, second is 10 and so on.

The workout, PAX draws card performs exercise, pickle, rinse and repeat.

Good news for these HIMs that all 4 aces were drawn. Bad news, a lot of diamonds were pulled. However for the 3rd ace drawn, we allowed a 5 burpee opportunity to draw again. We must of wanted it. The redraw was the 4th ace. Three rounds of motivator performed. Excellent job gents!!!

Fantastic day in the gloom. Warm coffee and a new need to learn more about Francois’ high-school soccer coach.

Prayers for the HIMs health, that we can stay strong and keep keeping on!

Duck donuts dash should be on your two week look ahead.

MIAGD!!

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Ten at JDI for ‘hint of Strava Art’, consisting of 2 miles of sprinting, and 3 miles of the Q catching up. FWD was peeped across Tryon coming down SCary’s most dangerous hill, which was not intentional. There was also an Enhancements (?) flyby in Lochmere I think… headlamp was v bright!

9 at COT, but Wonderbread rejoined for coffee and bagels. It is a gift to be alive, MIAGD!

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2.12.24 – 88mph
Another damp cold morning post Super Bowl, just like the first day. A Tri Q this time but Doula was there in spirit. Pledge and off we mosey.

WebMD led the warmups at nearly the same spot and nearly the same calls. He made sure to call hand release merkins on the damp pavement.

Sherpa lead us to the most confusing deck in all of SCary. BLIMPS were the call but confusion was the game. After what seemed like 5 minutes we were done.

YHC took us out towards the flag for some triple nickels as WebMD played doctor, for real. Back to the flag for some Mary.

style ending with 88’s (100’s). HAND

WGECO 2.15, DDD 2.22, HG25 4.19, SCP 4.27

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Great crew for the Sunday Slowzy, and while there was a stretch of the Regency loop where we started going a little too Fastzy, we managed to get things back under control and keep Captain Jack (mostly) happy (I think). MIAGD.

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AKOA week continues. Beautiful brisk morning at Point Break, with a little bit of something for everyone, Cleaver-ites, Ruckers, and Bootcampers. Problematic numberz (probably because of the nut milk advertised at coffeteria.

Anyways, welcome FNG, so mission and core principles. Off we mosey to the Shake Shack lot with an extra loop for good measure. Warm-ups near an unexpectedly sketchy 4-Runner. At this point a new F3 Game was created, look for it at an AO near you soon, Yogi and Bubba-isms Bingo. Looped around the lot again, down past whole foods (and the sketchy 4-Runner for a second time) and onto the green to find…..

THE WHEEL OF PAIN (core-centric edition)
Spin the wheel, 20 of called exercise OYO followed by a big pickle around Shake Shack. Halfway through we needed to balance some things out so merks and squats to restore said balance. Continue on until all exercises had been called. More squats and merks then back up to the big lot. At this point Kirkland was bemoaning the lack of AKOA exercises, so Astro Jacks, Stiflers Mom, American Sledgehammers, and Cat Scratch Fever were all called. Back to pick up the wheel (which Gravel Mouth bore upon his back) and then to the flag.

HAND
Welcome FNG Ratatouille

HDHH TONIGHT! 1730-1900 at WELD

Praises for Marge heading home from the hospital and prayers that in home PT goes well.

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Lively group this morning for a speedy 5 in great running temps. We found some hills in the Highlands to get us ready for Uwharrie this weekend. Welcome FNG FEMA! Good times as always.
MIAGD.

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Warm Up

Lunge partner loops with 5 burpees

Speed Racers Inflaters with pull up, 5 burpees, 10 jump squats, 15 lbcs, 20 merkins, 25 star jumps with increasing parking lot runs.

Back for a partner bear crawl loop and inch work merkins.

My hands are cold now.

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Negative splits out to Chipotle and back.

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First Q of 2025, and only 15 more to go based on @OTW’s goals for me this year. The moto for today was to finish what you started, so I finished the workout from my last Shepard’s Watch Q that I did with the ABC’s of F3. We only made it through half of my extra large Winkie that day, so my goal today was to make it through the other half. We started with some PT exercises for the warm-up, and then moved into the F3 Fit Games (Thang 2 from my original workout) where you partner up and race other teams by doing a series of exercises at each island across the parking lot. Once that was completed after my expert explanation of how it worked, we then completed the ABC’s of F3 but started at Z and finished on Q. Some questionable exercises were called by the PAX included X Squats and Y Squats, but YHC did not have his phone to verify these so we went with it. We ended with the Quadraphilia which is a real exercise (f3nation.com/post/quadraphilia). Thanks to everyone who has pushed me to Q more. Prayers for OTW with a sick kid, those dealing with the wildfires in California, and French Licks 2.0 who got a concussion. MIAGD!

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