“Imitation is the most sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.”

22 PAX (2 FNGs) showed up at The Thicket this morning for a labor day beat down. This morning’s theme would be a play on the game “Who am I” in which YHC would lead the PAX in an exercise which YHC stole from another PAXs standard repertoire. At the end of each exercise, the PAX would then guess which fellow PAX that came from. Guess correctly, 2 celebration burpees, guess wrong, 5 penalty burpees.

WARM-UP

• Started with an easy one. Standing Arm circles of death. 10 forward, 10 reverse — dead give away for Duplo (2 celebration burpees)
• Ohio State Trivia. The buckeyes have played the Gators in 2 national championship games in 2 sports. Unfortunately they have lost both which coincidentally means Florida won both of those National Championships!! SSH IC for the point differential in those games.  36 total — Mumbles (2 celebration burpees) 41-14 in football. 84-75 in basketball for those interested.
• Goofball; IC x 20 — Johnboy (2 celebration burpees)
• Clock Merkins; 3 at each clock position. 39 total — Nescafe (2 celebration burpees)
• Mosey military style around parking lot with YHC barking out a tune (see below for lyrics — Nice Rhymes, Nice Rhymes) — Bright Idea (2 celebration burpees)
• Bear Crawl Mosey to field — Hickory (2 celebration burpees)

THE THANG

• A please and thank you merkin ladder from sideline to sideline, starting at 10 down to 1, sprint across field in between. Don’t forget to be cordial and as my dad and grandmother always said “Handsome is and Handsome does”.  — Mothman (2 celebration burpees)
• Line up on end line. Sprint all you got 75% of field, once there, pull a hammy, tear an ACL, twist ankle, whatever it takes but hop on one foot for remaining part of field, Same thing back but switch feet. Repeat X 2 — RG3 (5 penalty burpees) <– I guess i was only one at big house that day. Glad your healthy and back out with us brother!!
• Mosey to gazebo by buses and split into 2 groups. Group outside gazebo on curb for explosive curbkins. Group inside for explosive dips. Both X 20. Idea here is hands go in air on the up, modify as necessary — Grunge (2 celebration burpees)
• Mosey to parking lot and split into 3 lines. Crawl bear from one end of parking lot to as far as you can go to other end. When worn out, switch to crab walk to finish it off — ALL CHURHAM F3 PAX (2 celebration burpees) <– great answer

MARY

• LBCs as fast as I could count X 15– Griswold (2 celebration burpees)
• Peter Parker X 12 — Marky Mark (2 celebration burpees)
• Long Slow Flutters Kicks X 15 — Rambler (2 celebration burpees)
• Ring of Fire Plank; 8 count for each PAX — Boyardee (2 celebration burpees)

Announcements

• Awesome to see our brother Nitro out in the gloom this morning!! Happy Birthday Nitro.
• BC Picnic this Saturday
• Blue Ridge Relay this Friday. Keep fellow F3 brothers in thoughts and Prayers
• Zook’s running series for kids starts at end of month
• Rambler, Aldophus, Sweats doing Go Ruck HTL in NYC this Friday
• Fannie Mae holding cornhole tourney this Sunday the 9th at The MOD in downtown Pittsboro. Put on to help support his son who has type I diabetes.
• 9/11 stair climb at keenan
• 9/7 convergence at the wall. No #themustang that day

BOM

So fellas, when people reference the quote I gave today, they rarely say the whole thing. “that mediocrity can pay to greatness” is always left out for one reason or another. As men though, I think we can all agree that mediocrity is something that we have, are, or will wrestle with at some point in our lives. However, I think its important to remember that as men we are also all truly great. Don’t ever forget that. No matter where you are in life, someone is looking up to and I want to thank you guys for helping me realize and understand that fact. Till next time in the gloom. Aye!

Moleskin

• At one point Hickory either cried out for his mom or just said hey, that’s my mom’s car. I took it as the former and as a tribute to the workout.
• If I didn’t get one of your exercises this morning it means your repertoire is spectacular or you just need to Q more. Lots of opportunities out there.
• These are so bad but hey, I tried

Left, Left, Left, Right, Left

Good Morning Men of Churham F3

My Name is Zook and I’m your YHC

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Sunnyside is the one made for 2.0’s

The Rabbit, Basecamp, and AMRAP are three

Those are also sites you probably wont see me

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