O.G. or Original Gangsta was the theme at TBH this month and YHC had the privilege to take the anchor position. DOI, ETE, and Link had the Q prior and I felt like those were big shoes to live up to. Link and I started almost at the same time at the pre-Thicket workouts. DOI was the first PAX member that I met and befriended outside of BC and has been a great friend and mentor to me, wether he knows it or not. ETE has just straight out been a stud and always someone I look forward to rucking, hanging or working out with.

Special thanks to O.G. Adolphus for starting all this nonsense and making all of us a part of this journey. He has become a good friend and always someone who’s opinion, values and morals I admire.

A very special thanks to MM who EHd YHC. We spent many hours on Txt, then Slack talking BC F3 strategy, when to start AOs and how to EH more men, 2ndF and 3rdF ideas. He is a good brake petal to my gas petal and I think we’ve made a really good team over the last 3 years.

What can we say about the BC F3 group other than it’s amazing that it has grown from 4 dudes meeting in a park driveway every Monday morning to 6 AOs a week, tons of 2ndF opportunities, 3rdF outings, BBQs, extra 1stF activities and probably too many shirtless dudes showing off their guns at the pool. None of this is possible without all the men who have stepped up and contributed and I know there will be no slowing this down anytime soon. You all are great and BC is better for it.

Fun Fact: Link was named Trump at first when we all thought it was funny. However, the real O.G. Adolphus, decided that if the election swung in a certain way, we would be renaming Trump. Hence Trump becomes Link.

Let’s Kick it!

Warm Up
SSH x101 (bonus: story about how coco made me do these at my first Bastille, it was miserable)
5 burpees OYO
IW x10 (bonus: story about MM introducing me to this)
5 burpees OYO
Good Mornings
5 burpees OYO
merkins x20
5 burpees OYO
squats x25
5 burpees OYO
merkins x20
5 burpees OYO
squats x 25
5 burpees OYO

Kick It
Bear crawl across field
5 burpees OYO
Run Lap around traffic circle
Crawl Bear back across field
5 burpees OYO
Run Lap around traffic circle

Lunge Walk field – forward
5 burpees OYO
Run Lap around traffic circle
Lunge Walk Field – backwards
5 burpees OYO
Run Lap around traffic circle

Crab Walk field – forward
5 burpees OYO
Run Lap around traffic circle
Walk Crab filed
5 burpees OYO
Run Lap around traffic circle

Find a spot on the wall
Step ups – 10 each leg
5 burpees OYO
Derkins x30
5 burpees OYO

Cool Down
LBC
Peter Parker – (I hated these the first time MM made me do them)
Hammies
5 burpees OYO

Announcements
1) There’s a Vespa!
2) BC Grill & Chill v2.0 coming this fall. We need volunteers to cook. $5 a family

BOM
YHC started F3 in an unofficial way. Marky Mark EH’d me and Fat Cat at the ML&S. I declined at first but Fat Cat joined MM. It wasn’t long before I felt the pressure from Fat Cat to join them in their unofficial, pre-Thicket workouts on Monday mornings at the park across from Woods. It was dark, it was cold and it was miserable. Another PAX member named Goat Cheese joined us and we spent weeks out there every Monday morning taking turns leading the group. I thought of it as a workout at first until I realized I was looking forward to getting up those Monday mornings to see the guys. Rudy was the first official QIC for me and I remember that F3 really didn’t click until I heard his BOM and then it made sense. He thanked us for letting him kick the shit out of us and told us to be better men. We’re not really here to get a beach body, we’re here to make connections, friends, and have the men in our lives to give us support. F3 has been way more than a workout group for many of us, it just so happens that you get in shape at the same time. It was an honor to make you all suffer this morning. Go out today and be the best Father, husband, partner, brother, son, uncle and crazy ex – room mate or whatever you are in your community. Till the next time we say goodbye in the Gloom, AYE!

Moleskin
– I.C.E will be bringing the Triple Lindy to an AO near you in the near future
– Zook threatens YHC with a Tonya Harding
– Duplo announces there’s a Vespa as a man on a Vespa drives by during announcements
– Boyardee asks for volunteers to cook, we all volunteer Stubbs