Piranha 3rd anniversary

October 19, 2021

WHEN: 10/19/2021
QIC: WeedNFeed
PAX: Knope, Count Chocula, Red Tape, Max Power, Bellhop, Floyd, Cosmo, Loonie, Cardiac

10 PAX met on this chilly October morning in celebration of Scapula’s 3rd anniversary among the PAX. And, incidentally, to acknowledge the 3rd anniversary of The Piranha’s official founding! It’s been amazing to see the leadership of so many guys who stepped up and made the Piranha a community, in a way that Brick and I did not foresee and could not have created on our own. To celebrate that community, we suffered together in true F3 fashion.

Warm up

Because we’re three years older, we went through three times the warmup of that first workout.

First round:

  • 30 SSH IC
  • 10 arm circles forward then 10 more reversed, IC
  • 10 WMH IC
  • 10 imperial walkers IC
  • 1 filbert lap mosey, sprinting the ballards

Second round:

  • 20 SSH IC
  • 10 overhead claps, IC
  • 10 harvesters IC
  • 10 hillbillies IC
  • 1 filbert lap mosey, sprinting the ballards

Third and final round:

  • 20 SSH IC
  • 10 seal claps, IC
  • 10 good mornings IC
  • 10 mountain climbers IC
  • 1 filbert lap mosey, sprinting the ballards

The Thang

Brought back an old “favorite”, the Theadore Roosevelt. We each took turns reading a selection from a Roosevelt speech “Citizenship in a Republic” known as the “Man in the Arena”. While each PAX read in turn, we alternated between BOPOs and 12-count burpees, OYO. What we lacked in uniformity of procedure and form, we made up for in “dust and sweat.”

Next, we performed 11’s with blocks. Starting at one light post in the big parking lot, we did 10 transfer merkins, then carried the blocks overhead to the next light post and performed a block swing. We did that back and forth until we’d flipped to 1 transfer merkin and 10 swings. And that used up all our time!

CoT

YHC acknowledged the amazing community of men we enjoy here. Thanks to the leaders who have injected energy and vision, and the PAX who constantly bring enthusiasm and mumble chatter. Let’s reach out to the guys we haven’t seen for a while, and always be EHing the guys who don’t know what they’re missing.

Prayers for Knope’s family friends, the McCoy’s; a young family going through some serious medical challenges.

The Bull is right around the corner. Don’t wear your shirts until the event, but “totally be that guy that wears the concert shirt to the concert.”