8 Attended EC: 4 manmakers with rucks on; crawl bear up hill with rucks on, 8 hand-release merkins; 15 mountain climbers; crawl bear down

8 MM’s; crawl bear up hill without ruck; 10 HR merkins; stop in middle to do one count 25 mountain climbers

Shuffle to courts

Bear crawl suicides for two courts with rucks on; 15 overhead presses

Introduction: It’s impossible for me to express what the PAX in F3 have meant to me in the past year. I went from a place where I couldn’t complete a push-up, bear crawl, balls to the wall, etc. Now, I’m probably competent. Mostly, the friendships have been the best part of F3.

I have many praises and observances from the past year and here they are in no sequential order:

1. No one does balls to the wall like Brotox; one of my first memories from the past year was Brotox dominating a gambler-style workout at my first workout at #thewall. Today, he was the only guy to hold it for nearly three minutes. What!
2. Brotox, Splashback, and Jinx took two early mornings to walk with me through two of my crazy Q’s.
3. The best mumble chatter (that I witnessed) from the past year — A Thicket BB titled “Pleasuring the Giant.” Also at The Thicket — one PAX claimed that another’s PAX rump looked like “two Christmas hams” followed by an extraordinary claim that during the act of love-making, this PAX also likes for his wife to call him “Mothman” instead of his given F3 name.

1. The sudden and unexpected Pandemic Marathon and Half-marathon. From far behind, I watched Jinx and Zook dominate.
2. Brotox, Grunge, Hal, and I worked out in the lone snow of the winter. It was brutally cold.
3. I began attending The Battering Ram in January and it took me to the next level. Uzi reminds me of Bodhi from the original Point Break. He has become a mentor and a good friend. In those roles, he also challenges me.

7. The TBR guys, as I’m thinking about it now, are really the radical group that performs 2-hour killer workouts every Saturday morning and then will often meet several days a week to connect beyond that. I accidentally challenged TBL prior The Wolf, claiming that TBR was the toughest workout. Guess what, TBR is the toughest! If you don’t believe me, attend.

8. Cauliflower, Catskill, Zook, and Spooky really helped me through the shutdown. I’m grateful to them as both PAX and friends. FYI — is there a workout that Spooky doesn’t dominate? I’m hearing silence.

9. Marky Mark helped me to get a lot of people to AMRAP before it closed. The main reason for closing it had to do with not wanting to compete with the awesome guys at Paradise. One week prior to the shutdown, we set an attendance record for AMRAP.

10. Chum allowed me to tag along with him to The Wolf in Hillsborough. I had a great time and he won the push-up challenge.

11. I’m running out of time. In the past year, I’ve had two abdominal strains, peroneal tendonitis, a wrist injury, knee injury, etc. And I keep coming back.

12. Rambler has taught me about rucking. I suck at it, but I’ve learned a lot from him. Like others, he’s also become a solid friend.

ME: I wanted to highlight a few guys that have inspired me during the past year, so I thought what better way than a workout where a PAX give it their best in various segments.

1. Uzi — shortened Devil’s Mile
2. Brotox — Musical Balls to the Wall (remembering that my first post is when he killed a workout and did something like a 2-minute BTTW); tennis court crawls
3. Catskill — my friend Big Cat chose to do workouts based around my favorites: being a Tennessean, an ETSU and VT graduate (Man Makers; traditional burpees; my favorite seal burpees; and Chuck Norris push-ups (mainly because of wrist injury)
4. Spooky — Tennis-Court Bunny-Hop Burpee Partner Suicides
5. Maraschino — Mary: Mountain Climbers and Send Her to Mars (that’s what we call them at TBR); Heels to Heaven; and a 3-minute plank

Announcements: Chum really wants more merchandise. I’m pretty sure that he will accept black-market deals. Rambler mentioned the creation of a ruck video on YT.

COT: The words got in the way. Appreciation is too small of a word for F3. I also had to offer some apologies. That’s a part of being disciplined and admitting when one is wrong. Ultimately, I hope that F3 spreads throughout North Carolina and the rest of the U.S. and beyond.

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