Burpee Blast

 Posted on August 8, 2023  |  3 minutes  |  491 words  |  

Preamble The title of this backblast has a double entendre given that, yes, we did a lot of burpees, but also because we had a blast doing them. The morning started swimmingly with a nice (but sadly, solo) EC run on the back streets of DTC, dodging downed branches and fencing. Back at the posted start and after a wipedown on McCants’ freshly laundered shirt, 6 gathered for what would be a smallish workout. [Read More]
callahan  canary  dink  ma-bell  mccants  purchase-order  schroeder  snots 

F3 Carpex 6th Annual CSAUP, The Odyssey

 Posted on October 31, 2022  |  4 minutes  |  688 words  |  

93 PAX and 2.0’s descended on Downtown Cary for the 6th annual CARPEX Odyssey. Special thanks to Bogo and Badlands for doing the heavy lifting on the Q for this event, and to PetSounds for crushing the SAG Q and post-race 2nd F. Also thanks to all of the SAG support volunteers, Site Q’s, shirt designers, and inspirational musical selections. On to the workout…Rooney kicked us off with an opening prayer and then handed it off to Badlands for the warmup at the home of BO. [Read More]
16-steves  amway  badlands  banjo-nomo  bartman  bean-counter  big-red  biner  bogo  bolton-the-hill  bronx-bomber  build-a-bear  bumper-sticker  burt-r  cauliflower  cheap-trick  chicken-little  chiquita-banana  chop-block  claven  clementine  clockwork  coco-crisp  coney  dadbod  decal  disco-duck  doggy-paddle  earhart  franklin  fruit-of  geek-squad  greenbow  gump  hamm  happy-gilmore  hi-liter  high-school-musical-hsm  hobbit  hoppinjohn  horatio  i-pity-the-fool  ic-light  kidney-stone  kilmer  kwik-stop  ldb-lil-drummer-boy  liverpool  lucky-charms-boy-band  ma-bell  magnolia  mr-safety  old-maid  one-direction  overflow  parker  pet-sounds  pigeon  pivot  poncherello-2  pongo  press-2  prodigal  red-ryder  riptide  rooney  saban  schlitz  schroeder  screws  skipper  slugger  smokey  sour-mash  squatter  steaks  stolen-valor  stretch  sunshine  texas-ranger  theismann  trike  triple-lindy  two-factor  verde  viewmaster 

Decades Day 3: FOD 60's

 Posted on March 13, 2022  |  2 minutes  |  420 words  |  

YHC’s anniversary tour continues at Field of Dreams. Theme today is ‘60’s. Fantastic playlist in queue plus this is usually a well-attended AO, so especially excited for this one and arrived 30 min early to reacquaint myself to the site. Overflow had his earbuds in expecting a solo EC - he ended up joining YHC along with Sunshine and PBX for a couple miles - great mumblechatter as to be expected with 75% Steves. [Read More]
badlands  bronx-bomber  cadence  dirty-bomb  ezekiel  franklin  garden-nomad  geek-squad  goose  high-school-musical  one-four  overflow  pbx  pom-pom  schroeder  sunshine  term-paper  trike 

Decades Day 2: Measure Twice 50's

 Posted on March 10, 2022  |  3 minutes  |  522 words  |  

Day Two – and the first “official” AO day. As a new site Q for Measure Twice, felt like a perfect setting to continue the week. The site moved from the original Carpenter Park location (hence the AO name) to Northwest Park, technically in Morrisville. This is primarily due to access to RTP Trails, which normally would have fallen on this day. After some pre-blasting to the regulars to ensure no mutiny, YHC decided to stick to the regular paved loop. [Read More]
banjo  geek-squad  ma-bell  pierogi  pivot  schroeder  sky-blue  torpedo 

Decades Day 1: Sunday Slowzy 20's/30's

 Posted on March 8, 2022  |  3 minutes  |  433 words  |  

YHC first posted at F3 on March 6 2020 at Gran Torino, EH’d by good buddy Torpedo. Fast forward to 2022 as mask mandates are easing and the weather is getting warmer, it felt like a perfect time to challenge myself and Q all week. The idea of a “Decades” music themed series of workouts has been in my mind for awhile, so I grabbed slots on each day. Inspired by the “8 pack” box in the Carpex Challenge, I reached out to Sooey for interest in a “Super Slowzy” to ease into the week. [Read More]
deuce  geek-squad  schroeder  sooey 

Dora Got Nothing on Jeff 1-2-3-4

 Posted on February 23, 2022  |  3 minutes  |  442 words  |  

Preamble Per usual, planning the Q started sometime after dinner and finalized before going to bed. YHC drifted off to a sound sleep with a smile my face. The smile continued as I woke up (I mean, at my age every day above ground is a blessed one), through my morning deuce/wordle/stretching routine, and on the drive to Bond Park. 40 seconds prior to launch, YHC flawlessly recited and enunciated the F3 Mission. [Read More]
bartman  burt  chipper  coney  cosmic  deuce  happy-gilmore  hi-liter  hot-spot  kwik-stop  loom  ollie  open-concept  pivot  sabre  schroeder  shoe-horn  sky-blue  snots  sooey  suck-up  the-commish  wkrp  yeah-baby 

3 (Years) Is The Magic Number

 Posted on January 7, 2022  |  2 minutes  |  413 words  |  

Realizing that 2021 was coming to an end pretty quickly and knowing that my anniversary of joining F3 was in January, I grabbed the Q slot back in late Oct to celebrate it as best I can. Little did I know how important this Q would be… A quick disclaimer was made and with no fngs in attendnace, we started with the pledge. Then we mozied towards the parking lot up the road. [Read More]
blowout  burt  callahan  coney  cosmic  foie-gras  loom  press-on  schroeder  sosa  the-commish  torpedo 

Grand plans... but no Ark

 Posted on January 4, 2022  |  1 minutes  |  150 words  |  

Measure Twice. Outside of DZ, my most frequented - and most Qed - AO in 2021. So might as well keep that distinction going in 2022! Oh the plans I had this morning. The running … the trails … the hills … not to mention the yoga! Oh the yoga! The PAX were going to be beaten down, broken up and then yoga-glued back together in ways the rest of the AOs could only dream of. [Read More]
banjo  one-direction  pierogi  pivot  schroeder  torpedo 

Back of the bus

 Posted on October 8, 2021  |  2 minutes  |  363 words  |  

Q-school time fellas. Showed up early enough to get the bricks out of the back. But not so early as to have to do it alone. Thanks Schroeder for the help. Having sat through Ma’s Q-school @ FOD earlier in the week, knew the focus today was going to be on putting things into practice. A group of eight for the main event - with a fly-through from HK - made it all just about perfect. [Read More]
ausfahrt  billy  foie-gras  hello-kitty  parker  pierogi  schroeder  vegemite  www 

'Sup dawg, 'Sup J.Lo, and other broga poses ICYMI

 Posted on September 20, 2021  |  5 minutes  |  1059 words  |  

While running with the Travelling Circus, Pivot was saying how he hadn’t needed to Q-beg* the entire summer because BRR had brought out the inner Yogi in each of us. YHC thought we can’t let this momentum slip away; after all, there are numerous other races to be run†, not to mention slightly less running intensives adventures such as our very own CSAUP, The Odyssey coming up in a few short weeks! [Read More]
clockwork  flip-flop-3  parker  peaches  pivot  schroeder  sky-blue  suck-up  sunshine  torpedo