Every year on the Ides of March, YHC has the distinct honor to celebrate the anniversary of his first F3 post. Today on the 6th installment I was honored once again to do so with my F3 Carpex brothers.
We gathered outside the open gates* of Apex Community Park, home of A-Team, and noted the peak spring gloom, having endured a full 26 hours of Daylight Savings Time. 3/4ths of the ShieldRuck was on hand, one in a Cubs jersey #oversight. One ruck was present, and it was not on Burt’s back.
At the appointed time, plus a few seconds of mild cursing at the GPS, we moseyed into the park, through the open gates*, and meandered our way to a parking lot to warm up. Not the exact spot I’d have chosen, as said spot was taped off like a giant crime scene – but most likely just a would-be construction zone.
Warm-up
- SSH x20 IC
- Calf stretch
- Merkin x15 in honor of Ma Bell who Q’d my first post. The PAX should’ve guessed at this point that this was not to be a replica Q, as we’d have done more merkins.
- MC x15 IC
- Good Morning x5 SLOOOOOWWW #cantHaveAGreatDay
- Bartmarmorama – Fazio forward, reverse, overhead clap, seal clap, Moroccan nightclub
Thang 1
Back to the front parking lot with ample pickle, for The Beast. That’s right, six stops, six reps each, six rounds:
- Hand-release merkin
- V-up
- Lunge (L/R=1)
- CDD
- LBC (4-count)
- Sumo squat
Various squat/plank/LBC while the six catches up.
Mosey back to the back lot near where the flag used to be planted*.
Thang 2
Route 66. First light pole, 1 burpee. Second light pole, 2 burpees, up to 11. A little gaussian arithmetic leads you to 66 total reps.
6MOM
Well, maybe not 6 minutes, more like 2 minutes, 2/3rds of which was after the 45-minute buzzer. Flutter kicks IC x36, or you could look at it like 72 up/down, one for every F3 month.
NMM
There was some discussion about the flag location (*), with at least two Carpex old-timers pining for the days when the flag was planted in the park, and the outside-the-gates location was used only as a backup. It added a certain degree of uncertainty to the whole affair, which certain old-timers think adds to the experience. Will it rain? (probably.) Will we have to park on the road? (possibly.) Will 75% be there today? (those were the days…)
We’ll see if the ramblings of a couple of old-timers amount to much in the way of IMPACT.