Goodbye 2014…thanks for everything

10 brave PAX showed up to what they expected to be a balmy morning and got a wind whipping, chilly good time.  YHC decided he would warm them up good, and the chills subsided once the PAX quit chewing the fat around the VSF and got to work at 0530.

Conditions:

43F, 86% RH, overcast, windy at 16mph steady and 24mph gusts…wind chill 35F

Warm Up:

SSH x 20 IC

Hillbillies x 14 IC

Fairy Jack x 20 IC

Chuck Norris (merkins with a closed fist) x 14 OYO

The Thang:

Mosey to short wall at the very top of the parking lot

20 Dips and 14 Derkins – Repeato

To the ball field concession stand for People’s Chair with Arm Circles from Hell to 14 IC

Mosey to Curbs for Wheel of Merkin x 7 at each position (28 total)

Mosey to Bottom of Parking Lot for BLIMPS staying together as a group: 5 Burpees, 10 Lunges, 15 Imperial Walkers, 20 Merkins, 25 Plank Hip Slappers, 30 Squats

Partner up for Dora 300: 100 Carolina Dry Docks, 200 Jump Squats, 300 Russian Twists DC

Plankorama to wait on the six…last pair needed an additional 40 Russian Twists, so the PAX all did them together

Mosey to basketball courts

Modified Team Two Corners: partner back up, knock out 20 reps as a team (P1 might do 11 and P2 might do 9), run halfway around both courts to the far corner, repeat…20 Chuck Norris, 20 Copperhead Squats (down slow on 1-2-3, up on 4), 20 Burpees, 20 Flutters on a 4 count

Circle up for…

8 MOM:

10 PAX in a circle, each Q’d their own exercise for 14 reps IC…included Reach Through, Merkin, LBC, Flutter, Boxcutter, Backscratcher, Air Humper, Dolly, and a couple more YHC can’t remember.

Announcements:

Thanks for spending the last Tankyard of 2014 with YHC.  It was an honor to lead each one of you.  2014 has been a special year for me, and F3 has been no small part of that.  The 1st F is great, but there’s no way I would still be posting without the 2nd F.  The camaraderie, fellowship, accountability, encouragement, pushing, ass-chewing, and the like from all my new buds out here is something hard for a lot of men to come by.  I’m thankful I’ve got it in each one of yall.  Let’s do a better job of making this available to our friends, neighbors, and coworkers who could sure use the same things.

WE NEED MORE Qs!  Especially in these winter months, when a lot of the regulars have dropped off to hang at the fern, we need you to step up.  Make it a resolution.  But make it happen in January.  WahWah, Beavis, Rusty…I’m talking to yall.  If you’ve been coming for a couple months, you can make it happen.

New Years Day Convergence Thursday, January 1 at 0700 at the Peace Center…Tankyard will be meeting there.

Drifter 6k trail race at Conestee on 2/7 – quickly becoming the SwampRabbit CSAUP event…got folks coming from CLT and COLA.  $10 F3 discount takes it to $20 and apparently they give a lot more swag than that.  Check the preblast.

COT:

Continued prayers for Amy Hunter and family…emergency procedure to prevent stroke Sunday did not go as planned.

Clapper and family as they are in China in 3 weeks to adopt their daughter

Seal’s kid getting over RSV, as well as other PAX with sick family

BOM