7/18 will be YHC’s 10th F3 anny but I’ll be DR and The Wilderness is where it all started for me – so today would be the day to relive that first post 10 yrs ago .

10 pax plus YHC cut through the heat and humidity to hear and tell the story .

Special t-claps to BEP (EHed me) and Jorel (Q’d my first workout) for joining me in the gloom today 

Ponch was waiting in the squad car with a future FNG. They observed the warm-o-rama then went over to scare/observe the pax at Samson  

So here’s how it went 10 years ago and again today (and just about every year in July but I’m sure I’ve missed it a few times.

Mosey up Hugh Torance, high knees, butt kickers and karaoke til we reach the traffic circle. Shhhhh – let’s move warm-o-rama away from…

Mosey to where Friday once lived (when he also once did F3).  Corner of da beach.

Warm-o-rama. (YHC audibled and held this at the launch since Ponch and future FNG were there)

SSHs x 15

Mtn climbers x 15

Windmill x 20

IST x 15

Long snappers (called something different 10 yrs ago) x 15

4 corners of da beach:

1 – Carolina Dry Docks 15

2 – Merkins 15

3 – Freddy Mercury’s 15

4 – Burpees 5

Plank and wait for pax.

REPEATO!

Form 2 lines for an Indian Run. “As far as you can go for 2 laps.”

Kumquat and Burner led the two lines 10 years ago.

Ok that was a mess, so “everyone to a different line this time.”  Yeah – Jorel said that too 10 yrs ago.

“Not enough bikinis at the beach, let’s go home.”

Stop at “the giant yarn ball” (small grassy field by Macbeth).

Shoulder touch merkins x 16 (a Jorel mishap of miscount 10 yrs ago).

Squats x 15

Mosey to Queens Corner

Curb kickers x20

Decline merkins x15

Freddy Mercury’s x20

The W x15

Mosey up the street and behind the tennis courts.

Pick up a friend.

High, low and full curls x10

Rotate 4 to the right.

Shoulder press x 10

Finished with 30 seconds to spare so let’s head over to the flag and music (playlist of Top 10 songs of July 18, 2013).

Moleskine:

”What do a vasectomy and a Christmas tree have in common? The balls are just for decoration”  Thanks for that, Jorel. He shared the question at the workout in 2013 but told the pax they’d have to read the backblast to get the answer. I of course had no idea what a backblast was that day…

Reminders – EHs matter. BEP was successful with me 10 years ago. But he also joined me for the workout, talked me through it, encouraged me and met me again a week later.

And Jorel’s workout. My first. If I hadn’t loved it I might not have returned. Qs: out out a PB and plan your workout. Never know who might show up in the gloom.

And my nickname the next week. It can be fun to be funny but consider if a mean nickname will encourage a new pax to come back or not. It’s probably not worth it to just hand out a name you think is funny…

F3 has done so much for me and those around me and I’m proud to say I’ve EHed many men since, some of whom have experienced the love, support, fitness, beers, bourbon, injuries, tears, CSAUPs and brotherhood that I’ve experienced for 10 years now.

F3 is special and we all want to share it.

Aye.