There were two others present at some point during the workout but not listed in the pax list.

First, YHC is fairly certain that Greyhound was not rucking alone but the only rucker to join COT.  So a mysterious rucker is missing.

Second, we had an FNG with a soft ‘F’.  NG was angry, but understandably.  A Torance resident who overheard the excitement of this convergence for a great QvQ was not as excited as the pax…  So he came over to let us know.  2-3 pax spoke to him, perhaps explained and apologized, then the NG left.  The real question is did anyone EH him????????

So for this QvQ which included 30 pax and 1-2 ruckers, Hippie and YHC would battle it out.  A couple tenured F3 “RESPECTS” went head to head, toe to toe.  And it was as glorious as that reads.

YHC would select the AO and Hippie would select to Q first.  He stayed exactly on time and turned the Q over to YHC at exactly 5:52:30.  Well done, my  co-Q.  

YHC noted that my opponent’s weinke was considerably smaller than mine…  and while YHC did attempt to see it, despite squinting looking over from beside Hippie, his weinke was barely visible, so YHC cannot reference it to document his 22.5 minutes in this BB.  If memory serves, Hippie’s Q was quick and determined as he called exercise after exercise, with cadence all the way.  For warm-o-rama Hippie would do a few rounds of the same exercises, building the rep count with each round.  This seemed to confuse some of the pax but certainly warmed us up.  He then added numerous reps of merkins, squats, mountain climbers, plank-jacks and so much more!  A relentless beatdown until he wisely paused for a few mobility moments.  Clever…..  a pax pleaser.

After Hippie’s 22.5 minutes and the (soft F)NG visitor and the police…  Yeah – that all happened…  it was YHC’s turn.

We’d begin with a few moments of mobility as well (was on YHC’s pre-printed weinke YHC promises).  Then instructions would be given.  YHC would divide the pax into 10 groups of 3 and we’d head over to the pull-up bars and blocks for 3 rounds of exercise and awkwardness.

Round 1 (#s below are pax 1, 2 and 3):

1. Block Curls AMRAP
2. Pull-ups AMRAP
3. Lap around just one island.

When pax 3 returns, he moves to the block and pax 1 moves to the pull-up bar, pax 2 goes for the run.  The runner is the timer.

When all 3 pax have completed the full round, all 3 pax would do glute bridge thrusters until ALL other groups were finished.

Round 2:

1. Block Skull Crushers AMRAP
2. Chin-ups AMRAP
3. Lap

Same cadence, timing, etc as round 1.  This time when the group is done with the full round, they would do pickle pounders until all other groups finished.

Round 3:

1. Block Lawn Mowers switching arms when your partner was 1/2 way around the island. AMRAP
2. Recovery Bar Hang
3. Lap

Same again, but for the final exercise while waiting for all groups to finish, the pax would combine rounds 1 and 2 by doin 3 pickle pounders, flip over for 3 GB thrusters, flip over for pickle pounders, flip again, etc.

All 3 rounds were completed then we shifted over a few spaces where all the pax could see YHC’s impressive big, long, thick, black…  rope out for their enjoyment.  Now time for MWAR (Mary With A Rope).

Most know how this goes.  YHC called all the Mary exercises while pax took turns on the rope for 30 seconds (tabata w/ low volume horn was on the speaker).  Didn’t get through but about 1/3 of the 30 pax but all pax got in some quality Mary.

Also, instructions at the beginning included learning 1 interesting/unique factoid about your partners during the workout, then hold it for later.  Idea was we would have partners announce the fun fact when someone from their group took their turn on the rope.  With the pax attempting to keep the volume down, this was difficult to communicate but we gave it a shot and some interesting intel was indeed shared.  YHC recommends the comments be used to share what they learned about their pax partners.  

The Moleskine:

YHC somehow edged out Hippie for the dub and thus the pax will have to endure more ridiculouslness from FHC next week.

Hot Wax and Hippie were in YHC’s group.  What I learned about them:  Hippie is a true politician and like a good politician his family is huge.  He is one of 9 brothers and sisters I believe.  Hot Wax has a handful of kids and thus drives the XL 12 passenger van (you’ve seen it) so when he’s driving he could take Hippie and all Hippie’s brothers and sisters with him – road trip!

When it was BEP’s turn on the rope, from what I could hear or comprehend, BEP was a fluffer for soft porn in college.

Serious notes: 

Prayers for Ultraman’s mom, Cherry Bomb’s friend whose friend passed unexpectedly last week, Crab Legs and his family, my mother and many, many more friends and loved ones who need God’s grace, love and our support.

F3 is a PHENOMENAL organization and does more for each other and our families and communities than I could ever put into words.  With that said, we’ve now received complaints about noise or damage at AOs or parking, etc – I’m aware of at least 4 AOs now (MMM, The Wilderness/Fartlek, Hollywood and now Samson).  Let’s be aware of the communities we post in.  These communities are treasures and we are fortunate to be able to use them.  Let’s not risk F3’s reputation in the community in any way.

Aye.