After almost a full year of getting the AO name wrong (FTK vs FKT), YHC was made to learn the hard way by DonHo. The weather held out and turned out to way better than expected. A Pit Stop Q at the toughest running workout on the books is a tall ask, but here’s what we did.

600m Parking Lot Lap Warm-up

The Thangs:

King Of The Hill – The winning pax from the previous round who outlasted everyone else in the given exercise gets to pick the next exercise to see if they can go faster/more/longer than the rest of herd. Any exercise could be chosen, beat the pax and wear the crown.

After winning the crown, a hot lap (600m) of the parking lot was the speed work for the day and gave the winner a solid 90 seconds to decide what the next “hill” was. We did 10x600m speed intervals with DonHo Popcorn setting the pace for most of them at ~7:00 pace

We started with Merkins and made it up to about 40 or 50 unbroken in cadence before most collapsed and Popcorn took the crown. After that it was mostly a blur for order, but inclusive of WW2s, first to 15 burpees, plank, SSH, a speed lap, squats, and probably something else too. The rest of the pax were fast and strong, with AMPM, SwampFox, DonHo, and Popcorn claiming victories across the board. I think Jobe, Cherry Bomb, and Heely also captured a round in there too Popcorn won literally every round.

Finally we had a Loser Walks sprint challenge. Pax line up and sprint ~25 yards in the parking lot, loser has to do burpees and low flutter with Enron (Henry was not up for sprinting this morning). One by one they all fell until it was Jobe, Cherry Bomb, Swamp Fox, and Popcorn remaining. I hear there is a rematch in the works for the xmas party parking lot!

A final lap up the hill and around Jimmy Johns sealed the deal right on time.

Feeding Them Kitties:

A true honor to lead the premier “Run With Pain Stations” AO and with some of the strongest men F3 LKN has to offer. Thank you all for the opportunity and keeping me honest out there.

Crocs was 12 hours off a mild illness and down a pint of blood. Still kept up and kept everyone pushing. Huge props and a reminder to donate this holiday season!

Heely is awesome; if I was faster, I would spend way more time with that guy. So great to see you out there.

Cherry Bomb, Jobe, and AM-PM were in top form this morning and I question if they even broke much of a sweat on this one. Pushing the pax and making sure form was not going to the wayside in the name of the king.

Enron and Slingshot pushed hard and I always appreciate them making sure the 6 (YHC) isn’t too far behind. Super glad Henry was able to join us this morning too.

SwampFox might have been sick or recovering from illness as well, but you’d never know with the way he crushes every single rep & step. I would say get well soon, but I don’t know that F3 is ready for him at full power…

DonHo made sure we put down at least 3.5 miles on the morning and pushed the pace on every lap, plus his speed burpees are not to be trifled with.

Popcorn won every single KotH, every lap, and was king every time without question. He is truly a legend walking amongst mere mortals. A human dynamo – has the best running form, kept me laughing the whole morning. So glad he was out this morning to keep it fun despite the pain and cold.

EDIT: Text in red is Popcorn editing this post for accuracy since Pit Stop forgot.