9 pax awoke from their slumber and Fury-ously pushed their limits.

The 5th episode of The Fury happened to be my first Q at F3Greenwood’s newest AO.  YHC wanted to mix it up a little and explore some of its unused assets to bring focus to the mornings pain.  Here’s how it went down…….

Disclaimer – This was done in the driving lot or the parking way (explanation below) just prior to Go Time.

Circle up and count off by 3’s.  Split into teams based on the number you counted.  YHC was apart of Team 3.  Mosey to the pull up bars for some dead hang pull ups.  Minimum reps at maximum form was the treatment.  Then mosey to the (too wide) dip bars for a quadruple helping of what was just previously served.  “Oh Yeah, Don’t forget a coupon while you’re over there.”  1 coupon was prescribed for each team.  Said coupon was to travel and deliver pain to each team until being returned at the end of the wo.

Pull Ups x3(minimum reps required)

Dips x4(amt of Pull Ups performed)   <— That there is math speak!

Once all teams had paid the piper on the parallel bars, it was time to mosey to the front field adjacent to Laurel.  Here there were two shiny old road cones awaiting our arrival.  (Which by the way, YHC forgot to grab them before leaving this morning!)  “Drop the coupons by the 1st cone and find some level ground for our warm up.”

Warm Up

SSH IC x100 x61 (modification needed to prevent mutiny)

Merkins IC x20 (snail’s pace)

Ab Medley: Flutter Kicks, Reverse Crunches, Hello Dollies, Leg Raises  IC x60 ( a few rests while at 6″ were called so the pax could warm their belly’s up)

Merkins IC x15 (snail’s pace)

The THANG

Cumulative Work

A) Squat Thrusts w/coupon x200

B) Bear Crawl from 1st cone up the hill to the sidewalk.  Turn around and back down, but this time 10 Merkins w/hands at the bottom of the hill (almost vertical Derkin).  Then BC back to 1st cone.  Lunges to 2nd cone, and finally karaoke back to cone 1.  YHC modified the wo due to time after all pax were given a chance at the Bear Crawls.

C) Jungle Boy Squats (Busy Work)

Mosey to the Dog Park Gazebo

A) Tricep Extensions w/coupon on the bench x50 (each pax)

B) Reverse Crunches or Hello Dollies ( pick your poison for the busy work)

Mosey to __?___  (This mysterious place of pain got the chop due to Grandfather Time being too darned persistent!!)

Mosey up the driving lot or the parking way to the locked gate which was mysteriously opened. (?What the?)  Then mosey to the pull up bars.  “Put your coupons back……No wait, Don’t put your coupons back.”  (That’s the decision maker failing to be decisive.)

Final hate was distributed as follows:

A) Pull Ups x3 (Dead hang, minimum of 3)  Then mosey to the Dip bar for 4 times the fun each pax just had with the pull ups.

B) BabyBluepon V Planks       Each of the other two team members had to hold this pose of monstrous evil for as long as humanly possible with as little rest between for necessary breaks.  Once the 1st team member is back, he gets the Bluepon V Planks, 1 team member gets the pull ups and dip routine, and the other team member flailing in pain gets to transition to Big Boy Situps w/coupon.  Rinse and Repeat until all team members are ready for hospitalization.  Then return the coupons and mosey to the flag for COT.

COT

Counterama, Namearama was done with heavy breaths from all

Announcements:

F3 is 5 (bring your M, not your 2.0’s!), The Assault 3/12 (Both normal boot camps will NOT be open, ONLY Shipyard – Same Bat Time, Same Bat Channel), Whetstone 4/2 (Post @Epicenter then Coffeeteria @Howard’s for Whetstone Info), Connie Maxwell Mud Run 4/9, USMC Mud Run 4/30, Relay4Life 5/6 (Cobains to Smokey for taking the lead and signing up!  If ur not signed up ur marked for zingers and pain!), Connie Maxwell F3 Kids Campout 5/20-21

Prayer Requests

Many many prayers needed.  Man up pray for someone!

Naked Moleskin

• YHC was the first to arrive and backed smartly up the drive way and stopped just in front of the fence.  When Refugee pulled up he parked on the opposite side of the driveway.  Juggernaut followed Refugee and asked if I would pull away from the fence so that “the guy” can open it when he gets here.  This erupted into a full blown parking evolution as other pax drove up and added to the traffic jam.  Finally under Jug’s astute direction we were able to safely stage our vehicles driving lot just prior to Go Time.
• Uncle Buck and Slow Pitch both decided to take the scenic route by way of jogging (or was it running?).  This added to the already charged energy that the pax brought with them.
• There was some real pain distributed during the ab medley.  The pax were tested and came through better for it.  With so much fun being had, YHC believes that this will become a staple for all of his future Q’s.
• There was some dissension in the ranks about what the cumulative work in the field was supposed to be called.  Squat Thrusts w/coupon?  Thrusters?  Even though demonstration showed an exercise in pain that all present was familiar with.  Afterwards, YHC referred to the Lexicon/Exicon to determine what actual nomenclature should be used.  To my surprise neither of the terms above are present.  There’s a free coffee tomorrow to the first pax that can determine the actual name of this exercise according to the above listed documents.  $$$
• YHC and his 2.0 scoped out the sight last night and tested the hills for feasibility with the Bear Crawl.  However, this morning Mother Nature threw in a curve ball by adding copious amounts of dew to slicken the hills enough to provide several spinouts and a sledding Fabio.
• During the mosey’s with the coupons, there was lots of comms between teams about pass offs and path obstructions.  Who knew carrying around oversized objects could deliver such team building?
• While under the Gazebo completing the triceps extensions (deliberately added for our fearless Nan’tan) it was stated, “We’re at 55!”  Laughter immediately erupted by all because the task was for each pax to make 50 reps, not the team.

In the end, YHC had to cut short what certainly would have been an epic excursion due to none other than time.  Underestimating the length an exercise takes is a far cry better than not having enough prepared, but YHC can’t help but feel that we left some undelivered pain out there amidst Fury Rd.  It is an easy day for a Q when pax post ready to be abused.  I truly enjoyed trying to push these men past their limits this morning.  Work was done!

JKS – Alpo

RIP George Kennedy one of Hollywood’s true professionals and long time bad guy!