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It was another beautiful morning at the Tarpit, and 16 PAX (Babe, Banks, Big Mac, Bloomer, Cookies, DaVinci, Draper, Emcee(FNG), Hotbox, Jolly, Katniss, Noodles, Panhandle, Rain Man, Shiplap, Tortuga) came out for another round of ultimate frisbee. YHC clearly stated that we would be playing Ultimate for most of the time, but also to BYOC (This means bring your own coupon for future reference). When YHC showed up and had his coupon out, all the incoming PAX rebelled and refused to get their coupons out, YHC adjusted on the fly, but they will all pay for this transgression…

Warm-O-Rama:

• 7x Motivators
• 10x Windmills IC
• 20x Merkins IC

Thang 1: Race

The PAX all lined up on the goal line and sprinted 100 yards out, then they did Bernie Sanders back. This was followed by 100 yards of burpee broad jumps, 50 Merkins and a 100 yard sprint to the finish. The first 2 PAX complete got to choose their teams for Ultimate Frisbee.

Thang 2: Ultimate Frisbee

COR/NOR/COT:

It was good to be out in the early morning doing something fun with these HIMs. Praise and prayers for Cookies as he transitions out of his job prayers for Dr Phil and family.

Backblast

5/14/21, Run Club, AO Ground Zero

We ran.  South.

NOR: Cheese (respect), Toto, Noodles, Aloha, DaVinci, Hotbox, Big Mac, Gummi Bear, Jolly, Banks, Shiplap, Panhandle, Beaker, Binford, Whittler, Crack (with Dooley Dog), Saga, Tortuga (Q)

COT: Noodles’ job search, Jolly – praise for F3, Saga’s leg, Whittler – family friend had a devastating stroke, Whittler is getting engaged TONIGHT!

It was a cool Spring Morning and all of the PAX knew what was headed their way, it was one of our regularly scheduled PT Tests! Some PAX kept their normal routines leading into the event, other PAX took a few days off to prepare, but all were ready to put forth their best efforts! The point of the PT Test is a check-in to measure you against you and see how you have changed over the year, the goal is to push as hard as you can! 17 PAX including 1 FNG (Welcome Binford!) came out for the event!

Warm-O-Rama:

• 25x Side-Straddle Hops IC
• 15x Mountain Man Poopers IC
• 8x Merkins IC (Jolly voiced his complaints pretty loudly for this one)
• Mosey 1 lap around the track

While YHC Explained proper form and what the days events would look like, all PAX continued to stretch and get their minds right.

The Thang: PT Test

• 2 Minutes Merkins
• 2 Minutes Big Boi Situps
• 2 Mile Run for Time

Results:

F3 NAME: Merkins / BBSU / 2-mile
@Banks: 80 / 84 / 14:54
@Big Mac: 101 / 97 / 13:37
@Binford: 41 / 34 / 15:04
@Bloomer: 88 / 81 / 14:24
@BOGO: 39 / 24 / 18:36
@Crack: 64 / 49 / 14:26
@Da Vinci: 73 / 72 / 16:16
@Hotbox: 77 / 65 / 12:19
@Jolly: 55 / 100 / 15:45
@Katniss: 84 / 53 / 13:17
@Milk Duds: 61 / 41 / 17:24
@Panhandle: 77 / 83 / 15:57
@SAGA: 78 / 50 / injured
@Shiplap: 70 / 70 / 13:41
@TBTF: 52 / 40 / 17:24
@Tortuga: 85 / 79 / 12:35
@Whittler: 66 / 45 / 15:28

COR/NOR/COT:

There were some pretty impressive scores put out there today and I am continually impressed at how everyone continues to improve, great job men!

During the evening news Monday night the weather man called for a “frost warning” – my first thought “awesome, this beatdown will be perfect for a nice brisk morning.” My second thought “shoot I planted my plants already and they are going to freeze” luckily the excited for my first thought made me quickly forget about the plants! With a new F3 playlist on amazon music, your QIC was ready to rock and roll

WOR: SSH x 30, Picking Daiseys, quad stretch, Arm Circles, Merkins Slow cadence x 15

The Thang: Musical Dora and Greta meet for a party. Like a typical Dora each PAX was given a partner – the PAX would complete one of the “Greta exercises” while a song played. When a new song came on the groups switched exercises. While Partner 1 completed the exercise – partner 2 rand Hoffa.

Exercises: Blockees, Thrusters, Coupon Swings

6MOM: Flutters IC x 30

NOR/COT: Baby Sitter, Da Vinci, Saga, Banks, Panhandle, Aloha, Dress Code, Babe, Ralphy (FNG), Big Mac, Gummi Bear, Jolly, TBTF, Sparrow, Tortuga (Respect), Whittler, Crack

Moleskin: Everyday you will get better or you will get worse. None of us will stay the same. The choice is yours.

10 PAX – Sparrow, Katniss, HotBox, Panhandle, Shiplap, Shamu, Crack (and Dually Dog), Tortuga (respect), Jolly, TBTF QIC – if I missed anyone let me know as we didn’t record the NoR

The runners started early, circled back to the flag at 530AM and were off again for a nice morning run (didn’t get the miles).

The Ruckers did a quick WoR consisting of Abe Vigodas, Tappy Taps, and Imperial Walkers and we were off. We rucked about 1.25 miles to the Lincoln Marsh Prairie Patch Park where we got in some quick PT. PT consisted of a total of 50 derkins, 50 overhead presses, 50 squats, and 5 laps shuffled around a walking path at the park (roughly 15 minutes of PT). We then rucked back to the AO picking up various pieces of garbage on the side of the road to add weight (@Sparrow :)). Ended up at about 2.5 miles under ruck and 15 minutes PT

CoT
Prayers for Dr. Phil and his family after the passing of his brother; continued prayers for Cooper and the Bloomer family in Cooper’s ongoing recovery/rehab process

This one is two months overdue, sorry about that fellas. Better late than never!

13 brave and daring PAX arrived, some for a double header after a Tortuga beatdown, and some fresh meat waiting to be tenderized. This was a particularly fun Q for me, as it not only gamified the beatdown and took our mind off the pain, but also added some funky spunky switch ups to how we do things. Had to think “outside the box”, which is the name of the game in the UK hit gameshow, “Taskmaster”, my inspiration for this Q.

Posting HIMs included:

1. Captain Crunch
2. Archive
3. Crack
4. Crash
5. Double Beef n Cheddar
6. TBTF
7. Sparrow
8. Nickerdoodle
9. Tortuga
10. Cookies
11. Banks
12. Jailbreak
13. Jäzz Händ

WoR
TASKMASTER COUNTING
IN CADENCE— COUNTING GOES AROUND THE CIRCLE PAX-BY-PAX
1 —> 2 —> 3 —> ONE 
1 —> 2 —> 3 —> TWO  
——
7 motivators 
20 arm circles forward IC
20 arm circles backward IC
20 goof balls
Daisy pickers (left + right + center)

This took about 7-10 minutes. Many silly faults, lots of penalty merkins for miscounting.

THANG 1
Taskmaster Coupon Carry. 
West lot to Pool House (street ending)
TWO TEAMS.
—> 1 MINUTE RELAY, 30 SECOND AMRAP COUPON EXERCISES — RINSE AND REPEAT <—
First team entirely across YELLOW BARRICADE by pool house wins. NO SHORTCUTS – use road only.
Start in west parking lot by flag, move along dry road to the pool house. Stay together, COMMUNICATE. 
Every 1 minute, Q’s alarm will sound: we stop, do AMRAP for 30 SECONDS of these in rotation: 
1) blockees    2) goblet squats    3) grave diggers    4) raised-coupon flutter kicks    5) derkins
After 30 second timer ends, resume coupon carry circuit. 
EACH PAX/TEAM will follow the following rules:

• Only one person  per team can move at a time. 
• After each AMRAP, you must switch what carry style from what you previously used.
• Each team must have at least 3 different coupon carry styles at all times.
• You must always be within 10 feet of someone on your team. 
• Penalty for breaking rules: entire team at fault does 10 burpees.
• Other team will be your whistle-blower.

I don’t remember which team “name” it was, but the other team (not mine) won this relay! Our team faulted twice due to @Sparrow ’s using a “UK foot” instead of a US foot to measure the 10-foot rule 🙄. This new routine took about 30 minutes.

THANG 2
Taskmaster Spelling Bee
Start at the northern most end of the pool house parking lot , end at Basketball Courts to the south. End goal is to spell “F-3” with coupons as a team on the basketball court. 
—> 20 SECOND TIMERS, REPEATING <—
Begin – all PAX line up at the starting line. Begin planking. Whenever timer sounds, someone calls new plank, and the Q released one PAX at a time from the starting point in 20 second waves.
Hands must stay below your knees at all times to transport your coupon. Take any path you choose. Options are bent over carries, murder bunnies, coupon drag—open to interpretation. 

Destination is out of sight so PAX can’t see results until they arrive. Each PAX adds their coupon to the growing creation that should end up spelling “F-3” on the ground on the basketball court. You can’t adjust previous PAX’s coupons when you arrive. When you are not transporting your coupon, you should be planking. Anyone can call a plank position for all PAX to hold. Switch every 20 seconds as PAX depart/arrive.

When the final PAX arrives, if the arrangement does not please the TASKMASTER QIC (YHC), 25 burpee penalty for everyone.

This worked very well and the Taskmaster QIC was pleased – no penalties! However poor @Jolly broke his coupons doing murder bunnies on the pavement! 

THANG 3
Taskmaster “Sing” of Fire
Circle up. Ring of Fire / doomsday clock (don’t remember which name is correct) – planking + merkins, one pax at a time.
Begin going around CW with merkins, one per PAX in order. In opposite direction CCW, one PAX sings first word  of “I’m a little teapot”. Next pax sings the next word. So on and so on. If someone gets it wrong or waits longer than 3 seconds to sing their word, everyone does punishment: 5 extra merkins at that moment. (There are about 22 words in that song.) Keep going. 

Eventually PAX gave up on singing portion and it came down to a couple PAX standoff for the last remaining PAX. I believe it was Archive and Captain Crunch but my memory is foggy on this one. 

Recover. Slow, zombie mosey carrying our coupons back to the flag for…

CoR/NoR/CoT

Coffee

Kevin Lipp

A rosy-fingered dawn greeted the PAX who gathered for a beatdown set to 90s music, freshly imported from actual compact discs that were listened to in the 1990s.

Warmorama: Sidestraddle hops during Live’s “I Alone” with a burpee for “I Alone.” Arm circles, Daisy pickers and calf stretches.

The Thang: PAX choose two cards from the dexicon, do the exercise (number card = 30+, royal = 50, Ace + 100). After two cards completed, sprint to goal post, job 75% to the chair placed half way, jog the rest of the way. Repeat. The 90s glory kept drawing the runners back to the deck.

Moleskin: F3 talks about “the Warrior” (mentioned previously), so we discussed “the King” from Rohr’s From Wild Man to Wise Man:

The calm king sitting on his throne is the archetype of centeredness and security within himself. He is, therefore, a symbol of fertility and creativity within himself. To be in the king’s good graces is to be at the core. The king in a man is secure neough to recognize, affirm and bless goodness when he sees it inn others. he is not threatened by the growth or maturity of others, because he knows and loves who he himself is. You cannot threaten the king because he does not need you, or even need your admiration. He is the principle of healthy autonomy and very clear boundaries. the greater the king, the bigger the realm he is able to hold together. Some are kings for their own limited racial group, some hold together a “rainbow coalition,” others preside over the whole domain and hold it together in unity. Thus Christians rightly speak of Jesus as “King of kings” because his universal rain “falls on the good and bad, the just and the unjust.”

COT: Cooper, mothers, FIA sister group, Dr. Phil’s boro, Saga’s friend, Big Mac’s students.

NOR: (can anyone tell me what NOR means? I think it means people who showed): FNG: @Draper, @Banks, @SAGA, @Banks, @Beaker, @BigMac, @Katniss, @Shiplap, @Tortuga, @Panhandle, @Jolly, @DaVinci Q

Bonus: Summary of coffeteria discussion: We discussed the extreme stress of football coaching culture (and American work culture in general), the cost to families, and the sacrifices necessary for “greatness,” sacrifices that are often not worth it. Better a whole person perhaps than to give it all to exceed in one area.