So, what does FORGE stand for?

And just like that, RVA’s sweaty mistress of humidity has departed, leaving a bedraggled summer PAX lapping up the sweet cool air of freedom. Here follows the tale of eight vets and one FNG, invigorated with the first taste of Autumn, digging deep to overcome the flesh:

The THANG:

COP #1:

• Mosey a couple parking lot loops with moving exercises
• Circle up for F3 Welcome & Disclaimer
• Variable IC exercises to get blood pumping to all the necessary parts 
• Donkey Kickoffs to close 5–>20

COP #2:

• Mosey another couple lots to end up down at the Tooth Fairy stairs
• LINDSEY:
• Dips at the bottom 30–>10
• Tooth Fairy up
• Donkey Locks at the top 10–>30
• Mosey around grassy slope to bottom

COP #3:

• Mt CHAPLAIN BEAST:
• x6 reps at each (upper) hardtop levels en route to the top, x3 stops to the top, and hit the same x3 stops down to the start
• x36 2-Count Lunges
• x36 Crunchy Frogs
• x36 Merkins
• x36 2-Count Flutters
• x24 Elbow Slides (OUT OF TIME)

Mosey BTTF for COT:

• Counterama # 9
• Namerama (welcome Ratchet!)
• Announcerama (see Comments)
• YHC took the PAX out in Prayer

NMS:  Absolutely beautiful morning to be out in the gloom with the finest band of brothers a guy could ask for. Also great to have FNG Chris Edwards “Ratchet” join us. He was at the recent men’s retreat (with myself, Doozy, Greenbow, & Elmer’s), and missed the F3 workouts while there, so he chose to come out today. Among many fine attributes and qualities, Chris is a systems manager at a Nursing Facility, hence the Nurse Ratchet reference. Great to have you with us brother! Also, forgot to share this AM, but Greenbow recently challenged me on whether the FORGE was an acronym for something since it’s all-caps. I admitted the original idea was more about the idea of Forging HIM’s in the fire of the 3 F’s, but then came up with the below. Fancy that! SYITG, YHC, DTH

F – Free

O – Open to all men

R – Rain or Shine

G – Guys rotate the Q

E – Ends with COT