June 29th being the occasion of YHC’s 43rd birthday, the dream of designing and running a ninja warrior course was in order. After greeting the pax and conducting a quick COP including 43 SSHs, we moseyed through the course so YHC could explain the various obstacles and exercises. After returning to the start of the course in the parking circle of TES, we divided into pairs. The first pair, YHC and Doozy, took off at the sound of the starting buzzer and the race began. The second pair, GP and Probation, started after waiting one minute, then the third pair…

A nefarious nine gathered in the gloom for a beat down on a cool misty morning . Here’s what happened: COP: Mosey to the bottom of Lindsay. Deadman hang // Helicopters // DQs // Imperial Walkers // LBCs // Crabcakes // Peter Parkers // Tempo Merkins // SSHs 21s (count to 5 in Candace, to 21 silently in our heads, all stop at the same time, Hitchiker messed up so we did 5 burpees). Up the Hill: parter up. P1 runs to the top of Lindsay and back to P2, while P2 does lunges. Switch. Next round: Bear Crawls. Next…

Eleven eponymous eggheads circled up on the warm pavement for this week’s iteration of Hoedown. Greetings and salutations were exchanged for YHCs first F3 Q since the March Madness that never happened. Scuttle around the drop-off loop up to the blacktop ocean for COP that went something like this: COP10x Helicopters15x Smurf Jacks10x Don Quixotes20x Imperial Walkers15x Arm Circles10x Merkins The ThangShort mosey over to the end line closest to the school for the first of many iterations of 3 sets of 3 exercises of 12 reps. Batch 112 squats12 WWIIs12 merkinsRun to the end of the blacktop and backRepeato…

With a slight chill in the air, 9 red hot warriors gathered in the Gloom to form what resembles a PAX at Hoedown. With no Q on the sheet someone suggested that we make it a Doozy Q and YHC was willing to oblige. With no plan of attack lets mosey to get us going, on to Bodos place (Bodos was nowhere to be found) DQ’s, Helicopters, Cherry Pickers, Imperial Walkers, 1 penalty burpee OYO for Doozy’s mistake, possibly some other things but I can’t remember. Mosey to corner for 4 corners prostitute Corner 1 – 10 Merkins, Corner 2…

6 gathered at Hoedown this morning in light drizzle to start the week off right. COP: (New favorite) 9x dead man hang, 9x Cherry Pickers, 15x SSH, 10x DQ, 10x WWII, 10x HRM, 10x Scorpion Kicks. Mosey down Forest Ave to the Trinity church lot Big 4 Corners: 10x burpees, 20x merkins, 30x jump squats, 40x crab cakes. Reverse for 40x MH’s, 30x mt. climbers, 20x merkins, 10x burpees Partner up and traverse the front parking lot – alternating Bernie run & lunges until both partners reach the top of the hill. Mosey to the back parking lot for the…

An even 8 came out to Hoedown to see if Honeydo would show up to Q this week. Perfect spring weather for a beatdown: COP: SSH, Russian Soldiers, Helicopters, Merkins, Flutterkicks, Scorpion kicks. Mosey to the 3rd Dark lot for 4 corners: 10 burpees, 20 Merkins, 30 Reverse Crunch, 40 SSHs. Over to 3rd back lot, Partner up – Broad jump burpee length of lot – alternating. 2nd round – Polar bear. Over to main lot: Lindsays of Carolina Dry Docks & Jump Squats. Over to TES blacktop- Partner up again for Wheelbarrow across & back. Head up to school…

6 of the usual suspects made their way out of the dark into the light of Hoedown for a Honeydo Q. 5:30 no Honeydo so Handshake took the reigns and lead the PAX on a short mosey across the street to Bodos’s work place. COP: Handshake SSH, DQ’s, Cherry Pickers, Inverted Scorpion Kicks, WWII’s and possibly a couple others Get to the corner for some four corner action Corner 1 – 10 Burpees, bear crawl, corner 2 – 20 Merkins, Bernie Sanders, Corner 3 – Monkey Humpers, run, Corner 4 – LBC’s Handshake hands the Q to Garbage Plate Run…

To celebrate the opening of Bistro 804 5 + 2 high impact men rolled out of the fartsack on a rainy morning. Here is how it went down, more or less. Mosey Hepler, Paris, Forest to Tuckahoe Shopping Center COP: DQ x10, Helicopter x10, IW x10, Chinook x10, WW2 x10, Hello Dolly x20. 20 corners. 4 corners x5. Run long ends. Alternate King Crab (Crab walk 5steps + 2 count Crab Cake) and Polar Bear (Bear Crawl 5 steps and merkin) on the short sides. 1 exercise each corner intended to attend to the whole man: body, soul, and spirit.…