Backblast: June 7th, 2025
AO: The Battlefield – The Shops at Fallen Timbers – Maumee, OH
PAX:
Photon – Q
Carmen Sandiego
Cold Cut
Crawdad
Cybertruck
Doogie
Fat Amy
Footloose
Good Burger
Irish Hoss
Norm
Runt
Spike
Stalker
Ukulele
Yoshi
Workout: BURPwEEk Day 7 Part 1 – The Ruck
FNG’s: Cold Cut
Mission and Principles:
F3: Fitness, Fellowship, Faith
Mission: To plant, grow and serve small workout groups for men for the invigoration of male community leadership.
The core principles of F3 are that it is always:
1. Free of charge
2. Open to all men
3. Held outdoors, rain or shine, heat or cold
4. Led by men who participate in the workout in a rotating fashion, with no training or certification necessary. You versus you. Modify or stop an exercise if you need to. The most important thing is that nobody gets hurt.
5. Ends with a Circle of Trust
Credo: Leave no man behind but leave no man where you find him
Warm-up: N/A
The “Thang”:
Rucked a standard route over the bridge, down the street, and back up the freeway overpass. For the first half hour, stopped every 5 minutes to perform 10 rucked burpees, totaling 50 by the end of the ruck. Footloose and Crawdad both assured me that we would be able to make it back in time without changing course, but that was a grave error that put the PAX back to the COT after 6:30am. Most PAX found themselves running the last half mile of the ruck in order to return to the circle by that late 6:30am mark, which was not ideal for the beatdown that followed.
Ended with:
Count-O-Rama: 16
Name-O-Rama
The Six – Unknown
LDP3
Ball of Man
Spreadsheets from the Gloom: I can’t remember what the weather was on this morning, but it didn’t make the rucked burpees any easier. This ruck sucked. The front-loaded burpees and the rushed run at the end were a rough albeit proper prelude to The Gulley that followed. And the ruck was a perfect example of why I have never Qed the AO…as the logistics were an absolute disaster. But, if you’re asking me if I would do it again… 100% yes. Though I’d shorten the route to ensure we got back in time for a proper COT.
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