Backblast: June 16th, 2026
AO: The Necropolis Ruck – Rapids Rd – Perrysburg, OH
PAX:
Photon – Q
Bourbon
Isosceles
Mile High
Socket
Workout: The Wait
FNG’s: N/A
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”:
Standard route down 2nd Street towards The Fortress.
Simple premise. YHC set a 5 minute timer. When the timer went off, the leading rabbit started AMRAPing burpees until every other PAX caught up to him. As PAX met up with the rabbit, they also began AMRAPing. Once the 6 arrived, all PAX started running the route again and the timer was reset. The faster you ran, the more burpees you performed during The Wait for the 6. This way the group became tighter as the run progressed as the burpees started draining the fastholes. This format ended up lasting about 8 or so rounds, with YHC getting in around 50 burpees over the duration.
Ruckers were the following:
Coconut
Flo
Guardian
Huckleberry
Lullaby
Meatloaf
Ten Pin
Ended with:
Count-O-Rama: 12
Name-O-Rama
The Six – Lullaby
LDP3
Ball of Man
Spreadsheets from the Gloom: 72 and humid with an AQI of 150… Not sure if there was a lingering illness or if the air quality was that impactful, but this run was a slog. Socket had to have been slowing himself on purpose to “keep up” with me. That said, still got in around 5.3 miles and 50 burpees over the course of the run. But this was not the same “Wait” as the first run through. The inaugural run through had 12 PAX with vastly different pace capabilities which allowed for significant opportunities for burpees. For reference, the total burpee count for the inaugural run was 150 burpees…3X the number of this rendition. Small group of 5 runners today…and with the humidity and the poor air quality, we all maintained very similar pacing. This one really does work much better with a wide array of different runners. I’m hopeful that we’ll get a better showing the next time around.