03/13/2023 - Dark Tower - This is not a workout, this is a lifestyle. -Ed Leon
AO: Dark Tower
When: 03/13/2023
PAX:
Number of Pax: 16
Pax Names:
DR Names:
Number of FNGS: 0
FNG Names:
QIC: Aladdin
Introduction
Warm-O-Rama
SSH IC 15
GM’s IC 10
Graddy Corns IC 15
Continue on paver sidewalk E towards municipal parking lot
Lunge walk stopping at every light performing 5 merkins
Recovered after 3-4 lights
The Thang
Thang One – Lower level of municipal parking lot
Partner Up
Every concrete post we’ll switch with our partner until the furthers E post past the last lit light.
Wheel Barrow
hold plank for the 6
Sprint back
10 count
Crab Walk
hold plank for the 6
Bernie Sanders back
10 count
Bear Crawl
hold plank for the 6
Sprint back
Recover
Slow Mosey to next thang
Thang Two – Indigo parking garage stairs aka “Sauna”
Start at floor one, run to floor five
10 merkins – 10 squats
Run back down to floor one
Up the ladder to floor four and rinse and repeat until all floors are completed
OYO AYG
When done, everyone pick up the 6
Recover
Mosey over to municipal lot (upper level)
Thang Three – Municipal lot
The Gloop Shuffle (modified version)
3 burpees @ the lightpost
Bernie sanders to next and another 3 burpees
Regular run to next and another 3 burpees
Run it to the end, when finished pick up the 6
Recover – Mosey to SP
Thang Four – Secret DT Spot
Merkin Ring of Fire – 3 Merkins (of choice) per PAX
10 count overlooking Quarry Lake – some quite time, reflecting on out intentions for the week
Recover
Mosey to Cafe
Burpees IC 6 (slow cadence)
This was fun. What Shirley got on me a couple Friday’s ago I got on his ass today 🙂
(I had much fun torching HIM today)
Recover – Back to the Flags
Thang Five (f@ck MoR) Bottom of the hill (South side)
Partner wheel barrow to put the icing on the F3 sundae.
Each partner to the top, pick up the 6 each time
Recover
0559
AH IC 13
0600
Recover Recover
Circle of Trust
It’s not a workout, it’s a lifestyle. – Ed Leon
Some of you know him as Hootie
A little over three years ago Hootie shared those words with me in our office kitchen. As Ronda Rousey referenced to this past Saturday, Hootie shared his light with me.
I joined F3 the Thursday before the lockdown in 2020. F3 was the booster shot my life needed.
When my titties jiggled I knew it was time to accept his F3 invitation. I was physically weak, slow and the fattest I’ve been in my adult life (31 years old).
Everyday I live in gratitude for Hootie’s persistence and more importantly his grace. As he EH’d me he never shamed me, he’d simple offer, encourage and kept the door open.
This organization is important to me and I pray I continue to pay it forward by also sharing my light with others as Hootie modeled for me.
After all…
“One spark can start a forest fire.”
As I celebrate my 3 year Manniversary I remember the F3 Naperville statistic, PAX usually fall out after year three. Unlike Hootie I don’t have the discipline to stay fit without ya’ll. I pray I don’t become a statistic and neither do you.
I left the PAX with my life purpose in the bible.
Proverbs 22:29
Prayers for Hotbox, Cayli – Blinky’s sister, Radio Flyer – knee recovery, Laimbeer & Fam, Ukraine, the disasters in our country and our country in general.
Naked Man Moleskin
In retrospect to this morning I was calm. I wasn’t nervous, simply ready to rock and roll. I wanted to push myself on how well I could execute the “perfect” Q from an F3 Nation’s definition of what a well rounded Q looks like.
That was my only focus. I wanted to fuck up as least as possible. Yesterday I played the thangs in my head and put words to paper for my CoT.
The effort the PAX demonstrated this AM was nothing short of spectacular. A bunch of dudes, competing, giving everything they got. The energy only kept increasing as we moved through the thangs. The last minute Blues Clues appearance was the cherry on top for me.
We murdered those stairs!!!
It was electric. I was in the zone. Everything was slow motion. I soaked in every moment. I thanked God for putting these Men in my life.
Blessed and highly favored #NuffSaid
Aladdin signing off…
See you @ the TOP!