Ruck’n Up The Pax and a Soldier’s Creed

Good morning Suncoast and to the F3 Pax that calls it home! Temps: It is 67 degrees and gusty and windy this morning. No humidity in sight today unlike yesterday so the “Heaters” aka “Rucksacks” will prove their value today. A.O.: This morning we are at NBP and the Tower of Terror. I have a …

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Burp Back Mountain!

Weather: not as cold as it was for the Ruckers because we got our heart rates up quickly QIC: Bing Pax: Steel, Bing, Banjo, Zeus, Dasani, Papa Smurf, Trane, Trump, Brutus With the pax enduring their first split AO, and watching the rucking contingent walk off into the sunrise, the Bootcampers started with a mosey …

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There’s no “I” in “Pax”

Easily one of F3’s finest hours.  Thank you to all who participated. At promptly 4:41 (we waited a minute for Goob, but he was late…something about no toilet paper), Bing, Crabcakes, Lancelot, Brutus and Ripken went postal.  Goob was right behind, having taken a load off.  Ripken was excited to Q since he might be …

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Sack Up, Dora!

Date: 2/21/2020 Weather: 67 degrees, windy QIC: Manziel Pax: Big Mac, Bing, Brutus, Bubbles, Bullwinkle, Clutch, Dasani, Goob, Hang Ten, Jimmy Dean, Lancelot, Manziel, Medivac, Papa Smurf, Ripken, ShamWow, Sir Wallace, Steel, Trump With GrowRuck just weeks away, pax were asked to bring their sacks to the beatdown if they had one. Lots of easy …

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If you ain’t first, you’re last

Weather: 67 degrees, humidity not high enough to fog my glasses QIC: BRUTUS PAX: Brutus, Yamaha Yamaha came in hot at 5:59, and I wasn’t completely prepared as Q, thinking I’d be solo again. I Totally forgot to go through the 5 core principles, and I even screwed up my own name-a-Rama.  Yamaha made me …

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Encouraging the Encouragers

Weather: Mostly Cloudy. 67 F, Feelt like 68 F, Humidity 100%, Wind 3mph from SE. QIC: Lambeau Pax: Brutus, Shamwow, Crabcakes, Trump, Manziel, Ripkin, Sir Wallace, Stagecoach   YHC arrived early and was pleased to see Ripkin, finally over his illness, already there and stretching out. Other pax continued to arrive while lights were placed …

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Blackjack and the house loses!!!!

The weather was upper 60’s. At 5:15 YHC reviewed the 5 core principles to the other PAX in attendance and started a 2 lap mosey around the parking lot.  The mosey included high knees, butt kickers. carioca to both sides and a NERThe 16 PAX completed a round of Moroccan Nightclubs, Michael Phelps, and forward/reverse …

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Solo Ride

Weather: 66 degrees, 100% humidity. very light fog QIC: BRUTUS PAX: uh, no one else I skipped the Mission, Core Principles and Credo because no one was there to complain about it.  I know that stuff pretty well by now. COT before the ride as usual.  Name-a-rama was pretty quick.  Respect to ME.  Announcements, praises …

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Ruck’n in Paradise

Good Morning F3 Suncoast! Paradise in Florida in the Winter and it is 66 degrees and with 19 Mph wind that is steady and borderline cold this morning and I have heaters in tow (Rucks a.k.a. Heaters)…perfect for a morning beatdown. Friday morning at NBP and the Tower of Terror in Sarasota will come into …

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Nolan Smackdown

Weather: 60’s and perfect QIC: Bing Pax: Big Mac, Sir Wallace, Lancelot, Deep Dish, Crabcakes, Cornhole, ShamWow, Denali, Posh, Mugsy, Olympus, Goob, Chili Pepper, Brutus, Stagecoach, Wolverine, Bing After a number of pax pre-ran or pre-rucked, or a little of both, it was time to welcome an FNG, share the core principles and then the …

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