On the 12th Day of Christmas, F3 Sent to Me

Christmas is almost here, gentlemen. This morning’s beatdown was a festive combination of exercises and bad Christmas music (if you haven’t heard Bob Dylan’s take on Christmas music, you’re missing out). The centerpiece of the beatdown was a “On the 12th Day of Christmas” routine: Inchworm Elf on the Shelf (touch the floor, then reach …

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Mot Def Poi

Weather: Perfect — 50F. Pre-run: Several pax got in a pre-run. From what YHC could tell, Mr. Clean, Lancelot, Ripken, and Trump all made the gloom runner friendly (sorry if I left anyone out). Welcome: The parking lot filled-up quickly as YHC put the finishing touches on the beatdown (20 pax in all). At exactly 0515, YHC stated …

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The Randomizer

Weather: cold (for FL, 55F) and blustery with a steady drizzle. Yes, perfectly random conditions for a random beatdown. Pre-run: YHC considered not posting until just before 0515 beatdown, but saw Ripken’s feeler for an 0420 pre-run. YHC decided to posted for the pre-run, but then became reluctant given the cold and damp conditions. Once out …

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Carolina Conditioning Test- Play or sit the bench?

Weather:  not too hot, not too cold but HUMID QIC:  Goob Pax:  Pincher, Young Buck, CottonTail, ShamWow, Posh, Mugsy, Trump, Banjo, Mr. Clean, Drake, Olympus, Wolverine, Ricky Bobby, Manziel, Goob At promptly 5:15, the 5 core principles were recited and Goob ensured that their were no FNG’s.  Foolishly, Goob thought Young Buck was an FNG …

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0.0

Running is over-rated. It’s bad for the knees and makes you all sweaty. So we decided to do an entire beatdown without any running. Olympus got things started with an energetic warm-up. He cheated a little … we moved about 10 yards doing the warm-up. We did a series of exercises, each one interspersed with …

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Laps of Pain

Weather: low 70s and no humidity QIC: Bing Pax: Bing, Trump, Lancelot, ShamWow, Ripken, Olympus, Posh, Pincher, Deep Dish, Goob, Drake, Crabcakes It’s another glorious morning in the Suncoast. YHC, Ripken, Trump and Drake went postal for a pre-run while Lancelot was out and about, likely logging double digit miles prior to the beatdown. No …

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Nolan, No Music This Time

Sadly, no music this Wednesday morning at Nolan. Click here for the good stuff. We just had a good old-fashioned beatdown. We started with a mosey around the roads to McNeal. The PAX could choose their own warm-up exercises during the mosey. For some reason, every single PAX choose to do monkey-humpers for the drivers …

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Sidewalk Talk

Weather-  who can keep up these days Pax-  Goob, Drake, Ripken, Lancelot, Bubbles, Bing, ShamWow, Mugsy, Trump, Olympus, Posh, Manziel, Brutus, ChiliPepper, Pincher, and BigMac QIC- Goob As the Q mingled with the Pax this fine gloom, there was both confusion as to who was Q’ing and some trepidation as to what the said Q …

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