Today we honored the Battle of Alamance — May 16, 1771 — fought just down the road near Burlington. The Regulators were protesting corrupt taxation and abuse by colonial officials. Many historians see this as one of the sparks that eventually...
Read moreThe Winston-Salem Symphony and Storm Large are performing Kurt Weill’s The Seven Deadly Sins on Saturday night at Reynolds Auditorium. YHC and his M are season ticket holders so will be in attendance. To help pre-game for the big show...
Read moreWhat a beautiful morning in DashPax land! No sleeves needed. Good crowd rolling in to Speas. John Hiatt singing from my bag o’ music. No FNG’s so we jumped right into Warmarama. Did the usual things and then strolled to the top of the hill...
Read moreWhile Saturday at Purgatory was forecasted to be the warmest morning for the next 7-10 days (48 degrees) it was not completely dry or without drizzle. Knowing this, YHC being a benevolent Q, was ready to shelter, as needed, the PAX with a...
Read moreRed sweatshirt? 👍🏻 Box of chocolates for pax? 👍🏻 Red bag o’ music with Fabulous Thunderbirds singing love songs? 👍🏻 Ready for Palentine’s Day with F3 pals! We started with the usual Warmarama stuff: SSH, Imp Walkers, Whirlies, AV, arm...
Read moreGrabbed my bag o’ music and headed to Speas for a Q at Purgatory for the last one of the year. Started up tunes from Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen. A good crowd rolled in and we jumped right in to Warmarama: SSH, Abe V, Whirlies...
Read moreA great turnout for a cold and foggy, early December Saturday morning workout. After formalities and some warmorama, we made our way to the bottom of the hill and started with 11’s. 1 Mike Tyson at the bottom, run to the top, 10 Lt...
Read moreWhen YHC was voluntold about Qing #Purgatory on October 4, he thought long and hard about what sort of theme to build the workout around. The pressure was really on after @PonyExpress’ elaborate theme last week. Given that today is 10/4...
Read moreApologies to Kurt Vonnegut for the paraphrase. 😊 But it was a beautiful morning at Purgatory yesterday. Attendance was expectedly light with lots of pax in Lexington to support the launch of a new AO! 👏. But we were soon seven and got to work...
Read moreIt is well documented that #Purgatory can skew a little older in the average age category. That skew brings with it some humorous and/or confusing moments. One example is that a few years back during prayer requests, a pax lifted up our...
Read moreWhat a relief after so many hot humid mornings! Beautiful Saturday at Speas. The regular crowd rushes in, then a few more, and later more (IS refugees) to make 19 of us! Turned on my bag of tunes (some Steve Winwood, Eagles, Bonnie Raitt…Alexa...
Read moreAs all PAX know one of the core principles of F3 is related to the weather. While 77 degrees may not seem all that bad, throw in 80% humidity and you get a “pool” effect-thus the PAX did look like we swam during the beatdown. We also...
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