{"id":25192,"date":"2025-05-26T16:08:19","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T20:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/?p=25192"},"modified":"2025-05-26T20:34:56","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T00:34:56","slug":"memorial-day-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/2025\/05\/memorial-day-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Memorial Day 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A wet morning was fitting for 16 pax who jumped in for various challenges on a day set aside to celebrate the best of us.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>VI Warmarama:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>SSHs, Abe Vigodas, Whirlies, Cherry Pies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><u>The Thang:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mosey to the lower, larger parking lot.\u00a0 Speaker positioned at the approximate mid-point and F3 card deck pulled out, pax were instructed to draw a card, one at a time, run to the opposite end of the lot and perform exercise on card AMRAP until they hear \u201cHalfway There\u201d (1 minute), then run back to starting point and continue performing same exercise on card AMRAP until the second minute expires.\u00a0 Repeato until Q calls time.\u00a0 Pax drew the following cards:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Calf raises<\/li>\n<li>Merkins<\/li>\n<li>Derkins<\/li>\n<li>Dive Bombers (wildcard)<\/li>\n<li>Bonnie Blairs<\/li>\n<li>Calf Raises<\/li>\n<li>American Hammers<\/li>\n<li>Juanitas<\/li>\n<li>SSHs<\/li>\n<li>Low Flutters<\/li>\n<li>Bulgarian Split Squat<\/li>\n<li>Mountain Climber<\/li>\n<li>Diamond Merkins<\/li>\n<li>Arm Circles (popular\u2026and painful)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Mosey home for 5 minutes of Mary:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Heels to Heaven<\/li>\n<li>Cobra Crunch<\/li>\n<li>Glute Bridges<\/li>\n<li>Pickle Pounders<\/li>\n<li>SSHs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>End of VI.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Thang Part 2:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Head to River Oaks Community Church via legs or wheels.\u00a0 At River Oaks, complete Murph:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1 mile run<\/li>\n<li>100 pull-ups<\/li>\n<li>200 merkins<\/li>\n<li>300 squats<\/li>\n<li>1 mile run<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><u>Thang Part 3 (if applicable):<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Run back to Clemmons Y.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Finished.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Announcements:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Murph to immediately follow VI. See above.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><u>Prayer Requests:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Van Gogh\u2019s M\u2019s mother and family.<\/li>\n<li>Gratefulness for those who have served to enable and preserve freedom &amp; liberty.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>YHC prayed us out.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>NMM:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sputnik, FNG Mark Stamey, is a middle school teacher at Redeemer School. He\u2019s had the pleasure of teaching both VG\u2019s and YHC\u2019s daughters over the past couple of years.\u00a0 His parents were missionaries in Russia for the first 13 years of his life, hence the Russian satellite reference.\u00a0 He has also spent time in Bolivia as a missionary with his M.\u00a0 He currently lives in a trailer (camper) in his FiL\u2019s yard as an attempt to regain his FiL\u2019s approval after taking the M to Boliva.\u00a0 Incredible first posting by Sputnik, doubling-down like he did.<\/li>\n<li>Rollback had to roll out early, so, being a HIM, completed the Murph prior to VI at ROCC \/ Alcatraz. He then ran in, completed the beatdown, and ran with us back to Alcatraz.\u00a0 He also found time during the workout for a number of burpees due to the rest of us appropriately warming up our arms AND ASTs being one of the first cards drawn from the deck.<\/li>\n<li>Knowing that several guys would be doubling-down, YHC intended the VI portion to accommodate pax to push themselves as much\/little as they wanted.<\/li>\n<li>Bagpipe went to The Iron Throne before showing up at VI. Finding no pax, he hustled to VI, crushed the beatdown, loaned his shovel flag to those running from VI to Alcatraz, and then made the Murph look easy.\u00a0 It was like he was surfing a wave.<\/li>\n<li>Rubber Ducky was excited all morning. Guess why.\u00a0 He had a water collector (Gatorade bottle) set out in the rain and offered to rehydrate folks as the morning went on.<\/li>\n<li>Bootsy looked strong all morning, finishing the RIRO at a faster pace than we started it. Claiming to be more of a runner, he went to Parliament recently where BooBoo encouraged him to come to the Memorial Day festivities.\u00a0 Think about that.\u00a0 A guy went to a non-running workout where he was encouraged by the site-Q of one of the four weekly running workouts in the region to attend a Memorial Day convergence and completed a double-down with a RIRO.\u00a0 HIM!<\/li>\n<li>Palin was optimistic that we would utilize the shelters at VI this morning. He fell in love with the wet parking lot and did Palin things like stealing the Ziploc bag YHC had dedicated to the card deck.\u00a0 Unfortunately, he did not get mission control clearance to double-down with Murph, but it was great to be with him during the time we had.<\/li>\n<li>Spicoli arrived to VI on his own time. He was suddenly just there, and we were better for it.<\/li>\n<li>Superfly and Subfloor were the silent warriors this morning at VI, just getting the work done.<\/li>\n<li>The parking lot at the Y filled up as we worked through the card deck. Van Gogh thought it was a good idea to tell folks in the parking lot that we (F3) had been open for a couple of hours when we returned from Alcatraz.<\/li>\n<li>Madoff made it to the Murph after allowing YHC to run with him at Tanglewood on Sunday. He\u2019s ready for summer festivities!<\/li>\n<li>We had a couple of kotters today! Uturn was back out at VI.\u00a0 He\u2019s been rehabbing his hip\/legs and looked fresh.\u00a0 At Alcatraz, Hansel was half-way through the Murph when the vagrants from VI arrived.\u00a0 It was determined that Hansel at a workout was like the \u201cSpecial Appearance\u201d title that really famous people would get in the credits of populate TV shows.<\/li>\n<li>The double-down at Alcatraz spurred remembrance of the epic Memorial Day Triple Down from 2020 (Estate, Outhouse, Speakeasy Murph) where Zima did at least 3 Murphs. \u201cGood ol\u2019 days.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Workbench and Huckleberry made the Murph look easy. VG complimented Huck on the weight room work he\u2019s been putting in.\u00a0 High praise.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thanks, Cruiser, for the keys.\u00a0 We missed you this morning.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Memorial Day, fellas.\u00a0 Thank a veteran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A wet morning was fitting for 16 pax who jumped in for various challenges on a day set aside to celebrate the best of us. VI Warmarama: SSHs, Abe Vigodas, Whirlies, Cherry Pies The Thang: Mosey to the lower, larger parking lot.\u00a0 Speaker positioned at the approximate mid-point and F3 card deck pulled out, pax [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":472,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[144,105,77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alcatraz","category-convergence","category-village-idiocy"],"acf":{"q":"","date":"5.26.25","pax":"VI: Palin, Superfly, Spicoli, Subfloor, Uturn (kotters!)<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\nMurph: Madoff, Huckleberry, Workbench, Hansel (kotters!)<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\nDouble-down: Sputnik (FNG Mark Stamey, RIRO), Bagpipe, Bootsy (RIRO), Rubber Ducky, Rollback (RIRO), Van Gogh (RIRO), Greenspan (RIRO, QIC)<br \/>\r\n"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/472"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25192"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25194,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25192\/revisions\/25194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}