It’s Official

It’s Official

QIC: Starfish

Date: 03/18/2018

PAX: Fingers, BAM, DDay, Lite Brite (WD), Hoptoberfest, Sgt. Schultz, Tuco, Undertow, Cobra, Cobra's Dog (WB), Starfish

Back in the halcyon days of our youth, aka two weeks ago, we had a quiet little gathering of like-minded #HighImpactMen on Sunday mornings in F3WinstonSalem, aka Dash Pax Ruckers.  Then, we got the idea to go official and get ourselves added to the reborn F3WinstonSalem website.  Oh, wait a minute, better post the pax names here since the website may or may not display them:

Pax:  Fingers, BAM, DDay, Lite Brite (WD), Hoptoberfest, Sgt. Schultz, Tuco, Undertow, Cobra, Cobra’s Dog (WB), Starfish

Date:  March 18, 2018

Now, where was YHC?  Oh yeah, we were reminiscing about the good ol’ days where we had an intimate gathering strung together largely by very low key Twitter direct messages, fake HCs by @Geppetto, getting lost in Bermuda Run and icicles in our beards.  And then last week, we decided to go official.  And then our DM list got taken over by Natville’s @Smokey who might be smoking something and is REALLY into rucking.  #DPRRedwoodOriginals @Cobra and @BAM even left the DM group and YHC was tempted to leave the DM group, but wasn’t sure what would happen if he left a DM group that he started.  So we persevered.

And now, apparently we are also required to post preblasts on the reborn website (even though YHC did post a preblast with all salient information on the #Twitter).  And YHC was always planning on posting this here backblast, but isn’t so sure that he will actually go through with it because of the #Twitterstorm apparently going on courtesy of the self-proclaimed #WebsiteCzar.  YHC still, at the time of writing this very sentence, doesn’t know whether the interwebs will ever see this masterpiece.  It really is quite the internal conflict going on.  Does YHC stick to the original plan and post the #DPR backblast anyway, even that might make the #WebsiteCzar believe that he has influence and persuasive powers over what YHC does?  Or does YHC hide his light under a bushel and resist?  Will anyone actually really ever read this?  YHC sure does miss the old website where all F3Nation regions came together, pax actually DID read the backblasts AND comment on them.  Why did @AP have to shut that glorious culture-building thing down and leave it to all of the regions to fend for themselves?

Anywho….9 strong and resolute men showed up at the Calvary Baptist parking lot before 0645 this morning.  Having received an #HC from #NantanEmeritus last night, albeit one with the warning that he was celebrating his Irishness, YHC decided we would take a lap around the parking lot just in case #HungoverCobra really showed.  YHC loves him some #HungoverCobra and his #3rdF was rewarded when @Cobra and @Cobra’sDog peel in on two wheels right as we were heading out of the parking lot to tackle the pre-planned (AND preblasted) route.  @Fingers and YHC shared some great #2ndF, picking up where we left off at last week’s #FirstOfficial #DPR and came to the conclusion that music and mathematics are so closely related (and then when YHC got home and turned on CBS This Morning, @WyntonMarsalis was saying THE SAME THING…..#Freaky).  @Cobra and @Cobra’sDog caught up to us and kept moving right on by when we threatened to start another gun control debate.  @LiteBrite, fresh off representing the #DashPax at Natville’s #Ruckus, decided he would walk right up to the bear and poke him by telling @Cobra that @Gunny was exponentially tougher than @Cobra.  Or something like that.  At least that’s what YHC heard.  Soon thereafter, @Tuco, @Undertow and @Hoptoberfest (#DPRFNG) sprinted to catch up, saying that YHC looked lonely.  That wasn’t loneliness.  That was keeping a safe distance between #Bear and #BearPoker.  Climbing Bryanplace/Allistair, YHC was so enthralled by the conversation of the now eightsome and distracted by seeing @Huckleberry and @TouchMeNot running down the hill we were trying to climb UP, that we missed a turn and had to doubleback on Litchfield to get back on track on Fernmarch.  #ExtraCredit.  And then in at least the second #Qfail (if you don’t count not posting a preblast on this website), YHC completely dropped @SgtShultz and our second #DPRFNG @DDay.  Actually, YHC didn’t drop them.  It’s just that @SgtShultz likes to carry something like 150 lbs in his pack and hang back in case @Fingers decides to play any Canadian rock and roll.  But he ran the risk of hearing @DDay, who is actually Canadian!, wax eloquent about the #GreatWhiteNorth.  We all know that @SgtShultz has a problem with the Commonwealth to our North.  Just hoping he and @DDay were able to find some common ground on their long walk in the suburbs.

Here’s the route we were supposed to do:

http://www.mapmyrun.com/routes/view/1977697901

The first #Qfail caused an additional 1/2 mile so according to @Fingers’ generous MMR lady, we did 6.05 miles.  318 feet of gain.  All three Fs.  Not bad.  And let’s never forget about one of the more important Fs……#Fun!

See you next week.

Here’s a pretty good article YHC read this week about rucking:

https://www.strongfirst.com/how-to-ruck/

If you haven’t yet been out to #DashStrong’s newest official workout, grab a backpack and some weight and join us next week.  We’ll think about posting a preblast on this website.  To be safe you may want to watch the Twitter.