Seventh Time’s Almost a Charm – What Are The Odds?

Seventh Time’s Almost a Charm – What Are The Odds?

QIC: Burns

Date: 1.9.25

PAX: Lamb Chop (RIROFBS), Greenspan (RIRO), Pollster (RIRO), Mutton, Drip, Spicoli, Bevo, Van Gogh, Burns (WB, QIC)

YHC has now put on this workout on the Thursday closest to my F3 birthday for 7 years (1/12/18 was my official start date). Read to the bottom for a summative evaluation of this workout, including past BBs and PAX totals!

It’s f*ckin cold. 22 degrees, feels like 9. Put on your extra layers and lets get to work!!

WOR – minimal. Brief explanation of the rules and a very abbreviated Mission Statement/Core Principles/Disclaimer. SSH x15, Toy Soldiers and Michael Phelps x10.

The Thang – roll the dice. 2 colorful dice will tell you how many burpees to do, 5 b&w dice will tell you how many of the exercises to do. In order, do the burpees, do the exercises, and run a lap around one of the two large buildings in Thruway shopping center. The weinke has 8 exercises…for round 1 just do the first, then round 2 do 1 & 2, adding an exercise after each lap. To complete the weinke in full, you have to run the 8th and final lap, which once again no pax was able to complete. However, this AM was the closest we’ve ever come to a winner!

The exercises: Merkins, Squats, Mtn Climbers, Low Dollys, Diamond Merkins, Bonnie Blairs, Crunchy Frogs, Mike Tysons

The rolls: 4/20, 5/16, 6/17, 5/17, 6/20, 5/13, 7/21, 7/18

NMM:

Pollster, Lamb Chop, Greenspan, and Van Gogh were leading the charge today. VG has matured a lot re: certain pax Bonnie Blair forms. A comforting arm and a dejected “Buddy…” was all he said to a certain ovine gentleman. Greenspan believes that the cure to all (well, most) of our current societal ills would be for 45/47 to appoint himself ambassador to the new U.S. Territory of Greenland and disappear into the barren Arctic. Spicoli showed up on Spicoli time and immediately got to work, rolling our 2nd roll and securing a reasonable number of reps. Bevo also showed up on Spicoli time and was competing with Drip for happiest pax today.  Mutton was very complimentary to the Q for the beatdown after his studly effort – warmed my heart.  I feel confident that all other MC that was not recorded was positive and uplifting. Pollster & VG were nearly complete with their last set of exercises, but did not have time for the final lap today. It’s by far the closest any pax has come to finishing the drill…strong work, gentlemen!! This was also the first year (of seven) that YHC ever completed a single exercise on the 8th circuit.

CoT: Prayers for those without access to food, clothing, and shelter during this cold spell and upcoming snowstorm. Thankfulness for our group and our abilities.

Announcements: UA is mine tomorrow, come on out. Mutton has IS Saturday and will be voluntelling Qs for the rest of the Spring – sign up for one before you get signed up for one. He also is looking for a new site Q – step up and lead! Another leadership opportunity, F3WS is looking for a CommzQ to run outward facing social medias. Talk to VG or Frostbite about their vision, this would be an incredibly minor commitment but valuable to our group! Lastly, Greenspan was able to recruit 2 volunteers but still needs 2 more for Samaritan Ministries on 1/20 (MLK Day).

The Stats

All-time posts per pax:

• 7: Burns
• 6: none 🙁
• 5: Greenspan, Cherry Pie
• 4: Mutton
• 3: Turnover, Drip, Van Gogh, Root Canal, Crash, Spicoli, Palin
• 2: Boo Boo, Van Pelt, Bevo, Honey Badger, Zima, Cruiser, H.O.G., Starfish
• 1: Snooki, Blue Steel, Thistle, Glazer, Hazer, Tar Heel, Drama Queen, Hansel, Workbench, Wobegon, Pollster, Lambchop

The Backblasts

• 2024
• 2023
• 2022
• 2021
• 2020
• 2019

Future suggestions?

Some thoughts I’ve had over the years. What if we reduce the number of dice to 1 & 4? Would we be able to complete it? Probably, but I don’t want to do that. Can I alter the weinke at all to have speedier exercise? I’ve tried…I think this year’s is the best model and probably won’t alter it any further. Should I change the location to a shorter lap? Hell no, long live Thruway. Do you have any other ideas?? Let me know.