There’s always more
I’ve been tossing around several topics to write about this month. From how we’re a fraternity – a good one, mind you. That led to fraternity jokes. To warnings about how winter is coming and finally to introspective thoughts about my 5th year w/ F3. With that in mind: 1: I knew a guy who […]
Hickory by the numbers
We’re 5 years old now and still as strong as ever. No, that’s not correct. We’re much stronger than when we first started. Expansion into Burke County starts this month…..Morganton, we got our eyes on you. Still working on the men of Exodus to start an AO in SW Hickory. Something is going to work […]
Ladder BOMBS
3 pax posted on this nice cool morning at Copperhead Creek for a beat down from The Dude. And here’s how it went. No warm up The Dude got to the point very quick with a mosey to the parking deck. And things got bad really fast when he said “yep this is going to […]
F3 Granite Falls Q School, Part 3
“Wait . . . there is a third part to F3 Q School? I knew about part one, where we discuss the history, structure and reasoning behind the three Fs over a beer or sweet tea. And, of course, the beatdown portion was a no brainer; I knew that was coming. But what is this […]
Rucks of pain
Wow the IPC wk1 is no joke. 3 pax thought it would be a good idea to double down this morning. We met at 0600 to knock out the challenge needless to say it knock us out instead. We gave it all we had for a sold 2 and a half rounds and knowing we […]
2.0’s everywhere
Oh man the weather we’ve been having on these mornings is getting us pumped for fall to hurry up and get here. 5 pax including an FNG took out on our week 4 of the August GORUCK challenge. Which was a 3 mile ruck then 3 rounds of partner work. P1 Sprint out 50m while […]
Double down in T’town
Wow what a great day for a good ol beatdown at Copperhead Creek. Temps in the mids 60’s and a nice breez in our face. 4 pax decided it would be a good idea to double down this morning. At 0600 the 4 did week 3 of the August GORUCK challange. So just a quick […]
Upcoming 3rd F Opportunities
What: Travis Manion Foundation 9/11 Hero’s Ruck Where: Conover YMCA When: Sept 11th, 2019 @ 1830 (6:30 pm) Why: Ruck-N-Roll is hosting a virtual 5K ruck to honor heros and raise money for Travis Manion Foundation. Check them out here: https://www.travismanion.org/Bring your Flag! Invite Friends & Family! We would love to see all AO […]
Tug of War
Yesterday, I was under instruction by my M to help my 2.3 (Charlie) find a book to read. We were digging through some book shelves and couldn’t find squat that a 10 year old would like. We have a boat load of ones for really young critters by Richard Scary, Dr Seuss, and of course […]
1776 …ish
The sun was dawning on a muggy Taylorsville morning. YHC had aquired a snazzy new rucksack, so we decided to break it in with a quick 1 mile pre-ruck. Shawshank joined us when we made it back to the park and the fun began. A few weeks ago my brother had pointed out a workout […]