FAMILY!!!!!!!!!!!

It was to be a day of celebrations: Field of Dreams is turning 1, YHC was celebrating 1 year with F3, Laettner was celebrating a successful year of being site Q, and Lunchbox stepped up to the leadership table to take over as Site Q.  I was super excited as were the guys the chatter on slack was strong this week to get as many as possible to post.  I actually took time to write down a workout.

I showed up early to walk off, there were already about 8 PAX in the parking lot playing frisbee and I knew it would be good day.  My expectations were for around 20 maybe 25 guys, then it happened, PAX starting rolling in and rolling in and rolling in.  I was already emotional from the start at how many guys came out today. Whiteboots made the trip from Newport as well as Twitty, WiFi, and Flipova from Beaufort, My big bro LETC was in town.  We also had 2 FNGs.  The pressure was on but I was so pumped up.  Mission statement,  5 cores, Disclaimer and lets go.  But wait we had one more coming in, 1 burpee for Pillbox coming in hot.

Mosey to the courts for a little Warmarama, at this point I guess the emotion got the best of me because apparently I was 12 again with a cracking voice while calling cadence.  That or I was just needing to be heard above the chatter.  That would stop soon enough as the beatdown began.  We started with 11s with Burpees and Merkins.  We were also adding in 5 burpees at intervals between each routine.  We also took time to rest right now, which consisted of a peoples chair while Griswold talked to us about what f3 has meant to him over the past year.

Mosey to fields for a Merkin DORA: 50 Diamonds, 100 Doublewides, 150 Merkins, 200 Carolina Drydocks.  P2 would lunge down field 2 burpees and return.  The chatter seem to be stopping during this routine or at least turned to complaining.  Which made me feel awesome that the PAX were sufficiently hurting enough to express pain.

Mosey to baseball field for our namesake routine Field of Dreams.  split the guys up in 4 groups stay with your group around the bases performing different exercises at each base for 5 minutes.  Time was running short but just enough time to do a Catch Me if you Can back to the Flags.  5 Burpees with bear crawls.  Switch up half way with 10 merkins and lunges.

We did several Mary exercises and ended our workout with 5 burpees and some SSH ic.  Hard Stop

Announcements were long today.  We started with words from Laettner about being Site Q and handing over duties to Lunchbox. I asked Snooki to talk to us about his experiences with F3.  When he could understand what he was saying through the emotion I caught one word and it was really the only thing that anyone needed to hear FAMILY.   Thank you Snooki for being willing to talk about your experiences this past year and it has been a joy to be apart of your life.  Laettner said he was taking care of coffee so we knew coffee would be big today.

A praise for things going successfully for Putin at MEPS this past week, you will do your dad Navy and all of us proud.  The guys allowed me to close us in prayer.

I am not elegant with words the way some of guys are, when I read their BackBlasts I am blown away.  I know what I feel I am just not always good at expressing it.  I think I will stick with the one word that Snooki said that pretty much explains how I feel about you guys. FAMILY!