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RING OF FIRE · OCT 20, 2021 Ring of Fire Q: backdraft · 7 PAX 46 degree morning with a full moon. 7 men were ready to get the day started. We had a brief disclaimer set off on a Mosey and worked into a bit of warm ups, headed to the pull up bars 5,4,3,2,1 hold al gore In-between… RING OF FIRE · OCT 6, 2021 How Much Time Will We Waste? Q: Punch List · 11 PAX Last week a dear brother of ours passed unexpectedly. He was one of the good ones - and he taught me a most valuable lesson about time spent and time wasted. He fought his demons and let them reign supreme for far too… RING OF FIRE · MAR 31, 2021 Impromptu Q: Band Camp · 13 PAX 10 PAX @ 0515, but no Q Kaiser tapped me to run point until B.O.B. arrived Warmup circle near parking area to make sure BOB wasnt' searching for us when (if?) he arrived. Did some warmup stuff -SSH -MC -Shoulder Tap… RING OF FIRE · FEB 24, 2021 Movement Q: gears · 15 PAX 14 Men, 45 Minutes, Goals Met. The Thang: COP Warmup: - SSH - IW - MNC Mosey to Parking Round-a-bout, bear crawl the circle Pearls on a String - 3 sets of each group after some distance. Mosey - Merkins - 10 - Monkey… RING OF FIRE · FEB 3, 2021 Ring of Fire honors fallen heros 9 PAX YHC got the call to Q the newly renamed AO Ring of Fire in honor of our fallen F3 brother Cash. NAFO has become the home where we honor a lot of our hero's who have fallen to protect our families and nation. It is also… RING OF FIRE · JAN 27, 2021 Running in Circles Q: Pusher · 9 PAX 8 HIMs gathered at Ring of Fire today with many thoughts on their mind. Would Pusher bring it? Would it rain? Would we do pull ups? These questions among others brought the Pax into the gloom seeking all 3 F3s and YHC… RING OF FIRE · DEC 30, 2020 Looked Better on Paper Q: Fishstix · 8 PAX I arrived a bit earlier this morning to scope out some areas of the campus that I have yet to explore. Eight men showed up on this brisk morning. We began with a slow mosey around the elementary school parking lot and… RING OF FIRE · SEP 1, 2020 Pick your Poison Q: Shield · 5 PAX After yesterday's IRONPAX ordeal, it was my intention to have a moderate workout planned for the Pax in attendance. The warmup was a quick mosey around the NaFo parking lot followed by windmills, Morrocan nightclubs… RING OF FIRE · AUG 5, 2020 Ring of Fire at the Coop Q: HarryCarry · 10 PAX Ten pax posted at the Coop for a “ring of fire” workout. Warmup Mosey run (with butt kickers, high knees, toy soliers) SSH (12x I/C) Windmills (10x I/C) Imperial Walkers (12x I/C) Morrocan N/C (10x I/C) Low Slow Squats… RING OF FIRE · JUL 15, 2020 <p class="p1" style="margin: 0in;margin-bottom: .0 Q: Professor · 10 PAX RING OF FIRE · JUL 8, 2020 Punch List hand off to Maximus at The Coop Q: maximus · 10 PAX 2 guys showed at The Coop for a little pre-Ruck and life chat then the phone rang. With his Concentrica in order, Punch List had to head home. Thankfully, I attended most of elementary school so I knew how to read and… RING OF FIRE · JUN 24, 2020 Last minute substi-Q at the Coop Q: Cadre Olaf · 5 PAX [video width="1280" height="720" mp4="https://f3thefort.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/20200624_060252.mp4"][/video] RING OF FIRE · JUN 10, 2020 <!-- wp:paragraph --> 6 PAX RING OF FIRE · MAR 11, 2020 March 11 at The Coop Q: maximus · 20 PAX Super creative? Absolutely not? Wordy? Definitely not? Recap of the work done? Absolutely GQ on warm up for his first ever crack at Qing. He ran us to a spot, performed some warm up exercises, adapted to the feedback… RING OF FIRE · FEB 19, 2020 20% More Q: gears · 10 PAX Today was a day a long time coming, but more in the NMM. 10 Men showed for a soggy beat down at the Coop. Here's what we did: The Thang: Mosey, with some shuffle, to the practice field. COP - SSH - Mountain Climbers … RING OF FIRE · JAN 8, 2020 <p style="text-align: left">It was a brisk morning Q: Joe Lyons · 11 PAX RING OF FIRE · DEC 4, 2019 Twitter Burpee Challenge 11 PAX There is something about twitter and Slack (your welcome Crab Cakes) where you get to poke the bear and start a rash of replies about which AO is better, which one will have more PAX post, and who's WO will SUCK more… RING OF FIRE · NOV 6, 2019 2019 Q4 PFT at The Coop Q: FunHouse · 18 PAX Here are the results of the 2019 Q4 PFT 1 Minute of pull ups, sit ups, push ups and a 1 mile run Results from Today. No order. Bold are the top numbers for a sections. Results from this year. Order is how many PFT's… RING OF FIRE · OCT 2, 2019 QvQ 19.1 - Jiffy vs. Sasquatch Q: Punch List · 19 PAX 21 PAX showed up to the first round of QvQ 2019. This first round is the classic match up from last year, which was decided by ONE point! That’s right, the reigning champ versus his challenger. Jiffy versus Sasquatch… RING OF FIRE · SEP 11, 2019 September 11 Memorial Stair Climb Q: Shield · 35 PAX Today I was honored to lead 39 men of the Fort in my version of a 9/11 Stair Climb.... I asked these gentlemen to bring rucks or sandbags and headlamps. This was to simulate the equipment worn by the first responder's… RING OF FIRE · SEP 4, 2019 Bleachers of Pain 17 PAX Going to start off saying this is Punch List's fault. I talked to him earlier and asked him 2 muscle groups he wanted to hit during todays workout. His choices were quads and back. We had 2 FNG's at The Coop ready to… RING OF FIRE · AUG 28, 2019 Power 10 Catch Me If You Can 16 PAX 20 HIM Caught each other in a Power 10 Catch Me If You Can workout with partners Power 10 - 10 reps of exercise, 9 reps, 8 reps...1 rep Partner 1 starts with 10 reps of exercise while Partner 2 nurs or runs slow… RING OF FIRE · JUL 31, 2019 2019 Q3 PFT at The Coop 6 PAX 8 men came out to see where they stand on the 2019 Q3 PFT. YHC is on the IR for a tummy issue. Youts is the only 3 Peat Participant. And WOW has he made some awesome progress! Here are the numbers: Here are ALL the… RING OF FIRE · JUL 3, 2019 Making Bad Things Better Q: Spider · 12 PAX Most of my Q's in recent months have been ruck focused. As I started thinking about what we would do on Wednesday, I realized that one of my last bootcamp Q was likely when Wegman's held the QvQ event at The Coop in…