Charity Challenge – 1,000 Mile Challenge
Last year, YHC sent out a challenge to F3 Columbia to run 1,000 miles in 2018 (1,000 Mile Challenge Pre-Blast). The idea was to have a friendly competition between Running AOs through Charity Challenges, which benefits the Green Beret Foundation and Team RWB. The results from 2018 are in… TEAM LEADERBOARD AVERAGE MILES (F3 Teams): F3 …
WE’RE BACK for a New Year’s Day 2019 workout.
Goals have been set to accomplish more in 2019. Our growth as men and as community leaders must develop each and every day. F3 has taught us that our bodies and minds can be pushed past limits we never realized. 33 Men kicked the fartsack in the teeth this morning to start a new year …
Cool and Lovely
The conditions this morning were just like YHC, cool and lovely. 8 PAX showed up in the mist for a standing tradition at Amble – the Blossom St out-and-back. Simply run out for 20 to 22 minutes, turn around and come back. It allows all the PAX to get whatever speed and/or distance they want …
Thanksgiving Week Zipper
13 started out for The Famous Zipper tour back and forth on the streets of Heathwood on a beautiful fall (57 degree) morning and 15 finished. Great start to a week of celebration of our abundance. Kotters to Pretty Boy and Cheddar both returning from injuries.
2018 TURKEY DAY Preblast
The leaves are changing and cool weather has set in. That means it’s time for Thanksgiving and the annual Turkey Day festivities. This year will bring a little bit of a twist so pay attention. DATE 22 NOV (Thursday) 22 NOV (Thursday) TIME 0600 – 0700 0700 – 0800 PLACE Brickpile (Dreher HS) Brickpile …
F3 Columbia Homecoming Tailgate
The Details Date: Saturday, 10/27/18 Time: 2:30pm – 7:30pm What to Bring: Something, preferably finger foods or dessert (I also really enjoy pigs in a blanket, wink wink). This event is also BYOB. McLovin and Bubbles has graciously allowed us to use their spot for tailgate and we can’t be drinkin all their beer. #therewillbechicken Who: Everyone, M’s and 2.0’s, …
Amble – 10/22
Conditions: 40 degrees, cloudless, cold enough to make the run hurt and feel great simultaneously. The Thang: 10 pax circled up to hear YHC’s ode to a throwback route with a slight modification. Ever since YHC has been posting at Amble (one of the original #F3Columbia running AOs), he has been hearing about the cherished …
F3 Columbia 6th Anniversary Pre-Blast
October 2012 was the beginning of it all in Columbia. There wasn’t a #BRICKPILE or shovel flag or many men downtown that even had a clue what F3 was or better yet, what it could mean in our lives. It has helped many Sad Clowns (YHC being one of them) get off the couch and …
#Amble – MLK Park Loop de Loop
Temperature: 72°, Humidity: 90% https://www.strava.com/routes/15598542
AYG at AMBLE with an FNG!
16 PAX, including an FNG, rolled out the sack for AMBLE and 3 Ruckers to find out what YHC had planned. Since Technology is a fad, YHC didn’t post a pre-route so nobody had any clue what they were getting into. Thank goodness YHC checked the Twitter prior to posting to see that Woody called …
5/5/5 for the 2018 Amblversary
“Ain’t no party like an #Amble party cause and #Amble party don’t stop” 16 PAX posted to celebrate F3 Columbia’s original running AO‘s 5-year Anniversary. The plan was for each PAX to run either a 5k or 5m in honor of 5-years. Of those in attendance it’s important to mention we had two Original Gangsters, …
Ambling on Monday
Fresh off of several days in the #Fartsack during a spring break trip with the M and 2.0s, YHC emerged from the #Fartsack excited to lead the PAX of #Amble this AM. Accepting the offer of the AOQ to lead this band of #HIMs, YHC made the call to take the PAX on a mini …
#Amble Runs the Cross
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. John 3:16 Just as you would not be able to condemn one of your own children to death and damnation, our Heavenly Father was also unable to condemn us. …
Amble Sprints
8 PAX posted this early Monday morning to put the final touches on P200 training or just preparing for the upcoming challenges they will face. YHC was glad to have this time with these guys because some in attendance are participating on our over 40 P200 team! Proud of their commitment. Here’s the THANG! Conditions: …
Breaking Hearts at Amble
Fresh off of a shameful #Fartsack on Tuesday, YHC emerged from this AM excited to lead the PAX of #Amble this AM. Accepting the offer of the AOQ to lead this band of #HIMs, YHC made the call on this Valentine’s Day to get creative with the route. While was not chocolate or roses offered …
New Years Bull-Vergence
On any New Year’s morning, it is often a challenge to emerge from the #Fartsack in search of a way to #GetBetter. Candidly, many of the various #Jesters (whether the celebration of the night before or the anticipation of football on the day of) will tempt a former #SadClown to stay home and choose the #BluePill. However, …
Charity Challenges – 2018 1,000 Mile Challenge
A couple of years ago Jar Jar convinced a bunch of PAX across F3Nation to join him in a pushup challenge through the Charity Challenges organization. For 3 months we logged pushups with the goal of completing 10,000; 20,000; or 30,000 pushups individually and earning the highest team total. It is probably the one and …
Amble on the #MuleTrain
AKA the indian run, YHC called a bit of a social group run combined with some speed work. It hadn’t been done at Amble in quite some time (>2 years) and seemed appropriate on this last run day before Christmas. Robber even showed off his running backwards skills. Conditions: 50 and clear The Thang: MuleTrain …
Amble November 10k
Shout out to the 12 who braved the “cold”. As the temperatures drop don’t let the same happen to your standards when it comes to getting work outs in during the week. It will be cold, but you will warm up really quick unless you run super slow, then it may take a little longer. …
First Run of Finter
6 thick-skinned #AMBLE PAX decided to #DoTheHarderThing, challenge the chill and pursue excellence in all things by posting on the first really cold day of “finter”, you know when fall and winter merge. YHC didn’t think it was too bad until Cheddar, a Wisconsin native, started in on how cold he was. Suddenly it felt …
Stumble Turns 3 and Breaks a Record
32 pax*, including #Amble and even a couple of 2.0s, joined YHC on a recreation of the first ever #Stumble run and welcomed a new AOQ. Conditions: Someday it will be fall. Someday. But not today. The Thang: Recreate the first ever Stumble run on October 13, 2014: Olde Knight > Galway > Macon > …
#The Zipper returns
Conditions: 73 and warmish The Thang: When YHC is the Amble Q chances are pretty good The Zipper will be the route. #The Zipper is a good, fairly flat and flexible route. It never gets too far away from the AO but can be modified for a run distance of anywhere from 1 mile to …
A change of “PACE”
YHC never had the opportunity to Q an AMBLE workout until today and this was a chance to see how we could test this group. Not an easy task. 10 PAX posted to take the Monday morning challenge. Here’s the THANG! Conditions: 70 and HUMID!!!!! Mosey away from Brickpile toward Adger and turn left. Warming …
F3Cola Palmetto200 Pre-Blast
If the Mud Run is the F3 Superbowl for boot camps, the Palmetto 200 could be considered the F3 Superbowl for running. It has become the signature #CSAUP event for F3 running AOs, BUT IT IS NOT JUST FOR RUNNERS! If you are a regular boot camp attendee, you can handle the P200. Find a …
Show me your…. Amble/Ramble-Kickoff Convergence 5K
23 PAX gathered under the glorious steeple of Shandon Presbyterian Church where two shovel flags stood in salute to the men of Ramble & Amble and their Kickoff Convergence 5K, a celebration of football season’s arrival. Conditions – 72 and a bit muggy Disclaimer – Check Prior to the start, YHC passed out a few LED …
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Capture the Stumble Flag 10k
Six PAX; Shocker, Noonan, Fallout, Cutler, Trademark & YHC set out at 0515 on a quest to conquer the forbidden land of #Stumble and return with booty. That means treasure men (or in this case, the #Stumble Shovel Flag), get your minds out of the gutter. The remaining nine wrapped with #TheArmory and began their …
Amble Goes Old School Kilbourne Out-N-Back
Six faithful Amblers braved the humidity and took on Kilbourne. Conditions: Terrible The Thang: Kilbourne Out-N-Back via Daly COT/BOM That is all.
#ForeverToThee Out-N-Back
Fresh off of a beat down at #SwampFox on Thursday from Snowbird and with my legs reeling from over 2 miles of running and a ton of upper body work, YHC emerged from the #Fartsack excited to lead the PAX of #Amble this AM. Accepting the offer of the AOQ to lead this band of …
Amble BackBlast
17 meet in the gloomy soup for a 4.8 mi Heathwood/Shandon/Melrose Heights Loop. Biggie posted this morning and was congratulated by all.
Columbia Convergence at Legion 7/4/17 76
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” It’s difficult to think of another statement that so concisely sums up the core principles of what we believe in …
#The8s – A new twist at #Amble
Inspired by #preamble, YHC called a double loop of a figure 8 route that stayed close to home. #The8s was born. Conditions: Almost perfect – 58, low humidity The Thang: Left on Adger Left on Devereaux Right on Daly Right on Murray Right on Adger Right on Devereaux Left on Daly Left on Millwood to …
Welcome Back, Kilbourne Hill
Amble celebrated it’s 4th anniversary last week so it was only fitting to go to one of the original, out and back, modifiable routes-the ever popular Kilbourne out and back! The Conditions: Humidity was a preview of July and August… The route: leave Dreher, up Adger, right on Deveraux, left on Kilbourne. All the way …
Workout of the week May 14-20
Q schools are great and they are going to continue to happen this year. In the interest of letting pax know what YHC thinks the aspects of a good workout and Q are more consistently, we’ve decided to start a workout of the week (WOW) post that will run (nearly) every week. The purpose of …
Amble turns 4
Just a mere 4 years ago a small group of pax came together to form a running group and named it Amble. Over the years and after a few location changes Amble has been a consistent running group for the men of F3 Columbia. Even though there have been running groups branch off, Amble is …
Ramble/Amble Good Friday Cross Run Convergence
GOOD FRIDAY CROSS RUN: Short Devo from Readings below: HEB 4:14-16; 5:7-9 Brothers and sisters: Since we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast to our confession. For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our …
Table Rock Ultra 50k Preblast – The toughest hoodie you will ever earn
If you want to skip all of this and go straight to the important stuff, scroll down to Registration Details. The Backstory A little over a year ago I was enjoying post Dawnstrike coffeeteria in Starbucks when PaperBoy started talking about an event called the Table Rock Ultra 50K, which is a 32 mile ultra …
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We Threw a 10K and a Runvergence Broke Out
Stumble and Amble both hold semi-regular 10Ks, so it seemed right to join forces. This month’s event was hosted by the pax of Stumble, with Amble set to return the favor in April. No doubt after today’s experience they’ll come up with something extra hilly. 28 pax showed up to shred the Eastside hills, tying …
Dreher Loop de loop
There is nothing better at Amble than getting done early and flying out the parking lot past the boys of Iron Yard on the way to Eggs Up Grill for some extra coffee time. Now I know why Ramble is always in such a hurry. YHC decided to continue the Fast Friday tradition, while at …
Betaless Out-N-Back
With Love Bug on the Q, the pax were eagerly awaiting his announcement of the route for the morning. He pulled it out of his back pocket and we went from there. Conditions: Mid-50s, a little breezy. The Thang: Millwood to Maple to Lee to Greene Out-N-Back COT/BOM
You Can Come Home Again
Fresh off of a beat down at #Thunder on Thursday from Paperboy and with my legs reeling from 2 miles and 100 Burpees, YHC emerged from the #Fartsack excited to lead the PAX of #Amble this AM. Accepting the offer of the AOQ to lead this band of #HIMs, YHC made the call to take …
#Amble Goes on a Trip
#Cobains for the late BB Conditions: Chilly The Thang: Run around in a funky square-ish route with a little dangle on the end. COT/BOM That is all.
#Amble Play Indiana Jones
With no scheduled Q for the morning, YHC volunteered while standing there waiting to go. The Ark of the Covenant hadn’t been searched for in quite some time, so off we went. Conditions: Perfect for running, 55 The Thang: Ark of the Covenant out-n-back: Out of the parking lot right onto Millwood Quick right onto …
“How many is too many turns?” asks the #MysteryQ
Conditions: 49 and a bit humid but not bad for running The Thang: Leave AO, cross Millwood to Bellwood Bellwood to Amherst Amherst to Devine Devine to Harden Cross Harden to Santee Santee to Blossom Blossom to Saluda Saluda to Edisto Edisto to Heyward (AKA “Fannie Ave” in honor or F3 Heyward “Fannie” Cathcart) Heyward …
Devereux Stroll
The first Monday of February brought back typical South Carolina warmer weather as well as our good friend Red Light. Glad to see him back out in the gloom and running with the pax. After several weeks of running towards downtown, I decided it was time to go another direction. Conditions: 44 degrees and calm …
State House Roam a.k.a. Half Baked Q #Amble
11 PAX took to the morning to face an uncertain Q…whoops. After collaborative efforts on route details from Sister Wife and Dry Heave, the group launched into a State House run. Props to Noonan & PC for digging in deep on the home stretch. Conditions: Cloudy and cool. Great running weather. The Thang: Right onto Millwood; …
Brace Yourselves, BRR 2016 Is Coming
*** UPDATE: Shirt order *** The 2016 BRR shirt is out! If anyone’s interested in saving a few bucks on shipping, YHC is putting together a bulk order. The order will go in next Wednesday evening, 7/13. If you want in: sound off in the comments (or DM @copyhacker on Twitter) with your shirt size, style, and other deets …
Amble 01/22/16 Shandon Zig Zag
6 PAX came out to get better on a cold wet winter morning. New 4.1 mile route full of zig zags in the Shandon neighborhood. Route inspired when YHC noticed the posted Ramble route was somewhat similar to our planned route. By making some slight modifications the route was almost the exact reverse of the Ramble Pax. Good to see the …
Amble 1/20/16 BB S. Holly Loop in Reverse
9 pax braved the chilly weather for a somewhat new route that featured sneaky hills. As Q I wanted to shake things up a bit. After a quick stretch, all 9 faithful set off into the chilly gloom. Conditions: 28 degrees and thankfully no wind The Thang: To warm up we left the parking lot and …
Amble Report 1-18-2016
Six faithful gathered at Dreher on this MLK holiday Monday to shake off the weekend and get back at it. Nothing fancy today, just taking care of business. T-Claps to Sisterwife and Double Rub for the 5:00am #PreAmble miles in prep for P200. Here’s what we did today: Conditions: Cold. 33 (ish) The Thang: Cross …
The Bar None Run
A nice little 5K to start the weekend off! 7 men showed up today to brave the morning. We were cheered on at our midway point by some eager running fans closing down one of the local watering holes. Who remembers doing that?! Conditions: 42 degrees and you could feel the rain coming. …