News and Notes from the F3 Princeton AOs, and the F3 Nation
Shout Outs!
📣 Shout Out to The Machine for hosting Q School @ The Rising!
This week’s schedule& Qs
Primary Announcements
🚨 OAK IS CLOSED ON THURSDAY 🚨
Due to the Thanksgiving holiday, the OAK will be closed this Thursday so that the PAX can enjoy time with their families.
Movember Challenge 2025!
Hey Gents, We have A LOT of great stuff going on in November- the Scrambled Challenge, Merkin Challenge but I encourage. you to join me for ONE more! MOVEMBER!
Movember is all about bringing awareness to men’s health issues- including mental health/suicide, prostate cancer, testicular cancer. Here are the stats: Men die on average 4.5 years before women with many of these being from preventable causes. 11 million men globally have a prostate cancer diagnosis, Testicular cancer is the most common cancer among young men. And finally, one man dies every minute of the day from suicide, with men accounting for 69% of all suicides. These stats don’t include depression and anxiety that many men live with daily. The move part we got, this month we will be rucking, running, climbing, attending beatdowns and doing our merkins.
So what do we do?
GROW a mustache! (the fun part) see my pic below from last year, the kids say I look like the Lorax!
MOVE- in all the great ways that we do in F3 Princeton!
*****This could be REALLY fun if we embrace this- I hope some of you join me on this journey. Give me a comment if you plan to join the team!
ScarU
Scrambled Egg-cellent Challenge– November & December!
Saturday, November 1st is the start of 2 Challenges:
1.Scrambled Egg-cellent Challenge – Post at ALL our F3 AOs from Nov 1 to Dec 31 as many times as.you want. To make it more exciting, we will have point system… A. Just Posting at another AO – 1pts B. Posting at another AO and bringing Pax – 2pts C. Posting at another AO and bringing an EH – 3pts D. Leading a workout (Q/VQ) at another AO – 4pts E. Leading a workout (Q/VQ) at another AO with an EH – 5pts
Hey Princeton Pax!!! I just saw your announcement about The Scrambled Egg-cellent Challenge in your weekly newsletter—now that’s egg-straordinary news! I’m truly honored and shell-shocked with egg-citement.
In fact, I’ve got some eggs-tra special breaking news of my own to crack open. Omelet you in on it—I’ve been hatching a plan to shell out 50 downrange posts before the year ends. I’ve only got 15 left, and those will now include all 8 Princeton AOs.
So to your Pax, I say: “Catch me if you can—because I’m on a roll!” (Or should I say… an egg roll?) SYITPG!!!
Scrambled
Prize patch for finishers! This will be the reward patch for PAX who attend all 9 AOs.
F3 NJ November Merkin Challenge!
Brothers, Another month of November challenge for ALL to be IN. This time, this is a NJ Region challenge coming directly from F3 New Providence – The Frontier. It’s the:
2025 Garden State Merkin Challenge!
The month of November brings the annual merkin challenge!
Declare a goal, and get after it this month. The Frontier will be tracking the total merkins and see which region does the most (total, average) and who does the most merkins overall!
Simply add your name to the spreadsheet, declare a goal and then update your merkins on a daily basis throughout the month.
Click the following link to add your name and get ready to fire this up on November 1st!
Join IN the fun with your F3llow NJ Region brothers!
Spread the word!
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Book Club is Back!
Dear PAX, We are bringing back to you the Bookclub. Where good inspirational books are recommended for reading and discussion is done on a few chapters of the book. One of our F3 Jacksonville PAX Mervin ( Ex NFL player) wrote The Chair Leader. I talked about this in the COT at the Rising. I know this is a restart of our Book club. Winter is coming and book reading OYO and then talking about it is a great experience. Please order the Chair Leader ASAP so we can start the book club soon. Thanks
Cruiser
Please join us for the Book Club, we start ONE WEEK FROM MONDAY, NOVEMBER 10th! (buy the book on AMAZON asap!)
Hey guys let’s support @Brian Huang (Zelda) in this 5k! It’s a great event where they give holiday presents to kids who are less fortunate. You can walk, walk/jog or run. Either way we can do it together!
HopewellThirsty Thursday, Every Third Thursday – 12/18 – 6pm
Stay tuned for details…
3rd Annual Winter Solstice – Saturday, Dec 20, 2025
Four hours fellowship ruck/walk (8pm – midnight – approx 13miles) at the D&R Canal. We will invite other NJ Region AOs and make it as a Winter Convergence.
This means, Pax who wants to do this, needs to start rucking – 2 months to train.
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F3 Princeton App now available!
F3 Princeton has its very own mobile app! Thanks to Grasshopper for putting this together! Currently available in the iOS App Store and Android!
Brothers, As part of our commitment to safety, we need to be prepared for emergencies that may occur during any F3 event. To be prepared:
I like to ask folks NOT in Slack to get into our F3 Princeton Slack. If you don’t know how or was never invited to it, let me know or someone, so you can get invited. Below #2 will be format of how you’ll add your profile info.
If you’re in Slack / have Slack Profile, kindly updated as:
Full Name field: Given/Hospital Name Display Name field: Given/Hospital Name (F3 Name) Title field: Add your In Case of Emergency (ICE) Contact Name & Phone Number Phone Number field: Best Phone Number to contact you.
This is a MUST thing to complete for everyone’s safety. If having issues updating your Slack Profile and need help, pls let me know or someone. Thanks in advance! Peace!
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Battle Buddies in November!
Thanks to BH for organzing this. Find your partner above and let BH know if you want to join next month.
Missed the F3 Princeton shirt order? Check this out…
You can still order a shirt at a slightly higher price at the following link.
Posting at another F3 location is know as posting “downrange”. If you’re traveling, check out the #downrange channel on the F3Nation Slack for opportunities to meet up with brothers all around the world.
F3 Princeton Region SLT Updates
Catch up with the latest news around the F3 Nation with the following Podcasts.
Disclaimer – Is the disclaimer given before every F3 workout by the workout leader or site Q? Cell Phone on your Body? Does at least one Pax have a cell phone with them during the workout? CPR Certified? Does at least one Pax know CPR at each AO and preferably at each workout? Site-Specific Safety? What else is/has your Region and AOs doing/done to ensure safety is prioritized and plans are in place?
Read the full Article about F3 Nation; A Workout Craze with a Side of Faith and how it is impacting the lives of men in suburban TX communities and around the Country.
