WARMUP: SSH, Windmills, DownDog, Honeymooner
THE THANG: Just 2 things, running and merkins. 250 Merkins, 3.5 miles of running
MARY: everyone called something
ANNOUNCEMENTS: read your newsletter.
COT: Prays for health, marriages and travel.
WARMUP:
THE THANG:
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:
WARMUP:
The usual, SSH, Moroccan night clubs, lots of arm circles, low slow squats
THE THANG:
Disclaimer… Tabatha: every time the alarm went off… 10 Carolina dry docks every two minutes, 10 squats 30 seconds after that
Evolution: toss your sandbag to light pole towards car pool line, carry it no next one following the street, toss, carry… and then we found a ladder… loaded up the ladder with sandbags, one pax will carry sandbag while the other 6 went under weight carrying the ladder on their shoulders, remember Tabatha? Well, every time alarm went off, ladder is grounded, dry docks and squats are performed, rotate pax on sandbag, keep moving… movement was dictated by Tabatha… back to start point, 5 minutes of broga… while at it… yes, alarm went off again… just a few more CDD and squats.
MARY: broga
COT:
Prayers for our kids and those with health issues,
Tinsel :christmas_tree: out
WARMUP: Nope –
It’s a running/rucking/jogging AO
THE THANG: route called – leave the high school up the hill, north on Munn – left on Kingsley park drive to the crossing at 160 into the Kingsley development for 1 mile loops. Return the way PAX left the AO – Between 3-5 miles were had by all.
MARY: no
ANNOUNCEMENTS: always
COT: remains the 5th core principle
Thanks for the opportunity, Gekko. :eye:
We warmed up with a few stretches here and there and moseyed to the back lot where we met up with light poles. Broke into three groups to tackle the course and
Each pole had a letter composed of the site THEYARD, but the letters were scrambled to ensure misery and extended running between poles. Most of us got two rounds under each pole.
T
Donkey Kicks
Merkins
A
Squats
Lunges
R
Box cutters
Burpees
H
SSH
Burpees
Y
Man climbers
Grave diggers
E
LBCs
Dying Cockroaches
D
Bobby Hurleys
Hello Dollys
We had a great COT with announcements and genuine prayers and praises. Prayers for Tater’s M!
WARMUP: Skip ran us through his old site Q grounds with a plethara of stretches. Then decided to do a bunch of burpees at every street.
THE THANG: passed baton to Warning Track who ran us to pull up bars for 5 pull ups/5 push ups. The. Ran us to the hill (you know which one). Down hill for LBCs at bottom and squats at top. Rinse and repeat. Passed baton to Soup who ran to parking lot for a Coupon work dora.
MARY: some abb work to get us to 0730
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Golf tournament
COT: Prayers for Stephen Johnson (my brother in law). May you rest in peace my brother.
3 men showed up at The Fort this morning. Quick disclaimer and we were on our way towards the Print Shop. Stopped at the town hall office building for some dynamic stretching, Step -ups and dips next store, Muscle ups at the wall. Continued on to the park overlooking Main Street. Bear crawl/Merkin combo along with lunge walk/ squat combo.
Arrived at the pull-up bars for 4 sets of pull-ups, leg lifts.
Headed back to main street where Grout had a plan. Light pole shuffle run, 1 burpee at each, 1 merkin plus an additional merkin at each pole. 15 poles , 120 merkins total.
Back to WEP for some Mary.
Great job guys!
When: Saturday 9/13/2025, 06:00 – completion
Where: Nation Ford High School, Football Stadium
Why:
9/11 is a day nobody will ever forget. Nobody should ever forget. Many lives were lost and America as we knew it was forever changed after that day.
What:
In honor of the 24th anniversary of that fateful, horrible day, we will be doing a 9/11 Memorial Stair Climb.
Each of the NYC Twin Towers had 110 stories and 2,070 steps. The football stadium bleachers at Nation Ford High School (aka Honey Badger, Ring of Fire, and Varsity), there are 6 rows (the larger two-way rows) of steps, each row with 34 steps. Going up then down each of the 6 rows gets you 204 steps, which is one round. Repeat that 10 times, or 10 rounds, +1 more row, you have 2074 steps. We would run all 6 rows 10 rounds, then add one row to make it 66 rows total. Granted we’d be going up 66 times, down 66 times, but we’d get the total step count in. To keep things easy, we decided to do 11 total rounds.
After some encouraging words and lifting up some words in respect and honor of those lost, we set off. Some ran, some speed walked, others rucked. A few replicated the 60-70 lbs average load a fireman carries when prepped to fight. Coupons were added to the mix too. Work was done, excellent fellowship was shared, and the patches were well earned. Everyone did a GREAT job. It was quite a morning.
One thing – the stairs in twin towers, all 110 stories, would yield an elevation gain of 1,100 ft. Unfortunately, after 12 rounds or so, I only got 900 ft elevation gain. SO…..doing the math, next year we will be going for the elevation gain, which means we will have to do 15 rounds total of all those steps.
Thanks for the opportunity to lead.
NASA
WARMUP: Negative.
THE THANG: 4 PAX & 2 Sandbags made their way to the Colosseum then back to 160 but not before walking backward with the sandbag up the hill. Yes, that hill.
We then crossed 160 and made our way into Brayden for a walk around and another uphill/backward trek.
We logged a few more steps, too.
MARY: Nope.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Yes
COT: Yes
WARMUP:
Jekyll started out. Standard fare for warm up before starting a mosey.
THE THANG:
Mosey down to lowest point in Kingsley area. Pax instructed to “chose wisely” from the pile of quarry rocks.
Together, pax did 3 rounds of 3-sets of exercises:
– Curls
– Overhead presses
– Tricep extension
Q stick handed over to OldBay where we moseyed up to shopping center stairs (near the hotel) to find instructions for “Triple Check”
Pax form groups of 3. From each group, 1 pax does a wall sit, one an exercise (listed below), and one runs around the shopping center building (including up the stairs). Once all pax in the group had done all positions, moved on to the next exercise. The exercises were as follows:
1. Merkins
2. Heels to heaven
3. Seal jacks
4. Box Cutters
Times up! Head back to COT.
COT:
Shovel flag hand-off from Jekyll (co-founder of Dawn Patrol) to YHC. Big shoes to fill, and honored to have the opportunity to lead at this amazing AO.