We had a few runners visit the Brayden neighborhood. And we had a good ruck club this morning.
Prayers up for marriages, Short Sale recovery, and our kids and their various accomplishments and challenges.
WARMUP: None
THE THANG: 4+ Miles @ Brayden, 3 stations 20 Seal Jacks, 15 Merkins, 20 Seal Jacks 15 LBC’s , 20 Seal Jacks 15 Lunges
MARY: None
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WARMUP: WM, IW, HW Merkins
THE THANG: honored Bob Kalsu, 100 Thrusters with Cindy while doing 5 burpees EMOM. After done we did 7’s Bigboys with Cindy and Merkins at the bottom of the hill.
MARY: Nope
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Bethel, Springfield 5K >2026
COT: Yes
4 early
2 for coffee and stories
4 trails
5 roads
WARMUP: petting Wegmans Boston Marathon medal
THE THANG: see above
MARY: too many to name
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Wegmans ran the Boston Marathon
COT: more petting
3.57 miles
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WARMUP: put rucks on, grab one sandbag to share while exploring a route to the spring trails trying to find the million dollar bridge
THE THANG: leave NAFO parking lot, go up the the traffic light and cross the street to hit the service road in front of the small strawberry field, the idea was to get into archer loop and go towards the barn but couldn’t find a clear path, walked next to road until we got to adventure rd.
Left on mill pond, all the way down to the new “half a million bridge” crossed the bridge and took a right on blue star until we hit the other “half a million bridge”, went across and went up the gravel service road all the way to the barn, left on parking lot and into archer loop, followed until we were close enough to the small strawberry field and went across the woods to hit a service rd, and then back to NAFO. This is what I wanted to do to begin whit at the beginning to avoid walking almost a mile next to Springfield pkwy.
Not happy with 4.5 miles, pax suggested to keep going and looped around the elementary school and back to COT.
MARY: take rucks off
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Manion, Bethel
COT: stays in COT
Tinsel OUT
WARMUP: Of course! Halo, around the world, single leg deadlift with the kettlebell a bit after some standard stuff without the bell (SSH,IW,HW) and yoga to make Coaster groan.
THE THANG:
Humane Burpee
Clean, Reverse Lunge, Press
Started individually then built into a complex
Clusters x3
Clusters from a Kickstand Stance x3
Weighted carry thrown in along with an uphill bear crawl and uphill sprint.
MARY: Burpee Snatch
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Read the newsletter
COT: was held
WARMUP: 51 SSH (DH birthday) Merkins, PP, WM and stretching
THE THANG: Star of abs workout 5 stations 20 reps each, first round the middle was 10 Burpees, second round was 20CDD, then on to circle of hell, one man took sandbag out and called a workout.
MARY: Nope
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Yep
COT: Of course the Why
WARMUP: the usual suspects
THE THANG:
MARY: ab-lab
ANNOUNCEMENTS: cannoli run, other newsletter type stuff
COT: held… Several prayers lifted up for a recovery for medical procedures , anxiety over job-transitions, etc. Lord be praised.
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