Opted against sandbags this morning – everyone nursing injuries/recovering from illness.
Super windy but stayed dry.
3.5 mile zipper route. Great conversation.
Rain poured on the drive home. Some mornings you get lucky.
WARMUP: N/A
THE THANG:
Guys paired up. One would carry and the other was off for 6 minutes at a time. They started with a coupon and once they had both carried it once, they swapped coupons with another group.
Coupons:
– 80lb sandbag
– 40lb sandbag
– 5 gallon water jug (~40lbs but doesn’t carry like a sandbag)
Rucked the zipper with the coupons for an hour
MARY: N/A
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Newsletter
Thank you Crystal Lake for the opportunity. Always great fellowship at this AO!
WARMUP: None
THE THANG: Three mile loop: 160 to Spratt, right at the gas station, right onto Harris St, down the hill to Harris St Park, right onto the trail that gets to WEP through the woods, to the WEP amphitheater, follow path around WEP, right onto 160, left onto Clebourne St, follow it to Main St, right onto Main St, back to COT.
Stops every 10 minutes for 10 reps of each:
Ruck swings
Ruck upright rows
Ruck squats
Ruck curls
Ruck overhead presses
Those without rucks who carried sandbags did 10 bag tosses and 10 plank bag pull throughs
MARY: none
ANNOUNCEMENTS: read the newsletter and get involved
COT: P&P lifted up
Thanks for the opportunity to lead
NASA
Tour downtown churches to find their stairs and the Harris Street’s dark path to WEP. A couple of pain stations sprinkled in.
WARMUP:
THE THANG:
Academy St. to Monroe White St. stop at the intersection and the man with the bag walked backwards up to the top of the big hill to the abandoned parking lot entrance, then back down forward and go up the other side of the fishbowl backwards up to Confederate St, back down to the starting intersection to hand off the bag for the other man to repeat, then we walked down Academy to Country Club Dr, Howington Cir, Banks St, Phifer St, Allison St, Banks, 160, back down Monroe White St, up to Watson and back to COT.
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:
11 men attended the weighted stroll this morning. We made our way around town finding a hill at the bottom of Harris. Backwards walk up the hill, trek around WEP and one last look at the downtown XMAS lights
WARMUP:
THE THANG: brisk walk around Main Street with brief trip up and down stairs. Wandered towards the golf course, then back for some backwards hills at the 4 corners. Almost 3 miles
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:
WARMUP:
THE THANG:
Head past the Print Shop to take the big hill backwards with the bags, then headed back past the Print Shop to head up Main Street and start the zipper route
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Christmas Eve Convergence
COT:
WARMUP: None
THE THANG: walk around WEP to Harris St, take a right down the hill, at the bottom the man with the bag starts walking backwards up the hill. Switched halfway, then back around WEP, around the loop back towards COT, finish with another round of klaw up Massey St. hill.
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:
So, it started as an idea for a nice, or heavy, Sunday ruck before Church. Well, it’s now turned into a morning staple for some. I’ll tell you this, I always walk away grateful. Grateful that Crystal Lake was willing to make this official. Grateful that the hour ALWAYS includes laughs, even teenage boy humor. Grateful that we typically have a few “real” conversations and today was no different. To land the plane, I started the day, grateful.
WARMUP: Sure. It included rucking up and 5 of the 9 PAX grabbed a sandbag, too. We’d rotate on/off the sandbags every 6mins unless I forget, of course.
THE THANG: I don’t remember all the roads traversed but we started by making our way to WEP then meandering our way to “Gun Shop Hill” where everyone had the opportunity to walk down and “KLAW” (walk backward) up the hill with ruck & sandbag. We then made our way around our farming village some more and even made it back to the hill for a repeat of the walk/klaw experience.
MARY: Nope
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Register for the Christmas Party if you haven’t and you’re still reading.
COT: Yes.