Category: Dawn Patrol

18 degrees and toasty

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WARMUP: mosey to coupons (rocks) with karaoke, butt kickers, and high knees along the way.
THE THANG: 3x rinse and repeat 8 exercises, all in cadence:
Merkins 15
Peter Parkers (from elbow plank position) 30
Curls 15 (with 1 big coupon)
LBCs 20
Arm Raises 20 (with small coupons)
Box Cutters 15
Side Arm Raises 10 aka Monkey Cymbal Crashers (with small coupons)
Freddy Mercurys 20

Each round had a short mosey with side straddle hops or seal jacks before returning to coupons.

Running bonus at gravel parking lot:
2 x 80% lap with recovering lap
1 x 100% jail break up hill to road

Mosey back to COT
MARY: none needed
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Old Bay on Q next week!!!
COT: Gratitude for our creature comforts (shelter, warmth, food, water) in light of what people without those necessities are facing in this cold weather. Prayers to lean in to God and be light as we go through our lives.

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Pick your poison

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WARMUP: SSH, IW, Hillbillies, MC, merkin
THE THANG:

Nosey to stairway down from Epic where we did Apollo Ono, Side lunge, mogul jumps while trading off sprints up and down the stairs.

Next OB and MM traded off picking a spot to run to where the other pax then called an exercise. YHC called varying count of burpees at every stop before running to the next spot.

MARY: done inside Thang
COT: lots of praises, prayers for kids starting college and returning to work after baby birth, prayers for being a better husband

Jekyll was missed. He’ll certainly bring some form of misery back to DP soon.

Thanks to OB and MM for the fellowship and push throughout a cold morning!

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In case you missed it

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WARMUP:
10 squats with 60lb sand bag and ruck
THE THANG:
Wait for folks to show up
MARY:
Throw down some sandbag work
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:
At Panera

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Sure you don’t want to just grab a coffee?

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WARMUP:
Goofballs
Low slow squat
Low slow merkins
Let’s get outta here, it’s cold

THE THANG:
4 corners around Kingsley loop:

2 rounds, 20 reps each of

Corner 1 – Upper Body
Merkins
Derkins
CDDs

Corner 2 – Leg Day
Squats
Lunges
Sumo squats
Good mornings (hello dawn patrol)

Corner 3 – Gut
Big boys
Flutters
Hello Dollies
Plank jacks

Corner 4 – Get some (just 1 round)
SSH
Burpees
Bear crawl

Repeat – we got to Leg day a 2nd time

MARY:
Sprint the last 100 yards or so back to COT

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

COT:

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Phi Slamma Bama

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WARMUP: The first 10 mins of the ruck
THE THANG: We continued the ruck for another 35 mins covering the Alabama route rolling back down Main St and then up around the Pharmacy and back home. No official Strava results but certainly close to 3 miles. Pax moved briskly throughout to keep the heart beating and the body warm. Nice job by all pax!

Great to have Bacon out for his first post at DP.

MARY: Nah
ANNOUNCEMENTS: D2D, wine event, etc
COT: yes!

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4 corners of Pain

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She was a balmy 31 degrees. I was the only one wearing shorts. Go figure. Great to see so many faces at DP!
WARMUP: run to sunbelt parking lot. Standard array of SSH, IW, squat, cherry pickers, arm circles, merkins. Some karaoke thrown in for good measure to get blood pumping on cold morning.
THE THANG: 4 corners with reps of 25 each. Run between the corners. Squat, Carolina Dry Docks, Merkin, Mountain Climbers.
MARY: yep with some stretching
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Charity Wine Dinner fundraiser Feb 6th at Epic. Sign up is in 2nd F channel.
COT: Bella, sunrises, family travel, the Pax.

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Bury those burdens

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WARMUP: Standing at start waiting for Pusher to get his act together
THE THANG: We completed a holiday lights ruck through FM. Along the way we shared some low points, burdens, disappointments from 2024 with a fellow pax. We did Gravediggers at the start for the hole to bury those burdens and then Gravediggers again at WEP to cover them up. Lots of spirit and energy throughout from the pax!
MARY: yes, 2 mins at end
ANNOUNCEMENTS: NYD convergence
COT: prayers and praises Cspan style around the group. Coffeeteria afterwards at Humble Cup. A great wrap to Year 1 of Dawn Patrol!

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Boxing Day Double Q

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WARMUP: Boxing Day background from Gump
THE THANG: We stayed put in the Amphitheatre the whole 45 mins other than taking turns to run with imaginary box held overhead as the timing device for each exercise. Exercises included box jumps, boxing jabs, upper cuts, Box straddle hops, dips, derkins, squats, windmills, box cutters, and more
MARY: yes, included throughout
ANNOUNCEMENTS: some
COT: yes! It was great to have Flounder and his son (Emeritus Nantan of Cape Fear region — Gump) lead the pax. Good spirit and energy among the pax, including several Double Downers. We missed Jekyll who was FR with inlaws for holidays.

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Round Robin

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Perfect weather morning for 4 PAX to show their mettle
WARMUP: pearls on a string
THE THANG:

Jekyll: Curls, overhead press, tricep extension, bent over row at the rock quarry.

Old Bay: Suicide series with merkins and seal jacks

Minute Man: Lunge walk/ bear crawl series

Minute Man: Dips/ derkins/ step up series

MARY: Freddie mercury, box cutters, heals to heaven, LBC
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Charity Wine Dinner Feb 6th st Epic. Signup genius in 2nd F channel
COT: 2.0s

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Burpees for Breakfast

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WARMUP: The walk from car to AO
THE THANG: Rucked 2.3mi with stops for burpees and core exercises along the way. Lovely holiday light tour of FM plus fellowship followed by coffeeteria.
MARY: include in Thang
COT: Of course, as always!

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