7 Pax shook off the temptation to fartsack in sympathy with the P200 smartsackers and gathered at LILO for a taste of St Paddy’s Day pain.

The Thang

Warm up run path to far side of WEP

COP – Mtn climber, IWs, SSHs, Windmills, Merkins, Squats

Run to hill and down to base

Traditional Jacob’s ladder – running 7x up and down w/merkins at the top starting w/1 and adding 1 each trip up

Run path back the way we came stopping at playground

Pulls ups x10, CDDs x10, Monkey humpers x10 (3 cycles)

Plank sequence, including the Leprechaun (aka the Plank Punch)

A Few Mins O Mary (our favorite Irish lass), including her Latin friend Rosalita

Run back to parking lot and grab a Bucket O Gold (aka cinder block)

Line cinder blocks across parking lot circle to form stations for each pax to do deep incline merkins between two blocks

Incline merkin suicides up stairway to heaven – Deep incline merkins x10, run to light post and back, 10x DIMs run to next light post….repeat all the way to top and back.

Derkins x10

Burpees x10 OYO

COT

Naked man moleskin

St Patrick’s Day was the perfect morning for our friend O’Pie to post at LILO, making the trek from Indianland.  Plus, he brought along another friendly lad from those parts, Bloody Knuckles.  Great to have you both along for the adventure!

Bird Cage and Hasslehoff scared off MacGyver and Corruption, who chose to get in five miles over hill and dale rather than submit themselves to boot camp agony.

We closed out with prayers of gratitude from all pax, taking a cue from YHC’s near miss of disaster on the way to WEP at Peach Stand intersection.  Much to be thankful for, especially the gift of our F3 brotherhood.

Thanks to Twister for the invite. Always a privilege to lead the pax.

12 gathered around the planted flag.  Italian Job led off and moseyed the PAX to the parking lot for a Patriot style warm up…

To the serene tune of birds chirping in the background:

• 20 SSH
• 20 Imperial Walkers
• 20 Moroccan Night Clubs
• Various stretches (L over R, R over L, Wide, Butterfly, a few others)

On to grab some wall and in the seated position tap the head, knees, and ground – 20 in cadence.

….the serenity began to fade.

Mosey (the long way) to the football field where entrance was gained one way or another. Don’t tell the law man (we trespassed).

Handoff to Peach

20 Minutes of Blackjack with Merkins and LBCs…50 yds in between (20 Merkins/1 LBC, 19 Merkins/2 LBC…all the way to 1 Merkin and 20 LBCs).

…serenity is now long gone. The humidity has caught up with us. Mumble chatter has ceased.

The PAX give a strong showing and once we are thoroughly drenched Peach passes to Geppetto.

Using the football field it was 4 corners

• Lunge 100 yds
• 25 Low Slow Squats at the corner
• Bear Crawl to the next
• 25 Mtn Climbers at the corner
• Side shuffle 100 yds to the next
• 25 Low Slow Squats at the corner
• Burpee Broad Jump to the next

4 corners again..this time with sprints in between.

• 25 Heels to heaven
• 30 Side Crunches (15 each side)
• 35 Flutters
• 50 LBCs

Back to the COT for count off, Name-o-Rama, Announcements (most of which were about various events where one is required to run long distances for no particular reason), and prayer requests.

Great day at the Patriot, and a perfect start to the weekend…serene or not.

-Geppetto

Posh led 14 men through a hotbox sweatfest at Old Town. Here’s what we did.

Warm Up

• SSH
• Windmills
• SSH

The Thang

Long Mosey down Main Street to the hotbox parking garage. We performed the following exercises:

• Run to the top
• Sprint to the wall and back (x4)
  • Merkins in between
• Sprint back to ground level
• 35 Merkins on level 1
• 30 Merkins on level 2
• 25 Merkins on level 3
• 20 Merkins on level 4
• 15 Merkins on level 3
• 10 Merkins on level 2
• 5 Merkins on level 1
  • American Hammers until the 6 was in
• 35 Squats on level 1
• 30 Squats on level 2
• 25 Squats on level 3
• 20 Squats on level 4
• 15 Squats on level 3
• 10 Squats on level 2
• 5 Squats on level 1
  • American Hammers until the 6 was in
• 35 LBCs on level 1
• 30 LBCs on level 2
• 25 LBCs on level 3
• 20 LBCs on level 4
• 15 LBCs on level 3
• 10 LBCs on level 2
• 5 LBCs on level 1
  • American Hammers until the 6 was in, a few Hello Dollies, and 5 more LBCs to finish us out.

NMM

As always, it was a pleasure to get stronger with the PAX of Rock Hill. Great impromptu Q by Posh this morning. Welcome FNGs Beaker and Quick Silver (Choir Boy’s 2.0). Today marks another week of double digit posts for the Rock Hill AOs (though I fear that streak will end with 66 of the Fort’s finest doing final preparation for the Palmetto 200). Per usual, Burgundy and York led the PAX with newcomer Beaker hot on their heels. Reborn and Schrute were both pushing YHC to try to catch up with them. TClaps to Quick Silver for putting in the work this morning and keeping up with the gazelles. Big time respect to 2^nd week poster, Pistol. 57 never looked so fast! Don’t think the improvements Blueprint, Van Wilder, and Choir Boy are making aren’t being noticed. We see you guys getting stronger and faster. Great leadership and epic mumble chatter from our 6 by choice, Apache. Boots, you’ll be missed – even if Creed says you won’t.

Something big is happening in RH. Keep bringing FNGs – they don’t know how much they need what you have discovered. #GiveItAway

Prayers

• Boots will be leaving for boot camp in two weeks
• Posh’s M will be giving birth sometime this week
• PAX running in the Palmetto 200
• The homeless men and women of Rock Hill (shelters closing)

Announcements

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Well YHC was reminded by the one and only Chief Turkey Puncher, Apache that I was on the Q for Petra at 830pm. so behind the 8 ball I remembered that Petra was a #slowburn AO So what I put together on the fly was going to be slow and burn quite a bit. 15 PAX showed up in the gloom

THE THANG:

WARM UP –

• STRETCH those old bones and muscles – CSPAN would be proud
• WM (IC) X15
• SSH (IC) X15
• MNC (IC) X15
• CDD (IC) X15
• SEAL JACKS (IC) X15
• STRETCH a little more
• PLANK for 30 secs.
• HONEY MOON from the Plank to yes again stretch the back out.

MOSEY – One full lap around the parking lot

LET A BEAR BE A BEAR!

Bear Crawl Merkins – Up hill the parking lot bear crawl to each parking spot line then do one merkin. Turn around and Bear Crawl Merkin back.

This looked really good on paper but the slow burn really burned and produced some mumble chatter.

ZOMBIE RUN –

• 2 rounds – Zombie Run is like an Indian Run but you lunge walk while the 6 runs to the front of the line. Good old mumble chatter and groans with this one. SLOOOOW BURN.

LET A BEAR BE A BEAR again –

• Bear Crawl Merkins – This time 5 rows – up and back

We did a set of high knees & butt kickers to the cross walks of the parking lot

Another full Mosey around the Parking Lot

LET A BEAR BE A BEAR again –

• Bear Crawl Merkins AGAIN this time 10  rows up and back.

However, I did stop to explain a little bit about the lines.  Marcus Latrell the Navy SEAL and Lone Survivor how when he was under fire in the mountain side of Afghanistan – he took a rock and drew a line in the sand, and said he would drag himself until his feet crossed the line. When they did, he did it again.  All with his back broken and shot. for 8 to 12 hours.

So YHC told the PAX when they have that point in their day, especially after lunch on a Friday where they want to phone it in for the day, picture Latrell and draw your “line in the sand” and just get to that point and do it all over again.  — 60 count over —

After the Bear Crawls we became Zombies once more

• Zombie “Ran” for another round.

Mosey back to the front of the Bingo Hall to circle up for a round of

• 5 Captain Thors – (Jack Web for abs)
• Next Dealers choice for Ab lab to the end.

Thanks to the PAX for allowing me to lead them today even though I was not fully prepared. I hope I didn’t disappoint.

16 Pax met on this glorious spring morning to study Jude. Italian Job crossed the Catawba river to attend today’s session. God asked Stang to pray for Anchorman during our study for reasons that exceed our level of understanding. God called him to bless our brother. Stang’s response was an honorable demonstration of his obedience to our Father. #Goosebumps…

Here are takeaways from today’s discussion.

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Jude 3 ~ I had been eagerly planning to write to you about the salvation we all share. But now I find that I must write about something else, urging you to defend the faith that God has entrusted once for all time to his holy people.

Takeaways:

• Learn the bible so that you’re able to discern whether what others say is founded in truth.
• Establish a personal relationship with Christ through prayer and serving others.
• Do you defend the word of God when someone twists the gospel for their personal benefit?

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Jude 16 ~ These people are grumblers and complainers, living only to satisfy their desires. They brag loudly about themselves, and they flatter others to get what they want.

Takeaways

• The act of complaining shows that we don’t appreciate God’s plan for us.
• What would you do if a person always complained after you gave them something? You’d stop giving them things which is why we should not test God with complaints.
• If you complain, you remain.

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Jude 23 – Rescue others by snatching them from the flames of judgment. Show mercy to still others, but do so with great caution, hating the sins that contaminate their lives.

Takeaways:

• Sinners who are lost don’t know it so don’t judge them.
• Your Godly actions/reactions will be observed and hopefully adopted by lost sinners.
• Hate their sins but love the sinners.

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Moleskin:

The Gospel is ours to defend so be on guard. Replace complaints with thanksgiving. The best gift that you can give to a sinner is the presence of God’s love. We are blessed by God’s grace and mercy so pay it forward.