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Annie debuts on broadway – 1977

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WARMUP: SSH, imp walk, hillbilly walker, cherry picker, Moroccan night clubs, down dog flow, mosey lap around parking lot
THE THANG: light poles… stop at each one for 10 merkins, 10 squats, 10 calf raises.

15 in total back to the road

Mosey to picnic benches:
10 dips, 10, step-ups each leg, 10 irkins, 10 side straddle hop – completed 3 rounds

Mosey back to COT

MARY: 10x of: flutter, dying cockroach, penguin, lbc, box cutter, Rosalita, American hammer

ANNOUNCEMENTS: tortoise and hare postponed, QvQ and QSource tomorrow at cockpit, 5/16- cannoli run + overnight ruck, trash pickup – June

COT: health, Dr appts, praise for a NAFO lacrosse senior night and one player in particular who overcame childhood cancer

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Bucket Burn

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WARMUP: We warmed up

THE THANG: Buckets with all kinds of random work of all parts to the delight of the pax. Buckets were spread out around the parking lot so we could get a good mile plus of running in.

MARY: Yes

ANNOUNCEMENTS: College graduates were mentioned.

COT: Was a good one

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Sharks and Minnows at The Block Party

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Lots of dudes showed up to the Pond Party this morning .
Pledge..Let's go
First stop, The Pharmacy for SSHs and a couple burpees
Next Stop, New parking lot, Old Hardee's
10 merkins, 10 Squats, 10 LBCs.
Partner up with like speed so you and partner arrive at the destination at same time. I didn't do a good job explaining this, no worries we made it safely to the Post Offices
Same exercises, back to the parking lot, same exercises with partner dips and merkins until six arrives.
Next, we ran to the First Baptist Church parking lot. I did my best to describe this workout as the merkin mile, 20 merkins at each island, each lap, 5 laps = 1 mile. Once complete, we did the same routine swapping out the merkins for squats and LBCs.
Back to COT
Prayers for Wegmans Boston Marathon adventure.

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Spring fling

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WARMUP: walk up hill
THE THANG: right harris, right Boyd, right in neighborhood, stay left until sutton
MARY: none
ANNOUNCEMENTS: read newsletter
COT: thankful for every opportunity and prayers for kids ans families

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Hominy’s First Trip to the Block Party

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Warmup is OYO before 0515.

Count PAX. Mosey to Bottom of Massey St Hill.

Part 1: Bear Climb the Hill.
Do 10 bear crawl paces. Do 5 merkins. Do 10 walking paces. Do 5 merkins. Repeat.

Mosey to WEP Stage. Cut through parking lot, to McCammon St, to Faile St, to Ardrey St, the enter WEP.

Part 2: Park Loop Bench Tour.
Travel counter-clockwise. Stop at every swinging bench. Complete 5 merkins, 10 squats, 15 LBC at each bench. After returning to the stage, continue until arrival at playground.

Part 3: Swinging
Partners

  • One partner runs to the stage and back (through the grass) while the other swings. Switch.
  • We did multiple rounds of this.

Mosey back to COT via White St. Rendezvous with the two Runners.

Concluded with MARY.

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No route suggested.

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I didn’t even bother suggesting a route. Half the guys were going on trails to ruck train, the other half already knew where they wanted to go. And Vuvu and Stagecoach plotted their own deal together. Hey, I’m not bitter.

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Spring break is over

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WARMUP: OYO
THE THANG: Suggested route

Richard’s crossing to
R on front st to
L on 160
L on Stonecrest blvd
Through Walmart shopping center back to 160 and reverse back

4.4mi

MARY: no
ANNOUNCEMENTS: QvQ @ JOC this wed + QSource (mamon by Anchorman); tortoise and hare 4/25; overnight ruck 5/26; cannoli run; Springfield 5k

COT: praise baptisms, praise and prayers for time with 2.0’s (be present; they need us);

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Minnow Pond Greatest Hits and Shovel Flag Handoff

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My last day as site Q for Minnow Pond / Thursday Block Party, so I wanted to revisit some of the more fun workouts had here in the past.
WARMUP: None
THE THANG:
Part 1 – Harris St Hill Work
Proceed down White/160, left on Ardrey (by WEP), take it to corner of Ardrey and Harris St. That is the start. At start do 10 merkins and 20 LBCs, then run downhill to very bottom, across from Harris St park, do 5 burpees, then run uphill to corner of Harris St and Business 21, do 10 merkins, 20 LBCs, run back down to bottom, 5 burpees, back to start for 10 more merkins and 20 LBCs, then wait for 6. Others went back down to bottom for more burpees to pull the 6 back to start. Everyone LOVES Harris St hill!!
On to round 2. Proceed back down Ardrey to meet up in front of WEP amphitheater.
Round 2 – WEP Swing Loop
The walking path loop around WEP is approx 3/4 mile or so, with around 10-12 swings or swing stations (one of these days I will get the accurate count). Start from amphitheater towards large hill first. Stop at every swing and do 10 merkins, 15 squats, 20 LBCs. Due to time, rep count was cut to 10/10/10 about 2/3 through. By the time we all got back to the start, we had 2-3 minutes to get back to COT, perfect timing!
MARY: We had about a minute worth of flutters and something else.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Read the newsletter, get involved, invigorate your male community leadership.
COT:
Alot lifted up.

Today I handed off the shovel flag to a HIM that I know will maintain the standards set for Minnow Pond, Farmer's Only. Shady started MP up back in mid-2017 to be a place that will push you to your limits physically (1st F), but also fostered a strong 2nd F there as well. A minimum of ~3.2 miles (5K) with pain stations mixed in, so you HAVE to push your pace to get all that in within 45 minutes. That is the standard set. Other past site Qs – Longshanks, Jekyll, and Funhouse – all maintained that standard while putting their own flair on things to continue growing the 2nd F there. It was an honor, privilege, and blessing to take the reigns of what I feel is a premier site in The Fort.

When you have a strong fellowship to share your pains and burdens, it makes those pains and burdens much more bearable and manageable. When those two things come together like that, it is an awesome thing to be part of, and the result is growth in your 3rd F too, for you gain more faith in what you can do as well as who will be there to do it with you. This is a great microcosm of what F3 is all about. Planting a small workout. The black diamond aspect of it that pushed everyone to their limits drew them out. The magnet. The strong fellowship cultivated from it and by it drew you and others out, and kept them coming. The glue. Then you and others realized there is alot more to things than just working out, that you can get through hard things, that others will be there with you to help push/pull you along, and in turn you do that for others. Then it spreads outside the gloom. The Boom or explosion of growth. It is awesome.

Farmer's Only will be a GREAT site Q! He lives for pushing himself in all three Fs, and will do the same for others. Be warned, he LOVES burpees and pull-ups. HA HA!! Congratulations Farmer's Only! Well deserved and earned.

Thank you everyone for being a part of Minnow Pond / Block Party lore. Excited to see where it goes from here.
Blessings and SYITG
-NASA

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Masters Party at Dawn Patrol

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A tradition unlike any other…The Masters. This time of year is one of my favorites. The weather starts to turn warmer. The trees and flowers start to bloom. People start coming outside of their homes. And the NCAA tournament concludes right into my favorite sporting event of the year, the Masters. With this in mind, I thought I would prepare a Weinke inspired by the tournament. I borrowed some of this from Warning Track and others via reviewing their backblasts.

Weather – chilly 39 degrees at launch

Disclaimer given during lots of mumblechatter

COP
SSH x 30 – this is the standard
IW x 10
Cherry Picker x 10
CDD x 10
Mtn climber x 10

Mosey to the “tee box”

In honor of the Masters, we played the front 9 holes revealing the name of each hole, the yardage and par. Pax chose the club necessary for the shots based on the following criteria:

  • Woods including Driver – 10 merkins
  • Long Irons – 10 jump squats
  • Short Irons – 10 Big Boys

When arriving on the green, Pax were given the following options:

  • 2 Putt – # of burpees for par
  • Birdie – no burpees but must answer a trivia question correctly
  • Bogey – penalty if a trivia question was missed which equated to twice the amount of burpees

#1 Tea Olive – 495 yards Par 4
#2 Pink Dogwood – 575 yards Par 5
#3 Flowering Peach – 350 yards Par 4
#4 Flowering Crab Apple – 240 yards Par 3
#5 Magnolia – 495 Yards Par 4
#6 Juniper – 180 Yards Par 3
#7 Pampas – 450 Yards Par 4
#8 Yellow Jasmine – 570 Yards Par 5
#9 Carolina Cherry – 460 Yards Par 4

Had to cut it short after 8 holes but the Pax were even par with 3 birdies, 3 bogeys and 3 pars.

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VO2 Max Training at Clydesdales

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Many, and I do mean many, of the Pax rucked today. Those who did not ruck participated in V02 max training.

Warmup to Kingley
Stretch for 5 minutes
Loop around Kingley
12 minutes of hard running
Run walk back to COT

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