You Don’t Lick Them!

4 runners: NASA, Double D, Sprocket, Cubbie
4 ruckers: BassOMatic, Fogarty, Crab Cakes, and THE Twister
WARMUP: Yes, mother nature warmed things up for us, a very swampy 78 deg start at 0515.
THE THANG:
The ruckers went off holding hands and singing camp songs, while the runners went to the lot between the football field and the school. It was partially under construction but still provided a 400m loop where we did pyramid Fartleks:
5 min easy warmup run, then hit the intervals:
2 min hard, 1 min off
3 min hard, 1 min off
4/1
5/2
Then back down
5/2, 4/1, 3/1, 2/1
Then a 3-4 min cool down run to COT, where the ruckers met us along the way there.
Everyone crushed it, even though it felt like we were running inside a steam sauna. Zero air movement too. We all left some water weight behind.
MARY: none
ANNOUNCEMENTS: read your newsletter and get involved!
COT: mentioned Men’s Mental Health Awareness Month again and had a brief discussion on that. Lifted up P&P.

Speed work is the way to becoming a better runner. It is not just for sprinters, and it does more than just improving your average run pace. Endurance, leg strength, lung capacity, VO2, aerobic capacity, anaerobic capacity, threshold limits, and more all benefit from speed work. Ideally it is done regularly in ones running plan, like monthly or bi monthly. You won’t expand your limits unless you push your limits.

Thanks for the opportunity to lead.
SYITG and Blessings,
NASA

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Harvest Pointe and back

WARMUP:
Headcount was done (10) and route called out for runners (Market to Settler Heights to Harvest Pointe, stay straight the whole time, until you can’t go any further down hill, then make the climb back out of the hole)
THE THANG: Runners ran and Ruckers rucked
MARY: Counted off (11), picked up the one eyed wonder Cyclops who got an early start on rucking.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Christmas party, BBQ/bourbon tasting, 7/4 Convergence, 7/3 Bethel, mow the FM Care center
COT: Had to be there

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When we are dancing tip to tip !

WARMUP: None. We stretched
THE THANG: Two Routes
Provided = Trails and Road
Ruckers Rucked. Sydney Swam
MARY: She was missed
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Bethel, Convergence 4th of July, Fort Mill Care center lawn, Newsletter, Trout to trout
COT: Always Special Always Private

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Waldo where are you?

WARMUP: None ! Got out of the car running to catch up.
THE THANG: Ruck to <#C055Y70G5QE>, show some grit and hall ass back to COT!
MARY: She was creepy, saw some dying <@U02D42U9J21> movements
ANNOUNCEMENTS: The Barry, 4th of July Convergence, Fort Mill Center Lawn Care, Bethel Church
COT: Always stays in COT!

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SIX OLD MEN EXERCISING AT 5:15

WARMUP: Disclaimer, mosey the front of the car line for COP
THE THANG:
COP (all in cadence): SSH x 20, windmill x 10, merkin x 10, Rosalita x 15, squat x 15, potato picker x 10, wide arms x 10, mountain climber x 15, Morracan night club x 30 while walking.

Mosey to the wall outside the school gym for People’s Chair. While in the chair, starting at one end, each pax does 5 merkins and returns to the chair. We did 3 rounds

Balls to the wall. Once in position, we ‘walked’ 3 steps left and went back 3 steps. Rinse and repeat while on the wall.

Mosey to bridge across the driveway and pair up. Four rounds along the bridge with exercises at each light.
Round 1: Lunge walk, 5 merkins at each light
Round 2: Light jog, 10 SSH…
Round 3: Bearcrawl 1/2 way with 5 squats, crabwalk 1/2 way with 5 dips…
Round 4: High knees 1/2 way with 5 jump squats, butt kickers 1/2 way with 5 jump squats…

Mosey back to the front of the school for Modified ST 300: 4 exercises followed by one lap around the parking lot

Round 1: Merkin x 10, LBC x 20, Monkey humper x 15, burpee x 5, take a lap
Round 2: Diamond merkin x 10, Freddie Merc x 15, alternate lunge x 15, burpee x 5, take a lap
Round 3: Stagered merkin x 10, hello Dolly x 15, hill billy walker x 10/imperial walker x 10, 5 burpees, return to COT

MARY: Mixed in throughout the workout

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Read your newsletter

COT:
Praise for health, family, F3. Prayers for family with illness, aging parents, traveling mercies for parents coming to town.

It was another great morning with my F3 brothers. The humidity was high, and so was the effort from the pax (all respectables today!). YHC heard some chatter about whether certain elements were ‘moderate’, but I don’t think anyone present this morning was unhappy about how they felt at the end of the workout. Having 50-plus and 60-year-olds out at 5am each morning, pushing ourselves, should make us all feel proud and extremely blessed. Few would have thought we’d be doing this at our ages! It was a pleasure leading the group today, and I look forward to the next one. Stay young, gentlemen!

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Standard Route

Flight Plan: Standard Route:
Market down to Sutton, Sutton up to 160, 160 back to Market.
One loop is about 1.5mi.
Some did trails and some rucked.
COT

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Little Moist Fathers Day tribute

WARMUP:
Couple of exercises in the COP to loosen up the PAX
Then dynamic around the WEP path with stops along the way for some more exercise moves
Back to main lot where DD took over
THE THANG:
Lunge walk up hill with incremental squats at each light pole 5,10,15,20,25,30
Mosey to hill for Jacob ladder
1burpee 5 donkey kicks

Back to CB where we headed to the playground
Partner 1 – swing crunches
Partner 2 – lap around playground
Swap for 3 rounds
Partner 1 – dips
Partner 2 – lap
Swap for 3 rounds

Back to DD
Circle up for some
Knee tar jai up to 5 rounds
Then into
MAK tar jai for full 9 rounds :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

Back to COT

MARY: Is the Mother of Jesus
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Nov 7 bourbon tasting
July 4 convergence
The Barry July 22
COT:
Good dads bad dads they all teach us something
Take from it and share with next generation
Be the servant leader you were made to be and love your wives and kids and yourself 3rd #iam3rd

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5 alive not at the hive

Thought the title was catchy since it rhymed with hive. Nothing crazy, started with a little broga and a slight mosey to back lot. Did a few high knees, toy soldiers, butt kickers and mosey up and down the BB court. Did one round at benches of derkins dips and step ups 20 each.

Moseyed back to the front of school for the bulk of the work. Supposedly 4 exercises per minute but timing was a little skewed due to the Qs ADD. 10 reps each of WAM, merkins, mtn climbers, shoulder taps. Big loop mosey. Next squats, sumos, clave raises, and monkeys. Little loop. Abs big boys, weezy Js, amer Hammers, Flutters Big loop. SSH, jump squats, OH claps, Moroccan Nights. Little loop.

Had a brief Q/a on what’s big thing for summer. Good family focused responses.

Ab lab and wrap up.

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