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Don’t Get It Caught in The Zipper

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WARMUP:
Run up to old hot dog place parking lot corner of Main and Clebourne, plank then wait for the group to explain the thing.

THE THANG:
THE ZIPPER
– Ran to end of Springs St to Summersby, then took a right to corner of Unity and Lockman. That was the start, or hoped it to be.
– For every road we headed west on (from Unity St, ending at Pine St), we did 10 squats, 10 merkins.
– For every road we headed EAST on (from Pine St, ending at Unity), we did 10 mountain climbers (double count) and 10 bombjacks.
– Whenever we crossed Springs St, we did a burpee.
– Proceeded street to street until we got back to Main and Tom Hall.

This was the plan, but evidently I did not communicate it clearly enough. Even so, PAX figured it out and got all the miles and pain stations in.

Guys were REALLY moving today, we all put in at least 3.5-3.75 miles, yet still got back to COT in time to do some Mary
Flutters
American Hammers
Hello Dollies
More
Next time I will add more pain stations.

Thanks self for the opportunity to lead.
NASA

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Week 1 F2F October – Atlas & Sasquatch

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WARMUP: 5 min dynamic plank warm up with upward and downward dogs; then dynamic moving warm up with butt kick, high knees, toy soldiers, lunges, skips, side shuffles, cariocas, heel walk, toe walk, bunny hips, mosey
THE THANG: 10 mins with Atlas – mosey to long straigh away with 3 light poles – suicide run to light pole 1 5 merkins, NUR to start 10 squats,, run to light pole 2 then 5 merkins, NUR to start 10 squats, run to light pole 3 then 5 merkins, NUR to start 10 squats, MARY x90″

10 mins with Sasquatch – mosey to front of school, circle up – everyone plank and complete 5 reps of a plank or merkin exerxercise called by Q (exercises includedshoulder taps, parker peter, peter parker, plank jacks, merkins, diamond merkins, wide arm merkins) upward and downward dog variations were also completed as we awaited the return of the pax (see next line)- 1 pax exits the cirlce and runs approximaley 30 yrds to light pole and completes 3 burpees and return sto cicrle, tehn everyone does one burpee toegether, then next pax runs to aforemetnioned lightpole to complete burpees while the circled up planking pax are doing the aforementioned plank exercises followed by upwards and downward dog until that pax returns to the cirlce

10 mins with Atlas – INdian run to the somehwat grasssy fireld – last person in line does 5 swauts and then rusn to the front; from goal line of field, lunge 10 ards, complete 5 merkins, bear crawl 10 yds, complete 5 merkins and repeat that cycle until you get to the end of the other endzone, mary to finish that last 2 mins;

10 mins with Sasquatch – line up 2 by 2 with a similarly sized pax, mosey togther, stop and complete 5 partner merkins in cadence, continue to mosey 2 by 2 and then stop to perform partner resisted pushes about 20 yrdsand switch with your partner to return- 2 cycles of that completed; mosey back towards COT and stop on the grass to complete 10 sit up get ups on curb with partner helping to pull to stand and switch for other partner to complete 10 reps; return to COT
Per several pax, 2 miles wereecovered during the duration of the workout!
MARY: some was interspersed
ANNOUNCEMENTS: newletters weekly on Sunday
COT: Great start to week 1 of F2F at Bushwood

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Rainy Loops round Harris

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WARMUP: no
THE THANG: cross 160 left toward peach stand cross 160 to hospital parking lot to stay on side walk and avoid construction. Cross back over 160 left at peach stand. Run to Cleburne (fort mill pharmacy) and peel around to Main St and take right. Jog to N Whit make right. Left on hill at Massey. Right at Harris. Up hill. Right at Munn and left at Kingsley Park Dr back to COT. 6sh at 6sh
MARY: no
ANNOUNCEMENTS: golf, trash PU, Bethel, convergence.
COT: prayers for family, travel, grief, aging parents, mental struggles and supporting our brothers.

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STL meets Jack Webb

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No warm-ups, no disclaimer (oops)
Ran down to school parking lot
Simple routine, at first light pole, kick off Jack Webb (1 merkin, 4 OH claps), run to the far end parking lot, 1 burpee. Add to the count +1 merkin, +4 OH claps and +1 burpee.
Finished with some time to spare, sprints between light poles and back to COT for bonus round of Jack Webb.

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Inaugural The Fort 9/11 Memorial Stair Climb

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When: Saturday 9/13/2025, 06:00 – completion
Where: Nation Ford High School, Football Stadium
Why:
9/11 is a day nobody will ever forget. Nobody should ever forget. Many lives were lost and America as we knew it was forever changed after that day.
What:
In honor of the 24th anniversary of that fateful, horrible day, we will be doing a 9/11 Memorial Stair Climb.
Each of the NYC Twin Towers had 110 stories and 2,070 steps. The football stadium bleachers at Nation Ford High School (aka Honey Badger, Ring of Fire, and Varsity), there are 6 rows (the larger two-way rows) of steps, each row with 34 steps. Going up then down each of the 6 rows gets you 204 steps, which is one round. Repeat that 10 times, or 10 rounds, +1 more row, you have 2074 steps. We would run all 6 rows 10 rounds, then add one row to make it 66 rows total. Granted we’d be going up 66 times, down 66 times, but we’d get the total step count in. To keep things easy, we decided to do 11 total rounds.

After some encouraging words and lifting up some words in respect and honor of those lost, we set off. Some ran, some speed walked, others rucked. A few replicated the 60-70 lbs average load a fireman carries when prepped to fight. Coupons were added to the mix too. Work was done, excellent fellowship was shared, and the patches were well earned. Everyone did a GREAT job. It was quite a morning.

One thing – the stairs in twin towers, all 110 stories, would yield an elevation gain of 1,100 ft. Unfortunately, after 12 rounds or so, I only got 900 ft elevation gain. SO…..doing the math, next year we will be going for the elevation gain, which means we will have to do 15 rounds total of all those steps.

Thanks for the opportunity to lead.
NASA

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11s and miles

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WARMUP: pledge
THE THANG: run to church corner down academy do 1 merkins. Then run all the way up hill to print shop then to pull up bars. Do 11s with pull ups and toes to bar. Run back past ABC store turn right on academy and go back down to church corner.
MARY: toes to bar count.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:

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Uphill both ways

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WARMUP:
THE THANG: ran to academy and whiters intersection.

Ran up the big hill to parking lot, 10 hand release merkins
Back down to intersection, 10 butterfly sit-ups
Up the opposite hill to the Baptist church driveway 10 hand release merkins
Back down to intersection 10 butterfly sit-ups
Repeat
Back to COT
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:

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Tour de Waterside

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WARMUP: Mumble Chatter

THE THANG:
Ran through Dominion Ridge to Whites Rd into Waterside. Visited the clubhouse and 2 roundabouts and then head back.

MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Golf tournament, anniversary convergence, 4.01K fundraiser

COT:

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Sweep goes metric

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A count of 10 pax posted for Sweep the Leg (Metric version).
Thang:
Starting at the earthfare lot, run to the flag pole in front of the elementary school.
This is about 1 km.
Do exercises noted
Run to the back side of the school, up the fire access road to Dam rd, this is also approx. a kilometer.
Run back to the flag poles; do exercises.
Run to the starting point/parking lot.
Run back to the flag poles; do exercises.
Run back to parking lot/not Dam rd.
We got in over 7 km.

Exercises at the flag pole:
First pass: Squats and Bomb jacks, 20 each
Second pass: LBCs and mtn climbers, 30 each
Third pass: lunges and BBSups; 40 each

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