Soft field, all work

WARMUP: Gathered for a quick disclaimer, no FNGs, ran about 200 yards. SSH, cherry pickers, windmills, merkins, squats, and some stretches.
THE THANG: Ran over to the football field with a few small stops. Based on the counts of the exercises, that were each each end zone, you did the count of the exercises on the yard line that matched the count. Counts of 60 were done on the 50. Once you did the exercise, you’d run to the far end zone to start at the top…then it was just back and forth working down the list.

List 1:
5 Burpee broad jumps
10 Diamond merkins
20 Merkins
30 Mountain climbers
40 Seal jacks
50 American Hammer
60 SSH
60 Moroccan night club
50 Shoulder presses
40 Crab cakes
30 Flutters
20 Big boy situps
10 Flying squirrel
5 Dive bombers

List 2:
5 Hand release merkin
10 Durkin (get partner to put feet on back)
20 Knee to chest jumps
30 Carolina Dry Docks
40 Plank Jacks
50 LBC
60 Ski jumps
60 Squats
50 Calf raises
40 Dips
30 Monkey humpers
20 Lunges (10 each leg)
10 Apolo Ohno (10 each leg)
5 Plank alternating shoulder taps (5 each)

MARY: Mary was fine until the six made it back to COT.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: newsletter and convergence upcoming.
COT: yep!

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11s and miles

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

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

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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5 for 5 at The Hive

WARMUP: Yea, a good one. Humane Burpee

THE THANG:
Right Side:
5 Snatches
5 Overhead Lunges
5 Cleans
5 Swings
5 Rows
5 Merkins w/ hand on the bell
Repeat on the left
did 5 round
in between had guys explain their name origin story

After 5 rounds we did 1 reps of each exercise in the circuit as a complex. Got tough.

MARY: Flutter w/ Press & American Hammer
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Invergence Tomorrow
COT: was held

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“9/11 Tribute WOD” – Modified version of a workout done on a previous anniversary at the Pentagon in the courtyard

WARMUP:
– 9 Side Straddle Hops
– 11 Windmills
– Plank to Down Dog, Calf stretch’s to Up Dog

THE THANG:
– 2,001 meter (1.243 miles) run to symbolize the year;

– 175 squat thrusters, representing United Airlines flight 175, which crashed into the South Tower of the World Trade Center;

– 110 deadlifts and 110 lunges to symbolize the 110 floors in each of the World Trade Center towers;

– 93 box (bench) jumps to symbolize United Airlines flight 93, which crashed in Shanksville, Pennsylvania;

– 77 kettle bell swings to symbolize American Airlines flight 77, which crashed into the Pentagon;

– 125 burpees to symbolize the 125 personnel killed in the Pentagon.

Sets were completed with a partner to symbolize how this Country came together after the horrific events of 9/11/2001.

MARY:
– 9 Heel touches,
– 11 Heels to heaven
– A few moments of silence

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Read your newsletter!

COT: It is what it is…

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Fish Tales with Birdcage

We had 9 at varsity (2 for IronPAX, 1 proctor, and 6 for a Cindy beatdown. Here’s what we did:

Warmup
– 10 Low Slow Swuats
– 10 Mountain Climbers
– 10 Windmills
Mosey to get a cinderblock

– 10 Manmakers
– 15 Curls
– 20 OH Press
– 25 Flutters with a Press
– 30 Cindy Swings
– 20 Squats
– 15 Skull Crushers
– 10 Sit-up to Press
– Jog to AO Jones

Repeat 2 more times

NMM
Below is an AI generated backblast about yesterday’s workout. Some of it is true.

The sun had yet risen where the flags would be, and the usual quiet was shattered by the sound of furious guitar riffs echoing across the lot. Rumbling Bald himself had decided that today was the day he would reinvent himself as a heavy metal solo act. His amps were cranked to eleven, his hair (which may or may not have been real) was blowing in the breeze, and every bird within a mile radius had fled in terror.

In a parking spot nearby, Birdcage was already five tall tales deep. “And that’s when Dark Helmet single-handedly wrestled a grizzly bear with a lightsaber and taught it calculus!” he boomed, waving his arms dramatically. Nobody was buying it, but everyone kept listening because Birdcage’s delivery was too good to ignore.

Time Machine, meanwhile, sat cross-legged on the asphalt, looking like he had aged a century overnight. “What am I doing with my life?” he muttered, staring off into the middle distance. “I mean, posting at Varsity? Was that really my legacy? Out of all possible timelines, why did I land there?” He sighed so deeply that Rumbling Bald’s double-bass pedal briefly went out of rhythm.

Finally, Spiderman dropped in from a nearby tree branch, landing with a thud. “Hey, uh, what’s all this?” he asked, eyeing the stack of cinderblocks Italian Job had been planning to incorporate into Bald’s stage show.

“Those,” Rumbling Bald growled, “are for dramatic effect. I need someone to swing them into the pit when the breakdown hits.”

Spiderman looked at the rocks, then back at Rumbling Bald, then immediately raised both hands. “Nope. Nope nope nope. Swinging heavy things is not in the contract.” With a single web-thwip, he was gone before anyone could argue.

Birdcage stood, puffed out his chest, and pointed dramatically toward the horizon. “Did I ever tell you about the time Dark Helmet built an entire stadium out of marshmallows just to host the galaxy’s first interstellar dodgeball championship?”

Time Machine groaned, Rumbling Bald shredded harder, and somewhere in the distance Spiderman was still muttering: “Nope. Not my job.”

And thus, the morning at NaFo ended the way all their gatherings did—half concert, half existential crisis, and entirely ridiculous.

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Birdcage Lifts off

WARMUP: SSH for 50
Windmills, Merkins, cherry pickers, low slow squats,
THE THANG: 30 Burpees, mosey to corner
Bear crawls and Merkins alternating for 40 yards
Lunge 30 yards,
Run to the hill
5 rounds of 10 squats, 5 CDDs,
Down the hill – 10 Navy seal burpees,
3x Run the hill, 10 BBS
Jack webb of burpees and SSH from 1 to 6
MARY: Flutters, Freddie Mercury, Hello Dolly
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:

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