Rockin Around the Kingsley Christmas Tree

‘around’ should be interpreted here as ‘in the vicinity of’

WARMUP: windmills, imperials, calf raises, moseyed for a bit and added some monsters

THE THANG:
In celebration of the most popular Christmas hit singles, we do sets of 45’s in the Kingsley Amphitheatre
Each round separated by a recovery jog to the fire pit and back

All I Want for Christmas is You To Do Big Boys
It’s the Most Wonderful Time For Shoulder Taps (count one shoulder)
It’s Beginning to Look A Lot Like Jump Squats
Last Christmas I Wasn’t In F3, So I Didn’t Know Merkins Means Pushups
But Do You Recall, the Most Famous Exercise of All? SSH

Intermission: Walkin’ In A Winter Wonderland
(Not considered a popular Christmas hit single but I’m adding it because I’m the Q and I say so)

I’m Dreaming of a Tricep Dip
Santa Baby Crunches
Simply Having a Wonderful Makhtar N’Diaye (45 collectively – favorite plank if not exercising)
Please Lunge Home for Christmas (22.5 each leg)
You’re A Mean One, Mr. Bandcamp (45 collectively – Al Gore if not exercising)

MARY: What would Christmas be without Mother Mary?

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Christmas Convergence, Break the Dam, Bethel

COT: family, health, relationships, new life

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King’s Bottom loop

WARMUP: OYO
THE THANG: We Ran Dudley to Kings Bottom Loop & Back (4 to 5.5 miles)
MARY: No
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Christmas Eve convergence, Break to Dam 5k/10k, shovel flag / site changes.
COT: Columbia bus crash, Salisbury Firefighters and loved ones that are not doing well or we have lost.

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6@6

WARMUP: None
THE THANG: Suggested route to Walmart Round About through Baxter along Richard’s Crossing out to RT160
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:

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Beary Bliss

WARMUP: some Broga, quad stretching, overhead claps, side straddle hops
THE THANG: group bear crawl in unison on field, circuit along road with pull ups, Irkins dips, and monkey humps, Ab Dora 200 reps of dollys, LBCs, and flutters, followed by an Indian run
MARY: some burpees
ANNOUNCEMENTS: newsletter
COT: family, travel, work

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Don’t Get It Caught in The Zipper

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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Tour of Schools

WARMUP: Instructions
THE THANG: Fort Mill Pkwy → Catawba Ridge HS → Forest Creek MS → back through Doby’s. Route covered ~4 miles.
– Lead Pack: Badlands, Vuvu, Grout, Farmers Only — looked like they were late for curfew.
– Middle Pack: Splinter (YHC), Tomb Raider, Shack-a-roni — kept it honest, grinding steady.
– Cleanup Crew: Rock Thrill + the ruck squad (Happy Hour, Clickbait, J. Cruise) — making the weight look easy, but we all know better.

MARY: Catch your breath
ANNOUNCEMENTS: IronPax, Bethel, HIM Camp, upcoming races.
COT: Time flies and be present. You don’t know how long you have with the ones you love.

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substi-Q at the pond

My boy Poppins blew out his hammy doing something in the shower… sounds wild… so I figured PAX could chase me around for 45 minutes instead.

Pledge at 5:14 brief disclaimer and LFG

Out and back route up main street, right at light, turn around at QT.

Stopped a bout every 1/4 to 1/2 mile for in-cadence exercise escalator style.
Instructed PAX to join in on whatever exercise happening when they arrived

20 SSH IC
Add 5 merkins IC
Add 10 Squats IC
Add 15 OH Claps IC
Add 20 wide arm Merkins OYO
Add 25 LBCs IC
Add 15 Lunges IC

3.5 miles total

Feel better Pop

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Pain Points

WARMUP: mosey around WEP with some stretch stations
THE THANG: do an exercise for points from the board, then run a lap around parking lot. Rinse and repeat for max points. See picture of board. We got about 3 miles total of running in.
MARY: no time
ANNOUNCEMENTS: read newsletter
COT: prayers for aging parents

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