THE THANG: The Manion WOD + Bonus work
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Hog & Coyote, Cannoli Run, & Tortoise and the Hare
COT: Prayers
THE THANG:
– Warmup run to GHES parking lot at the top of Dave Gibson. Round of Mary as we wait for the 6
– Run to access road at the back of the school for a “light pole” workout
– Round 1: 5 burpees at the first pole. Run to the next pole and complete 15 squats. Run back to first pole.
– Round 2: 5 burpees at the first pole. Run to the next pole and complete 5 merkins. Run to next pole and complete 15 squats. Run back to first pole.
– Round 3: 5 burpees at the first pole. Run to the next pole and complete 5 merkins. Run to the 3rd pole and complete 5 merkins. Run to the 4th pole and complete 15 squats. Run back to first pole.
– Rounds continued until we ran out of time. Added an additional pole each round. 1st pole was always burpees and the last squats, with merkins at all the middle poles.
MARY: 2 minutes to run out the clock.
The usual running was almost hijacked by ruckers this week. Tclaps to the speedy Sir Toppam Peach stand, bass, Fogerty, corruption, for keeping us a running AO.
We ran, we rucked, we fellowshipped, we prayed for a reflective Holy Week.
WARMUP: Dynamic warm up around Lowe’s stopping along way to circle up and exercise
Crowd pleaser was the duck walks in honor of Retiree
THE THANG:
The accumulator
10 exercises starting with one rep
Moving to next parking space line 2 reps, next line 3 reps and continuing to 10 spaces 10 reps
Modes of transportation were
Bear Crawl
Lunge walk
Crawl Bear
Reverse Lunge walk
Shoulders were toast but Twister kept us motivated :cold_sweat:
MARY:
Back at COT some dying cockroaches
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Fast5k Saturday 3pm do it for Luka!!
COT:
Prayers for all dealing with life and it’s disappointments but also recognizing the blessings :fire: :point_up_2: :raised_hands:
WARMUP: Pledge if you pledge. Ruckers did their thing
THE THANG: Head to Hardees, which is fenced off, so we kept running to Elliot and up to the cemetery. Right on Unity to start our loop.
20 squats at the West entrance to Unity church
20 merkins at Steele St
20 LBCs on E Hill
20 Grave Diggers on Unity
Three laps were completed. Then 20 squats at Unity church. Then run up and down the steps at First Baptist for 20 merkins. Down to Academy and up to do LBCs at the Axe place. Then back to COT
Everyone got ~3.7miles
MARY: 90 seconds of Mary
COT: Circle of Trust initiated. What’s on men’s hearts? Get the internal external. F3 is for all men. ALL of them. Not just those of our preferred flavor of a religion. F3 helps everyone. If somehow it saves a soul from the perspective of any particular PAX, great. We’re here to make leaders of all men, let’s keep on keeping on.
WARMUP: No warm up
THE THANG: The assembled PAX executed 14 different excercises while the appropriate scripture was read at each station. Sadly the Winke was taken by <@U5GG3SL2E> to read at quiet time during school
MARY: :05
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Cannoli Run and Fast Five
COT: yes
Lap around old Kingsley and back to the school. Hill repeats. To the front entrance. Fast lap around the car pickup line, recovery lap, rinse and repeat. Mosey to main lot. Sprints between the light poles. Rinse and repeat 6x. Back up the hill near the stadium and return to COT. 4+ miles
WARMUP: gave the route of the big circle and the small circle. If you know you know and we had no FNGs so they knew.
THE THANG: we ran in the circles
MARY: none but everyone came back from running in circles
ANNOUNCEMENTS: upcoming convergence and nothing else related to circles
COT: no mention of circles but we did a ball of man which is like a circle
Out and back to GHMS, via Richard’s Crossing, and ducking into the Earthfare parking lot (to avoid 160 as much as possible).
WARMUP: Kinda chilly out so we needed it. Quick loop to the north side of the strip mall right in front of F45 to show them outside is better
10-20 of the following
– SSH
– Windmills
– Hillbilly walkers
– Moroccan night club
– STRAWBERRY pickers
THE THANG:
Back to the parking lot near COT. Borrowed an old workout from The Swamp / Quagmire days: The ladder. 14-15 parking spots, an exercise written on each one. Do the exercise, then take a loop around the lot. Move to the next spot, next exercise. Exercises are (21 reps of everything unless otherwise noted):
1. 5 burpess
2. Merkins
3. LBCs
4. Squats
5. Calf raise
6. Mtn climbers, 2ct
7. CDD
8. Hammer time! (American Hammers, 2 ct)
9. Lunges, 2ct
10. Imperial walker, 2ct
11. Plank jacks
12. Flutters, 2ct
13. Dips
14. Monkey humpers
15. 5 burpees
Repeat until COT
Each PAX got through one complete set and at least halfway through a second. A few completed two sets.
GREAT mumblechatter! Rocket launches, Cuban food, Irish pubs, pollen, Swamp/Quagmire days, Kotters, retirement communities, STD breakouts in them (see Villages in FL), and on. We covered a LOT!!
MARY: My late Mom’s name. Miss you mom!
ANNOUNCEMENTS: We did a LOT of good in the D2D fundraising!! Alot going on. Read your newsletter and get involved!!
COT:
I mentioned how my mom recently passing has put me in a big funk, like I am in PTSD mode, but just posting and being out with the PAX has helped my mental state immensely, and even more the PAX who have reached out to me. As Slapshot said at Minnow Pond, it can be a huge uplift to others. Twister mentioned about the effects that F3 can have. We do alot of good out in the community, but being out and about with the PAX is like a cure-all tonic. He EH’s guys as often as he can because this F3 tonic is what alot of us guys need, whether we know it, or want to admit it, or not. I really loved that analogy! F3 means alot of different things to each of us, but it is still a great thing for all of us, helps lift us up in various ways, but we need to be out there with the PAX regularly to get our regular dose of that tonic to make our lives a little better. Cobra Kai mentioned he recently had coffee with a Kotter, someone who was a hard charger, did alot when he was posting, not afraid of the hard workouts. He is carrying some burdens and is suffering, the mental side of things. Goes to show that even the toughest facade can be a cover up for what is really inside. The coffee meeting seemed to be a good thing for him. Cobra Kai gave him some of that tonic, whether he knew it or not. So I implore you to keep EHing, keep giving it away. Don’t ever stop. You just may be the one person that helps someone through their rough patches or worse. Be the tonic!
Thanks for the opportunity to lead.
Blessings and SYITG,
-NASA