What Goes Down Must Come Up

WARMUP: None
THE THANG: No Q. Stang took the lead and decided we should run for the Harvest Point hills. First half was mostly downhill. Second half was mostly uphill. Stang made a pit stop before the finish to destroy a QT bathroom. HA HA!!
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Alot going on. Read your newsletter and get involved.
COT: September is prostate cancer awareness month. It is not as advertised as breast cancer awareness month, but it kills just as many men. Get checked out.

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Wally World

WARMUP: Few PAX rubbed their shins and scratched this or that
THE THANG: The PAX ran west on 160 to approximately Wal-Mart and back
MARY: none
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Bourbon 🥃 Tasting and Clay Shoot
COT: Praise for 10th anniversary, paise to Eddie, prayers for our schools and our administrative teams at our schools

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Running … into trees

It was hot and humid, first day all year as such.
We ran.
Some ran 3.4 miles.
At least one ran 5.5 miles.
At least one ran into a tree (it’s not a laughing matter)
At least one hung out by the bank and smoked Marlboro Reds (rumor has it)

Get off my lawn!

Looks like we made it,

Barry Manilow

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What’s the count?

Big crowd at Clydesdales this morning. The planned route was followed by some and others took their own path. Twister has a new pair of shoes. Apparently, they were out of all the men’s colors.

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Some opted for the norm, some did not

Disclaimer included the option of rucking or running on your own as is sometimes the norm but meet us back at 0600. The other option was to join me in running to the high school track, or so we thought. We made our way to the the stadium and saw that all access points were locked so we utilized the parking lot instead of the track. It wasn’t as good but it worked.
WARMUP: We ran
THE THANG: Cool run around the lot.
Fast run around the lot.
Cool run followed by a fast 2 laps.
Cool run followed by a fast 3 laps.
Cool run followed by a fast 4 laps.
Switch directions to run a lap then up the hill and down.
Again, run a lap but now, NUR up the hill and down.
Run another lap then up up and down.
Run back to COT. ~4.5mi
MARY: Sprinkled throughout.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:

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Lost and Found at Clydesdales

We ran. 10 launched, 10 landed, but one got lost a little and NASA went for a drive after COT to retrieve him. He was not far from COT when found.
Route was 160 to Baxter’s Market St.
– Left onto Market St
– Left into Baxter Y
– Take trail behind the Y that takes you to Sixth Baxter Crossing
– Right onto Sixth Baxter Crossing up to Sutton
– Left on Sutton
– Left on Sam Smith
– Left on Harris St
– Left on Munn
– Back to COT

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Clydesdales: Training like a Boss!

24 PAX arrived for a pre Charlotte Marathon run.
The disclaimer was given but no FNGs this day

The route was simple but flexible so PAX could push as hard as desired

we crossed over to Kingsley and down to back traffic circle ⭕️

we did laps between the circles which have slight hills on both ends

some PAX took the full around the block of Kingsley as an option as well

Of 24 PAX 11 were respectable

was great mumble chatter and some encouragement by running in close proximity of each other

thanks Greenwave for the opportunity 👏🏻💥👍🏻

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Cindy shows up at Slow Burn

It was nice to get out into the gloom on Friday for a mildly foggy start at slow burn.  A little pre-work at the lower parking lot set us up for a back to the basics beat down.  Shout out to Twister for inviting Cindy to join us for the morning.  We started out with the disclaimer and intro and moved on to grabbing our coupons and moseying down to our first stop.

A quick call to circle up for our warm-up that encompassed:  Side straddle hops, windmills, Moroccan night clubs, imperial walkers, hill billie walkers, and overhead claps.

Now on to the meat and potatoes of the workout with a little 4 corners and our coupons.  Each corner had 5 exercises starting with 10 reps per exercise at each corner. We did the first 2 exercises and moseyed to the next corner with Cindy.  After the first round of corners we took a lap around the building to let Cindy get some rest.  Round 2 for the remaining 3 exercises at each corner.

Somewhere in between there we had a short plug for shieldlocks and the importance of having accountability with each other.  A very important part of leadership and growth.

If you are curious the four corners and exercises are below:

  1.  Side Straddle hops, Shoulder taps, flutters, triceps and squats
  2. Mountain climbers, merkins, Big Boy sit-ups, chest press, calf raises
  3. Peter parkers, wide arm merkins, curls, monkey humpers
  4. Overhead claps, Carolina dry docks, Freddy Mercuries, overhead press, sumo squats

It was great to be out with the PAX and have to opportunity to lead.  Thanks Twister!

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Heads Or Tails

Friar Tuck put it out on Slack that he needed a substitute Q for Slow Burn today. No one had responded so I figured i would take my 2nd Q in a 2 week span. Im starting my taper for my upcoming 50k next weekend and figured it would be a great way to keep moving. Before we started workout i gave Trucker a coin and told him the fate of our workout rested in his hands. Heads was Dora 1,2,3 and Tails was Baxter stairs. It was tails so we moseyed to Baxter corner beside McAllisters.

 

Warmup

Hill Billy Walkers 20

Merkins 10

Windmills 9

SSH 11

The Thang

Everyone grab a partner. One partner stays on bricks doing exercise while other runs across street up stairs across the front of building back down steps to relieve partner and flip flop.

Exercises are as follows:

Hand Release Merkins

CDD

Squats make sure hands smack the ground.

Flutter Kicks

Rosalita

Box Cutter

Monkey Humpers

Freddy Mercury

 

We ended the workout 10 minutes early for some Broga. There was so much moaning and groaning going on from the Pax that it sounded like we where in the maternity ward at the hospital. Stretching is so much overlooked and we need to do it daily especially with what we put our bodies through. A Broga only AO will be coming in the near future.

Thanks for letting a trail runner Q today Twister. We got 1.71 miles in so it was a good all around workout.

Love You Guys, Stang

 

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Laces In- whats in your pocket (a deck of Cards)

disclaimer
dynamic warmup into static warmup.
Mosey to pull up bar (a longer ways away than Tesh made it sound)
pull ups 5-4-3-2-1 with 10 bagboy sit-ups in-between.
pull out the cards
spade= squat
club= merkin
heart= LBC
diamond= Burpee A=14, K=13, Q=12, J= 11 and etc.
After everyone got to pick a card we all did another set of 5 pull ups
Mosey to band lot.
Lunge 15 yards sprint 85
bear crawl 15 yards sprint 85
pick another card for the PAX at the end the Q picked all aces that had not been pulled.
jail break to COT.
announcements- Calve Boss 5K, 10K on Christmas eve. Look for pre-blast from Stang on giving gift cards for the teenagers at Levine Children’s hospital for Christmas.
Prayers- went around the circle. praise or prayer

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