4 corners of Pain

She was a balmy 31 degrees. I was the only one wearing shorts. Go figure. Great to see so many faces at DP!
WARMUP: run to sunbelt parking lot. Standard array of SSH, IW, squat, cherry pickers, arm circles, merkins. Some karaoke thrown in for good measure to get blood pumping on cold morning.
THE THANG: 4 corners with reps of 25 each. Run between the corners. Squat, Carolina Dry Docks, Merkin, Mountain Climbers.
MARY: yep with some stretching
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Charity Wine Dinner fundraiser Feb 6th at Epic. Sign up is in 2nd F channel.
COT: Bella, sunrises, family travel, the Pax.

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Bury those burdens

WARMUP: Standing at start waiting for Pusher to get his act together
THE THANG: We completed a holiday lights ruck through FM. Along the way we shared some low points, burdens, disappointments from 2024 with a fellow pax. We did Gravediggers at the start for the hole to bury those burdens and then Gravediggers again at WEP to cover them up. Lots of spirit and energy throughout from the pax!
MARY: yes, 2 mins at end
ANNOUNCEMENTS: NYD convergence
COT: prayers and praises Cspan style around the group. Coffeeteria afterwards at Humble Cup. A great wrap to Year 1 of Dawn Patrol!

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One Word for the Win

WARMUP: Killed some time with usual fare in pkg lot while Mainframe and Pusher fixed the wrinkle in their panties
THE THANG: Ran past the golf course (with some exercises along the way) to the lower part of the trail that goes up the hill from Tega Cay Drive to the tennis courts. We did hill repeats with squats at the bottom and burpees at the top. We did so many that Dark Helmet cried and our Q (YHC) lost count. Then we did some more. And then more. When Fishstix proved to be unbreakable, we ran past tennis courts, out the golf course entrance and down the road back to Runde with some exercises along the way.
MARY: Flutters in parking lot for last 2 mins
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Pusher is leading 8 Blocker exercise 1st Sat of Jan at Panera after workouts.
COT: Falconcrest brought our FNG Slurve who showed up in a golf cart but somehow we have him baseball name. Thanks for the EH! Let’s get him back out this week!

We addressed the One Word topic throughout, including examples of random words that don’t motivate and thoughtful words that do. Pusher added some best practices, Senator gave his solid plug for Why F3 still matters to him in his 13th year. Finally DOAH stuck the landing with a heartfelt example of how F3 and One Word can come together in mysterious ways to make Impact.

A great morning for all present. You were missed Uber!

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No excuses!!!

WARMUP: mosey around the carpool loop + brief COP with usual appetizers
THE THANG: mosey down to parking lot near baseball field for some side lunges, sideways bear crawls, bear crawls, crawl bears, sprints, Mary session with each pax calling/leading an exercise, mosey past football field to hill between football field and upper parking lot, Jacobs ladder on the hill, mosey up the hill to lot on side of school, suicides 3x to burn out all the remaining fuel. Return home
MARY: Done inside the Thang
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Clave Boss tmrw!!!
COT: of course, 5th core principle

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Boxing Day Double Q

WARMUP: Boxing Day background from Gump
THE THANG: We stayed put in the Amphitheatre the whole 45 mins other than taking turns to run with imaginary box held overhead as the timing device for each exercise. Exercises included box jumps, boxing jabs, upper cuts, Box straddle hops, dips, derkins, squats, windmills, box cutters, and more
MARY: yes, included throughout
ANNOUNCEMENTS: some
COT: yes! It was great to have Flounder and his son (Emeritus Nantan of Cape Fear region — Gump) lead the pax. Good spirit and energy among the pax, including several Double Downers. We missed Jekyll who was FR with inlaws for holidays.

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Christmas Eve Convergence at The Yard

WARMUP: (cake boss): 5 Burpees, SSH, 4 B., Imp.Walk, 3B., HillWalk, 2B, something else, 1B…

Count off 1 & 2; Group 1 w/ Farmers Only, Group 2 w/ Suplex
Switch Q’s at 1/2 mark

THE THANG:
Group 1 (Farmers only):

Group 2 (Suplex):
Cocaine Bear Crawls to the 50 (2 merkins at each 5yrd). Al Gore till the 6
Mary #1: 12 Hello Ladies (IC), 24 Plank Jacks (IC), 12 BBSU & 24 Heel-taps (OYO)
Go right into….
Burpee Broad Jumps (3 & 3) to end zone
Plank till the 6

R.2
Crane Carries to 50: back to back, 1 runs while other flutter kicks (swap @ 25… mod. to piggyback if needed)
Mary #2: 12 AmHamms (IC), 24 Gas Pumpers (IC), 12 Dying CockRoaches & 24 LBCs (OYO)
Go right into…
Other man in Sparrow Run.
@ end zone: 12 Imp-Squat-walkers (IC) 24 or something else (improv.)

MARY: done w/in Thang
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Newsletters… Merry Christmas!
COT: held (5th core principle)

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Burpees for Breakfast

WARMUP: The walk from car to AO
THE THANG: Rucked 2.3mi with stops for burpees and core exercises along the way. Lovely holiday light tour of FM plus fellowship followed by coffeeteria.
MARY: include in Thang
COT: Of course, as always!

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Dirty McDeuce and Joe

WARMUP: Brief COP to loosen up, esp for Short Sale after flying in middle seat back from Greece.
THE THANG: Main Event was a Dirty McDeuce sequence filled with various Merkins, squats, lunges, core and of course four runs between the 4 sets of 3 exercises. We covered N, S, E, and W on the runs.

Wrapped up with 90 secs of Burpees to ensure Old Bay met his USDA RDA for those.

MARY: She was present throughout

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Clave Boss, Bethel Shelter, holiday party

COT: yes, followed by coffeeteria to celebrate sustainability of Dawn Patrol across 2024!

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