Brick by brick/Post by post

WARMUP: Did some moseying around with SSH, Hillbillies, and Squats
THE THANG: A Dip/Derkin 11 at the Ampitheater/ mosey to the Stairs in Textile Way / pax planked and elbow planked while one at a time went up/down.
Mosey to Sunbelt lot.
Quick DORA like run with merkins/lbc’s/squats.
Mosey to Main Event – Starfish type workout with 7 solid stations. Burpees/Merkins/Big Boys/LBC’s/Mak Tar Jyes/Dry Docks/Jump Squats. All stations had high rep counts for max suffering.
Mosey to a station, near crawl back, do 1 burpee on first round, 2 burpees on second, etc…
All pax gave max effort to complete, but fell a little short on time. Moseyed back to COT.
MARY: Not her day.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Christmas Party! Get there!
COT: All shared. Live your best life!

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Piracy and Imposters

WARMUP:
– Windmills
– Cherry Pickers
– Imperial Walkers
– Hillbilly Walkers
– Calf Raises

THE THANG:
– Travel to playground (pirated from <@U06Q8DSSV5Y>)
– Begin with 5 squats then mosey to 2nd tree on the left-hand side of sidewalk –> 5 squats
– Mosey back to 1st tree –> 3 merkins
– Mosey to 3rd tree –> 5 squats
– Mosey back to 2nd tree –> 3 merkins
– And so on to the playground

– Broga (10 count)
– Standard plank
– Down Dog
– Walk it out
– Up Dog
– Down Dog
– Standard plank

– Continued WEP circuit – 8’s
– First swing: 7 burpees (yes, I included burpees), 1 big boy
– Second swing: 6 burpees, 2 big boys
– …
– Last swing: 1 burpees, 7 big boys

– Extended broga
– Standard plank
– Down Dog – right leg up
– Runners Lunge – right leg forward
– Warrior I
– Warrior II
– Peaceful Warrior
– Runners Lunge
– Standard plank
– Down dog – left leg up
– Runners lunge – left leg forward and repeat

– At Calhoun gazebo:
– Arm DORA!!!
– One partner lunges from the gazebo to the curb while the other works on:
– 50 Curb Alperts (cadence count)
– 100 Dips (benches conveniently provided)
– 150 Shoulder presses

MARY: hammahs, fluttahs, boxcuttahs, LBC, 6-inches (via countdown from each PAX)

ANNOUNCEMENTS: newsletter material

COT: all about families

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Finding meaning in the mundane

WARMUP: 5 burpees and 5 exercise moves
THE THANG:
Jacobs ladder with bomb jack’s and inch worm merkins
Native American run
4 corners increasing reps 3 rounds
5, 10, 15
9 different exercise moves
MARY:
Dips Dirkens, step ups
Mosey to COT
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Thanksgiving convergence

COT:
Prayers and Praises

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Fall leaves, colorful sunrise, and a tunnel of love

WARMUP:
Ran toward downtown, stopping here and there for typical warm-up exercises (SSH, Imperial Walkers, Seal Jacks, Windmills, Hillbilly Walkers, Peter Parkers, Parker Peters).

THE THANG:
At a short wall near the old Springs building, we did 15x, 10x, 5x of each of the following:
box jumps
step ups
dips

Moseyed to steps near across from downtown (behind mill stone) and partnered up.
– Everyone bear crawl up the steps, run down the grassy hill
– Partner wheelbarrow up the steps, run down the grassy hill
– Flapjack wheelbarrow
– Everyone on a step for a series of calf raises

Mosey to bottom of Massey. Run up mass to upper lot.

Partner “Catch me if you can”
– merkins and butt kickers
– Buprees and high keens
– Karaoke and mountain climbers

Line up for railroad tracks (to rounds)
End with Tunnel of Love

Mosey back to COT.

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Unexpected Opportunities

WARMUP: Disclaimer and Pledge duly pronounced
THE THANG: 1 mile loop (rectangle) with an exercise at each corner.

Up Massey, right on Harris, right on Ardrey, right on 160

Burpees x10
Hand release merkins x10
Apollo ono x10
Donkey kicks x10

Pax stayed together for first mile, then thoroughbreds were cut loose. All pax completed at least 3 laps/3 miles and all finished 1-0 for the day.
MARY: she stayed in the sack
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Christmas party, Turkey convergence
COT: Theme today was the Unexpected. I finished a book this week called “The Unexpected Journey” about caregivers of dementia patients (my dad’s current daily reality caring for my mom). I was also reminded of a quote from one of my favorite spiritual teachers, Henri Nouwen: “I’ve always complained about my work being interrupted until one day I realized the interruptions were my work.”

How do you respond to interruptions? Or when the Unexpected drops in front of you? Too often my response has been poor. I’m improving and yet I still have a ways to go.

I call these moments out as critical leadership moments. It’s harder to lead when something unexpected surfaces, and yet those are the moments when leadership is needed the most. Use these moments as instances to learn and grow your awareness, your skills, your consistency, and your leadership.

Thanks for the push from all pax today! I needed you around me, because as Nasa heard during the run, I was close to texting him at midnight last night that I was out because of an oncoming head cold. I didn’t send the message. And then something unexpected happened — I woke up feeling like I was good to go!

#KeepPosting

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Frozen tundra mumblechatter

WARMUP: An adventurous warmup of circle runs and

SSH
IW
Tunnel touches
Merkins
Mtn Climbers
Overhead claps

One man ran two circles around us wilst we completed the various exercises.

THE THANG: We moseyed to the center of the park and partnered up. One partner ran half sped across the park whilst the other partner counted to 5 and then chased them down, completing the run to the concrete track. Jogged back. Repeated until everyone was annoyed.

Moseyed to the hill where the partners participated in the now trademarked “Indian Land Butt Sniffers Bear Crawl Uphill” :tm:

Then lunges uphill.

At playground – partners did planks, dips and grave diggers whilst partner ran around the playground.

The Mary was one set of flutter kicks.

Perhaps <@UGU3XR5RP> will have some comments but it was clear this was his favorite workout in months.

Dear Abby joined! We got a Chicago report.

We had the privilege of COT to express prayers for fellow Pax and also for Mrs DD.

Food drive to come!

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Cuomo And Stang Board Games At The Fort

WARMUP: Run Around WEP stop at every swing and do 10 SSH
THE THANG: Cuomo Had A Board and I Had A Board. Mine Was Better Only Because It Had Mac Tar Dyes Involved
MARY: Some In Cadence Which Pax Thought I Couldn’t Do
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Read Your Newsletter
COT:

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When you show up to Band Camp without your instrument, you get Squatched

WARMUP: Spectre reading message from Bandcamp – “Welp, Bandcamp overslept.” YHC leads SSH, short run to 160 and then Peter Parker and mountain climbers…
THE THANG: the route is called “The Reverse <@U014K6EAUFM> neighborhood” + add on of back entrance to Gold Hill Middle… intermittent stops throughout the route
3-5 reps of “windmill merkins” followed by broga stretches
MARY: replaced by 60″ of Bandcamp’s portion of today’s Q
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Bandcamp overslept.
COT: Honorable of Bandcamp to show up and still get in the miles.

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