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Cardio & A Little Failure

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WARMUP: Run to the bottom of the first hill on Hubert Graham.
Wind Mills, Low Slow Squats, More Wind Mills
10 Burpees
THE THANG:
NUR 1/2 way back up the hill
Fixed Leg Lunges x 10ea leg
Run back down for 100 Calf Raises
NUR 1/2 way back up
Dips on the guardrail until failure. BTW, Senator took charity on the rest of us and stopped once we failed but he had some left. So, as a group, we did more.
Run around the back of the school to the parking lot on the far right side.
Bear crawl from island to island with 10 Diamond Merkins every other parking space line.
Mike Tysons on the curb until failure.
Crawl bear back to the starting point with 10 Mountain Climbers every other line.
Sprint to the entrance of the playground, 5 Burpees, sprint back. As I mentioned to the PAX, this is where I almost splashed, at my own Q.
LBC’s to failure.
This is where I had a moment of transparency with the PAX. You see, if I were here by myself, I would have absolutely quit on myself and not done what I had written down. I told the PAX what was written and with that spoken, we did it and it wasn’t that bad. We sprinted (or ran) back to the playground entrance.
Sucking wind, we did a long set of heels to Heaven but the legs never came down.
Run to the front lot for a set of suicides with a few Burpees at the end for good measure.

MARY: Performed throughout.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: D2DB…quit delaying and sign up. Tell your friends, too.
COT: It happened.

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Where’s Olaf?

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WARMUP: Loosen up the shoulders with Moroccan NC, and big arm circles , ham stretches
THE THANG: 20 ruck squats, 20 ruck burpees, 20 merkins with ruck, 20 ruck flutter presses , ruck shuffle stop sign to stop sign and back. 15 ruck squats, 15 ruck burpees, 15 merkins with ruck, 15 ruck flutter presses , ruck shuffle stop sign to stop sign and back. 10 ruck squats, 10 ruck burpees, 10 merkins with ruck, 10 ruck flutter presses , ruck shuffle stop sign to stop sign and back. Ruck cool down. 1.83 total ruck miles
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT: Dark Helmet lead us out.

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Long Drive

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WARMUP: The warmup was a slow mousey around the parking area….we did Windmills, Hillbilly Walkers, Imperial Walkers and Morrocan Nighclubs.
THE THANG: We did 8 exercises 5 SQUATS,10 LUNGES,15 MERKIN W/PLANKJACKS,20 BIG BOYS, 25. SHOULDER TAPS, 30 AMERICAN HAMMERS, 35 MTN CLIMBERS AND 40 SSH
We did the first exercise the count was 5 then ran a lap around the parking lot, then repeat the exercise before and continue down the list in increments of 5 until you completed the list and rinse and repeat. Thank you to Slapshot for giving me the opportunity to lead and for giving great directions to the AO in the best hype video out there.
MARY: no Mary
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Dam to Dam Bar 10k
COT: We prayed for safe travels and family

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Cardio & Coupons at The Sink

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WARMUP: 8min warm up run wherever you choose but be back for the rest of the warmup.
Windmills & Imperial Walkers
THE THANG: 30yd Crab Walk to the coupons (sounds a lot like last week) and grab a coupon of your liking, or disliking. Options were sandbags, kettle bells, rucks and cinderblocks.
1min Thrusters then a 10sec rest
1min Chest Press then a 10sec rest
1min Overhead Press then a 10sec rest
1min Derkins then a 10sec rest
1min Dips then a 10sec rest
1min Thrusters then a 10sec rest

Run a lap around the parking lot.
With coupon, 12 fixed leg lunges, each leg
20yd Partner Pushes, twice

Run a lap around the parking lot.
With coupon up in the air, leg lifts, bicycles and flutters w/ the press.
6ct Burpees
More Thrusters
Run another lap
MARY: Incorporated throughout
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Divac articulated the meaning of having Autism Strong as a organization we’re fundraising for with D2D. Read your newsletter and engage in one of the many outreach opportunities.
COT: It happened and it was powerful.

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Four Freedoms

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Stockade Four Freedoms January 6th 2023 (1941)

Started with a run behind Harris Teeter and up to Grace Presb Church.
Warmup:
SSH (20x I/C)
Windmills (8x I/C)
Imperial Walkers (10x I/C)
Moroccan Nightclubs (10x I/C)
Low slow squats (10x I/C)
Big Arm Circles (6 forward, 6 backwards)
Peter Parkers (10x I/C)
Plank Stretches (Downward dog, upward dog)

Short mosey run

Fish tracks routine:
Pax do the transportation and stop when instructed and do the exercise called.
Toy soldiers…stop and do Bobby Hurleys,
Lunge walk…stop and do squats,
Bear crawl…stop and do merkins,

Short mosey run back over to the shopping plaza.
Bench work: Incline Merkins, step ups, dips, squats, derkins, calf raises

Short run over to the wall nearby Dollar Tree:
Wall sits, BTW, and wall-tar-jai’s
Four Freedoms background/info delivered during wall sits. See summary at end of BB.

Short run to adjacent parking lot: found the cinder block and did:
Pass the ammunition: Pax do a curb plank, drag/pass the cinder block to the guy next to you, and so until the last guy then sends the block back to starting guy. Then all pax do curb merkins (3 I/C). repeat.

Run back to Grace church: Find the four cones in the parking lot.
Cone 1 “Freedom of Speech”: did 4 burpees,
run to Cone 2 “Freedom of Worship”: did 4 burpees,
run to Cone 3 “Freedom from Want”: did 4 burpees,
run to cone 4 “Freedom from Fear”: did 4 burpees.

Run back to shopping plaza.
Global running routine: Pax circle up, wrestling stance, side shuffle, stop and do: Smurf jacks, squats, monkey humpers.

Run to COT.
BURPEE-QUIZ time: Pax were asked, and correctly answered, what the Four Freedoms were, which President delivered the speech, and when was it delivered. Therefore, pax had to do only 8 burpees.
Mary: Freddies, flutters, box cutters.

Fini
COT

Four Freedoms:
Context/background: by December 1940, Nazi Germany had taken over most of Europe and Britain/London was getting pummeled with the nightly blitz bombings. Japan was also making conquests in China and Korea. The US was separated from all of this, and many folks thought the isolationist stance should continue (people were still remembering the pain of WW One).
But FDR (newly elected to his third term as President) knew the US was basically the only nation capable of saving the democracies of the world.
In his State of the Union address on January 6th 1941, FDR laid out why the US should get more involved…the four basic freedoms of democracy was under attack:
Freedom of Speech
Freedom to Worship God in the manner that a man wants to.
Freedom from Want…economic security
Freedom from Fear…aggression of one nation to another

Eighty-two years later, we have Ukraine being attacked and their basic Freedoms under attack. Prayers for ClickBait, MarkTwian, and their crews in the work they are doing over there in Ukraine.

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rucking in nature

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WARMUP: windmills and low slow squats
THE THANG: ruck up and head to the trailhead by the pump station. Go explore the freshly maintained new mountain bike trail that runs behind EarthFare. Move some trees while we’re at it. Take a moment to enjoy the sounds of nature and the peace it can provide.
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:

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Simple pendulum

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WARMUP: none
THE THANG: mossy to coffee parking lot. Simple pendulum where you run to GHES teacher parking lot. At bottom of hill 16 merkins at top of each hill 13 LBCs. Nothing else, nothing more, nothing less, except for Dark Helmet complaining. And yes the reps represent the score of the Steelers win against that pro team to the south. How about them Steelers Crab Cakes?
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS: read newsletter
COT: prayers for flounders sister and school starting again

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Crossing State lines… running up hills.

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3 pax joined YHC on what is a balmy (relatively) morning for the last Friday in 2022.

The workout was simple but effective.

Run for 2 minutes “rest” for 1 minute. The rest part is where YHC led the pax in 10 Merkins or 10 low slow squats in cadence.

The route we ran was a very long loop. Starting at the Stockade we ran back through the forest grove development to Zoar rd. Ran .2 miles on Zoar to the state sign and then went into Hawks Creek.

We ran through my neighborhood and I pointed out homes of Pax past and present.

Back to Gold hill rd we ran all the way to the 7-11 and then headed back towards the Stockade. Before hitting COT we made a brief detour to “the hill” by the Fire station.

After running the hill we wrapped back around to Gold Hill rd entered the HT parking lot and ended at COT with 35 seconds left.

5 burpees later we hit 6:00 on the button.

The one message I left for the pax today was that no matter what your “hill” is this coming year go get after it. The hill won’t shrink the more you stare at it. You need to run it to get over it…. even if you can only go 2 minutes at a time.

Great group of men this morning. Thank you and Happy New Year!

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Chupacabra farewell with ladders 🪜 sandbags and rucks

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WARMUP: no warm up
THE THANG: Tabata every 2 minutes, drop and do 10 merkins with ruck on… first one was even before we launched… whining coming from everywhere…

We had a ladder 🪜 loaded with sandbags (4×40 plus 2×60) pick up the ladder, put it on shoulders and start moving around the 1/4 mile loop, every time the timer went off we had to do 10 merkins, do Tabata and pick up ladder again and keep moving… stop about 1/3 of the loop right after the buzzer went off, form two lines and start passing the Sandbags sideways to the pax next in line, return Sandbags to starting point, now pass sandbags overhead to pax next to you, rinse and repeat twice… buzzer went off a couple of times during the sandbags exercise so everyone knew what to do…

Load sandbags back on ladder and keep moving, we didn’t get too far went buzzer went off again.. 10 more!! Advanced to starting point just in time for another buzzer, another 10 merkins; form two lines and start tossing the Sandbags to the other end of parking lot… yes, you guessed it, buzzer went off a few times… rinse and repeat… load up the ladder and keep moving… another 1/3 of the loop and buzzer went off again, 10 more, fork two lines and unload ladder, this time it was over the shoulder toss to pax next/behind you.. rinse and repeat twice and yes, buzzer went off a couple times…

Load up the ladder and keep moving.. another buzzer 2/6 of the loop, drop do merkins and grab ladder and keep moving… we had enough time to go back to COT
MARY: 20 squats with ruck on… buzzer went off one last time, 10 merkins… another round of 20 squats… 6 o’clock

It’s been my pleasure to be the site Q for Chupacabra for the past 16-18 months but it was time to put Chupa to sleep… we’ve had some great events and variety of WODs, and some times miles and smiles…

Thanks for everyone’s support…

Tinsel OUT

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we didn’t shoot our eye out but we did break it

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WARMUP: disclaimer was disclaimed on the move bc it’s 16F. Mosey along the trail until we hit a giant tree in the way that’s been since we started but we never had enough guys to move it until now. For the record Flounder said we couldn’t move it. Oh ye of little faith😇. Every workout should start with a team log movement.
THE THANG: at “The Office” work was done.
5 weighted pull-ups, 10 weighted merkins, 20 squats. Then
10 ruck burpees minus the number of bb’s that a PAX was able to successfully shoot within a target on the target block ( styrofoam packing surrounding my solo stove that I got for Christmas yesterday). @Sprocket found the mark 7 / 10 so everyone did 3 ruck burpees. Mosey for quarter mile. Then dips, derkins, and step ups and 7 ruck burpees bc buttterFat discovered that the 19$ toy pistol wasn’t cold tested. Hopefully Black Bart never learns of my weakness. Mosey another quarter mile & more exercises and burpees until we went on a trail building log lining party on a fresh patch of trail for a few minutes. Oh and at some point we crossed a creek via an ice covered log.
MARY: Toy soldiers & imperial walker’s
ANNOUNCEMENTS: do hard things and quit being soft.
COT:

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