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WARMUP: mosey to goodwill
SSH
Imperial walkers
Hillbilly walkers
Cherry pickers
THE THANG:
Mosey to Planet Fitness explain exercises
5 Lt Dan
10 scissor kicks at eat stop sign through Waterstone. Right at the pool and up to Brusters. Left back to earth fare and stop a couple times for 5/10
MARY: none
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Dam 10k, bethels men shelter, trash pick up, jager, tortoise and hare and Ruck CSAUP
COT: prayers and praises

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Sysiphus returns

WARMUP: Mosey and then the usual minus the SSH
THE THANG: went back to an old COVID WOD from <@U5P2KHLJ2> 5 Burpees every minute for 20 min & mixed in some Squats, MNCs, Calf raises with the spare seconds. After that we headed to hole 18 for a Sysiphus run up one of the worst hills in TC. 30sec, 60sec, 90 sec. Everyone loved it especially <@UN3JKG18C>! Mosey back to COT
MARY: 5 min of rotating Mary and some stretching
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Read your newsletter
COT: prayers for safe vacation travels for <@UN3JKG18C>

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Sweep the Leg Field Trip

WARMUP: Nope
THE THANG:
Every stop = 10 Merkins, 10 Dry Docks, 15 Squat Jumps, 20 LBCs
– Cross street turn right, head to Towne Tavern parking lot
– Continue to Enterprise Rent-a-Car
– Continue to My Eye Dr
– Continue to CVS
– Left just before Burger King – continue to Holiday Inn Express
– Turn left – head to Forest Hill/Armory
– Head back the way we came
– Stops or no stops depending on time
MARY: No chicks
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Read your newsletter. Or don’t. It’s up to you.
COT: The 5th Core Principle

Don’t worry, stats are intact.

Backblasts are rarely read, and arguably aren’t serving the purpose they once did. Is that good? Bad? Neutral? They do serve a purpose, though, and so I will do it. Sort of.

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Partner bearcrawls at STL

Disclaimer was disclaimers-hate me now… Love me later
WARMUP: windmills, downward dog, upward dog, runners stretch right, runners stretch left, shoulder taps,
THE THANG: partner up. One partner starts bearcrawling around EarthFare parking lot while other partner runs same direction around EarthFare until catches up with partner bearcrawling then you switch. Target is 4 laps around. Had to cut the four laps short at 3.75 bc needed to get the required 3 miles of movement in so moseyed for 7 mins at end.
next time have runners go opposite direction
MARY: keep that core tight.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT: greatful for opportunities to lead family.

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Prison Squats

WARMUP: Run to hill @Gold Hill Elementary and did 15 SSH
THE THANG: 10 prisoner squats 10 big boys 10 merkins at every light pole up hit every light pole down w each 3 set exercise.
MARY: running back to COT
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Dam Bar, boat show per Mark Nestle
COT: what happens stays

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BRR prep Hill repeats

WARMUP: mosey to bank Moroccan night club, cherry pickers, windmill, downward dog, honey mooner
THE THANG: hill repeats with 4 station 1st 10 x merkins, 10 flutters, 2nd 10 x merkins 10 box cutters, 3rd 10 wide arm merkins, 10 freddy mercurial, 4 10 x lbc 10 x squats. Last hill indian run last man 3 merkins
MARY: none
ANNOUNCEMENTS: bethel, 8 blocker on Saturday
COT: thankful for opportunity

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Afton loops

WARMUP: pre-run Ben Casey thru parking lot down to Patricia lane and back to launch + 20 SSH
THE THANG: Dave Gibson > Emory > Braden Pkwy > Afton Way with stops along Emory for houses with Christmas lights (total: 1 burpee, 6 Merkins, 8 squats ; distance 1 mi)

Afton Way loop (4 loops x 0.5mi/ea = 2mi)
4 x 3 = 12 squats at start
4 x 3 = 12 merkins at backside intersection with Lizzie

Back track 1 mi up Emory the way we came stopping for count of Christmas lights again.

Had a little time left when we got to Dave Gibson, so did another loop through business park (Ben Casey > Patricia lane) with another 5 merkins before heading back to COT

Totals:
4.87 mi
20 SSH
2 Burpees
29 merkins
28 squats

MARY: she stayed in bed

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
12/24 convergence at NAFO
12/25: all AOs closed
1/1 convergence tbd
F3 Rock Hill coat drive

COT: prayers for MRI tests and results; college grad and job placement; college students returning home for holiday; peace among the holiday chaos.

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What it is to be a Good Man

WARMUP: In Cadence: Imperial Walkers, Cherry Pickers, Hillbilly Walkers & Windmills. Counted off.

THE THANG: Took off for a basic run and boot. 3.02 miles with stops along the way.
Pain Station stops included: merkins, squats, burpees, cocaine bear crawls, Carolina dry docks, jump squats, etc as we moseyed from COT to Dam Rd and back.

Many words were given and they all mattered and defined. From honest, accountable, virtuous, dependable etc all great words. There is no perfect definition but we should all be striving to make sure we are doing all we can to be a Good Man because the world badly needs Good Men. The words above that we do without thinking keep it up, those that we have to strive to do better at – keep working at it – the world needs GOOD MEN. You have 31 days to close 2025 and set the tone for 2026 – go be a Good Man!

MARY: Sprints, hot white speed sprints!

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Announced, Fort fill free to edit – Rock Hill announcements pertinent to Fort is F3 in RH Christmas Parade this Friday Dec 5th – see me if you’d like to join. SLT Handoffs Jan 1st NYD Convergence.

COT: Prayers and praises and I prayed us out.

Thankful for the privilege to lead this workout.

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Charge!

WARMUP: Jog with some karaokes, toy soldiers, and power skips.

THE THANG: Took the long way down the hill (Ben Casey to Patricia Lane)
At stop sign, 10 pulse squat to squat jumps (1 pulse squat and 1 squat jump is 1 rep)
20 lunges — single count
10 big boys

Ran to the basketball courts
10 modified merkins (similar to the squats, all the way down, halfway up, back down, then all the way up)
10 tricep dips
10 Mountain Climbers (double count)

Ran to Dam Rd.
10 burpees
10 side lunges (each leg)
10 Freddy mercury’s (double count)

Go in reverse and increase reps by 5

At COT complete burpees, side lunges, and FM (10 reps) then big loop around earth fare.

Wrapped up with 10 more modified merkins and squats

MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS: a lot going on in the fort. Check your newsletter.
COT:

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Jacket Dirty Mile

WARMUP: The usual suspects

THE THANG: Jacket-Dirty-Mile
4 laps around FMHS track… 3 “excursions”/lap
– Up & down Railings of Home side bleachers (so… up, over, down, over, up, over, down…and rejoin track)
– East end zone — 10 inverted rows on Football team “apparatus”
– West end zone – Nur up hill…. crawl-bear down.
When 4 laps done… dealer’s choice on how to finish: Yog… or continue pattern. Most continued.

MARY: Partner – 1 Pax holds 6″ / other pax slaloms feet over (10x each side)… flapjack
Ab-Lab w/ Circle of Hate: Pax calls out exercise for others to do while he bear-crawls or Lunge walks around perimeter.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: FMCC Food Drive, Operation Love Turkey collection, other newsletter stuff

COT: Held (5th core principle)

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