Wellness Check on Mr Harris – and We Love You Cable Guy!!

WARMUP: None other than most excellent pre-run mumblechatter and then giving the route. The former warmed us up more than the latter.

THE THANG: We ran. Some faster than others but that does not matter as long as you are there. Route was L on Munn, L on Harris, take Harris to the end, L on Massey, L on 160 then take it to COT. Extra credit – old Kingsley loop.
Without EC – around 4 miles
With EC – about 4.9
Hills are in both versions.
Mr Harris can get in your head. He is a daunting hill. Just keep after it and DFQ. Get him out of your headspace to conquer him!

MARY: My Mom’s name. Love it.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Yes there were. READ THE NEWSLETTER!!

COT: Plenty.

Special prayers towards one of our own – Cable Guy – and his family, loved ones. Today marks the one year anniversary of the way too soon passing of his much beloved son Noah. He was a great young man in many ways. We love you CG!!!

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AKA Day 1

WARMUP: Run from Earth Fare to end of Ben Casey Drive.
THE THANG: Complete 8 windmill merkins. Run through adjacent parking lot down to end of Patricia Lane. Complete 8 inch worm merkins. Run to end of Gold Hill Middle parking lot. Complete 8 curb burpees. Run back to Patricia Lane. Complete 8 inch worm merkins. Run back to Ben Casey Drive. Complete 8 windmill merkins. Repeat all of the above AMRAP until 5:57AM.
Run back to Earth Fare.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: I opened the newsletter at COT. Too many things happening to share… so read your newsletter!

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NaF’s Kotter Status

WARMUP: Naked and Afraid led in cadence. He’s still got it.

THE THANG: NaF tried to hand off, but I didn’t let him. So, he called 50 burpees and got himself gassed enough so that I would take over.
We did some partner dora-esque work including:
50 burpees
100 CDD
150 LBC
Bulgarian Split Squats
Bear Crawled with additive merkins
J-Los
Flutters

PAX discussed what brings us out to the gloom.
Among the answers:
The desire to be better for our families
The fellowship
Knowing we wouldn’t do this in isolation
The leadership training
Connection to Q-source
The mentorship
Starting the day up 1-0
The accountability
Associating with a group of men striving to be better
Imagine what kind of sad clowns we’d (I’d) be otherwise

An honor to lead today. Great to have NaF answer my text last night and step up to post and Q the warmup!

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Inaugural Jaeger

Beautiful March weather (seriously it was a perfect day) for the 0800 launch of the Eröffnung Jäger. PAX were assured by Grinder that the routes were well marked and there were no Zima-miles. This proved to be 99.9% true (you could still get lost if you wanted to…)

The premise was solid. 4 man team (2 Ruckers, 2 Runners). Runners had longer routes and teams met at checkpoints for team exercises before they could head to the next station. The pain stations were tough. Lutefisk about killed the PAX at the first one. (Oh, that was just me?) Triple Lindy had us loading munitions. Cake Boss brought candy, but it was not a sweet treat. (Could have also been that the leg leading to Alison Park was soul crushing….) Tinsel forgot it was a CSAUP and thought he was prepping for a Tables, Ladders, and Chairs wresting match.



The finishing team results:
1.) Vuvu/Beaker (for the record you were suggested to have a 4 man team…)
2.) Cobra Kai’s crew (that included the mythical Gekko)
3.) Camp 3D’s Sugar Shady Band Bug
4.) Cornerstone’s posse
5.) Poppins’ Chimney Sweeps (seriously impressive that Badlands ran back from the final pain station to connect with his teams’ Ruckers)
6.) The Entourage around Shield
7.) Slow Jams and the Lake Ridge Wanders
8.) Lake Wylie’s Wild Thing drinking Whiskey and enjoying a Big Mac (great to see these guys from across the bridge here for the CSAUP)

Afterwards at the Print Shop, we celebrated the Dam 2 Dam fundraising effort where The Fort is sending $7,500 to Defend the Fatherless, $7,500 to Autism Strong, $7,500 to the Fort Mill Care Center, and $10,000 to the F3 the Fort endowed scholarship.

It is an honor to be part of The Fort alongside some amazing high impact men. On behalf of Grinder and the entire planning crew, this backblast is respectfully submitted by the smallest cog in the Jaeger machine—Band Camp.

For reference:
The Preblast: https://f3thefort.com/2023/01/31/preblast-jaeger/
YHC’s Strava tracker: https://www.strava.com/activities/8697393033

The Jaeger will hunt again next year. Send any feedback to: jaeger.csaup@gmail.com

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Baxter Loops pick up the 6 style

WARMUP: No warmup
THE THANG: Headed to Baxter for a big loop with PT at each Stop Sign- Alternate 10 Merkins 10 Squats and 5 Burpees 15 LBC. Change direction when you get back to the start, pick up the 6 and they all follow.
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Jager!! Read your Newsletter
COT: Finished with The Lords Prayer

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46 Years on the Big Ball

WARMUP: Mosey to bottom of Kingsley hill. (a few things to get loose)
THE THANG: Run the “big loop” through neighborhood and return to bottom of hill.
Run to first road….back down. Run to second road….back down. Run to top…..back to swimming pool. Run to COT. We did do exercises at each stop including Burpees. ( In truth, was my birthday so didn’t write the backblast until 3/1…so forgot)
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:

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Punishment for missing free throws

WARMUP: the 0445 pre-run

THE THANG:
Shuttle runs
Using the rows in the parking lot (~20m apart) numbered 0-5, starting at 0, shuttle run to 1, return to 0. Run to 2, back to 0, etc until Pax got to 5, then start over from 1.

First 3 rounds (1 round being shuttle run through 1-5)
Burpees everytime you came back to 0. The number of burpees were equal to the number of the row you ran to.

Second 3 rounds were jump squats following the same rules as the burpees but by a factor of 4.

Last 3 rounds were 4 SC mountain climbers x the number of the row you ran to.
Those that finished before 6, did shuttle runs with no exercises.

Every 3 rounds was just over 1 mile.

MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:

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Polygon of Pain

WARMUP:
– Quick lap around the parking lot
– COP – SSH, Windmill, MNC, Cherry Pickers, Merkin and Plank

THE THANG:
Polygon of Pain – Using the outer perimeter of the parking lot (roughly shaped like a pentagon), complete exercises with ascending reps (5 – 10 – 15 – 20 – 25) at each of the 5 stations…totaling 75 reps on each lap.
– Lap 1: Burpee
– Lap 2: CDD
– Lap 3: Jump Squat
– Lap 4: American Hammer
– Lap 5: Dips
– Lap 6: Overhead Clap
– Lap 7: Lunge
– Lap 8: LBC
– Lap 9: Merkin
– Lap 10: Shoulder Tap
– Lap 11: BBSU
– Lap 12: WAM

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Sweet Home Alabama

WARMUP: none
THE THANG: run the Alabama loop
ANNOUNCEMENTS: jaeger, some bbq thing
COT: prayers praises etc.

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