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Hills for the Pax

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WARMUP:
The Pax were disclaimed (sort of) and did 25 SSH, 10 windmills, and some leg and back stretches to warm up. The group split and the running group left Earthfare and jogged to the Brayden neighborhood.
THE THANG:
Hill repeats were done on 3 different hills in the Brayden neighborhood and Dave Gibson Blvd. On each hill, we started with an exercise on the bottom, ran up the hill, jogged back, did another exercise, and repeated it. 4 trips up each hill, with 25 reps of the exercises listed below (ab exercises were double count). The total distance covered was 4.2 miles.

Afton Way
Diamond merkins
Freddie Mercury
Lunges
Plank jacks

Len Patterson Road
Wide arm merkins
Hello Dollies
Sumo squats
Mountain climbers

Dave Gibson Blvd
Merkins
Flutters
Squats
Bombjacks (shortened to 10 reps due to time)

Mosey back to COT

MARY: See above
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Christmas party on Dec 21 (registration closed), Clave Boss 5K/Christmas convergence at The Yard on Dec 24, Dam to Dam Bar, Jan 25 (?). Check your newsletter.
COT: Prayers for: Cicada’s friend Miss B’s son passed away, Pax struggles with family and marriage -doing the right thing and accepting it more easily, safe holiday travels for all

NMM:
I don’t post regularly at the running AO’s anymore, and I wonder if the Pax do hill repeats regularly. ‘Back in the day’, I used to do these once a week. They are grind to get through but are a good way to build leg strength and speed (no pain,no gain). Ideally, you want steeper hills than we ran today, but they got the job done. The Pax did a great job pushing through them this morning and we all got at least 1% stronger.

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Slow Smokin Pain

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WARMUP: SSH, Windmills, Imperial Walkers, Moroccan NC, and Strawberry Pickers
THE THANG:
Phase 1- Cheese Shredder
Phase 2-
Wall Sits= Hands High, Hands In Front, and Overhead Claps
Balls to the Wall= Norma and Merkins
Dora= 100 Merkins, 200 Squats, 300 LBCs
Human Wheel Barrel Race
MARY: American Hammers, the Protractor, and Pickle Pounder
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Read your newsletter
COT: Prayers and Praises

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No more burpees….sort of.

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WARMUP: mosey to fire station lot
Windmills, low slow squats, imperial and hillbilly walkers and seal jacks all in cadence with a few burpees in between exercises – but just a few. YHC said no more burpees – but YHC should have said no more burpees…..for now.

THE THANG: part 1 – Mary to pull up bar for 30 seconds of pull ups or bar hangs while pax held plank. Upon completion of 6 rounds – pax moseyed on bottom of Tega cay drive hill.

Part 2 – Dora 1-2-3
100 burpees
200 squats
300 flutters

Change Order thought the idea of doing burpees and running hills was questionable. He wasn’t wrong. Pax persisted nonetheless.

Running to different points on the hill
Burpees – partner 1 run to yellow sign and back down to relieve partner 2 and flapjack.

Squats – partner 1 starts run from yellow sign to top of hill and back to yellow sign to relieve partner 2 and flapjack.

Flutters – partner 1 runs from top of hill to cluster of crepe myrtles and back to relieve partner 2

Mosey to ball field for part 3

Part 3 – left, right & center

Partner 1 planks at edge of infield behind 2nd base. Partner 2 runs to come in left field does exercise and returns to flapjack with partner 1. PAX did 3 rounds per partner

Left field cone – 10 lunges
Center field one – 20 bomb jacks
Right field cone – 30 flutters

PAX moseyed to COT for a stretch at 0728 where many of us were reminded of our lost flexibility and time was called at 0730.

MARY: she wasn’t there

ANNOUNCEMENTS: were announced

COT: 5th core principle

Thanks for the men who posted and chose the tougher thing on a chilly but glorious morning. And Uber – thanks for the call.

Honored,
Cyclops :eye:

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TB12 4-Square

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WARMUP: SSH, IW’s, CPickers, HWalkers all IC
THE THANG:
Appetizer:
– Buy-in: 5 Lt. Dan (
– OYO
– To end of lot: Cocaine Bear Crawls
– Every powder-lines x 2 merkin each…
– Cash out: 5 Lt. Dan

Salad:
Dribble and Pain
– PAX in a circle.
– 1 PAX dribbles the basketball around the circle while everyone else performs the following exercises:
– Round 1: Merkins
– Round 2: LBCs
– Round 3: Squats
– Round 4: Plank Hold
– Repeat w/ Wide Merkins, BBSU, LSSq, Rt. Plank
– Repeat w/ Diamonds, BBSU, SumoSq, Lt. Plank

Main course #1: Shot-clock 4-square (Basket-Ballz); sidewalk chalk to seal & # 2 spaces, timer. 1 min. On/20 sec. Off

– 4 pax play ES/MS style 4-square. If no one gets bumped in 1 min… #4 is OUT.
– Whoever is out moseys a lap before joining end of Queue
– Extra pax in Queue doing pain during 1-min & resting / shifting up during 20 seconds
– Queue stations go easiest to hardest (I.e. #1 in line does MNC)
– 1-MNC, 2-windmills,3-Imp.Walkers, 4-LSSquats

MARY: Hello Ladies- IC… then Pax choice
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Christmas Party, Convergence, Newsletter (read it!)
COT: Held, prayers for recovery & mercy while dealing with grief… among others

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Cool runnings

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THE THANG: some of us ran on the road – route was Munn Rd to Kingsley Park to 160. Roughly 1 mile loops. Encouraged PAX to go in opposite directions to encourage each other as we passed.
Most ran trails though.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: remember to do name-o-Rama next time…

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Cuddle Party?

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WARMUP:
Mosey
SSH
Cherry picker
HB Walker
Imperial Walker
THE THANG:
1. Partner up – run laps in opposite direction of partner, every time you meet , 10 merkins, 10 diamonds, 10 big boys. Complete 3 full laps.
2. Indian run back towards COT
3. Star ladder? Burpees in the center, then squats, lunges, flutters, and hello dollys at their corner. Start with 1 burpee in the center with 5 reps at the corners, returning to the center each time. Then move up to 2 and 10, 3 and 15 etc.
MARY: she was there
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Christmas party or something
COT:

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The Return

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WARMUP:
Parking Lot Mosey: 20 SSH IC, 10 Windmill IC
Mosey to American Flag Pole: 10 IW IC, 10 HW IC
THE THANG:
Run lap around drop-off loop, returning to flag pole – 25 Merkins
Run lap around drop-off loop, returning to flag pole – 25 LBC
Run lap around drop-off loop, returning to flag pole – 25 Squats
Run lap around drop-off loop, returning to flag pole – 25 Dips
Run lap around drop-off loop, returning to flag pole – 25 Derkins
Rinse & Repeat
MARY: Yes – American Hammer, Hello Dolly
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Too many to list, RYN
COT: Always

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The Return

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WARMUP:
Parking Lot Mosey: 20 SSH IC, 10 Windmill IC
Mosey to American Flag Pole: 10 IW IC, 10 HW IC
THE THANG:
Run lap around drop-off loop, returning to flag pole – 25 Merkins
Run lap around drop-off loop, returning to flag pole – 25 LBC
Run lap around drop-off loop, returning to flag pole – 25 Squats
Run lap around drop-off loop, returning to flag pole – 25 Dips
Run lap around drop-off loop, returning to flag pole – 25 Derkins
Rinse & Repeat
MARY: Yes – American Hammer, Hello Dolly
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Too many to list, RYN
COT: Always

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Failure is fine

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WARMUP: Gathered with our sandbags and left those for a quick mosey after a quick disclaimer. Came back for SSH, windmills, low slow squats, merkins, cherry pickers.
THE THANG: Came back to our sandbags and took our carabiners and clipped the ends to each other. Put them on our shoulders and then walked VERY close to each other. Alternating shoulders as needed but honestly, this lasted about 200 yards before the Q realized this wasn’t shaping up as it was in his head. Along the way we did curls and then curls and overhead presses.

We then unclipped and did 10 manmakers. We then took our bags to the tiered area and partnered up at the bottom. 1 partner with a 40 and 1 with a 60.

Partner 1 took both sandbags to the top and partner 2 stayed at the bottom doing pushups. Once partner 1 got back, there was a flip flop. Rinsed and repeated this.

Did this again with dips (just 1 round) and finished with flutters but for flutters it was a farmer carry.

Headed back towards COT but stopped at the curb for another idea…that didn’t pan out. With 2 sandbags removed, each pax laid down with a sandbag held in a press and then passed it down the line (last 2 guys had no bag yet) and then the first 1 guy that passed the bag ran to the other end in an Indian run style plan. Again, idea was ok but execution wasn’t great.

Moral of the story today – have a plan, execute plan, adjust plan, move forward.
MARY: we spared a few min
ANNOUNCEMENTS: complete
COT: complete

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