WARMUP: pre run
THE THANG: running
MARY: was late
ANNOUNCEMENTS: yes
COT: yes
WARMUP: The usual
THE THANG: DH-type-stuff
MARY: worked into Thang
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Newsletter & upcoming changes
COT: Lauren Hope Styles (sp?) – 21 RIP, Prayers for Geronimo & family. Reading from Ezekiel centered around helping others find their purpose
‘around’ should be interpreted here as ‘in the vicinity of’
WARMUP: windmills, imperials, calf raises, moseyed for a bit and added some monsters
THE THANG:
In celebration of the most popular Christmas hit singles, we do sets of 45’s in the Kingsley Amphitheatre
Each round separated by a recovery jog to the fire pit and back
All I Want for Christmas is You To Do Big Boys
It’s the Most Wonderful Time For Shoulder Taps (count one shoulder)
It’s Beginning to Look A Lot Like Jump Squats
Last Christmas I Wasn’t In F3, So I Didn’t Know Merkins Means Pushups
But Do You Recall, the Most Famous Exercise of All? SSH
Intermission: Walkin’ In A Winter Wonderland
(Not considered a popular Christmas hit single but I’m adding it because I’m the Q and I say so)
I’m Dreaming of a Tricep Dip
Santa Baby Crunches
Simply Having a Wonderful Makhtar N’Diaye (45 collectively – favorite plank if not exercising)
Please Lunge Home for Christmas (22.5 each leg)
You’re A Mean One, Mr. Bandcamp (45 collectively – Al Gore if not exercising)
MARY: What would Christmas be without Mother Mary?
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Christmas Convergence, Break the Dam, Bethel
COT: family, health, relationships, new life
WARMUP: marshmallows around a campfire
THE THANG: running
MARY: brought hot chocolate after the run
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Santa Claus is coming to town
COT: aye
WARMUP:
Spike took the warmup right where we plant the shovel flag. Counts and cadence were perfect, and we even did 6-count burpees. Impressive!!!
THE THANG:
Ran around to do a few more warm ups before heading to a building for the countdown.
2 locations for exercises. Run between each, which included stairs and some bear crawls or lunges:
100 Flutters
90 Squats
80 Shoulder Taps
70 Hello Dollys
60 SSH
55 LBCs
50 Merkins
40 Speed Skaters
30 Lunges
20 Burpees
10 Big Boy Sit-ups
Great work done by all pax!
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:
WARMUP: couple loops in the AO lot with high knees, buttkickers, and karoake.
THE THANG: Bucket 11 – one bucket at each end of the top lot. Pax pulled random exercises in an 11 format. Mak tar jyes and burpees were everyone’s fave.
Did some partner work on the wall near the upper town hall lot. Bear crawl with wall sit and balls to the wall.
Mosey to Christmas tree. 12 stations surrounding tree. Do two stations and run a loop. We darn near didn’t even come close to finishing all the stations. Great mumblechatter.
Brick by brick, post by post.
MARY: No showed.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: All of them.
COT: Pretty special today.
Twas a bit nipply outside. The idea was to keep moving for 45 minutes
WARMUP: Ran the long way and up the hill to the big parking lot. We did dynamic warmup where we ran back and forth between the exercises: SSH, squat, IW, Hillbilly walkers, merkin, burpees.
THE THANG: 4 corners of the parking lot designated by the light poles. Each corner had 1 exercise: merkin, squat, Carolina Dry dock, big boy sit ups. Reps per round: 10, 15, 20, 15, 10. We moseyed, lunge walked and bear crawled our way in between.
Left parking lot and headed to wall for 3 rounds of wall sits. Then ran back to COT for 5 minutes of Mary.
MARY: yep
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Newsletter
COT: Prayers for family
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!
Celebrating the 12 days of Christmas as the holiday decorations were recently assembled at WEP with a ladder workout with 2 exercises and 5 flights in depending and ascending counts.
WARMUP:
3 variations side straddle hops followed by 3 variations of merkins followed by 3 variations of squats.
THE THANG:
Flight 1-big boy setups and hip dips,
Flight 2-R/L lunges with squats jumps,
Flight 3-Bear crawl with crawl bear,
Flight 4-R/L side plank crunch with mac tar jai,
Flight 5-Front/back lunges with jump knee tucks.
MARY: n/a
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Christmas party, BRR 2026, Irrevocable Trusts
COT:
Prayers for students, new babies, and aging parents.
WARMUP: not needed
THE THANG: lotta runnin’
MARY: not present
ANNOUNCEMENTS: newsletter
COT: personal