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1 Shovelflag, 2 Qs, Triple-check, and Lots of Rocks

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WARMUP:
Jekyll started out. Standard fare for warm up before starting a mosey.

THE THANG:
Mosey down to lowest point in Kingsley area. Pax instructed to “chose wisely” from the pile of quarry rocks.

Together, pax did 3 rounds of 3-sets of exercises:
– Curls
– Overhead presses
– Tricep extension

Q stick handed over to OldBay where we moseyed up to shopping center stairs (near the hotel) to find instructions for “Triple Check”

Pax form groups of 3. From each group, 1 pax does a wall sit, one an exercise (listed below), and one runs around the shopping center building (including up the stairs). Once all pax in the group had done all positions, moved on to the next exercise. The exercises were as follows:

1. Merkins
2. Heels to heaven
3. Seal jacks
4. Box Cutters

Times up! Head back to COT.

COT:
Shovel flag hand-off from Jekyll (co-founder of Dawn Patrol) to YHC. Big shoes to fill, and honored to have the opportunity to lead at this amazing AO.

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Courage is alive at Dawn Patrol

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Let me start by saying the weather is fantastic right now. Honestly, it perfect F3 weather. Warm enough to build up a sweat but lightly chilly enough to not sweat too much.

Nonetheless, YHC was honored to Q the DP. It was the second day of Q duties for me so there was a rinse and repeat option but I decided to leverage the area around WEP and do something a little different than yesterday.

WARMUP:
Cherry Pickers x 10
SSH x 30
Merkins x 10
Stretch
Windmills x 10

Mosey up the hill towards Sweet Baby Jesus stopping at the first stop light

10 Merkins
10 Squats
10 Monkey

Notice this will be a recurring theme and henceforth be known as the Accumulator portion.

Mosey SBJ as mentioned

3 sets of Accumulator with trips up/down the stairs in between

Brief interlude on the 5 Cs of Leadership Virtues with a focus on Courage

Partner Dora
100 Big Boys
200 Lunges
200 (due to time) LBCs

Mosey back to stop sign for accumulator

Mosey back to WEP

6 minutes of Mary including a V Cadence by Spike

Add another Accumulator
ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Read the newsletter; Be involved

COT:

All Pax shared examples of their courage. Interestingly enough, many included opportunities given in F3 which I found interesting and exciting. We are a leadership group, exhorting men to grow as leaders. That requires courage to dismiss fear and other worldly things. Let us not forget this.

Prayers for:
– KJ
– Davis new job opportunity
– Untangling our identity from work
– Grace to demonstrate courage when everyone else is fearful

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Hills

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WARMUP: Mosey to police station parking lot for SSH, windmill, imperial walkers, hillbilly walkers, Merlin’s, cherry pickers. Mosey parking lot by dog shelter.
THE THANG: Start of with running back and forth in the parking lot doing butt kicks, high knees, and karaoke… for the workout we used the 4 corners of the parking lot – first lap was 7 merkins at each corner then squats at each corner then LBCs at each corner and finally flutters at each corner. We then ran over to the hill in the park and did varying modes of transportation up the hill – bear crawls 2, 50% run 2, 100% run 2. Mosey back to parking lot and do a few laps of Indian runs.
MARY: American hammer, box cutters, flutters, hello dollies, LBCs
ANNOUNCEMENTS: read the newsletter
COT: prayer requests and praises

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There and back again

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WARMUP: a couple announcements and plenty of kibitzing
THE THANG: munn to Harris through Sutton place to Sutton view into mason’s bend, did a little loop in there and the headed back

Ruckers probably just walked where they wanted to, that’s what they do
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT: lot of guys are proximate to some health issues at the moment. We had a good share about that, which is one of those things that we get to do around here

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Inchworms/Casey Kasem HIIT Parade

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WARMUP:
– SSH
– Imperial Walkers
– Scoops (5 each leg OYO)
– Elbows-to-opposite high knees (in cadence)
– Henceforth known as ‘Leprechauns’ – credit <@U78QN5XU5>
– Frankensteins (5 each leg OYO)
– Calf-raises (in cadence)

THE THANG:
– Inchworms (to opposite end of parking lot)
– Each set will start together (starting positions – move)
– Group #1 – Bear crawl or lunge walk to next parking lot island
– Group #2 – Curb Alperts
– When the last Group #1 PAX arrives he calls ‘FLAPJACK’ and then
– Group #1 – Curb Alperts
– Group #2 – Bear crawl or lunge walk to Group #1
– Last PAX to arrive calls ‘RECOVER’
– Subsequent rounds alternate Curb Alperts and Big Boys
– Proceed to end of parking lot or 6:40am
– Mosey to flag (go around the Panera building)
– 5 burpees
– Mosey to area behind Kingsley Apartments along a course known only to Casey Kasem
– For every speed bump encountered:
– 15 merkins
– 20 shoulder taps (single count)
– 25 squats
– For every crosswalk encountered
– 10 flutter kicks (count on leg)
– 15 Freddie Mercuries (count one leg)
– 20 LBC
– Mosey to Courtyard intersection then sprint to flag
– Bombjax, Sealjax, Windmills, one burpee

MARY:
throughout

ANNOUNCEMENTS: HIM Camp, Golf tourney, Invergence, Convergence

COT: Marriages, job searches, family health, state of our nation

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Scorpions Block Party

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WARMUP:
Mosey behind Panera, along the way doing
Karaoke / Butt Kickers / High Knees / Toy Soldiers

Circle up for SSH / Imperial Walkers / Cherry Pickers / Windmills

THE THANG:
Mosey beside LPL pond for a Webb homage to <@U01FDRQSQG3> . Merkins Accumulator in cadence w 4 shoulder taps each side per Merkin:
1 / 4
2 / 8
3 / 12
4 / 16
5 / 20

Mosey to gravel lot.

Partner up, one PAX runs length, does 5 burpees, runs back, while other PAX does exercise with coupon (stone block):

1. Curls
2. Squat thrusts
3. Tricep curls
4. American Hammers

Switch each time so both partners do all exercises.

All PAX together:

Lunge Walk length of lot with coupon, stopping at each of 8 cones to do 3 diamond merkins on block.

Lunge Walk back length of lot with coupon, stopping at each of 8 cones to do 3 Scorpion Dry Docks, alternating legs at each cone.

Mosey back around the park, stopping for:
Flutters
LBCs
Peter Parkers
Parker Peters
Scorpion Dry Docks

Throw in a short sprint up hill between the red signs.

MARY:
Wicked awesome Bohx Cuttaz

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Bethel
AI workshop
911 stair workout
Invergence
Convergence
HIM Camp
Christmas Party
D2D rumblings

COT:
Praise for kids back home visiting from school, healthy grandkids on the way. Prayers for family, friends, and colleagues recovering from covid, or seeking best path of treatment and recovery from cancer.

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NOT better on paper

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WARMUP:
Warm up consisting of the usual suspects, stretching, merkins, planking and shoulder taps

THE THANG:

Mosey around lot to front of stage

Dips on edge of stage

Wall sits, one pax lunge walks to edge and jogs back

Webbs on stage
Merkins and shoulder taps (6 rounds)
Big boys American hammers (6 rounds)

Here’s where it really got stupid:

7s on the hill
MOD reverse bear crawl up the hill- TERRIBLE IDEA
Burpees at the top (welcome relief from crawl bears) and 4 ct flutters at the bottom (too easy)

MARY:
Flutters and Freddy Mercurys

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Invergence and convergence, bethel men’s shelter

COT:
Principle #5

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Pardon the Interruption

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WARMUP: Some movements at the green at amphitheatre
THE THANG:
10 burpees, pax run in any direction for 10 secs and return home
10 burpees, repeat run in same direction for 15 secs, return home
10 burpees, run same direction for 20 secs, return home

Starting with youngest pax (Tarzan) each pax took the group to his end point where pax did various exercises

Stop 1 = legs + burpees
Stop 2 = chest+ burpees
Stop 3 = core + burpees
Stop 4 = ground movements+ burpees
Stop 5 = burpees

Return home

Disruption was the theme today where pax didn’t know where we were going , what exercises we were doing, what reps we were counting. There were odd numbers and interrupted sequences and patterns.

We’re human, we want patterns, we want control. Sometimes life just won’t cooperate with our desires or minds. Today was proe for those times.

Thanks for the push and the perseverance. Great job, brothers!

MARY: included in the Thang
ANNOUNCEMENTS: HIM Camp, bethel, shovel Flag handoff Tue
COT: yes, as always

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5 course meal with coupon for extra value

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WARMUP:
Dora on parking lot hill – Hors d’ouvres
Run up hill and back while partner does:
1. Side Straddle Hops
2. Hillbilly Walkers
3. Moroccan Night Clubs
4. Windmills

THE THANG:
Mosey to hill in far corner of park near swinging bench.
Dora on grassy hill – Soup
Walk down hill with coupon (block) and do 5 squat thrusts while partner does.
1. Merkins
2. LBCs
3. Carolina Dry Docks
4. Chop Sticks
(Each partner does all exercises.)

Continue Dora on grassy hill – Salad
Run down hill and do 5 burpees while partner does with coupon (block):
1. American Hammers
2. Curls
3. Squat thrusts
4. Tricep curls
(Each partner does all exercises.)

Mosey back to parking lot.
Dora on grassy side hill – Entree
Run up hill to sequential light posts while partner does:
1. Diamond Merkins
2. Bomb Jacks
3. Shoulder Taps
4. Lunges
5. Plank

Yoga stretch-o-rama – Dessert
1. Hip flexor stretch, both sides
2. Superman
3. Cobra
4. Cat
5. Cow
6. Child’s Pose
7. Crawl it out, roll to back
8. Arms out, right leg up, over to left
9. Same with opposite side

MARY:
throughout

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Fort Mill Care Center – Lawn Maintenance, fundraiser golf tourney
Bethel Men’s Shelter – 1st TH each month
HIM Camp – last week on Oct

COT:
Healing for Double D’s wife and for Badlands; navigating our 2.0’s teen years. Praise for Spike’s visa renewal!

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