WARMUP: no
THE THANG: 3.3 miles total, brought a 60lber with us. Mixed in some squats, dips, bear crawls.
MARY: no
ANNOUNCEMENTS: read newsie
COT: yes
WARMUP:
– Mosey lap through the Teet parking lot.
– SSH
– CASBAH #2s
– Imperial Walkers
THE THANG: Mosey to Indian restaurant for a Dora:
Run to Dogtopia
– 200 Squats
– 200 LBCs
– 200 Casbah #2s
– Somewhere between 150 and 300 flutters
Move to middle of parking lot there for a busted Amazon rip off Select-a-Cize Move/MOT
– SSH/Lunge Walk to island
– Merkins/Run to Dogtopia
Back to COT
– CASBAH #2s
– Hillbilly Walkers
– Baby arm circles fwd
– Baby arm circles back
– Big circles fwd
– Big circles back
MARY: Yuuuuup. And she brought some weed…
ANNOUNCEMENTS: HIM camp, Bethel Men’s, Christmas party,
COT: Prayers for safety and gratitude.
Warmup… run to nearest parking lot with at least 10 parking spaces. Burpee at each parking line then broad jump or bunny hop between lines. x3 (30 burpees) Misc exercises between sets.
Mosey behind Dogtopia to the parking spaces doing a suicide and stopping at each line (total 12 lines). Plank for 6.
Mosey to wall of Harris Teeter facing O’Reilly for wall sits and donkey kicks. (x3)
Mosey to original parking lot for a repeat of burpee bunny hops.
WARMUP: started with a light mosey to center of the lot. Hit some SSHs, Imperial Walkers, Windmills.
THE THANG: we had 9 cards face up and the deck face down. Each number was associated with a workout. When you got one right you did 10 reps of the workout. When you got one wrong you did 10 reps and a MOW. We had about 7 cards left…
MARY: …those 7 cards turned to lightning round to wrap up on time
ANNOUNCEMENTS: HIm camp, golf tourney
COT: Circle of Trust
WARMUP: Gathered with all the gear we could find in trunks and truck beds. First we did a quick mosey around the parking lot. Then the infamous 33×11 warmup, thanks to Cha-Ching.
YHC messed up at first by doing 33 SSH in cadence then followed by 11 burpees OYO.
The followed by OYO 33 SSH single count and 11 burpees.
Then rinse and repeat. All warmed up.
THE THANG: Partner up, ruck on, each grab a sandbag, each grab a KB and each team grab one more KB or extra sandbag to share. Head over to the soccer field swapping the 4th “item” halfway through the walk.
While on the soccer field with your partner, we dropped all our gear, with exception of ruck, on a line by one of the goals. We then ran to the other goal line. Instructions were to gather 1 piece of gear and drop it at the mid line and then go back to the starting line, drop and do 5 merkins. After you and partner get all the gear to the mid line, then you need to take each piece of gear 1×1 and get it to the starting point. After each gear, always 5 merkins at the start. And shuffling with ruck the whole time.
Now that all the gear is at the starting line, we need to bear crawl 2 pieces of gear each and individually, to the mid line wearing your ruck, then bear crawl back to get your second piece of gear.
Last was sandbags in 1 corner, KB in 1 corner, and the ruck exercises in another corner. At each of the 3 corners, exercises below were performed. After each exercise, come back to center for 5 man makers with ruck.
– 10 sandbag tosses over shoulder wearing ruck
– 20 ruck swings
– 30 KB squats wearing ruck
Gather up all gear and with your partner, back to COT.
MARY: couple exercises around the circle
ANNOUNCEMENTS: check
COT: CSPAN style
WARMUP:
SSH – 15 IC
Imperial Walkers – 15 IC
Hillbillies – 15 IC
Arm Circles (forward/back) – 10 IC each
Windmills– 15 IC
Mosey
THE THANG:
Part 1 – Explosive 11’s
Ran between curbs about 15 yds apart.
Exercises were Jump Squats and Merkins
Part 2 – “The Triangle of Terror”
Picked three points in a large triangle (about 25 yds apart).
Corner 1 : 20 Hand-Release Merkins + 10 Burpees
Corner 2 : 25 Lunges (each leg) + 20 Calf Raises
Corner 3 : 30 Flutter Kicks (2-count) + 20 Big Boys
Mode of travel chanted with each of the 3 rounds
Round 1: Sprint
Round 2: Bear Crawl
Round 3: Power Skip
MARY:
American Hammers – 15 IC
Freddie Mercuries – 15 IC
Cherry Pickers – 15 IC
Stretch
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Golf tournament, litter pickup, bethel men’s shelter, new region opening up in Texas, <@U09K7S9CM2M> is expecting a new daughter any day
COT: Yes
WARMUP:
THE THANG:
Here is my weinke – Assassin
We had about 12 runners and 6 ruckers tackle the tundra of the paved loop around the schools.
Starting at the front door we headed around the back, past the shop, past the ROTC HQ, down to the elementary playground, back by the stadium, out to Jones Road and back to the front.
All enjoyed. Thanks to Sasquatch and Spectre for the preview lap and suggestions.
Convergence bootcamp Q- Backdraft
Warmup- SSH, windmills, cherry pickers, mtn. Climbers, Moroccan night clubs
The thang-
Count off for groups of 3s
Mosey to pull up bars
Group 1 wall sits
Group 2 merkins
Group 3 13 pull ups 13 burpees
Stay in groups Dora on the hill
Bottom 300 CDDs top 300 squat jumps mosey from top to bottom
Line up in parking lot for 43 seconds of following exercises followed by bear crawls in-between
Exercises were as follows
Merkins, air squats, flutters, alt. Shoulder taps, jump squats, lbc’s, Carolina’s dry docks, alt lunges, burpees,
Mosey back to COT in original 3 man groups
KB workout- Boogie Nights
Ladder of pain- it sucked
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:
When: Saturday 9/13/2025, 06:00 – completion
Where: Nation Ford High School, Football Stadium
Why:
9/11 is a day nobody will ever forget. Nobody should ever forget. Many lives were lost and America as we knew it was forever changed after that day.
What:
In honor of the 24th anniversary of that fateful, horrible day, we will be doing a 9/11 Memorial Stair Climb.
Each of the NYC Twin Towers had 110 stories and 2,070 steps. The football stadium bleachers at Nation Ford High School (aka Honey Badger, Ring of Fire, and Varsity), there are 6 rows (the larger two-way rows) of steps, each row with 34 steps. Going up then down each of the 6 rows gets you 204 steps, which is one round. Repeat that 10 times, or 10 rounds, +1 more row, you have 2074 steps. We would run all 6 rows 10 rounds, then add one row to make it 66 rows total. Granted we’d be going up 66 times, down 66 times, but we’d get the total step count in. To keep things easy, we decided to do 11 total rounds.
After some encouraging words and lifting up some words in respect and honor of those lost, we set off. Some ran, some speed walked, others rucked. A few replicated the 60-70 lbs average load a fireman carries when prepped to fight. Coupons were added to the mix too. Work was done, excellent fellowship was shared, and the patches were well earned. Everyone did a GREAT job. It was quite a morning.
One thing – the stairs in twin towers, all 110 stories, would yield an elevation gain of 1,100 ft. Unfortunately, after 12 rounds or so, I only got 900 ft elevation gain. SO…..doing the math, next year we will be going for the elevation gain, which means we will have to do 15 rounds total of all those steps.
Thanks for the opportunity to lead.
NASA
WARMUP: IW, HBW, WM, MERKINS, MOUNTAIN CLIMBERS
THE THANG:
WHEELBARROW CRAWL WITH PARTNER 75 YARDS EACH
PARTNER CARRY 75 YARDS EACH
PUSH RESISTANCE WITH PARTNER 75 YARDS EACH
SESSION 1 – PARTNER WORKOUT
50 Burpees
100 Merkins
150 Squats
150 LBCs
100 Mnt. Climbers
50 Burpees
TIMER: 300 YARD RUN WHILE PARTNER WORK THROUGH THE WORKOUT LIST.
SESSION 2
50 Merkins
10 Burpees
20 Gas Pumpers
20 Jump Squats
Run Lap
30 Merkins
10 Burpees
20 Gas Pumpers
15 Jump Squats
Run Lap
10 Merkins
10 Burpees
20 Gas Pumpers
10 Jump Squats
Run Lap
MARY: NO TIME
ANNOUNCEMENTS: NEWSLETTER
COT: CLOSED IN PRAYER
Nation Ford High School football field stadium
06:00 launch
THE THANG:
Inaugural The Fort 9/11 Memorial Stair Climb
9/11 is a day nobody will ever forget. Nobody should ever forget. Many lives were lost and America as we knew it was forever changed after that day. This will be in honor of the 24th anniversary of that fateful day.
Setup:
Each of the NYC Twin Towers had 110 stories and 2,070 steps. Looking at the football stadium bleachers at Nation Ford High School (aka Honey Badger, Ring of Fire, and Varsity), there are 6 rows (the larger two-way rows) of steps, each row with approx 34 steps. Going up then down each of the 6 rows gets you 204 steps. Repeat that 10 times +1 more row, you have 2074 steps. We would run all 6 rows 10 times or rounds, then add one row to make it 61 rows total. Granted we’d be going up 61 times, down 61 times, but we’d get the total step count in. To keep it easy, we would do 11 complete rounds of steps, or 66 rows total.
Some guys ran it, some guys walked it, some guys rucked it. A handful tried to replicate the 60-70lbs average load firemen carry when prepped and going in for a fight. Coupons were added to the mix as well. Work was done, great fellowship was had, and patches were well earned. A prayer or convocation was presented at the start to honor all those lost on that fateful day. Excellent job everyone!! Remember, we GET TO do things like this. #NeverForget
Thankful and blessed to lead this. It WILL be back next year!
SYITG,
NASA
AAR:
This was the first time doing this, and to be honest I did not perform a pre-run on this to see what those bleachers would give us as far as elevation. In the end, per Garmin, I did right at 902 ft elevation gain in 2.36 miles in about 1hr 15 min in 12.5 rounds of bleachers (some of that 2.36 miles was lateral, horizontal movement from stairs to stairs). I actually finished the 11 rounds in 1 hr, but went to help and motivate others. BUT – to achieve the 110 story height of the twin towers’ stair wells, you need 1,100 ft elevation gain. I was 200 ft short. With that, doing the math, one round of bleacher steps is 75 ft elevation gain. So in order to get 1,100 ft elevation gain, we would have to do 14.6 rounds of bleacher steps, so make it 15 to keep it easy. That is doable.