Glorious Gloom at the GC

WARMUP: Mosey behind Red Bowl to stink central for a COP: SquatS, IWs, Mtn. Climbers, LBCs, SSHs. All IC and interrupted by a burpee ladder, 5 down to 1.
THE THANG: head to the hill behind Express Oil change. Count adds to 10, started with 1 Big Boyat the bottom & 9 Bombjacks at the top. Omaha after 5 rounds as traffic was getting heavy. Head behind the Oil Change garage for a partner Dora. Derkins, Dips & Step ups. Finish up with a crowd pleaser, “Tote The Rock”. 1 pax runs around O’Reilly’s carrying a Cindy while Pax do the exercise listed on the sheet. Round 1 was Kraken Burpees and it went downhill from there.

MARY: No time
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Another Blood Drive (god bless @3D, he’s a marketing genius), D2D fundraiser
COT:Prayers for various family members.

I’m off and amazed how nervous and sleepless I am the night before a Q. Must be because it’s an important role to play. We all wanna do a good job for the Pax that show up. Always an honor to lead.
“The” Shortest of All Sales.

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Road Warrior Visits Mr Smith

We ran
Munn to Harris, R on Harris, R on Sam Smith (enjoyed that long steady hill), R on Sutton, R on Sixth Baxter Crossing, L on Drayton, R onto paved path around the pond thru the woods to Baxter YMCA, Out of Baxter Y onto Shady Grove Crossing, R onto Market, R onto 160 back to start.

Great crew out there! We all pushed thru the hills and ran strong. We all got at least 5 miles, some got more.

Next week we will be in Tega Cay running to Windjammer Park and back.

SYITG
NASA

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Bushwood Zipper

WARMUP: Short mosey around the south end of the parking lot then circle up for the following:
10 ea
* SSH
* WM
* IW
* MNC
* Strawberry pickers
Then on to the main event
THE THANG:
Bushwood zipper. No field trip anywhere. Start right where we finished warmups. Borrowed a theme from Minnow Pond – the zipper. Do a set of exercises, then run down the entire length of a parking aisle to the end, then repeat set of exercises, then run down the entire length of the next parking aisle. Repeat until we covered the entire parking lot.
Exercises:
5 burpees
10 box cutters
15 merkins
20 mountain climbers (2ct)
Overall about a mile running and 50 burpees, 100 box cutters, 150 merkins, 200 mountain climbers (2ct)

Next, partner up for a Dora of
100 LBCs
200 squats
300 flutters (2ct)
Runner did a loop that was approx 200-300m.
We all finished everything, so we did an Indian Run back to COT just in time to meet up with the gear guys from Snake Pit.

MARY: 3D led about a minute or so of ab-lab.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
– A LOT going on, read the newsletter and get involved!

Thanks for the opportunity to lead East of the Peach Stand! Well worth the drive. Great AO.

God bless and SYITG,
NASA

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All of them

PAX we’re disclaimed and the five core principles were voiced.

WARMUP: Mosey to Grace Presby – Various exercises with burpees mixed in for fun.

THE THANG: Partner DORA behind Harris Teeter so PAX could experience the “Golden Corral fresh air” 100-200-300: Burpees, Squats & Flutter Kicks. Mosey off campus to office park and former Gold Hill Y property.

1-17-23 at each stop sign/corner – time for 3 rounds:
Stop 1 – 1 kraken burpee, 17 hand release merkins & 23 big boy sit ups

Stop 2 – 1 kraken burpee, 17 wide arm merkins, 23 sumo squats

Stop 3 – 1 kraken burpee, 17 diamond merkins, 23 flutter kicks

Mosey to gold hill Y driveway for 5 more burpees OYO then a jog to COT.

MARY: no time for it
ANNOUNCEMENTS: were announced
COT: YHTBT

Thanks to Slow Jams for the opportunity. It’s always an honor to lead.

Gratefully,
Cyclops 👁

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Are you a Lizard Bullfrog or Leach 🤷🏻‍♂️

WARMUP: Cornerstone prayed us in
THE THANG:
We discussed F3: Groups
Organizations
Communities
Teams

Lizards
Bullfrogs
Leaches

Where are we leading in each of these groups

Most influential is in our HOME TEAM

MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:
Cyclops prayed us out!

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CVS Loop

It was a frigid morning in The Fort, but the high intensity of the PAX kept us warm. We warmed up the engines and we were off.

The Thang – 4 Corners Jack Webb with running as the mode of transportation.
Cone 1 Merkins 1 – 10
Cone 2 Overhead Claps 4 – 40
Cone 3 Flutters 4 – 40
Cone 4 Squats 1 – 10

We had some time for wall work with bear crawls and some Mary.

JWow

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Four Freedoms

Stockade Four Freedoms January 6th 2023 (1941)

Started with a run behind Harris Teeter and up to Grace Presb Church.
Warmup:
SSH (20x I/C)
Windmills (8x I/C)
Imperial Walkers (10x I/C)
Moroccan Nightclubs (10x I/C)
Low slow squats (10x I/C)
Big Arm Circles (6 forward, 6 backwards)
Peter Parkers (10x I/C)
Plank Stretches (Downward dog, upward dog)

Short mosey run

Fish tracks routine:
Pax do the transportation and stop when instructed and do the exercise called.
Toy soldiers…stop and do Bobby Hurleys,
Lunge walk…stop and do squats,
Bear crawl…stop and do merkins,

Short mosey run back over to the shopping plaza.
Bench work: Incline Merkins, step ups, dips, squats, derkins, calf raises

Short run over to the wall nearby Dollar Tree:
Wall sits, BTW, and wall-tar-jai’s
Four Freedoms background/info delivered during wall sits. See summary at end of BB.

Short run to adjacent parking lot: found the cinder block and did:
Pass the ammunition: Pax do a curb plank, drag/pass the cinder block to the guy next to you, and so until the last guy then sends the block back to starting guy. Then all pax do curb merkins (3 I/C). repeat.

Run back to Grace church: Find the four cones in the parking lot.
Cone 1 “Freedom of Speech”: did 4 burpees,
run to Cone 2 “Freedom of Worship”: did 4 burpees,
run to Cone 3 “Freedom from Want”: did 4 burpees,
run to cone 4 “Freedom from Fear”: did 4 burpees.

Run back to shopping plaza.
Global running routine: Pax circle up, wrestling stance, side shuffle, stop and do: Smurf jacks, squats, monkey humpers.

Run to COT.
BURPEE-QUIZ time: Pax were asked, and correctly answered, what the Four Freedoms were, which President delivered the speech, and when was it delivered. Therefore, pax had to do only 8 burpees.
Mary: Freddies, flutters, box cutters.

Fini
COT

Four Freedoms:
Context/background: by December 1940, Nazi Germany had taken over most of Europe and Britain/London was getting pummeled with the nightly blitz bombings. Japan was also making conquests in China and Korea. The US was separated from all of this, and many folks thought the isolationist stance should continue (people were still remembering the pain of WW One).
But FDR (newly elected to his third term as President) knew the US was basically the only nation capable of saving the democracies of the world.
In his State of the Union address on January 6th 1941, FDR laid out why the US should get more involved…the four basic freedoms of democracy was under attack:
Freedom of Speech
Freedom to Worship God in the manner that a man wants to.
Freedom from Want…economic security
Freedom from Fear…aggression of one nation to another

Eighty-two years later, we have Ukraine being attacked and their basic Freedoms under attack. Prayers for ClickBait, MarkTwian, and their crews in the work they are doing over there in Ukraine.

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Carowind’s blast from the past….the Frenziod

WARMUP:
Mosey to Fort Mill Church of God
Windmills
Slow Low Squats
Downward Dog/Honeymooner
Mountain climbers
THE THANG:
Quick recap of Frenzoid ride at Carowinds: simple but terrifying, goes in both directions, and we all move as a group.
(Using Williamson St. & Monroe White St.) Starting at the “bottom” of the hill we NUR halfway up. Stop and wait on the 6. 10 Merkins. run the rest of the way up to next street. 10 Flutters in cadence. Run back down the hill to “bottom” and perform Burpees (in ascending manner). NUR up the other side until parking lot. 10 Merkins. Run to next street. 10 Flutters in Cadence. Rinse and repeat. Burpee count got to 6 at the bottom.
MARY:
Flutters, Dying Cockroach
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Bethel Men’s. New AO
COT: Prayers for healing, our teachers and children, elderly parents, to be consistent.

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20-23 No OYO

WARMUP: Slow mosey around the parking lot to get the blood moving, then circle up for 10-20 of each:
* SSH
* Windmills
* IW
* MNC
* Strawberry pickers

THE THANG: 20-23 – Get through it together
20 exercises, 23 reps each, divided into 5 groups of 4 exercises. Everything done together, in cadence, since getting through anything is better together with someone, right? After a group is completed, run a lap around the parking lot – together (approx 400m),
Group 1
* Merkin
* LBC
* LSS
* Plank Jack
Group 2
* Box cutter
* Wide-arm merkins
* Sumo squat
* Imperial walker 2ct
Group 3
* American hammers 2ct
* Dips
* Lunge 2ct
* Shoulder taps 2ct
Group 4
* Situps
* CDDs
* Calf raises 2ct
* Hillbilly walker 2ct
Group 5
* Leg lifts
* Diamond merkins
* Monkey humpers
* Mountain climbers 2ct
Between each round, we discussed (each person was asked for input)…..
A. Something about 2022 that made you happy, proud, etc (the good)
B. Something about 2022 that made you sad, angry, etc (the bad)
C. What is the main thing or big thing you want to do to improve yourself in 2023
D. Something you feel you need or is important to help you with ‘C’ above
E. Something you can do to better serve or improve your ‘church’ and/or community. Note that your ‘church’ is wherever you lead, you impact, you preach, you teach.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
* Read your newsletter and get involved! Start 2023 off right!
* Reboot of Q-Source for 2023
* D2D Fundraisers

COT:
* Alot lifted up in both prayer and praise

Thanks for the opportunity to lead!
Blessings and SYITG
-NASA

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12 days of painmas

WARMUP: mosey to parking lot across the street for a circle and warm up exercises.

THE THANG: mosey more over to medical building and get going on the 12 days.  

Not moderate.  Good work put in. Fellowship was pretty quiet by about day 5.

Do day one, run around building.

Plank for 6.  

Do day two, day one then around the building, etc

1 Donkey Kick

2 WAM

3 Jumping Lunges

4 Merkins

5 Squats

6 Burpees

7 Bombjacks

8 Sumo Squats

9 CDD

10 Flutters IC

11 Monkey Humpers

12 Diamond Merkins

During Plank we got to hear about Pax fav Christmas gift memory as a kid.  Sounded like a lot of our folks were hitting the Sears catalog or the local KB Toy in the mall for the best stuff.  

Outside of Old Bay who got a dot matrix printer.  Prob from Radio Shack.  We are renaming him Tandy.

MARY:  no time for her.  It took all 45 to wrap the 12 days.  Site q was nervous we’d be late during run back.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:

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