Harris Street x2
120 merkins
120 LBC’s
4 miles
WARMUP:
15 – SSH
10- Arm Circles (Forward then Backward)
15 – Windmills
15 – Imperial Walkers
15 – Cherry Pickers
THE THANG:
Station 1
– 10 Merkins IC
– 15 Air Squats IC
– 20 Big Boys IC
Station 2
– 10 Burpees OYO
– 20 Jump Lunges OYO
– 30 LBC IC
Station 3
– Partner Dora – 100 meter run
– 100 Monkey Humpers
– 200 CDD
– 300 American Hammers
Station 4
– wall squats while one Pax bear crawls out 5 yards and performs 5 burpees
Station 5
– Dips OYO while each Pax runs around the tire center
MARY:
– 15 Boxcutters IC
– 15 Freddie Mercury’s IC
– 15 Flutters IC
– 5 Baby Leg Circles
– 5 Big Leg Circles
– 1 minute plank hold
– 20 second Body destroyer
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Convergence, Christmas Party, and read your newsletter
COT: yes
WARMUP: Disclaimer and Pledge duly pronounced
THE THANG: 1 mile loop (rectangle) with an exercise at each corner.
Up Massey, right on Harris, right on Ardrey, right on 160
Burpees x10
Hand release merkins x10
Apollo ono x10
Donkey kicks x10
Pax stayed together for first mile, then thoroughbreds were cut loose. All pax completed at least 3 laps/3 miles and all finished 1-0 for the day.
MARY: she stayed in the sack
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Christmas party, Turkey convergence
COT: Theme today was the Unexpected. I finished a book this week called “The Unexpected Journey” about caregivers of dementia patients (my dad’s current daily reality caring for my mom). I was also reminded of a quote from one of my favorite spiritual teachers, Henri Nouwen: “I’ve always complained about my work being interrupted until one day I realized the interruptions were my work.”
How do you respond to interruptions? Or when the Unexpected drops in front of you? Too often my response has been poor. I’m improving and yet I still have a ways to go.
I call these moments out as critical leadership moments. It’s harder to lead when something unexpected surfaces, and yet those are the moments when leadership is needed the most. Use these moments as instances to learn and grow your awareness, your skills, your consistency, and your leadership.
Thanks for the push from all pax today! I needed you around me, because as Nasa heard during the run, I was close to texting him at midnight last night that I was out because of an oncoming head cold. I didn’t send the message. And then something unexpected happened — I woke up feeling like I was good to go!
#KeepPosting
WARMUP: 15 Wind mill
15 Hill Billy walkers
15 cherry pickers
20 sumo Squats
20 Merkins
THE THANG: Mosey to the fountain @arbors
Bear crawl around the spring
At each quarter stop to do 5 burpees
Mosey to church
Exercise at patio
Stacking exercises:
10 LBCs
20 step ups
30 Flutters
40 Squats
50 merkins
In between run a round
On the short sides lunge walk
Long sides mosey
Mosey back to COT
5 burpees as finisher
MARY: –
ANNOUNCEMENTS: –
COT: –
After a prompting from Farmers Only (On Q elsewhere today), I decided to recycle a workout from last year.
WARMUP: No
THE THANG:
Run to a stop, do exercises, run to the next, etc…
The first 3 stops had 3 exercises at each stop.
The next 3 stops had 2 exercises at each stop.
The final 4 stops had 1 exercise at each stop.
The rep count was always 10 which in some cases, meant 5 each leg.
Total distance covered was ~3.6m.
MARY: See above
ANNOUNCEMENTS: All the same + the formation of a BRR 2026 Slack Channel with more comm’s coming from Pusher.
COT: Oh absolutely. Strong.
WARMUP:
20 SSH IC
Karaoke
10 Cherry Picker IC
Indian/Shuttle Run to School
THE THANG:
5 Lt. Dan Magic Legs
10 Hand Release Merkins
Run to other end of parking lot
15 X’s and O’s
20 SSH
Run to other end of parking lot
Rinse and repeat
Indian/Shuttle Run back to COT
5 burpees OYO at Stop sign
MARY:
No time
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
4B’s event
Bethel Mens Shelter
Newsletter
COT:
We can do hard things, be prepared
15 total with six runners at Minnow Pond. Remainder did rucking.
Pledge and then run to former Hardee’s lot where the thang is explained as follows:
Parking lot is base camp. Do 10 burpees here.
Run up Springs st to its end (Summersby/Cone #1) and do 25 pushups
Run all the way back to base camp, 10 burpees
Run up Springs st to Close st (Cone #2) and do 25 pushups
Run all the way back to base camp, 10 burpees
Run up Springs st to Oak st (Cone #3) and do 25 pushups
Run all the way back to base camp, 10 burpees
Run up Springs st to Leroy st (Cone #4) and do 25 pushups
Run all the way back to base camp, 10 burpees
–>Jackrabbit pax restart to Leroy st and so on (reverse order).
We all ran back to Veteran’s park, did some stretches and then COT.
Stats: 3.3+ miles, 100+ push ups, 40 burpees.
WARMUP: Run to the top of Main Street and take a left and head to the WEP amphitheater. Then some windmills and Moroccan nightclubs.
THE THANG: run around the nice new pavement at WEP. When you get back to the amphitheater, 10 merkins, 10 big boys, 10 squats. Increase by 5 after each of the first 3 rounds, then back down the ladder.
MARY: flutters to time (about 1 minute)
ANNOUNCEMENTS: lots of opportunities to get involved, so pick something and get involved
COT: prayers for good reports and prays for those taken too soon.
15 (12 boot, 3 run) toured Slow Burn’s parking lots. Here’s what we did:
Warm Up
– 10 SSHs (IC)
– 10 Mountain Climbers (IC)
– 10 Plank Jacks (IC)
Four Corners (front, sides, and rear of restaurant row)
– 15 Merkins at each corner
– 15 Squats
– 15 LBCs
– 15 Alternating Shoulder Taps
Mosey to BP
– 15 Irkins
– 15 Derkins
– 15 Dips
Mosey to the upper lot at Chick-fil-A
– 5 (if older than 45) or 10 Burpees (if 45 and under) at each corner
Mosey back to COT lot
– 15 Big Boys at each corner
– 15 American Hammers
– 15 Boxcutters
– 15 Freddies
NMM
The distance between your dreams and your reality is discipline. You have to do the thing, especially when you don’t feel like it. 80% of success is showing up. The rest is willingness to work and learn. Put in the work and reap the rewards.
-IJ
WARMUP:
Run up to old hot dog place parking lot corner of Main and Clebourne, plank then wait for the group to explain the thing.
THE THANG:
THE ZIPPER
– Ran to end of Springs St to Summersby, then took a right to corner of Unity and Lockman. That was the start, or hoped it to be.
– For every road we headed west on (from Unity St, ending at Pine St), we did 10 squats, 10 merkins.
– For every road we headed EAST on (from Pine St, ending at Unity), we did 10 mountain climbers (double count) and 10 bombjacks.
– Whenever we crossed Springs St, we did a burpee.
– Proceeded street to street until we got back to Main and Tom Hall.
This was the plan, but evidently I did not communicate it clearly enough. Even so, PAX figured it out and got all the miles and pain stations in.
Guys were REALLY moving today, we all put in at least 3.5-3.75 miles, yet still got back to COT in time to do some Mary
Flutters
American Hammers
Hello Dollies
More
Next time I will add more pain stations.
Thanks self for the opportunity to lead.
NASA