Minnow Pond – 8/21/25

17 at Minnow Pond for 3.5ish miles and a bounty of plank jacks, HR merkins, jump squats, and flutters. Route: Confederate, Country Club Dr, Academy, Monroe White, repeat 2x.

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WARMUP:
THE THANG:
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:

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Rain Was Right On Time

WARMUP: Run To Business 21
THE THANG: Thought we would have a dry morning but Mother Nature had heavy rain in store for us. It started pouring exactly at 0515 and lasted to about COT. Some pole dancing was on tap for my Q at Minnow Pond so I had pax mosey over to business 21 where there are 5 telephone poles about 1/8 mile apart. Pax started at pole 1 did an exercise and ran about 1/4 mile to road sign and ran back up hill to first pole do exercise then move to second pole and do that exercise. This pattern continued to all 5 poles where completed. Exercises were 10 reps at each pole of Hand Release Merkins, Big Boys, Monkey Humpers, Carolina Dry Docks and Hand Release Diamond Merkins. 3.5-4.25 miles where ran.
MARY: nope
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Golf Tournament October 20th Waterford Golf Course.
COT:

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Pendulum 8s

WARMUP: mosey through the stopping points
THE THANG: Starting at top of Dave Gibson hill on middle school side and running to 160 we did 8s with 7 burpees at the top, 1 navy seal burpee at the bottom, 7 burpees at the top at 160 and 1 navy seal burpee back at the bottom. We reduced distance up Dave Gibson each round and went down to 6-2-6-2 on burpee- navy seal burpee.
MARY: she didn’t show up
ANNOUNCEMENTS: newsletter
COT: yep

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Double Deuces at The Corral

NO RAIN!!! I used my super secret weather control satellite, that the conspiracy theorists say the government has, to turn it off just in time for 0515 start. All that did was ramp up humidity though. Back to the drawing board on that….
WARMUP: Quick jaunt to the roundabout median down Stockbridge Dr towards the apartment complex. In the circle median, circle up for the following (everything 4 count):
– 15 SSH
– 10 WM
– 15 IW
– 15 MNC
– 10 strawberry pickers
Then mosey through the apartment complex to the other roundabout, with the fountain, and to the corner of the apartment complex entrance at Grant Farm Dr for…..
THE THANG:
Pendulum 22s
The apartment complex entrance at Grant Farm Dr, near the water fountain, is ‘home base’. We will be doing 11s, but up both hills on Grant Farm Dr, the pendulum, so it is 11s x 2 = 22s. Do the exercise at home base, run up the hill towards 160 to the fire station, do the exercise at the fire station, then back down to home base, do the exercise again at home base, then run up the other hill to to exercises at the corner of Palmdale Walk Dr and Grant Farm Dr. Then run back down to home base. That is one round. In form of 11s, you start off at 1, 10, 1, 10, then round 2 is 2, 9, 2, 9, then round 3 is 3, 8, 3, 8. Continue all the way to 10, 1, 10, 1. Exercises are:
– Home base – 10 LSS hand touch to ground
– Fire station – 10 merkins
– Palmdale Walk corner – 10 CDDs

If you got all the way to the end, you end up doing 110 LSS, 55 merkins, and 55 CDDs, and about 3.2 miles with hills. That was a burner!

Senator Tressel and Autobahn finished it. Myself and Half Shell got to starting the last round. GREAT PUSH by all!!

MARY: No time
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Read the newsletter, get involved.
COT: Alot lifted up.

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

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Deconstructed Burpee Ladder

WARMUP: Quick lap around the main parking lot (not going behind the stores), then circle up for the following, 10 of each:
– SSH
– WM
– IW
– MNC
– Strawberry pickers
Then mosey not too far from COT for….
THE THANG:
Ladder of Deconstructed Burpees
A loop of .25 mile was set up, the same one we used as a warmup.
Do the exercises, then run the loop. The idea was in each round, you do an exercise that is part of the standard burpee.

Ascending ladder (run a lap between each round)
Round 1: 1 burpee + 10 hand-touch squats
Round 2: 2 burpees + 10 hand-touch squats + 10 plank w leg crunch/extensions
Round 3: 3 burpees + 10 hand-touch squats + 10 plank w leg crunch/extensions + 10 merkins
Round 4: 4 burpees + 10 hand-touch squats + 10 plank w leg crunch/extensions + 10 merkins + 10 jump squats w OH clap
Descending the ladder (run a lap between each round)
>> Take off 1 burpee and 1 exercise
Round 5: 3 burpees + 10 hand-touch squats + 10 plank w leg crunch/extensions + 10 merkins
Round 6: 2 burpees + 10 hand-touch squats + 10 plank w leg crunch/extensions
Round 7: 1 burpee + 10 hand-touch squats
>> Rinse and repeat

Everyone got 2 full completions of this, and completed another full ascension. Some started on another descension and completed that too. Overall everyone, except me, got at least 3 miles. Good push by everyone.
MARY: No time
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Mentioned some of the things in the newsletter. Read it. Get involved.
COT: Alot lifted up.
Thanks for the opportunity to lead. SYITG.
-NASA

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Pit and the Pendulum

THE THANG: Harris St Hills, pendulum from 21 to Audrey. 10 Mike Tyson’s at Audrey, 10 Am Hammers at the park and 10 Jump Squats at 21, repeat until legs are shot or time for COT

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Bethel and Naked Gun
COT: Minimal due to time constraints but done.

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7/29 GC

WARMUP: Normal routine of SSHs, windmills, imp Walker’s, etc.
THE THANG: Mosey over to front of pet store and partner up. P1 does a burpee while p2 waits. Then p2 does burpee while p1 waits. 20 as a team then yog over to Indian restaurant and back. 4 rounds of partner burpees.
Mosey over to church lot for the 300. 30 reps of 10 exercises. Merkins, squats, flutters, shoulder taps, plank jacks, seal jacks, am hammers, CDDs, lunges, and LBCs.
Moseyback to main lot and circle up. Group does lunges while one PAX does 2 burpees. Go around the horn twice. Next round is shoulder taps while one PAX does 5 merkins. 2 rounds. Final set, one PAX calls out 10, 45, 90 degrees hold while one PAX does 5 LBCs. 2 rounds of that and times up. Recover.
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT: Thx for the opportunity <@U01CGBKBQ64>

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Rings and Fires – 30JUN2025

WARMUP:
Like we needed that. It was like 1000 degrees with 900% humidity. Warm? Yeah… we were covered.

THE THANG:
Grab a block. Head to the track.
5 manmakers (blockees)
10 goblet squats
15 curls
20 flutter w/press (2-count)
RUN 400M

Increase reps by 5 until 15 manmakers, then run 800M and ladder back down to 5. If you complete that. Repeato.

MARY:
No chicks.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Read your newsletter.

COT:
The 5th Core Principle.

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Multiples of 5

WARMUP: Mosey to Print Shop

THE THANG:
5 pull-ups at the Print Shop.
Run to parking lot at the corner of Williamson St and Watson St. for 10 merkins
Down Williamson St hill to Fort Mill COG for 15 LBCs
Up Academy St for 20 step ups (10 each leg) nearby Craft Axe.
Back to Print Shop
~0.5 mile loop

MARY: Eh

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Stuff The Bus, new scheduling platform, Bethel, etc.

COT: stays at COT

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The NOT SO Sweaty Barry

If I missed your name, feel free to edit it in….

The weather did not agree with us, but I hope everyone had a nice evening at The Barry (aka The Sweaty Barry). I’m really not sure how a person could not have a good time with Milwaukee’s Beast and PBR being served.

Winner (repeat), Harry Carry … new traveling trophy awarded

Ruck winner (repeat), 3D … we’ll rustle up an award for the ruck winner next year

Thanks to the volunteers.

Thanks to the Rock Hill participants.

Thanks to Twister for gracing us with his presence.

Looks like we made it,

Barry Manilow

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