Bury those burdens

WARMUP: Standing at start waiting for Pusher to get his act together
THE THANG: We completed a holiday lights ruck through FM. Along the way we shared some low points, burdens, disappointments from 2024 with a fellow pax. We did Gravediggers at the start for the hole to bury those burdens and then Gravediggers again at WEP to cover them up. Lots of spirit and energy throughout from the pax!
MARY: yes, 2 mins at end
ANNOUNCEMENTS: NYD convergence
COT: prayers and praises Cspan style around the group. Coffeeteria afterwards at Humble Cup. A great wrap to Year 1 of Dawn Patrol!

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One Word for the Win

WARMUP: Killed some time with usual fare in pkg lot while Mainframe and Pusher fixed the wrinkle in their panties
THE THANG: Ran past the golf course (with some exercises along the way) to the lower part of the trail that goes up the hill from Tega Cay Drive to the tennis courts. We did hill repeats with squats at the bottom and burpees at the top. We did so many that Dark Helmet cried and our Q (YHC) lost count. Then we did some more. And then more. When Fishstix proved to be unbreakable, we ran past tennis courts, out the golf course entrance and down the road back to Runde with some exercises along the way.
MARY: Flutters in parking lot for last 2 mins
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Pusher is leading 8 Blocker exercise 1st Sat of Jan at Panera after workouts.
COT: Falconcrest brought our FNG Slurve who showed up in a golf cart but somehow we have him baseball name. Thanks for the EH! Let’s get him back out this week!

We addressed the One Word topic throughout, including examples of random words that don’t motivate and thoughtful words that do. Pusher added some best practices, Senator gave his solid plug for Why F3 still matters to him in his 13th year. Finally DOAH stuck the landing with a heartfelt example of how F3 and One Word can come together in mysterious ways to make Impact.

A great morning for all present. You were missed Uber!

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No excuses!!!

WARMUP: mosey around the carpool loop + brief COP with usual appetizers
THE THANG: mosey down to parking lot near baseball field for some side lunges, sideways bear crawls, bear crawls, crawl bears, sprints, Mary session with each pax calling/leading an exercise, mosey past football field to hill between football field and upper parking lot, Jacobs ladder on the hill, mosey up the hill to lot on side of school, suicides 3x to burn out all the remaining fuel. Return home
MARY: Done inside the Thang
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Clave Boss tmrw!!!
COT: of course, 5th core principle

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needed recovery

Landed in Charlotte night before around 10pm – super exhausted from Miami work trip but can’t pass up opportunity to lead the PAX!

We stayed on kingsley campus, winding through the sidewalks and parking lots to get 3ish miles. Every 5 minutes we would stop and do about 10 merkins and 10 low slow squats both with the rucks on.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: newsletter

COT: yes

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Christmas Eve Convergence at The Yard

WARMUP: (cake boss): 5 Burpees, SSH, 4 B., Imp.Walk, 3B., HillWalk, 2B, something else, 1B…

Count off 1 & 2; Group 1 w/ Farmers Only, Group 2 w/ Suplex
Switch Q’s at 1/2 mark

THE THANG:
Group 1 (Farmers only):

Group 2 (Suplex):
Cocaine Bear Crawls to the 50 (2 merkins at each 5yrd). Al Gore till the 6
Mary #1: 12 Hello Ladies (IC), 24 Plank Jacks (IC), 12 BBSU & 24 Heel-taps (OYO)
Go right into….
Burpee Broad Jumps (3 & 3) to end zone
Plank till the 6

R.2
Crane Carries to 50: back to back, 1 runs while other flutter kicks (swap @ 25… mod. to piggyback if needed)
Mary #2: 12 AmHamms (IC), 24 Gas Pumpers (IC), 12 Dying CockRoaches & 24 LBCs (OYO)
Go right into…
Other man in Sparrow Run.
@ end zone: 12 Imp-Squat-walkers (IC) 24 or something else (improv.)

MARY: done w/in Thang
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Newsletters… Merry Christmas!
COT: held (5th core principle)

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Burpees for Breakfast

WARMUP: The walk from car to AO
THE THANG: Rucked 2.3mi with stops for burpees and core exercises along the way. Lovely holiday light tour of FM plus fellowship followed by coffeeteria.
MARY: include in Thang
COT: Of course, as always!

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Massey Street x 6

WARMUP: SSH’s waiting for a few late comers

THE THANG: Run Massey street, 35 Merkins, run back, 25 bomb jacks / repeat, Wide arms, Bobby Hurleys / repeat, hand release, jumping lunges

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Joy to the Eastside, the Lord has Come

WARMUP: light mosey under cover
3 exercises to get blood flowing
Imperial Walkers
Pee Can pickers
Merkins
Mosey to side of school and find curb
Plank on curb while one PAX at time run to end of line and replank 3X
THE THANG:
Hit the stairs
Two at time PAX run stairs while other pax perform exercises
LBCs
Flutters
Calf Raises

Mosey to Bus drop for 7’s
1 Merkin
Run buss drop distance
6 jump squats

Mosey back to stairs
1 PAX run stairs while rest of PAX hold wall chair
1 burpee each hand off for all PAX
Shoulder presses while wall sitting

Mosey back to curb plank
Distance extended and inclusion of Parker Peters, Peter Parker’s and Mtn Climbers
MARY:
90 seconds of Dying Cockroaches
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Acceleration Project 12/20
Christmas Party 12/21
Clave Boss 5/10k convergence 12/24

COT:
Lots of prayers and praises and acknowledgement of something bigger than ourselves :clap: :fire: :pray: :christmas_tree:

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Dedicated to Bass

WARMUP: We gathered with a lot of F3 years under our belt. It was cold so we needed to warm up our old bones. Bass wore every particle of clothing he owed, Eddie started a new fashion trend wearing a winter hat and a ball cap on top. Old Bay was in awe with this new look, he’s been wearing 2 hats since.

We ran over to the basketball court for some warmups: SSH, windmills, cherry pickers, low slow squats, merkins, Parker Peters and I think that was it.
THE THANG: We ran back to our cars, to drop off Pusher’s hat because he was drawing too much attention from FiA, and stayed in the main parking lot.

3 sets of exercises, 20 reps:
1. Merkins
2. Squats
3. Shoulder taps (in cadence)

Lap around the parking lot, rinse and repeat, and another lap.

Ran to the back of the school by the little foot bridge for another set of 3.
1. Lunges
2. American hammers (double count)
3. Calf raises (20 in, reg, out)

Ran back up the hill and back, rinse and repeat, the ran back up the hill with a sprint.

Ran over the bridge and behind the track because I’d never been there before. Another set of 3.
1. CDD
2. Plank jacks (in cadence)
3. Seal jacks (in cadence)

Kept running behind track to the other parking lot for a rinse and repeat. Bass decided to do a lot of CDD so the shoulders got toasty.

For all the above exercises, we all rotated calling cadence…because it’s good practice and YHC didn’t have to count the entire time.

Ran back to COT.
MARY: Airborne special, which was horrible, and then some stretching.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: yep
COT: did it while sitting on the ground

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