Burn off the Christmas sweets

WARMUP:
SSH 50
Cherry picker 15

THE THANG:

2 laps around school
Burpees
L1 25
L2 15
Squats
L1 & L2 =25
Big boy sit-up
L1 25
L2 15
Mike Tyson’s
L1 & L2 = 15
Chin ups
L1 & L2 = 10
Dips
L1 & L2 = 20
Mosey to soccer field
Lunge 1/2 field then bear crawl 2nd half x2
Ran almost 2 miles

MARY:
American hammer
Pickle in the air
Box cutter
Leg raises
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Bethel men’s shelter
Preparing the way
Dam to dam bar
Wine tasting event

COT:
Prayers and praises

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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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Bing was in town. It was a real good time.

Bing probably has a much more interesting version of all this, but suffice it to say, it was a good time. I went first half and Bing ended the hour. It’s not going to be a great backblast, but it will capture the fact that there were men there and what their names were. That’s gotta count for something…

WARMUP:
We did.

THE THANG:
We lifted some stuff. Then Bing made us do a lot of Bear Crawling and something called a “Pit of Misery”. Hateful stuff…

MARY:
No chicks.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Read your newsletter.

COT:
The 5th Core Principle.

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Hills for the Pax

WARMUP:
The Pax were disclaimed (sort of) and did 25 SSH, 10 windmills, and some leg and back stretches to warm up. The group split and the running group left Earthfare and jogged to the Brayden neighborhood.
THE THANG:
Hill repeats were done on 3 different hills in the Brayden neighborhood and Dave Gibson Blvd. On each hill, we started with an exercise on the bottom, ran up the hill, jogged back, did another exercise, and repeated it. 4 trips up each hill, with 25 reps of the exercises listed below (ab exercises were double count). The total distance covered was 4.2 miles.

Afton Way
Diamond merkins
Freddie Mercury
Lunges
Plank jacks

Len Patterson Road
Wide arm merkins
Hello Dollies
Sumo squats
Mountain climbers

Dave Gibson Blvd
Merkins
Flutters
Squats
Bombjacks (shortened to 10 reps due to time)

Mosey back to COT

MARY: See above
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Christmas party on Dec 21 (registration closed), Clave Boss 5K/Christmas convergence at The Yard on Dec 24, Dam to Dam Bar, Jan 25 (?). Check your newsletter.
COT: Prayers for: Cicada’s friend Miss B’s son passed away, Pax struggles with family and marriage -doing the right thing and accepting it more easily, safe holiday travels for all

NMM:
I don’t post regularly at the running AO’s anymore, and I wonder if the Pax do hill repeats regularly. ‘Back in the day’, I used to do these once a week. They are grind to get through but are a good way to build leg strength and speed (no pain,no gain). Ideally, you want steeper hills than we ran today, but they got the job done. The Pax did a great job pushing through them this morning and we all got at least 1% stronger.

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The Triangle

WARMUP: Parking lot mosey with 20 SSH IC, 15 Moroccan NC IC, 15 IW IC, 15 HW IC
THE THANG: Started at Dollar Tree with 30 Merkins, Mosey to Pet Groomer with 30 Squats, Mosey to Dogtopia with 30 LBC’s. Rinse & Repeat for 5 rounds. 2.13 miles total.
MARY: Yes, all sorts of stuff
COT: Yes

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The Triangle

WARMUP: Parking lot mosey with 20 SSH IC, 15 Moroccan NC IC, 15 IW IC, 15 HW IC
THE THANG: Started at Dollar Tree with 30 Merkins, Mosey to Pet Groomer with 30 Squats, Mosey to Dogtopia with 30 LBC’s. Rinse & Repeat for 5 rounds. 2.13 miles total.
MARY: Yes, all sorts of stuff
COT: Yes

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No more burpees….sort of.

WARMUP: mosey to fire station lot
Windmills, low slow squats, imperial and hillbilly walkers and seal jacks all in cadence with a few burpees in between exercises – but just a few. YHC said no more burpees – but YHC should have said no more burpees…..for now.

THE THANG: part 1 – Mary to pull up bar for 30 seconds of pull ups or bar hangs while pax held plank. Upon completion of 6 rounds – pax moseyed on bottom of Tega cay drive hill.

Part 2 – Dora 1-2-3
100 burpees
200 squats
300 flutters

Change Order thought the idea of doing burpees and running hills was questionable. He wasn’t wrong. Pax persisted nonetheless.

Running to different points on the hill
Burpees – partner 1 run to yellow sign and back down to relieve partner 2 and flapjack.

Squats – partner 1 starts run from yellow sign to top of hill and back to yellow sign to relieve partner 2 and flapjack.

Flutters – partner 1 runs from top of hill to cluster of crepe myrtles and back to relieve partner 2

Mosey to ball field for part 3

Part 3 – left, right & center

Partner 1 planks at edge of infield behind 2nd base. Partner 2 runs to come in left field does exercise and returns to flapjack with partner 1. PAX did 3 rounds per partner

Left field cone – 10 lunges
Center field one – 20 bomb jacks
Right field cone – 30 flutters

PAX moseyed to COT for a stretch at 0728 where many of us were reminded of our lost flexibility and time was called at 0730.

MARY: she wasn’t there

ANNOUNCEMENTS: were announced

COT: 5th core principle

Thanks for the men who posted and chose the tougher thing on a chilly but glorious morning. And Uber – thanks for the call.

Honored,
Cyclops :eye:

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TB12 4-Square

WARMUP: SSH, IW’s, CPickers, HWalkers all IC
THE THANG:
Appetizer:
– Buy-in: 5 Lt. Dan (
– OYO
– To end of lot: Cocaine Bear Crawls
– Every powder-lines x 2 merkin each…
– Cash out: 5 Lt. Dan

Salad:
Dribble and Pain
– PAX in a circle.
– 1 PAX dribbles the basketball around the circle while everyone else performs the following exercises:
– Round 1: Merkins
– Round 2: LBCs
– Round 3: Squats
– Round 4: Plank Hold
– Repeat w/ Wide Merkins, BBSU, LSSq, Rt. Plank
– Repeat w/ Diamonds, BBSU, SumoSq, Lt. Plank

Main course #1: Shot-clock 4-square (Basket-Ballz); sidewalk chalk to seal & # 2 spaces, timer. 1 min. On/20 sec. Off

– 4 pax play ES/MS style 4-square. If no one gets bumped in 1 min… #4 is OUT.
– Whoever is out moseys a lap before joining end of Queue
– Extra pax in Queue doing pain during 1-min & resting / shifting up during 20 seconds
– Queue stations go easiest to hardest (I.e. #1 in line does MNC)
– 1-MNC, 2-windmills,3-Imp.Walkers, 4-LSSquats

MARY: Hello Ladies- IC… then Pax choice
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Christmas Party, Convergence, Newsletter (read it!)
COT: Held, prayers for recovery & mercy while dealing with grief… among others

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Soggy Day at the Golden Corral

WARMUP:
After a quick disclaimer, we moseyed around the shovel flag, picked up Olaf who was running a bit late, and made our way to the First National Bank to get shelter under their drive-through.
THE THANG:
COP (all in double count cadence): SSH x 25, windmill x 10, imperial walker x 20, merkin x 10/hold/mountain climber x 20/hold/RAH-LAH (legs if you got it)/6″/hold/6″/hold, hello dolly x 20, jumping lunge x 15.

Line up on one side of the drive-thru for Jacob’s ladder. Bearcrawl to the end of the drive-thru, do 1-5 burpees, and then bear crawl or crawl bear back to the start (5 trips up/back total)
Line up for an Indian Run around the Harris Teeter shopping center, and return to the bank drive-through for the Airborne Killer Hip Routine.

Mosey to the sidewall of Harris Teeter for extended wall sits. We did a 60s, 75s, and 90s sit (crowd pleaser). Mosey back to the bank drive through for 6 min of Mary:

Freddie Mercury x 20, Box Cutter x 15, Big Boy sit up x 20, LBC x 20, Superman Hold x 3 Mosey back to the shovel flag for some light stretching and COT.

MARY: See above
ANNOUNCEMENTS: CRI run this Saturday, Dec 14. The F3 Christmas party is Saturday, Dec 21, and spots are still available.

COT: Praise for Olaf’s daughter celebrating her 8th birthday today. She was not expected to live long following her birth and is truly a miracle child! Praise for Half Shell’s son who received the Let Me Run Boy award for exemplifying the principals of LMR on his team. Well done, young man!

The rain held off for most of the workout, but we stayed undercover at the bank for most of it. I found I had a lot of extra time today so threw in the wall sits on the flay. When I checked my weinke after the workout, I realized I forgot to do a 2nd Jacob’s ladder (crabwalk/dips) that was planned after the Indian Run. Oh well, we got it done this morning and the Pax put out a great effort as usual. Well done, men!

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Tour de Dora

WARMUP: mosey to tour the different dora stations
THE THANG: Dora with 80 of each – calf raises and flutters run in between. Mosey to next station with 80 squat and diamond merkin. Mosey to next station with 80 step up and derkin. Mosey to next station with 80 lunge and lbc. Mosey to next station with 80 dry docks and 30 burpee.
MARY: yeppers
ANNOUNCEMENTS: yeppers
COT: prayers for mental health

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