The Zipper at Minnow Pond

YHC was excited to join the Pax for Minnow Pond this AM. Prior to the workout, I looked over previous backblasts because I wanted to do the Zipper but wanted to see the level of exercises associated with it. I chose 4 exercises to mix in with the running and get a full body workout.

WARMUP:
Disclaimer, Pledge of Allegiance followed by a mosey to old Hardees parking lot. (Aside – does Fort Mill need a paid parking lot?)

THE THANG:
Run the Zipper which includes Spring Street and the associated side street with 10 merkins, Mtn climbers, squat jumps and big boys at each corner.

Run back to old Hardees at 5:55. Last group of exercises

MARY: Flutters, LBCs and Hello Dollies until the 6 arrives

Mosey home.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Congrats to Dark Helmet as he takes the reins as Nantan of F3 Nation
Read the newsletter as we have lots of activity coming up

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Running with push ups

WARMUP: pledge
THE THANG: mosey to WEP and partner up. Each partner runs in opposite direction around the WEP path and each time they meet do the next installment in a 1/4 jack webb with burpees/ merkins ( 1 burpees and 4 merks, etc) cap of 7 burpees and 28 merkins before starting back down the mountain
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:

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2024.07 Clydesdales

Up Massey hill
Loop back on Spratt
Up Massey hill
Loop back on McCammon
Up Massey hill
Loop back on Ardrey

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Coliseum

WARMUP: mosey with dynamic stretching. Variety of warmup exercises in 15 reps all in cadence. Pleaded of Allegiance
THE THANG: bear crawl while partner does merkins (standard, diamond, wide) mosey to wall- muscle ups 10/8/6/4/2
Light poles for variety of upper, lower, core exercises. With 15 burpees to finish it up. Indian run back to COT
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT: We all have things going on in our lives, we need to remember to put others first, focus on our changes, and remember to give others some grace.

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Saying hello to Colosseum

WARMUP: SSH
THE THANG: Run to Colosseum, 15 Mac tar jai’s; run back to StL, 5 Jack Webb’s; repeat again; run, 15 CDD’s; run, 5 plank Webbs; repeated by the gazelles

Mini QSchool for 7 min: For pax that have never Q’d, schooling given on proper cadence; given an exercise to lead pax in: SSH, merkins, American hammers

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Kettle Bell Blues

WARMUP: mosey to parking lot with bells to warmup. SSL,IW,Merkins, Low Slow Squat, peach pickers, wind mills.
THE THANG: DORA
100- American Hammers w Bell – mosey 100 yds and back
100 -lunges w Bell – mosey 100 yds and back
100-tricep extensions- mosey 100 yds and back.

AMRAP – 45 seconds
Goblet Squats
Curls
Chest Press
Swings
Rows

Mosey to Large Hill (7’s)
Man Makers
Cleans

MARY: not really
Announcements: Post at Block Party on Tuesdays
COT: prayers for health (physical,mental, spiritual)

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Bag of tricks

WARMUP:
Short Mosey to parking lot near entrance
SSH – 1 Burpee
Low slow squat – 2 burpees
Windmill- 3 burpees
Maraca nightclub – 4 burpees

Too much mumblechatter so we went to the hill for quadzilla

Run down the hill and run backwards 7 times and do 7 LBCs at the top, decrease LBCs by 1 each time up.

Moved over to front of elementary school by flags for some bear crawl. Line up along the curb facing flag. Crawl to the other side and do 1 merkin, then reverse bear crawl back and do 1 merkin. Repeat 5 times.

Knocked out a few minutes of a work with the protractor. Then had enough time for one round of Dirty Myrtle and Mike Tyson’s (great combo)

Made our way back to COT.

Last but not least was the Airborne special hip exercises.

MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:

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Flight Plan – We Ran

WARMUP: Nope
THE THANG: ~4.8mi
Run down Market, cross Sutton onto Settler Heights. That turns into Stratford Run.
R/T Gardenia
R/T Morris Hunt
Run to the end of Morris Hunt and back
L/T Gardenia then up the hill
R/T Stratford Run and run to the intersection with New Grey Rock
Turn around and run back on Stratford Run-Settler Heights-Market back to COT.
MARY: Nope
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Yes
COT: 5th Core Principle

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Get things done. Zero snark.

WARMUP: big loop around parking lot, SSH, windmills, cherry picker, low slow squat, slow merkins.
THE THANG: ran to the elementary school parking lot on the left. Ran from one side of the parking lot to the other 4x. At each side of the parking lot, we did: 25 merkins, 25 squats, 25 four count flutters – so a total of 100 plus running back and forth.

Round 2 was on the other side of the school on the basketball court running back and forth on the court.

25 CDD, 25 lunges (single count), 25 Freddy mercury (double count) – all times 4 for 100.

Round 3 top of the hill by the pull up bars. Just 2 sets. Merkins were 8 each of diamonds, ranger, wide arm; then calf raises 8 each of in, regular, and out. Last was 24 LBCs. Run to cinder blocks but do 1 pull up at each bar on the way there, then do merkins, calf raises, LBCs again. Then pull ups at each bar again.
MARY: a few rounds of Mary
ANNOUNCEMENTS: short and sweet
COT: completed

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Keep those old wienkes kids

WARMUP: lap around the parking lot, windmills, low slow squats and merkins, couple stretches…go.
THE THANG: went to the small parking lot by COT and had one piece of paper on one end and another on the opposite end – maybe 30-40 yards. Start at the first exercise, complete it, run to the other side, complete the first exercise, and back and forth working down the list.
Side 1:
5 Burpee broad jumps
10 Diamond merkins
20 Merkins
30 Mountain climbers
40 Seal jacks
50 American Hammer
60 SSH
60 Moroccan night club
50 Shoulder presses
40 Crab cakes
30 Flutters
20 Big boy situps
10 Flying squirrel
5 Dive bombers

Side 2:
5 Hand release merkin
10 Durkin (get partner to put feet on back)
20 Knee to chest jumps
30 Carolina Dry Docks
40 Plank Jacks
50 LBC
60 Ski jumps
60 Squats
50 Calf raises
40 Dips
30 Monkey humpers
20 Lunges (10 each leg)
10 Apolo Ohno (10 each leg)
5 Plank alternating shoulder taps (5 each)

After the first 60 milestone was hit, we stopped running back and forth and mode of transportation moved to bear crawls to and running back…just to mix things up.

And we had music which was nice.

MARY: yes, check.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: also check
COT: yep, done

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