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Are we heading back?!?

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WARMUP: just needed to get running, it was colder than the app said
THE THANG: 5.3ish miles at a 10ish pace
MARY: not today
ANNOUNCEMENTS: check your newsletter, there’s a relay race coming up soon, bethel men’s shelter in a bit, splinters got a baseball game option to support his kidney foundation coming up a little further out, and we think there may be a Christmas party way out later in the year
COT: we met up with Shield and Ruby Slippers – they were apparently skipping around the track for an hour.

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Sandbag Share

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WARMUP:
THE THANG: Rucked 1.84 miles. Stopped every 0.3 miles and did two PT exercises at each stop with ruck and passed along #40 sandbag
Stop 1 – 20 ruck squats, 15 ruck merkins
Stop 2 – 20 overhead presses, 15 curls
Stop 3 – 20 4ct flutters presses, 15 ruck big boys
Stop 4 – 20 2ct mounting climbers with ruck mtn climbers, 15 lunges each leg
Stop 5 – 20 upward rows , 15 overhead presses
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:

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Pathfinder

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WARMUP: sure
THE THANG: 6 miles @ 10ish pace
MARY: 25 flutters IC, 10 dying cockroaches IC, and some Simpsons
ANNOUNCEMENTS: read the newsletter
COT: praise: time w/ family, getting to be dads, Squatch’s g-mom discharged from hospital prayers: Squatch’s sister in law’s medical issue, kids

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Varsity Shovel Flag handoff

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YHC Gave the Disclaimer then got going with the warm up.
A little broga – sun salutations (basically bending at your waist and breathing), then some up/down dog, and some hip stretches.

Then did a short jog around part of the parking lot with high knees, butt kickers and shuffles.
Moseyed over to the football field and lined up on the goal line.  Did windmills IC and SSH.

Next we were onto the real work.  It was some speed work that involved :
Jog to 40 yard line , sprint 10, 40/10, in end zone do 25 merkins
Jog 30, sprint 20, 30/20; 25 merkins
Jog 20, sprint 30, 20/30; 25 squats
Jog 10, sprint 40, 10/40; 25 squats
Finished with a nur to the 50, 10 merkins and a sprint back to the goal line.  From there I handed it over to the new Site Q, Headspin…

The THANG, part 2:
Mosey to the ROTC building and grab a cinder block
Exercise In cadence –  Cindy OYO 10 counts
1. Burpees (OYO)
2. Cindy – Overhead Squats
3. Diamond Merkins
4. Cindy – CurltoCleantoPress
Run around the bus loop
1. LBC
2. Cindy – Goblet Squats
3. Mike Tyson Merkins
4. Cindy – Swings w/ Cindy
Run down the hill and back
1. Derkins ( feet on the curb )
2. Cindy – Man Makers
3. Peter Parkers ( count 1 leg only )
4. Cindy – Thrusters
Run to the street and back
Put blocks back and headed to COT

MARY:
– J-los

Announcement…New Site Q!  Headspin!!!, Yeager CSAUP, read newsletter

Prayers/praises: heath of Pax/Sawdust’s elbow, Grassy’s M, others I’m forgetting

YHC Started this journey as a site Q on September 30, 2020 at RPG.  Took over at Varsity October 22, 2021.  It has been an honor and a blessing to carry the shovel flag at both sites and I’m privileged to find a new site Q for Varsity.  
I think the lineage for the site started with Skate, then Kielbasa, Harry Carry (I’ve been told) made it great again and Splinter was who handed it to me.  
I’m looking forward to whatever Headspin wants to do at the site in the future!

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Wait..what?!?

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WARMUP: @Double D kicked us off with a disclaimer and quick mosey around the parking lot before we circled up to do a handful of warmup-y type exercises…I would list them out, but can’t recall exactly what we did as (unbeknownst to most of the PAX) I was more concerned with concealing the speaker I was carrying for my portion of the Q.  Kudos to @Pusher for noticing. I do, however, recall the group providing the 5 core principles of F3 as we had an FNG EHd by @OldBay

THE THANG: After warmups, @Double D mentioned the theme for the day, which was Adaptability and Agility and then handed off his Q to YHC.  I proceed to expand upon Adaptability and Agility and the need as leaders to be both Adaptable and Agile as there is always something that comes at us unexpectedly.  We then proceeded to mosey to the Lowe’s parking lot where we circled up for 15 mins of EMOM (every minute on the minute) of the following exercises:
1 burpee
2 lunges each leg
3 merkins
4 low squats
5 SSH

*Music started off on AC/DC radio and switched halfway through to 90s Hip Hop to accommodate @Pusher’s musical preference.

The PAX then mosey’d to the top of the hill by the gas station for a few plank jacks before moseying back down to the lot for what started out as a quick broga session that didn’t feel right due to the 90s Hip Hop, which was adapted to a 16-PAX circle of PAX-led mary.

MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS: D2DB tomorrow, D2D Relay in 3 weeks, read your newsletter
COT: what’s shared in COT, stays in COT!

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The Jack Web Phenomenon

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WARMUP: plank <>upward dog <>downward dog (with variations), mix in exercises from plank position- merkin, Diamond merkin, plank jacks, Peter Parker’s, you get the idea
THE THANG: Webs!!!
1-5 sit-up-getup:4-20 single arm chest press (both with KB)
10-6 burpees on curb:40-24 calf raises with KB
1-5 Turkish getup:4-20 KB curls
10-6 goblet jump squats:40-24 hops with KB
1-5 big boy burpees:4-20 KB swings

Merkins on bell 5-4-3-2-1 each side : KB triceps 5×10
End with max merkins in 30”

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Dam2Dam 10K on Saturday- Beaker and I are getting a 10K warmup starting at 9:45AM at the Print Shop and heading to the start line for the official 10K.

COT: prayers for my daughter who is not feeling well

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That’s what he said…

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WARMUP: see bb for SnakePit
THE THANG: see bb for SnakePit
MARY: see bb for SnakePit
ANNOUNCEMENTS: see bb for SnakePit
COT: see bb for SnakePit

“Next exercise…what he said”

SERIOUSLY…LEADERS…listen close…

As Leaders…inevitably you will encounter something that does not go according to plan… this morning it was my Q at Bushwood.  In short, no one showed….even the site Q opted for the “other workout” (in fairness, he had a good reason 😂) – a kettlebell beatdown by Sasquatch at SnakePit.  

LEADERS…be NIMBLE.  Be willing to ADAPT.  

For me…I grabbed a bell and deferred to Squatch!

BTW…my weinke today only had one exercise… it was going to be a 45 min body destroyer 😉

Y’all’s loss!!

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Arms and Run

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WARMUP: SSH, Merkins
THE THANG: 3 stations Arms concentration.
Station 1 at the top of the hill of Massey, 25 Merkins
Station 2 at back parking lot of Pike Eng, 35 yard Bear Crawl.
Station 3 at tye WEP playground, 10 pull ups.
Run back to Massey through 160 to complete a 0.75 mile loop.
Rinse and repeat.
Total of 3 to 4 miles with the exercises.
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS: D2D Bar package pick up on Saturday at Amor between 2 and 6PM. CSAP coming up by March.
COT: prayers for families.

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Wait…you want me to Q a ruck workout?

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WARMUP: Made our way to the upper parking lot for SSH, Mountain Climbers, Plank work, Windmills, and more SSH without ruck

THE THANG: FYI…this was my VQ (ruck)! I felt WAY outside my comfort zone, which is where we as leaders are meant to be…but like most any challenge we face, the way through it is my taking the next step.

Remaining work with ruck – relocated to the sidewalk just outside the entrance to the BMX track and started at the first light pole with 10 squats, lunge walk to next pole for merkins, reverse lunge walk to the next pole for curls, lunge walk to the next pole for thrusters.  Now at the bottom of the hill, we discussed my #OneWord for 2023 of #Intentionality and proceeded to use the hill for a Jacobs Ladder – starting with 10 burpees at the top and 1 big boy sit-up with the ruck overhead at the bottom.  The group completed this with just enough time to make our way back to COT
MARY: nothing other than the big boys
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Mens shelter, blood drive, d2d fundraising, newsletter
COT: What’s share in COT stays in COT

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Tabata kettlebell jam fest

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WARMUP: Done in cadence. SSH x15, windmills x10, Cherry pickers x15, Moroccan nc x15, Hillbilly walkers x15, Big arm circles x8(forward and back), Down dog/honeymooner
THE THANG:  Tabata with 25 secs on/15 secs rest x 6 sets – 45 sec abs+kb done in cadence
Swings
Reverse lunges
Bent over rows
Squats
Upright rows
Mtn climbers
Triceps extension
American hammers
MARY: one minute lbc with kb press
ANNOUNCEMENTS: D2D bar Jan 28, D2D next month, blood drive Jan 12, bethel men’s shelter Jan 12 (sign ups needed)
COT: back to school, job search, damar Hamlin and what his story has shown us

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