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Stroll in the Park

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WARMUP: Mosey to pharmacy parking lot.
Imperial Walkerx10, Hillbilly Walker x10, Windmill x10, Cherry Picker x10, Plank: HoneyMooner and Down Dog. MTN climber x15, Peter Parker x15 and Parker Peter x15.
THE THANG: Mosey to WE parking lot and do Cocaine Bear Crawl done lot and Lieutenant Dans back.
Accumulator: 1 burpee, 2 Squats, 3 LBC (change squat to lunge and LBC to Hello Dolly). At each bench add 1 burpee, 2 squats and 3 LBC to 11 burpees.
MARY: In the workout
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Yes
COT: Yes

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Audible at O-Dark-Thirty

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Vuvuzela sent a text around 1:30am saying he was still up and wouldn’t be able to Q. Since I was already covering site Q duties anyway, I did what any site Q should do when you have a no show Q—step up and Q yourself but I was able to use Vuvuzela route he provided.

The Thang (Run):
Route took us:

– Down Munn Rd
– To Harris St
– Right into Sutton Mills
– Crossed Sutton Rd
– Down Suttonview Rd
– Into Masons Bend
– And back to home base

Clocked roughly 4–5 miles at a solid, conversational pace.

PSA: Running AOs require constant awareness. Too many distracted drivers out there. We can’t control them, but we can control spacing, visibility, and keeping our heads on a swivel. Shady and Tiller can attest.

COT: Talked briefly about stepping up when plans change. Leadership doesn’t wait for perfect conditions—it responds when needed. That’s how trust is built and how groups stay strong.

Grateful for men who show up, adapt, and get the work in—no excuses.

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Varsity has graduated to retirement

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WARMUP: started out with a quick mosey, went into SSH then merkins, then more running and SSH and more merkins. Ran some more, then cherry pickers, and more merkins…also did some stretches. Ran over to pull up bars.
THE THANG: Grabbed a cindy. Planned for some 7s. 1 pull up, 1 manmaker, overhead carry down the hill, then 6s at the bottom of the hill for squat thrusters. Then overhead carry back up the hill- just did this for 1 round with the overhead carry’s.

Then 2 and 5, etc. This took a long time.

We then ran over to the benches for incline and decline merkins. Then did more merkins on the way to COT.
MARY: out of time like Marty McFly
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Xmas eve convergence and Jan 1 homeless shelter
COT: bingo, lots of praises and prayers, aging parents and holiday travel

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Respectables take over the Pond

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WARMUP: pledge of allegiance
THE THANG:
1 mile lap Four corners with 5 burpees 10 merkins and 15 leg raises at each corner
MARY: Dis you know??
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Christmas is 5 days away
COT: Pray for the children

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Park to Calhoun

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WARMUP: it was cold. we’ll warm up on the run
THE THANG: cover distance stop for:
5 burpees
10 merkins
15 squats
added some lunges once
did some leg lifts after a muscle up twice
bear crawled the length of Calhoun St. Parking lot twice too
covered 3.11 miles–except for Beaker (his strava only said 2.98, which feels like a failure on my part. see NMM below)
MARY: flutters in cadence for 1:30 to hit 0600
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Xmas Party 12/12, Bethel service tonight

NMM:

You ever just 3000% took care of everything and crushed it by all outward metrics, but you didn’t do it with JOY in your heart? So your wife, kids, or close friend noticed and it wasn’t the reaction you expected…even though the mission was fully accomplished

It isn’t enough to just do a good job

Handle the mess your kids created with success, but did it in a way that made them feel scared rather than safe? Failure

Take care of business for your family, but made your wife feel like it was a burden rather than a mission? Failure

Maybe it’s just me… 😉 Good thing failure is a way point and not an end point. Let’s stay after it!

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Family and service

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WARMUP: mosey around the parking lot, Carioke, toy solders and butt kickers. Windmills, Moroccan Night Clubs and merkins
THE THANG: Mosey to student parking lot. Sprints at 50% then 75%. Rinse and repeat for a total of 6 complete sprints. Mosey to the wall and do 10 muscle ups. Mosey to front of school. 15 dips and 20 back step lunches for total of 3 rounds. Mosey to side of school. At every brick pillar alternate between squats and merkins. Mode of transport is mosey but Band Camp insisted on Bear Crawling. Mosey to bus entrance. Break to hear the story of Naval ROTC instructor, Shawn Studley, and his wife Laura. She passed away at 1:18 pm on the afternoon of this day (11/19). Mosey to the hill outside the cafeteria. 10 back step lunges at the bottom, NUR up the hill and do 10 squats. Repeat for a total of 3 times. Mosey up the hill to COT. At every light pole, stop for a 10 count exercise for the abs. At COT do my hip thingy.
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT: Pray for Shawn Studley and his family

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Rosie’s magical bean ride

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WARMUP: SSH, Low slow squat, windmills, imperial walkers, merkins
THE THANG: Line it up!
40 Yards of MOT, 60 yards sprint
1. Bear Crawls
2. Lunge walks
3. high knees
4. broad jumps
5. bear crawls

In between rounds, 15 Hand release merkins, 20 squats, 25 CDDs, 30 shoulder taps, 35sec plank

Pauly D – 50 yards + sprint of 50
1. NUR
2. Jog

Jack Webb from 1 to 10
1 Merkin, 4 hand claps
all the way to 10 merkins, 40 handclaps, baby!

Sevens – Apollo Onos, Leg raises.

The flag was passed, another man grows!
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Congrats Pauly D
COT:

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It’s about community

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WARMUP: The heartstrings got loosened up out of the gates as Warning Track unloaded some baggage from a tough week, acknowledging the challenges of Living Right through the Flux of life and the importance of showing up this morning to be lifted up by his brothers. He followed up with the Obligatory SSHs and then set off from WEP.

THE THANG:

WT took the pax to the old Pike Elec parking lot stopping for some windmills, burpees and other fun enroute.

Pax broke into groups of 3 for a modified Dora across the parking lot. Midway through WT called audible due to pax incompetence and simplified to Dora in groups of 2. Terrible things like Merkins, squats, lunges, flutters, burpees, etc were unleashed on the pax

WT took pax to Memorial Park for more burpees and more shared pax stories of Why they come out to the Gloom on a wet Sat morning.

DD took the reins and moved the pax to a series of parking lots (pharmacy), Pike front courtyard, Town Hall back wall for pain stops including shoulder taps, wall sits, plank jacks, burpees, mtn climbers, peter parkers, Parker peters, etc.

Pax returned to WEP to appreciate JWOW’s lovely Christmas tree. Two rounds of partner work included bear crawls around tree + flutters followed by crawl bears around tree + HR merkins.

Mosey to grass in front of band shell for more partner work (merkins, shoulder taps, sit ups) interspersed with some burpees and lap around band shell. Finished off with Knee Tar N’dyae and Mahktar N’dyae.

Mosey home

MARY: included throughout

ANNOUNCEMENTS: coffeteria at HC

COT: great morning where we welcomed 3 FNGs + a Kotter while pax from 30s to 50s mixed it up and pushed each other to get 1% better.

“Our youth are our present” I heard my pastor say from the pulpit recently. Note he did NOT say “our future.” It’s as true in The Fort and in our community as it is in NYC with a 34 yr old mayor. Younger pax, you ARE leaders today — embrace your opportunity and duty. Seasoned pax — your leadership focus IS about bringing along the next generation of leaders — embrace your opportunity and duty.
We are blessed men to have these roles at this time.

Thanks to JWOW for the opportunity and Warning Track for the partnership.

Love you brothers!
#KeepPosting

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Bushpit Dual Q (or Q Duel?)

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Rock, Scissors, Paper for who took the warmup: Birdcage won

WARMUP:
– Indian run

THE THANG:
OldBay Part 1:
Run to first of 4 cones set up to cover a large area for “Catch me if you can”. Pax partner up, size doesn’t matter. Partner 1 does stationary exercise while partner 2 does moving exercise (working their way around all 4 cones). Once P1 finishes stationary exercise, they run to catch P2 then flapjack. Continue until they’ve made it around all 4 cones.

Exercises:
10 merkins and butt kickers
3 burpees and high knees
10 mountain climbers and karaoke

Birdcage Part 1
All pax grab some curb for merkin and shimmy: one merkin, then use arms and legs to sideways step to the right. Repeat until complaints were high enough.

Shake it out and then flip to other side of curb for dip and shimmy.

Pax then had to get in 5 lines for sprints back and forth in front of the stadium entrance.

OldBay Part 2
Pax line up on curb facing open side of parking lot for broad jumps and merkins. Pax instructed to take 2 broad jumps and then do 2 merkins. Repeat until the other side of the parking lot was reached, keeping count of how many broad jumps it took them.
14 jumps was the fewest, so all pax had to do 14 burpees.

Pax then lined up arms-distance apart, then dropped to a plan for railroad tracks. The pax at the end of the plank line had to make their way to the from the line by jumping over each planked pax. They then planked at the front of the line. Done after 2 complete cycles. We had a few minutes left, so we did 5 6-count burpees to satisfy the brass at the workout.

Birdcage part 2
Worked our way back to the front of the stadium where we did suicides, stopping at every tree for 5 bombjacks…until we run out of time (or tree, in the case of a few pax)

MARY:
Just a few moments for a few exercises. Bandcamp managed to get 2 6-count burpees in, because only dozens before wasn’t enough.

Great work by all. Thanks for the opportunity to co-lead, Birdcage.

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