Purple Unicorns with Glitter Accents

Nice morning at The Armory.

Ran the bells across the lot. dropped and circled for a warm-up.
walkers (Imperial/Hillbilly), merkins, squats, LBC, Rinse & R.

7 boards set out. Rotate from one board to the next with a short run in between. Boards had bell exercise 15 count, both sides (L & R), non-bell exercise, finished by a 10 count bell exercise, both sides.

Returned across the lot with the boards and flipped the one at a time until time ran out.

Lots of lifting.

Thanks for the opportunity, first bell Q in many, many years.

Looks like we made it,

Barry Manilow

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9 Dropped By The Fort

We warmed up and then dove into this year’s Mental Battle WOD which can be viewed here.

Mental Battle WOD 2023

Men don’t fight alone. Don’t live alone (no friends, family, community) and don’t forget about your brother.

With that The Thrill is gone.

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Just a Board

13 did the hard thing this morning at Varsity. Disclaimer was disclaimed and we were off. Here’s what we did:

Warm Up
– 10 Low Slow Squats (IC)
– 10 Imperial Walkers (IC)
– 10 Overhead Claps (IC)
– 5 Hillbilly Walkers (IC)

Mosey to the Track

– 1 Mile
– 100 LBCs
– 100 Moroccan Night Clubs
– 100 Squats
– 100 Mountain Climbers
– 100 Calf Raises
– 100 American Hammers
– 100 Dips
– 100 Shoulder Taps
– 100 Side Straddle Hops
– 100 Flutters
– 100 Merkins
– 1 Mile

NMM
There’s a 4-letter word that has dashed more dreams and held back more potential than any other. “Just.”
“You’re just not my type.”
“You’re just not smart enough for this class. Just quit now and save yourself the embarrassment.”
“You’re just not tall enough. You’re just not fast enough.”
“You’re just not college material.”
They said Jesus was just a carpenter from a nowhere town. They said his followers were just fishermen and outcasts. Just is a way people try to hold you back. Don’t let others tell you what you can’t do or who you can’t be. Just do it.

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Q vs Q Week 1 2023

River Rat led a short warm-up.
SSH
windmills
Morrocan Night Clubs
Mountain climbers
Al Gore

Q1 – Zalinsky
burpee waterfall down the hill

Q2 – Esso
Laps around the RV lot. 10 burpees every time the whistle blew. Exercises at each lap.

Q3 – Zalinsky
Partner 4 corners
Merkins, Big Boys, Squats

Q4 – Esso
Partner Dora
Bear crawl down / NUR back
Partner did SSH. The whistle was still in effect.

Strong Q’s by both participants today. Good mumblechatter and fellowship. Great to see a bunch of the QvQ veterans. Looking forward to a great month.

Here’s an update and the name-o-rama.

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Teen Mental Health Awareness Weinke

WARMUP:
Run to WEP

THE THANG:
Approx 14% of teens suffer with mental health issues. That number is probably higher.

Split into 3 groups. 1 group ran clockwise around WEP twice, another ran counter, and the 3rd ran the trail down to Harris Street and back. All groups had to run their routes shuffle run style. ~mileage 1.4. Once we returned to the start, 14 burpees then switched routes.
This time each team did 7 burpees after either 1 lap around WEP, or once they got to Harris St. then 7 more after the second lap.

Only had enough time to do 1 more lap with burpees before heading back to COT.

MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
newsletter.

COT: gratitude all around.

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The way things were

This Weinke was stolen from @Anchorman
Do day one, run around medical building.
Plank for 6.
Do day two, day one then around the building, etc

1 Donkey Kick
2 WAM
3 Jumping Lunges
4 Merkins
5 Squats
6 Burpees
7 Bombjacks
8 Sumo Squats
9 CDD
10 Flutters IC
11 Monkey Humpers
12 Diamond Merkins

During Plank we got to hear about each PAX’s favorite place from where they grew up that was still there last time they went back. Slash and I had a bit of back-n-forth because the Greenway wasn’t really here when we were growing up and so much has changed in Fort Mill. Plus we both lamented Tony’s Pizza burning down.

@Cheddah- Jones Donuts
@Weezer- Al’s Fries
@OldBay- Breaker’s Pool Hall
@Mainframe- Texas Tavern
@Cyclops- Alfee’s Pizza
@JWOW- Vinny’s Pizzarama
@dilbert – Baseball Field
@Change Order- Intercoastal Waterway
@Flounder- Mosquitoes (WTH? Your favorite?)
@Esso- The Complex
@Slash- Village Pizza
@Shady- Sweet Sensations ice cream (and massage parlor?)
@Band Camp- Bartlett Tree Farm

An honor to lead.

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Litter pick up – Community Svc

March 18th is tentatively set as our first pick-up for the US21 adopt-a-Highway litter pickup! We will have 4 opportunities in 2023. Once a quarter is the plan.  All supplies provided ( bags, gloves, safety vests, pick up sticks, eye-wear, and fellowship) All that remains is YOU.
Plan for about 1 hour and 30 mins – 2 hours maximum. We will meet at the Harris street park around 7:45am.
We will walk up the hill to US21 and split up into 2 groups.  One group will head north to the Peachstand and back and the other group will head south to Sutton Rd and back.  (1 mile each direction)

We could use 10-12 guys to keep this an efficient and timely process. 2.0s and Ms are welcome as well as anyone who would like to participate in our community svc event.

Thank you to all who participated in 2022. Looking forward to seeing new faces as well as the HIM who assisted last year.

US 21 from the Peachstand south to Sutton Rd ( Circle K – gas station) is the road that we adopted!!

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Licked by Squatch

WARMUP: plank exercises (merkins, Peter Parker, mountain climbers) mixed in some upward and downward dogs
Tallawah BUY-IN: 100 goblet squats
THE THANG: 7 stations of tabata- 40 seconds on, 20 seconds off
1. wall balls 20#
2. slam ball and catch 15#
3. Merkins with one hand on bell/switch at 20”
4. KB plank rows over edge of stage
5. KB manmakers
6. KB swings
7. Jump rope (2 burpee penalty for missed jump)
3.5 rounds completed
MARY: plank in a circle and slam ball rolls CW and CCW; seated in a circle with feet up with backs to one another and pass slam ball CW/CCW; flutters, low plank Parkers, LBCs
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Rooster 3/4, Jaeger 3/11

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Asphalt Football Field

Warmed up with mosey, toy soldiers, karaoke, shuffles and high knees.

Went to the asphalt parking lot: every 10 yards we bear crawled to next exercise in cadence. Count of said exercises was ascending from 5 CT to 50ct increasing by 5 every 10 yds.

1/4 mosey followed by 10 burps.

Back to asphalt field and go in reverse.

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