WARMUP:
THE THANG: Rucked from Kingsley to WEP with a loop around WEP and back to Kingsley. 3.25 miles round trip
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS: It’s in the newsletter
COT: Closed in prayer
4 of the 5 of our shield lock met at Kingsley as usual at least one of us was running behind as we meet at 5am
THE THANG: YHC and Stang Jogged 3 miles clockwise around the mile Kingsley loop. (By the way this route sucks as it is mostly up hill for .50 miles. Cheddah and Slayer to a hike counter clock wise as Slayer has slightly injured his Achilles. YHC needs all the miles I can get since the Bourbon Chase is coming up faster than I thought.
Once YHC and Stang finished 3 miles we caught up with the other half of our shield-lock for a cooldown lap of 1.20 miles
Afterwards we had coffeteria at Starbucks Cor 25 min catching up on life and what has be going on as we all have been DR at some point this summer for work or on vacation. Afterwards 3 of us joined the 2nd F at the the ale house.
WARMUP: 1 min plank of gratitude. Each man must say one thing he’s greatful for. Go around the circle until time is up. SSH, HOLA HOOP, HOOP Hola
THE THANG: introduced necessary exercises during warmup. . Going to run around front parking lot loop and stopping at each corner to do one set of a given exercise. 4 corners with standing penguins, cha-cha merkins, jump lunges and suicide squats. Got close to 3 miles in. Also paid tribute to the five year anniversary of loosing one of our own. Sleeveless4cheech. To honor John “Cheech” Flanagan
MARY: nah
ANNOUNCEMENTS: read your newsletter
COT: Flounder took us out with praises for his son Gump to return safely back from Africa.
13 Pax posted to The Ballroom on a crisp Dec morning with meteors falling and new and veteran pax rising. Triple Lindy was honored at the start despite his DR status. Our FNG was introduced. A Disclaimer was proclaimed. And then the fun started.
The Thang
Mosey to the football field with some carioca along the way
COP — SSH, Seal jacks, Mtn climbers, Windmills, Hillbilly Walkers, Burpees
Line up along goal line facing the field
Mosey to other goal line via lunge walks, bear crawls or combo of the two with stops every 10 yards for Merkins x10 at 10-30-50-30-10 and Squats x10 at 20-40-40-20-goal line
Plank series
Return mosey to original goal line via backward lunge walk, crawl bears or combo of the two with same stops and exercises on the return trip
COP — each pax calls an exercise and counts # of reps that match # of yrs he’s been posting at The Fort
Mosey to grass area halfway back home from football field
COP — Knee-tar-N’diaye, Freddie Mercury, Back scratcher, LBC, Superman
Mosey to school side entrance and form two lines for relay across parking lot and back with pax holding plank or Al Gore while they wait
Mosey home
COT
Moleskin
A lively festive spirit prevailed from pre-launch right through to the end. Thanks to all the pax for the enthusiasm and energy today! Many thanks to Cake Boss for the pre-marketing, which brought out a great crowd (but not CB!). Hope the extra Zs paid off CB!
The remainder of the Geminid meteor shower entertained the pax throughout, at least while they weren’t comparing notes on favorite Tuesday night wines (@Pusher @Cheddah).
Poppins rallied FNG Dirty Bird for his first post. His brother, Spud, in the northern CLT burbs hadn’t been able to get him into the Gloom but a push from Poppins plus extra encouragement from CB sealed the deal. Glad to have you among the pax, brother!
The cumulative years of experience among this group of pax was 68 years — an average of 5 years/pax. And that’s’with a group that included 2 pax in yr 1 plus an FNG. Excluding those three we had an average of 6.5 years. Clearly this thing has legs!
Even in my 10th year, mornings like this make me feel young and like we’re only just beginning. Long live The Fort!
68 PAX in attendance for a pre-thanksgiving beatdown and some fellowship on a brisk morning Thursday 11/25/2021.
With the anticipation of fried turkey, oreos and coffee brought by @Change Order, @Smuggler and @RubySlippers, mumble-chatter abounded, until @Hardwood took the center and called attention at 0600 hours. Disclaimer was disclaimed and the call for new FNG’s was made, no new FNG’s was the lone blemish on the otherwise fantastic morning in my humble opinion.
Run options led by @Gekko and a Moderate group led by @TripleLindy set off as the rest of the PAX moseyed towards back of Springfield Elementary. First Destination was in parking lot way back by the Middle School.
Circled up and @Hardwood called out the following exercises:
SSH- 40
Windmills
Downward Dogs and Honeymooners
Low & Slow Squats
Cyclops: Stay in Squat Position and complete Moroccan Nightclubs
The Thing
Series of Webs
Starting with Merkins and Overhead Claps
1×4 for 10 rounds of excruciating shoulder pain, mumble-chatter becoming more focused on the task at hand
more SSH 🤮
Next we completed ANOTHER WEB, worse than the last,
Shoulder Taps and Moroccan Nightclubs
1×4 for 10 more rounds that was never ever going to end
Lots of requests for Burpees strangely or anything other then arm workouts!
YHC began the 2nd half of the workout with more SSH
Mosey around to front of Middle School with 3 stops for 5 Burpees OYO, at the request of the PAX
Line up at bottom of small hill in front of school and explain the workout, AMRAP LEG CIRCUIT
Teams of 4 ish men cycle through three exercises at bottom of hill individually:
2 Squats
2 Split Lunges
2 Bomb Jacks
Next Broad Jump up Hill to top and complete the following:
2 V-ups
Bear Crawl to bench
2 Step Ups
Run around and down to bottom of hill stopping at cones for 2 burpees (two stops per lap)
Meet back at bottom of hill and repeat, only this time DOUBLE ALL REPS TO 4X
Goal is to complete 5 rounds or AMRAP, almost completed but just short of time before we had to get back to COT
YHC shared a article on Gratitude, and then @Shady shared the heart of the Fort, the success of @Seamstress initiative with the help of the PAX, @Seamstress shared his excitement and appreciation for the success of the event! Great job by all T-claps!
Finally we had a shovel hand-off YHC taking the Ranch from a long line of great site Q’s which I hope to make proud.
Then we were finally able to enjoy the fried delicacies and coffee! Cheers!
Lets start the month of November off right. It is an honor to get to represent the Marine Corps. Lets get after it.
Disclaimer
Mosey to Warm Up- Warm up 10 of each exercise in cadence- SSH, Mtn. Climbers, Hillbilly walkers, flutter kicks.
Move to end of parking lot. we will do an exercise than mosey(sprint) to other end and do another exercise. Back and forth, after 4 exercises slow mosey around parking lot.
wide arm merkins
air squats with hold at bottom
LBCs
Burpees
windmills
diamond merkins
Mtn. Climbers
flutter kicks
Burpees
cherry pickers
Reg merkins
Bomb Jacks
Supermans
Burpees
Morracan night clubs
hand release merkins
alternating lunges
hello dollies
burpees
american hammers
dips
We did 246 reps to celebrate the 246th Birthday of The United States Marine Corps
12 of each exercise were completed in cadence except for American hammers we did 15.
Finished with Mary. COT. Backdraft Out
School was in session and we were grounded.
10 PAX rolled in, we disclaimed and formed up in 2 lines for an Indian Run with little direction, only a destination. Get there. And so we got there.
Warm ups consisting of Imperial Walkers, Lunges and Merkins
Mosey down to the lighted road by the new “structure” no one can explain:
10 Carolina Dry Docks
Bear Crawl to the “end”
Lunge walk back
20 Dips
Crab Walk to the “end”
Crawl Bear back
Go back to the top of the road
10 Mountain Climbers
Run 1/2 way
10 Mountain Climbers
Run the rest
20 Flutters
NUR 1/2 way
20 Flutters
NUR the rest
The longest 5 minute plank with a 3 burpee penalty if you break the plank. The challenge here is that when you call this with this crowd, they’ll end up doing whatever they want anyways so it truly is, just a suggestion.
Run the “9” which is down the road, encircling the parking lot, making a 9.
Upon completion, 5 Burpees, 25 LBCs, 50 SSH
Run 15 yards, 5 Merkins, run 15 yards, 10 Squats
Run 15 yards, 5 Merkins, run 15 yards, 10 Squats
5 MOM with different PAX calling counts.
Thank You TL
Maximus