WARMUP:
THE THANG: 3 miles with stations
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:
WARMUP: Quick review
THE THANG: Experience yields Opportunity
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT: Failure is next!
Our setbacks don't have to define our future. God can use them to prepare us for what comes next.
COT: Prayer
Good way to start the day!!
Love this AO as the opportunity to fellowship with PAX is the main draw for me. You have time to get past the surface and talk about what's happening in each other's lives, sharing burdens or giving praise reports.
WARMUP: None
THE THANG: Just stayed in Kingsley completing 3 laps of the Kingsley loop with an additional parking lot loop. Called 5 shuffles during the ruck – 1min, 2min, 3min, 4min, and a 5min. Mile ranges were 3.8-3.3.
MARY: None
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Bethel Shelter Serve, Trash Pickup, 4Bs, LaGramma
COT: STK!
WARMUP: wind mills, imp walker, hillbilly walkers, Peter parkers all in cadence with some down and up dog stretching
THE THANG: part 1 – paired up for a Dora. 100 lunges (count one leg), 200 squats, 300 flutters ( count one leg). While one partner did the exercise, the other ran to the school building and did 10 dips on one of the benches
Part 2 – ab-centered jack webb. We did a 1-4 ratio of big boys and LBCs with a couple of interstitials for some more dips and merkins
Part 3 – a quick 4 corners around the parking lot with 10 merkins at each corners and a mosey in between
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:
WARMUP: Mumblechatter
THE THANG: Out and Back – Harvest Pointe
MARY: no
ANNOUNCEMENTS: yes
COT: prayers and praises
WARMUP:
THE THANG: 3.4 miles Kingsley & Old Kingsley
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:
WARMUP: 14 Burpees
THE THANG: Mosey to center of WEP
Pax rotated into center based on year of 1st post (ie Class of 2026, 2025, 2024, etc). Varied exercises were performed by all including Burpees, Partner Derkins, Squats, Sumo Squats, SSH, Mtn Climbers, Mahktar N'Dyiae, Flutters, Freddys, Monkey Humpers, etc
Pax sprinted home for the finish.
MARY: She participated during the Thang
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Bethel Shelters service
COT: Yes, of course, 5th Core Principle
The pax came early and stayed late to celebrate this Community of Brothers we call The Fort. For 14 years, men have posted in the Gloom of WEP and other wonderful sites throughout FM/TC (and in Rock Hill, Clover/LKW and now Chester) to sharpen each other, to hone leadership skills, and to prepare themselves and each other to tackle the ups and downs Life will regularly throw their way.
The number of men who've stood at COT in The Fort over these years exceeds 2,000. And roughly 200 pax keep the flame burning in 2026. Their continued participation is an individual choice, one they can't not keep making because, as they shared, they've found brotherhood, community, belonging and accountability in The Fort.
Who will be standing in COT in 2036 or 2046? Anybody? Nobody? You? Your son or son-in-law or grandson?
As Band Camp shared, we Get To make this choice. Each man stands apart from the general crowd in our culture in making this choice. And yet, each man of The Fort is no better than any other man who lives among us. All men are made of the same fiber in the same image of our Creator. As Dark Helmet said, every man is needed in the leadership mission required to bring to fruition the world our Creator intended. So stay in the game. Find the next man and bring him into the fold. Because 14 years of history only matters if we continue to bring Impact to men and our broader community today, tomorrow, next week and next year. #KeepPosting
We had 6 BC, 3 Runners, I Rucker at Minnow Pond this morning. The rain kept some of the regulars at home. I switched my plans last minute due to the small numbers.
Pledge and we were off to the Pharmacy for some warm-up exercises (SSHs, IWs, MNCs)
Next stop, town parking lot where we did bearcrawl merkins. Mosey to the post office for the same exercises and added crawlbear CDDs.
Continued run down Williamson and Academy for another round of crawls merkins and CDDs. Two rounds up the hill with squats at the top and hand release merkins at the bottom.
Back up the hill in the opposite direction to the First Baptist parking lot. Relay race with exercises at each corner. 1st round merkins (5,10,15,20 count). 2nd round squats same count, Once the teammate completed the first station, next person started the relay. @U061FJV3GVD pulled a Seinfeld and started running early. Last stop was up to Tom Hall and back to Main Street for a set of V ups. We continued up and down Main Street circling back for the six. Two minute warning gave us time for a sprint up Massey.