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!
THE THANG: Took off for a basic run and boot. 3.02 miles with stops along the way.
Pain Station stops included: merkins, squats, burpees, cocaine bear crawls, Carolina dry docks, jump squats, etc as we moseyed from COT to Dam Rd and back.
Many words were given and they all mattered and defined. From honest, accountable, virtuous, dependable etc all great words. There is no perfect definition but we should all be striving to make sure we are doing all we can to be a Good Man because the world badly needs Good Men. The words above that we do without thinking keep it up, those that we have to strive to do better at – keep working at it – the world needs GOOD MEN. You have 31 days to close 2025 and set the tone for 2026 – go be a Good Man!
MARY: Sprints, hot white speed sprints!
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Announced, Fort fill free to edit – Rock Hill announcements pertinent to Fort is F3 in RH Christmas Parade this Friday Dec 5th – see me if you’d like to join. SLT Handoffs Jan 1st NYD Convergence.
8 men were at The Sink this morning, one ran away after warm-ups.
Partnered up for a run/farmer carry – big loop.
Stopped at the front of school, shuttle run/bag toss.
Lion King, reps stopped when muscles roared
Calf raises, Simba, Squats
Big loop again – run/farmer carry/bag toss
Back to COT for 5 minute push
5 reps rinse and repeat till 06:00
Bag Press, Bag Curl, and Bent Over Row
WARMUP: Jog with some karaokes, toy soldiers, and power skips.
THE THANG: Took the long way down the hill (Ben Casey to Patricia Lane)
At stop sign, 10 pulse squat to squat jumps (1 pulse squat and 1 squat jump is 1 rep)
20 lunges — single count
10 big boys
Ran to the basketball courts
10 modified merkins (similar to the squats, all the way down, halfway up, back down, then all the way up)
10 tricep dips
10 Mountain Climbers (double count)
Ran to Dam Rd.
10 burpees
10 side lunges (each leg)
10 Freddy mercury’s (double count)
Go in reverse and increase reps by 5
At COT complete burpees, side lunges, and FM (10 reps) then big loop around earth fare.
Wrapped up with 10 more modified merkins and squats
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS: a lot going on in the fort. Check your newsletter.
COT:
THE THANG: Jacket-Dirty-Mile
4 laps around FMHS track… 3 “excursions”/lap
– Up & down Railings of Home side bleachers (so… up, over, down, over, up, over, down…and rejoin track)
– East end zone — 10 inverted rows on Football team “apparatus”
– West end zone – Nur up hill…. crawl-bear down.
When 4 laps done… dealer’s choice on how to finish: Yog… or continue pattern. Most continued.
MARY: Partner – 1 Pax holds 6″ / other pax slaloms feet over (10x each side)… flapjack
Ab-Lab w/ Circle of Hate: Pax calls out exercise for others to do while he bear-crawls or Lunge walks around perimeter.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: FMCC Food Drive, Operation Love Turkey collection, other newsletter stuff
Quick discussion on my Why? As in why I’m still in F3
Short answer is to run faster…(metaphorically as well as literally) I want to be good, I want to be great so I surround myself with people who are better than I. I’m consistently inspired, and impressed with the dudes we have here. All I can do is try and keep up.
Run to the Ft. Mill Baptist 11 Lunges run to confederate street 11 HR merkins run to to the bottom of the hill 11 Bomb Jacks.
Rinse in repeat up and down reducing the reps by one each time. (here my math was off a bit but we got pretty far with this until I called an audible)
Run back to Vets park Where we did a heavily modified version of the Sgt. Major workout. (for veterans day)
28 merkins run to the top of massey
28 merkins 56 calf raises
Run back to the bottom 28 merkins 56 calf raises 112 flutters
Run back to the top of massey 28 merkins 56 calf raises and 112 LBC’s
Run back to the bottom of the hill
11 Hello Dollys IC
11 Heel Touches IC
11 Hammers IC
The Thang
– Serpentine the HT Parking lot
– Run
– Nur
– Side Shuffle
– Butt Kickers
– Karaoke
Mosey to the Wall
– 10 One-legged Lunges ea. Leg
– 10 Dirty Hook-ups (IC)
– 10 Wall Tar Jais (IC)
– 10 Wall LBCs
– 5 Australian Mountain Climbers
Long Run behind HT back to Mailboxes
– Take turns jogging the loop with the 60lb sandbag – everyone else does the following AMRAP:
– Merkins
– Squats
– LBCs
– Wide Arm Merkins
– Calf Raises
– American Hammers
– Ranger Merkins
– Pistol Squats
– Flutters
– Burpees
– Monkey Humpers
– Plank
– Copperhead Merkins
– Low Slow Squats
– Freddies
Mosey to Walgreens
4 Corners:
– Round 1 – 10 Diamond Merkins at each corner
– Round 2 – 10 Big Boys at each corner
– Round 3 – 10 Seal Jacks at each corner
– Round 4 – 10 OH Claps at each corner
Serpentine the HT Parking lot back to COT
– Run
– Nur
– Side Shuffle
– Butt Kickers
NMM
I recently watched the below video about taking action for those relying on you. In it, Chadd Wright describes his role as a breacher in the Seal Team. He would plan the breaching of an obstacle so his team could accomplish their mission. He describes three words that took planning into action: execute, execute, execute.
That’s what people fail to do. If you don’t execute on your plan, especially when you’re tired or scared or stressed, you’re not just cheating yourself, you’re cheating those they rely on you – your family, co-workers, or team.
So ask yourself, what is one decision I’ve been avoiding making that I should instead boldly execute today? When I say, “I’ll wait until conditions are perfect,” am I actually just waiting to avoid discomfort? How clear is my “why” for the work I’m doing — and does it anchor me when things get hard?
WARMUP: Run Around WEP stop at every swing and do 10 SSH
THE THANG: Cuomo Had A Board and I Had A Board. Mine Was Better Only Because It Had Mac Tar Dyes Involved
MARY: Some In Cadence Which Pax Thought I Couldn’t Do
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COT: