Jacket Dirty Mile

WARMUP: The usual suspects

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

COT: Held (5th core principle)

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Rounds of upper body for spaghetti arms!

WARMUP: SSH, Wind Mills, MNC, overhear claps
THE THANG: run a 1/4 mile loop around the parking lot stopping at 4 corners for 10 merkins at each merking. Then, everytime we finish a lap, we have a board of pain with different upper body exercises. Do the first exercise after the first lap, do the first and second exercise after the second lap, and so on. End it up with 220 merkins and a bunch of arms amd upper busy exercises using Cinder blocks in some of them.
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:

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4 corners and a Cake

WARMUP:
Handful of exercises to loosen up
THE THANG:
4 corners of exercises with 20 as rep number
5 exercises at each corner 3 rounds each with lap between rounds
MARY:
Flutters, Hello Dollys, big boys
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Read newsletter
Christmas party
COT:
Praying for Men to lead their families well

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Unexpected Opportunities

WARMUP: Disclaimer and Pledge duly pronounced
THE THANG: 1 mile loop (rectangle) with an exercise at each corner.

Up Massey, right on Harris, right on Ardrey, right on 160

Burpees x10
Hand release merkins x10
Apollo ono x10
Donkey kicks x10

Pax stayed together for first mile, then thoroughbreds were cut loose. All pax completed at least 3 laps/3 miles and all finished 1-0 for the day.
MARY: she stayed in the sack
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Christmas party, Turkey convergence
COT: Theme today was the Unexpected. I finished a book this week called “The Unexpected Journey” about caregivers of dementia patients (my dad’s current daily reality caring for my mom). I was also reminded of a quote from one of my favorite spiritual teachers, Henri Nouwen: “I’ve always complained about my work being interrupted until one day I realized the interruptions were my work.”

How do you respond to interruptions? Or when the Unexpected drops in front of you? Too often my response has been poor. I’m improving and yet I still have a ways to go.

I call these moments out as critical leadership moments. It’s harder to lead when something unexpected surfaces, and yet those are the moments when leadership is needed the most. Use these moments as instances to learn and grow your awareness, your skills, your consistency, and your leadership.

Thanks for the push from all pax today! I needed you around me, because as Nasa heard during the run, I was close to texting him at midnight last night that I was out because of an oncoming head cold. I didn’t send the message. And then something unexpected happened — I woke up feeling like I was good to go!

#KeepPosting

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VO2 Max training

Track workout including 2 options:

Run a mile on the track then:

1. Calculate Vo2 max by running hard for 12 minutes
2. Sprint workout with race pace followed by jog (400,800, 1200 meters)

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When you show up to Band Camp without your instrument, you get Squatched

WARMUP: Spectre reading message from Bandcamp – “Welp, Bandcamp overslept.” YHC leads SSH, short run to 160 and then Peter Parker and mountain climbers…
THE THANG: the route is called “The Reverse <@U014K6EAUFM> neighborhood” + add on of back entrance to Gold Hill Middle… intermittent stops throughout the route
3-5 reps of “windmill merkins” followed by broga stretches
MARY: replaced by 60″ of Bandcamp’s portion of today’s Q
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Bandcamp overslept.
COT: Honorable of Bandcamp to show up and still get in the miles.

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Run, Do The Thing, Repeat

After a prompting from Farmers Only (On Q elsewhere today), I decided to recycle a workout from last year.
WARMUP: No
THE THANG:
Run to a stop, do exercises, run to the next, etc…
The first 3 stops had 3 exercises at each stop.
The next 3 stops had 2 exercises at each stop.
The final 4 stops had 1 exercise at each stop.
The rep count was always 10 which in some cases, meant 5 each leg.
Total distance covered was ~3.6m.
MARY: See above
ANNOUNCEMENTS: All the same + the formation of a BRR 2026 Slack Channel with more comm’s coming from Pusher.
COT: Oh absolutely. Strong.

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Pray for Jamaica

WARMUP: sure
THE THANG:

Out and back – 4.3mi

L on Munn
R on Harris
R on Sam Smith
R on Choate
L on Drew
L on Sharon Lee
R on Sutton
Out to 6 Baxter

MARY: nah
ANNOUNCEMENTS: 4Bs, Xmas party
COT: prayers for Jamaica recovery efforts, medical treatments/procedures, home repairs

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