It was a beautiful morning in SCary and 24 strong posted to take advantage! The clock struck 6:30 and a disclaimer was stumbled through. The pledge was pledged and we left the parking lot on a slow warm-up mosey. Some went right, most went left down to the tennis courts for some flying warmups.

Half ran the pickle, half AMRAP’d the called exercise.
SSH
Mountain Climbers
Plank Jacks

Depart the tennis courts and over to the first round-about. This is where I called Dora’s pet mouse, “Speedy Gonzales”.
12 burpees
24 Merkins
36 squats
While your partner sprints the round-about.

Then we did an 8+2 up the hill to the flag. 8 steps bear crawl, 2 merkins, wash, rinse, repeat to the flag.

At the flag repeat the “Speedy Gonzales” on the larger round-about
12 burpees
24 Merkins
36 LBC’s
Afterwards, reverse it.

Drop down for SCary stretch and afterwards, slow mosey to the bottom of the parking lot.

Rolling sprint up the parking lot to the flag, recover mosey around the round-about and back down the hill.

Rolling sprint up the parking lot half the distance and then circle up for popcorn Merry. We finished up with an @amway honoring set of 20 Merkins.
PERFECT!

NMS
– Perhaps the weather is such to put away the oodie till next season
– Shoutout to @amway for putting on a spectacular F3 challenge – the bar has now been set pretty high
– Thank you for all who posted this morning! While yes, I do enjoy the energy of a smaller group, you just can’t beat the energy of a large group on occasion.
– As discussed in COT we have an amazing culture in SCARY! We each contribute to that culture one way or another and we shouldn’t take it for granted.
– I am honored to count each of you in my circle of friends!

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Mosey down Lochmere. Quick stretch.

Partial 21s of squats and push ups.

Finished with hill sprint, mosey and a set of crunches.

MIAGD

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We started with the Mission and the Pledge. We went for a warm up jog meandering down beautiful Lochwood West Drive. We traversed to the the boat ramp for some warm up exercises including circles, daisy pickers, windmills, washing machines, hill billies, side straddle hops and of course the standard South Cary Stretch and pigeon. We then worked the dam for Long 7’s with alligator merkins at one end of the red fence and jump squats at the other end of the red fence. Upon completion we moseyed back to the Flag for COT.

Announcements:
Duck Donuts Dash TODAY, Upcoming Highland Games

Prayer Requests:
Prayers for Sanka and his wife are traveling to Richmond, VA for a Seminary Gathering/Event.
Prayers for HGTV’s wife in California spending time with a friend with Pancreatic cancer.
Prayers for My wife and daughter are in Tuscaloosa, AL for a baby shower. Prayers for my dad with low-level Prostate cancer.
Prayers for PAX running and injury free Duck Donuts Dash Today!

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This was a DAY. The EC event of the year, the cap of the 5th Q-6-pack of the month, a major announcement, and a major milestone for our young region. More in the NMS.

At least two cohorts for the WGECOcho, and at least one ruck cadre partaking in the EC options this. Somewhere around 30 gathered at the flag to welcome FNG Leigh, hit the core principles, and head out. Warm up lap around the pool lot island, and gather near the flag for warmups.

Find a partner on your way to the clubhouse and grab a coupon. Two laps around the pickle. First do murder bunnies, next do lunge walks. Non coupon partner runs around till you meet, then swap.

Next thang, supplement our collection with pain sticks, the off for the Planters Wood culdesac. Stop at every mailbox for 5 squats and 5 presses. Swap some items at the end and head back via the greenway.

Coupon Mary, the follow HG to the new coupon location.

Back to the flag… then back for the six, the back to the flag. A very incremental PAX count (only rivaled by the old SNS-Maynard days). Somewhere around 32 is my guess (as I type this in Notes before loading the PAX names). We named FNG Leigh “Sioux”. Full name ‘[A Boy Named] Sioux’. Credit to Brie for the idea early on in the Ocho. Leigh independently referenced A Boy Named Sue when we pondered the spelling of his name at COT, so it was too good to pass up.

We only lost Petey between EC and ME, but we ran for a dang hour+, so granting posting credit.

COT was strong. R2R(2R) was announced, hit up Doula to HC. Reflections on those we’ve lost, but more critically, the ones we still have. Today continues to be a gift, so let’s not miss it.

The fun part for me to reflect on today was this – I think we saw a new milestone for South Cary in the PAX lifecycle. We had an FNG join, catch fire, accelerate, have unmistakable impact on the region at large, leave, start a region, and come back to visit… infusing energy into the last couple days. Thank you Doula for stopping through, it was awesome to see you again.

This week was fun!!! But as I’m sure AKOA can attest, I am very happy that it’s over. Till sometime next week y’all.

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And just like that AKOA week comes to a close. Some may reflect on this as SCary’s first CSAUP of 2025. Some may reflect on it as the most fun they’ve had all year. Some may reflect on it with disdain and an attitude of good riddance. Some may even still be asking themselves, what is AKOA Week?

Astro kicked things off this morning with some attempted deception involving multiple laps around the upper lot until finally heading towards the dock for warm-ups. Upon the mosey to the dock who should appear but Kitty Litter, OTW, and Amway at various locations each calling their ‘signature’ exercise. Fairly standard warm-ups with the inclusion of the Rick Rude which left Texas Ranger in tears, then passed off to the cat who may be on his 9th life.

Kitty Litter took us down to the disc golf pickle for some AKOA four corners. By now I think you know which exercises were called.

OTW took us over to the rock pile for some rock work and TAKE THE HILL (which was more of a tiny bump to Pick Up).

Amway led us back to the pool for How Well Can You Keep a Secret burpees, Last Man Merkin-ing, and Mary.

Thanks to everyone who participated in and supported this endeavor. Part of what makes this group great is not taking ourselves too seriously and pushing each other to do more than we thought we could. This week accomplished that and shoutout to the guys who completed a full AKOA week. Now who’s ready for part two?

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As everyone knows, today is national Opposite Day. As such, we celebrated with an inverted workout…which had to be modified a bit due to the FNG being there.

Welcome, mission, core principles, disclaimer and then…popcorn Mary to start the workout!

Properly maryed we set off for a set of inflating and deflating SPMILB. Start with one exercise and then add an exercise at each street on the lochwood loop. After stop 6, turn around and drop one exercise at each stop.
Squats – 5
Plank jacks – 10
Merkins – 15
Imperial Walkers – 20
Lunges – 25
Big boy sit-ups – 30

After that, we moseyed over to the dock for our warmups and stretches. Then back to the flag for the pledge and HAND.

Standard announcements. Lots of buzz about whatever AKOA week is. Prayers for grace and patience over the weekend after some over exposure to our children this week for some.

Welcome to FNG Spokes! MIAGW, gents.

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We had a visitor from ENC and a couple of PC bros join the LnL fun this morning. Quick disclaimer, no flag, mosey out. Wait the flag arrived and so did Jigglypuff, the pledge. Over to the lake for a warmup but no swimming.

Pearls on a string aka dopes on a rope was the plan. The pax were confused as we passed the casa’s de IC and Wings, but YHC had better plans.

Squats
American Hammers
Merkins
,
Hello Dollys (in the Fleder driveway)
Elbow 2 Knees
Y-Squats

Jack Webs
Outlaws
Elbow 2 Knees

Squats
Merkins
Irkins
Travoltas
Heels to heaven

HAND!

DDD-222, HG25 4.19, SCary Picnic 4.27. Reminder that we are not promised tomorrow, MIAGD men! The peace pipe was puffed and passed.

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Scary points were awarded for “snow” today.
3 runners and 10 boot campers.

The theme fell apart, the workout was mailed in but the company and chatter were on point.

Highlights – finding “Petey” the bird frozen to the ground. Saved and “rescued”. & Jigglypuff with the longest sled down the Lochmere hill. Best wipeout goes to Shipyard.

Welcome FNG – Petey! Promise the next one will be a beat down.

coming up in Feb. sign up now!

Prayers for health, kiddos, and the people around us that we can be a light to.

MIAGD!

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11 arrived at the flag at 0630. There was no known Q and no DR Q in sight. Only one man could fill the same colored shoes at such a moment, Yogi SPOKE UP! We moseyed to Java Jive for a warmup/wheel of pain/circle of grunts. It was a Q school of sorts. Then we moseyed back to the flag for 1 Mary call by the advertised Q, who was at the mailbox. Extended COT with three monologues. MIAGD!

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14 booters and 1 runner helped cap off the 2024 Ambassador Tour. We paid respect to each sub region and the number of AOs in each. X and Y squats were crowd favorites. 2 Hello Dolly’s in IC Lights driveway thrown in for good measure. Prayers for the family of The Commish. Always an honor to lead.

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