We moseyed and merkined.
Spotted a few frogs, no snakes,
and some stairwells.
Listened to chirping birds and trucks.
Happy earth day

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12 stong at Shepherd’s this beautiful Good Friday. Lots of chatter leading up to the 5:30 start, always a sign of a great group.

Over to Craft for a quick warmup, including a broken Rockette Imperial Walkers, and some almost yoga poses.

Partner up for Catch Me if You Can around the parking lot pickle. 10 merkins before catching up with your partner who was running backward, shuffling, or karaoke;

Over to the day care for a ring of fire. 100 Peter Parker Merkins done in sequence upon the PAX count.

Continue toward BJ’s stopping for another ring of fire including squat holds/squats

At BJ’s, a final ring of fire (squat hold/ burpees)

Finish with 7 of diamonds at BJ’s (ab focused), before running back to the flag; only to stop for calf raises and merkins

Beautiful time of year with much to celebrate; Such good fortune to have health and a sound mind to join my brothers in the morning. Shout out to Bubba, who is self admittingly, looking and feeling better than he has in years.

Highland Games tomorrow; not too late to commit

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11 pax plus the Q decided to take a trip down the lanes of yesteryear and play a game of….

Memory.

54 cards were spread out on a picnic bench that will be holding delicious food at the F3 picnic next Sunday (rumor has it there is a signup sheet somewhere) and the PAX had to pick 2 with the hopes of a match. Total # of the two cards resulted in the number reps to perform.

Detailed rules in the comments.

An expertly curated playlist (also in the comments) accompanied this intense workout of mumblechatter and shockingly high count of sir fazio arm circles. One thing is for sure, @grisham is never going to have a rotator cuff injury.

Stations of the cross
Highland Games
Make someone’s day better today.

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It was great to be back at Shepherd’s Watch this morning. YHC was mildly offended when one of the Site Qs bailed after the EC (identity not being disclosed for privacy reasons).

Regardless, 6 Pax headed across the street for vanilla warm ups and then headed to the tunnel for 11s. Plank jax and mtn climbers in cadence were the flavor to the morning. Upon completion we headed back to the church parking lot, stopping at each telephone/light pole on the way cycling through monkey humpers, squats, standard merks and diamond merks. Had some time to kills when we got back to the parking lot so we did some out and backs (forward run out/backward run back). That then morphed into a round and a half of 4 corners. Beatdown end at 0615 on the dot.

COT:
Announcements – Highland Games 4/19, TRR 4/26 and Family Picnic 4/27

Prayers – Grisham & Petey lifted up this morning

Praises – South Cary Dome prevails yet again and Spring (minus the pollen)

Grateful for the opportunity to lead this morning.

MIAGD!

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Wasn’t entirely sure how this morning would go after rolling my ankle yesterday but it was a terrific morning in the gloom. At first I thought the cold had chased everyone off and we were going to have a small group but the pax poured out of the woodwork as the clock inched closer to 0530. Intro, disclaimer, pledge and off we mosey.

Long way around to the field for standard warm-ups then back behind the medical buildings for a….

Merkin pain train

The pax were overjoyed by the prospect of this, and the very detailed instructions YHC gave on how to execute said pain train. Lots of questioning about the necessity and wisdom of this choice but naturally that was just the pax’s way of expressing their gratitude. Once that was completed and those early finishing pax were fussed at for simply standing around waiting off we go to thang 2.

Four Corners of Mary in the 88 MPH lot, with rounds of V-Ups, Box Cutters, and Low Slow Flutters. Then off to thang 3 back at the field.

Partner up. Partner 1 calls an exercise and partner two does that AMRAP while P1 runs the small ramp pickle. Switch. After P1 and P2 complete AMRAP + Pickle, P2 gets to call an exercise for the next round. Some masochistic pax called merkins as one of their choices….. Lots of mumblechatter and concern about time and getting back to the flag by several pax including two overly concerned site Qs. After round 4 we moseyed back for an expertly time HAND.

SIGN UP FOR THE PICNIC (and the Highland Games).

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Rain? What rain? I cannot begin to tell you how disappointed I was to get up this morning and see dry ground outside. I was so looking forward to moist and gloomy workout! Ah well…

After a quick 5 core values quiz, a discussion about my opinion on gloves during warm weather, and the pledge, we got moving with a trot to the upper lot. Once there, we played a quick game of “where the F is that food service truck going” while executing a fairly standard B-A-B warmup.

Thang 1: A loop that included BOTH sets of stairs, and the elevated walkway. WME’s on the Elevated section, WWII’s at the top of one set of stairs, Body Weight rows behind the fountain, “Logo Removers” at the top of the other stairs. We did this for approximately 20 minutes.

Thang 2: Legstravaganza. A quick set of 20 calf raises on the stairs, then over to the turf for Single leg step downs (10 each leg), 10 proper deep squats, single leg reverse lunges (10 each leg). After that warmup, we got 20 more calf raises followed by a full set of Lt Dan on the turf. With a minute remaining, we did calf raises/Biner Hops until time ran out!

Announcements: Highland Games and SCary Picnic coming up and deviously planned for while YHC is out of town. Travis Manion next week at FMJ.

YHC closed out with a brief leadership thought for the day; Fault vs Responsibility.

Fault focuses on who is to blame, but does not present a path forward. Responsibility focuses on the path forward. As leaders, it is most important to focus on responsibility. Be responsible! One example used this morning is if you wake up in the tomorrow to find someone has left a baby on your doorstep, that’s not your fault. What happens next however, IS your responsibility.

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12 PAX showed up at SW early this morning. 2 left after I introduced myself so 10 stalwart keepers of fitness and general agreeability embarked on 45 minutes free from the shackles and burdens of cadence counting. We did an easy mosey around the parking lot while we waited in @chipper to shave, shower and change out of his running clothes and into his boot camp clothes. Once he joined us, we broke up into pairs for some flying warmups.

Then we moseyed over to the giant-ish courtyard for some:
– Prisoner run catch me if you cans
– 4 corners forward
– 4 corners in reverse
– paint the sidewalks with lunge walks and bear crawls
– paint the sidewalks in reverse with lunge walks and bear crawls

Then we left the courtyard for the parking lot. A quick pause for some South Cary Stretching and into some rolling sprints. (Note to management – SCARY needs more sprinting)

A quick 2 + 2; two parking lot spaces of bear crawls, 2 of lunge walks.

Circle up at the flag for a quick popcorn mary.

A delightful morning and the coffee was delicious, thank you @unitard. Always an honor to lead and a quick shout out to @shipyard for the SCary-iest man challenge which helps me step outside of my comfort zone to visit and Q AO’s I don’t normally attend.

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What a great morning at Waverly Place! We had multiple EC options and a strong running contingent during the main event.

After the AO Inspection EC by me and Hallmark, 11 PAX returned via a pearls on a very long string through some parking lots to Ritter Park where we spent about 5 minutes doing curb irkins and pull ups. Quick wave to the Hulkamania PAX and we set off on our return journey via Loch Lomond and the tent-guy-cut-through back to Waverly. Some ambitious exercises at the high ledge by the fountains, featuring the ‘half time’ ALRSUs. Back to the flag just in time. Rejoined with the 12 runners for COT.

It was a last second Q pickup, but I was glad for the opportunity to lead. MIAGD!

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Glorious morning at Point Break as 14 of us set off to conquer 11s Stairs and HRM while 2 dudes bro talked. Fairly certain this has never been done in SCary and won’t surprise me if never done again. Took way longer than anticipated and the Thangs held in reserve will be saved for another day.

Announcements – Poker, HG, WH ASS, Picnic

Prayers – Petey, Lisa, Uni’s brother, Quiver’s father, Coco Crisp (Carpex).

Love you guys

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The Jericho walls didn’t come down by themselves.

Standard warm up mosey to get the juices flowing and stretch the legs. A disclaimer on mileage was given before the PAX descended to learn what seven exercises would comprise the Thang, followed by a lap around the building to learn the route.

Mtn Climbers
T-merkins
Burpees
Tap-py-taps
Overhead claps
Unicycles (Freddie mercs)
Russian Twists

7 reps each, 7 laps around Jericho.
Debate was had on whether mumblechatter should cease while circling the building, but by the end there was no debate.

Thankful for opportunity to lead this am.
Prayers/praises for healing, wisdom in conversations. Announcements on slack.

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