Here it is. The backblast you’ve all been waiting for. What a day men. Just want to start with some acknowledgemtn of all the HIM that made this day possible. All the guys that stepped up to Q sites, Jigglypuff for taking the SAG Q, and the entire SAG team. Without those pax none of this would have been possible. TY4YL!

Let’s get at it though. What a gorgeous weather day for this 2025 version of The Highland Games. Couldn’t have dialed it up any better. After getting every checked in and assigned their clans for the upcoming festivities we kicked it off promptly at 0545-ish with Squeeze Bag on the bagpipes. THANK YOU Squeeze Bag for coming over and absolutely crushing it on the pipes this morning (check Nextdoor for a glowing review). Announcements made, pledge pledged, and Squeeze Bag played us off on our way.

Over to the Point Break side of Waverly for some warm-ups led by YHC. Pax were high in spirit and full of mumblechatter at this stage of the Games. Once properly warmed, including a full set of SCary Stretches which blew our visiting pax’s collective minds, off we set for the first proper thang at FWD.

Thang 1 – Homegrown took the lead at stop one assigning each clan a task. The tasks were, shotput across the back field, coupon carries down the greenway, dips/irkins/derkins at the bunches by pavilion, and rockwork. Each clan rotated through each station and crushed it. Nobody was taken out by a flying stone, so off to a good start. Let’s continue!

Thang 2 – Lengthy mosey all the way to the home of the premier 0530 Friday AO, Shepherds Watch, for some Ultimate Frisbee led by the pax formerly known as Spayed. The clans paired up and had admittedly a ton of fun. Lot’s of slipping, sliding, spectacular defense, amazing catches, and of course, plenty of burpees for drops. Both teams claimed victory in the end and perhaps the true victor will never be known. In higher spirits than ever off the pax set for the next stop.

Thang 3 – Cross Tryon and head down to the top of the hill before the tunnel. Pax were gathered and WebMD took over. Pax were instructed to storm the tunnel complete with battle yells while running through. This was definitely one of the high points and the effect was truely nailed. Well done Web. Grab the rope and mosey down the greenway a ways for some…. tug of war led by WebMD and rookie of the year candidate Promo! Clans were paired up again and multiple rounds of tug of war were completed with a sprint in between each round. Pairings changed each time and resulted in some riveting mtachups. Indigenous peoples run to the end of the greenway and then regular mosey onto the next stop.

Thang 4 – Amway took the lead at the bottom of the dam hill, where lo and behold pain sticks were awaiting us. Pain stick dora-esque beatdown ensued. Each pax in the clan took a turn carrying the pain stick to the top and completed overhead presses to failure for points (one rep = one point). Bring the pain stick back down and the next pax goes. Pax at the bottom completed a Dora of 100 squats, 200 curls, and 300 rows. At one point Yogi decided to come up with his own method of returning the pain stick and almost broke multiple pax’s ankles, but thankfully nobody was hurt. Score was actually somewhat accurately kept and the winner was determined to be the Blue clan (Let’s go Blue clan!). Next up…. SAG STOP!

SAG team crushed the refreshment pit stop even if Chris R’s music did upset a gentleman who apparently sleeps in his polo shirts. Also, unfortunately (?) no plantains this year. Properly refreshed and refueled off we go for…

Thang 5 – One of the newer AOs launched in SCary is the Saturday morning 3rdF – The Accelerator that runs in conjunction with Loch N Load. The Accelerator is a 4-5ish mile run with a purposeful 3rdF discussion topic selected by the Q that week. Amway gave an overview and clans stuck together to discuss the topic of, “Which of the 3 Fs do you need to focus on most in your life right now?” I can only speak for my clan but the conversation was great, thought provoking, and really encouraging to hear other guys share. TY4YL in launching this great addition to our region Amway!

Thang 6 – Our Accelerator portion ended at Lochmere Village where none other than Fruit Loop was await us with a bucket of golf balls, how very Scottish. Next up was a golf ball relay race. Legs consisted of bear crawl golf ball push, merkins while holding the golf ball between your knees, bunny hopping while holding the golf ball between your hands with your palms down and not using your thumbs, and finally a lunge walk followed by tossing the ball into a bucket (10 penalty burpess if you miss). This was a ton of fun and resulted in many good laughs. But the fun wasn’t over, off we go!

Thang 7 – As we rolled into Ritter Park, the (un)official home of SCary, Kitty Litter took the lead. Clans were paired up and completed caber toss and giant tire flipping. At one point a tiny dog was almost impaled or flattened by cabers until successfully captured by HGTV (who proceeded to tell the lovely lady what all these crazy dudes were doing). Throwing logs and flipping tires is always a great time and this was another highlight for many of the pax. After we were done throwing heavy stuff around Shipyard stepped up and had a surprise for us… We needed the logs at the next stop, and there was only one way to get them there. One log per pax, and lets mosey. But don’t forget the flags!!! This ended up being quite the task and admittedly a lot harder than I thought it would be. TClaps to all the pax for carrying the logs and flags, nice work!

Thang 8 – Around we made our way to the back lot of the adjacent office park for what promised to be an experience with Shipyard at the helm. And boy did he deliver. With the help of CPR construction some pallet sleds had been created and were staged at one end of the parking lot. Our task, use the logs as rollers and pull the sleds to the other side, heaviest pax on top of the sled. At this point a lot of rule bending occured, but the Blue clan absolutely crushed it and completed the task to the letter of the law, and blue everyone out of the water. Well done Blue clan. Apparently according to Shipyard though, everyone lost and had to carry everything back to the start. This was arguably even worse than rolling the sleds down. Done and dusted time to head for home.

Our fearless SAG guide Astro on his trusty segway scooter led us back to Waverly where we were greated by the sweet, sweet sounds of Squeeze Bag serenading us with the bagpipes once again. Simply lovely. And with that it was a wrap.

COT: SCary picnic 4/28, 4-7pm, eating at 5:30p. See Sbarro for the sign-up sheet. SIGN UP!!! Several prayers lifted up.

Thanks again to each and every one of you for coming out this morning and making the effort to be there. Even moreso, thanks to each of your families and friends for putting up with us and the crazy stuff we do, the true heroes. It was an outstanding morning and an honor to your HG Q this year. F3 and this group of guys is incredibly and I’m lucky to have found my way here (shoutout to Astro for the EH almost two years ago now!). Way to crush it this morning!!

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Together with my 88 MPH friends Jamie W., Thomas P., BJ M., Lucas P., Surinder D., and Matt O. , we all seemed to have a great time in the gloom and pollen as we enjoyed exercises mostly designed to get the PAX’s face directly to the pavement for maximum pollen inhalation. Some fast food warmups, then 7 of diamonds, on to stair & wall work, got some burpees included, teabags, calf raises. Ended with kettle bell squat-potato to low pulsing squats, then back for more. Some mary and done. After discussing DOGE’s effectiveness, budgets and audits I’m pretty sure we passed our local audit at 88 this morning. Just ask our cross regional traveling peace pipe toting voyeur Cheap Trick. Tclaps to this HIM for making the trip today. Only he and one other (take a guess) took in the pipe.

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7 SCary HIMs and 1 Peak City Voyeur met in the gloom and gave it there all on this beautiful crisp morning. Big tip of the cap to Kirkland and Term Paper for the inspiration for today’s beatdown. The game was simple. No FNGs, No disclaimers, no pledge. Off we went for a quick warmup as we weaved the balls and painted the lines. Standard warmup exercises. A couple rounds of merkins to get the blood pumping and then we were off. Down the trail to the fork in the road. Lo and behold the wheel of pain was waiting for us in all its glory. Something must have been wrong with the wheel today as it kept coming up MERKIN. We did a window wiper pattern down the trails where we did merkins at the bridge, the gate at top of hill, and the parking lot. Rinse and repeat until I almost passed out. Many hundreds of MERKINS were completed. No mailing it in today. effort given by all PAX. Ended with COT and peace pipe with Cheap Trick. Lots of fun and laughs this morning. MIAGD!

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AKOA Week Day 5 and last stop in the POGL. Much to Franklin’s delight YHC was the AKOA Q of the day. Start off with the mission and the pledge and off we mosey to Apex Baptist. At this point it was voiced how sad the pax of Peak City were that no other SCary-ites came (Sawf Cary indeed). YHC attempted to make excuses for SCary, but no, they were right, c’mon guys! Anyways, warm-ups in the tiny front lot, with full SOUTH CARY STRETCHES, since it was part of AKOA Week (Sponsored by SCary). Long way to the back of the church for thang 1.

4 Corners around the church consisting of:
American Hammers
Travolta Merkins
Carolina Dry Docks
Dying Cockroaches

Some are still trying to piece together the theme here…. Anyways, once completed mosey over to the United Methodist Church for some quick rock work. Squats, rows, and lunges (in cadence I think). Running short of time mosey to All You Got Alley for all you got back to the flag. Few minutes of Mary while the ruckers, walkers, and runners returned.

Announcements were announced including Franklin letting YHC know coffeteria was immediately following next to the plugged in coffee maker, shocking.

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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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JDI EC joined JRI EC to a total of 3 EC’ers

Soon after the EC was complete, a shopping elf magically appeared bearing some goodies! Franklin took the ruck, YHC carried the sandbag until Cheap Trick got his hands on it and wouldn’t share.

The PAX headed south on Kildaire to Ritter for a set of 7’s. YHC would like to introduce the newest SCary exercise: RUCK YOUR BODY. The 7’s consisted of Pull ups and Ruck Your Bodies.

Returning via Crescent Green, the Q’s navigation skills were challenge, but the route was flawless!

COT: Shopping continues this week for families still struggling in western NC. Give unopened presents to HGTV or Kitty Litter.
Christmas party to end all Christmas parties at the swankiest venue in Crossroads on Dec 19th

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Big numbers all around and great times as well. 21 set sail on a yacht rock journey through Summerwinds. Felt like the summer breeze was flowing as the pace picked up fast.

Announcements included TCP sawgrass, Joe Smith’s Black Friday workout at SWW and the SCary Christmas Party. Prayers were lifted up for the great mentors in F3 and the great groups we have. As The Doobie Brothers said, it keeps you running! MIAGD!

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Walnut Street Park has to be the busiest park in Greater Carpex pre-0630. It was a privilege to lead such a distinguished group of diplomats this morning.
WARMUP:
Mosey up to the street adjacent courtyard for a few of this and a few of that. Franklin was very complimentary of the back to back Imperial Walker/Hillbilly combination. Mosey on.
THANG 1:
The Waffle House line was very busted but we decided to go check it out anyways. Random construction gates did their best to slow us down but we prevailed. Although it turns out doing exercises in the Waffle House parking lot is a bit dangerous….
Two rounds (1st round 20 reps, 2nd round 15 reps):
M ountain Climbers
D iamond Merkins
C arolina Dry Docks
H eels to Heaven
Mosey the highly dangerous Noodle Blvd pickle in between.
THANG 2:
Over to a more wide open but no less sketchy REI/Harbor Freight parking lot. Back and forth doing squats/lunges at each center line. At this point lots of complaining and mumblechatter about time, and which way back was shortest. YHC paid no mind and proceeded with the longest way back.
MARY:
None
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Odyssey this weekend.
Many other events upcoming, check #cot-announcements in the various regions for more details.
COT:
Various prayers lifted.
It was a great morning and I enjoyed getting to see some different faces. I’m sorry to dash the ambassadors hopes and dreams of getting to experience a full Waffle House Q at MDCH but it was a good morning regardless. 100% coffeeteria attendance.

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5 braved the weather to get there, but worked out under the shelter. Term Paper drove his car under the shelter so he really didn’t brave any rainy weather. 5 Respects and 1 Honor. The younger PAX went to BiB. The Ambassadors visited Stonecutters.
Typical Warm Up: Sir Fazio, seal claps, overhead,….
Picnic Table 5-10-15: four rounds of four exercises
Round 1: Dips, Derkins, E2K, Squats
Round 2: Table shrugs, Irkins, Dancing Chilcutts, lunges
Round 3: Table curls, Merkins, table leg raises, RDL’s
Round 4: CDD’s, Diamonds merkins, table big boys, step ups
T claps for HGTV and Franklin for leading the step ups.
Playlist to accompany the rainy (thunder) weather.
COT: WGC this Saturday;
P & P’s: People who are working in the storm; family relationships; employment of 2.0’s.
3rd F: Coffee and NYDB II, Thanks HGTV. Olympic coverage was discussed. Missed Lite Brite, hope you are well.
Stay safe. MIAGD

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Respect Week rolls on. No cadence count and nobody got hit by the car in the crosswalk. We grinded up the hill two light polls up, one back. At the top, a variety of moderately successful group of exercises moderated by Statler and Waldorf. Sorry, I meant Franklin and Term Paper. Work our way back down the hill finishing up with Mary. I’m bringing her back. Welcome FNG “Safe Word”. He’s a beast and he likes burpees.

Thank you everyone for coming out this morning. I’m humbled and blown away. I feel blessed every time I post!

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