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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13 Jacked It Up on this crisp Monday morning!

Big honors again to Sherpa and the SAG crew for an excellent Highland Games. Everyone was feeling it today.

We pledged and then took off for a warm-up down and back to the cul-de-sac. Crossing the street was no easy feat due to “oncoming traffic” which pushed the PAX to move it a little faster than expected.
So safety being top priority we did a quick “Chicken All You Got Sprint” back across the street.

Thang 1: 4 corners. 5,10,15,20
Merkins, Squats, LBCs, Merkins.
Thang 2: Rock Your Body. Run the pickle.
Hinge, Row, Clean, Squat, OH Press + Triceps.
Thang 3: Suitcase Carry/Mary
2 – 35lb coupons carried by the PAX who calls the Mary.

Announcements: SCary Picnic May 19th. Ritter Park. Sign up!

Changed the question in COT today: Who needs breakthrough? And for what? Left some space. Thank you men for sharing (Tink, Hall, Sherp). Continued prayers this week. Be there for each other, for your people, spread the love. MIAGD!

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And that’s all she wrote for the 3rd annual South Cary CSAUP; The 2024 Highland Games.

First things first, BIG UPS to the allstar SAG crew led by @HGTV. You HIMs made this entire CSAUP as effortless as it could be for the participating pax with the support you provided. The crew spent their time, energy, and even their personal funds making this happen for us. TY4FL. YHC, for one, feels surprisingly fresh after running the 12.5 miles and I am going to attribute that to the support crew.

Also a big round of applause to Poncharello, who travelled all the way from the other side of the county (Wake Forest Region) to play the bagpipes and send us running into the GLOOM. SCary is entirely grateful. After a short speech by our very own Nantan, Pocharello wowed us with his musical piece (star spangled banner) in theme with the Scottish Highlands. With that we picked up the shovel flags and collectively hit the road.

@Kitty Litter and @Jigglypuff led us to the entrance of the Greenway where we were instructed to do some warm ups and light stretching. A nice appetizer to what was to come.

First hiccup of the day when the peloton took a wrong turn and ended up on the wrong trail, which we quickly remedied. On the right path and a mile of jogging, we arrived at #ao-fri-slipperywhenwet.

Thang 1 – Our Qs @Amway and @Spayed had the pax teamed up in 3s and had each team find a throwing rock. One team-member handled shot putting the rock over a swampy field while the second and third team member performed dips in the shelter and bear-crawls in parking lot, respectively. When the shot-putter finished his turn, duties were swapped among team-members. 4 rounds and we were done. Winning team won the prize of having to do 5 less burpees than the 10 the losing teams had to perform. Mosey on to the next site.

Thang 2 – Arriving safely, we were greeted by the @Hallmark and @Water Wings at #ao-wed-pointbreak. We were broken up into several teams and we went team vs team pushing two vehicles up the parking lot. The pax were skeptical of the claim that the vehicles were separated in weight by a mere 10 lbs. This was one heck of an effort pushing those vehicles up a slight incline. Done and dusted, we all picked up the shovel flags and moseyed onto the next site a mile up the road.

Thang 3 – #ao-tue-flirtinwithdisaster was our next destination and the Qs here were @Joe Smith and @Banjo (Carpecker). Pax were divided into 2 and one half went to the muddy field near the Greenway entrance for some stubby log tosses while the other half stayed to do a round of caber toss. These strong man exercises were accompanied with Popcorn Marys. Tough stuff here.

Thang 4 – One of the few climbs in the route to reach our destination at #ao-fri-shepherdswatch. @Astro and @Flintstone divided the pax into 4 teams and YHC was marvelled at the efficiency at which the teams were assigned. Almost like grabbing a ticket at the DMV in the form of @Flintstone assigning each pax a number as soon as we entered the location one by one. Good stuff fellas. Tug-O-Wars was the main course here and the smiles on the faces of the pax made it known that we all had a jolly good time. YHC has a grievance that almost all the rounds were won by the team that was pulling on a slight downhill. Conspiracy theory maybe? Shovel flags in hand, the pax headed to the next site, the longest stretch of 1.6 miles.

Thang 5 – Arriving at #ao-sat-lochnload we were surprised to see flag poles, pallets, cinder blocks, ropes, and @HGTV’s smiling face. This surely meant he had something deviously painful in store for us and indeed he did. 4 teams pushed a pallet with a bunch of cinder blocks. The challenge was to go from flag to flag while pulling these pallets with one teammate on board. At each stop, we had an assigned exercise administered by a SAG crewmember. Tough stuff again.

Like the half-time intermission for any competitive event, we were rewarded with one at this point. A cornucopia of cut up fruit, rice-krispies, pickles, mustard, water, gatorade, etc. awaited us. YHC has another conspiracy theory that the guy who was in charge of the bananas accidentally bought plantains instead. I should probably have put eating those plantains as Thang on its own.

Thang 6 – Refreshed the pax were surprised by the unveiling of 4 heavy and dusty tires and a 12-foot long 4×4. This pole was used to carry those 4 tires all the way to #ao-mon-kryptonite and the pax were expected to chip in and take turns without ever laying the contraption on the ground. Running was kept to a minimum because of the awkwardness and weight of the whole operation.

Thang 7 – @Life Alert and @Texas Ranger awaited us at Java Jive and the makeshift #ao-wed-hulkamania site. We threw kickballs into surprisingly flexible and mobile human basketball hoops while lunges were performed for a make and burpees for a miss. It was deemed a race by the Qs so I don’t know if YHC saw even one properly executed lunge or burpee. Regardless, we can all agree that the human-basketball-hoop was the real MVP of this basketball operation. It wasn’t about the shot, it was all about how well the human-hoop moved to assist the making of the errant shots.

Flags on hand and the tire and pole contraption in our collective hands we were off to our final destination, #ao-mon-kryptonite. These final 1.5 miles were tough sledding, but in the end we all made it back, which YHC was grateful for.

COT: SCARY picnic on the 19th of May, various blood drives for you to be a part of, Respect and Honor week coming up, and the naming of FNGs Tide Pod, and Sunkist. Prayers and Prayers!

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. This is how YHC feels after completing the whole route wearing a 20lb ruck-vest (well, the floating part, not the stinging part). It was a great honor to be a part of this operation and once again I want to point the spotlight to the SAG crew. Even though they did not shed a single bead of sweat they still managed to become the MVPs of the CSAUP. Also great thank yous to all the volunteering Qs who showed us a great time all while challenging us at the same time.

Love to all.

MAKE IT A GREAT DAY!!!

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