Here’s what happened. 13 it was to enjoy a Merry Merkin Christmas. Warm ups and exercises were arm and shoulder focused. SSHs, many many arm circles WITH shurgs, wide grips, IW’s, Hillbillies and mosey….where distances between exercises for the remainider of the workout were covered with “Loud n Proud the 6” – an Indian Run, slow, where front man peels off to do 6 merks and falls in behind the line shouting “Loud n Proud the 6” to signal front man to do the same. Along the way of the morning the PAX enjoyed various merkin related exercises like decline Walking (alligator) merkins, CDDs, etc. Loud n Proud to the next stop where we found a short steep hill and did 5’s with foxholes at bottom and standard burpee at top. Loud n Proud to  another hill for Clock merkins. Despite some fellas in different time zones we still got it done. At the fountain we found a low wall perfect for Erkins, Diamond Derkins, dips dips and more dips. Loud n Proud continued back to the flag with some Copperhead merks along the way. @breezy with Excellent traffic and safety control. Reliable man there.

Extra bonus to see guys haven’t seen in a while.

Pro wrestler Macho Man Randy Savage once said (among many other flamboyant things): “It’s ok for Macho men to show every emotion available. Ya know – I’ve cried 1000 times., I’m gonna cry some more. BUUUTTT…. I’m gonna tell ya, there is one guarantee in life and that there are no guarantees, yeah baby….AAANNNDDD…understand this….no body likes a quitter, no body said life was easy so if you get knocked down, take the standing 8 count, get back up and fight again.”

That said, we heard some specific prayer requests prior to me sharing that, family health emergencies, men hurting, some more general comments about strife in the world around us. Us men of F3, especially the guys presently stronger of muscle, mind and heart, we must each do our part for for our families, for our friends the men WE ALREADY know in F3 that may be down, and for men outside of F3 that need help. Reach out. Make that small effort. Was good to see @Okafor after a LOT of travel. He told me something like this: “that’s for that DM, man. Yep, it changes my thinking and helped get back out. ” Or some version of that.

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A lot of people showed up. More than YHC expected. Counting didn’t go well but we persevered. Some people did derkins while others did erkins on the bridge, nobody knows what the Q said. We ran a Dora, did a bear crawl then had to make some additions to buy time at the end. If things went wrong it’s ok to blame shipyard. LDB led us in prayer. Thank you all for your support! MIAGD guys!

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Once Momento and Shipyard made their grand, late entrance; we continued around the parking lot for warm ups.
The SW grounds keeper had so much fun watching us dodge sprinklers heading to the courtyard, that he must have turned them on intentionally during the 4 Corner/Burpee Island work.
In honor of Earth Day, bear crawls through the freshly fertilized fields brought us closer to nature.
5 mins of Mary

Reminder to the PAX: F3 is always outdoors; rain, shine or sprinklers!

MEMENTO, you will be missed! Thanks for being a part of launching the greatest region this side of the Mississippi! Prayers for a smooth move out west

Highland Games tomorrow…. Let’s Go!!!

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11 PAX explored a new route around the area of Shepherd’s Watch in a pearls on a string style workout.

Warmups at the circle behind Craft, followed by a few series of merkins past the lake on the way to the tunnel. The geese loved us.

People’s chair at the opening to the tunnel and then creeping lunges through the tunnel.

We continued running the whole length of the greenway, turned left on Cary Pkwy, and turned left on Holly Springs Rd to get back. Stopped many times to do various exercises along the way. Merkins, alternating side LBC’s, reverse LBC’s, American hammers, durkins, monkey humpers, tuck jumps, dips, squat jumps, irkins, burpees, and more.

Chipper might have thought the workout sucked, or he might have liked my socks. MIAGD.

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Safe crossing of Tryon
3/4 mosey around the lake back under Tryon with core challenge training along the way
Emerge into neighborhood for unplanned BRR training
Pass by “open” field
Enter “closed” field for star shaped glow stick merkins squats and LBCs
Arc around the star to pick up glow sticks
Back to flag for a couple of minutes of stretching
Coffee was glorious
Prayers of thanks for our parents
Great to see Dr Seuss out as he navigates grad school. He still won’t tell us when he’s getting married though

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