Wow! What a beautiful morning! TY to God and to the PAX for a great adventure over to the Birkhaven Hill. For some, it was the first time up the beast of that hill, but the beast was conquered, twice! Along the way there and back, we did mostly ab / core exercises with various PAX leading. Strong work, brothers!
COT: See you tonight for volleyball and bonfire and Bourbon. 7 pm. See 2nd F channel.
Prayers/Praises – Yogi’s daughter, college kids, keep leadership going.
TY for the opportunity. God bless!

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Pledge
Mosey to Chaumont hill
Warmups – Possible new stretch introduced – name tbd
Merkin bowl – from one end of the Chaumont hill to the other – 5,10,15,20,25, and 30 Merkins alternating
Mosey past Fire Station into Glenridge, making our way to the greenway in Stanton Place
LBCs
Mosey to behind @Staubach’s old house – Squats
Mosey back to Ten Ten with a few drops along the way
Cut across the farm at Ten-Ten, mosey back to the flag
End with LBCs and Stretches
3 miles covered

Prayers for family, health, and that we get to do this daily. MIAGD.

Special K coffee and Smoreo’s were shared.

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4 for the EC
Water Wings joined in before jumping in with the ruck crew

Tryon to Regency to Penny to Kildaire loop.

Good fellowship during the run and a nice leisurely coffeteria.

Announcements: May 27th-Run from Dough It to Henry’s house to celebrate the completion of his cancer treatments. More details to come.

MIAGD

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Norwegian 4×4 in the books. 5-star effort by all. 4.5m covered with some nice elevation change as we raced around Avenue of Estates and Richelieu loops. Heart rates were elevated and then de-elevated. VO2 Max gains were made. Heckuva start to the week… MIAGD!

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The long awaited Bday Backblast is here! With Astro and Kitty Litter hanging on to their seat to figure out who the mysteryBday Q was, it was YHC.

Two solo ECs

After a quick intro to Queso, we pledged and headed out towards Pierce Arthur Olive Drive Road, or something like that. YHC decided to give the church lawn a try and called a burpee island. Burpee Island consisted of 2 laps and a total of 45 burpees. We moseyed the long way back to the flag for a total of 2.4ish miles.

Total rep counts
42 mountain climbers
42 merkins
42 jump squats
44 Bonnie Blairs (fail)
45 burpees (fail)
42 American hammers
42 LBCs

And 42 laps around the sun complete.

Prayers for OR’s biopsy and Seahawk’s summer employment. Prayers and praise for Queso’s M healthy pregnancy

NMH
Thanks OTW for the cookies!

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Some studs kicked things off with the Sherpa loophole EC, YHC not included.

For the ME we set off to the medical complex/old folks home. I was alerted that for 3 who attended 88mph this would be the second time this week. Perfect reason to attend an alternate Monday mid-tempo SCary workout! But I digress…

Theme of the Thang was “Spiraling Downhill”, an homage to our lives. After a few audibles to find the right pickle length, we settled into a non-standard DORA with the pickle being up the stairs and spiral back down the ramps.

We capped that by performing 1 McDuck. The PAX really struggled with the name.
Hustled back to the flag in time for a bit of Mary.

Great coffee and discussion of .
MIAGD!

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Beautiful morning. Cool enough to be comfortable but warm enough to break a good sweat.

Whether accurate or not it was my belief that 88 workouts rarely left Waverly complex so the plan was to go off site and get a little mileage.

Mosey to Medical office/retirement community with warm up stop on the way.

Thang 1 – starting at level 1 of first deck, go up a flight of stairs and then run the deck down. 2 flights then run down, 3 flights etc. Squats on level 1 each time and merkins each time you emerge from stairs. Starting at 10 each and adding 1 each time. Not as complicated as it may sound and all of the runs were downhill.

Thang 2 – move to the other parking deck. Inflating BOMBS as we worked our way from level 1 to the top.

Mosey back to the flag where the constant questioning by French Lick about lack of SCary stretch was finally rectified just before we arrived. Managed to 1.5 rounds of pigeon for Fruit Loop.

Picnic, Pull ups in May to prep for the Murph.

Prayers – OR procedure Thursday, Kitty Litter- passing of his grandmother and the effect on his Mom, passing of the Pope.

Honored to lead this fine group.

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Ten PAX gathered in the gloom of Stonebridge Village for an uplifting boot camp. We warmed up and floated over to Mill Pond dentistry an blew up a blimp in front of it while the proprietor was off wearing a BiB down the street.
The thang was a modified pain train starting at 5 reps and working our way down to 1
Burpees
Lunges
Imperial walkers
Merkins
Plank jacks
Squats

Headed back to the flag to find a very concerned Amway who worried about a potential asterisk, but we were on time for a Chillcut and COT.
Lots coming up this weekend and next.
Prayers for all
Enjoy your Thursday!

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Where do I start? I planned an EC run to meet my Nantan and bring him back in to the flag.
The good news: I found my Nantan
The bad news: he was prairie dogging so bad, that he was walking back to the Circle K (not for coffee!)

10 HIMs joined me for the bootcamp while JP split home for an early conference or to clean his shorts. Not sure we’ll ever know for sure.

Warm-up lap through the hood behind the Teeter with two stops along the way for stretching.

Thang 1
After a successful game of chick across to Publix, the pax begin a snake around the lot with exercises increase the reps by 10% each time
10 T-merkins
11 American hammers
12 R (an exercise that started with R)
13 Incline merkins
15 Flutter kicks
17 F (a second exercise that started with F)

Thang 2
The pax rejoined with two mall walkers for 4 corners. Exercises were crowdsourced to give the appearance of no plan, but in fact there was a plan all along…
After 3-4 rounds of 4 corners, 4 corners was suspended for 90 days.

Mary
Back to the flag for 3 LBCs

Prayers for ankles, tick bites, wrists and Petey were lifted up.

Lead well and MIAGD HIMs!

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10 burrito loving souls set off to celebrate National Burrito Day.

Mosey to Millpond for warmups and painting some lines on the way to Chipotle for the ME.
The thang was ladder style OYO, starting with first exercise, then pickle, then first + second, pickle, etc.

Burpees
Up straddle hops
Rockette hillbillies
Reverse crunches
Iron squats
Teacher merkins
One arm pickle pounders

The PAX enjoyed a custom early 2000s alt playlist while sweating it out. A dab of 1996 was mixed it.

Certified black diamond, black bean experience.
Circle K on point as always.
MIAGD!

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