Thank you to everyone who showed up to my VQ this morning and thank you to the Site Q, Amway for letting me lead the Q.

We started with some warm-up drills before getting into the Thang.

THANG:
A circuit of pull-ups, merkins, lunges and run around the big pickle. 10 sets total, so great job to everyone!

Announcements:
Highland Games 2 weeks from this Sat & SW Cary Picnic 1 week after that

COT:
Prayers for Sbarro’s kids, Pucnhout’s hand injury, Peter, continual wisdom and strength for everyone

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Practice! Practice! Practice!

9am to 10am Saturday at Hunter Street Park.

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Practice tonight at 6:45 pm. We’ll scrimmage against the other F3 team! Be there at 6:30pm. Location: Jaycee Park Apex.

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13 HIM took over Waverly Place this morning. Started with intro and Pledge and then off we went.

Moseyed a bit to another parking lot were we got warmed up. YHC didn’t have the full workout planned beforehand, but things came together nicely as we went.

The intent this morning was to keep all PAX engaged and moving with a full body focus. We started with Core Corners were we hit core exercises at the top and bottom of the two sets of stairs flanking the turf area. After several rounds of that we grabbed a bench or half-wall for back to back rounds of erkins and dips. 10 reps erkins right in to 10 reps of dips. Shake out arms and rinse repeat. We then headed to another set of steeps stairs for 7s with squats and jump squats being the flavor of the moment. We knocked out some calf raises as well before heading back to the turf for some bear crawls, crawl bears, crab walks and planks. Popcorn Mary to wrap things up.

It was a pleasure and honor to lead this studly groups of HIM.

Kitty…thanks for dropping the flag and coffee off before heading to Krypto for your epic beatdown.

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Great turnout for our soft launch / first attempt at having a 3rdF-focused Saturday run group. We discussed Luke 9:23-24 along the way and the conversation went to all kinds of places, from sacrifice and prayer to jobs, to societal shifts, to basketball, to managing finances, to a brief detour about public schools, to teaching our kids about frugality and needs versus wants, and more. 4.6ish miles covered. Finished with Mary at LNL. Thanks for coming out today guys, I hope it catches on. Let’s take up that cross daily. MIAGD.

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It was a beautiful morning in SCary and 24 strong posted to take advantage! The clock struck 6:30 and a disclaimer was stumbled through. The pledge was pledged and we left the parking lot on a slow warm-up mosey. Some went right, most went left down to the tennis courts for some flying warmups.

Half ran the pickle, half AMRAP’d the called exercise.
SSH
Mountain Climbers
Plank Jacks

Depart the tennis courts and over to the first round-about. This is where I called Dora’s pet mouse, “Speedy Gonzales”.
12 burpees
24 Merkins
36 squats
While your partner sprints the round-about.

Then we did an 8+2 up the hill to the flag. 8 steps bear crawl, 2 merkins, wash, rinse, repeat to the flag.

At the flag repeat the “Speedy Gonzales” on the larger round-about
12 burpees
24 Merkins
36 LBC’s
Afterwards, reverse it.

Drop down for SCary stretch and afterwards, slow mosey to the bottom of the parking lot.

Rolling sprint up the parking lot to the flag, recover mosey around the round-about and back down the hill.

Rolling sprint up the parking lot half the distance and then circle up for popcorn Merry. We finished up with an @amway honoring set of 20 Merkins.
PERFECT!

NMS
– Perhaps the weather is such to put away the oodie till next season
– Shoutout to @amway for putting on a spectacular F3 challenge – the bar has now been set pretty high
– Thank you for all who posted this morning! While yes, I do enjoy the energy of a smaller group, you just can’t beat the energy of a large group on occasion.
– As discussed in COT we have an amazing culture in SCARY! We each contribute to that culture one way or another and we shouldn’t take it for granted.
– I am honored to count each of you in my circle of friends!

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What a morning!
We kicked off “no mailing it in March” with EC Merkins. A little music, a few merkins, a lot of conversation around “how many should we say we did”. YHC was a bit disappointed that my arch nemesis, @jigglypuff rolled in and knocked out a quick 100. (while @sanka sat in the warm car and napped – pro move!). It was 5:30 and time for fun!

I tried to launch into my workout but I was reminded by the PAX we had an FNG – so a pause to go into a little more depth. I think he got the gist of it. We identified the “top of the park” and proceeded to the bottom. At the bottom, a few rounds of warmup and onto Thang 1. As there is a deplorable lack of lightpoles in Jack Smith park, we chose trees. Run up the hill and at each tree, do a merkin and increment by 1. We found 14 trees. We “combinatorial” and came up with….dozens of merkins. Run back to the bottom of the hill and do it all over again with squats. Run back down to the bottom on the hill and move into Thang 2. – Prisoner run “catch me if you cans”. The first lap is merkins. The second lap was LBC’s. Then on to Thang 3. A quick stretch for rolling sprints between crosswalks. IMHO we DO NOT do enough sprinting in SCary. Mosey up to the top of the hill and circle up for popcorn Mary.

WELCOME Whaler! Did someone get him into Slack?

Notes:
@astro has put away his tights for the season
YHC has NOT put away the oodie
@jigglypuff had knot problems today
@shipyard will be doing Merkins on a plane

Always a pleasure to Q! Thank you for the warm hospitality at JIU!

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As usual, there were many comments about the size of my winkie. What can I say, what I lack in hair, I make up in other places. Welcome to FNG Silos, who the Super brought out and who played football for the Fighting Camels. Luckily he eventually got Hermes jokes. Below is the workout. Prayers for my 2.0 Anderson and for healing of his foot, as well as to Yogi with the upcoming move. MIAGD!

Warm-up (5 minutes):
• Mosey to parking lot
• 20 arm circles (forward and backward)
• 20 SSH
• 20 IW
• South Cary Stretch

THE THANG (40 minutes):
The Thang This workout consists of five challenging circuits. Perform each circuit for 8 minutes with minimal rest between exercises. Complete as many rounds as possible (AMRAP) within each circuit.
Circuit 1 – Burpee Madness
Burpees: 10 reps
Broad Jumps: 10 reps
Star Jumps: 10 reps
Tuck Jumps: 10 reps

**MOSEY TO ROCKS**
Circuit 2 – Rock Chaos
Rock Curls: 10 reps
Rock Overhead Press: 10 reps
Rock Tricep Curls: 10 reps
Rock Russian Twists: 20 reps (10 reps per side)

**MOSEY TO PARKING LOT**
Circuit 3 – Insane Running Intervals
Sprint 50 meters
Walking Lunges 50 meters
Bear Crawls 50 meters
Crab Walks 50 meters

**MOSEY TO A WALL**
Circuit 4 – Bodyweight Challenge
Handstand Merkins (against a wall): 5 reps
Pistols Squats (alternating legs): 5 reps per leg
Spiderman Merkins: 10 reps (5 reps per side)
Jump Squat : 5 reps (modify as needed)

**MOSEY TO THE FLAG**
Circuit 5 – Core Crusher
Big Boy Sit-Ups: 10 reps
Leg Lifts: 10 reps
Plank Shoulder Taps: 20 reps (10 reps per side)
Low Slow Flutter Kicks: 50 reps (4-count)

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A bunch of SCary-ites and 2.0s plus many outside our region came together for the premier family friendly donut eating race in our fine state. Grateful for the turnout, the volunteers and the pax who makes this all possible – Bagels. Special thanks to Shut In for planning the route and providing thorough instructions. Congrats to our 2025 winners Zero Drop and Daniel Boone. Special props to Web MD’s M who unofficially became the first female full qualifying finisher. We truly did make this a great day. If I forgot any SCary pax say the word.

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HEARTS

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