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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I’m not sure how to describe this morning’s workout. I guess incredible experience for me to be in His story, to be able to step up, step out and share. You all make it better by being there. Carpex guys, Green Level, Peakcity, Churham….appreciate all you F3 men, wanting to be being part of His story, too. Receive the gifts. Keep your hands tight around it. Don’t loose it and please take all you’ve received today with you to share with others in your own way. Your friends, families this weekend. Keep it alive. We’ll do it again next year.

Welcome FNG 2 Chains !!

See most of you tomorrow HIGHLAND GAMES 2025

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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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Only two letters of the alphabet were needed this morning as our workout featured a whole lot of S’s and W’s and even more W’s.

Quick warmups featuring South Cary Stretches and an overview of the exercises to come.

We worked through those exercises at different parking lots, with the exercise names corresponding to the letters we were making in Strava art. Stifler’s mom’s, Star jumps, Squats, Side straddle hops. Worst merkins ever, WWl’s, WWII’s, War hammers, Wide grip merkins. Back to the flag for a set of Astro jacks because…..well, you know.

Of course the pax suspected something was up, but none could quite figure it out.

Many prayers were raised up. Announcements included Stations of the Cross at SWW on Friday, and the upcoming SCary picnic. No other representatives from any other events were present, so there’s probably nothing else going on. MIAGD.

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Warm up at walgreens – 88 SSH, fewer GM, IW and SFAC. Run up the Chase parking lot. Some work in the lesser utilized lots today – Chase, Burger King and Bank of America – Partner work, alternating catch me if you can and fellowship runs – star jumps, merkins, squats. After 2 laps around each of these buildings, the group moseyed to Farmside. While Captain Jack extolled us with the health benefits of eating there we did dips, irkins and knee ups – 2 rounds each. Back to the center shopping center for Buzz, Lunge Walks, Crawl Bears and some stair work. Learned that stair work is not popular and that Chops can’t count. Back to the flag for one more quick round of Buzz. Announcements included Highland Games and Picnic. Prayers for Petey, upcoming “thing” for OR. It was a pleasure, thanks for having me.

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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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Wasn’t entirely sure how this morning would go after rolling my ankle yesterday but it was a terrific morning in the gloom. At first I thought the cold had chased everyone off and we were going to have a small group but the pax poured out of the woodwork as the clock inched closer to 0530. Intro, disclaimer, pledge and off we mosey.

Long way around to the field for standard warm-ups then back behind the medical buildings for a….

Merkin pain train

The pax were overjoyed by the prospect of this, and the very detailed instructions YHC gave on how to execute said pain train. Lots of questioning about the necessity and wisdom of this choice but naturally that was just the pax’s way of expressing their gratitude. Once that was completed and those early finishing pax were fussed at for simply standing around waiting off we go to thang 2.

Four Corners of Mary in the 88 MPH lot, with rounds of V-Ups, Box Cutters, and Low Slow Flutters. Then off to thang 3 back at the field.

Partner up. Partner 1 calls an exercise and partner two does that AMRAP while P1 runs the small ramp pickle. Switch. After P1 and P2 complete AMRAP + Pickle, P2 gets to call an exercise for the next round. Some masochistic pax called merkins as one of their choices….. Lots of mumblechatter and concern about time and getting back to the flag by several pax including two overly concerned site Qs. After round 4 we moseyed back for an expertly time HAND.

SIGN UP FOR THE PICNIC (and the Highland Games).

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At the waffle-free zone of Marla Dorrel Park, we enjoyed this cool spring morning as follows:

Run to greenway / various warm up exercises
Run to bridge over 64, go to the far end with the curvy hill
–1 pushup at top, 6 LBC’s at bottom
–2 pushups, 5 LBC’s,
–etc.

Back the way we came on the greenway
Stop and do Tabata workout (20 seconds exercise, 10 seconds rest)
–squats
–plank jack
–crunches
–mountain climbers
(Repeat for 8 minutes)

Run back to park lot
Circle up for Mary

For COT, we were met by @WebMD and @TheSuper, who had been running.

Prayers:
O.R. has a pre-op appointment this week, procedure later this month

Thanks for a great workout, gentlemen. MIAGD!

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There was something for everyone this morning at South Cary’s premier Saturday AO. 8 runners ran, 8 boot campers boot camped, and 1 rucker rucked.
The boot campers made it down to the docks for standard warmups which quickly shifted to flying warmups because YHC didn’t want to cadence count any more.
Up to the road for what would be our thang for the day: counting the posts of the red railings that line the road. First section: squats, start at 1 and increment by at 1 each post until we get to the middle. There are 25 posts on that side of the dam, so 325 squats later we started on the other side, this time with overhead presses, to see if the railing was symmetrical. It was. After 325 overhead presses (and multiple amused drivers wondering what we were doing) we made it to the far side of that damn dam and could turn around and enjoy the sunrise over the lake.
Time to go back across. This time we did Paula Abdul’s (2 steps forward one step back) lunge walking 2 posts forward, running back one. After doing that for a bit, changed it up for time: run 2, lunge walk back 1. Made it to the middle bridge where the swans were swanning and the clock was ticking and started moseying back towards the flag, stopping a couple times for rounds of irkins on the railing.
YHC stepped in on the mosey back so we cut across the grass and slowed to a shuffle to wipe it off before a vanilla mary (LBCs, Chris R’s Cobras, Superman’s/Aussie Snow Angels). HAND as the runners returned to the flag.

Announcements: ASS Challenge sign up is locked, but all are encouraged to show up anyway; Highland Games and picnic are on the horizon.

Quote from Mark Twain: “Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, but your government only when it deserves it.”
I think about this for government and for the people more immediately in our lives. Support and love them all the time, even when their behavior doesn’t live up to their promise – and take that as an opportunity to guide and nurture them towards more appropriate action.

Good turnout at Chanticleer with a starskey by Petey .

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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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