What a glorious morning to lead the the PAX.the weather was fantastic and the fellowship was even better. We started out with 2 laps around the church and quickly circled up for some SSH’s and good mornings. Next up 11’s in the parking lot (Merkins on one side Boat Canoes on the other). From there we headed over to Mookies Pickle and did 11 merkin/boat canoes at 3 corners and 12 of each at the final corner With about 10 minutes left we took the long way back to flag and proceeded to plank hold while random pax jumped rope.

3 + miles was achieved and we hit 100 merkins & boat canoes.

We had multiple ruckers and a big turnout of folks for the EC.

Grateful to lead the pax and prayers for Petey, My M for a speedy recovery from her surgery and safe travels for Sparky as he heads back to Wisconsin.

Welcome FNG Yogging!!!

Associate with people who are likely to improve you. Welcome those who you are capable of improving. The process is a mutual one: men learn as they teach.”

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Well we had a great gathering @stonecutters this morning including a first time appearance from @WebMD. We started with our typical warm up of side straddle hops, jump squats and S. Cary stretches. During the stretches I asked everyone to think about the following. Just how we plan projects with the END in mind first, what we want the end result to look like or features we want it to have, think about how you want people close in your life to speak of you at the end, as a eulogy.
We grabbed some river rock coupons and proceeded to walk while we did some arm circles, Seal Claps, punch waking, and nut crackers.
Off to the next lot we partnered up with some sevens at each end of burpies, V-Ups, and partner merkins in the middle. After some singing and karaoke shuffle to the blocks we worked out the arms with several curls, presses, and rows.
Over to the picnic tables with step ups, snow angels, heals to heaven, and lower back stretching. Then some balls to the wall before finishing with some final stretching and discussions. We can all think about our walk with God while we are here and how we want to be remembered by our loved ones.
I appreciate @HGTV for organizing Honor & Respect week!!

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Stallions for 5.15, Colts for 4.5, Clydesdales for 3.5. All got better.

5 or 6 for Astro led core EC with Plant, Page, Bonham and Jones serenading

Quota finally got named

Hermes was not there so I don’t have my tail.

Prayers for Henry

Just say Yes when you might feel like saying no, to your kids, your M, your co-workers, your friends.

MIAGD

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What’s Up Scary!

A very pleasant morning it was over in the land of up lighted $2M+ houses, pineapples and doggy treat vending machines (WTF).

21 gathered for the ME and I was thrilled with the group of men who decided to join me at JIU this am. A solid group of guys I wish I saw more often (gotta get over to Scary more often).

Started with a 1 mike pre run with Amway, Astro, Chipper, Kitty Litter and Home Grown. EHarmony was out on a ruck.

Pledge.

Standard Warm Up.

Mosey to the Big House Neighborhood for Mr T. We found some hills along with our inside voice (even Yogi and me) and worked the T along with a POS.

We all (we almost all) did 5 burpees every time the words What’s Up were said. I think we did about 40 extras.

Back to the park for a flawless Motivator.

Wrapped up with a set of 140s. Joe Smiff was confused. I really miss both Joe’s and JP’s voices. Smooth.

COT.
21 Pax.

Praises for a young Hank (middle schooler friend of Fleder family) who just wrapped up Chemo for his cancer. There was a big celly. God is good.

Prayers for Yogi who is working through some family and personal challenges. Keep your head up, Yogi!

Closed with a Prayer for Friends.

HGTV asked me to share some wisdom. For me, its be yourself and be thankful for the great stuff we have with our F3 Community. It’s the best.

Later
MIAGD.

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12 Booters, 6 Runners, 7 Coupons
6 teams of 2, 4 teams of 3, and 2 teams of 6
The bootcamp was a lot of running in circles and sometimes carrying coupons. Team 2 beat Team 1 with 28 laps compared to like 7 or 8…but I trust their score was accurate.

OK enough about the workout. The best part was after we took off from the flag. As we circled the lot @Term Paper looks to the paviliion and sees a group of guys and says, “Oh look there’s some guys, wow they are even doing the pledge…..and have a flag!” That’s when pax politely filled him in that that was SWWINGERS! Bhahaha!!

It was a great morning – well the company was, the humidity was NOT. Make it a great weekend!!

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We discussed the 5 points of Calvinism. Term Paper borrowed a book.

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8 bootcampers and 1 Rucker
on a muggy morning for a good bootcamp beatdown = guaranteed sweat drenching! After the pledge, we moseyed over to southbridge for some warmups (SSH, Imperial walkers, Good Mornings, Scary stretch, merkins). Headed over to Arthur Pierce for Thang 1.

Thang 1 = run up Arthur Pierce with stops at every light. Merkins and lunges at each light until the final light.

Headed over to the pool parking lot for Thang 2.

Thang 2 = partner Dora with pickle run. 100 burpees, 200 shoulder taps, 300 plank jacks.

Moseyed back to COT for 5-minute Mary. Hollow body hold, slowzy ankle taps, slowzy Freddy Mercuries…rinse and repeat until time is up with minimal rest between.

Salamanders game coming up, honor and respect week next week, Murph challenge.

Prayers for Petey, Kitty Litter’s M at work, my coworker, all going through tough times and dealing with difficult decisions.

Great work by the group. Thankful for the leadership opportunity.

MIAGD!

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A fantastic, lucky 7 this morning for a weather clearing beat down . 2 maniacs ran a standard EC.

No rain plan but it wasn’t needed. After a warm up loop with exercises around the Lowe’s perimeter, Triple Nickel was on the menu. 2 sets of hills were found and exercises performed. Had time for a proper Mary.

Praises to IC Light on 4 years tomorrow! He even made a personal announcement for the FWD pax! Prayers for Yogi, IC’s aunt and niece,and for Sanka on the job interview.

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A strong crew came out for YHC’s first time Q’ing at 88 MPH. Appreciate the support! 3 early risers did an EC Ocho. Awesome job @Amway, @Promo, and @OTW! Hoppin’ John slept in and did the Ocho during the ME, still very impressive . The bootcamp started with a mosey to Whole Foods for the warm up. Then, we headed to the CSAUP parking lot. No bagpipes this morning, bummer. We did bear crawls, crab walks, sprints, merkins, burpees, star jumps, WWII’S, squats, and so forth. It was Vanilla. It was adequate for a Monday!
COT – Respect/Honor week coming, Salamander game get tickets! Prayers for Sanka and his possible pastor job, prayers for Yogi.
TY gentleman for the opportunity. God bless!

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An assortment of upper body and core focused exercises were executed throughout Ritter Park. Some Murph prep was also completed to ensure the PAX are ready for Memorial Day. Finished with some stretching. A good overall workout with zero running.

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