The fire was massive, the bourbon was plentiful, the Super crooned, and the lawn only burned a little.

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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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Amazing Day for some great HIMs at the SCary’sPREMIERE AO.

Started off strong with the pledge and a mosey heart touching moment for Web as he admired his senior leader and helped him remember how to call SSHs!

Next was lamp-post alley. Ran the alley twice, first round was merkins every post. This weekends upcoming horse race got me on the betting mood. Made a bet that ECs are not workouts, and my horse won! The prize. Next round Burpees at every post! Heart was screaming!!

Finished with a game of ultimate. And everyone promised to do their burpees at home today.

Praises and prayers.

Bonfire at TR’s place Saturday.

Make it a great evening!

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8 PAX for a 7 themed workout.
No flag so we started with the mission instead. It just felt right to say something.

Mosey to the Tesla chargers for warmups. South Cary stretching was definitely in play (no pigeon though, we weren’t totally mailing it in).
Mosey west up the hill to the church for a set of 7 of diamonds. One exercises each round done at each corner of the diamond. Reps of 7, 14, 21, 28, 21, 14, 7.
Term Paper and Kirkland had a very high WRR, impressive stuff. One discussion was the Merkin Ring of Fire Buzz so we tried it out back at the non-flag. PAX count & merkin but every multiple of 7 or number containing 7 was stated as “Buzz” and the direction of the ring reversed. When PAX fail, restart at 1.
I am proud to say we set a new world record at 53 (previous record 50… your reign is over Franklin) and were still going strong but elected to call it on a high note.
Ended with 1 McDuck.

MIAGD and show those calves to your M’s!

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9 Bootcampers and 6 Accelerators were out this morning. After Pledge we moseyed onto greenway for a partial neighborhood tour. We made 1st stop at cul-de-sac for warmups and then were back on the greenway to make our way over to the Thang: Triple Nickel w/ Merkins on the hill where YHC grew up. We then moseyed our way back to the flag with some Pearls on a String along the way just in time to squeeze a few extra Merkins in.

The PAX felt inspired to call several audibles along the way which YHC obliged. Fruit Loop gave his seal of approval of the tour. Great fellowship this morning fellas.

Announcements: South Cary Picnic tomorrow, Last push for April Leadership Challenge!

Prayers and praises sent.

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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Here it is. The backblast you’ve all been waiting for. What a day men. Just want to start with some acknowledgemtn of all the HIM that made this day possible. All the guys that stepped up to Q sites, Jigglypuff for taking the SAG Q, and the entire SAG team. Without those pax none of this would have been possible. TY4YL!

Let’s get at it though. What a gorgeous weather day for this 2025 version of The Highland Games. Couldn’t have dialed it up any better. After getting every checked in and assigned their clans for the upcoming festivities we kicked it off promptly at 0545-ish with Squeeze Bag on the bagpipes. THANK YOU Squeeze Bag for coming over and absolutely crushing it on the pipes this morning (check Nextdoor for a glowing review). Announcements made, pledge pledged, and Squeeze Bag played us off on our way.

Over to the Point Break side of Waverly for some warm-ups led by YHC. Pax were high in spirit and full of mumblechatter at this stage of the Games. Once properly warmed, including a full set of SCary Stretches which blew our visiting pax’s collective minds, off we set for the first proper thang at FWD.

Thang 1 – Homegrown took the lead at stop one assigning each clan a task. The tasks were, shotput across the back field, coupon carries down the greenway, dips/irkins/derkins at the bunches by pavilion, and rockwork. Each clan rotated through each station and crushed it. Nobody was taken out by a flying stone, so off to a good start. Let’s continue!

Thang 2 – Lengthy mosey all the way to the home of the premier 0530 Friday AO, Shepherds Watch, for some Ultimate Frisbee led by the pax formerly known as Spayed. The clans paired up and had admittedly a ton of fun. Lot’s of slipping, sliding, spectacular defense, amazing catches, and of course, plenty of burpees for drops. Both teams claimed victory in the end and perhaps the true victor will never be known. In higher spirits than ever off the pax set for the next stop.

Thang 3 – Cross Tryon and head down to the top of the hill before the tunnel. Pax were gathered and WebMD took over. Pax were instructed to storm the tunnel complete with battle yells while running through. This was definitely one of the high points and the effect was truely nailed. Well done Web. Grab the rope and mosey down the greenway a ways for some…. tug of war led by WebMD and rookie of the year candidate Promo! Clans were paired up again and multiple rounds of tug of war were completed with a sprint in between each round. Pairings changed each time and resulted in some riveting mtachups. Indigenous peoples run to the end of the greenway and then regular mosey onto the next stop.

Thang 4 – Amway took the lead at the bottom of the dam hill, where lo and behold pain sticks were awaiting us. Pain stick dora-esque beatdown ensued. Each pax in the clan took a turn carrying the pain stick to the top and completed overhead presses to failure for points (one rep = one point). Bring the pain stick back down and the next pax goes. Pax at the bottom completed a Dora of 100 squats, 200 curls, and 300 rows. At one point Yogi decided to come up with his own method of returning the pain stick and almost broke multiple pax’s ankles, but thankfully nobody was hurt. Score was actually somewhat accurately kept and the winner was determined to be the Blue clan (Let’s go Blue clan!). Next up…. SAG STOP!

SAG team crushed the refreshment pit stop even if Chris R’s music did upset a gentleman who apparently sleeps in his polo shirts. Also, unfortunately (?) no plantains this year. Properly refreshed and refueled off we go for…

Thang 5 – One of the newer AOs launched in SCary is the Saturday morning 3rdF – The Accelerator that runs in conjunction with Loch N Load. The Accelerator is a 4-5ish mile run with a purposeful 3rdF discussion topic selected by the Q that week. Amway gave an overview and clans stuck together to discuss the topic of, “Which of the 3 Fs do you need to focus on most in your life right now?” I can only speak for my clan but the conversation was great, thought provoking, and really encouraging to hear other guys share. TY4YL in launching this great addition to our region Amway!

Thang 6 – Our Accelerator portion ended at Lochmere Village where none other than Fruit Loop was await us with a bucket of golf balls, how very Scottish. Next up was a golf ball relay race. Legs consisted of bear crawl golf ball push, merkins while holding the golf ball between your knees, bunny hopping while holding the golf ball between your hands with your palms down and not using your thumbs, and finally a lunge walk followed by tossing the ball into a bucket (10 penalty burpess if you miss). This was a ton of fun and resulted in many good laughs. But the fun wasn’t over, off we go!

Thang 7 – As we rolled into Ritter Park, the (un)official home of SCary, Kitty Litter took the lead. Clans were paired up and completed caber toss and giant tire flipping. At one point a tiny dog was almost impaled or flattened by cabers until successfully captured by HGTV (who proceeded to tell the lovely lady what all these crazy dudes were doing). Throwing logs and flipping tires is always a great time and this was another highlight for many of the pax. After we were done throwing heavy stuff around Shipyard stepped up and had a surprise for us… We needed the logs at the next stop, and there was only one way to get them there. One log per pax, and lets mosey. But don’t forget the flags!!! This ended up being quite the task and admittedly a lot harder than I thought it would be. TClaps to all the pax for carrying the logs and flags, nice work!

Thang 8 – Around we made our way to the back lot of the adjacent office park for what promised to be an experience with Shipyard at the helm. And boy did he deliver. With the help of CPR construction some pallet sleds had been created and were staged at one end of the parking lot. Our task, use the logs as rollers and pull the sleds to the other side, heaviest pax on top of the sled. At this point a lot of rule bending occured, but the Blue clan absolutely crushed it and completed the task to the letter of the law, and blue everyone out of the water. Well done Blue clan. Apparently according to Shipyard though, everyone lost and had to carry everything back to the start. This was arguably even worse than rolling the sleds down. Done and dusted time to head for home.

Our fearless SAG guide Astro on his trusty segway scooter led us back to Waverly where we were greated by the sweet, sweet sounds of Squeeze Bag serenading us with the bagpipes once again. Simply lovely. And with that it was a wrap.

COT: SCary picnic 4/28, 4-7pm, eating at 5:30p. See Sbarro for the sign-up sheet. SIGN UP!!! Several prayers lifted up.

Thanks again to each and every one of you for coming out this morning and making the effort to be there. Even moreso, thanks to each of your families and friends for putting up with us and the crazy stuff we do, the true heroes. It was an outstanding morning and an honor to your HG Q this year. F3 and this group of guys is incredibly and I’m lucky to have found my way here (shoutout to Astro for the EH almost two years ago now!). Way to crush it this morning!!

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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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4.5 South Cary pax traveled to Disney for an Astro Q. Warm-up lap and warm-ups and then over to the field for the thangs.

Thang 1 – merkin-centric 4 corners. 3 rounds.

Thang 2 – Dora with a long punt competition built in. Partner 1 punts the soccer ball as far as they can then dribbles to the other end of the field and back while Partner 2 does exercises. Longest punt wins a major prize. Exercises were CDDs, squats, and LBCs…100, 200, 300.

Learned some new (and hard) exercises at popcorn Mary. Grateful for the other guys that made it down to Disney! Great site, highly recommended.

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Good times at JIU this morning! We traveled into the Valley with some warm-up along the way. The PAX were confused about the Q’s counting of 4’s and 9’s. Eventually, Tinker Toy guessed it that YHC recently turned 49 yrs young. In the Valley, we climbed out 4 times w/ 4 merkins at the bottom & 9 WWII’s at the top. We then picked up Hank at the bottom because there is no dog left behind in F3.
After the Valley, we headed back to the flag where some Easter eggs and spoons were waiting. Several Easter egg races ensued. It would take too long to explain, but Renfield won . Somehow being a dentist gave him an advantage . After that, we did some rock work and it was time to finish.

COT: Stations of the Cross workout Friday, CSAUP Saturday, prayers for Wah Wah’s father and for us all to live each day for God’s glory.

TY for the opportunity. Little rusty, but felt great to Q again!

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