November 24th, 2021 By Fire Chicken

Mosey half a mile to to Forest Hill UMC parking lot to…

WARM UP 

SSH x25ic

IST x10ic

Loose Change x10ic

Arm Circles F/B 

Windmills x5OYO

Hamstring Stretch 

Mosey 2.5 yards to Union Street for…

THE THANG 

Santa Scramble reboot down Union Street. Stopping 4 times along the way to knock out some exercises and give PAX a chance to catch their breath so they could audibly boo-hoo about it the whole way. 

Stops at the following intersections:

Academy 

Marsh

Franklin

Grove 

10/10 reps of each exercise per stop:

Merk/LBC on the way out

Squat/V-up on the way back

Arrive at destination after .5 miles of running and knock out a pyramid of alternating exercises starting at 10 reps each and counting all the way down to 1. 

 

10–>1 

Merks/LBC’s @CUMC parking lot

Squats/V-ups @Forest Hill UMC

How many UMC’s does one street need? 

Total 100 reps of each exercise 

Mosey back to OCT for the ultimate redemption showdown…

Q brought out his BOB stroller for Catfish’s Santa Scramble revenge. Q raced the pax down to the red light and back, 1 burpee for everyone he passed on the way to ensure maximum effort. Forgot to lock the front wheel which caused some problems for the Q but some victories for the PAX, 4 burpees was the result. The Q doesn’t believe in cyber bullying so he won’t say who the 4 were. 

PRAYERS/ANNOUNCEMENTS

Anvil’s M Leslie as she has surgery in her foot this morning, get well soon.

All those less fortunate than us on this cold Thanksgiving week.

Hillbilly tomorrow, indoor bathrooms will be open to all 

MOLESKIN

2.5ish miles of solid running today with a little hurt lightly sprinkled in like cinnamon atop your pumpkin pies. Lots of jokes about the same old workout coming on the way out to do a completely different workout than we’ve ever done before. Despite copious amounts of bitching about the amount of running, we actually ran less than we ran yesterday. However it’s eating season this week and we should be running more. So you’re welcome, bitches. 

Indoor coffee today reminded us that we need to be house trained again as we’ve been in the wild for far too long. You don’t realize how loudly we say “pussy” until you’re inside a cinder block building and you hear it echo off the concrete floors as Gabe is training a new tweenaged girl behind the counter. 

Aside from needing to do our cotillion CE for the year, it was a great discussion about how our unique form of camaraderie builds a stronger man. 

In the movies, you always see soldiers and football coaches tear people down and the general public thinks that’s all there is to being a good leader. But like many things, the movies have that wrong. The successful coaches and military leaders you see doing that in real life also spend twice as much time building their men back up after they break them down. Everyone thinks they can be Coach Flemming, but you can’t get away with being Coach Flemming unless you love your players first. You can’t fix anyone or anything by just yelling louder. Unless you’re Nick Saban (Saban to UNCC next year confirmed through multiple sources, btw). That’s something a lot of grownups still don’t understand. 

The shit talking, the photo shopping, the slack chat, the faxes from Tom B. Stone to our secretaries…those things matter more than the miles run and reps completed every morning.

Make sure you know how to take a joke and jab back, but also make sure you know how to make a joke at someone’s expense and still build them back up. This group gets that, and I’m thankful to be part of it. Eventually we might even let Look Me Up join us as well. 

PAX

Spud

Catfish

Checkmate

Mayhem

Marlboro

PR

Snake Eyes

Tombstone

Popeye

Psycho T

Firechicken

Neverland 

LMU

Mayweather (QIC)

Backblast

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