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15 Boot campers and 1 runner showed up to take on the day the right way. Here is what transpired…

COP — SSH, IW, Copperhead Squats, dying cockroach, crab cakes, LBC’s, merkins, dirty dogs

Mountain Dora —

one person runs to the bottom of the hill and back, the other does these exercises
100 merkins
200 LBC’s
300 SSH
200 LBC’s
100 merkins

to the tennis court for some CMIYC
one person runs the perimeter, the other does:
broad jump burpees, then switch
lunges, then switch
feet up on fence bear crawl, switch

minute to win it —
do the following exercise combo AMRAP in one minute
1) 5 2 count mountain climbers, 5 plank jacks
2) 5 monkey humpers, 5 bobby hurleys
3) 5 merkins, 5 AST
4) 5 reverse crunches, 5 WW2

back to the flag for some phonics circle time.
merkins + dry docks
side plank raises R
back plank raises
side plank raises L

Announcements —
Be ready for the next installment of the Frozen Triangle in January! Check the preblast for more info!

NMS — A really late Daville stand alone AO takeover after YHC got sick the last time YHC was supposed to lead. What a great group of guys on Southside. YHC vows to return over the Christmas break!
All apologies to Nancy Lopez for messing up his name! Mea culpa, brother.

Another glorious day out in the gloom at SOT this morning. 

Three runners (Honeymoon, Florence, and Rosie) took off and the six remaining began bootcamp (Footloose, Bullseye, Heist, DTH, Doozy, and Wedding Singer)

Warmorama: Mosey to bus loop for tracers (jog the line, side shuffle, Bernie back). Circle up: SSH, copper head squat (OYO). Got into plank position  did calf stretch and sprinter stretches. On your six for: LBCs and Flutter Kicks. 20 seconds to stretch whatever else you need. 

The thang:

Sprint and Ball dip: Pax lined up along bus loop. YHC pointed out numbers 10 (closest) through 1 (farthest) on the loop. Sprint down and back to each number and perform # of ball dippers (2x count). Start with long sprint and 1x ball dip. End with short sprint and 10x ball dip. Copy?

Mosey to track behind school passing doors 5/6/7. Lunged between doors and performed ‘muricans or alternate ab/leg exercise of choice. 

The track: Indigenous peoples run around the track (almost 4 laps). Stop at benches and performed exercises. Lap 1: 20x dips, Lap 2: 20x dips/20 squats, Lap 3: 20x dips/20 squats/20 2x mountain climbers. 

Between Lap 3/4 things were getting tough. A little merlot was spilt, some cramping, etc. YHC had to think fast. 20 count to catch breath…circle up.

Thankfulness COP: Each dude shared what they were thankful for and called out exercises to perform. We did flutter kicks, muricans, planks, Smurf jacks, LBCs and squat jumps. 

Pax got the wind back, so I decided to kick it up again with 5 minutes left. Up the small hill 3x, jog back around and perform 20x reps of choice. 

Mosey back to flag. 

Running note: Heard they got in 4 miles. Nice work. 

Outro: Numbers/Names. 

Announcements:

1. Not a humpday happy hour next week. Happy Hour on Tuesday 11/22. Hardywood West Creek. 
2. Spiderrun 10k. Turkey trot. See Florence for details. 

Prayers:

1. Continue to pray for Honeymoon’s father and his battle with cancer.
2. Pray for healing family relationships between Florence’s father and brother. 
3. Pray for Doozy to have success with contractor license test
4. Prayers for all our Pax on IR or fartsacking. Hope to see you all out in the gloom soon.

Good work everyone. Today was tough. See you next time. 

3 runners, 1 rucker, 7 bootcampers and 1 FNG – a little something for everyone

Mosey to bus lot for COP

DQ’s, Imperial Walkers, Helicopters, Ukrainian Soldiers, Cherry Pickers

Mosey to Door #1 good old fashion door beatdown alternating 2 count American Hammers and Scrunchy Frogs (for the Merkin challenge guys work your merkins in) along the way we find 4 frisbees at various spots, do 20 of the exercise on the frisbee plus the exercise that you’re on

at door 33 when PAX is finished we did 10 of each exercise plus Smurf Jacks which where added because Nancy tried to hide a frisbee

Mosey to curb for elevens 10 Dips lunge to the other side 1 Toe tap backwards Lunge back

Finish out with Hoedowns and walk outs 20, 15,10 and 20

BTTF Numbers / Names YHC took us out

NMS:

Welcome to Footloose, so named because he was brave enough to wear toe shoes to a beatdown. Someone mentioned that he might be a mean guy when YHC called him a Friendly New Guy so YHC told him not to bite OC and it went down hill from there.

YHC was expecting a crowd at SOT, but only a small band of dudes ventured into the Gloom this morning. 

Four runners (Boberry, Draper, Honeymoon, and Tobit) took off and the five remaining began bootcamp (Belichick, Bullseye, Heist, Nancy Lopez, and Wedding Singer)

Warmorama: Mosey to track for a lap. Circle up: SSH, Imperial Walkers (Bullseye said it looked like I was doing hillbillies….true true.) Copper head squat (YHC still cant do cadence right), LBCs, Hello Dollys, Flutter Kicks, Wilson’s wife, Fudd’s wife.

The thang:

Track Hill: 5 rounds of sprints up small hill near track (where we typically do bear crawl). Jog back around down sidewalk to starting point. Begin each set with 10 reps with called exercises (LBC, Drydocks, Squats, WW2s, and 2x count Flutters). End each set with 10 merkins (aka ‘Muricans). That’s 50 jersey boys. 

Paved Hill (near bathrooms): 2 rounds. Each dude runs up hill and back while Pax completes exercises. Return runner calls new exercise. We did all sorts of things: SSH, Freddie Mercury, Mountain Climbers, Toe Taps, Wall sit, Planks, LBCs, jazzercise, Etc. 

Mount Midlo: Pax bushwhacked to the start of mount mido. Performed 10 sets of 10 merkins at various intervals running from bottom of mount Midlo back to the flag. 

Made it back to flag for a few ab reps. Time ran out. 

Running note: Heard they got in 5.5 miles. Nice work. 

Outro: Numbers/Names. 

Prayers:

1. Continue to pray for Honeymoon’s father and his battle with cancer.
2. Pray for Boberry’s dad who started an experimental prostate cancer treatment.
3. Pray for the family of Tobit’s friend. His mother passed away suddenly. 
4. Prayers for all our Pax on IR or fartsacking. Hope to see you all out in the gloom soon.

Good work everyone. See you next time. 

17 studs posted to SOT – 10 for bootcamp, 5 for run, and 2 for ruck. Here’s what the bootcampers did:

The THANG:

WARMERAMA:

• Mosey down to the lower lot and circle up
• Welcome & Disclaimer
• Variable IC Reps to get the muscles warm top to bottom

COP #1:

• Mosey over to the grassy hill
• KILO-DORA:
• Moving partner bear crawls the hill, then runs around side back to partner
• x100 WWII’s
• x200 Merkins
• x300 Squats
• x400 Flutter Kicks (2-ct)

COP #2:

• Moseyrama around the track for a TRYHARD SPECIAL at the guest bleachers to introduce TWO new 8-count exercises:
• DIP-FLIPS: incline plank on bench – incline merkin, flip over, dip, flip over …did about 10 IC
• KICK-FLIPS: plank on ground – groiner, flip over, inverse groiner, flip over …did about 10 IC

COP #4:

• Head BRTF, stopping en route at the school brick wall for:
• x30 Howdowns OYO
• x20 Dirty Hookups OYO
• x20 Donkey Kicks

Mosey BTTF for a few mins of MARY

RUCKERS x2 – Doublemint, Doozy

RUNNERS x5 – Florence, Tobit, Boberry, Don Draper, and Rosie

COT:

• Counterama # 17
• Namerama
• Announcerama (see Below)
• MUDSLIDE took the PAX out in Prayer

NMS:  Always a pleasure to be back at SOT, and appreciate the PAX humoring a couple new 8-count burners. They’re hard, so they’ll be back. Your as always, TryingHard

Announcements:

• Hogan Beer Mile – see Slack

Prayer Requests:

• Safe travels for House Party traveling to pick up the grandkids in Florida

13 HIM’s joined YHC on his birthday for a little fun and excitement. YHC decided to bring back some old school party games for this celebration. The PAX departed at 530 with a twinkle in their eye eager to see what YHC would come up with.

Warm Up:

Mozey down to the track and jog 1 lap, then circle up. There was a bit of concern that YHC had a long run in store, but fears were calmed. Warm up exercises included Side Straddle Hops, Don Q’s, Windmills, Cherry Pickers, Merkins, LBC’s and Freddie Mercury’s. YHC nailed the counting despite the attempted sabotage. Off to the field for

Duck Duck Goose: For the exercise, PAX circled up and as the person was walking/ducking around the circle, PAX performed squats. Per the original children’s game, once the person walking/ducking Goosed someone, a chase would ensue around the circle back to the original spot. Round 2, PAX held plank while the game of Duck Duck Goose went on. Two observations, 1) Oyster is deceptively fast 2) Darkness made this game a little difficult.

Three Legged Race: This game was repurposed into a traditional triple check with one runner, one merkins, one WWII’s. Once completed, we mozeyed to the tennis courts.

Sack Race: Very simple, make believe you have a sack and broad jump across the tennis courts. This led to

Relay Race: Sprints back and forth across the tennis court with the losing team assigned 5 burpees. Both teams were winners or losers and the entire PAX completed the burpees. From here, we mozeyed to the bottom of the hill for…

Red Light/Green Light: 4 rounds of red light / green light starting with lunges, 50% jog, 75% job and then a 100% sprint. There was a little time remaining and YHC thought he’d have the chance for 1 more 100% sprint, but sensing a slight mutiny we headed back to the flag for 46 WWII’s on your own until time was called.

Numberrama / Namearama and YHC took us out in prayer.

I am thankful for your friendship and the laughs that we have shared. Thanks for letting me lead!

Announcements:

• Prayers for Honeymoon and his father.
• Happy hour at The Veil. Check Slack for details.

12 SOJ faithful put on their bibs and bellied up to the table for a steaming pot of Gumbo. It was served up hot with the following side dishes and garnishes:

Start a mosey toward Mount Midlo just to raise some concern and get some mumblechatter going, then turn right and head to the front of the school for the disclaimer and COP, including:

• SSHs
• DQs
• Helicopters
• Jazzercisers
• Imperial Walkers
• Copperhead Squats
• LBCs

THE THANG

Curb Crawls – bearcrawl across, 1 merkin, crawl bear back, 2 merkins. Up to 5 and back down to 1.

Touch A Tree — Slowsey down to the large parking lot for Touch A Tree – 4 rounds, escalating from 1 tree to 4 trees, no repeats. Partner alternates between Freddie Mercuries in the odd rounds and Hand Release Merkins in the even rounds.

Alley Work – 3 burpees to start for the run differential between the Yanks and Guardians – just for Nancy. Lunge to Door #5 and do 5 more burpees just because. Side Lunge for a bit and then mosey to the wall (say HEYYY to a few runners).

Wall Work – 3 rounds (I think?)

• 20 Donkey Kicks, 10 merkins, jog to alley road, 10 Jump Squats, bernie back, wall sit for SIX
• 25 DKs, 15, merkins, jog, 15 Jump Squats, bernie back, wall sit
• 30, 20, 20 (honestly, YHC can’t remember if we did this or if I audibled out of it…old age)

Field Work – partner up at mid-field and face your partner

• Round 1 – 1 Boo-yah Merkin (2 merkins with hand claps in between with partner), each partner run to their respective sideline and do 10 box cutters, run back and plank for partner and for SIX.
• Round 2 – 2 Boo-yah Merkins, 20 box cutters
• Round 3 – 3 and 30
• Round 4 – 4 and 40

Staying in 2 lines – Indigenous People’s Run to far end of the field and around the track back to the bottom of the hill

Triple Check – Partner 1 runs up hill and back, Partner 2 does flutter kicks, Partner 3 does shoulder taps.

Meet final group on their way down the hill (or Oyster at the bottom) and back to the Flag.

1 Burpee for Angela Lansbury and to get to full time.

Numbers, Names, Announcements and YHC took us out.

Announcements:

• VQ (sort of) for Heist at Timberwolf tomorrow. Come out and support.
• VQ for Ponch I believe coming up at Rock N Roll this Saturday. Come out and support
• HDHH – Veil 10/20
• Beer Mile – See Faceplant
• Tough Mudder Saturday – Mudslide and others going – good luck
• Good luck to Nancy’s son and others doing the Mile stat? at Pole Green
• Prayers:
  • Florence’s MIL
  • Nancy’s daughter’s ankle
  • others injured/sick

Great job today guys. No More Gumbo For You!

When a PAX is sick, and you need a Q, who you gonna call? Florence! 13 Bootcampers and 5 Runners showed up at Midlothian Middle expecting a Davillian to Q but they were yet again shocked by a surprise Florence Q two weeks in a row. I guess this is becoming a theme? Here’s what the joggers saw :

Runners – Honeymoon, Don Draper, Tobit, Rosetta and Boberry got in 5 miles with some speed and pace work at Midlo High School.

Bootcampers did the following –

Warmarama : 20 SSH IC, 10 Don Q’s IC, 10 Cherry Pickers IC, 10 Imperial Walkers IC, 10 Ukrainian Soldiers IC

THE THANG :

Did a Fartlek with BLIMPS. Each stop we did a full set of BLIMPS (5 Burpees, 10 Lunges DOUBLE COUNT, 15 Imperial Walkers DOUBLE COUNT, 20 Merkins, 25 Plank Jax, 30 Squats). Got in 7 rounds of BLIMPS before time expired.

DONE

Numbers, Names, YHC took us out in prayer after COT.

Prayers for Opus who isn’t feeling well and was supposed to Q today.

NMMS : YHC got a Slack message at 9 pm last night from Corned Beef asking for a Substi-Q. With it being that late, YHC wasn’t going to tell him to look for someone else. Maybe next week YHC will finally be able to get in a run at SOT? Who knows. Enjoyed some 2nd F coffeeteria afterwards with Duke, Honeymoon, POG, Belichick, Bullseye and Bobber at Great Harvest since school is off today for the 2.0’s.

11 Bootcampers, 3 Runners and 1 Rucker descended upon Midlothian Middle eagerly awaiting a Boberry 3 Year F3-Versary Q but much to their disappoint they were greeted instead with a Florence beatdown. The passing cars on Mount Midlo and runners on the track observed the following :

Mosey to Mount Midlo and all the way down to the bottom apartment complex entrance.

Warmarama : 20 SSH IC, 10 Don Q’s IC, 10 Cherry Pickers IC, 10 Ukrainian Soldiers IC, 10 Imperial Walkers IC

THE THANG :

Lindsay on Mount Midlo : 30 Merkins at the bottom then run to the top and do 10 Big Boi Sit Ups. Run back down to the bottom and do 25 Merkins then back to the top for 15 Big Boi Sit Ups. Continue until you complete 10 Merkins and 30 Big Boi Sit Ups.

Mosey to side entrance that takes you to practice football field and continue to the grass hill beside Midlothian Middle track.

Perform an animal movement all the way up to the top of the grass hill then mosey back down for another movement. We did : Front Facing Crab Walk, Backwards Facing Crab Walk, Crawl Bear, Bear Crawl, Murder Gorillas facing left, Murder Gorillas facing right, Broad Jump Kangaroo Hops

Mosey BTTF for 30 seconds of Flutter Kicks

Tobit, Rosie and Honeymoon got in a 5 mile run

Belichick got in a 2.5 mile Ruck as he prepares for a military fitness test.

DONE

Numbers, Names, YHC took us out in prayer after COT

Prayer Requests : Bullseye has a coworker whose daughter is suffering through mental illness challenges. Her name is Olivia.

YHC’s MIL has Diverticulitis and is in a lot of stomach pain. YHC’s FIL continues to have knee problems and other health issues stemming from being over weight.

DTH’s sister Elisabeth has a PET Scan tomorrow. Please pray she’s cancer free!

Gypsy’s sister had a stroke and is in serious condition

NMMS : Sorry y’all had to deal with YHC as the Substi-Q today. Boberry had to cover at work for a coworker who’s out with COVID. The PAX got some good laughs during YHC’s prayer in COT mentioning that we’ll start dealing with a different type of Suck as the weather gets colder. But you know what they say, “EMBRACE THE SUCK!”