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Name that Tune (90 & early 00’s Rock)

AO: iiipillars
Q: Chunks
PAX: Grape, Hair Band, Pep, Black Lung, Focker, t-cell, Tackle Box, princessaurora, Go Fish, Harbaugh, Haggis, Formica, Swiffer
FNGs: None
COUNT: 14
CONDITIONS:
Brisk, but nice

WARMUP:
2 mile Pre Party run @hairband @grape @harbaugh @blacklung and YHC

THE THANG:
Left the friendly confines for the parking garages of Burton Hills Office Park. Quickly crossed Hillsboro road and made our way to the second hill between two of the parking structures. While moseying, Yacht Rock was the playlist
Before we started playing Name that Tune, we did 5 mins of Mary Dealers Choice, but must be 20 reps. Flutter kicks, Happy Crunchy Frogs, Box Cutters, Freddie Mercs (while a Queen song played) and LBCs

Name That Tune 90 & Early 00s rock Edition
PAX was given 20 seconds to name that song and artist, but once you answered correctly you could not answer again until all the rest of the PAX had answered. Incorrect answers resulted in 5 8-Count body builders at the bottom and top of the hill. If a PAX named the song and artist correctly, they got to pick the exercise to do at the bottom and top of hill. YHC still chose the mode of transportation up the hill. Next time per feedback of the group, I will have more variety. Everyone loved the Lunge walk up the hill. Maybe we just do sprints, who knows.
PAX got the majority of the songs right and hopefully fun was had by all.
Moseyed back to the Startex with a little sprint/race to the finish. We found PA back at the startex, and was given some brotherly feedback. 😉 Thanks for the coffee PA.
Finished with Name that Tune for two songs, so PA could be a part.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Brewsday Today at 4:30 12 South Tap Room 2for1
Brewruck on Dec 16th talk to Red Skull for all the deets
Several convergences coming up for iiipillars and middeltooth
January 13th at 6:00 am at Memorial Park in Hendersonville. Please invite any friends you have in Hendersonville to join us.
COT:
Prayers for Hairband traveling
Prayers for little Luca battling an illness

Thanks for the opportunity to lead. No better way to start your morning than with you men in the Gloom.

SYITG,
Chunks

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Yes! It’s Metallica

AO: westeros
Q: Pep
PAX: Salpal, Detective Pikachu, hambone, Wolfpack, Chunks, Siri, Black Lung, Vector, Red Skull, Natural Ice
FNGs: None
COUNT: 11
MUSIC DIRECTOR
Chunks

CONDITIONS
Weather: chilly but not wet

WARMUP

– little baby arm circles – and reverse
– seal claps
– hillbilles
– good mornings – oyo
– willie mays hays

THE THANG

Dora:
– 100: hand-release merkins
– 200: alabama prom dates
– 300: fire hydrants
– 200: american hammers
– 100: burpees

prayers:
– salpal: interview tuesday
– vector: anonymous acquaintance dealing with cancer
– pikachu: family difficulties
– siri: work
– black lung: uncle with bad health

announcements:
#f3-nashville-general channel
– brewruck: Dec 16
– brews day : tomorrow (Tuesday)
– leanpax: january
– new years day: convergance – probably at green machine

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Gimme Shelter

AO: thebuffalo
Q: greyalbum
PAX: Giving Tree, Hot Route, Sandlapper (David Suggs), Ultratecht, The Bobs
FNGs: None
COUNT: 5
CONDITIONS: Rainy, 40s

WARMUP:

Mosey to grab coupons
Mosey down the hill
Warmup
SSH
10 L&S Merkin
Good mornings
WMH
LBAC

THE THANG:

At Picnic Shelter

Incline Merkin 20
Step ups 20
Bulgarian Split squats 20
Peoples Chair 1 min

Decline Merkin 20
Squats 40
Overhead press 40
Burpee 10

Swings 20
Curls 40
Skull crusher 40

WW1 40
40 LBC
Plank 1 min
Side planks 1 min

Step ups 20
Decline Merkin 10
Dips 10
Burpee 10

Travel back up the hill

MARY:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

COT:

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Dealers Choice

AO: handsomizer
Q: Cuban Missile
PAX: Blueliner, bluemule, Grape, Focker, Natural Ice, Freakonomics, Chunks, Hair Band
FNGs: None
COUNT: 9
CONDITIONS: Cold and wet

WARMUP: Side Straddle Hops, Arm Circles, Willie Mayes Hayes

THE THANG: Mosey to the stairs. Dealers Choice of exercise, but dice determine the reps. Finish with Tai Chi breathing.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Remember to be nice to people this holiday season, you never know what someone else is going through.

Prays with Hair Band and his family while they are dealing with the loss of his grandmother

COT:

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Gorilla Strength

AO: the-knoll
Q: G-string (Eli Kresta)
PAX: morning star, AAA, The Banker, Pebbles, DB, Wolfpack, Timber, G-string (Eli Kresta), V-Max
FNGs: None
COUNT: 9
CONDITIONS:
Crisp and clear

WARMUP:
Jog to @g-string truck since I pulled up late. Mosey to the Stop sign and back to the truck where we unloaded coupons. Suicides with alligator crawl to the first light and back, Murder Bunny to the second light and back, Gorilla run to the third light and mosey back.

THE THANG:
First three exercises were “Hero Style” (first team to finish, ended the exercise for all)
Three rounds:
-Teammate 1, run to first light then 5 burpees, proceed to second light and repeat, then third and repeat.
-Teammate A, 25 Floor-to-ceilings with coupon
(@g-string and @AAA were the heroes)

Two Rounds
-Teammate 1, Gorilla Run Suicides to all three lanterns
-Teammate A, Coupon overhead presses until teammate 1 returns.
(@Timber and @The_Banker were our heroes)

Mosey to the playground
Three rounds
-Teammate 1, 10 pull-ups
-Teammate A, Shoulder taps until Teammate 1 is finished
(@AAA and @g-string were heroes again)

Slowsey back to the lanterns and back to the playground
Two rounds of pull-ups to failure
Circle of pain: All PAX hold high plank while first PAX does 10 merkins. Then the next PAX does 10, and so on until all have done merkins while the rest plank.

MARY:
Two rounds of 15 4-count LBCs in cadence.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Holiday Brew Ruck
New Year’s Day Convergence

COT:
Prayers of thanksgiving but also healing memories for @pebbles youngest child’s 1st birthday.

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Cold Balls Warm Heart

AO: atlantis
Q: Natural Ice
PAX: Red Skull, Hair Band, Subway, Natural Ice
FNGs: None
COUNT: 4
CONDITIONS: 37F

WARMUP: SSH, Willy Mays Hays, and Good Mornings

THE THANG:

Traveling Tabata – 1 minute mosey and then 1 minute of an exercise. The goal was to never stop moving moving.

C – crunchy frogs
O – one legged Burpee
L – Lt Dans
D – diamond merkin

B – big boy sit ups
A – alternating shoulder taps
L – lunge
L – little baby crunch
S – squats

W – wide merkins
A – American hammers
R – Rocky balboa
M – monkey humpers

H – heels to the heavens
E – elbow jack – plank jack at low plank
A – air press
R – Russian twists
T – Turkish get up – lay down don’t use arms or use one to get up

Thank you @hairband for the opportunity to lead!

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Freezing Air, Burning Shoulders

AO: middle-tooth
Q: Young Pawn
PAX: Oatmeal, Bad Boy, DrRupp, Subway, sooner, Toothless, Bareback, moneyshot, Rocket Mortgage, Betty Ford, Pole Dancer
FNGs: None
COUNT: 12
CONDITIONS: Cold and clear. First sub-freezing Middle Tooth beatdown of the season.

WARMUP:
🗣️ Disclaimer (including that YHC has a groin injury and will be tailoring workout to upper body)
🏃🏻‍♂️ GMs, arm circles, overhead presses, imperial walkers, hillbillys, mosey
🥊 Shadow boxing and hand target sparring

THE THANG:
45s exercise, 15s rest through the following. Circuit repeato after a 2 minute break.
– Overhead press
– Pull-ups
– Merkins
– Supermans
– Mountain climbers
– Burpess
– Blast off + shoulder taps
– Freddy Mercury
– Bear crawl
– Shoulder taps

Mosey to startex for a few minutes of Mary.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
🃏 Game night at La Casa de @Firefox this Saturday, details in #2ndf
🍻 Brewsday at 12 South Taproom next Tuesday
🎄 December 26th Convergence at Middle Tooth Q’d by @Oatmeal
🎆 January 1st Convergence Q’d by @Michelin_Man, details forthcoming

COT:
🙏🏻 Prayers for illness and death in the families of YHC, @Pole_Dancer, @Foxtrot_Talksalot, and @Bareback.
📖 Hear me when I call, O God, you have given me relief when I was in distress. Have mercy on me and hear my prayer. -Psalm 4
☕️ Festively flavored coffee by the inimitable @sooner.

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Window Shopping

AO: iiipillars
Q: wardas1
PAX: Pep, Focker, t-cell, Will Norton, Grape, Go Fish, princessaurora, Swiffer
FNGs: None
COUNT: 9
CONDITIONS:

WARMUP:

    •    Side straddle hops
    •    Randy’s and arm circles (both ways)

Long mosey to the Hill Center to meet up with Kendra Scott.

THE THANG:

Countdown to CHRISTMAS: 3 sets of each exercise. Count down for each exercise starting at 27 reps for C, 26 for H, etc – run flight of stairs between reps
C – crab cakes (crab position and alternating toe touch) – 2 count
H – Hillbillies (Imperial walkers but elbows go to sides) – 2 count
R – Rockette Dips or squats (leg kick with dip or squat) – 2 count
I – Iron Mikes (jumping lunges) – 2 count
S – Squat jumps
T – T, Y, I’s – 3 count
M – Merkins
A – AL prom dates
S – star jumps

Long mosey back to flag.

MARY:

– LBCs
– Scissor Kicks
– Heels to Heaven

COT:
Prayers for @Pep’s dad’s marriage, healing for many in the St. Paul community, and Kelly’s healing and recovery

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Sidekicks (Keep Fighting)

AO: the-knoll
Q: Sooie
PAX: AAA, DB, G-string (Eli Kresta), morning star, Pebbles, Sooie, The Banker, Timber, Wolfpack, VMax (recently moved from Katy TX), Smotz (2.0), Bumblebee (2.0)
FNGs: None
COUNT: 12
CONDITIONS:
Cold and clear. 🌕

WARMUP:
Mosey to stop sign and back.
15 SSH
15 Imperial walkers
10 low slow squats
10 slow merkins
10 Willie Mays Hays
OYO stretches 1 minute

THE THANG:
5 cones, each 10 paces apart.

Return trips from cone 5 to cone 1 were alternating sprints, slip-line uppercut drills.
Plank for the 6’s

4 double-sidekicks low/high at each cone.
Return
4 squat punches at each cone.
Return
4 tuck jumps at each cone.
Return
4 more squat punches at each cone.
Return
4 burpee, jab, cross combos at each cone.
Return
Repeated the full sequence 2x

10 minutes of single-flag Capture the Flag. If you get tagged, 5 burpees or sprint to your base to return to the game. If anyone dropped the flag, everyone does 5 burpees.

MARY:
None

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
New years Day convergence.

COT:
When I was a kid, Sidekicks (Chuck Norris, Jonathan Brandis) was one of my favorite movies. Since my brother passed away last week, I’ve been reflecting a lot on the past and how we grew up. Still processing through all of it but a couple things stand out. Community is vital. Inevitably we’ll each face a moment when we’re tempted to give up. When that happens, we need the strength of those around to help carry us through it.

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Hobblin Gobbler Part 2

AO: thestronghold
Q: Chunks
PAX: Red Skull, Hacker (Franklin), Hair Band
FNGs: None
COUNT: 4
CONDITIONS:
BRISK!!

Promptly started the Hobblin Gobbler course at 5:30 am, with the all important RUN from Red Skull.

It was a great way to start the day. Be on the lookout for next weeks location and route.

SYITG,
Chunks