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Rocks at the Trot

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It was great to be back at the Trot in front of 27 high impact men eager for a “Rock” beat down promised on social media.

FNGs:  None

Warm Up:  Jog around tennis courts.  Circle up in parking lot.  25 SSH, 10 IW, 10 HB, 10 Daisy Pickers, 10 Good Mornings, 10 Seal Claps, 10 Thunder Claps (all in cadence).

The Workout:  Jog to the snack shack.  Lined up in front of hill adjacent to ballpark fence.  Sevens of Merkins and LBCs.  Line up against outfield fence for 25 count people’s chair, 25 count BTTW.  Lots of chatter/commotion as the chain link fence may not have been as sturdy as Q anticipated for said exercises.  Adapt and overcome – headed to the snack shack for 25 count Australian Mountain Climbers and People’s Chair.  Chatter continued as PAX lined up on road in two lines.  Not sure what PAX anticipated but Q began Frankenstein’s, Gate openings and Lunges up the hill.  Mosey to rock pile for medium size rock.  PAX lined up with their rock in two opposing lines.  Q was at one end in the middle leading the following rock exercises with a couple of 10 count breaks in between:  10 count cadence – Curls for the girls, OH press, Tricep extension, Side twists, goblet Squats, Rut-rows.  PAX continued with their rock performing the following exercises on their six:  Homer to Marge, chest press with feet 6 inches off, skull crushers, LSF with rock extended above chest and LSF with rock extended behind head (that was a fun one).  Chatter was minimal.  Hmmm.  PAX finally put their rock down and began 25 count of toe taps, side to side jumps (over rock), front and backward jumps (over rock).  With rock at feet, PAX completed a square circuit beginning 10 R and then 10 L.  PAX switched rocks.  Some Mosey and curls.  Felt like I was back at ROTC Field Training on the parade grounds.  10 Burpees together.  Closed out with 10 cadence counts bicep curls, tricep curls and OH curls.  Return rocks to pile.

Mary:  Various Yoga positions for cool down.

Announcements:  Bottle exchange at LipSync home (whether or not he is home) this Friday; Torch Run; Food Cupboard (need more PAX turnout – See Emeril); Lots of PAX celebrating F3 Anniversaries – Guest Qs coming:  Memorial Day workouts and Murph at 0730 (Womble).  Check Social Media.

T-Claps (Recognition):  Highlighted Rainmaker (Pete McKeon) today as 6th man.  Originally from NY/CT, LEO (20 years); Great F3 naming – during an interview with a person in custody, threw his keys to another LEO and inadvertently hit a sprinkler causing the sprinkler system to go off!  LOL!  Mets fan.  LOL! Active 5-6 months in F3.

Prayer:  Messi has schoolmates involved in a 4 wheeler accident – doing OK; wear helmets!  Injured PAX; Silent / Unspoken prayers.  Thank you Fonzie for leading PAX out today in prayer.

EC:  Messi (bike), Fonzi, Pumkin Spice, H1N1, Katniss, Pilgrim, Bernie, Crosby, LED, Cupid, ShamWow!, Emeril, Dawgpound, Pikachu, M4L, Skidmark (ruck) and The Natural.

 

An honor leading you brothers – Dauber.

Better late than never, I say…

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FNGs: Lizzard Lick (Steve who works at a car auction, EH’d by Dahmer – Two Z’s…)
Warm Up: Traditional Butt Kickers, High Knees, Wide Knees, SSH x15, Daisy Picker x10, The windmill x10, Stretching.
The Workout: U-Turn favorites! 3 went out of the 3 mile route – Fonzie was head locked into pushing past picking up the 6 as Katniss roared by and inspired him to get 5 in that morning. Nice job Katniss! Editors Note: Fonzie broke off ahead of the industrial park and headed back to Starbucks.  A lot of great effort out there Men!
Mary: N/A
Announcements: Holly Springs Food Pantry.
T-Claps (Recognition): Dahmer, Lizzard Lick, Pikachu for going the 5 and a sprint to Ground Pounder for the double down!!
Prayer: YHC took us out.

That Which Doesn’t Kill You…

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Will make you stronger!!!

PAX: 187, 3rd Cousin, Abe, Axe, Bernie, Breach, Da Business, Kid Cracker, Lipstick, Pikachu

FNGs: 0

Another great morning to get out in the gloom and better ourselves.  As Kid Cracker overshot the turn into the parking lot, there was hope from some of the pax that he would “Bo Duke” the curb.  Didn’t happen…..  5:30am hit, and we were off.

Warm Up:

Half a mile warm-up that finished over at the steps on the other side of the library.  Bunny hops up the steps to circle up for some dynamic warm-ups.

  • SSH x 15 IC
  • Squats x 10
  • Hillbillies x 10 IC
  • Frankensteins x 10 IC
  • Hacky Sacks x 10 IC

The Workout:

YHC set up cones to mark off 100m for some strides with a twist.

  • 10 to 12 100m strides.  Recover back to start, stopping halfway to do 5 reps (cycle through merkins, squats, burpees)

After stride work, we moseyed on over to the steps at the library for a round of drop-sets

  • Round 1
    • 5 Derkins, 5 Merkins, 5 Irkins
    • 7 Squats, 20sec Chair, 7 Monkey Humpers
    • 10 Incline dips, 10 regular dips, 10 decline dips
  • Round 2
    • 7 Wide Merkins, 7 Merkins, 7 Close-Grip Merkins
    • 10 Squats, 20sec Chair, 10 Monkey Humpers
    • 10 Incline dips, 10 regular dips, 10 decline dips
  • Round 3
    • People’s Chair x 30 IC
    • Frog Sit-ups x 20
    • Balls2Wall x 20 IC

Mosey to starting point for Mary

Mary:

Leg stretches: Calves, Hips, Quads, Hamstrings

Announcements:

  • Wear R.E.D. (Remember Everyone Deployed) on Friday to either Cletus or Ivan, and Breach will donate $1 for every Pax who does so to the HS Food Pantry
  • Help out the HS Food Pantry this weekend from 9am to noon

T-Claps (Recognition):  To all the Pax.  100m strides with little rest and exercises in between definitely gets your heart rate up.  It’s not about beating other Pax, it’s about beating yourself and putting in the effort.

Prayer:

Prayers up for Crab Legs, Pilgrim’s dad, my father’s wife, and those dealing with ailments.

Honored to lead.

-Bernie

What Kind of Bullshit Exercise is This?

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In an effort to make use of the Q Sheet, YHC is signing up to randomly Q through SW.  Today was a trip back to the hallowed grounds of Cletus, now with new and improved 5:30 AM start time.

EC was supposed to be a joint adventure at Deadbolt’s suggestion, but he (a) “Forgot” and (b) Chickened out of a Cletus beatdown given the threat of pull ups.  Something something rise to the challenge something set the bar higher something something.  So, a few of us (Cowboy, Cupid, UTI, Bernie, and YHC) hit up 2 miles of the chilly May morning before a proper boot camp.

FNGs: The CMD (Coal Miner’s Daughter, from WV)
Warm Up: Run the lines on the court, SSH, Fazio Arm Circles, Imperial Squat Walkers
The Workout:

Part 1, on the Courts:

5x Devil Burpees (Slap the floor; miss the jump shot; flop on defense; flip to pushup before overhead clap….1 rep)

Start with 1 legged Wheelbarrows (these are stupid hard, btw), go forward, sideways, then backwards.

Repeat with 1 legged Bear Crawl

Part 2, on the Playground:

Groups of 4 rotating exercise:

  • 5x Pullups
  • 5x Devil Burpees
  • 1 Legged Crawl Bear width of grounds
  • 10x WWII

Repeat 4x.  At some point Puddles provided the quote of the day (and title of this backblast)

Finish with extra round of pull ups before

Round 3, on the Hill:

Sprints while we waited for the 6.

This one is a bit of a blur.  We started with merkin bear crawls up the hill.  Every time your right foot came off the ground, a merkin was required.

Run back down, recover on the WWII.

Run backwards up the hill, Derkins off the fence.  Down the hill, recover on the WWII.  I think we did this 3-4 times.  Ending with some more Devil Burpees before one last trip backwards up the hill. There were hints of a Merlot on the last trip…

Mary: A few mary exercises.  Ended with Russian Ukrainian American Freedom Twists.
Announcements: Service opportunity at Food Cupboard tomorrow.
T-Claps (Recognition): Great to meet Plex for the first time this AM.  He just started F3, but was killing it.  I do not look forward to his first Q.
Prayer: So many ailing parents.  We’re getting older guys, cherish the time you have with your parents now, you don’t know how long it’s going to last.

Rock Work

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Great weather this morning and a good number for EC as Emeril, Dawgpound, Cowboy and Dumbo headed out.  YHC was on the run a little after and we all headed down and around Womble.  Saw Bernie and Pilgrim doing some serious speed work along the way – killer pace and always cool to see a couple guys out there working together, holding each other accountable.
Warm Up: Standard jog around the big block but with more traffic than usual.  Circled up in the lot for the regulars and then added 5 burpees OYO by accident.  YHC saw Dumbo jump in late on the jog but it was just for a bathroom break.
The Workout: On the jog to the rocks and we each got a solid rock to use for an arm set.  Circled up behind library on one side of what I call the smile.  Started with biceps doing 7s.  After 1st set we ran to far end of smile, plank hold then 10 merkins.  Back to the rocks and we did 2 sets with a break in the middle for SSH.  Another run and merkins then 1 more bicep set.  Next we did the same routine but it was tricep press and skull crushers.  Rounded it all out with the classic Ground Pounder.  Overall, lots of reps and plenty merkins.  Returned the rocks and headed back to start for a bonus set keeping the arms up we did bat wings, 10 count hold, penguin claps, 10 count hold, overhead claps, 10 count hole, penguin claps, 10 count hold and back to bat wings.  Brutal.
Mary: Quick sets of LBC, low slow flutter, American Hammer
Announcements: Cletus now 5:30, Crazy Ivan needs more kettlebell, Holly Springs Food Cupboard this Sat.
T-Claps (Recognition): Happy early 2 year to Dawgpound.  I know I am not alone in saying there have been plenty of days this guy carried/inspired me including when we launched Ivan.
Prayer: Pilgrim and Bernie dealing with illness in family.  YHC took us out

Where’s Dad? and Wear Red Fridays

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Extra Extra Credit:  M4L and Pablo

Extra Credit: M4L, Pablo, Dawgpound, Axe, Emeril, Cookies, Squatter, 187, Skidmark, Full House, Bullseye

2.0’s w/out their Dads:  Bullseye and Gumby

FNGs: Yes.  Hospital Name: Trevor Shirk.  F3 Name: Cookies.  @Dawgpounds BIL. From Colorado.  Colorado led to marijuana, led to edibles, led to Cookies.

Warm Up: SSHx30, Imperial Walkers, HillBillies, Fire Hydrants

The Workout: Broke off into 2 “teams” everyone doing the same workout though.  Dawgpound led 1 group, Emeril the other.

In between exercise sets kettle bell over your head walk to speed bump.  Set it down, run to curb, run back to speed bump, grab your kettle bell over your head walk back to start

  • Exercise Set 1 = X20 Kettle Bell Swings
  • Exercise Set 2 = X20 Kettle Bell Swings, X20 Sumo Squats
  • Exercise Set 3 = X20 Kettle Bell Swings, X20 Sumo Squats, X20 Single-Arm Row (x10 each arm)
  • Exercise Set 4 = X20 Kettle Bell Swings, X20 Sumo Squats, X20 Single-Arm Row (x10 each arm), X20 Figure 8 (x10 each direction)
  • Exercise Set 5 = X20 Kettle Bell Swings, X20 Sumo Squats, X20 Single-Arm Row (x10 each arm), X20 Figure 8 (x10 each direction), X20 Single Arm Kettle Bell Clean (x10 each arm)
  • Exercise Set 6 = X20 Kettle Bell Swings, X20 Sumo Squats, X20 Single-Arm Row (x10 each arm), X20 Figure 8 (x10 each direction), X20 Single Arm Kettle Bell Clean (x10 each arm), X20 Suitcases (x10 each arm)
  • Exercise Set 7 = X20 Kettle Bell Swings, X20 Sumo Squats, X20 Single-Arm Row (x10 each arm), X20 Figure 8 (x10 each direction), X20 Single Arm Kettle Bell Clean (x10 each arm), X20 Suitcases (x10 each arm), x10 Tricep Extensions/x10 Bicep Curls

Mary:

Plank Drags

Halos

Stretching

Announcements:

Breach has decided to bring awareness to Memorial day this month with the Remember Everyone Deployed (RED) shirt Fridays. For every pax member that wears a red shirt at either Crazy Ivan or Cletus he will donate 1 dollar to help the Fritter Foundation with thier cause this month.  @Dawgpound and @Emeril will match and @Pablo’s work will match our overall donation.

Memorial Day workouts in planning stages. Details to come.

T-Claps (Recognition):

Banana Seat won the snickers this morning

Prayer:

Camp Lejuene Marines and their families (accident last night)

Banana Seat Step Dad

Aquamans Step Dad’s dad

Bernie had a couple also..sorry forgot them 🙁

Get Your O-Face On!

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Pax: 187, 3rd Cousin, Axe, Bernie, Chips, Cowboy, Da Bizness, Dawg Pound, Emeril, Foghorn, M4L, Nemo, Pablo, Rainmaker, Snap, Slide Rule

Beautiful morning temps as YHC started his extra credit from the house.  On the way, I saw several Pax getting some EC as well as they were returning to the AO.  Got to the parking lot with a couple of minutes to spare.  16 Pax were off to feel the Bern.

FNGs: Nil

Warm Up:

Moseyed on over to the parking lot by the front entrance of the library.

  • SSH x 15 IC
  • Good Mornings x 10 IC
  • Hillbillies x 12 IC
  • Merkins x 10
  • Squats x 10

After a brief warm-up, YHC broke the Pax into groups of 3.  I joined a group to make 4.

The Workout:

Within each group of 3, one Pax lined up in a parking space while another lined up in a parking space directly across on the opposite side.  The 3rd Pax had to travel from one side to the other via the called exercise as the Pax on each end did a different exercise.  Once you got to one end, you switched with the Pax and did that exercise while they traveled to the other side.   This was AMRAP-style for 7 minutes for each round.  A lot of moaning after we were a minute into the first round, and I announced that we were going for 7 minutes!

  • Round 1 (7 minutes)
    • Side 1: T-Rex Merkins –> similar to military push-ups but hands were further down by your lower rib cage; feet against curb.  Pax modified for difficulty
    • Travel: Bear Crawl
    • Side 2: Modified Man Makers –> Burpee with a shoulder tap on each side after the merkin, then stand up and do an additional squat.
  • Round 2 (7 minutes)
    • Side 1: Mountain Climber Crossovers –> knee to opposite elbow
    • Travel: Duck Walk
    • Side 2: Frog Situps –> WW2 with bottom of feet touching each other
  • Round 3 (7 minutes)
    • Side 1: Plank
    • Travel: Crab Walk
    • Side 2: Suicide Squat Jumps –> alternating jump lunge and then a squat

After these three rounds, we moseyed on over to the steps at the library for the next round.  We stayed in our groups of 3 for this one as well.  For this round, the reps for exercise #1 served as the timer; so you switched to the next exercise in line one the Pax in your group doing exercise #1 finished.

  • Round 4 (2 sets)
    • Exercise 1: Step off from 2nd step into a squat jump (Timer: 10 times and then change exercise).
    • Exercise 2: Low slow flutter
    • Exercise 3: Inch worm

After round 4, we circled up in the grass for a finisher.  This was announced as a 5-minute glutes/hips finisher, but the jokes kept coming.  So we have a name for it below.  5 minutes straight (no stopping).

O-Face Finis(her)

  1. 30-sec donkey-hydrant with leg #1 (donkey kick/fire hydrant combo)
  2. 30-sec donkey-hydrant with leg #2
  3. 1-min hip thrusts (picture sitting back on your feet and sitting up to your knees – squeeze the cheeks.  Pablo kept looking for something to hold on to in front of him here
  4. 1-min Homer-2-Marge
  5. 30-sec 1-legged hip thrust with leg #1 (almost like a single-leg Homer-2-Marge, but instead you are holding yourself up with your arms and letting your planted leg do the work) – Emeril kept begging me to look in his eyes on this one.
  6. 30-sec 1-legged hip thrust with leg #2
  7. 30-sec lunge with kickback (lunge with leg #1 with a straight-leg kickback with leg #2)
  8. 30-sec lunge with kickback (lunge with leg #2 with a straight-leg kickback with leg #1)

Wrapped this up and moseyed back to start for 1 quick Mary exercise and COT.

Mary:

Quick 25 LBCs since we had a little time left.

Announcements: This month’s charity is Holly Springs Food Pantry.  Slide Rule going for a half marathon and distance PR with doing 15 miles on the ATT this Saturday.

T-Claps (Recognition): Slide Rule has gotten a bunch of PRs for a lot of distances in the last couple of weeks (1-mile, 5k, 10k).  Kudos to all the slappin da bass you’ve been doing to get faster.

Prayer:

Prayers up for Crab Legs, Shredder, Pilgrim’s dad, and the Morrisville police officer who passed.

 

Honored to lead this morning.

-Bernie

Rendevous with Rama

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The theme of the day was “everything in 3’s”.  It was supposed to be a 3 mile EC, 3 Q’s, 3 stations, where pax in 3’s would rotate 3 sets of each workout.

But SkidMark is a jerk and guilted EH me into running a 4 mile EC.  Thanks to him, I PR’d 5k & 1 mile distances and set strava segment PR’s on pretty much every segment we ran.  Then somehow 22 guys showed up to the ‘Nut, throwing off the groups of 3.  And then my timing was rubbish so we didn’t get 3 reps in.  But, whatever, we pushed ourselves and got stronger.

As Dredd & Dark Helmet said on the 43 Ft Podcast, if you want to run faster, find someone faster than you and run with him.  If you want to get stronger, find someone stronger than you and work out with him.

F3 is a whole lot more than a selfish accountability fitness group.  But, I hope it’s at least that much for all of us.  Find someone who pushes you, and push yourself.  And once you realize another guy can help you get into better shape, think about how someone can be pushing you to be a better husband, a better father, a better employee, a better person.  Don’t let the impact of F3 be limited to your 5k Time or Merkin Reps.  #Accelerate

FNGs: Philly Special

EC:

Skid Mark & Slide Rule: 4

Buford, Dawgpound, Bernie: 2-3?

Flanigan, Blue Hen: Commute

Warm Up:

Led by Martini.  A lap, some SSH, Daisy Pickers, Good Morning, and Fazio Arm Circles.  Our FNG arrived midway through, a quick disclaimer was called, and we were off.
The Workout:

PAX split into groups of 3, with 2 cinder blocks per group.

Round1:

Cinder blocks curl their way to the playground, odd man run & do 5 burpees

Rotate through 1 legged Romanian Dead Lifts & Pull Ups, 10x each

Recover on the BTTW.  I think there were some merkins in there

Round2:

Cinder blocks tricep extend their way to the track, odd man run & do 10 burpees.  Da business demonstrated the agility we all expect from seasoned professional referees

1 Lap around the track in 3 man indian run.  Indian drops for a merkin before sprint to the front

Round3:

Head to the short wall.  You know, the short wall.  Yeah, the short wall.  Odd man 5 burpees

2 pax do Goblet Squats while 3rd does a BTTW crawl the length of the wall

Repeat Round2

Repeat Round1

Intermission: Backwards up hill; duck walk down hill as other 2 chillcut plank.  Repeat 3x

Repeat Round3, only on a more differenter wall

Mary:

Led by Cowboy.  LBC x1000, Big Boy Situps, Homer to Marge

Announcements:

Thursday First Responder Training, Monday Workout in RTP

T-Claps (Recognition):

Today was Spanx last post.  He’s moving to Richmond, VA to take a new job.  Dude’s been hitting it hard and is going to find folks up there to work out with as soon as he gets his feet on the ground.  Good job, Spanx, it was a pleasure getting to know you.
Prayer:

Moby’s dad is getting released from hospital soon, Pilgrim’s Dad, Shredder

Shitter Quitter

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It looked like there was going to be a Dumbo sighting at PC this morning. He drove Pablo to EC and as soon as he stopped the car he made his way to the Port a John. I think he finally ran under a 9 minute mile on the way to the John. He said to start EC without him. So we did. When YHC got back from EC Dumbo’s Truck was gone. Pablo was looking nervous for his ride just left him. Good thing 187 was there to provide Pablo a ride home. Apparently Dumbo’s Easter dinner did not sit well with him. Or maybe it was the Indian food from Friday. I hope to see Dumbo back out in the gloom soon. We don’t like seeing #shitterquitters.

EC: Slide Rule, Cowboy, Buford, Dawgpound, Emeril, 187, UTI, Aquaman, Pablo, Lipstick, Bernie, ShamWow
Yogurt Ramp Work EC: Yogurt, UTI, Lipstick, ShamWow!
Vests: Breach (breath taker), Foghorn (The biggest vest I’ve ever seen)
Warm Up:

Jogged to the bottom of the ramp and circled up.
I read somewhere that Burpees are the best warm up exercise.  Gets multiple joints going and is a very dynamic exercise.

5 Burpees
Fazio Arm Circles Forward and Backward
4 Burpees
Deep Squats
3 Burpees
Hairy Rockettes
2 Burpees
1 Burpee

The Workout:

The thang started with a count off. We had 21. Not a good number to be divided by either 3, 4 or 5. We formed four Indian Run groups. I had an idea of an Indian Run Indian Run. All I can say it didn’t work out. It was supposed to be two Indian runs passing each other in an Indian run format. sigh. I also had a dream about an Absolution BTTW. Did not attempt today. Maybe a future workout.

We started in the Indian Run Indian Run. At the basketball court 5 Burpees. At the corner 5 Burpees, 10 Superman Merkins (I was trying to get a bit of back in there with the merkins). At the dumpster 5 Burpees, 10 Superman Merkins, 15 Squats and 20 LBCs at the bottom of the ramp.

We completed two laps of the Indian Run work. Then we jogged to the tennis courts for some old fashion elevens. Though we didn’t make it through the elevens. Got halfway.

One side did Carolina Dry Docks. The other side Absolution with a pushup. This was a fun cadence count to call. Seemed like Pax was not that familiar with Absolution so instead of a count it was more instructional count. Started with 10 absolutions and worked down to 5. Started with 1 CDD and worked up to 6, but you don’t do 6 you do ten.

Mary:

Some Yoga Stretching:
Chair Pose
Chair Pose with a twist
Sun Salutation flow into an upward dog
Repeat above to the other side
Downward Dog
Pigeon Pose
Repeat Pigeon Pose to opposite side
Downward Dog
Runners Pose
Repeat Runners pose to the opposite side
Have a Nice Day

Announcements:

Safety class Thursday. Bring 9 volt batteries and smoke detectors for donations.

T-Claps (Recognition):

Buford for working hard getting back out here. He could take it easy and post once a week, but has been consistently posting 3 to 4 times a week. Great job on working on recovery from surgery.

Prayer:

Moby’s Dad (I haven’t heard an update in a bit)
Shreddeer
All unspoken prayers

Partner Ball Kicks

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YHC peeled in at the last possible minute after fart sacking through EC (good job Slide Rule, Pablo, & U.T.I!) to a very full parking lot that included some old familiar faces. A quick round of hellos and we were into warmup.

FNGs: N/A
Warm Up:

SSH x10 IC

Imperial Walkers x10 IC

Lap around the parking lot consisting of butt kickers, high knees, and finishing with frankenstein walks (or ball kick walks if you’re too close to the pax in front of you).
The Workout:

Lots of good miles ran this morning with some great picking up the six action by Lipstick and Cowboy. Way to be boys.
Mary:

Numerous double downs for Ground Pounder’s 1 year anniversary.
Announcements:

First responder training. See online.
T-Claps (Recognition):

Lipstick & Cowboy for picking up the 6. This is what makes us more than just a run club – remember it!
Prayer:

Banana Seat’s neighbor. Unspoken.