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January 31 2020 / at Cletus (Womble Park) QIC: POTS “No Sand Bag’n”

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January 31 2020 / at Cletus (Womble Park) QIC: POTS “No Sand Bag’n”

EC: 187

PAX:  Lucky 13 for the last day of the Shield Lock Challenge.

FNGs: None

Warm Up: Mosey’d to far parking lot

Side Straddle Hops (SSH), Daisy Pickers, Imperial Walkers, Frankenstein’s

The Workout: 

  1. (one or two sandbags – modify as needed)
  2. Curls for the girls (20 reps)
  3. Figure 8’s around the legs (10 Reps right and 10 reps left)
  4. Overhead press (20 reps)
  5. Floor press / bridged (20 reps)
  6. Willy Mays Hayes – Bear hug side lunge (20 reps)
  7. Good Mornings (20 reps)
  8. Squats (20 reps)
  9. Up right rows (20 reps)
  10. Halo’s (20 reps)
  11. Rut Rows (20 reps)

Run with your sandbag to middle of parking lot

Merkins (10 reps)

Sprint back with your sandbag

Squat hold for the 6

Rinse and repeat between each exercise

  1. Mosey’d to Picnic Pavilion, Paired up;

1st round Partner 1 Balls to the Wall. Partner 2 Urkins (IC 20), Partners switched.

2nd round Partner 1 Balls to the Wall. Partner 2 Derkins (IC 20), Partners switched.

3rd round Partner 1 Balls to the Wall. Partner 2 Dips (IC 20), Partners switched.

4th round Partner 1 Balls to the Wall. Partner 2 Absolute merkins

Mary: The PAX took turns with several rounds of ab exercises to close out the Q.

Announcements: 

 16-Bit still has his Super Bowl Pool available.

MidgetForLife on pace for Healing transitions fund.

Check Slack for upcoming announcements

Prayer:  Prayers Wallaby, Sprinklers family, unspoken, Military, and First Responders.

RailRoaded At TBD

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You know it’s time to start the workout when FloJo, Hardy, and Poopeater arrive. Today, they were about 30 seconds late. Ordinarily, they are exactly on time at 5:30, a just-in-time operation!

Warm-up: Mosey + Burpees

Mosey onto Stinson, stop at first parking lot, SSH 25x

Continue mosey down Stinson to Noonday, 10 burpees OYO, mosey back up to parking lot.

There’s your warm-up! Dawgpound: Why did we have to go down the hill to do those burpees? Because after Q’ing and working out at Womble for so long, we needed a different warmup.

The Thang: Railroad Tracks

After having fun with this format on Monday, I decided to continue today.

In the parking lot, each of the 12 PAX planks up on the first 12 lines. First PAX (YHC) runs to end of PAX like an Indian Run to the first open line. Plank up. Each PAX follows until we reach the end. My idea was to simply run back to the beginning from there. But, the first PAX to round the corner (Cowboy?) found a whole new set of parking spots around the corner, paralleling the first set. He started the railroad there and we returned same as we came. Bonus!

Next sets of exercises, same format: Guantanamo, 5 hand-release Merkins, WWIIs before your run to front of line. PAX holds 6 inch while the one PAX does WWII.

Mr. Clarity (i.e., Pablo) kept asking questions, claiming that he was just seeking clarity. Seemed suspiciously like he was trying hi-jack my Q! Indeed the Fritter Goobers brought more chatter to this parking lot than it has heard since the last installment of Ivan.

Balls to the Wall by Request:

Sprinkler and POTS were disappointed we did not do BTW on Monday. So, making sure not to disappoint, we moseyed to the amphitheater. OK, so Sprinkler was genuinely happy to have this exercise, pretty sure he could go 5 minutes. POTS was not as pleased.

Upon finishing up the WWII railroads, PAX moseyed one-by-one down to the amphitheater and took People’s Chair position on the wall. First round 10 second count by each PAX. FloJo is now famous for his I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X counting method.

Mary: American Hammers, pickle pounders, LBCs, etc.

Announcements: Check Slack

Prayer Requests: Sprinkler and his family as they lay his father to rest today. Dawgpound safe air travels. FloJo as his family considers adoption.

Bringing Back the Band!

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FNGs: none

Warm Up: PAX moseyed over behind Town Hall Burger and Beer. Warm ups included Side Straddle Hops,  Imperial Walkers, Hillbillies, Windmills, and Fozio Arm Circles forward and back.

The Workout: PAX then headed down to the bottom of Lassiter road, partnered up for various resistant band exercises. Partner 1 did the exercises while Partner 2 ran up the hill to Matthews road.  The hill series consisted of  left facing side straddle, followed with right sided facing side straddle, followed by running backwards and finally regular sprint.

The resistant band exercises consisted of Merkins, Curls for the Girls, Overhead Squats, Upright Rows,Squat Reverse Fly, Tricep press, Bent over rows,  Split leg lunge, Curl Hold, and Outer Thigh Raises.

Mary: PAX moseyed back to starting area for some Dying Cockroaches , Low Slow Flutter in cadence, Box Cutters, Alternating Toe Touches, and   LBC’s

Announcements: Q sheet signup, help with Snap with moving Thursday at 6:15 at his office  and Food Pantry this weekend.  Honor to lead and hope you had fun.

T-Claps (Recognition): EC Deadbolt, 187, Pablo, Bobby Dahl, Dawgpound, Mookie

Prayer: Wallaby spoken and unspoken prayers

Jan, 22 2020: 3rd F Leadership Meeting

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PAX – I know this is long but please read and look for things you may want to support as we progress through the year.  This leadership team is not exclusive, and we welcome everyone to the table.  If you think you can help with one of these initiatives below please jump in.  If you want to help but dont know where you fit, let us know.

EC:  ShamWow!, SlideRule, YHC

I must have done something to upset ShamWow!, Ended up on my butt less than a mile into the run on a dark uncharted portion of the greenway.  I survived this ordeal and finished up 4.3 miles with these HIM before moving inside for coffee.

FNGs: No

Warm Up:  We all got our coffee and assorted food items and buckled in for the meeting.  YHC started off with some general administrative stuff

  • CALENDAR We have a calendar for South Wake now https://f3southwake.com/schedule/calendar/. We’ll use this to centralize all of our 3rd F events so that PAX know what’s coming in advance.
  • CONTACT INFO Our Gmail account F3southwake@gmail.com has been updated with PAX contact information to make it easier to tag events with specific PAX that may be leading them.
  • PHOTOS The same account has had any/all Google Photos albums from Slack that are still discoverable tied to it. Should help with any future media and archival needs.  Feel free to share your photos with f3southwake@gmail.com to keep the albums there up-to-date.

The Workout:

For the meeting we welcomed Zombie Bride, she is the South Wake FiA Philanthropy Q.  You may also know her as Crosby’s wife.  Some may ask… “Who’s Crosby?”  Zombie Bride listened in to see where FiA and F3 may be able to find some common ground in the 3rd F space.  We hope to continue having a delegate at our future leadership meetings so we can plan accordingly and perhaps steal some ideas from one another.  We also hope to have some co-branded events in the near future so we can invite entire families out to 3rd F with us and introduce them to F3 and/or FiA.  Stay Tuned.

AO Updates

Heart (YHC) – More detail below but TL;DR? – Monarch School (Event), Food Cupboard Volunteer (Volunteer Reoccurring), Mama’s House (Volunteer Reoccurring), Town of Holly Springs (Volunteer Reoccurring)

Mind (Shredder) – Will aim to assess the needs of our PAX (Survey Monkey early February), expect to introduce facilitated and pointed discussions based on feedback.  Will look to do the work to keep Shield Locks supported and introduced to new PAX.  Will also introduce an MIA program to pull Kotters back out.  Be it the gloom, 2nd F or 3rd F.

Cloud (ShamWow!) – Looking to get together some promo materials in terms of flyers, Videos, and to get more engaged with the social medias.  Meeting in the works with Comms and our Nantan to coordinate.

Accelerator (Abe) – See themselves working closely with Cloud.  #Acceleration channel is moving again.  YHC added that he has put all of his races on the South Wake calendar.  Could show an opportunity for those not racing to provide race support instead.

 

TL;DR Content

Cause:  Monarch – Fundraising for a new High School for kids battling/overcoming drug addiction

Q: Dahmer

References:

https://www.wakemonarchacademy.org/

https://youtu.be/iHNztoBkEv8

Update:

Met with Monarch.  Looking into ways to help with their fundraising.  Golf Tournament, Race, Luncheon, etc.  Currently targeting the race and looking for potential partners.  Working with Monarch and their connections to facilitate where possible.  Future meeting TBD

 

Cause:  Holly Spring Food Cupboard

Q: Dumbo

References:

http://hsfoodcupboard.org/

Update:

  • People that use them sometime come with asks that go beyond food (home repairs)
  • Are in the most need for food in the Spring and Fall, expect F3 Food Drives
  • Expect F3 to get involved in the Garden Club
  • Golf Tournament?  Q will be SlideRule if this one comes to pass
  • Feb 1st, looking for 4ish PAX to support Eagle Scout greenhouse build following our $600 donation for supplies (THANK YOU SOUTH WAKE) – https://www.gofundme.com/f/greenhouse-and-shelving-for-hs-food-cupboard

 

Cause:  Mama’s House

Q: LED

References:

http://mamashouseofthrift.org/

Update:

 

Cause:  Town of Holly Springs Parks and Rec

Q: UTI

References:

https://hollyspringsnc.us/214/Parks-Recreation

Update:

  • Looking to give back to the town that hosts our shenanigans.
  • We will look to get involved in the 4th of July and HollyFest events
  • Help clean-up post event, get a tent during the event as well.

 

More HEART items being worked on and discussed – Truth In Nature, Hope on the Homefront, Meg’s Smile.  Keep an eye on the calendar https://f3southwake.com/schedule/calendar/.

 

View our master “plan” – https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/14rcT2XZDKsv2jIorN85W474V0xJVa9p-V8wzzSx7ijw/edit#slide=id.gc9374547a79f840_0

Mary: I believe Zombie Bride’s hospital name is Beth…  So…  Nope….
Announcements: Did I mention we have a calendar!? – https://f3southwake.com/schedule/calendar/
T-Claps (Recognition):  3rd F leadership is on point.  Some really exciting stuff happening in 2020 and these guys are really passionate which makes it even easier!
Prayer:  Silence

Native American Mosey on a Monday

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8 men took the DRP and showed up at Paradise City. One lonely sole didn’t think it would be enough so they did EC. Everyone got at least 3 miles for a high tempo start to the week. Aye!

Indian Run

FNGs: Not today!

EC: Pablo

Warm Up: Mosey to top of the ramp for SSH, Good mornings and Windmill. Mosey to back corner for Imperial Walkers, Hillbillies and Daisy pickers. Mosey to the rail for back stroke and irkins.

The Workout: Split into two 4 man Indian run groups. Make laps around the complex stopping for 5 hand release merkins at the top of the ramp, 10 big boy sit ups at the back corner and 15 jump squats at the rail. Each group of 4 was supposed to skip a lap around the complex and do a Dora (100 merkins, 200 LBC and 300 squat). One group might have done it twice (could be bad instructions or bad listening…)

Mary: Good mornings ICx10, Homer to Marge ICx20, Low Slow Flutter ICx20

Announcements: Greenhouse 2/1, Move Snap this Thursday at 6pm, Long Ass ATT run coming up soon.

T-Claps (Recognition):

Prayer: Those looking for work (Lee), thanksgiving for our ability to get out with a group of men and get stronger.

It is always a honor to lead you men. I’ll try to do better next time!

Building a Flow with your Host Dawgpound

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It was a warm Friday morning. The parking deck kept us even warmer.  The audio visual team was up and running and streaming Sarah Beth Yoga for the Pax to get a bit of stretching.  Trying to win the day by putting the work back into our bodies.  Dumbo convinced Pablo to run hills though.  That man really loves those hills by the library.

Dumbo even brought his brother out.  Even though he is 9 years younger he refers to Dumbo as his ‘Smaller brother’.  We already had the name lined up.  First job was at a country club.  That went to caddy shack.  That went to Noonan.  Danny Noonan is the kid caddie from the moving that is trying his hardest to get the caddy scholarship.  I wanted ‘Na Na Na’, but everyone seemed onboard with Noonan.  Just don’t let Emeril ruin it for us.  That guy.

It was a special morning.  Besides building our flow we ran the stairs at the parking deck for the first time.  Pax that couldn’t (Pikachu) stayed down and did more abs.

Yoga EC: Dawgpound, Buford, Emeril, Deadbolt, Flanigan, Coal Ash, Skidmark, Redenbacher, Noonan
Running EC: Cowboy, Dumobo, Pablo
FNGs: Noonan
Warm Up:

Quick lap around the parking deck. Then we got in a U. I said circle but the space wasn’t large enough to accommodate so we had rows in a U fashion.

Started just bouncing and loosening up the legs and shoulders
Backstroke
Hinge stretch — Big toe of back foot is inline with heel of front foot. Bend at the waist. Repeat on the other side.
Leg Swings
Leg Circles Front and Back

The Workout:

We built up to a full out flow. We started small. After each progression of the flow half the pax ran the stairs the other half did some ab work.

5 Reps: — Did the right side then left. That was one Rep
Push Up one arm on bell
Row

Stairs/Exaggerated toe touches (Hand touches opposite toe while swinging the leg up)

5 Reps: — Did the right side then left. That was one Rep
Push Up one arm on bell
Row
Clean

Stairs/Midget Coookie Pouches

5 Reps: — Did the right side then left. That was one Rep
Push Up one arm on bell
Row
Clean
Squat

Stairs/Kettlebell Pull Through (In a plank position move the bell from one side to the other)

5 Reps: — Did the right side then left. That was one Rep
Push Up one arm on bell
Row
Clean
Squat
Snatch

Stairs/Midget Stand Ups

5 Reps: — This one we did the right side then after the switch during the swing we did reverse and finished with the pushup

Push Up one arm on bell
Row
Clean
Squat
Snatch
One arm Swing
One arm swing and switch hands

Stairs/Exaggerated toe touches (Hand touches opposite toe while swinging the leg up)

Mary:

2 Rounds
Midget Love Handles
Supermans — These will know be known as Flying Pikachu’s

We finished with some stretching. Gotta run some miles tomorrow.

Started with frog stretch. (In table top pulse moving our hips back to our feet.)
Leg through stretch. Like pigeon, but instead of the leg being under your body it is sticking out to the side. Bring forearms to the ground. Reach up to the sky
Runners Pose rotate to the leg that is bent for added benefits
Pigeon Pose. Rotate hip of leg bent for added benefit
Thread the needle (Start in table top put right arm under left arm. Your head should be resting on your shoulder. Bring the arm back up.)

Announcements:

Long Ass ATT Run. Blue Hen is running the whole thing this year

T-Claps (Recognition):

All pax who put up with my Kettlebell workouts. I love them and I hope everyone else enjoys kettlebells.
Prayer:

Wallaby
Pikachu
Pikachu’s wife (Cause we will be having a moody Pikachu as he goes through withdraw from running)

Mike..Mike…Mike..HHHHHUUUMMMPPPPPDDDDDAAAAAYYYYYYY!!!!!!!

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EC: @Reddenbacher, @Emeril, @Deadbolt – Ran EC in reverse.

FNGs: Mike Sheridan –  Now known as Alamo

Warm Up:
Jog to soccer field.  SSH, Good Mornings, Windmills, Daisy Pickers

The Workout:
Originally I was going to utilize the @Deadbolt special and do four corner repeats in the big parking lot followed up with some Abyss training.  But during my EC run I came up with a new plan to keep everyone moving (Pakistani Runs) and hitting all the great rides Disney has to offer.

Ride 1 – Started at the soccer field after warmups.  Balls to wall on the fence, run to midfield 15 Merkins, run to the other fence Preachers Chair. Back to midfield for Merkins.  Noticed someone standing near the bathrooms waiting on us and as we got closer realized it was @Crablegs.   5 burpees for everyone.

Ride 2 – Next stop the abyss.  One line Pakistani Run partner up on the way.   1 partner LBC’s at the top while the other partner ran down into the abyss and did 10 star jumps.  Back to the top and swap.
Round 2 partner 1 did squats while partner 2 ran down and did Merkins.  Swap.   Core work while we waited for the 6.

Ride 3 – One line Pakistani Run to the Big Parking Lot.  4 corners.  Corner 1 at the start 3 burpees.  Jog/run to corner 2 6 burpees.  Lunge walk corner 3 9 burpees.  Jog/run to corner 4 12 burpees.
Core work while we waited on the 6.

Ride 4 – Mosey to the hill behind the big parking lot.   Partner up again.  Partner 1 run to the top of the hill while Partner 2 did Prisoner Get Up Squat Jumps (PGUSJ), one of my new favorite exercises that @Dawgpound introduced to us last week.

Ride 5 – Mosey to the stairs behind the school.  5 Turkish get ups.  Run up stairs and around to the football field benches near the ticket booth.  Dips until the 6 showed up.  @Dawgpound ran us thru some of the best Russian Dips ever.

Pakistani run back to the big parking lot because @Midget for Life left his sweatshirt.  FNG was pretty tired at this point so @Dumbo stopped to provide encouragement while Pax ran ahead to parking lot entrance and did more Squats followed by the @Nemo special Goofballs led by @Midget for Life.  FNG caught his breath so finished the Pakistani Run back to the flag.

Mary:
Downward dog calf stretches.  Pigeon.

Announcements:
Thursday 1/30 4pmish – Help Snap move out of his office into storage down near @Pikachus house
Long Ass ATT run – 2/22 7am
Brought Mike into the circle to name him. After he gave us his background info I was ready to call him Hump Day but @Dumbo asked one more question.  “What was your first job?”.  Mike’s answer was “I worked at a rental car agency”.   @Dumbo appropriately named him Alamo

Feb 2nd – Greenhouse build at HS Food Pantry.  HC for a count. Don’t want to overwhelm the kid running it.

T-Claps (Recognition):
All the Pax for continuously encouraging Mike/Alamo throughout the workout.  I heard so many Mike, Mike, Mike… that thought for sure we’d name him Hump day.   Special thanks to @Midget for Life and @Dumbo for working with him.
@Dumbo for going to Central Prison on Tuesday to meet with those in prison and helping to run a bible study.  While there he found out they’ve been doing F3 3 times a day.

Prayer: @Quiver has a family friend that is 70 and was just diagnosed with ALS, @Crablegs, men at Central Prison, @Snap, @Wallaby

Pablo’s Birthday Q at Paradise City

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15 PAX, 6 for EC, braved the cold temperatures to come and celebrate Pablo leveling up after another trip around the Sun.  I appreciated all the friendly faces that came out to show their support.  It was good to see Java’s dog, Nespresso, venture out into the gloom until Warbucks decided to hurt the dog (shame on you!! jk).

FNGs: None

Kotter: Particle Board

Notable Absences: Midget4Life

EC: Skidmark, Warbucks, Buford, Dawgpound, UTI, Pablo

Warm Up: started with a mosey the back way around toward tennis courts stopping multiple times for warm up exercises in cadence: SSHx40 (1 extra for good luck), IW x10, HB x10, Sir Fazio Arm Circles 10F&10B, seal claps x10, overhead claps x10

The Workout: Q got a headcount and split the PAX into 3 groups of 5 for small group indian runs to complete stakem-up suicides.  There were 5 pain stations that started at the top of the ramp area and went toward the stop sign on Sportmanship Way.  Pax ran to station 1 and did assigned exercise, then back to the beginning to repeat exercise from station 1.  Then run to station 2 to complete assigned exercise, then back to beginning to repeat station 1 and station 2 exercise, and so on… until all stations were complete and all exercises were repeated and stacked together at the beginning.  Exercises were as follows:  Station 1: 5 Burpees , Station 2: 10 Turkish Get-ups, Station 3: 15 Hand Release Merkins, Station 4: 20 Jump Squats, Station 5: 25 Monkey Humpers.  When completed, PAX moseyed to the box office and split into 2 groups, 1/2 PAX did bulgarian squats x10 each side and the other 1/2 held BTTW x 2 rounds.  Mosey to the flag for Mary.

Mary: The following exercises in cadence: LSF x20, Homer to Marge x10 regular x5 right leg up x5 left leg up, Boxcutter x20, Freddie Mercury x20, Pickle Pounders x10

Announcements: 2nd F opportunity at Wegman’s for lunch followed by Ice Skating at Raleigh Ice Plex, 3rd F opportunity to support family member of Kosher to build a playset (info to be posted on slack)

Prayer: Wallaby, Crablegs, Unspoken, Warbucks took us out.

38 at U-Turn – Record Number?

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Regular U-turners, Marathon Maniacs, Shield Lockers! Heck, I might have been nervous about Q’ing if I’d known that all you rascals were showing! But no, now closing in on 2 years of F3, I know y’all. Besides, I didn’t have time to think about it really, having stayed out past my bedtime with Baby Doll and our friends enjoying dinner and drinks. Then, in spite of waking early, an extra trip to the john meant leaving the house late. With all that, I rolled into the parking lot just before 6, only partially surprised to see 99 guys ready to go.

Warm up: I planted the flag, hit a few fists, then had to yell to get everyone’s attention. Everyone was pretty jacked up already. We didn’t have room to circle up so we moseyed around a few islands doing cariocas and some butt kickers along the way. Upon circling up, I realized we were taking up most of the parking lot!

SSH 25x, GMs 10x, Hammy and Glute stretch 10 count each side.

COT: 36 plus 2 after UTI notified me that Aquaman and Maybelline had started already.

Prayer requests: Wallaby, Troops overseas

Main Event: 5k route, 10k route. Shine a light, make good decisions, pick up the six.

21 at U-turn! Be SAFE!

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FNGs:   My car was on auto pilot and almost turned into Target enroute to Starbucks.  Second time this week I went to an old AO site.  Luckily, I remembered we were meeting at Panera Bread.  Got out of my car and planted a shovel flag. No FNGs, but lots of new faces at U-turn.  Expected a handful of PAX to show up.  Blown away by the number who PAX who came out to run in this incredible, January weather!  (Temps in the 60’s – balmy). Mumble chatter from Dumbo blaming it in global warming.

Warm Up:  I wanted to change the flow of things up a bit knowing that PAX were running at different distances (3-7 miles) and different paces.  I grabbed my phone and started recording for name-o-rama after we sounded off.  Made some announcements and prayer requests (see below) and got into the warm-up.  20 SSH, 10 open doors (L/R), 10 Don Quixotes and some static stretching L/R with the legs.

The Workout:   Before starting out, I brought up partnering/running with a PAX that had a head lamp or a light vest.  I emphasized safety highlighting the route and the rules of the road for the first-timers.  I identified the Clydesdales running 3 miles (I knew I was going to run with them) and asked the Gazelles running 5-7 miles to ensure they had the six.  Appreciate LED, Mr. Terriffic (nice toe shoes) and other PAX bringing in the six on the longer run.  Shout out to Dawgpound who alerted me two PAX who took off running before circling up.  I learned later that Pablo was CPR-trained and volunteered to run with Emeril who had a commitment later in the morning down range and needed to skid daddle immediately post workout.  Thanks Pablo for your help keeping Emeril safe.
PAX:   May I suggest checking in with the Q prior to taking off running in the future.

During the Gallop with the Clydesdales, we had a lot of mumble chatter about movies, actors, and running techniques up hills (thanks Shredder).  Some of the PAX were running only three miles knowing they would be doubling down and attending GP later that morning.

Mary:  None

Announcements:  Accomplished prior to running; Bowl game at M4L – Go Tigers!, Movie night “1917” – 8 PAX going, five bucks this Tues in HS.  Invest in a head lamp or light vest – could save your life.

 

T-Claps (Recognition):  Martini – EC and 5/6 mile long run.  (AND GP afterwards). Killed it today

Prayer:  Thank you Shredder for taking us in (out) leading us in prayer.

F2 at Panera Bread with all PAX accounted for.  An honor to lead, thank you Sham Wow for the opportunity. – Dauber