Date: 2026-01-19
AO: rumble
Q: Paycheck
PAX: Bishop, Sharpie, Bionic, Cobra Kai, Paycheck
FNGs: None
COUNT: 5
CONDITIONS: 29 and frosty enough for my CRV to be shellacked in ice. My car wasn’t parked, it was entombed. Had to chip my way in like Indianna Jones looking for an ancient prize.
WARMUP:

Disclaimer: Given
Cadence: Everything. 10x. No freelancing.

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Warm-Up (IC, all x10)
• Forward Claps
• Imperial Walkers
• Low & Slow Prisoner Squats
• High Plank
• Shoulder Taps
• Forward Claps (again, because cold)
• Hand-Release Merkins
• Jump Squats (OYO x10)

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The Thang I

Mosey to Northern Island

Ricky Bobby’s Slingshot – 3 Rounds
• ½ island mosey
• Other ½ jailbreak
• 10 burpee buy-in each round

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The Thang II – Live Platformance

Mosey to Northern brick platforms

3 Rounds
• 10 Explosive Merkins
• 10 Step-Ups
• 10 Gas Pumpers

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The Thang III
• Bear Crawl to bike rack
• Lunge to SW Teacher Island

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The Thang IV – It’s All Downhill Now
• 10 Jump Squats
• Bunny Hop the caution lane (1 round)
• Mosey to Ridgeland stop sign / starting block

1 Round
• High Plank
• 10 Hand-Release Merkins
• Mosey down Ridgeland
• 5 Jump Squats
• Backwards mosey back up the hill
• High Plank

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Transition
• High Knees to landmark (~25 yards)

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The Thang V

Mosey lower Cheraw to the luxurious concrete squares

Mary –
Round Robin (10x IC each)
• Paycheck: Freddie Mercuries
• Bionic: Flutterkicks
• Bishop: Up-Downs
• Sharpie: Crab Cakes
• Cobra Kai: Side Scissor Shredders

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Moleskine:
Bishop thank you for sharing the CS Lewis musing in #3F. I have been contemplating it since. It is very true. We all make more
positive impact when we show up. In short,
“In each of my friends there is something that only some other friend can fully bring out. By myself I am not large enough to call the whole man into activity.”
…

“The group, by its very nature, is not merely a collection of individuals, but something more.”

We bring out good things by participating, not by “next time” or hitting snooze.

Marcus Aurelius:
“At dawn, when you have trouble getting out of bed, tell yourself: I have to go to work—as a human being. What do I have to complain of, if I’m going to do what I was born for?”
— Meditations

^^^Where in your life can you show up more?

I put this to work today by throwing the football with my son at lunch. They were off and I deleted all busyness excuses. He jumped on the trampoline and we threw. His face was stuck in a full smile the first 10 minutes. The weather was perfect. We bonded. It was difficult to peel him from his comfortable, warm spot on the couch on his day off and away from the screen radar lock but some gentle and warm persuasio. Was effective.

Having fun outside without screens influenced my wife to break out Uno with him when I left.

My point: push for ideal and settle for progress made. Don’t delay; seize the moment. Had I not gone this morning, the passive inertia could have shaped me towards passivity and my son and wife would have been lost to the screensuck; this is a thing and you know it.

Push back!

Kindly.

Warmly.

With love in your voice, in your eyes, and in your poise.

It is contagious.

Rant over

Announcements
• Wednesday: Monthly Benchmark AMRAP
• Location: Downtown Parking Deck, 180 N Irby Street

Prayers
• Cobra Kai’s wife, Dani. :pray:
• Sharpie’s 2.0 and wife to get back to health.
• Geopolitics
• For the Lord’s light to shine and lead

Pledge: Given