Never Forget

AO: Gladiator

When: 2024-09-12

QIC: Dutch Oven

PAX (17): Bo Knows, Borat (Grant Doubell), Busboy, Butterknife, Chanel, Cheneral, Darkside, Fire Drill, Floater, Florida Man (Dylan Anderson), Hitchcock, Laces, Slider, Spandex, Tar Heel, Brownie

Preamble:

Ran around parking lot and end in the field, circling up to do the following:

Warm-O-Rama:

  1. **20 Side Straddle Hops (SSH)**:
- 20 in cadence (Sort of?!)  
  1. **Twin Tower Tappy Taps** (Weed Pickers):
- 9 each leg  
  1. **Fighter Flights (Hillbillies)**:
- 11 each leg, in cadence. (not sure you would call that cadence)  
  1. **Freedom Arm Circles**:
- 9 forward, 9 backward, slow, and deliberate to loosen up. (Winged it!)

The Thang:

#### 1. **Stairway to Heaven** *(represents climbing flights in the towers)* Set up Teams. Each exercise is done in sets of 33 reps, repeated 3 times (total 99 reps per exercise), representing the Twin Towers.   Divided into teams of 4: Mosey'd to positions. Once reps are completed, run back to denter and do (after a Hail Mary from the VQ) 3 burpees between sets. Mosey to the next station, rinse and repeat until all reps are completed (12 total touches to the stations).   - **343 Jump Squats**:  (Team 1) Perform 99 reps, in sets of 3 (33 each time).   - **9/11 Merkins**:  (Team 2) Perform 99 reps, in 3 sets of 33 reach time.   - **Ladder Climbers (Mountain Climbers)**:  (Team 3) 99 total reps, 33 each leg, for 3 rounds.   - **Fallen Heroes Lunges**:  (Team 4) 99 total reps, 33 lunges each leg for 3 rounds. Tower 1 - Ran length of the field to symbolize the two towers. Bear Crawl 50 meters to mid field, do 9 big boys, run 50 meters to the end, do 11 Carolina Dry Tower 2 – Bear Crawl to mid field and do 17 American Hammers, Ran to end of the field and did 17 Dying cockroaches. Rinse and repeat back for to end the starting line Mosey’d back to the parking lot, where we finished up with 17 Temp Merkins (tried to put together a count that was close to honor the 343 firefighers that lost their lives that day.

COT:

6th man was Chanel today, who share the legendary tale of his naming! No other prayers or announcements come to mind.

Naked-Man Moleskin:

While the original warm up count was a big of a struggle, pulled together the rest of the BD today. Appreciate being able to Q for the first (hopefully of many) times, and appreciate everyone.

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