{"id":25918,"date":"2025-11-03T13:45:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T17:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/?p=25918"},"modified":"2025-11-03T13:45:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T17:45:10","slug":"merkin-monday-launchpad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/2025\/11\/merkin-monday-launchpad\/","title":{"rendered":"Merkin Monday @ Launchpad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>YHC brought back a beatdown from Mondays past to reprise it at its newest locale &#8211; The Launchpad<\/p>\n<p>Warm-O-Rama<\/p>\n<p>SSH x10, 5 merkins<\/p>\n<p>IST x10, 5 merkins<\/p>\n<p>Whirlies w\/a clap x10, 5 merkins<\/p>\n<p>Toy Soldier x10, 5 merkins<\/p>\n<p>ASTs forward x10, 5 merkins<\/p>\n<p>ASTs backward x10, 5 merkins<\/p>\n<p>Jack Reachers x10, 5 merkins<\/p>\n<p>Michael Phelps x 10, 5 merkins<\/p>\n<p>***total \u2013 40 merkins***<\/p>\n<p>The Thang<\/p>\n<p>Mosey to shelter.<\/p>\n<p>Ladder from 12-1\u00a0 12 Squatty Pottys &amp; 1 Dip to 1 squat &amp; 12 dips, each set followed by 5 merkins<\/p>\n<p>***total \u2013 60 merkins***<\/p>\n<p>Mosey to launch lot for DORA<\/p>\n<p>Parter A runs to end of the lot and does 5 merkins at the halfway point before coming back and doing 5 more merkins at the halfway point before returning to Partner B who is doing:<\/p>\n<p>Jump Squats x100<\/p>\n<p>Mountain Climbers (DC) x200<\/p>\n<p>LBCs x300<\/p>\n<p>***total \u2013 40-50 merkins***<\/p>\n<p>Mosey to the tennis courts for a quick game<\/p>\n<p>Pax 1 starts at the first corner, does 5 merkins and runs to the next one, does 5 merkins, and continues the pattern around the courts. As soon as pax 1 takes off, pax 2 does 5 merkins and runs to first corner, etc. The goal is to catch the pax in front of you \u2013 we made it nearly 2 laps until Spicoli caught me as I was catching Brittani.<\/p>\n<p>***total \u2013 30-40 merkins***<\/p>\n<p>Mosey back to launch for Mary by committee<\/p>\n<p>American Hammer x10 IC, 5 merkins OYO<\/p>\n<p>Low flutter x10 IC, 5 merkins OYO<\/p>\n<p>Freddie Mercs x10 IC, 5 merkins OYO<\/p>\n<p>Glute bridge variations courtesy of Spicoli, all x10 IC, 5 merkins OYO<\/p>\n<p>Alt shoulder touches x10 IC, 5 merkins OYO<\/p>\n<p>***total \u2013 25 merkins***<\/p>\n<p>Total merkin count \u2013 200-225<\/p>\n<p>NMM<\/p>\n<p>Great effort this morning all around. Transcript helped out the Q by providing some excellent rock tunes for the duration of the beatdown. Spicoli was on #SpicoliTime but got right to it and led the way most of the morning. Brittani was a great DORA partner, grinding out an impressive number of reps!<\/p>\n<p>Announcements<\/p>\n<p>Brittani has Launchpad Q next week &#8211; come getcha some. Converge at The Distillery on Thursday for SeaMan&#8217;s Veteran&#8217;s Day Q. Thanksgiving convergence likely &#8211; details to come. CSAUP Muddy Creek Backyard Ultra @ Zima&#8217;s on 11\/23, details on Slack.<\/p>\n<p>CoT<\/p>\n<p>YHC got some tough news last week with my MIL&#8217;s leukemia diagnosis. There&#8217;s hope, but it&#8217;s hard to be optimistic. Prayers for Frank&amp;Beans&#8217; M, too. Lots of people hurting and losing out on some necessary life-giving benefits because of political posturing. YHC took us out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YHC brought back a beatdown from Mondays past to reprise it at its newest locale &#8211; The Launchpad Warm-O-Rama SSH x10, 5 merkins IST x10, 5 merkins Whirlies w\/a clap x10, 5 merkins Toy Soldier x10, 5 merkins ASTs forward x10, 5 merkins ASTs backward x10, 5 merkins Jack Reachers x10, 5 merkins Michael Phelps [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":450,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-launchpad"],"acf":{"q":"Burns","date":"11.3.25","pax":"Brittani (with an i), Spicoli, Transcript, Burns"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/450"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25918"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25919,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25918\/revisions\/25919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}