Northeast Tennessee

Roxanne Elicits a Ranger Squat Show

Northeast Tennessee Johnson City The Range (Science Hill)

Seven pax made it out to The Range for a mid-week convergence under a clear sky amid a regional challenge of squats.  We love a good old-fashioned challenge at the Range, lofty mumblechatter (342 miles up to Skylink to be exact), the ol’ orange medicine ball, and trying to pinpoint the location of Uranus during a plank.
DISCLAIMER
PRAYER
COP
Traded up “Thunderstruck and Burpees” for a warm-up from The Police with 3 squats per pax every time Sting utters “Roxanne”.  It’s 26 times, to be exact, so the warm-up produced 546 squats.
THE THANG
Off for an off-track Indigenous Run with the penalty for a dropped medicine ball being changed from burpees (apologies to Handsy) to 20 squats.  2 drops added another 280 squats (826 cumulative).

The top of Ranger Hill found a block-station with curls, bench presses, and rows.  Partner A worked the block while Partner B ran to the bottom of Ranger Hill and did a progressing set of 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 squats (525 squats)  before running back to change.  One set of 3 guys added an additional 75 squats. Now up to 1,426 squats.

“Roxanne” paid us another visit for 546 more squats (1,972 cumulative squats).  One pax peeled off to spill some merlot at this point but the six others found a hill for some bear crawl and squat combos (10 squats at bottom and 20 at the top for 2 rounds).  Now up to 2,152 squats.  We threw in another 20 squats each to finish off the thang (2,272 cumulative squats).

MARY
Getting back to homebase found time for some LBCs in cadence and a minute of planking to stargaze and chatter about Starlink and Uranus.
CIRCLE OF TRUST
PRAYER
MOLESKIN
We love a good physical challenge at the Range but we love our Rangey community more.  We were reminded of things in life that involve sadness and celebration and how great it is to have community in which to share them.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Get on the Q, do some squats, bring some canned food. Write a backblast to make those reps official!

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