THE SCENE: Cloudy, temp in high 50’s.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
20 Side Straddle Hops, 10 Burpees, 10 Cherry Pickers, 5 Burpees, 10 Windmills, Seven Baby Arm Circles Forward and Backward, Seven Wide Arm Circles Forward and Backward
THA-THANG:
Mosey to the landscaped island parking lot located south of the Northern Baseball Fields. Bricks will be located at the entrance of the parking lot. Each man will pick up two bricks. We will do a Modified Route 66 around the parking lot. Each man runs five parking spaces, does one Mini-Man-Maker, then runs five more parking spaces, does two Mini-Man-Makers, etc until he finally does 11 mini-makers.
Mosey to roadside start of the Serpentine Sidewalk. We will do a Route 66 on this sidewalk as it heads to the Park Perimeter Trail running along the waterway. We will start with one Dive Bomber at the first light and end with eleven Dive Bombers at the eleventh light.
Mosey to the end of the Serpentine Sidewalk where it meets the Park Perimeter Trail. We will do 10 Imperial Walkers as a group.
Mosey to the beginning of Cardiac Hill. We will run up hill stopping to do the following exercises at each turn:
- Turn 1: 20 Carolina Drydocks
- Turn 2: 20 Diamond Merkins
- Turn 3: 20 Decline Merkins
- Turn 4: 20 Bench Dips
Mosey to Parking Lot that is by the entrance gate to the Northern Ball Fields. Each man grabs a CMU. We will do the following in cadence:
- 20 Overhead Presses
- 20 Curls
- Drop CMU and sprint to end of parking lot and back
- 20 Rows
- Drop CMU and sprint to end of parking lot and back
- 20 Chest Pushes
- Drop CMU and sprint to end of parking lot and back
- 20 Squats with CMU at Chest
Drop off CMU’s and mosey to Pavilion. We will do 25 Picnic Table Pull-ups
Mosey toward parking lot with landscaped islands that we were at for the mini man makers. Stop at grassy area by ball field.
Football challenge: Lilydipper throws ball down field. First to catch it and bring it back wins. If you are tagged by anyone you must drop the ball immediately.
Mosey to landscaped parking lot to pick up bricks we had left off.
Mosey back to AO.
MARY:
15 Boxcutters.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Ten men with one FNG, a friend of Goober’s who was visiting from Indiana. His name is Daniel and we gave him the F3 name of Shrinkwrap.
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
I have been reading lately about Identity Formation because I have talked about that subject in a Sunday School Class at my church and to a group I met with in my work as a psychologist. Eric Erickson’s theory regarding the states of Identity Formation is quite influential among psychologists. You can Google either Identity Formation or Eric Erickson to read about the subject. A very good book that talks about our growth in identify formation and as human beings is by a Catholic Priest named Richard Rohr. It is called Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life. Rohr talks about some important ironies for those who grow successfully as human beings (growing in the HIM type of way, not in the way the world might identify as successful such as in power, wealth or fame).
- The supposed achievements of the first half of life, we find, fall short.
- In our life journey we find that what we originally thought we were searching for is not truly what we are searching for.
- The way up, we find, is often the way down.
- We must sacrifice something to achieve something greater. Illustration: the journey in literature. (The Odyssey, Lords of the Ring, Harry Potter)
- Losing, failing, falling, suffering, and encounters with sin are a necessary part of the journey.
- It is often when the ego is most deconstructed that we can hear things anew.
- The demand for perfect is the greatest enemy of the good. (Rules and getting it right are more important in first half of life).
- Higher stages of development are often misunderstood and attacked by those in lower stages (think of how Jesus was attacked by leaders of “organized religion”).
MOLESKIN:
Prayer for Pinto whose mother passed away earlier this week. Prayer for Hooker, her grandson, and Mr. Jinxy, her son-in-law. Prayer for Goober’s friend, Bruce, whose mother and daughter died earlier this week. Praise for the F3 brothers who were at Goliath last week and who did well there. They also had a great bit of fun there.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Coffeeteria!