THE SCENE: Beautiful sunny morning. No humidity. Perfect.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
- BAC 10x ea way IC
- Little bit of this & that
- Hillbilly 10x IC
- Tempo Squat 10x IC
- Tempo Merkin 10x IC
THA-THANG:
Mosey out of AO around the infield loop then to coupon pile below STEM academy. Each PAX grab a large rock, or two small ones and mosey back to the AO start. PAX held rock(s) full extension overhead and walked as a team around the infield. Stopped at 1st corner and performed 10 mt climbers (4 ct) IC. Continued walk with rock held overhead. Stopped at next corner and performed 10 Peter Parkers IC. Continued walk. Stopped at end of infield and performed 6 mt climbers IC and 6 Peter Parkers IC. Mosey back and returned rocks to coupon pile.
PAX mosey to Big Ball stairs. Identify battle buddy.
- Partner A: Sprint stairs to first flat and perform 2 burpees. Sprint to very top and do 4 burpees. Back to flat 2 burpees. Then back to bottom & tag partner.
- Partner B: Various ab work: Flutter kicks, LBC’s, American Hammers, Bicycles
- Rinse & Repeat 4 rounds each person
PAX mosey to Hill/Ayers Hall via pedestrian bridge. Stopped on pedestrian bridge for 10 tempo merkins IC. Continued to Ayers Hall
PAX circle up:
- 20 flutter kicks IC
- 10 merks OYO
- 20 hello dolly IC
- 10 merks OYO
- 20 box cutters IC
- 10 merks OYO
- 20 LBC’s IC
- 10 merks OYO
- 20 American hammers
- 10 tempo merks IC
Mosey back to AO
MARY:
Cashed out with ATM’s
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
15 deep. 4 FNGs. Had Soot’s father, uncle and cousin join us as well as Steam’s father.
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
I recently read Bryan Cranston’s memoir and he talked about an experience he had at the NYC marathon. He was leaning against a tree taking pictures of runners crossing the finish line and he thought to himself “There’s no way that I could do that.” Moments later, an elderly woman, likely in her 80s, crossed the finish line. Then a younger man with one leg. He thought that if they could do it he could too. So he took a leap and just decided to sign up for the following year. He trained for a year and finally entered the race. He breezed through the first 20-22 miles then hit a wall and his body started shutting down. He kept pushing through and just when he thought he was going to collapse, he saw the finish line. He said he never experienced such elation than he did in that moment. After he finished the race he vowed that he would never say the words “I can’t do that.”
This really resonated with me bc of two occasions:
- I was at a Friendsgiving dinner back in November and they were talking about running in the Knoxville marathon as a 4-man team. They needed a 4th so I just decided to sign up. I have never even ran in a 5k or 10k, but I took on the longest leg of almost 8 miles. I’ve always told myself (and others) “I can’t do that” when running for distance. However, I signed up and ran in the race and it was very fulfilling.
- Pfeiffer has been trying to get me to join F3 for about 1.5 years. By the way he talked about it, I always thought that it was 100% ruck workouts and I repeatedly told him “I can’t do that”. “There’s no way I can do that stuff.” Now we’re both signed up for the Star Course next week, and two tough events this summer. I’ll be forever grateful for Pfeiffer continuing to push me and introducing me to the fine folks of F3.
Don’t be your own roadblock. Don’t tell yourself that you can’t do something. Don’t listen to other naysayers around you.
Quote from Benjamin Franklin: “I have met the enemy, and it is the eyes of other people.”
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Printshop Beer coming soon!
