THE SCENE: Overcast and cool, low 40s. Nice sunset beyond the clouds, but quickly got dark.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER Got it right this time! 🙂
WARM-O-RAMA:
-20 Side Straddle Hops (4-ct), in cadence
– 10 Lunges (lungeus interruptus halfway through due to PAX losing count, resulting in 5 Burpees)
-20 Grady Corns (4-ct), in cadence
– 10 Cherry Pickers (4-ct), in cadence
– 10 BACs forward and backward
THA-THANG:
- Mosey to Big Parking Lot for CANDY CANES! (Hat tip to Cap’n Crunch!). Run to each station, do the exercise, and run back. The six stations are:
- 20 Dive Bombers
- 20 Iron Mikes (2-ct)
- 20 BBS
- 20 Star Jumps
- 20 Squat Jumps
- 20 LBCs
- Mosey to Cardiac:
- Cardiac Suicides. Run to first bend, 5 BODY BUILDERS, run back. Run to second bend, 10 BODY BUILDERS, run back. Run to top, 15 BODY BUILDERS.
- Mosey to CMU pile
- DORAs 100 of each exercise while partner runs with CMU over his head to the end of parking lot and back.
- Overhead Presses
- Curls
- Squats
- Rows
- Triceps (didn’t finish these…)
- Mosey to AO
- DORAs 100 of each exercise while partner runs with CMU over his head to the end of parking lot and back.
MARY:
20 Hello Dollies, + 5 punishment burpees for messing up the count… again…
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
9 Strong, no FNGs
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
(From Luke 2) So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to Bethlehem the town of David, because he belonged to the house and line of David. 5 He went there to register with Mary, who was pledged to be married to him and was expecting a child. 6 While they were there, the time came for the baby to be born, 7 and she gave birth to her firstborn, a son. She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the inn.
One of things that I love about the Christmas story and the life of Jesus is the circumstances under which he was brought into this world, and how he left it. He came into it in the most humble conditions, and placed in a manger.
Definition of a MANGER: a long open box or trough for horses or cattle to eat from. The son of God came into this world basically in a soup bowl for livestock, and left this world on a cross, after being betrayed, humiliated and tortured.
This was not some gilded king, born in wealth and comfort, and who died gloriously. This was a child born to a poor family who was sent by God to live among us and who died for our sins.
John 3:16: For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
If we had the CEO for Crossfit or some other exercise program show up out of the blue in a limo, dressed in a fur coat, with leather gloves and wing-tipped shoes tell us to do 100 burpees, crawl in the mud, and run up and down a huge hill a few times, we’d probably tell him to stick it where the sun don’t shine. But when it’s an idiot like me, who is out here doing it with you, with snot running down my face and bloody shins and freezing cold hands, you nod, get your mind right, and get it done. I love that Jesus was one of US, not one of THEM. I love that the life he lead and the teachings he passed on came from a place of humanity and poverty, not power and wealth. I think of the billionaire politicians that are supposed to be our leaders and it’s hard sometimes to relate to them and to accept what they say and how they want us to act. But I will follow Jesus as my Q any day of the week.
MOLESKIN:
Prayers for several members of the PAX who are suffering this holiday season due to the death of loved ones or illness. We pray for comfort and recovery.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Polar Bear Plunge on Jan. 1, New Year’s party at Tank’s house Jan. 3, Ski Trip Feb 7-9.