THE SCENE: Moissssssstt
WARM-O-RAMA:
Side straddle hoppity x 20 cadence
Bit o duck walking
Baby arm circles forward and backwards x 12 cadence
10 merkins
short mosey
THA-THANG:
- 20 Gob squats with CMU, 20 Burpees, 20 merkins…. Followed by 19 of each etc. Ended after ~10 minutes
- mosey to the hockey rink
- Alligator crawl 1/2, bear crawl 1/2
- At the end we did some fun flutter kicks….. ended up being in cadence
- 3 Sprints across the rink
Wandered outside to the parking lot
Superman swims followed by a long sprint across the lot
More superman swims
Hello Dolly x 20 Cadence
Sprint back to the beginning
10 merkins
20 Gorilla humpers
Mosey to Tennis Court
Wheelbarrow 1/2, Lunge 1/2 ~2 sets…. It was time to run again
Indian Run to the Matterdorn (dom…. dum… korn… thorn…. THOR?) hill
Lunge 1/2 the hill followed by a run to the AO
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
17 PAX
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
This morning I shared a quote from one Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s books, The Gulag Archipelago. The quote was referencing those that were able to survive the brutality of the system, particularly during interrogations after being arrested.
What do you need to make you stronger than the interrogator and the whole trap?
From the moment you go to prison you must put your cozy past firmly behind you. At the very
threshold, you must say to yourself: “My life is over, a little early to be sure, but there’s nothing to be
done about it. I shall never return to freedom. I am condemned to die — ^now or a little later. But later
on, in truth, it will be even harder, and so the sooner the better. I no longer have any property
whatsoever. For me those I love have died, and for them I have died. From today on, my body is
useless and alien to me. Only my spirit and my conscience remain precious and important to me.”
What I gleaned from this is that our spirit and minds are something that we can truly say belong to us. We can allow these things to deteriorate and we will become weak, or we can be strong mentally and stick to our value structures. In multiple points throughout the book, Solzhenitsyn suggests that the ones who survived are the ones who relinquished the suffering and grounded themselves spiritually and mentally. So, be strong. Be disciplined. Live according to your values unerringly.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Hike LeConte this weekend led by Abscess and Steam