THE SCENE: Partly cloudy, low 80s but humid
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
25 Side-Straddle Hops, 10 Burpees, 10 Tennessee Rocking Chairs, 10 Tempo Merkins, 10 Tempo Squats, Patriotic High Knees Around Parking Lot, Patriotic Butt Kick Around Parking Lot, Patriotic Bernie Sanders Around Parking Lot, 7 Twisties, 7 Windmills, 7 Pterodactyls Forward and Backward
THA-THANG:
Mosey to the parking lot with the nice restrooms. We will Bear Crawl to First Island, Lunge to Second Island and Sprint to End of Parking Lot.
Mosey to the Caribbean Parking Lot. We will do candy canes, moving in a counter-clockwise direction around parking lot until we get to the cone at the end of the candy cane. We will stop at every other island to do the listed exercise. Once the first man arrives at the end of the candy cane and completes the exercise, he sweeps all men back to the start. We then do the next exercise. Here are the exercises:
- 10 Merkins. Sprint between islands.
- 10 Squats. Sprint between islands.
- 10 Baby Crunches. Bernie between islands
- 10 Hello Dollies. Sprint between island.
Mosey to picnic tables that are east of the Caribbean. We will alternate between 20 picnic table pull ups, 20 Bench Dips, and 20 Step Ups.
Mosey on the perimeter trail south until we get to the area that splits into three trails: the boardwalk trail, the pine needle trail, and the concrete trail. We will split into teams for Doras. While one partner does the exercise, the other partner takes one of the routes to the other convergence of trails and then comes back. Then partners switch. Partners should take alternate routes each time. Here are the exercises that partners will do as a team:
- 100 Jump Squats
- 100 Big Boy Sit-ups
- 100 Carolina Dry Docks
Mosey north to grassy area by where perimeter trail and serpentine trail converge. We will stop to do 20 American Hammers.
Mosey to the Pavilion near baseball field entranceway. We will do 20 Incline Merkins on picnic tables.
Mosey to the AO.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
We had 12 with no FNGs. Kentucky brought his 2.0s, Smartie and LeBron.
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Let Freedom Ring
Herbert Hoover
“Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.”
Albert Einstein
“For everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in freedom.
Alice Walker
“No person is your friend (or kin) who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
The news of today is often a running complaint on American politicians, cities, institutions, and the state of our nation. I sometimes get caught up in that stuff and wonder about our nation. But gents, we are so lucky to live in a land that is built on the notion of freedom and continues to work to protect our rights to be free. Many of us tend to take that for granted. But think of people in other countries that do not have our freedoms: the freedom of religion, to choose where we want to live, to go into the vocation that we desire, to associate with whom we desire.
I am thankful for that freedom and thankful for those who helped establish it. I am thankful for those who fought for our independence. I am thankful for those who continue to fight for our freedom. I am thankful for those who serve our government, whether federal or state.
Like my brother High-Heels was saying the other day, we have plenty of brothers in F3 who were born in other countries but who are thankful to be living here in the United States. And like he was also saying, in the United States, if you are willing to work hard and put in the effort, you are going to do alright in life.
So on this independence day, let’s give thanks. Thank you God for our country. Let Freedom Ring.
MOLESKIN:
Prayers for Wedding Singer’s son who graduated from high school in May, for Soot and his health after the fainting spell, and for Q-Bert’s father and father-in-law.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Convergence at Shamrock at 7 am on July 8. Arrive at 6:45 am.