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Race To The Summit

THE SCENE: Pleasant 48 degrees
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER – Yep!
WARM-O-RAMA:
25xSSH, 15xTempo Merkins, 10xTempo Squats, 15xMountain Climbers, 5xCherry Pickers

THA-THANG:

  • Mosey to the Haslam Center
    • Find a HIM of comparable fitness, he will be your running opponent as you split into two teams. While everyone else does exercises, running opponents line up at the middle of the building and sprint to the opposite side with each HIM trying to make it to his opponents side to get a point. Wherever the HIMs meet, they then sprint back to the start with the winner getting a point.
      • Exercises while waiting to run: Twinkle toes, Merkins, SSH, Mountain Climbers, BBS
  • Mosey to Jucomanjaro
    •  At each line rotate through three exercises
      • 30 Mountain Climbers, 15 BBS, 5 Burpees
  • Mosey to the Flag
    • Monkey Humpers at Hardin Valley Rd.

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Romans 12:13 – 9 Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil; cling to what is good. 10 Be devoted to one another in brotherly love; give preference to one another in honor;1 1 not lagging behind in diligence, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord; 12 rejoicing in hope, persevering in tribulation, devoted to prayer, 13 contributing to the needs of the saints, practicing hospitality.

Hospitality comes from philoxensos, love of strangers. Biblically, it is so important that Paul says men who are to be elders need to practice it (1 Tim 3, Titus 1). When deciding which widows the church was to take care of, a history of hospitality was required (1 Tim 5). Bringing those outside of our family into our homes to break bread is the key to building relationships. It is during this time that we get to know others so that we can later do all of the one another’s found in scripture such as encourage, forgive and admonish and have them done to us. 

Veterans WOD from RWB

THE SCENE: Fog, 49°F, Feels like 49°F, Humidity 80%, Wind 2mph from ESE
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

LBAC 15x IC forward and reverse
Seal Claps 15x
Little of this/that, Some of these/those
SSH 30x
Leg Stretches

THA-THANG:

Mosey to the planters.

11 Rounds for Time
  • 11 Mountain Climbers (4ct)
  • 11 Squats
  • 11 Hand Release Merkins
  • 11 Box Jump Burpees
  • Run the outer parking lot

MARY:
No time, 1 PAX finished 10 full rounds, 2 started round 10, 1 finished round 9
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

At dawn, when you have trouble getting out of bed, tell yourself: “I have to go to work — as a human being. What do I have to complain of, if I’m going to do what I was born for — the things I was brought into the world to do? Or is this what I was created for? To huddle under the blankets and stay warm?”
Marcus Aurelius Meditations

MOLESKIN:
Thank you to all our veterans, especially the 3 that call Brickyard home. Geppetto, Oscar, and Hamm
ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Farewell to Everest

THE SCENE: Getting chilly and dark.  Winter is coming.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER

Check
WARM-O-RAMA:

-20 Side Straddle Hops (4-ct), in cadence

– 10 Imperial Squat Walkers (4-ct, in cadence)

– 10 windmills (4-ct, in cadence)

– 20 Grady Corns (4-ct, in cadence)

THA-THANG:

Mosey to EVEREST.  FAREWELL TO EVEREST!!  We’ll be switching our meeting place to the opposite side of the park for winter, so we might not see Everest again for awhile.  We shall pay our respects before we leave…

EVEREST SUICIDES x5

Up and back to tree stumps/trees. Every time you get to the bottom, do 10 reps of an exercise, which will change for each Suicide.   At end of each suicide, hold a plank until 6 catches up.

Exercises:

  1. Plank Jacks
  2. Monkey Humpers
  3. Squats
  4. Merkins
  5. Stargazers (you’re welcome)

Mosey to flat area at base of the Summit.

Partner UP.  One partner, run to bottom of the Roadshow Run stairs, do 10 SSH, run back.  Other Partner BEAR CRAWL to tree, do 10 Merkins, and Bear Crawl back. Meet back at starting point, do 5 Patty-cake merkins, and switch.  Rinse and repeat

STOMACH BUSTER! 20 Am. Hammers, 20 flutter kicks (both 4-ct IC).

AYG up the summit and to the AO

MARY:
No time for her.

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
9 HIMs

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

THE LANGUAGE OF GOD PART DEUX: Things that make you go Hmmm…

Continuing on with my Words about The Language of God by Francis Collins, I just wanted to share some of the observations he makes regarding Life, the Universe, and Everything when contemplating his Christian views and how they aren’t incompatible with his rigid and extensive training as a scientist.  [DISCLAIMER ABOUT BELIEFS].  His observations have helped me, as a scientist, understand how the origins of Creation can have a supernatural, Godly origin yet still obey the laws of science.  There are an amazing number of incredible coincidences that have led to where we are today, standing in a park, on a planet we call Earth.  Consider for example…

  • In the early moments of the universe, following the BIG BANG, matter and antimatter were created in almost equivalent amounts.   But there was one part per billion more subatomic matter particles than anti matter.  If there was pure symmetry, or more dark matter, the universe would have devolved into pure radiation.  But that tiny bit of extra matter is what forms all the mass in the universe.
  • The way the universe expanded following the Big Bang depended critically on how much total mass and energy the universe had and the strength of the gravitational constant. If this constant was smaller by even one part in 100 thousand million, million, the universe would have collapsed before it reached its current size.  If it had been GREATER by just 1 part per million, stars and planets could not have formed.
  • And there are at least 15 other physical constants whose values are impossible to predict how they came to be what they are. And yet they are exactly the values they need to be to have a stable universe capable of sustaining complex life forms.  As it happens, the existence of a universe as we know it rests upon a knife edge of improbability.  Is this really an accident?…. Are we just really, really lucky to be here today?  HMMM…

MOLESKIN:

Prayers for Abscess’ MRI, prayers for Jetlag’s return journey
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Coat Drive still going on for another week; Sign up for Brovember challenge; we’ll move our meeting spot to the parking lot across the street from where AM meets starting next week after the time change.

CMU fun

THE SCENE: Mist, 57°F, Feels like 56°F, Humidity 88%, Wind 3mph from SE
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • LBAC forward and backwards
  • Little of this and that
  • Tempo squats
  • Leg stretches
  • SSH

THA-THANG:

20 min amrap
Bear crawl across parking lot
Farmer carry CMU back
44 CMU hammers
Farmer carry CMU back
Bear crawl across
44 burpees
Repeat till time
8 rounds
8 Shoulder press
20 Plank pulls
8 Swings
Run to gas station

MARY:

  • Flutter kicks
  • Hello dollies (Fast-n-easy)
  • Box cutters (Simmons)
  • BBS (Repeat)
  • Peter parker’s (Geppetto)

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

In our jobs we sometimes do thing for the reason of “That’s the way we’ve always done it.” And sometimes that reasoning works it’s way into our home and spiritual lives. When we ask ourselves ‘Why’, what answer can you give? The why question has been put on front of me in multiple ways this week and honestly I couldn’t always give a reason. It made me realize how much of my life is on autopilot with the answer of because. It is time to change that. Ask yourself why throughout the day/week and see what answers you get.

MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Bricktacular

THE SCENE: Wet, humid, moist
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
ALL with Brix:  SSH IC x 20, Chinooks (B) IC x 10, OH Press x 20 IC, Straiht arm raise x 20 IC, Baby Arm Circles x 10 IC (B), Seal Claps x 20 IC, Hand release Mkns with Brick raise x 10, Windmills x 10 IC
THA-THANG:
Mosey with Brix OH to splash pad:

Start at RR and do 25x each:  OH Press, Curls, Rows, Triceps Ext OH then run a lap.  Repeato adding a new ex after each lap (Squats, MKNS, BBS)–brix always in tow.  After BBS drop an exercise of the add ons and do initial 4 / lap until PAX all done

Mosey back to p-lot.  and do lunges to AO (75 yds)

MARY:
(All w/ brix)

Captain Thors, Carolina Crab Reachers x 15 IC, V-Ups x 10, Nolan Ryan’s x 20 (B), SUn Rise extensions x 5
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Natty, Simmons, Spellcheck, Fast N Easy, Geppetto, Herbie
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Check yourself and your priorities and own them, if something isn’t right, it may be your priorities that need to be changed
MOLESKIN:
Prayers for all those with grief, anxiety and other behavioral health issues.  Don’t judge as we do not know everyone’s story
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Insert information about upcoming events, 2nd or 3rd F opportunities, and any other announcements.