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Embrace the Challenge

Embrace the Challenge

THE SCENE:Oh the weather outside is weather…

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

SSH IC x 20

Cherry Pickers IC x 4

Randomly selected 2 HIMs to lead 10 minutes of the Q. (Yes, it was random @Cavelier, you selected my favorite number so it was out of my hands)

THA-THANG:

Evolution #1: @Wallball

Run slow, then run fast, recover

@Butters arrived on the run, he accepted 10 minutes of the Q.

Grab the gear and mosey to MRSA field 1

Evolution #2: @Wallball

The Frenchman’s charge + 50 Gorilla Humpers at each end

Evolution #3 @Wallball – 28 minutes up to this point

Split into 2 teams.

1 man strap into a ruck towing 90-100# sandbags, bear crawl to light, drop it and run to mid field, running summersault, run back, strap in and Berne back. Tag out.

PAX alternates between merkins, big boys, Squats, flutters. (20ea)

Evolution 4: @Cavelier – 10 minutes

Side shuffle the lines off the end line and goalie box, sprint to mid field along sideline, lunge to true mid, 5 burpees, lunge to other sideline. Rinse and repeat sprints and shuffles.

LBCs at midfield, back to true mid for 10 more burpees, somehow we made it back to the baseline but I don’t remember how

Evolution 5: @Waxjob (10 minutes)

Indian PAX hurdle the field (jump over planking PAX, full field)

15 pickle pounders

Bear crawl Slalom back to other end line

Evolution 6: @Butters (10 minutes)

PAX plank shoulder to shoulder, pull through sandbags and rucks from one end to the other. Reverse and repeat.

7’s to mid field 8 count body builders and diamond Merkins

MARY: (2 minutes)

Bust it back to the AO. Made it with 7 seconds to spare.

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

Use the TAGS on right-side to record PAX (BE SURE TO INCLUDE YOURSELF) in attendance. Be sure to select the AO in CATEGORY above TAGS and then delete these notes!

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

I have been challenged at work recently with an expectation additional leadership. Basically, have to figure out what I need to be doing on the fly. I have come to see the correlation of this to life in general. We say a lot: “Embrace the suck” but we should also include “Embrace the challenge”. Today’s PAX embraced the challenges that were thrown at them and excelled. HUGE shout out to everyone for encouraging those thrust into these positions this morning.

MOLESKIN:

Praise for prayers answered:

Waxjob has a contract on his house!!!

My father has had some heart trouble recently and we got some good news this week. Diagnosis isn’t as dire as originally suspected but still serious. Thanks to all the prayer warriors, it was drastically impactful and immensely appreciated.

Prayers needed:

Family that @Bartman works with had an unexpected death in the family. It’s hard to lose someone but especially hard when that family should have had a much longer time with them.

Waxjob needs a place to live for a month. If you know anyone that can rent a spot for a month, let him know.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Hardship Hill is coming up. Team Dog Bite is ready to get after it.

Maundy Thursday Montage

THE SCENE: 60 and clear

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • SSH x 10
  • Cherry Pickers x 6
  • Circle of burpees

THA-THANG:

  • Indian run to where the boats used to be
  • Paula Abdul the length of two light poles.  Bear crawl forward 2 parking spaces, do 10 merkins.  Bear crawl backward 1 parking space, do 10 squats.  Rinse/repeat until you reach the 2nd light pole.
  • Mosey to the bottom of the stairs on long island.
  • Iron Mike countdown.  Start at the bottom of the stairs with 10 iron mikes (each leg), then run up the stairs, up the hill to the rock and do 9 iron mikes.  Run back down, do 8…run back to top, do 7.  Rinse/repeat until you work all the way down to 1.
  • Mosey to the Matterhorn.
  • Sprint to the 1st light pole, do 10 squats and 10 derkins.  Bernie Sanders to 2nd light pole, do 10 squats and 10 derkins.
  • Slowsey to the bottom of Matterhorn & indian run back to the AO

MARY:

  • LBC x 25
  • Box cutters x 20

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
16 strong:  Toto, Snitch, Toebox, Trolley, Peek-a-boo, La-Z-Boy, Frosty, Butters, Flute Loop, Sparky, Abacus, Hot Tub, Dreadlock (FNG), Stitches (FNG), Ratchet, Bartman

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Talked about the meaning of Maundy Thursday and what an important day it is.

MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Dig Deep

THE SCENE: 41 degrees with a big ole moon
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
We did some SSH during the disclaimer to get warm, and then followed up with:

  • Little bit o’ this & that
  • 15 merkins
  • 15 windmills

THA-THANG:
The PAX moseyed over to a cone circuit. 5 cones were placed at three distances (Cone 1=short sprint, Cone 2=medium sprint, Cone 3=long sprint, Cone 4=medium sprint, Cone 5=short sprint).

Each cone had an exercise listed at its base (Cone 1 = BBS, Cone 2 = Carolina Dry Docks, Cone 3 = Squats, Cone 4 = Merkins, Cone 5 = American Hammers).

Pax sprinted to each cone and performed 5 reps of the listed exercise at that cone. In between Cones 3 and 4 we paused for sets of 7-ups with the pee rocks (curls, presses, tris with a heavy rock in ascending rep count from 1 to 7 and back down to 1).

Continue this patter, increasing rep count by 5 each time. Right before Mary we re-grouped at the start line for one last sprint to the long cone.

MARY:

  • Oblique Crunches x 10 IC, each side
  • Box Cutters x 20 IC
  • Flutter Kicks x 15 IC
  • Mountain Climbers x 25 IC

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Two FNGs today – great work PAX! Welcome to Twinkletoes and Peek-a-boo!
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Take some time to review the words used in traditional wedding vows and really let them soak in. I was at a wedding with my 3 yo daughter this weekend and had to explain the ceremony to her curious mind. I found myself interpreting the wedding vows in ways that I probably didn’t consider 6 years prior when I repeated them to my bride (who is way out of my league). It really stood out to me that I am not always a good example of what those vows mean, even though I should be since I’m setting the example that she may use for her future husband one day.
MOLESKIN:
Felt good to be back with the PAX after two fartsacks in the last few days – thanks, guys!
ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Hill Sprints Suck

THE SCENE: 64 and still.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

SSHx20 IC
Cherry Pickers x5 IC Junk speed
Hipper Snappers – 4 count IC ready position, 1) left 2) right 3) jump
Merkins x10 IC
LBAC forward x10, reverse x10
THA-THANG:
BATTLE BUDDY UP
1 CMU per pair, head to the matterhorn
– guy running carries the CMU, other guy skips
– Incans x10 oyo at the light poles
Hill Sprints (group Dora)
A] At the light pole – all w/ CMU
1) 100 Carolina Dry Docks
2) 200 Sumo Squats
3) 300 Curls
4) 200 Tri
5) 100 Clean and Press
B] Group Downhill sprint – leave on “go”
– first guy down gets to head back up oyo
– everyone else does 10 Merkins then goes
– once partner is up Rocky Balboa til the 6 gets there
Switch partners, Rinse and repeat
1/2 way through reps stopped for Mary
20LBC IC
20 Hello dolly IC
FLIP THE NARRATIVE
CMUS to the bottom of the hill, now sprints are uphill and reps are at the speed hump
Mosey back. Incans at light poles again
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Junk, Mayberry, Frosty, I-beam, Raindrop, Tweetee, Wagon Wheel, Sparky, Snitch, Bartman
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
It’s easy in life to get going  so fast it feels like we’re running downhill. If you remember as a kid running down a hill that was too steep where your legs are moving so fast that if you stopped you knew you would fall and tumble the rest away. Sometimes when running at that pace we get to where we are actually racing the people that we are running alongside, often times chasing the wrong things and filling our lives with too much stuff all the while trying to keep up and “win” the crazy race.
Sometimes we don’t even realize what’s happening as life gets tougher – relationally, work, self esteem, insecurity, true loss. Whatever the reason we find ourselves suddenly running uphill: resistance, reduced speed, aching to be done. The challenge I would propose is to consider whether you still run the uphill times like a race or do you Try to skip them and keep running downhill? Do you set yourself to work hard or just to survive? Do you seek to learn something, to get better – or do you just dwell in the misery longing for it to be over?
MOLESKIN:
I tore my plantar fascia (on the bottom of my foot) a couple weeks ago during an OTB that was truly incredibly stupid. It had been feeling good the last few days so I had envisioned competing, perhaps even winning one or two of the downhill sprints. 5 minutes into the beatdown today it rose up and let me know it was there. So I had to pace myself on the downhill which I don’t like to do. Because of that, I ended up pushing myself harder on the uphills than I normally would. All part of prepping for the BOM I guess. My conclusion:  I need to push myself on the uphills more often.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Tweet-ee has lost three people from his recovery program to overdose in the last few weeks. We spent time in prayer for their families, for all of those in recovery, and especially for those in denial

Does your Abacus go to 50?

THE SCENE: Warmish cool. Or coolish warm. Like 50 or something.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH x50 IC (4ct)
TN Rocking Chair x15 IC
Squats x50 (single count)
Mountain Parkers x15 IC
Crabettes x15 IC (I think it was 15… Lost count watching everyone flail about like a pack of drunken baby giraffes…

THA-THANG:
Mosey to the upper soccer field. Man, it looks too dark. Keep going to Watt Rd field.
50yd forward roll burpees
50yd crawl bear back

Mosey to concrete bleachers
20x Giant Step-ups (3 steps up, 3 steps down = 1 rep)

Charge up the hill to the upper field. Guess it’s not that dark after all.
50yd Broken Wheelbarrow (switch w/ partner as needed)
Burpee Backward Broad Jump back (shortened it up a little on audible)
50yd regular wheelbarrow – Each partner completes 50yd before switch

Mosey around to the base of the hill
5 rounds:
Sprint up to the top
Mosey back down
10 merkins
Flutter kicks 4 the six

Mosey back toward where it looks like Frosty and Tank are unloading.
Oops, NVM they’re leaving.
Well, we made it to the bleachers so knock out six more Giant Step-ups

Mosey back to the AO. Grab tents and tables from Frosty and Tank, scatter distribute to the fields.

MARY:
Ring of Fire – Leg pushdown style
LBCs x20 IC
Row your Boat
Side Crunch x15 IC each side
Flutter Kicks x20 IC

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
10 HIMs for the full beatdown. Special guest appearances by Tank and Frosty
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Talking to my daughter the other day… I forget what it was we were even referring to, but I playfully told her she was being lazy. She said, “No, I was being tired!” I told her, “Tired is a feeling, lazy is a choice.” There’s often a poor choice that goes along easily with what we’re feeling at any time. As guys, we have a tendency to suppress feelings and try to ignore them as we make choices. However, some time ago I took a class on “Emotional Intelligence”. At the time, I thought it was kind of stupid because we took a lot of time looking at emotions, then at the end we went into how making decisions based on emotions was a bad thing. I thought, “Hey, of course. Why did we spend all that time on emotions when we’re supposed to just ignore them like I was already trying to do.” It wasn’t until later that I realized the subtle difference between trying to ignore emotions and recognizing those emotions and realizing in the moment how they are trying to affect your decision making. As Eph. 4:26 puts it, you can be angry (and recognize that you are), but choose to sin not.
MOLESKIN:
Happy birthday to Abacus – Thanks for sharing part of your 50th birthday with us!
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Prayers for Cornhole as he defends his thesis choice this week! (He wouldn’t tell us where this was going to be happening for some reason…)