Killing Lions

Nothing too exciting on this Monday morning, we had a Kotter-Squeaker returned from Sabbatical in South America. He was lost in a rainforest for about 3 months looking for some golden monkey idol, chased by natives with spears and other sharp objects, thrown into a pit with snakes, then finally got out of there with some help from a big fat guy with a turban and a monkey. Ask him about it-sounded like he had a good time but missed us and came back this week pushing the rock as hard as usual-great to see you again Squeaker, keep posting so those natives don’t get you next time.

We had a good crowd for a Monday-10 on time including Spiderman, I think??? He was on the namorama and I think I remember seeing him….yeah, pretty sure he was there. We also had that Scottish dude MACGREGGOR!!!!!!!!!!…can’t wait for him to scream his name out at the top of his lungs at least once. I’ll keep encouraging as long as he keeps posting. One day he WILL get it. Enough of that for now, here is what I remember:

Pledge

WU: 10 IC: SSH, Merkins, LBC (?20), Imp Walkers, mobile WU with butt kickers, high knees, slide this way, slide that way.

The Thang:

Mosey just outside parking lot of Pelican’s for instructions/suggestions from Q:

start at light post and do suicides:mosey to light post 1 for exercise, mosey back to start then go  to next light post for exercise 2 (stop at light post 1 and do exercise 1), mosey back to start. Mosey to light post 3 (stop and light post 1 & 2 for repeat exercise 1 &2) then do exercise 3. Repeat process for total of 7 light posts with 10 IC reps of the following:

light post 1                2                  3                     4                 5                 6                7

LBC        Squats         Merkins            SSH          Burpees         Flutter     Monkey

Kicks      Humpers

Short cut moseying back to park for some dips-n-jerkins then mosey to Pelican’s for round robin Mary which I don’t remember except Gastone doing about 43,000 flutters……

Along the way I tried to recall some of the first chapter of a book called Killing Lions: A Guide Through the Trials Young Men Face. I now see the irony in this as the day before this post, I turned 47 years old. Better late than never….don’t think I am so young but that’s ok. I am still getting something out this book that I just started and hope to gain some valuable knowledge that I can possibly share with my brothers in the gloom. The first chapter has a lot of good points that I probably would not have appreciated at a younger age, so maybe this is the right book for me now. More to come on this…The author writes about the sense of entitlement that comes with a participation-trophy generation attitude until you wake up one day and realize the world does not owe you anything. You are where you are, for better or worse, because of the choices you make. You are currently in the gloom busting your butt to be a better man because YOU CHOSE TO GET OUT OF THE FARTSACK THIS MORNING, RIGHT SQUEAKER???? (that’s a rhetorical question). The author also points out that it takes courage, perseverance, and cunning to kill lions-the lions being the things that get in the way of us reaching our potential and realizing our dreams. Either you kill the lions or they eat you and your dreams for dinner.

We finished with a quick COT and broke quickly for the cars just after Sherman volunteered for Wednesday’s Q which will be his VQ. Enjoyed it men-thanks for posting and pushing the rock again.

Whoopee