Day: July 8, 2018

Allen Tate put out a call for help on Saturday. His basement had flooded and he needed help moving out furniture and old carpet. Evidently everyone in the city of Dallas was born in July and most guys had birthday parties to attend, but there were 5 men able to anwer the call and stand with the Chief in his time of need.

I try to arrive like a blister (you know, after the work is done) around 1:15 and to my surprise, Bedpan and the Chief are under the back deck, digging in the mud with Tate-in-law (AT’s future son-in-law). The flood was evidently caused from a broken water line so the mission was changed to fix the leak. Father Chief (aka Allen Tate Sr.) offered wisdom and advice. Lots of advice!

Allen Tate and Tate-in-law did about 500 shovel curls in cadence. He noted he likes it when the mud is wet because it is heavier. Always pushing the rock! Aye!!!!

It was around this time AT’s and Tate-in-law did a partner lifts. To step up the difficulty, the Chief submerged his feet in mud. Little did he know this was no ordinary mud, but rather some exotic hybrid of Carolina clay and quicksand. What started as pushing the rock quickly became a rescue mission! The Tate-in-law came through as he pulled the Chief out of his boots, saving him from almost certain death!

As YHC went home to change into working clothes, Bedpan had to roll out.

As YHC returned, I see a familiar vehicle pullig in. It is Roadie! The leak was found and a plan for repair was devised. Roadtrip to Lowes!

As we prepare to leave, Medicine Woman arrives on a Harley with eagles circling overhead and music blasting. MW has things to say, we listen, and he declines the trip to Lowes. Evidently sitting on my lap (or riding on the console) isn’t his idea of fun. MW joins Bedpan as an early departure.

Clowncar to Lowe’s and back. We saw a Prius but we can confirm it was not HIPAA. The leak repair was completed and 100 shovel curls in cadence were called to finish the job. Roadie is a jack-of-all-trades and I learned a few things from him today.

After some cold refreshing drinks, the Chief offered some EC mosey via his chariott (powered by Polaris). Squat jumps were no issue as Chief, YHC, and Roadie took turns putting the RZR in the air. Roadie won the Dale Earnhart award for the longest drift.

Roundup shows up on his side-by-side about 7 to join in on the fun. If you haven’t met him or his dad Hacksaw (hoooooo!), come on out to the Crossroads, pour out a little for your homies, and introduce yourself. These are 2 quality men!

In all seriousness, it was a good time hanging out with all these brothers today and getting to know Allen Tate’s future son-in-law.

Shortsale – obviously don’t count this as a workout. We joked about a backblast and I figured why not…let’s let the guys know we came together for a bit of work and a good time today.

Hope you all got a laugh or two out of this. We had our share of laughs over at Casa de Chief!

As some of you know Dr Feelgood is the scoutmaster at the prestigious Troop 11 Boy Scout troop and Timeframe is ASM same troop.  The troop is always signed up for camp on the week of the 4th of July and this year is no exception.

So there we were at camp at 5:20am Thursday morning when Feelgood shakes my tent and in a firm whisper says “Timeframe! You want to post?”.  I am up and ready by 5:30 to turn beautiful Camp Bud Schiele into an AO.

No warm up, disclaimer, or pleage.  In our defense we say the pledge alot at camp.

The thang:

Mosey from the campsite the long road way to the lower parking lot where the cars are so Feelgood can grab a phone charger.

Mosey back to the shelter beside the Health Lodge for some sweating.

100 each-

Merkins

Derkins

SSH’s single count

LBC’s

Dips

Mosey back to camp and time for reveille.

Thank you Feelgood for your awesome attitude, service to the boys of troop 11, and waking me up for some F3 fun.  You are an inspiration.

Aye!

Timeframe

With all the talk of convergances and races and clown cars at 4 am to show for 5:15 am beat down elsewhere YHC as site Q for The Yank decided to provide an alternative for any local pax on the Independence day. What started out just as an alternative to way early rising and traveling became something else. It went like this:

COP:

Burpee “ladder”, a Tesla favorite to start with:

SSH X 20, 2 burpees

IW X 20, 4 burpees

Sharon Towers X 20, 6 burpees

Mountain Climbers X 20, 8 burpees

LBCs X 20, 10 burpees

Mosey up to the Corner of Knowledge for partner work.

P1 – Run to the other end of the school and do 10 Mike Tysons

P2- Step ups till P1 returns then flapjack.

Round 2

P1 – Run to the other end, 10 hand release merkins

P2 – Dips till P1 returns

flapjacks.

Mosey down to the field of Dreams

Four corners

Count off in 2s, each group hits a corner, does the called work then returns to the center for five burpees before moving on to the next corner

Corner 1 – 20 LBCs

Corner 2- 20 squats

Corner 3 – 20 merkins

Corner 4 – 20 CCD

1 round was plenty!

Bear crawl IM time!

All pax in plank while we do the following using pax as the “obstacle”

Round 1 – bear crawl

Round 2 – agility run

Round 3 – repeat bear crawl

Gets us to the end.

SSH X 10

5 Turkish getups

5 burpees for the train.

Everybody is blowing pretty good by now, a warm humid day in July is taking its toll! But there is more to do.

Mosey down to Heartbreak hill:

Triple Nickel time:

Bottom of the hill: Mountain Climbers X 5

Run the hill

Top: LBCs with a twist X 5

Repeat 5X

Mosey over to the pad for some warm down Mary. Off to the ceremony.

NMM:

The end of the workout was just phase 1 of the event. After name o rama we headed over to the statue of The Yank for our work of the day. YHC had arranged for Senior Pastor and all around great guy and our Wednesday morning bible study to converge for the event which as we now is the recognition of American Independence from the crown 242 years ago. One reason YHC chose the 6:30 start aside from being a reasonable hour ot get up and get moving was that the group meets at 7:15 every Wednesday. Sam’s club as we call it! That went like this:

Gathered in front of The Yank each pax read aloud a portion of the Declaration Of Independence. That took a about 8 minutes.  And Mr. Jefferson used words we rarely see today. There was quite a nice crowd that gathered along with the bible study group who listened as the document was read just like it was 242 years ago in Philadelphia and across the colonies as word traveled through the territories. Not sure but i think only a small minority of folks gathered on the Belmont square had ever heard or read the entire Declaration. If you were not there i encourage you to do so very soon. It is a litany of the rights of man given by God and the evils of tyranny when those rights are usurped.

Upon this reading Pastor Sam gave a very eloquent, short sermon on who we are as a nation and that we are bound together in this great Experiment in self governance. He mentioned that we have always ben a divided people in many ways and he is right! But that we should endeavor now to appeal to as Lincoln said “the better angles of our nature” in this time of stark division, recognizing our rights do descend from God and that we owe to each other a decent respect for the free exercise of our thoughts and ideas which has been the core of American Exceptionalism that we honor on this day.

It was an action packed hour, the ceremony itself lasting @ 15 minutes but I think it made an impression on all who were there which was the intent. I can find no better place locally to do this than in front of that statue. YHC is prepared to make this an annual event even when the 4th falls on a Sunday. It is that important. Passing on the blessings of liberty is one of the core responsibilities we as men empowered to lead have.

Tesla

The Yank may need to change name to Sun City soon as it has become the place to be for the over 50 crowd.  Or maybe they are the reason that the Yank is the original Varsity site because these men know how to push it!

No warmup, these men didn’t need it.  Mosey up the Nichol’s hill and take long way to the tennis courts at Davis Park.  Once at the courts the PAX realized they had been invited to a birthday party.  That’s right, my little Tiger Cub was celebrating his very first birthday!  His hospital name is Charlie, so we helped him celebrate with some Charli at the courts:

C  corner to corner with merkins, diamond merkins, wide arm merkins, and CDDs

H  hurpees

A  agassi

R  rampage (LBC, bear brawl the baseline, squat)

L  Lt Danger (lunge, lunge, squat, merkin along baseline)

I  Inch worm

Since first birthday was 7/07/18, we did three rounds, 7 reps first round, 7 reps second round, 18 reps third round.  Had to Omaha round three to have time for the E.

That’s right, Elevens, Tiger squats and Mike Tysons.

Mosey back to the flag.

If you aren’t familiar with some of the exercises give them a look.  This was a really tough workout, everybody pushed hard, great job men!!

Talked a little about blessings at the end, and how they may be shown in ways that we don’t recognize fully in the beginning.  I am 47 and have a one year old son.  When I first learned he was on the way I had nine months of sleepless nights.  It was hard on my wife because she was overjoyed at the new life growing during pregnancy, but she knew I was worried about finances, being too old to have a young son, etc.  But then this new life God us made his appearance, all the fear went away.  Charlie fills my heart everyday with joy, but it took me a while to get there.

Trust the Sky Q, he knows what he’s doing.

Remember tubing on Green River, DM Sargento and let him know if your going.

Remember in your prayers military members and public service workers

Tiger