Day: February 17, 2020

We had 8 Men show for the Sword this morning it was great!

Roadie, Dirte, Nothin and myself went for about 3 miles rucking and running. We get back to ingles and the rest of the guys show ready for the verse pf the week.

I was excited to talk about the word and share with my brothers this morning. This AO is one that I look forward to every week to get started. its such a good place to be with your brothers and in the word!

The verse of the week is: 1 Timothy 6:11

But you, Man of God, flee these things and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, gentleness

Men of God Thats who we are!

Were doing these for Gods glory not for our own!

Its so easy to fall into destruction and harmful ways of the world if we’re not pursuing the things of God.

I thought of how this verse really applied to the sword this week and to our lives and I prayed about it and God put it on my heart. In the previous weeks of the sword there has been 5 guys in front of me so I looked into each verse they shared with us and the definition of each thing God wants us to pursue him in.

1. Sparky had Psalm 119:105 I put that with Faith– Complete trust or confidence in something. We have Gods word as the lamp to out feet and light to our path so we can then have confidence and trust in Gods word and promises.
2. Big Pappy had John 11:35  I put that with Gentleness– Softened hearts that abide in Jesus. Being humble and compassionate to others shortcomings or those who are struggling. Jesus wept was that verse and to think how gentle Jesus was during those time is amazing, How his heart was soft and he was so compassionate for those around and for us!
3. Wichita had Ephesians 6:4 I put that with Patience– To tolerate, have endurance, quality of self resistants or not giving into anger. Do not provoke your children to anger but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the lord. We have to tolerate and have patience with so much in this world fighting against us believers!
4. Tater Hole had Proverbs 27:17  I put that with Godliness- Conforming to the laws and wishes of God. Iron sharpens Iron so a man sharpens the countenance of his friend.  As we sharpen one another and get better spiritually we will ALL conform to the law and the wishes of God.
5. Def Leppard had 1 Corinthians 16:13-14 I put that with Love-Intense deep feeling of affection. God is love and with God in us we are love! 13 Be on your guard, stand firm in the faith; be courageous; be strong 14 Let all that you do be done in love. We have to love in all that we do and its another thing in pursuing the things of God.
6. Round Up got 1 Timothy 6:11 I put that with Righteousness- The quality of being morally right. But you, Man of God, flee from these things and pursue righteousness,  godliness, faith, love, patience, gentleness. If we want to be morally right with God we will pursue the things in this verse.

Sometimes pursuing the things of God can be mistaken for weakness in this world. But just know the most Manly thing we can do is be a Man of God!

In these times the world calls us weak or the devil is fighting against us with any and everything we need to take up the armor of God. Ephesians 6:10-16

Hebrews 13:6 says I love this verse! So we may badly say The lord is my helper, I will not fear. What can man do to me.

God doesn’t care of our ability he cares about our availability! He doesn’t care if we are restricted in some way or have issues with anything he just wants us open to what he is trying to do in our lives!

He wants us to be open to work for him and to recognize when he is calling us to move!

Thank you for letting me lead this morning. Im glad I could share what God put on my heart for this awesome AO!

Prayer request 

Each other

Fred Sisk just lost his wife. He works with Sparky

Other christians overseas being killed for believing in Jesus Christ

Round Up

7 men showed up for a somewhat impromptu Q. I had a nice weinke ready for this Q, but with all the rain we had earlier in the day the fields were still flooded. As we were getting circled up for the warm-up, I asked everyone what they wanted to do today. Blart said he did not want to do sprints sooo… yeh that is pretty much what we did.

I honestly made the workout up as we went so I cannot recall it all, but we mostly did running drills, sprints, fire hydrants of course and some stretching.

About 15mins or so into the workout we finished a 100yd sprint and had an unknown Pax come running in. Tinker from Ohio had a delayed flight and decided to come get a workout in. He hopped right in and pushed the rock. Great guy. Its awesome how with F3 you can be just about anywhere in the country, and you have brothers to post with.

Usual Announcements

I led us out in Prayer.

I’m no Broke, or Dr. Suess, or Sister Act…or any other past Iron Skillet winners. But I have an internal goal for 29 or more workouts in February. I mentioned in my last Q (about a month ago – Midoriyama) the rough start I had to begin the year with illness. Unfortunately others have felt suffered from the nasty flu and other junk going around. So I set the bar for February to make up some ground. Not all are F3 because I had to get some running done in preparation for the Dam to Dam relay that I did this past weekend. And as life would have it, I tweaked my knee a little which doesn’t hurt to run, but doesn’t feel great when it comes to any jumping. Modify as needed, right? With the Q this morning at The Sandlot, I designed some stations that could build strength, core, and elevate the cardio. This disclaimer was brief – “we’re all stupid for being here but let’s get started…” We knocked out the pledge and the warm-up was:

Warm-up:

• Inch-worm Merkins:, crawl out to plank and start with 1, building incrementally to 5 reps
• Knee Pulls – until I felt my hamstrings and glutes were activated
• Toy Soldiers IC x 10
• Imperial Walkers IC x 10

I said to the PAX it would be light on running, so we did a gentle mosey across the street to the bank to the parking lot nearest the road for the first part: the Baby Dora. What is that? Glad you inquired. No partners needed – each PAX begins on one side of the lot with 10 merkins, runs to the opposite side for 20 squats, returns back to start for 30 lbc’s. We went a total of 5 rounds. Gastone coming off the flu eagerly pushed the rock followed by the young-gun Stinky Bird. Let’s move on to the main event.

Another mosey down the road to the old doctors office (not sure if it still is – it’s dark so hard to tell) and we went to the back of the parking lot where the coupon fairy had been busy with 10 stations. As fate would have it, we had 10 PAX, though Stroganoff worked his own Weinke (that sounds bad but you know what I mean). Strog is coming off a bout of illness and having run the D2D this weekend, working to get his body into shape – so he modified to his own workout but was sweating along with us. The stations were:

• Big Boy w/ half block overhead (arms stay extended as your head pokes through) x 10
• 180 Sumo Squat Jumps x 15
• American Hammer w/ Medicine Ball x 15 (count 1 side)
• Kettlebell Swings x 20
• Curtsy Lunge w/ weighted PVC pipe extension x 20
• Goofballs w/ bricks x 20
• Block press, then leg lifts x 10
• 2 Plank Jacks + 2 Donkey Kicks x 10
• Peter Parker (R/L) + 4 Mtn Climbers x 10
• 4 Hand Release Merkins + 4 Mtn Climbers x 5

In order to spread the PAX out, after each station, PAX run to opposite end of the parking lot, perform 5 burpees and return to choose an open station. I didn’t practice all of these beforehand. Thankfully my first was the Hand Release Merkin/Mtn Climber station which required 4 of each to be 1 rep – originally set at 10, it was ambitious and I lost my count after 7 from delirium, so Omahaed that to 5. Some of the others could have been higher reps and I’ll adjust if I break these out again. But it was quiet for the most part and the PAX complained about various exercises and that usually means an adequate challenge was provided. I noted the quiet which was highly unusual given JK2’s presence – his mumble chatter may be Top 5 – he said he was working back into form both physically and chatterree.

With a few minutes to spare, we hustled back to the AO with time for a bit of Mary which I suggested the PAX perform 10 dips then 5 Crunchy Frogs. JK2 then suggested the dips on flat ground are really just practice for pelvic thrusts. Some chatter began and apparently he has a white board over his bed that he keeps score of each opportunity – maybe he can explain more on that another time. TIME!

COT – Dry Rub asked for prayers for the Harper & Stokes family that lost a child and struggling. JK2’s uncle passed and the family needs prayers. Easy Rider asked for prayers for all families. Upcoming events: Rooster on 2/29, P200 in March, and our 5th year anniversary CSAUP 3/21.

It’s a challenge not only to get into shape but to stay in shape. Trying to avoid injury and illness can be as challenging as completing an F3 workout. Seems counterintuitive but we have to focus on our body and know when to push and when to pull back. Hopefully our goals can be attained. As long as we’re accelerating, that’s the direction to go.

Thanks for the opportunity to lead.

Two grandparents, two M’s, three 2.0’s and two PAX headed off to the beautiful Fletcher, NC to run the Frostbite 10K.

Two PAX ran the 1 mile fun run as warm up with the two older 2.0’s as both M’s and grandma chickened out to stay inside the fitness center and watch the baby since it was overcast, 42 degrees and kind of windy outside. Both 2.0’s were safely delivered back inside to one M and both grandparents after fun run for pizza, cupcakes, games and the bouncy house.

Time for potty break, hydration and stretching.

One PAX finished second in his age group and seventh overall for the 10K.

One PAX finished last in his age group for the 10K and really wished he hadn’t ran the fun run while running uphill after the fifth mile. Pretty sure ya’ll can figure out who was who.

The course was challenging with way more uphill legs than downhill.
One M paced the Q, we had multiple kills and didn’t wind up even close to last place.

Fun was had by all!