Fitness, Fellowship, Faith

Day: September 17, 2020

Firemen in training

10 pax decided to push the rock at Midoryama – YHC was there to oblige.  No FNGs so short disclaimer then warm-up

20 SSH and 20 LBCs – that ‘s enough.  Mosey to walking path on other side of Lowell Spencer Mt Rd.

 

The Thang:

1 minute AMRAP exercises followed by moseying half the path – Rinse and Repeat x 10

Exercises were:

Burpees

LBCs

Flutter kicks

American Hammer

Big Boy situps

Elbow Plank

SSH

Dying Cockroaches

Freddie Mercuries

Hillbillies (Thanks Wojo)

 

Mosey back to flag for pledge

I had a great time hosting today – the pax were quite talkative (maybe the workout was a little lax-I’ll try to better next time).  We did have fun being heckled by a local neighbor who was walking the path – She could not understand why we never passed her – she never saw us stop to exercise only saw us approach her running to area for exercises.  For some reason she felt we were firemen in training (Gaston fire should be so lucky).

 

Announcements:

CSAUP this Saturday – If you haven’t signed up see Broke

JJ 5K 9/26

Mt Mitchell 9/27

Prayers for Double Stuf’s friend in ICU at Duke with liver failure, Slaw on IR, People battling addiction, Clavin and his family

 

Until next time Defib out

IPC Week 3 the hard way

6 Men did week 3 the hard way Wednesday evening…..in the warmer part of the day. Rumor is you get to deduct 1 minute for every 5 degrees over the morning low. It’s not just my work schedule that keeps me away from the morning workouts. I also like to choose the harder thing! Anyway we did it. It sucked. We got better. I think? The 6 was picked up and everyone finished! Rocks were pushed!

 

Also do you remember when the below happened back in 2017? Well some of this happened again!

 

 

So the forecast from the weather man was 100% chance of rain. Which means 50% real chance. Many, I believe didn’t even set their alarm clocks. 5 other men posted to see what I would look like at 37 for the last time. They were rewarded with the greatest workout in F3 Gastonia history. I mean this workout was insane! Some would use words like awesome, unbelievable, ridiculous, mind blowing, and mind numbing. People were laughing. People were crying. Burn boot camp shut the doors, turned off the lights and went home. Someone died and someone was born. Street lights went off in the dark. Roosters crowed even though it wasn’t time. Flowers bloomed. There was a partial lunar eclipse and a full solar eclipse all at the same time! We saw trains but they made no noise. The grass was wet but dry to the touch. There was a fire but it didn’t burn. I mean it was crazy.
The Thang:
I’ll never tell. Show to know!

 

Guest Q Walker

This Saturday was different from the norm. Walker from Rock Hill came into town as a guest Q.
Most pax remember him from the several and I mean several flutters we did and how he is older than most.
So we came prepared for his flutters.
He brought flutters and some others ideas as we did work in the soccer field at folsom.

Like most guest Q’s from the past they tend to shrug shoulders when it comes to the BB.
Sometimes you pick up the 6 and sometimes the 6 picks up the BB.

The bed Pan is Full,

Doraburpeecideescalator

YHC had a feeling the crowd would be light due to the fear of a little rain in the forecast. Driving into Folsom it was mainly a steady drizzle and 66 degrees on the dash temp. Couldn’t ask for a better weather scenario for the gloom. With 5 on hand and the clock at 0530, we get to work.

Warmarama

SSH, TOY Soldiers x10 IC

Mosey to tennis courts;

Thang,

Partner up for some Doracides. Dora is an “old school” routine that Folsom used quite a bit in the early days. With all the creativity these days, Dora hasn’t been part of many weinkes lately.
So partner 1 will perform the first exercise AMRAP while pax 2 runs a suicide. This suicide will consist of the widths of three tennis courts and a burpee will be performed at the end of each court. After the three court burpeecide pax 2 will pick up where pax 1 left off and continue adding reps while pax 1 runs the burpeecide. The reps and exercises were 100 merkins, 200 lbcs , 300 squats, 400 raise Tha roofs, 300 squats, 200 lbcs, 100 merkins.

That went relatively quick! Men are getting stronger day in and day out! With a little time left, QIC calls for 4 corner escalators. 10 merkins corner 1; mosey, corner 2 get 10 merkins, 20 big boys; mosey to corner 3 for 10, 20, add 30 squats; mosey to corner for and add 40 lbcs. With a minute to go, mosey a lap and finish at the flag.

Pledge

Prayer requests: Sister Act’s daughter, Newton and family, Christie Jones’ brother Jonathon.

I closed in prayer.

He may never run again…

YHC posted a pre-blast of sorts with the advice to wear a hat.  Five of the seven PAX were wearing hats.  Two of the PAX (YHC included) were wearing rain jackets.  Buckeye had on reflective gear (but his shoes were untied per the usual) and Defib had on his Noxgear vest with the green color that matches my eyes.  It didn’t rain as hard as I would have hoped.  Everyone got wet but it was a more pleasant rain than anything like the tropical storm conditions of past workouts or the famous run which the Q skipped out on but purchased two Starbucks gift cards for the lucky PAX in lieu of completing the run himself.  Alas, YHC wishes his zipper didn’t get stuck on his windbreaker as it would have been more comfortable.  It felt like it was shedding season for wrestling.

In any event, for the sake of safety, the PAX chose the run to the Greenway entrance and back which is all sidewalk and only one street crossing.  There is also part of the “Gut Check” on that route which would count as a small hill in Mortimer terms.  Speaking of the Mortimer, YHC is a HC as team Captain for next years race.  The date for the Mortimer isMarch 19th, 2021.  As YHC told his M last year it is only a one day race.  (It starts at midnight)  I am hoping some other Gashouse PAX will HTFU and get a team ready.   It raises money for charity and is an adventure race.  Rumor has it that there will be 117 miles (up from 106) and 13,500′ elevation gain (up from 12,500′)  That is the same weekend as the P200 but doesn’t necessarily require an overnight stay or a vacation day.

I digress…the Pub was fun.  The pace was quick but not such that we couldn’t talk about life.  We are all better off for starting the day with a stop at the Pub.

Announcements:  You know them.

Prayer Requests:  Family, Clavin, SA’s family

Roscoe

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