Fitness, Fellowship, Faith
12 got it done at PB some getting ready for the relay race and others just getting better period. No matter what I was glad to see the guys there pushing forward!!
Prayer Rquest
SA
Big Pappy
Guys in the Ville to Ville
And there were more that were mentioned. The lord knows the situations and he knows our hearts. Let’s continue to grow men!!!
So YHC got to the AO early this morning, needed to do a little AO prep and get ready for phase 2 of the planned beatdown with buttermilk! Some pax were on a little EC – if they only knew! Great morning by the way for those who missed. FNG shows up from Eagle Park in Belmont. Maybe we should put an AO over there someday? Went like this:
COP:
SS – burpees X 5
IWs X 20
Cotton Pickers X 20
Grapevine Stretches
Nolan Ryans X 10 each side
Mountain Climbers X 20
Mosey down to the gazebo on the square for an escalator.
5 burpees – lap @ the green.
5 burpees, 10 big boys – lap @ the green.
5 burpees, 10 big boys, 15 dirkins – lap @ the green
5 burpees, 10 big boys, 15 dirkins, 20 jump squats – lap @ the green
5 burpees, 10 big boys, 15 dirkins, 20 jump squats, 25 dips – lap @ the green.
Line up on the sidewalk on the river side of the green.
Bear Crawl mode;
1st stake – 5 Ahs
2nd stake – 10 Ahs
3rd stake – 15 Ahs.
Broad Jump mode:
1st stake – 5 HR merkins
2nd stake – 10 HR merkins
3rd stake – 15 HR merkins
Lunge mode: (easy roll here)
1st stake – 5 LBCs
2nd stake – 10 LBCs
3rd stake – 15 LBCs
OK pax, guess what? It is now the 4th Quarter! 6: 05. Getting tougher in the 4th quarter is the bottom line. The buttermilk gets thick. Let’s find out what we got! And make it better. so, toughness drill on 1. Goes like this:
Triple Nickel
Bottom, 5 plank jacks
Top, 5 Merkins
Now here’s the rub. We generally do this on the small, short hill from the Fire Dept. up to Doffers. And it can be tough. Today, we’re raising the standards here. Because we should do that from time to time. My thought anyhow. So we put in play. Track would be starting at the FD and going up the big hill 4 lights and back. This is roughly 3/4 of the way up and back which was given the time we had the best we could reasonably test today. So test we did!
After most of the pax had 4 repeats the bat flippers headed up for 5. It was 6:14. So YHC made a call. And that was if we are going to go over, so be it. But, FINISH! 4/5 is 80% That’s a B. Barely, but still a B. Which is good effort. But it doesn’t finish the job. YHC came to finish the job. That’s an A! Best you can be. 100% . Let’s do this thing! All pax were in and FINISHED! Which made them A players. Killers. HIMs. Varsity players. Get it doners.
Got a pledge. FNG talked about spilling Merlot. But didn’t do it!
NMM:
Well, this was all about one thing. Finishing. Getting better, Getting to the horizon or the top. Mission accomplished. Took us 2 minutes over. Had plenty of time for Floyd and Blackie’s. A good treat after that last roll. Which is why we finish. Also have to admit I was observing the 30th anniversary today of my 1991 Boston Marathon run. 3:03 on near perfect 45 degree cloudy day. What’s called Heartbreak Hill is really four hills between miles 17 and 21. We finished that day too. So in honor of this day and the Cramerton hill we use so often we will name it Kilimanjaro. Got K2 in Mt. Holly.
Welcome another Eagle Park man – Stagecoach! From Oklahoma. He’ll be back. Tomorrow I predict. And we’ll get back up and get better then too!
Prayers up for Dolph whose step dad passed and our GSM brothers.
Honor to lead these men. They pushed the rock. And in the 4th quarter just as hard as the 1st quarter.
Tesla
We took a walk to the Waffle House on this lovely day. A few stops on the way for Merkins, squats, dips and inclined merkins.
Today was a beautiful morning with clear skies and the perfect temperature. This was going to be the day we capture the crack commando unit that escaped from a federal prison. The men are focused and this was by far the best group of men that I have ever had to lead. There was no doubt we were going to be successful.
After a brief warm up we headed down to the lower lot to get in a some PT before we headed out on our journey. We went back and forth in the lot doing 20 LBC’s on one side and 10 Big Boys on the other. We did a burpee in the middle to keep the heart rate up.
As we worked through our reps, I hear private Wirenut say “What the heck is that…” . Moments later Captain H.M. “Howling Mad” Murdock comes sprinting out of the mental hospital. Murdock was running so fast he ran out of his shoe. A hummer filled with B.A. Baracus, John “Hannibal” Smith, and Templeton “Face” Peck spins around and Murdock jumps in and they take off into the darkness.
Unfortunately, my men and I froze. We could not process what had just happened. We just continued our reps. After completing PT, we took a mosey over to the other side of the park. I figuired a little game of basketball could lift the men’s spirits.
As we did Bobby Hurley’s at at each line, the “A-Team” which they like to call themselves, pulls up next us and hurls some grenades. Their aim is awful for the most part but private Sarlacc did take one on the neck. Private Wirenut showed much bravery as he storms the hummer almost pulling the one of them out of the hummer to be captured. Wirenut is one you want to take to battle.
We then took a mosey in the direction the hummer went. We stopped at the Folsom triangle. We took a NUR up the hill. We were not going to be tricked from behind again. At the top of the hill, the lunged walked with a head on a swivel. We saw movement at the gazebo. We started to surround the gazebo, then shots rang out. My men stormed them, many taking hits, but the A-team retreated in fear. Hacksaw had some great covert operations. My men and I have won the battle, but they still escaped.
We mosey back to tennis courts. As we mosey, the “A-Team” takes their shots at my men, causing Private Stogie to go AWOL. To my surprise, they pulled into base and surrendered.
Together we finish at the tennis courts with hand release merkins and LBC’s .
A quick mosey to the flag for some Al Gores, 22 for the troops, pledge and COT.
Today was a good day. We captured the “A-Team”.
Colonel Decker 4/15/2021
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