Fitness, Fellowship, Faith

Day: May 19, 2021

Climbing the Mountain

Sorry this took me so long for the back blast but a big ole bunch of HIMs put it in Granny Gear and climbed Spencer Mountain at Midoriyama today.  I on the other hand apparently did not since I failed to charge my watch and captured none of the workout… good thing I had this picture!  Went like this…

The warmup / climb to the top / big round of Mary / then back down / pledge / COT

Thanks for the opportunity to lead guys, maybe next time I can write the BB soon enough that I remember what all we did!

1-3-7-12-40

Text from Gastone paved way for FNG that he’d been EHing…. Only to be a no show…. Hopefully soon. Been some time since we’ve had one and it threw my timing off a little but I would recover.
Start with pledge
IC each count of 12 ( elicited a question of 12 days of Christmas again from EZ Rider…. Close)
High knees, butt kickers, merkins, mountain climbers and plank jacks …. All in a sped up cadence to get cardio up quickly as I would speak for next few minutes asking 3 questions … wrong answer or incompletes earn 7 burpee penalty.
Q1) in Matthew 2 we learn of the wise men bearing 3 gifts…. How many wise men ( according to the Bible) were there?
Time Frame correctly answers inconclusive as there’s nothing to specify names or their number …. All we know for certain is more than 2 as the verse says “wise men of the East”
Q2) who said or where does this reference come from “ Where but for the grace of God go I.
Wrong answer given as “ from the Bible”…..burpees
John Bradford in the mid 1600s is given credit as he witnessed prisoners walking towards their execution.
Q3) I would stumble here briefly forgetting the question I was to ask ( perhaps even my memory ) … oh wait… there it is….
Who or when does the phrase “ Give a man a fish and feed him for the day. Teach him to fish and feed him for a lifetime .”
Several hesitant, Time Frame again with an answer … “Confucius!”
Not sure if Confucius did, but  are many references to similar slogans or sayings from wise men through the years …. Of note, this is one of the most incorrectly attributed to Christ. Many times he talks of making Apostles fishers of men. Still an incomplete answer so 7 more penalty burpees
Now move to back of my truck where I shoulder a 6 foot 4×4  … a pax will carry this until we stop for our routine the pax carrying the “cross” is exempt from the routine and also does not need to use whichever pattern of travel chosen ( choose safest ) we would generally speaking go 2000-3000 yards each path using mosey, Nur, karaoke right and then left, lunge and even some bear crawl. All would get their chance while I would shoulder at the end to bring back having set out at the first as well. 
the routine was simple 

3 burpees

7 hand release merkins

12 merkins

40 flutters count one side 

Figured it out yet?

each number has great significance in the Bible repeating many times over …. There are a few others that have some smaller significance but I chose to use only these

1 is for the one true God … our Father and Creater ( beam)

3 is the Holy Trinity, the number of nails

7 ( days of the week also it is seen at the number of perfection and don’t forget th Walls of Jericho

12 … apostles, 12 months 

40 Forty days Moses was on Mt Sinai, 40 years in the desert , Satan tempts Christ 40 days

these are but a sampling 

at one point Time Frame extols knowledge of the beast and his number and how he tries unsuccessfully to replace God

i timed the moments when I would speak to take place as a brief rest instead of a 10 count … I also intended one of these to have been where would talk to the ( invisible) FNG about the 5 points

also of note 

we would stop for 6   Eight count man makers as 6 is the number of man 

lastly as we arrive back Stroganoff would ( as Time Frame put it) be in orbit , running around Pelicans as we did 5 minutes of Mary 

Ameeican hammers, flutters , v ups, Hillbillies, Michael Phelps and I would end us with Superman switching to Iron Man 

Bunker week 2 at the Yank led this week by Rudolph giving a 101 course 

Blood Drive

Murph Memorial Day 7:00 all other AO s open 

EZ Rider and Clavin actively seeking to turn over reins in near future ( hint hint wink wink…. Could be you!)

prayers for Turtleman and EZ rider families

thank you men ( special note Clavin and EZ Rider sporting the new badass shirts for Labyrinth)

 

 

 

 

Impact

The final installment for my weekend of Q’s occurred at the Coconut Horse on Sunday. The way this system works is the Q of the QSource “officially” has the Q for the Fitness portion of the event. Coming off celebrating my birthday the day before, I may have had a cold beverage or six, so it was a planned “smart sack” for the athletic portion of the session, so I posted at 0720 just as Flintstone wrapped up the COT and namarama. Congrats to the guys that ran and rucked the route. I pulled “a Sargento” in forgetting my wallet; Whoopee was kind enough to buy me a coffee which means I think I’m down 2-0 in that category. Now some, probably the Mayor and some that think similarly, are scratching their chin wondering about the no post Q and you’re right to question that, I don’t blame you, but since the Site Q doesn’t even organize Q’s for Coconut Horse, this is the accepted modus operandi.

So most of the PAX other than me put in some work that morning on the route. What I’m here to share with you is the QSource part as we’re studying Freed to Lead. I also had the Q last week (actually ran 5 miles that occasion) but I mis-read Stroganoff’s text as to where to pick up. So I covered D2X. I should have covered Concentrica – Q-Fail. So I recovered and did that topic this week.

For those of you that have read Freed to Lead or participated in Q-Source discussions, you should be familiar with the Concentrica which is a mechanism to help a man form “who” they will impact. From an F3 prioritization standpoint, this concept is at the top of the list if not at the top. The visual OBT and DREDD created is that of a bullseye where your family is in the center. Within that small circle prioritizes your M and then 2.0’s. Because of proximity, at least while your kids are through school (most of the time), this is a man’s greatest opportunity to influence and impact. Our kids are constant observers of our actions and they see our raw emotions. When we wake up in the morning and cranky. When we’re tired at night and just want the house quiet. How we treat our M’s and others. As a student of Freight’s constructive sarcasm, my kids have picked up on that trait. Nothing worse than when they use it against me (dammit!). For some it’s too late to shave the sharp edges of the rocks our kids have become. But hopefully the good has outweighed the bad or at least not so good.

The next circle are our brother’s in arms which represent a man’s closest confidants. Everyone’s circles will be different sizes and shapes. The point is we hopefully have group of close people outside your family that you spend time with (as some point of your life) and have strong trust. OBT & DREDD put a number on the next circle of 12-18 people that are friends, co-workers or others with proximity. The next circle of about 80 people are some the man had some level of impact. The outer circle is the rest of the world that wouldn’t know or really care if we passed away.

OBT and DREDD use a funeral as a way to gauge the man’s impact on the Concentrica. The closer to the center, the more those people will mourn and grieve the loss of the man. Other than Whoopee being the Sexiest Cardiologist Alive, I’m not ware of any of our F3 men being “famous” in a sense of impact. We had a good discussion inside Harris Teeter (maskless for the first time in a year) about this. I used Michael Jackson’s passing as an example. I happened to be in Los Angeles area at that time and it was all over the news with people openly weeping. I then shared Billy Graham as another with global impact. There have been other leaders, inventors, and entertainers that have a similar impact. Bringing the discussion back to our individual worlds and our concentricas, I think the lesson is to help us visualize the opportunities we have to impact others. We’re going to impact the first couple of rings in our normal interactions. I think the challenge is to grow those outer rings. When our physical time on earth is no longer, hopefully the impact we had on those that we encounter will be carried forward, representing our Legacy. Luckily for us, F3 offers many opportunities to impact others with the leadership roles and interactions. Don’t shy away from your next opportunity to lead and impact your brothers.

Short Sale

I didn’t lose my key!

12 of us out at prison break this morning! I made it a whole 5 mile without taking a crap on myself this week or losing a truck key!! I feel accomplished. I did have to use the porta Jon in the college. We had guys running and we guys rucking so we all got a little bit better this morning.

Announcements

Murph on Memorial Day 7:00 at Martha rivers

Ruck this Saturday at primal in Belmont

Band aids for freight

Prayer Request

Big Pappy

Sister Act

Turtle man

Purple haze family

Pray for our youth

TRB VQ 19-May-21

Early pledge because Sargento was leaving early (I gave him credit in the PAX list, but only half credit for half work).

Disclaimer

Work:  Mosey from start to lower back parking lot.
Warm up: 5 flying squirrels as burpees are prohibited at The Ricky Bobby, 10 SSH ic, 10 Don Quixote ic, Left over right and right over left
Round 1 – Squats, Lunges, Calf Raises x20 each then run to end and come back.  Rinse and repeat for as many rounds as possible for 10 minutes
Round 2 – Shoulder taps, CDDs, Moroccan Night Clubs x20, run to end and back, AMRAP for 10 minutes.
Round 3 – Merkins, Wide arm Merkins or Tricep Pushups (Ranger or Werkins), Flying Squirrels x10, run to end, AMRAP for 10 minutes.
Round 4 – V-ups, Flutter Kicks, Situps, Oblique Crunches x10, run to end and back, AMRAP until time is called.
Run back to start for COT.

Announcements:  Murph at Sandlot (5/31) starts at 7:00, Amoeba Ruck Saturday 5/22 at 9:00 Primal Brewing, F3 Dads workouts need Qs so check slack today and help if you can, F3 Dads Camp 8/20-8/22, Growruck Registration 8/6.

Prayers: Turtleman, Sister Act, Big Pappy, Buckshots Friend (Baby in utero with tumor).

Praise:  CPAP starts work next week.

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