Sometimes you never know what you will experience during the workout. This turned out to be true once again on this Saturday morning.
I arrived to find some disappointed PAX who’d expected me to post at NUOS that morning. My post on Slack was merely to say that we would make up for the lack of running at NUOS during the bootcamp workout, not that I would make it to NUOS.
Warm-up
SSH x 16
Merkins x 16
LBCs x 16
Imperial Walkers x 16
Pain Lab w/ Tube while Boot Camp went for a mosey
Stop at the flag for The Pledge
Mosey down Garrison towards Lineberger Park
Before we could get to the first stop at the church, we found police cars blocking the road. Then, we noticed that someone had crashed into the telephone pole across from the church. The line was on the ground and smoking like crazy.
The PAX had stopped to assess the situation, and YHC was trying to find a way around this crazy scene. At that point, several people had come upon the scene, and one gentleman close to us said, “Hoss, you can’t go that way. The line is down across the road.” I appreciated his notification of the obvious as I was merely looking for a way around the chaotic scene.
We moseyed around the back of the church into the parking lot as sirens continued around us and cars did u-turns in the middle of the road.
Merkins IC x 10
Squats IC x 10
LBCs IC x 10
Mosey to Taxco Mexican Grill parking lot. Where if you let your imagination run free, the smell of BBQ still floats in the air.
PAX Choice of exercise at this stop
Whoopee – 20 Big Boy Situps
Watts Up – 20 Big Boy Situps
Flintstone – 20 Freddie Mercury’s
Mosey to the park
Had planned to partner up, but with 4 PAX we just worked as a group. Each PAX picked an exercise to start. While three performed the exercise, the fourth ran up the stairs and back. When they returned, the exercise rotated around and the next PAX ran. Exercises included burpees, squats, lunges, and big boy situps.
We did 3 rounds of this until it looked like we were in the way of the guy trying to clear off the sidewalks. So we moseyed to the playground.
At the picnic tables, 2 rounds of Dips, Step Ups, and Flutter Kicks
Start the mosey back. At some point, Flintstone made a comment that I interpreted as he wanted to do more burpees. So on the run back we did 5 burpees (or so) for every green street sign on our side of the road and 3 (or so) for every street sign on the other side of the road.
At one point while we were doing burpees, a guy in a truck stopped to tell us something. YHC thought he was going to tell us we had bad form on our burpees. Whoopee thought he was going to tell us we had good form on our burpees. He just wanted to let us know the road was blocked because of a power line being down. Thanks, Hoss.
After a quick detour through the neighborhood to avoid the power line still smoldering on the ground near Garrison and countless burpees, we arrived back at the Schiele.
A couple rounds of Mary while we waited for the Pain Lab guys, and then the bells.
Announcements
Turtleman pet scan looked great no signs of cancer; continued prayers as he finishes out chemo over next couple of months
July 9th concert series, F3 to help pass out water
Monthly items – Nail clippers and chapstick
Prayer Requests
Rudolph travels
Wreck on Garrison
Principal assignments for upcoming school year
The Pledge again for the whole group
Prayer to take us out
At certain points during our mosey to the park and back (and again in the COT), I shared with the PAX the prior week’s sermon points from our pastor. I’d really thought through those leading up to Father’s Day, and thought they were good words of encouragement on Father’s Day Eve.
Three ways to make like count
The first is to start serving (we only got point #1, so I’ll have to share the other 2 at a latter Q)
To truly serve you must:
1 Choose desire over duty – Not because you have to but because you want to
2 Choose giving over getting – Don’t confuse influence with income
3 Choose being an example over being on control – Influence measured not by how many people are under you but how many are behind you
The whole reason for serving was further emphasized in my devotion that morning before posting. With the three points above in my head, I read Romans 14:8.
If we live, we live for the Lord; and if we die, we die for the Lord. So, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord.
We serve not for ourselves and the glory it will bring us. We serve others because our Savior came to serve and set an example for us to follow.
Until next time.