Courage on memory lane

I took the Bootcamp mainly because my back is doing pretty well.  Lesson for my Painlab crew; if you can, you should Bootcamp (at least from time to time, we do love our metal).  I didn’t think about it being 9/11 until a few days later.  When I think of 9/11, I think of courage.  I refuse to let anything else take priority status for the remembrance of 9/11, than courage.  “Let’s Roll”, going into towers, jumping off buildings hand-in-hand, that day is shall be remembered for courage.  I think I can intertwine this message into a Q….

Today, the Pledge of Allegiance is first.  Thanks goodness Watt’s Up has a flag on his truck; no shovel flags!  We’ll get to that.

Disclaimer.  Warm-Up (standard Iron Wolf).  I won’t bore you, but all muscles warmed-up over 5-6 minutes.  We see Pizza Man running laps above us.  Solo Iron Pax?   Now we’re talking.

Time to split up.  Where is the Painlab Q/Site Q??  Holy hell, Tube ain’t here.  Voodoo didn’t miss a beat, and took it on.  I yell “follow me”, and we go:

Run to Schiele wall.  Wall sits.  30 seconds later, 5 burpees.  Rinse and repeat x 3.  Up the hill we go, stop at the top for 20 Monkey Humpers.  Follow me some more; lateral run left through the parking lot, then backwards, then right, and then down the hill we go.  All the way down….

At the bottom baseball field, I said that at the very first F3 we had, the Charlotte crew took us to a hill and I learned what a Jacob’s Ladder was.  I got broke off on that.  It took an encouraging word from Swiper to push me to get it done.  Linus will remember.  I took pride in pushing that day, maybe why I keep coming back.  To honor this, we will show courage in this attempt:  11’s, Navy Seals at the bottom, bear crawl to the top, Imperial Walkers at the top (both legs are 1).  This is deceptively tough.  Lots of merkins.  I love the damn things.  We got about 1/3rd of the way, and since we were getting fragmented, I got us in one spot and we did the rest in unison.  Good pushes here!  Barely any modify.  That hill is large.

Move up to the track.  Pizza Man is in cooldown mode.  Not us!  Dora 1-2-3.  With a twist.  100 merkins, but every Diamond Merkin is worth 2.  200 squats, but every jump squat is worth 2.  300 LBC’s, but every WWII is worth 2.  Good partner work here.  Not much chatter tho.  I looked at my clock, holy hell it’s 7:41.  Omaha the LBC’s.  We move the track for Sprints.  Single file line, 25 yard sprint, one man after another.  We did 6 each I think.  I love sprints, I hate running.  It makes sense.

Jog up to the parking lot for the last bit; Dr. Feelgood Drillers.  I created these in honor of Dr. Feelgood and F3 in honor of F3 moving me at my time of most need.  This was…..disjointed.  But fun!  It’ll gas you since it’s all gas, no brakes.  Wasn’t long enough, but it was close to time.  Circle up, bells.

Announcements:

JK5 in 2 weeks (we can ruck it we think :)); Christmastown 5K which will have chariots!

Praise: emphasis on courage shown on 9/11

Prayers:  Voodoo’s college roomate’s daughter and nanny in serious accident; Our Nation; For Unity

I prayed us out, after a semi-brief diatribe; we pray for Unity, and that’s exactly what we’re going for when we sharpen iron.  We are learning to be better leaders.  Show compassion, listening and openness.  It works.

MOLESKIN – we did the 11’s as a big ol’ team.  We did Dora as 2 man teams (partners).  We did sprints as solo work.  No matter how you deal with an obstacle, whether it be the whole army beside you, or just with one other person to share the load, or by yourself, keep pushing, keep pounding.  Courage in the face of adversity.

AWARDS SECTION:

El Toro – “Big BOLLER” award

Watt’s Up – “Gimme some more” award

JJ – “this workout ain’t #### to me” award

Slick – “hey, I’m getting better at this” award

Pacer – “you cannot out-gut-check me” award

Hushpuppy – “my last sprint will be faster than my first sprint” award

Great work guys.  Always a pleasure.

Rudolph