Day: February 1, 2023

12 (Angry) Men showed up (at various times) to run, ruck and nur this morning.  Yet another Wednesday morning that had the threat of rain looming large, but alas, the heavy stuff never did materialize.  As we were initially gathering YHC heard the train horn and basically panicked as our route was starting out heading across the tracks!  Those present calmed me down and said we had a couple minutes before we needed to start.  Turns out it was an Amtrak train and was all of about 13 cars long.  DOH!!!  Everyone had a good laugh…  For our route we ran “The Loops” from a couple weeks ago backwards.  While I neglected to count the PAX before we left (Q fail), not only did everyone make it back, we actually ended up with a couple extra folks there!

Announcements:

• Convergence at Folsom – Feb 11th, 6:30 AM
• Extinction Run – March 4th
• Check out Grow Ruck events at https://growruck.com/

Prayer Requests

• Tiger’s mom – kidney biopsy
• Gump – upcoming treatment decisions
• Huckleberry
• Radar’s sister
• Wirenut’s dad
• Bubba Sparxxx’s grandmother
• Flintstone’s Dad – prostrate cancer
• PAX in general – all those things spoken and unspoken

One of the top rules in F3 is this. Preparation > Control! In fact, it is a core life principle if you want to be intentional and get through the chaos that gets thrown our way about all the time. And the last three years we have been in a chaos inducing environment like no other. So how you react to it makes you or breaks you. More on that later but that is the theme here today.

YHC showed up damn near late today. 5:29. Two guys at the AO. WTF! A little rain? Or Ground Assault pulling guys out? No lights on the field so Centurion was absent. Orangeman and Sargento in the lot. Sarge gives me the deck of death, says he needs some miles so it’s me and Orangeman. About that time J2C rolls in. Dressed in a damn spacesuit! In 60 degree weather if a little wet! A spacesuit! And this is the guy in short sleeves in 28 degree weather at The Yank last Saturday. Then Stinky Bird rolls in. So we got a few players! This looks promising. But not a Deck of Death workout. YHC can come up with something better than that! Went like this:

Pledge, Sarge took off. YHC makes a veteran move and gets the pax under shelter as much to show competence and inspire confidence that this will not be a total S-show. As General Hal Moore says in his first principle of leadership in battle, a leader can either contaminate his unit with is attitude and actions or inspire confidence in the unit and be present in the battle with the unit and be in the fight with them.

COP:

Arm Stretches (YHC thinking about what to do here in the gloom)

SSH X 20 (the idea of an escalator appears in the mind of Tesla)

IW X 20 (The idea that this rain is not going to be very bad at all occurs)

Gravel pickers X 20 (Need to throw some moseys in and keep heart rates up is now present)

Grapevine Stretches (let’s increment by 5s, pretty standard stuff)

The Escalator:

YHC announces no deck of death. We’re going another direction.

5 burpees – run to the end of the parking lot and back. (good way to start and can think about what 10 looks like)

5 burpees + 10 big boy situps – Lunge walk back and forth to the end of the awning. (thinking here is we did upper body so let’s work on core next. All real time thinking, no preplanning)

5burpees + 10 big boys + 15 HR merkins – Do a skip back and forth (another upper body set).

5 burpees + 10 big boys +15 HR merkins + 20 Jump Squats – Nur down and back (back to core/lower body to let UB recover)

5 burpees + 10 big boys + 15 HR merkins + 20 jump squats + 25 CDDS – Karoke down and back (back to UB, seems like a good way to mosey at this point. Keep mixing it up. We’re staying in the fight! This is actually working)

5 burpees + 10 big boys + 15 HR merkins + 20 jump squats + 25 CDDS + 30 SSH (called cadence, YHC) – Bupree broad jump to the end of the awning. (Hybrid to finish off the escalator up. YHC is THE TOP burpee broad jump athlete in the entire F3 Nation! Easy Mosey back)

Repeat above again – Bear crawl same down, mosey back.

Escalator is done!

Light pole suicides- 5 merkins, run to each light, 5 merkins there and back. Keeps the heart rate up.

End with 2 minute plank.

COT.

NMM:As General Moore said, three strikes and you are NOT out! There is always one more thing you can do to gain an advantage. And after that another and after that another! We followed that rule to a tee and got a good result from it. There was never a question we would succeed here and YHC was determined to not give into any “flux” but instead display confidence and an obvious notion of “we have been here before and we can do this” as opposed to “what do you think we should do next attitude”. That is unacceptable leadership.  A couple of other items from General Moore that apply here as well. The biggest problem you can have is there is nothing wrong. Because when there’s nothing wrong the problem is there’s nothing wrong. Guess what boys? It’s coming! The las thing I thought of getting up and driving over to the AO is we wouldn’t have leadership and/or that YHC had to take it at that point. But it happened. So principle four comes up and that is that to get through something like this you fall back on your instincts, experience, and training to get through it. Preparation! A leader is always prepared to step up in a crisis and take the watch. Taking it on when the chips are down is where we find out what we’re made of. Not just as a leader but as a team. This team completed its mission in darkness and chaos. Should be the way we are as a movement and as a people. Let’s go make it so!

Honor to take this on today. Hope you understand the thinking process in real time above. Everyone in this group can do it. Not sure how many outside it can or even would take it on. That’s a problem. And we need to solve it boys. And not just at AOs and workouts.

Tesla

Again… we rucked.  And named the dog.  Welcome Nut Sack

We rucked… with a dog (to be named later).