Month: April 2023 (Page 5 of 11)

12 PAX came out for a beatdown I had already done in reverse.

Weinke was deleted, but suffice to say we did rounds of 4 exercises at the top of each landing, bearcrawled down each ramp, moseyed over to the next landing and rinse/repeated until we did hip slappers, wall sits, and dirty hookups.  Moseyed back up the stairs to the top and did it again.

Thanks for the opportunity to lead!

Maybe it’s Maybelline 💋

8 PAX came out in the gloom for a run/ruck, 7 stayed for Q source.

Q Source: The Dichotomy of Leadership

Chapter 1: The Ultimate Dichotomy

COT, Pledge, Announcements

Congrats to shortsale on the MM QvQ challenge 

Time laps event May 19th and 20th, flintstone looking for HC’s this week.

Folsom obstacle course- Stogie Q 4/8

Coconut horse still on for Easter Sunday Q source closed Chapter 2 pushed to following week

Prayers 

Roscoe’s Friend with bladder  cancer 

Defib med exams tomorrow 

Flintstone’s dad starting treatment Tuesday 

Thanks for another opportunity to lead and grow!

Maybe it’s Maybelline 💋 

PAX came out in the gloom for a run/ruck followed by COT/ 3rdF

COT/ 3rdF

Matthew 7:7–8

Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.

In the process of seeking God, we need to ask God for continuously drawing us to Him in order to keep us moving forward, and also ask Him to help us not to give up half-way. 

We often feel that we’ll never find what we’re looking for, but the real problem is that we did not keep on looking. Seeking, finding and knocking are all steps in the process of seeking God. If you really want to see the President of United States, you may write a letter to him. You wait for a long time and finally received a reply from the White House stating that the President invites you to meet him. You’ve sought him and he responded, but you haven’t met him yet. You must then find out how to get to the White House; when you are at the White House, you’ve found it. But you still haven’t seen the President, because you need to come to the oval office and knock on the door. When the President opens the door, you’ve finally met him!

The process of seeking the Lord is very similar. Very often the Lord promised us something, but it’s a long way from us actually getting it. We need to continuously seek, and we often only find some experiences or doctrines but not the Lord Himself. 

We need to keep on seeking until we are in front of the Lord, seeing Him face to face. Nothing can replace the precious experience of being with the Lord — Not even spiritual experience or knowledge, law or tradition. When are you with the Lord face to face, communicating with Him in prayer, you will be able to enjoy the sweetness of being in the Lord. 

May God help us, give us an eager heart and never stop half-way. No matter what you spiritual condition is, just keep on moving and keep on seeking until you and the Lord have each other completely.

Many PAX shared their thoughts and comments.  The biggest takeaway from this that I had was, why do we not ask for God’s guidance more humbly and more often?  Pride, arrogance and shame seemed to be the biggest reasons.  God grant us the wisdom to be humble always and seek Your Will in our lives.

COT

Announcements

Time laps 

Prayers 

Wirenut and his family 

Ratchet and his family 

Kelly Byrd

It’s an honor to lead, thanks for showing up!

Maybe it’s Maybelline 💋

YHC originally had the Q for the 25th, but Montross hit me up yesterday needing to swap. I was willing to help him out on short notice. My Weinke was written to be a bit on the JV side due to some injury recovery I’ve been dealing with. I’m a firm believer in in that saying “If you can’t do it, don’t Q it.” That being said, at 0530 we click in.

Warmarama

SSHx20 IC, 1 burpee, SSHx15 IC, 1 burpee, SSHx10 IC, 1 burpee, Imperial Walkerx10 IC, 1 burpee, Toy Soldierx10 IC, 1 burpee, mosey to the amphitheater.

Thang

21s; Starjacks at the top of the hill  and dips on the wall at the bottom. During the announcing of said routine there were a lot of questioning  about what I had called. Was it 20-1 or 21s? Hell, I likely said it wrong, but after explaining what is to be performed, PAX knew what I meant. The mumblechatter picked up, but what I heard was “my vagina hurts,” “geez this is hard,” “I didn’t want to sweat this morning,” and so on. So, I ditched the Weinke and went to just winging it.
We mosey over to the parking lot and YHC calls for Dirty 11s. Merkins and squats with a burpee halfway. And here we go again with the garbage chatter about what I heard previously. At this point, QIC kinda flipped and loudly made it known to the fellow PAX; “Do whatever the hell you want to do. I don’t give a s$&t. Bunch of damn pansies!” I believe those are the words said. Anyway,  I finish up and call to plank for the six. Mosey to the tennis courts and line up. Nur a court width, turn and sprint the next. Continue to the end and repeato on the way back. Next up, Karaoke to the end of the courts switching sides each tennis court. Repeat back. With a few minutes left, suicides.
Time is up.

mosey to start for the pledge

COT: Jackson Hall, Huck, TurtleMan, Wirenut’s Family, Mayor, Sargento, Flintstone, ToothFairy

YJC took us out

Moleskin: It’s an honor to lead you men as always. I want to take time again to apologize. I, for one, enjoy the mumblechatter. I’m not sure what it was this morning. I guess we all have our days. That being said, I appreciate all of you guys and I’m thankful for what I have gotten out of this thing called F3.

SYITG

MDub out

Proper warm up as always

berp and merk to 7

then 5 burpees for Wirenut guessing the first exercise right 👍

then mosey to the bridge for triple nickel:pull ups and box jumps

then moseyed to the bottom side of the jail for Route 66: bear crawl and miketysons

then my new favorite exercise thanks to whopee manslaughter bunnies up and then down the parking lot

route66 again lunge walk and squats

now mosey around the back side of the jail past the water treatment plant stopping on the way for big boys and diamond merkins

back To the bridge Wirenut said hanging knee raises while we wait…….My Man!!!!!! Took the words right outta my mouth that and step ups 3 sets of 10 then back to cot we pledged did announcements took prayer requests wich were Chubbs dad,mayors surgery, Jackson hall,purple haze dad,people traveling,praise gear wrench M got the job,Huckleberry,virus daughter. I prayed us out and shared a verse and a word. Good times thanks for the chance to lead.

4 runners and 6 ruckers showed up for the weekly gathering of HIM. The runners did the Sargento route for a second week in a row apparently (see what you miss when you’re away). No one got lost this time and everyone stayed nice and clean. No mud here…

Annoucnements: Convergence April 29 at Midoriyama, Time Laps in May

Prayers: Ratchet’s 2.0, Virus’ 2.0, Jane Fonda & his 2.0, Sargento surgery Monday

YHC took us out. Thank you for the opportunity to lead men! Just keep running

Another beautiful morning at The Ricky Bobby started out right at 0530. Orangeman and Watts Up were ready to go as I planted the shovel flag. No disclaimer for this group of seasoned veterans (and no time for chit chat). We went straight into the traditional side-straddle hops. Then out of the shadows emerged someone vaguely familiar from the distant past, none other than Buckshot, who joined in like he hasn’t missed a single post in the last 6 months.  We finished the warmup with imperial walkers, merkins and Nolan Ryans (each 10xIC).  Started to mosey towards New Hope Road as J2C pulled into the parking lot – 30 seconds later and he woulda never found us! After dodging New Hope traffic like a real-life game of Frogger in the gloomy darkness, we made it to the parking lot of the Presbyterian church for some classic BLIMPS – “rack’em-stack’em” style from one end of the parking lot to the other.
B = 5 Burpees (even though Watts Up claimed that there are other exercises that start with B)
L = 10 Lunges single count
I = 15 Imperial walkers single count
M = 20 Merkins
P = 25 Plank jacks
S = 30 Squats

At the end of this, Buckshot delivered a silent 10-count (it was as weird as it sounds) while Orangeman mused about 6-second squats. So, we did a few of those 6-second squats (5 in cadence). Then I broke the unfortunate news that our BLIMPS were stacked in the wrong place, so we reversed everything and re-stacked while enjoying some good mumblechatter about the kooky things Watts Up listens to during his long drives to and from Aiken.  With everything re-stacked there were 3 minutes left, just enough time to mosey back to the flag for Pledge and COT.

Announcements:  Convergence 4/29; See Sparky if interested in Wildcat 5k

Prayers:  Radar’s sister, Virus’s 2.0, Orangeman’s cousin Mark Wilson.

This morning was tough but we fought through it together, and I’m glad to be able to start out the day with these HIM’s.
– Nutria

I knew I wouldn’t want to post this am. I knew I was going to be tired and blah blah blah so I sent Maybelline a request to give me the Q. His response was to give me the Q but raise me some EC….OK, I’m in. Step ups started at 0500-ish then the PAX started rolling in. Roscoe was there early also with some rucking before Maybelline and I even started the EC.

Pledge, WU, then start into it with 8 corners: just like 4 corners but more. Initial plan was to stack the exercises however that changed quickly. 5 burpees at C1, same plus 10 Mike Tysons at C2, same plus 15 Big Boys at C3, and same plus 40 SSH at C4. Somewhere along the line I realized this was not going to end well. In retrospect, everyone was really quiet while we did the first few exercises. I think everyone (except me) realized this was going to suck big donkey balls. We Omaha’d for the rest. The next round of corners was 25 Merkins that went down in number by 5 for each corner plus 30 squats then 35 imperial walkers, then a bunch of flutter kicks at the other corners.

Mosey to the bank parking lot for hops on the short side and lunges on the long sides of the lot. Before we started, Amazon noticed a flat mouse by the dumpster that was probably a few days old, likely crushed by a trash truck. We finished this then moseyed around to the cameras at the drive thru bank area for some wall sits, dirty hookups, and hip slappers. There may have been an exercise that resembled “balls in your camera face” at one point, but I couldn’t say for sure.

Next we moseyed to the Planet Fitness parking lot. Quick question for Tricycle: lines or cars? Thankfully he chose cars. We did suicides in the lot down each lane with each of the cars on that specific lane. I don’t remember what we did but it was a good combination of constant motion, moderate but consistent work, and good advertising for the dues-paying Planet Fitness peeps who came out while we were pushing rocks.

I think we moseyed back to start and finished with squats until Roscoe came back. The initial plan was continue until Roscoe said something but Defib ruined everything……#shouldhavebeenthere

We finished with COT then Tricycle took us out.

I have learned over the last 25 years of being at F3 in GasHouse (yes, 25 years!!!!) that the best way to make sure I post is to put something out on Slack that I will be there-whether that is being the Q or just that I’ll meet someone at a particular AO. I’ve realized I can let myself down, but I’ll do just about anything to avoid letting one of you down. Maybe it’s because I don’t want to hear guys like Freight give me a hard time about not doing what I said or maybe I just don’t want to get “that look” from one of my Shieldlock guys, or maybe I just don’t want to have an F3 brother think I am not there for him. All I know is this works and I appreciate each one of you….well, maybe some more than others and most of the time Freight. Thanks for keeping this thing going in GasHouse.

Whoopee