The Youngest Kotter Ever…

The initial shovel flag was planted in March 2015 for our region. We began to grow and expand. Along the way we’ve impacted a number of me, mostly in a positive way, though I’m sure a few in a negative manner, if we’re being honest (TBH as the kids say these days). In the early years, some dad’s brought their young boys to some of the workouts. One (Smalls) even led a workout (it was pretty good if memory serves). Yesterday was Father’s Day, which we take time to recognize men that brought us into the world, providing guidance and usually serving as a role model to shape our lives. So this morning, as our pre-game circle gathered, a youthful figure emerged, though he’s much bigger now. None other than one of Squirt’s twin boys: Papa-Johns. Same smile on his face as I remember about 5 years ago. Papa-Johns is now 16 and able to drive to the workout. Why did you drive himself? Because Papa-Johns beat the fartsack and Squirt didn’t. That’s ok – maybe now Papa-Johns will put the EH on his dad this time. Nice to have you back young fella.

Warm-Up: All IC x 10: Seal Jacks, Imperial Walkers, Toy Soldiers, Side to Side Lunges, Arrows, and some squat flingy thing I came up with to warm up the shoulders a big more (because they were gonna get ‘werked). Pledge, mosey.

Thang: we arrived at the parking lot of Planet Fitness. Whoopee was still heartbroken that Stroganoff called nary a one hip slapper Saturday. You see Whoopee wanted flex his muscle in front of his future son-in-law “Jackpot.” Okay – not quite son in law – but serious boyfriend. When the M says be kind to him, she’s already taking a shine to this guy so anyway – Whoopee needed to get this out of his system.

Against the wall – 10 hip slappers, bear crawl to the parking median, 15 merkins, run to the end of the parking lot, 5 burpees – do this for 3 rounds. Dying cockroaches waiting for the 6. Time to share a story from Fathers Day – Roscoe talked about dinner with his family at LongHorns and then a Honey Hunters baseball game. Good stuff.

Mosey through Food Lion to the Dollar General. Just to be douchy – Triple Nickel: Jump Squats and Mike Tysons. Oh yeah – someone sitting in their AT&T truck is nodding their head – you know you like it! More time for Father’s Day stories – Nutria shared his kids put him on a scavenger hunt for candy. Some others I can’t recall.

Mosey over to Gastone’s Hill (doesn’t Gastone need to post sometime or else we re-name this thing? your call). Let’s NUR up the hill and every 2nd mailbox, drop and do 5 plank jacks – more burn if you face downhill. Flintstone beat me to the top, I called Omaha at the first cross street. We did 50 LBCs OYO. Down the hill, running forward this time – every 3rd mailbox do 5 shoulder taps. At the bottom, some called Al Gore, the Q didn’t and ignored the mutiny. One more Father’s Day story  or two. Let’s go back to base. At Riverwood Trail, stop for squats. Q checks watch – plenty of time – we’ll go the long way, down the hill and through the trail to the park. Stop for core work: 20 flutters, 20 Freddie mercury, 20 American hammers. We had about 5 minutes left. As we began the mosey home, Amazon suggested pull-ups. So as a time-waster, I stopped at the pull-up bar and said 50 burpees unless our Nantan could execute a perfect form pull up. Roscoe asked which grip we preferred him to use – I said your choice. Roscoe hung briefly then easily maneuvered up the bar and held his pose. Ok – now 25 burpees or someone else step to the plate for 1 pull-up. Secretly I was rooting for Papa John’s to show off but JJ grabbed it instead. The PAX were saved by Roscoe and JJ. Good thing Whoopee didn’t get on it b/c he was ready to sabotage the PAX and NOT do a pull up so the PAX would need to do burpees. We migrated to the parking lot as time expired.

COT: Prayers for Ratchet and 2.0, Norwood, praise for Anchorman’s Sister in Law. Announcements for Lunch this Wednesday at Logans, Annihilation at Old School w/ SA, July 4th workout at TFY for reading of Declaration of Independence.

It was a lively group this morning at The Sandlot. Hopefully the PAX got their money’s worth. Great to see Papa Johns out there. Hopefully he will join us again and bring Squirt along too.

Thanks for the opportunity to lead.

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