Fitness, Fellowship, Faith

Day: September 10, 2023

The Celebration of a Douche 😁

In Honor of SA’s Birthday

  • Pledge
  • Warm- ups

        •Ragging of the Bday Boy

        • Cherry Pickers and Arrows ( SA’s favorites 😂)

        • Stretching Quickly

        • 5 Burpees

  • Mosey to lower lot for Sheldon Cooper

        • start at 9, 8, 7 etc … Burpees , Squats,

                                               Merkins, Big Boys

                                               45 Total Reps

  • Mosey to Blocks … Partner up

        One man does blockies , other runs …

        45 total blockies !!!

  • Head to THE HILL…

        Triple Nickel … 5 Burpees @ top, run, 5

                                  Burpees @ bottom, 5

                                  Rounds of time permits!!!

  • Bear crawled to the flag, and Iron Hulked it out with Mike Tyson’s and Cherry pickers ☺️… We modified for time …

Announcements:

JJ5K- September 30

Prayer Requests :

Jackson Hall

Huck

Lil boy hit by car Belmont

Breast cancer healed – Stogie’s co-worker

Brillo – Bootcamp

 

Sister Act’s praise

21 years marriage on Thursday

45 years today

Sister Act took us out in prayer !

IPC – Week 1 at Old School

The dew was thick as always at Old School, just waiting for an inexperienced PAX to wander into it’s hydrating embrace to make shoes soggy and clothes clingy. Luckily, YHC and his counterparts were wise to this trick and stayed on the nice, dry parking lot for this beatdown. Lord know, it was hard enough with decent conditions, no need to compound the problems. This is what happened…

The Rhino was waiting when YHC arrived 10 minutes early to the AO. After a few minutes of us deliberation about how to tackle the pending doom and wondering who else would show up, the Site Q rolled up. He hopped out of his ride and announced he’d only be walking today per doctor’s orders. Looks like it’d be just the two of us. Doesn’t matter, the suck was going to happen even if we had 150 HIM there. This is you vs you stuff!

Warmup – Don Quixotes

The Thang – 45 minutes, count as many reps as you can while a 5-minute timer runs. At each horn, do the designated mode of transportation. For the exercises, do 10 reps of one, then switch to the other until you get to 80 total reps.

Round 1 – Flying Squirrels & WW3 Sit Ups – Mode of Transportation was the Lunge Walk with coupon.

Round 2 – Bock Over Burpees & Perfect Form Merkins – Mode of transport was Murder Bunnies. This round was a killer!

Round 3 – Thrusters & Jillian Michaels – Mode of Transport was the Rifle Carry.

We finished the 45 minute part up and wrapped up with a couple laps around the track to work out the kinks.

This workout was awful but Watts Up and I pushed each other to do our best and in the end, we did! Thanks for posting brother, couldn’t have done it without you!!! Wirenut walked up and we hashed out the announcements and prayer requests. Thanks for the opportunity to lead men!

Announcements – 2nd F lunch at Gastonia Pita Wheel in 2 weeks, JJ 5K coming  late September

Prayer requests – Jackson Hall, Turtleman, Wirenut’s recovery, Watts Up’s niece’s son having heart transplant, 4 year old boy in Belmont hit by car, Purple Haze’s dad

 

D H S

Crossroads 9-10-23

9 made it to log some miles this morning.

Following our run we discussed how in 5 different stories in the Bible people had  to do hard stuff.

Ruth stayed loyal to her mother-in-law

Noah spent a lifetime building an ark

Peter chose not to let his failure hold him back

Mary chose to listen

Paul admitted he was wrong

Sometimes we are put in situations that aren’t easy , what will we do?

Pray for one another

JJ5k coming up

 

 

 

 

The Goat

Started warmup with about 5 PAX

About 10 more PAX rolled in late, after the morning train held them up on Eagle Road.

YHC, who has been partially out on IR since May, saw some new faces within these late arrivals.

no FNGs, though.  One 8-year Kotter – “Ocho”

Mosey to Goat Island, and “circle” up around the Triangle for:

AMRAP on the Island.

10 Burpees, 15 Merkin’s, 20 Squats, 25 Fred Mercs, 30 SideStraddle Hops.   Run to Bridge and back. Repeato

we logged about 3 rounds.

Mosey back to town, & to the top of the hill next to Floyd & Blackie’s for:

Jacob’s Ladder

1 burpee, Run down the hill, Hard-Run up the hill.
2 burpees, Run down the hill, Hard-Run up the hill.
Repeato until 7 burpees.

Question from some PAX: “What is a Hard-Run?”

Answer:  “More than a jog, more than a run, not quite a sprint.  But, sprint if you want to.”

Mosey back for:

6MOM

Time!

 

Announcements:

Ann

25k trail race
Roundup 50 miler
Half-marathon ruck – oct
Charity golf – least of these

 

TAPs
From ocho: happy to join back in after 8 years.  (He said he was old, but we learned that he’s only 40)
Mama’s boy’s grandma
Turtle man
Franz’s grandfather
Norwood healing

 

-Bubba Sparxxx

Voluntold

We rucked (some extra), others ran, and we all did COT.

Today’s Q source topic (Persuasion) was pushed my way by Bubba Sparx.  I gladly accepted today’s subject because it’s when we go from thoughts and talk to putting that into action. Any leader can tell others what to do but, great leaders use the art of persuasion to get others to see and understand the goal at hand. Persuasion is becoming a dying art and it’s a tool we should not only hone for ourselves but pass along to others.

Announcements 

2nd F lunch at Pita Wheel in Gastonia (G2) 9/20 @noon

Local CSAUP ruck event October 20 starting at The Fighting Yank.

Come support Rocky Branch trail run event Next weekend

Prayer Requests

Norwood

Turtle Man

Anchor Man’s father-in-law

It’s Still Humid

It’s still humid.  3 runners and 2 ruckers for the Coconut Horse.

The Q decided to get crazy today…….we reversed the Coconut Horse route.  There was much debate after about which direction is more difficult.  For today, I say it is the reverse route.

As usual, fun was had by all.

Announcements included upcoming ruck csaup on Oct 21 and 2nd F lunch coming up.

Prayers to Flintstone’s sister-in-law, Turtleman and others.

Q Source:  We continued studying The Wisdom of the Bullfrog by Admiral William McRaven.  Today was Chapter 11 – It Pays to be Winner.   In my words, I would say the importance of having high standards.  This seems to be getting more difficult in today’s world but having high standards and trying to maintain them in everything we do is important.  Hold the Line.

I appreciate the opportunity to lead.

Until the next one.  Aye!

Stroganoff

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