Month: November 2023 (Page 9 of 14)

6 HIM ran the Sargento route. No mud was encountered. We all returned safely and were better for having posted.

Announcements – 2nd F lunch 15th at The Lodge in Belmont, Frank’s trail run on the 18th, Ultimate frisbee Thanksgiving morning, Christmastown 5k, convergence, Christmas Party, Beer ruck, Beer Mile

Prayer Requests – Oompa, Turtleman, Broke’s former coworker passed unexpectedly, everyone’s mental health

GREAT turnout this am. Got a few OGs out there plus a bunch of faces I had not seen before. Wish I could have spent some time getting to know them, but that will have to wait. I was focused on bringing some pain. I know some of these guys were looking for weakness but I didn’t want to give them any reason to complain any more than usual.

We started with a brief disclaimer and making sure there were no FNGs-start the WU with 1 minute of AMRAP exercises with goal for 5 exercises and 2 rounds of each. Well that went in the turd shack really quick. We started with arm haulers (look it up online if you don’t know what they are) and the complaining started even before we got 30 seconds in so what did I do???? Cut that shite short and move straight to burpees for 1 minute. It got quiet pretty quickly. We did a minute of burpees then moved to SSH for a minute. Sparky showed at this point so we moved to monkey humpers facing his direction. We went back to SSH for about 30-40 seconds to give Sparky at least a little WU. Hugs were exchanged with Sparky-not afraid to express my feelings for Sparky (or SA and a few others who got a hug a little while before that). SA also got a quick leg hump…learned that move from my dog Seymour-he LOVES his blanket every night.

Next, mosey to the (old) turd shack for some 4 Corners: initial plan was 4 different exercises and only 1 exercise at each corner at 10, 20, 30, then 40 reps. When I said “no stacking” you would have thought I ran over SA’s dog, ate his birthday cake, and peed in his bed. The eyes started rolling in his head and the whining was over the top. I really felt bad when he started crying so I Omaha’d to go ahead and stack ’em. We did 10 Mike Tysons, 20 Big Boys, 30 Jump Lunges, and 40 SSH for the 4 corners. Wichita motored thru this like a champ. SA was much better after that. I think he even said “thank you” which made it all worthwhile. Short pause while I look for my phone and thankfully Stogie “found” it for me. I think he picked it up and put in his pocket before starting the 4 corners but I will never know for sure. No penalty thankfully since I was already a bit gassed from the 4 corners.

We rolled down to the turd shack for some hip slappers and mosey stuff. Medicine Woman informed me it was close to his 8 year anniversary when I Q’d his first workout and we did hip slappers and mosey stuff then. We did 10 HS’ers then moseyed across the lot for 5 burpees then moseyed back. That was so much fun we did it a second time. We got back to the turd shack and got a quick count off to pick the next number of HS’ers…..19 hip slappers then mosey across the lot for 5 burpees then back to turd shack. We were a bit ahead of schedule so I added 2 Bojangles biscuits to kill some time-2 laps where you slow mosey the short curves and sprint all out the longer straightaways. It felt like uphill the whole time. This got us closer to the time I needed for the final push. Mosey back to start and line up on far side of parking lot, long jump/hop about 25 yards then 20 reps of called exercise, then mosey back. The exercises were Merkins, jump squats, then I asked Medicine Woman for our 3rd exercise-he said LBCs, I heard burpees, so we compromised and did big boy setups for set 3 then burpees for set 4. That was about all I had in the tank so we finished with some Mary with max of 10 reps/exercise: I started with flutter kicks, SA called burpees, and we did a few other things until Sparky called Iron Hulks and we made it to 4 merkins/16 air presses and I pulled the plug and called it a day.

We hit the pledge then finished with COT.

I said it this morning and I’ll say it again-Folsom has a tight group, continues to bring in new faces and solid guys who stick around and are just really good guys. Every chance I get to Q out here I feel good when it is over-I get a bit pissy the night before (and the morning of if I am being honest) because I have to get up a little early and I know I need to be ready to push it, but it makes be better and I know it even the night before. I guess that is the “Iron Sharpens Iron” thing that I need to remember.

Thanks for the invite Pony Boy. Stay gold.

(I suspect you are too young to know that reference…..)

Whoopee

Christmas is just around the corner and and I for one will be indulging in an extra serving of some of momma’s cooking. You know what else we all need an extras serving of…? A beat down!

There are a lot of fart sackers right now that are not showin up for one. Bulldog was a little light this morning with 3 Hims and zero showed last Tuesday. PainLab was sort too. I guess if your fartsacking, you’re probably not reading these either. I’m on def ears I suspect. I know this, I feel great after getting it in this morning. I need more!

Spiderman and Hunchback showed for a legendary Core’n more workout delivered by yours truly, TUBE.

You know the drill, 50 seconds of work and 10 seconds to transition to the next exercise. Here we go!

bear crawl around the circle, starfish, baby makers, LBC’s, rev-LBC’s, obliques, American hammers, superman’s. Rifle carry coupon round the parking lot. Rinse & Repeat.

Don Quixote’s, weighted squats, high knees, Merkins, Peter Parkers, BURPEES, Moroccan knight clubs. Rifle carry coupon round the parking lot. Rinse & Repeat.

Prayers to Turtleman 🙏 and to all the unsaid prayers needed in our circle, our county, our country and over seas. God Bless 

It started out a little rainy but who are we to complain with men and women risk their lives for days like today in much worse situations.

Pledge of Allegiance

Move to shelter to warm up and complete the first of two Hero WODS. Unfortunately we had no Veterans in attendance. A disclaimer was given about giving it your all because there are men and women who gave their lives for us.

Hero WOD one is the “PAZ” – Cash in with a 1,000 meter run then go into 22 minutes of AMRAP of 23 squats, 7 burpees and 14 push-ups. Cash out with another 1,000 meter run. During the work we kept a look out for FIA as we were on their turf. Two showed so we moved to finish.

With about 20 minutes left we moseyed to the Fighting Yank to attempt the “Donald L. Wheeler Jr.” hero WOD – 13 rounds for time of 13 squats, 13 push-ups, 13 reverse crunches and 13 dips. I think we got about 6-7 rounds in before time was called. I hope everyone else was as smoked as I was.

Announcements:
Lunch 11/15, Lodge Belmont
Trail relay 11/18, George Poston park
Frisbee tournament Thanksgiving morning, George Poston park
Convergence 12/2 at the Yank
Christmas Party 12/2

Prayers:
Montana
Turtleman
New grand baby soon for Brutus

A pleasure to lead this morning
Gavel

What a great morning for a run or ruck. This is a 50 minute AO and YHC need all of those minutes today. Fannie Mae showed up a little late but caught up pretty quickly he has been putting in a ton of work. The ruckers had a great time too.

Pledge of Allegiance

Announcements:
Lunch 11-15 noon at The Lodge Belmont
F4 Trail run at George Poston Park, see Freight
Frisbee football tournament Thanksgiving morning 0700, see Freight
Christmas Party 12-2, see slack for signup sheet

Prayers:
Montana continued healing
Anchorman’s friends 15 month old nephew

YHC prayed.

We did the Zachary Tellier WOD every one put in some good work that was a lot of Big boys. There was a conversation where one pax compared himself to a muzzleloader 😆 show to know.

Pax showed up… some ran, some rucked. Those who showed up beat the fartsack.

Moleskine:

Often times when asked to prepare a devotion, or something like this to talk about… I lean heavily into the thing that helps me most. And that’s the Sovereignty of God.

Basically there are no limits for God. He breathed the world into being. He said things and they happened. He’s done this for centuries even outside of creation. There’s not one single thing that goes on that was not known by Him. He’s never helpless, never frustrated, never at a loss for anything… so why should we ever be? When we’re in Christ it’s the most secure, peaceful, and free feeling we will probably have in this life before Christ comes back.

Proverbs 16:1 says, “The plans of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from the LORD.” In that same chapter, verse 33 says, “The lot is cast into the lap, but its every decision is from the LORD.”. In the new testiment, after Judas committed suicide, Peter led 120 believers to cast lots to decide who should become an apostle in place of Judas. Barsabbas and Matthias became the two candidates. The remaining aposals prayed to God, asking who to choose… they cast lots again, and Matthias was chosen.

Now, if God is in control of everything… then that means every horrible and sinful thing is ultimately governed by God. That seems in correct… but if you think about it… the center of the solution is a choice to be made about the cross. God’s plan predestined everything into what took place to kill Jesus, some of the most horrible sins ever committed. But He planned it so that we might be saved from those sins… so that Jesus’ sacrifice would have weight to it.

This all might sound pretty heavy for a Monday morning, at around 6am… but just know… God knows you, and loves you… he’s got every part of your life in the palm of his hand. If you have any feelings of helplessness, frustration, or are at a loss… know that God is with you and will never leave you or forsake you.

Announcements:

We all know the announcements (though, you could call a Q fail because I didn’t meantion any… Q-fail and ComzQ-fail  #hatetoseeit).

Prayer Requests:

• Wirenut’s Mom – putting in a pic line for an IV
• Wichita’s Dad  – recovering from a fall… broken ribs, etc…
• Pallbearer’s M – being let go from her job (along with others)… pray she is able to find something else quickly before the first of the year.
• Rum Runner’s Family – pray for peace and comfort after the loss of a loved one.
• Pray for Turtle Man and his family
• Pray for Huckleberry
• Pray for Oompa Loompa – stage 3 renal failure
• Stogie’s M and school admins – stress and stomach ulcers

Warm up:

15 SSH IC

10 Gravel Pickers IC

10 Imperial Walkers IC

10 Merkins IC

20 Squats OYO

Moseyed to the back of the school at the back of the parking lot we did Route 66

One way we did Merkins and lunged in between parking spots

On the way back we did Squats and bear crawled in between parking spots.

Mosey back to the front of the school to parking lot closes to the school. Here he performed four corners and stacked the following exercise at each corner.

10 CDD

20 Arm Haulers

30 Big Boys

40 Monkey Humpers.

Back at the start we went in reverse and did performed the following excercise at there respective corner without stacking excercise.

40 Monkey Humpers

30 Big Boys

20 Arm Haulers

10 CDD.

We finished at the back entrance of the school.  Here we performed 1 round of Tabata 20 seconds of work with 10 seconds of rest of the following exercise for two rounds.

Dips

Step Ups

Derkins

Squats

Time running low we moseyed back to the start for some core work

25 Flutters IC

25 American Hammers

25 Heels to Heaven

25 Reverse Crunch

25 Scissors

Time 6:15 am

Announcements

Prayer Request

Nameorama

I took us out in prayer.  Thank you for the opportunity to lead.  SYITG.

I did not do a good job promoting this and I wish I had put more effort into it. The Chad1000X event is a pretty cool thing but in my opinion really requires some special training to be ready. If you don’t train, it doesn’t mean you can’t participate, but not many of us can do 1000 step ups with a 50# ruck in under an hour and have a relatively normal day after that without some training. So……..next year I plan to do a little better because I think this is a great event and bringing awareness to military suicide prevention seems like something worth promoting.

I got there a little late due to power outage at my house 3 minutes after I woke up. It was a bit of a cluster#### at my house so I was happy to finally get there. Three guys were into it and I did my best to catch up. Roscoe had the music going strong with lots of George Strait to keep us motivated while staying focused.

About next year-maybe a little AO competition, each AO sends their champion representative plus whoever wants to participate? Maybe there will be prizes for winning the competition? Maybe individual and also 2 or 4 man team event? We will see. I am open to suggestions so hit me up if you have an idea. The main reasons for the backblast were to thank the guys who posted and hopefully challenge some of you to consider participating next year on Veterans’ Day.

Whoopee