It was cold and a very small group of PAX this morning in the gloom.

We ran 2-3 miles.

YHC gave a devotion based off of Titus 2: 11-14

11 For the grace of God has been revealed, bringing salvation to all people. 12 And we are instructed to turn from godless living and sinful pleasures. We should live in this evil world with wisdom, righteousness, and devotion to God, 13 while we look forward with hope to that wonderful day when the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ, will be revealed. 14 He gave his life to free us from every kind of sin, to cleanse us, and to make us his very own people, totally committed to doing good deeds.

The Pledge

COT

• Announcements
• Prayer Requests

YHC closed us in prayer

Remember the reason for the Season!

Merry Christmas!

Breaker Breaker

It was cold and raining but a few us overcame the fartsack and made it to the Pub

The Pledge

Keep it simple, mosey to Martha’s House and back

COT

Announcements

Prayer Request

YHC closed us in prayer

Over and out!

Breaker Breaker

Disclaimer – may have happened, may not have. No FNGs, no problem…

The Pledge

Warm-up

Mosey to elementary building of knowledge

Triple Nickel

Diamond Merkins x 5

mosey around parking lot

Plank Jacks x 5

Rinse and repeat 5x

Mosey back to Shovel Flag

Four Corners around the parking lot.

Corner 1: Jump Squats x10

Corner 2 Jump Squats x 10

Corner 3; SSH x 10

Corner 4; Mountain Climbers x 10

Rinse and repeat 3X, adding 5 reps each round

Move up by the building and grab a bench

• Dips x 20I/C
• Flutter Kicks x 20I/C
• American Hammers x 20 I/C
• LBCs x 20 I/C

Round two

• Dips x 12I/C
• Flutter Kicks x 12I/C
• American Hammers x 12 I/C
• LBCs x 12 I/C

Back to Shovel Flag for COT

Announcements

Prayer Requests

YHC closed in prayer

Light crowd this morning, no worries, we put in some tough work….

Over and out,

Breaker Breaker

I haven’t been posting as much lately due to my wife’s work schedule much less Q ing so when I saw the Q open for downtown 1 week away I pounced on it. It’s great to have options in this region to hit a boot camp almost any day of the week. But here’s what went down downtown during this workout.

warm up: ssh,air presses,gravel pickers, merkins, mountain climbers, squats all x10 IC

mosey to the church stopping at every third pole for 3 kraken burpees I love these cause you get a break between hopping up and you slack rascals can’t cheat on the merkins 😁 there was some discussion about wich poles counted I informed the pax that only city poles mattered 😆I thought this would get wirenuts panties in a twist and it did good times. Once at the church we did 11’s derkins and v ups jumping a short wall in the middle of the parking lot.

we moseyed to the radio shop next , on the way we continued with the krakens at the radio shop we did Route 66 lunges and squats I asked pax to touch the ground with fingertips on each squat to ensure proper depth was reached I see squats shortchanged a lot and it’s bothersome honestly to see other pax charge ahead of me when their half repping but I know in the end it’s you vs you🙄😁. After that up the stairs doing 3 calf raises on each stair once everyone reached the top we headed towards the bridge stopping at every third pole for 3 big boys. We made it to Franklin when I saw some pax double back . 🤔what’s going on? They said Tippman is missing last time we saw him was at the radio shop. So those pax went back to look and never returned. So half of us backtracked towards the radio shop the other half circled the other side of the block heading towards the same destination but still nobody found 🤷‍♂️ I was wondering who would abduct a handful of sweaty ugly men at 6:00am but stranger things have happened. So we headed towards the COT when we got close we found all the missing pax including Tippman 😅 he lost sight of us after the calf raises and headed back to the COT. So now that we were re united we celebrated with triple nickel on the bridge with pull-ups and box jumps. I know the box jumps can be hard on the knees so I told the pax if needed modify with step ups. Slaw said what if we don’t want to do pull-ups 🤨quit being a puss Mr pick up the 6 😆 it looked like he was cranking them out just fine to me I always try to work in some pull ups cause not many do they’re an awesome exercise for lat development something we can all use. Times up we headed back to the cot we pledged thanks to captain stubbing for the reminder then I shared a word and prayed us out. We prayed for wirenuts dad and daughter and easy riders father in law. It was a pleasure leading this morning like always thanks for the opportunity and next time I’m sticking close to Tippman so he doesn’t get lost 😁

Disclaimer

Warm-up

Mosey to the school building for the THANG!

BLIMPS

Burpees x 5 – Run to the front of school entrance and back

Burpees + 10 Lunges – run

Burpees, Lunges, + 15 I/Ws – run

Burpees, lunges, I/Ws, +20 Merkins – run

Burpees, lunges, I/Ws, merkings, 25 Plank Jacks – Run

Burpees, lunges, I/Ws, merkins, plank jacks + 30 Squats –

Rinse and repeat

Finish off with a few core exercises and then mosey back to Shovel Flag for COT.

The Pledge

COT

• Announcements
• Prayer Requests
• YHC closed us out with a prayer

Thanks for allowing me to lead you this morning! As always, an honor!

Over and out!

Breaker Breaker

3 ruckers, 6 runners and a couple for QSource today as we got in some miles in the cold.

10 for QSource as we covered Missionality and Lizard Building to wrap up the year.  “A sidewind is the same as a headwind” is true for Missionality, but those sidewinds are also often part of the cost of business.  The trick is not to invest too many resources in them and to get back on Mission as soon as possible.

Lizard organizations are dependent on strong relationships.  Developing Sua Sponte Leaders who lead from within the organization is most effective.  12 or 43 are the magic numbers, depending on the context.  Keep teams small, and stay prepared as a leader, keeping an eye on the big picture, and incentivizing I2.

Announcements:

• Coconut Horse is closed for Christmas
• QSource 1/1 will be on 8 Block

Good to see some different faces out there this morning.  And good to see the familiar ones too I guess.

My last Q for the year, I think.  Time to start preparing for 2023, but not by sandbagging for the challenge.  Will see y’all on the other side of the ball drop.

Yabba Dabba Doo

It was a another foggy, damp gloom but the HIM showed for the action. some ran, some rucked.

The Word:

Proverbs 12: 1, 2

Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.

A good man obtains favor from the Lord, but a man of evil devices he condemns.

Announcements: New Year Challenge, Beer mile 12/31 @ 11am at Sargento’s

Prayer: Wirenut’s daughter, Huck, Turtleman, Slaw’s M sick, stress of the season, our men & women in uniform, Chubbs dad losing sight

Our Redwoods series is over, but 11 HIM came back for more at The Sandlot. YHC left without the shovel flag for the first time in 2 years (well, the second, but burpees were paid for that one).  Here’s what I remember:

The Thang:

• 10 x SSH (IC)
• 10 x Don Quixotes (IC)
• 10 x Hillbilly Walkers (IC)
• 10 x Dying Cockroaches (IC)
• 10 x Hello Dollies (IC)
• 10 x Mike Tysons (IC)
• 20 x Elwoods (IC)

Mosey out to the center of the ballfields.  On the way, the mumblechatter left me scrambling for a change to the Weinke.  Easy enough.

No gimmicks today.  No theme.  Let’s just end this thing like every other Monday – with good, strong, solid work.

Core work early and often.  Mary throughout.

• 15 x Crunchy Frogs (IC)
• 15 x Double Crunches (IC)
• 15 x American Hammers (IC)
• 15 x Flutter Kicks (IC)

Sit & Spin

Partner Up

• One PAX runs around Field #3 (outside the fence, as the PAX needed clarification for some reason)
• The other does Wall Sits til they get back (and as the Q was feeling benevolent, PAX could choose burpees or 6 inches instead)
• Switch and repeato

Mosey to the Turd Shack

Same partners

• 2 minutes on the clock
• One PAX does Hip Slappers
• The other does Wall Sits
• Switch back and forth til time expires

More Mary

• 15 x Crunchy Frogs (IC)
• 15 x Double Crunches (IC)
• 15 x American Hammers (IC)
• 15 x Flutter Kicks (IC)

Picnic shelter

Lindsays

• 10 x Dips / 30 x Monkey Humpers
• 15 x Dips / 25 x Monkey Humpers
• 20 x Dips / 20 x Monkey Humpers
• 25 x Dips / 15 x Monkey Humpers
• 30 x Dips / 10 x Monkey Humpers

No 10 Count here, but a several minute break, as YHC shared a few thoughts.  Don’t know really what was said, but will try to get into some of it in the Moleskin.

Turd Shack

Partner

• 2 minutes of Hip Slappers / Wall Sits

Mosey back to the center of the ballfields

• 10 x Crunchy Frogs (IC)
• 10 x Double Crunches (IC)
• 10 x American Hammers (IC)
• 10 x Flutter Kicks (IC)

Sit & Spin Round 2 around Field #3

Back to the flag for the handoff to the new Site Q of the Sandlot – JJ.

JJ led

• 22 x Flutter Kicks (IC)

and that was that.

Moleskin:

When I took the Site Q at The Sandlot in December of 2020, I was really just getting started as a consistent presence in the Gloom.  I had only Q’d 5 times at that point.  2 years later, I’ve Q’d almost 100 times.  I feel like I’ve been doing this long enough that it’s hard to remember what it felt like to be anything other than Flintstone and most of that time as Flintstone I was also the Site Q at the Sandlot.

I’ll admit to reflection really sinking in hard in the days leading up to the handoff.  Redwoods was fun, but I knew about halfway through the series that that would be it for me.  I needed to turn it over, but the days before, I realized that it wasn’t going to be easy.  The mental commitment to being there every Monday is woven into my life.  When I take away the responsibility and the service of getting to work for the Sandlot PAX, how will that change me?

And I realized that it wouldn’t.  As a pusher of rocks, I’d wake up the next day the same as the day before and go out and get after it.  There’s no room in my mind for slack.  I’ve been made better as a result of being one of you, and getting to lead the Sandlot.  I also have screwed up enough times, thinking that I’d accomplished something and taking my foot off the gas as a result, only to watch all my gains come crashing down and the proverbial Pogo 40 or the Flux, or whatever mental hurdle I faced get the best of me.  Fail 100 times.  Get back up 101.

The Sandlot is where I cut my teeth.  I got my name there.  I Kottered there in July of 2020.  And I spent a lot of time growing up there the last 2 years.  Thank you to all the PAX who have been there along with me, getting after it and teaching me more things than you’ll ever know.

When I was looking for who to hand the flag to, I wanted someone I knew we could all count on.  JJ was an obvious choice.  He’s been a HIM I’ve looked up to as long as I’ve been doing this.  His consistency is unmatched.  When he’s here, he’s posting.  When he’s out of town, he’s running.  When he’s got a goal, he reaches it.  And whatever you need, he’s there.  I’m glad to have him in my corner, and look forward to continue not missing Mondays at the Sandlot.

It’s been an honor and a privilege having the opportunity to lead and grow with all of you.  Thanks.

Yabba Dabba Doo