In the Gloom this morning is just me and Hermie. We rucked to the Waffle House stopping for various exercises along the way. We chattered about home improvement to hair salons, lol. Mine and Hermie’s knees were acting up, so we passed ourselves at a comfortable pace. We did the work, but more importantly we got to mumblechatter 👊. Good work!

Can’t remember exactly what we did.  I know we tried a game that didn’t work out as I was hoping so I did some freestyling. Lots of work on the legs, especially the hip flexors. Go Heels!

It’s my mom’s birthday! What did you think I was talking about?!? There were some snickers and comments made when I kept the Q at Prison Break for 4/20 and announced I had something special planned. The plan: I wanted to have the guys sing Happy Birthday to my mom. Thanks to all the HIM at PB for playing along. I sent it to mom around 8:30 this morning and she said it made her day. I could share the video but I think it’s more of a ‘show to know’ type of thing!

It wasn’t all singing though. Most men ran 3-6 miles while Wirenut and I logged some mall-walking.

Announcements:

• Smoky Mountain Relay needs 2 runners next weekend
• Honey Hunters game this Sunday
• 2nd F Lunch tomorrow at Ray Nathan’s

Prayer Concerns:
– Broke and his back injury
– Big Pappy and his family
– Huck
– Tesla
– Striper’s brother

YHC took us out in prayer.

I had a day off on Monday, Purple Haze was asking a favor for a Q-stitute, so I thought it would be nice to Q at another new spot.  As I went up  into the house that evening I saw that it was going to be very wet in the morning!

Morning arrives and I hear the rain coming down. I try to plan accordingly with some rain gear. As I was trying to get ready for the workout I can barely move, I was still hurting from the beatdown that I had received from Mayor on Saturday morning at The Yank. Wirenut would say that I deserved it. LOL.

Pulling up to the parking lot at my normal 30 minutes early routine, There is only one vehicle there. 15 minutes go by when I see another vehicle pulling up to pick up that person for work. That was a close one I thought. I was really hoping that no one would show. I did not want to get wet! I was pretty tired, my body was sore and all I wanted to do was get back home. About two minutes till start time a truck pulls up. Headlights shining on me, yup, that’s Roundup!. Then a Dallas city vehicle pulls up, there comes Wichita! I climb out of my vehicle, those guys get out as well. It’s go time! Those guys decided to run three miles and I decided to walk one. I needed to see if I can get these aching muscles to move. With a plan locked in 30 minutes of running, let’s meet back at the car wash for our discussion. 2 minutes into my stretching walk I found out that my rain gear sucked!

Since I had never been to this work out, PurpleHaze had called me to explain to me how the workout goes. 30 minutes of running and 15 minutes of discussion. Discussion usually involves a Bible verse. With that and Easter in mind, I planned the discussion on Luke 24:38-39.

The disciples spent years! Sleeping, eating, living with Jesus Christ! They still had to see the scars, touch his body to realize that he had risen.  Jesus had gone into battle with the dark side to learn and feel what it is like to be human. He came up in the light to show us that he knows, feels how hard it is to be human. His never ending love grew stronger with his walk. In your darkest moments you can grow closer to him if you choose. Our love for him will grow stronger when we spend more time with him. Our Lord longs for our attention. The Lord our savior has always been here, he has been in everything from the start!! The Bible has Jesus’s hand all in it. Front to back. Our Lord and Savior has been here since it’s beginning. Studying the word and prayer (talking to him) is the only way to grow closer to him.

Christ has risen, He has risen indeed!!

Thank you men.

With the rain coming down Freon showed up, then CPAP, and finally Dr. Seuss.  Clock struck 5:30 a.m. We drove down to the elementary school to use their awning for a rainy day beat down.

Disclaimer

We did not have a flag, so we did not complete the pledge.

Warm up

20 SSH IC

10 Gravel Pickers IC

15 Imperial Walkers IC

10 Merkins IC

20 Squats OYO

We used the walk way under the awning to mosey down to school entrance to start then moseyed back and forth completing the following sets.

Round 1

30 SSH

20 Squats

10 Merkins

Mosey

Round 2

30 Mtn Climbers

20 Lunges

10 Merkins

Mosey

Round 3

30 Pulsing Squats

20 Burpees

10 Merkins

Mosey

Round 4

30 Freddie Mercuries

20 Plank Jacks

10 Merkins

Mosey

Round 5

1 min Wall Sit

20 Hip Slappers

10 Dirty Hookups

1 min Wall Sit

We rinsed and repeated these exercises however we replaced Burpees with CDD.

Next we did a route 66 with Shoulder Taps and Lunge Walk to the next column. With time running low we went 10 feet back to the start for some core work

25 Reps of

American Hammers

Flutters 4 ct

Reverse Crunch

Plank with a dip

LBC

Scissors

We planked for the remaining minute.  Time 6:15 am.

Announcements

Prayer request

Nameorama

I took us out in prayer,

Thanks for showing up guys.  I would have definitely drove back to the house without putting in the work.  Thanks for the opportunity to lead.  SYITG