Fitness, Fellowship, Faith
Running and rucking took place.
At QSource on 11/13, we discussed “Failure”. The topic impressed the importance of failure on YHC so strongly, that YHC failed to post the Backblast for a week and a half.
Announcements
Xmas party Dec 3
Xmas town race (broke)
T Giving ultimate frisbee (freight)
Shirts are up MudGear (downtown & goat)
TAPs
Breakers stepfather (COVID)
Breakers Daughter in law still looking
Brain help (Tesla)
Gratitude for a great day
Pilgrims M travelling
Guys at marathon
Good crowd for a Monday at what I’m calling Martha’s Sandlot. I rarely make here due to my early morning work schedule so thanks to Flintstone for reaching out multiple times to get it worked in. It’s getting cold so I asked everyone to do their part to help global warming.
Warmup:
You know….some stuff made up on the spot and a few burpees
The Thang:
Only two get the blood flowing fast when it’s cold. Running and burpees so let’s mosey to the park.
In the parking lot partner up for 11’s around the islands. Partner mtn climbers and booyah merkins. Balljoint noticed several pickle pounders out there. Hate to see it.
I told the PAX about my first F3 post on 6/13/15. 21 PAX were there and out of those about 5 are still regulars. As we ran off for the next thing we discussed the birth of Midoriyama and how it existed for about 7 months before it was made official.
Mosey over to the center of the ball fields. Back in the day there were lights on out here. It’s tequila sunrise dark now. At each walkway opening do squats 10, then 20, 30, 40 and bear crawl in between.
Mosey around the ball field stopping to do exercises at each corner. 10 flying squirrels, 20 Freddy Mercury’s, 30 Seal jacks. Thats the most exercise a baseball field will ever see.
Back to the parking lot for some dirty triple nickel. Tiger squats and derkins with a burpee each time you pass the middle line.
Heading up the road out of the park we did a burpee. Here I told the PAX about my first official Q(7 months of Midoriyama not counted) at Gashouse on 2/6/16. 18 PAX were there. 8 of which are still regulars. This would be my 216th official Q. To my knowledge I have never failed to do a BB. We talked about how I was looking for excitement or adventure in my life when I found F3. Life just seemed to be dull and uneventful. The workouts and CSAUPS supplement that need for me. I’m currently HC’d for my 16th,17th, 18th, and 19th relay races next year(not including any we have done around here). That is all thanks to Whoopee who brought up doing the first one, the BRR.
Back at the start we knocked out 1.5 minutes worth of ab work.
COT:
Pledge
Announcements-Frisbee 0700 Thanksgiving morning meet at the soccer fields, Christmas Party 12/3 please HC and vote
Prayer Request-Several family members going through struggles
Moleskin:
I’m thankful for the men that started this group and the ones that have kept it going. It takes each and every one of us so don’t ever think your presence doesn’t matter. Without you there is no me!
Good turnout for a cold morning…
Warmups- 5 burpees, 10 Gravel Pickers , 20 Imperial Walkers, 30 SSH
Stretching- plank position , Right foot up hold, back to normal , left foot up and hold , back to normal . Recover . Right over left touch your toes, Left over right touch your toes.
Pledge
Mosey to the median in front of school . Modified BO DEREK. 2 Burpees at the bottom then run to median at the top of the roundabout and do 8 V-Ups, Rinse and repeat 10 rounds. I believe some got 10 in. I was able to get 7 and so was at the back of the pack. GREAT WORK MEN 💪🏻!!!
6:10 mosey back to Flag, 22 merkins for the Vets. Finished up strong 🤙🏻!!!
Announcements- Need for speed, Christmas Town push, Christmas Party …
Prayer Request- My son, Wichita having Baby, Everyone and their families at Thanksgiving!!!
YHC had been looking forward to lead the regions best AO in a good ole beat down. Today was the day. I had my Weinke prepared and was ready to get to work. I walk outside and felt the chill in the air and thought to myself, “my hands ain’t gonna like today.” So, I roll on to Folsom a bit early to stretch and chat before time to clock in. When 5:30 hits, we start.
No FNGs, short disclaimer
Warmarama
SSH, Imperial Walkers, Low slow squats: all x10 IC
Mosey up to the animal shelter to grab a block.
Thang
Line up at the base of the adjacent hill. The routine called was 11’s. And these were horrible. Blockees at the bottom of the hill, box jump over the block, then rifle carry the block up the hill for thrusters. Rifle carry your block back down. And yes, you box jump over your block after each blockee! Lots of mumblechatter from the PAX, myself included. This seemed to take longer than I expected, but in all honesty, we finished it fairly quick. Now, Replace blocks and mosey to tennis courts. Line up for burpee suicides. Mosey one court and back for 1 burpee, grab 5 merkins at each turn back. Mosey to the second and back for 2 burpees. Continue until you’ve reached the final court then count it back down to 1. Escalate the burpees but the merkins stay at 5. This was a battle to get the PAX on track. The chatter here was broad and pronounced. Lots of confusion of the called routine. “Do we escalate the merkins?” “Do we stop after the last court?” “The math part is easy.” We pulled together and finally made it through. Time is running out, so we mosey back to start.
Pledge
COT: Wichita M having baby, Sparkys dad, Bedpan traveling, our families, our country, Thanksgiving, Operation Christmas Child program and volunteers
Announcements: Christmas Party Dec 3
Moleskin: As always, it’s an honor to lead you men. I appreciate every one of you guys.
MDub out
11 PAX came out to my debut Q at The Pub.
Obligatory announcements, Pledge
Roscoe held a solid pace around an 8:35 on Martha’s route, along with Waterboy, Defib, Radar and JJ. I picked up the 6(aka tried to keep up the whole time.
Oompa Loompa, Tube, Flintstone, Hermie, Linus and Bandit took a different route and met up with us for COT at the Pub.
COT Prayers :
Radar’s sister
Tube’s Daughter
I took one of many opportunities this week to request prayers for the Brock family. I have spent the last couple weeks meditating on the ways in which I take my health, family, belongings and even my life for granted.
As we approach the Thanksgiving holiday, I encourage everyone to take some portion of that time and spend it reflecting on those closest to you in your life….then tell them.
Try to incorporate as much gratitude into this time as you can and express it, even if it just means telling someone that you value them and that you appreciate that they’re a part of your life.
-Maybelline
5 PAX showed up in the gloom for a random assortment of Kettlebell work.
Kept it simple and called on the PAX for extra inspiration as needed towards the end.
Prayer Requests:
Radar’s sister
Nutria’s brother-in-law
Tube’s M
The Brock family
-Maybelline
Crossroads 11/20/22
15 including YHC made it to crossroads for a few miles, some more some less.
Prayers for all
Keep pushing Brother’s
Warm up: 15 x SSH; 15 x Toy Soldiers;
Mosey to Ida Rankin parking lot. Killer B’s: Bear Crawl, Broad Jumps, and Burpees
Mosey to Mt. Holly Middle School park benches.
Circled up for some Mary
COT
Thanksgiving is my wife’s favorite holiday. Like myself, my wife is a realist. If you ask, “Is the glass half empty or half full?” She would ask, “Well, did you pour into the cup or out of it?”. Okay, so – she’s not this bad (though, actually, I am). But it is because of this that we may not always appear to be thankful. But we really are, thankful for a lot of things.
1 Thessalonians 5:18 says, “Give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.”. This makes me think of Psalm 118:24 which says, “This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.” (Pentecostals have a song about this we used to sing when I was a kid). I heard a guy just yesterday saying in a store how he didn’t have anything to be thankful for. A guy passing said, “You’re alive aren’t you?” – to which he replied, “Barely”. While the guy seemed to be joking, I kind of felt sorry, or bad, for him.
I recently saw where an actor from my childhood recently committed suicide. People thought he had a lot going for him and he was an inspiration to many. We don’t always know what people are going through, or what they truly are thinking. If you ever need to talk to someone about anything (ANYTHING) seriously don’t hesitate to reach out.
For the lives of Christians it goes beyond giving thanks even while suffering. Another Psalm says, “Oh give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever!” Psalm 107:1. Another Pentecostal song is pulled from another Psalm that reads, “Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits, who forgives all your iniquity, who heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit, who crowns you with steadfast love and mercy, who satisfies you with good so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.”, Psalm 103:2-5. There’s so much to be thankful for here in these passages/promises.
Really, if you ever wonder why God is good to us, as undeserving as we are (speaking for myself of course) it’s actually pretty simple. Corinthians 9:11 reads, “You will be enriched in every way to be generous in every way, which through us will produce thanksgiving to God.”. God blesses us so we can bless others… one of those others is actually Him.
The true meaning of the word “Thanksgiving” is to glorify God as an act of worship, giving thanks for all the things God has provided (which is actually everything (including the air we’re breathing)). Even Webster’s definition of thanksgiving is, “a public acknowledgment or celebration of divine goodness. : the act of giving thanks. “Divine goodness”, even the world’s chief definer of things can’t deny who we are to be thankful to.
So, while Friend, Food, and Football are all causes for celebration (or feeling thankful for), let’s try to remember the true reason we’re on this earth. That’s to glorify and worship God, giving Him thanks for all he’s done, does, and will continue to do.
Announcements:
Prayer Requests:
6 runners and 4 ruckers for a sammich and cold one this morning. Runners took the JJ / Wachova route.
Prayers:
JJ’s aunts
Tube friend of friend Fentanyl OD
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