Fitness, Fellowship, Faith
Disclaimer:
Pledge:
Announcements:
6/22 Tubing event
6/22 – F3 Dad’s / Gashouse
6/29 – Convergence Gashouse
Concerns:
Oompa Loompa and family
Summer Vacations and Graduate’s
Roscoe’s family friend Heather / Loss of son and mother
The Thang:
Run route backwards. 373.22% elevation difference. Oompa and myself with some great mumble-chatter, hoping the buzzards were not circling for us.
Aye….Linus
10 men this morning.
We ran.
Pledge
COT
Annoucements: Speed for Need race this Saturday, Memorial Day Murph, half marathon in October, Christmastown 5k in November, upcoming Ragnar race.
Prayer requests: teachers and students, Breaker Breaker’s daughter for safe travels, Broke’s family, each other.
BOM: YHC took us out in prayer.
Philippians 4:13
Huckleberry
No need for Sammiches this morning, 11 HIMs got it done at The Pub! . To start out the SOGA Run/Ruck Challenge, 11 men put in some miles running. The route used was simple, out to Martha’s and back. There was a sighting of the other band of misfits. Good work by all today.
Announcements: Mt. Mitchell Hike 5/5, SFN Run in Belmont 5/25. Memorial Day Murph 5/27
Prayer Request
Nameorama
Appreciate the honor to lead today.
Sister Act
9 PAX came out to the preeminent Thursday morning SOGA F3 Gastonia AO to push the rock. All gave max effort. Some ran far enough to see the second best Thursday morning SOGA F3 Gastonia AO in action. One even took part in their workout briefly before pushing the rock all the way back to The Pub.
Announcements
2nd F – Lewis Farm (already happened)
Cinco de Mitchell – 5/5 – meet at GSM global headquarters at 0530
Speed for Need – Belmont – May
Prayer Requests
Time Frame’s M’s Aunt’s family
Sargento’s Mother in Law
Just Truett’s nephew @ Fort Jackson – Josh Price
Sister Act’s 2.0’s birthday
Prayer
Until next week…
11 showed for the Ruck Run Uphill partner carry rinse and repeats.
The Thang:
We ran 5 miles, some did a little less but made it happen.
The Moleskin:
Obviously, the coolest and toughest workout on Thursdays with a great group of men. Even though Goat Island had 17 for SA.
Prayers
Gastone Out
9 PAX posted to the preeminent Thursday morning SOGA F3 Gastonia AO on a great morning for a run.
The Disclaimer w/ the details on the route. Runs towards Snoballs. Run half as far as you want to go, then turn around and come back.
The Pledge.
The mosey.
Some ran fast.
Some ran faster.
Some left gifts.
Not sure that any of the PAX actually saw any Sammich’s so can’t really verify they were doing anything.
Announcements
3rd F at New Covenant (at this point, has already happened)
Community Foundation Run (at this point, still hasn’t happened) (see The Pub twitter account for details)
Cinco de Mitchell on 5/5
Prayer Requests
Leppard’s M’s surgery
Gastone’s dad
Prayer
Stay thirsty my friends…
Every day is a blessing from God. We should all stop at the start of each day and be grateful for that. The fact the PAX had the scheduled Q show up was definitely a blessing from God. YHC had set his alarm the night before in anticipation of having Q the next day. However , YHC never heard that alarm because my phone had gone dead overnight. Only by that previously mentioned blessing from the good Lord did I wake up on my own 4 minutes after the alarm should have went off. Even though I was only four minutes behind, it still seemed to add a sense of urgency to YHC trying to get out the door.
I took that same urgency with me as I flew into the parking lot and rushed to get the shovel flag out. There was a good crowd of PAX waiting including Tool Time. It was good to see him out at The Pub. With a minute left before the 0530 launch, YHC called out the route for the anxious PAX. However, my brain was still a little scattered so I took us back in time and may have referenced a turn at the Wachovia. One of those days…
0530, let’s get going so the mumble chatter about my slip up would cease
The Pledge
Mosey
Mosey down Armstrong Park Rd towards the Gaston Mall
Left on Perry St across from A Dogs World
Right on Lee St
Left on New Hope towards the Target/Toys R Us shopping center
Right on Armstrong Park Dr at the Wachovia (if you make it to the Nations Bank building, you’ve gone too far)
Right on Armstrong Park Rd (not left towards Media Play)
Mosey back to Lowe’s Foods
Announcements
9/22 West Virginia Run – I believe Half Marathon, 10k, 5k – see Sargento for details
4/12 3rd F
4/13 Community Foundation Run
5/5 Mt Mitchell
Prayer Requests
Tool Time 2.0 and son-in-law – travel/move
Sargento – Mother-in-law
Gastone – Father
Close in Prayer
Until next time…
We kept it real. We kept it simple. We kept it real simple. We ran.
But first, we said The Pledge.
Then we ran to Snoball’s and back.
Sister Act outpaced YHC so bad that by the time I got back, he’d already jumped into the phone booth and changed into his customary COT polo. Somebody has to bring some class to this joint.
Announcements
Convergence at Folsom 3/30
2nd F at Old Dallas Brewery
3rd F 4/12
Community Foundation Run 4/13
Sparky’s M’s school’s 5k 5/5 (Friday evening)
Prayer Requests
Defib’s son
Gastone’s father
Close in Prayer
Until next time…
It was a very mild morning in which there was finally no rain on a Thursday. YHC pulled into The Pub parking lot to find Stroganoff taking part in a one-man LBC challenge. YHC was talking with a new PAX that had previously done F3 in Greenville when Roscoe and Gastone came running up after some EC.
As I was detailing the route (to Snoballs and back), Roscoe gave the word that is was 0530 and time to go.
The Pledge
We ran out and then ran back.
Annoucements
3/30 Convergence at Folsem (0700), Latini run, and 2nd F that evening
4/12 3rd F
4/13 Community Foundation Run
5/5 Mt Mitchell
Prayer Requests
Just Truett Baby due
Gastone’s dad
P200 runners
Prayer
Just know that when you run, when you post, when you push the rock that someone may be watching. Just Truett had posted in Greenville so he was familiar with F3. Through Strava, he saw that there were other runners running in the area. There’s nothing like the encouragement from your brothers in the gloom to push you to be your best.
Until next time…
So the temps were low but the spirits were high as 9 men showed up for what was to be an epic morning run.
JJ placed the American Flag at about 0528 as the remaining PAX assembled beside the numerous Ford trucks in the lot.
At 0529 the Q took over and announced the route. Gaston Day School Road, left on that road before New Hope (right after the row of Arborvitaes), right on Lee, left on New Hope, Right on Armstrong Park Drive, right on Armstrong Park Road which turns into Gaston Day School Road again.
We started at 0530 with a brisk pace. YHC had the holeshot at the start but Diva, Gastone, Sister Act, and Monk put an end to that and started the breakaway.
Monk was being chased by YHC and Stroganoff. At Armstrong Park Drive and New Hope there was someone waking and baking in their car and it took about 100 yards to get the putrid stench out of the air. (Where is Defib’s great smelling laundered clothes when you need them?) Stroganoff was tired of running slow and passed YHC and Monk.
Clavin was pushing the rock and styling in his custom USPS running vest.
When we got back to start, Sister Act was already changed and ready for work. When everyone returned we finished up with the Pledge, announcements, and prayer requests and the flock of men gave great praise to the Q for coming up with such an original route to run.
Announcements: Gashouse Convergeance/4 year Anniversary at Folsom March 30th.
Mount Mitchell Hike in May (Gastone QIC)
Community Foundation Run April 13th
Prayer Requests: Blades and Stones, each other (the PAX)
Always a pleasure. Keep getting in that P200 training!
Roscoe
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