The virtual shovelflag* was planted and 10 faithful headed into the Gloom at 0530**

The Thang

Circumnavigate campus 2x

COP –  SSHx9; SSHx11; Squatx20; IWx9; MCx11;

Crazy 8s – Partner Up – Partner 1 runs an 8 pattern loop around the church and parking lot while Partner 2 does 8 reps of 4 exercises – Merkans; LBCs; Squats and Burpees.  Rinse and repeat 8 times.

6MOM – Hello Dolliesx20; Freddie Mercuriesx9; Mercury Freddiesx11; High Slow Flutterx9; Low Flutterx11; Right Oblique Vupsx9; Left Oblique Vupsx11; Queen Victoriasx9; Russian Twistx11

Jump the fence to the Astroturf; Pusharama COP – Diamondsx9; Widearmsx11; Stagger Leftx5; Stagger rightx4;

Gravel Lot Jacob’s Ladder – 9 Merkans at the top; 11 squats at the bottom

Naked Man Moleskin

*@F3Rader has the AoP shovelflag and is making some black market improvements to make it bad to the bone.  All he asks is that AoP PAX make a small donation to the F3 Foundation, which can be done very easily by clicking on the Donate button on the front page of the website.

** AoP will now officially be at 0530 every Wednesday.

Moving tribute to 9/11 this morning.  Started with a moment of silence to honor the fallen and ended with a resolution.  As I looked around the PAX gathered in the Gloom at the COT, I marveled that these are the men who would have made a difference if they had been in the Towers or on those planes that day.  We all called out where we were when we found out about the towers.  Remembering watching the tv as the second plane hit, I thought back to all the emotions that ran through me for the rest of that day – confusion, anger, fear, patriotism, empathy and a certain degree of not knowing what to do.  I was in the Bank of America Corporate Center at the time, so we were evacuated not long after the second plane hit, and as the realization hit that we were being evacuated because our building could be the next target, all those aforesaid feelings got cranked up to peak levels.  I specifically remember all the things I made a resolution in my mind to do that day so that I would live my life more intentionally and with no regrets, so that if something similar were to happen in the future, that I would have no regrets – that I would be a better Dad, Husband, Brother, Son, Employee and all around man; that I would put together an emergency action plan with my family and would have mechanisms in place to take care of them in case I didn’t come home; that I would wake up each morning thanking God for the day and would look for ways to live it to the fullest; that I would be a kind, gentle and strong Man of God.  Its been 12 years since that day and there have been numerous days where I haven’t done any of the foregoing and have in fact done the exact opposite.  But that’s the reason why we have anniversaries – so that on special days we remember who we are called to be and we get the motivation to do all the things we have been meaning to do.  So today, 10 PAX decided to Never Forget the men and women and families who were adversely impacted on 9/11, by resolving to make a positive impact upon the world by intentionally living out our faith and doing all of those things that have been put in our hearts to do.

Little Mike Out.