YHC was excited about the opportunity to lead at the Reservation. Thanks to Atlas as the Site Q for the offer. YHC was so excited that I asked Menthol to join me. We also picked up Trucker for a solid clown car and away we went!

When given the opportunity to lead the Reservation on 9/10, I was immediately hit by the significance of the 15 year anniversary of 9/11 the following day. There are few moments in history where you remember the exact date, time and location of an event and 9/11 stands out among those. As Menthol and I began to prepare the Weinke, we were also reminded that my new high school freshman daughter was not alive for this event. This is both a fortunate and unfortunate scenario in my mind.

Fortunately, she will never know the many emotions of someone who was thousands of miles away from NY and DC much less the terror and heartache of the men and women who died or lost loved ones on that day. The vivid memories of the towers falling, men and women jumping from the towers, people covered in ashes and the fear of where would the next attack be are cemented in my mind from that day. I remember the face of George W as he sat in that classroom when given the news. I think of my friend, Rob, who was a volunteers fireman in NJ who was called into duty with no specifics, no cell phone coverage and no idea if he would ever see his family again. I hope and pray that my kids never have to see this.

Unfortunately, she may never see how our country rallied around these events either. As we sit here 15 years later, our country appears splintered into many different factions described by adverbs that provide irrations to some other faction. She may never feel the pride of all of the heroic acts that were committed by our first responders, our military and even average joes like you and me. It was a time when we put aside our differences and worked together for the common good. This is the backbone of our country. It is my job as a parent to teach her this!

The Thang

For the entire hour, each man took turns running the flag around the parking lot of IL Elementary. It was a beautiful sight to see the flag blowing in breeze and the pride each man felt as he handed it off to another.

Mosey around the lot

COP

Each exercise in either 9 or 11s

Merkins

Mtn. Climbers

Windmills

Merkins

IWs

SSH

Squats

SSH

Mosey over for Dirty McDeuce

9 Exercises with 11 Reps

Peoples Chair

Handoff to Menthol

Peoples Chair

Sprint sequence X 3

SSH x 119

Windmills

SSH x 119

Squats

SSH x 70′

Mosey to pick up the flag

Six minutes of Mary

Moleskin

Yeah, we did a workout and yeah it was a great group of men and yeah I love seeing the guys in IL but today was different. Maybe it wasn’t as “different” or memorable like 9/11/2001 but it felt a little different than a normal Saturday. Isn’t that what F3 is all about?

Read your newsletter. Old Bay and Gears work really hard to put that together and we are blessed to have them.

Meet me at the Invergence on 9/30 at the ASC Greenway at 6 PM. I promise it will be worth your time. Here is the pre-blast http://f3nation.com/2016/08/28/pre-blast-4th-annual-fort-mill-invergence/