It’s become somewhat of a tradition that if there’s going to be an F3 meeting of some sort, ya might as well put a workout before it. Not sure if this is to slide another workout in on the hall pass issued by the M for the meeting, or if because meetings are more productive after everyone has been physically beat down. Regardless, Run ‘n Gun is probably the most popular pre-meeting workout, give it’s time of day and day of week. So, when YHC pinged Corruption about who was on Q for a pre-SiteQ Meeting workout at Run ‘n Gun, he’s response was “You are.” Guess I should have saw that one coming. And I actually solicited the help of CakeBoss to make it a co-Q.

As CakeBoss and I each arrived at the workout, we were delighted (not really) to see we had worn the exact same hi-viz yellow F3 shirt, and black shorts. “Twinsies!!” we shrieked in unison and ran to hug each other (again, not really).

The Thang

1815 hit, and a total of 8 pax were ready to go. Weather was very pleasant…cooler than the previous few days, which was nice. CakeBoss gave the disclaimer, and we were off running the trail in the woods. We moseyed down the path to the pond for COP.

-SSHs
-Squats
-Imperial walkers
-Merkins
-Hillbilly Walkers

Mosey to top of Street
-Plank Series

Mosey to School for handoff to OldBay. We gathered in the front of the school where two cones had been placed, about 70 yards apart (down the stretch of the student drop-off path).

Partner up, size doesn’t matter. Partner 1 was to do a moving exercise from one cone to the second, while partner 2 did a stationary exercise. Once partner 1 reached the second cone, he ran a loop back to the first cone. Also during this time, partner 2 started the moving exercise. Once partner 1 got back from his loop run, he started on the stationary exercise until partner 2 got back.

For the first round, the moving exercise was: 1 pair of lunges, 1 broad jump, 1 burpee. Then 2 of each, then 3…and so on until the second cone was reached (most pax got to about 7 before they reached the second cone). The stationary exercises was plank punches.

Switch back to CakeBoss for a variety of stationary partner exercises in the grass.
-20 Partner Derkins
-20 Partner Leg raises
-20 Partner merkin/squats

Switch back to OldBay for round 2 of the exercise done before. Moving exercise was the same, but the stationary exercise was more of a variety:

-20 Monkey Humpers
-20 Box cutters
-20 Dry Docks
-20 Deep Squats
-20 Plank Jacks
-20 Apolo Ohno
-20 Chop Sticks
-LBCs until the 6 came in.

Time was nearly up, so we headed back to COT. Had to end a little early on account of the SiteQ meeting.

Naked Man Moleskin
Run-N-Gun is a great AO, not only because the terrain is so diverse, but also because it is TheFort’s only non-morning workout. If you’ve not made time to post to RNG, let me strongly recommend you find some time in your schedule and do so. Better yet, tell Corruption (via Slack) you want to get on his Q schedule.

During the workout, I mentioned a Bible chapter we recently read in our “1 Year Through The Bible” group. 1 Corinthians 15 talks about “dead” seeds growing into living, renewed bodies – bodies that we won’t have any idea what will look like until that time. If we take that same concept and apply it to the seeds of Christ’s message that we cast in peoples lives, we also quickly discover that we don’t have any idea how those seeds will grow. After I accepted Christ in college, I returned home and very much wanted my two closest friends back there to have the same relationship with the Lord. I began casting seeds, with a pretty specific plan in mind of how they would grow. But they didn’t follow the path I had planned. Not even close, as a matter of fact. It was disappointing, but God had other plans. During the brief times we had together (college was far from home), I continued to cast seeds, and pray.

I believe that’s what God wants us to do: keep sharing his message and his love through our words and our deeds (casting seeds) and let him take care of the germination. In the case of my two hometown buddies, both of them are now strong followers of Christ, and I feel like I had nothing to do with it. Perhaps some of the seeds I casted helped in some small way…15 years later than I had planned, but exactly the timing God had planned!

Excellent work by all pax today. Thanks, Corruption, for allowing us to Q!