The heavens burst forth this morning.
5 PAX gathered in truly gloom 41 degree weather. At about 0520, the rain really poured for about 10 minutes and then let off to only a solid shower.
YHC modified my plan with the rain. I really just tried to warm us up (literally and figuratively) under some cover. Then we braved out into the rain. We stopped occasionally for exercises. I was flying a bit of the cuff among the exercises I called in cadence in various locations:
- SSH
- Merkins
- Bulgarian Split Squats
- Mountain Climbers
- Imperial Walkers and Hillbilly Walkers
- Squats
- Inverted Merkins (from BTTW position)
- Derkins
- More Derkins in a different spot
- More Bulgarian Split Squats
- Pull-ups – called up and down
- Toes to bar – called up and down
- Burpee Pull-ups (8 count)
- that was “fun”
- Pistol Squat with a poll for support
- we only did 3 each leg, relax
- A few wall sits in different places
- Tibialis Raises (thanks River Rat)
- these don’t look hard, but DANG
OYO we did deconstructed burpees towards the end. I think we hit about 15-20 before 0600
Kaiser asks for the Q to bring a scripture. Since I’ve been working on a Bible-In-One-Year plan, I recently read the beginning of Malachi. Chapter 2, Verse 3 really hit me. “Because of you I will rebuke your descendants; I will smear on your faces the dung from your festival sacrifices, and you will be carried off with it.”
How do we setup our children for failure with God?
How were we set up by our forefathers for failure?
How is the $!.^ from our celebrations rubbed back into our faces? Or are the very things we try to offer up to God as a showcase of our faithfulness sent back to us as markers of our inadequacies?
I was also really glad for the rain this morning. To think that even though we may have dung smeared on our face, God send a rain like we had this morning to wash it away. We just have to be brave enough to go outside and tolerate it.
An honor to lead. And an honor to have 4 other PAX there in the inclement gloom to share the morning with. I know for a FACT, I would not have done very much without the other men around me this morning. Instead my heart rate monitor said we torched about 700 calories.
Also wanted to share that on the pull-up bars my phone randomly began playing Juliet’s Death from Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet. It’s a trombone choir arrangement. Here it is for your listening pleasure: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkDK2L9mpBY Listen especially to the chord circa 30 seconds in and then the resolution around 57 seconds in. Try hanging from a pull-up bar at that moment and contemplating Malachi…..maybe it wasn’t random that my phone started playing that.
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Band Camp dismissed