18 of The Fort’s finest runners posted to Laces In/Out this morning.  10 of those runners chose the “Do Not Run” option for a running-free boot camp beat down courtesy of YHC.

The Thang

COP — Mtn climbers, IWs, merkins, windmills, Moroccan night clubs

Karaoke to the playground

Elevens: derkins + dips

Elevens: sumo squats + calf raises

15 burpees OYO

6MoM — Adolf Hitlers, flutter kicks, Freddie Mercurys, Sea turtle (crowd pleaser), Hello dollies, Rosalitas, LBCs, Sea turtles (encore), Gravediggers R/L

Split into groups for pain stations:
Station 1: 10x Pull ups (any flavor)
Station 2: Donkey kicks / bomb jacks
Station 3: Swing crunches / swing derkins
(3 cycles through stations for all pax)

Bear crawl back to path (forward, backward or both)

Karaoke home

COT

Naked man moleskin

So the Laces In theme is supposed to be one that is friendly to “non-runners.”  As Green Wave testified during the Karaoke stretch home, all pax are runners at some level or another.  Starving the pax from a running segment or two proved the point.

Taking a fork in the road off Santini’s recent Q where he talked about F.E.A.R., we spent today focused on courage, in the form of “Don’t run.”  Leaders stand firm and don’t run from (insert: conflict, pain, suffering, emotions, bad behavior, people in need, etc).  I can’t count the number of times that I have “run” away from something that truly demanded my engagement.  It may have been in the form of slipping out of a room or failing to enter into a situation or avoiding a discussion topic or swallowing a comment/question/warning/word of advice for someone else or…the pax got the idea.  So today’s workout involved “relief” from running, but the challenge is to take that theme into daily life and commit to not running from where leadership is desperately needed.

Don’t forget about the 40 Day Challenge and bring your drinks and snacks to a workout for delivery to Children’s Attention Home.  If you missed out on the start of the 40 Day Challenge, it is not too late to get involved.  The 20 Day Challenge can start today!

As always, thanks to the site Q, Twister, for inviting me to lead, and thanks to the pax for laying it all out there today.