Our beloved Gran-tan (SPAN-tan?) gently requested last night that we not get in the grass at the park this am. I adjusted my weinke accordingly… He brought an FNG with him, so I can’t help but accommodate. I love naming FNGs… I’ll explain why later…

Per the title of this post, there were also no burpees, this was by request of myself to myself. Last week at the BRR, I had to drive instead of run because of persistent knee issues, and Zima said I should still have to do something CSAUP, so I did 1000 burpees over the course of the race. Yeah, I don’t need to see a burpee again for a little while…

The Thang:
0700 rolled around and eleven gentlemen joined me in getting to work. We did a quick lap around the park and at the drill bits we did some dynamic warmups, as well as some tried and true favorites. We pulled our knees up to our chest, did toy soldiers, there were windmills, merkins, SSHs, and a couple others.

Then, we ran up Ardrey St. to the Church of the Nazarene. Looks like people are meeting, so we wont use the steps after all…
– Partner up and wheelbarrow from one end of parking lot to the other. Then switch and head back.
– Our next bit of fun was to burpee broad jump from one end to the other and run it back. (Ok, I guess I lied about no burpees, there were like 8 – 10 burpees depending on how far you can jump)
– One more round of wheelbarrows (switch up partners) and then it was time to mosey again…

We took a right out of the parking lot and then ran down and turned left on Massey St. and ran to the Sisk Memorial Baptist Church lot. Then we partnered up again and did a 100 Merkin cumulative…
– Partner 1 runs from one end of the lot and back while Partner 2 does Merkins. Switch until you reach a total of 100… LBCs until the 6 gets in…
That was quick, but it was time to mosey again.

Run down Massey St. until we get to the big lot across from the gun shop at the top of the big hill. This next part was just plain dumb… Maybe a touch CSAUP?
– Bear crawl the length of the lot, then Crawl Bear (Backwards Bear Crawl) back to the other end. This sucked, incidentally.
– Partner up again (same guy if you’d like) and it was time to attack the hill.
– Partner 1 runs down the hill and back up while Partner 2 does squats – cumulatively hit 200
– Finish with the 6…

Next, we all headed down the hill and took a left and then stopped again at the next lot on the left.
– Have a seat on the wall. One 10 count, 30 air presses, and recover and shake it out…
– Sit back on the wall. Three 10 counts and a lot of mumble chatter and recover.
– One more sit on the wall, and by special request from Quack Attack, we did one-legged wall sits for a 10 count on each leg.

Time to mosey again, back to where we started. Hotty Totty (13) had never led any exercises before, so he led us in a little Mary (American Hammers and Flutter Kicks) to finish things up. He did a great job.

COT – Lots of prayers for family and friends who are in need. Prayers for Gears’ MIL, for Felipe that CSPAN met in Colombia, for Clark Kent and his M on the birth of baby #1, and plenty of others spoken and unspoken. Guys… The COT is our time to share a little of our soul. A time to put what’s on your heart out to your brothers and to get help from them and from SkyQ. Prayer works. It’s that simple. Let your brothers shoulder the burden with you and add their faith to yours to help get you through. Take advantage of this time! Remember what they say, “A burden shared is half a burden, a joy shared is twice the joy.”

NMM:
Some things…
1. I do love naming FNGs. While we were out running around, I told the fellas why… It may be lame, or weird, or whatever, but I hold the F3 name a little bit sacred. Yes, it’s supposed to be a little terrible. That’s part of the fun (ask Electric Mayhem in Savannah, or Short Shorts in Lake Wylie). Yes, the longer the stream of consciousness to get there, the better the story you get to tell. Having a name that’s a little terrible is part of the collective suffering that bonds us so tightly. But it’s more than all that, too. For me (not to wax too dramatic or anything), the F3 name marks a line of delineation between the person you were and the beginning of the journey of who you are striving now to become. You leave the Sad Clown behind and start anew as a High Impact Man. So I take the naming of an FNG very seriously… My Dark Helmet self is a far better man than my Frank Schwartz self was on his own. Ask my wife and kids… They will tell you without hesitation. So, let there be no doubt about how desperately we want you to let it motivate you to return and join us regularly in the gloom. You will be a better man if you post. Period. You will push yourself past what you thought you could physically, mentally, and spiritually, and that is what this world needs more than anything else. Men who are not afraid to push past comfort to make IMPACT. The workout is the training ground for that type of toughness.
2. Don’t make comments about Tesh naked.
3. If you thought it looked too far to bear crawl, it isn’t. But it might be too far to do backwards.
4. Pesanka is fast. And yes, even at bear crawling.

That’s all for now… Helmet, out.