Shovel Flag Handoff @ The Deep

What a day!

This morning was a beautiful sight to see.  30 men came out to see the passing of the shovel flag from YHC to O’Reilly.  I have been lucky enough to call myself Site Q of The Deep since March(?) 2018 and have loved every minute of it.  When I was first asked to take over by Royale, I said yes without hesitation.  I didn’t know it at the time, but running this site was going to instrumental to my growth as a leader within our F3 region and in my personal life.  I remember when I first took over as Site-Q, there were Saturday’s that I wouldn’t make it out and just chalked it up to work the night before.  But it wasn’t long before I got my mindset on being present and taking on my leadership role.  When Royale asked me to take on being Site-Q, he didn’t want someone to just make a schedule and be absent.  So I changed work schedules accordingly and even if for some reason I had to work the night before; I still made it out the next morning.

Thanks to everyone that stepped up to Q during my tenure.  Without you, The Deep wouldn’t be where it is today.

The Thang:

Disclaimer for our 4 FNGs and the PAX.  Mosey across to the Elementary School.  COP exercises included: SSHs, Windmills, Moroccan Night Clubs, Merkins, Flutters and Mountain Climbers.  Maybe some other stuff but I forgot.

Shakespeare’s Q- Playground Dora

PAX partnered up.  100 pull ups, 200 Squats, 300 Freddie Mercury.  1 PAX work and other made a run around the playground area.  Swap on return.

O’Reilly’s Q- Track Work

PAX got into 4 groups and lined up on the track.  Each group took off and ran approx. 100M.  After the run, PAX completed various amounts of exercises as a group and then lined up for the next run/exercise.  It started as a slow mosey for 100M but it soon turned into a sprinting race between Witch Hunt and Two Ferns.  Which then turned into Witch Hunt, Two Ferns, Flux, Shakespeare, John Wick, and Wolverine… and some others… but they were behind me so I wouldn’t know.

Exercises after the run included (in no particular order): 50 Merkins, 50 Lunges, 50 Bomb Jacks, 50 squat jumps… and stuff like that.  You’d have to ask O’Reilly what he wrote on his Weinke.  I don’t remember.  I just remember doing all the exercises and reps.

NameORama and Ball of Man at the end.

Announcements (all in the past now)

Prayers- For our brother Riverboat who passed the night before.  He was Godly man who ministered the Word until his last moment.  Fighting a brain tumor and multiple recurrences of this over the years; he never wavered in his Belief.  We were lucky to have him come towards the end of a workout at The Deep and give him his name.  He prayed over us that day.  Riverboat will be missed on Earth; but we all know where he is and there is absolutely no doubt about it.

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I love Wednesday’s NOW!

Today was a Good Day at Shipwrecked! 20 Strong (14 Mod and 6 HIT) Wolverine and I were on Q. I was leading my First Mod Workout at the Newly named AO Shipwrecked and Wolverine was leading the High Intense (HIT) portion. We split up and I took the Mod group for a short mosey and circled up for some basic COP exercises. Started off with SSH’s with the intention to show the Mod version for those wanting a little less impact on there joints but forgot (my bad) but they handled it perfectly. Lots of new faces in the crowd so I talked a little about the 5 Core Principles and about my thoughts on why we modify. Some people have different thoughts on how and why or when to modify and that is fine but I shared my thoughts (I don’t know your injuries, basically do the best you can, better yourself, don’t hurt yourself and you don’t have to impress me!)

We then began the Thang: I set up 4 corner stations with Cones on the track. Each corner station had a list of 3 low to non-impact stations such as Squats, Lunges, Flutters, Leg Lifts, Big Boys, Calf Raises and even a Kettlebell Station to Promote Cannonball of course! After 3 laps we were cutting it close on time due to the workout being 30 min so we mosey’d to the upper parking lot and finished with some Planks and Al Gore’s till the HIT group came back. I squeezed in a quick plug for my Marriage Class I am leading before they HIT group filled in place. Wolverine yelled at me lol.

Welcome FNG Chimichanga! he finally came out.

Rest of Announcements (Invergence – Royal said to GO!, Convergence the day after it, C2 Race)
Prayers and Praises (Mr. Belding praised the F3 School Prayer)

Like I said earlier—–Today was a Good Day!

Coffeeteria was on point also and the Nitro is for REAL!

Two Ferns, always a Pleasure to Lead!

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