Well, after very active Valentine’s Day celebrations there were 6 HIMs in need of recovery Saturday morning. Almost 3 miles of ground covered, all while actively obeying traffic laws to ensure we did not have another run in with local law enforcement.
20 posted for a Saturday afternoon game day at the Children’s attention home. The boys were already playing basketball before we got started, but they still had some energy to burn. So, we did a slow mosey/walk to the field up the street from CAH and got to it. Here is what we did:
The Thang:
Mini- COP
SSH x 20, merkin x 10, windmill x 10, squat x 10, mountain climber x 10
We split the group up and played a friendly, but competitive game of kickball. There were some good plays, some not-so-good plays, but we all had a lot of fun on a beautiful, late afternoon spring day. I think the score was 8-7, but it wasn’t important who won the game. The time we spent together, getting to know each other better and learning from each other, was what it was about.
Welcome FNG/Trek Star who is a friend of Man of Steel (my son), and also, who we found out today, a neighbor of NASA’s. He said that he enjoyed himself today and wants to come again. I was very happy to hear that and hope that he can join us any time we come to CAH.
I told the boys about a news story I saw this week about a high school boy named Gerald Hodges who swam for his high school swim team in Texas. It’s an amazing story about a young athlete, who could have easily played for just about any sport team at his school. But instead, chose to join the school swim team. Gerald could barely swim, but decided to join the swim team because he wanted to learn how to handle failure if it happened (it didn’t). Being able to handle failures and learn from them, Gerald thought, would make him successful. This to me, was an incredibly mature thing for an 18 year old to do, and was a powerful message for anyone. The link to this story is below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0tjVEncJyg
My thanks to NASA for the invitation to Q. I have been absent from the CAH for too long and plan on getting there more regularly this year.
It’s exciting! Something about Qing The Fort is just exciting. It was YHC’s (Zima) first post almost 4 years ago. It was my first VQ warmup (w/ CSPAN and Audit..no pressure). And it’s the perfect location to bring guys from all sides of town together..to sweat…to sharpen…to get better.
Disclaimer: Sasquatch has been on the IR with an achilles injury. Zima has been on the IR with a rotator cuff injury. Chances are you might not get your money’s worth. If you wanted to get a good beatdown go to Alcatraz. If you wanted to play soccer go to the Deep.
However, Sasquatch and YHC don’t let something like this get in the way. We embrace it and work around it. We conspired to deliver a beatdown that ensured afternoon naps.
THANG
Sasquatch on Q
Mosey to Anchorman’s Cones (Thanks Anchorman)
Dynamic Warmup (from one side of cones to the other)
Circle Up for COP
Mosey to Playground
Zima on Q
Mosey to the base of the cones for some Dora 3-2-1 (Reverse Dora). Partner Up! One partner runs (50 yds out and back) while the other completes the exercise.
Mosey to statue hill for Quadzilla (see: Quadraphilia in the #lexicon). YHC sets timer for 4 (actually 5) minutes and PAX run uphill backwards and downhill forwards until time called. It’s a quad killer.
Mosey back to the cones for…
Suicides; however you need to do the following exercise at the beginning and then every time you reach the “baseline”.
With just a few minutes left we finished with SSH IC X25 and then American Hammers IC X20 or 25 (Can’t remember). Clean up the cones and mosey to the parking lot for COT.
Moleskin
It’s frustrating having an injury. We should do well to lift up the many PAX dealing with injuries, because it can drive a #HIM crazy. Fortunately for Sasquatch and YHC, we can modify and work around what ails us. For others it might not be as easy or the injury may be too severe. All this to say if you know a PAX in this predicament, shoot them an uplifting text, give them a call or meet them for lunch.
Tclaps to all the PAX who put in the work this AM. There was a lot of meat in today’s workout and we tried to keep things moving at all times (see: move with a purpose). It seemed we needed to push a little harder this AM to let the other (Paid) workout folks (about 20 of them) at WEP know this wasn’t your ordinary workout. These were guys getting after it and leaving it all out on the field. That and it’s always fun to chase Longshanks. One day man…one day. Here are the rest of my notes.
Prayers and Praises
Announcements
Always an Honor!
Zima & Sasquatch
The past few weeks have been anything but typical for me. Laid off from my job and then I planned to do a road trip which turned into the road trip from hell in many ways. But God was and is faithful and I made it back home safely and was able to get some drugs in that helped start the recovery process. That being said, I wasn’t sure about my q coming up for the first time at The Fort. But I had just qed at Laces In with the same illness, but didn’t know it. So I figured let’s go for it. About five minutes into COP I thought I might have made a serious mistake, but thanks to the many mercies of God I made it through.
COP was a bit of a blur but it included your typical:
SSH
Imperial Walkers
Hillbilly Walkers
Merkins
Windmills (slowly)
Moroccan Nightclub
After COP we made our way up the parking lot Springs Industries to find a nice flat spot where we could hang out for a while.
The next thing that followed was my theft of Union County (NC)’s Mindcrime’s invention. At center do five burpees, run, to one end and do ten merkins, come back to center, five burpees, run to the other end and do ten LBCs. Repeato until you’ve done ten rounds of ten merkins and ten LBCs. This quickly started to suck in the soup that is South Carolina in August. There was much hatechatter against the q, which makes me very happy and I know you’re working.
After much hate mumblechatter we stopped for a breather to talk about discipline and got a good word about how that ties into being a disciple both of our Lord and of life and making a difference in our own lives so we can make a difference in our families and our world. Aye!
Next up Cindy showed her ugly face and we made our way to the wall where much standing around was seen and some work was put in. Cindy went like this: ten merkins, ten dips and ten squats (or at least I think it was squats. Haven’t gotten my nap in yet). Go until q calls time!
Jekyll was threatening a coup so I wrapped up the sweat fest and we went into some stretching, weird yoga moves and other things to distract you from the fact that I just made you burn off a lot of calories.
Welcome Iron Man to F3 Nation! Thank you sir for your service to our country and for checking out F3 one day while at the park. Great first post!
Be sure to read the newsletter and keep up with all that’s going on at The Fort.
Thank you Bonsai for the chance to lead and I hope I gave you your money’s worth. As in time is money and I hope it was well worth your time.
DT out.