WARMUP: Chatter
THE THANG: Out and Back – Munn Harris under 77 up Sam Smith to Sutton down 6th Baxter and back.
MARY: Nah
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Yup
COT: Fantastic
WARMUP: SSH, Low slow squat, windmills, imperial walkers, merkins
THE THANG: Line it up!
40 Yards of MOT, 60 yards sprint
1. Bear Crawls
2. Lunge walks
3. high knees
4. broad jumps
5. bear crawls
In between rounds, 15 Hand release merkins, 20 squats, 25 CDDs, 30 shoulder taps, 35sec plank
Pauly D – 50 yards + sprint of 50
1. NUR
2. Jog
Jack Webb from 1 to 10
1 Merkin, 4 hand claps
all the way to 10 merkins, 40 handclaps, baby!
Sevens – Apollo Onos, Leg raises.
The flag was passed, another man grows!
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Congrats Pauly D
COT:
WARMUP: Yea, this is important.
SSH
IW
HW
Plank sequence
Included some dynamic stretching
THE THANG:
String of Pearls
5 burpees
10 merkins
15 squats
20 lunges
25 ……. something
added an exercises each stop. (e.g., first stop = burpees only, second stop = burpees and merkins, etc.)
the 25 rep count was one of the previous exercises. So, when we found the literal end of the road it was stop 5 and we did:
5-burpees
10-merkins
15-squats
20-lunges
25-burpees in cadence
Next end of the road stop was
5-burpees
10-merkins
15-squats
20-lunges
25-merkins
Ran out of time before finding all the ends of the road.
MARY: did imperial squat walkers at COT for the 6….that’s kinda a core exercise, right?
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Food Drive happening now. Thanksgiving Convergence at the Ranch
COT: was held
NMM:
When you find yourself at the end of the road, your left with the same resources that got you there. Gotta use them to get moving again!
I heard a reference to a “second starting” line in terms of my mammon (teaching music). That is: once we learn the notes and rhythms, there’s a second starting line. We’re finally ready to make art rather than simply craft.
When you hit end of a road, turn around and think of it as the second starting line. Ain’t nothing to it, but to do it.
WARMUP: not on the books
THE THANG: run to Callahan Street and back
MARY: not enough time
ANNOUNCEMENTS: https://mailchi.mp/c5bc4e848d5d/lorrorq9g6-13584702
COT: was held
WARMUP: The usual suspects
THE THANG: Jacket-Dirty-Mile
4 laps around FMHS track… 3 “excursions”/lap
– Up & down Railings of Home side bleachers (so… up, over, down, over, up, over, down…and rejoin track)
– East end zone — 10 inverted rows on Football team “apparatus”
– West end zone – Nur up hill…. crawl-bear down.
When 4 laps done… dealer’s choice on how to finish: Yog… or continue pattern. Most continued.
MARY: Partner – 1 Pax holds 6″ / other pax slaloms feet over (10x each side)… flapjack
Ab-Lab w/ Circle of Hate: Pax calls out exercise for others to do while he bear-crawls or Lunge walks around perimeter.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: FMCC Food Drive, Operation Love Turkey collection, other newsletter stuff
COT: Held (5th core principle)
WARMUP: SSH, Wind Mills, MNC, overhear claps
THE THANG: run a 1/4 mile loop around the parking lot stopping at 4 corners for 10 merkins at each merking. Then, everytime we finish a lap, we have a board of pain with different upper body exercises. Do the first exercise after the first lap, do the first and second exercise after the second lap, and so on. End it up with 220 merkins and a bunch of arms amd upper busy exercises using Cinder blocks in some of them.
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:
Loops around Gardenia. Oof!
WARMUP:
Handful of exercises to loosen up
THE THANG:
4 corners of exercises with 20 as rep number
5 exercises at each corner 3 rounds each with lap between rounds
MARY:
Flutters, Hello Dollys, big boys
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Read newsletter
Christmas party
COT:
Praying for Men to lead their families well
WARMUP: no warmup, just run!!
THE THANG: OG Whitegrove
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Christmas party, it’s never too cold out to post
COT:
WARMUP: Disclaimer and Pledge duly pronounced
THE THANG: 1 mile loop (rectangle) with an exercise at each corner.
Up Massey, right on Harris, right on Ardrey, right on 160
Burpees x10
Hand release merkins x10
Apollo ono x10
Donkey kicks x10
Pax stayed together for first mile, then thoroughbreds were cut loose. All pax completed at least 3 laps/3 miles and all finished 1-0 for the day.
MARY: she stayed in the sack
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Christmas party, Turkey convergence
COT: Theme today was the Unexpected. I finished a book this week called “The Unexpected Journey” about caregivers of dementia patients (my dad’s current daily reality caring for my mom). I was also reminded of a quote from one of my favorite spiritual teachers, Henri Nouwen: “I’ve always complained about my work being interrupted until one day I realized the interruptions were my work.”
How do you respond to interruptions? Or when the Unexpected drops in front of you? Too often my response has been poor. I’m improving and yet I still have a ways to go.
I call these moments out as critical leadership moments. It’s harder to lead when something unexpected surfaces, and yet those are the moments when leadership is needed the most. Use these moments as instances to learn and grow your awareness, your skills, your consistency, and your leadership.
Thanks for the push from all pax today! I needed you around me, because as Nasa heard during the run, I was close to texting him at midnight last night that I was out because of an oncoming head cold. I didn’t send the message. And then something unexpected happened — I woke up feeling like I was good to go!
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