16 October 2023 / AO The Octagon / Temp 36 degrees / Wind 3 mph NNW
PAX: Blackjack, Kielbasa, Slow Pitch, Khakis (RESPECT), Mahomes (HATE, HATE), Black Flag, Spacebar, Wentworth, Ice T, Folsom, Hooah (RESPECT), Bobsled
QIC: Bobsled (Weeeeee)
0500 Pre-Run/Pre-Ruck:
I arrived at the AO 0525. Hooah (RESPECT) and Wentworth were completing a pre-ruck. Pre-Smurphers started falling in as the clock struck 0530.
0530 Welcome:
Bobsled welcomed everyone to The Octagon and F3 (Fitness, Fellowship, and Faith), recited the Mission Statement, Credo and 5 Core Principals. There were no FNGs nor first time Octagoners, unfortunately. Bobsled reminded everyone to modify as necessary as he is not a professional. There is a real risk of injury.
Warm-O-Rama:
Sun Gods, 10 fwd, 10 bk IC
Windmills, 10 IC
Big Ones, 10 IC
Down Dog, 10 sec
Runner’s Stretch, 10 sec ea side
Hamstring Stretch, 10 sec ea side
Pre-Thang:
Aint nobody got time for that. Let’s get right to it!
The Thang:
Conditioning circuit starting with a bodyweight exercise, followed with 20 SSH and about a minute mosey around the parking lot to the point of beginning. No scheduled rest periods. We took them as the out of shape Q for the day needed. Exercises performed consisted of:
2 sets of 25 Burpees
2 sets of 25 Merkins
2 sets of 25 Squats
2 sets of 25 Superman back extensions/bananas
1 final set of 25 Burpees
YHC forgot to finish up with some Mary, but I have dementia, so we “skipped” it. Bobsled is a rookie.
Announcements/Prayers:
Upcoming poker tourney (Project Pink). Signup on Slack.
Upcoming Golf tourney at Elkhorn Ridge. See 3rd F Slack channel. Collecting hats, gloves, coats.
Upcoming Chad 1000 Step-up Challenge at The Brickyard, Nov 10. Pig Pen will Q that.
Prayers for Blackjack teenage daughter for Wisdom and Calmness.
Prayers for Ice-T with difficult task at work.
COT: (Don’t be so quick to judge)
My beatdown playlist was all Kool & The Gang (my birth mom’s favorite band). She was the victim of an unsolved homicide in 1982.
I decided to run a race for my COT. I even offered to buy the winner a cup of coffee at Khakis Café afterwards :-). We all lined up on one end of parking lot and will race to the other end, but first I read some statements aloud. If the statement applied to you, I asked that you take two steps forward. If not, remain in where you are.
- If your parents were married, you had a two-parent household, or a father figure in your house take two steps forward.
- If you never had to worry about having a house to shelter you, a bed to sleep in, take two steps forward.
- If you never had to worry about having clothes, shoes, coats, hats, gloves take two steps forward.
- If you never had to worry about where your next meal was coming from take two steps forward.
- If you never had to go into your own pockets or piggy bank to help with bills take two steps forward.
- If you never had to worry about transportation to and from where you wanted or needed to be take two steps forward.
We never ran the race. I just wanted PAX, at that point, to look around. To see how they may have started ahead of others. To see they may have had certain advantages. To understand how life isn’t fair for everybody. It’s not right or wrong, it’s just the way it is. So, please don’t just a book by it’s cover. You don’t know that person’s journey or story or circumstances. Please don’t look at how somebody dresses, or how their hair looks, how if they are clean shaven, or how they talk, behave or even what kind of music they listen to. Everybody has their own story, and every story has a different beginning, middle and end. Let’s be ambassador’s for F3 and in life under all circumstances!
QIC (Bobsled) led us in prayer
6:20 Coffeteria at Khaki’s Cafe’