AO: Mission Forge | July 18th, 2022 | 75deg, humid
PAX: Eharmony, Rowdy, Muffs, Tea Party, Vlassic (Respect), Ketchup, Chowdah, Grandslam (hate), Bandcamp, Lincoln logs (Respect x 2), T-ball, Tax Man, Hard Hat, Yogi, EA (hate), Escobar, Chippendale, Mufasa, Robinhood, Griswold
QIC: Griswold
Had 8 guys complete a Smurph for the #murphchallenge. Way to accelerate men.
5:30am: Welcomed the PAX, introduced myself, gave mission statement and core principles. No FNGs today.
WoR – 5 IC SSH Thanks Sparty
That completes WoR.
Mosey’d over to the grass and completed 2 rounds of the following:
50 merkins, 40 flutter kicks, 30 air squats, 20 bonnie blairs, 10 burpees, then run lap of entire parking lot.
We then mosey’d through the park to the basketball courts and completed the following as a group.
Bear crawl down, 20 carolina dry docks, bear crawl back, 20 dry docks
Alt Lunge walk down, 20 bonnie blairs, alt lunge walk back, 20 bonnie blairs
Broad jump down, 20 jump squats, broad jump back, 20 jump squats.
Mosey’d to hill for finisher.
Grab a partner, one guy runs to 2nd street light up the hill and does 3 burpees then runs back to relieve partner who’s doing AMRAP monkey humpers. We completed this 3 times before Omaha was called.
Mosey’d back to shovel flags for Mary. 15 heels to heaven, 20 LBCs, 20 freddie mercury’s, then 20 rancid hammers.
Prayers & Announcements: APEX at mission forge this Friday, Whetstone pop up w/ Q source, Zipline Pop up 5k with 2nd F opportunity afterwards, Prayers for Tyler, Prayers for Aunt Debbie.
CoT: 2 things, First I talked about Iron Pax and Apex as it was fitting that Apex would be here this week. For the first part of the workout, I borrowed from Week zero of 2020 iron pax except we only did half the workout. I wanted the guys to do something hard without knowing they did something hard that has a stigma like ironpax does. They can do it, they know they can do it now and I’m glad I helped hopefully some of them realize that they can test themselves beyond the beatdowns. Who cares about time and reps. You vs You. That’s the real competition.
Second, I talked about bookmark moments. 2 times in the last two weeks, what I call bookmark moments happened. One, two weeks ago at the Armory, Hard Hat put on one of the most memorable beatdowns I’ve been a part of and it had nothing to do with the workout. Tough questions were asked and answered, funny questions debated with smiles and a genuine CoT delivered that had guys talking. That’s where the magic of F3 lives. Hard Hat plays it close to the vest, but when he talks passionately about the passing of his mother, you stop and listen and take it all in. It was beautiful, and if you were there, you know what I’m talking about. Also, had about 3-4 minute chat with Obi-Wan and Unicycle after the Labyrinth beatdown last week that was a moment of vulnerability for us and all three of us know there’s a new found respect for each other. Again, bookmark moment. We need to do and say the hard things to keep F3 special and to keep those bookmark moments alive. That’s where the true progress of leaders of our community are born from.
I thanked the PAX for their support for myself, for Yogi and Escobar and for the Mission Forge AO.
I led us out in prayer.
Humbly,
Griswold