F3 The Catamount Complex: Life provides the cup, YOU choose how to fill it.
March 19, 2024 5:15 AM | The Catamount Complex | Gross High School | 30 degrees, Wind 10 mph from SSE
PAX (8): Mayme, Sweet Roll, Ear Tag, Busser, Stranglehold, Low Flow, Udder, Ray Ban
FNGs: none
Q: Ray Ban
4:45 am Pre-Run: 7/8 Pax were there for the pre run, we’re already recruiting to get Udder out for a pre run soon!
5:15 am: Ray Ban welcomed the PAX to the Catamount Complex. YHC reviewed that F3 stands for Fitness, Fellowship, and Faith. Its mission is to plant, grow, and serve small workout groups for the reinvigoration of male community leadership. We have 5 core principles: 1) Free of charge, 2) Open to all men, 3) Always held outside, 4) Led in a rotating fashion, 5) Ends with a Circle of Trust. Our credo is to leave no man behind but leave no man where you found him. Disclaimer that I am not a professional so modify as necessary.
Warm-a-rama: 15 Tappy-Taps IC, 10 Big Ones IC, 10 Sun Gods forwards IC, 10 Sun Gods reverse IC, 15 imperial walkers IC
Pre Thang: To exorcise YHC’s demons from the cat house, we did cat crawls up the hill. Blinking light safety cones were placed on each side of the concrete…safety first today! We stopped at the top for 10 monkey humpers IC directed at the concrete slab, then moseyed back down the hill. Repeated 3 times. Ray Ban’s demons have now been exorcised!
The Thang:
We worked as one group today through the different regions of the tournament with the exercises below:
64 x SSH IC
32 x Merkins
16 x Big Boys
8 x Mountain Climbers IC
4 x Burpees
2 x Control Freak Merkins
1 x Run lap then move to next region
West region:
64 x LBCs
32 x Carolina dry docks
16 x Bobby Hurleys
8 x T Merkins
4 x Burpees
2 x Control Freak Merkins
1 x Run lap then move to next region
South region:
64 x Alternating shoulder taps IC
32 x Flutter kicks IC
16 x Apollo Ohnos IC
8 x Heels to heaven IC
4 x Burpees
2 x Control Freak Merkins
1 x Run lap then move to next region
East region
64 x Plank jacks
32 x Air Squats
16 x Frozen Freddies
8 x Alternating lunges IC
4 x Burpees
2 x Control Freak Merkins
I called Omaha after finishing up the 4th region and moseyed back to the flags (with one last cat crawl up the hill on the way back.)
Mary: 8 Sarpy Slammers
Name-o-rama: see above for list of those who posted
Prayers:
• South Park- for in vitro difficulties
• Mayme’s aunt Sherri- for recurrence of her pancreatic cancer
Announcements:
• 2.0 beatdown on 3/30 after the Pit workout
• Halfway house this Sunday- check slack for details and route info
• 4/19 blood drive- check What’s App for sign up
• 4/20 6 year convergence at the Sanitarium
• Dux Esto bands to YHC (to replace my lost band) and Udder (keep accelerating!)
COT:
I saw this analogy online recently. And while everything about it wasn’t perfect there were some good nuggets to it:
– You are holding a cup of coffee when someone comes along and bumps into you, making you spill your coffee everywhere.
– Why did you spill the coffee? “Because someone bumped into me!!!”
– Wrong answer. You spilled the coffee because there was coffee in your cup. Had there been tea in the cup, you would have spilled tea.
– Whatever is inside the cup is what will spill out.
– Therefore, when life comes along and shakes you (which will happen), whatever is inside you will come out. It’s easy to fake it, until you get rattled.
– *So we have to ask ourselves… “what’s in my cup?”*
– When life gets tough, what spills over?
– Joy, gratefulness, peace and humility?
– Anger, bitterness, harsh words and reactions?
– Life provides the cup, YOU choose how to fill it.
– Today let’s work towards filling our cups with gratitude, forgiveness, joy, words of affirmation, kindness, and love for others.
Prayer- Ray Ban
Aye! Ray Ban
