Positivity > Failure – 1/28/2022 | slight wind, 8°, little chilly
AO: Golden Spike
Q: Griswold
PAX: Hard Hat, Lite Brite, Mother Goose, Khakis ( Respect ), TC ( Respect ), Flanders, Skeet, Tater Tot, Tin Cup, Slow piiiiiitttchaaa, Wentworth, Corn Pile, Biff, Dirty Bird, Q-Tip ( Respect, Respect ), Griswold and a special appearance by Vandelay ( Respect ).
The day started great until I realized at 4:54 when I’m about to pull in for set up and pre-run that I forgot my sheets at home. I texted Hard Hat and his appropriate reply was SHEET. LOL. Saw JC, Hard Hat, TC, Dirty Bird, Slow Pitch, Khakis and Tater Tot all pre-running. Nice job men!
So I went back home to get my sheets, had plenty of time to get back and set up.
5:30AM – Welcomed the PAX, Core principles and mission statement given. I didn’t see any FNGs dangit. I did start off with a Quote from Michael Jordan to keep in the back of our minds today about failure. “I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career, and lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over again in my life and that’s why I succeed.”
5:33AM – Mosey to the stadium, did a serpentine stair run and then circled up on the field for WoR.
WoR – 15 SSH IC, 15 Big ones IC, 10 Imperial walkers IC, 15 Cherry Pickers IC, 10 Sun Gods F/R & 10 Moroccan night clubs for my boy Hard Hat.
Pre-Thang – Partner Up. Started on East sideline. One partner sprints to other sideline and back while the other partner does AMRAP Burpees and Planks. Did that for about 6 rounds.
Thang – Count off in 3’s. 3 Group Grinder.
Group 1 – 50 Merkins ( push group )
Group 2 – AMRAP of the following: Squat Jumps, Mountain Climbers, Bonnie Blairs, Air Squats until pushed.
Group 3 – AMRAP of the following: Hand release merkins, SSH, Groiners, Plank Jacks until pushed.
Got through 3 rounds of this before OMAHA was called.
6MoM – TC called out Heel touches, Slow Pitch called out E2K, Hard Hat called out Rosalitas ( Thanks Bro!) and we ended with American Hammers.
Announcements/Prayers – Keep Blue Chip in your heart, CSAUP tomorrow, Polar Plunge (check slack), ABIDE in February ( check slack or reach out to wentworth ).
CoT – First off I thought about this beatdown way more than I should have. Saw people jokingly or not talk about easing up a little bit because of the CSAUP tomorrow. There’s no way I’d be doing myself a service or the PAX by making it easy. We’re not out here for easy. Next I talked about MJ’s quote about failing numerous times, but no one in their right mind would ever consider him a failure. There’s bumps in the road or roadblocks sometimes and you will fail but that doesn’t define you or your story as such. I also talked about how injuries plague me with depression and stress. I get quiet and pull back and instead I need to learn to lean in on guys when I’m feeling those feelings. My shieldlock is there for that purpose and so are the PAX around me. Once I let those feelings out, it completely changes me. Despite my shortcomings and not ever going to be perfect, I’m not a failure even if I sometimes fail.
We also got to catch Vandelay before is OYO workout and got him in NoR. Great to see that smile brother!
Thank you for support today for me, For Mother Goose and the Golden Spike AO.
Mother Goose led us out in prayer.
Humbly,
Griswold