February 14th, 2024
PAX (21): Escobar, Baby Shoes, The Count, Sweet Sweet, Canadian Bacon, Switchfoot, Ketchup, Sun Dance, Pantyhose, Fine Print, Devito, Barbwire, Griswold, Kickstand, The Plague, Tonight Show, Thor, Patchy Adams, Urkel, Mr. Miyagi, Hard Hat
Q: Hard Hat
Weather: Feels like 27 degrees, barely any wind, but frost was starting to form.
Welcome: At 5:30 the PAX were welcomed and we went through the typical intro spiel. Then we moseyed on down to the field. The PAX were greeted at the field by a nice bright light, a boom box, and another large box. The music was turned on, the PAX gathered around the large box to await directions.
Thang: Valentine Box: The large box is a standard size for adjustable height box jumps, and has two handle slots cut in the ends. The PAX circle around the box and do an exercise AMRAP while one guy bear crawls down the field to the light (approximately 50 yards). That guys finds a valentine on the ground around the light, then bear crawls back. He jumps or steps up on the box to inform the group of the next exercise (written on the valentine), then another guy bear crawls down, etc. until we run out of time.
Exercises completed include, but were not limited to: Side Straddle Hop, Diamond Merkins, Pickle Pointers, Imperial Walkers, Hillbillies, Sumo Squats, Makhtar N’Diayes, Heart Shaped Box Cutters, Alternating Booty Taps, Rosalitas, Low Dollys, Ass to Grass Squats, Clap Merkins, Flutter Kicks, Pickle Pushers, Oh Yeahs, Horn Dogs aka Dive Bombers, Cherry Pickers, and Workin’ It Merkins.
We closed things up with announcements about the Gradoville Scholarship event coming up tomorrow, the pre-run challenge, Freed to Bleed on Friday. We also had some prayers for some recent breast cancer diagnosis’s, and some PAX going through some health issues.
This beatdown and most of the COT were recycled from my Q at the Sanitarium last year on Valentines day. The message then had to do with sacrifice, and this story: I was reminded this weekend of the value of sacrificing my time and desires for someone else. I helped my kids make their valentines boxes for school, and I also made one for myself for this workout. Over the weekend though, I helped my daughter with hers before I did much with mine. Her box took so long to make, and was a big pain in the ass. Thankfully I didn’t complain much while building it. She enjoyed the process of making it, and was happy when it was complete. The big moment for me though, was the next morning, as soon as she woke up, she rolled out of bed, gave me a huge hug and said thanks for helping build my valentines box. It was a heartwarming moment, and really helped remind me of how great things can be if we just take some time to serve others before serving ourselves.
Reading my backblast from that workout reminded me of the value of sacrifice, and helped me set some selfish things aside this last week to help others. I also sacrificed quite a bit of sleep last night as I was doing some late valentines shopping and cleaning the house this morning so my wife could have a nice morning while I was out with the fellas.
Happy Valentines Day!
Hard Hat