The Mess Hall 12/31
8 Degree Temp…Feels like -5
Q: Vanilla Ice
Pax: Folsom, Hindsight, Tightlip, Stella, Rosetta, Cosmo.
A beautiful, chilly morning at the mess hall! No wind. Vanilla ice on the queue this morning… introductions include what is F3, core values, and mission statement. No FNG’s.
Warmarma…. Took a little mosey to the parking lot and ended up on the soccer field west of the school. Warm A Rama was quick… and I wanted the PAX to look stay moving due to the Cold conditions! High knees and Burt kicks to the 15 yard line and back. Next we ran our favorite football warm-up drill, space out and chop your feet…… I pointed the packs to slide to the left, and slide to the right. A point down is a Merkin….a point up is a Jump! Folsom came in late and we got him involved. We stayed moving for a solid 3 minutes and the blood was flowing !
Next—we moseyed to the basketball court. During the Pre-Thang I hooked up my Bluetooth speaker and cranked good vibrations from Marky Mark. Every time the word vibrations was heard. We did a Merkin. Everyone loved it. A good time was had by all.
THE Thang: The music continued to crank… and I busted out a big pair of wooden dice. The first role is your amount of reps. Multiply your role times five. Your second rule is your exercise:
Burpees 2. HR Merkins 3) Wall Squat 4) Bobby Hurleys 5) Derkins 6) Big Boys
Folsom kept getting high amounts of HR Merkins and didn’t enjoy this ! Hindsight, and I rode together through this, and he rolled 30 burpees for us! What a nice guy…..everyone pushed themselves very hard through The Thang and I feel got a great beatdown….Omaha! Was called and we did some Mary which involved…Flutter Kicks…Box Cuttter…Frozen Freddy’s…and Chill Cut Planks…..
Prayers for 3 Ladies in the lives of Vanilla Ice, Hindsight, and Folsom who have battled through scares and treatment with breast cancer….
COT: the dice portion of the workout for me signified nice, easy rolls, and challenging rolls that we face in our lives. Throughout my life I feel like I have some very nice dice rolls and have not faced a tremendous amount of adversity. That all changed in 2022, which saw the end of my 12 year marriage. This was extremely challenging for me and the biggest thing I got out of this was that it’s not what happens to you in life but truly how you react to it. I found a great support system with F3, and with many Pax members, and I owe them a debt of gratitude. Continue to face challenges, head-on, and lean into the pAX because no doubt there is somebody who has gone through the same experience as you.
-AYE!