Rinse and Repeat

QIC: Mr. Clean

Date: 04/13/2019

PAX: Doodles, Goose, Iron Butt (Respect x2), Magnum, Money Ball, FNG-Phonebook, Ringwald, She Shed, Skitch, Sunburn (Respect), Threeskin, V-Squared

AO: Landfill

Conditions

61 degrees. Rainy. Then just wet.


COP

SSH x10 IC

Merkins X5 OYO

Flutter Kicks x10 IC

SSH x 8 IC

Merkins x4 OYO

Flutter Kicks x8 IC

SSH x6 IC

Merkins x3 OYO

Flutter Kicks x6 IC

SSH x4 IC

Merkins x2 OYO

Flutter Kicks x4 IC

SSH x2 IC

Merkins x1 OYO

Flutter Kicks x2 IC

The Thang

The Pax grabbed a partner, got a station, each station was labeled with the appropriate exercise and proceeded to do the following exercises.  While one partner completed an exercise, the other partner ran to soccer goal and returned.  Flapjack. Rinse and Repeat until the designated song ended. Switch stations and continue the same process.

Rock N’ Roll Dora Express

Shrugs

Curls

Bench Dips

Bent Over Rows

Bench Presses

Shoulder Presses

Lawnmowers

Nosebreakers

Seated Rows

Leg Raises

Incline Merkins

Block Bears

Tunnel of Love

MOM


COT

 Wednesday Night I taught my Awana kids about being an encourager. Thursday morning at She Shed’s incredible VQ, he gave us the awesome quote; “we spend too much time celebrating those who are successful while not spending enough time encouraging those who need help. If you feel led to encourage someone, just go with your gut and encourage them. That’s time well spent. Challenge: Be an encourager this week.


Moleskin

YHC made Sunburn feel old

I prepped Skitch for time in the McDonald’s Play place today.

A lot stones were used today, so you can use your imagination of the chatter that resulted from this.

I used to love guitar solos – She Shed

Those bagpipes are incredible! (3 mins later) I hate bagpipes! – Ringwald


News

Georgia GrowRuck 2019 Registration Link is Live.

Chattanooga GoRuck Tough May 3rd

Training Ruck 04/20 & Gameday to follow



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    Top Gun Fun

    QIC: She Shed

    Date: 04/11/2019

    PAX: Ducktales, Fissure, Free Time, Geek Squad, Hasbro, Hector, Loan Shark, Magnum, Mr. Clean, Radiohead, Saddlebags, Snowflake, Truck Yeah, U-Turn

    AO: The Huey


    Conditions

    Strong Skunk smell and 58 degrees


    COP

    Side Straddle Hop  IC x 20

    Tricep stretch  IC x 8 count each arm

    Willie Maze Haze  IC x 10

    Imperial walker  IC x 15

    Side straddle Hop  IC x 20

    Forward Fold IC x 10

    LB arm circles  IC x 15

    LB arm circles backward IC x 15

    Overhead Presses IC x 15

    The Thang

    MOZEY – Around track to back parking lot.

    CIRCUIT – 5X5 OYO in groups of 5

    Caterpillar:
    -Merkin/Plank/Box Jump

    Apple Turnover:

    Crab walk – 5 lines

    Bear Crawl – 5 lines

    Lunges – 5 count

    MOZEY – To bleachers at
    baseball field

    Bleachers – X3 OYO

    Box jump up/ Step down

    Tricep Dips – 10

    Leg Raises – 10

    Wall Sits at concessions
    stand

               1) Joe Frazier’s IC x 10

               2) Bus Drivers IC x 10

               3)  Ali’s IC x 10

    MOZEY – Back to flag

    Mary’s

    Pickle Pointers

    Pickle Pounders

    Heel Touches

    LBC

    Superman

    COT

    “Curious that we spend more
    time congratulating people who succeeded than encouraging people who have not.”
    – Neil deGrasse Tyson

    We have many reasons in life
    to be discouraged. We have so many reasons to just give up or sell ourselves
    short. As leaders it is our mission to encourage those around us to keep
    fighting the fight. F3 is a great reminder every morning when we wake up with our
    brothers in the gloom to keep trying. We support one another to keep going when
    our muscles ache with pain. This should serve as our reminder to continue this
    uplifting encouragement when we resume our day into our office, home, place of
    worship or what have you. I challenge each of you find someone in your life
    today that needs that word of encouragement. It might surprise you when you
    start looking who that word was for.

    Tags: SheShed VQ, Top Gun,  Bleachers at The Huey, April 11, 2019


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      Sky’s Out Thighs Out 2.0

      QIC: Ringwald

      Date: 04/09/2019

      PAX: Dirk, Flemish, Gamecock, Laces Out, FNG-Landslide, Red Tees, Skitch, Sunshine, WuzntMe

      AO: Hill City


      Conditions

      A mushy, musty 63 degrees


      COP

      Brisk mosey to under the bridge

      SSX x20 IC

      Randy Style:
      LBAC x20 
      LBAC x 20 reverse
      Moroccan Night Clubs x20
      Don Quixote x20

      SSH x 20
      Slow Count Merkin x 10
      SSH x20

      The Thang

      Perform groups of exercises while crossing the walking bridge

      1st stop – 50 squats
      2nd stop – 25 calf raises
      3rd stop – 50 LBCs 50 Reverse LBCs
      4th stop – 20 Intense Imperial Walkers
      5th stop – 50 Hillbillies

      Go to stairs at end of bridge

      Switch between lunges and backwards lunges on each section until you reach the bottom of the stairs
      Perform 5 incline merkins at each set of steps

      Perform groups of exercises while crossing the bridge

      1st stop – 25 squats
      2nd stop – 25 calf raises
      3rd stop – 25 LBCs 25 Reverse LBCs
      4th stop – 10 Intense Imperial Walkers
      5th stop – 15 jump squats

      Time


      COT

      Plutarch: An Alexander wept for there were no more worlds left to conquer.
      By his late 20s, Alexander had conquered the entire known and civilized world. This quote proves that men need to things that are difficult, and absent those difficulties, we lose purpose. 

      It’s easy to get stuck in a rut, where you have no worlds to conquer. It’s easy to settle for less, and do less with more. But this is how men get lost, angry, bitter, and resentful. When we stretch ourselves, we should feel uncomfortable. We should feel nervous. If you’re not a little scared, you’re not pushing yourself hard enough. If there isn’t legitimate fear of failure, you’re not trying hard enough.

      And if you fail? Good. Good. More opportunity to train, to push yourself. Unlike Alexander, you’ve found a worthy adversary, and conquering it will feel that much better. 


      Moleskin

      Not a lot of mumblechatter this morning. People were too focused on not pulling a hammy I guess.


      News

      Game day – Landfill – 4/20


      Recent Backblasts

        Eat Your Prunes

        QIC: Fissure

        Date: 04/10/2019

        PAX: Early Bird, Sidekick, Ducktales, Prosciutto, Free Time, Candu, Loan Shark, She Shed, Ohms

        AO: Lions Den


        Conditions

        Low 60s and clear


        Circle up 
        Forward fold x 20 IC
        Duck walk three steps forward then back x 19 IC
        SSH x 18 IC
        Monkey humpers x 17 IC
        Drop squats x 16 IC
        Arm circles fwd/bwd, cherry pickers, overhead press, moroccan night club each x 15 IC
        Carolina dry docks x 14 IC
        High knees x 13 IC
        Broad jump then hop back to start x 12 OYO
        Asskickers x 11 IC
        Lunges (alternating) x 10 IC
        Wide high knees x 9 IC
        Jump lunge squats x 8 IC
        Burpees x 7 OYO
        Burpee tuck jumps x 6 OYO
        Merkins x 5 IC
        Jack push-up x 4 OYO
        Exploding push-up x 3 IC
        Diamond merkin x 2 IC
        Merkin x 1

        3 laps of jogging curves, Bernie one straight away and sprint one straight away, recovery 10 counts in between

        MOM

        Dead Bug x 10 IC
        Core rotations x 5 IC
        Crunch and punch x 10 IC
        Elbow plank rotations x 10 IC
        Side plank crunch x 5 IC each side
        Gorilla burpees x 10 OYO
        Reverse climbers x 10 IC
        V-sit crunch x 10 IC
        Plank pike x 10 IC
        Hip dips x 5 IC
        Peter Parker in low plank x 5 IC
        Shin touches x 10 IC
        Lizard climbers x 5 IC
        Bicycle crunch aka Freddie Mercury slow and extended to failure (Ohms was last man standing after the rest had to rest)


        COT

        My 100 year old grandfather passed away yesterday.  He lived a long and full life so we’re not overly sad, but I couldn’t help but think about him as I planned for today.  I looked up famous people to live to 100 and stumbled across this on George Burns:

        “George Burns
        1896-1996
        In his appropriately titled memoir How to Live to be 100, the beloved entertainer shared a fitness and nutrition plan that wasn’t exactly groundbreaking.  It consisted of a lot of stretches and walking, and a diet high in prunes.  But he didn’t consider any of this the “key” to a long life:
        “If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity,” he wrote, “I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension.  And if you didn’t ask me, I’d still have to say it.””


        Moleskin

        YHC, Loan Shark, Prosciutto and Ducktales pre-rucked today’s workout and most of the chatter surrounded our fighting histories.  Loan Shark and I mostly listened.  Pro’s cousin, Frank Cafarella, developed a solid strategy when scrapping.  You gotta act a little crazy.  Say crazy stuff.  Crazy eyes.  Make them think twice, you know?

        Our man Picasso has been stretched thin these days and needed a sub on q today.  So you all have him to thank for 15 minutes of mary.


        News

        4/20 Goruck Tough prep workout before Landfill.  Consult rucking channel on slack
        5/3 Goruck tough and light in Chattanooga
        8/23 Growruck in Atlanta area.  Consult grow ruck channel on slack

        Stay tuned for more information on launching an Ooltewah AO


        Recent Backblasts

          Heart Break Hill … Conquered!

          QIC: The Count (Respect, Respect)

          Date: 04/10/2019

          PAX: Deep Dish, Fastlane, 9Volt (Respect), Rug Doctor (Respect), Sidewinder (Respect)

          AO: The Battery

          Conditions

          Great morning with a little humidity, 55 Degrees and calm.


          COP

          Began with 4 Corners warm up:  SSH, Plank Jacks, Mountain Climbers, Imperial Walkers. Rotated through all four stations and did exercises IC x 15.  Mosey along path to rear of dog park and around to pavilion and to “Heart Break Hill”.  Concluded warm up with Willie Mays Hayes, Third Grade Exercises, and Ham String Stretches.

          The Thang

          Heart Break Hill (HBH) / Dora 123

          Partnered up at bottom of (HBH). 

          Round 1:  Partner 1 Runs up / down (HBH) while partner 2 conducts exercises.  Merkins (100), LBC’s (200), Squats (300) – During this round it ended up that each PAX conquered (HBH) once during Merkins, twice during LBC’s, and four times during Squats.

          Round 2: (because this group was kicking ass) we modified to AMRAP for exercises while partner did (HBH) once for Merkins,  twice for LBC’s, and three times, but instead of squats we did lunges.

          Round of Mary’s:  We did round of Mary’s until time was complete.  All done (IC) x 10: American Hammer, Heel Touches, Leg Lifts, Hello Dolly.

          ENDEX!


          COT

          CIRCLE OF TRUST: After completing the Counterama and Namerama, we had Praise and Prayer requests.  
          BALL OF MAN: Congregation of two or more men in physical contact, usually (but not exclusively) in the prayer that terminates the COT. Abbr: BOM]


          Moleskin

          This was nice even number of 6 PAX so it worked well with DORA’s.  Had to give DeepDish some remedial training on the difference between SSH and Mountain Climbers!!! 🙂  I’m not sure if the hill going from street level up to pool has an official name, but to me, it will be now called “Heart Break Hill” (HBH)!  The real message was fairly simple:  “Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm” — Ralph Waldo Emerson.  Go out and Make It A Great Day, especially for someone else.  


          News

          TheCount will post on Thursday at Hill City, Ruck on Friday morning, and then I won’t see you all until May 1st (depending on jet lag).  Please pray for safe travels for Kim and I.  God Bless you all!



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            Sky’s Out All Hanging Out – Boneyard Style

            QIC: Sidekick

            Date: 04/09/2019

            PAX: Candu, Threeskin, Mr. Clean, Prosciutto, V Squared, Iron Butt (Respect X2), Roadhouse (Respect X2), The Count (Respect X2), DuckTales, Sunburn (Respect), Pink Eye, Whoopi, Peanuts, FNG-Ascot, FNG-Dollywood (Nomad)

            AO: Boneyard


            Conditions

            62 and Gloomy, Occasional sprinkle


            COP

            SSH ICX35; Forward fold; Third Grade Exercises IC X12; SSH IC X20; Right over Left; Left over Right; Mercans ICX15; Slow Count Squats ICX15; Monkey Humpers ICX10; Pickle Pounders IC X12; Mosey to the Tennis Courts

            The Thang

            Body by Sidekick

            We started off with Lunges up the hill to the courts.

            4 corners on the courts:

            Insert Bus Burpees here – 5 burpees for a passing bus

            Corner 1 – Seal Claps ICX15, traveling Burpees to Corner 2

            Corner 2 – Slow Squats ICX15, Shuffle Squats to Corner 3

            Corner 3 – Mercans 20 OYO, Traveling Burpees to Corner 4

            Corner 4 – Reach Around ICX20, Suffle Squats to Corner 1

            Audibled to the parking lot in interest of Pax Safety – Slippage, see Moleskin

            4 Corners in the Lot

            Corner 1 – Mercans 20 OYO; Traveling Burpees to Corner 2

            Corner 2 – Nancy Kerrigans ICX10 each leg; Lunge to Corner 3

            Corner 3 – Wall Sit ICX25; traveling Burpees to Corner 4

            Corner 4 – Calf Raises ICX15; Lunges to Corner 1

            Mosey to Wall – Ircans Slow IC X15

            Willie Mays Hays ICX15

            Fast mosey to the Pit – Pull ups/Incline Pull ups (because we can) – sets of 10 and 8

            Dercans ICX15 on the apparatus of your choice

            Mosey to Flag – Time


            COT

            Dedication and Commitment are hard in our society today.  Dedication and commitment to F3 is easy, we need to be there and spread the word


            Moleskin

            Lots of chatter today.  Courts were too slippery – That’s what she said

            My new favorite TWSS of all time – I called Dercans and to find an apparatus, I believe it was Ducktles who uttered Thats what she said.  Classic.

            Lots of talk about how we were out drawing and out working hill city regardless of what their count or work level was.  I admire that attitude, facts are optional


            News

            Prayers for Clean’s appt today.  Get out to some new AOs this week where you can


            Recent Backblasts

              A Smokin 61 Degrees

              QIC: Geek Squad

              Date: 04/08/2019

              PAX: The Count, Ducktales, She Shed, Hector, Milkman, RadioHead, Hasbro, FNG-Free Time

              AO: The Huey

              Conditions

              61 degrees and steamy afterward!


              COP

              Da Warm up (by the parking lot)

              SSH x 15
              Arm Stretches x 15 each Arm
              Butterflies x 15
              Finkle Swings x 15 each leg
              3rd Grade Exercises x 15
              Willy Mayes Hayes x 15
              Slow Abe Begodas x 15
              SSH x 25
              Butt kickers x 15
              Wide High knees x 15
              Imperial Walkers x 15
              SSH x 25

              The Thang

              Parking Lot Party
              20 lines in parking lot
              7 sections for different exercises 30 sec each section

              DORA

              Lunges. 100; while partner runs parking lot

              Burpees. 75

              Squats. 100

              Plank jacks. 100

              Frog jumps 7 out Bear Crawl 3 sets

              Alternating Shoulder Taps 100

              Marys

              Heel touches x15
              LBCs x 15
              American Hammers x 15
              Infinity Plank x15

              COT

              Daniel Chapter 1 – Read it when you get a chance.

              Highlights- in 1 weeks time, God allowed 4 young men to be kidnapped, castarated, their names changed from God honoring names to Satan honoring names, then commanded to study astrology and the occult (dark magic) for the next 3 years in order to serve the King of Babylon aka the most evil region ever known.

              Yet through it all, these 4 remained true to who they were and did not abandon their faith. 

              3 keys to Daniel’s Success:

              1. He was optimistic – God focused
              2. He  showed humility and respect toward authority.
              3. He learned great wisdom -picked his battles wisely.

              Be a Daniel and be a leader worth following through even the most difficult times!


              News

              4/11. SheShed VQ this Thursday!  

              4/22. Truck Yeah VQ! 


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                Grab a Partner and Mosey Doe

                QIC: Fissure

                Date: 04/08/2019

                PAX: Early Bird, Peanuts, Sidekick, Fastlane, Threeskin, Jabooti

                AO: Beast Ridge

                Conditions

                60° and cloudy


                COP

                Mosey to the playground

                SSH x 20 IC
                Finkle Swings x 15 each leg OYO
                SSH x 20
                Plank rotations x 10 IC

                Mosey lap around pavilion and back to playground, partner up and learn something new about your partner

                The Thang

                SSH x 20 IC
                High Knees x 15
                SSH x 16 (silent count after 5, YHC cranked out 5 burpees for stopping at 15 but hey we seemed to do a better job at doing SSH together in cadence after this.  Mission accomplished)
                Wide High Knees x 10
                SSH x 21
                Ass Kickers x 15
                SSH x 20

                Find partner  and mosey just past pavilion and back to playground while learning another new factoid about your partner

                Plank (silent count while we discussed what we’re learning about each other)
                Merkins x 10 OYO
                Plank (more silent counting by YHC)
                Carolina Dry Dock x 10 OYO
                Plank (more learning)
                Mountain Climbers x 10 IC
                Plank (more learning)

                Mosey with partner to end of fence before pavilion and return to playground

                Little Arm Circles x 15 IC
                Cherry Pickers x 15 IC
                Chinooks x 15 IC
                Overhead press x 15 IC
                Little Arm Circle reverse x 15 IC
                Cherry Pickers x 10
                Carolina dry docks x 10 IC

                Made this last mosey a sprint to the end of the fence and back

                Find partner and 1 started with the DRP  and 1 did 10 pull ups and alternate between the two stations.

                Curls x 10
                Overhead Press x 10
                Bent Row x 10

                MOM

                Flutter Kick x 10 IC
                Butterfly crunch (or situp) x 10
                Heel touches x 20 IC
                American Hammers x 10 IC


                COT

                Encouraged the pax to find and read the preblast.  Emails out every Sunday night around 830p and auto posts to Facebook and Twitter.  Props to Carebear and Prosciutto for the time they put into the preblast.  This week you’ll find a great quote from Calvin Coolidge of all people:

                Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgements requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience an maturity.


                Moleskin

                It’s difficult to get to know each other when we’re always pretty focused on the workout.  Today we broke a decent sweat but also made room to get to know each other a little bit better. 

                Some of what I learned:  Sidekick’s high school sweetheart lives in his current neighborhood and his wife doesn’t know, work is slow for Early Bird so people must be healthy and Peanuts’ wife is sub 5 feet tall.


                News

                4/20 Goruck Tough prep workout before Landfill.  Consult rucking channel on slack
                5/3 Goruck tough and light in Chattanooga
                8/23 Growruck in Atlanta area.  Consult grow ruck channel on slack

                 

                Stay tuned for more information on launching an Ooltewah AO


                Recent Backblasts

                  Ye Olde Hardwoods

                  QIC: threeskin
                  Date: 04/06/2019
                  PAX: Back Pew, Belly Roll, Candu, Cowbell, Doodles, Early Bird, Laces Out, Moneyball, She Shed, Snowflake
                  AO: Landfill

                  Conditions

                  Perfect for a disclaimer: this is F3, it’s Free, Work Hard, modify if you have to
                  ===================> ======> ======> =========> ================>


                  COP

                  Warm-Up

                  SSH IC x 20
                  Monkey Humpers IC x 20
                  Little Baby Arm Circles IC x 20
                  Finkle Swings OYO x 10 each leg

                  Mosey to lower lot

                  SSH IC x 20
                  Mountain Climbers IC x 20
                  Reverse Little Baby Arm Circles IC x 20
                  Good Mornings IC x 10

                  Mosey to second pavilion

                  SSH IC x 20
                  Merkins IC x 20
                  Willie Mays Hays IC x 20
                  Cotton Pickers IC x 10

                  Mosey to top pavilion 

                  SSH IC x 20
                  Moroccan Night Club IC x 20
                  Calf Stretch IC x 10 each leg
                  Forward Fold IC x 10

                  The Thang – is basketball over yet? Let’s play this out and get over it.

                  Selection Saturday – Sprint for watch party
                  walk back
                  Sweet 16 – Sprint to get seeded
                  walk back
                  Elite 8 – paired up Lunge/Sprint
                  walk back
                  Final 4 – grouped up Burpee/Sprint
                  walk back
                  Championship – teamed up Lunge/Sprint
                  walk back

                  Mosey to Playground

                  Swing Rows – timed by partner plank
                  Swing Curls – timed by partner plank

                  Mary

                  Flutter Kicks
                  Pickle Pointers 
                  LBCs
                  Silver Sneakers
                  Plank
                  Forward Fold


                  COT

                   CIRCLE OF TRUST: 

                  John C Maxwell – 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership
                  Law #3: The Law of Process – what matters most is what you do over the long haul, it requires a lifetime of perserverience and dedication to become a good leader, if you want to see how someone becomes a champion look at their daily routine. 

                  BALL OF MAN: Congregation of two or more men in physical contact, usually (but not exclusively) in the prayer that terminates the COT. Abbr: BOM]


                  Moleskin

                  No one likes the basketball tournament any more.

                  The last sprint was a bit too “lungey” but no one complained about their legs once we started working arms?

                  Candu may have created a new Mary Exercise: Fetal Position

                  She Shed is the man to call if your house floods!


                  News

                  Ruckness abounds: see Ducktails and Mr. Clean

                  MoneyBall introduces a mens retreat now on slack

                  Spoken and unspoken prayer requests.


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                    Evil Siri at the Battery

                    QIC: Mrs. Baker
                    Date: 04/06/2019
                    PAX: Sidewinder, Deep Dish, Schnitzel, 9 Volt, Mustang, WuzntMe, Bubbles, Fast Lane
                    AO: The Battery

                    Conditions

                    Balmy 51 and humid


                    COP

                    The PAX took a rolling warm up mosey with stops every 90 sec or so with loosening up moves:

                    Don Quixote x 12

                    slow squats x 10

                    Imperial Walker x 12

                    Arm circles, both directions x 12

                    Hillbilly high kicks x 12

                    final destination near the pool at the upper parking lot

                    The Thang


                    30 Minute EMOM of 50 yard sprint + the following in succession

                    with deadpan disembodied electronic voice calling countdown and Red Hot Chili Peppers in the background

                    5 sets of 5 Burpees

                    4 sets of 10 lunges

                    5 sets of 12 Merkins

                    4 sets of 15 squats

                    2 sets of 5 burpees

                    4 sets of 12 crunches

                    2 sets of 10 Merkins

                    2 sets of 10 calf raises on the curb

                    2 final sets of 4 x burpees

                    Mosey down the hill with all the laundry stripped off during the workout

                    MoM

                    Freddy Mercury x 12

                    Superman / Hollow Rock x 8

                    Heals to heaven x 10

                    Reverse Pickle Pounders x 12

                    LBC x 12

                    Airborne alternating toe touches ( I remember the action not the name)

                    Plank to Failure


                    COT

                    Just finished Freed to Lead and the Locking Shields concept kept coming up during the week. A friend tweeted ” No war was ever won by one soldier” This is very true and is also well described in Ecclesiastes 4 :

                    Again I looked and saw all the oppression that was taking place under the sun:

                    I saw the tears of the oppressed—
                        and they have no comforter;
                    power was on the side of their oppressors—
                        and they have no comforter.
                    And I declared that the dead,
                        who had already died,
                    are happier than the living,
                        who are still alive.
                    But better than both
                        is the one who has never been born,
                    who has not seen the evil
                        that is done under the sun.

                    And I saw that all toil and all achievement spring from one person’s envy of another. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.

                    Fools fold their hands
                        and ruin themselves.
                    Better one handful with tranquillity
                        than two handfuls with toil
                        and chasing after the wind.

                    Again I saw something meaningless under the sun:

                    There was a man all alone;
                        he had neither son nor brother.
                    There was no end to his toil,
                        yet his eyes were not content with his wealth.
                    “For whom am I toiling,” he asked,
                        “and why am I depriving myself of enjoyment?”
                    This too is meaningless—
                        a miserable business!

                    Two are better than one,
                        because they have a good return for their labor:
                    10 If either of them falls down,
                        one can help the other up.
                    But pity anyone who falls
                        and has no one to help them up.

                    So the world continues to be a challenging place and as we are all here and part of something bigger than ourselves, lets make sure and support our brothers and be willing both to help a brother and “pick him up when he falls” but most importantly be sure and ask for help from each other when we are at risk of falling or just need a brother beside us.


                    Moleskin

                    We had a slightly smaller turnout than recent weeks, so reminder to the PAX to stay with our brothers and provide friendly support and accountability where appropriate. Several people with medical issues, hopefully just associated with the spring pollen season. The workout seemed to keep the PAX relatively quite and on a slow motion striptease.  


                    News

                    Keep showing up and promoting the new Wednesday AM 5:30 workout and the Black Ops 5:30 PM Mondays