Troy

Troy A.O.

PAX: Coors, 4howa, Tank, , Optimus
Q: PacRat

I’ve said this before (this season, too), but I’m probably right this time. Today was the last day until spring before RP’s are a reasonable choice for gloom-based beatdowns. Unfortunately, I let TheWeatherChannel app dictate my attire choices and forewent the RPs because it looked to be colder than it actually felt. But Coors must have been itchin’ to show me his hoochie shorts and he posted up in what looked to be 3-4″ers. Pair that with the return of tank-less Frank the Tank, and you’d have 1 fully dressed man, and one man virtually naked.

The Mick had us do a “recovery” workout on Tuesday. Merkins were nowhere near the typical Mick count, and there was plenty of legs and interval cardio. Just the thing I needed. When FTT pointed out that Troy had no Q on Friday, I snatched it up. So you know, Coors wouldn’t try to outdo himself from last week :-/

0531

Mosey up the stage on the pavilion for the Warm-up

Warm-up
Bean Pickers
IST
Hillbillies
Seal-Jacks
Good Mornings!

TheThang
Indian Run around Main Square Park (MSP) and head up to Death Row. Mosey to the 1st stop for 20 step-ups (each leg)

Bear Crawl to the next street light, but special attention was given to the movement. PAX were advised to stretch/push down with their hands instead of letting the weight of their body pull their shoulders back. I’m not saying it well, but think of it like a bear crawl with an arched back like a cat stretch..

10 step-ups (each leg)

Cat-bear crawl past 2 sets of street lights.

15 step-ups (each leg)

Mosey to the fountain on the Southeast corner of MSP

20 box jumps
20 LBCs
10 box jumps
15 side crunches (left side)
15 box jumps
10 side crunches (right side)
10 jump squats
15 side crunches (right side)
15 jump squats
10 side crunches (left side)

Mosey around MSP to the pull-up bars in the park

PAX to form Ring of Fire while 1 PAX to perform 20 seconds of pulls/hangs. Rinse and repeat until all PAX had a turn or 2.

Free-time at the end (burpees, squats, lunges, core, whatev).

0615

Moleskin:
Few things give me more satisfaction than a good ole’ fashioned beatdown when I’m feeling loose and uninjured. You know, when you can push just as hard as your DFQ will go? Well, I’m not there now. I was there for a few weeks a few weeks back, but I’m afraid I overdid it and I’m back to a recovery phase. Not every beatdown has to be harder than the last, but not too much time can go between going HAM, else the fire gets cool.

Welcome back TANK. We missed you and it was great to see you. Tank had surgery on his wrist and he was able to modify as needed to get through the workout. Even though the intensity of F3 bootcamps can show one where they’re at, I was impressed with how well you performed considering the time off and the state of your injury. It was good to see you my man.

Coors was beast mode again. He turned the mosey runs into race runs. And I couldn’t pass that up, but I couldn’t catch him either. Maybe just keeping up was good enough?

I’m not sure what’s going on, but times have been heavy lately. I just lost my uncle to Sars-COV-2, switched jobs, and switched back before I even started. I committed to the new employer and went back on my word. I don’t recall feeling so embarrassed and humiliated as I did when I called to inform them of my decision to reneg. Ultimately I believe it will be the better thing for me and my career to stay with my current employer under these new circumstances, but the sting of informing the new company that I would not be following through on the position I accepted was enough to teach me humility, grace, and patience. And now I know what crow tastes like!

As the world changes, stand firm to your committment to your family and God. Others need to see strong men standing for what is right and righteousness. We cannot look to the world for queues on how to act/think/behave. May we conduct ourselves as one who will give an account as to how we lived.

Because we will.

God bless.

73’s,

PacRat
KD9GNS