THE PAX: Hulk (Hate), Weaver (Respect), Polly (Respect), JudgeHairy, Lego (HateHate), Jugz

A 6-pack of pax posted to get in some solid work this morning, three of them even stayed up to watch the big game. #TClaps for not letting circumstances determine your acceleration! JudgeHairy even got some “respect” in CoT for posting on short rest. Gents, make sure you grab a Red Bull on the way to work this morning. Red Bull gives you wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnggggggsssss!

It was warmer than some expected, cooler than others expected, and just as soggy as we all expected. 47° at go time!

Warm-O-Rama

• SSH x 25 IC
• Merkins x 10 IC
• Squats x 20 OYO

Mosey to soccer field swamp football field for Flora Dora with a twist.

The Thang

Flora Dora work as follows:

• 100 merkins
• 200 squats
• 300 v-ups #CrowdPleaser
• 200 lunge steps
• 100 alternating shoulder taps

P1 works while P2 does 5 sandbag clean and toss. Leave sandbag where you finish and flapjack. Everyone made it down and back on the football field (which was also a little swampy) and everyone got into the lunge steps on the work before time was called.

Back to the flag for the meat of why we were up at zero dark thirty in chilly, wet conditions – sharpening.

Count-O-Rama

• Six pax!!!

Name-O-Rama

• Little extra respect for JudgeHairy!

Announcements

• Sign up for Baby Gabe 5K. This is one of our own. Brute did get some good news. Turns out the great state of South Carolina is one of only two states that require the ultrasound testing for the issue that Baby Gabe has. #TClaps to our legislature and for the fine professionals at MUSC for identifying it and putting a plan in place to correct it. Docs say that they can fix Baby Gabe’s issue when he makes his appearance into the world. Aye! So, sign up for the 5K! You can do that here à https://runsignup.com/Race/SC/Greenwood/BabyGabeOpenHeart5K
• QSource continues Sunday at Starbucks on TBS Time – 0705-0735 (provided the Q doesn’t lock his keys in the car)

Prayer Requests

• Baby Gabe and family
• Lego’s family through a difficult time of transition

NakedMan Moleskin

• Plans were quickly modified from using the Greenwood Swamp, er, soccer field for The Thang. Good call, fellas. Ain’t no one got time for swamp booty!
• The #CompressedWarrior is compressed at all times. Says he has bad knees and cites that as a reason he never gets a raise.
• Turns out that sandbags have no friends. #WhoKnew
• Polly does the best Genesis impersonation ever. Rumor has it that he was a stunt double for their video “I Can’t Dance.” #WhoKnew
• The V-ups mixed with the clean and toss was a real #CrowdPleaser. Strength from the core out! The combo definitely provided some gut-wrenching moments!

Devo

Storms rage in life. We are in a battle and we cannot fight that battle alone. An old friend of mine is an actual, legit African Prince. He loves to tell the story of how young men become warriors in his tribe. The take the would-be warrior out into the wilderness and give him a sword and a spear. The would-be warrior must find a lion and kill it, but with one caveat – he is blind-folded. The other warriors of the tribe circle the would-be warrior and the lion and they call out where the lion is and how to attack. Spear! Spear! Sword! Sword! When the lion is slayed, the young man is officially a warrior in the tribe.

The same holds true for us every day. We have blind spots that we cannot see and we need to listen to the warriors around us to make sure nothing sneaks up on us. We all have blind spots and that is why we need the #ShieldLock. When we #LockShields with our brothers we stop carrying our burdens alone and we have guys who have our backs through thick and thin. I can say with certainty that I would not be the man I am today without those other men watching out for my blind spots.

It was a great morning to be with some great men! #Honored and #Humbled to be a part of such a large group of #HIM!

Aye!