Author: dthaase

10 PAXs circled up and took on some more weight for our food drive ruck day around the AO – TOGETHER WE CAN: Captain Crunch, Banks, Panhandle, Cookies, Big Mac, Sparrow, Katniss, Shiplap, Da Vinci, SAGA (Q)

WARM-UP:

1. Can Can Motivators (held cans out during whole exercise) x5
2. Can Can Windmeals x5
3. Can Can Al Gore (squat & prayed for the coming election w/cans out front, palms up)
4. Can Can Dance Competition (did the can can while holding cans out to the side)

Line-up in pairs for the ruck walk-and-talk speed-dating

• PAX had a can in each hand during the ruck, when I said can, they said can, can and held up can as displayed

THANG 1: PAIR-SHARE & rotated pairs during ruck

• What is a passion or interest you enjoy?
• Share a scar story.
• What is your favorite book or movie?
• What is your ideal vacation?
• If you could have a meal with anyone who is currently dead, who would it be?

THANG 2: CAN TAYLOR ALLEY – “ain’t got no legs (or arms)”

quietly pray for the hungry, helpless, & homeless—as you feel the inconvenience of the exercise (notice you are not alone in the quiet, dark journey)

• 1 squat followed by 4 lunges w/increase to 2 squat + 8 lunges, etc + held two cans palms up
• Added flying nuns to end

THANG 3: PAX PRAYER in cadence while we crossed into enemy lines…

I don’t know but I’ve been told – repeat, etc.

Rucking cans will not grow old

Look to my left or to my right

I’m never alone in the fight

Early morning I carry weight

A call to love and not to hate

F3 Nation represent

To these friendships we commit

AO Mastodon we ruck

Here before our God, awestruck

Out of darkness comes the dawn

Faithful lives we will lead on

Lift our M and 2.0s

Thank you God for giving those

Thanks also for this here PAX

May these friendships always last

Here we give our lives to God

As we travel with this squad

Out into our given day

God’s good glory on display

THANG 4: MANRISE

51 count Can Can Dance Competition

MARY: 1 minute ruck plank on cans

CoR/NoR/Cot

Prayers for Cookies new job, starting on Wed and a trip to Las Vegas; the troubled woman who passed us rucking; our nation and the election

Moleskin:

• “Come and hear, all you who fear God, and I will tell what he has done for my soul.” ~ Psalm 66:16
• Give the gift of hospitality in asking someone a question and fostering a space for them to share.

17 PAXs in attendance for the beatdown: Da Vinci, Tortuga (respect), Panhandle, T-Bone, Wet Burrito, Big Mac, Shamu, Noodles, Hotbox, Gummi Bear, Cookies, Beaker, Jolly, Banks, Shiplap, Sparrow, SAGA (Q)

PRE-WOR: ol’ glory down = 10 burpees

WOR

5 Motivators: Chuck Norris breaths air – 5 times a day

Tappy-taps: Chuck Norris got Coronavirus. Now the Coronavirus is in isolation.

Arm Circles: Chuck Norris was once run over by a tank. He refused to pay for it.

5 mountain climbers w/a merkin: Chuck Norris doesn’t do push-ups, he pushes the earth down.

THANG 1: John Cusak coupons over to Hoffa in a slight mosey fashion

Chuck Norris can play the violin with a piano... Heavy Classical Music in the center of Pax

THANG 2: 10 TO 1 says Chuck Norris can’t take us! But to do it, the PAX has to stay together.

SIT UPS – run hill w/opposite count SQUATS at top (ALL TOGETHER)

10/1: The flu gets a Chuck Norris shot every year.

9/2: Chuck Norris doesn’t read books. He stares them down until he gets the information he wants.

8/3: Time waits for no man. Unless that man is Chuck Norris.

7/4: If you spell Chuck Norris in Scrabble, you win. Forever.

6/5: Chuck Norris is the only man who can fight himself and win.

5/6: When God said, “Let there be light!” Chuck said, “Say Please.”

4/7: Chuck Norris can do a wheelie on a unicycle.

3/8: Freddy Krueger has nightmares about Chuck Norris.

2/9: The dinosaurs looked at Chuck Norris the wrong way once. You know what happened to them.

1/10: Chuck Norris counted to infinity… twice.

NIPPLE SCRAPPER MERKINS – run hill w/opposite count SQUATS at top

10/1: Chuck Norris’ cowboy boots are made from real cowboys.

9/2: Chuck Norris does not own a stove, oven, or microwave , because revenge is a dish best served cold.

8/3: Chuck Norris does not sleep. He waits.

7/4: There is no chin behind Chuck Norris’ beard. There is only another fist.

6/5: The chief export of Chuck Norris is pain.

5/6: If paper beats rock, rock beats scissors, and scissors beats paper, what beats all 3 at the same time? Chuck Norris.

4/7: In an average living room there are a thousand objects Chuck Norris could use to kill you, including the room itself.

3/8: If you want a list of Chuck Norris’ enemies, just check the extinct species list.

2/9: Chuck Norris does not use spell check. If he happens to misspell a word, Oxford will change the spelling.

1/10: Some kids pee their name in the snow. Chuck Norris can pee his name into concrete.

BLOCK Bs – run hill w/opposite count SQUATS at top

10/1: Death once had a near-Chuck-Norris experience.

9/2: Chuck Norris can strangle you with a cordless phone.

8/3: Chuck Norris never retreats; He just attacks in the opposite direction.

7/4: Chuck Norris can build a snowman out of rain.

6/5: Chuck Norris once punched a man in the soul.

5/10: Before he forgot a gift for Chuck Norris, Santa Claus was real.

The quickest way to a man’s heart is with Chuck Norris’s fist.

CoR/NoR/Cot: Continued prayers for Noodles and his loss, Archive and his baby and M, Smokey and his job opportunities.

Sparrow presents The Banana Award to Q: “The ripeness representing good comedic timing and the peel reminds you, you can always slip and fall.”

Moleskin: Gratitude for the PAX and call to persevere together in the joys and sorrows.

B-ROLL

Chuck Norris’ calendar goes straight from March 31st to April 2^nd, because no one fools Chuck Norris.

Once a cobra bit Chuck Norris’ leg. After five days of excruciating pain, the cobra died.

Chuck Norris once won a game of Connect Four in three moves.

Champions are the breakfast of Chuck Norris.

When the Boogeyman goes to sleep every night he checks his closet for Chuck Norris.

Chuck Norris can slam revolving doors.

Chuck Norris does not hunt because the word hunting implies the possibility of failure. Chuck Norris goes killing.

The dark is afraid of Chuck Norris.

Chuck Norris can kill two stones with one bird.

Chuck Norris makes onions cry.

Chuck Norris is the reason why Waldo is hiding.

In Pamplona, Spain, the people may be running from the bulls, but the bulls are running from Chuck Norris.

Chuck Norris can get in a bucket and lift it up with himself in it.

Chuck Norris destroyed the periodic table, because Chuck Norris only recognizes the element of surprise.

When Chuck Norris was born, the only person who cried was the doctor. Never slap Chuck Norris.

When Chuck Norris does division, there are no remainders.

It takes Chuck Norris 20 minutes to watch 60 Minutes.

Chuck Norris beat the sun in a staring contest.

Superman owns a pair of Chuck Norris undies.

Chuck Norris doesn’t need to shave. His beard is scared to grow.

17 PAX showed for a Thursday Bootcamp inspired by the call to battle from Mars and for the Venus love of F3: Archive, Crack, Tortuga, Double Been ‘n Chedder, Da Vinci, Banks, Hotbox, Shiplap, TBTF, Bloomer, Panhandle, Noodles, Katniss, Smokey, Jolly, Sparrow, SAGA (Q)

The heavens declare the glory of God and the sky above proclaims his handiwork.”

~ Psalm 19:1 ~

WoR: We entered the gloom with a rousing call to a beatdown via Hotbox’s recommendation: Mars, The Bringer of War. 7 Motivators / Squats / Tappy Taps / Sun Gods / Half Moon Push-ups (aka Iranian Twist Push-ups, aka Nipple Scraper Merkins)

“I don’t want a minute of easy happiness until this earth knows that God is alive! We must bow down before the living God and weep aloud for having killed him up to now. We are born for trouble, born for battle. Shame on us Christians who are always wanting to have it nice and soft, with a bit of God in our lives!…God calls out to us, “Share in my business!” and we are fooling ourselves unless we do this.” – Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt

Thang 1: Mosey – orbit to the “asteroid belt” – halfway we paused for 5 half moon pushups on an asteroid.

Thang 2: Shooting Comet – 100 yard dash on road in triads — there and back

Thang 3: Asteroid Belt

1. 10 Half Moon Pushups
2. 10 Dips
3. 10 Derkins

Thang 4: Death Star (modified) – 5 stations out in shape of star. Run to each point of the star and perform 30 merkins at each, for a total of 150.

Thang 5: Ursa Minor aka Little Bear, aka Little Dipper (Bear Crawl 360) – i.e. bear crawl while spinning.

Thang 6: Ursa Major aka Big Bear, aka Big Dipper – Bear crawl for 14 and then burpee into a star jump (in honor of Polaris in the ursa minor constellation).

Thang 7: Moon Gods – Start in side plank on elbow and edge of lower foot. Bring top foot into the air as high as comfortable and move in circular pattern. Switch sides and repeat!

Thang 8: Mosey to Manrise (x2)

Mary: Heels to Heaven – heels up at 90 degrees. Count cadence lowering the heels down to 6 inches, then thrust them back up to 90 degrees bringing your 6 off the pavement, thus shooting your heels to heaven.

CoT: Archive’s baby is on the way in a week! Noodle & Smokey schools have kids coming back on Monday.

Moleskin

O extravagant God,
in this ripening, red-tinged autumn,
waken in me a sense of joy
in just being alive,
joy for nothing in general
except everything in particular;
joy in sun and rain
mating with earth to birth a harvest;
joy in soft light
through shyly disrobing trees;
joy in acolyte moon
setting halos around processing clouds;
joy in the beating of a thousand wings
mysteriously knowing which way is warm;
joy in wagging tails and kids’ smiles
and in this spunky old city;
joy in the taste of bread and wine,
the smell of dawn,
a touch,
a song,
a presence;
joy in having what I cannot live without —
other people to hold and cry and laugh with
joy in love,
in you;
and that all at first and last
is grace.

—Ted Loder, Guerrillas of Grace

Recover: Venus, Bringer of Peace

We met up at “shipping and receiving” by the tennis courts where we filled the tires, checked the tread, fired up the engines, and loaded the cargo to deliver the goods. 10 PAX in the fleet: SAGA, Archive, Captain Crunch, Sparrow, Cookies, Banks, Shiplap, Da Vinci, BigMac, Wet Burrito.

Disclaimer: I’m not a professional, you are here at your own risk, modify as necessary.

WoR

Motivators; Tappy Taps; Mountain Climbers; Arm Circles

RUCKS ON…

Thang 1: Shuffled around the lake.

Thang 2: pull-ups into squats for 5 while partner did some merkins

Thang 3: Ruck to the lamp posts – 5 squats at each post with a shuffle to the next post to increase by 5 reps each stop until 40 squats

Thang 4: Ruck/Suffle to the ball diamond for a partner race: lunge to first, bear crawl to second, shuffle home – while waiting pax did squats, Al Gore, & planks in rotation

Thang 5: Shuffle to hoffa for a Jacob’s Ladder (run up, 1 burpee, run down and back up 2 burpees, etc. until near time).

Thang 6: Manrise! Dropped the weight and sprinted to the top of hoffa.

Mary: 25 flutter kicks

Moleskin: The journey is easier in a pack. All that weight you carry will one day come off.

Prayer for: Jobs, families, and faithful living.