Cliff Notes

See Cliff Notes discussion about St. Augustine at the bottom.

“My favorite song is ‘Blowin in the Wind’ by Peter Pollen Mary.” I didn’t come up with that, so don’t blame me.

Standard Disclaimer

Warm up

• 20 SSHs in cadence
• 10 Don Quixote in cadence
• 15 Imperial Walkers in cadence
• 10 Merkins in cadence
• 15 Copperhead squats in cadence

Mosey to the field below the Gridiron. Grinders with a football or Frisbee: start off with Partners 1 and 2 on one side of field and Partner 3 on the other side of the field.

• Partner 1 runs to the other side.
• Partner 2 throws the ball or frisbee to partner 1 in route to the other side.
• Partner 3 does burpees
• Stretch

At this point, you have Partners 1 and 3 on one side of the field and Partner 2 on other side of the field.

• Partner 1 who is now on the other side the ball or frisbee throws to partner 3
• Partner 2 does burpees

And so on until each partner gets to throw the ball/frisbee. We did this about 4 times.

Meet in the middle for a Star (4 corners and the center); Come back to the center each time and do 3 Burpees

• Corner 1: 20 Merkins
• Corner 2: 20 Squats
• Corner 3: 20 Hammers
• Corner 4: 20 SSHs
• Stretch after Star completed

Mosey to middle of Covered Walkway for Triple Check

• Partner 1: Timer runs down the covered walkway, turns right, runs down the sidewalk by the back of the school to the gate, does 10 Hand Release Merkins and then runs down the other sidewalk back to the covered sidewalk and turns right to run to the ‘entrance’ to the covered walkway.
• Partner 2: Shoulder Taps Merkins
• Partner 3: Pole Smokers
• Stretch after Triple Check completed

Mosey to loading dock: 3X:

• 15 jump-squats behind the loading dock
• Climb over the rails, across the loading dock and to the asphalt part of the driveway:
• 10 Mike Tysons
• Return to the back of the loading dock
• Stretch after Triple Check completed

Mosey back to the field below the Gridiron for 7s between the lower field and the Gridiron; Along the way we did a crab walk in front of the school.

• Get-ups
• Crunchy Frogs

Mosey to the Benches at Gridiron for a countdown

• 10 Bulgarians right leg single count
• 10 Bulgarians left leg single count
• 10 Dips single count
• 9 Bulgarians right leg single count
• down to 1

Mosey to flag for Mary

• 15 Hammers in cadence
• 15 Alabama Prom Dates in cadence
• 60 count 5 inch leg lift

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COT

For no particular reason, I wanted to learn little bit about St. Augustine. Most of the following is copied out of Wikipedia.

St. Augustine is from North Africa. St. Augustine Florida, the oldest city in the US is named after him.

St. Augustine lived from November 13, 354 AD – August 28, 430 AD

Augustine is the patron saint of brewers, printers and theologians.

• He helped formulate the doctrine of Original Sin. (I’ve heard Original Sin described as “The Only Empirically Verifiable Doctrine of the Christian Faith”.)
• Augustine took the view that, if a literal interpretation contradicts science and humans’ God-given reason, the biblical text should be interpreted metaphorically. While each passage of Scripture has a literal sense, this “literal sense” does not always mean the Scriptures are mere history; at times they are rather an extended metaphor.
• While not breaking down the conditions necessary for war to be just, Augustine coined the phrase in his work The City of God. In essence, the pursuit of peace must include the option of fighting for its long-term preservation. Such a war could not be pre-emptive, but defensive, to restore peace. Thomas Aquinas, centuries later, used the authority of Augustine’s arguments in an attempt to define the conditions under which a war could be just
• Augustine was among the earliest to examine the legitimacy of the laws of man, and attempt to define the boundaries of what laws and rights occur naturally, instead of being arbitrarily imposed by mortals. All who have wisdom and conscience, he concludes, are able to use reason to recognize the lex naturalis, natural law. Mortal law should not attempt to force people to do what is right or avoid what is wrong, but simply to remain just. Therefore “an unjust law is no law at all“. People are not obligated to obey laws that are unjust, those that their conscience and reason tell them violate natural law and rights.

Dear Lord,

We thank you for the wisdom of the ancients. Much of what we wrestle with today, learned people wrestled with long ago. Amen!