One PAX launched early for the latest edition of The Clinic. Conditions were 70 and sunny. According to Helen, the following may quite possibly have happened:
Mosey from the hotel to the man-made lake for the COP
SSHs, IWs, DQs, Dead Man Hang, stretch to the sky, LBCs, WWIIs.
Circuits around the lake. YHC estimates the small circuit around the lake is about the same as a track (1/4 mile). As YHC will tell anyone, YHC hates track work. YHC wonders why anyone would use a track, ever, for anything. Just a horrific invention. So, YHC did essentially track work with 6 stations. 20 reps of each, except as noted.
Station 1: merkins
Station 2: LBCs
Station 3: Rosalitas
Station 4: Decline merkins (10 reps)
Station 5: WWIIs
Station 6: SSHs
Three loops.
Mosey the long way home. YHC estimates a mile.
Name, number, YHC said a quick prayer for some folks who are struggling.
Announcements:
Breaking Bread: thank you to the men who carried food this weekend to the Southside Medical Respite, and to the men and women who did the cooking. The bar for a good meal was set really, really high by your brothers and their families. YHC definitely is looking to get invited to both Oyster’s and Gomer’s next family dinner. Wow. Sign up for November and December is open. We need YOU to help with dinner for 8-12 people. With 24 nights each year, this is a great way to make a contribution to F3’s leadership in the community. YHC thanks you in advance. And, if you can, bring a bag or two of fruit. These folks do not get much produce, and they really appreciate it.
Beer Mile. Saturday at 7 (that’s p.m., for those who were asking at First Watch). Suggested weekend itinerary:
1) Watch “All Quiet on the Western Front” Friday evening. Develop a solid disdain for war.
2) Attend a minimum of three workouts Saturday morning (example: Breakfast Club, then Dogpile, then The Crucible), then,
3) Kids’ events Saturday morning into early afternoon, late afternoon nap (well deserved), and
4) Top the evening off with 4 beers and 4 laps and puking and then,
5) A well deserved slumber “in bed” by 8:30 p.m., assuming your definition of “in bed” is “asleep on Faceplant’s front lawn.” Temps should be in the 50s at bedtime, dropping to the high/mid 40’s by the time you wake up wondering where you are and why your M hasn’t taken you home, then,
5.5) Find said way home, and,
6) (Promise yourself and your M that you will) Grow from this experience (note F3 Nation recommends that you use Caps when “Growing”),
7) Build communication with your M,
8) Learn to say the words “Do as Daddy says, not as Daddy does” to your 2.0s,
9) Remind yourself that, after an evening of sleeping outside, attempting to whisper the phrase “Please, Bodo’s, can you turn down the microphone?” during church on Sunday, will not go over well with the M. It will not be a whisper, and only you will think you are funny.
10) Remind self that YHC has warned you.
NMS: YHC’s pal Omar is a stoic fellow, never complaining, though YHC suspects he’s hurting. Keep him in your prayers as he travels home for a funeral. He lost a 20-some year old cousin to an industrial accident. The cousin was crushed by some concrete blocks, apparently unsecured, perhaps by the cousin himself, that fell off the side of a truck. Apparently, this happened on Day 2 of a new job working for the cousin’s father, who owns the construction company. Yikes.
Great to see Helen, who must be at least 75 and is still working at the hotel, back at work. Say what you will, but being at work at 5 a.m. is not something YHC aspires for at that age. Has to be a challenge.
UpChuck spits the bit.
