Date: 2023-11-15
AO: ignite
Q: Major Payne
PAX: Legacy, Traveler, Kodak, Popeye, Elvis, Baracus, Goldfish FNGs: None
COUNT: 8
WARMUP: SSH, IW, WMH, Cherry Pickers, DownDogs
THE THANG: Mosey to the W&OD footbridge. 10 exercises 1-10 reps, rotate through, bear crawl 20 steps, then mosey across the bridge in between. 1. burpees
2. Big boy sit-ups
3. BWS
4. Merkins
5. side straddle hops IC
6. diamond push-ups
7. mountain climbers IC
8. lunges
9. flutter kicks IC
10. tuck jumps
Next round, start with 1 tuck jump, then 2 burpees, etc. Made it about halfway through before it was time to mosey back to the SP.
MARY: Nope
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Sign up now for the Spend Yourself 5K — Sunday, Nov 19, 8am https://runsignup.com/Race/VA/FallsChurch/SpendYourself5k
COT: This past weekend, YHC had the opportunity to lead GTE 44 in Wilmington, NC. One of the challenges offered up was for PAX to recite Teddy Roosevelt’s “Man in the Arena” excerpt to get his platoon out of carrying a coupon for the upcoming evolution. Two PAX accepted and completed the challenge, which was especially difficult given they had to do it in front of an audience in the middle of the night in the rain and cold — under pressure. It’s not easy to step up for these kinds of challenges (as YHC demonstrated), but we should all seek out opportunities to do something that takes us out of our element a bit. We grow ONLY when we stretch ourselves. Consider how you might stretch yourself today, physically or mentally. The growth will make you a better man.
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
