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DATE: 2023-02-27
AO: Horizon-Ao
Q: Magoo
PAX: SPINAL TAP, 3 mile, Disco, Purple Rain, Trifecta, Kodiak, Gherkin, Median, Mr Haand FNGs: Atache
COUNT: 11
WARMUP: WMH with a twist; Cherry pickers; yoga-type stuff
THE THANG: Sets of 20 exercises together, bear crawl to 18, run cross field and back; first back leads 10 blockies. Lather, rinse, repeat. MARY: Cruel can openers, four count LBCs, more LBCs, J-Lo
ANNOUNCEMENTS: (crickets)
COT: On This Day.
1854 was not a good year for Robert Schumann. Now recognized as one of greatest composers of the Romantic period, he was suffering from tinnitus, auditory hallucinations, and ever-increasing bouts of schizophrenia and/or manic depression. His declining mental health had led to the loss of a prestigious job; money was tight and Clara was pregnant with their seventh child.
The morning of Monday, February 27, 169 years ago today, found Schumann worked quietly in his first-floor apartment. Around noon, still wearing his floral-patterned nightgown, he left home through an icy pouring rain. No one questioned his odd attire as it was carnival in Dusseldorf.

Schumann walked to a wooden pontoon bridge over the River Rhine. Arriving at the bridge in his nightclothes, he had no money to pay the toll. But the toll collector accepted his silk handkerchief instead and was allowed to continue. Halfway across, he stepped over the wooden railing and into the ice-cold water.
A local boatman tried to save him from the fast-flowing water. Schumann fought him off until weakened by hypothermia. He was rowed ashore and sent home in a cart. He spent the remaining 28 months of his life in an insane asylum. Often delusional, and sometimes strait-jacketed, he died of pneumonia complicated by self-starvation.
Don’t be like Schumann. Reach out. Be with people. Share the burden. On the reverse side, don’t be afraid to reach out to those who might be hurting. The worst that could happen is a moment of awkwardness if they push you away. I think we can handle that.

DATE: 2023-02-27
AO: Farm
Q: Infinity
PAX: Chile, Matthew – Running Man, Faceplant
FNGs: None
COUNT: 4
Warm-Up: Hillbilly Walkers, Grady Corns, Don Quixotes, Beet Pickers, WMHs, Michael Phelps, and Mosey

The Thang: Four Corners and Field Work
Start at one corner of the field:
– 15 Bonnie Blairs
Mosey 120m to next corner
– 10-1 Motivators
Mosey 60m to corner
– 10 Burpees
Mosey 120m to corner
– 15 Jump Squats
Mosey 60m back to start
– 15 Clapping Merkins
Lunge Walk 60m to half-field
– 20 Reverse Lunges, IC
Sprint 60m across field
– 20 OH Claps, IC
30m Bear Crawl to mid-field
– 10 Flapjacks, IC
30m Crab Walk to sideline
– 15 Bulgarian Split Squats, each leg
– 10 Speed Skaters, IC
– 20 Single Leg Glute Bridges, each side

Mary: Sweat Angels, Reverse Merkins, Flutter Kicks IC, Supermans, Side Crunches, and American Hammers.

CoT:
In 1957 an entire Monastery in Thailand was being relocated by a group of monks. One day they were moving a giant clay Buddha when one of the monks noticed a large crack in the clay. On closer investigation he saw there was a golden light emanating from the crack. The monk used a hammer and a chisel to chip away at the clay exterior until he revealed that the statue was in fact made of solid gold.

The statue was thought to be built in 1403 and was revered by Buddhist for many hundreds of years. In 1757 the Burmese Army was invading Thailand. Facing complete annihilation, the Buddhist monks at the monastery hastily began covering their Golden Buddha with clay to make it look of little or no value to the invading army. During the invasion all the Buddhist monks were tragically murdered, but the Golden Buddha was left undiscovered.

In F3 we post in the early morning hours and often ask ourselves, “Who are we really, why am I here and where am I going?”

What this story so eloquently explains is that inside each of us, there lives a golden Buddha of light. Our purpose in life is to rediscover our Buddha for ourselves.

What happens over the course of our life is that we pile layer upon layer of clay over our own Golden Buddha. The heaviest layer of clay is of our own doing – it’s our own ego and it’s limited thinking along with our unconscious conditioning. The other layers of clay get added on from external influences. Eventually we are so laden with clay that we forget that the Golden Buddha is there all the time.

The secret to finding our Golden Buddha, our higher purpose, lies not in the future, but in our past. All we need to do is start chipping away at the clay and rediscovering those things we were passionate about as we grew up. We reconnect with the things that first brought joy into our lives. We recall the times when we were “in the flow” and time stood still. We chip away at our clay at F3 and as we get close, that golden light from within us will once again reemerge.

DATE: 2023-02-26
AO: Mor-Ruck-Ing
Q: Kodiak
PAX: Magoo
FNGs: None
COUNT: 2
WARMUP: Let’s get moving
THE THANG: The pax completed a 7+ mile circuit through Arlington and Falls Church in search of various hills and high points. MARY: None
ANNOUNCEMENTS: None
COT: The coffee and pastry at the end makes the early morning worth it.

DATE: 2023-02-25
AO: Olympus
Q: Pop Fly
PAX: Popeyes, Peanuts, Ashe, Gadget, YNAB, Nano
FNGs: 10-4, Red Baron
COUNT: 9
WARMUP: SSHs, Cherry Twists, Lunges, PUs, Downward Down, the world’s goodest stretch and the world’s greatest stretch

THE THANG: Mosey and Ricky Bobby over to the Lake. Along the way we stopped for step-ups (20) and Derkins (10)

Once at the dam, the PAX bear crawled up the dam wall 3 times. After that, the PAX ran down the hill and then proceeded to come back up the hill via the ‘Mt Everest’ technique – aka 3 lunges + 1 squat — all the way up the hill.

PAX mosey’d and ricky bobby’d back to Olympus. Along the way back, PAX performed a wall sit and had to share their favorite food. There was a 5 push-up penalty whenever someone gave a disingenuous answer. 4 rounds of penalties were handed out for less than truthful answers. Pax stopped along the way back from 20 more step ups

Pax arrived at final hill and decided that it needed bear crawling. So that happened. Then PAX conducted two relay races up same said hill with Team 2 being the superior team for sure.

MARY: Resistance LBCs, Plank Jumps, LBCs, 1 minute plank, row boats, mogul skiers, side planks, pickle pointers

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Upcoming 2F event at Mosaic

COT: St. Clair’s two rules for life that he shares with his kid: (1) Don’t be late, and (2) Don’t be last. If you can nail down those two things, half the battle is already over.

DATE: 2023-02-25
AO: Farm
Q: Sparky
PAX: Infinity, Matthew – Running Man
FNGs: B Roll, Buzz
COUNT: 5

THE THANG: 30 Minute Yoga Flow. 1 minute of fluid stretches to keep everyone warm followed by 1 minute of static stretches for 15 rounds. Stretches included downward dog, figure four, Childs pose, chaturanga, happy baby, warrior 1,2, and 3 with fluid stretches/strengthening through worlds greatest stretch, plank holds, chair pose, v holds, push-ups and oblique twists