Banned….

No Pax, took the Daily Red Pill (DRP) this morning.

The Pax: None (Q: Squirrel)

    Ruckers: Aruba & Napalm

The Scene: Still chilly but at least it wasn’t raining!

WarmUp:  Finkle Swings, SSH, Imperial Walkers  

The Thang:  200M repeats

Warm up with one mile Box Trot and then some stretching

• Run hard for 200 meters (½ the track or 1 curve + 1 straightaway)
• Recover by jogging or walking 200 meters, the rest of the lap
• Repeato 3 times

 

• Run hard for 400 meters (One lap around the track)
• Recover by jogging or walking 200 meters
• Repeato 2 times

 

• Run hard for 800 meters (Two laps around the track)
• Recover by gasping for air
  
  

ABS – 10 reps of each exercise, followed by a 10-second isometric hold & once I started I didn’t stop

• Crunches > Crunch and hold for ten count
• Table crunch > Crunch and hold for ten count
• Legs straight up – toe touches > Iso Hold
• V-legs up & crunch between  > Iso Hold
• Right knee in, left leg straight out (6″ off ground) & crunch > Iso Hold
• Right knee in, left leg straight out (6″ off ground) & cross-body crunch
• Left knee in, right leg straight out (6″ off ground) & crunch
• Left knee in, right leg straight out (6″ off ground) & cross-body crunch
• Start in table top, heel taps (10 ea foot)
• Heel taps faster…10 ea foot
• Both heels, same time tap
• Hold heels 6″ off ground
• Reverse crunch          > Iso Hold
• Flutter kicks for 10       > Iso Hold
• Heels to heaven for 10
• Toe touches for 10      > Iso Hold
• Lower legs to 10 count
• 6″ hold for 10

 

Announcements/Prayer requests: None

Squirrel led the prayer 

 

MOLESKINE:  Banned 

In staying with the PFT running theme for today Your Humble Correspondent (YHC) had thought, “maybe I’ll sing some old Army cadence’s as we box trot that first mile.  So I ran a few through my head:

“Up jumped the monkey from the coconut grove

He was a mean mother….”

                >>> Nope, better not sing that one

 

“I wish all the ladies were bells in a tower,

And I was a hunch back, I’d bang ‘em every hour….”

           >>> Not that one either

 

“Momma and Poppa lyin’ in bed

Momma rolled over and gave…”

    No Image needed or wanted 

Mmmm-no

Well, I took the dog on a walk and kept thinking of all the songs we sang 100 years ago and came to the conclusion that it was no wonder we were so screwed up.  Almost all the songs we sang back then have been banned for use in today’s military. 

As I rose early Sunday morning for a long run my head cleared and I recalled one:

“Up in the morning at the break of day, work so hard we never play

Run through the jungle where the sun don’t shine and all I do is the double time

Up in the morning before the break of day, I don’t like it no way

Eat my breakfast too darn soon, Hungry as hell by noon

Went to the mess sergeant on my knees, I said mess sergeant, mess sergeant, feed me please

Mess sergeant said with a big old grin, If you want to be airborne, you got to be thin.”

Yea, that one would do. 

Got me to thinking of some of the other things of my youth that are banned now; Porky Pig (speech impediments), Speedy Gonzales (sterotype), Pepe Le Pew (womanizer), Elmer Fudd and Yosemite Sam (angry NRA members), Foghorn Leghorn (big cock). 

                               

I’m sure there are others that have found themselves hunted by the PC-Police to the point of extinction. 

I do hope we, as a nation, don’t lose our somewhat indecent or poor tase as we sing and joke around.   For if we do…..what will become of Scout?

 

Aye!