Filthy Fifty

 Pax:  Wasabi, Wrecking ball, Squeegee, Blackbeard, Cpt D, Flying Tomato, Chitwood, XBox, Bluegrass, Rifleman, Neo, Aruba, Napalm, Poacher, Scout

Warmup

• Mucho Chesto
• Good Mornings
• Imperial Walkers
• Windmills
• Arm Circles
• 10x burpees
• 12x burpees for tardy pax

Beat Down & Down Painment

• Boxtrot to playground
• 10x burpees @ fire station
• @ Camelot Park
  • 50x pull-ups
  • 50x merkins
  • 50x squats
  • 50x step ups
  • 50x incline Merkins
  • 50x LBCs
  • 50x Side Straddle Hops
  • 50x monkey humpers
  • 50x LSF
  • 10x burpees
• Boxtrot to Rassie Wicker
  • 10x burpees @ Rassie Wicker
• Tire flips while we circle of pain

Announcements: BRR have 2 weeks until the BRR. Keep training! First Friday next Friday for beer pouring. EMAW starts 6 Sep. 11 Sep pool party at the Flying Tomato compound.

Prayer: Scout led us out in prayer.

Moleskine: A half-century of learning and experience. F3 refers to participants over 50 with RESPECT, predominantly because they still come to work out. However, it seems more appropriate that we refer to men over 50 with respect based on their experience, wisdom, and lifelong-learning. In 1900, the average life expectancy for people was 47 years, 3 less than the half century that I celebrate today. Through modern medicine and a number of other changes, Harvard University estimates that the average longevity for a US citizen increased to 79 years in 2019, but decreased to 76 years, largely based on COVID, drug overdoses, and accidental injury. This decrease and its causes highlight the many perils that exist, predominantly for our citizens less than 50 years old.

Most of us take a lot more risks when we are younger, often thinking that we are at the top of our fitness prime or invincible. For those of us who reached the half-century mark and many of our F3 Sandhills members, we know that is not the case. While wonderful and full of opportunity, our world is fraught with factors, some in our control, others not, that try to harm or kill us. Survival takes every bit of our application of fitness – moral, spiritual, ethical, physical, and mental. Over time, we improve or at least maintain our application of these factors while acting and assessing risk in every category. Experience, enhanced judgment, and better application of risk provide our more seasoned members with some tools that our more junior members must still acquire.

We learn our most salient lessons through pain and suffering. After all, I have no idea what my 5-year-old birthday cake looked like. However, I do remember placing my hand on the stove the same year and never doing that intentionally again. We must all learn. Ideally, that learning allows for some pain without catastrophic consequences. For those of us with respect, it remains our legacy to try to pass some of those lessons to our younger generation while allowing them the opportunity to learn similar lessons.

I’m proud to earn the R-E-S-P-E-C-T description during our COT, but I’m prouder to have an opportunity to set conditions for our younger generation to learn and develop.

Last. A famous many once said, “Get busy livin’ or get busy dyin’.” Andy Dufresne, Shawshank Redemption. I choose the first.

Aye!