RUNNING….(Stronghold)

Thirteen Pax, took the Daily Red Pill (DRP) this morning and got better.

The Pax: Josey/Flagman, Aruba, Schlitz, Meat Sweats, Witch Doctor, Rafiki, Flying Tomato, Beano, UGA, FroYo, Scout  and Fine print (Q: Squirrel)

The Scene: 62 degrees, partly cloudy and beautiful

Warm Up:  SSH, Cotton Pickers and Abe Vigoda’s

The Thang:    

• Run for 10 minutes (a mile)

• Exercise 1 – 20 Hand Release Merkins (Out-In-Up-Down) IC
• Run for 10 minutes (another mile)

• Exercise 2 – 30 Squats
• Run for 10 minutes (yet another mile)

• Finished off with a little Broga

Announcements/Prayer requests:

1. Praises to those men who keep showing up.  We raised up Witch Doctor who has been able to join us in the Gloom while he’s in training (so good to see him), Fine Print for all the hard work he’s done through mentorship (and dealing with Beano), to Scout who loathes running and yet did it, and all those I haven’t mentioned.  Ya gotta keep showing up to get Right.
2. Big shout out to T-Bone.  Through his regimen of physical therapy (and just being a good dude) he put it out to the Pax a 90 day knee routine.  Since starting this my knees haven’t ached nearly as much as before.   #Guardrail #HIM 
3. As of this Backblast we have 14 written this year.  14 out of 207 workouts.  That means 6% of the time there is an actual Backblast written (i.e. Wisdom articles) that folks outside of F3 can see and learn from.  I too have slacked off so this isn’t me pointing fingers just at others.  I’m pointing at myself as well.

 FroYo led us out in prayer

MOLESKINE: Pick Up the Six

As many of you know, there are several of the F3 Sandhills’ Pax that meet after the Outpost workout to discuss the QSource.  This week’s topic was Live Right. I’ll hit on this later.  

Rafiki laid out a good workout for us this past Tuesday.  A good mix of strength and cardio.  As we were running I noticed there were a few Pax that were a bit slower, so I’d loop back to Pick Up The six (PUT6).  The first go ‘round I didn’t PUT6, just didn’t think about it, but when I saw it again I couldn’t help but to go back.  These men are out running with faster men, working to Get Right(er) and they are my friends. 

SQUIRREL…

Years ago I was asked to create my Promise In Being.  Basically it’s what shows up when you walk into a room.  It’s not anything you work at, it’s the gift you’re born with.  Some people light up a room and talk to strangers like they’ve known them their whole life (CPT D), some people make it feel like you’re the only person in the world because they are so tuned into you (Dockers), some challenge you mentally and physically (Poacher or Beano).  There are so many examples I could continue for pages.  Another way to phrase this is, what is your purpose?  Mine is, “I promise that no matter wherever I am, no matter what, life will show up as a noble I got ya.”  To summarize, when I walk into a room everyone there should know that I’ll walk alongside and support them.

So what does all that have to do with PUT6?  On that first lap around I didn’t live into my purpose.  I didn’t support these men who were out there in the Gloom doing their best.  I had run ahead and hoped for a break in order to gasp for air.  Thankfully, I have internal (and external) Guardrails to remind me to do better.  So on the next loop around I finished running and scooped up those behind me.

Living purposefully requires self-sacrifice. When you commit to a purpose you think less of yourself and more on your fellow man.  This commitment to your purpose isn’t a thing you wake up one day and just do it.  It’s a daily choice, the veritable Red Pill, accelerating your fitness, relationships, faith  all to Live Right.  When you’re not wallowing in self-pity or negative self-talk and you’ve gotten “Right”  you’re not expending all your energy to survive.  You (at least I do) wind up thinking less about yourself and more about how to serve others.  In my purpose statement that’s what I mean by “I got ya.”  It’s less, ‘I will do things for you’ and more like a safety net.

Here’s the neat thing, and it seems almost selfish.  I’ve found that when I’m living the best me by “Living Right”; helping those in need, surrounding myself with other men who are Living Right, encouraging the proverbial Sad Clown, I get the unexpected benefit of keeping myself “Right.”  In serving others I serve myself…ironic.  

Each of us makes the choice to Get Right to Live Right.  I think you’ll find that once you begin Living Right, it is far easier to stay Right.

Now…..DO BETTER!

Aye!