This is Your Day….(Stronghold)

The weather in the Gloom was a fine start for late December.  46 degrees.  And so it began.

The Pax: 9 RESPECT pax with a median age equals 53.

Scout, Flying tomato, Xbox, Beano, MeatSweats, CPT D, Josey and Aruba (Q Squirrel)

 

THE THANG:

We started off with a slow jog around the AO then to the courts for some Warm-O-Rama.

• Arm circles
• Grass Getters
• Abe Vigodas

A short Fartlek run to the train station.  We began with 21’s, 2-count Side Straddle Hop (SSH), the QIC started the count through 5 & the rest was mental; goal – everyone stops together on 21. 

• Penalty 1 – 21 Merkins
• Since everyone stopped on 21 the reward was 21 Alternating Merkins

The next wanderings on the platform had the pax doing:

• 21 Squats In cadence at pole 3 (as there is no pole 1 or 2)
• Bearcrawl to pole 4
• 22 lunges (11 ea leg) at pole 4
• Bearcrawl to pole 5
• 21 Squats In cadence at pole 5
• 22 lunges (11 ea leg) at pole 4

AMRAP – 5 minutes

• 20 – 4 count American Hammers
• 20 – 4 count Long Slow Flutter
• 20 – 4 count LBC’s
• 20 – WWII Situps

AMRAP Round 2 – AMRAP – 5 minutes — Same exercises as before

30 second Plank

Mosey back to the Basketball court & find a spot on the wall for some People’s Chair with 20 Air Presses IC

Then a Merkin Seal Clap ladder to 7 

The QIC and Pax then hobbled over to the wall for:

• 2 sets of 21 calf raises
• 20 LBD’s

Prayers: Prayers for MeatSweats friend who is recovering from a stroke, for Beano’s sons who turned 23, for Aruba’s mom who is getting over a bad cold – only second time he’s not been able to be with her in all his 52 years. And for all those not mentioned, yet who are on our heart.

Announcements:  

• Chasing the Chupacabra on 31 December – chili & dessert after event
• 1 Jan, 12-2pm – Oyster’s at Captain D’s house
• 6 Jan trash pickup at 0800 meet at the same location as always
• 6 Jan, F3 Christmas party – bring something to eat and a white elephant gift under $25

 

MOLESKINE:  This is Your Day….what are you going to do with it?

Everyday that you wake up remember someone else did not. 

You are alive for a reason. This is your day.

Now, why on earth are you here?  

You’ve got a window, you’ve been gifted another 24 hours.  You, me, him….may not make it to tomorrow. 

And I’m just wondering what you’re going to do with the day?

The reason why days often feel meaningless and mundane is because we are directionless. 

You got to get some direction. 

I’m just wondering what you’re going to do with this next 24 hours that you did not do yesterday? 

Can you level up 2milimeters more than you did yesterday? Are you going to get better? Are you going to get stronger? Are you going to get wiser? Are you going to see this thing differently? 

 

I’m just wondering, when are you going to see the power of this 24 hours that God gave you.  He gave you another opportunity to be here. 

Another opportunity to forgive somebody.

Another opportunity to let it go. 

Another opportunity to look up and get up. 

Accept where you are.  Figure out where you are mentally, physically, spiritually, emotionally and then ask for help. Let’s get aware of where we are 

 

This is your day.  This is your day to start a new journey.  This is your day to make an investment.  This is your day to invest in yourself.  This is your day…and this is your time to crush this day.  Not yesterday, not tomorrow, but today…this 24 hours!

 

You’ve got one window…for you may not be here tomorrow!

 

Forget the people who say you can’t, you’re not good enough, smart enough, fast enough.  Today…today You get to make the choices.

“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.” ~ Theodore Roosevelt

So don’t listen to the critics.  Listen to that still, small voice that lives within yourself and do something good today.  

Aye!