One Star Earned His Rating Today

One Star Earned His Rating Today

With a no show Q in One Star the pax were left staring at each other until 5:15 hoping he would show.  Loafer started DiCCS right at 5:15 and with still no one star he asked if anyone wanted to split the workout with him.  Sure.  A quick Night at the Roxbury moment:

And we’re off with me leading the first half of the workout.

WARM UP

Mosey towards the neighborhood.  At the last second I decided perhaps Loafer didn’t want to be deep in the ‘hood when I threw him the torch and thought it best to stay close to the shopping center to allow for better last minute Q Planning.  Quick left turn behind Pet Smart.  Flanders catches up and says he had visions of Q school again with my opening mosey.  “Oh, am I running fast?  I guess I am”.  Pulled back the reins for the remaining mosey as we circled pets smart parking lot and met in the middle.   Jimmy Duggans with all the rights, lefts, and leans in there.   15 Merkins on my up and down (Asylum Pax can apparently count better than Homecoming pax – Sorry Honeycomb who was there for both).  Calf Stretch with Ackbar once again channeling his inner Damascus with groans, thank you’s, and Patriots praise.  5 T Merkins to finish us out because – well why not.

THE THANG

Mosey to the front of the Pet Smart (while acting like I had a plan).  Partner up.  P1 runs to end of parking lot for 2 burpees and back while P2 does quick feet on the curb.  Repeat 3 times.  (Heart rate much higher than expected.  Quick feet that long is no joke).

Mosey Never mind, heart rate still high.  Same Partners.  P1 Runs parking lot loop.  P2 does exercise.  Exercises were 100 In/Outs, 150 Supines, and 200 LBC’s.

Pass the torch to Loafer.

Mosey to Wesley Chapel Town Hall.  Stopping to collect the 6 along the way with backwards runs and 10 squats.

Arrive at the Rock Pile (which needs to be restocked as we have 6 big rocks and the rest are the size of bricks).  Partner up for the following excercises while the other partner runs:

• 100 chest press
• 100 tricep extension
• 100 Military Press
• 100 Curls
• 100 _____ I forget, but I know we did something.  It sucked so bad that I’ve pushed it out of my memory.

Collect pax together for 10 staggered rock merkins right and then 10 left.  Rocks up.

Mosey to Novant health for 10 squats waiting on the 6.   Jailbreak to end of road.

Backward Run (dodging incoming car).  Gather 6 with 10 squats.   Jailbreak to Brooklyn Pizza.

Partners again.  split 100 dips while 1 partner runs.

Mosey (crawl, roll, wistfully walk), 10 feet back to COT and do 1 burpee in honor of 1 star not showing.

MOLESKIN

• Great job by Loafer stepping up and having a contingency plan in place.
  • He apparently went to Last Call last week to replace Flanders who said – and I quote “Hell no once I saw lightning”.  Apparently 1 star was a no show on Friday as well (as were the rest of the Last Call Pax as Loafer was there by himself.
• CRS back for his first full week as a pax where it all started – Asylum.  It was today that I realized Ackbar was Q last week and ultimately gave the thumbs up for CRS which is short for Can’t Remember Shit (in CRS’ defense when he explained the name he subbed in “Stuff”).  I find it quite amusing that our preacher named him CRS.
  • He’s had such an impactful week that he was voluntold to lead next weeks Asylum.  Yes probably a smidge early, but after beating both site Q’s in the runs today, I have full confidence he will deliver a beat down.
• Honeycomb for a rare Asylum visit.  I think he was there for my last Q.  He must have missed me – since Saturday.
• Flanders attempted to commiserate about NC State Women’s basketball with me.  Either my grunt of disgust scared him off or my mosey pace was too much for him to keep up as he quickly retreated from the front.
• Madison continues to join us at Asylum and watch his EH bloom.  Looks like we will see him for one more week with CRS on his VQ next week.
• Great to have Swimmers back out.  It feels more like a rarity lately to see him at Aylum – for whatever reason.  Still kicks my butt in the runs though so the lack of attendance hasn’t slowed him down.
• Beltway back in action two weeks in a row.  The warmer weather (though not today) appears to be dragging a few winter fartsackers out of their caves.  Great to see you this morning.  Wish we had more time pre or post workout to catch up.  You appear to be killing it on LinkedIn.
• Ackbar with the shop dawg esque post covid coughing heaves today.  I got excited that my lame last minute Q might of had him spilling merlot but then I remembered Covid hit him hard earlier this year and he was likely just stretching the lungs back out.
• I didn’t catch what the Masher’s did today, but they all met up with us at COT drenched in sweat so it appears they worked hard.  Shout out to Mayhem, Penalty Box, and Ditka.  Light crowd today for the Mashers.  They were all applause seeing one of their own out of the nest and off running with us (beltway).

ANNOUNCEMENTS

• CPR Class TONIGHT.  Five Stones Church at 6:00 pm.  Spots are open so sign up.  $15.
• April 1 Q Challenge
• Christ Closet looking for help in pulling summer clothes down and putting winter gear up higher on the shelves.
• WTF

A quick last back blast for Extreme Ownership.  

2.5 of us for the last chapter Discipline Equals Freedom.  I really enjoyed going through this book with yall these last three months.  As happens with Q source as well, the numbers start strong and eventually dwindle towards the end of the book.  I will leave you with the last big point of this chapter.

The Dichotomy of Leadership

A good leader must be:

• confident but not cocky;
• courageous but not foolhardy;
• competitive but a gracious loser;
• attentive to details but not obsessed by them;
• strong but have endurance;
• a leader and follower;
• humble not passive;
• aggressive not overbearing;
• quiet not silent;
• calm but not robotic, logical but not devoid of emotions;
• close with the troops but not so close that one becomes more important than another or more important than the good of the team; not so close that they forget who is in charge;
• able to execute Extreme Ownership, while exercising Decentralized Command.

A good leader has nothing to prove, but everything to prove.

Again, I enjoyed it guys.  No future book has been picked to take off on next.  I’m open for suggestions for the next book (or if there is no interest we can shut down the leadership Q Source on Mondays).   It has been mentioned in the finance channel about getting a weekly finance discussion going either Friday’s after the workout or Saturday’s during coffeteria.  If we keep the Monday post Asylum leadership discussion going, I’d like someone to step up and take lead (other than me).