Hopping through the Gloom

Hopping through the Gloom

9 men came in from out in the cold…check that, they came out from the warm and into the frosty gloom to shake off the weekend the only way we know how. We proceeded to run around in circles and do a few calisthenics. Then we prayed, shook hands and went home.

While all of that did happen, here’s a bit more detail for those taking notes at home:

• 5 minute mosey around the school, shake off the cobwebs and play a couple games of hopscotch (aka. agility training)
• COP full of standard F3 calisthenics: SSHs, Imperial Walkers, Squats, Merkins, Mountain Climbers, Plank, Flutter.
• Mosey to far side of track for 11s: hand-release merkins on one side, run across infield of track for jump squats.
• Mosey to wall for the Terrible Triangle: 20yds wall walk (balls-to-the-wall shuffle to the right), 20 yds lunge walk across parking lot, 30 yds (the hypotenuse of the triangle) burpee broad jump back to start. Repeato.
• Mosey to playground for circuit work: 20 knees-to-elbows, 20 squats, 20 merkins (decline/incline/decline/incline on curb). Complete 4 circuits.
• Run (running out of time) to field for The Finisher: starfish with merkin/squat/LBC/merkin/squat combo. LBCs until the 6 is in.
• LBCs x20
• Run home
• COT

Moleskine:

• Agility Training: This is the beauty of F3. When else can 9 middle-aged men play around on a hopscotch course? It’s 0530, dark and cold. No one else is looking and we can behave like the boys we truly are. It wasn’t mentioned in Freed to Lead, but I’m positive one of the reasons we like F3 is because it’s one of the few times we can act like kids rather than the respectable adults we are supposed to be.
• O’Tannenbaum: Dude was awesome today, Flying around the exercises like a thoroughbred, owning the rest of us like a boss. I used to be able to keep up with him, but he has definitely discovered a second gear that most of us have yet to uncover. I hope that someday, I can be like him.
• (Disclaimer: While O’Tannenbaum was definitely running well today, he also mentioned that he never gets a shout-out when he knocks the cover off the ball. More often, we make sure to note that he was late, or lost, or really wet, or wore an old-style football helmet, or wore really old sneakers (I think they actually pumped up), or wore a t-shirt that said “coach” when he Q’d with a whistle… Anyway, I figured the guy was due a shout-out, instead of a reminder that he is often late, or lost, or really wet, or wore an old-style football helmet, or wore really old sneakers, or wore a t-shirt that said “coach” when he Q’d with a whistle…)

Announcements:

• Talk to Alf if you would like an invite to Q-school. If you regularly Q The Matrix and would like to do so better and/or find out a little more about why we do what we do (i.e., the intentionality behind things), Q-school is the place for you.
• More announcements in the email of the week. Said better than I can do so here. Read it if you haven’t yet.