7 Pax posted to the gloom of Cryptonite to take on YHC’s death by burpee. Should have been 8 but a certain Pax dropped his 2.0 off for a cross country trip and then hightailed it out of there. I don’t want to call any names out but his initials are Thumbs Up. There’s not much that needs to be said about a workout when you name it death by burpees. There were a lot of burpees and it felt like death when we finished.
The Weather: 67 and humid
The Thang:
Mosey around to the helipad
COP – All IC
SSH x 20
Burpees x 5
TTT x 20
Burpees x 5
IW x 30
Burpees x 5
Windmill x 20
Burpees x 5
Squat x 20 slo-mo
Burpees x 5
mosey around to the bus loop
U bearly suck
Bear Crawl around bus loop w/ burpee at each column
Mosey up to the SFD
Line up on one side of the field
Sprint across
Burpees x 10
Lunges x 10 each leg
LBC x 30
Backwards sprint back
Burpees x 10
Jump squat x 20
WW1 situps x 30
Lunge walk across
Burpees x 10
Bulgarian ball busters x 10 each
V-ups x 30
Broad jump burpees back
Mosey down to the lot
Roller coaster
Sprint each lane of the lot with 5 burpees at each end
Mosey back to the astroturf
Split into 4 groups
1’s wall burpees x10
2’s hang ten burpees x 10
3’s box jump burpees x 10
4’s Burpwood x 10
Rinse and Repeat until Times up
Moleskin:
- T-claps to the Pax for the hard work. Everyone got in around 200 burpees and variations.
- T-claps to Milli Vanilli and Rocking Chair for the Wanderlite/Stridelite work
- The mumblechatter was strong at least in the beginning before we were all gassed.
Announcements:
- Stride open for business Monday and Wednesday. Donut Run is next Friday
- BRR next week. Team leaves Thurs at 1pm from SGPC
- 9/9: Jumanji 3-Year Anniv.
- 9/16: Never Forget Event at Smokehouse
- October: Stay tuned details on AO launch(es)
- 11/11: John Flanagan Memorial 10K
Devo:
ALLOWING PROBLEMS
There is a world of difference between a person who has a big problem and a person who makes a problem big. For several years I would do between twenty and thirty hours of counseling each week. I soon discovered that the people who came to see me were not necessarily the ones who had the most problems. They were the ones who were problem conscious and found their difficulties stressful. Naïve at first, I would try to fix their problems, only to discover that they would go out and find others.
A study of three hundred highly successful people, people like Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Helen Keller, Winston Churchill, Albert Schweitzer, Mahatma Gandhi, and Albert Einstein, reveals that one-fourth had handicaps, such as blindness, deafness, or crippled limbs. Three-fourths had either been born in poverty, came from broken homes, or at least came from exceedingly tense or disturbed situations.
Why did the achievers overcome problems, while thousands are overwhelmed by theirs? They refused to hold on to the common excuses for failure.
They turned their stumbling blocks into stepping-stones.
They realized they could not determine every circumstance in life, but they could determine their choice of attitude toward every circumstance.
The Los Angeles Times recently ran this quote: “If you can smile whenever anything goes wrong, you are either a nitwit or a repairman.” I would add: or a leader in the making—one who realizes that the only problem you have is the one you allow to be a problem because of your wrong reaction to it. Problems can stop you temporarily. You are the only one who can do it permanently.
—Developing the Leader Within You
LEARN TO VIEW YOUR PROBLEMS AS TEMPORARY STUMBLING BLOCKS.
And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?” Then I said, “Here am I! Send me.”