• When: 2020-09-10
  • QIC: Bar Crawl
  • The PAX: Brita, Lumbergh, Paper Jam, Niles, Eggo, Goodman, DOT, Juice, Squatter, Deebo, Meter, Bar Crawl


No Hunk Alerts for IPC Week 2

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A few weeks ago, our fearless AOQ Blue Rhino negotiated a Q swap with Lumbergh, so YHC was voluntold to make the drive out to Pleasant Hill and visit the men of Ambush. A task which I happily accepted because you’d be hard pressed to find a funnier group of guys or a better example of brotherhood, so I always enjoy spending some time around these men. Before I started planning my Q, DOT asked if there were any plans to do the IronPax Challenge, so I decided to oblige and come back another day for a regular Q. Thanks to the rain on Wednesday evening, the plans to use the football field and track were derailed, but we made it work while staying on dry, non-muddy ground. Here’s how it all went down:

WEATHER
The humidity is back! 75, cloudy, and like you were in the shower right after you turned the water off.

STRIDELITE
5 total Strideliters. YHC lives 20 minutes from Ambush, so that 4:20 Stridelite start was earrrrly. Turns out that 4:20 actually means 4:10. As I arrived at 4:19:30, I saw a headlight coming towards me. I thought “Aw man, Lumbergh came back for me, we can run a nice leisurely pace to get ready for this IPC”. As the light got closer, I saw it was none other than Juice. You know, the Juice who is much faster than I. He offered to take me off campus for 3 miles, and in my quest to not slow him down too much, I ended up with an 8:20 pace, which was only a few seconds off my PR pace for a 5K. My heart pumped harder and I sweated more than I planned, but I ran way faster than I would’ve alone. Moral of the story, if you want to get faster, run with faster people. Thanks for the push Juice, I hope I don’t hate you tomorrow. #TClaps to Lumbergh, Brita (of Ambush), and Squatter for getting in 4 miles for Stridelite.

Post-Stridelite, several men who were strong like bulls farmer carried two blocks each from the blockpile so we could get right into the IPC.

DISCLAIMER/PRAYER

WARM UP
None. Right into the thang.

THE THANG

Start off with a 400m run around the outer loop of the parking lot

Pick up block and complete 10 Thrusters at the walkway

Since we couldn’t use the field for the “wheel and spoke” design, we improvised and used the distance from the walkway to the parking spots, which was 75 feet. Cones were placed in every other parking spot with the designated exercise.

Cusak carry coupon to cone A
25 Decline Merkins at cone A

Cusak carry coupon back to walkway
10 Thrusters at the walkway

Cusak carry coupon to cone B
25 Blockees at cone B – lots of mumblechatter for this one.

Cusak carry coupon back to walkway
10 Thrusters at the walkway

Cusak carry coupon to cone C
25 Weighted Squats at cone C

Cusak carry coupon back to walkway
10 Thrusters at the walkway

Cusak carry coupon to cone D
25 Kettle Bell Swings at cone D

Cusak carry coupon back to walkway
10 Thrusters at the walkway

Cusak carry coupon to cone E
25 Vertical Block Presses at cone E – wait that’s what vertical means?

Cusak carry coupon back to walkway
10 Thrusters at the walkway

Cusak carry coupon to cone F
25 Alpos at cone F

Cusak carry coupon back to walkway
10 Thrusters at the walkway

**This completes one full round**

Rinse and repeat for 43 minutes

RECOVER

COT

ANNOUNCEMENTS

  • Cheech 10K – November 14th
  • Dam to Dam – Volunteers needed – Contact Jam or Juice

PRAYER REQUESTS

  • All the PAX traveling to the BRR today. Safe travels and safe running!
  • That Paper Jam stays out of jail. If you’d like to donate to the slush fund to pay for his eventual bail, contact one of the Ambush PAX

BOM

DEVO

YHC failed on the Devo today, but when I sat down at work, I saw the following Devo from the WiRE that I’ll share in it’s entirety.

. . . if anyone thinks he is something, 
when he is nothing, he deceives himself—Galatians 6:3
When we men relent and finally accept that we’re designed for community with other men, we nearly always start with the wrong criteria for choosing which men. We often plot and single out guys that are cool or rich or connected or well-educated or who’d be good to know from a work perspective. And, if we don’t fall into those traps, we choose guys that are just a lot like us. We each think, subconsciously almost, “If I’ve got to devote myself to a handful of other men, I’m going to make sure they have some strategic value to me—worldly value, to my career or to my social standing—or, at the very least, they’re men who won’t challenge me or make me uncomfortable.”

Such plotting is a mistake. It’s driven by pride—that we somehow know better than God how these communities should come together. We must instead follow the blueprint given us by our King, Jesus Christ. He never once used this “strategic value” analysis. Throughout the Gospel, he spent time with people whom God the Father wanted him to—people with whom it made no sense to spend time, from a worldly perspective. Adopting this blueprint, the Apostle Paul wrote: “Live in harmony with one another. Do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly. Never be wise in your own sight” (Romans 12:16).

Okay, so what do we do?

Pray that God brings the right men. Allow him to connect you to men who are willing to commit and surrender, willing to be transparent, are desperate for him. Be forewarned, though, the group that comes together will probably look nothing like what you expect . . . and that’s good. Groups we create ourselves, based on worldly criteria, aren’t worth our time. Groups that God creates for us are worth everything.

MOLESKIN

  • Can’t express how much fun it is to Q these guys. If you’ve never done it, sign up now!
  • #TClaps to Brita (of Ambush) for bringing the tunes this morning. Top 100 of 1988. I’ll never be able to look at Squatter the same.
  • #TClaps to DOT and Deebo for pushing hard this morning. Those two put in some serious work!
  • #TClaps to Paper Jam and Eggo for showing up the morning they leave for the BRR
  • We now know Lumbergh’s go-to Karaoke song, including the hand motions.
  • If anyone knows of an exterminator who specializes in fire ants, please have them contact the Pleasant Hill administration.
  • Oil check. Enough said.

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