• When: 4/7/15
  • QIC: Mac
  • The PAX: Buttermaker, Pavarotti, Noah, Freon, Voltron, Chipper, No Help, Fracture, Yellow Cake, Rate Hike, Tailpipe, FNG Prancer(Chris Holton), Pajanimal, Blindside, Take-a-Number, Bluescreen, Copay, Rocking Chair, Thumbs Up!, Mac


Rainy Day Reserve Q Has Been Activated

20 Pax rose to the challenge of another Mac beat down in the gloom of the Crypt this rainy morning. YHC had an awesome hill blaster workout planned and had even wrote the back blast beforehand but when YHC saw the rain this morning plans were changed to avoid having to rename the hill Fracture Hill. So after tweeting it up and playing captain callout for a hill beatdown YHC had to make the tough call and audible to a rainy day reserve beatdown. YHC did make some adjustments to honor his other promises in that the workout did not contain any merkins or triple nickels.

 

The Weather: Freshly cleansed and 64

 

The Thang:

Mosey to horseshoe

Cop all IC

Ssh x 20

TTT x 20

IW x 30

WM x 20

Lbac x 10 ew

Copperhead squat x 20

Prisoner lunge around shoe

Ok, let’s make that halfway around the shoe…The horseshoe is much smaller on paper!

Morning wood x 10 each side OYO (Best way to start your day!)

Bulgarian ball busters x 15 each leg OYO (Reverse lunge into a knee-up)

Bear crawl remainder of  shoe

People’s Balls! (People’s chair/Balls to the wall combo)

Excellent mumblechatter opportunity here

Wall sit 1:00

Balls to wall 1:00

Trumpet solo from unidentified Pax during BTW

Wall sit w/ oh claps x 30

Balls to wall 1:00

Encore presentation of the trumpet again, I guess heat rises trumps gravity!

Wall sit 1:00

Balls to wall w/hand raises x 10 IC

Broken bear crawl halfway around shoe (one-legged bear crawl that is absolutely miserable)

recover

Broken bear crawl other leg rest of the way

A lot of good encouragement from the Pax here. #NeverLeaveAManBehind

Plank-o-Rama w/

Hydraulics x20 IC

recover

LBAC x 10 ew

more Plank-o-rama w/

Shoulder taps x 20 IC

Peter Parker x 20 IC

6Mom

Lil baby crunches x 20 IC

The mumblechatter has now evolved past the PG-13 level and graduated into backroom poker game. It is darn near impossible to do a proper crunch while laughing. Thanks to the Blindside/Thumbs Up/Pavarotti comedy trio!

Line dancers x 20 OYO (Pajanimal’s hip thruster with leg kicks at the top)

Flutter kicks x 30 IC (Also impossible to do while laughing)

no rest into 6″ on Q x 3

COT

BOM – Led by Thumbs Up!

  • Moleskin:
  • T-claps to the Pax for the effort. This write-up doesn’t do this workout justice. It was a snotwoggler and the Pax pushed hard with maximum effort.
  • The mumblechatter ninjas of the Crypt are so adept at their art they will have the Q heckling himself before the workout’s over. YHC only wishes he could use some of the material in the backblasts but the little bit I remember completely are best left to the gloom.
  • Once Catheter returns from his spring break vacation and is ready to earn some naming rights to the Crypt hill I will return with my previously planned King of the Hill workout.
  • T-claps to FNG Prancer (Chris Holton) Name Chain-> Did a little dance move into the center of COT and Prancercise was tossed out before he came to a stop. After listening to his bio the Pax went with Prancer.
  • T-Claps to Thumbs Up! for leading the BOM

Announcements:

  • Mud run this weekend. See emails for details.
  • Quarry Crusher and Truck Pull next weekend
  • Jumanji convergence for all Lexington Pax not attending the mud run. Heading downtown to Mission for a double down opportunity afterward. Message Slim Jim for details.
  • Second Wind is now meeting at 4:40 on Tuesdays in the covered horseshoe in front of the main entrance at RBHS.

Devo or Food for Thought – I read this yesterday and it has been weighing on me that a lot of us need to reframe our thinking and stop being stubborn about who we love.

BAKE FOR THEM TWO by tenthousandplaces

Bake for them two

In Jesus’ time, the nation of Israel was under Roman rule. The Israelites were allowed to live there and practice their faith for the most part, but they had to pay taxes to Caesar and obey the Roman laws.

To the Israelites, the Romans were evil and ungodly. They had no place ruling over God’s chosen people in God’s chosen nation. That land had been promised to Moses and his descendants when God brought them out of Egypt. Their very presence in the land was blasphemous.

One of the Roman laws stated that any man could be required to drop what he was doing and carry a Roman soldier’s equipment for him for up to a mile. In the sermon on the mount, with his followers gathered around him, Jesus referenced that law and told his followers what they should do in that case:

“If anyone forces you to go one mile, go with them two miles.” ~Matthew 5:41

Go with them two miles. That was not the advice that most of the people in the crowd that day had been hoping for. That was not the conclusion that they would have come to on their own, following this man that they hoped would lead them to victory over the Romans. That was certainly not respecting their religious beliefs — go with them two! What if their neighbors saw! What if seeing them carrying the Roman’s equipment caused other Jews to think the Roman oppression was okay? What if there was other work that needed to be done — good work, charity work even, but they spent all that time carrying equipment for the evil oppressor? But Jesus is not worried about any of that:

“If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also,” he said. “And if anyone wants to sue you and take your shirt, hand over your coat as well. If anyone forces you to go one mile, go with them two miles. Give to the one who asks you, and do not turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you. You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be children of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that? And if you greet only your own people, what are you doing more than others? Do not even pagans do that? Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.”

Christians, our Jesus said, “Go with them two.”

If you believe gay marriage is immoral (I don’t, myself) and a gay couple comes into your shop and asks you to bake a cake for their wedding, what should you do? If God causes the sun to rise and the rain to fall on the wedding days of straight and gay couples, then what is our responsibility? If it is against the law to discriminate against people based on their sexual orientation, but you believe strongly that their lifestyle is immoral, what should you do?

Christians, our Jesus said, “Go with them two.”

If you are wondering if it is worth being sued and losing your business to stand up for what you believe is right, if you miss the look of hurt in the couple’s eyes when you refuse them and only see an angry, media-driven, ACLU-led mob attacking the small business owner who is only standing up for what you believe in, what should you do?

Christians, our Jesus said, “Go with them two.”

Jesus said, not only should you follow the law of the land — the law which in America for the most part prohibits discrimination against people because of their sexual orientation — not only should you do the minimum you have to do, you should go the extra mile. (Yes, that’s where that expression comes from!) Do *twice* what the law requires.

If someone forces you to bake a cake for a gay wedding, bake for them two.

Christians, our Jesus said to not only follow the law, but to rise to a higher standard of love. Christians should be the FIRST people baking cakes — for everyone who asks us. We should be known for our cake baking. People should be saying, “There go those crazy Christians again, baking cakes for everyone. They just won’t quit!” Then, when we share the reason for our wild, all-inclusive love, people will want to hear it. “Let your light shine before others,” said Jesus, “that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven.

Christians, when we dig our heels in and insist on our right to discriminate, we are hurting people — we are hurting so many people, so deeply. Behind the ACLU and the liberal media are real people, who have been hurt again and again in the name of Christ. Christians, you and I have hurt them. I know most of us have really good intentions, but we are making Jesus the last thing they want to hear about.

If we “snatch one person from the fire” by refusing to condone behavior we believe is immoral, but send hundreds and thousands of others fleeing churches and Christianity entirely, what have we really accomplished? Someone else will make that cake and fewer and fewer people will look to Christianity for love and hope. We will have won a battle that we were never called to fight in the first place, but lost the war.

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