December 25th, 2023 By Gamma

Half a dozen of Harrisburg’s finest posted for the Murph on a beautiful Christmas morning.

No disclaimer and no review of the workout – nothing but pros this morning so we just got after it.
1 Mile Run
100 Pullups
200 Pushups
300 Squats
1 Mile Run

COT

Moleskin
1. Thanks for joining me this morning as I subbed for an ailing Hacksaw (hope you’re feeling better!). I’ve posted a few Christmas mornings over the years, and I think SS Minnow has been there every time, and any workout with the Legend is time well spent.

2. Not surprisingly, the Christmas morning pax always has one thing in common – all our kids our teenagers or older!

3. Thanks to Constitution for taking us out with a good reminder of the true reason for today’s celebration. Good conversation, um, while we were doing pullups, about what F3 brings to men that they never realized they were missing.

4. I wanted to draw some parallel of the silence, cold and darkness of the setting of Christ’s birth and the workout this morning…..but the bluetooth speaker, Under Armor base layer and 1000 lumen spotlights at the school just didn’t seem to make that possible. But it was a good morning anyway!

5. Thanks to Constitution for hanging back with this rucker the first mile, and Sheep Dog on the second. It’s easy to forget that it’s those little things that bond us. I’ve told the story a hundred times, but a complete stranger coming back for me on my first post was the only reason I came back for a second.

6. Strong work by Bear Claw, who seems to have become a Murph regular. If you pay attention, he’s quietly one of those that always gives full effort and does every rep.

7. “Hey Lecter, how’s the back?”
“Pretty good. But now everything else hurts.”
(narrator: “but he’s still out there pushing”)

8. As Sheep Dog said, we remember those serving our country that cannot be with their families on this holy day, and all those that came before them.

9. In a different type of challenge, join Talladega every day this week at coffee. What you do before 0615 is completely up to you, but if you hadn’t heard, there are peer-led mens workouts a various locations all week.

10. Safe travels to those out of town, and to all, have a very Blessed Christmas.

Pax tibi,
Gamma

Harrisburg, The Murph

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