July 15th, 2025 By Spud

Date: 7-15-2025

Pax: Phidip, Catfish, Psycho T, El Ab, Marlboro, Homeland, Tombstone, Gooney, Luthor, Look Me Up, Spud

11 men swam through thick air to prove their mettle.  Hot, soupy, gross, longing for a 40 degree day.

WARM UP

Run up Concord Lake (or is it Lake Concord) to Phrenology department for nobody to count the following:

• SSH x15
• IST x 10
• Loose chg x 10
• Arm Circles

Mosey down Palaside, right on LeCline to the CIRCLE OF DEATH aka the LOOP OF DOOM, aka the ROTATION OF DEVASTATION, aka the ZERO of OH NO

Start by running down Martin Street to the end of that road for 10 dry docks, then back to the loop and run around, after completing circle 5 core killers.  Then run up LeCline street to Palaside for 10 squats, then back around the loop, and add 2 core killers.  Repeato adding 5 to the dry docks/squats, and 2 to the core killers each time around the loop.  Easier to do than explain, but also much harder to do than explain.

Do a couple rounds of that and then Q stops everybody to do a REVERSE INDIAN RUN around the LOOP.  Terrible idea.  Lex runs forever.  Lots of sprinting for many pax.  Everyone boos and is fully of unhappiness, and the Q is shamed.  Loop way too big.  Will reutilize loop for something else the Q has cooked up at a later date.

After that huge embarrassing failure, mosey back past the hospital to ASEC, passing a hostage situation at the yellow apartments as Humberto the Housekeeper was being detained as well as a dead snake.  All added up to an exciting morning in the gloom.

MARY

Stretch on your damn own for 1 minute.

COT

Pray for Ed (Cat’s relative), Tomby’s Mom, and Paul O’Neill not formerly of Reds and Yankees, as they all deal with elderly peoples’ health issues.

MOLESKIN

Fun times at the circle.  3.5+ miles for pretty much all.  This beatdown was not for the faint or weak of heart.  The Q had delusions of grandeur with the reverse Indian run, guess I should have been more PC.  Shit happens sometime, and even for an experienced Q like myself, you try something new and it doesn’t pan out.  Take some stick, move forward, at least we got a few extra steps in, and at least I didn’t have us carrying a 70 pound cross down the middle of Union street (love you Mayhem!).  Everything you do isn’t gonna work out in life, at work, with family, etc.  Sometimes you’ll plan something that doesn’t go to plan.  Being the leaders we are all called to be means showing grace under that pressure and taking the next step to handle that misstep.  If you are reading this concept on the back of GeorgiaLynn’s Highlander, it might say “Shoot for the moon y’all, if you miss you might land among them stars”, right below the Mama Bear sticker and next to the flip flop sticker.

Thanks for pushing this morning.  Let’s keep gettin it, it’ll cool down someday.

-Spud

“Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm” – Winston Churchill

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