October 4th, 2023 By Neverland

PAX – 18

Q: Mayweather, Neverland, El Ab, Beaker, Mayhem, Psycho T, Homeland, Indy, Firechicken, Crabgrass, Sandtrap, Purple Crayon, Nickleback, Java, Mountie, Spud, Tombstone, Deertick

17 brave men showed up on a streak of Wednesday smokers to come get some more.

WARM UP – new deck

SSH x20ic

Hillbillies x10ic

Loose Change x10ic

Windmills x5

Arm Circles

THANG – Back at OCT

Curls

Skull Crushers

Thrusters

Rows

x10 each

Run to top of old deck via ramps

Merks x10

WW2’s x10

Broad Jumps x5

Run down the stairs back to OCT and Repeato until about 0605, then rally around the blocks to burn out our weak little baby muscles.

Block press

Toe touches

Overhead extensions

Flutter kicks

KGB’s

10 reps each then take a lap around the parking lot and repeat, 2 rounds of reps and laps

0615. You have 23 hours and 15 minutes to cool down and stretch.

PRAYERS

Ross J

Mike R

Gurley Family

First responders who were on the scene of that accident

MOLESKIN

We all have people in our lives that we love very much, for most of us that’s our kids. We all say “I would die for them”. But after a point, when you’ve lived long enough to be around a fair amount of dying, you realize that dying for someone may be the ultimate sacrifice but it isn’t the ultimate show of love. Anyone can die. In fact we are all going to do it someday whether we like it or not. You can’t stop it if you try. In many cases it’s actually the easy way out. Life is hard.

What takes real courage and love is to LIVE for them. Who do you love so much that you’re willing to live for them? For me it’s my kids. It’s not enough for me to love for them, but I have to show up for them. Show up and be the best version my myself, because that’s what they deserve. A phrase I use a lot is “I don’t have the luxury of despair”. When you have other people that you live for, who are counting on you, you don’t have the option to wallow in your own pain. Most of the time we bury it and put on a mask. But they deserve better than that from us. We have to show up and be physically, mentally, and emotionally better. We cannot fake it, or we are raising them to follow that same dark path. And in my darkest moments, the thing I want least in the world is for my kids to wind up like me in those moments. So it’s important to authentically heal and force myself to be better rather than fake it. It’s up to me to break the cycle, not fake the cycle.

I think in one way or another, we all fight that battle. I also think we all think we are the only one fighting that battle. But you’re not. I hear you, I see you, I feel you, and we are in this together. I won’t quit on y’all because you won’t quit on me. F3 is a daily reminder of that – You can count on me for that the same way you can count on me to run up that hill with you.

Let’s go show up for our kids today. Look at them and decide that you’re willing to live for them, and let’s go live.

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