01/05/2022 - Dark Tower - BDRC – Goggins 6 miles 300 push up challenge
AO: Dark Tower
When: 01/05/2022
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Number of Pax: 9
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Number of FNGS: 0
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QIC: Bush Push
Introduction
BDRC – Dark Tower – Wed 1/5 at 5 AM
This will be a David Goggins inspired work-out I found last year
All paces will be able to stay together
We’ll be on pavement or in a parking deck – scouting locations later today
There will be a few minutes of warmarama
HC below
Warm-O-Rama
Light warm up with Motivators, Tappy Taps and quad stretches after the welcome. At 5:05 we took off for a brisk warm up run about 7:45 per mile pace for about 1/2 mile to the parking garage by Sparrow
The Thang
Arrived in parking deck 5:09.
Instructions for the the main thing were given. It was a David Goggins inspired workout to do 6 miles and 300 push ups by running at max pace for 1/2 mile then doing 25 push ups. Repeat 12 times to reach 6 mile/300 push ups goal.
Original plan was to do the 1/2 mile back and forth on Hillside, the road behind Naperville Central High School. However the roads were a bit slick so the illustrious BDRC Site Q @Ball Boy suggested a change to the parking garage. I agreed for fear of being called out daily moving forward if I didn’t heed his sage advice….and more importantly it was the right move for safety sake.
The last minute move added solid incline to the workout upping the challenge of the original plan.
5:11 – Everyone took off with the 6 mile and 300 push ups goal to hit.
Until 5:58 everyone in atttendance was running at max effort. While we ran on our own it was great to hear encourgement on the way up and down from all the HIM’s including the DT Ruck crew that was also getting after it in the parking deck.
5:58/5:59 We met at the bottom of the parking structure to catch our breath and hit 6:00.
We did COT in the garage at 6:00 and after finishing did a nice run back to DT for a little post COT cool down jog to conclude the work out.
Circle of Trust
There has been a lot on my heart heading into this year and I was struggling with what I would say for the COT. Then I read the devotional for January 4th from Max Lucado’s God Is With You Everyday. It said…
Stir up the gift of God which is in you.
2 Timothy 1:6
Stay in your own lane. Run your own race. Nothing good happens when you compare and compete. God does not judge you according to the talents of others. He judges you according to yours. His yardstick for measuring faithfulness is how faithful you are with your own gifts. You are not responsible for the nature of your gift. But you are responsible for how you use it.
This devotional struck me and made me ask myself many questions
What are my gifts?
Do I responsibly use my gifts?
How am I showing up for my wife each day?
My kids?
My job?
My community?
Am I using my gifts or throwing them aside like a Christmas toy I’ve grown tired of?
Do I care more about winning and being right instead of being kind, loving, attentive and peaceful
Do I want to be the best I can be or just better than that person next to me?
Do some of these questions hit home for you too?
To be honest I didn’t like a lot of my answers
But the word participate kept coming into my mind as I reflected. At first it was not good because I never cared for the participation trophy or the word participation.
I even started an argument at a 4 and 5 year old tee ball game years ago when I ranted about how dumb it was that everyone got trophies at the end of the season when no one kept score for any of the games.
I was taught 2nd place is the first loser so never got a participation trophy nor would I have wanted one or wanted my kids to get one.
But I have started to realize there are times when winning has to be the focus but also other times when the best we can do is participating.
I am slowly learning this in my life…Ok very slowly learning this!
But I am participating in my own rescue working to not constantly be focused on winning and competing . So rather than beat myself up about my answers to those questions I own them, accept them and start to participate in changing how I use god’s gifts that he has given me instead of comparing myself to others.
I think all of us came to F3 and STAYED with F3 to be changed for the better physically, mentally and spiritually.
We come to participate and grow and stir up the gifts of god that are in us.
We come to be better stewards of our gifts to live fully as the man we were made to be.
To break away from a lonely solitary life that is so easy for us guys to get stuck in.
To become a member of a strong community of Men that makes us better men, better husbands, better fathers, better brothers, better leaders, better workers by participating in it
So what does that mean for us this year? A second passage came to mind from another book I am reading called Celebration of Discipline by richard foster
Our world is hungry for genuinely changed people. Leo Tolstoy observes, “Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself.”6
Let us be among those who believe that the inner transformation of our lives is a goal worthy of our best effort.
To me that resonated that by participating in using our gifts faithfully we can change ourselves and be the changed people our world is hungry for.
Has there ever been a more important time in our lives than right now for men to step up and be these changed people?
We will be the peace, love, joy and kindness this hurting world needs so badly in 2022 if we do it.
Stir up the gift of God which is in you each and every day this year my brothers
Love you all
Closed with prayers
Naked Man Moleskin
Blinky and Serena lead the way with their no non-sense get after it attitudes.
Shells and Cheese has officially become a BDRC regular – so happy to have your work ethic with us each week!
Nose Job, Sun Devil, Stay Puft, Big Gong and Ball Boy pushed at maximum effort the entire time which was not easy since this work out was meant to challenge your mindset to want to slow down when is starts to get hard.
It was a great morning of running, pushing to the max and conquering this challenge together.