11/22/2022 - The Complex - Camp visits The Complex
AO: The Complex
When: 11/22/2022
PAX:
Number of Pax: 16
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DR Names:
Number of FNGS: 0
FNG Names:
QIC: Mellencamp
Introduction
Well, I haven’t been to this AO since July 4th Convergence. IL, LP, Citadel, and DT already went through this one, but your welcome to come back for more!
Warm-O-Rama
SSH in cadence to 15
Abe Vigoda’s in cadence to 10
Michael Phelps in cadence to 10
Short mosey to warm up the body!
The Thang
This is a ladder workout starting with 1 rep, all the way up as far as we could go. Most we’ve ever done is 19 in one workout. MARY baked into this one.
The 5 exercises per round were:
Rows
Shoulder Press
Lying bench press
Big Boy’s
Air Squats
Each round finished with a 25yrd mosey to the cones and back.
We made it to 18 rounds solid this morning. Total reps were around 150 per exercise when i do the math. Not bad!
Circle of Trust
CoT was special to my heart. This was something I’ve kept inside for a while and only a few iron lion PAX really knew about it up until now. I felt some PAX could relate or learn from my personal story, so I shared it.
The message here was to “cherish the moments”
I had a moment…and it let it go by and missed the joy.
Back in late July, my M and I found a surprise pregnancy with a 3rd child. Up to this point, I planned everything in my life by the vision and all was going to plan (or so I thought). I realized I’m not the one in control. As you can imagine, we spent a couple months in shock and disbelief. It took us some time to get to a moment of peace and acceptance. When we got there, it was close to that 12-week mark check-up. We had this checkup right after getting back from our first trip to Disney with our other two children….
At this checkup, complications were found on the ultrasound. To this point, we’ve never had a problem having children thankfully. Our first two came relatively easy. Any complication was new to us. We were advised to come back weekly for more check-ups. Instead of going to see excitement around what was good, we were going to see how bad things were getting… it was hard. We eventually were told to expect loss, but we were not sure when. Our little girl went to heaven at the 16-week mark. The news crushed our children, and us. We’re still in shock all this happened at this point still to this day. We still have moments of random sadness. If it weren’t for my faith and F3, I don’t know what we would have done. This brotherhood is unbelievable. The point of this story is to cherish the moments in life. I never got to a point of full joy because I was constantly worrying, even before I found out anything was wrong with the baby. I’ll regret those feelings of worry the rest of my life, but I am grateful she was with us for those 16 weeks. Be grateful for what you have, everything happens for a reason.
Thank you to all the PAX who were able to come out for my 2-year mark!
-Camp
Naked Man Moleskin
Thanks again for coming out! Everyone did great. Thanks again to Mary Lou for having the 6! Thanks for WIAB for the Q, and CE for strong counting at the end, you helped us get through it.