10/22/2020 - Black Panther - Embrace The Suck
AO: Black Panther
When: 10/22/2020
PAX:
Number of Pax: 5
Pax Names: Blowfish, Boxcutter, Crambone, Elway, pi 3.14,
DR Names:
Number of FNGS: 0
FNG Names:
QIC: Pi 3.14
Introduction
Preblast stirred up questions about looming monsoon on the horizon. The only hint given was we wouldn’t be schleppinh up the sloppy muddy hill. Up at 3:35a. Take M to work (car in shop). Head back home to get equipment, snorkel and mask. Head to BP at 4:45, arrive at 5:10. No flag up, planted The Wood flag. Greet all three PAX. Start on time at 5:15. Elway coming in 🔥 during motivators.
Conditions
50°, Solid 12 hour down pour. It actually wasn’t as bad as anticipated 🌧️
Announcement/Disclaimer:
Good morning!
1.       I am not a professional
2.       You are here at your own free will
3.       I am not aware of any injuries you may have
4.       We are here at different fitness levels, Modify if needed, but push yourself to get stronger
Warm-O-Rama
Motivators (8)
Good Mornings (12)
Goof Balls(25)
Arm circles(20) forward and backward
Tappy Taps (10)
The Thang
Mosey to shelter
B.O.M.B.S.
Partner up. Pax 1 does exercise while Pax 2 carries coupons (Farmers carry) to end of parking lot in rain. Swap out, continue the exercise until each amount of reps are complete. The exercises and reps are: 50- Burpees / 100- Overhead Claps / 150- Merkins / 200- Big Boy Sit-ups / 250- Squats.
Thang II
Moby Sally up
Stay under shelter
2MoM
American Hammers(15)
Circle of Trust
Site Q reminded us about announcements and let PAX know to check Info. Only Channel for details on announcements
Prayer
Dear Lord, thank you for watching over me during this long travel to FÂł Naperville. The ability to get up, roll out of bed, the courage to make good decisions that make us better. Thank you for the strength of FÂł Naperville, the strength of this brotherhood. Thank you for strong men that surround me here. We pray that we may stay strong through these times of uncertainty and stress. Please help remove the fear and give us guidance and give our leaders vision to get back to the known. Educators and families in the West coast Lord, we pray for Hot lips and CVS and his family after losing their newborn son, Angel Immanuel. We pray for Anna Caroline, Jeremy Baker and Breakaway’s youth group at church member -Mark Bailey 18 as they battle with cancer. Also Lord, please also look over Randy Levine as the doctors have stopped treatments and he is now in hospice. Please surround Randy’s M and two year old son with love and strength as they go through this tough time. Lord, we pray for Baby Hudson and CVS’s son Angel Immanuel, that you give their families strength through these challenging times as these babies enter your kingdom.
In Jesus’ name we pray, Amen
Naked Man Moleskin
Naked Man Moleskin…
Thank you for joining me this morning men. We don’t wake up for easy. Getting up ITG sucks, working out in the wet slushy snow sucks and 39° Sucks! Embrace The Suck.
“Embrace The Suck” military speak for “The Situation Is Bad, But Deal With It”
It’s a very Buddhist concept. When we deny what reality is giving us, what is really happening, then we create suffering. So life is a dance between minimizing expectations and surrendering to what our lives actually reveal to us.
By embracing our lives totally (even the stuff that “sucks”), we get through them.
The Armed Forces have no other choice. If they’re out in the Iraqi desert or in the mountains of Afghanistan, the only way they’re going to get through those challenging experiences is by embracing (rather than denying or ignoring) them.
But for us with our modern conveniences and propensity for denial, we can distract ourselves, numb ourselves, fool ourselves over and over to avoid, disconnect, ignore, postpone, procrastinate and put our heads in the sand when we don’t want to look at what is.