08/05/2022 - Black Panther - Extremely Humbled and Honored
AO: Black Panther
When: 08/05/2022
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Number of Pax: 35
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QIC: Bean Counter
Introduction
Pre-Blast Friday 8/5 0515 @ Black Panther 
Join me @channel as we get that last burner in before the weekend. If you promise to give it your all, I’ll promise to make you work for it! Bring your coupons and shoes for mostly pavement. SYITG! 
I woke up without my alarm this morning. Ready to rock and roll around 4:30. Got dressed and made my way over to BP. Saw a group of HIM getting some EC action in as I pulled in to the lot. As I started getting my things together I started noticing a LOT of PAX who did not HC. Bronco..? CK..! CANNOLI!? C-BUS and Blurprints! Seemed weird that these HIM wouldn’t have HC’d, but oh well. Adapt and overcome. Time to tweak the plan.
Went over by the baseball fields and set down my bucket of jump ropes. Made my way back to the flags as the group circled up. Music is fired up.
5 Core Principles, Disclaimer, Mission Statement, and Credo all recited. (I actually planned on breaking this up and doing it throughout the warm-up but since we had corporate aka Babyhands onsite, I wanted to make sure I followed the ‘book’!)
Let’s get warm.
Warm-O-Rama
Tappy Taps IC x 10
Coupons to Corner of lot
Imperial Walkers IC x 10
Mosey to area between all the baseball fields
WallSit – Head, Shoulders, Knees, Toes IC x 10
Smurf-ivators from 5
The Thang
60 second Wallsit
Run South – x 10 RDL / 10 Curls / 10 Tri Extension – Together
Partner Up Get into Groups of Three – P1 60 Jump Rope P2+P3 Wallsit – Rotate until all PAX have done the jump rope.
Bear Crawl / Run East – 10 Side Crunch Each Side
Run South – x 10 RDL / 10 Curls / 10 Tri Extension – Together
Partner Up Get into Groups of Three – P1 60 Jump Rope P2+P3 Wallsit – Rotate until all PAX have done the jump rope.
Lunge Walk / Run West – 10 Crusty BBJs
Bear Crawl / Run East – 10 Side Crunch Each Side
Run South – x 10 RDL / 10 Curls / 10 Tri Extension – Together
Recovery mosey back to middle of fields…collect jump ropes…mosey back to coupons.
Blockee Party – Partner Up – P1 OH Hold, P2 1 Blockee, Switch … continue up the mountain until “Long Way to the Top” – AC/DC is over. Roughly 5 minutes. Most PAX got to about 5-6 reps.
Mosey to Flags
Mary
American Hammers w/Coupon x 10
Coupon at Feet – Big Boys x 10
American Hammers w/Coupon x 10
Coupon at Feet – Big Boys x 10
LBCs w/Coupon SLOW
Hold American Hammer / Canoe position for about 30 seconds.
Recover…recover.
Circle of Trust
Count – 35
Announcements – Thank you Sir Mix-A-Lot
It was at this point Sir Mix-A-Lot asked for an AAR. I got some great feedback both here, and privately afterwards.
Sir Mix-A-Lot then stated he had something else to say/present. He was passing on the HIM Belt! I can’t state this enough … I was shocked! He was presenting it to me! Extremely humbled and honored. More on that later…
Name-o-Rama – Half Price, Hot for Teacher, C-Bus, Bronco, HHGregg, Twilight, Trailer Park, Sho’nuff, Blueprints, StandUP, Title IX, Animal House, Crambone, Bartles And Jaymes, goldberg, Rx, Slip-N-Rock, SpiritFingers, Cowpie, Serena, Ck, Toady, Cannoli, BabyHands, Urkel, Chaps, Fargo, Handy Manny, Blowfish, O’Douls, Cap, Parks and Rec, Toasted Coconut, Sir Mix-A-Lot, Bean Counter
CoT
Service to Others is the rent you pay for your room here on Earth.
Muhammad Ali
Everybody can be great because everybody can Serve.
Martin Luther King Jr.
These two quotes just happen to touch a bit on the 3rd F in F3 and they are something that resonated with me. MLK’s quote especially…EVERYBODY CAN SERVE! It doesn’t have to always be some grand gesture or even monetary. Helping out a neighbor in need. Assisting a co-worker with a computer issue. Playing ball with the kids down the block. They are all things we can each do and they are things that can make a huge IMPACT on someone else’s day and life. As you leave here today…look for these opportunities. Earn your ‘room’ here on Earth. Serve.
Naked Man Moleskin
Wow. Just wow. I suppose if I had really thought about it, I should have known something was going on behind the scenes. BabyHands AND Serena HC’d pretty early on in the day. To BP!? That felt rare. The HC’s just kept rolling in. Goldberg popped up later in the day and I just felt like it was gonna be a special morning. But not like this.
I texted Sir Mix-a-Lot around 4:40 this morning asking him if he had a spare jump rope. Why? Because I was originally expecting about 12-15 PAX but I ended up with 20 HCs and only 11 jump ropes. I figure there would be a few non-HC people showing up so I wanted another rope to play it safe for about 24 guys paired up. What is the saying…? When you make plans, God laughs in your face! I had to adapt on the fly…35 guys…11 ropes. We just got into groups of three. I’d like to think it still worked out.
Probably around the middle of the main Thang I looked up from a wallsit and noticed my good friend, neighbor, and co-worker Cowpie running around. THIS GUY does not EVER wake up for a 5:15 workout. He is exclusively LOP. WTF was he doing here!? Like I said…rare and special morning. I just did not realize for what!
The amount of support that I typically feel was only magnified this morning. Seeing so many of the guys I have been posting with all making the trek out to Black Panther… it really means a lot to me. I want to continue to live up to this HIM Belt designation. More 3rd F. That is my goal. I appreciate having the medium, in F3, to do this.
oh…Sign-up for the 5K.
Honored – Bean Counter!