{"id":4543,"date":"2018-04-21T11:30:36","date_gmt":"2018-04-21T15:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/?p=4543"},"modified":"2018-04-21T11:30:36","modified_gmt":"2018-04-21T15:30:36","slug":"teamwork-and-leadership-at-purgatory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/2018\/04\/teamwork-and-leadership-at-purgatory\/","title":{"rendered":"Teamwork and Leadership at Purgatory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Purgatory\u00a0 21 April 2018<\/p>\n<p>PAX:\u00a0 Splash, Spamalot, Offsides, BAM, D-Day, Butter, Starfish, Ziggy Stardust, The Singing Cowboy, Pony Express, Plunger, Goofy, Bulldog, Green Acres (WD), Parkay (WB), Thistle, Ripple, Drama Queen, Burlap (QIC)<\/p>\n<p>19 Pax came to Purgatory on a beautiful spring morning looking for an odd Burlap workout and got that plus an in-field lesson on teamwork and leadership.\u00a0 Here is the THANG:<\/p>\n<p>Warm up in parking lot<\/p>\n<p>Cotton Pickers 10 IC<br \/>\nWindmills 10 IC<br \/>\nIST 15 IC<br \/>\nToy Soldiers 10 IC<br \/>\nPeter Parkers 20 IC<br \/>\nSSHs 25 IC<br \/>\nMountain climbers 20 IC<br \/>\nCH Squats 15 IC<\/p>\n<p>Clue\/Instruction 1 \u2013 Two lines &#8212; Slow Indian Run hauling football to front of line and then dropping it with man in back picking it up and hauling to front, etc. To track, then CCW on track to far shed.<\/p>\n<p>Soccer Ball \u2013 instruction 2 \u2013 one pax calls an exercise for the rest of pax and dribbles ball to goal and back. Next calls and dribbles and so on.<\/p>\n<p>Clue 2 \u2013 bring both balls and partner carry (alternating as needed) to backstop<\/p>\n<p>Brick \u2013 instruction 3 \u2013 CDDs up to number of Joey Logano\u2019s car in Monster Energy NASCAR Cup series (22)<\/p>\n<p>Clue 3 \u2013 bring all coupons and plank Indian Run to edge of playground<\/p>\n<p>Post \u2013 instruction 4 \u2013 each of pull-ups\/Harris Teeter Totters\/Turkish get-ups up to number of draft order for Michael Jordan in 1984 NBA draft (3)<\/p>\n<p>Clue 4 \u2013 bring all and run with hands behind back (if not carrying a coupon) to fence<\/p>\n<p>2&#215;4 board \u2013 instruction 5 \u2013 get all coupons and pax members over the fence without any touching \u2013 ok to go back and forth around fence but all items and pax have to go over fence from trackside to school side without touching fence<\/p>\n<p>Clue 5 \u2013 bring all and mosey to back wall<\/p>\n<p>Kettle Bell \u2013 instruction 6 \u2013 Mike Tysons against wall up to number of Beethoven\u2019s symphony that features a setting for Friedrich Schiller\u2019s \u201cOde to Joy\u201d in its fourth movement (9)<\/p>\n<p>Clue 6 \u2013 bring all and mosey to flat grass area behind school<\/p>\n<p>Weight Vest \u2013 instruction 7 \u2013 Burpees up to number of the only U.S. President to graduate from UNC (11)<\/p>\n<p>Clue 7 \u2013 bring all and mosey to Lido deck<\/p>\n<p>Brick \u2013 instruction 8 \u2013 monkey humpers up to # of 10th number in Fibonacci sequence that begins 0, 1 (34)<\/p>\n<p>Clue 8 \u2013 remain at deck and perform derkins\/dips\/Nolan Ryans each arm up to the number of lines in a typical Shakespearan sonnet. (14)\u00a0 Repeato.<\/p>\n<p>Mosey with all items to parking lot for Mary.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>COT\/Announcements<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Splash is raising money for Leukemia\/Lymphoma Society.\u00a0 See him or his Twitter feed for link to donate.\u00a0 To celebrate (and encourage donations), there will be a Sufferfest and party on May 12.\u00a0 Look for Splash communications for details as the date approaches.\u00a0 Feel free to relieve yourself in his neighbor&#8217;s yard or pool.<\/li>\n<li>Sunday, 4\/22, 06:45 DashPaxRuckers from Reynolda Village.\u00a0 See Twitter for route.<\/li>\n<li>Sunday, 4\/22, The Racket is on at Speas Elementary.\u00a0 Watch Twitter for time, likely 14:00.<\/li>\n<li>Good collegiate soccer matches at Wake at noon and 12:00 today, with $5 admission (or Burlap-approved FREE on the hill).<\/li>\n<li>Good collegiate baseball game at Wake hosting Clemson at 16:00 today.\u00a0 Join Starfish and crew.<\/li>\n<li>Goofy and others recommend parents and teens check this out:\u00a0 https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BNR-dDHio5s<\/li>\n<li>See a reading of DQ&#8217;s brief play tonight at 19:30 at the Shepherd&#8217;s Center.<\/li>\n<li>Pray for Burns&#8217; wife and her test today.<\/li>\n<li>Pray for Offsides&#8217; daughter, an 8th grader.<\/li>\n<li>Pray for DQ&#8217;s mother-in-law.<\/li>\n<li>Pray for students attending proms this season, including Burlap&#8217;s daughter tonight.<\/li>\n<li>QIC took us out.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Naked Man Moleskin<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Not sure where the &#8216;inspiration&#8217; for this workout came from.\u00a0 Had planned for early June, but Undertow is surfing (at a work conference) in Cali, so YHC took today.<\/li>\n<li>Butter struggled with dropping or leaving the football, as Bama fans refuse to fumble.\u00a0 Bulldog paid off a painful &#8212; not monetarily but pride-wise &#8212; wager today at Coffeeteria related to Bama and UGa.<\/li>\n<li>Spam&#8217;s version of dribbling was interesting.\u00a0 BAM blamed it on the Q being to too cheap to own a pump.\u00a0 Starfish correctly postulated that Parkay&#8217;s needle was damaged.<\/li>\n<li>Speaking of Spamalot, he and The Singing Cowboy were vying for most popular pax with the easier exercises they choose for the group.\u00a0 At the other end of the spectrum, Thistle was fine with screwing the pax with burpees.<\/li>\n<li>T-Claps to the pair of Pony and Plunger for &#8216;winning&#8217; the partner carry race across the field.\u00a0 Quoth Plunger, &#8220;It wasn&#8217;t a competition, but we won.&#8221;\u00a0 Also, T-Claps to Bulldog for carrying YHC the whole way.\u00a0 &#8220;I don&#8217;t want to make you carry me,&#8221; he said.<\/li>\n<li>YHC was a little concerned about the first quiz, on Joey Logano&#8217;s number.\u00a0 To my surprise, Parkay guessed (correctly) 22.\u00a0 Others guessed 26.\u00a0 Parkay didn&#8217;t argue loudly enough or convincingly enough, some did 26 CDDs while others did 22 CDDs.\u00a0 The Q revealed the correct answer and made the Pax do another 22.<\/li>\n<li>Butter enjoyed the plank line (don&#8217;t call it a &#8216;train&#8217;) by skipping and leaping over the planked pax as he progressed up the line.<\/li>\n<li>Several folks knew MJ was drafted third (behind Olajuwon and poor Sam Bowie).<\/li>\n<li>The teamwork and leadership portion began to be revealed more at the fence obstacle.\u00a0 YHC did not expect the pax to use the 2&#215;4 board, but with backs of The Singing Cowboy, Thistle, and others, and with the shoulders of Offsides, D-Day and others, we all made it over.\u00a0 It was interesting to see how this method came about in increments, naturally, not completely mapped out.\u00a0 Green Acres correctly surmised, &#8220;This is a bad idea.&#8221;\u00a0 The pax made it safer continuously.\u00a0 The standing DISCLAIMER was needed when Pony came down on Thistle&#8217;s leg.\u00a0 Otherwise, a pretty quick and efficient crossing.<\/li>\n<li>BAM and Spam are still waiting for someone to use their post.<\/li>\n<li>T-Claps to Starfish for nailing the 9th Symphony.\u00a0 Others got it, too.<\/li>\n<li>There was about to be trouble with the number of presidents.\u00a0 DQ quickly and correctly said James K. Polk.\u00a0 He also quickly but errantly said 10.\u00a0 The pax was about to perform the burpees when a couple of folks questioned him and they all decided 11 was correct.\u00a0 Good catch.\u00a0 The Q would have &#8216;hated&#8217; to make the Pax do the burpees again.<\/li>\n<li>Spam is really fast at burpees.\u00a0 Ask him about his technique.<\/li>\n<li>Another leadership opportunity was taken by Offsides in wearing the weight vest while doing burpees.\u00a0 Then D-Day took the reins and relieved him.<\/li>\n<li>YHC felt confident that either Parkay or D-Day would get the Fibonacci sequence, and they came through with flying colors.\u00a0 Ziggy Stardust wished he pursued a terminal degree in mathematics, for only for a few seconds.<\/li>\n<li>Ripple and Splash were frequently out front during the moseys\/runs.<\/li>\n<li>Goofy and Bulldog approved the low running workout.\u00a0 Per Starfish&#8217;s technology, we still got in about 1.2 miles.<\/li>\n<li>The pax made it through the workout about 3 minutes faster than scheduled, so we repeated the arms stuff and then had an extended Mary.<\/li>\n<li>YHC felt like we didn&#8217;t work out that hard during the first 50 minutes, so he tried to make Mary difficult, so some of the Pax thought he was angry.\u00a0 That, and YHC made public note of Plunger&#8217;s inability to keep one leg still during one-legged dollies.<\/li>\n<li>There was some MC during the warm-up from the general direction of Butter, but due to YHC calling cadence and not really listening, the Q missed the abundance of humor.\u00a0 YHC did get something about his shorts, which joke returned several times during the proceedings as YHC pulled clues from his shorts pockets.<\/li>\n<li><strong>YHC was interested to observe which Pax stepped up to take partial leadership roles in several situations such as:\u00a0 Who would read the instructions?\u00a0 Who would be confident enough in his answer to suggest it?\u00a0 Who would carry the heavier items from spot to spot?\u00a0 Who would figure out how to get Pax over the fence and how would he convince others to follow?\u00a0 Who would step up and wear the weight vest during the burpees?\u00a0 Who would watch\/follow\/observe\/suggest well?<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li><strong>Recall that F3&#8217;s purpose is to invigorate leadership in men.\u00a0 Part of that leadership is knowing how and when to use your gifts AND how and when to rely on others&#8217; gifts.\u00a0 The Pax demonstrated that lesson well today, even if they didn&#8217;t realize it. \u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>An honor to &#8220;lead&#8221;,<\/p>\n<p>Burlap<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Purgatory\u00a0 21 April 2018 PAX:\u00a0 Splash, Spamalot, Offsides, BAM, D-Day, Butter, Starfish, Ziggy Stardust, The Singing Cowboy, Pony Express, Plunger, Goofy, Bulldog, Green Acres (WD), Parkay (WB), Thistle, Ripple, Drama Queen, Burlap (QIC) 19 Pax came to Purgatory on a beautiful spring morning looking for an odd Burlap workout and got that plus an in-field [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":204,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[112,94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bootcamp","category-purgatory"],"acf":{"q":"Burlap","date":"21 April 2018","pax":"Splash, Spamalot, Offsides, BAM, D-Day, Butter, Starfish, Ziggy Stardust, The Singing Cowboy, Pony Express, Plunger, Goofy, Bulldog, Green Acres (WD), Parkay (WB), Thistle, Ripple, Drama Queen, Burlap (QIC)"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/204"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4543"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4549,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4543\/revisions\/4549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}