Not feeling 100%, but still wanting to push, YHC woke up and posted along with 4 others.
Some noteable events we seeing Kenner Brah doing wife pleasers at the pavilion by himself on top of a table and seeing Two Yutes lap Pai Gow and Vag.
This workout showed that mindset is everything and many times, the battle is to just keep moving.
Run, Sprint, S&M made Tuesday a mixed bag for a pax party of 5.
Started with 5 Ended with 6.
Runner’s ran the Ruck Route, Rucker’s Ran, Overall it was a great day to push ourselves.
YHC needed to push himself and Bolt was happy to oblige with a Walk 5 Minutes/ Run 1 Minute and YHC TRUSTED that he would do just that.
With that quote from Mayhem, we clearly had different goals in the gloom yet we shared the win against the battle of 15 degrees, seeking improvement.
Running,rucking, R2R Training, KOT
Some people call YHC Maurice, but that has nothing to do with the beatdown. Typical Thursday morning beatdown of leaders leading and doing their own thing.
I stole the title from Mayhem. It’s too good not to use.
The overarching lesson of the book Do Hard Things is that toughness is not created by mercilessly driving someone past their limitations. That’s the old-school way of thinking about toughness. Think Bear Bryant’s Junction Boys or any Indiana Hoosier Basketball team under Bobby Knight. But science shows that people must be given some level of control over their situation to develop true toughness. The theory being that if everything you ever do is for a dictator, then when faced with a tough situation, you will likely give up in the absence of the dictator.
Tuesdays at Pontiff are not the typical F3 workout. Pai Gow takes the Q for almost all of them and he prescribes the sprint workout for the day. The pax has no control over designing the workout. That is always done by Pai Gow. However, he is far from a dictator. He gives instruction and goals for completing the workout, but leaves the rest up to the Pax as to how they want to complete the workout.
Today PVC, Two Yutes and I were faced with a Pai Gow – less workout. We started with a slow one mile jog. At the end of our warm-up we had a decision to make. Do we continue to take it easy and slow jog the rest of the workout or do we borrow one of the sprint workouts that Pai Gow has given us in the past and push ourselves? Suddenly the most recent chapter of Do Hard Things started to make sense. The temptation to slow jog the rest of the workout was there, and had we been beaten down souls every Tuesday, we might have taken the opportunity to take a Tuesday off. But we are not beaten down souls. Our pre-fontal cortexes are fully engaged and they encouraged us to do the hard thing:
The Thang:
One Mile warm-up. Sprint a 100, 200, 300 and 400 with a 100m recovery between each. Finish with a 400m recovery lap. Then repeat the entire set. We did 3 sets and covered about 4.5 miles.
Meanwhile Tenderloin did his own thing on the track, while Scantron dictated the KnOT workout to Rougarou. Does Rougarou have any control? Is he building toughness or just hatred for Scantron? Only Roug knows.
Things we learned:
• Mosquitos eat bitcoin
• More NHL players are born in January than any other month.
• Dentists open at 7:00 am
Disclaimer given as 10 pax gathered in the gloom with an 11th joining ruckers on the backside for a record Wally Run attendance in a while. Two pax new to the Th ruck (Thumb War and Mayhem) plus the return of Mambi/Pai Gow’s appearance on the run. All pax returning at 6:15—COT.
YHC took a different route today, choosing to go with the KNOTers. There were a cornucopia of conversations, from what planets were in the sky, to ways to increase tibia torsion, and the downsides of being a bitcoin mining owner.
When we came back with mi it’s to spare and saw the runners stretching so maybe they decided not to run. Their leader Pai Gow wasn’t there to tell them what to do so who knows.
Ended with a COT where we prayed for those suffering.
The Wally Sprint AO is no longer a secret, as could be seen with 17 posting today. Dinghy scoped it out last week and inevitably reported back to Moana that it was indeed an acceptable place to post. So Moana put his EH hat on and brought in a new member to our cult….err….Group!
10 Pax sprinted under the direction of Pai Gow while rest did Knots or S&M. There’s something for everyone on Tuesday at Pontiff, so come on out and then hit up the Discipline is Destiny discussion after.
COT
NMM
Welcome Judy P! It’s a reference to a judge and his last name is Long. Apparently we need help in the naming category. TCLAPS to Moana for the EH!
Oh, and Strava tells me I’m a local legend in the 400M at Pontiff. Think you can take the title? C’Mon!
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