Three Dog has been known to throw down some pretty nasty Q’s in his day. The thing is, most of them are spontaneously generated. So, when YHC got a text at the beginning of the week from him asking if he was Q this week, I knew it was going to be serious. By Wednesday he was asking the rest of the PAX if we wanted to do some travelling. Fear set in and Eddie Money began telling us about a couple tickets he had set aside for us.
Warm Up:
SSH x 15 (IC)
LAC x 15 (IC)
IST x 15 (IC)
Copperhead Squats x 15 (IC)
Burpees x 5 (OYO)
Bags are packed, let the adventure begin. Mosey up the street to the courthouse. Once we made it to the square, Three Dog showed us his Weinke. We were not impressed. Turns out our mosey had taken us to the Holy Land for a biblical reenactment. The battle of Jericho was upon us, and we had to decide whether we were going to face the opposition and be victorious, or if we were going to accept defeat before we even began the battle.
The Thang:
20 Merkins- lap around the courthouse
30 LBC’s- lap around the courthouse
20 Merican Hammers- lap around the courthouse
30 SSH- lap around the courthouse… whew…
20 Dips- lap… around… the… courthouse…
30 Flutter Kicks- … and another lap around
1 Bear Crawl around the square… I’m out of breath, you know what we did…
*Plank or AMRAP for the six
Unfortunately, war brings casualties. PBJ was trying his best Michael Scott impression and tried to parkour across the small retaining wall around the courthouse. Mountain Goat he is not. If chicks dig scars, he earned a couple dates this morning. Prayers up for a speedy recovery.
Another bit of mumble chatter may have been overlooked, but it resonated with me, so let me insert a quick aside. While planning this, Three Dog planned for the Walls of Jericho to take most of the allotted time and we’d just mosey back to the park for a quick date with Mary and COT. We finished much quicker than expected. Clifford blurted out that just meant that we don’t suck as bad as we used to. Profound sir, profound. We don’t suck as bad as we used to and that is something that should be celebrated more! We should always push to be better, but we should also occasionally stop and appreciate where we came from.
With the extra time we decided that to celebrate our victory over Jericho, we should have some laughs around a Ring of Fire.
Plank Position- each PAX does 5 (correct form) push-ups
Tree Hugger Position- each PAX does 10 squats
Time for the return flight back to the park. Apparently we had a short layover at the parking deck for the Tville patented Coon Ball Crawl.
Raccoon Crawl along the curb to the wall at the back. BTTW Wall Walk roughly 25ish feet to the middle. Bear Crawl straight out from the wall another 25ish feet, make a hard left, and lunge walk back to the start, forming a nice and tidy square.
Load up for the last leg of the flight home back to the park.
WOD from Three Dog: If we take Jericho symbolically, each day we are faced with something to overcome. Temptation, financial struggles, stress, being dissatisfied with our place in life, and many others, can all make us cower in fear. However, if we rely on the same God who helped Joshua and the Israelite army defeat the actual Jericho, we too will find the walls that used to intimidate and cause fear within us will fall.
Go forward, men. Victory may not come on the first day or the second. It may not even come on the 935th, but we trust that God is working in us to conform us to the image of His Son. The battle may be hard, but the victory will come, and through the noise and heartache of battle, we have each other. Shield lock with those at your AO and across F3Nation. Kick your Jericho square in the teeth and show the other sad clowns what a HIM looks like.
YHC out.
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