AO: Shadow
QiC: Seles
Pax Count: 13
Pax List: Big Apple, Billboard, Dunder, Leon, Manhole, Mossad, Potter, Ricochet, Seles, Stifler, Suds, Wreck-It Ralph
FNG Count: 0
Downrange: Milton
A cold December morning (but not as cold as forecast!), 13 PAX joined me in a beatdown curated in memory of my Father, Bob Ray Wilkes (obituary: https://www.reinssturdivant.com/obituary/Bob-Wilkes )
Warm up:
8 Side Straddle Hops, 8 Military Merkins, 8 Big Boy Situps, 8 Dry Dock Crabs, 8 Run-Stance-Switch i.c. (except situps) Rinse & Repeat
The Thang:
10 Floyd Mayweathers
Everest up the Nature Center Hill for 5 minutes
Mosey to top of Hill for Butkus: Rocky Balboas or Step-ups on the curb for 1 minute then 30 seconds rest; 3 “rounds”
Mosey to old Austin School Parking Lot for Drill Instructor for 5 minutes (look it up in the Exicon!)
Mosey to Agility ladder for football practice workout: 8 different agility moves on the ladder with each one followed by carioca around 4 cones (left then right then left then right) then backwards run to the opposite fence then run back and do next agility ladder move.
Fire Drill (5X)
10 Floyd Mayweathers i.c.
Mosey back to Nature Center Trail down the hill then along the stream and back to start
Final reprise of Drill Instructor
CoT:
Dunder took us out. Remember White Elephant at Moondog’s tomorrow starting at 5 pm; bring some food to share and a gift for the exchange
Naked Man Moleskin:
Some background on the beatdown related to my Dad’s life:
- All the boxing related exercises were in reference to the fact that he was a Golden Gloves middleweight boxing champion at 17 years old in high school in NC
- He served as a drill instructor during the Korean War at Fort Jackson, SC with the obvious beatdown references!
- The football references are for his time as a high school football coach and math teacher
- Everest at the beginning is related to a mountain of a task that he embarked on in the early 1990s formation of a ministry in the Ukraine (https://myemail.constantcontact.com/Saying-Good-by-to-Mr–Bob.html?soid=1101174173649&aid=iD9pmWyqD24 )
- The runs through the woods and along the stream were related to the fact that he took me and my three siblings on Sunday afternoon hikes in the woods, streams and rivers in my hometown. It gave me a great love and appreciation for our beautiful natural world and for being good stewards of it.
His life was a living manifestation of Phillipians 4: 4-8.
I appreciate all who were there to help me remember my Dad!