Date: 01/31/2026
AO: Aegis, Georgetown, DE
PAX: Bunt, Chattahoochee, Chauffeur, Fireplex, Quattro, Semi, TRex
QIC: Fireplex
Warm up
SSH – 30 IC
Bolt 45’s – IC (4 Count) – 15 squats to halfway down. 15 squats halfway to full down. 15 full squats.
Cherry Pickers – 15 IC
Windmills – 15 IC
Mountain Climbers – 20 IC
Jiminy Crickets – 10 OYO
Hydraulic Squats – 10 IC (6 Count)
The Thang
At the Aegis, Pax completed the Route 66 routine at the County Building. 1 lap around the County Building and complete 1 burpee. A second lap around the County Building and complete 2 burpees. Rinse and repeat until reaching 7 burpees.
Pax moseyed to the Georgetown Firehouse to complete a Mike Tyson set of 7’s in the back parking lot utilizing a bear crawl to traverse the distance between the station wall and a set of parking bumpers. Pax completed 1 Mike Tyson at the wall and bear crawled across to the parking bumpers to complete 6 Mike Tyson’s, then bear crawled back to the wall for 2 Mike Tyson’s and back to parking bumpers for 5 Mike Tyson’s. Rinse and repeat until the number of evolutions was reversed from where it began.
Pax moseyed back to the County Building Parking Lot.
Spartan Run Routine – Run/sprint approx. 50 yards or so across the County Building parking lot light and drop and do 10 merkins. Plank until all PAX are complete. Run/sprint 50 yards back to the starting point and complete 10 merkins. Plank for the 6. Pax completed 6 reps for 60 merkins for the exercise.
Pax finished strong with a Toy Soldier set consisting of 100 LBC’s, 50 E2K’s each side, and 25 Big Boy ‘s.
F3 Message 01/31/26
Sick of Winter, Ready for Spring
March 14, 2024
There I was, digging out the sweaters again, turning up the thermostat, and hoping the weatherman was wrong about snow and ice.
But, I had no right to gripe. That year, some cities ran out of salt for their streets, were “whomped” with storm after storm, and some places even got mountains and mountains of snow.
If you moved to one of those snow-swamped places, it would be easy to say, “It’s always going to be winter. This much snow is never going to melt. It’s just going to keep coming.”
But nope. It won’t always be winter. There’s hope. And hope has a name – spring. No matter how high the snowdrifts are, how endless the parade of winter storms, spring always comes. And that helps me grasp just what that precious word “hope” is all about.
Hope-less means things can never change. But hope means things you’ve never been able to change can change because hope has a name. His name is Jesus. He’s the One of whom the Bible says in Hebrews 6:19, “We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure.”
As a follower of Jesus, I can be – for the hope-starved people around me – living proof that He could change what I could never change. Because of Jesus, a parent can change. A husband or wife can change. A family can change. Because of Jesus, a temper can change, a life of depression, or a fear of death. Jesus changes control freaks, chronic worriers, fearful people, and people who have always been defined by their pain.
There’s a magnet in us that attracts people to our Jesus. It’s not our beliefs, the meetings we go to, the bad things we don’t do. It’s our hope. The Bible says folks will want to know “the reason for the hope you have” (1 Peter 3:15).
When you meet Jesus, you experience the ultimate makeover miracle: “If anyone is in Christ,” the Bible says, “he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!” (2 Corinthians 5:17). So we have hope to give! Hope of Jesus changing our dark side, our fears, our relationships, our eternity.
The most powerful tool I have to open a heart to Jesus is my story – my Hope Story. Because what people want to know about Jesus is, “What difference does He make?” Your Hope Story tells about how your stressful times are different because of Jesus – and your lonely times, your sad times, your wounded times. The difference Jesus makes when there’s bad news from the doctor, when your family’s in chaos, when the one you were counting on walks out the door, or when you stand by the casket of the one you love.
People can argue with your beliefs. They can’t argue with your Hope Story. Once you were “blind.” Now you “can see.” The only explanation is Jesus.
I always want to be looking for natural opportunities to share some part of how my life is different because of Jesus. As you listen to a person’s story, the door opens for you to tell your story. And how His story – His dying for you – has changed your story and could change theirs forever. I am, and all my spiritual brothers and sisters are, living proof that it doesn’t always have to be winter.
Spring comes when Jesus comes. And maybe you’ve never experienced that hope for yourself. Today Jesus stands ready to give you the new beginning that your heart is hungry for. I’d love to introduce you to Him and help you know how to get started with Him. If you’d like to learn more about how to get started with Jesus, I encourage you to head to ANewStory.com. It’s time for spring.
Respectfully Submitted,
Fireplex