Whilst unsuspecting ITBers dozed peacefully ‘neath toasty blankets, little did they know, wars and rumours of wars raged in the streets outside their veiled panes. War between the powers of hell and the might of heaven.
Today’s installment of Lourdes of Discipline, brought to you by the dark and freeform verse of British rhymester, John Milton. Many of the arteries of Drewry Hills take their monikers from British literary giants. So on this inaugural day of March, the PAX would journey to the crossroads of Milton and Coleridge to go to war.
Milton, impoverished and blind, dictated his epic verse because he could not see to write. And in Book 1, he indicates his aim to “justify the ways of God to men.” The Poem relates the fall of the pride-swelled chief rebel angel, and then the tragic fall of our first ancestors. Thus, the theme of our pre-dawn venture. The PAX would know the suffering of the fall: Paradise Lost.
No FNGs. Don’t get hurt. It’s your fault if you do, and we’re off!
THE THANG:
Money-Hose-inspired dead run from the launch site up Anderson toward Six Forks, stopping at the business building parking lot.
WARMUP – GMs / Imperials / Squats / Mericans
INDIAN RUN:
- Left on Drewry
- Pass Kipling and Byron (authors for another day)
- Right on Milton to the intersection of Milton and Coleridge
PARADISE LOST: “To justify the ways of God to men”
THREE-FINGERED SET (main event):
~ Left on Coleridge, run up to the brick pile – Chilcut scorpion kicks x15 (Trip2: x20, trip3: x30)
>At the bottom: knee-ups x15 (Trip2: x20, trip3: x30)
~ Straight on Milton to the dead end – Chilcut Peter Parker’s x15 (Trip2: x20, trip3: x30)
>At the bottom: knee-ups x15 (Trip2: x20, trip3: x30)
~ Right on Coleridge to the American flag mailbox – Chilcut plankjacks x15, (Trip2: x20, trip3: x30)
>At the bottom: knee-ups x15, (Trip2: x20, trip3: x30)
Plank series between each set
~ Final set: Straight up run the three fingers
Indian Run back to the launch
BROAD JUMP TRIPLE:
Grab a spot on the curb / Broad jump across to the opposite curb and back
Mericans x10
Repeato x3
DONE.
MOLESKINE:
YHC mentioned that the avenues of the Drewry hood are named after a number of British authors, including Coleridge and Milton, which we visited.
One PAX member asked about the works of Coleridge, an unexpected query that pleased this humble Friar because it afforded the opportunity to bring up Iron Maiden. (Naturally.) The final track on the 1984 Iron Maiden record, Powerslave, is a 13-minute chugging juggernaut inspired by Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s masterpiece epic poem, Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
All this before 630am on a Tuesday. F3 delivers.
Also, welcome Titan from Charlotte. Good to have you, brother.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
- The Mule – This coming Saturday. Do it. One of the best free things you will ever do.
- BRR – One of the best expensive things you will ever do. Do it. Sept 8-9 in the mountains.
PRAYER:
- God’s care for victim and families involved in a shooting in S Raleigh.
- YHC shared finally a line from Milton’s Paradise Lost. “So heavenly love shall outdo hellish hate.” Hate, anger, conflict divides us. It separates us from God and from each other. But the love of heaven brings us together. And that love is seen most clearly in the Cross. My prayer is that we will be men who join God to outdo hellish hate by embracing his heavenly love in all that we do.
Fudd prayed to that end.
Thank you, brothers. Another excellent start to an incomparable day.
Tuck, out.
“So heavenly love shall outdo hellish hate.”
