Three men were not deterred by the threat of an overnight “burst of snow” and dutifully set their alarms to see if the forecast would be accurate. As is normally the case with winter weather in the South, the frenzy turned out to be a dud, with the morning cold and dry, just like every other morning in Isotope.

Perhaps a reminder is needed of the men we are called to emulate — like the one this LFC workout is named for: 

Samson, legendary Israelite warrior and judge, or divinely inspired leader, renowned for the prodigious strength that he derived from his uncut hair. He is portrayed in the book of Judges (chapters 13–16).

Samson’s incredible exploits, as related in the biblical narrative, hint at the weight of Philistine pressure on Israel during much of Israel’s early, tribal period in Canaan (1200–1000 BC). The biblical narrative, only alluding to Samson’s “twenty years” activity as a judge, presents a few episodes, principally concerned with the beginning and the end of his activity. Before his conception, his mother, a peasant of the tribe of Dan at Zorah, near Jerusalem, was visited by an angel who told her that her son was to be a lifelong Nazirite—i.e., one dedicated to the special service of God, usually through a vow of abstinence from strong drink, from shaving or cutting the hair, and from contact with a dead body.

Samson possessed extraordinary physical strength, and the moral of his saga relates the disastrous loss of his power to his violation of the Nazirite vow, to which he was bound by his mother’s promise to the angel. He first broke his religious obligation by feasting with a woman from the neighbouring town of Timnah, who was also a Philistine, one of Israel’s mortal enemies. Other remarkable deeds follow. For example, he decimated the Philistines in a private war. On another occasion he repulsed their assault on him at Gaza, where he had gone to visit a harlot. He finally fell victim to his foes through love of Delilah, who beguiled him into revealing the secret of his strength: his long Nazirite hair. As he slept, Delilah had his hair cut and betrayed him. He was captured, blinded, and enslaved by the Philistines, but in the end God granted Samson his revenge; through the return of his old strength, he demolished the great Philistine temple of the god Dagon, at Gaza, destroying his captors and himself (Judges 16:4–30).

MOLESKIN

• Weasel shaker gonna shake the weasel…
• The Q and MQ sat in their cars until the last second, likely both thinking we would head for coffee if no one else showed up
• The plan was for a “Bomb Cyclone” (a plagiarism of Outlaw’s Cyclone WIB) but numbers warranted a change of plan
• Shrinking, concentric circles around the parking lot was the result, with sets of exercises at the top of each loop
• Let it be known that Samson pax expect CoP to occur by the pull-up bars
• Confusion continues on Peter Paker vs Parker Peter
• The BLMFer was introduced to the Samsonites. It does not in fact stand for Black Lives Matter Forever
• Many thanks to The Force for taking us out in prayer (and not taking any time to talk about the Wolfpack’s poor showing in basketball)
• 100% attendance at #coffeeteria where we tested how many times we could convince Frogger to go out to his car
• March events: Polar Bear (3/8), OST 8k (3/22), Smithville Community Garden (3/29)