The Strenuous Life is an internet/offline platform that helps members be taught new expertise, pursue new pursuits, and enhance themselves in physique, thoughts, and spirit. Every month, members create and publish a e-newsletter — The Bugle — to spotlight what’s going within the TSL group.
If you happen to’ve questioned what The Strenuous Life is like, under we share the September version of The Bugle. The following enrollment for TSL will open in January. Click on right here to get on the e-mail record and be the primary to know when enrollment opens.
The Strenuous Life Bugle is the e-newsletter for members of The Strenuous Life, which highlights the strenuous going-ons of our intrepid members. This Bugle delivered to you courtesy of: @averyb @clouden1 @eburres @gwalliman and @S-C-Hughes.
Congratulations to These Who Did 52/52 Agons!
Finishing 52/52 Agons — a whole 12 months of challenges in physique, thoughts, and spirit — is an extremely strenuous accomplishment. You’ve received to finish consecutive Agons in illness and well being; in winter, fall, spring, and summer time; whether or not you’re feeling prefer it or not; even when you’re on trip. Lower than 1% of members have been capable of accomplish this feat. Lately, just a few of our most elite members have joined this unique membership, incomes the 52/52 Agon Perfection Award and the proper to put on TSL’s Agon Perfection Ring:
Jimmy S., Class 070Steffen H., Class 070Tyler M., Class 071Jeremiah B., Class 072Eric B., Class 073Reece R., Class 074
Badge Work
What badge necessities have you ever been engaged on? Right here’s a pattern of how your fellow members received motion lately:
For the Ancestry Badge, @Heisenberg acquired a gold and lapis lazuli ring that his grandparents received in Greece. @markallred28 caught 2 fish together with his selfmade bottle cap fishing lures for his Angler Badge. @Fahey is working by means of his Classics Badge and taking some impressively copious notes! For the Yard Chef badge, @readonly-bear smoked pork butt, pork ribs, and a brisket. @ltos55 is easing his manner again into TSL by engaged on his Yard Farmer Badge and rising tomatoes, strawberries, potatoes, and varied herbs in his backyard.
@hodgbr20 summited Mount Rainier (14,410′) through the reasonably lengthy Disappointment Cleaver route for the Mountain Ranger Badge. @tmlr Learn Microadventures by Alastair Humphreys for the Microadventure Badge and was impressed to develop his journey to-do record. @fbrow030 attended two dwell concert events (candlelight symphony tribute and Spanish flamenco) for the Music Badge. @elynch706 gave an award speech, delivered a 20-minute presentation w/ visible help, and one other 25-minute speech for the Orator Badge. @hemingwaywardson learn Do Fathers Matter? for the Pater Familias Badge. @dannyh memorized the “Man within the Enviornment” quote and proved it by reciting it with eyes closed in a video for the Tough Rider Badge.
Some cool tasks within the Hacker Badge this month as @brockcooper, working from house because the pandemic, arrange a neon “On Air” signal outdoors his workplace that syncs together with his work calendar and lights when he’s in a gathering to let his children know to not enter. @pjefferiestsl, bored with unintentionally leaving his storage door open when he leaves the home, constructed a monitor that sends a notification to his mobile phone when the door is open for longer than 5 minutes. Nice examples of ingenuity and problem-solving, gents! Within the Handyman Badge, @chris75 laid new tile in his bathe as half of a big rest room transforming challenge. @dan-lamberger knocked out some Lumberjack Badge work by felling a storm-damaged tree with a chainsaw. And for the Searching Badge, @corvus303 went on a profitable grouse searching journey with some pals, and @ltoss55 shot an exquisite buck on his first ever deer searching journey and even discovered to reap the meat on the fly due to YouTube!
For the Rucking Badge, @adamhill accomplished a 50-mile ruck in below 48 hours, and @jarof accomplished a GoRuck Robust occasion! Effectively finished, males! Within the Sartorialist Badge, @hemingwaywardson completed studying The Handbook of Fashion. For the Sharpshooter Badge, @ChrisLTD confirmed the way to maintain, purpose, and fireplace a rifle correctly. And within the Wilderness Survival Badge, @ajaulner made a searching/fishing gig.
@fbrow030 accomplished his fundamental rider course for the Straightforward Rider Badge. @stronghold accomplished an Grownup and Pediatric First Support/CPR/AED class for the First Support Badge. @jimjjr accomplished a number of Frogman necessities at his native YMCA, together with swimming 200 yards with good kind. For the Craftsman Badge, @ssloup created an exquisite eating desk. He ensured it may seat 16 folks for his favourite vacation, Thanksgiving!
Chapter Meetups
The success of TSL depends on members not ready for others to take the lead, however selecting to take the lead themselves. Set up a meetup in your space! Listed here are some actions that native chapters have finished these days:
The Chicago Chapter lately met at 7:30 a.m. for a strenuous group exercise, consisting of the carry gauntlets from one of many agons and a free-weight circuit, earlier than having fun with a well-earned breakfast collectively. The Arizona Desert Rangers held their fifth Annual Frogman Occasion on a ship in the course of Bartlett Lake. They accomplished quite a few necessities for the Frogman Badge within the 115-degree desert warmth, and notably, no person’s nipples received nibbled by Bluegills this 12 months. Profitable!
Germany Chapter members met up “for a visit again to the very starting of . . . civilization” on the Neues Museum in Berlin. The trio browsed the huge assortment of antiquarian artifacts (courting way back to the Ice Age) whereas discussing related historical past/philosophy, even taking a selfie with a bust of Zeno of Citium, the founding father of the Stoic faculty of philosophy. The Wisconsin Chapter hiked six miles alongside the Ice Age Path in Satan’s Lake State Park. They ascended 1600 ft, thus finishing that week’s agon, and ended it with burgers and beer at an area brewery. @jtorres079 and @acmundy, hailing from the Orange County, California Chapter and at present in boot camp with Class 079, additionally received a hike in + knot tying at Automobile Wreck Path within the Aliso and Wooden Canyons Wilderness Park. Joel stated the next in regards to the meetup: “I had a good time mountain climbing and doing badgework with fellow TSLer, Adam. If I do nothing else strenuous all month, I not less than know that I’ve this ‘social’ to sit up for the place I do know I can get on the market and do laborious issues. That sort of motion is really priceless.” Effectively finished for getting collectively in particular person and whereas nonetheless within the boot camp, gents!
Fifth Annual East Coast Pageant of Strenuosity
The Fifth Annual East Coast Pageant of Strenuosity was a powerful success. This 12 months, 17 members gathered within the Pennsylvania forest for an extended weekend of tenting and strenuous actions, together with badge work for Barbell, Frogman, First Support, and Fighter in addition to video games like seize the flag and flag soccer. They even included workshops on Shakespearean comedy and bookbinding!
A private notice from Stephen: From the shenanigans that naturally come up from tenting collectively for 5 days to the downright ROWDY jam periods with everybody’s devices across the campfire or the deep and significant quiet conversations in between the festivities, this occasion really is particular and lives as much as its repute! I got here as a stranger and left with lifelong reminiscences and pals. I’m sure you’ll have the identical heat welcome and prompt connection I did, when you come subsequent 12 months. If you happen to haven’t attended a Pageant of Strenuosity, or any meetups interval, simply GO! This proper right here, is what The Strenuous Life is really about!
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After your native meetups, please designate a degree particular person to write down up a short “Strenuosity Report” and submit it right here. Within the absence of a Strenuosity Report, we is not going to see that your meetup happened and gained’t have the ability to take into account that includes it right here within the Bugle. To extend the probabilities of your meetup making it within the Bugle, the report ought to be a well-written abstract of applicable size with high quality pictures of the exercise and members current.
Upcoming Festivals of Strenuosity
Festivals of Strenuosity, aka “StrenFests,” are member-organized, regional, weekend-long+ meetups/campouts for skill-building, badge work, and all-around enjoyable. StrenFests are simply one of the best meetups of the 12 months for the chapters and areas that maintain them. Don’t miss out if you can also make it! Listed here are hyperlinks and dates for upcoming StrenFests:
Third Annual Rocky Mountain Pageant of Strenuosity (14-16 September)Fourth Annual Southwest Pageant of Strenuosity (20-25 September)
Gents’s Dinner Planning Reminder
The Gents’s Dinner is an annual custom which takes place in December. Members are inspired to have a proper dinner with their native chapter at a restaurant and share strenuous accomplishments from the previous 12 months and hopes and plans for the 12 months to return. With only a few months left within the 12 months, now’s the right time to get the small print to your dinners nailed down. Don’t dither on these particulars; choose three dates, take a vote, after which e book the reservation!
Maintain residing strenuously, everybody!
“You [have] to have the person who after defeat would come up and check out once more, and if he was defeated once more, come up and check out once more till he wrested from defeat the sumptuous final triumph. The lads who’re going to do good work for citizenship on this group are the lads . . . who usually are not going to count on the whole lot to be finished for them, however who’re going to do their share of it; who usually are not going to count on the way in which to be simple and easy . . . however who’re going to face the tough work of the world with the willpower to do this work aright.”
—Theodore Roosevelt
