Keeping Up With Myself

Location: Sherwood
Date: 2022-09-23
Weather: Cool

Q: Geppetto
PAX: 11 – Geppetto, The Janitor, Showcase Showdown, Sparrow, Bootlegger, Wally World, Muck, Pollo Loco, Zebra, Oshag, Dub-K

Warm-O-Rama
Grass grabbers and stretches on your own while listening to the Blind Boys of Alabama

Tha Thang
We Moseyed briskly to several spots where treasures were hidden.

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Blind Trail

Location: Sherwood
Date: 2022-09-02
Weather: Cool

Q: Geppetto
PAX: 12 – Lansbury, Showcase Showdown, Steve-O, Sparrow, Muck, Bootlegger, Quick Match, Red Wire, Manchild, Wally World, Geppetto, Zebra

Warm-O-Rama
Rocking up

Tha Thang
One loop. Starting and ending with a bear crawl. Two stops for 20 squats/20 markins.. 20′ uphill tiptoe. 40′ backward walk. 20′ assisted lunge walk.

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3 is the Magic Number

Location: Sherwood
Date: 2022-05-13
Weather: Perfect for a t shirt

Q: Geppetto
PAX: 3 – Showcase Showdown, Steve-O, Geppetto

Warm-O-Rama
Walking to the side parking lot where we should park in the future as we were asked not to park in the main lot before sunrise.

Tha Thang
We made a big loop through the adjacent softball and baseball fields and through the pine trail. Steve-O carried a 45lb weight because his pack was ripped. Geppetto held on to Pearl’s leash.

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Death and Resurrection

Location: Gridlock
Date: 2022-04-16
Weather: Cold at the bottom. Warm up top.

Q: Geppetto
PAX: 17 – Zebra, Thin Lizzy, Subject Matter, Ricky Bobby, Axeman, Incognito, Raquel, Mule, Muck, 49er, Slick Willie, Count Chocula, Ronaldo, Oshag, Sous Vide, Radio, Geppetto

Warm-O-Rama
“I get knocked down” into a squat then stretch on my own.

Tha Thang
Mosey to the overspill and big hill.

At the bottom:
10 marking
20 cockroaches
30 J’lo (one touch is one)
Kick out butterflies till the song ends

At the top:
10 lunges with a twist
20 squats
30 Abe Baghdad
Sidestraddle hops till the song ends

Halftime intermission:
Plank to If I Should Fall From Grace With God by the Pogues at the bottom.
Tree Pose to Rise Up by Eddie Vedder at the top

We did six cycles moving from top to bottom and back up and down the hill. At the last visit to the bottom we spent 60 seconds searching our hearts for something which no longer served us to send to the grave. At the top we shared what we left behind in a circle of trust. Thank you for sharing openly with the group.

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Muder Ballads and Murder Bunnies

Location: Gridlock
Date: 2022-04-02
Weather: Perfect sunrise melting frosted grass

Q: Geppetto
PAX: 6 – Raquel, Incognito, The Janitor, Wally World, Axeman, Geppetto

Warm-O-Rama
Micheal Phelps, pigeon pose, deer pose in lot to wait for late comers then mosey to football field

Tha Thang
We circled up with coupons and took turns hopping around the circle murder bunny style. When a bunny returned to his original spot he yelled “i killed it!” And the group would switch to the next exercise. All this was done to a soundtrack made up exclusively of murder ballads.
Exercises included:
Curls
No surrenders
Catalinas
Kettle swings
Pickle pounders
Ankle touches
Playboy bunnies (leg lifts)
Monkey humpers
Sun salutations with jazz hands
1:08 plank to Hey Joe
Peter cottontails (super low squats
Saturday nights
Dead bugs
We did three rounds each followed by a lap around the field.

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Neato-Veto

Location: Gridlock
Date: 2021-12-04
Weather: Dry and cool

Q: Geppetto
PAX: 12 – Radio, Santa’s Little Helper, Sous Vide, Oshag, Showcase Showdown, Chewbacca, Possum, Raquel, Zebra, Axeman, The Janitor, El Fed

Warm-O-Rama
Micheal Phelps, Windmills, low swing, high swing, rowboat.

Tha Thang
Four stacks of index cards in four locations. PAX have veto power to pull off a stapled card to reveal the exercise below as they cycle through.

Turntable with various vinyl records available. Each pax has a veto on LPs.

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