Author: Showcase Showdown

Location: Sherwood
Date: 2022-11-11
Weather: Drizzle on my hizzle. But nice and warm

Q: Showcase Showdown
PAX: 5 – Showcase Showdown, Oshag, Incognito, Axeman, Bootlegger

Warm-O-Rama
No rucks. No sitting or lying down on wet ground. To celebrate Baby Bickell’s expected arrival (any second now?) I took the Q in place of @Steve-o. Happy Birthday Margot Marie: 11/11/22. (11+11=22!). But no, @WallyWorld, we did not play Swifty’s “22” twenty-two times.

Tha Thang
5 of us posted. The perfect number for this. 2 teams of 2, separated by about 50-75 yards, starting walking towards the stadium and the around the concourse counterclockwise. The front pair carried a 25lb weight. The back pair carried a 45lb weight. The 5th man sprints a jailbreak between the 2 pairs of pax. Guy 1 hands off the weight to Guy2, and takes off running back to the other pair while the new pair keep walking.

We were waved inside to the dry well-lot concourse by the napping guard, and made it 2 laps on the lower loop, up the ramp, 1 lap around the upper loop, and back down to the parking lot. It was nice to have a couple of good 20 minute conversations, even if they were broken up in 45-second segments.

Ended with 2 Minute of Merkins.

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Location: Sherwood
Date: 2022-10-28
Weather: A spooky chill in the air. Dense, rolling fog. A wolf howls in the distance

Q: Showcase Showdown
PAX: 5 – Showcase Showdown, Muck, Dub-K, Steve-O, Bootlegger

Warm-O-Rama
OYO while Q explained overly complicated instructions

Tha Thang
Name that SPOOKY Tune!!

GOAL = Get all the way around Loop, or see which team makes more progress.

Walk (Run!) To the left (clockwise) = when Team 1 (@DubK & @Muck) guesses correctly

Walk (Run!) To the right (counterclockwise) = when Team 2 (@Bootlegger & @Steve-o) guesses it.

Back and forth. But we all stay together. Interspersed between songs or while listening to songs trying to figure them out we did exercises as a group. Squats, merkins, toe-touches, planks, etc.

I think Team 2 slightly won this one. Congrats.
We ended with a round of Mary for 7 minutes.

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Location: Gridlock
Date: 2022-08-06
Weather: Rain held off. Still hot (72) and very muggy (though I didn’t bring the coffee muggies for coffeteria)

Q: Showcase Showdown
PAX: 16 – One Time, Oshag, Zebra, Bam, Wally World, Steve-O, Slick Willie, Incognito, Radio, Sous Vide, Raquel, Axeman, El Fed, Yanni, Santa’s Little Helper, Showcase Showdown

Warm-O-Rama
Various Stretches. Next, Frankenstein Walks, Pidgeon Pull Walks, High Knee Walks, Imperial Walker Walks (then Zebra said, “Uh, those aren’t meant for walking.” And the Q said, “Hey! Do It!” Then we circled up and planked for 2-3 minutes while SteveO fixed the bluetooth technical difficulty. Then we did UP Merkins and DOWN (not touching) Merkins for 3 minutes during the lyrical masterpiece “Bring Sally Up, Bring Sally Down.”

Tha Thang
“You can go with THIS… OR, you can go with THAT.”
Circled around the grassy knoll with coupons or ruck weights. The Q described the tabata-style plan (16 different 30-second exercises with a 10-second rest in between each.) Some w/ Coupons. Some without. Some In Cadence. Some OYO.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1IWioTf4vZCHnaUtYb12HD_xfojwhFVUZFNxXICWA3NQ/edit?usp=sharing

2-minute “warm-up” with your individual choice of running either 1, 2, 3 or 4 Tier parking lot loop.

Round 1: Start with the 16 exercises in Choice A column. (SEE ATTACHMENT)
2-minute “break” with your individual choice of running either 1, 2, 3 or 4 Tier parking lot loop.

Round 2: Next we did the 16 exercises in Choice B column.
2-minute “break” with your individual choice of running either 1, 2, 3 or 4 Tier parking lot loop.

Round 3: Each PAX around the circle had their choice of the next exercise, either the Column A or Column B option, and led the group in that.

Return Coupons. Return to Flags. Circle Up. End in 3-minute “Bring Sally Up” song, while doing leg-lifts.
COT included reminder of Choices theme, and challenge to PAX that we each day choose encouragement over discouragement, choose life over death, choose joy over despair, choose love over hate, and when we don’t know what choice to make, we pray and ask God to let us know.
Joshua 24:15 ” … Choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, … But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.””

Did I get ALL 16 of the most popular songs of the past 62 years that had “OR” in the title or the main chorus? Check the playlist on the ATTACHED Google Sheet.

https://music.amazon.com/user-playlists/03f064114e20425bb224cf1fd27367b5sune?ref=dm_sh_pOCKpCwSAaftAWGFcTCV0rD1M

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Location: Sherwood
Date: 2022-06-24
Weather: Super Fine! Perfect temp. Perfect humidity. Perfect sky. We could see the 5 planets lined up for the 1st time in 20 years!

Q: Showcase Showdown
PAX: 4 – Showcase Showdown, Muck, Steve-O, Dub-K

Warm-O-Rama
Warmup. Stretch OYO, Merkins, SSH

Tha Thang
Rucked a 1.4mile loop to the hidden Pine needle trail behind the softball stadium while discussing important life milestones like:
– [ ] Tall baby Girl in utero!
– [ ] The uselessness of memorizing Pi to 35 digits
– [ ] Our favorite Pies, … Possum Pie?
– [ ] Impressive Matthew memorization by the next gen. (Way to go, Willbo! God is good!)
– [ ] Giving Two x 2 flips to a Tire…until we got too tired. (It was Sous Vide size)
– [ ] Tires—> Cars. Using my playlist with old songs that pay tribute to certain favorite car models, we played Name That Tune, with each miss = another round of Mary. (They just don’t make songs like this anymore… about Lincolns, Caddies, 409s, Coupes, Corvettes, low riders, & greased lightnings).

2 rounds of Mary included curls, military press, Strike-Throughs, TNT Toads, ice skaters, Plank toe-twists, AmHams with weight, & ended in the Supine position, doing chest presses with the weights.

All in all, at the beginning of the day, a Super-Fine time was had by all!

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Location: Sherwood
Date: 2022-05-27
Weather: A bit of Drizzle on our Hizzles

Q: Showcase Showdown
PAX: 4 – Showcase Showdown, Muck, Geppetto, Steve-O

Warm-O-Rama
4 types of Stretchies, since 4 of us showed up in the light rain. 4 rucksacks, (+ 3 pancho villas, 1 golf umbrella protecting 1 Bluetooth speaker).

Tha Thang
Since the Theme was “Four”, we hiked over to the softball stands and stair climbed 4 fast laps up and down the rafters until my calves started yelling at me, “hey! I’m burning!” Then we did some calf raises on the curb, as if to tell my calves, “Shut it!” Then as we hiked toward the UK mountain of coal, we brainstormed famous 4’s, and hit ALL of them: 4 horsemen of the apocalypse, 4 score & 7 years ago, 4 for the 4 that stood at the door, “Fore!”, 4 sides and corners of a quadrilateral, and many more. At the top of the coal we uncovered a hidden treasure: 4 painted jaspers, smooth, flat rocks wrapped in silver foil. We were each told to keep them in our pockets at least 4 days to remind us of our connection to the earth, and to The Maker, and to be thankful. After 4 days in our pockets we were told that we could give them to a friend, keep them, or swallow them. Lastly, as we listed and debated the best 4-somes in music history while walking back, we listened to some of them: Zepplin, Rush, Beatles, Stones, Wuggles, and (Kentucky’s own Backstreet Boys). At the car site, we dropped our packs and each of the 4 of us led a 4-count exercise : 40 copperhead squats, 40 4-count merkins, 40 box cutters, 40 3-count SSHs, while we listened to “40” written by King David (psalm 40) and performed by the undeniably greatest rock quartet: my Irish lads, U2. (“I waited patiently for The Lord. He inclined and heard my cry. He lifted me out of the pit. Out of the mire and clay. I will sing a New Song… How long to sing this song.”)

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Location: Sherwood
Date: 2022-05-06
Weather: Just like I like my Salsa: Mild, … and free of any toenail clippings.

Q: Showcase Showdown
PAX: 5 – Showcase Showdown, Geppetto, Steve-O, Muck, Chewbacca

Warm-O-Rama
Imperial Walkers
Lando Leg Lean-o
Solo So-Lows

C3-“PO” (Plank-Off) Name-o-Rama Challenge (went about 4-5 rounds before most of us either couldn’t think of another Star Wars character, got too tired of planking, or were DQ’d because I didn’t explain the rule that you couldn’t repeat any names). Steve-o won again this week. Add another cro-nut to his list.

Tha Thang
I’m honor of today, May 6th, my brother’s 47th bday, (Shout Out to @TheCount from several of the 30+ AO’s of https://F3cherokee.com), we enjoyed the sweet sweet sounds of Star Wars music (mostly the master, John Williams) played throughout the warm up and Ruck.
The 2.37m Ruck snaked around the North Half loop and added the adventurous off-road tour of the several of UK’s newer athletic facilities.

Our good Lord held off the rain storm until the moment we closed in the COT.

(Note: The Phantom Menace also attended, leashed up and attached to Steve-O).

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Location: Black Ops
Date: 2022-04-29
Weather: Not possible to be any better.

Q: Showcase Showdown
PAX: 5 – Martina, Raquel, Steve-O, Muck, Showcase Showdown

Warm-O-Rama
The usual

Tha Thang
Started with Plank-Off, where the winner had to hold plank while stating the most number of unique character or actor names from The Office. Winner: Steve-O. Prize: Parlor Donut cronut (chose to receive it at later date).

Commenced Ruck with intermittent The Office trivia with group rewards for correct answers and group extra reps for wrong answers. Unfortunately, 3 out of 5 PAX had not really watched the show, so, fortunately, we got a max rep workout of dips, merkins, squats, elevated Merkins, leg lifts, burpees, etc. Final trivia score, 6 out of 11, thanks to Steve-Os diligence on binging and knowledge of the finer things in life, such as Threat Level Midnight, Big Tuna, and That’s What She Said references.

Highlight: a 45-second “parkour parkour”competition on the skate park with all 5 Pax. Winner, with most true-to-form barrel rolls and donkey kicks as seen in The Office (https://youtu.be/6VhnU3_-KUY) was Rawquelle. Prize = Parlor Donuts Blueberry Hill cronut! They are delicious!

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