Location: Gridlock
Date: 2021-09-02
Weather: Perfect. 61 degree. Clear sky. Slight cool breeze. Seems like the first morning in months that we broke under 70 degrees and the humidity is gone
Q: Showcase Showdown
PAX: 18 – Bandwagon, Chewbacca, Cyclops (DR), Incognito, Muck, Nurse Joy, Oshag, Possum, Raquel, Red Flanders, Showcase Showdown, Sous Vide, Steve-O, Thin Mint, Wally World, Zebra, Geppetto, Santa’s Little Helper
Warm-O-Rama
We stretched
Tha Thang
Scrabble Trick-Or-Treat (a.k.a. Pre-Dawn Alphabet Soup)
Mosey to the tennis courts, circle up
(starting interlude: TubThumpers by ChumbaWumba: side-straddle hops and do a burpee each time you hear “I get knocked down, but I get up again.)
a. Group starts an OYO exercise (such as high-knee hops to “Jump Around” by House of Pain),
b. the 1st PAX runner in the circle grabs the flashlight,
c. PAX jailbreaks to plastic Jack-o-lantern at other end of 5 tennis courts in the dark,
d. Picks a Scrabble letter out of the bowl after yelling “Trick or Treat” (I meant to tell them to do that),
e. then runs back to the group, announcing his letter, which corresponds to a certain exercise on my list. (see attached)
f. New exercise is announced to group, while next PAX takes the flashlight and starts running back to the pumpkin,
g. Simultaneously, a new track is pulled up & played, while the rest of us perform the exercise
(mid-course interludes: after every 10 tracks, we pause the normal Scrabble Trick or Treat and we do another round of ChumbaWamba or Mad about You (plank, then each time Belina says Mad, do a merkin) or Beastie’s Root Down, same concept except do a merkin each time you hear “Down”)
Musical Highlights include: The Stones, AC/DC, Robb Base, Cindi Lauper, John Williams (the composer), U2, and LaCrae
Exercise Lowlights include: Mr. Miagis, 4 sets of Am-Hams in a row (most common letter “E”), Ben Afflecks, Group Jailbreak to Pumpkin, Crab-Walk Battle, & Man-Makers (which required us to use imaginary coupons, since I forgot what a man-maker was.)
Mosey back to parking lot for 1 last interlude of TubThumpers. Then, ended with a CoT (Circle of Thanks) where each PAX mentioned 1-word things they were thankful to The Provider for.
I am also thankful for the support and patience of all you guys who came out for my first Q and your words of encouragement.
End in COT