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Thanks for turning up for this friendly little competition around Mastodon!  It was a bit lunge-heavy, but I enjoyed doing it as much as planning it.  Shout outs to @Archive @Bloomer @T-bone and @Panhandle for their prayer requests.   Enjoy the day!

WOR: Motivators / Goofballs / Tappy Taps / Mt Climbers

ONLY THANG: Partner WOD on track with a bit of 80s music for support—each PAX did both exercises in the list below before moving on.One PAX at end zone doing exercise while the partner PAX went 50 yards and back as follows:

1. squats + farmer’s carry both coupons to 50 yard & back: switch
2. merkins + rifle carry to 50 yard & back: switch
3. blockees + sprints to 100 yard & back: switch
4. curls & rows + lunges to 25 yard & back: switch
5. overhead press (50) + LBCs (both at end zone): switch
6. mosey 2 laps (1st lap w/1 coupon to pass back-and-forth // 2nd lap run/race)

REPEATED all above until time ran out (a few PAX completed a full two rounds of all reps).

Ended with a victory lap 400 sprint!

CoR/NoR/Cot: 14 PAX in attendance: @Banks @Da Vinci @Dr Phil @Hotbox @Jolly @Katniss @Noodles @Panhandle @SAGA (Q) @Shiplap @T-Bone (respect) @Tortuga (respect) @Whittler + we welcomed an FNG: @Milkdud (respect)

MOLESKIN: remember #sword-swallowers

“For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,” – Eph 2:8

The story you tell yourself is the story you live in.

Guard from the life too simply summarized, live the epic as it unfolds.

17 Pax showed up on a glorious Tuesday morning.

WOR:

Goofballs, Slow Merkins, Michael Phelps, Slow Squats, Abe Vigodas, Mosey to Cooties – to the never gets old “Rhinestone Cowboy” by Glen Campbell

The Thang:

Partner up to perform a double Murph (4 loops running – short (.75mile) or long (.95mile)), 200 Pull-Ups, 400 Merkins, 600 Air squats – one runs while the other knocks out calisthenics.

Many groups finished in ~35 minutes – way to go!

NOR: Babe, Banks, Beaker, Big Mac, Cap’n Crunch, Cheese, DaVinci, Gummi Bear, Jolly, Katniss, Panhandle, Saga, Shiplap, Sparrow, Tortuga, T-bone (Q), Whittler

Moleskin: Respect is earned – be worthy of respect in your home – treat your M like a queen, model healthy relationships, spend time with your kids. Don’t assume you will lose your teens – stay engaged – don’t create a self-fulfilling prophecy

COT: Prayers for Babe and family in the loss of his Grandfather – particularly his Grandmother who is alone after 67 years of marriage.

11 PAX (TBTF QIC, Cookies, Sparrow, SAGA, DaVinci, Tortuga, Jolly, Beaker, Dr. Phil, Big Mac, Archive)

The runners started early, circled back to the flag at 530AM to exchange Sparrow for Dr. Phil and were off again for a nice 6+ mile run (estimated)

The Ruckers did a quick WoR and made our way to Hoffa for some bear crawling, squats at the top, and lunging back down. We then proceeded to make 2 laps around the AO (the Archive mile followed by the Captain Crunch mile). Due to some poor time management by yours truly the last half of the Captain Crunch mile was largely a shuffle.

CoT – Prayers for SAGAs M for better sleep and general good health as well as Bloomers son

Warmorama: Arm circles in cadence, Abe Vagoda in cadence, leg stretches OYO

Springsteen, “I’m going down” (Side straddle hops during song, merkens when The Boss says “I’m going down.”)

The thang: Around the school at each stairway climb 3x with a burpee at the top each time. At bottom do the listed exercise. 40 reps to signify the 40 days of Lent. (40 curls, coupon lunges, LBCs, overhead press, BBSU, derkens, tricep dips, bent rows, American haammers, crunchie frogs, thrusters, skull crushers). Reps are actually 4000 each (Christ did 3960, we do 40).

COT: Prayers for @noodles job, for our M’s

Moleskin:

“In the mysteries of Isis, the Mysteries at Samothrace, the Mysteries at Eleusis, in all of those you had the descent into the underworld. The descent was both symbolic and real. Christ descended as well. What did Christ bring into the underworld that was different than what the earlier Mysteries had been able to do? It’s really quite a central question because something changed in the very nature of the underworld. Christ’s descent was not like an Orpheus or or others who have descended and then came back – Christ overcame. That reality is often not considered at all. It wasn’t just a pivot to the underworld, it was an overcoming and a changing of its nature forever.”   -Robert J. Faas

Hence, as men we need not be afraid of our depths.

NOR: @panhandle, @shiplap, @katniss, @bunson, @beaker, @SAGA, @sparrow, @jolly, @tortuga, @drphil, @noodles, @archive, @gummibear @davince Q

Hilltop coffeteria for the sunrise. It’s nearly Easter.

After some pre-blast un-HCing among the PAX and thinking some tom foollery was going on behind his back (which indeed it was), SAGA waited in the shadows to make sure he would win as the ultimate fool. Seeing the PAX all gathered, he appeared as a light in the gloom and entered the AO as the Mastodon Jester dressed for April 1^st. He cued up the beatdown soundtrack of Jesus Christ Superstar (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3m2kQ-tOEk) and with a nod to it also being Maundy Thursday in Holy Week he invited the PAX to lay down their lives for their brothers (Maundy comes from the Latin word “command” & refers to Jesus’ commandment to the disciples to “Love one another as I have loved you”).

WOR: Motivators / Goofballs / Tappy Taps / Mt Climbers

THANG ONE: Cooties Cooties, I got my COVID shot

Two team relay: 1 PAX does 2 pull-ups while rest of PAX does squats and cycled through the team for 3 rounds to see which team won

50 shoulder taps to make sure the PAX are vaccinated (1-is-1)

50 merkins to make sure the vaccine worked

Mosey to…

THANG TWO: Carousel of Foolishness

Timed Challenge @ ball diamond—1^st round: tried to beat other team / 2^nd round: tried to beat their own team record + other team. Winning team time through the following was 3min 26sec…

1^st = 25 merkins / 2^nd = 25 burpees / 3^rd = 25 squats / Home = 25 star jumps

Team in dugout switched between dips & planks (or whatever miscommunication SAGA had determined was appropriate in the moment).

When you want to get off but the carousel won’t stop: 25 merkins to remind you of your foolishness. Then, mosey to…

THANG THREE: “Remember, Philip, you’re going to die!” (legend has it that this is what King Philip’s jester told him every day he entered the court)

Teams started at lamppost at the base of Hoffa and ran over the bridge stopping at each lamppost until they reached the 8^th lamppost: 5 burpees at first lamppost & then 10 squats at next lamppost – repeated same reps at following lampposts in same order. PAX were instructed to pick up the six on their team if they had completed everything (helped with reps to get them to the finish line)—first team to 8^th lamppost won, except that we all die and so 25 more merkins + 50 LBCs + 25 burpees + race Tortuga back to the flags.

CoR/NoR/Cot:

13 PAX in attendance: Archive, Beaker, Captain Crunch, Cookies, Crack, Da Vinci, Hotbox, Jolly, SAGA (Q), Shiplap, Sparrow, T-Bone (respect), Tortuga (respect)

Moleskin: remember #sword-swallowers

“For by grace you have been saved through faith” – Eph 2:8

This famous quote from Jim Elliot’s October 28, 1949 journal entry, written the autumn after he graduated from Wheaton: “He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.”

See his journal housed at Wheaton College @ https://www.facebook.com/WheatonCollegeGraduateAdmissions/posts/he-is-no-fool-who-gives-what-he-cannot-keep-to-gain-that-which-he-cannot-losethi/1901188219934907/

Whimsy will save the world—make sure in the seriousness you are also quick to play. The world needs laughter alongside the sorrow. Be good air for others to breathe...

Partly because he wasn’t feeling very clever, and partly because he enjoyed it so much the first time around, Crash decided that we would revisit a beatdown from last November on this bright morning. As the creator of the workout (and the Q’s father), YHC was excited to see what my 2.0 would do.
8 HIMs showed up, at least one of whom had just come from the “morning” beatdown at AO Tar Pit.

Warm-O-Rama:
Goofballs IC – 10
Tappy Taps IC – 10
Bat Wings IC – forward arm circles, backward arm circles, seal claps, OH claps 10ea.
Michael Phelps OYO while the Q described the “thang”

The ABC’s
1. Alligator Merkins across the base of Hoffa
2. Broad Jump Burpees back to starting position
3. Colt 45 – coupon curls, lower half, upper half, full – 15 reps of each, 45 total
4. Derkins – 25
5. El Capitan – Deep lunges up Hoffa, touching hands to ground
6. Foxholes at top of Hoffa – WWI sit up, roll to plank position, merkin, flapjack, repeato 25x

mosey back down to the base of Hoffa

7. Grave Diggers – coupon between legs, lift up to shoulder (like shoveling dirt), back to btw legs, flapjack, repeato 20x
8. Hand-release merkins – 25
9. Inch-worm bear crawl across the base of Hoffa
10. Jackhammers – jump squats
11. Knerkins – Chuck Norris merkins – 25
12. LBCs – 50

return to coupons at start position

13. Murder Bunnies – 25yds
14. No Surrenders – 25
15. Outlaws – leg circles – 25 each direction
16. Plank Jack’s – 50
17. Quiet – silent low plank 30 sec.
18. Ranger Merkins – 25
19. Star Jumps – 25
20. Thrusters – 25
21. Upright Rows – 25
22. V-Up Roll Ups – 25
23. Windshield Wipers – 25
24. X-Cross Sit Ups – 25
25. Yul Brynners – each rep consists of 1 of each of the following: Carolina Dry Dock, Wide Merkin, Merkin, Ranger Merkin, Diamond Merkin, Crucible Merkin, Knerkins – 5 total reps

Sadly, we ran out of time before reaching Z, so no zombie crawl up Hoffa like the first time.

COT: Crack, Rainbow Bright, Tortuga (respect), Double Beef ‘n’ Cheddar (hate), Cap’n Crunch, Too Big To Fail, Cheese, Crash (hate, Q)

11 PAX (Archive QIC, Crack, Shiplap, Beaker, Jail Break, TBTF, Tortuga, Captain Crunch, Cookies, Jolly, Da Vinci) for some miles under ruck or behind Tortuga.

6ish miles for the Run Clubbers. Ruck club:

W/Sandbag. 3x up Hoffa. Ruck to island. Sandbag holder + 2 runners go clockwise, one PAX farmers carrys two rucks counter clockwise. First to catch the Sandbag holder wins.

Finish up lap of AO- shuffle one lamppost/walk one lamppost back to the Flag.

COR NOR
Moleskine: Thoreau observed, “the cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.” F3 is the best thing I’ve ever purchased- no money exchanged and every ounce on time that I’ve put into it has been richly repaid with accountability, fellowship, and personal growth.

COT- Prayers for Tortuga’s M (sleep), Captain Crunch’s friend Katie recovering from a stroke during birth, and Beaker’s M traveling with kids in tow.