Backblast, 4/24/21, 7am, AO Mastodon
Throw and Go
Eight PAX gathered in the gloom for this morning’s beatdown.
WOR: Michael Phelps OYO, arm circles, copperhead merkins (slow count down IC), copperhead squats, tappy taps IC.
Thang One: Partners shared a frisbee. The goal was to hit each lamppost in order from the west bridge to the north westernmost lamppost. Throws were earned by reps. 10 hand release merkins, 20 flutter kicks (4 count), or 30 squats. Rep order was not mandated, but all three had to be completed before repeating any reps. Frisbees were advanced frisbee golf style: each throw was attempted from the landing spot of the previous throw. Tap-ins were allowed but still counted as a throw and had to be earned.
Thang Two: Same reps and rules from north westernmost lamppost to the monkey bars. Winners of round one started at the first lamppost. Second place at the second, etc. At the monkey bars each PAX went down and back. Only one frisbee made it into the pond. (I’m looking at you, Banks.)
Thang Three: In Dan Taylor alley. New reps. 10 Bonnie Blairs (1=1), 20 shoulder taps (2=1), 30 lunges (1=1). Goals – baseball field backstop followed by the four soccer goals.
Thang four: No reps. To travel to the frisbee you had to bear crawl for the first two goals, lunge the next, crab walk the fourth, and mix and match to the final goal. Throws must alternate between partners. If you arrived at the frisbee before your partner and it wasn’t your throw, you could double back to them. Once you reach them, both PAX can mosey to their disc. (Saga arrived in the middle of this round.)
Thang five: mosey back to Hoffa, zombie crawl up, first to the top called out “Manrise!” The rest of the PAX moseyed up to hold an Al Gore. We did have a couple on a picnic blanket for the sunrise at the top of Hoffa, so it had to be done.
BigMac and Loafers had to go, so we did NOR before Mary, thus the seated NOR video.
NOR: Banks, BigMac, Captain Crunch, Jailbreak, Jäzz Händz, Loafers (respect, respect!), TBTF, and Tortuga (Q)
Mary: flutter kicks with PAX reciting the verse in place of the count made it through the first chunk of our passage before running into multiple versions being recited. “For by grace you have been saved through faith.”
COT: prayers were lifted up for Cooper, Bloomer and their family, BigMac’s church as they will be presented with their pastoral candidate Sunday, Brian as he will be moving to rehab soon, Saga’s M, who is having some brain scans to try to figure out what’s going on. Praise for bodies that work and men to push us on.
Donuts were consumed (Thanks Jäzz Händz!), directions to Tortuga’s church were shared, and after a brief coffeteria, most PAX headed out to move some mulch.
F3 Wheaton 