Birthday Party

October 15, 2018

WHEN: 10/08/2018
QIC: Pusher
PAX: Buffay, Cortés, Nubbin, Offshore, Pusher, Toast McQueen

10/8 is my birthday.  What better way to start the day of than at The Rock!  Tried to channel the birthday theme with games, singing “Happy Birthday” and cold beverage finale.

Warm-up:

Mosey to traffic circle –

Windmill IC x 10

WMH IC x 10

LBAC IC x 10 (forward) x 10 (reverse)

SSH IC x 36 (start of Buffay trash talk – “he’s going to 40”)

Mtn Climbers IC x 20

Calf stretch IC x 10 each calf

Glute stretch IC x 10 each cheek

The Thang:

Heard about a technique called cognitive priming (disclaimer that this is out of my professional scope, so the psychologists can set me straight) but I let the Pax know as we mosey’d to the soccer field that the first part would be a beat down and then we would have some fun.

Modified “Spartan” – described in Exicon – our version consisted of ~100 yard sprint to 9 merkins single count as a Pax, walk back together, no rest, sprint back 18 merkins, repeat for the 27, then the 36.  I considered continuing but hey, it’s my birthday and I was eager to get to the game part.  So the true Spartan for another day.

Ultimate Football – I was eager to bring this back as it was a fun part of a Q back in the summer.  Unfortunately the days are getting shorter so I needed a way to light up the field.  I found $1 LED lights at Wal Mart that I attached to orange cones but was disappointed in the limited light-up football selection.  So we made do with a very small light-up that really wasn’t that great.  See Exicon for details but we basically split up into teams of 3, scoring team called out exercise and the team that didn’t score does double count.  We did 10/20 merkins, 20/40 air squats, 18/36 merkins (thanks for shout out Nubbin) and a few others that I do not recall.  We mixed up the teams at least 1 time.  Props to Offshore and Cortés who led in scoring.  I don’t think Cortés was on a loosing team the whole morning and I don’t think any team I was on won.  Draw your own conclusions here…

Mosey to playground shelter for Peoples Chair.  2 rounds of Pax singing “Happy Birthday” in the squat hold, once for Toast McQueen and another for YHC.

Mosey to shovel flag for –

Mary: Flutter kicks IC x 40 – (more trash talking from Buffay about how I was “going to 36” so I added a few in honor to Toast:)

Lastly, broke out the cooler for waters, LaCroix and oranges juices that had been on ice all night.  Cupcakes and adult beverages both seemed inappropriate at 0615.

COT: 2nd F in Hillsborough, Wed, 10/17, 8 PM at Wooden Nickel.