12 PAX emerged in the Gloom for a workout at beautiful Forest Hills Park.  As YHC looked around he realized that none of the faces were familiar (until Floyd Showed Up and I’m not saying its a good thing that his face is familiar), the location was new, yet we jumped right into the workout without any issue.  Truly a unique and wonderful phenomenon that this could happen.  Up front let me thank Sweats for helping with some ideas for a workout, and the Churham Nataan’s for coming up with the Master Q idea.  Master Q # 8/25

SSH, IW, LBAC, Merkins, Wide Merkins

Some Context:  On this day (10/03/1789) in 1789, President Washington proclaimed the first Thanksgiving Day, as designated by the federal government. (You can read his proclamation here.) So if you need an excuse to start Christmas shopping early…In honor of this YHC thought it would be good to do some Gobbler Squats today.

Also, on this day 10/03/1955 Captain Kangaroo debuted on ABC.    In honor of this announcement YHC thought it would be good to do some Bunny Hops today.

Mosey to Picnic Shelter, break up into teams of 3.   1 PAX hang from rafter while 1 PAX performs dips x 20 IC, 1 PAX performs Gobbler Squats x 20.   Switch until everyone gets 2 reps of each.

Mosey to Tennis Courts

Break into 3 teams of 4 PAX.   Each team starts at one corner of the tennis enclosure.   A pile of multi-colored balls in the middle.   Each PAX does 5 Merkins, sprint to the center to grab 1 ball, then bunny hops back to their team’s corner.  After 10 minutes YHC had to call a hard stop even though there was still balls in the center.

BONUS REPS:   Each team was to count the # of each color ball that they had in their corner.   Each color ball awarded that team some bonus exercise reps:

For each Red Ball the team had 10 bonus KB Swings
For each Yellow Ball the team had 5 bonus Star Jumps
For each Green Ball the team had 5 bonus Donkey Kicks
For each Blue Ball the team had 5 bonus Burpees

After each team completed their bonus the team had to return all balls to the middle of the court and wait in plank.

Mosey back to the parking lot for Mary.   Flutter Kicks 15, Roslita/Hello Dolly 10, Flutter Kicks 15 all IC.

COT:  Welcome to FNG POP UP.   CARPEX convergence on Saturday at Bond Park.   Ruck the ATT on 10/14.   YHC is in the initial stages of planning to do a short 5K/10K race and include 1 or more “F3 Speed for Need” racers.  We will run this race as a group.   Contact me if interested.   Link is here to what F3 Speed for Need is all about.

Thanks to all for the welcome and patience this morning.

Bonus This Day in History:   On this day in 52 BC, the Gallic leader Vercingetorix surrendered to Julius Caesar after the Battle of Alesia. Yeah, we know he lost and all, but after more than 2,000 years, it’s hard to find a name cooler than Vercingetorix.   Suggest this could be the name for a future FNG.