12 Days of Christmas on a Rainy Day

As I checked out the forecast a few days ago, I started regretting having signed up to Q. I am ok with cold. I am ok with rain. I hate cold rain. Oh well, rock pushing ain’t easy. My plan: stay as dry as possible! I put my weinke together, laid out the clothes, and took to Slack to see Short Sale has the Q at Mt Hollywood. I proceed to rib him and remind him of the time he overslept and fartsacked his Folsom Q.

Yes, this is foreshadowing.

4:30, 4:45, and 5:00 a.m. pass and YHC is still sound asleep. I am not sure what happened but I awoke at 5:07 and I live 20 minutes away from Martha Rivers. This is no bueno! I know Pappy will be there so I ask him to cover some warmups for me. I am out the door about 5:13. I arrive about 5:32. Not too bad! Fortunately, I planned ahead.

We have an FNG so I give a quick disclaimer and I give Slaw my speaker and phone to carry the tunes. Mariah’s All I want For Christmas is blasting as we jailbreak to the nearest picnic shelter. I have my weinke written on a piece of cardboard but it is dark and there are no lights. All good though, I prepared and packed my shop light.

Christmas songs play as we repeat a 12 exercise circuit. Sing it with me to the tune of 12 Days of Christmas…

12 American Hammers
11 Monkey Humpers
10 Mountain Climbers
9 Imperial Walkers
8 Big Boy Situps
7 Superman-Ironmans
6 Jumping Squats

5 REGULAR MERKINS

4 Backwards Lunges
3 Plank Jacks
2 LBCs
And a Merkin and a Burpee

We ended up doing all exercises in cadence except Big Boys and Jump Squats. We also changed to 10 LBCs IC and increased the Merkin and Burpee count at the end of each circuit. We completed 6 circuits. Each guy counted different exercises, no rest until the end. Then, for Slaw, we finished with 10 Merkins and 10 Burpees!

Welcome Chad Carper to F3! He is the principal at WC Friday and is now known as Belding. He was invited to Folsom!

Today’s Christmas Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5zlfnAtzQbmiffUTSA1h6n?si=Q_h9OgCkQMmFabuCAW75nQ

Announcements:
Convergence Saturday 12/28 at Gashouse (Schiele Museum at 7), RSVP for the After Christmas party on 1/4, the Pub will meet as ususal and mosey to Waffle House to meed up with the sumbritches from Diablo Sammich at Waffle House for some 2nd F, Midoriayama closed Tuesday, Prison Break will decide today (check Slack), Defib leading workout Wednesday at Snoballs (Martha Rivers Park) at 530 am, New Years Murph at 7 am at Martha Rivers. Prayer requests- Dry Rub’s M, Stinky Bird’s baby is 1!!! (Praise), my neighbor’s family, famalies amd those whonare struggling at Christmas. Pappy led us in prayer.