The warmer weather brought 21 PAX out of their fartsacks and into the heavy fog of the Gloom at the Goat. It’s awesome to see how much energy, camaraderie, and mumblechatter there is, when there are that many PAX out in the Gloom together.
YHC dragged two FNGs out of their comfy domestic surroundings, after 6+ months of EH’ing them both. They will now be known in the Gloom as ‘Vegemite’ and ‘Radiohead’. There were a few Kotters, too, notably Clampett. He has been MIA since possibly September2021, so we all weren’t sure if we needed to re-name him or not.
Fannie Mae ventured back down Cramer Mountain for Post #2, after his Tuesday FNG-debut at The Storm.
It was a great spread of PAX ages, too. There were at least 2 PAX from every decade of life, with a 21-yo and a 62-yo, To put that in perspective, for those keeping score at home, that likely translates to birthyears of 2001 and 1960 respectively. I believe Tesla has underwear older than that 21-yo PAX, possibly even twice as old.
Very strangely, I don’t believe I heard a Train this morning. The PAX definitely weren’t going to point it out to YHC, if he had somehow missed it.
The PAX all put in some solid work today. Seemed like about 10 grabbed coffee afterwards at Floyd and Blackie’s.
Here’s how it all went down:
WARM-UP
- Lawnmowers, Side-Straddle-Hops, “Good-Morning-Burpees” (YHC learned this combo from F3-Katy,Texas, and gladly added the Burpee to YHC’s signature Alarm Clocks)
- Mosey
THE THANG
- Mosey, through town, across the Goat island bridges, to the far-side parking lot.
- We made a few stops along the way for: Merkins, Big Boys, and probably some other exercise(s) that YHC can’t remember…
- Once the PAX arrived at the parking lot of the far-side of Goat Island, they lined up for:
- Suicides – Hard Run to each of the three cones and back
- Suicides – Hard Run, adding 5 Reps; Cone1-Bonnie Blairs, Cone2-Bobby Hurleys, Cone3-Side-Straddle-Hops
- Suicide Stacker: Hard Run, adding Cone1(10 Burpees); Cone2 (10 Burpees + 10 Bonnie Blairs) Cone3 (10 Burpees + 10 Bonnie Blairs + 10 Bobby Hurleys)
- Mosey back towards StartEx. We stopped for a Wall-Sit (technically it was a Bridge-Sit), later stopped for some American Hammers.
- Mosey continued, when YHC called for the PAX to “Triangle Up” around the Goat Island Triangle (It’s not a Circle, so we couldn’t “Circle Up”). There, we did:
- MerkinJax Mountain, IC: 1Merkin-4 PlankJacks, building up to 5 Merkins-20PlankJacks, then back down the Mountain to 1Merkin-4PlankJacks
- Jacob’s Ladder on the 9th Street hill. Run up, 1 Burpee at the top, Run back down. Repeato until you get to 7 Burpees. Most PAX finished before it was…
TIME!
COT
Pledge
Announcements
- This weekend’s retreat in Flat Rock still has availability spots
- Happy Hour on Friday at Primal
Prayer Requests
- Families DownEast with friends/family affected by a plane crash
- Pillar’s dad’s cancer treatment
- Orangeman’s mom’s heart
- Pilgrims’ M’s upcoming surgery
- Tesla and Family
- For the country, and the world – to quote a PAX: “There’s too much goofy stuff going on!”
Doodles took us out in prayer.
Name-o-Rama on Twitter
As always, I consider myself very lucky to be able to lead and to strive alongside the PAX in the Gloom.
—-Bubba Sparxxx