This Thanksgiving Beatdown was brought to you by the number 3

YHC has always been a fan of the Thanksgiving Beatdown, probably going back to the legendary Triple Post Thanksgiving of 2020, which was coincidentally right in the middle of Roscoe’s November Challenge of that year which was a big foundation for the growth and development of YHC.  When the Q was open a week out at The Goat, it needed to be gobbled up, and the excitement started.

Thanksgiving is a time for turkey.  A turkey in bowling is 3 strikes in a row.  There’s a theme brewing here.

Plans were made for a big crowd based on some chatter on Slack the night before.  The HCs were coming in strong.  It was going to be a lively bunch.

Fast forward to 0528 on Thanksgiving morning, and there’s 3 of us there:  Watts Up, Breaker Breaker, and YHC.  Shoot, 3 is the number of the day, so we’re good to go, but the headlights started showing up for a late arriving crowd.  Receipts were written for the HCs that didn’t show, and we got to business.

The Thang:

• 10 x Don Qs (IC) in the F&B parking lot – and they’re already giving the Q an earful because 10 isn’t divisible by 3

Let’s get out of this lot.  Move to the road in front of Confluence for

• Tesla Stretches
• 15 x Goofballs (IC)

Time next for a Triple Triple – obviously a Triple Nickel with 3 exercises, 3 reps, 3 rounds

• Run from the Post Office to the Stop sign
• 3 x Mike Tysons
• Run back
• 3 x Bobby Hurleys
• 3 rounds total

Next, we had 3 core exercises to do, so we planted right in front of the alleyway before the post office that leads to the long set of stairs.  Right in the middle of the road, but no one is coming, right?

• 20 x American Hammers (IC)
• 20 x Toe Touches (IC)

Somebody came, driving a truck, just to drop off a package at 0545 in the morning.  She apologized, but we hate she missed the…

• 20 x Spatchcocks (IC), correctly done with the echo of “Spatchcock” ringing out at the end of every 4 count.  These guys are pros.

Staring down the alley, there’s a strategically placed cone, with the suggestion of “3 Kraken Burpees”, which we would do every time we passed that cone for the rest of the workout.

• 3 x Kraken Burpees (OYO)

Now we get into groups of 3s, for the “Turkey Dinner”, which was some complicated nonsense that was obviously not as bad as it sounded.

2 partners stay together and work through a circuit around the main block of shops and restaurants at the base of the steps.  4 corners, no stacking with the following:

• 30 x Squats (OYO)
• 30 x Merkins (OYO)
• 30 x Flutter Kicks (OYO)
• 3 x Kraken Burpees (OYO)

The 3rd partner leaves the group to climb the stairs, then chooses to jump rope or do monkey humpers, before running around the building to the Kraken Burpees cone before repeating that process 3 times.

• Climb Stairs
• 30 x Jump Ropes or Monkey Humpers (OYO)
• Run around building
• 3 x Kraken Burpees
• Repeat for 3 rounds total

Once finished with 3 rounds, the 3rd partner finds the other 2 and swaps out with one PAX, so there was always 2 partners working together through the 4 exercises and always 1 on the triple course, swapping out when they get finished with the triple course until everyone finished the triple course.

The Merkins got tough, probably as a result of a stupid number of sets of 3 Kraken Burpees that just snuck up on us, but we pushed on.

Dessert was supposed to be 300 Moroccan Nightclubs, divided up among each group of 3 PAX, but we didn’t really have time for dessert today, and we were saving room for the Pumpkin Pie later today.

Round 2 of Core:

• 15 x American Hammers (IC)
• 15 x Toe Touches (IC)
• 15 x Spatchcocks (IC)

Divisibility problem solved.

Last up in our groups was a little “Zombie Apocalypse”, which was a new one where the group of 3 PAX

• Zombie Walk

the length of the store fronts, from the statue to the Stop sign, with 1 PAX breaking off at a time to mosey to the Stop sign for

• 3 x Jungle Boy Squats (OYO)

and then mosey back.  The mosey distance gets shorter each time, but it was a funny sight to see a line of PAX Zombie Walking towards you as you’re running towards them.

Anyways, we finished that, but right at the end, so we didn’t get to Round 3 of the Core work.  Plenty of 3s on the day though.

We pledged at COT, and were led by Goose on an impromptu discussion of what we were thankful for.  It was a good discussion, and we all know not to take COT for granted, and at the same time, sometimes we can lose track of just how important the COT is.  The honesty and humility are part of what makes it not just a workout group.

I think we all got what we paid for.  It was a privilege to lead this group and get our Thanksgiving’s off to a good start.

Yabba Dabba Doo