AO – Wild Kingdom
Q – Ketchup
PAX: Sweet Sweet, Fine Print, DeVito, Cadbury, Switch Foot, Shark Week, Thomas
Q and Site Q did a pre walk at 500 up across the dam to check out the area and make sure it was accessible and the top of the dam at Wild Kingdom when there is a -21 windchill is a special kind of cold. Not to mention…WK was a wasteland. Whoever cleared the snow was either drunk or straight up didn’t care as it was hit and miss on whether areas were accessible. Regardless we made it out and back in time for the beatdown.
The Q Kicked off the festivities promptly at 5:30 where he stated the mission statement, five core principles, disclaimer and credo. Q asked if there were any FNG’s and with there being none…Q stated that today the windchill was -21 so we were going to keep moving and if anyone got to cold…they were good to bug out. Be smart. He also stated that while this workout will be something a bruiser can get done…we are still going to cover some ground…we will just break it up to make it manageable.
Straight up, while the Q had a plan, most of this was figured out on the fly. Loosely I knew I wanted to hit the parking lot, the picnic area, bathroom and dam. What we did at each location was decided when we got there.
Parking Lot:
- Lunge walks, high knees, side lunges with cherry pickers
Picnic Shelter
- Dips, i-rkens, step ups – 3 rounds of 10 each
Bathroom
- Wall sits while doing cherry pickers, chinooks, zombie pose, arm flutters – 2 rounds of 10 each
Top of Dam
- End of dam: 10 squats
- Dam Stop 1: Big boys while Partner goes down and up embankment – switch
- Dam Stop 2: Flutter kicks while Partner goes up and down embankment – switch
- Dam Stop 3: Heel Touches while partner goes up and down embankment – switch
- Dam Stop 2: Big Boyswhile partner goes up and down embankment – switch
- Dam Stop 1: Low Dollyes while partner goes up and down embankment – switch
- End of Dam: 10 squats
Ran back to flags the long way with two stops did 10 squats at each location
MoM
Mary was a high five and the video.
COT
Announcements – Prayers –
- CSAUP
- Gradoville Scholarship
- Spaghetti Feed
Message delivered was to remember to celebrate when you get through something hard. It is easy for us to tell ourselves that we messed up but we don’t go a very good job of congratulating ourselves when we succeed. Remember to do that. 3 second prayer and we were out…or so we thought. Due to the frozen wasteland that is WK…DeVito and Fine Print got stuck trying to leave. Several of us helped push DeVito out and then we went and tried to push out FP. 6 dudes…2 inches of snow where he parked and that car would not move. Finally, after 10 minutes of ‘WTF are you stuck on’ Switchfoot asked if his E brake was on. Fine print said no…then looked down…and said… “OH…my bad”. Ketchup heard the sound of the break releasing and FP drove out unassisted…………………….