As my fancy fitness tracking watch, I mean 15 year old Casio G-Shock, ticked near 5:30 the anticipation became palatable. The First Annual Officially Unofficial F3Nola Blimp Golf Tournament (sponsored by John Daly’s Grip It & Sip It) was almost underway.
First we moseyed a bit to that Greek pavilion looking thing for some warm-up:
Side Straddle Hops X 34
Arm Circles X 15
Reverse Arm Circles X 15
Peter Parkers X 15
Mountain Climbers X 15
Parker Peters X 15
Next we moseyed to the links for the main event. They say Blimp Golf predates its Scottish counterpart, but it fell out of popularity due to it being completely pointless. The rules are stupid and convoluted, you start at the first hole and do one set of BLIMPS with the par of the hole as the reps. Then you do 34 Merkins (because it’s my birthday and I like them). The first person to finish wins that hole and then you mosey to the next hole and repeat with hole number as the sets and the par as the reps.
The first hole started out a little rough, mostly due to my poor explanation. After that we started cruising. Unfortunately I forgot to keep track of who won each hole, so I can’t give out the grand prize. I promise to do better next year. Our sponsor was kind enough to provide a delicious Grip It & Sip It Hard Tea for each hole winner though. Let me know in the comments if you won a hole and I will make sure you get one.
After 5 holes we decided that the we were golfed out for the day and we moseyed to the benches:
Dips X 15
Right Leg Step-ups X 15
Dips X 15
Left Leg Step-ups X 15
Derkins X 20
According the Casio we had way more time left than I thought. The PAX recommended that we do some AB workouts. We headed back to the pavilion for some Ring of Fire:
Nolan Ryans
Real Freddy Mercurys
Lots of other AB stuff
Back to the flag for Count-Off, Name-O-Rama, Announcements, Intentions and Prayer.
Big thanks to everyone for coming to my VQ and helping me out with my mistiming.
