9 Thursday Thoroughbreds at the Stage to honor Christmas traditions new and old.
We began with a welcome to 3 of our F3 Katy brothers (ChootEm, Technical, 4/10) and a nice prethang run to orient our DR pax to the AO. I’m confident both 4/10 and Technical would still be running a 8 minute pace if they weren’t stopped for the beatdown. The old guys held a leisurely pace and listened to some inspiring stories about the impact of F3 on the Katy region . Great to hear for our blossoming Thibodaux crew.
Warm Ups
Usuals with my new improved cadence.
The chatter was somewhat suppressed and I was proud of our PAX in pretending for a few minutes to be the consummate professional weekday warriors. No talk about schisms or doo doo pills. No one asked about Moroccan self love and like clockwork Camaro guy serenaded us with a few extra revs of the Hemi. Beautiful PAX harmony.
We really looked like we had it together!
Bumper mosey and back to flag.
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With a heavy heart YHC addressed the recent loss of the F3 hero Anker to start the day. I’ll pause here because I hear you mumbling in the back right now Yankee Jeaux . “An Anker memorial presented by JBL??”. “The dirt is barely fresh on his grave “ adds EnRon. But here’s the truth. Like any two red blooded alpha male Bluetooth devices sure JBL and Anker had their differences (primarily sound quality lol jk). But at the end of the day they wanted the same thing: bring the PAX Thunder and squeeze every ounce of effort from their weak human bodies.
So today we begin anew, with a small black rectangular sized hole in our hearts. We burn the schism that was JBL/Anker and in its ashes a new tradition is born ….
The official Anker Warmup Song
My challenge to the pax is to honor Ankers legacy after each warmup with a song to make Anker smile in Bluetooth heaven. Today we began with his all time favorite :
“ Thunderstruck , AC/DC”
Tin Soldiers on song and Burpees on all the Thunder.
We miss you buddy
On to the THANG
Christmas tradition @ House Paradox involves an annual trip to view the greatest of ballets (the only one YHC has ever seen)
The Nutcracker.
Every year YHC is stunned at the stamina and strength of the ballerinas to perform these world class routines.
During our recent viewing, visions of sugar plums danced in my head of ways to modify this into an all leg consuming beatdown.
Today I present to you
THE BUTTCRACKER
By ThighKowsky
Act 1
Decorate the Tree and dance around it
Step ups while other Pax Bearcrawl to picnic table
10 incline merkins bearcrawl back
Then 10 merkins
Then 10 derkins
FlapJack with Partners each round
The Presentation of gifts
Each pax roll Purple die
Rest of PAX do the exercise while pax who rolled runs to the stage for 10 box jumps
I swear that die has a gift for feeling the body party that is the theme of the day so we did a zillion Squats.
Presentation of the Nutcracker
100 thrusters
Partner 2 run a track lap
SideNote:
Lil Cuz is a Thruster Machine , watch out WetTap ! He’s coming for the crown !
Mouse King vs the Nutcracker
Two teams
Grab coupon , Indian Run
chest carry , last coupon lunges to the front , when he gets to the front he yells “Sugar Plum Fairy “
This signals two things , 5 goblet sqats from all and last man lunges to front . Go to concrete and Back .
Def have to tweak this one as YHC miscalculated lunge speed vs sqats speed. Tana questioned the Q game plan and somewhere in an empty clinic a drug rep handout sits idle waiting for signatures. You hate to see that.
Audible to 10 ballerina sqats and Rifle carry back for Mary .
Team Mary
It only took 42 minutes of peace in the wake of Ankers passing for a new new schism to rear its ugly head.
The clockwise vs counter clockwise debate has risen with Enrons systolic spiking to 200s just thinking about it.
YHC restored order with classic Dolphin Hops (man I just love those)
YJ with flutters
Goose with some ridiculous pickle pounders that always seem to end YHCs beatdowns
COT and Goose prayed us out
Thanks to ChootEms crew for rolling in early and pushing us through a run. Great to meet y’all.
Grateful for the work and opportunity to lead.
SYITG
Paradox
