A slightly chilly morning kept many away from the park and the levy! But the intrepid Venti carried on with a krewe of 6 including 1 FNG. The pack moved briskly at 10 min pace to Starbucks where we had to wait for the Drip to finish. Could have used some of Couch’s Penicillin. Usualy saunter back to the flag. River, Srapes younger brother and first EH dubbed him Huck!
Tag: Yogi
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Venti 23285 – from Sea Man
A wet post cold front morning awaited the Venti as we ventured down the path! Devoid of the usual cast of characters, Moana managed to make the lone angry cycler irascible. In response to “ON YOUR LEFT”, Moana instinctively moved to his left blocking our nemesis incurring his disgust and wrath as he eventually slid by! At the Cooter Brown turn off, Badmoon riddled with guilt from Maria, continued to run, while the rest of us sojourned on to Star Bucks. StarBucks didn’t have any dark brew available but complete indifference and random instagram beverages. Bad Moon joined back up at Audubon and St Charles!
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Uptown Bakers Dozen – from Fracsac
YHC was alerted to a Down Range Pax needing an Uber to a beat down. Being the hospitable type, YHC volunteered to take said Pax to the Bird Cage.
Lucky for YHC the Bird Cage needed a Q.
Arriving early, the normal well lit alley of trees was found to be dark, so no go there. Grab some cones and set up along walking path.
Not having made it uptown in awhile, new faces were seen. It’s good to move around!
At 0530 disclaimer was given followed by a mosey to the brick area at the entrance to the alley of darkness. Normal warmup, then mosey to cones.
First up – Lucky 7 BLIMPS
7 burpees at first cone, 6 at second, and so forth. After 1 burpee run the parking lot loop and back and wait for the 6. Continue with Lunges, imperial walkers, merkins, plank jacks and squats.
During Lucky 7s O’doul’s pulled me aside and told me I needed to step things up and that my workout was weak. I pretended that I couldn’t hear him, deafness is a great crutch at times. He hung back with me to push me, tempting me with next seasons fig harvest. Better step it up! This guy is a beast!
Next up, suicide burpee 11s.
Do a burpee, run back to start line. Run up to 2nd cone for two burpees, run back to start line. Continue until 11 burpees.
Times up, thank goodness.
COT
NMM
YHC had to get Chew Toy back to his hotel, so coffee was missed with the Uptown crew. I’ll be back!
Unfortunately we only got to 94 burpees, but pax were told to feel free to do the additional 6 on their own….
Joking aside, O’Doul’s really is becoming a beast. He pushed hard and never quit. Brown Bag is raising a solid young man and I’m honored to have had the opportunity to lead.
SYITG
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B.O.M.B.S. Away at the Birdcage! – from Gabrielle
Happy New Year’s Pax! It’s humbling for YHC to be Q’ing the first Birdcage of 2022. Here’s to 2022 being better than 2021 (it’s gotta be right?). So, with a disclaimer and a quick run-down of our 5 core principles and motto for our FNG we are off!
Moseyed to the Soccer Field for Warm-Up
• Imperial Walkers IC X15
• Toe Taps IC X15
• Self Love IC X15
• Peter Parker’s IC X10
• Parker Peter’s IC X10
Mosey to Audubon statue and partner up for B.O.M.B.S all below counts are cumulative. PAX one runs around median while PAX two completes exercises. Flapjack till reps are complete.
• 50 Burpees
• 100 OH Press in People’s Chair
• 150 Merkins
• 175 Big Boy Sit-Ups
• 200 Squats
Next, mosey to track for a little Route 66:
• Inch Worm to Body Bag Builders starting at 1 Plank Jack/Mountain Climber/Merkin upping 1 rep at each succeeding running man up to 11 running man for a total of 66 reps.
Ran out of time, so called it with most PAX somewhere between 10 and 11th running man.
Moseyed to flag for Count off, Name-o-rama (one FNG, DEB as his last name is Walmsley and Domincan is on Walmsley and he went to a lot of Debutante balls in the past), announcements, intentions and prayer.
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Your Krewe is Always Backing you Up! – from Sea Man
Ahab had his whale! But he was alone! Today we had a krewe show up to avenge our friends death to the man eating jaguar shark of Lake Ponchetrain! Today 15 brave, strapping, and strong men jumped into the water to avenge our lost pax! A 4x increase over last week!
We searched for the man eater at all levels and went up and down the ladder!
Laps of 25M, 50M, 75M, 100M, 75M, 50M, and 25M. Between each lap the pax did Squats and Flutter kicks of increasing reps.After an arduous search we spent some time with a lap of Shuffle Board (10lbs weight moved only underwater to and fro 50m)
With time left we proceeded to end the. morning with Ring of Fire. Two 10lbs weights moving around the circle in opposite directions, 10 reps each arm. Once complete Pax continued to tread water passing the medicine ball around.
One FNG called Sheep’s Head!
As sight Q I think all future FNG’s at Zissou should be named after fish.
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Caribbean Breeze – from Sea Man
A fresh breeze out of the north and cooler water made the Zissou more desirable than the ant infested resort of Chancun! At the Zissou no passport required! Per Dr. Zissou
Ned: Who locked us out?
Anne-Marie: No-one, we’re trespassing.
Ned: Steve, are we allowed in here?
Steve: It’s a scientific community, man.To get revenge for our friend we must swim fast in the open water! 7 Swimmers increased the chop in the pool getting us ready to find and kill the man eating jaguar shark of Lake Ponchetrain.
30 minutes of individual swimming some free styling it, others improving their breast stroking, with an occasional side stroke for subtlety! Open swim was followed by 15min ring of fire, treading water throwing the ball of justice back and forth!
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Oh Crap I have the Q! – from Willie
Mosey to the pull up bars for a warm up. Split into theee groups , pull ups (10), Merkins, and squats. Rotate. Rinse and repeat. Mosey to the Zoo for DORA 1,2,3, Merkins, squats, Freddie Merks. Merkin and Monkey Humper Ring of Fire, Then PAX assisted Mary for the remaining time.
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Catfish of the Mists – from Catfish
Great get-together this morning with 12 PAX at the Misty Mountain.
Started by moseying over to the lawn across from the audubon entrance. Warmed up with Abe Vigodas (Windmills), Grass Grabbers, and a hearty round of the Motivator.
Moseyed over to the base of the mountain for some plank action: Peter Parkers, Shoulder Taps, Parker Peters. Split into two lines for Indian Run at the top.
At the summit – nice long round of Bat Wings to heat up the shoulders. Brief rest, then 15 burpees OYO. Attempted to follow it up with a Dora 1-2-3, but turned into a Dora 1-1-1 with 100 Catalinas, 100 jump squats, and 100 flutter kicks (2 is 1). Non-exercising partner did a “vertical loop” down the stairs, across the lot, then back up.
Moseyed back to flag for CoT.
