Dawn Patrol Festivus Beatdown

AO: Dawn Patrol

When: 2024-12-21

QIC: Stroller

PAX (3): Dark Side, Floater, Stroller

Preamble:

When your AO only meets once a week, you have to get a bit loose with your holiday celebrations. Festivus is in 2 days, close enough for me to trot out a Festivus Q! YHC was so excited I sent out a pre-blast on Thursday, no response. Another call yesterday for HCs before everyone stayed out late at Feathers' party. Finally Darkside convinced Floater to come, otherwise YHC would have been airing the grievances all alone. Which we had fun imagining midway through this Beatdown...

Warm-O-Rama:

It's cold. Mosey to the top of the Widowmaker for the usual suspects. Head to the bottom

The Thang:

Thank you lumbergh for this BD inspiration. We've only had 5 BDs at Dawn Patrol so YHC could find grievance with each BD, except for mine. Mine are always well attended and enjoyable in every way.
  • Grievance: DeLorean having us do a ton of leg exercises and Bernie up the hill in between. There are other muscle groups we can exercise! So, we did 50 squats, 50 mercans, and 50 LBCs, with a run up to the manhole cover in between. After the LBCs, run all the way to the top, and head toward the next parking lot.
  • Grievance: More DeLorean- making us bear crawl the entire width of the soccer field. We can cross long distances in other ways. We did an apple turnover through the parking lot: bear crawl 3 spaces, crab walk 3 spaces, on and on until we reached the opposite end. Continued our mosey past the playground and over to the baseball concession stand. Everyone knew what was coming
  • Grievance: Irene's crazy balls to the wall walk idea. I almost dislocated my shoulder. Instead, we will do a normal routine- and one of my favorites. Walls of Jericho: 7 exercises, 7 reps each, 7 rounds. Run around the concession stand in between. Exercises were dry docks, sumo squats, burpees, v-ups, hammers, Peter parkers, and lunges. On the last round we were waiting for Darkside to lead the yelling but never happened. Mosey to the soccer field
  • Grievance: Floater thought we were all good, but I have a grievance with him too. We had to do 400 mountain climbers in a workout he Q'd, which was a ton of mountain climbers. I also have a grievance with Darkside for not being there to share the reps with me, so today we atoned for that. Since we are 3, one PAX will run across the field and back, one will accumulate mountain climbers, and the other will do AMRAP of a core exercise of his own choice. We knocked this out quickly
Finally, it's time for the feats of strength! YHC brought my 60# sandbag for the occasion. For the first evolution, one PAX calls an exercise then carries the bag to midfield and back while the other PAX perform the exercise. We did two rounds, then moved to the second evolution. One PAX will overhead carry down the field to failure (or until the Q calls stop) while the other PAX bear crawl in the same direction. When the bag is dropped, run to it. The PAX asked to overhead carry a cinder first, which was clearly way too easy. Switched to the sandbag, which was still not a big enough challenge for these dudes. Unfortunately we only had two minutes left, so we did a couple rounds of Mary and then called it.

COT:

All our big events have now passed- what's next?

Naked-Man Moleskin:

Glad I wasn't alone in the cold this morning! Just wish Irene and DeLorean had been there to hear my grievances. All in good fun- let's keep the memories flowing into the new year!

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