Gypsy, Santa and a golden doodle named Rudolph rolled in to the Poco MS parking lot on 2 wheels at 5:30am sharp. Someone got Pigskin to come back west, after briefly heading east, cause this AO’s actually got a Q today and it’s Santa.
Despite being an immortal and magical being, I’m not a personal trainer and despite having Flo on retainer, I thought it best to squash any possible litigation from the get go.
After some SSHs, DQs, helicopters and DMH – we had much preparations to do before the big night tonight. First, we headed over to West Broad Village to Petco for some reindeer food.
Gypsy stayed back swinging bells for the holiday, since he’s nursing a hamstring injury. He decided to punish himself by throwing 70 and 60 lbs KBs around until his hands stopped working. Respect.
Fun fact: the North Pole has a few AOs. “The Work Shop”. “End of the Earth”. “Northern Lights and Reindeer Fights”. “Big Snow Balls”. “Dasher & Blitzen” (that’s a running AO). Santa usually Qs.
Today Santa shared some of his secrets while leading the pax:
To prepare for going down, and then up, about 1000 chimneys per minute tonight, the Pax was called to first do Crawl Bears, followed by Bear Crawls, across the parking lot.
Next up: a last-min gift for Mrs. Claus. Off we flew with Rudolph at the helm towards Diamonds Direct. We did 10 Diamond Merkins, 15 Jump Squats, and 20 WWIIs.
Then we flew over to Dave and Busters to pick up a couple of specialized toys made from materials that just can’t be sourced from the frigid tundra of the northern most section of the planet. While there, we knocked out 10 Burpees, 15 Jump Squats and 20 Heels to Heaven.
With all this cardio under our belts, and my need to keep my weight up, it was time to carb load – so off we went to Whole Foods for cookies, more Burpees, Squats and Heels to Heaven.
We then ran back to Poco for a little Mary (FMs, flutter and a 60 second leg hold). Recover!
Nice work today men! Consider most of yourselves as being on the Nice list. A couple of you just barely made it (you know who you are).
Numbers. Names.
Announcements:
Bridge 12/27. See Kubota for deets.
Pinto’s Remission Party (Kick Cancer’s Ass Party) 12/27 at 4pm.
Jan 1 Convergence at Dog Pile at 7am. Some are gonna double dip at Circus. And Circus will be led by Attila on 12/25 (apparently, there will be coffee).
Lastly, Salt Lick invites you all to join him in MABA or Make America Burpee Again. All you have to do is a 100 Burpees a day for the month of Jan. Think it’s too hard? Well, Salt Lick has done it 3 yrs in a row. So don’t be a wuss. Instead, be a beast like Salt Lick. We fall down, but we get up together.
No prayer requests. YHC took us out.
F3RVA, thanks for having me from DR and for letting me lead. I’ll see all of you in just a few hours. Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night. -Santa