Author: Bodo’s

14 of Tuckahoe’s finest converged at Hoedown on a cold dark clear morning. After making his way out of a mind fog, YHC recovered the Q and off we went.

COP in the first Third Church lot: Deadman hang // Helicopters // Cherry Pickers // DQs // Imperial Walkers // Russian Soldiers // Crabcakes // APDs// LBCs// Inverted Crabcakes // Merkins // Elbow Plank // Pickle Pounders // Squats // SSHs. Mosey to middle lot.

Triple Check with a Coupon. Round 1: P1 Squat Thrusters, P2 American Hammers, P3 Run the loop. 3x // Round 2: P1 Block Burpees, P2 WW2s, P3 Run the loop 2x // Round 3: P1 Curls, P2 LBCs, P3 run the loop. 1x.

Catch the Murder Buddy: Partner up. P1 Murder Bunnies around the lot, P2 runs the lot and catch P1, switch off. Mosey to TES blacktop.

Four Corners, Four Rounds. Round 1: 28 SSHs in each corner // Round 2: 21 LBCs in each corner // Round 3: 14 Merkins in each corner // Round 1: 7 Burpees in each corner. Mosey to Flag.

Numberama, Namerama, YHC took us out.

NMS: At a neighborhood Christmas party last night, YHC partook generously in some homemade eggnog that turned out to have a LOT of rum and bourbon. Waking with a significant headache this morning, passing the Q was seriously contemplated, but then YHC remembered how much Handshake would mock him so pride and resilience won the day.

Look out for a Xmas Karaoke Q this Saturday. Prayers for the dad of a good friend of Splinters’ 2.0, fighting for his life against Covid.

A helpfully divisible 12 converged at Hoedown this morning. The meteorologists said 0% chance of rain, which was confusing because all evidence pointed to the fact that it was in fact raining. After painfully grappling with this unhappy development, and making many comments about the reliability of local meteorologists, we accepted reality and proceeded with the Thang:

COP in the first Third Church lot: Deadman hang // Helicopters // Cherry Pickers // DQs // Imperial Walkers // Russian Soldiers // Crabcakes // LBCs// Inverted Crabcakes // Merkins // Elbow Plank // Pickle Pounders // SSHs // Burpees. Mosey to middle lot.

Triple Check with a Coupon. Round 1: P1 Squat Thrusters, P2 WW2s, P3 Run the loop // Round 2: P1 Manmaker Merkins, P2 Flutterkicks, P3 Run the loop // Round 3: P1 Block Burpees, P2 American Hammers, P3 run the loop. // Bonus Round: P1: Overhead Presses, P2: LBCs, P3: Run the loop.

Four Corners, Four Rounds. Round 1: 28 Squats in each corner // Round 2: 21 LBCs in each corner // Round 3: 14 Merkins in each corner // Round 1: 7 Burpees in each corner. Mosey back to school

Triple Check #2: Balls to the Walls // Mountain Climbers // Run the Loop

COT: Some cool down stretching. Numerama, Namerama, YHC took us out.

This week being the occasion of YHC’s 44th birthday, the 2nd annual F3 Ninja Warrior course was in order. After conducting a quick COP including 44 SSHs, we moseyed through the course so YHC could explain the various obstacles and exercises.

After returning to the start of the course, we divided into pairs. The first pair, DTH and Garbage Plate, took off and the race began. The second pair started after waiting one minute, then the third pair after another minute, and so on, while the rest of the waiting pax conducted COP.

Course was as follows:

• Run to the handicap ramp, perform under/overs on the ropes suspended across the railings. At the final ramp, bear crawl to the top.
• Mosey up to the field to the exercise equipment. Shimmy across the parallel bars with arms in locked position // Perform 3 pull ups on each of the escalating pull up bars // Monkey swing across the horizontal ladder // Run across the spring bench // Climb up the chain link wall and down over the other side // Monkey swing across the rings using only one color of ring.
• Mosey to the swing set. Perform 25 swerkins on the swing set (Get in plank position with feet rest on a swing, Pull legs in to a reverse crunch position, extend legs back out and then do a merkin).
• Mosey to the back southern corner of the TES school property. Run up the large mulch pile, climb the ladder or scale and jump over the chain link fence. Run around the back of the office building and then across Forest Ave. into the middle Third Church parking lot.
• In the center, grab a coupon. Run to the first corner of the lot and perform 25 squats with the block // Run to the next corner, 25 swings // Run to third corner, 25 curls // run to next corner, 25 incline merkins on the block // run back to center and deposit the coupon back in the pile
• Bear crawl through the center retainer ditch and out the other side. Once through, run to the back parking lot of Third Church.
• Mosey to the playground. Jump, leap, or climb over the playground fence using the green bench. Climb up to the top of the slide then slide down face first on the nobbly slide, at the bottom, keep feet on slide and perform 25 Derkins.
• Mosey to the fire escape. Run up and down the fire escape 3 times, performing 5 jump squats at the top each time.
• Mosey to side parking lot. Burpee Suicides. Start on the curb, run to the first parking lot line, perform 1 burpee, run back to curb. Run to second line, perform 2 burpees, run back to the curb. All the way up to 8.
• After 8th burpee round, run back to touch the curb, then run back across Forest Ave., around the front of the school, and back to the tree. Scale the rope ladder and touch the limb to stop the timer.

First finishers performed COP while waiting for the pax. Once pax was in, we finished with some ab exercises.

Numberama, Namerama, YHC took us out.

NMS: TClaps to Snuff for winning fastest time! We’re pretty sure DTH and GP also had a a top time but they seem to not be able to add and subtract accurately. Fudd won the prize for most questions- Wait, do we just keep running? Welcome Kung Fu Panda, who showed up on a really weird day. Thanks to Malpractice’s son Josiah for some tips on the course, who is heading to Vegas this summer for the junior Ninja Warrior World Championship! Thanks guys for humoring me in this stupid tradition.