PAX: Dowry, Dumas, Elevation, French Lick, Grisham, Snip, Thurston, Renfield, Kirkland, Punkin, Useful Engine
PAX (not in Slack): None
FNGs: None
COUNT: 12
12 PAX gathered at Marla Dorrel Park for a self-indulgent retrospective of my 36th year. We started with a pledge under a moon halo, which I don’t think I’ve ever seen before! We kicked off with 36 Merkins and headed into the park. Quick warm up in the back lot followed by our first of 10 sets of 100s. 100s was a major motif, since I finished a 1000 mile year for my only time ever last December. We did a pearls on a string back to MacDonald Woods consisting of more sets of 100s, Nolan Ryans (Mets had a huge year, did a bunch of Bulls games over the summer, and coached t-ball for the first time), and Superman Bananas (popular at F3 Del Mar, posted DR in January) on the bridge.
At the park, we partnered up and did rounds of Derkins, Crabcakes and Pickle pounders (celebrating the Downtown Cary Park, my favorite place to hang out). Pearls on the string back to the flag with more sets of 100s and a couple of sets of Mary exercises along the way. The first chunk were
Lbc
E-to-k
Armcircles de sir fazio
Daisypickers
to commemorate the opportunity I’ve been given to lead. The second chunk celebrated a year bookended by Baptism (2.0 last year, 2.1 this past weekend):
Big boy Sit-up
American Hammer
Plankjack
Travoltas
Imperial Walkers
Side Plank Star Crunch
Marge to Homer
Final set of 100s to bring us to 1000. 5 second have a nice day and that’s it!
NMS
I had wanted (but failed) to include something commemorating my family going to see the Eclipse in Indiana back in April… so the Moon Halo was a nice gift at the beginning.
The playlist consisted of a few bands that I got to see in concert this year + two songs that captured the moment. The Wedding’s Misery Loves Company hits with “I feel sick, it’s something I can’t shake”, and boy was that the anthem of some moments with our kids this year. Homecoming on the other hand, this was the anthem of our summer. My brother-in-law got married this year, and that was their song. Definitely captured that celebratory season.
Thanks to Grisham for the coffee. We agreed that Dowry took half of it on his way out.
Reiterating my apologies for doing that exercise during that song. Don’t tell my wife. Do tell Astro though.