4 PAX gathered ITG at the Village for what was supposed to be a Chowdah beatdown. YHC should have known something was off in the universe because Apnea arrived at 5:20. Technology is strange sometimes; when YHC saw that Chowdah wasn’t there right before 5:30, he checked his phone and didn’t see the DM from Chowdah informing YHC that he was running just a couple of minutes late. So YHC stepped up to Q and fortunately had a pre-planned beatdown ready to go precisely for a situation like this. Chowdah and Hooker actually arrived at 5:32 so he Q’d a speed mosey to catch up with us.
The warmup was a short one…20 Imperial walkers IC, followed by a short mosey over to the big fountain for a round of The Death Star Elevens!
The Thang:
PAX were told that the Empire has a powerful new weapon called the Death Star which is capable of destroying entire planets. Today’s mission was for the PAX of the F3 Rebel Alliance to attack and destroy the Death Star before it was operational. (For those who haven’t posted at the Village before, there are pavers covering the roundabout around the big fountain, and there is a star pattern with eight points around the entire fountain).
PAX were told that each of the eight points of the Death Star represents one of the Empire’s defensive positions that needed to be destroyed with a specific set of elevens (each with 2 unique exercises and a unique mode of travel between each exercise). Once all PAX completed a set of elevens, they would move clockwise to the next point of the Death Star, and then attack it with the next set of elevens.
YHC may have been a bit too ambitious with this one because 45 minutes wasn’t enough time to knock out all eight defensive positions. There was no extra cushion built in for disruptions to our sets from heavier than expected car traffic, nor for the ladies’ bootcamp instructor who tried to get the PAX to sign up for one complimentary bootcamp with her; we politely told her that all of our bootcamps are FREE and open to all men…something that her bootcamp can’t compete with!
We were able to successfully knock out 6 of the 8 planned sets of elevens:
| Position number: | Exercise #1 | Mode of travel | Exercise #2 | |
| 1 | SSH | High knees | TN Rocking Chairs | |
| 2 | Merkins | Shuffle right | Plank jacks | |
| 3 | Wide arm merkins | Butt-kickers | Crunchy frogs | |
| 4 | Hand-release merkins | Reverse mosey | Dips | |
| 5 | Leg raises | Bear crawl | LBCs | |
| 6 | Carolina dry docks | Shuffle left | Sumo squats |
Apparently Darth Vader was taking a dump and left the last 2 defensive positions unmanned, so there was no need to destroy them after all. The Rebel PAX quickly moved in to finish off the Empire’s planet-destroying laser (i.e. the main fountain) by each doing 10 box jumps onto the wall of the fountain. The Force was strong with us!
Then, the victorious PAX retreated by moseying back to their base at the flag.
COT:
Prayers for DR and injured PAX. Announcements for upcoming holiday party at 4PM on Saturday at the Thirsty Buffalo, and to check the 3rd F channel for Christmas gifts still needed by Saturday that Belding is collecting for the Angle Tree giving project.