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Tag: 12 days of Christmas

  • 12 days of Christmas – again

    A chilly 46 degrees and windy means a cold mountain at the top of Wolfpack Mtn. I had a few ideas in my head but I waited until the PAX gathered before committing to a plan for the whole workout. El Wire greeted me with his classic – he Yankee is that the North star?

    It was so wet on the Avenue I decided to skip a classic Tinkles move by Blimping on the avenue – instead we went straight to the base of WOLFPACK MTN.

    We circled for a warmup – SSH x 20, Hillbillies x 20, Mtn Climbers x 20 and Imperial Walker Squats x 20.

    Then the thang. We did an Indian run up the Mountain. Each of the 2 lines had a football. The first guy would throw the football back to the 6. The 6 would sprint to the front of the line with his football. Then he would throw the football back to the six. If the football was dropped the punishment was 3 burpees. Team one only did 6 burpees up the mountain. Team two did 15 burpees up the mountain.

    Once we got to the top we circled up for a 12 days of Christmas replay.

    1. Burpees
    2. 2 V-Ups
    3. Peter Parkers
    4. FLutter Kicks **After this we did a lap down/up the stairs
    5. Rising Suns
    6. Dying Bugs
    7. Plack Jacks
    8. Bycicles **After this we did a lap down/up the stairs
    9. Merks
    10. Russian Twists
    11. Low Country Crab
    12. Burpees

    We finished with 5 min left – ran to the benches and we did a side crunch exercise that I wanted to try — 10 OYO on each side. Not sure if that exercise is for everyone.

    This was my last Q of 2018. I enjoyed being with you guys – I appreciate the accountability. We prayed for digits and her PAX and family in South Carolina.

    Merry Christmas you filthy animals!


  • The 4th annual 12 days of Christmas

    The 4th annual 12 days of Christmas

    At 5:27pm a lone F-18 streaked over the sky and I wondered if that could possibly be Peppa.  After reading my texts post-beatdown – yes – it was – we had our first F-18 flyover in the history of F3 NOLA!  Thanks Peppa.  You get credit in the bb for attending. 

    While waiting around in the brewery to start– I was able to try some powerful (or power draining if you ask Brown Bag) coffee.   I brought my 2.0s – one of them studied for exams while the other one Reluctant Tiger waited eagerly for another chance to do some F3. 

    With the moving of start time to 6pm and the rush hour traffic around the brewery the crowd was slowly building for a decent sized beatdown.  86 had already set up his Jambalaya and bread pudding.  Bartman delivered chicken for the kids.  Also at this time El Wire arrived with a ton of Felipes.  At 555 pm there were about 15 people ready to go start the beatdown.  At 6pm exactly we set out for the Annunication Center Park.  Between the Paradise Park trailer keg and the parking lot we picked up about 15 more PAX.  By the time we arrived at the park we were a full assortment of 37 PAX looking for a 12 days of Christmas beatdown. 

    We moseyed over to the Annunciation Park – and we circled up.  The mosey was treacherous with potholes and traffic but we were rewarded at the park with lights on.  Immediately we got down to business.

    Day 1 – 1 Burpee, Day 2 – 2 Jump Squats and a burpee, Day 3 – 3 Hand release merks, 2 jump squats and 1 burpee, Day 4 4 plank jacks, 3 hand release merks, 2 jumps squats and 1 burpee.  You get the progression now…  Day 5 Russian Twists, Day 6 Dying Roaches, Day 7 Mtn Climbers, Day 8 Peter Parkers, Day 9 Jumpling Jacks, Day 10 Mat Jumps Day 11 Low Country Crabs and Day 12 12 burpees!   We let Spokes from FIA close out the exercise with a 1 min plank hold.

    We did a circle of trust and named some of the new guys.  Bongo keeping his 2.0s with the drum theme got more cowbell and snare.    Da Parish keeping his 2.0s with Chalmatia themed names has Beauregard and Chal-mini.  Sogo has Sunny.  Brown Bag’s M is now Paradise or Pair of Dice. 

    Sorry if I missed anyone in the list of PAX – let me know in the comments and I will add you.

    The beatdown had 37 PAX.   The party had over 70 PAX mixed between F3 and FIA.   Great turnout!   We also had over 20 presents for Operation Sweet Tooth – which doesn’t include the presents that were directly sent via Amazon.    Thanks to everyone who brought food.   Medulla I think there was going to be a fist fight over the last pork tenderloin/brie/ cranberry slider.  Thanks to Brown Bag who covered the first round of beers at the taps.  El Wire for the Felipe’s hook up!  86 for the ridiculous bread pudding and the jambalaya.  Bartman for the Popeye’s delivery.    Thanks to everyone.  Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. 




  • Christmas Party – 12 Days of Christmas @ Urban South Brewery

    I am sure that I am missing someone on our PAX list but thanks to everyone who posted for our end of the year Christmas Party.  The gifts are certainly appreciated by Operation Sweet Tooth.  I am on my way to drop off the physical gifts that the PAX brought to Urban South after I post this backblast.  If you noticed that I missed someone put it in the comments and I will add them in the PAX.

    A nice sized crowd of 31 participated in the 12 days of Christmas beatdown.

    We mosey’d over to the park on Orange Street and St Nick was in a giving mood – because he left the lights on for us.

    After we circled up – we started right into the 12 days of Christmas.

    1 burpee

    then…2 squat jumps, 1 burpee

    then 3 lunge jumps, 2 squats jumps, and 1 burpee

    then 4 monkey humpers, 3 lunge jumpers, 2 squat jumpers and 1 burpee

    5 golden burpees, 4 – you get the picture

    6 low country crabs, 5 burpees, …

    7 Russian Twists, 6 ….

    8 Peter Parkers

    9 Cross Fit Merks

    10 Dyin’ Roaches

    11 Plank Jacks

    and on 12 I let cashbar decide if we would do 12 burpees first or 12 SSH so we did 12 SSH in cadence….then 11 PJs, etc.

    Then we did the ball of people…in the circle we named new participants, and closed with a prayer.

    It was a fun mini-beatdown — then we mosey’d back to the brewery for libations and vietnamese food!

    Tclaps to Brown Bag for facilitating our evening.

    Tclaps to Bogey and Wheezie for posting on their 25 wedding anniversary.  Tclaps to 86 for hooking them up earlier!

    Tclaps to Tool for bringing a FNG

    Double Tclaps to Seaman for bringing 2 FNGs

    Merry Christmas!