Eggs-streme Eggs-ercises!

AO: The Patriot

QIC: Maj Payne

The PAX: Poe, Lucius, Lazlo, Subprime, Bone, Traveler, Nano, Jenner, Sam Adams

With it being Good Friday and on the verge of Easter (and Passover) celebrations, it seemed appropriate to YHC that an egg hunt was in order. 10 PAX beat back the gloom and climbed out of the fartsack on this balmy morning for some good old fashioned fun.

WU: Quickly count off (with the added complexity of having to remember your number), then all PAX take an easy lap around the track. Circle up in the center of the field, for the fairly standard — 25 x SSH, 10 x IW, 10 x LBAC front and rear and 10 x Merkins.

The Thang:

The Egg Hunt required “Hide and Seek” skilz (minus the hide part) of an eight year old, which exceeded the abilities of at least some of the PAX.  In the wee hours of the gloom, YHC, placed 16 plastic eggs around the turf field, each containing an exercise and rep count. The rules were for one PAX to hunt while the rest did an exercise while waiting. When the seeker returned with his egg, PAX would complete the exercise and number of reps designated, then he would be responsible for calling the next exercise for the PAX to perform while the next seeker went on his hunt. Nano was up first, and thankfully the exercise was the SSH, because it took a minute or three for him to break the ice (so to speak) and find that first egg. All worked out though, and he found the golden egg with the 50 yd bunny hop!

The eggs-ercises (not necessarily completed in this order, but mostly):

• Bunny Hop – 50 yds (mosey back to midfield)
• Carolina Dry Docks – 25
• Squat Jump – 30
• Burpees – 10
• Lunge Walk – 50 yds (mosey back to midfield)
• Merkins – 15
• Bear Crawl – 50 yds (mosey back to midfield)
• LBCs – 50 IC
• Burpees – 20
• Squat – 50
• Mtn Climber – 30 IC

After 11 rounds, Lucius was ready to go, and began the COT count off early in anticipation of finishing. No such luck, brother! Time was getting short however, and there were still eggs to find, so YHC told PAX to scatter to find the remaining eggs for one minute. After about 15 seconds, the more skilled of our lot had found a couple eggs, so YHC decided to shorted the mass egg finding period to 30 seconds to help extend the fun. Lazlo led with counting Heels to Heaven – 30 IC (Not familiar with the exercise, he originally thought perhaps he had “won” Good Friday) & then Bone led the PAX through 20 x Merkins.

Three more eggs were still in the wild, so all PAX again returned to the hunt, finding the last (one of which fell outside the boundary area). With time almost over, the group decided that we’d finish with one last hurrah, choosing between
Alternating Shoulder Taps – 25 IC, Burpees – 25 and Merkins – 25. Voting ensued and by a close margin (wink wink), 25 Alternating Shoulder Taps IC won out. Burpees, as one could imagine, potentially came in a very close second. Nano led the PAX for this final egg-ercise!

COT: Today is Good Friday — a day where we recognize Jesus Christ’s crucifixion. His sacrifice for us all reminds us of many things, but also that we each have something to give, no matter how big or small, to those around us. We sacrifice our time, our resources, our brotherly love and more. It’s important to give back to others, and so let’s all now go out into the world and do that in whatever way we can. Aye!