To Go Far, Go Together

AO:  The Patriot

QIC: Lucius

THE PAX: Bodett, Bone, Brown Bag, Fish Fry, Fuzz, Jenner, Lazlo, LaForge, Maj. Payne, Poe, Prenup, Pyro, Shark Week, Speedo, Tea Party

This morning, the PAX arrived at the Patriot to find a carefully curated collection of coupons for their enjoyment.  Huzzah!  The PAX, too excited for words, performed the following team challenge:

WARM UP:

15x SSH; 15x LBACs (fore and aft); 1x Downward Dog, 10x Werkins; 10x Cherry Pickers; 10x Moroccan Night Club; 1x Social Lap

THE THANG:

The PAX split into two teams, which then raced to complete:

 Friendly Figure-it-Out:  The PAX carried an assortment of essential equipment (log; 50-lb sandbag; hi-lift jack; light ruck; 2x tethered cinderblocks; 16-lb sledgehammer; 40-lb bucket of sand; sundry loose cinderblocks and fragments thereof) 100 yards, exchanging coupons every ten yards along the way.  At each exchange, PAX performed 5x Coupon Press, 5x Coupon Squat, or 5x Coupon Curl. Coupons could not be grounded for the first 60 yards and no PAX could take the same coupon twice in a row.

 Ascending BLIMPSS: 10 yd run; 10x Burpees; 10 yd run; 20 yd run; 20x Lunges (4 ct); mumble chatter; 20 yd run; 30 yd run; 30x Imperial Walkers; 30 yd run; more mumble chatter; 40 yd run; 40x Merkins (Wide, Diamond, Peter Parker, and Reg-U-Lar); 40 yd run; 50 yd run; 50x Plank Jacks (single count); 50 yd run; 60 yd run; 60x Squats; 60 yd run; 70 yd run; 70x Overhead Seal Claps.  All exercises performed as a team.

 Working together, the PAX returned their cinderblocks to storage via a Bucket Brigade. Log was simultaneously stored via a four-PAX Log Carry.

The PAX circled up for:

The Wave: Starting from the down Merkin position, the PAX sent the wave around the circle.  Two-way wave resulted in chaos.

Over, Under, But Not Through: PAX took turns jumping over, then under, PAX in plank position.  No PAX were harmed. 

 THE MARY:

31 x Flutter Kicks.

COT:

If you want to move fast, you can go alone.  But to go far, you go as a team.  Today, the PAX worked together in teams to finish some frustrating challenges (challenging frustrations?  poor choices?).  As explained during Romo’s Q at The General this week, the beginning of a new year often brings focus on self-improvement.  Please also consider how to be a better teammate, in and out of the gloom.