February 6, 2019

Zoo day

Old Forest, Uncategorized, Weekday
  • THE SCENE: Old and foresty. 68*F and about 1km from the Memphis Zoo.
  • AO: Old Forest
  • QIC: Granola
  • F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
  • WARM-O-RAMA:
    • Seal Jacks (aka Cross Jacks) 30xIC
    • Donkey Kicks 15xIC
    • Starfish Jumps 15xIC
    • Intro to MoTs (30m round trip back and forth across the parking lot)
      • Duck Walk
      • Lemur/Zoboomafoo Walk (compliments of my animal-loving 2.1)
      • Frog Walk
      • Monkey
      • Bear Crawl
  • THA-THANG:
    • 1 lap around the parking lot islands (roughly 60m x 15m)
      • Elephant Walk (compliments of a GRT who thought this would be a good idea)
      • Duck & Weave (PAX Duck Walk while the six weaves biped-style, through the line of ducks-of-varying-and-questionable-heights)
      • Lemur/Zoboomafoo Walk
      • Monkey/Frog Walk/Monkey/Walk Frog/Monkey
      • Side Crab/Crab Walk/Side Crab/Walk Crab/Side Crab
      • Side Bear/Bear Crawl/Side Bear/Crawl Bear/Side Bear Inchworm/Indian Run/whatevs.
      • Alligator Walk
      • Leap Frog
  • MARY:
    • Crunchy Crab Frog 15xIC
    • Starfish Crunch (Dying Cockroach?) 10xIC
    • Low Country Crab 30xIC
  • COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
    • 15 PAX (1 Irish Goodbye during warm-o-rama): Jail Bait, Bottomless, Chioccetti, Altar Boy, Handsy, Dewey, Sparkles, Costello, Teacher’s Pet, Crayfish, MIB, Doc Hollywood, Hall Monitor, Stay Puft, Granola
  • CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
    • Thankfully, for many of us, we do not live in constant fear of wild animals goring us, our loved ones, or our property. However, the way we handle stress hasn’t changed. Though reasonably safe from wild dangers, many stressors in our modern lives trigger the same fight-or-flight response that kept our ancestors alive. Stress is Stress. Everything costs something. Nothing is free. Take inventory of the stress in your life. Are the stresses in your life making you stronger? More resilient? Are they getting you to your goals? When you experience stress, pay attention to your breathing. Have you stopped breathing? Take a few deep belly (not chest) breaths and see if you can engage your stressors in a way that get you closer to your goals.
    • Prayers for the infirm, job hunters, and those recently navigating the loss of loved ones.
  • MOLESKIN:
    • Thankful for Bottomless’s invitation to Q at OF and put faces to the ridiculous names I see in Slack. Chief among these, “Jail Bait” makes me the most uncomfortable.
    • Speaking of Jail Bait, I had planned a more sensible 15m x 15m area (vs the 60m x 15m we ended up with), but he was like, “nah.”
    • I had another Q planned, but couldn’t pass up a good zoo-pun-based-Q, loosely based off of Rabbit’s Animal Smorgasbord Q at The Annex.
    • Anything is possible if you don’t skip leg day.
    • True fact: I almost called the workout at 5:50 during the Monkey/Frog walk. Watches are a yuge discouragement.
    • Kotters to Costello!
    • Very underestimated how leggy animal movements are.
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