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The Hobbit: Battle of 300 Merkins

AO: battle
Q: Silent Bob
PAX: Big Worm, CESS, Silent Bob
FNGs: None
COUNT: 3
PAX: “Good morning!”
Q: “What do you mean? Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?”

Warmup
Side-straddle Hops
Imperial Walkers
Slaughter Starter
Grass Pickers
Windmill
Merkins x20
Calf Raises x50

Q: “What a lot of things you do use ‘Good morning’ for! Now you mean that you want to get rid of me, and that it won’t be good till I move off.”

Unexpected Party
Arm Circles (Forward, Backward, Turkish Night Club, Raise the Roof)
Mosey to football field

We wandered off and immediately got snatched up by some Trolls

Big-boy sit-ups x20
Merkins x25
Mosey 100 yards, faster mosey back

Riddles in the dark
Correct answers: Squats x25
Incorrect answers: Burpees x10
PAX went 1-for-5 (Squats x25, Burpees x40)

Riddles:
What has roots as nobody sees
Is taller than trees
Up, up it goes
And yet never grows?
(mountain)
Voiceless it cries
Wingless flutters
Toothless bites
Mouthless mutters
(wind)
It cannot be seen, cannot be felt
Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt
It lies behind stars
and under hills
And empty holes it fills
It comes out first and follows after
Ends life, kills laughter.
(dark)
Alive without breath
As cold as death
Never thirsty, ever drinking
All in mail never clinking.
(fish)
This thing all things devours
Birds, beasts, trees, flowers
Gnaws iron, bites steel
Grinds hard stones to meal
Slays king, ruins town
And beats mountain down.
(time)

Mosey 100 yards, fast mosey back

“Out of the frying pan, into the fire”
Merkins x20
Jump Squats x20 (so the eagles could carry us to safety)
Beorn Crawl 50 yards

Mirkwood
Merkins x25
Bonnie Blairs x20
Inverted spider crawl (looks exactly like a crab walk) 50 yards

Lonely Mountain
Merkins x25
Mountain Climbers (cadence)
Dragon scouting (lunge walk) 50 yards
LBCs x50

We made the dragon mad and he burned down a couple houses in the neighborhood, but not to worry! One of the homeowners had a crossbow and took him out.

Mosey back to starting end zone

Battle of Five Armies
1st & 10 (11s every 10 yards starting with 10 merkins, 1 burpee; sprint rest of the field and jog back to the 20 for 9 merkins, 2 burpees and so forth…)
Star Gazers
Mosey to AO

Sackville-Bagginses have pronounced us dead.

Merkins x15 (to get to 300 total)
Flutter Kicks
Freddie Mercurys
Ukrainian Hammer

Book quote from when Bilbo was entering the mountain and about to face a dragon:

“Going on from there was the bravest thing he ever did. The tremendous things that happened afterward were as nothing compared to it. He fought the real battle in the tunnel alone, before he ever saw the vast danger that lay in wait.”

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