Q: Silent Bob
PAX: Billy Bob, Silver Bullet, Pondo, Snowflake, Teddy, Side Salad, Fallout (1st F)
FNGs: None
COUNT: 8
WARMUP:
– Boromir’s Slaughter Starter (Burpees x20)
– Side-straddle Hops
– Grass Pickers
– Imperial Walkers
– Arm Circles
The Taming of Sméagol
– Mosey to Circus
– Sméagol Crawl
– Lunges
– Sméagol Crawl
“They’re taking the Hobbits to Isengard!”
– Elf-Man-Dwarf Run to the playground (kinda like an Indian Run)
“I’m wasted on cross country, dwarves are natural born sprinters, very dangerous over short distances.”
The Riders of Rohan
– Calf Raises x50
– Big-boy Sit-ups x20
– Pull-ups x10
Treebeard
– 1.75 laps around dirt track
– Entwalk to the tennis courts of Edoras
The King of the Golden Hall
– Wall sit in the cage while Q explains the Battle of Helm’s Deep
Helm’s Deep
Split into 2 groups (Orcs vs. Rohirrim). Half of the groups will run suicides, while half do exercises. 8-minute DORA in specific order:
– Merkins x200
– LBCs x400
– Squats x800
Team with the most reps wins. Other team does 5x Burpees at CoT. (The Rohirrim won.)
“The battle of Helm’s Deep is over; the battle for Middle-earth is about to begin.”
Journey to the Cross-roads
– Mosey to AO
– Po-ta-to/Fish (kinda like Boat/Canoe)
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
– Crazy Train begins on Monday at The Bull!
– Woodshed & Thunder anniversaries coming up in August
COT:
– Discernment for another PAX
– Prayers for Sydney
DEVO:
Frodo: I can’t do this, Sam.
Sam: I know. It’s all wrong. By rights we shouldn’t even be here. But we are. It’s like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn’t want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn’t. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something.
Frodo: What are we holding onto, Sam?
Sam: That there’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo… and it’s worth fighting for.