DATE: 2024-02-29
AO: Station
Q: Gump Got Gumption
PAX: APPleSauce, Gump Got Gumption, Lynn Starnes-Delivery, Stovepipe, Thin Mint FNGs: None
COUNT: 5
WARMUP: Gump finds inspiration in the nether regions of the mind and dark web. Today’s inspo, the 3 minute dance sequence from Flashdance. Sans toned thighs and tight fitting leotard (though you never know beneath those joggers 😘), he led the grown men (yes grown men in front of passerbys) thru: Maniacs on the floor, Car dealers (also could be called NOPEs 🛸), Single ball pounders, Spread legs touches And another round of Maniacs on the floor
THE THANG: then proceeded to more 50 count reps in quick succession of Mountain climbers Jump ropes
Plankjacks
high knees
mountain climbers
Squats / leaping squats
plank jacks
Jump ropes
giving da bidness (imagine a very high 🥒 pounder, where you just bend at the knees).
>From there we partnered, splitting up 100 counts (50/partner) of merkins, Bonnie Blair’s, shoulder taps, Bobby Hurleys, turtle 🐢 shell slappers). While partner waited their turn they did various Mary exercises also of a 50 count nature.
Switching dance 🪩 partners again. 1 PAX would sprint 50 yards for ssh and sprint back to start – switching partners for same pattern. Did this for high knees, Smurf jacks and penguins 🐧. Now mind you the 50 yard point was right next to a very nice Mercedes emitting the odiferous smell of the sticky icky, the wacky weed, grandma’s house plant, special brownie batter, Mary Jane or the Glaucoma Goods for the uninitiated. So the site of these 5 men strutting their goods in the car’s side mirror like some emperor penguins had to really F with their head. Maybe it was the contact high, but I can tell you it was messing with mine. Thin Mint mentioned he was just particularly hungry (I had scarfed have an apple 🍎 on the way in – thank goodness). But I digress.
As your partner waited and watched us smurfing and 🐧 ing from afar they did lunges, mountain climbers, squats/squat jumps in 50 count reps. MARY: Flutters
LBCs
Freddy mercuries
Shinslappers
clamshells
Dogpissers
Flutters again
Ended the last minute with a fairly excruciating round of failure to leap (in honor of leap day). ANNOUNCEMENTS: 7th anniversary. Get your pax the standard gift of copper.
COT: in honor of leap day: “But those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.”
We take leaps of faith everyday – mostly small and occasionally very big. They tend to be scary and an act of putting yourself out there.
I was reminded of the scene from Indiana Jones and the holy grail (in my opinion the best one for the Sean Connery inclusion) where Indy knows at one he must leap over what appears to be this chasm and clearly his death. Yet he steps out and discovers a solid rock under his feet, seemingly hidden from view. When the trailing party follows him – they didn’t have the same leap and you clearly see the solid rock this time. God does much the same in our lives – that rock feels hidden during leaps of faith. But it’s always there – he is always there as a solid foundation on which to leap from and on which to land.
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