I have rarely ever had a birthday in my life that began as memorable and awesome as today did. I wanted to come up with a birthday Q that was fun, imaginative, hard, competitive, fun, tiring, included a scavenger hunt, and fun!! Alot of planning and prep went into this one and I couldn’t have done it without Viking’s help from mapping out exercises to showing up at 4:30am to help set up.
20 hardcore PAX in attendance for the birthday beat down: Cochran, Meter Maid, Wildflower, Scratch N Dent, Valdez, Giselle, Fungi, Kimble, Mama’s Boy, Seabiscuit, Gilligan, Rocky, Boozer, Viking, Blart, Drum Roll, Catfish, Airplane, Jerry McGuire (R), Cowboy (Q)
We began the morning to blaring 90s music with a warming consisting of 20 SSHs IC and quick mosey around the County parking lot. At some point, Back Street Boys came on and for that…I apologize!
After a quick count off and dividing up into 10, 2-man teams, I explained the rules of the birthday beat down scavenger hunt. Simple rules – 43 exercise stations with points scattered all over the AO, teams had to mosey to every station (could go in any order), stay together (no divide and conquer), each station points were PER TEAM, must perform exercise to receive points, honor system, and don’t move glow sticks until the whistle blows at the end and then each team could bring back up to 5 glow sticks to receive 500 bonus points. If an exercise card said “EACH”, then both PAX had to perform the number on the card. If the card said “COMBINED”, then both PAX worked reps together to combine for the number on the card. Each team grabbed a scorecard and a pen and they were off. Some stations were very fast with low points and some were very hard with high points. A bit of strategy was in order.
The stations scattered all over the AO with glow sticks were as follows:
#1. 5 BOYOs EACH – 100 pts
#2. 3 lap mosey around full parking lot – 500 pts
#3. 43 Bobby Hurleys EACH – 100 pts
#4. 43 Calf raises on curb EACH – 100 pts
#5. 43 dips on bench EACH – 100 pts
#6. Bear crawl to cone, 10 merkins, lunge walk back EACH – 500 pts
#7. All you got – sprint to cone and back 2 times EACH – 500 pts
#8. 43 LBCs EACH – 200 pts
#9. Bear crawl up hill, CRAWL BEAR back down – 500 pts
#10. 1 lap mosey WITH coupon around entire AO property – 1000 pts
#11. 43 curls COMBINED with coupon – 200 pts
#12. 43 overhead press COMBINED with coupon – 200 pts
#13. 43 deep squats COMBINED with coupon – 200 pts
#14. 10 man makers EACH – 500 pts
#15. Bernie Sanders to F3 flag, 10 BOYOs, Bernie Sanders back – 500 pts
#16. 43 box jumps COMBINED on bench – 200 pts
#17. 10 pull/chin ups EACH – 200 pts
#18. 43 inverted rows COMBINED – 100 pts
#19. 10 BOYOs and then 1 lap mosey around entire AO property – 1000 pts
#20. Mosey down hill and Bernie Sanders back up 10 times EACH – 500 pts
#21. Mosey to end of street stop sign, 10 BOYOs, and mosey back – 1000 pts
#22. 15 BOYOs EACH – 200 pts
#23. Battle rope while partner does 43 squats then switch – 500 pts
#24. 43 decline merkins on the curb COMBINED – 100 pts
#25. Core slam with 30lb. slam ball 10 times EACH – 100 pts
#26. Squat toss with 20lb. slam ball 10 times EACH – 100 pts
#27. Back overhead toss with 20lb. slam ball 10 times EACH – 100 pts
#28. 43 release merkins COMBINED – 100 pts
#29. Merkin / air press Jack Web – start at 1 & 4 reps, work to 10 & 40 reps – 1000 pts
#30. Mosey to basketball court toy box and do 10 BOYOs – 500 pts
#31. Ace and Gary, 43 big boys COMBINED – 200 pts
#32. Mosey to coupon station and do 43 coupon curls COMBINED – 500 pts
#33. 43 squats EACH – 100 pts
#34. 43 SSHs (1 count) EACH – 100 pts
#35. 10 BOYOs EACH – 100 pts
#36. Big boy / LBC Jack Web – start at 1 & 4 reps, work to 10 & 40 reps – 1000 pts
#37. Decline merkin / dips Jack Web – start at 1 & 4 reps, work to 10 & 40 reps – 1000 pts
#38. All you got – sprint around the park circle path EACH – 500 pts
#39. Ace and Gary, 43 big boys COMBINED – 200 pts
#40. 43 merkins COMBINED – 100 pts
#41. 10 box jumps EACH – 100 pts
#42. 10 BOYOs EACH – 100 pts
#43. 43 step ups EACH – 100 pts
It was VERY rewarding watching the PAX run all over the AO performing all of these random exercises but no one slacked. Everyone mosied and everyone sweated. I wasn’t ready to stop, but with 5 minutes left, I blew the whistle. PAX began to filter back to the flags from all over the AO with glow sticks in hand. Almost every team got an additional 500 bonus points. After the points were tallied, Valdez and Giselle came out on top with 6400 points. We circled up.
Did CoR and NoR. One additional thing I wanted to do for my bday Q was to come up with a thing for encouragement to pay it forward for everything F3 has done for me. I purchased a small shovel, put an F3 sticker on it, added mine and Viking’s name to it, and then presented it to Valdez and Giselle with only 1 rule…keep it going. Within a couple weeks or so, add your name to it and then incorporate it into a Q, or give it someone who is kicking butt in a workout, or maybe even someone who is struggling but needs encouragement. Just keep it going!
With that, I told that PAX what they all mean to me and prayed us out! Honored and humbled to lead today’s workout!
-Cowboy
F3 Louisville 