I got stung by a wasp as I left my house – which delayed me a bit, and had me coming in on two wheels. I still got there about 2 minutes before Jethro arrived – which is to say he was bit late. But even a tardy Jethro is fine by me. I love seeing him in the gloom – or anywhere for that matter.
Warm O Rama – pretty usual stuff, feeling limber – let's go.
Native American Run to the Fountain
THE THANG
Last night I grabbed a pair of dice and made a list of 11 businesses throughout Birkdale Village.
I explained the plan to the PAX. Somebody rolls the dice. We head to the corresponding business – and they get to call the exercise. The dice then go to the next PAX until everyone gets a turn. We rotated through our crew about 2.5 times during the workout.
BEWARE THE BURPEE PENALTY – If somebody rolls the number for the place where we are – 10 Burpees (for everyone) and then re-roll to see where we go next.
We made about 15 stops and logged 1.99 miles according to my STRAVA. Should have checked before a hit stop so I could have gotten to 2 miles.
MARY
Downward Dog Into Piegeon (x2) Dying Cockroach, LBCs, 25 SSH's just for giggles
Recover/Recover
Farkle Party Moleskine
– With relatively little effort – the gameplan was a success. The random factor made things interesting, and we kept moving. I can see adapting this to other AO's and bringing it back to Hollywood as well – maybe going with 1 die – who knows.
– 9 of the spots were between the theater and Victoria's Secret + Dick's and Barnes and Noble (neither Dick's or B&N were rolled).
– We ended up hitting 6 out of 11 spots – and we did the burpee penalty 5 times. Someone could probably tell us if either of tose facts were statistical anomalies.
– Jethro was the unluckiest of rollers. We were at spot 6 (Cava) and he rolled a 6. 10 Burpees. Next roll – 6. Audible: Penalty cut to 5 burpees.
– I'm already planning my next Hollywood Dice Tour – where I might add some outliers like Walgreens, Newell and the Greenway. Could make for some longer moseys.
– Important learning – I had some of the central spots (geographically) assigned to middle numbers that come up a lot. I should have had 5, 6 , 7, 8 and 9 assigned to non neighboring locations to increase the mosey. (But now I'm just getting nit picky.)
– Great group of men – lots of laughter and smiles to start the day. How could it get any better?
Peace,
Holiday