2015 was the beginning of a new rotation for your NPSF leaders. Clayton’s new job required him to arrive at 7am, resulting in the birth of #EARLYGANG and 5 total workouts a week (M, W, F @6:30am and W, F @ 5:30am). Consequently, every 4 weeks or so Clayton leads two workouts in the same day, meaning he comes prepared with a #EARLYGANG workout for the smaller 5:30am group, and a #LATEGANG workout for the 6:30-ers. That’s precisely what happened today.
#EARLYGANG went off without a hitch with a dozen or so folks looking to sweat before the sun came up. Not surprisingly, we reappropriated a classic drinking game into a workout. If you’ve never played thumper, look it up, and then replace the hand signals with exercises (i.e. burpees, pushups, squat jumps) and the drinking with stair repeats. Every time the group messed up we ran stairs. We were so stair drunk by the end of the workout that Alta Plaza Park started to look like an M.C. Escher painting up in herre.
#LATEGANG was a simple, 4-person continuous relay that quickly turned into a very complicated, 4-person continuous relay. Because, hey, that’s what Clayton does. We split up the tribe into 4 groups; only children, oldest children, middle children, and youngest children. The tribe experienced a series of ‘ohhhhh that makes sense’ moments as people made their way to their respective camps. From there we split into groups of four and set out on a relay circuit that looped the whole park. Hopefully by the end of the half hour you all fell into a rhythm with it and weren’t so confused. My bad for the poor instructions.
CONGRATS to Mitch Westwood for taking home the Positivity Award. This one was long overdue. Oh, and HAPPY BIRTHDAY! We’re so glad to have you in our tribe, sir.
FRIDAY. Bernal Heights. 5:30am and 6:30am. Depending on whether or not Karl come out, it should be another brilliant sunrise. See you there!
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