In olde Deutsche tradition, not unlike the olde Deutsche tradition of making new words by shoving old words together, we played the well-known Oktoberfest Get to Know Your Fellow Tribespeople Through Spin the Bottle Name Game-n. It was a real “smash”, thanks in part to Alex and his Hulk alleyway dice throwing technique for bottle spinning. Since it’s now well known by all 6:15-ers that I only pretend to know names, I’ll admit that I’m name-dropping left and right in this blog to lock some into my memory bank, Alex, Stephanie, Julia, Garrett, Al, Sean, Nneka, Jennifer, Joel, Patrick, TORI!
Workout:
The workout went a little something like this, though it partially depended on which session you were attending:
- Run a lap around the block to gather names.
- Reconvene in a big circle on the north landing.
- Hold a plank while someone goes to the middle of the circle to spin the bottle [or whatever’s left of it at that point ;)].
- Middle person says the name of the person the bottle points to; right name is one exercise, wrong name is another, both in sets of 10.
- For 5:28, right or wrong meant hoistees or plank jacks, depending on what those incredibly organized leaders decided at the time.
- For 6:15, right meant plank jacks, wrong meant burpees
- For both, up-n-overs came into play when we got a streak of right answers going (btw, great work motivational helpers!); there were other variations between the workouts, but hey, good news for Doubliners!
- Person named (or misnamed) switches spots with the person guessing, and the self-perpetuating spin-the-bottle cycle continues.
In sum, disorganized 5:28; broken bottle; better organized 6:15; good motivational helpers on up-n-overs. It was kind of like the reverse process of how spending an evening in a biergarten goes: instead of starting off put-together and socially-acceptable then eventually leaving mixing up your thoughts, acting on impulse, and breaking bottles, we started with the latter group and worked our way towards the former.
Notes:
- Pop-up workout up in B-Rip this Saturday, 10/08, at 3pm along the Monon. We’ll be meeting at the Blue Mile running store (where you can also receive a 20% discount if you drop the NP name on Saturday) for a fun workout, and we’ll do some bier-drinksin’ and socializin’ thereafter! Details below.
- Friday’s workout is going to be down on the south end of the downtown canal. As always for that locale, we’ll meet at “The Tent”.
- Jaden once again did a great job with the pictures; Thanks!
- Thanks for the FB shout-outs by folks like Rem and J-Keys! NP Indy always appreciates that stuff. You guys encourage us just as much as we encourage you!
- Andy was our Race Day winner with over a 3min split! He’ll be wearing the highly-coveted Race Day Cape at all times over the course of the next week . . . at all times. He also won the less prestigious but perhaps slightly more coveted “last German beer in Casey’s fridge” award for being best dressed at the workout (both workouts, actually)!
- NP – The North Face shirts on the way sometime this fall; buffs on the way sometime this sometime (if you order them anyway). Just keep #justshowup-ing to get hooked up!
- We should be getting some lovely mail from our San Fran sister sometime soon too
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Have a superb week!!!
-CaseDawg
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