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Okay, so I took the last 8 minutes or so just trying to figure out exactly how many people we had at this morning's Christmas Workout Spectacular. That's the kind of day it was.

47 is the number I came up with (49 if you count Mrs. Regine and Mrs. Busch who jumped in the 12 Days of Burpees for a little bit). But I may not be the best to rely on when it comes to anything mathical. As it turns out, counting was the biggest theme of the day, not only with counting people, or medicine balls, but also counting reps and rounds. Almost half of the people in attendance today were not in the Champions Club last year around this time, so it can be expected that the numbers would be inaccurate. New Kids on the Block Hunter and Zack Stein finished with the top score of the day; Cecilia and Luke also finished in the top 5, but I got to witness first-hand how much they cheat during out friendly game of Spike Ball after Lifts 4 Gifts.

It is very likely the duo of Jay and Jacob avanged their narrow loss at the hands of Sap and Ricky last year and pulled out the win. Speaking of Sap, our last two Athletes of the Summer both carried their teams to... very unspectacular performances this year. Ah, remember their glory days! But I digress, next year I'd like to try and get a better hold on the counting, but I'd trade inaccurate reps for a landslide record turnout any day; last year we were excited to have 36 at the session.

I also don't know how this thing could have been done without the turf. We used it for all three workouts, and it especially came in handy on the Magi Mile (opening up the heater side for wallballs) and the twelve days of burpees. For the Magi Mile, we simplified it into normal team workout format: one partner goes dumpster and back, other partner wallballs, then rotate for 12 minutes (I need to remember to get The Babies more organized for this one next year). As for 12 Days of Burpees, we went back to the original running format, alternating rounds, and went to half of the parking lot. The after festivities went great as well: food, gift exchange, and Elf playing on a projector.

Big shouts to Shakes, Murley, and Danielle for helping set up the lights a week ago, to Shakes, the Benni, and whoever else helped deck out the gym last night and lay on white board paint, Murley for helping clean and do the times, Lindsey for the Babies gift exchange, Mrs. Tara, Fry, Mrs. Pip, Shakes, and whoever else for the food. And Mr. Freaking Bennis for making the turf thing look presentable and adjustable. This will definitely be remembered as one of those sessions. I can't imagine it getting much bigger than this.

Christmas Workout 2018 Final Results

Christmas Workout 2018 Photo Gallery

Highlights from WOD 1 (Christmas Eve Commotion):

And, of course, Bob Ross and Winter at the Farm for the soul.

Thank you guys again! Hope to catch you tomorrow at 11 am.