AO:

When: 03/23/2019

PAX:

Number of Pax: 10

Pax Names:

Number of FNGS: 0

FNG Names:

QIC: Hombre


The BackBlast:

AO:


black_ops

Pax Names:


Hombre, Cricket, Floppy, Homeboy, Manning, Spaceballs, Westside, Lawdog, Chops, Mickey

Number of Pax:


10

FNG Names:



Number of FNGs:


0

Intro:


Please read along for the Weekly Manning Top 10.

Warm-o-Rama:


From Wikipedia:

Portage: The practice of carrying water craft or cargo over land.

Used in a sentence:

We portaged for so long, the canoe felt like a Bloodhound log.

The Thang:


The first exercise is: Canoe carrying, then there was canoeing, a small amount of trail running to the boy scout flag., some weird exercises called out randomly by various PAX, Homeboy with some kind of Ab workout (SEE PICTURE AND BELOW), quick jog back to the canoes, A DIP IN THE DRINK for 2 PAX (AGAIN PICTURE AND BELOW), canoe carrying again, and last but not least some mountain biking.

Canoe #1: Hombre, Cricket, Floppy
Canoe #2: Manning, Homeboy
Canoe #3: Chops, Lawdog
Upside Down Canoe #4: Spaceballs, Westside

COT:



Naked Man Moleskin:


Your Weekly Manning Top 10-i-mean-Top-16:

16. Homeboy with the 04:30 ???? alert. Cmon, You’ll be fine…????

15. Kiffin alone and miserable calling out HB at 04:31 ????

14. Cricket with the emergency Double Elvis leave behind prior to departure. Thanks, Dad. ????

13. Paging Dixie Chick. APB Mickey. No sign of the murder van…HC doesn’t mean what it used to mean. Sad.

12. Chops and LD with the luxury canoe. Equipped nicely with heated seat backs, stability control, cupholders, and automatic bilge pump. Team HB and Manning rocking the USS Aluminum Fortress. Equipped with: actually nothing. Great.

And we’re not even put in yet…

11. Hombre with a rare swing and miss on the river (ahem, trickle) access point. “Cricket: Not sure I’ll need the PFD” Audible out and take the next left at the VooDoo Bayou. This isn’t creepy at all.

10. Welcome: Mickey!! Get here when you can, bro.

9. Still water, fascinating 30a discussion, rowing in cadence…everything is awesome! Until…splash! Down goes Spaceballs. Down goes Westside! The literal gasps woke up all the fish. Yikes, that’s an early swim boys. Didn’t someone mention that the temps are supposed to fall as the morning goes on? Yeesh. Brrrr.

8. Find the flag, and awkwardly and impromptly start doing MARY. Or is this a warmup. What is happening. Uh oh…HB is slowly walking off. ????????????. Stick a fork in him. Cricket and Floppy snapping pics like paparazzi gone wild.

7. Carefully (emphasis on carefully) reenter the battleship and head back. Things are definitely going downhill. And to make matters worse, HB has his left and right paddle backwards. Ok be nice, he’s sick. But I mean, bro we’re going in circles. HARD LEFT!!!

6. Put out approximately 61 miles from the parking lot and hump the canoes back to home base. Hypothermia setting in quick for the swimmers. HB body shutting down simultaneously.

5. Floppy still has a burst of energy. I like it. Let’s see if the old guy can show these whipper snappers a thing or two.

4. Back to the cars for some murder coffee, change of clothes, and an announcement that SB is going home to take a bath. Oh my.

3. Gas up the bikes and Let’s take these MTB trails, boys!! Uhhh frozen fingers are fun. Let’s not discuss how we warmed them back up. Ok?

2. More fascinating pedal and clip discussions!!

1. A couple of loops, lots of deer, and certain chain that just hates to stay on.

Awesome boys. Loved it!!

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