3rd annual alcatraz operation christmas child
QIC: crash
Date: 2025.11.22
PAX: second city, van gogh, wooly booger, drama queen, ziffel, airbag, tweety bird, adobe, dr. toot, sparky, sea man, ziggy stardust, zima, chomper, crash
the apb went out thursday and the afternoon before this 3rd annual operation christmas child truck loading event at river oaks community church.
The PAX arrived to the AO right on time. this year we had a couple more than our first year, a bunch of HIMs, several with truck loading experience.
Ziffel arrived with christmas headware and a very large speaker, yhc can see someone updated the calendar entry for today: “ziffel says he is the Q”
we started with
warmups:
side straddle hops, arm swirly things forward, hillbillies, arm swirly things backward, imperial storm troopers, 3 burpees, michael phelps
goal was to be sure the shoulders were ready.
we moseyed to the back of the church for
the thang:
350 boxes waiting for us, enough to fill the truck. all the way back lining the walls.
van gogh, ziffel, zima, dr. toot spent most of the time in the truck, moving boxes to the back and stacking.
second city was carefully monitoring the back of the truck, helping unload the 3 hand carts making their rounds.
a few guys (adobe, airbag, yhc) ran hand carts carrying boxes 3 at at a time.
a few min in we found a large platform cart in the back which carried 16 or so – 4 stacks of 4, drama queen ran that equipment.
wooly booger, tweety bird, sparky, sea man, ziggy, chomper all carried boxes from the front and helped load carts etc.
it was well choreographed chaos, great teamwork, truck was loaded in probably 22-25 minutes. a few photos toward the end:
after this, we had about half an hour so we headed to the blocks:
curls, overhead presses, skull crushers, swings, bent rows, upright rows, swings, skull crushers, 10 – 20 of each, might have missed a round there, put the blocks up.
over to the tires: tire flips the length of the parking lot and back, 3 groups, great work here
over to the side lot:
3 man grinders: merkins and ww2’s, burpees and lbc’s, carolina dry docks and heels to heaven, mike tysons and box cutters. then to:
mary
by committee, 10 reps max to fill the short time 5-6 min remaining.
van gogh started us off with american hammers, wooly booger, drama queen, ziffel, airbag, tweety bird, adobe, dr toot all called exercises. apologies i don’t remember all the order of these except a stretching / touch feet together and go around the circle exercise from ziffel 🙂 we must stop to note i believe a new exercise was created by wooly booger called the ‘rubber ducky’ and it was a smoker, i’d say between a crunchy frog and a ww2, rowing, really got the abs. file that one way… too bad the duck wasn’t there for the inaugural edition.
the church really appreciates the help we give loading boxes up and thanks to all the HIMs for coming out.
announcements
muddy creek backyard ultra TOMORROW – Sunday nov 23 –Â at the speakeasy – reach out to zima if q’s. yhc will be there and do probably 2 rounds
12 pains of xmas flatline tues dec 2nd
f3 christmas dec 12 – at the ramkat – see schlitz, glazer or slack for q’s there, gas hill room 5:30-8:30
prayers
tweety bird brother in law passing, m’s sister’s husband. prayers for their family including m and young 2.0’s
sparky’s friend’s child with brain cancer, prayers for their family also.
prayers that all the boxes that we packed find their way to folks in need and are a blessing.
nmm
lots of laughter and teamwork this morning and so thankful for everyone for coming out. it brings a lot of joy to have folks show up and support each other and this cause.
this year’s photo:
