Phillip Island was originally named after its discoverer, Phyllis Ipland, but that was just too confusing, so they renamed it Phillip Island a few years ago. It is also where Mother Moss has her holiday house and very conveniently was the location for our team-bonding singalong and fitness session.
Most of the team got down to the island on the Friday night and had a very relaxing evening. Mossy practiced her Tai Chi while attempting to get a phone signal in her lounge room. Copah decided to give up beer and spent the evening having a sauna. Alla was robbed in his footy best and fairest count and Dave got in at some ungodly hour. Claire was completely flummoxed by the concept of a handbrake that you work with your foot in Bav's car (yes technically it's Leesy's car) while KT and Ben spent the evening prowling rental websites. Meanwhile Kyzah, Ryzah and Esther were enjoying some wedding hospitality about 3 and a half hours away.
However the person who made the biggest sacrifice to be there was Aims who had to tell her boyfriend that she couldn't make it to his Grand Final. Of course she did tell him while taking her top off, so he just smiled and nodded and was probably completely surprised when she wasn't there.
Right, stop thinking about that, back to the story. We all got the the bottom of Cape Woolamai by 7.59am, and took a walk down to the beach. After stepping across a line in the sand that was both literal and metaphorical, the day was underway.
Activity 1 was a timed run over an alleged 5 kilometre course. Allah started the event at the prohibitive Black Caviar like odds of a $1.01 for the win, and won it like an odds-on favourite should.
Phillip Island - Race 1 Results
Track Good - Weather Fine
1. (5) Allah Mac W: $1.01 P: $1.00
2. (4) Ryzoplasty P: $1.20
3. (3) Bav In Black P: $6.50
4. (7) Aim Of The Game NTD
Quinella: (4,5): $1.22 Exacta: 5-4: $1.25
Trifecta: 5-4-3: $54.50
First 4: 5-4-3-7: $211.70
Stewards Report: Copahcabana threw two shoes entering the final straight. Jockey on Lotz And Loz found to be way overweight, horse to be spelled immediately.
Following a brief recovery session and a very fruitful team chat, it was back down to the beach for Activity 2, the beach session. We were split into groups of 2, there was Team Hat made up of Allah and Bav, and a whole bunch of other groups who were presumably all called Team No Hat.
I'm a bit hazy on most of the details, but there were hill sprints, push-ups, box jumps, planks, sit-ups, burpees, mountain-climbers and possibly one other, which might just have been more hill sprints. And there were three circuits with 45 seconds on and then 45 seconds off.
From what I am told, most people did really well, however I have checked my phone and I've received a couple of texts which are quite enlightening;
Q. What's Bav's favourite band?
A. Regurgitator
Just looked up "cramp" in the dictionary, look at what I found...
At the end of the second activity Tonah, Copah and Bav's stomach lining were all scratched from the final event, The Amazing Race.
After finishing the word jumble and decoding the hidden message, Team Ginger Ninja plus Kylie were off and running/walking down the beach. Right behind them were Team Melanin.
Team Ginger were the first to reach Esther on the beach and had to build a sand castle with walls up to the logo on her pants. Unfortunately, Esther isn't cool enough to wear her pants slung down low, but fortunately she isn't so old that she wears them up to her armpits, but either way it was a tough build. Ginger Ninja Ryan used his landscape building knowledge to spearhead the effort, and the Gingas retained their lead.
Esther revealed the next challenge, counting the number of squares in a 10 x 10 chess board type thingy. The GMNT (Ginger Mutant Ninja Turtles) quickly came up with the answer of 385, leaving the cast of Jersey Short trailing in their wake.
Some more stuff happened, Alla and Aims went for another run to count stairs and it turned out that it was a draw in the end.
Then came everyones favorite part of the day, eating pies and then driving home.
What a great weekend.
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