A relatively isolated part of a larger dream, this was downright cool.
At a park, though that’s not necessarily the right word, there was a huge crowd gathered in a public area, it seemed like a large nature area, open aired/no roof, with a building surrounding it.
Square likely still isn’t the right word for it. Foyer? Plaza?
Lots of grass, but interspersed with brick lined concrete walkways throughout. It wasn’t a garden.
The crowd was there, drawn by some announced event…to workout en masse.
Yet, there was no leader.
There’s this crowd (~500 people, it’s densely packed for the area) with the potential for a huge group workout or large formation PT.
Now I have a booming voice. In a high school assembly I called out loudly from the bleachers in front of the entire student body. Once at 21, I was almost brought down to the center of a college’s basketball/multi sport arena to make an announcement while the microphones were not working.
In the dream someone I was with went “there’s no one to lead”, and either suggested I lead the thing, or I was inspired by the griping to lead since there was in fact no mc, I look at him “yeah, I will”, turned my beat up sox cap around, remembered how I ran formation PT and drill back in jrotc, and started announcing and calling commands.
After getting everyone up to speed on the form of burpees we will do (the kind I’ve picked up from youtube), telling everyone to hold pace as best as they can, to not worry if they have to rest, but to try not to…
I was issuing exercise commands, leading 500+ people at burpees in group PT, under the sun, in what vaguely resembled a place/park I recall going with my grandparents to on a handful of occasions in SoCal.
The emotions of this felt great ; leading a large group in a healthy practice, and walking away from the spot I had the notion to set up setting a guinness world record for “most people doing burpees in unison at once”. Not a bad idea to set it up. I know all sorts of people would be in on it. You’d have people coming from all around to participate, and could even have multiple locations.
Persistence & Tenacity