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Quidditch

Are You Ready For Some Magical Fitness?

If November 19th is already circled on your calendar with the note "Harry Potter 7 opens!" there are a couple of other dates you should also be marking: November 13th and 14th. That's when the Quidditch World Cup comes to town. Hosted by the International Quidditch Association, the games go down this year in NYC. And Social Workout's very own Killercadoogan is fielding a team in association with the NYC Harry Potter Meetup Group aka The Group That Shall Not Be Named (TGTSNBN). Try-outs are this Saturday! But that's not all. As a lead up to the Quidditch World Cup, Killercadoogan and TGTSNBN bring you the Quidditch Team Training Challenge. 28 days of magic and fitness. Details after the jump. 

First and foremost, let's talk try-outs. 

• When: Saturday September 11th from 1-4 P.M. 
• Where:  Riverside Park @ 108th Street
• Interested? Email Katie Escoto at katie.escoto@gmail.com or Jared Rohrer at killercadoogan@gmail.com

On to the Quidditch Team Training Challenge! 

• Challenge 1 - Magical Thinking. Hogwarts students had to practice their spells. Choose a mantra this month and recite it 1000 times all the while working on a goal that you want to see happen. Count your mantras, take action and blog the results.
• Challenge 2 - Team Sports. Quidditch is a team sport. Once a week grab a few friends and play. It can be anything Quidditch, ultimate frisbee or tag. This is the true Social Workout. To help you out once practices get underway one Quidditch practice a week will be open to anyone. if you show up and participate in the entire practice there will be a scrimmage at the end. 
• Challenge 3 - Bertie Bott's Every Flavored Meals. In the world of Harry Potter there is a candy called Bertie Bott's every flavored beans. You could get something good like cherry or steak or something disgusting like earwax or dirt. Twice a week get daring and try food that you have never tried before. Make meals using ingredients that you have never used. Potions for the tastebuds. Then blog the delicious or disasterous results.

Tracking for the challenge will launch shortly on Social Workout 2.0. We'll make a note here when Quidditch Challenge logging goes live. In the meantime, dust off your snitches and get excited!