Date: 2025-05-06
AO: ao_dark_room
Q: Manhole
PAX: Beaker, Framed, Toto, Manhole
FNGs: None
COUNT: 4
WOR: yep
The Thang: we did a thang or 2
Moleskine: don’t forget to have fun
COT: Beaker’s M job transition
Tags: ao_dark_room, Beaker, Framed, Toto, Manhole
Date: 2025-05-06
AO: ao_flat_earth
Q: Spielberg
PAX: Candyland, Oompa, Tortuga, Samsonite, Gummi Bear, TBTF, Jack, Cheese, Bloomer, Swish, Spokes, Fiona, White Noise, DQ, Panda Express, Spielberg, Shiplap FNGs: None
COUNT: 17
WOR: ssh, fire hydrants, donkey kicks, merkins, across the field and back
The Thang: 4v4 on smaller fields and then a full field game
Moleskine: pursue eulogy virtues over resume virtues
COT: pray on for Spielberg’s green card to come soon
Tags: ao_flat_earth, Candyland, Oompa, Tortuga, Samsonite, Gummi Bear, TBTF, Jack, Cheese, Bloomer, Swish, Spokes, Fiona, White Noise, DQ, Panda Express, Spielberg, Shiplap
Date: 2025-05-06
AO: ao_mastodon
Q: Da Vinci
PAX: Panhandle, Ankles, Stock boy, SAGA, LeMond, Sparrow, Falsetto, Big Mac, Da Vinci FNGs: None
COUNT: 9
PreGame to: Groove is in the Heart
Warmorama follow the leader to I’m Too Sexy
The Thang
Baseball Diamonds to Cotton Eye Joe
Betwixt sets print hill to an elected champion, if he wins, 20 burpees
Derkens and LBCs to Be My Lover
Curls (squeeze, thumb, or otherwise) and Boxcutters to Better Off Alone Skull crushers and Freddie Mercuries to Twilight Zone
Around the worlds to Around the World (but not that one!) and Outlaws One arm rows and flutter kicks to I Like to Move It
Hand release and BBSU to Rythym is a Dancer
Full coupon squats and Crunchyfrogs to What is Love
Shoulder press and oblique crunches to Be My Lover
Cool Down to All That She Wants
Moleskin: “Power based upon fear, domination, and violence is not ‘real’ power at all. It is real insofar as its destructiveness is concretely realized in human relationships, but it is in fact an idolatrous commandeering of true power… [But] true power – let us not be afraid of this word – is pacific, self-communicating, and empowering of others; it is just this power in which we are involved to participate in a creaturely way.” -Brian Robinette, https://undpress.nd.edu/9780268203528/the-difference-nothing-makes/ p. 25, 27
Tags: ao_mastodon, Panhandle, Ankles, Stock boy, SAGA, LeMond, Sparrow, Falsetto, Big Mac, Da Vinci
Date: 2025-05-05
AO: ao_tar_pit
Q: Tortuga
PAX: Da Vinci, Jolly, DQ, T-bone, TBTF, Panhandle
FNGs: None
COUNT: 7
WOR: ssh, Abe Vigodas, copperhead merkins and squats
The Thang:
Run 4 laps, do 10 reps of each exercise
Run 3 laps, do 20 reps
Run 2 laps, do 30 reps
Run 1 lap, do 40 reps
Run 4 laps
Block over burpees, overhead press, windshield wipers (2=1, feet touch the ground)
Moleskine: In three of the gospels there is a story of some friends who carry their friend to Jesus. The friend is a paralytic, and the crowds block the way to Jesus. They carry him up on the roof, cut a hole in the roof, and lower him down to where Jesus was. Talk about good friends! Jesus then says, “Your sins are forgiven.”
If I were one of the friends, I probably would have thought, “What!?!? We want you to heal him. Isn’t that obvious?” Jesus does go on to heal him, but I think the story points to our greater need for forgiveness. Obviously Jesus knew the man was a paralytic, and his friends brought him for healing. By forgiving him, Jesus shows us that the stain of our sin is much more debilitating than even paralysis.
If you haven’t turned to Jesus for the forgiveness of your sins, the offer stands. “Confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead and you will be saved.” “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”
COT: prayers for Panhandle’s friend whose 2.0 recently passed away, Tbone’s other friend Ben who is having a biopsy on his eye, travelling mercies for Tortuga’s M and Tbone’s 2.0s.
Tags: ao_tar_pit, Da Vinci, Jolly, DQ, T-bone, TBTF, Panhandle
Date: 2025-05-05
AO: ao_ground_zero
Q: Manhole
PAX: Crack, White Noise, Hancock, Sparrow, Ankles, Samsonite, Cheese, Archive, Mr Roboto, Manhole, Gnome, Remains FNGs: 1 Remains
COUNT: 12
WOR: SSH IC, 5 T-Bone Burpees, Stretch OYO
The Thang: Run/ Ruck
Moleskine: Gratitude, practice it
COT: things
Tags: ao_ground_zero, Crack, White Noise, Hancock, Sparrow, Ankles, Samsonite, Cheese, Archive, Mr Roboto, Manhole, Gnome, Remains
Date: 2025-05-03
AO: ao_mastodon
Q: TBTF
PAX: Bloomer, Falsetto, Cheap Shot, The wet burrito, TBTF, 0 FNGs: 1 0
COUNT: 5
WOR: SSH, Michael Phelps, Copperhead Squats, Abe Vegodas, Tappy Taps
The Thang: Mosey around the AO and make a stop at each parking lot for a mini beatdown of something I have Q’d there over the years – Playground Parking Lot – 4 corners x 4 rounds (4×4)
– Corner 1 – Merkins/BBSUs/Merkins x10 each, bear crawl to next corner
– Corner 2 – Squat Jumps/Imperial Walkers/Squat Jumps x10 each, side shuffle to next corner – Corner 3 – Merkins/BBSUs/Merkins x10 each, bear crawl to next corner
– Corner 4 – Squat Jumps/Imperial Walkers/Squat Jumps x10 each, side shuffle to next corner
– Pool Parking Lot – parking lot suicides (abbreviated version due to running behind schedule due to my own lack of ability to estimate how long things take), started on once side, performed move to the midpoint, went back to start, performed move to end point (other side of parking lot), and returned to starting point – Round 1 – lunges (this was a lot of lunges!)
– Round 2 – tractor tires
– Round 3 – side shuffles
– Overflow/North Parking Lot
– Merkin waterfall x100
– BBSU waterfall x50
– Squat waterfall x100
– Tennis/F3 Parking Lot – only 1 minute left by time we got here – Coupon Curls – IC x25
– Recover!!!
Moleskine: A recent quote I head – “Our best ability is Availability”. Discussion around taking care of ourselves, our bodies (for me this is F3) which (again, for me) has allowed be to more more present and physically as well as mentally present (or available!) to my family
COT: haven’t heard an update on Dr. Phil so we prayed for him for good measure, prayers for others working through tough things physical or otherwise whether shared or held close
Tags: ao_mastodon, Bloomer, Falsetto, Cheap Shot, The wet burrito, TBTF, 0
Date: 2025-05-02
AO: ao_flat_earth
Q: Manhole
PAX: Jack, Shiplap, Candyland, Fiona, Spielberg, Krampus, Cheese, Jolly, LeMond, Tortuga, DQ, TBTF, White Noise, Manhole FNGs: None
COUNT: 14
WOR: sure
The Thang: throwing discs
Moleskine: it’s just a game, have fun!
COT: things
Tags: ao_flat_earth, Jack, Shiplap, Candyland, Fiona, Spielberg, Krampus, Cheese, Jolly, LeMond, Tortuga, DQ, TBTF, White Noise, Manhole
Date: 2025-05-03
AO: ao_tar_pit
Q: Panhandle
PAX: Sparrow, Big Mac, T-bone, LeMond, Homie, Portage, Tumnus FNGs: None
COUNT: 8
WOR: SSHs, Abe Vigodas, arm circles, runner’s stretch
The Thang:
Thang 1: mosey over to Prairie Path and do “Five Alive” with merkens, squats, BBSs, T-Merkens, and burpees
Thang 2: paired DORA at the base of the ramp with 50 thrusters, 100 coupon swings, 200 step-ups.
Moleskine: be hopeful like Big Mac, not a pessimist like me
COT: T-bone’s friend’s biopsy, travel for LeMond’s friend
Tags: ao_tar_pit, Sparrow, Big Mac, T-bone, LeMond, Homie, Portage, Tumnus
Date: 2025-05-02
AO: ao_ground_zero
Q: T-bone
PAX: T-bone, Mr Roboto, Panhandle, Crack
FNGs: None
COUNT: 4
WOR:SSH, shoulder stretch, runners stretch, picking daisies, copperhead squats, warm up walk
The Thang: 3+ Dooley Dog run, 1 sole Rucker
Moleskine: “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing,” – mis-attributed to Edmund Burke but still good – take action onthe local level. Stand up for those who can’t stand up for themselves.
COT: Mr Roboto neice and nephew and passing background check today. Crack travel plans and upcoming wedding. Summer travel mercies for 2.0’s.
Tags: ao_ground_zero, T-bone, Mr Roboto, Panhandle, Crack
Date: 2025-05-01
AO: ao_mastodon
Q: Sparrow
PAX: Stock boy, Samsonite, Da Vinci, Big Mac, Happy Feet, Cheese, Sparrow FNGs: None
COUNT: 7
WOR: table presses
The Thang: tic-tac-melee
Place your X or O marker on the TTT board anytime you finish your reps. Lots of reps of reps. It became difficult.
Variations of the game that integrated orbeez at various levels.
The vodka was used as a disinfectant in the orbeez water, but as the game devolved into a laughable confusion, people began to wonder.
Moleskine: I’m learning to study the Bible with open ended questions, and it’s changing my life. We tried it out as a group, studying the following passage together while holding plank position. Each pax was able to derive his own moleskin from his study of the story:
31 He put another parable before them, saying, “The kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard seed that a man took and sowed in his field. 32 It is the smallest of all seeds, but when it has grown it is larger than all the garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and make nests in its branches.”
33 He told them another parable. “The kingdom of heaven is like leaven that a woman took and hid in three measures of flour, till it was all leavened.”
COT: happy feet’s friends marriage and housing.
Tags: ao_mastodon, Stock boy, Samsonite, Da Vinci, Big Mac, Happy Feet, Cheese, Sparrow
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