ao_flat_earth Ultimate Frisbee Fun

Date: 2025-04-19
AO: ao_flat_earth
Q: TBTF
PAX: Fiona, Manhole, Oompa, Spielberg, Velveeta, Jack, Jolly, Shiplap, Bloomer, 8-Track, Tortuga, Hershey, Candyland, White Noise, Cheese, DQ, Gummi Bear, Banks, Crack, TBTF, Frogger, Trolley, 0 FNGs: 1 0
COUNT: 22
WOR: SSH, sideline to sideline

The Thang: Ultimate was played (2 games due to PAX count)

Moleskine: “Don’t sweat the small stuff”

COT: Spielberg upcoming interview

Tags: ao_flat_earth, Fiona, Manhole, Oompa, Spielberg, Velveeta, Jack, Jolly, Shiplap, Bloomer, 8-Track, Tortuga, Hershey, Candyland, White Noise, Cheese, DQ, Gummi Bear, Banks, Crack, TBTF, Frogger, Trolley, 0

ao_ground_zero Run/Ruck Club

Date: 2025-04-25
AO: ao_ground_zero
Q: Mr Roboto
PAX: Panhandle, Stock boy, Phanatic, Samsonite, Ankles, Sparrow, Toto, Crack, Dumpster FNGs: None
COUNT: 10
WOR:
SSHs x20
Runner’s Stretch
Tappy Taps x15

The Thang:
Run/ruck north

Moleskine:
Take advantage of the COT.
You aren’t responsible for other people’s apologies.

COT:
Crack’s daughter, Dr. Phil’s back, Mr Roboto’s family

Tags: ao_ground_zero, Panhandle, Stock boy, Phanatic, Samsonite, Ankles, Sparrow, Toto, Crack, Dumpster

ao_ground_zero Post-Easter Run Ruck North

Date: 2025-04-21
AO: ao_ground_zero
Q: Ankles
PAX: Cheese, Ankles, Carmen, Sparrow, Mr Roboto, Stock boy, Manhole, TBTF FNGs: None
COUNT: 8
WOR: Various runners stretches OYO

The Thang: Run/Ruck North on the Prairie Path

Moleskine: If you find yourself dissatisfied with how something is being done (or not done) in a civic organization or group to which you belong & you think you might be able to help, then consider stepping up if it’s appropriate. (Free to Lead)

COT: Prayers for those of the Catholic faith, as Pope Francis passed away this morning. Wrapped up with a moment of quiet contemplation, followed by The Serenity Prayer.

Tags: ao_ground_zero, Cheese, Ankles, Carmen, Sparrow, Mr Roboto, Stock boy, Manhole, TBTF

ao_ground_zero Run Club North

Date: 2025-04-14
AO: ao_ground_zero
Q: Ankles
PAX: Ankles, Audible, Archive, Stock boy, Mr Roboto, Manhole, Cheese FNGs: None
COUNT: 7
WOR: SSH, Abe Vigodas, Tappy Taps, Runner Stretches

The Thang: Run; Ruck North on the Prairie Path

Moleskine: Avoid all or nothing thinking. It’s never too late to do ‘the next right thing.” This includes “starting the day over” even at 9pm at night.

COT: Archive Has a challenging stretch coming up at work. Prayers for wisdom & patience as he navigates it. Finished with a moment of quiet contemplation, followed by The Serenity Prayer.

Tags: ao_ground_zero, Ankles, Audible, Archive, Stock boy, Mr Roboto, Manhole, Cheese

ao_dark_room “This BD reaks of Iron PAX” – @Lakers

Date: 2025-04-24
AO: ao_dark_room
Q: Manhole
PAX: Beaker, Toto, LeMond, Lakers, Framed, Manhole
FNGs: None
COUNT: 6
WOR: goofballs IC, tie fighters, mosey to 1/4 mi loop with coupon

The Thang: 10 Blockies, 10 burpees, 20 Thrusters, 20 squats, 30 WW3, 30 BBSU, 40 chest press, 40 merkins, half laps between each exercise, 50 curls, full lap, 50 curls 3/4 lap loligag pace, 1/8 lap pick up the pace, 1/8 GIAYG, stretch

Moleskine: Let them – don’t let others bother you

COT: those left unsaid

Tags: ao_dark_room, Beaker, Toto, LeMond, Lakers, Framed, Manhole

ao_mastodon Everybody Cut Footloose!

Date: 2025-04-24
AO: ao_mastodon
Q: Samsonite
PAX: Ankles, Da Vinci, Archive, Falsetto, Mr Roboto, Tortuga, Happy Feet, TBTF, Stock boy, DQ, Cheese, Samsonite FNGs: None
COUNT: 12
WOR: SSH, Imperial Walkers, Mosey ’round the Lot, Copperhead Squats

Trivia: What year was Footloose released? (1984)

The Thang: Rifle carry the :coupon: to Hoffa, then over to the Shop for Musical Dora with Table Raises & Run Around the Baseball Diamond Followed by BBS & Run Around the Baseball Diamond.

Music: Let’s Hear it for the Boy :notes: & Holding Out for a Hero :notes:

Trivia: Who sang the title song to Footloose? (Kenny Loggins)
What was the name of the town where dancing was forbidden? (Bomont) NERD POINT: In what state is Bomont located? (Georgia)

Then back to Hoffa for Musical Dora with Curls & Bernie Up Hoffa, followed by Flutter Kicks & Run Up Hoffa

Music: Almost Paradise :notes: & Never :notes:

Trivia: From what city did Ren live before moving to the small town of Bomont, Georgia? (Chicago)

Then to Cooties for Musical Dora with Merkins & Run Around Hoffa, followed by Leg Raises & Run Around Hoffa

Music: Dancing in the Sheets :notes: & The Girl gets Around :notes:

Trivia: Although the soundtrack is packed with hits, only two of those songs made it to #1 on the Billboard charts. Footloose was one. What was the other? (Let’s Hear it for the Boy)

Back to the flag for a bit of Mary

Music: (I’ve Had) The Time of my Life :notes: (no one puts baby in a corner!)

Moleskine: tl;dr. Learn to let things go. The buddhists teach that desire is the root of suffering. They say that because we desire things we become attached to them and then when we get them they let us down, or we don’t get them at all, or we lose them. Their impermanence or our failure to achieve them makes us unhappy. I think they get this partly right, but desire isn’t bad. It’s just that we desire the wrong things. If we desire only God, then we will never be disappointed, but too often we desire other things: success in work, happy obedient children, affirmation from other humans. And those things fade, disappoint, fail to appear. We become attached to them and they do cause us suffering. But if we stay attached to God; if our desire is only for God, then we can love those others things without being attached. When they disappoint, or fade, or we never get them, we won’t suffer because our desire – and attachment – are only in God.

COT: Prayers for Spielberg’s green card interview, for Mr Roboto’s relationship with his brother, Jailbreak’s recovery.

Tags: ao_mastodon, Ankles, Da Vinci, Archive, Falsetto, Mr Roboto, Tortuga, Happy Feet, TBTF, Stock boy, DQ, Cheese, Samsonite

ao_tar_pit Ferris Bueller’s Day ON

Date: 2025-04-23
AO: ao_tar_pit
Q: Da Vinci
PAX: SAGA, Stock boy, Dumpster Fire (F3 Naperville), Tortuga, Panhandle, The wet burrito, Da Vinci, Panda Express FNGs: None
COUNT: 8
Warmorama: to, what else, “Oh Yeah”

Rest of the workout happens to different songs in the Ferris Bueller soundtrack

The Thang:

Mozy to March of the Swivel Heads

Partner Up: 2 TOWERS OF POWER (while your partner power squats) until you’re done Skull crushers and PAX choice abs
Squeeze Curls and PAX choice abs

Mozy to March of the Swivel Heads

Thumb hold curls and PAX choice abs
Around the worlds and Pax choice abs
One arm rows and Pax choice abs
(around the Worlds to Around the World)

Mozy to March of the Swivel Heads

FULL Coupon squats and Pax choice abs
Derkens and Pax choice abs
Saltshakers and Pax Choice abs

Moleskin:

Wes Hill’s new book on Easter shows how sophisticated denial of the resurrection from liberal Protestants comes from privilege. “For those unshielded by safety and comfort, vague notions of love without concrete, bodily restoration aren’t enough.”

John Updike, “Seven Stanzas as Easter” (1960)

Make no mistake: if he rose at all
It was as His body;
If the cell’s dissolution did not reverse, the molecule reknit, The amino acids rekindle,
The Church will fall.

It was not as the flowers,
Each soft spring recurrent;
It was not as His Spirit in the mouths and fuddled eyes of the Eleven apostles;
It was as His flesh; ours.

The same hinged thumbs and toes
The same valved heart
That—pierced—died, withered, paused, and then regathered
Out of enduring Might
New strength to enclose.

Let us not mock God with metaphor,
Analogy, sidestepping, transcendence,
Making of the event a parable, a sign painted in the faded
Credulity of earlier ages:
Let us walk through the door.

The stone is rolled back, not papier-mache,
Not a stone in a story,
But the vast rock of materiality that in the slow grinding of Time will eclipse for each of us
The wide light of day.

And if we have an angel at the tomb,
Make it a real angel,
Weighty with Max Planck’s quanta, vivid with hair, opaque in The dawn light, robed in real linen
Spun on a definite loom.

Let us not seek to make it less monstrous,
For our own convenience, our own sense of beauty,
Lest, awakened in one unthinkable hour, we are embarrassed
By the miracle,
And crushed by remonstrance.

TAPS: Jailbreak health Spielberg Green card interview Tortuga M’s travel to Santiago

Tags: ao_tar_pit, SAGA, Stock boy, Dumpster Fire (F3 Naperville), Tortuga, Panhandle, The wet burrito, Da Vinci, Panda Express

ao_mastodon BOMBS and bridges

Date: 2025-04-22
AO: ao_mastodon
Q: Beaker
PAX: Panhandle, Sparrow, Samsonite, Ankles, Stock boy, Mr Roboto FNGs: None
COUNT: 7
WOR: Mosey, high knees, butt kickers, side shuffles, tappy taps, bat wings, moroccan night clubs, 5 T-bone burpees

The Thang: BOMBS
Taking the short mile on the path, stop at each light pole and do a single exercise, switching in order of BOMBS, rinsing and repeating every 5 light poles. The exercises and reps are as follows:

5 Burpees
10 Outlaws
15 Merkins
20 Big boi sit ups
25 Squats

When you get to a bridge, cross it with your feet on the railing and your hands on the ground.

Everyone made it to COOTIES in time.

15 hanging knee raises, oyo

1 minute of low plank at the flag

Moleskine:
We will inevitably get old and lose our abilities, physical and mental. We need to develop or “asking for help” and “depending on others” muscles now. They are good now; they will be essential later.

COT: Mr Roboto, bombing in Yemen

Tags: ao_mastodon, Panhandle, Sparrow, Samsonite, Ankles, Stock boy, Mr Roboto

ao_tar_pit Wee Men Weturn

Date: 2025-04-03
AO: ao_tar_pit
Q: Big Mac
PAX: Samsonite, Linc, Archive, Jailbreak, Ankles, Da Vinci
FNGs: None
COUNT: 7
WOR: SSH, Copper Head Squats, Copper Head Merkins, Mountain Climbers, Picked Daisies and Arm Circles.

The Thang: The Wee Men in search of the most beautiful sunrise have retaken Hoffa. The PAX engage in the endless struggle. Three battles of which took place this morning.

First Battle: The Wee Men surprise attack the PAX. In each round of the battle, PAX attempted to knock down the wee men before they could shower the PAX with arrows of exercise. For each wee man standing, they struck the PAX with 10 reps of a harder exercise. For each wee man fallen, the hard exercise was transformed to easy.

Round 1: Blockees for Hard, OH Press for Easy
Round 2: Thrusters with Coupon for hard, Thrusters W/O coupon for easy Round 3: Coupon merkins for hard (alternate side), regular merkins for easy.

Battle 2: The PAX launch a counter attack. 10 of an exercise to earn a throw, defeat all the wee men to advance on hoffa and to the next round.

Round 1: Burpees,
Round 2: Thrusters
Round 3: BBSU

Final Battle: The PAX having surrounded the wee men, launch their final offensive. They risk everything by accumulating enough artillery to complete the offensive. 7 wee men remain, one for each PAX. The PAX complete as many coupon swings without stopping as they can/want. For every 10 swings they earn 1 piece of artillery. If they knock down at least 4, the wee men are defeated, if they knock down all 7 the wee men agree to leave the grounds for good.

The PAX are fully victorious. They magnanimously permit the wee men one last look at the Hoffa Sunrise after which the wee men are thrown into a duffel bag and removed from the premises.

Moleskine- Man desires not just to be loved but to be lovely. The first you can get by faking it, but the second is judged by Smith’s “the impartial observer or the man within the breast” he’ll know whether you deserve the praise or whether you’ve taken a shortcut.

COT:

Tags: ao_tar_pit, Samsonite, Linc, Archive, Jailbreak, Ankles, Da Vinci

ao_dark_room Climb Every Mountain

Date: 2025-04-22
AO: ao_dark_room
Q: Lakers
PAX: Manhole, Toto, Framed
FNGs: None
COUNT: 4
WOR:
– SSH
– Arm Circles
– Leg Stretches

The Thang:
Mosey to Heartbreak Ridge with coupons

– 22’s (11’s by counting by twos)
Chest press at bottom of the hill
Run BACKWARDS up the hill
Merkins on top
Run forward to the bottom

– Lunges heard round the world

– Squats

Mosey to playground

– Hero Worship on the playground

Moleskine: The barriers and boundaries we set up in front of us are in our minds and able to be overcome. Looking back at my two year Man-iversary, I would never have been imagining I could do what I do now. Push through. Overcome!

COT: IYKYK

Tags: ao_dark_room, Manhole, Toto, Framed