Date: 2025-09-22
AO: ao_mastodon
Q: Stock boy
PAX: Carmen, DQ, Jailbreak, Cheap Shot, Mr Roboto, Dumpster, The wet burrito, Samsonite FNGs: None
COUNT: 9
WOR:
Some stuff…
The Thang:
Iron PAX Challenge Week 0
Moleskine:
Do hard things and like it!
COT:
Some other stuff…
Tags: ao_mastodon, Carmen, DQ, Jailbreak, Cheap Shot, Mr Roboto, Dumpster, The wet burrito, Samsonite
Date: 2025-09-22
AO: ao_ground_zero
Q: Mr Roboto
PAX: Beaker, Dr. Phil, Samsonite, Mr. Bean, Manhole, Stock boy, Katniss, Too Big To Fail (TBTF), Crack, Flower Boy FNGs: None
COUNT: 11
WOR:
Grass Pickers x10
Imperial Walkers x10
Abe Vigodas x10
Goofballs x10
The Thang:
6 runners, 5 ruckers headed east and back
Moleskine:
Find time to talk about hard things, especially with your M.
COT:
Mr Roboto’s extended family, state of our world
Tags: ao_ground_zero, Beaker, Dr. Phil, Samsonite, Mr. Bean, Manhole, Stock boy, Katniss, Too Big To Fail (TBTF), Crack, Flower Boy
Date: 2025-09-20
AO: ao_flat_earth
Q: Cheese
PAX: Jolly, White Noise, Banks, Fiona, Candyland, Tortuga, BigBlue, Pitch Pipe, Bucky, Shiplap FNGs: None
COUNT: 11
WOR: SSH, ABE, Down and Back
The Thang: Ultimate
Moleskine: Gratitude
COT:
Tags: ao_flat_earth, Jolly, White Noise, Banks, Fiona, Candyland, Tortuga, BigBlue, Pitch Pipe, Bucky, Shiplap
Date: 2025-09-20
AO: ao_mastodon
Q: Stock boy
PAX: Too Big To Fail (TBTF), Mr Roboto, Archive
FNGs: None
COUNT: 4
WOR:
SSH, copperhead squats, toy soldiers. Michael Phelps, arm circles.
The Thang:
Iron PAX Week 2 Challenge
Moleskine:
Practice doing hard things when you don’t need to do them so you will be able to do hard things when they need to be done.
COT:
Archive + M need to have energy to deal with 5 kids, including the newborn. 2.0s needing jobs. Mr Roboto’s family.
Tags: ao_mastodon, Too Big To Fail (TBTF), Mr Roboto, Archive
Date: 2025-09-19
AO: ao_flat_earth
Q: Samsonite
PAX: White Noise, Jack, DQ, Manhole, Banks, TBTF, Candyland, Fiona, Spielberg, Krampus, Jolly, Shiplap, froZone, Oompa, Tortuga, Cheese, Panda Express, T.B., pinetar, Boyardee FNGs: None
COUNT: 21
WOR: motivators, over and back
The Thang: the “sh*tshow”
Moleskine: And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying:
Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. “Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.
“Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
“Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied. “Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy.
“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.
“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons[https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%205:2-12&version=ESV#fen-ESV-23244a] of God.
“Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
“Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
COT: Joy in the great day, Jack’s wife putting on a play tomorrow (see announcement in this channel), TB’s wife running a marathon
Tags: ao_flat_earth, White Noise, Jack, DQ, Manhole, Banks, TBTF, Candyland, Fiona, Spielberg, Krampus, Jolly, Shiplap, froZone, Oompa, Tortuga, Cheese, Panda Express, T.B., pinetar, Boyardee
Date: 2025-09-18
AO: ao_mastodon
Q: Falsetto
PAX: Tortuga, Katniss, Cheese, Jailbreak, DQ, Sparrow, Jayhawk FNGs: None
COUNT: 8
WOR:
20 SSH
Batwings x10 each
10 Birddogs
Michael Phelps OYO
The Thang:
5 min EMOMs with 2 exercises to complete a target number, switch exercises every 10 reps After each round, cool down jog.
Rd 1- Single arm rows, R and L
Rd 2- Overhead Press/Dips
Rd 3- BBSU/Flutter kicks
Rd 4- Curls/Derkins
20 squats at the flag to finish time
Moleskine:
“A discipline is any activity I CAN do by direct effort, that will eventually enable me to do what I currently CANNOT do by direct effort” -John Mark Comer
COT:
F3 Pax with Baby in NICU
Tags: ao_mastodon, Tortuga, Katniss, Cheese, Jailbreak, DQ, Sparrow, Jayhawk
Date: 2025-09-18
AO: ao_dark_room
Q: Manhole
PAX: Beaker, Crack, Framed, Noodles, Toto, Flower Boy, Manhole, @brainfog; @nose job FNGs: 1 @brainfog; @nose job
COUNT: 9
WOR: yup
The Thang: a few thangs
Moleskine: gratitude
COT: prayers
Tags: ao_dark_room, Beaker, Crack, Framed, Noodles, Toto, Flower Boy, Manhole, @brainfog; @nose job
Date: 2025-09-17
AO: ao_ground_zero
Q: Beaker
PAX: Mr. Bean, Bo-Peep, Crack, Tortuga, Manhole, Beaker, Flower Boy FNGs: None
COUNT: 7
WOR: SSHs, Abe Vigodas, picking daisy’s
The Thang:
Run/ruck south
Moleskine:
When we get stressed, our most important relationships get our worst. They should get our best.
COT: Chippy’s baby, families of the recently deported, man from Crack’s church, Bo-Peep and Bo-Betsy and the (hopefully very soon) arrival of Bo-Baby
Tags: ao_ground_zero, Mr. Bean, Bo-Peep, Crack, Tortuga, Manhole, Beaker, Flower Boy
Date: 2025-09-17
AO: ao_tar_pit
Q: Da Vinci
PAX: Jayhawk, Panhandle, Banks, DQ, Da Vinci
FNGs: None
COUNT: 4
The Robert Bly beatdown
Warmorama to bad cadence
Run the lake and die of death at the amphitheater overlooking the lake where the wild man came from in Iron John.
· Round 1: Burpees
· Round 2: Squat jumps
· Round 3: Merkens
· Round 4: Mountain climbers
· Round 5: Plank jacks
· Round 6: Tuck Jumps
· Round 7: Boxing punches
· Round 9: Freddie Mercuries
· Round 10: American Hammers
· Round 11: Star jumps
· Round 12: Dips
· Round 13: Box Jumps
· Round 14: Skater Jumps
· Round 15: Derkens
· Round 16: Diamond Merkens
· Round 17: Widespread Merkens
· Round 18: Sidestraddle hops
· Round 19: Shoulder taps
· Round 20: Hand release merkens
Moleskin: Bly went from pagan masculinity to the need for a transcendent source to keep the masculine from going off the rails.
Stealing Sugar From the Castle
Robert Bly
We are poor students who stay after school to study joy.
We are like those birds in the India mountains.
I am a widow whose child is her only joy.
The only thing I hold in my ant-like head
Is the builder’s plan of the castle of sugar.
Just to steal one grain of sugar is a joy!
Like a bird, we fly out of darkness into the hall,
Which is lit with singing, then fly out again.
Being shut out of the warm hall is also a joy.
I am a laggard, a loafer, and an idiot. But I love
To read about those who caught one glimpse
Of the Face, and died twenty years later in joy.
I don’t mind your saying I will die soon.
Even in the sound of the word soon, I hear
The word you which begins every sentence of joy.
“You’re a thief!” the judge said. “Let’s see
Your hands!” I showed my callused hands in court.
My sentence was a thousand years of joy.
Tags: ao_tar_pit, Jayhawk, Panhandle, Banks, DQ, Da Vinci
Date: 2025-09-11
AO: ao_dark_room
Q: LeMond
PAX: Body Double, Manhole, Toto, Flower Boy, Jolly, Crack, Beaker, Tortuga FNGs: None
COUNT: 9
– Warmorama:
– 25 SSHs
– 10 Imperial Walkers
– Abe Vigodas
– Copperhead merkins
– Tin Soldiers
– Arm Circles
– Pre-thang:
– Mosey to Hacksaw Ridge
– Bernie up hill and come back down again
– Clock face merkins: 10 at 12, 3, 6 and 9 o’clock.
– Rinse and repeat
– At field by south parking lot
– Station 1 at bench, station 2 at the other end of the field. – Station 1: 10 blockees, 10 burpees
– Station 2: 20 coupon curls, 20 4-ct LBCs
– Station 1: 15 coupon thrusters, 15 Bonnie Blairs (two is one) – Station 2: 15 coupon swings, 15 double donkey kicks.
– Travel between stations:
– One partner farmer carries both coupons
– The other partner sprints to the other station, then back to meet the first partner. – Each partner farmer carries a coupon to the other station. – Pullups at Lootis
– Each Pax attempts 10 pullups
– For each pullup missed, add 4 to a burpee spittoon.
– Completed burpee spittoon of 100.
– Proprioception exercise
– Stand on one leg with eyes closed for 1 min.
– Repeat on the other leg.
– Mary
– Flutter Kicks
– Freddie Mercuries
– American Hammers
– Moleskin
– Better a patient person than a warrior, one with self-control than one who takes a city. – Proverbs 16:32
Tags: ao_dark_room, Body Double, Manhole, Toto, Flower Boy, Jolly, Crack, Beaker, Tortuga
