Author: backblasts

ao_mastodon Count Down

by backblasts, posted in Uncategorized

Date: 2025-05-17
AO: ao_mastodon
Q: Bloomer
PAX: Stock boy, Bloomer, Cheap Shot, Samsonite, Short Circuit, Falsetto, Sparrow, TBTF, Deaddrop, Caden McDaniels- FNGs: 1 Caden McDaniels-
COUNT: 10
WOR: side, straddle, hops, tapping taps, plank jacks, stretch on your own.

The Thang:
1. 10 laps around the parking lot. Went at the flag. We completed 10 reps of curls, thrusters, coupon swings, Merkins. After running a lap we reduced one rep and counted down all the way to one rep per exercise. 2. 6 mins of Cindy – 5 pull-ups, 10 Merkins, 15 squats.

3. Picnic table work – every minute on the minute, we work to accomplish sets of dips, derkins, step ups.

4. We bear crawled up Hoffa and then we broad jumped and sprinted up Hoffa.

Moleskine: Don’t say, “Be a Man!” But rather say, “Be a Better Man.” You are a man, let’s not tear down to call each other. Boys but call each other to be better men.

COT: pray for Sparrows travels

Tags: ao_mastodon, Stock boy, Bloomer, Cheap Shot, Samsonite, Short Circuit, Falsetto, Sparrow, TBTF, Deaddrop, Caden McDaniels-

ao_mastodon Tabata in the Rain

by backblasts, posted in Uncategorized

Date: 2025-05-20
AO: ao_mastodon
Q: Stock boy
PAX: Mr Roboto, Glowstick, LeMond
FNGs: None
COUNT: 4
WOR:
SSH, Abe Vigodas, tin soldiers, leg stretches

The Thang:
Tabata – dips, merkins, BBSU, flutter kicks, calf raises, lunge squats, American hammers, Freddie Mercury’s, table presses, shoulder shrugs

Moleskine:
Do the hard things without hesitation; agree and start before you have the opportunity to talk yourself out of it.

COT:
Prayers for preparation for summer changes, LeMond’s work, Stock boy’s M sickness.

Tags: ao_mastodon, Mr Roboto, Glowstick, LeMond

ao_ground_zero RunRuck

by backblasts, posted in Uncategorized

Date: 2025-05-19
AO: ao_ground_zero
Q: Samsonite
PAX: Mr Roboto, Tortuga, Cheese, Crack, Beaker, Manhole
FNGs: None
COUNT: 7
WOR: SSH, Abe Vigodas, Batwings

The Thang: RunRuck

Moleskine: I’ll try to make this more clear than my garbled delivery today. Been thinking about life and death because I’m reading When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi. He was a young, accomplished neurosurgeon who died of lung cancer. His book gets me thinking about the third act of the play “Our Town,” where main characters of the play return in death. But in death one is given the chance to return to her living community and be with the living once again. The thing is, the living folks don’t know that she’s returned from death; they interact with her as if she’s just the person they’ve always known. So this character returns wanting to cherish every moment, savor each second, that she’s back with her living people. But the living folks are just living, moving through their lives not thinking about death or loss. Because they can’t. They can’t live in some world where they’ll die, because they have to live – make breakfast, do laundry, think about what they have to do in the afternoon. When we stop and really think about the fact that one day it’ll all be gone, we can look around and see it – really see it – but we can’t live in that reality. We are too busy just living. So there’s a dance between savoring and living in the moment, and just living, being as present as possible, while life continues on. It’s good to stop and think about death once in a while, but mostly we need to just be present, in the moments we have, all while we just keep living.

COT: Prayers for K-pop’s upcoming wedding. Announcements: Apps and Beer (plus a little trivia) at Nobel House on Tuesday; Friday Birthday Happy Hour at Wheaton 302; Spielberg and Samsonite One night only performance at Westside Improv! 7 PM.

Tags: ao_ground_zero, Mr Roboto, Tortuga, Cheese, Crack, Beaker, Manhole

ao_flat_earth Saturday Ultimate

by backblasts, posted in Uncategorized

Date: 2025-05-17
AO: ao_flat_earth
Q: Jolly
PAX: Shiplap, TBTF, DQ, Cheese, Bloomer, Spielberg, BigBlue, Velveeta, T.B., Gummi Bear, Jack, White Noise, Hershey FNGs: None
COUNT: 14
WOR: SSH, down and back

The Thang: 7v7

Moleskine: Don’t let a little headwind stop you from having fun.

COT: Spielberg’s 2.0’s Bday, Shiplap’s dad

Tags: ao_flat_earth, Shiplap, TBTF, DQ, Cheese, Bloomer, Spielberg, BigBlue, Velveeta, T.B., Gummi Bear, Jack, White Noise, Hershey

downrange Pool Noodles

by backblasts, posted in Uncategorized

Date: 2025-05-17
AO: downrange
Q: Tortuga
PAX: Tortuga, caterpillar, double down, double mint, etc
FNGs: None
COUNT: 18
WOR: Grass pickers, arm circles, 21 sshx2, burpees

The Thang: pool noodle work, merkins, squats, bbsu

Moleskine:

COT:

Tags: downrange, Tortuga, caterpillar, double down, double mint, etc