Author: Tortuga

Date: 8/31/22
AO: #ao_tar_pit
PAX: @Tortuga , @Katniss @T-bone @8-Track @Panhandle @wet burrito @Jolly @SAGA @Giggles
FNGs: 0
Q: @Tortuga
Total: 9

WOR: goofballs, mountain climbers, arm circles, slow merkins
The Thang:  Hauled coupons to far side of the track and lined up.
Coe – 5 rounds:

20 thrusters

20 merkins

Brenton – 3 rounds:

100 foot bear crawl out

100 foot burpee broad jump back

Perform 3 burpees and then 5 broad jumps

Coe – 5 rounds:

20 thrusters

20 merkins

Final finisher was under 30 minutes.  Perfect thruster form was hard to maintain over the course of 200 reps.

Moleskine: From Kirk Franklin:
“The biggest fear is that the resurrection was not complete.
The biggest lie is that this life is all that there is.
And so we live in a fear of believing that God’s work is not complete.
The problem of not having confidence in the resurrection is that we don’t know that in the end we will live again.
But I want you to know that the pain you face is temporary.
The cancer  you face is temporary.
The disease  you face is temporary.
Because every believer that’s washed in the blood of the lamb will live to live again.  How many of you know that this is not the end for the child of God?
This is only just the appetizer for the main meal.”

This life is only just the Warm O Rama for the main Thang.  Live in that freedom.

COT: Prayers for @Banks and his surgery today,  @SAGA‘s 2.0, Stupe, going through some hard things, and Tortuga’s 2.0, Anna, at college with Covid.

Backblast: Poison Pill Remix
Date: 8/10/2022
AO: #ao_tar_pit
PAX: @Panhandle @wet burrito @Shiplap @Spit Valve @Tortuga @8-Track @Bloomer @T-bone @Giggles @Big Mac @Da Vinci @Spokes
FNGs: 0
Q: @Tortuga
Total: 12
Warm-o-Rama: ssh, arm circles, T-bone burpees, stretch legs as needed
Thang: Three teams each had a jug of water and some chalk. At the top of the stairs and at the spa were stations, each at the top of a staircase or the ramp. When a team arrived at a station they had to do what was written there. If there was only one thing, each PAX did 30 reps. If two things were written, they did 30 of one and 20 of another, their choice. If three things were written, they did 30, 20, 10. Earned a point, erased the three things with their water.
After you completed whatever reps were required, your team added a new exercise to the list, or if you have just erased a set of three, you begin anew by writing the first exercise for the new list. Teams do not do the thing they have written, unless it’s still there upon their return. They then go back down the way they came and go to a new station.
T-bone stayed at the top, did 30 reps at a station (his choice) then moved the coupon. If you arrived at a station and the coupon is there, each team member had to do 5 blockees in addition to the other reps.
Some rules were modified on the fly since the planned area with five stations was blocked off and we had to make do with three.

Moleskin: Realize how unbelievable blessed we are materially, emotionally, socially, spiritually. Don’t take it for granted.

Backblast: Friday Run Club
Date: 8/5/22
AO: #ao_ground_zero
PAX: @8-Track @LeMond @Panhandle @Tortuga @wet burrito@Banks
FNGs: 0
Q: @Tortuga
Total: 6

Thang: Jogged south on the Prairie Path.  Turned around.  Returned.  Got in a bridge hill or two at ground zero.

COT: Prayed for @LeMond’s job search, @Tortuga and @Panhandle both have 2.0’s starting college soon, thanks for bodies that work and F3.

Moleskin: Act like men.  This section of our memory verse is sandwiched in between the phases, “stand firm in the faith” and “let everything you do be done in love.”  That is what it means to act like men.  The love Paul is referring to is the sacrificial love of Christ.  That is what it means to act like men.

Backblast: Face off
Date: Thursday, 6/23/22
AO: #ao_mastodon
PAX: @Big Mac @Jolly (Respect) @SAGA @Da Vinci @Guilligan @Tortuga (respect) @Bigblue@LouGee @LeMond @Sparrow @Giggles @Noodles @Bo-Peep @T-bone (respect) @Katniss @Beaker @8-Track @Archive @maniac (FNG)
FNGs: 1
Q: @Tortuga
Total: 19

WOR: SSH, Abe Vigoda, arm circles, Micheal Phelps, T-bone burpees.

Thang one: race to the island. Team One went clockwise, Team Two went counter clockwise. Each team had to complete 90 pull ups and 90 squats before reaching the island by Dan Taylor Alley.

Thang two: KUBB
Each team had a king. The goal was to move your king to the other team’s bridge. You move it by standing broad jump. You earned a broad jump by traversing your own bridge on your hands with feet on the rail. You could also earn a jump by knocking down the opponent’s KUBB blocks with a toss of a baton. You earned a toss by completing 10 Apollo Onos or 20 American Hammers.

Thang Three: KUBB round two
Two bridge traverses + one jump. Ten hand release merkins or 20 squat jumps = one toss.

Mosey back to Hoffa.
Planks, high and low. Al Gore, Nolan Ryans.

COT: Archive’s M is pregnant and due in December. Continued prayers for the war in Ukraine.

Moleskin: Philippians 4:6+7
“Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and petition with thanksgiving present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.”

Backblast: YDY Monday
Date: Monday, 06/13/22
AO: #ao_mastodon
PAX: @Big Mac @Cheese (Respect) @Jolly (Respect) @Panda Express @Jailbreak @TBTF @SAGA @Da Vinci @Shiplap @Panhandle (respect) @Tortuga (respect)
FNGs: 0
Q: @Tortuga
Total: 11

Conditions: perfect

Warm-Up: Michael Phelps, arm circles, legs

The Thang: Some ran, some Murphed, some rucked, one walked with a beverage and a built in ruck.

Moleskin: If a doctor’s prescription could bring you:

• Longer life
• Better health
• More energy and resilience
• Less burnout, depression and anxiety
• More happiness, fulfillment and well-being
• More personal and professional success (including higher income)
• And, no harmful side effects

Would you take it?

Wonder Drug: 7 Scientifically Proven Ways That Serving Others Is the Best Medicine for Yourself – new book showing the above.

From Matthew 20: “But whoever would be great among you must be your servant, and whoever would be first among you must be your slave,”

Scan your orbit for the people around you in need of help, and go fill that need, as often as you can.

COT: @Jailbreak’s M is getting induced Tuesday! @Panhandle’s 2.0 is going to England for 7 weeks. @mucho leggo and @squirt are going to the Dominican Republic on Tuesday for a missions trip.

Backblast – Pick up the Six
Date: 5/10/22
AO: #ao_mastodon
PAX: @Tortuga @Hancock @Panhandle @Jolly @Panda Express  @Banks  @Bloomer @Da Vinci @Bo-Peep @Katniss @Shiplap @Zoro
FNGs: 1 @extension
Q: @Tortuga
Total: 13

Conditions: beautiful

Warm-O-Rama:
SSH, tappy taps, Picking daisies, goof balls, copperhead squats, air thrusters

Thang: Five Alive, with modifications
First lamppost, one air thruster, second lamppost, two air thrusters, up to five.  At five, go pick up the six.
Top four finishers shift to five thrusters with blocks, everyone else, sticks with air.  Adding curls, one more per lamp up to five, pick up the six.
Top four finishers rifle carry, ten thrusters, 5 curls, adding blockees, up to five, pick up the six.
Top four double their blockees, adding bent over rows, pick up the six.
Finished adding block merkins.Grab a partner, farmer’s carry back to the flag using hands, not forearms.

COT: @Hancock looking for a place to rent, Ukraine, @Bo-Peep’s wedding, @Sparrow’s newest 2.0 and family.

Moleskin: Are there other areas in your life where you can pick up the six?  If the dishes need doing, do you wait until the M gets it done, or do you help her out by giving her some reps?   Look for ways to pick up the six in your life.

Backblast: Prairie Path South
Date: Friday, 4/22/2022
AO: #ao_ground_zero
PAX: @Tortuga@T-bone@Toto@8-Track@Cheese@Panda Express
FNGS:0
Q: @Tortuga
Total: 6

We ran.  South.

COT: Cheese’s 2.0 is sick, prayers for our marriages, parenting, PAX with COVID

Moleskin: Remain and repair.  @Da Vinci’s shared article encourages us to do just that.  Especially as it relates to our marriages.  Don’t give up on yours.  Things will break down, just like in your house.  Don’t throw it all away. https://t.co/OYUD0WlbK0

Backblast: This should hurt
Date: Tuesday, 4/12/2022
AO: #ao_mastodon
Pax: @T-bone@Banks@Gummi Bear@Panhandle@Jolly@Hancock@Pink Drink@WATER WINGS@Sparrow@Beaker@Captain Crunch (AJ)@Panda Express@SAGA@Tortuga
FNGS: 0
Q: @Tortuga
Total: 14

WOR: SSH, T-bone Burpees, goofballs, arm circles

Thang 1:
Farmer’s Carry around the obelisk and back to Cooties.
Pull ups to muscle failure,
Jog around the parking lot east of the obelisk and back
Good form, full extension, elbows in merkins to muscle failure,
Jog around the street side of Hoffa and up then reverse,
Good form, deep squat jumps to exhaustion.
Repeato.

Thang 2: Line up on the edge of the infield, just off the outfield grass between 2nd and 3rd.   First to the fence yells “fence,” then everyone turns around and returns to the infield using the same movement.
Weighted lunges (@Jolly), rifle carry (@Sparrow), broad jump burpees (@Big Mac), Bernie (@Gummi Bear)
Rifle carry back to the flag.

Moleskin: All sin separates us from God.  Thankfully, God gave us his only son to live a perfect life among us, take the blame for our sin, pay the penalty for that sin in full through his death on the cross, and give us the gift of life through him.  Friends, believe the good news of the gospel: In Christ Jesus our sins are forgiven.  If you confess your sins, and put your faith in Jesus, God is faithful and just and will forgive your sins and cleanse you from all unrighteousness.

COR/NOR/COT
Prayers for good transitions in new jobs for @Gummi Bear and @Hancock.  Thanks for bodies that work and for an awesome savior, Jesus Christ.

BACKBLAST: How far can you go?
Date: 4/20/2022
AO: #ao_tar_pit
PAX:  @Shiplap@TBTF@Tortuga (respect) @Spokes@WATER WINGS@Banks@Panhandle (respect) @T-bone (respect) @wet burrito
FNGS: 0
Q: @Tortuga
Total: 9

WOR: SSH, copperhead merkins, copperhead squats, arm circles and Michael Phelps, slow mosey around the track

Thang 1: EMOM timer running the rest of the beatdown
Round one: squats and burpees
10 squats, 1 burpee
10 squats, 2 burpees
10 squats, 3 burpees …
There was plenty of resting time for the first few minutes.  PAX continued until they were unable to complete the set in the minute at which point they ran a lap.
Round 2: flutter kicks and hand release shoulder tap merkins
10 flutter kicks (2 is 1) , 1 hand release shoulder tap merkin
10 flutter kicks (2 is 1) , 2 hand release shoulder tap merkins
10 flutter kicks (2 is 1) , 3 hand release shoulder tap merkins …
To failure, run a lap.
Round 3: 10 bent over rows and blockees
All PAX made it to round three.

COT: Banks’ parents traveling, T-bone’s sister in need of prayer, Ukraine war.

Moleskin: We need men to hold us accountable, ask tough questions regularly, and kick our butts when we stray.  If you don’t have a partner, get one.  If you have one, invite another man into your group.

BACKBLAST: First track work of the year
Date: 3/2/22
AO: #ao_tar_pit
PAX: @Cookies@SAGA@Bo-Peep@wet burrito@Gummi Bear@Tortuga@Panhandle@T-bone
FNGS: 0
Q: @Tortuga
Total: 8
Conditions: a pleasant 30+ degrees, no wind
WOR: SSH IC, copperhead merkins IC 10, copperhead squats IC 10, arm circles stretch your legs OYO.

Thang 1:
We started with 4 coupons at the start line and 4 halfway around the track.  All HIM started at the start line.  The reward for being the first four to arrive at the coupon station was to do 10 reps with the coupon.  If you arrived and all the blocks were occupied, you did 10 reps without a coupon.  The first time through the stations was squats, followed by merkins, thrusters, lunges, and burpees.  We spread out pretty quickly, so most reps were done with blocks.  I think the front runners got through the second round of lunges.

COR/NOR/COT:
Moleskin – You can’t follow from the front.  Instead of asking God to bless the plans you come up with, pray before making plans.  Ask God to give you wisdom and direct your thoughts and plans.  Follow Him.  Easy to say.  Hard to do.  I get out in front all the time.  It goes much better when I listen first.Prayers for @SAGA and a difficult interpersonal relationship, @Bo-Peep’s dad going through an investigation – hard on younger sibling, @Cookies has visas!  Prayers for flights especially in light of global conflict.