Backblasts

Date: 2026-03-24
AO: Flat Earth
Q: T.B. ,
PAX: Krampus, Hypotenuse, Too Big To Fail (TBTF), Cheese, Tortuga, Snatch (F3 Northwest HWY), T.B., Wagyu, Da Count, Starch FNGs: 1 Starch
COUNT: 10
WOR: the usual

The Thang: the usual

Moleskine: be careful of your words and attitudes when you are stressed.

COT: those sharing the Gospel in sensitive places, safe travels for spring breakers

Tags: Flat Earth, Krampus, Hypotenuse, Too Big To Fail (TBTF), Cheese, Tortuga, Snatch (F3 Northwest HWY), T.B., Wagyu, Da Count, Starch

Date: 2026-03-21
AO: Mastodon
Q: Stock boy ,
PAX: Jayhawk, Bloomer, Endo, Too Big To Fail (TBTF), Crack, Falsetto, Stock boy, Jailbreak, Mr Roboto, Cheap Shot, Carmen San Diego (F3 Naperville) FNGs: None
COUNT: 11
WOR:
To Vivaldi’s first movement of Spring from The Four Seasons, we did SSH, copperhead squats, copperhead merkins, monkey humpers, and Abe Vigodas

The Thang:
1. At each lamppost for 8 lampposts, we did reps incrementing from 1 to 8 of 6 SPRING exercises: Squats, Plank jacks, Ranger merkins, Imperial walkers, No surrenders, Groiners.
2. At each lamppost for 8 lampposts, we did reps incrementing from 1 to 8 of 5 TIME excercises: T-Bone burpees, Imperial walkers, Merkins, Elbows to knees (crunches).
3. Back at the flag, we did partner Doras running laps around the lot of 100 merkins, 200 BBSUs, and 300 squats to spring themed music. 4. Ended with Mary.

Moleskine:
Cherish time with both your kids, parents, and grandparents if you still have them. Too quickly your kids will become adults, your parents will get old, and your grandparents will pass away.

COT:
Sparrow in his travels, Falsetto on choir trip, Crack on trip to Spain with his M, Cookies M and her treatments, Short Circuit needs a job.

Tags: Mastodon, Jayhawk, Bloomer, Endo, Too Big To Fail (TBTF), Crack, Falsetto, Stock boy, Jailbreak, Mr Roboto, Cheap Shot, Carmen San Diego (F3 Naperville)

Date: 2026-03-21
AO: Flat Earth
Q: Hypotenuse ,
PAX: Shiplap, Big Mac, Oompa, Has Been, Bloomer, White Noise, Too Big To Fail (TBTF), Hypotenuse, T.B., Spielberg, Banks, Cheese, DaCount, Frogger FNGs: None
COUNT: 14
WOR:SSH & Down and Back

The Thang:7×7 Ultimate with questionable trades

Moleskine: Let go of your character defects to let something better in.

COT:

Tags: Flat Earth, Shiplap, Big Mac, Oompa, Has Been, Bloomer, White Noise, Too Big To Fail (TBTF), Hypotenuse, T.B., Spielberg, Banks, Cheese, DaCount, Frogger

Date: 2026-03-20
AO: Ground Zero
Q: Cottontail ,
PAX: Beaker, T-bone, Cottontail, Mr. Bean, Endo, LeMond, Panhandle, Tortuga, Stock boy, Sparrow, Mr Roboto, Samsonite, Carmen San Diego (F3 Naperville) FNGs: None
COUNT: 13
WOR: SSH, SOYO

The Thang: we ran south, some rucked south, some ran somewhere

Moleskine: Spring Clean time! Take inventory of your activities, discard what is not going anywhere and just taking up time, focus on what is important.

COT: Mr Roboto’s friend marriage, Sparrow’s trip.

Tags: Ground Zero, Beaker, T-bone, Cottontail, Mr. Bean, Endo, LeMond, Panhandle, Tortuga, Stock boy, Sparrow, Mr Roboto, Samsonite, Carmen San Diego (F3 Naperville)

Date: 2026-03-20
AO: Flat Earth
Q: Wagyu ,
PAX: Too Big To Fail (TBTF), Cheese, DQ, Oompa, Wagyu, Manhole, Pine tar, Hypotenuse, Bloomer, Krampus, Shiplap, Gummi Bear, Jolly, Panda Express, Candyland, Earnhardt, Capy, Cutter FNGs: 2 Capy, Cutter
COUNT: 18
WOR: SSH & stretch down & back

The Thang: 9v8 ultimate

Moleskine:

A quote from the founder of Chick-fil-A, Truett Cathy

How do you know if someone needs encouragement? If they are breathing.

COT: rest

Tags: Flat Earth, Too Big To Fail (TBTF), Cheese, DQ, Oompa, Wagyu, Manhole, Pine tar, Hypotenuse, Bloomer, Krampus, Shiplap, Gummi Bear, Jolly, Panda Express, Candyland, Earnhardt, Capy, Cutter

Date: 2026-03-06
AO: Ground Zero
Q: Mr. Bean ,
PAX: LeMond, Dumpster, Panhandle, Tortuga, Mr Roboto, T-bone, Endo, Beaker, Mr. Bean, Da Vinci FNGs:
COUNT: 10
WOR:SSH OYO

The Thang: RUN RUCK

Moleskine: Using AI daily. Continue to use critical thinking and test against what you know to be true – do not believe everything just because AI says it.

COT:

Tags: Ground Zero, LeMond, Dumpster, Panhandle, Tortuga, Mr Roboto, T-bone, Endo, Beaker, Mr. Bean, Da Vinci

Date: 2026-03-19
AO: Mastodon
Q: Mr Roboto ,
PAX: Stock boy, Tortuga, Samsonite, Mr Roboto, Big Mac, Sparrow, Dumpster, Homie FNGs:
COUNT: 8
WOR: ~5 min
Tortuga got us started since YHC was a minute late. (Yes, I did burpees.) Abe Vigodas x10
Mountain Climbers x10
Mountain Man Poopers x10
Arm Circles x10

The Thang:
O’Hare – 10 min
AMRAP at the Shop (30 sec work, 10 sec rest for 5 sets of 4 cycles): 1. Superman with weight (kind of a breast stroke motion)
2. Stretches with bands (palms up with elbows in at sides, grip band in each hand shoulder distance apart, pull hands outward) 3. Table presses

Sears Tower – 20-25 min
2149 overhead clap with weight Dora spittoon – 1 for each stair of the Sears Tower. (It will always be the Sears Tower.)
(Based on “Feedback February,” we did spittoons to 200—10 at a time—before running up Halffa, which is 50% of Hoffa.)

Lake Shore Drive – Till Time
Thrusters while partner bear crawls to the trash can, about 30 feet out. Switch.

Moleskine:
Tell people what you appreciate about them. YHC went around the COT to tell each PAX what he appreciates about them.

COT:
Big Mac 2.0, Sparrow trip, health, jobs, thanks for the beautiful day

YHC did his 10 penalty burpees as others began to enjoy the Big Shoulders coffee.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1aSAItlSqQb7MSiXl5ybYl?si=XqDH759-Tfi2VjqfahDo-A&pi=Ppy8-6eyRbGAs

Tags: Mastodon, Stock boy, Tortuga, Samsonite, Mr Roboto, Big Mac, Sparrow, Dumpster, Homie

Date: 2026-03-19
AO: Dark Room
Q: Jolly ,
PAX: Jolly, Panhandle, Beaker, Lakers, LeMond, Framed, Manhole, Endo, Banks FNGs: None
COUNT: 9
WOR:
SSH, Mountain Man Poopers, Arm Cricles
The Thang:
Separated into two teams. Each team carries their coupons and a couple sandbags to the start of the path. The team with 5 got a 60lb and an 80lb sandbag and a sand ball while the team of four got two 60lb bags and a kettlebell sandbag.

Round 1:
The teams had to make their way around the loop in opposite directions carrying all the items. One 60lb bag had to be thrown and each team had to complete the following exercises spittoon style: 100 Thrusters
200 merkins
300 Squats
400 Curls

The team of 5 won by a few seconds.

Round 2:
Carries everything form the path back to the flag completing the following: 50 Sandies
100 Skull Crushers
200 Bent over Rows
300 Big boy sit-ups

The team of 4 one by an unbelievably large margin.

Ended with a 1:30 plank hold.

Moleskine:
Do hard things AND have fun
COT:
Toto traveling, Injured PAX.

Tags: Dark Room, Jolly, Panhandle, Beaker, Lakers, LeMond, Framed, Manhole, Endo, Banks

Date: 2026-03-18
AO: Tar Pit
Q: Panhandle ,
PAX: T-bone, DQ, Panhandle, Da Vinci
FNGs: None
COUNT: 4
WOR: SSHs, Abe Vigodas, Good Mornings, tappy-taps, copperhead squats

The Thang:
– Four sets of exercises (25 reps each) interspersed with a stair loop run – pax add the next set after each loop – Set 1: merkins, BBSs, lunges (2-1)
– Set 2: CPRs, American hammers (2-1), block squats
– Set 3: OHPs, leg lifts, bonnie blairs (1-1)
– Set 4: thrusters, LBCs (2-1), goblet squats

Moleskine:
We lost our beloved family dog, Friday, early Monday morning. Grief is a funny thing in the way it can sneak up on you. But we should embrace the grief because it is a reminder of what we have loved and that the world is not what it should be. But we can also hope for the redemption of all things.

This is a video Anna Catherine sent around to the family. It is really beautiful.

https://youtu.be/uKuPLVNsZzY

COT:

Tags: Tar Pit, T-bone, DQ, Panhandle, Da Vinci

Date: 2026-03-18
AO: Ground Zero
Q: Audible ,
PAX: Manhole, Stock boy, Audible, Samsonite
FNGs: None
COUNT: 4
WOR:
Side Straddle Hops
Goofballs
Stretch OYO

The Thang:
Rucked through Lincoln Marsh

Moleskine:
Look for folks to lift up by offering a word of praise when you see them doing something well.

COT:
PAX looking for jobs, Cookies and his M, other unspoken needs of the PAX.

Tags: Ground Zero, Manhole, Stock boy, Audible, Samsonite