Date: 2026-04-20
AO: Ground Zero
Q: Flower Boy ,
PAX: Flower Boy, Beaker, Samsonite, Mr Roboto, LouGee, Endo, Stock boy, Ankles FNGs:
COUNT: 8
WOR: Side straddle hops and pickin’ daisies
The Thang: We ran or rucked north.
Moleskine: Be kind to yourself. (See Andrew Peterson song!)
COT: IYKYK
Tags: Ground Zero, Flower Boy, Beaker, Samsonite, Mr Roboto, LouGee, Endo, Stock boy, Ankles
Date: 2026-04-20
AO: Tar Pit
Q: Big Mac ,
PAX: Big Mac, Chuck, Jolly, Da Vinci, Panhandle, Too Big To Fail (TBTF), Tortuga, Manhole FNGs: None
COUNT: 8
WOR: Motivators, Copperhead Squats, Copperhead Merkins, Pick Daisies, Scoopies, Arm Circles
The Thang: Mozy to sunrise hill.
Round 1: The Horde Arrives
10 burpees per throw
1 Kubb tower per PAX, knock them over to advance to the next exercise Run down the ramp and bernie back up when the wee men are defeated. Round 2: 7 thrusters per throw
Round 3: 15 merkins per throw
Round 4: 15 BBSU
Thang 2: The enemy fights back. 2 throws per PAX, 5 hard exercises per remaining tower, 5 easy for fallen towers. Round 1: Bonnie blairs (2=1) for hard, Lunges (1=1) for easy Round 2: Blockees for hard, OH Press for easy
Thang 3: The final battle
Coupon swings, unbroken for as long as you can go, each of us get one chance for each multiple of 10 rounded down. See if we win or lose. (Ended with 4 of 8 fallen, the battle was a draw, the Wee-Men appear to be getting stronger in battle.)
Moleskine: – As incorrectly quoted but much pithier in The Morality of Law, L.L. Fuller (2nd ed., 1964) on page 185, “As Thomas Aquinas remarked long ago, if the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.”
COT: PAX continued Job searches, Recovery for Giggles 2.0
Tags: Tar Pit, Big Mac, Chuck, Jolly, Da Vinci, Panhandle, Too Big To Fail (TBTF), Tortuga, Manhole
Date: 2026-04-13
AO: Tar Pit
Q: Big Mac ,
PAX: Big Mac, Chuck, SAGA, Jolly, Panhandle, Tortuga
FNGs: None
COUNT: 6
WOR: SSH, copperhead Merkins, copperhead squats, arm circles
The Thang: Start at the southwest corner of Glen Ellyn,
Do an exercise increasing reps EMOM by recommended amount. On failure, run up the hill to the stop sign. Flutter kicks until the 6 is in. – blockees (start at 5 or more, increase by 1 each EMOM)
– goblet squats (start at 16, increase by 2 and then 4)
– curls (start at 20, increase by2)
– blockee sit-ups (start at 12)
Moleskine: Moleskine – I was looking for tips for coaching kids soccer. One of the tips I found was to tell the kids felt very similar to a Panhandle moleskine. You have two choices, Make the practice easy and the game will be hard, or make the practice hard and the game will be easy. Seems like it has a lot of carry-over to F3 and life in general. If you work hard when things aren’t as high stakes, things will be easier when they are, if you don’t prepare in advance you’re in trouble.
Ended in a COT
Tags: Tar Pit, Big Mac, Chuck, SAGA, Jolly, Panhandle, Tortuga
Date: 2026-04-18
AO: Mastodon
Q: Stock boy ,
PAX: Falsetto, Bloomer, Too Big To Fail (TBTF), The wet burrito, Mr Roboto, Stock boy, Jailbreak, Cheap Shot FNGs: None
COUNT: 8
WOR:
Side straddle hops, Abe Vigodas, copperhead squats
The Thang:
7 stations (5 at base of Hoffa, 2 at top) with a coupon and non-coupon exercise listed. Pax did non coupon exercise until they hit a station with a coupon there. Then take the coupon and do coupon exercises, carrying coupon with them until relieved. To relieve a coupon carrier, you had to finish your non-coupon exercises at the same station as a coupon carrier before they finished, at which point you tap their shoulder and take their coupon.
Stations:
1. 30 calf raises
2. 25 squats
3. 20 good mornings / coupon swings
4. 15 merkins / derkins
5. 10 BBSUs / nutcrackers
6. 5 Bobby Hurleys / thrusters
7. 5 burpees / blockees
Playlist:
– Lenny Kravitz – Are You Gonna Go My Way
– Foo Fighters – This Is a Call
– Alice in Chains – Dam That River
– Muse – Pressure
– Stone Temple Pilots – Vasoline
– Queens of the Stone Age – Hanging Tree
– Beck – E-Pro
– Soundgarden – Drawing Flies
– System of a Down – Forest
– Pearl Jam – Glorified G
– Nirvana – On A Plain
– TV on the Radio – Happy Idiot
– Jethro Tull – Hymn 43
– Fleetwood Mac – Oh Well (Pt. 1)
– Matthew Sweet – Girlfriend
– Electric Light Orchestra – Turn To Stone
Moleskine:
Keep in touch with family and friends, especially elderly
COT:
Mr Roboto’s brother, Cookies M, local students battling medical conditions
Tags: Mastodon, Falsetto, Bloomer, Too Big To Fail (TBTF), The wet burrito, Mr Roboto, Stock boy, Jailbreak, Cheap Shot
Date: 2026-04-18
AO: Tar Pit
Q: Beaker ,
PAX: What, Portage, Homie, LeMond, Beaker, T-bone, Panhandle, Da Vinci, Big Mac FNGs: None
COUNT: 9
WOR: 30 sshs, 10 Abe Vigodas, picking daisies oyo
The Thang: Carry coupons to front of school. Mosey up and down the three sets of stairs at the front.
Starting at the double set of stairs, do 4 reps, go to the top of the left stairs, do 8 reps, come down, do 12 reps, go up the right stairs, do 16 reps, come down, do 20 reps, go to the bottom of the stairs to the east, do 24 reps, go up and do 28, return and do 32 reps, return to the double stairs. Switch exercises and repeat.
Exercises:
Merkins
Bent over rows
Dips
Curls
BBSUs
Romanian deadlifts
Burpees
Blockees
Some PAX finished through curls; Panhandle got a good deal through BBSUs.
Moleskine: You are responsible for your 2 blocks (for the direct authority and influence you’ve been given). Don’t get distracted by responsibilities that belong to others. make your 2 blocks better then how you found it.
COT: iykyk
Tags: Tar Pit, What, Portage, Homie, LeMond, Beaker, T-bone, Panhandle, Da Vinci, Big Mac
Date: 2026-04-18
AO: Flat Earth
Q: Bloomer ,
PAX: Hypotenuse, Banks, Jolly, Gummi Bear, Hershey, Spielberg, Tortuga, Wagyu, Cheese, Bloomer, White Noise, Oompa, @homer, Runs FNGs: 1 Runs
COUNT: 14
WOR: side straddle hop, across the field and back
The Thang: Frisbee in the wind
Moleskine: we will all have pain in our life. The pain of discipline or the pain of regret. What pain are you currently experiencing?
COT: Armstrong, family whose son is currently having seizures, Giggles son
Tags: Flat Earth, Hypotenuse, Banks, Jolly, Gummi Bear, Hershey, Spielberg, Tortuga, Wagyu, Cheese, Bloomer, White Noise, Oompa, @homer, Runs
Date: 2026-04-17
AO: Ground Zero
Q: Dumpster ,
PAX: Endo, Cheap Shot, Dumpster, Cookies, Mr Roboto, LeMond, Beaker, Mr. Bean, Panhandle, Buns, Toto, Stock boy, Chuck FNGs: None
COUNT: 13
WOR:
– Side Straddle Seal Claps (aka Seal Clap Hops) – SSHs but clap in front instead of overhead – Imperial Skippers – Imperial Walkers but with a skip in your step
The Thang: We ran or rucked West on Manchester Rd. The faster runners turned on Country Farm Rd. and did a loop back on the path.
Moleskine:
On this day, April 17, in 1970, the Apollo 13 mission successfully concluded with a safe splashdown in the Pacific Ocean. Astronauts Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert, and Fred Haise returned safely after a 6-day, 23-hour, 54-minute mission that was aborted following an oxygen tank explosion on April 13.
Quotes from an Apollo 13 Astronaut – Jim Lovell:
“There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen.”
And
“Be thankful for problems. If they were less difficult, someone with less ability might have your job.”
COT: Open prayer for anyone and closed with this:
We are grateful for Fitness – to be able to exercise and move our bodies in the various ways that we are capable.
We are grateful for Fellowship – to spend social time together and develop friendships with each other.
We are grateful for Faith – as we all have various hope and beliefs – and our faiths come in different styles, shapes, and sizes.
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“Electricity Will Kill You” Stickers were awarded to those who earned them.
Coffeteria- I brought regular coffee and Ryze mushroom coffee. Some pax tried mushroom coffee for the first time and thought it was either good, tolerable, or disgusting. Cookies brought Thai iced tea to share! อร่อย :yum:
Tags: Ground Zero, Endo, Cheap Shot, Dumpster, Cookies, Mr Roboto, LeMond, Beaker, Mr. Bean, Panhandle, Buns, Toto, Stock boy, Chuck
Date: 2026-04-17
AO: Flat Earth
Q: Tortuga , Tortuga
PAX: Bloomer, Candyland, White Noise, Cheese, Spokes, Samsonite, Too Big To Fail (TBTF), Manhole, Shiplap, Tortuga, Sparty, Kazoo FNGs: 1 Kazoo
COUNT: 13
WOR: yes
The Thang: 6v7
Moleskine: Do hard things.
COT: jobs, ailments, mastectomies
Tags: Flat Earth, Bloomer, Candyland, White Noise, Cheese, Spokes, Samsonite, Too Big To Fail (TBTF), Manhole, Shiplap, Tortuga, Sparty, Kazoo
Date: 2026-04-16
AO: Mastodon
Q: Endo ,
PAX: Stock boy, Mr Roboto, Jailbreak, Too Big To Fail (TBTF), Samsonite, Da Vinci, Endo FNGs: None
COUNT: 7
WOR: 7 motivators, goofballs, arm circles, seal claps, overhead claps, michael phelps, xc skiers
Some parking lot plyos – skips with arm circles, skips with michael phelps, lunges, backward lunges, karioke, backward skips
The Thang:
Mosey to Cooties
Stationary Dan Taylors to 8 (exicon Lt Dans)
Cindy AMRAP to at least 5 reps of 5 pullups, 10 merkins, 15 squats
Animal parade around the Cooties circle
Bear crawls
Jumping Frogs
Started raining, so we moseyed to the SHOP
SHOP
2 reps of
20 table calf raises
20 table press
40 step ups
40 wing nuts
20 table merkins
40 tablespoons mtn climbers
20 dips
40 russian kicks
Exicon discovery zone at the playground turf
The wolverine
Tony hawk burpee
The ATM
Moleskine: I forgot my planned topic, so I talked about why I’m doing a marathon this spring. I can race a half marathon just fine, but a marathon seems to be beyond my ability, and sometimes it’s a neat challenge in itself to learn how to tackle something that’s just outside our ability.
COT: giggles son, job seeking pax
Tags: Mastodon, Stock boy, Mr Roboto, Jailbreak, Too Big To Fail (TBTF), Samsonite, Da Vinci, Endo
Date: 2026-04-16
AO: Dark Room
Q: Lakers ,
PAX: Beaker, Manhole, Jolly, LeMond, Tortuga, Dumpster, Lakers, Toto, Framed FNGs: None
COUNT: 9
WOR:
SSH
Arm circles
Karaoke
Butt kickers
Toy soldiers
The Thang:
Long Scout Run out around the Library
Stop at the practice Cricket Pitches
Three Rounds of FUN! (This is the fun part, Jolly. Emphasis on the F-U-n)
With each round, travel to the concrete pitch do 10 reps of an exercise, run back to the start, then travel to the next pitch, do 20 reps, run back, travel to the third pitch and do 30 reps, run back.
Mode of travel and exercise change each round. Don’t worry about finding the puddles, they’ll find you!
Round 1:
Army Crawl / V-Ups
Round 2:
Broad Jump / Hand Release Merkins
Round 3:
Zombie Crawl (no use of legs) / Burpees
Mosey back to flags
Moleskine:
Always learn about yourself. Discover new aspects of who you are. This learning often comes through failure, input from others, or personal reflection. Lean into it!
COT: Injuries and Jobs!
Tags: Dark Room, Beaker, Manhole, Jolly, LeMond, Tortuga, Dumpster, Lakers, Toto, Framed
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