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Mastodon 🌍 Around the World đźŚŹ

Date: 2026-07-11
AO: Mastodon
Q: Dumpster ,
PAX: The wet burrito, Starch, Mr Roboto, Jailbreak, Endo, Too Big To Fail (TBTF), Dumpster, Lakers, Pool Boy, Falsetto, Fun Dip, 2.0s : Chipshot, Floatie, T-Rex, Pom Pomeranian, Rainbow Sprinkles, Sub2, Domo, Arigato, , Hands FNGs: 1 Hands
COUNT: 20
Conditions: Warm and humid = perfect

WOR:
Counting in cadence

Arm circles forward
Arm circles backwards

To Music – Daft Punk’s Around the World
SSHs
Single Straddle Hops (for Endo :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:) Raggedy Andys
Toy Soldiers
Stretch

The Thang:

USA – starting at curb circle
This Land is your land
Overhead Brick lifts on verse
Step ups on Chorus

To the Border (Tennis Courts)
La Bamba
10 sit ups
Run to other side of Tennis courts
Repeat

Mexico (Hamptons)
La Cucaracha

1. Wheel Barrow with parent & back
2. Skip
3. Lunge
4. Crab walk

Ecuador (PoopHouse)
El Condor Pasa – (the flight of the condor). Song is originally from Peru but the musician Leo Rojas from Ecuador

Wall sit and pass the ball
Squats and pass the ball
Feet against wall – sit ups and pass ball
(Repeat)

Colombia (Hoffa)
Zoo
Distribute tails for adults
Climb up to top and if kids pull a tail then that adult does five burpees Hold a squat at the top
Gather at Top
Gorilla into a Star Fish exercises

Walk Back down
Same thing back up (Climb up & pull tail)
Hold a squat at the top
Elephants & Frogs x4

Brazil (by SHOP)

Samba do Brazil
Dance Party
Circle, take turns showing dance moves, and everyone follows the leader

Ireland (Playground)
Song from Riverdance

Kids do step ups
Dads run around playground on turf
Switch
(Repeat)

Australia (next to upper Cooties)
Down Under
Toy Soldiers
Flutter Kicks
Plank Jacks
Sit ups

Moleskine:
Try to be more Curious rather than Judgemental

Short open prayer & Amen

Breakfast Potluck!

Tags: Mastodon, The wet burrito, Starch, Mr Roboto, Jailbreak, Endo, Too Big To Fail (TBTF), Dumpster, Lakers, Pool Boy, Falsetto, Fun Dip, 2.0s : Chipshot, Floatie, T-Rex, Pom Pomeranian, Rainbow Sprinkles, Sub2, Domo, Arigato, , Hands

Tar Pit DaVinci turns 50

Date: 2026-07-11
AO: Tar Pit
Q: Homie ,
PAX: Big Mac, Tortuga, Homie, Da Vinci, LeMond, Sparrow, Stock boy, Panhandle, Archive FNGs: None
COUNT: 9
WOR: 50 SSH, arm circles, abe vigodas, stretch

The Thang:
1: Mosy around Lake Ellyn and enjoy the lovely smell
2: DORA style partner exercises – down and up the steps on the south side of the school while working on 100 reps of: – block rows
– BBSU
– skull crushers
– Box cutters
– Chest press
– Box squat
– Merkins
– Lunges
– merkins (some people actually did it twice!)
– Tricep dips
– blockees to finish.
Mary: Tortuga killed us with 100 flutter kicks; portage and Carmen San Diego mercifully just led stretches

Moleskine: show up!

Tags: Tar Pit, Big Mac, Tortuga, Homie, Da Vinci, LeMond, Sparrow, Stock boy, Panhandle, Archive

Tar Pit All Kinds of Fun

Date: 2026-07-08
AO: Tar Pit
Q: Panhandle ,
PAX: Too Big To Fail (TBTF), C.Clark (Indy), Beaker, Portage, Panhandle, Chuck FNGs: None
COUNT: 6
Conditions: warm

WOR: goofballs, abe vigodas, arm circles

The Thang:

Set of 5 exercises with designated reps. Pax do the cycle of exercises and then run a lap around the track. Reps decrease differentially (except the blockees).

Curls: 50/42/34/26/18/10
Merkins: 40/34/28/22/16/10
BBSs: 30/26/22/18/14/10
Lunges: 20/18/16/14/12/10
Blockees: 10/10/10/10/10/10

Moleskine: always play the long game in parenting

Tags: Tar Pit, Too Big To Fail (TBTF), C.Clark (Indy), Beaker, Portage, Panhandle, Chuck

Flat Earth Flat Earth

Date: 2026-07-11
AO: Flat Earth
Q: Bloomer ,
PAX: LouGee, White Noise, Cheese, Cookies, Bloomer, Has Been, Hypotenuse, Arnold, knuckleball, Lugee’s older boy, the count, swish FNGs: None
COUNT: 12
Conditions: pink sky this morning

WOR: side straddle hops, across the field and back

The Thang: frisbee

Moleskine: leave no man behind believe no man where you find him.

Tags: Flat Earth, LouGee, White Noise, Cheese, Cookies, Bloomer, Has Been, Hypotenuse, Arnold, knuckleball, Lugee’s older boy, the count, swish

Ground Zero Ground Zero Run/Ruck

Date: 2026-07-10
AO: Ground Zero
Q: Cottontail ,
PAX: Stock boy, T-bone, LeMond, Endo, Noodles, Samsonite, Cottontail, Panhandle, Toto, Tortuga, Shamwow, Hypotenuse, Durty Nelly (Atlanta), Comp, Ricketts FNGs: 2 Comp, Ricketts
COUNT: 15
Conditions: nice

WOR: goofballs, SOYO

The Thang: 4 rucked North and got eaten by mosquitoes, the rest ran North

Moleskine: longevity is nice but when you have a quality life: who are you impacting, what is the legacy you are leaving?

Tags: Ground Zero, Stock boy, T-bone, LeMond, Endo, Noodles, Samsonite, Cottontail, Panhandle, Toto, Tortuga, Shamwow, Hypotenuse, Durty Nelly (Atlanta), Comp, Ricketts

Flat Earth Flat Earth

Date: 2026-07-10
AO: Flat Earth
Q: Cheese ,
PAX: Swish, Krampus, LouGee, Pine tar, White Noise, Oompa, Too Big To Fail (TBTF), Jolly, Y2K, Big Mac, Cheese, Panda Express, Bloomer, Has Been, Cookies, chopsticks, knuckleball, waffles, headtop FNGs: None
COUNT: 19
Conditions: Warm and Humid

WOR: SSH & Down and Back

The Thang: Ultimate Frisbee

Moleskine: What are you reading?

Tags: Flat Earth, Swish, Krampus, LouGee, Pine tar, White Noise, Oompa, Too Big To Fail (TBTF), Jolly, Y2K, Big Mac, Cheese, Panda Express, Bloomer, Has Been, Cookies, chopsticks, knuckleball, waffles, headtop

Mastodon Mastodon Bootcamp – another Endo experimental workout?

Date: 2026-07-09
AO: Mastodon
Q: Endo ,
PAX: Stock boy, Ankles, Endo, Archive, Tortuga, Falsetto, Dumpster, Cookies, Knuckleball FNGs: None
COUNT: 9
Conditions: muggy

WOR: motivators to music that didnt work.
Parking lot plyos.

The Thang: one pax did a parking lot lap riding the “chopper” bike and towing 110 lbs of coupons. Other pax did various exercises. Rotated so each pax got to ride the chopper once. The chopper was acquired by Endo when Semi-pro’s son ended up with it after a bigger and better hunt. Semi-pro said “no way are we keeping this” …

Coupon carry to the SHOP

Played the game Flip 7, F3 style… each number card had an exercise associated which all pax had to do. I learned some ways to streamline for the future. Starting card requires no exercise.
Banking points requires all pax do 20 of the current card exercise.
Busting requires all pax do 20 of the previous card exercise (not the bust card).
(We did 5 burpee penalty for busting, but i’m thinking no penalty as the team already loses all points and dont want to discourage going for it!) Flip 3 card – only the last card determines the exercise (unless any card busts)
Losers do a bearcrawl manrise and winners do a regular manrise, but we ran out of time for that. Congrats to stock boy, dumpster and archive(?) for the come from behind win!

– see picture on reply section for the exercises we used in the game. Next time, we’ll use coupons!

Moleskine: mentioned 4 tenets of leadership development that i heard at honeyrock camp on pickup day. I talked about grounded identity.

Tags: Mastodon, Stock boy, Ankles, Endo, Archive, Tortuga, Falsetto, Dumpster, Cookies, Knuckleball

Ground Zero Ground Zero Run/Ruck

Date: 2026-07-08
AO: Ground Zero
Q: Audible ,
PAX: Stock boy, Crack, Cheap Shot, Samsonite, Audible
FNGs: None
COUNT: 5
Conditions:
Warm and clear

WOR:
SSH
Abe V.
Stretch OYO

The Thang
All Rucked

Moleskine:
You can always say more…later

Tags: Ground Zero, Stock boy, Crack, Cheap Shot, Samsonite, Audible

Flat Earth Flat Earth

Date: 2026-07-07
AO: Flat Earth
Q: Panda Express ,
PAX: Snatch (F3 Northwest HWY), Krampus, Shiplap, DQ, Pine tar, White Noise, Oompa, Y2K, Jolly, Bloomer, Cheese, Spielberg, Panda Express, Hypotenuse, Has Been, swish, frogger FNGs: None
COUNT: 17
Conditions:

WOR: ssh

The Thang:
frisbee
Moleskine:
have fun

Tags: Flat Earth, Snatch (F3 Northwest HWY), Krampus, Shiplap, DQ, Pine tar, White Noise, Oompa, Y2K, Jolly, Bloomer, Cheese, Spielberg, Panda Express, Hypotenuse, Has Been, swish, frogger

Mastodon Mastodon Bootcamp

Date: 2026-07-07
AO: Mastodon
Q: Falsetto ,
PAX: The wet burrito, Stock boy, LeMond, Endo, Too Big To Fail (TBTF), C.Clark (Indy), Beaker, Big Mac, Falsetto, Audible FNGs: None
COUNT: 11
WOR:
– SSH ICx20
– Abe Vigodas IC x10
– Tin Soldiers ICx10
– Mountain Man Poopers ICx10
– Arm Circles, foreward/backward IC x10
– Seal Claps ICx10, Overhead Claps ICx10, Moroccan Nightclubs IC x10 – World’s greatest stretch 2x each leg

Farmer Carry Coupons to Cooties
-switch with partner every 15 strides

Thang 1: HardCORE workout**3 rounds
10 Supermans IC “up-2-3-down (count)”
20 American Hammers IC
30 sec side plank both sides

“Fight Fire with Fire”- Kansas
“All the Love in the World”- The Outfield

Thang 2: “Hold the Line!”
– 1 min bar hang, 1 min Asian squat
– 1 min bar hang, 1 min Asian squat
–
“Hold the Line”- Toto

Farmer Carry Coupons to top of Hoffa
-switch w/partner every 20 strides

Thang 3: Tabata (40s work 20s rest)
8min-8 exercises
**Bernie Sanders/Bear Crawl after completion

MAD BOMBS
Mountain Climbers
American Hammers
Dips
Blockees
Overhead Claps
Merkins
BBSU
Squats w/ coupon

Farmer Carry Coupons to Hamptons
switch w/ partner every 20 strides

Thang 3: Spitoon-o-Rama
– 100 Curls
– 100 Overhead Press
– 200 One-arm rows

Until time, repeat as necessary

Moleskine:
Back to the Basics in life:
Love God, Love others.
It’s not more complicated than that, but it’s also not as easy as that!
Loving ourselves seems to easily come first. True love is sacrificial. It’s easy to love things that are lovely. Challenge: Today choose AGAINST yourself. One sacrificial act

Tags: Mastodon, The wet burrito, Stock boy, LeMond, Endo, Too Big To Fail (TBTF), C.Clark (Indy), Beaker, Big Mac, Falsetto, Audible