Backblasts

Ground Zero Ground Zero Run/Ruck

Date: 2026-03-30
AO: Ground Zero
Q: SAGA , SAGA
PAX: SAGA, Cheap Shot, Manhole, Endo, Samsonite, Stock boy, Crack, Mr Roboto, Ankles FNGs:
COUNT: 9
WOR: yup

The Thang: yup

Moleskine: What is there are no interruptions, only opportunities?

COT: travel, health, jobs

Tags: Ground Zero, SAGA, Cheap Shot, Manhole, Endo, Samsonite, Stock boy, Crack, Mr Roboto, Ankles

Ground Zero Ground Zero Run/Ruck

Date: 2026-03-30
AO: Ground Zero
Q: SAGA , SAGA
PAX: SAGA, Cheap Shot, Manhole, Endo, Samsonite, Stock boy, Crack, Mr Roboto, Ankles FNGs:
COUNT: 9
WOR: yup

The Thang: yup

Moleskine: What is there are no interruptions, only opportunities?

COT: travel, health, jobs

Tags: Ground Zero, SAGA, Cheap Shot, Manhole, Endo, Samsonite, Stock boy, Crack, Mr Roboto, Ankles

Ground Zero Ground Zero Run/Ruck

Date: 2026-03-30
AO: Ground Zero
Q: SAGA , SAGA
PAX: SAGA, Cheap Shot, Manhole, Endo, Samsonite, Stock boy, Crack, Mr Roboto, Ankles FNGs:
COUNT: 9
WOR: yup

The Thang: yup

Moleskine: What is there are no interruptions, only opportunities?

COT: travel, health, jobs

Tags: Ground Zero, SAGA, Cheap Shot, Manhole, Endo, Samsonite, Stock boy, Crack, Mr Roboto, Ankles

Ground Zero Ground Zero Run/Ruck

Date: 2026-03-30
AO: Ground Zero
Q: SAGA , SAGA
PAX: SAGA, Cheap Shot, Manhole, Endo, Samsonite, Stock boy, Crack, Mr Roboto, Ankles FNGs:
COUNT: 9
WOR: yup

The Thang: yup

Moleskine: What is there are no interruptions, only opportunities?

COT: travel, health, jobs

Tags: Ground Zero, SAGA, Cheap Shot, Manhole, Endo, Samsonite, Stock boy, Crack, Mr Roboto, Ankles

Ground Zero Ground Zero Run/Ruck

Date: 2026-03-30
AO: Ground Zero
Q: SAGA , SAGA
PAX: SAGA, Cheap Shot, Manhole, Endo, Samsonite, Stock boy, Crack, Mr Roboto, Ankles FNGs:
COUNT: 9
WOR: yup

The Thang: yup

Moleskine: What is there are no interruptions, only opportunities?

COT: travel, health, jobs

Tags: Ground Zero, SAGA, Cheap Shot, Manhole, Endo, Samsonite, Stock boy, Crack, Mr Roboto, Ankles

Ground Zero Ground Zero Run/Ruck

Date: 2026-03-27
AO: Ground Zero
Q: Cheap Shot ,
PAX: Dumpster, Panhandle, Cheap Shot, LeMond, Endo, Cottontail, Samsonite, Stock boy, T-bone FNGs:
COUNT: 9
WOR: Side Strattle Hops, Abe Vigotas

The Thang: Run/Ruck South

Moleskine: Generosity with our time and talents

COT: Jobs for PAX, Cookies’ M, Endo travel

Tags: Ground Zero, Dumpster, Panhandle, Cheap Shot, LeMond, Endo, Cottontail, Samsonite, Stock boy, T-bone

Flat Earth Flat Earth

Date: 2026-03-27
AO: Flat Earth
Q: Bloomer ,
PAX: Wagyu, Cheese, Has Been, White Noise, Candyland, Jolly, Bloomer, Tortuga, Gummi Bear, Oompa, Panda Express, Manhole, Shiplap, Big Mac, Sparty, cold feet FNGs: None
COUNT: 17
WOR: side straddle hops and stretch across the field

The Thang: frisbee

Moleskine: If you struggling with porn. Share it with a trusted friend

COT: Sparrow evangelism. Spring break travels

Tags: Flat Earth, Wagyu, Cheese, Has Been, White Noise, Candyland, Jolly, Bloomer, Tortuga, Gummi Bear, Oompa, Panda Express, Manhole, Shiplap, Big Mac, Sparty, cold feet

Tar Pit Tantalizing Tar-Tar

Date: 2026-03-28
AO: Tar Pit
Q: Portage ,
PAX: Portage, LeMond, T-bone, Homie, Da Vinci, Panhandle
FNGs: None
COUNT: 6
WOR:
Every Minute on the Minute – 5 Rounds
15 Jumping Johns
10 ‘merkins
15 Big Boy Sit-ups
Stretching on your own.

The Thang:
A the base of the spa:
1. Broad Jump up the ramp, making as few jumps as possible.
2. Half way, stop and do 45 ‘merkins (15 wide, 15 narrow, 15 regular) 3. Once at the top, do 45 dips
4. Hold plank to pick up the six.

Answered the question to our neighbor: What are your fears and hesitations about AI? How do you use AI in your person life? In your professional life?

Walk down to pick up our coupons. Carried them up the stairs to the top. There we did an exercise and after each exercise we carried out coupons down and up the stairs. The exercises were: 1. 60 LBCs
2. 30 Oblique V-Ups (each side)
3. 40 Rows
4. 30 Zercher Squats
5. 30 Power Cleans
6. 30 Curls
We then carried our coupons to the front of the building and finished our workout with the awe of a great sunrise. 1. 20 Salt Shakers (each side)
2. 20 Swings.
Stretching

Moleskine:
No matter how our technology changes and unfolds in our world, people will still be people. Be certain to see the person in front of you, and the person you’re interacting with through technology. Our humanity will remain despite technology.

COT:
War, God’s Will

Tags: Tar Pit, Portage, LeMond, T-bone, Homie, Da Vinci, Panhandle

Mastodon F Cubed – unlock the “power” of F3

Date: 2026-03-28
AO: Mastodon
Q: Endo ,
PAX: Treebeard, Falsetto, Carmen, Dumpster, The wet burrito, Stock boy, Jailbreak, Cookies, Endo, Cheap Shot, Audible, Profe, Jayhawk, Christopher Kempen (Taxi) FNGs: 1 Christopher Kempen (Taxi)
COUNT: 14
WOR: 7xmotivators, Abe Vagodas, CH squats, CH merkins, xc skiers

The Thang: This was Endo’s first attempt at a math beatdown, and just like math, what was supposed to be simple became complicated really fast, verging on chaos. So we modified.

Handed out cards with 6 exercises. PAX were instructed to do 2 sets of 2 times the first 2 exercises (2 cubed) OYO, then 3 sets of 3 times the first 3 exercises, with the 6th exercise being for PAX that got ahead of the group (and or Q). We all missed the great vocalizations of the jackson 5 while getting lost in rep counts and which exercise we were in. Cut this one off at the end of the song. Here are the 6 parking lot plyos:

Shaun white’s
Apolo ohnos
Bode millers
Line hops forward and backward
Line hops side to side
Curb steps (my daughter amrita told me to try this one)

Mosey to base of Hoffa. Failure to Launch activity in honor of upcoming next attempt to launch Artemis on April 1 (who thought that was a good idea?). Q failed on 6th round.

Round 2 – standing exercises, but we did them as a group with Q telling when to switch. Song was Cake’s “Mr. mastodon farm” (1994). Followed by They Might Be Giants “Dr Worm”. Squats
Bonnie blairs
Imperial walkers
Star jumps
Jungle boys (too similar to star jumps)
Single leg deadlift hop

Intermission activity was an alligator merkin race. Stockboy and Carmen cruised it while the rest of us lumbered to the finish.

Mumble chatter about using coupons as decoratives for the workout was silenced in round 3. Did coupon exercises to some U2 songs.

Block dips
Goblet squats
Bent rows
Curls
Thrusters
Scull crushers

Intermission activity was bear crawl tag (aka When Animals Attack in the Exicon). Bears that got tagged joined the its.

Round 4 – down on the ground for these exercises. Songs were counting crows “Omaha” and caedmons call “this world”.

Flutter kicks
Chuck norris Merkins (knuckles)
Broken bicycles
Plank jacks
Bar fights
Cockroach situps

Grand finale – marathon merkins. Pick a number that you think is your limit of merkins in one shot. Do that, then do 5 more (without stopping). That’s what makes it a marathon. A friend of mine (Jon Marshall) defined a marathon as “one more mile than you can physically run”.

We ended there and skipped the SHOP and PT portion.

Moleskine: piggybacked on The Wet Burrito’s moleskin from earlier this year that we need to always remember the everyday people that are caught up in these conflicts around the world. I’ve been including that a lot in my prayers time recently.

COT: cookies M, sparrow trip, pax seeking jobs, people involved in war torn areas

Tags: Mastodon, Treebeard, Falsetto, Carmen, Dumpster, The wet burrito, Stock boy, Jailbreak, Cookies, Endo, Cheap Shot, Audible, Profe, Jayhawk, Christopher Kempen (Taxi)

Flat Earth Saturday morning frisbee

Date: 2026-03-28
AO: Flat Earth
Q: Spielberg ,
PAX: Hypotenuse, White Noise, Jolly, Candyland, Tortuga, DQ, Oompa, Snatch (F3 Northwest HWY), Spielberg, Shiplap FNGs: None
COUNT: 10
WOR: SSH

The Thang: 4 games of 5v5 with different constraints

Moleskine: Be specific with your feedback

COT: silence

Tags: Flat Earth, Hypotenuse, White Noise, Jolly, Candyland, Tortuga, DQ, Oompa, Snatch (F3 Northwest HWY), Spielberg, Shiplap