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ao_ground_zero RunRuck

by backblasts, posted in Uncategorized

Date: 2025-05-19
AO: ao_ground_zero
Q: Samsonite
PAX: Mr Roboto, Tortuga, Cheese, Crack, Beaker, Manhole
FNGs: None
COUNT: 7
WOR: SSH, Abe Vigodas, Batwings

The Thang: RunRuck

Moleskine: I’ll try to make this more clear than my garbled delivery today. Been thinking about life and death because I’m reading When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi. He was a young, accomplished neurosurgeon who died of lung cancer. His book gets me thinking about the third act of the play “Our Town,” where main characters of the play return in death. But in death one is given the chance to return to her living community and be with the living once again. The thing is, the living folks don’t know that she’s returned from death; they interact with her as if she’s just the person they’ve always known. So this character returns wanting to cherish every moment, savor each second, that she’s back with her living people. But the living folks are just living, moving through their lives not thinking about death or loss. Because they can’t. They can’t live in some world where they’ll die, because they have to live – make breakfast, do laundry, think about what they have to do in the afternoon. When we stop and really think about the fact that one day it’ll all be gone, we can look around and see it – really see it – but we can’t live in that reality. We are too busy just living. So there’s a dance between savoring and living in the moment, and just living, being as present as possible, while life continues on. It’s good to stop and think about death once in a while, but mostly we need to just be present, in the moments we have, all while we just keep living.

COT: Prayers for K-pop’s upcoming wedding. Announcements: Apps and Beer (plus a little trivia) at Nobel House on Tuesday; Friday Birthday Happy Hour at Wheaton 302; Spielberg and Samsonite One night only performance at Westside Improv! 7 PM.

Tags: ao_ground_zero, Mr Roboto, Tortuga, Cheese, Crack, Beaker, Manhole

ao_flat_earth Saturday Ultimate

by backblasts, posted in Uncategorized

Date: 2025-05-17
AO: ao_flat_earth
Q: Jolly
PAX: Shiplap, TBTF, DQ, Cheese, Bloomer, Spielberg, BigBlue, Velveeta, T.B., Gummi Bear, Jack, White Noise, Hershey FNGs: None
COUNT: 14
WOR: SSH, down and back

The Thang: 7v7

Moleskine: Don’t let a little headwind stop you from having fun.

COT: Spielberg’s 2.0’s Bday, Shiplap’s dad

Tags: ao_flat_earth, Shiplap, TBTF, DQ, Cheese, Bloomer, Spielberg, BigBlue, Velveeta, T.B., Gummi Bear, Jack, White Noise, Hershey

downrange Pool Noodles

by backblasts, posted in Uncategorized

Date: 2025-05-17
AO: downrange
Q: Tortuga
PAX: Tortuga, caterpillar, double down, double mint, etc
FNGs: None
COUNT: 18
WOR: Grass pickers, arm circles, 21 sshx2, burpees

The Thang: pool noodle work, merkins, squats, bbsu

Moleskine:

COT:

Tags: downrange, Tortuga, caterpillar, double down, double mint, etc

ao_tar_pit EMOMs and hill repeats

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Date: 2025-05-17
AO: ao_tar_pit
Q: T-bone
PAX: Beaker, T-bone, Da Vinci, Ankles, Portage, Archive, Panhandle, The wet burrito FNGs: None
COUNT: 8
WOR: SSH, tricep and should stretch, AVs, Runners stretch with yoga dogs

The Thang: run up the hill towards Main Street and back to the base then as a group complete 5 minute EMOM. Repeat 5x (Blockees, Thrusters, Coupon Swings, Squats, Merkins with BBSU). On the hill run everyone turns around when the first runner reaches them on the return.

Moleskine: BNTFHF – Be Nice, Think First (b4 you say something you later wish you hadn’t), Have Fun

COT: Portage baby due in January, 2.0 and Pax travel, Boundary Waters classroom for Da Vinci, Samsonite and maybe others?

Tags: ao_tar_pit, Beaker, T-bone, Da Vinci, Ankles, Portage, Archive, Panhandle, The wet burrito

ao_tar_pit Pain in the AO

by backblasts, posted in Uncategorized

Date: 2025-05-10
AO: ao_tar_pit
Q: LeMond
PAX: Da Vinci, Panhandle, Beaker, T-bone, Portage, The wet burrito, Dungy, SAGA FNGs: None
COUNT: 9
– Warmorama:
– 21s with 10 absolutions as punishment.
– Abe Vigodas
– Side leg raises
– Copperhead merkins
– Full batwings
– First thang: run around the school.
– Stop two times at ledges to do 10 rotating derkin/urkins.
– Stop at one ledge, hold body weight up for 1 minute.
– At top of driveway ramp:
– Aiken Legs
– Done in succession with no rest — 20 Squats, 20 Box Jumps, 20 Lunges (10 each leg), 20 Split Jacks (10 each leg forward). – Second Thang: Half The Dab
– 10 burpees per minute for 5 minutes EMOM, then run 1/4 mile. – Repeat with 10 T-Merkin burpees per 5 minutes EMOM, then run ¼ mile.. – Third thang: coupon thruster challenge.
– Partner up for 40 coupon thrusters for each Pax.
– Pax take turns with one half doing ten at a time, the other half holding plank. – At the spa: do one exercise Every Minute on the Minute, for 10 minutes. – 10 Burpees
– 20 Prisoner Squats
– 20 Merkins
– 25 Curls
– 20 Leg Raises
– 10 Burpees
– 20 Overhead Press
– 25 Jump Lunges, 1 is 1.
– 20 Bent Over Rows
– 25 Dips
– Moleskin:
– Q told a story about how the Kentucky Coffee Tree he planted for his daughter in 2023 died last year because of the cicadas. Q learned two lessons. One, trust yourself: the Q feared that the cicadas would harm the tree but took no action to protect it because a couple of tree experts told him not to worry about it. Two, show forgiveness: planting another tree rather than quitting in anger.

Tags: ao_tar_pit, Da Vinci, Panhandle, Beaker, T-bone, Portage, The wet burrito, Dungy, SAGA