Backblasts

Ground Zero Not as Cold as Monday!

Date: 2026-01-21
AO: Ground Zero
Q: Pool Boy ,
PAX: Buns, Short Circuit, Stock boy, Mr. Bean, Cheap Shot, Audible, Pool Boy FNGs: None
COUNT: 7
WOR: SSH

The Thang: We all rucked

Moleskine: Check out the book Imagine Heaven

COT: IYKYK

Tags: Ground Zero, Buns, Short Circuit, Stock boy, Mr. Bean, Cheap Shot, Audible, Pool Boy

Dark Room 650 Reps I stole from Men’s Health…I think

Date: 2026-01-20
AO: Dark Room
Q: Manhole ,
PAX: Manhole, Crack, Framed, Lakers, Brainfog, Beaker, Dumpster, Flower Boy, Toto FNGs:
COUNT: 9
WOR: Yup

The Thang: Round 1, run to the top of Hacksaw, 10 x burpees, run down. Round 2 up Hacksaw 10 x burpees, round down, 25 x merkins. Round 3 up hacksaw, 10 x burpees, down, 25 x merkins, 50 x lunges, 2 is 1. Round 4 up hacksaw, 10 x burpees, down, 25 x merkins, 50 x lunges, 2 is 1, 100 x butterfly BBSU. Round 5 up hacksaw, 10 x burpees, down, 25 x merkins, 50 x lunges, 2 is 1, 100 x butterfly BBSU mosey back to the flag and squat to Recover Recover.

Moleskine: you can do hard things

COT: IYKYK

Tags: Dark Room, Manhole, Crack, Framed, Lakers, Brainfog, Beaker, Dumpster, Flower Boy, Toto

Flat Earth Flat Earth

Date: 2026-01-20
AO: Flat Earth
Q: Panda Express ,
PAX: Banks, Shiplap, Panda Express, Homie, Jolly, Hershey, Tortuga FNGs: None
COUNT: 7
WOR:
SSH

The Thang: hotbox. 3 passes for one team, 5 for the other

Moleskine: have fun

COT:

Tags: Flat Earth, Banks, Shiplap, Panda Express, Homie, Jolly, Hershey, Tortuga

Mastodon Bob Wylie: The Gut Strikes Back

Date: 2026-01-20
AO: Mastodon
Q: Mr Roboto ,
PAX: DQ, Stock boy, Panhandle, Mr Roboto, LeMond, Da Vinci, Falsetto, Glowstick, Samsonite, Audible FNGs:
COUNT: 10
WOR:
(YHC arrived at 5:31 to the sight of SSHs.)
SSHs x10
Copperhead Squats x10
Tappy Taps x10
Batwings x10

The Thang:
Mosey to the Shop. Repeat https://f3wheaton.com/2025/07/29/ao_mastodon-the-bob-wylie-beatdown/ from 7/29/25.

According to https://youtu.be/v69HA7CpU7A?si=trETplBqWueImPYa,, the men who fought in WWI and WWII did only the following to prepare. – SSHs x10
– Merkins x10
– BBSUs x10
– “Climb the rope” x10 (Get your harness on first!)
– Lap around the baseball field

Completed 6 sets.

5 minutes of DQ’s PT.

Moleskine:
Watch Wake Up Dead Man on Netflix. It’s as good a sermon as you’ll hear at the movies. Here’s a quote from the movie’s main character, a priest:

“You’re right. It’s storytelling. The rites and the rituals. Costumes, all of it. It’s storytelling. I guess the question is, do these stories convince us of a lie? Or do they resonate with something deep inside us that’s profoundly true, that we can’t express any other way except storytelling?”

If/when you read the Bible, let that sink in.

COT:
Manhole’s friend, jobs, Mr Roboto’s friends

10 penalty burpees for the Q as everyone drives away.

Tags: Mastodon, DQ, Stock boy, Panhandle, Mr Roboto, LeMond, Da Vinci, Falsetto, Glowstick, Samsonite, Audible

Ground Zero Ground Zero Run/Ruck

Date: 2026-01-19
AO: Ground Zero
Q: Cottontail ,
PAX: Pacecar, Stock boy, Manhole, Cottontail, Mr Roboto, Crack, Mr. Bean, Flower Boy, Dr. Phil, Audible FNGs: None
COUNT: 10
WOR: SSH, Goofballs

The Thang: 4 rucked North, 6 ran North…all 10 conquered the gloom.

Moleskine: take the road that hasn’t been traveled and set the precedent, set the example for someone else.

COT: marriage issues, job opportunities, car troubles, health.

Tags: Ground Zero, Pacecar, Stock boy, Manhole, Cottontail, Mr Roboto, Crack, Mr. Bean, Flower Boy, Dr. Phil, Audible

Tar Pit Tar Pit

Date: 2026-01-19
AO: Tar Pit
Q: SAGA ,
PAX: The wet burrito, Panhandle, Tortuga, T-bone, SAGA
FNGs:
COUNT: 5
WOR: side straddle hops / mtn man climbers / copperhead squats / arm circles / merkins

The Thang: QUIET RESPECT Q with the old timers:
1) light posts around lake = 50 burpees
2) benches around lake = 50 squats
3) stairs around school = 50 merkins
4) spa run: 25 burpees at bottom & sprint to top for 50 flutters back to 25 burpees at bottom & sprint to top for 50 American hammers 5) 1/4 mile with squats at corners & at the gate = 50

Moleskine/COT: beatific hope… riffing off Aquinas: nature is perfected by grace / 90sec of prayerfully listening to an instrumental of Amazing Grace / Romans 5:1-5

Tags: Tar Pit, The wet burrito, Panhandle, Tortuga, T-bone, SAGA

Tar Pit Tar Pit

Date: 2026-01-17
AO: Tar Pit
Q: DQ ,
PAX: DQ, Panhandle, LeMond, Da Vinci, Homie, T-bone, Beaker
FNGs: None
COUNT: 7
WOR:
– SSH
– Goof balls
– Arm circles
– Copperhead squats
– Copperhead merkins
– Runners stretch

Thang 1
Two “pyramid” routines. PAX went through 5 exercises. 50 reps of exercise 1 down to 10 reps of exercise 5, and work back up to exercise 1. In between completion of each exercise, run the hamster wheel

Pyramid 1
• 50 squats
• 40 lunges
• 30 reverse leg raise
• 20 Bulgarian split squat
• 10 burpees

Pyramid 2
• 50 Tricep dips
• 40 Supermans
• 30 hand release merkins
• 20 decline merkins
• 10 burpees

Thang 2
DQ’s Physical Therapy:
• marches
• clam shells
• canoe flappers
• bird dogs
• dead bugs
• american hammers
• toe tap planks
• side plank leg raises

Moleskine:
Help yourself make the most of your time by thinking about what you want your life to look like 5 years from now. Create a vision for yourself. Then reverse engineer how you will achieve that vision. Let that direct what you do in your day to day, and help you say “no” to things that get in that way.

COT:
– The Treier family

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

Flat Earth Flat Earth

Date: 2026-01-17
AO: Flat Earth
Q: Hypotenuse ,
PAX: Oompa, T.B., Wagyu, Tortuga, Jolly, Bloomer, Gummi Bear, Banks, Jack, Hypotenuse, Cheese, Endo, Shiplap FNGs: None
COUNT: 13
WOR: SSH x15, down and back

The Thang: 7v6 mostly eastbound ultimate

Moleskine: Masculinity is to be of service without expecting anything in return.

COT: HBD T.B.
Good luck on interview Oompa
No serious facial injury

Tags: Flat Earth, Oompa, T.B., Wagyu, Tortuga, Jolly, Bloomer, Gummi Bear, Banks, Jack, Hypotenuse, Cheese, Endo, Shiplap

Mastodon Save Mastodonia From The Dragon!

Date: 2026-01-17
AO: Mastodon
Q: Cheap Shot ,
PAX: Samsonite, Lakers, The wet burrito, Stock boy, Jayhawk, Dumpster, Bloomer, Mr Roboto, Too Big To Fail (TBTF), Cheap Shot, Endo FNGs:
COUNT: 11
WOR: SSH, Abe Vigodas, Imperial Walkers, Batwings, goofballs, copperhead squats, pretzels

The Thang: Traveled around Mastodonia, impressing barmaids, crossing bridges, fighting goblins, finding traps, defeated the dragon.

Moleskine: Try to see the humanity in those that have opposing opinions to you.

COT: Jobs for PAX

Tags: Mastodon, Samsonite, Lakers, The wet burrito, Stock boy, Jayhawk, Dumpster, Bloomer, Mr Roboto, Too Big To Fail (TBTF), Cheap Shot, Endo

Mastodon 12 Days of Christmas Beatdown

Date: 2026-01-06
AO: Mastodon
Q: Treebeard ,
PAX: DQ, Stock boy, Dumpster, Panhandle, Mr Roboto, LeMond, Da Vinci, Too Big To Fail (TBTF), Beaker, Treebeard, Audible FNGs:
COUNT: 11
WOR:
Yep!

The Thang:
12 Days of Christmas Beatdown

Moleskine:
Yes ✅

COT:
True that.

Tags: Mastodon, DQ, Stock boy, Dumpster, Panhandle, Mr Roboto, LeMond, Da Vinci, Too Big To Fail (TBTF), Beaker, Treebeard, Audible