Date: 2026-07-14
AO: Flat Earth
Q: Panda Express ,
PAX: Oompa, Cheese, Jolly, Homie, Pine tar, Gummi Bear, Bloomer, White Noise, Hypotenuse, Lib, Has Been, Swish, Panda Express, Krampus, frogger, head top FNGs: None
COUNT: 16
Conditions:
WOR:
ssh
The Thang:
frisbee
Moleskine:
Candyland baby, Krampus looking for house
Tags: Flat Earth, Oompa, Cheese, Jolly, Homie, Pine tar, Gummi Bear, Bloomer, White Noise, Hypotenuse, Lib, Has Been, Swish, Panda Express, Krampus, frogger, head top
Date: 2026-07-13
AO: Downrange
Q: Dumpster , Lakers, Manhole
PAX: Noodles, Manhole, Stock boy, Dumpster, Lakers, Brainfog, Portage, Crack, DQ FNGs: None
COUNT: 9
Conditions: Supreme… with annoying gnats!
WOR: Lakers and Manhole led pax in some warmups with and without sandbags.
The Thang:
SANDEEBALLZ! 4 v 4
… and then 4 v 5 when I showed up.
~ I made it to about half of the beatdown (but ALL of Coffeeteria). I was late as the Q because I woke up at 5:30 and was confused that I slept through my 2 alarms… only to realize they were set for 5:50 instead of the usual 4:50. :zany_face::man-facepalming:
Moleskine: Some good advice stuff I read off a yard flag that I recently bought at Goodwill for 99 cents.
Tags: Downrange, Noodles, Manhole, Stock boy, Dumpster, Lakers, Brainfog, Portage, Crack, DQ
Date: 2026-07-09
AO: Dark Room
Q: LeMond ,
PAX: Noodles, Body Double, Toto, LeMond, perculator, Spokes, Beaker, What, Lakers, Brainfog, Crack, Bookworm FNGs: None
COUNT: 12
• Warmorama:
– Goofballs
– Abe Vigodas
– Toy Soldiers
– Speed Skaters
– Arm circles
• Pre-thang: Red Barchetta
– 100-yard dash, 100 SSHs; run back and plank
– 75-yard dash, 75 mountain climbers (2 is 1); run back and plank – 50-yard dash, 50 LBCs; run back and plank
– 25-yard dash, 25 merkins; run back and plank
– 10 yard dash then 10 burpees, run back and plank
– Each Pax takes a turn calling out start.
• Travel back to cones
– Partner up
– One Pax farmer carries two coupons.
– Other Partner does 3 burpees, catches up
– Switch
• At start of cones
– Rifle carry out 10 yards
– At 10 yards, 1 blockee, 4 BBSs
– Suitcase carry back
– Rifle carry out 10 yards.
– At 10 yards, 2 blockees, 3 BBSs
– Repeat up to 4 blockers, 1 BBs
• Game of Uno at the the flag:
• Shuffle the deck of Uno cards and whatever the number is, Pax perform that number of reps with the exception of 0 being a short run around the parking lot. The color of the cards determines the exercise. You have to play your cards just like in Uno. Color on same color, or same number on same number. • Blue = Curls
Green = BBSs
Yellow = Goblet squats
Red = Bentover rows
Ø = Run a lap
+2 = Two of the last card/exercise drawn
+4 = Four reps of all four exercises
Reverse = Do the same exercise you just performed
Wild = Change color
• Moleskin:
– Seek progress, not perfection
– This is a cliche but worth repeating and reflecting on.
– This beatdown was the second time I ran the Uno game and there were some hiccups but it went more smoothly than the first time. That is progress.
Tags: Dark Room, Noodles, Body Double, Toto, LeMond, perculator, Spokes, Beaker, What, Lakers, Brainfog, Crack, Bookworm
Date: 2026-07-13
AO: Tar Pit
Q: Tortuga ,
PAX: Big Mac, Tortuga, Jolly, Panhandle, Krampus
FNGs:
COUNT: 5
Conditions: perfect
WOR: Davinci style: follow the leader
Ssh, arm circles, imperial walkers, hillbillies, copperhead merkins
The Thang: Four spokes with a center hub
Spoke one: 5 hand release tuck jump burpees
Spoke two: 10 Mike Tysons
Spoke three: 15 nutcrackers
Spoke four: 20 air thrusters
After each spoke do donkey kicks at the hub, starting with one and adding a rep after each spoke. After a full round, take a recovery lap around the wheel.
Repeato. Spokes stay the same, Donkey kicks continue to increase. Took a mosey and calf raise break in the middle.
7MOM: American hammers, boat canoe, stretching
Moleskine: https://open.spotify.com/track/6S5BFmq9ypnHBY0kNm1lQ2?si=MbuBgXGyQtKZWy12Q5LMRg&utm_source=copy-link I’m not loved because I’m worthy, I’m loved because you’re good.
We cannot earn God’s love by being good. We can never be good enough. The good news is that God loves us because He is good. God’s grace is undeserved favor lavished upon you.
Tags: Tar Pit, Big Mac, Tortuga, Jolly, Panhandle, Krampus
Date: 2026-07-13
AO: Ground Zero
Q: Mr Roboto ,
PAX: Flower Boy, Mr. Bean, Mr Roboto, Endo, Falsetto, Bear Spray FNGs:
COUNT: 6
Conditions:
A cool 65° with clear skies. Very humid, though.
WOR:
Abe Vigodas x10
Tappy Taps x10
SSHs x10
The Thang:
3 ran north and reported back that the mosquitoes could not catch them.
The other 3 rucked east—making it just past the Chase Street pedestrian tunnel—and back.
Moleskine:
Longtime SC Senator Lindsey Graham died unexpectedly yesterday. He was a Republican, and one that I feel was more polarizing because of his position of power within the party. Senator Cory Booker, a Democrat from NJ, called Graham his “perhaps most unexpected friend” in the Senate. This all leads me to believe that any of us, were we to sit down and talk with those different from us—like Graham and Booker had to at times—would be able to find some common ground.
Tags: Ground Zero, Flower Boy, Mr. Bean, Mr Roboto, Endo, Falsetto, Bear Spray
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
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
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
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
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
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