Category: Uncategorized

Date: 08/25/2022
AO: #ao-mastodon
PAX: @Pat-Down, @Tortuga, @Archive, @Da Vinci, @Big Mac, @Katniss, @SAGA, @Majorette, @Panhandle, @Hancock, @Giggles, @Spokes, @Sparrow, @LeMond
FNGs: 0
Q: @LeMond
Total: 14
Pax braved the darkness and steady rain to mightily handle some coupons and spend time with Flora, Dora’s lazy, mean sister.
1. Warmorama:
* Windmills
* Tappy Taps
* Happy Jacks: 3 sets
* Arm circles
2. Pre-thang: at base of Hoffa
* 10 Absolutions
3. Thang 1:
* Partner coupon pass with thruster: 25 total
* Dips on picnic benches
* Bulgarian split squat on benches
4. Thang 2:
* Flora 1-2-3
a. Dora’s lazy, mean stepsister. All pax partner up, and grab a coupon, preferably of the 35 lbs CMU size (concrete masonry unit). 100 Merkins – P1 does 10 with feet on coupon. P2 holds plank with feet on his coupon. Flapjack.200 LBCs – P1 does 20 LBC holding coupon high on chest. P2 holds legs 6″ off ground, and extends arms w/ coupon over chest. Flapjack. 300 Goblet Squats – P1 does 25 goblet squats. P2 lowers to bottom of goblet squat w/ coupon, and holds. Flapjack.
b. Man rise to top after each round.
5. Thang3: Jack Webb and Mary
* Jack Webb push ups, each Pax leads 5
* Flutter Kicks
* Lizard Dance
* Writing Alphabet
* Swimmers
* Boat hold
* Rotating plank hold
Moleskin
“Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven.”
– Bible, Luke 6:37.

Date: Thursday, 08/11/22

AO: #ao_mastodon

PAX: @Pat-Down @LeMond @Archive @Tortuga @Da Vinci @wet burrito @Jolly @SAGA @BigBlue @Guillighann @Sparrow @T-bone @Big Mac @Hancock @wanna @Arnold @dent @LouGee @Giggles @Katniss @Beaker

FNGs: 0

Q: @Beaker

Total: 21

WOR: Motivators (ic, x7), Arm circles (ic, both ways, x10), Abe Vigodas (ic, x10), T-Bone burpees (oyo, x5)

THANG 1:

Pair up. While one partner performs an exercise, the other climbs Hoffa. For the trips up Hoffa, alternate sprinting and Bernie Sanders. Each pair must complete the following reps and exercises.

50 Coupon get ups

100 Derkins (Thanks @Katniss )

150 Overhead press

200 BBSUs

250 Curls

300 Goblet squats

Thang 2

Each PAX performed seal claps until @Tortuga completed 100, and then we sprinted up Hoffa

MOLESKIN

My network is strong and deeply supportive. Even in the light of that, I have learned again over the past two weeks the value of asking for help. Even if it is not your last resort.

Dr. Benjamin Lovaasen

Associate Professor

Chemistry Department

Wheaton College

Wheaton, IL 60187

(630) 752-7444

Backblast: Poison Pill Remix
Date: 8/10/2022
AO: #ao_tar_pit
PAX: @Panhandle @wet burrito @Shiplap @Spit Valve @Tortuga @8-Track @Bloomer @T-bone @Giggles @Big Mac @Da Vinci @Spokes
FNGs: 0
Q: @Tortuga
Total: 12
Warm-o-Rama: ssh, arm circles, T-bone burpees, stretch legs as needed
Thang: Three teams each had a jug of water and some chalk. At the top of the stairs and at the spa were stations, each at the top of a staircase or the ramp. When a team arrived at a station they had to do what was written there. If there was only one thing, each PAX did 30 reps. If two things were written, they did 30 of one and 20 of another, their choice. If three things were written, they did 30, 20, 10. Earned a point, erased the three things with their water.
After you completed whatever reps were required, your team added a new exercise to the list, or if you have just erased a set of three, you begin anew by writing the first exercise for the new list. Teams do not do the thing they have written, unless it’s still there upon their return. They then go back down the way they came and go to a new station.
T-bone stayed at the top, did 30 reps at a station (his choice) then moved the coupon. If you arrived at a station and the coupon is there, each team member had to do 5 blockees in addition to the other reps.
Some rules were modified on the fly since the planned area with five stations was blocked off and we had to make do with three.

Moleskin: Realize how unbelievable blessed we are materially, emotionally, socially, spiritually. Don’t take it for granted.

WOR: Warm o Rama

Thing 1:

Traverse the cooties then complete all of these in 15 minutes. After you complete the list once, keep score of how many you go over.

LBC	40
Squats	20
Merkins	20
Table Presses	10
Parallel bar Dips	10
Atomic Merkins	10
Inverted Rows under the cargo net	10
Pull ups	7
Monkey bar sets	2
Zipline ride 1 or 2 arms. (No legs)	2
Traverse the swingset (under the swings, or along the top bar)	1
Up Hoffa and back	1

Big mac completed the list twice

Thing 2
Hit the list again in 10 minutes.

Moleskin

A two sided coin.
Side 1: It’s great to enter in to a game, even a dumb one, play by the rules and try to win. Wherever you are, be all there.

Side 2: But in the game of life, don’t let someone else assign the point values for your life. Salary may not carry as many points for you as a job with purpose, or living near the people you love. I sometimes forget just how free I am. I may spend a saturday rehabbing my house or cutting my grass, but I was equally free to use that time to go skydiving. Remembering that I am free to almost anything at any time makes my “obligations” more joyful, because I know I am choosing to fulfil them.

Backblast: Longest lake loop
Date: 8/3/2022
AO: #ao_tar_pit
PAX: @Katniss @Jolly @Panhandle @wet burrito @Shiplap @Bo-Peep @Spit Valve @Tortuga @8-Track @Bloomer FNGs: 0
Q: @Bloomer
Total: 10
Warm-o-Rama: squats, arm circles, Imperial Walkers, Abe vigoda, track runner stretch. Running drills: High knees, but kickers, karaoke
Thang 1: longest lake loop. jog around the lake and do 10 Burpee‘s for every bench you pass, 10 squats for every tree you pass that is 6 feet away from the sidewalk, 10 light pole push-ups. We completed the west side and north side sidewalks and jogged back to the hill. I think we could have completed the whole lake within 45 minutes. The east side of the lake was not as bad as the west. Lots of Burpee‘s and sweating by all.
Thang 2: On the Stoneledge near the hill we did 20 dips, 15 step ups, 15 Durkin‘s, held a deep squat for 30 seconds and sprinted up the hill. Thang 3. We finished with some light Mary and stretching.

Moleskin: It is a no-brainer to protect your spouse and kids from an outside threat or another person, but are we being mindful to protect our spouse and kids from our own shortcomings and sin.

Backblast: Friday Run Club
Date: 8/5/22
AO: #ao_ground_zero
PAX: @8-Track @LeMond @Panhandle @Tortuga @wet burrito@Banks
FNGs: 0
Q: @Tortuga
Total: 6

Thang: Jogged south on the Prairie Path.  Turned around.  Returned.  Got in a bridge hill or two at ground zero.

COT: Prayed for @LeMond’s job search, @Tortuga and @Panhandle both have 2.0’s starting college soon, thanks for bodies that work and F3.

Moleskin: Act like men.  This section of our memory verse is sandwiched in between the phases, “stand firm in the faith” and “let everything you do be done in love.”  That is what it means to act like men.  The love Paul is referring to is the sacrificial love of Christ.  That is what it means to act like men.

Date: Thursday, 07/28/22
AO: #ao_mastodon
PAX: @Archive @Double Dip @LeMond @Guillighann@Big Mac Big Blue @Panda Express @T-bone @Hancock @Beaker @wet burrito @Noodles @LouGee @Pat-Down @Sparrow @Captain Crunch (AJ) @SAGA
FNGs: 0
Q: @SAGA
Total: 17

THANG 1: Burpee Sprints
10 blockees & sprint Hoffa to fence + 10 burpees at top & mosey down
Due 100 total = 5 sprints
El Capitan for the six

THANG 2: 200 partner Curls and Coupon Squats

THANG 3: 300 partner LBCs & pull-ups

THANG 4: Bataan Death Crawl
A combination of Catch Me If You Can and a traditional Bear Crawl. The last person drops and does 5 Burpees, while the rest of the Pax Bear Crawl in a line. After completing the Burpees, the last guy runs to catch the group, tapping the (new) last Pax on the shoulder, who then stops to begin his 5 Burpees, while the (former) last guy continues on to the front of the line. Continue until all Pax have performed a set of Burpees

MOLESKIN: Happiness is not having what you want but wanting what you have. Contentment is not the result of circumstances but character.

Date: Saturday, 07/30/22

AO: #ao_mastodon
PAX: @Captain Crunch (AJ) @Hancock @Sparrow @Archive @Jailbreak @Pat-Down @Bloomer
FNGs: 0
Q: @Hancock
Total: 7

Conditions: Sunny, mildly warm, dew on the ground

Warm-Up: SSH, mountain man poopers, picking daisies, thrusters, manrise

THANG 1: Coupon brigade from base of Hoffa to SHOP

THANG 2: 11’s: blockees at bottom, merkins at top of Hoffa

THANG 3: Pain stations. 10x pull-ups, squats, & table presses. When pull-ups team finishes 10 reps, we all switch to next station.

THANG 4: Zip line. We all took a turn down zip line, and did LBC’s while waiting our turn.

THANG 5: Redrum & manrise.

THANG 6: Mary in parking lot. Thor’s to 3 ( 1 BBSU & 4 American hammers, 2 & 8, and 3 & 12)

COT: Prayers for @Pat-Down for being with family for the next full week, and for @Captain Crunch (AJ)’s work to hire the right person for the job they need filled.

MOLESKIN: In the words of Thor: “I choose to run towards my problems, not away from them, because that’s what heroes do.” I say that’s what men do. If we are called to act like men and be courageous, then we move towards our problems. When we don’t, that just makes our problems bigger and unmanageable.

Backblast Running on Gary

Date: 07/29/2022

AO: #ao-ground-zero

PAX: @Toto, @Bo-Peep, @Katniss, @wet burrito, @Big Mac, @Pat-Down, @LeMond

FNGs: 0

Q: @LeMond

Total: 7

Ran about 4 miles and included at least 6 runs up and down Hoffa.

Moleskin

James 1:12

Blessed is the man who perseveres under trial, because when he has stood the test, he will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love Him …

A spiritual test, according to several religious traditions, is a life situation, provided by God, to evaluate man’s individual moral character and obedience to His laws.

How do you know if God is testing you or your resolve?