Flat Earth Flat Earth

Date: 2026-05-23
AO: Flat Earth
Q: Hypotenuse ,
PAX: T.B., Too Big To Fail (TBTF), Banks, White Noise, Has Been, Oompa, Jolly, Shiplap, Cheese, Tortuga, Bloomer, Panda Express, BigBlue, Hypotenuse, Wagyu, Gummi Bear, Bucky, Snatch (F3 Northwest HWY), Jack FNGs: None
COUNT: 19
WOR: 15xSSH. Down and back

The Thang: Ultimate

Moleskine: Honoring a friend

Tags: Flat Earth, T.B., Too Big To Fail (TBTF), Banks, White Noise, Has Been, Oompa, Jolly, Shiplap, Cheese, Tortuga, Bloomer, Panda Express, BigBlue, Hypotenuse, Wagyu, Gummi Bear, Bucky, Snatch (F3 Northwest HWY), Jack

Tar Pit Tar Pit – Old school Beatdown

Date: 2026-05-23
AO: Tar Pit
Q: T-bone ,
PAX: LeMond, Big Mac, Panhandle, T-bone, Beaker
FNGs: None
COUNT: 5
WOR: ssh, av, picking daisies, ch squats & merkins, ssh

The Thang: 5 alive with BOMBS – rifle or farmer carry between benches. End with a bit of stretching

Moleskine:

Song of the Lark:

In 1884, French painter Jules Breton captured a moment so simple it almost escapes notice: a peasant girl standing in a field at sunrise, holding a scythe, her gaze lifted — perhaps listening to a bird’s song in the calm of early morning. No glory, no grandeur. Just a young woman, barefoot in the dirt, pausing before the work begins again.

The painting has stopped people in their tracks for well over a century. But perhaps no story about it is more striking than Bill Murray’s. Early in his career in Chicago, after a performance he felt was disastrous, Murray walked out of the theater and just kept walking — disenchanted, unmoored, heading toward Lake Michigan. He wandered into the Art Institute and found himself standing in front of The Song of the Lark.

What he saw there broke through. He thought: “Well, there’s a girl who doesn’t have a whole lot of prospects, but the sun’s coming up anyway and she’s got another chance at it.” And then: “I, too, am a person, and I get another chance every day the sun comes up.”

Tags: Tar Pit, LeMond, Big Mac, Panhandle, T-bone, Beaker

Tar Pit Florida

Date: 2026-05-13
AO: Tar Pit
Q: Homie ,
PAX: Big Mac, Samsonite, Panhandle, Sparrow, Tortuga, Bloomer, Homie FNGs: None
COUNT: 7
SSH, Arm Circles, Overhead Claps, Moroccan Night Clubs, Abe Vigoda, stretch…

Lap around lake: burpees at 3-4x stations

TABATA at Track (25 min, 40s on / 20s off, ×3 each):
1. LBCs × 3
2. Block Squats × 3
3. Obliques (40s left, 20s rest, 40s right, 20s rest) × 3
4. Block Curls × 3
5. Freddie Mercuries × 3
6. Block Rows × 3
7. Tricep Dips × 3

Moleskine: oh the places you’ll go. imagine the things you’ll find and how it will go right in unexpected and unplanned ways.

Tags: Tar Pit, Big Mac, Samsonite, Panhandle, Sparrow, Tortuga, Bloomer, Homie

Ground Zero Ground Zero Run/Ruck – the Nun Run

Date: 2026-05-22
AO: Ground Zero
Q: Endo ,
PAX: LeMond, Dumpster, Mr Roboto, Stock boy, Shamwow, Panhandle, Crack, Endo, Brainfog, Cheap Shot, Pacecar FNGs: None
COUNT: 11
WOR: ssh, goofs, vagados

The Thang: the nun run, all 4.77 miles

Moleskine: “Responsibility is the great developer of people” – Harve Chrouser. And some follow up thoughts re family life.

Tags: Ground Zero, LeMond, Dumpster, Mr Roboto, Stock boy, Shamwow, Panhandle, Crack, Endo, Brainfog, Cheap Shot, Pacecar

Flat Earth Flat Earth

Date: 2026-05-22
AO: Flat Earth
Q: Tortuga , Jolly
PAX: Cheese, DQ, Panda Express, Gummi Bear, Tortuga, Swish, Shiplap, Jolly, Bloomer, LouGee, Too Big To Fail (TBTF), Has Been, Bucky, Manhole FNGs: None
COUNT: 14
WOR: SSH/Down and back

The Thang: 7v7 Ultimate.

Moleskine: Tortuga said something about being prepared or something.

Tags: Flat Earth, Cheese, DQ, Panda Express, Gummi Bear, Tortuga, Swish, Shiplap, Jolly, Bloomer, LouGee, Too Big To Fail (TBTF), Has Been, Bucky, Manhole

Dark Room Dark Room

Date: 2026-05-19
AO: Dark Room
Q: Manhole ,
PAX: Framed, Flower Boy, Brainfog, Beaker, Lakers, Crack, Manhole FNGs:
COUNT: 7
WOR: sure

The Thang: stuff

Moleskine: don’t remember

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

Dark Room Hard Core Workout

Date: 2026-05-21
AO: Dark Room
Q: LeMond ,
PAX: Framed, LeMond, Brainfog, Tortuga, Crack, Manhole
FNGs: None
COUNT: 6
– Warmorama:
– SSHs
– Goofballs
– Abe Vigodas
– Toy Soldiers
– Arm circles
– Pre-thang:
– Five rounds
– Bernie Sanders up the hill, 1 PCMB, Mosey back down
– Bernie Sanders up the hill, 2 PCMBs, Mosey back down
– Up to 5 PCMBs
– Prisoner Cell Merkin Burpees aka PCMBs.
– Drop to Plank, do 1 Merkin then bring your right knee in and back, do 1 Merkin then bring your left knee in and back, do 1 Merkin then bring both feet in and jump up = 1 PCMB complete. – Scout run around short loop
– Main Thang: 3 rounds
– 1. 10 Pull-ups
– 2. 20 V-ups (switched to 25 dips after round 1)
– 3. 70-foot Broad Jump Burpees
– 4. Bear crawl back, hold plank
– Circle up for round of core exercises
– Rounds of core exercises after each main round
– Core round 1: 20 reps each
– Reachups
– Side bends
– LBCs
– Merkin with rotation
– Leg lifts
– Core round 2:
– Supermans
– Crab Rollover
– Imperial Walkers
– Breakdancers
– Box cutters
– Core round 3:
– American Hammers
– Pickle Pointers
– Crunch Frogs
– Little Orphan Annies
– Australian Snow Angels
– Extra:
– 100 groiners
– Moleskin: Book called The Tao of Pooh
– The Cottage Cheese Principle
The book states that everyone is born with a specific, unalterable nature, just like certain materials are only good for certain tasks.
– The Trap: We often spend our lives trying to fit into molds that do not suit us because of societal pressure or envy. –
– The Lesson: You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear, and you shouldn’t try. Acknowledging your limitations is not a weakness; it is the first step to finding where you actually belong and thrive.

Tags: Dark Room, Framed, LeMond, Brainfog, Tortuga, Crack, Manhole

Mastodon Mastodon Bootcamp – The Magic Number

Date: 2026-05-21
AO: Mastodon
Q: Lakers ,
PAX: Big Mac, Dümpster, Audible, Stock boy, Endo, Lakers, Ankles, Falsetto FNGs: None
COUNT: 8
At the gloom before dawn, the PAX did appear,
Another beatdown was brewing right here.
Lakers was Q and brought blocks to the fight,
Serving up pain in the morning twilight.

WOR:
We started with warmups to get moving right,
Loosening joints in the pale morning light.
Then off on a scout run, a half mile grind,
No man left lagging too far behind.

The Thang:
The timer hit six and the work then began,
AMRAP style — do as much as you can.
Ten goblet squats with the coupon held tight,
Twenty merkins to humble your might.
Thirty sit-ups to punish the core,
Then circle around and come back for more.

Another scout run through the neighborhood air,
Heavy legs growing but none showing care.
Round number two brought a fresh kind of pain,
Still pushing hard though the sweat poured like rain.
Ten chest presses pressing blocks to the sky,
Twenty lunges that made strong men cry.
Thirty flutter kicks counting two as just one,
By then every brother was nearly undone.

Round three was waiting, but time cut it short,
Mercy arrived from the clock of the court.
So down to cooldown we finally came,
Breathing exhausted but glad that we came.

Moleskine:
Three is the number that carried the day,
Showing the PAX there’s a better way.
Three rounds planned though we finished with two,
Still the lesson rang steady and true.

Fitness to strengthen the body we bear,
Fellowship built through the burdens we share,
Faith as the anchor when trials increase,
Three cords together that won’t break in the least.

So blocks were lifted and miles were run,
Not just for pain and not just for fun.
Because every beatdown is more than we see,
Built on the power of things done in three.

Tags: Mastodon, Big Mac, Dümpster, Audible, Stock boy, Endo, Lakers, Ankles, Falsetto

Ground Zero Ground Zero Run/Ruck

Date: 2026-05-20
AO: Ground Zero
Q: Audible ,
PAX: Manhole, Mr Roboto, Carmen, Audible, Mr. Bean, Buns, Stock boy FNGs: None
COUNT: 7
WOR:
Abe Vigodas
Stretch Lunge
SSH

The Thang:
Run / Ruck

Moleskine:
You can choose the pain of discipline, or, the pain of regret. Choose wisely.

Tags: Ground Zero, Manhole, Mr Roboto, Carmen, Audible, Mr. Bean, Buns, Stock boy

Mastodon Mastodon Bootcamp – 40 Fingers

Date: 2026-05-19
AO: Mastodon
Q: Audible ,
PAX: LeMond, Mr Roboto, Endo, Falsetto, Dümpster, Samsonite, Audible, Chuck, Stock boy, Ankles FNGs: None
COUNT: 10
WOR: “Sound Check”
Abe Vigoda’s x 10
Cobra into Downward Dog
Low Lunge
SSH
Imperial Walkers
Arm Circles
Slow Squats

The Thang: “Rhythm Section”
15 minutes
Goblet Squats
Merkins
Forward Lunges
Reverse Lunges
Take a lap around cooties after each round

“Lead Guitar” – 7 minutes
Coupon Row
Curls
Military Press
Skull Crusher(s)

“Encore Set” – (7 minutes)
MARY

Moleskine:
“Speak to yourself the way you would to someone you care about.”

Tags: Mastodon, LeMond, Mr Roboto, Endo, Falsetto, Dümpster, Samsonite, Audible, Chuck, Stock boy, Ankles