Mastodon Not a 2.0 Beatdown

Date: 2026-09-05
AO: Mastodon
Q: Stock boy ,
PAX: Too Big To Fail (TBTF), Stock boy, Lakers, Audible, Bloomer, The wet burrito, Mr Roboto, Brainfog, Carmen, Noodles, Cheap Shot FNGs: None
COUNT: 11
Conditions:
Warm, humid.

WOR:
Side straddle hops, toy soldiers, Abe Vigodas, copperhead merkins, Michael Phelps

The Thang:
We traveled along the path starting at the bridge south of the island. At each lamppost we did reps spittoon style repeating the following: Thrusters x 150
Curls x 300
Derkins or merkins x 300
Squats x 300
Blockees x 100
Nutcrackers x 150

We had bonus ‘fun’ crossing each of four bridges.
1. Murder bunnies.
2. Plank drag with feet on the rails if we could manage, else feet on the ground.
3. Cross bridge without hands touching the base, the mosey back and bear-crawl drag the coupons across.
4. Coupon Causeway: cross the bridge with no feet touching the base. Pax #1 places coupon on the bridge, steps on it, climbs the rail. Pax #2 steps on #1 coupon, puts coupon on bridge past #1 and climbs on the rail, etc. Once all pax are hanging on the bridge, pax #1 steps back on coupon #2, picks up his coupon, crosses all other coupons to the front of the line, puts his down, steps on it and climbs back on the rail. Continue until all pax cross the bridge.

Moleskine:
Practice doing the hard things when you don’t really have to so that, when there is a hard thing that has to be done, you’ll be ready to do it.

Tags: Mastodon, Too Big To Fail (TBTF), Stock boy, Lakers, Audible, Bloomer, The wet burrito, Mr Roboto, Brainfog, Carmen, Noodles, Cheap Shot

Tar Pit Tar Pit – week zero from 2021

Date: 2026-09-05
AO: Tar Pit
Q: Endo ,
PAX: Panhandle, LeMond, Archive, T-bone, Endo
FNGs: None
COUNT: 5
Conditions: hot and muggy

WOR: the q was not present … apparently timeliness is not good enough on it’s own, one also needs intelligence. After arranging with my M to take my son to WN while i was doing the workout, i forgot and took our one family ride to the workout.

Thanks to the group for being flexible and to Tbone for bridging the gap. Sorry you missed the Endo classic warmup of winter olympic themed exercises and parking lot plyos.

The Thang: modified week0 workout from 2021, Fat Coe Sandwich. I picked it because i wanted to work on thrusters.

Sergeant Coe – 5 x 20 thrusters and 20 merkins.

Officer Brenton – 100 foot bearcrawl and then 3x burpees buys you 5 broad jumps on the way back. (x 3) The q returned during this.

Modified Coe – lightened the sandwich with 5x 20 bent rows 10 each arm and 20 bbsu

In cadence, 20 coupon dips and 20 flutter kicks.

Did some pt on the ground like cat cow, clam shells, donkey kicks, and side plank leg raises

Finished with Thunderstruck (plank with merkins on each thunder).

Moleskine:

Tags: Tar Pit, Panhandle, LeMond, Archive, T-bone, Endo

Ground Zero Ground Zero Run/Ruck

Date: 2026-09-04
AO: Ground Zero
Q: Shamwow ,
PAX: The wet burrito, Topham, Shamwow, Mr Roboto, Panhandle, Endo, Comp, Cheap Shot, Ankles, LeMond, Tenderfoot, Dumpster, Ponzi, Stock boy, Crack, Samsonite, Sparrow, Ponzi FNGs: 1 Ponzi
COUNT: 18
Conditions: Muggy

WOR:
– Side Straddle Hops
– Goofball
– Abe Vigodas

The Thang: Run/ruck East

Moleskine: It took me a long time to figure out that vocation is not about what title you hold or what you do for a living but how you do it and who you are in relation to others and God. The job can support the vocation and is a means to fulfill the vocation but is not the vocation. This is very easy to forget, especially when work gets crazy, and I constantly have to relearn it. So this Labor Day weekend may we all take some time to meditate on our vocation, our calling, the real, deep reasons we’re here.

Tags: Ground Zero, The wet burrito, Topham, Shamwow, Mr Roboto, Panhandle, Endo, Comp, Cheap Shot, Ankles, LeMond, Tenderfoot, Dumpster, Ponzi, Stock boy, Crack, Samsonite, Sparrow, Ponzi

Flat Earth Flat Earth

Date: 2026-09-04
AO: Flat Earth
Q: Gummi Bear ,
PAX: Tortuga, Gummi Bear, Swish, Too Big To Fail (TBTF), Knuckleball, DQ, Cheese, Jolly, Y2K, Shiplap, Banks, Panda Express, MaiTai, Oompa, Spokes, Snatch (F3 NW HWY), Pancake, FroZone FNGs: None
COUNT: 19
Conditions: 78 degrees

WOR: steam engines, ski jumpers

The Thang: soccer field 10v9. Until banks gave the soccer fields half the field and left.

Moleskine: reframe

Prayers: thanksgiving for Tortuga’s good news. Prayers for my wife amy.

Tags: Flat Earth, Tortuga, Gummi Bear, Swish, Too Big To Fail (TBTF), Knuckleball, DQ, Cheese, Jolly, Y2K, Shiplap, Banks, Panda Express, MaiTai, Oompa, Spokes, Snatch (F3 NW HWY), Pancake, FroZone

Mastodon IronPAX Challenge 2026 Week 0

Date: 2026-09-03
AO: Mastodon
Q: Stock boy ,
PAX: Lakers, The wet burrito, Too Big To Fail (TBTF), Sparrow, Tenderfoot, Mr Roboto, Spit Valve, Tortuga, Stock boy, Endo, Ankles, Credit Check FNGs: None
COUNT: 12
Conditions:
Warm, not too humid.

WOR:
Toy soldiers, mountain climbers, copperhead merkins, Abe Vigodas, copperhead squats, bat wings.

The Thang:
IronPAX week 0 WOD

Moleskine:
Do hard things when nothing is on the line so you’ll be ready to do hard things when everything is on the line.

Tags: Mastodon, Lakers, The wet burrito, Too Big To Fail (TBTF), Sparrow, Tenderfoot, Mr Roboto, Spit Valve, Tortuga, Stock boy, Endo, Ankles, Credit Check

Dark Room Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed…

Date: 2026-09-03
AO: Dark Room
Q: Crack ,
PAX: Crack, Framed, Beaker, LeMond, Brainfog, Body Double, Toto, perculator FNGs: None
COUNT: 8
Conditions: More August weather than September weather. Warm, humid, dark.

WOR: SSH IC – 20, Abe Vigodas IC – 10, Tie Fighters IC – 10, mosey around parking lot

The Thang, Pt. 1:
4 Corners: 25 reps each corner, carry coupons to next location (3 rounds) 1. Curls for the Girls
2. Overhead Press
3. Derkins
4. Big Boi Situps

The Thang, Pt. 2:
Welsh Dragons! New for some, blocked from others’ memories.
Bear Crawl 4 paces, 1 merkin, 1 plank jack, 1 shoulder tap (both sides). Repeat adding one rep to each exercise (except bear crawl)

But Wait, There’s More!!
Mini-Dora on the steep side of Hack Saw Ridge
50 merkins
100 BBSU
150 Squats
Duck the rope on your way up and down the hill.

Moleskine: I feel like I’m on repeat, but it’s for a good reason…
“You do not rise to the level of your goals, you fail (or fall) to the level of your systems.” – James Clear, from Atomic Habits.

Tags: Dark Room, Crack, Framed, Beaker, LeMond, Brainfog, Body Double, Toto, perculator

Mastodon Star Course

Date: 2026-09-01
AO: Mastodon
Q: Too Big To Fail (TBTF) ,
PAX: Too Big To Fail (TBTF), Audible, Tenderfoot, Beaker, Mr Roboto, Stock boy, Falsetto FNGs: None
COUNT: 7
Conditions:
already hot and too many mosquitos

WOR:
– Abe Vegodas
– SSH
– Arm Circle routine
– CH Squats
– CH Merkins

The Thang:
Start at a central BASE, do 3 blockees, then roll the di to see what adventure awaits you (Adventure 1-6 outlined below). Rinse and Repeat

Adventures:
1 (Hoffa) – shoulder carry, OH press x25, murder bunny
2 (bridge) – shoulder carry, feet on rail side plan (down and back), curl carry 3 (light post/path intersection) – shoulder carry, curls x50, rifle carry 4 (home plate) – rifle carry, sprint the bases, rifle carry
5 (SHOP) – shoulder carry, coupon squats x25, bear crawl drag 6 (COOTIES) – shoulder carry, pull-ups x10, OH press carry

Moleskine:
Who you are in the solution of an issue can be bigger than the issue itself. Mistakes and challenges will happen but embrace the opportunity that comes from.

Tags: Mastodon, Too Big To Fail (TBTF), Audible, Tenderfoot, Beaker, Mr Roboto, Stock boy, Falsetto

Tar Pit Icosohedron of Intensity (AN ALL RESPECT BEATDOWN!)

Date: 2026-09-02
AO: Tar Pit
Q: Da Vinci ,
PAX: Jolly, T-bone, Da Vinci, Panhandle, Tortuga, Ankles
FNGs: None
COUNT: 6
Conditions: Annoyingly muggy.

WOR: Entire workout timed to John van Deusen’s album As Long as I am in the tent of this body: https://open.spotify.com/album/6rdN8JNF1tCmEMr1o5KS16

The Thang:
Icosahedron of Intensity.

Cool down from T-bone

Moleskine: From Wendell Berry’s The Country of Marriage, fifth stanza https://allpoetry.com/poem/12625918-The-Country-of-Marriage-by-Wendell-Berry

COT: Prayers for Tortuga, Wes, Cookies M, Gummi Bear M

Tags: Tar Pit, Jolly, T-bone, Da Vinci, Panhandle, Tortuga, Ankles

Flat Earth Flat Earth

Date: 2026-09-01
AO: Flat Earth
Q: Bloomer ,
PAX: Bloomer, Shiplap, MaiTai, Krampus, Snatch (F3 NW HWY), Y2K, Pine tar, Cheese, Jolly, Spokes, Hypotenuse, Has Been, BigBlue, Gummi Bear, Panda Express, DQ, Babe, Knuckleball, Tortuga, Elsiha (Kilt), pancake FNGs: None
COUNT: 21
Conditions: sweaty

WOR: side straddle hops, lunge stretch, work across the field and back

The Thang: frisbee

Moleskine: practice gratitude

Tags: Flat Earth, Bloomer, Shiplap, MaiTai, Krampus, Snatch (F3 NW HWY), Y2K, Pine tar, Cheese, Jolly, Spokes, Hypotenuse, Has Been, BigBlue, Gummi Bear, Panda Express, DQ, Babe, Knuckleball, Tortuga, Elsiha (Kilt), pancake

Dark Room IRON PAX 2026 – WEEK 0

Date: 2026-09-01
AO: Dark Room
Q: Framed ,
PAX: Brainfog, LeMond, Crack, Framed, Manhole, Toto, perculator FNGs: None
COUNT: 7
Conditions: Steamy

WOR: SSHs, Abe Vigodas, Imperial Walkers, Mountain Climbers

The Thang:
– Iron Pax Week 0: https://youtu.be/X8JOMOAcWXs?is=7-R46PmZ1Qr1wVYM – Finished with time to spare so added in a round of Mary for good measure

Moleskine: There’s always a little more gas left in the tank. Push yourself. Don’t leave anything on the table. It’s never too late to start. Take action. Keep moving forward. No regrets.

Tags: Dark Room, Brainfog, LeMond, Crack, Framed, Manhole, Toto, perculator