Date: 2026-07-25
AO: 2nd-F
Q: Lakers ,
PAX: Beaker, Too Big To Fail (TBTF), Panhandle, Lakers, LeMond, Brainfog, Crack, Flower Boy FNGs: None
COUNT: 8
Beer was consumed. Conversation was had.
Tags: 2nd-F, Beaker, Too Big To Fail (TBTF), Panhandle, Lakers, LeMond, Brainfog, Crack, Flower Boy
Date: 2026-07-27
AO: Downrange
Q: Beaker ,
PAX: Beaker, Stock boy, Noodles, Lakers, Manhole, Dumpster, Too Big To Fail (TBTF), Brainfog FNGs: None
COUNT: 8
Conditions: In the middle of a 74 ˚F cloud. IMHO, much better than the frigid, dry tundra that YHC woke up to in his house this morning.
WOR:
Motivators, ic, from 7
Raggedy Andys, ic, x15
Abe Vigodas, ic, x10
Sandbag good mornings, x10, onQ
Pickle pointers, x20, ic
Thang 1:
Dora-style exercises. PAX partner up. One PAX carries his sandbag in the back rack position down the length of the kids soccer field, around the goal and back. The other PAX works on the following exercises: 25 Cleans
50 Romanian deadlifts
75 Bent over rows
100 Sandbag shoulder shrugs
Thang 2:
Mosey to Plymouth Rock. In the same pairs, one PAX completes 3 sandbag get ups while the other PAX moves down the path with alternating L-R Rugby throws. After completing the get ups, this PAX moseys with the sand bag to their partner. Flap jack and repeato. Al Gore for the 6 at the end of the path.
Thang 3:
One PAX farmer carries the sandbags back on the other path while their partner does three burpees and then runs to catch up with the first PAX. Flap jack, repeato.
Moleskine:
James 4:14b-15 “What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. Instead, you ought to say, ‘If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or that.'”
Our control very is limited and our impact is fleeting. To make a lasting impact we must first connect to a higher, eternal power and story. For Christians, this is finding our life and purpose in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, and realizing that we are but playing a small part in His work on earth. (Look at that. The crypto-Lutheran finding some value in the “epistle of straw”.)
Tags: Downrange, Beaker, Stock boy, Noodles, Lakers, Manhole, Dumpster, Too Big To Fail (TBTF), Brainfog
Date: 2026-07-27
AO: Ground Zero
Q: LouGee ,
PAX: Mr. Bean, Mr Roboto, LouGee
FNGs: None
COUNT: 3
Conditions:
77 degrees, 100% humidity, 6 mph winds from the south, and fog WOR:
OYO- 10x Arm circles (f/b), 10x Abe Vogodas, and leg movement of choice The Thang:
Ruck the path-north and then south
Moleskine:
William Arthur Ward: “The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.”
Tags: Ground Zero, Mr. Bean, Mr Roboto, LouGee
Date: 2026-07-27
AO: Tar Pit
Q: T-bone ,
PAX: Big Mac, T-bone, The wet burrito, Panhandle, Chuck, Da Vinci FNGs: None
COUNT: 6
Conditions: humid
WOR: SSH, triceps and shoulders, AVs, runners stretch, jog loop
The Thang: 3 x 5 minute EMOM (thrusters, blockees, curls). In between run down ramp or stairs and hold plank for 2 minutes.
Stretch cooldown
Moleskine: Helen Keller, “Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet”
COT: Cookies, Giggles, Panhandle (James’ trip)
Tags: Tar Pit, Big Mac, T-bone, The wet burrito, Panhandle, Chuck, Da Vinci
Date: 2026-07-25
AO: Mastodon
Q: Stock boy ,
PAX: Too Big To Fail (TBTF), Short Circuit, The wet burrito, Bloomer, Dumpster, Falsetto, Jailbreak, Stock boy, Noodles, Cheap Shot, Mr Roboto FNGs:
COUNT: 11
Conditions:
Cool, slightly cloudy, beautiful
WOR:
SSH, Abe Vigodas, bat wings
The Thang:
With metal music covers playing, we moved between 7 stations of 20 reps each of merkins, Carolina dry docks, BBSUs, squats, shoulder taps, American hammers, and lunges. If you arrived at a station and found a hot potato there (half coupon, full coupon, or sandbag), you had to run it 4 stations ahead, drop it, and loop back to where you found it. Whenever music stopped and a fire alarm bell sounded for 30 seconds, everyone had to stop where they were and do 4 burpees. If the pax had a coupon, they had to do 4 blockees, and if they had a sandbag they had to do 4 sandees.
Moleskine:
Never put off until tomorrow what can be done today.
Tags: Mastodon, Too Big To Fail (TBTF), Short Circuit, The wet burrito, Bloomer, Dumpster, Falsetto, Jailbreak, Stock boy, Noodles, Cheap Shot, Mr Roboto
Date: 2026-07-25
AO: Flat Earth
Q: Jolly ,
PAX: Banks, White Noise, Panda Express, MaiTai, Jolly, TubaGoodingJr, LouGee, Boomerang, Gummi Bear, Pine tar, Cookies, Has Been, Knuckleball, Krampus, Shiplap, Bostaff, Frogger, DaCount, Arnold FNGs: None
COUNT: 19
Conditions:
Lovely
WOR:
SSH, down and back
The Thang:
9v7 Ultimate
Moleskine:
Sometimes we make bad choices. Suck it up and deal with it.
Tags: Flat Earth, Banks, White Noise, Panda Express, MaiTai, Jolly, TubaGoodingJr, LouGee, Boomerang, Gummi Bear, Pine tar, Cookies, Has Been, Knuckleball, Krampus, Shiplap, Bostaff, Frogger, DaCount, Arnold
Date: 2026-07-25
AO: Tar Pit
Q: Da Vinci ,
PAX: T-bone, Panhandle, Da Vinci, LeMond, Portage
FNGs: None
COUNT: 5
Conditions: Beautiful morning.
WOR: stretch to Imagine Dragon’s Thunder to evoke one of the “Sons of Thunder” (James and John)
The Thang:
Take Coupons to base of Hill
Mozy to Sea of Galilee
40 hand release merkins to “release your nets”
Run up the hill to evoke Transfiguration
Base of Hill: Ask to be the greatest
“For the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
Learn humility: 60 curls, 50 merknes, 40 shouoder press, 30 BBSU, 20 skull crushers, 10 thrusters
We’ve learned humility, Christ dies and rises,
Acts 12:2. “Now at that time, Herod the king laid hands on some of those from the church to harm them. So he executed James the brother of John with a sword.”
This happened in 44 AD: 44 derkens, 44, curls, 44 BBSSU,
James’ body taken on a stone rudderless boat to the ends of the earth, to Spain, where he was a missionary before his death (scout run to school).
Sunrise ridge: Abs and cool down, each PAX pick an ab exercise and then a cool down
Touch the curl bar and mozy around the track
Moleskine: You don’t have to go to Spain or do the Santiago della Compostella trail (though there is a portion of it in San Antonio). Turn your summer travel into pilgimrage when you can. America is filled with pilgrimage sites: St. Paul’s Cathedral in Osh Kosh. Frank LLoy Wright’s Annunciation Church in Milwaukee. Holy Hill, Guadalupe Shrine in Des Plaines or La Crosse, Our Lady of Champion – people walk across the state to get there. American is a site of pilgrimage if you know where to look.
Prayers for parents, Giggle’s son, travel, Cookies’ M, Tortuga
Tags: Tar Pit, T-bone, Panhandle, Da Vinci, LeMond, Portage
Date: 2026-07-24
AO: Ground Zero
Q: Endo ,
PAX: Panhandle, Cottontail, Beaker, LeMond, Mr. Bean, Ankles, Runs, Endo, Samsonite, Dumpster, Toto, Crack, Stock boy, Cheap Shot, Mr Roboto FNGs: None
COUNT: 15
Conditions: 60 and pleasant
WOR: ssh, stretch
The Thang: went north
Moleskine: mentioned the 4 areas of leadership growth that my kids’ camp works on.
Faith (personal relationship with Jesus)
Grounded identity
Authentically connected
Intentionally missional
Elaborated on the 3rd one.
Tags: Ground Zero, Panhandle, Cottontail, Beaker, LeMond, Mr. Bean, Ankles, Runs, Endo, Samsonite, Dumpster, Toto, Crack, Stock boy, Cheap Shot, Mr Roboto
Date: 2026-07-24
AO: Flat Earth
Q: DQ ,
PAX: Has Been, Oompa, White Noise, Wagyu, Panda Express, Banks, MaiTai, Jolly, Boomerang, Pine tar, Audible, Y2K, DQ, Knuckleball, Shiplap, Chopsticks FNGs: None
COUNT: 16
Conditions:
– Beautiful
WOR:
– SSH
– Down and back
The Thang:
8v8 then 8v7 Ultimate frisbee
Days Since Last Ultimate Injury:
0
Moleskine:
A friend of mine is going through a tough time in his marriage where his wife has become increasingly verbally and physically abusive towards him, culminating in him no longer feeling safe and calling the police. They’ve been through therapy over the past year but it has not been working out and a divorce is likely.
This is just a sober reminder to pursue your wife. Pursues her, build her up, and in general be intentional about ways in which you can foster an environment where your marriage can flourish. The success of your marriage does not ultimately 100% rest on your shoulders, but make sure you take the time to be a good steward of your marriage so that it is always directed towards success.
Tags: Flat Earth, Has Been, Oompa, White Noise, Wagyu, Panda Express, Banks, MaiTai, Jolly, Boomerang, Pine tar, Audible, Y2K, DQ, Knuckleball, Shiplap, Chopsticks
Date: 2026-07-23
AO: Dark Room
Q: Lakers ,
PAX: Dumpster, Manhole, Jolly, Lakers, perculator, Beaker, Framed, LeMond, Toto, Crack, Endo FNGs: None
COUNT: 11
Conditions: Gloriously Cool for July
WOR:
Mosey to the Broga mat
Warm up stretches:
Childs Pose
Hero’s Pose
Deep Stretch Low lunge both sides
Half split both sides
Cat Cows
Downward Dog
Three legged dog both sides
High Plank
Step to Rag Doll – Deep Forward Fold
The Thang:
All sets began and ended with a vinyasa, which included three merkins performed slowly. Each set also ended with a run to the soccer field baseline and back.
Chair Pose
Chair Pose with twist
Warrior 1 and 2
Warrior 1, 2, Reverse, 3
Chair Pose with twist
Attempted Crow Pose, Dumpster was the only one to get it!
Moleskine: Hold your plans loosely. Be ready for change, failure and redirection. But never forget your goals.
Tags: Dark Room, Dumpster, Manhole, Jolly, Lakers, perculator, Beaker, Framed, LeMond, Toto, Crack, Endo
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