Backblasts

DATE: 2022-02-05
AO: Olympus
Q: Hightower
PAX: Pop Fly, Lucius, Roddick, Yard Sale, Zeus, Ashe, Faceplant, Hightower, Juneau, Monarch, Monk, Pep Talk, Popeyes, Rambler, slider, swish, Toolbox, Yardbird, YNAB, Rollingstone FNGs: None
COUNT: 20
WARMUP:
Thank you Popfly for running warmups!
3 laps around the field. Jog the length, sprint across the end zone.

THE THANG:
Capture the Flag. Group split into 2 teams, split the field on 50 yard line. Bell is the flag, placed on their own 15 yard line. If you tap opposite played on your side, they do 3 merkins then return to their side. Objective is to capture the bell and bring back to your side.
To increase the speed of the game, defense could not enter within 5 yards of the bell. Played another variation, moving the flag up to 30 yard line. Played another variation, flag placed outside center circle.

MARY:
Plank ring of fire, merkin then run & jump of plank PAX around the circle for 2 rounds. Followed by flutter kicks, big boys and LBC’s.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Need PAX to sign up for upcoming Q’s!
The ARC coming Feb 19, we need support folks that night.
The Burden Run coming Feb 26 at Olympus.
Step up Monthly Challenge.

COT:
New Year’s resolution, Increase the Suffering, to Strengthen the Bond in our Region. Many thanks for the PAX coming out pushing themselves, gritting out the winter conditions, not finding excuses to Fart Sack!

DATE: 2022-02-05
AO: Olympus
Q: Hightower
PAX: Old Bay, Lucius, Faceplant, Hightower, Pep Talk, Rambler, swish, Yardbird FNGs: None
COUNT: 8
WARMUP:
SSH, prisoner squats, hula hips, WMH, Cherry Pickers

THE THANG:
Voluntold Rambler as Team Lead, destination Lake Royal. Start with 8 PAX & 3 coupons. Penalty burpees for team not staying together. Short stop for ruck shoulder press. Mix of pace, shuffle, walk & ruckie bobby. AAR provided to Rambler as team lead, then relieved of his duty. Lucius provide beatdown at Lake Royal
HT took group around the lake
Short on time, group agreed to 2x time back with coupons. Ugh

MARY:
None
ANNOUNCEMENTS:

COT:
Saved for Olympus Q

DATE: 2022-02-04
AO: Atlantis
Q: Rogue
PAX: Infinity, Rogue
FNGs: None
COUNT: 2
WARMUP: Side Straddle Hops, Hill Billy Walkers, Cherry Pickers, Copperhead Squats, Atlas, Side Dips
THE THANG: Mosey to Stadium stairs. Snaked the stairs to the end and back. Top for ten merkins. Bottom for alternating cadence count ten flutter kicks and American hammers. This proved enough to soak front and backside.
Mosey along boardwalk stopped for derkins, dips, and urkins until the upper was wasted. Mosey further down and did squatting seal claps. Mosey back and did some plank jacks under the bridge.
Mosey to starting point for Mary
MARY: Freddie’s Mercurys, LBCs, American Hammers
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Annual Ruck coming up in two weeks on 19FEB22. Long event so it’s recommended to do training at least once before the event. Trainings are Sunday mornings in Falls Church. See @Infinity for more details.
COT: We remember our brothers both by blood and by creed who are enduring times of difficulty. May we all, young and old, be given strength of body and mind to complete the tasks on this earth to which we are called.

DATE: 2022-02-04
AO: Patriot
Q: CableGuy
PAX: Bone, Ice Tea, Big Short, Lucius, Flipper, Fish Fry, Sunshine, Shake and Bake, Maguire, Maj. Payne, Booking, Wedding Singer, Elvis, Lazlo FNGs: None
COUNT: 15
WARMUP: SSH, Arm Circles, Cherry Pickers, WMH, Down Dog
THE THANG: Rounds of escalating exercises punctuated by a 400M run after each round. We ran about 2.5 miles. The rounds were: 5 x Burpee, then a lap
5 x Burpee, 10 x Merkin, then a lap.
5 x Burpee, 10 x Merkin, 15 x Coupon Curl, then a lap
5 x Burpee, 10 x Merkin, 15 x Coupon Curl, 20 x Overhead Press, then a lap
5 x Burpee, 10 x Merkin, 15 x Coupon Curl, 20 x Overhead Press, 25 x Mountain Climber IC, then a lap
5 x Burpee, 10 x Merkin, 15 x Coupon Curl, 20 x Overhead Press, 25 x Mountain Climber IC, 30 x Coupon Chest Press, then a lap
5 x Burpee, 10 x Merkin, 15 x Coupon Curl, 20 x Overhead Press, 25 x Mountain Climber IC, 30 x Coupon Chest Press, 35 x BWS, then a lap
5 x Burpee, 10 x Merkin, 15 x Coupon Curl, 20 x Overhead Press, 25 x Mountain Climber IC, 30 x Coupon Chest Press, 35 x BWS, 40 x SSH IC. MARY: LBC
ANNOUNCEMENTS: So many. Mainly ARC and the Fish Fry polar plunge.
COT: Accountability. Most people don’t know you come out and do this stuff in the rain. We hold each other accountable. Bobby Bowden had a nice take on it: ‘Your reputation is what people say about you. Your character is what God knows about you.’

DATE: 2022-02-04
AO: Horizon-Ao
Q: Disco
PAX: 3 mile, Kodiak, Magoo, Old Bay, Poe, Spokes, sticks, Yardbird FNGs: Mr Hand, Attaché
COUNT: 11
WARMUP: M Phelps, ssh, CP, WMHays, D Dog/Cobra
THE THANG:
Slalom – zig-zag jumps, lunge walk, stairs x3
Ski Jump – jump ups, step ups 50 (Monthly Challenge)
Ice Dancing – Carioca, backward run to coupons
Biathlon – rifle carry back across field
Curling – coupon curls, KB swings – 50
Derkins, goblet squats 25
Speed Skating – Bonnie Blairs, Apollo Ohno – 25
Mascots – Seal Claps, Bear Crawl across field
Luge – Inverted Shoulder Taps 40, air squats 25
ANNOUNCEMENTS: ARC in 15 days
COT: Progress, not Perfection. Build a ladder toward your goals.