Backblasts

Date: 2025-05-11
AO: mother-ruck-ing
Q: Popeye
PAX: Shart (F3 Memphis), Geisha
FNGs: 1 Geisha
COUNT: 3
WARMUP: Nope
THE THANG: W&OD Loop
MARY: Nah
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Coffee?
COT: Coffee.

Tags: mother-ruck-ing, Shart (F3 Memphis), Geisha

Date: 2025-05-11
AO: backpacking
Q: Rambler
PAX: Peanuts, Gig Mikell, Yard Sale, Atlas
FNGs: None
COUNT: 5
WARMUP: launch north
THE THANG: 3+ mile loop
MARY: 35 merkins
ANNOUNCEMENTS: someone should pick up next week
COT: go take care of the Ms!

Tags: backpacking, Peanuts, Gig Mikell, Yard Sale, Atlas

Date: 2025-05-10
AO: thefarm
Q: Squatter
PAX: Trilogy, Infinity, Lumbergh
FNGs: None
COUNT: 4
WARMUP:
Overhead presses
Beet pickers
Imperial walkers
Various stretches

THE THANG:
3 mile ruck around the Sudley Historic site

MARY:
None

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Q school on Monday, Squatter Q Wed

COT:
Excited to see my parents next weekend and thankful for my mother. Thinking of her on this Mother’s Day.

Tags: thefarm, Trilogy, Infinity, Lumbergh

Date: 2025-05-08
AO: olympus
Q: Nano
PAX: Atlas, Battleship, Peanuts, Rambler, Toolbox, NOAA, Flapjack, Crop Duster, Rollingstone, Monte Karlo, @striker FNGs: None
COUNT: 12
WARMUP: SSH, WMH, arm circles, windmills, Cherry pickers, Michael Phelps, WGS

THE THANG:

At the center circle, the PAX all have their coupons in hand for the following exercises:

– Overhead press
– Calf raises
– Triceps extensions
– Bulgarian 1 legged lunges (alternating every 10)
– One arm rows (alternating every 10)
– Coupon squats
– Curls
– Back to back coupon pass (2 PAX)
– Kettle bell swings
– Derkins (toes on block merkins)
– Arnold’s
– 10 blockees is the counter

After Blockees are done all the pax run the end line and back, then rotate one coupon.

After one time through we had time to hop over the railings and two flights of steps, before a Ricky Bobby Lap

Mary: Big boys, American hammers, flutter kicks, Freddie Mercury.

Announcements: Murph, Boneathon, convergence.

COT: Thinking about the man book challenge and the need to have skin in the game. I’ve taken a path in life that has mitigated risk, and at times I often wish I would take on a risk to prove to myself I can do it.

Tags: olympus, Atlas, Battleship, Peanuts, Rambler, Toolbox, NOAA, Flapjack, Crop Duster, Rollingstone, Monte Karlo, @striker

Date: 2025-05-10
AO: thesandlot
Q: Hobbyhorse
PAX: Legacy, Tariff, Forceps, Pepco, Big Short, Topspin, Beagle, Snoopy FNGs: 1 Snoopy
COUNT: 9
WARMUP: ssh, iw, hb, rve, wmh, Phelps, dd, greatest
THE THANG: bear crawl-to-mosey across field x5; alternating teams of pull ups and merkin; solar system for Defiance Ups, derk, and mt climb; trail hill for alternating hill and squats

Back to field for F3 Fetch: Units of 3. One thrower, 2 pax chase. Successful chaser leads an exercise. Repeat. Most successful chaser from each unit goes to Tournament of Champs. (Congrats to winner Tariff)
MARY: American hammer; Cereal Box (partner up. Push your partner. They push back. That’s the exercise. Snoopy invented it and is applying for a Trademark) ANNOUNCEMENTS: channel
COT: kids are awesome. Doing things with them can be frustrating because it’s never perfect. Embrace the imperfection.

Tags: thesandlot, Legacy, Tariff, Forceps, Pepco, Big Short, Topspin, Beagle, Snoopy