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35 backblasts mention “Crank”
SLOW BURN · FRI SEP 18
Hominy is tired, and he is improvising.
I improvised this plan Warmup exercises, slightly off from the normal warmup location. Slow mosey around the grounds, around Lowe’s towards the Chick-fil-a parking lot. Stopped to do some extended planks, stopped to do…
6@6 · SAT JAN 10
Backblast! I can see for miles and miles
WARMUP: 2 miles for some, some miles for 2 THE THANG: 6+ miles for some 14+ for some MARY: could not keep up ANNOUNCEMENTS: sign up for Break the Dam COT: Olaf wrapped it up for us Followed by drinks at Replay, and…
SEABISCUIT · SEP 16, 2025
Backblast! Tour de Waterside
WARMUP: Mumble Chatter THE THANG: Ran through Dominion Ridge to Whites Rd into Waterside. Visited the clubhouse and 2 roundabouts and then head back. MARY: ANNOUNCEMENTS: Golf tournament, anniversary convergence, 4.01K…
SEABISCUIT · SEP 9, 2025
Backblast! Miles Through Massey
WARMUP: on your own THE THANG: Negative Splits / Progressive miles through Massey Left on Dudley Right on Felts Left on Kings Bottom Out & Back MARY: ANNOUNCEMENTS: newsletter COT:
VARSITY · SEP 5, 2025
Backblast! Fish Tales with Birdcage
We had 9 at varsity (2 for IronPAX, 1 proctor, and 6 for a Cindy beatdown. Here’s what we did: Warmup - 10 Low Slow Swuats - 10 Mountain Climbers - 10 Windmills Mosey to get a cinderblock - 10 Manmakers - 15 Curls - 20…
RING OF FIRE · JUL 9, 2025
Backblast! King of the Ring - Round 2 - The Rocket
Ring of Fire – King of the Ring Challenge Round 2 – Previous Kings are Q Oh the humidity was cranked up!! Soupy swampy hot. ZERO breeze. Excellent mumblechatter in COT while we all stretched out. Senator Tressel came in…
FLIGHT PLAN · APR 14, 2025
Backblast! Very Rucky
The usual running was almost hijacked by ruckers this week. Tclaps to the speedy Sir Toppam Peach stand, bass, Fogerty, corruption, for keeping us a running AO. We ran, we rucked, we fellowshipped, we prayed for a…
JAN 9, 2025
Backblast! Choose Hard
WARMUP: Run to bandshell at WEP THE THANG: We did laps around WEP with an accumulator thrown in for fun. When returning to the bandshell after each lap pax did the following starting with the first exercise and then…
THE YARD · DEC 30, 2024
Backblast! Merry Christmas, ya filthy animal
Mosey, At each stop, Ask the Question– If correct, do the exercise listed. If incorrect, 5 Burpees then do the exercise · How many ghosts show up in “A Christmas Carol?” - Four – 10 SSHs (IC) · In “A Christmas Story,”…
ALCATRAZ · JUN 3, 2023
Slackblast:
Slackblast: Prison Painball DATE: 2023-06-03 AO: ao-alcatraz Q: NASA PAX: Ruby Slippers Über Headspin Falcon Crest Ryan_F Senator Tressel, Tapout FNGs: 0 COUNT: 7 NASA and Ruby Slippers tag-team Q. It was a wonderful…
THE ARMORY · FEB 27, 2023
Cranky Q
Slackblast: Cranky Q DATE: 2023-02-27 AO: ao-the-armory Q: trucker PAX: Battle Bot Tesh Peabody Sprocket JWOW Cheddah Bonsai Dojo Mainframe, Sugar bug FNGs: 0 COUNT: 12 WARMUP: THE THANG: Dora: 100 swings, 200 curls…
THE HIVE · JAN 27, 2023
It’s Still a Keeper
Slackblast: It’s Still a Keeper DATE: 2023-01-27 AO: ao-the-hive Q: 3D PAX: Happy Hour Cohiba Airborne Cubbie Jiffy UHaul Tesh Sugarbug Peabody 38 Special Crank, Bubba Gump FNGs: 0 COUNT: 13 WARMUP: THE THANG: 5 Rounds…
JAN 26, 2023
D2DBAR warmup
Slackblast: D2DBAR warmup DATE: 2023-01-26 AO: ao-minnow-pond Q: B.O.B. PAX: Jekyll Joe Lyons (F3 Long Duck) Maximus darkhelmet Band Camp Happy Hour Crank MacGyver Barry Manilow CakeBoss LTrain Anchorman FNGs: 0 COUNT…
THE HIVE · JAN 20, 2023
The Hive is Alive at Five
Slackblast: The Hive is Alive at Five DATE: 2023-01-20 AO: ao-the-hive Q: fishstix PAX: Happy Hour Tesh Über UHaul Sugarbug training_wheels Bonsai Airborne Cohiba Crank Hardwood Kermit LTrain, Bubba Gump FNGs: 1 Sparky…
BUSHWOOD · JAN 18, 2023
Slackblast:
Slackblast: Bushwood Zipper DATE: 2023-01-18 AO: ao-bushwood Q: NASA PAX: Tesh Peabody Happy Hour Crank FNGs: 0 COUNT: 5 WARMUP: Short mosey around the south end of the parking lot then circle up for the following: 10…
THE HIVE · JAN 6, 2023
Circle of death
Slackblast: Circle of death DATE: 2023-01-06 AO: ao-the-hive Q: River Rat PAX: Airborne Cohiba Happy Hour Grout Tesh Double D Sugarbug Kaiser Birdcage UHaul training_wheels Drop Thrill Hardwood fishstix JWOW Peabody…
SEP 29, 2022
Cranked to 11s
11s Merkins/WW1 sit-ups Lunge walk forward, side left and right Karaoke left and right NUR Squat walks High knees Toy soldiers Run up hill and back 11s Squats/Flutters (4 count) Bear crawl Crawl bear Inch worm fwd and…
BUSHWOOD · JUN 8, 2022
What warmup
WARMUP: we ran to the back of the school…and got to work THE THANG: Cranked up some tunes and started with some Kid Rock. Quickly learned that “American Badass” would be 🌪’s new theme song. So we did the exercises…
SEP 21, 2019
Music Q/Football @ The Deep
Picked up a sub-Q from Homebrew and it was time to bring back what we've been missing so badly at The Deep... FOOTBALL! Disclaimer for our FNG (Two Stroke) and visiting member from California (88) and we were off. Mosey…
THE RANCH · AUG 1, 2019
Fields of Gory at The Ranch - And The Importance of Sharing Your Burdens
Jiffy gave me a holler this weekend to Q here. I was in the lower spectrum of the Flux lately and Q-ing a mostly black diamond AO was just what I needed to get out of it. Thank you Jiffy for the opportunity!! As I…
APR 15, 2019
License to Ill at Quagmire
I love the opportunity to Q at Quagmire. Starting off the week, you need to make sure you wake everyone up with a good shake of the weinke. I wanted this one to be different, and boy was it. It looked REALLY good on…
THE RANCH · MAR 14, 2019
The Black Diamond "Webb Jiffy"
This semi-warm morning started with YHC running up to the eager PAX at about 5:14 and 30 seconds. Bonsai and YHC took a nice little detour on our way as we were engaged in conversation and your truly was on autopilot…
RING OF FIRE · MAR 6, 2019
Clovis-esq (Honey Badger cont., kind of, from Monday)
On this cold Wednesday morning in the gloom (sub 30 temp), YHC did a quick disclaimer after no FNGs were identified and took off for a quick mosey. Circled up for some stretching and warm-up to get the blood flowing…
NOV 19, 2018
Honoring Three The Honey Badger Way
Monday's are great days for The Fort. There are a lot of great ways to start off your work week. The Honey Badger is an exception. I love what is being done there in honoring a fallen hero. If you have never been…