Month: June 2026

Backblast: June 21st, 2026

AO: Pump Station Run/Ruck

PAX:
Photon
Ukulele
Cyber Truck
Spaulding

Carmen Sandiego (Q)

Our mission is to plant, grow and serve small workout groups for men for the invigoration of male community leadership.
Five principles are open to all men, always free, always outdoors, always led by a member of the pax. Only you know your medical history so modify if needed. End in a circle of trust.

Credo is leave no man behind, but leave no man where you find him.

Workout name: 1/2 ruck, 1/2 run

Warmup: started rucking

The THANG:

Rucked around downtown for 20 minutes. Next 20 minutes we ran from the Pump Station to the wall and back 3 times. Caught some delicious bugs having our mouth open.

Count-o-Rama: 5
Name-o-Rama

The Sixth: Spaulding

COT

Ball of man

6/21 – Summer Sunday Swampball Series

Q – Viper

PAX:
Doogie
Hat Trick
Norm
Octane
Snake Bite
Freeloader
Bull (F3 Toledo)
Greninja (F3 Toledo)
OSHA
Cowgirl (OSHA's 2.0)
Mercy
Sven

We played 2.0 friendly Swampball. It was glorious.

CoT:

6 – Sven

Prayers – OSHA's family traveling in from out of state. Pooh Bear's father-in-law's health.

Run/ruck up and down the hill.
Pax:
Ukulele(Q)
Cyber Truck
Photon

6/20 – Pre Run

Q – Viper

PAX:
Fat Amy
Doogie
OSHA
Rudy
Mercy
Norm

Ran the Battlefield Loop. Perhaps a little ambitious for a 30 min run…

6/20/26 0600-0730 – Black Swamp Convergence @ Battlefield

F3 mission – To plant, grow and serve, small workout groups for men for the invigoration of male community leadership.

5 core principles – Always free. Open to all men. Held outdoors regardless of weather. Led in a rotating fashion by a member of the PAX with no training or certification necessary. Ends in a COT, just as it begins.

F3 credo “Leave no man behind, but leave no man where you find him.”

Pax:
FNGs
– David Lee – “Suckup”
– Justin Price – “Hogline”
– Elijah Ballmer – “F-Bomb”
Photon
Shepherd
Bourbon
Coconut
Footloose
Chopstick
Longhorn
Zimba
Arcy
Norm
Runt
Doubtfire
Fat Amy
Vespa
Spit Valve
Shaft
Good Burger
Spike
Stalker
Lyman
Rudy
Huckleberry
Mercy
Gulliver
Geppetto
OSHA
Echo
Yoshi
Spaulding
Dropout
Cobra Commander
Lightning
Runt
Zebra
Manchester
Madden
Wipers
Irish Hoss
Golden Gate
Bulldog
Carmen San Diego
Quick Draw
Piggly Wiggly
Meatloaf
Deliverance
Hannibal
Djibouti
Viper
Doogie
Bobber
Tarnished
Binford
Bill Nye
Bear
Finkle
Cybertruck
Crawdad – 6
Guardian – Q

This Convergence was a bit different. Heavy hearts formed for the full version of “Put the Tri in Triple”, an ode to Fossil. In an effort to commemorate Fossil’s memory, we ran a full partner Iron Man Triathlon, compliments of Photons brain.

We began with 10 Abe Vigodas IC and 71 SSH IC (for Fossil’s age)

Partners took turns doing 136 reps of swimmers with bricks (2:1) totaling 3.8km, 1446 Freddie Mercurys totaling 180km and 151, 5m runs totaling 42.2km. One partner did 15 flying squirrels then switched on/off for reps while the other partner did his 15 flying squirrels. In between switching exercises from swimming to biking and biking to running, a partner wheelbarrow was done approximately 25m down and back totaling 50 meters.

We circled up for COT as we welcomed 3 new FNGs to the Swamp (listed above). Crawdad shared his 6 and it hit home as it always does.

The Nant’an flag was passed. The next 43 feet are in the hands of Footloose. It was an honor to serve as the Nant’an of the Swamp! Thank you to everyone that came out this morning and for all the support over the past 18 months. Onward and Upward!

Announcements (CSAUP, Holland AO, RRC)
Prayer was led by Coconut

2nd F was great as always. Shoutout to Zimba and Arcy as well as the SLT for all food and treats!

Turned this one into a Faith Walk Ruck where we focused on the Passion of Christ.
Pax is:
Rob "Reset" Walbom
Dave "Flo" Walbom
Samual "Mile High" Cordova
Chris "Heisenberg" Drage
Mark "FNG" Windom (New F3 Name = 8-Penny)
Don " FNG" Detlef – (New F Name = Loofah)

Backblast for the Lime and the Coconut at the Nightmare on Elm St.

PAX (13):
Ten Pin
Geppetto
Checkmate
Huckleberry
Photon
Isosceles
Lullabye
Meatloaf
Longhorn
Spaulding
Lego
Coconut (Q)

About 60 °F and fair as the PAX circled at the shovel flag. Got started promptly at 0530 to have time for the fun part 🙂
Intro: Mission and core principles, credo.

THANG:
Counted the PAX off into 2 groups, and group 2 brought their cinderblocks to the field north of the swimming pool where the LIME and Coconut Crawl progression was laid out.
Since we used half the blocks as we had people, it became a team even to advance the blocks across the field, by LIME'ing to the next cone in the line, then coconut crawling to the succeeding cone, then running the rest of the loop around the field back to where the blocks were. All together we moved all the blocks up by 6 or 7 cones in the time allotted.

Since the cones defined such a nice edge, a couple more cones was all it took to turn the field into an ultimate frisbee pitch for the 2nd half of the workout. Team 1 was pulling ahead until Ten Pin took a nasty disc to the face and had to bow out. YHC switch squads to backfill, and then things evened out a bit.

Called recover back to the shovel flag for COT

COR/NOR, Longhorn 6.

Convergence tomorrow, Father's day Sunday. Lots to pray for.

Honored to have the lead today and grateful to a dozen guys for getting after it with me!

Merkin Mile +
1 mile run
– every 1/4 mile stop and do: 15 burpees, 25 merkins, 35 squats

COT
PAX: Colson, Bob Ross, Southie

6/17/26
Mudhole ruck

Pax:
Pinto
Fallout Boy

Echo-Q
Arcy
Quick Draw
Golden Gate
Rudy
Stalker
Waldo
Opening warm ups were windmills, forward arm circles, circle arms, and SSH’s in cadence.
Beatdown was just going around the loop stopping at all 4 corners. Corner 1 was 10 merkins, corner 2 was 20 Big Boys, corner 3 was 30 squats, and corner 4 was 40 curls.
Closing and Stalker was the 6!