Backblast: September 10th, 2025
AO: Grantland – Rotary park – Perrysburg, OH
PAX:
Photon – Q
Arcy
Bourbon
Callahan
Coconut
Guardian
Huckleberry
Rumor
Tarnished
Workout: You Get What You Get And You Don't Throw A Fit
FNG’s: N/A
Mission and Principles:
F3: Fitness, Fellowship, Faith
Mission: To plant, grow and serve small workout groups for men for the invigoration of male community leadership.
The core principles of F3 are that it is always:
1. Free of charge
2. Open to all men
3. Held outdoors, rain or shine, heat or cold
4. Led by men who participate in the workout in a rotating fashion, with no training or certification necessary. You versus you. Modify or stop an exercise if you need to. The most important thing is that nobody gets hurt.
5. Ends with a Circle of Trust
Credo: Leave no man behind but leave no man where you find him
Warm-up: N/A
The “Thang”:
2 lines of cones were spread across the grass field 10m apart from one another:
Perform 2 kraken jump-over burpees.
Perform 2 10m murder bunny legs.
Increase rep and murder bunny leg count by 2.
Repeat until time, adding 2 more burpees and murder bunny legs each round.
@ 3 minute EMOM, perform absolutions equal to the number of burpees you performed in the current round
Ended with:
Count-O-Rama: 9
Name-O-Rama
The Six – Rumor
LDP3
Ball of Man
Spreadsheets from the Gloom: If I’m honest, I manufactured this opportunity to be a bit of a dick. It had been almost a year since there was an open Q spot at GrantLand, and I decided to take it. I had been reaching out to guys to fill slots, but at a certain point PAX need to just hop in and put their name on the schedule. Or ask to be put on the schedule. We are high impact men. We should be procactive, not reactive. The schedule has been getting extremely light over the past month and I wanted to remind guys that they don’t want me Q-ing at GrantLand every week…especially when I’m a little irked about it.
All that said, I ran my own rendition of IPC Week 1 2025, but I swapped out 100m sprints for 10m murder bunnies and thrusters for kraken jump-over burpees. And most importantly, I added the 3 minute absolution eMOM. And holy crap was it horrible. In the later rounds, each of the three exercises seemed like their durations were never ending. 12 kraken burpees (36 merkins) took almost the 3 minutes themselves. As did the 12 absolutions. I couldn’t imagine running that one for 50 minutes like the IPC WOD proper. I want to say that Coconut and YHC got to the middle of the round of 12.
All-in-all, I’m not sure I got the point across. No Q slots have been taken since the beatdown, and I’m still refusing to proactively reach out to guys in order to fill them due to my stubborn-ness. But that’s alright, I’ve got a pretty steady stream of suck to throw at the PAX if the slots continue to remain open.
PAX got some subtle messaging via the playlist today…
“You Can’t Always Get What You Want” – The Rolling Stones
“Karma Police” – Radiohead
“The Hand That Feeds” – Nine Inch Nails
“Love Hurts” – Incubus
“Killing In The Name” – Rage Against The Machine
“This Is A Call” – Foo Fighters
“Dissident” – Pearl Jam
“Suck My Kiss” – Red Hot Chili Peppers
This was a fun challenge. Truly awful in it’s construction. I want to thank Gulliver and Coconut for the absolutions and eMOM suggestions.