Battlefield Ruck To The River
Mission Statement
Five Core Principles
Pax:
Snowball
Norm
Huckleberry
Arc-y (Spelling?)
Mercy
Runt
Stark
Carmen San Diego
Viper
Van Wilder
Crawdad
Doubtfire (Q)
We logged 3.15 miles in a circuit to the river and back. Had time for one lap around the theatre before concluding at 6:22 AM. Plenty of time for a high quality COT and done before the 6:30 Beatdown ensued.
MLB Opening Day 2025
Mission Statement
Five Core Principles
Pax:
Huckleberry
Hannibal
Mile High
Lego
Spaulding
Finkle
Doubtfire (Q)
It was only fitting that we played a little baseball on this Opening Day.
YHC created a diamond from chalk and at each of the bases I made large circles approximately 10' in diameter. All pax moseyed up a small hill about 30' up and away from the diamond and one pax tossed 1 bean bag and attempted to land it in a circle. If successful, he would turn over one of the 3 playing cards located in the circle. All pax would then perform that exercise and said card would be removed from play. Missing a circle with the bag resulted in 10 Absolutions (later modified to Freddie Mercuries since we missed the circles more than I assumed we would).
Playlist included all baseball themed songs including:
Willie, Mickey, and The Duke
Centerfield
Enter Sandman
Glory Days
Wild ThingCrazy Train
Sweet Caroline
Hard To Handle
Tuff Enuff
Paradise By The Dashboard Light
Ghost Busters
Even the Losers
Six: Finkle
Announcements
Prayer
COT
4/1/25 0530-0630 – 5k training at Grantland
Pax:
Radio
Lyman
Badger
Capitol
Dill
Purdy
Sven
Bourbon
Huckleberry
Coconut
Piggly Wiggly
Norm
Photon
Ukulele
Guardian – Q
Warmup: parking lot dynamic stretching
Mosey from Grantland to the Schutz overhang behind Levi’s off of Ft. Meigs. Circle up for a count. Run the loop behind Levi’s for 15-17 min at a 70% pace. Meet back by Schutz overhang at 6:07. Mosey back to Grantland for stretching and recovery.
COR
NOR
6- Photon (great 6, man)
Announcements (lots of stuff happening)
LDP3 – Impact/aide through proximity
Prayer
It was an honor to lead my first run as post #700. Thank you Capitol for the opportunity!
4/1/25
Pax
Footloose -Q
Mercy
Yoshi
Pre/post Murph ruck
Backblast: March 31st, 2025
AO: The Gauntlet – Rivercrest Park – Perrysburg, OH
PAX:
Photon – Q
Beretta
Bourbon
Capitol
Coconut
Geppetto
Golden Boy
Guardian
Huckleberry
Mile High
Pimento
Radio
Spaulding
Workout: Wicked Wicket – F3 Broquet
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: In cadence
SSH (2 is 1): 20
Windmills (2 is 1): 10
The “Thang”:
PAX participated in an F3 game of 9-wicket croquet. The course was set-up to scale, but with all distances in yards instead of feet, making a course of 100×50 yards. The rules were as follows:
Two teams. Each wicket: 1 team member is designated person to perform MOT while every other team member does the exercise. MOT person guesses/bids how many steps they want to shoot the ball. Teammates do that many reps of the exercise for that wicket. Opposing MOT person also does that number of reps of the exercise for that wicket. The rest of the opposing team also needs to perform that many steps of MOT along the sidelines. MOT person aims, is blind-folded, and moves the pre-determined number of steps. Travel through a wicket and the MOT/exercise for buy in changes. Opposing team performs 5 burpees each. If you hit an opponent’s ball during MOT, stop and take two bonus strokes. 1st bonus stroke moves your team the pre-determined number of steps and the opposing team 3X the pre-determined number of strokes. 2nd stroke functions like a normal stroke. If you hit the inside/outside of a wicket during the MOT, continue rest of steps. If you hit wicket directly, stop the MOT. Use flat baseball bases for ball place-markers.
Wicket: MOT – Exercise
0: Ape Hop – Hrrpees
1&2: Crawl Bear – Flying Squirrels
3: Lunge Walk – Absolutions
4: Duck Walk – No Cheat Merkins
5: Crab Walk Forward – Bonnie Blairs
6&7: Bear Crawl – Crab Cakes
8&9: Bear Crawl – Crab Cakes
10: Crab Walk Reverse – Plank Jack Shoulder Taps
11: Duck Walk – No Cheat Merkins
12: Alligator Walk – Jungle Boys
13&14: Crawl Bear – Flying Squirrels
Ended with:
Count-O-Rama: 13
Name-O-Rama
The Six – Pimento
LDP3
Ball of Man
Spreadsheets from the Gloom: 48 and completely saturated. This was the textbook definition of good idea, poor execution. The positive takeaway from this would be…the blind MOT bidding. That was a great mechanic that could be used for a number of different beatdown elements/themes. Everything else was a miss as it seemed to be too complicated for its own good. There was too much down time between shots. A timer would be useful in the future to make it more of a lightning-style game. There should be no time to line up and pre-count your shots. Also need to re-think what the opposing team should do during the shots. I originally planned on the opposing team performing the MOT off the course, but it seemed there were too many people to do that in an orderly fashion. We also scrapped the idea of the teammates performing equal reps to the MOT steps due to a lack of order. Might be worth re-exploring that idea.
Playlist consisted of an eclectic mix of 19th Century classical bangers with a Victorian garden party vibe.
At the end of the day, I think this beatdown has a lot of promise with some tweaks. Perhaps the court could be more true to size instead of using yards in place of feet. Might allow the PAX to get through the entire course instead of just half. Would also allow us to move to the lit parking lot. Either way, we all got wet and we all had some laughs.
Q:
Snake Bite
PAX:
Fat Amy
Purdy
Viper
Slash
Wax On
Golden Gate (6)
Mr. Anderson
Sven
Poh Bear
Doogie
Yoshi
Bourbon
Canoe
Stark
Gold Star
Guardian
The Thang:
Swamp Softball Opening Day 2025!!!!
Played some good old fashion swamp softball under lights.
COR, NOR, SIX, Announcements, Prayer.
Always a great time when you get to play swamp softball under the lights!
-Snake Bite
3/28 – Rabbit Hole
The Vurph
Q – Viper
PAX:
Fat Amy
Norm
Full Pull
Manchester
Waldo
Huckleberry
Gulliver
Doubtfire
Djibouti
The Vurph:
.3 mile run to the hill
Attempted 10 rounds of:
10 Burpees
20 Diamond Merkins
30 LBCs
Run up and down the hill
.3 mile back to the parking lot
Echo-Q
Golden Gate
Fat Amy
Bulldog
Doubtfire
Vespa
Purdy
Wax On
Viper
Waldo
Manchester
Opening, warm ups, SSH, arm circles, circle arms, Willy Mays Hayes
Beatdown was 3 rounds of 5 exercises with a short run after each round. When finished with the 3 rounds start over.
Round 1
50 mtn. Climbers 2×1
40 imperial walkers 2×1
30 flutter kicks 2×1
20 merkins
10 burpees
Round 2
10 absolutions
20 diamond merkins
30 high knees 2×1
40 LBC’s
50 step ups 2×1
Round 3
50 curls
40 block rows
30 block squats
20 block swings
10 man makers
COT, Purdy was 6 with great advice about being overwhelmed lately so he stopped and breathed and praised God for all his blessings!!!!
Prayers for Purdy’s parents and family
Pre-ruck BB.
Three HiMs got up extra early and rucked ~3 miles prior to F3 Broquet Beatdown
PAX:
Photon – Q
Geppetto
Mile High
Full body workout
Irish Hoss – Q
Landslide
Gulliver
Rudy
Warrio
Meatloaf
Van Wilder
Warmup
8 count motivator
World’s greatest stretch
The work – 2 cycles
1. Nur – backwards run
Reps 10…8…6..4…2
100M —> Supermans
100M —> Hillbilly walkers
100M —> Pudding scoops
100M —> Reverse lunges
2. Run
Reps 9…7…5…3…1
100M —> Perfect merks
100M —> Big boys
100M —> Squats
100M —> Burpees
Ended in COT