Backblast: December 26th, 2025
AO: The Rabbit Hole – Whitehouse Library – Whitehouse, OH
PAX:
Photon – Q
Doubtfire
Fat Amy
Manchester
OSHA
Rudy
Waldo
Workout: Wow, What A Hole!
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: OYO
Surfer Get-ups: 15 (the “imposter” burpee, used to represent Harry impersonating a police officer when scoping out the McCallister House in Home Alone 1)
Carry Block to The Hill (to represent the line “Crowbars Up” from Home Alone 1 before Harry and Marv attempt to enter the McCallister house)
The “Thang”:
This featured a similar formula to the Centipede beatdown that debuted at The Gauntlet earlier this year. The premise was simple; one team of PAX represented Kevin McCallister defending his house from the wet bandits and all other teams of PAX represented Harry and Marv trying to infiltrate the defenses of Keven’s booby traps.
PAX counted off and formed 4 separate teams. Two lines of cones were spaced ~40 yards apart. The team representing Kevin McCalister stood at one end of the battlefield and the teams representing Harry and Marv lined up along the opposite end of the battlefield. On go, teams Harry and Marv used the MOT for that round to travel towards the McCallister house as quickly as they could. Once a single PAX reached the McCallister end of the field, the round is over and the wet bandits have successfully infiltrated the house. The team representing Kevin McCallister could take out an approaching bandit by performing a certain number of reps of that round’s exercise. Upon doing so, he would call out the name of the approaching PAX to inform him that he had been taken out. The PAX representing team Kevin McCallister could then move on to the next bandit and attack him with reps of the exercise. Whenever a bandit is taken out, he runs back to the starting line and begins the traverse across the battlefield again. The round would go on until the McCallister house was breached by any single bandit, at which point team Kevin McCallister’s score would be tallied. One point for every bandit he defeated.
After a round was completed, the exercise/MOT combination rotated as did team Kevin McCallister, ensuring that there was variation in the exercises/movements. We got through 5 or 6 rounds before time.
Exercises/MOTs were as follows:
Exercise: MOT
Skaters (2is1): Murder Bunny
Block Swings: Crab Walk
Jumping Spiders: Hill Sprint
Ended with:
Count-O-Rama: 7
Name-O-Rama
The Six – Rudy
LDP3
Ball of Man
Spreadsheets from the Gloom: 32F and light freezing rain. Was fun to run this one again, but the exercises used to stay on theme made the timing a bit challenging. Several rounds ran way too long because the bandits could simply not move fast enough to keep up with the reps of team Kevin McCallister. The block swings specifically were a problem…likely because they were not fatiguing enough to slow the PAX down. Had to audible and increase the rep count in the middle of the round. There needs to be more thought put into the exercise pairings from a timing perspective. Data from the first run of Centipede could be used for this. Planning exercise pairs around a certain theme may need to be axed. Also, there needs to be a way to structure this around wide variations in PAX numbers so that a specific number is not required/preferred.
All in all this was a fun re-hash of this formula with a twist on theme. Could it have gone smoother? Of course, but the PAX rolled with the audibles as they came. It was a pleasure to lead this one. RIP Fat Amy’s block.