Tag: #SOJ

  • Bombay

    13 grown-boys ran around at The Woodshed this morning. YHC noticed a new illuminated area nearby so we went exploring…

    WARMARAMA – Moseyed down towards the new light poles and back to the circle. Gave the mission, stretched out and got into it.

    COP #1 – Light Pole Alley

    • Hit each pole on the way up and perform exercises at each. WW2’s and Squats for Round 1. Monkey Humpers and Merkins for Round 2.

    COP #2 – 11’s

    • Bear crawl and crawl bear with incline and decline merkins.

    COP #3 – Audibled to some jogging and merkins after the bear crawls forced basically the entire PAX to modify.

    ANNOUNCEMENTS

    • Heist had a couple but YHC can’t remember. Hit him up!
    • FNG was given the name “Lil’ Bird”

    PRAYERS/WINS

    • Dr. Scholls’ situation with family
    • Wildcat’s treatment
    • YHC baptized a buddy over the weekend

    Love y’all and I mean it!

  • The Three Stooges

    Guess I’ll write this backblast, hopefully Draper doesn’t as well.

    A non-Salisbury route was selected to change things up, Bullseye recommended the mines and YHC offered up an old Off the Books route down Coalfield, Draper helped on the finer details. Down Coalfield, dropped into The Grove over to the cut through to Midlothian Mines, around the lake and up Mount Midlo home. Total a little over 4 miles.

    Good conversation was had. Three Stooges title, which I’m sure has been used before, came as car stopped to enter a parking lot, waiting for us to cross, and we couldn’t have handled much worse trying to avoid a collision with the car and ourselves. It was comical.

    -Singer

  • Creek Hopping & Hill Crawling

    11 gloom studs tackled an off-trail adventure this morning that was perfectly suited for our favorite boy scout Doner Kebab, but perhaps the joke about ruck pull-ups thwarted his attendance. The all new 2.7 mile route (see pic on Slack) redefined the “outer loop” of Larus Park and started with a tiny jaunt trespassing around the Sabot School grounds, then back onto the North end of the park trail system, and then followed along Chippenham with quite a few steep decents, creek crossings, and incline bear crawls up steep leafy slopes. Akin to a gaggle of boy scouts on their first woods adventure, the PAX were in high spirits to conquer these little challenges, and in honor of our Credo dutifully completed squats (or other reps) for the SIX on many an occasion. TClaps to Sable and Doublemint bringing in the SIX. Been a LONG time since we enjoyed Doublemint’s fine company, and was also great to have his 2.0 Spinal Tap with us before he heads back to Colorado State this weekend. The PAX completed the Larus loop via off-trail woods between a couple houses and a small development, regrouped at Sneeds Nursery, then a final jaunt on trail back through to Trader Joes. COT included prayer for LWoods paralegal who lost her father yesterday, and for YHC’s church friend battling depression/suicide. Dealer and YHC decided ruck-wearing pull-ups would be a solid CSAUP challenge, and Snip, Sable, Bromance and L Woods joined the pull-up fun. YHC proudly completed two chin-ups carrying 40 pounds, but foresees great gains with a full year of pull-up strength training. The mobile pull-up station attached to YHC’s truck now proudly sports the numbers 1-26 on one 2×4 and 27-52 on the other, with those PAX completing the 2026 pull-up challenge able to sign the boards next to each week/number they complete. You versus you. GET SOME, AYE!!! Yours, DTH

    Announcements (SEE SLACK!)

    • Dry January Ongoing
    • Weekly Forge Coffee + QSource
    • 2/7 Frozen Triangle
    • Monthly: Breaking Bread, Bridge (1/24)

  • Merger

    YHC wasn’t sure if he’d make it to River Run with the Patriots playing the Wildcard round Sunday night game. At 5:15 AM, the flare was sent that I’d arrive on time, but Bullseye wasn’t in sight at the AO.

    Out Helmsley to Brigstock to Kentford, across the golf course and down Banstead and wait….another runner at the intersection! As fate would have it, there was Bullseye. We then trekked another mile or two until YHC’s stomach gave out around mile 3.5. Bullseye carried the torch on for an unknown amount of distance thereafter.

    -Singer

  • Key West or Key Largo?

    5 HIMS started their day off right with some F3 action. Here is what went down:

    Mosey around the school and then the usual warm ups: SSH, helicopters, arm circles, Ukrainian soldiers, stretches, merkins, etc.

    4 corners (lady of the night style): Corner 1 – 10 squat thrusters, Corner 2 – 20 dead lifts, Corner 3 – 30 curls, Corner 4 – 40 American Hammers. Long stretches with alternating fireman carries, short stretches overhead press. (QIC shortened the length several times for time.)

    Then, fireman carries around the bend into some 11’s. Step ups and merkin pull throughs that were left unfinished.

    Numbers and Names.

    Announcements: Frozen Triangle. The Bridge. –> Slack

    Prayers out for Wildcat as he starts a new treatment today. Godspeed.

    First time leading The Old Hundred. I was past due. Will have more to come. I’m appreciative for F3 and always having someone to hold me accountable.

  • Off To The Races

    In the dead of winter, when the cold seems endless and it feels like we’ve been stuck in a long stretch without a little competition, YHC decided to bring some playoff spirit to No Toll. With college football and NFL playoffs in full swing, it was the perfect time to get some competitive blood flowing among the PAX.

    The Thang:

    Mosey to the pavilion and pay the toll with 10 step-ups and 15 incline merkins.

    Warmerama: Side straddle hops, Ukranian soldiers, cherry pickers, imperial squat walkers, merkins, lbcs, alabama prom dates

    Count off into twos for teams.

    • Relay Races (losing team has 15 burpee penalty) :
      • First Relay: One man runs to the end of the soccer field and back while the team does flutters.
      • Second Relay: Runner bear crawls to a cone, then sprints the rest of the way down soccer field while the team does World War IIs.
      • Third Relay: Team does American hammers, runner crab walks to the cone and back.
      • Fourth Relay: Team does big-boy sit-ups, runner lunge-twists to the cone and runs back.
      • Final Relay: Team does LBCs, runner does broad jump burpees to the cone, sprints to the end of the field and back.

    Mosey back to the flag, stop for 20 decline merkins and a ring of fire merkins.

    Announcements: Frozen Triangle on February 7th, The Bridge January 24

  • Hey! This is kinda like Old Glory…

    Ten manly men met in the crisp morning air for an NTB kettlebell beatdown. Inspired by the recent string of AMRAPs, YHC wanted to find a way to keep our bodies (and bells) in constant motion. The following ensued.

    Warmarama
    – Light mosey to review the pre-planned course and the four working stations.
    – Merkins, dead-man hang, Fudd’s wife, Wilson’s wife, runner’s lunge… seemed like enough.

    Glory Bell
    – 35min AMRAP – Start at the Flag
    – Station 1: 25 KB Swings then ascend Mt. Chaplain
    – Station 2: 20 Goblet Squats then ascend Mt. Chaplain
    – Station 3: 10ea. Single-Arm OH Press then ascend Mt. Chaplain
    – Station 4: 300ft Farmer Carry back to the flag for 12 two-count American Hammers
    – Track the number of rounds completed.
    – The bell/coupon cannot touch the ground while completing the circuit, only in between rounds.

    NMS: Great work by the fellas today! I was challenged to not get lapped by L Woods, Snip, and Tin Man and narrowly escaped. Great to see Bru out for his first beatdown of 2026. Some of the PAX referred to today’s beatdown as “Glory Bell”, which will be submitted to the Committee for approval once all of the paperwork is compiled. Thanks as always to Snuff for providing the warm coffee.

    Announcements/Prayer Requests:
    – Daily Pull-Up Challenge is well underway, now in week 3.
    – Frozen Triangle 10miler – February 7th
    – YHC took us out.

  • One last one

    2025 clean up, I’m sure I missed other backblasts, but glad I remembered this. Now, if I could only remember where we ran…

  • A long long time ago

    This one time, Rosetta came to MOT and it was so surprising, I forgot to post a backlist. Now I did.

  • Hills! (and not hills)

    Two of us ran hills. Two of us did not. We all got at least 4 miles. It was fun.