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[The Castle] Capture the Sandbag: Storm Warning

Date: 2026-10-03 AO: The Castle Q: Steely , PAX: Chunks, Happy Trees, hambone, Locksmith, Butterfingers, Pep, Steely, Horizon, Dilbert, Hipster, Strutter, Fabuloso FNGs: None COUNT: 13 CONDITIONS:
WARMUP: 25 SSH IC GOOD MORNINGS OYO 10 IC ARM CIRCLES F/R OVERHEAD CLAPS FORWARD CLAPS
THE THANG: WARM UP MOSEY AROUND THE FIELD SANDBAG CAPTURE: Two teams: Had to complete each round of exercises before going to capture the sandbag flag Round One: 100 Merkins Round Two: 150 Squats Round Three: 100 Big Boys Round Four: 50 Burpees Completed two cycles of above Randomly yelled out “Storm Watch”: “Tornado Warning”: 15 yard bear crawl “ Ended with Ultimate Frisbee
MARY: None
MOLESKINE:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT: Prayers for PAX
PLAYLIST: Zack FM
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Green Machine

Date: 2026-10-01 AO: Green Machine Q: Hipster , PAX: Hipster, Black Lung, Shania, Sherlock, Focker, Grape, Esposa, Three Tenors FNGs: None COUNT: 8 CONDITIONS: Pretty OK
WARMUP: Mosey to the 50, quick WOR
THE THANG:
Testing Day – 5 movement, 8 rounds each, 20 second AMRAP + 10 second rest each round. Log your reps.
– Merkins – Situps – Squats – Dips – Flutter Kicks
Beep Test – 20 yard shuttle run til you can’t
MARY: Some
MOLESKINE: Commas are important people.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Check slack
COT:
PLAYLIST: LCD Soundsystem
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The Buffalo

Date: 2026-10-02 AO: The Buffalo Q: Waymo (formerly Space Baby) , PAX: Ultratecht, Waymo (formerly Space Baby), Hipster, Makita FNGs: None COUNT: 4 CONDITIONS: humid
Warm-Up – SSH – Willie Mays Hays – Good mornings – Cherry pickers – Imperial Walkers – Arm Circles – Runners stretch to world’s greatest stretch
The Thang – Run down the trail – 1st stop 1 min merkins – 2nd stop 1 min flutter kicks – In pavilion 2 tabata rotations – Pullups – Side plank right clamshells – Side plank left clamshells – Freddie mercury’s – Run up the road to parking lot – Circle of stairs – One person runs down around the fountain and back – Others do squats
Head to basketball court – Get coupons – Tabata rotations x 2 – Curls – American hammers – Skull crushers
COT: job searches
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The Stronghold

Date: 2026-09-24 AO: The Stronghold Q: Tinkertoy , PAX: Hipster, Wham-O, Swig, Decaf, Barney, Red Skull, Right Said, Pepsi, Tinkertoy, Shocker (Mark Holmes), Doché Milé, Sausage Man, DeVito, SpaghettiO, Hoody, Good Luck Charlie, Bedazzled, Unc, Heart Song, Strike Out, Cheese Wiz, Floyd FNGs: 12 Doché Milé, Sausage Man, DeVito, SpaghettiO, Hoody, Good Luck Charlie, Bedazzled, Unc, Heart Song, Strike Out, Cheese Wiz, Floyd COUNT: 22 CONDITIONS: Ideal 67*
WARMUP: SSH, Hamstrings, WMH, DownDog, Foot2Hand, Hand up thread through, Inch worn, Shoulder Press, Phelps
THE THANG: Hills and Thrills Mosey to hill 11s and Hills -Merkin and Burpee -Lunge up mosey down -Proceed as a group 7sand Hills -Squat jump and dry dock -Bernie up mosey down Mosey to startx -Circle of thrust
MARY: N/A
MOLESKINE: Bernie up the hill was brutal
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Struggle 008 10/02 start.
COT: Men are stronger together in a community of like minded men
PLAYLIST: TinkeToy Special
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Tortoise and Hair – Run #2

Date: 2026-09-22 AO: Tortoise and Hair Q: Red Skull , PAX: Hipster, Wham-O, Decaf, Barney, Red Skull, hambone, Right Said, Young and Restless, Pearl (Jonathan Halter), Dolce Mille, Unc, Heart Song, Sausage Man, Bedazzel, Floyd, Spaghetti-O, DeVito, Hootie, Good Luck Charlie, Cheese Wiz, Strike Out FNGs: None COUNT: 21 CONDITIONS: The Last Day of Summer!!
WARMUP: Regular Pre-Run Warm-Up
THE THANG: RUN!!!
MARY: Post-Run Beat Down delivered by Wham-O
MOLESKINE: It is not a good look when your second run is slower than your first run. It is a good indicator of bad attitude and/or effort. We have four weeks left to get these men where they need to be.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: The Struggle 007 is Friday 10/2. Sign up at jointhestruggle.com
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The Buffalo

Date: 2026-09-18 AO: The Buffalo Q: Hipster , PAX: Hipster, Waymo (formerly Space Baby) FNGs: None COUNT: 2 CONDITIONS: Swampass level 5000
WARMUP: Just stepping out of the car
THE THANG: Birthday beatdown
9 – Merkins 18- Squats 79 – Burpees, done 2 at a time EMOM while moseying and doing other sweaty stuff along the way.
MARY: Included
MOLESKINE: Leash your pets at the dog park, dipshit
ANNOUNCEMENTS: The Struggle in 2 weeks – WHO’S GONNA JOIN ME?!
COT:
PLAYLIST:
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The Stronghold

Date: 2026-09-17 AO: The Stronghold Q: Right Said , PAX: Dan and Dave, Young and Restless, Hipster, Tinkertoy, Red Skull, Right Said, Barney, Tax Man, Hootie, Dolce Mile, et al. FNGs: None COUNT: 24 CONDITIONS: Beautiful
WARMUP: SSHs, Merkins Partner up, mosey, learn 3 facts about your partner grab a block and head to basketball court
THE THANG: One partner does stationary exercise, other partner travels. Partners switch 50 block curls, bear crawls 50 rows, crab walk 50 overhead presses, shuttle run 50 partner around-the-worlds
MARY: Sit-ups, LBCs, flutter kicks
MOLESKINE:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:
PLAYLIST:
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No Burpees, No V-Ups, No Hollow Body Holds

Date: 2026-09-16 AO: Titan Q: Firefox , PAX: Pep, Firefox, Spinal Tap, PositiveVector, Sherlock, Hipster, Tim the Toolman, Baby Bird, Papa Bear II, Cropduster, Rhombus, Assange FNGs: None COUNT: 12 CONDITIONS: Positive
WARMUP: Mosey to Parthenon entrance. Where there’s light. – SSH – LBAC – RLBAC – Moroccan night clubs – Air presses – Stretch – Merkins
THE THANG: Mosey about halfway around the promenade. PAX lined up and held a plank (head to toes, rather than shoulder to shoulder). Last PAX bear crawled to the front. All others held high plank until their turn. One full rotation. Encouragement shared to those holding plank and to the PAX bear crawling.
20 Iron Mikes 20 Squat jumps 20 Monkey humpers
Indigenous peoples run about halfway around the promenade.
Repeat the above sequence of plank/bear crawl, then leg exercises.
Mosey to playground and partner up. Partner Derkins. One partner held the feet of the other in a wheelbarrow position. Standing partner does 10 rows then other partner does 10 derkins. 3 full rotations.
At playground, 1 partner does 10 pull-ups and 10 hanging leg raises. The other partner does shoulder tap plank jacks, then swap. 2nd rotation we swapped flutterkicks for the plank jacks.
MARY: Mosey to Startex. 3-4 min of broga.
MOLESKINE: – After Name-o-Rama, YHC realized that he went to high school with downranger Assange. – PositiveVector stayed strong and did not reverse polarity.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: – Tussle, ML Rose fundraiser, and other things in Slack
COT: – Passing of PositiveVector’s colleague – Grateful for continued recovery and discharge of YHC’s mother-in-law but acceptance of change and challenge in family living arrangement
PLAYLIST: Random tunes
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The Buffalo

Date: 2026-09-11 AO: The Buffalo Q: Hot Route , PAX: Ultratecht, The Bobs, Giving Tree, Waymo (formerly Space Baby), Hot Route, Hipster FNGs: None COUNT: 6 CONDITIONS: no rain
WARMUP: run to get blocks and quick standard warmup
THE THANG: running with our blocks down the greenway stopping for 50 press-ups and then 50 squats
At the pavilion, 50 merkins, 50 plank pulses then mosey with blocks to the bollards doing lunges to them then 50 step-ups w/block then lunge back a bit and mosey back to pavilion. 50 rows followed by 50 Y-raises
Mosey to the Stairway to Heaving and sprint with blocks up to the cave for 25 merkins then continue up to the parking lot for 25 more. One last sprint to return the blocks and back to start
MARY: we did hit 4,400 steps which is a bit over the total of the twin towers. Remembering that the 20ish LBS of blocks we carried is not even close to the amount of weight first responders and firefighters had to haul during rescue going up a furnace of stairs.
MOLESKINE: tried to do rain dances to bring on some precipitation
ANNOUNCEMENTS: struggle, happy hour next Tuesday or Wednesday?? Night Moves at a later date when majority can join. Reflection and remembrance for all involved
COT: sharing of personal accounts from the day. I always reflect on two stories that have made an impact on me. Large from Barstool’s account of it and the Man in the Red Bandana www.barstoolsports.com/blog/3576912/911-larges-reflection

PLAYLIST: tried to make it rain music.apple.com/us/playlist/rain/pl.u-8aAVZ6eSJRM3g
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Soccer Trivia

Date: 2026-09-09 AO: Titan Q: DintyMoore , PAX: DintyMoore, Pep, Dangle, Firefox, Makita, CubCadet, Spinal Tap, Tim the Toolman, Hipster, Baby Bird, Papa Bear II, Puzzlah, Three 2.0s FNGs: None COUNT: 16 CONDITIONS: pleasant
WARMUP: warrior pose routine, animal crawls, thunder song burpees/squats (burpee on lightning and squats on thunder)
THE THANG: Name that Sitcom Soccer Steal a player from other team on correct theme song for various tv shows
Penalties for giving up a goal or wrong song guess, rewards for correct song and goals scored
Final Score – 3:3
Most stolen player – Baby Bird Most goals scored – Baby Bird MVP – GMA Most respected scorer – Pep Least respected scorer – Lil Puzzlah
MARY: there were burpees
MOLESKINE: Career and Community well wishes
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Westside Meetup at Tailgate Pizza tonight, Dads and Daughters workout this weekend, Struggle 007 on Oct 2,
COT: Coffee from Tim the Toolman
PLAYLIST: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0wMyLaRHLbYpdVLDHzsGRo?si=dyuwqONMTSqncg1pSPWFWw&utm_source=copy-link&pi=G5Y0lpaSTWGPR