Downtown Rodeo 🤠 🐎

Date: 2026-06-03 AO: Titan Q: Toothless , PAX: Papa Bear, Pole Dancer, Makita (Anderson Fader), Tim the Toolman, Spinal Tap, Vector, Pep, Hipster, Toothless, CubCadet, Shelby, Steampunk, FNGs: None COUNT: 13 CONDITIONS: Pleasantly cool, a welcome break from the oncoming onslaught of humidity and heat
WARMUP: Active warmups e.g. skips, shuffles, karaoke, etc.
THE THANG: Downtown Rodeo :face_with_cowboy_hat: :racehorse: Head to the field where the first event is set up
Event 1: Barrel Race Relay PAX split into two groups. Groups perform exercises AMRAP until all PAX have completed the barrel pattern. Incorrect pattern results in a restart for that runner. First group to finish wins, winners do 5 burpees and losers do 15.
Round 1 – Prisoner Squats Round 2 – Merkins Round 3 – WWI’s
Event 2: Stampede Bear crawl sharks and minnows, as in bear crawl across the field and try not to get tagged by the bear crawlers who are it. Number of taggers (ideally) increases each round along with the difficulty. Last man to be tagged wins. 2 rounds.
Event 3: Climbing Pikes Peak The Manitou Incline is a set of 2768 railroad tie steps gaining 2000ft of elevation in a mile. Let’s climb it. 2768 divided by the number of PAX. Roughly 200 double count mountain climbers each.
Event 4: Quarter Horse Dash The namesake of the Quarter Horse comes from it being the fastest breed at or below that distance. Conveniently, a lap around the Parthenon is exactly 1/4 of a mile. So, PAX run a lap with someone calling finish times. Continue to run laps and beat your times else be faced with AMRAP exercises. Some PAX made it 3 laps before heading back for time.
MARY: Dealers choice til time, starting with 10 bucking broncos aka donkey kicks
MOLESKINE: Barrels relay was mostly successful, but at least one of the PAX messed up the pattern on each of the rounds which ended up being the deciding factor in the race. Bear crawling sharks and minnows from the Stampede event was a hit with everyone, especially CubCadet and Vector. The 200 mountain climbers were surprisingly difficult once getting to the higher counts. YHC was toast for the Quarter Horse Dash, but Spinal Tap must have sandbagged because he was almost 10 seconds faster on the 2nd and 3rd laps!
ANNOUNCEMENTS: – 7/11 convergence! – Come to bomber for Strutter’s birthday kickoff – Keep checking Slack for more fun announcements!
COT: YHC encouraged the PAX to be grateful for their health & the ability to workout, as health is easy to take for granted until you don’t have it. Prayer requests were shared, ball of man was convened.
PLAYLIST: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5RpkZbLODArnaWvGQy9QZq?si=15faca6db7c9424c

Atlantis

Date: 2026-05-28 AO: Atlantis Q: DintyMoore , PAX: DintyMoore, SalPal, porcelain, Juicy J, Pole Dancer, Cheesehead, Subway FNGs: None COUNT: 7 CONDITIONS: Balmy
WARMUP: Lap and Stretches
Birthdate Challenge – hit all 8 dates 0 1-minute plank 1 10 merkins 2 20 air squats 3 30 SSHs 4 20 Lunges 5 15 burpees 6 20 merkin shoulder taps 7 30 calf raises 8 20 mountain climbers 9 1-minute wall sit
THE THANG: Partner AMRAP 100 m sprint 5 burpees 20 sit-ups 15 pushups 100 m sprint
Partner completed series of core exercises
MARY: Soccer Challenge – goal between arms in plank position = 5 burpees and 100m sprint
MOLESKINE: Push each other to know each other, it’s more than a workout group.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Struggle, Summer Slam, Fall CSAUP 50 mile relay, etc.
COT: prayers for Squatter and family
PLAYLIST: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0bybNxEFZvzMuwrvMJx0gL?si=dJ-GbMhCS524enrLUJJFDQ&pi=cZ6L80vSTHCJj

Atlantis

Date: 2026-04-09 AO: Atlantis Q: Puzzlah , Pole Dancer PAX: Pole Dancer, DintyMoore, SalPal, Toothless, Puzzlah, Squid (Boise, ID) FNGs: None COUNT: 7 CONDITIONS: Pristine
WARMUP: Dynamic
THE THANG: Our AOQ Pole Dancer set the stage with a taxing Dora of 50 Burpees, 100 Big Bois, 150 Merkins, 200 squats and 250 step-ups. Partners ran about 300 yards from the Pizza Hut around the parking lot. Woof. What a send off!
We then travelled down to the lower lot because what is Atlantis without some games.
The two former AOQs and the new AOQ teamed up to compete in a 3 v 3 tic tac toe game. 3 burpee buy-in Sprint 40 yards to the tic tac toe board Sprint back Next man up.
Non-running pax continued on a Thor ladder of 1 BBSU – 4 American Hammers (2-8, 3-12, etc.).
While the AOQs took the first game, they were easily defeated by stealth gamesmanship from Toothless, DintyMoore, and Squid.
MOLESKINE: :clap::clap::clap: to Pole Dancer for his leadership at Atlantis. His warm, welcoming demeanor, killer taste in music, dynamic physical abilities, and possession of the best ugly mug collection in town made Atlantis the place I kept coming back to every week and the place I want to see thrive.
Come visit us Under the Sea. :trident:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT: :heart:
PLAYLIST: What I put together but we didn’t use: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1ifq7fO1hZWrf7ts5KOFMd?si=_rzi0sfGQ0SILAXk25zENw

Atlantis

Date: 2026-04-02 AO: Atlantis Q: Subway , PAX: sooner, Puzzlah, SalPal, Pole Dancer, Subway FNGs: None COUNT: 5 CONDITIONS: beautiful spring morning
WARMUP: assorted stretching
THE THANG: Easter egg hunt w/ Passover Plagues
Eggs had either a workout (I.e. pushups); a plague (I.e. death of the first born – carrying the oldest sooner to the next egg); or candy (I.e. butterfingers)
All 30 eggs were found and accounted for.
MOLESKINE:
ANNOUNCEMENTS: to many- check slack
COT: enjoy the spring holidays and weather!
PLAYLIST: music.apple.com/us/playlist/run-2026/pl.u-V9D770kTBDlZb1

Atlantis

Date: 2026-03-26 AO: Atlantis Q: Oatmeal , Oatmeal PAX: Puzzlah, sooner, Pole Dancer, Oatmeal FNGs: COUNT: 4 CONDITIONS: lovely
WARMUP: stretching
THE THANG: 3 tortoise and hare races + block stop rampage
MOLESKINE: we did it
ANNOUNCEMENTS: yep
COT: whatever this is happened
PLAYLIST: birds and sunrise

Spring 2026

Date: 2026-03-12 AO: atlantis Q: Esposa PAX: Oatmeal, SalPal, Title Max, sooner, Subway, Pole Dancer FNGs: None COUNT: 7 the perfect number CONDITIONS: Windy
WARMUP: Broga/dynamic movement
THE THANG: 4 Corners Mental Health Lap MHL Corner 1 Thursters Corner 2 25 Merkins Corner 3 50 American Hammers Corner 4 25 drop squats
MHL 2 1 25 Tricep extension 2 25 Merkins 3 50 Freddy Mercs 4 25 Walk Lunge ?
MHL 3 Oatmeal can’t shoot 1 25 curls for the girls 2 25 merkins 3 25 V ups 4 25 iron Mike/ Apollo onos
MHL 2 1 Man Makers 25 2 25 merkins 3 50 moutain climbers 4 sumo squats 50
Those who brought block did not do 5 merkins. 5 more just for fun and 10 merkins to end it. #merkin madness complete 120 friends
MOLESKINE: Title Max reversed engineered alien power steering go a rocket. Seville has Morrish architecture
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Grow School 6am Bellevue, The Merchant murder mystery. Impossible mile Focker , plank April Grape
COT: SalPal travels and prayers for baby Aurora Title Max
PLAYLIST: mumble Chatter

Our mumblechatter goes to 11

Date: 2026-02-19 AO: atlantis Q: SalPal PAX: Salami, Faulker, Puzzlah, Subway, Oatmeal, sooner, Pole Dancer FNGs: None COUNT: 8 CONDITIONS: Moist.
WARMUP: Mumblechatter.
THE THANG: Merkin + Leg Ladders up and down. Ample mumblechatter.
MOLESKINE: T-Claps to Faulker for making it after a long day, and Puzzlah prototyping another AO pre-party. Oatmeal is leading (1) a rugby Q at Handsomizer with Puzzlah and (2) Highland Games 2026 at Atlantis, dates TBD.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Holy Smokers, Merkin Madness.
COT: Be kind to people.
PLAYLIST: 2010 Alt Rock Comfort Food.

Eat It

Date: 2026-02-05 AO: atlantis Q: Firefox PAX: Pole Dancer, SalPal, Squatter FNGs: None COUNT: 4 CONDITIONS: Frigid, but not icy
WARMUP: Quick mosey to the pavilion and some stretches while the playlist was queued up.
THE THANG: Part 1: The real warm-up. SSH with Burpees whenever we hear “Eat It” during the seminal classic “Eat It” by Weird Al. ~30 burpees.
Part 2: Tabata stations (45s on, 15s off) with Planks between circuits. – kettlebell swing – Bulgarian split squats – Upright KB row – Jump Squats – Tricep Dips – Goblet Squats Started at a 45s plank, increasing by 15s each circuit. On circuit four, dealer’s choice change-up of the stations: – KB halos – Incline merkine – Bent over KB rows – Step-ups – IYTs – KB swings Ended on a 1:45 min plank.
MOLESKINE: Check the playlist!
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Shieldmock and Holy Smokers. Check Slack.
COT: Gratitude and some quiet meditation

The Thawing of Atlantis

Date: 2026-01-29 AO: atlantis Q: Squatter PAX: Pole Dancer, SalPal, Puzzlah FNGs: None COUNT: 4 CONDITIONS: Cold, frozen mist
WARMUP: SSH High knees Butt-kickers WMH-RS-Twist Merkins Squats
THE THANG: SB Clean & Press KB Swings Front squats with block Tricep extensions with DB Mosey X2
SB Deadlifts KB Shoulder Rows Curls with block American hammers with DB Mosey X2
SB Lunges KB Single Arm Rows Chest press with block Flutter Kicks with DB Mosey
Burpees Jump squats Merkins with toe touch Side lunges Mosey
MOLESKINE: PAX shared gratitude
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Check slack
COT: Tailgate coffee

Snow Prep

Date: 2026-01-22 AO: atlantis Q: Subway PAX: sooner, Pole Dancer, Puzzlah, Shakira FNGs: None COUNT: 5 CONDITIONS: foggy
WARMUP: stretching
THE THANG: coupon work Rnd 1 – 2 rounds 25 step ups – per leg (pace setter) Coupon shoulder press Coupon incline push ups Coupon Skull crushers Coupon curls
Rnd 2 – 2 rounds 25 dips (pace setter) Coupon side bends Decline pushups Coupon single armbent row pulls Coupon truck drivers
Rnd 3 – almost 2 rounds
20 WW1s Plank Hollow body hold Box cutters Alabama Prom dates
MOLESKINE:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT: