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Hair of the Dog

September 15, 2025 BackBlasts

AO: asylum-am
Q: Waffle House (Brady Greene)
PAX: Pac-man, Cinco (Scott McGuire), Cat Gut (Mike Davis), P3, Love’s, Waffle House (Brady Greene), The marathoners, Cosmo 2, and the ruckers get tagged in the ruck, right?
FNGs: None
COUNT: 6 plus ruckers and runners
WARMUP:
Here’s the thing about a revenge Q, and it’s obvious to everyone that this is the case: you only punish yourself. Also you punish any innocent bystanders who happen to show up for your revenge Q. And they don’t deserve that.

I don’t blame Matlock (Bill Maddox) ; he was only doing his duty. Friday’s fifty minute all-running-all-the-time Q courtesy of some yahoos from nowheresville in some non-Tennessee state had me #REKT. I went back Saturday and got #REKT again. So the goal today was to take a bad idea and extend it a little farther. I am confident we did that.

BSIA warmed us up enough to get our shoulders blasted, Carltons of course, a little mosey to the wall, hand walk the wall, then sprints in memory of Double Wide (we miss you!)

Everest to get away from the mall walkers, everest again with a diabolical complication thanks to the newly retired Cat Gut (Mike Davis). Space needle, a little Rte 66, baby cardiac, and done. REKT again.

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“All the persons of faith I know are sinners, doubters, uneven performers. We are secure not because we are sure of ourselves but because we trust that God is sure of us.” Eugene Peterson

Variations on a Theme

September 11, 2025 BackBlasts

AO: asylum-am
Q: Pac-man , Sawdust
PAX: Matlock (Bill Maddox), P3, Sawdust, Hands, Tropicana
FNGs: None
COUNT: 6
WARMUP: Just the usual, thanks!

THE THANG: Slight modification to an ol’ Sawdust Q with 3 stations.

MARY: No, but still quite contrary.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Nah

COT: Pac-man gave a profound word.

The Venus Fly Trap for CMUsday

September 9, 2025 BackBlasts

AO: asylum-am
Q: Sawdust
PAX: Pac-man, P3, Matlock (Bill Maddox)
FNGs: None
COUNT: 4
WARMUP:
– SSH
– Stretch
– Tempo Merkins
– Cherry Pickers
– Abe Vigodas
– Rockettes (with a knee lift)
– Tie-Fighters
– X-Wings
– A Solitary Burpee

THE THANG:
– Mosey with our :cmu: to the Pav-Lov for some AMRAP work. One of the PAX was the timer carrying :dumbbell: :dumbbell: around the Cloud. The remaining PAX worked stations of exercises with :cmu:s. We rotated through the stations and selected new exercises from the grab bag after the full PAX completed all stations. It was rinse and repeat for time.
– Once we were close on time, we all ran around the Cloud, collected our toys and headed to the AO.

MARY: We had a round of :atm: to close out the workout.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Anniversary Convergence planned for asylum-daybreak. More specific details to follow.

COT: Finding the thin line of letting your children grow on their own. But still protecting them from themselves and the outside world, because they are still children.

Don’t cut me there doc

August 27, 2025 BackBlasts

AO: asylum-am
Q: Waffle House (Brady Greene)
PAX: Cat Gut (Mike Davis), Cinco (Scott McGuire), Matlock (Bill Maddox), Aquafina, P3, Pac-man, Tropicana, Bunny, Fabio (Joe Hamilton), Hands, Hot Tub (John Muller), Waffle House (Brady Greene), Cosmo 2, Tramp Stamp
FNGs: None
COUNT: 14
It’s widely agreed that the mark of a good Q is the pressing need to put your shirt directly into the washer because you can’t have it sitting around anywhere all wet and smelling like that. We know this now; this is not a new experience to any PAX.

Today was not such a Q. If Hands hadn’t been training for a marathon he could have just driven straight to work, put a white coat on, and started delivering babies. Cinco (Scott McGuire) picked a rock that was approximately 27% of his body weight, and he still didn’t sweat, except for when we talked about the possibility of getting a chunk of his junk removed at the dermatologist.

Speaking of Matlock (Bill Maddox) , we all play along with the fiction he’s cultivated – that a day like today, without one single step if running or even a SSH, is his kind of day – but I’ve seen him sprint, and I know the truth. Matlock is a gazelle and today was a disappointment for him.

Shoulder Blasters, stretchies, the Carlton. No mailbag, just the area surrounding a melanoma removed and some doctors orders to not run. Merkins and Big Boys followed by rock work, over and over. ATMs to finish up, because my weekend starts tomorrow. Off to see Wham-o (Charlie Greene) .

A fine morning indeed to be out there with you guys. It felt great, lack of running notwithstanding.

Faith can look a lot like abundant joy.

Go get naked for your dermatologist.

Battle Buddy Circus

August 25, 2025 BackBlasts

AO: asylum-am
Q: P3
PAX: Cat Gut (Mike Davis), Waffle House (Brady Greene), Cosmo 2, Pac-man, Cinco (Scott McGuire), Aquafina, Fabio (Joe Hamilton), Tramp Stamp, White Belt
FNGs: None
COUNT: 10
WARMUP:

5 Easssyyy Updowns
SSH
Lap around the parking lot
Agility Drills
Cherry Pickers
Runners Stretch Sequence
Downward/Upward Dog
Shoulder lubricator

THE THANG:

With a partner. One works, one does core exercise. Run lap around Cirque du Soleil after each round together

100 table rows / Hello Dollies
100 Air squats / LBCs
100 Dirkins (Feet on bench) / American Hammers
50 Burpees / Big Bois
100 table rows / Box Cutters
100 Lunges (single count) / Flutter Kicks
100 Irkins (hands on bench) / Freddie Mercuries
200 toe merkins / Gas Pumpers

***Made it to Irkins.. Toe Merkins will be made priority on the next one

MARY: Notta

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

10 year anniversary is coming up. Iron Pax is almost upon us.

COT:

“Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. 7 And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.”

Philippians 4:6-7