Cat Gut (Mike Davis) – Page 7

Rage Q Part II

September 29, 2025 BackBlasts

AO: asylum-am
Q: Waffle House (Brady Greene)
PAX: Rainbow, Cat Gut (Mike Davis), Matlock (Bill Maddox), Cinco (Scott McGuire), Fabio (Joe Hamilton), P3, Pac-man, Tropicana, Tramp Stamp
FNGs: None
COUNT: 7, 8, or 9 depending on who we include
I think I might be more suited to like a Tin Pax, or a Lead Pax. Friday’s workout ground me down to nothing and I spent the weekend facing the sad truth that I am not an iron pax. I took it all out on myself and you today. Thanks guys!

Today’s Copper Pax™ Challenge included a Shoulder Blaster, followed by a First Nations Run (sincere apologies to those offended, specifically Matlock (Bill Maddox) ‘s non-loose and unhappy groin). In this post-Wayne Dunn world in which we’re living, it’s the Q’s fault if a guy inflames a groin like that. I apologize.

But hey! We added 10 years to your life with a Junk Science. We bear crawled a long way. Some quick trips around the baseball diamond while the other guys did ab work. Jack Webb made an appearance during the 7th inning stretch. Home run sprints followed by more bear crawls and mosey home. Couple of trips up baby cardiac to close us out.

Happy Monday! Thanks for getting out there together – what a privilege it is.

COT: a thought from from Alan Jacobs in 2017. His prediction was accurate, I’m sorry to say. If we take our cues about how to think about others from social media (as opposed to the gospel), we will become vindictive moralists like everybody else. Here’s the quote:

“When a society rejects the Christian account of who we are, it doesn’t become less moralistic but far more so, because it retains an inchoate sense of justice but has no means of offering and receiving forgiveness. The great moral crisis of our time is not, as many of my fellow Christians believe, sexual licentiousness, but rather vindictiveness. Social media serve as crack for moralists: there’s no high like the high you get from punishing malefactors. But like every addiction, this one suffers from the inexorable law of diminishing returns. The mania for punishment will therefore get worse before it gets better.”

Plyo and stretch

September 17, 2025 BackBlasts

AO: asylum-am
Q: Gibbler
PAX: Matlock (Bill Maddox), Cinco (Scott McGuire), Waffle House (Brady Greene), P3, Bunny, Cat Gut (Mike Davis), F3 Pluto ( Hugh Nystrom), Gibbler, Pac-man, Rainbow, @Mr. Pancake, @Aquafina, @Whitebelt
FNGs: None
COUNT: 13
WARMUP: SSH and Tempo squats and Merkins and Grady Corn and Moroccan Nightclub

THE THANG: do a round of exercises and run a loop. 2x exercises =two loops.

MARY: mixed in including stretching at the end

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

COT: where are the hidden cables in your life that are waiting to trip you up.

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

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