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[halls-otb] Halls ruck

January 19, 2026 BackBlasts

AO: halls-otb
Q: Otis
PAX: Natty, Mic Drop, Spellcheck, Gmail, Otis, Sir Gooney, Dobbie
FNGs: None
COUNT: 7
WARMUP: Q was late, Clayton loop when he finally shows

THE THANG: Ruck across highway to the halls greenway to Halls community park, then back across highway to the bridge they kindly left for F3 to walk across.

MARY: Return to AO a little late

ANNOUNCEMENTS: OTB at morningside this Friday at 8am
Boathouse kickoff tomorrow at 7 pm
Knoxville Starfish Jan 31st

COT:
Information without transformation is just entertainment.
And transformation doesn’t happen in isolation.
You can…
• Listen to every podcast
• Read every book
• Attend every men’s conference
But if you’re trying to grow alone, with no accountability, you’re setting yourself up for failure.
The enemy loves isolated men.
They’re easier to deceive. Easier to discourage.
Easier to defeat.

“If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.”
‭‭1 Corinthians‬ ‭13‬:‭1‬-‭3‬, ‭8‬ ‭ESV‬‬

[crossroads-vls] Foundation/Disruption F1

January 4, 2026 BackBlasts

AO: crossroads-vls
Q: Otis
PAX: Natty, Mountain Ice, Spellcheck, Mooch, Herbie, Otis
FNGs: None
COUNT: 6
WARMUP: Prayer and Greetings

THE THANG: F1 Disruption
Disturbance to the Status Quo

Socratic
– What do leaders do?
– What effect does leadership have on the status quo?
– Is there a common characteristic shared by leaders who leave a legacy?

Leading people to action against the status quo brought up a few key questions:

– How can you visualize and know where you are to go?
– What does it look like to describe it?
For both of these: see a need or problem; devise a solution or witness an advantage taken by others. You have to answer the why and how yourself first to be able to properly communicate the benefit.
– What are some examples of a status quo that you have recognized that needs disrupting? (Commitment, idleness, flesh/not living 3rd, not having love, complacency, loving and forgiving yourself, comfort and convenience)

Big focus on love: Without love, disrupting the status quo isn’t leading, more of being a critic(jackass as Borg would put it).

It is very important to commit to study and application of the reason behind your disruption to better communicate it to others.

Spur
– Leaders influence movement to advantage
– Because it induces movement, leadership causes Disruption
– A great Leader’s legacy is built on love

MARY: Focusing on 1 Get Right chapter a month this year, the month of January is DRP. This is in addition to regularly covering each chapter a week in order. At the beginning of the month, read the month’s chapter and come up with a measurable challenge to help you apply it and make it a habit.
Example: Mine for this month is getting up immediately when my alarm goes off. Seems small but I think has big implications. Starting off with the DRP(Daily Red Pill, the choice of the hard, true life of the HIM) straight out of bed helps the rest of my day. I’m not rushed, can make my lunch, make coffee, help my wife, read, pray, etc. Compared to rushing, forgetting things and speeding to my destination.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Come up with a DRP challenge for yourself.

COT: Whole Thing

[halls-otb] RUCK’em if you got’em

December 30, 2025 BackBlasts

AO: halls-otb
Q: Spellcheck
PAX: Otis, Gmail, Herbie, Sam, Mic Drop, Spellcheck, SirGoony, RizzE
FNGs: 2 SirGoony, RizzE
COUNT: 7
WARMUP:
First step

THE THANG:
Moseyed to the high school, up the bleachers a time or two, out the back over the elementary school, headed down the greenway back to the AO.
MARY:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Nope

COT:
Life abundantly is an option, do you want it, will you opt-in?

“The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.”
‭‭John‬ ‭10‬:‭10‬ ‭ESV‬‬

“So Jesus said to the twelve, “Do you want to go away as well?” Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life, and we have believed, and have come to know, that you are the Holy One of God.””
‭‭John‬ ‭6‬:‭67‬-‭69‬ ‭ESV‬‬

Flag Handoff

November 12, 2025 BackBlasts

AO: thequacken
Q: Z-Pack , DoorKicker (Jud)
PAX: FixerUpper, Half-Caff (Patick Teasdale), Shotgun, Wedding Singer, Gmail, Mr.May, Postal, Recoil (Blake Conley), Backflow, Mermaid, Frizzles, Mountain Ice, Drano, vanilla, Lizzy, Otis
FNGs: None
COUNT: 18
WARMUP:
SSH
Windmills
Imperial Walkers
Tie Fighters
OH Claps
Michael Phelps
Squat and Reach
Ring of Fire Merkins

THE THANG:
Z-Pack – Burner Ring
In the Park we did four exercise stations, mosey between each station on the track.
1. 10 Burpees, 10 step-ups, each leg
2. 10 pull-ups, 20 V-ups
3. 5 Tres Merkins, 5 Mucho Leggos
4. 15 Decline Merkins, 20 Flutter Kicks on 4ct

DoorKicker – No Mercy
40 sec work / 20 sec rest per move
1. Jump Squat
2. Merkins
3. Mountain Climbers
4. V-ups
5. Plank Jack
Then… somebody yelled out about fireman’s carry and things got crazy.
DK divided us up into two, 9 man teams and we bear crawled the parking lot. Then we partnered up for fireman’s carries. One guy carried his partner to the other end of the parking lot and his buddy carried him back. Then we bernied a lap around the parking lot.

MARY:
no

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Go Ruck Basic and Tough this weekend! Also a 13 mile ruck

COT:
Fixer reminisced, then Z-Pack reminisced and DoorKicker said some stuff but I was getting coffee. Fixer and DoorKicker, feel free to add to this backblast with your COT comments. I’ll leave off with these verses from Ecclesiastes 4:9-12

Two are better than one,
because they have a good return for their labor:
10
If either of them falls down,
one can help the other up.
But pity anyone who falls
and has no one to help them up.
11
Also, if two lie down together, they will keep warm.
But how can one keep warm alone?
12
Though one may be overpowered,
two can defend themselves.
A cord of three strands is not quickly broken.

[halls-otb] Halls Ruck

November 10, 2025 BackBlasts

AO: halls-otb
Q: Otis
PAX: Spellcheck, Otis, Samuel Rievley
FNGs: None
COUNT: 3
WARMUP: Q shows up late

THE THANG: Ruck to neighborhood behind Marco’s

MARY: Clayton Loop

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

COT: We discussed a quote from Jon Tyson that he said to his son. “I’m not trying to help you be a good man, I’m trying to help you be good at being a man.”

We listed characteristics that men have and discussed what a man is. There is all kinds of talk of this in the world and on the internet right now. My challenge is to seek being as Spellcheck said, a Godly man first. Seek direction and insight in God’s word first.

Who is good? What is good? What is a man? The world and its wisdom is complicated but yet easy. Following Jesus is simple, but a lot of times hard.