03/24/2026 - Castle Black - Comfort Food
WARMUP: Lap around the school, SSH, IW, Squats THE THANG: Lap, 10 BBS, 20, Step ups, 30 squats, 40 inclined merkins, 50 SSH, then incremented laps MARY: American hammers, flutter…
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03/17/2026 - Castle Black - Rucking Heros
WARMUP: Oxbow & FMB Streak’n THE THANG: Ruck Ball Ground Hills with FMB and Back Draft talking fire fighter and first responder shop. God Bless them and all the first…
03/10/2026 - Castle Black - The Ball Ground Algorithm: Miles, Mumblechatter, and OpenClaw
The Thang: Three men, one small town, zero stretching, and way too much discussion about artificial intelligence before sunrise. Backdraft took the reins and immediately decided that Ball Ground needed…
03/04/2026 - Castle Black - Countdown to Regret
WARMUP: Mosey around upper parking lot of the normals… We opened with Burpee Broad Jumps, because starting with pain helps set the tone. Then the descent into madness began: Starting…
02/17/2026 - Castle Black - Keeping the lights on
WARMUP: Ran downstairs and did a few exercises. THE THANG 1: Color squares. Each GIANT square represented one exercise. The 4 quadrants within the giant square dictated the reps. Reps…
02/10/2026 - Castle Black - Protector of the Northern Border
WARMUP: we all took a long mosey down the parking lot down to the bottom of the hill into the school and did the normal warmups. THE THANG: Dug the…
02/03/2026 - Castle Black - Cold stairs. Warm merkins. Questionable leadership. Castle Black delivered.
WARMUP: Mosey, SSH, Weed Pickers, Hill Billys THE THANG: 11s — Pullups to Merkins with stair runs in between. Legs were reminded they exist. Coupon chaos followed. Three PAX farmer-carried…
01/27/2026 - Castle Black - Christmas it’s cold!
WARMUP: As if THE THANG: Get warm MARY: Barely ANNOUNCEMENTS: Things COT: A little It was so
01/13/2026 - Castle Black - Tour de terre de ballon
WARMUP: Prerun a little bit. THE THANG: Run around BG and solve the world’s problems MARY: Some Jumping Jacks ANNOUNCEMENTS: The lights are on. COT: Friends with cancer and the…
12/30/2025 - Castle Black - It’s cold and I don’t want to run
WARMUP: ruck down to the playground for weedpickers & inch worms THE THANG: we started with 11s of pullups and dips. Next wee rucked around the bottom of the school,…