The BackBlast:

AO:

blacktop

Pax Names:

G-String, Kiffin, Mandals, Long Island, Vespa, Ditka, Brain Fart, Smurfette, Pappy, Hooch

Number of Pax:

10

FNG Names:

Brain Fart

Number of FNGs:

1

Intro:

Highlight reel: Kiffin first on scene b/c last time, Bricks all around, Capri Lap worked in Pappy’s favor (see Lexicon), 80 total ‘Mercans toward May Challenge, PAX sharted, PAX littered (two bricks left behind), PAX laughed, 1.9 miles on a color-coded map, 6th man Ditka man of honor, FNG Brain Fart.

Warm-o-Rama:

Select one brick for each hand (standard 3-lb-ish red bricks) from YHC's truck bed, mosey a medium Capri Lap through the WCC main lot and circle up at the main entrance covered driveway. Pappy enters and is instructed to pick up two bricks out of the truck bed (the reader is advised to remember this detail). F3 Disclosure, as Smurfette answered the call and brought out an FNG, and we all need a reminder anyway. A round of 5 exercises to complete the warm-o-rama: 15 Brick Mills IC (windmill with a brick in each hand, very effective); 15 Dancing Bears IC (not as much giggling as usual, I'll say, but Smurfette announced vulnerably – surely as a representative spokesman of our common experience – his inability to find his balance); 20 Monkey Humpers IC (pulled out of left field, b/c it took me too long to recall the next planned exercise, which was…); Al Gore (hug a tree in full squat with bricks out in front, then arms to the side, appx. 30 seconds); and 30 SSH IC (oh, the PAX were really hoping for just 20… then just 25…).

The Thang:

All exercises from Startex to Endex completed by at least 9 of the 10 PAX with a brick in each hand. Good work, men!
Brick curls to await the six at the end of each mosey, bear crawl/backward mosey, or anything that separated the PAX.
Mosey downhill to Ridgewalk and circle up at the bottom of the southeast driveway hill. PAX perform 20 'Mercans IC (that's 40 total).
Start ascent with Bear Crawl 100 steps (50 each hand), then finish the hill with backward mosey. Curls for the six.
Mosey west to Ridge Drive and circle up to curl for the six. 30 Overhead Claps OYO, brick crumb dandruff is a thing.
Mosey north, curl for the six at the crosswalk, then continue the mosey up to the north corner of Costco. Step aside for delivery truck with friendly honk honk. 30 Dodo Birds IC (the PAX again grumble at the ambitious rep count).
Backward mosey up the steep hill and curl for the six at the speed bump; forward mosey (with blue skid marks) to Costco east corner for 30 Wonder Bras IC (you guessed it, pain, trembling, mumbling).
Mosey to Costco south corner, curls for the six on the enter/exit triangular median. 10 'Mercans to round up to 50 total thus far. 25 American Hammers (with a 6 lb hammer), shortly after Pappy's playful confession ("wait… we were supposed to have bricks?"). Despite his large frame, I can attest that his hammer was the smallest, shortest, and lightest amongst the PAX present.
Curls to wait for traffic; then YHC was appropriately loud and watchful during our precarious return crossing of Ridgewalk Pkwy.
Mosey back to the flag for Brick Webbs (Jack Webbs with bricks) to a count of 7 and 28 'Mercans and Brick OH Presses.
1 minute of curls AMRAP, then 2 'Mercans to round off at 80 for the morning (for you May Mercan Challenge dudes).
Return bricks to truck bed and recover.

COT:

6th Man Ditka – we're honored by your service of our country in the Marine Corps, your service of our community at The King's Academy, and your vulnerability in the Circle of Trust. This is a safe and confidential COT, so let's follow Ditka's example and let our brothers be of good encouragement. We are all comfortable isolating ourselves, because confession and change are difficult/uncomfortable. Be assured, once you break the inertia, you can gain momentum quickly and be freed from the weight of whatever sins beset your path.
We were challenged to have lunch with a brother in the next week and actually talk about deep life issues. Confess, be vulnerable, and support one another – we need this accountability and true fellowship.
Welcome, FNG "Brain Fart" – one of Smurfette's Transit volunteers at WCC

Naked Man Moleskin:

Modify as needed, but don't litter! After Pappy's cute little comment, someone says "Where are your bricks?"
Pappy: "I threw them in the woods."
PAX: "HAHAHAHA! No, really, you don't have them? Where are they?"
Pappy: "Did you not hear me? [smiling] I threw them in the woods. They tumbled down the hill."
He did push hard. I mean 3 lbs. is a lot to ask a man to carry.

Great work today, men of the Blacktop. Truly a pleasure to lead you. Keep hitting the early gloom, and bring more men in your circle out here to find what we've found in the F3 fellowship. Let's go!