Author: Beaver

  • Running Late

    Baby had YHC up for a few hours last night, It’s now 5:19 AM and my snooze is going off. I was running a solid 7 minutes late for the Iron Haul this gloom. Ran out the door, flip flops on with socks and shoes in hand. No chance for my morning deuce! These things had to wait until YHB rolled up into Pine Fork Park. Come to find out, Beaver would be solo this gloom. It was a good workout as YHC ran these little legs covering every piece of the park and neighborhood by doing a double shift of Iron Haul to complete a 15K, it wasn’t comfortable but it was manageable, and would have been greater with some company.

    Have a great week men! SYITG

  • Frisbee A No-No!

    3 of the coolest cats this side of the James geared up for a Q Potato as Ultimate Frisbee fell through.

    Choo starts the Q

    Stretcherama!

    COP 1 – Mailboxes – mosey the neighborhood and perform 3 Merkins & 3 SSHs at every mailbox.

    Beaver Q

    COP 2 – Chutes and Ladders w/ Road Cones – Set 1 – 7 Willy Mays Hays at every cone. Set 2 – 3 Booyah Merkins while Yukon solo Merkins and watches.

    COP 3 – 7’s – Donkey Kicks on the snack shack – MoT Bear Crawl to center diamond back stop for Hoedowns. Stop early for some feet on the wall ab sets.

    Mosey BTTF and do a couple of ab exercises.

    We are a leadership group disguised as a workout group. To plant, grow and serve small workout groups for the invigoration of male community leadership.

  • Like Old Times!

    3 East End F3 elders emerged from the chilly gloom for a session of Camp Beaver(nothing special, just a little stuffed Beaver mounted on the hood, some music to work out to and a deck of F3 cards). Let’s mosey!

    Warmup

    • Arm Circles
    • Don Quixotes IC
    • Ukrainian Soldiers IC
    • Wilson’s Wife
    • Fudds Wife & Toe Taps IC
    • Leg Stretches

    The Thang! 1 COP – Divide deck into the 4 suits. Draw 1 card of each suit. On the football field use MoT from the Cardio deck and travel 100 yards. Do the 3 exercises of drawn abs, arms and legs at the 100/75/50/25 yard lines on the way back. We got 4 rounds logged on the ice cold Bermuda.

    Set 1

    • Karaoke
    • LBCs
    • Ranger Merkins
    • Wojo Squats

    Set 2

    • Bear Crawl
    • Oblique Crunch
    • Chuck Norris Merkins
    • Smurf Jacks

    Set 3

    • Butt Kick
    • Flutter Kicks
    • Diamond Merkins
    • Standing Lunge

    Set 4

    • Sprint
    • Freddie Mercury
    • Hand Clap Merkins
    • Backward Lunge

    Circle Up for conversation and CoT. All that talk about building things has Beaver geared up for some wood working projects!
    Have a blessed day men, keep those butts warm!

  • Return Of the Kettlebell!

    3 Iron Pax Challenge Champions were released into the super moon gloom to reclaim their kettlebell AO! After 5 weeks of IPC, kettlebells fell to the wayside, justifying our AO swap by moving kettlebells to Tuesday(best thing since sliced bread!). It was a bit of a Q Potato as Choo Choo, Commando, and YHC ironed out the wrinkles as we went.

    Warmarama – some stretching on the asphalt.

    The Thang – Tabata – 20 sec on, 10 sec rest. 6 sets, run a close quarter mile after every round.

    • Merkin Pull Throughs
    • 2 or SA Curls
    • 2 or SA Bent Over Row
    • Halos
    • Tricep Extensions
    • Squats

    End with Mary

    Numbers & Names

    Announcements & Prayer Requests – Will we be doing a Merkin Month this November?

    Prayers for YHC’s brother that he returns to Jesus, and the M and the little one are safe during this birth in the coming 24 hours.

    YHC closed us out in prayer.

    Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. Galatians 5:24

  • Bear Vs Deer

    2 Iron Haulers emerged into the moon filled gloom for a ruck where we checked all three F boxes. We shared our challenges of being returning Christian’s and sharing the story of Jesus with others but to be educated in particular responses from challengers. We’ll keep this on our hearts and prayers and if anybody has any tips, we’d love to hear them. I can’t close this out without mentioning our M’s, thank God for the amazing women in our lives!

  • “Possum Kingdom”

    The feeling was bittersweet as 4 of us came to close out the Iron PAX Challenge of 2025 with the Week 4 Bert WOD this gloom. YHC had to redeem himself for the poor DJ mix from Week 0 and hope yalll were happy with this mornings mix, as Possum Kingdom by Toadies was very fitting once we were in the 2nd half of the WOD.

    The Thang

    START THE CLOCK

    • 50 burpees
    • 5-yard murder bunny, mosey 95 yards and back 95 yards to your block, reverse murder bunny for 5 yards back to start
    • 100 merkins
    • 10-yard murder bunny, mosey 90 yards and back to your block, reverse murder bunny for 10 yards back to start
    • 150 lunges (easy way)
    • 15-yard murder bunny, mosey 85 yards and back to your block, reverse murder bunny for 15 yards back to start
    • 200 air squats
    • 20-yard murder bunny, mosey 80 yards and back to your block, reverse murder bunny for 20 yards
    • 150 lunges (easy way)
    • 15-yard murder bunny, mosey 85 yards and back to your block, reverse murder bunny for 15 yards back to start
    • 100 merkins
    • 10-yard murder bunny, mosey 90 yards and back to your block, reverse murder bunny for 10 yards back to start
    • 50 burpees

    STOP YOUR CLOCK

    CoT – short and sweet, we were beat, and folks had to get.

    For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.

    Matthew 7:8

  • Abrasaurus Rex

    2 strangers lurked in the gloom at the strangers parking lot as YHC rolled in making it 3 gloompadres. The SF was staked into the soil, we met up, waited for any latecomers and moseyed to the trailhead and down around the football field and back to the east helipad.

    Warmarama

    • 10 Busch Garden Machines IC
    • 10 Hill Billy Walkers IC
    • 10 Slow Merkins IC
    • Choo Choo Runners
    • The 3 Wives

    COP 1 – Quarter Pounder on the Bermuda Dew! MoT – Karaoke the football Field.

    • 100 Flutter Kicks
    • 75 WWIIs
    • 50 Penguins
    • 25 Heels To Heaven

    COP 2 – 11’s from east to west helipad. Mountain Climbers & Fox Holes

    Run down the clock with Commandos on the east helipad and state the 5 core principles.

    CoT – Numbers and Names.

    Prayers requests- for Dexters family, his wife just lost her sister to cancer after battling for 10 years. Prayers for Handshakes niece as she battles with cancer.
    Announcements – IPC Week 4 tomorrow at 0700 – The Lumberyard. Schedule change: swapping ruck to Mondays and KB’s to Tuesday.

    In your darkest times be a light to someone else by staying strong in your faith. You never know when that someone might be watching.

  • From the Neighborhood to the Tip

    3 Gloompatriots emerged for the final Tuesday morning Iron Haul (will now be held Mondays starting next week) for an hour of good chatter and just shy of 3.5 miles traversed! We began by meandering through the Pine Fork neighborhood and back, heading east at the trailhead and through the diamonds. Cut a right towards the pull-up bars and a left around the tip. Once we made it around the whole tip we headed west at the pull-up bars through Copperhead Trail nestled behind the dog park and pickleball courts(we got pickleball!). Once we made it back to the trailhead we carried on in similar fashion to log an extra mile by covering the west side of the trails.

    Numbers & Names

    Announcements – Last week of IPC thank you God!
    Prayer Reqs – Commando – prayers for John, young man going through some hard times as he and his partner separated with a 1 year old caught in the middle. Beaver – Prayers for my brother Steve that he finds his way back to a relationship with Jesus. Choo Choo – Prayers for his family and wife get through the daily struggles that they are encounter.


    Commando took us out in a mighty prayer! We’re very blessed to have Commando in this group to be a whetstone to the rest of us, it’s something we haven’t had that we truly needed. Commando, you are a blessing to our group brother. Respect.

  • See Beaver Run

    YHC rolled into the Mammoth/IronHaul parking lot to see what might be on the menu for this gloom. We’ve been discussing swapping the 2 AO’s to allow Monday to be a recovery day and doing KB’s on Tuesdays. Anyway! It was a solo party for this lonely Beaver so YHC opted for the Iron Haul run and logged some miles all over PFP while ensuring I did not encounter any copperheads!

  • Sweet, Sweet Septic

    A duo of not so dastardly dudes emerged from the 70 & sunny gloom for Week 3 of the 2025 Iron Pax Challenge! We were greeted by the sweet odor of an overflowing septic tank in the area that stuck with us throughout the entire challenge, we might get some sort of bonus reps for enduring such putrid circumstance.

    The Thang

    Set 40 minute timer with buzzer every five mins to run 25 yards and perform 5 burpees.

    AMRAP – Perform 40 reps of all 4 of the following exercises as many circulations as possible. Count the total quantity of reps completed, burpees do not count.

    • Coupon Swings
    • Block Jumpovers
    • Thrusters
    • Decline Merkins – feet on top of coupon stacked vertically

    Numbers, Names & a dispenser full of coffee!

    Prayers that baby August makes a safe and healthy arrival very soon.
    Ruck stuff tonight 20:00-24:30 in RVA. See Slack for more details.

    One more week of the IPC coming! Let’s finish strong!