Author: Grizzly

  • Scavenger Hunt at NoToll

    Nineteen answered the call this morning and emerged through the gloom at No Toll.

    The COP:
    SSH x 25
    Imperial Walkers x 20
    Hillbillies x 20

    The Thang: Mosey over to the back parking lot and formed three six man teams for a scavenger hunt.  Cards were distributed to each team with the following tasks (in varying order):
    • Find A Bench In The Woods and Do 50 Bench Dips Per Person
    • Find A Tennis Court and Lunge Across Both Courts And Back (Parallel To Nets)
    • Find The Lonely Wooden Wall and Get Everyone On Your Team Up And Over 3 Times Each
    • Find “Katie” and Jump Up And Try To Touch Katie 20 Times Per Person
    • Find A Swingset and Do 50 “Swerkins” Per Person
    • Find Any Another Team and Switch Cards With Them
    • Find A Basketball Court and Bearcrawl From One Basket To The Other, Crab Soccer Back. Twice.
    • Find A Picnic Shelter and Do 25 “Four Count Merkins” Per Person
    • Find An American Flag and Do 50 Flutterkicks Per Person
    • Find A Trash Can In A Dark Place and Do 50 LBC’s Per Person
    • Find A Traffic Light. Stop And Do 5 Merkins Every Time You Pass A Speed Bump
    • Find Any Another Team and Tell Them To Start Over On Whatever Exercise They’re Doing
    • Find A Soccer Goal and Do 50 WW-2 Sit-Ups Per Person
    All tasks had to be completed as a team. Between each task, the teams cut cards and performed the requisite number of Burpees before moving on to the next task.

    Moleskin:
    Excellent teamwork all around in carrying out the tasks. YHC tried to set up the teams so that there was a relatively even distribution of over-achievers, general-achievers, and aspiring-over-achievers. Hints in the form of glo-sticks were largely a failure. Some team members might want to play a little Blackjack today, since they seemed to get tens on every draw. Lots of hard work today. Well done.

    Special welcome to former FNG Home Wrecker who posted up for the first time this morning.

  • He Ain’t Heavy…

    Seven hearty souls braved the overnight storms and emerged through the gloom for YHC’s virgin Q.

    A brief warm-up mosey brought us to the edge of the soccer fields for the COP:
    SSH x 25
    Imperial Walkers x 25
    Hillbillies x 25
    Don Quixotes x 15

    Mosey over to the east end of the fields and form two-man teams.
    Buddy Carry (Fireman or Piggy Back) to mid-field, Run to west end, 100 Flutter Kicks as a team;
    Buddy Carry to mid-field, Run to east end, 100 LBC’s;
    Run to monkey bar traverse then to the dip bars for 100 Dips as a (2 man) team.

    Run back to east end of fields and form three man teams.
    Max set of Australian Pull-Ups.
    Two-man buddy carry to mid-field, Run to west end, 120 Merkins as a team.
    Two-man buddy carry to mid-field, Run to east end, Max set of Australians.
    Two-man buddy carry to mid-field, Run to west end, 120 Flutter Kicks as a team.

    Break into one four man team and one three man team.
    Four man team: Three-man buddy carry to mid-field, Run to west end, 120 Merkins as a team. Three-man buddy carry to mid-field, Run to east end, 120 LBC’s as a team.
    Three man team: Two-man buddy carry to mid-field, Run to west end, 120 Merkins as a team. Two-man buddy carry to mid-field, Run to east end, 120 LBC’s as a team.

    Four man team: Three-man buddy carry to mid-field, Run to west end, 120 Merkins as a team. Three-man buddy carry to mid-field, Run to east end, 120 LBC’s as a team.
    Three-man team: Run to monkey bar traverse then to the dip bars for 100 Dips as a (3 man) team.
    Switch teams and repeat above.

    All return to east end of field for 10 quick Freddie Mercuries before we mosey back to the flag and COT.

    Moleskin:
    Lots of quality work this morning. I appreciate the lack of mumblechatter as we tried out a few new moves. The PAX rose to all of the challenges admirably. I briefly “lost” two
    over-achievers (Marv & Spotter?) after sending them out for an extra lap while the remainder of the teams finished up their dips. Fudd tracked them down and we were able to continue as a full team. Start with 7, finish with 7, I always say.

    Special welcome to Spotter, an experienced F3’er from Charlotte who has relocated to Richmond and will be joining up with us.

    TYA joined us for the COT. Good luck to our BRR participants this weekend. The group leaves Richmond at 11a and kicks off their first leg at midnight tonight.

    Hard workout this morning. Well done.