Author: Corned Beef

  • TF Trail Run

    YHC had a new 5 mile route planned for today. Rolled into the lot and Yardsale and No Idea started earlier on the Ruck walk both sporting their 40# pack. 3 more posted to run so YHC and Marco Polo ran about a 9 minute/mile pace and Mr Holland and Opus ran about a 9:15/min mile pace. Our route started with the reverse Bo Jangle’s loop over the tracks behind Atlee, Chickohominy Middle and Cool Spring Elementary to Honey Meadows, up the hill by the clubhouse into Taylor farms. Marco Polo and YHC ran on the trail route past the Schools over the Bridge and past the starting point for another 10th of a mile to get just over 5 miles. Mr Holland and Opus stayed on the main roads and logged in just over 5 miles also. We rolled into our Rucker’s posting promptly at 6:15.

    Numberama, Namerama, Yardsale took us out in prayer this morning.

    HDHH Wednesday 3/16 at O’Tooles in Midlothian starting at 5:30PM-not Forest Hill

    Address :13919 Midlothian Turnpike, Midlothian, VA 23114

    Great run this morning with Marco-Polo. Have a great day gents and I will see you in the gloom. Cheers…CB!

  • Tryhard Appetizer Run

    YHC signed up for the Breakfast Club Run this morning to ensure a post to a Dogpile beatdown from Tryhard. So Hash, Doublemint and Shiplap came to this breakfast and we started to go on our route. About at the bridge Doublemint barked I will catch up and we kept running for a bit, then turned around to pick up Doublemint. We arrive at the Dogpile AO a little early so we kept running until we logged in 2 miles.

    We had the Dogpile workout and then returned back to the start. Thank you to Sippy Cup who ran with us to his house as we were so delirious from the bootcamp we were going to take a wrong turn and make this a longer run than the simple 1 mile return route!

    Numberama, Namerama and Shiplap took us out in Prayer.

    Great seeing you guys this morning as it is an honor to lead. I will see you in the gloom…cheers CB!

  • Easy Tomato Run

    We had a couple of brothers show up early for a Ruck walk and 4 of us posted for a run. Marco Polo logged in 5 miles. This one was a mostly down hill route with 2 good sharp hills to climb for a nice run workout. This route was a little over 4 miles for Mr Holland, Spit and Corned Beef. Yard sale and No Idea did a ruck walk and logged in about 3.5 miles.

    Numberama, Namerama Marco Polo took us out in prayer.

    Great run gents and I will see you in the gloom, cheers…CB!

  • Crazy Cat Lady

    It has been awhile since YHC has posted and Q’d No Toll…Being from north of the wall, tolls were paid and rolled into a gang of 14 F3 brothers ready for a Tuesday bootcamp and here is what went down:

    COP

    We mosey from the flag to the Tower Paved lot and circle up for 20 SSH, 10 DQ’s 20 Helicopters, 15 armcircles, 10 small and 5 big, Reverso, 15 Ukrainian* Soldiers, 15 Imperial Walkers, 20 – 4ct American Hammers, 20 LBCs, 20 Flutter kicks, 10 Reverse scorpions, 10 scorpions and 20 merkins. We mosey to the soccer fields and YHC sets up glow sticks for the first event.

    THANG

    YHC drops the glow sticks at the 25, 50, 75 and 100 yard mark for a Red Barchetta. So as a group we run to the 100 yard glow stick, 100 SSH, back to start and plank for 6. Run to 75 Yard mark for 75 LBC’s and back to start and plank for 6, Run to 50 yard mark for 50 squats and back to start and plank for 6, run to 25 yard mark for 25 merkins and back to start and plank for 6, then run 10 yards for 10 burpees and back to start and plank for 6.

    Next we divide into groups of 3 for a triple check as 15 total was perfect. Partner 1 is the timer running to the other side of the field and back, P2 – performed alternating lunges and P3 – performed dips on the bleachers. We did this 3 times.

    Next we had the Bearmuda Triangle as YHC re-arranged the glow sticks into a triangle with the corners about 20 yards apart. First rotation, bearcawl to next corner, 1 merkin, 2nd corner 2 merkins and 3rd corner 3merkins. Next we lunge to first corner 1 squat, lunge to second corner 2 squats, lunge to 3rd corner 3 squats.(This rotation was a breather set for recovery…to really push this the triangle should be 3 sets of bear crawls) And the last rotation, bear crawl to first corner, 1 merkin, bear crawl to 2nd corner 2 merkins and bear crawl to 3rd corner for 3 merkins.

    We divide into different groups of 3 and perform another triple check, partner 1 ran from starting point to the soccer goal on the south, then to the soccer goal to the north and return to start as the timer. Each group had dealer’s choice for the 2nd and 3rd exercises to work on an exercise of their choice. We wrapped this up and moseyed to the flag.

    Numberama, Namerama we discussed announcements, prayer requests and determined an FNG’s Chad (Doozy’s recruit) name and with this bunch it was all over the board! Chad wore a UK shirt so started with Louisville, Rick Patinio…tounges came out with multiple languages(Portuguese and Spanish)…crazy cat lady…guys we want Chad to come back…so we settled on Juanita! So welcome Chad you are now Juanita in F3. Mumblechatter was fierce this morning!

    We close up into a manball and Tryhard took us out in prayer!

    Moleskin

    We have some announcements – Tomorrow is a Hump Day Happy Hour at PBR on 301 in Mechanicsville. Easy directions as it is the 4th stop light north past 295 take a left and PBR is on your right in a strip mall. Great beer and food here and we hope to see you there.

    There is a convergence in Dogpile this weekend as we ask for the groups in DaPile and Rock and Roll to meet at DogPile for the 1st weekend of each month.

    Finally, I Q’d No Toll when Neil Peart (drummer from Rush) passed away in January 2020, I would argue that he was the best drummer ever and quite the writer of most of their lyrics.

    Keep crushing it gents as it is always an honor to lead! Cheers…CB!

  • Lost Run

    YHC had the Q for Tomato run and wanted to review a route that can be confusing for travelers, even the locals may miss a turn or two. We have been having a group of ruck folks show up at 5am so YHC came to a lot with some cars present for this event and they were well into the workout. Mr Holland showed up and we began our run right at 5:30. This route took us through three different communities and was a relatively flat route and we ran about a 9:15 minute mile pace. We returned to the Rutland clubhouse and met up with Marco Polo who ran 5 miles. We ran 4.3 miles the ruck walkers showed up and they logged about 3.5 miles total.

    Numberama, Namerama, YHC took us out.

    Moleskin

    Great mumblechatter this morning when everyone gathered around at the end of the workout, we discussed the upcoming 1/2 marathon that is coming up in early April. If you are interested in signing up we have a team and so far it is Corned Beef, Spit, Bulkhead, Opus, Doozy that have signed up and Mr Holland is looking to register. Anyone that may be reading this back blast and is interested can contact Spit for more details.

    Announcement – We will be hosting a 2nd F event at the PBR located on Route 301 starting @ 5:30 and going until 7:30. We look forward to seeing you there if you can make it.

    Nice run this morning see you in the gloom, Cheers…CB!

  • Punisher Partner

    What a truly wonderful sunny and 70 degree afternoon we had for Punisher. YHC was excited to have a gang to test a new workout routine to wrap up the Monday for this week. Rolled into the parking lot with alot of text updates of folks not going to post and I see a lone brother in the name of Upchuck stretching and getting ready. 6pm rolls in, it’s just up to us to get going so we decide to do the COP…While running a couple of laps we discuss earlier workouts from the morning (Peloton for CB and and Splinter’s Block part at Hoedown for UpChuck)…and with the low numbers nice evening thought Bingo Beer was a great audible. First the COP

    COP

    We stop at the start point of our 2nd lap and perform 20 SSH, 10 DQ’s, 20 LBC’s, 10 scorpions and 20 merkins.

    I throw the Q to Upchuck and we follow one another to Bingo Beer. He treats with 2 beers and 2 appetizers. Good beer, great apps and nice catching up with an F3 brother from another nano region!

    Hope to see you in the gloom soon gents. Thank you, Upchuck. Cheers….CB!

  • 2-10 Ramp Build

    2-10 Ramp Build

    Corned Beef, Mr Rogers, Tryhard and Hitchhiker

    Last Thursday 4 brothers converged with Project Homes and their volunteers to build a Ramp for a Chesterfield Resident in need. Weather was great and we finished before 11:30am. We will have more dates later this spring including a weekend date! Please contact Corned Beef if you are interested and thank you to Mr Rogers, Tryhard and Hitchhiker for your time and effort on this ramp. Have a great week!

    Cheers….CB

  • Cold Anvil

    Five Showed up for a run this morning and YHC took the lead on Routes with Spit’s suggestion. We made an audible on the 5 mile route and the 4 milers had two different routes that were run. Trout and Mr. Holland stayed together and from the back of Atlee to Meadow Farms to Taylor Farms and return their route was about 4.5 miles. YHC and Pavarotti ran 4.2 miles where we ran meadow Pond road to the end and returned, cam by the front of the school and added the bus loop finished at the Atlee Parking lot. For the Five mile route, Marco Polo Meadow Pond Road to the end returned and ran Honey Meadows to Orchard Meadow road to the end and returned taking the road behind Cool Spring Elementary, ran the bus loop and returned to the Atlee Parking lot for 5 miles.

    Numberama, Namerama, Pavarotti took us out in prayer.

    I was a good audible route will be better with Spit (running the trail) next time…See you in the gloom…CB!

  • Solo Bengal

    YHC was ready to get the week off right and roll into Atlee Parking lot, No one there except the early morning Maintenance crew, getting the building open for school. Grab my phone and roll over to the bus loop.

    Last time a modified murph was in order, this time with Phone in Hand a Tabata 10 4 minute sets of 8 reps of 20 exercise with 10 second rest and the following exercises were performed:

    10 merkins, then plank for remaining time of 20 seconds.

    LBC’s

    Step ups on Bench

    Dips on bench

    Flutter kicks

    Alternating lunge

    Carolina Dry Docks

    American Hammers

    Squats

    Run 20 seconds Walk 10 for last set to parking lot.

    Nice workout and missed the gang. I did chat with a maintenance guy who commented that it must be hard to do alone.

    Happy Valentines Day gents, see you in the gloom. Cheers…CB!

  • DaPile 8 ball

    Eight brothers showed up this morning for a 6 mile run and here is what went down.

    YHC chose a mostly flat route to run this morning as we had 6 and 7 mile runs this morning. The route started behind Atlee High School and ran to honey Meadows and we took the access road to Kings Charter and ran towards the club house on Kings Charter Drive. We took a right on Wynchase Way to Topotottomy Drive run to Patuxent Drive and that was 3 miles, we turned back to run the same route back at a slightly faster pace.

    Spit had started running earlier this morning so he was able to log in 8 miles. All other runners ran 6 miles with Hash and Marco Polo arriving first.

    Numberama and Namerama, YHC took us out.

    Moleskin

    We had a great cool morning for a run, we circled up after the run and said a prayer for Mudface who lost his Father earlier this week. We also gathered at local cup for some great convo and coffee. We are planning our monthly 2nd F and an activity that came up was Curling. So we will be looking into the details and will take on the other AO’s in a curling competition soon, stay tuned for a preblast.

    I look forward to seeing you in the gloom soon, until then, Go Bengals, Have a great weekend….Cheers…CB!