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
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!
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!
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.
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!
We had 10 brothers show up this morning for a Ruck walk or Run this morning. The Ruck walk folks (Yardsale, Biebs, Mudface and No Idea) were 4 total and they started at 5 am and logged in 4 miles. YHC had a routes scoped out for a little over 4 miles that Bulkhead, Opus, Handshake and YHC ran. Spit and Marco Polo ran 5 miles taking the Bojangles loop to get there.
YHC was able to run with Handshake on a faster pace for 4.16 miles at 8’49″/ mile and was a nice cool morning for this run route.
Numberama (2 times) and Namerama, Marco Polo took us out in prayer.
It was great to run as a group and missed Mr Holland who has been posting regularly for our run workouts. Have the perfect 10 people show up for Tomato Run and Ruck shows that the word is getting out. We would love to have others show up from SOJ, Westside and downtown. Great to see you Handshake and look forward to seeing you again soon! Great convo and we may start having coffee on a tailgate(stealing this idea from Tryhard) too for those that can hang for a bit…stay tuned and we look forward to seeing you in the gloom.
It is always an honor to lead, have a great day gents…Cheers…CB
Six men showed up for a cool morning run from Atlee High School lot. We had 3 different distances today and here were the routes. Hash and Fannie Mae took off to run to the Kings Charter Clubhouse and back for 6 miles. Marco Polo was on their heels for about a mile then ran and alternate route to log in 5 miles. Mr Holland, Bulkhead and Corned Beef ran the simple 4.32 mile farm house loop route.
Numberama, Namerama, YHC took us out.
So YHC wanted to assure Mr Holland of a simple 4 mile loop that was easy to navigate…and a good balanced route with some hills, etc. So while in the lead YHC missed the turn back to the access road to Honey Meadows from Kings Charter, quickly realized the mistake and we turned around to get back on track. While crossing over on the access road, YHC tripped and took a spill so a tough run for CB.
It was an honor to lead the run for the 4 milers and we will see you in the gloom. Cheers…CB!
YHC was pumped to host the Pre-run and with last night’s cold soaker expected 1-2 to possibly join for a nice mosey to the Dogpile Monthly Convergence AO from Early Bird Biscuit Company. Roll up to see Upchuck and Double Mint stretching…nice no solo run today and then Hitchhiker rolls in with Handshake following and what?…Hardywood rolls in for this pre-bootcamp mosey! So we are ready to roll and run straight on S Robinson street across bridge and take a right to run around boat lake and stay on Boat lake drive until Westover then to Swan lake drive around Swan lake to lake road to Shields lake drive and around shields lake to left on Shirley lane. We cross Park Drive to the AO for exactly 2 miles. We averaged a 9 minute mile with 9.13 for 1st mile and an 8’50” 2nd mile pace…great warm up run.
For the trip back after our Nancy Lopez WOR beatdown we did a straight shot on Spottswood drive to South Robinson street to our parked cars for a 1.02 mile run for a 9’24” pace, as we walked and sprinted some during the last quarter mile.
Numberama and Namerama YHC said a prayer for childhood friend Chris Ash who lost everything in a forest fire in Boulder, Colorado. He was able to escape with his family of four and four pets that they rescued in their car.
Great run and mumblechatter this morning. It was an honor to lead the route and have a great weekend everyone. Cheers….CB!
With three at this workout, after warm ups of SSH, DQ, helicopters, arm circles reverse arm circles and 20 merkins we decided to rotate the exercise choice around the group and started with Yardsale with 20 4 count demon crushers, Corned Beef walk the parking lot loop with clockwise around the world halfway then counter clockwise around the world, Trout 40 kettle bell presses, Yardsale Halo clockwise while walking half of loop the halo counter clockwise while completing the loop. Corned Beef 20 lunges with KB each leg, Trout, 5 burpee thrust, run lap around lot loop then 5 more burpee thrusts. Yardsale 5 KB cleans with each side. Trout Run to opposite site 20 Freddie mercuries then mosey to start to finish the work out as we were out of time.
Numberama, Namerama and we had a great workout this morning.
Excellent Mumble chatter this morning and you missed a good one as we did more exercises with the healthy discussion so we hope to see you in the gloom soon. Cheers…CB
YHC was super pumped that the Bengals won and are going to the Superbowl…so excited, saw that the Q sheet was open and signed up to Q DaVille. It was a nice sunny and 70 day, so the fartsack seemed the better option for the North of the wall gang. No matter, Bengal Tigers can hunt on their own, in fact they are able to drag a bison to where they will feed. While warming up with 25 SSH, 10 DQ’s, 15 Arm Circles, 10 small and 5 big it occurred to YHC that we have not had a Murph workout in awhile and it is a great solo workout routine. So back to the car, grab the phone with the countdown timer then to the pull up bars by the bus loop.
With a mile in mosey so far, set up the countdown timer for 20 minutes and for every minute, performed 5 pull ups, 10 merkins and 15 squats. After 20 rotations that is 100 pull ups, 200 merkins and 300 squats. Once this was wrapped up ran 4 bus loop laps and back to the car to wrap up this murph work out.
Moleskin – Who Dey is the name of the Bengals mascot the Bengal Tiger, it started in the 70’s as a rallying cry to bring the city together around the football team. The icing on the cake for this win was exacting some revenge for the Bills as they lost a heartbreaker in Arrowhead Stadium a week ago.
Have a great week everyone…I look forward to seeing you in the gloom! Cheers…CB!
YHC rolled up to see a couple of gents ready for the run for the morning, we had 3 walkers post @ 5am so they could get in a long walk to return by 6:15 at the clubhouse. It was definitely COLD this morning that the runners started immediately once we arrived…did not have time to open the hand warmers…just get moving. YHC had to modify route to a 4.3 mile route with a slower 9:30 + / mile pace. The route had some gradual declines followed by a long steady climb for about 2 miles. Great mumblechatter and was nice to catch up with some brothers that have not posted for a run AO in awhile. The ruckers logged in 4.5 miles this morning. They got to a Lake one they had not seen before, initially thought they were lost; however, soon were able to orienteer to where they had a route to return to the clubhouse…that had to be some good mumble chatter for sure.
Numberama, Namerama, No Idea took us out in prayer.
We had a new guy post (Justin) with the Ruckers this morning as he wanted to get a ruck walk in, he is not sure on returning back so we will see if he posts next week and we will officially give him a name. What first came to mind for the group was the Biebs (Justin Bieber)…so we shall see.
An honor to lead a route today and look forward to seeing you in the gloom…Cheers…CB!