Author: Dr Tryhard

  • Molten Diamonds

    Three amigos for the only 92 degree AO in RVA. Warmed up and moseyed to the large lot for the ol’ Seven of Diamonds – focus on the core:

    x7 Burpees each corner

    x14 WWII ea corner

    x21 Am Hammers 2-ct

    x28 LBC’s

    x28 Mtn Climbers 2-ct

    x21 Leg Raises

    x14 Scrunchy Frogs

    x7 Burpees 

    Mosey BTTF for COT:

    • Counterama # 3
    • Namerama
    • Announcerama (see Below)
    • BOM Prayer

    NMS:  Solid sweatfest with plenty-o-reps beside two of the best. Better together! Yours AYE! ~DTH

    Announcements (SEE SLACK!)

    • Summer Tour Ongoing
    • 7/19 Bridge
    • 7/22 Ultimate Tourny
    • 7/27 School of RUCK (7am kid-friendly workout and ruck)
    • 8/16 Homegrown Half
    • 9/26 Night Ruck CSAUP
    • 10/3-5 GrowRuck in Cary NC 

  • Just add a little Dry Rub to that Bugout Bag

    The usual Ruck warriors welcomed Dry Rub to speed ruck the mean streets of Bon Air, clocking 3.5 miles with the encouraged topic of Doomsday Prepping livening up the usual discussion. Coffee and deep philosophical thoughts occurred after at Einstein. Always a pleasure gents! Yours AYE! ~DTH

  • Logs of Love

    10 gloom brothers of the F.O.R.G.E. embraced the suck this morning, pushing beyond the boarders of the AO and the standard comfort of carrying just their own body weight. Here’s how the PAX embraced some fresh coupons: 

    The THANG: 

    WARMERAMA: 

    • Run to bottom of hill, Bernie back to top
    • Someone remarks “UH OH, DTH IS MAD…”
    • Circle up at the Flag
    • Welcome & Disclaimer
    • A smattering of many usual DTH warm-up exercises, but fast paced with only x5 reps IC each

    COP # 1:

    • ELEVENS at the topmost grass slope of Mt Chaplain
    • Incline Merkins at the bottom 10–>1
    • WWII’s at the top 1–>10

    COP # 2:

    • FIELD TRIP – mosey off post into the hood, only about 200 yards to Casa-de-DTH
    • Form up around the trailor and walk it up to park outside garage
    • Now with trailer moved, return to a lovely pile of fresh cabers of various length and girth, and organize PAX into carrying teams
    • x4 PAX under the behemoth 12’ trunk
    • x2-3 PAX on the medium sized 8’ log
    • x2 PAX on the smaller medium 7’ log
    • x1 PAX carrying the smallest 5’ log

    COP # 3:

    • Shoulder carry the logs back to the road and down to the bottom of Love Hill
    • Put down logs and complete x5 perfect form burpees OYO
    • Loosen up with Michael Phelps and Windmills
    • Switch carrying teams

    COP # 4:

    • New teams under logs carry back up Love Hill and back down to bottom
    • x5 more perfect burpees OYO
    • Some other strecthing
    • Switch carrying teams again

    COP # 5:

    • New teams under logs carry back up to the top of Love Hill 
    • Ground logs and circle up for Scrunchy Frogs IC
    • x5 perfect burpees OYO
    • Switch carrying teams and return logs to DTH’s place

    5min Mosey BTTF for COT:

    • Elbow Plank it up for F3 Review of Mission, Credo, and 5 CP’s
    • Counterama # 10
    • Namerama
    • Announcerama (see Below)
    • BOM Prayer
    • FLATTY honks as he passes by – HEYO!
    • Officer FLORENCE shows up in time for high fives and a group picture

    Prayer Requests:

    • Dealer’s cousin getting married
    • Snip’s friend with a very premie Baby A. in NICU fighting or life
    • DTH stressors with work/life

    NMS:  The PAX knew they were in for a sweatfest when we started out with a run and bernie on the hill, and the fun didn’t stop there! YHC had a couple trees come down over the winter and had recently chainsaw-smoothed a number of new logs of variable size – today was the day to take them for a walk and the PAX was more than enthused to take on the challenge. Solid effort invested by all and we made it back to the SF just in time. Fun to see Officer Florence roll up between coming off a night shift and heading to a jiujitsu workout. We miss having you around bro! Keep posting and pushing fellas. Yours AYE! ~DTH

    Announcements (SEE SLACK!)

    • Summer Tour Ongoing
    • 7/19 Bridge
    • SOJ GHOST FLAG is on the move 
    • 7/22 Ultimate Tourny
    • 7/27 School of RUCK (7am kid-friendly workout and ruck)
    • 8/16 Homegrown Half
    • 9/26 Night Ruck CSAUP
    • 10/3-5 GrowRuck in Cary NC 

  • Destiny’s Child !!!

    YHC arrived early to set up the field and appreciated the assistance of House Party who was already on site getting some miles in. Moseyed back to the parking lot to collect 11 eager frisbee lovers and returned to the field for warm-up and a slightly late arrival of ringer Snuff. Here’s how we ran into Destiny:

    The THANG: 

    WARMERAMA: 

    • Mosey to the perfectly manicured Field #1 and circle up next to the shovel flag
    • Welcome & Disclaimer
    • A brief collection of warm-up IC Reps
    • DTH splits the teams evenly-ish, 6v7

    THE TEAMS:

    • Team 1 (Pinnies) – Dealer, Snuff, Oyster, NTB, Machismo, Doner Kebab, (LIFO FNG Destiny’s Child)
    • Team 2 (No Pinnies) – Snip, Tin Man, Belay, Bodos, Singer, Crash, DTH

    THE MATCH:

    • Team 2 scored early and Team 1 answered quickly. Again a point for Team 2, and again a resounding answer from Team 2. Truly neck and neck, never more than a point apart, the teams battled it out. Clearly YHC actually picked decently matched Teams. There were some phenomenal picks and blocks and amazing long throw end zone TD’s. Team 1 was clearly better with short passes, and it began to feel like Team 2 was only barely holding onto the lead. Then a random guy came and sat on the bleachers and was quickly invited to join Team 1 to even up the numbers, 7v7. At that point Team 1 took the lead and Team 2 was really struggling to keep up, but we ended the game with the points beautifully tied up 8-8. 

    Circle up at the Shovel Flag for COT:

    • Counterama # 15 (includes HP)
    • Namerama
    • Announcerama (see Below)
    • BOM Prayer highlighting what we’re grateful for

    Prayer Requests:

    • Lifting up Snuff and family for the loss of his Father in Law

    NMS:  Awesome matchup today with both Teams hammering hard to win. Awesome to have a surprise FNG, a neighbor of Machismo and Belay, happen to be in the park and come over to join us. It was clear DESTINY was with us, hence his fantastic nickname “Destiny’s Child!” Haha, welcome bro! See ya’ll out there again soon. Yours AYE! ~DTH

    Announcements (SEE SLACK!)

    • Summer Tour Ongoing
    • 7/19 Bridge
    • 7/22 Ultimate Tourny 
    • 8/16 Homegrown Half 
    • 9/26 Night Ruck CSAUP 
    • Oct 1-3 GrowRuck

  • Kilodora did not Kill our Dora

    7 HIM’s converged at Rockwood for a ride on the pain train, which in YHC’s estimation isn’t nearly as brutal as in past years, BUT plenty of reps nonetheless. Here’s how we crushed the comfort zone for the day:

    The THANG: 

    WARMERAMA: 

    • Mosey loop around the lot and circle up
    • Welcome & Disclaimer
    • A myriad of IC Reps to get all body areas sufficiently warmed up

    KILODORA:

    • Partner Up, with one HIM doing reps while the other runs the lot and back to switch
    • x100 No Cheat Merkins
    • x200 Heels To Heaven
    • x300 Squats
    • x400 LBC’s

    CABER SPRING CLEANING:

    • Mosey to the Pit
    • Remove all 8’ cabers, and PAX individually flipped cabers to end of pit and back
    • Pull out PAIN and CHAOS (14’ logs used for GTE #47), carrying out to dewy grass to roll and clean

    Mosey BTTF:

    • DORA wanted a little race up the gravel road, and while he was fast, he wasn’t fast enough!   😉

    COT:

    • Counterama # 7
    • Namerama
    • Announcerama (see Below)
    • BOM Prayer

    Prayer Requests:

    • RC’s mother – healing and peace
    • DTH’s business – wisdom and peace

    NMS:  Absolutely perfect weather and a wonderful group of brothers to get after it with. Always amazing how much longer it takes than expected to get through the Kilodora. Appreciate you guys putting in the hard work! Yours AYE! ~DTH

    Announcements (SEE SLACK!)

    • July NoToll Ult Frisbee
    • Bridge
    • August Homegrown Half
    • Sept CSAUP at Alamo/SH/OH
    • Oct Growruck

  • The Sunrise Show

    You can tout your fireworks or drone displays all you like, but nothing beats a glorious sunrise on a fine summer day. Five HIM’s got in a few miles under ruck-weight, and concluded with a ceremonial uncovering of the cabers and GTE logs. Conversation was excellent as usual and all five PAX stuck around for the main event – see next post… Yours AYE! ~DTH

  • MW Loopers

    A hard-thing-loving duo we’ll call Try Clown took off on the Rockwood perimeter loop and lost themselves in deep conversation while pushing the Repeat Loop button for 53 minutes. With this level of humidity, better the open air than going into suffocating woods trails. Big Rig temporarily joined the romantic duo a couple times but kept taking off for more running miles. Halfway through the hour Chaplain and 2.0 Touchdown joined the ruck having laid out the deadly Abcathalon course. The PAX completed just shy of 3 miles, and quality conversation was enjoyed by all. Yours AYE! ~DTH

     

  • the floor is LAVA

    The Crossing Crew was expecting molten temperatures, but 97 and breezy wasn’t all that bad in the shade… until you stepped onto 120 degree pavement in the sun. The Q thought very briefly about taking the PAX inside the church, but the Core Principles were instead honored in gloriously sweaty fashion – in the following manner:

    The THANG: 

    WARMERAMA: 

    • Mosey loops around the Annex Lot and circle up
    • Welcome & Disclaimer
    • The usual DTH top to bottom IC Reps

    COP #1: 

    • Mosey down to the Portico (shaded)
    • Partner up for B.O.M.B.S. – Similar to Dora 1-2-3 but more exercises, B.O.M.B.S. consisted of Burpees (25x), Overhead Press holding Low Squat (50x), Merkins (75x), Big Boy Sit-ups (100x), and Squats (125x). Partner 1 does reps while Partner 2 bear crawls 20 yards, and lunges back to switch. 
    • Mosey BTTF for a 3min water break

    COP #2:

    • Mosey down to the church
    • BLAZING HOT POLE SMOKERS (zero shade)
    • x30 reps OYO holding onto a parking space pole, legs straight, getting the hips off the ground to kick the sign

    COP #3:

    • Mosey around to the shaded side of the church, and circle up on a nice soft patch of grass
    • MARY – variable, more than 6 minutes, all reps in cadence, to include:
    • Crunchy Frogs
    • Low Flutters
    • WWII’s
    • LBC’s
    • Oblique LBC’s (each side)
    • High Flutters
    • Groiners 
    • (Feel like I missed one or two…)

    COP #4:

    • Short mosey to the brick wall
    • WALLORAMA
    • Hoedowns x10 IC
    • Heel Slappers x10 IC
    • Dirty Hookups x10 IC (ea side)
    • Variable stretching

    Bernie BTTF:

    • Water Break

    COT:

    • Counterama # 5
    • Namerama
    • Announcerama (see Below)
    • BOM Prayer

    NMS:  Solid work by The Crossing PAX. Extra credit to House Party for adding personal burpees to the workout. SORRY, WAS THIS NOT HARD ENOUGH FOR YOU MR LONGSLEEVES?!? Dude’s a beast. With shoulders smoked from NoToll and Ruckhenge, it was nice to focus on legs and abbs. Appreciated the opportunity to lead gents! Yours AYE! ~DTH

  • The Weight of TIME

    Eleven HIM’s converged at Ruckhenge in 1000% humidity to happily discover that a new DTH caber would accompany their morning ruck. This conifer log is about 8’ long and weighs about 80-100 pounds, dense with embedded sap. The PAX took turns in pairs to share her uncomfortable weight as we looped through Larus and local neighborhoods. (See pictures on Slack). Dealer was heard to exclaim “oof, that log just hits different!” An official name of this hefty new coupon is still in progress but current candidates like “Justinian” and “Sophia” hail from our new book “The Uses of the Past: Profiles of Former Societies” by Herbert Muller (published 1952), and coincides with our post-ruck round table discussing world history in contrast with modern society issues/conflicts. Perhaps she will embody the weight of the past by simply being called “TIME.” Or we could call her “RAPTURE” (another topic discussed) as pertains to the unpredictability of the future. Can any of us guarantee tomorrow? Let’s get AFTER it today gentlemen! Yours AYE! ~Dr Tryhard

  • Chicken Junkie for the WIN!

    37 PAX including 12 proud Dads, one baller Mrs Heist & a massive gaggle of hard-charging 2.0’s (plus four lovely ladies in waiting doing their own walk/run) posted to The Forge for a memorable (and crazy fun) Father’s Day beatdown. Here’s how we honored the day!

    The THANG: 

    THE RULE OF THE DAY:

    • No dad mosey’s without carrying a kid

    WARMERAMA: 

    • Mosey to the bottom of Mount Chaplain, switch kid-load and run back to the top to circle up
    • Welcome & Disclaimer
    • The usual “fun” DTH Reps

    GETTING THERE:

    • Mosey past the high school, stopping briefly for curb crawls, both ways
    • Keep moseying down to the soccer field

    HUGE-BALL CRAB SOCCER – Round 1:

    • Split into two teams lining up behind goal lines then take the field via crab walk
    • After a goal scored take a “break”

    AMPHITHEATER “BREAK”:

    • Partner up for three rounds of amphitheater reps – Partner 1 does abb work at the bottom, Partner 2 box jumps to the top then jumps back down to switch

    HUGE-BALL BEAR/RUN SOCCER – Round 2:

    • Teams line up behind goal lines then take the field via bear crawl, but kids under 6 allowed to stand up and run/kick/tackle
    • After goal scored take another “break”

    HILLSIDE “BREAK”:

    • CLOCKWORK MERKINS – x3 merkins for each hour of the clock face all the way around

    HUGE-BALL CRAB/BEAR/RUN RUGBY – Round 3:

    • Teams line up behind goal lines then take the field via bear crawl OR crab walk, but kids under 7 allowed to stand up and run/kick/tackle – full on rugby happening…

    MOSEY BACK:

    • Dad’s shoulder kids and mosey BTTF
    • En route stop for coupon squats (kids still in shoulders)

    FRISBEE FETCH:

    • DTH collects frisbee while CHAPLAIN leads a Mummy Kick extravaganza
    • Kid throws the frisbee, first Dad calls an exercise/reps then their own kid throws next
    • Completed maybe 8 throws down and up Mount Chaplain with variable reps

    MOSEY TO THE SLIP&SLIDE:

    • OYO participation, competing for style points, ladies serving as judges
    • CHICKEN JUNKIE for the Win!

    MOSEY BTTF for COT:

    • Counterama # 37
    • Namerama (for time’s sake new kid names chosen by their dad’s)
    • Closing Prayer
    • Tailgating and further slop&slide fun

    NMS:  This was an AWESOME group today! Solid PAX of HIM’s and their families today, with all the kids having a blast and all the Dad’s getting a solid beatdown. Kudos to Mrs Heist for joining the workout. Props to SABLE carrying two kids for all the mosies, and to a couple older Chaplain 2.0’s embracing the carry-challenge as well! Shout out to FNG Chicken Junkie for winning the slip&slide competition. And thanks to all those who brought food and bevvies for afterwards. Let’s do it again soon! Yours AYE! ~DTH