Author: Dr Tryhard

  • Perfect Pitch for NoGrass

    A solid SOJ PAX of 16 studs squeezed into the few remaining parking spaces at NoToll and crowded onto the basketball court. With fellow missionary “NoGrass” in attendance, here’s an outline of how the Pain Train toured the AO:

    The THANG: 

    WARMERAMA: 

    • Slaughter start with a SUICIDE LADDER – x5 Rounds, counting down Burpees on the end line from x5 Burpees down to x1
    • Circle up for the Welcome, Disclaimer, and usual DTH top to bottom IC Reps
    • Mosey out to PAY THE TOLL (x20 Incline Merkins + x20 Dips)

    COP #1: 

    • Form up on SOJ’s premier lush field
    • HIGH REP 4-CORNERS
    • x70 Squats
    • x80 LBC’s
    • x90 SSH’s
    • x100 Flutters (2-ct)

    COP #2:

    • Mosey to the Pavilion for a DIRTY MCDEUCE:
    • x4 Sets each followed by a bearcrawl, each set with x3 exercises (chest, legs, core), and x12 reps for each exercise
    • Bear crawl to cross 30 yards
    • Exercises: HR-Merkins, Jump Squats & WWII’s

    COP #3:

    • Mosey back to the Bleachers
    • TRIPLE CHECK:
    • P1 – Big-O’s on the bleacher
    • P2 – Flutterss
    • P3 – Runs across field & back
    • When completed, mosey BTTF and stop en route to PAY THE TOLL (again) – this time all in cadence:  x10 Derkins, x20 Dips, x10 Incline Merkins

    COT:

    • Counterama # 16
    • Namerama
    • Announcerama (see Below)
    • BOM Prayer

    Prayer Requests:

    • Safe travels for NoGrass and his fam
    • Physical healing for ?Pam
    • Country Leadership
    • DTH prepping for Missions trip

    NMS:  What a pleasure it was to have my dear missionary friend Dr Mark Crouch join us this morning. On our last missions trip to Papua New Guinea, Mark and a number of other missionaries and kids joined in, and his son Levi gave him the nickname “NoGrass” which means no hair in the native language (he’s bald). Mark is an extremely skilled physician who I have been deeply grateful to count as a brother and mentor when serving in the field. His wife and four kids have been serving there for 11 years, and we have really enjoyed our time serving in PNG alongside them. Our next trip back is coming up in Mar-May 2025 so your prayers and support are welcome! Check out our Blog link below for more info and to follow along with all the picture and stories. Yours AYE! ~DTH

    https://hendersonsinmissions.blogspot.com

    Yesterday we took the Crouch Clan down to Bell Isle for a fun family walk. Yay for family time!

  • 100th Q for 2024

    Rounding out VQ week, a dozen SOJ HIM’s attended the centennial celebration of riding the DTH pain train in 2024. Putting experience to the test, the Q served up the following beatdown without having made a single plan, except to maybe do 100 of something. The PAX were not disappointed. 

    The THANG: 

    WARMERAMA: 

    • Mosey loop the lot, then down to the bottom of the grass hill
    • Ascend with x10 Broad Jump Burpees OYO
    • Moseyrama the larger lot and circle up in the adjacent grassy area
    • Welcome & Disclaimer
    • An extended variation of DTH top to bottom IC Reps

    COP #1: 

    • Mosey to the poles near the flag, poles suck with gravel galore, sooo long mosey to poles on other side of park
    • TRIPLE CHECK:
    • P1 – Pole Smokers
    • P2 – Dips
    • P3 – Bear crawl 50 yards, run back

    COP #2:

    • Mosey to the snack shack
    • WALLORAMA
    • Hoedowns IC
    • BTTW Hip Slappers IC
    • Dirty Hookups IC ea side
    • Donkey Kickoffs to 20

    COP #3:

    • Partner up for a CENTURY DORA
    • x100 Merkins
    • x100 Jump Squats
    • x100 WWII’s
    • Partner box jumps down steps, runs across, box jumps back up steps, to switch

    COP #4:

    • HILL FUN
    • Purple Rain murmured “just don’t call Monkey Humpers…”
    • SOOOO, Bear Crawl to the top
    • x10 Monkey Humpers
    • Crawl Bear back to the bottom
    • x10 more Humpers
    • Continue until you reach x100 MH’s

    Mosey BTTF:

    • Circle up in plank, drop to low plank for the F3 REVIEW
    • WOODSMAN – please share the F3 Credo
    • Hold it low and then push up after he achieves the Credo with some assistance
    • WOODSMAN! Please share the F3 Mission
    • Repeato on the low hold and helping the man
    • WOODSMAN! Five Core Principles please! Almost got it done on his own. 

    FINAL BONUS COP:

    • Run down to the bottom of the grass hill
    • Bernie to the top
    • x100 SSH’s OYO
    • Run back to bottom
    • Bear Crawl to the top
    • x100 Alt Toe-Taps (2-ct)
    • Ok, NOW mosey BTTF

    COT:

    • Counterama # 12 (welcome ROADRASH!)
    • Namerama
    • Announcerama (see Below)
    • BOM Prayer

    NMS:  Great group this morning willing to follow DTH one more time and put in the hard work. No complaints from this tough group, only complements. Welcome back to DM (brought out recently by Broadway) and a big hearty welcome to FNG Roadrash! He’s a tough ex-Marine with a history of wrecking his motorcycle. YHC shared with the PAX the beauty and joy of Q’ing and invited everyone to partake – it’s a Core Principle to share this honor! Yours AYE! ~DTH

  • How many kids can YOU carry?!

    Eleven intrepid campers escaped their sleeping bags to start the day with relighting the camp fire, donuts courtesy of Big Rig, a bit of coffee, and of course, a kid-friendly bootcamp. Here’s how we explored Camp WEAG:

    The THANG: 

    WARMERAMA: 

    • Mosey down toward the house and circle up
    • Welcome & Disclaimer
    • A smattering of IC Reps
    • Mosey down to the fishing pond

    COP #1: 

    • DORA, Part 1
    • x100 Dips
    • Moving partner runs 50 yards and back to switch
    • Run around the pond to the back side

    COP #2:

    • DORA, Part 2
    • x200 SSH’s on the bridge 
    • Partner runs up hill and back to switch
    • Run up the trail to the pavilion

    COP #3:

    • DORA, Part 3
    • x300 LBC’s 
    • Partner runs up the trail a ways and back
    • Mosey out to the field

    COP #4:

    • Adults all carry a 2.0
    • DTH got an adult-size Boba Fett shouldered and maybe made it 50 yards
    • Meatball found himself shouldering two girls one on each shoulder to finish the race. T-CLAPS!!!

    COT at The Flags:

    • Numberama #11
    • Namerama
    • Prayer

    NAKED MOLESKIN:  F3 Family Camping was a blast, and the kids absolutely ate up the workout. Camp WEAG has beautiful grounds, even more staggering on a warm Fall day, and it was a true joy to see all the kids roasting marshmallows, telling stories, and star gazing to spy comets. The weather was perfect and we will do it again!!! Yours AYE! ~DTH

  • Behind the Woodshed

    Seven HIM’s avoided TwinTeam Hill but discovered things aren’t much better behind the DTH Woodshed. No lounging around today!

    The THANG:

    WARMERAMA: 

    • Mosey laps around the lot including Betnie and concluding with x10 Burpee Broad Jumps, then circle up in front of the school
    • Welcome & Disclaimer
    • The usual DTH top to bottom IC Reps

    COP #1: 

    • Mosey around to the bus loop
    • Partner up for a DORA
    • x100 HRM’s
    • x200 Jump Squats
    • x300 Flutters (2-ct)
    • Moving partner runs loop

    COP #2:

    • Mosey back to the field for a WILT
    • Two times around the field doing x50 reps at each corner, rotating through SSH’s, CDD’s, M.Humpers, and LBC’s
    • First lap, stay together
    • Second lap, OYO

    COP #3:

    • BUNCHO-O-FIFTIES
    • Exit the track down to the road
    • x50 Lunges
    • Mosey down to the back side of the Swamp’s ticket entrance, AKA “The Woodshed”
    • x50 Chicken Peckers (BTTW)
    • Mosey over to a line of wooden posts
    • x50 Pole Smokers
    • Mosey over to some bleachers
    • x50 Dips
    • Mosey over to the big parking lot
    • x50 Mini Broad Jumps or Bunny Hops up the lot (Rosie’s 17th superpower)
    • Mosey up to the little hill
    • x50 Merkins broken up into sets of x10 at the bottom/top of the hill, with BearCrawl and CrawlBear up and down between sets
    • SPRINT across the field BTTF
    • x50 SSH’s

    COT:

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

    Prayer Requests:

    • Brothers on IR

    NMS:  Brisk beautiful morning to embrace the suck with a fine band of gloom brothers. Everyone seemed game enough to handle Burpee Broad Jumps out of the gate, and we just went hard from there. Always enjoy Senior Frog’s energy and nobody bunny hops faster than Rosie. We (Rosie) managed to headlock WET BANDIT into joining the VQ WEEK! He’ll Q TwinTeam in 2 weeks, so let’s be sure we get a hearty band of smack talkers there for him. Yours AYE! ~DTH

    Announcements (SEE SLACK!)

    • 10/25-27 – F3 Family Camping
    • 11/2 – F3 Daddy Daughter Dance
    • 11/3-9 – VQ Week! 

  • Core Crusher

    Seven chiseled warriors entered the arena looking for a fight. They fixed their eyes on the Jester and whooped his @$$ in the following fashion:

    The THANG: 

    WARMERAMA: 

    • Mosey over to the back field
    • Moseyrama lap including lunges, bear crawls, reverse lunges, and karaoke both ways
    • Circle up, Welcome & Disclaimer
    • The usual DTH top to bottom IC Reps

    COP #1: 

    • Mosey out to the grassy knoll
    • TRIPLE CHECK
    • P1 – WWII’s
    • P2 – Leg Raises
    • P3 – Run 50 yards to bottom of hill, Bear crawl 20 yards up steep bottom then run back to switch

    COP #2:

    • Mosey down to parking lot
    • PARKING SPACE LADDER 1–>10
    • Round 1 – Bear Crawl and Merkins
    • Round 2 – Lunges and Squats
    • Round 3 – Crab Walk and Heels to Heaven
    • Round 4 – Broad Jump and Monkey Humpers
    • Round 5 – Side Plank Hops (think planking murder gorillas) and Groiners

    COP #3:

    • Mosey down to the South side of church, stopping en route to Hump Monkeys in front of YHC’s M sittin in her new ride
    • CORE REPS
    • x50 LBC’s OUO
    • x25 Oblique LBC’s OYO (each side)
    • x50 Suzanne Summers (each side)
    • ?something else

    COP #4:

    • Mosey around the church, do some Bernie up a hill, and get BTTF for Mary
    • Am Hammers IC
    • Flutters IC
    • Boat/Canoe

    COT:

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

    Prayer Requests:

    • GForce work load, hiring
    • Chap’s MIL
    • Seadoo’s 2.0
    • Broadway back pain

    NMS: Solid numbers fellas! Let’s keep growing this AO. Word to the wise, side hopping in plank sucks, a lot. Yours AYE! ~DTH

    Announcements (SEE SLACK!)

    • 10/25-27 – F3 Family Camping
    • 11/2 – F3 Daddy Daughter Dance
    • 11/3-9 – VQ Week! 

  • Reflections in the Gloom

    Five gloom sherpas posted to Ruckhenge for their weekly trek up the Everest of Life. With a massively devilish grin, YHC brought out a few “presents” for our lucky PAX, two 40# bags of rocks (GTE Team Weights) and a 60# sandbag. See what happens when nobody signs up to Q?!? Sharing the coupon love, the PAX took off for a big lap around the area, returned to the flag and dropped coupons to do a speed ruck lap, then returned for a Triple Check: all PAX wearing their rucks, one pair takes the sand bag for a walk while the other two groups are occupied with either coupon press or squats. With 10min left the coupons were again shouldered and the PAX did a final medium-sized lap. Mumble chatter was highlighted by many Growruck memories. Appreciated the brotherhood quality time together fellas – no better way to start the day! And Rodeo Clown joined us for some awesome QSource cofferama conversation. Yours AYE! ~DTH

    COT:

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

    Prayer Requests:

    • Rodeo Clown
    • Wedding Singer

    Announcements (SEE SLACK!)

    • ONGOING – Wed AM Ruckhenge QSource
    • SOBER OCTOBER! 
    • 10/25-27 – F3 Family Camping
    • 11/2 – F3 Daddy Daughter Dance
    • 11/3-9 – VQ Week! 

  • Dr WasHard

    A dozen loyal HIM’s showed up with popcorn to see whether DTH or Facilities Manager “Bobby” would win the pissing contest. In this game you gotta show up to win. Without any particular plan in mind (this is the new post-1000 “WasHard” approach) here’s how The Forge PAX secured the AO for generations to come:

    The THANG: 

    WARMERAMA: 

    • Mosey loop and circle up
    • Welcome & Disclaimer
    • The usual DTH top to bottom IC Reps to make 100 total… well that’s a good start toward 1000… meh, nevermind

    COP #1: 

    • Mosey over in front of the school entrance, ensuring we’re right in front of the security camera
    • Parter up for a KILO-DORA
    • x100 Merkins
    • x200 Squat Jumps
    • x300 Flutters (2-ct)
    • x400 LBC’s
    • Moving parter laps the bus loop
    • Provocative Monkey Humpers completed in front of the security camera somewhere in the middle of all this

    COP #2:

    • Mosey over to the stairs
    • TRIPLE CHECK
    • P1 – Dips
    • P2 – Lt Dans
    • P3 – Tooth Fairies up the steps then runs the loop around to switch 

    COP #3:

    • Mosey to handicap rail for OVER-UNDERS
    • Am-Hammers for the SIX, then for an additional minute

    COP #4:

    • MT CHAPLAIN – x5 Burpees at the landings all the way to the top
    • Greet the SuperMoon

    Mosey BTTF for COT:

    • Counterama # 12
    • Namerama
    • Announcerama (see Below)
    • BOM Prayer

    Prayer:

    • Bodos helping in NC
    • Belay Bday 

    NMS:  Thanks for coming out fellas. Nice to achieve the recently highly decorated achievement of the BD1000. Even nicer to celebrate our SOJ brotherhood bond that constantly enriches our lives. Mumble chatter was in high form today with whether Bobby or the RPD might show up, possible nicknames for Bobby if we could headlock him to post, some entertaining new nickname options for YHC for the next 1000 posts (where is Ollivander anyway?), Oyster pulling a B&D 2nd F together, and the mysteries of Snuffs ink (just ask for a private tour…) Well, as YHC writes this 25’ up a tree waiting for venison to show up, will sign off with this – with all things in life, including F3, you get out what you put in. Very thankful for the extraordinary blessing you all have been in my journey – ya’ll always make me feel like the return is exponential compared to the investment. Yours AYE! ~DTH

    Announcements (SEE SLACK!)

    • ONGOING – Wed AM Ruckhenge QSource
    • ONGOING – SOBER OCTOBER! 
    • 10/25-27 – F3 Family Camping
    • 11/2 – F3 Daddy Daughter Dance
    • 11/3-9 – VQ Week! 

  • Dohard does the Supermoon 999

    6 gloom rucker HIM’s conquered the trails of Larus Park under the glow of a Hunters Full Supermoon, periodically stopping for 9 reps of various exercises. Mumble chatter was excellent as always and the PAX were joined by Broke Clown to plumb the deep truths of Prayer (Q1.10) & Study (Q1.11). Yours AYE! ~DTH

  • 2 Short a Kilo

    15 studs posted to NoToll to see what the good doctor was prescribing for the day. The menu featured 90’s beats and 998 reps. Here’s how it played out: 

    The THANG: 

    WARMERAMA: 

    • Mosey onto the BBall Court and circle up
    • Welcome & Disclaimer
    • Nancy K’s x10 ea side IC
    • Don Q’s x10 IC
    • U.Soldiers x10 IC
    • Squats x10 IC
    • Broad Jump Across Court (x10)
    • Bear Crawl Back (x25)
    • x25 Merkins OYO
    • x25 WWII OYO
    • x25 Heels2Heaven OYO

    COP #1: 

    • Press play on GETTIN’ JIGGY WIT IT (Will Smith, 1998, 3:48) 
    • Squats to the beat with a Burpee for every “Jiggy”

    COP #2:

    • Mosey out to PAY THE TOLL
    • x24 Incline Merkins
    • x24 Dips

    COP #3:

    • Mosey out to the field for a BEAST
    • x36 Merkins
    • x36 WWII’s
    • x36 Jump Squats
    • x36 Groiners
    • x36 Flutters (2-ct)
    • x36 Lunges

    COP #4:

    • Mosey over to the parking lot for MANKILLERS
    • Try really Hard to not mess up the count!

    COP #5:

    • Mosey loop around all the fields and BTTF, stopping for reps along the way:
    • x25 Gangsta Merkins
    • x25 Oblique LBC’s
    • x25 Monkey Humpers
    • x25 Invisible Pole Smokers
    • x25 Bunny Hops
    • x20 Crab Cakes IC
    • x5 Burpees IC

    COT:

    • Counterama # 14
    • Namerama
    • Announcerama (see Below)
    • BOM Prayer

    ADDING IT ALL UP:

    WARMERAMA: 150 reps total

    GETTIN JIGGY: 14 Burpees + 200 Squats

    PAY TOLL: 48 reps total

    BEAST: 216 reps total

    MAN-KILLERS: 220 reps total

    FINAL LAP: 150 reps total

            TOTAL REPS = 998

    Prayer Requests:

    • David, Maria, Courtney

    NMS:  Crisp fall air, jovial mumble chatter, achieving 998 reps, and a 1998 Will Smith inspired playlist – what could be better! Strong work from the PAX pushing through to complete the challenge – YHC will Q #999 at Ruckhenge tomorrow, and then the big 1K will be on Thur at the Forge – LOTS of questions about whether we’ll all be arrested. Nantan Rosie has a plan… Thanks for letting me lead fellas. Yours AYE! ~DTH

    Announcements (SEE SLACK!)

    • ONGOING – Wed AM Ruckhenge QSource
    • ONGOING – SOBER OCTOBER! 
    • 10/17 – DTH 1000th Post
    • 10/25-27 – F3 Family Camping
    • 11/2 – F3 Daddy Daughter Dance
    • 11/3-9 – VQ Week! 

  • HOUSEPOWER

    Two gloom brothers met up for a ruck around the dark trails of Rockwood. Nearing first place for the most posts in the last month (thanks BD), House Party took off like a racehorse out the gate, instantly making YHC wonder just how much horsepower is in a HouseParty. This HIM was practically jogging with his ruck, and actually did jog for the trail downhills. Awesome conversation as always, but tough to maintain when your gloom buddy is gassing you with his ruck speed! Pretty sure we need to double his ruck weight! YHC split to go do family pictures while HP continued rucking the last few minutes before the bootcamp. Yours AYE! ~DTH

    “In the U.S., one horsepower is defined as a unit of power equal to 746 watts, nearly equivalent to the English gravitational unit of the same name that equals 550 foot-pounds of work per second. One horsepower is a unit of power that equals the work done in lifting 550 pounds one foot in one second.”