Author: Döner Kebab

  • The Fun Zone

    9 redwoods assembled for an SOJ beatdown at SOT. The NewMarket clown car of 4 PAX arrived, Hermie shared a story that inspired the Back Blast title, and it was time to start the show.

    THANG

    Mosey to front of school

    COP: SSH, DQs, 5 Burpees OYO, Copper Head Squats, Russian Soldiers, Bob & Weave, Tempo Merkins, Hello Dollies, LBCs

    Mosey around the school

    Triple Check: 1st partner touches trees (2, then 4, then 6), 2nd partner Lt. Dan, 3rd partner Boxcutters

    Mosey around school

    Curb Crawl – up to 5, repeat 5, back down

    Mosey to front door

    Midlo Middle Door work – DK called for burpees at doors 1-5, Hermie called for Karate Kid themed chops, punches and kicks at doors 6-10, POG called for donkey kicks at doors 11-15, BoBerry called for various exercises at doors 16-20

    Mosey back towards VSF

    Stop at SE corner to Bear Crawl about 50 yards.

    Mosey back to VSF

    COP – Wilson took us out.

    Naked Moleskin

    Good workout and good fun this morning. The curb crawls were a crowd pleaser, as always. Lots of laughter and banter. The PAX mostly stayed together as 9.

    Great Coffeeteria afterwards with Döner Kebab, Orange Crush & BoBerry at the new Starbucks across from Kroger.

    Ask Hermie to explain The Fun Zone. Maybe he can post a link!

    Have a great Thanksgiving, men. So many reasons to be thankful this year!

  • No More Tee Times Available

    21 SOJ warriors assembled to welcome DK back to NoToll after several weeks off. Wilson wouldn’t shut up about winning is F3 Fantasy Football game vs YHC…and reminded everyone the Buffalo Bills won. Thankfully 5:30am arrived, and the PAX was off. The beat down went something like this:

    THANG

    Short Mosey

    COP – SSH, DQs, Russian Soldiers, Imperial Walkers, Invisible Jump Rope, Merkins, LBCs, Box Cutters 1 way, Box Cutters the other way

    Mosey to bleachers for Triple Check: dips, planks, run

    Al Gore – o – rama

    Mosey around Soccer Field to wide curb for Curb Crawls: up to 5, repeat 5 and back down (adjust with lunges if need be)

    Mosey back to Soccer Field, partner up for Darrell Greens: partner up, 1st partner (Michael Irvin) sprints length of field, 2nd partner (Darrell Green) performs 1 quick burpee then tries to catch partner 1. Audible to only go 1/2 length of field. Repeat 5x

    Circle up for A Few Minutes of Mary: YHC was gassed and can’t remember what was called. Capital Letters, Freddies, LBCs ?

    Mosey to Parking Lot. Partner up for Lunge-rimeter: same as a Bear-rimiter, but lunge and run rather than bear crawl and run

    Plank – o -rama

    Mosey to Tennis court. Partner up for proper Bear-rimiter

    Circle up for A Few More Minutes of Mary: Heels to Heaven, Hello Dollies, Xs & Os

    Mosey back to VSF

    COT – Wilson took us out

    Naked Moleskin

    YHC beat himself down. Thanks for keeping up, gents. It had been a while since YHC lead, so it was probably a breeze for the PAX.

    Respect to all of the BRR participants who posted. So awesome.

    The Darrell Greens broke some hearts today, most notably because Dr. Tryhard admitted he had never heard of Michael Irvin or Darrell Green. YHC gave him some grief, then proceeded to seriously gas himself.

    The mumblechatter for the proper Bear-rimiter was deafening.

    Announcements:

    IronPax at Twin Team Friday

    F3 5th Anniversary Celebration, this year in the form of a camping trip (aka retreat) Sept 21.

  • Lug Nut Leads by Example

    6 strong assembled for a Monday morning River Run. Temps were a cool 59 degrees on an August morning.

    5 departed for the reverse OG Loop at 5:30am thinking the runner on the road was Rosie…but surprise, it was Lug Nut getting some early morning extra credit!

    Naked Moleskin

    YHC has had a very lackadaisical F3 summer, but it’s immediately clear that several BRR participants are committed to being ready for the race. EF Hutton and Lug Nut look great and are close to tapering before the big weekend! Good work, gents.

    Hats off to the New Market clown car that arrived at 5:28am. Always great to have you attend!

    Cheers to EF Hutton and P.O.G. for the NFL Fantasy talk on the way down the Tarrington hill. HTTR.

  • DK’s 2019 NFL Survivor Pool

    DK’s 2019 NFL Survivor Pool

    The NFL season is upon us, and that means it’s time to put your football knowledge to the test. I’ve been running an NFL Survivor Pool for 15+ years, and I’d like to invite you to join. 

    For those of you who have played in my league before but didn’t play last year, I’m changing the league to allow for double elimination: a guarantee that you can’t crash out in Week 1!  This change has meant that I’m now hosting the league on a new website.

    This is NOT Fantasy Football…it’s much easier: pick 1 team to win each week. No spreads. If your team wins, you advance to the next week. If your team loses, you get a strike.  2 strikes and you’re out. The only catch is that you cannot pick the same team twice during the season. So, if you choose the Panthers in week 1, you cannot use the Panthers again for the rest of the season.

    $10 Entry 

    Winner takes all! 

    Last year we had 123 players, do the math! 

    To sign up, please create a user a profile here: https://games.betmo.com/player-registration/

    Once you’ve created a profile, join our league by clicking Join Pool or by going here: https://games.betmo.com/join-existing-pool/

    Pool Id: 1058

    Pool Password: Redskins#1

    You should receive a welcome email once you’ve created a user profile.  If you do not see it in your inbox, please check you spam folder and move it to your inbox for future emails from the site.

    The site allows you to create a “display name”.  If you’ve chosen a display name other than your actual name, it would be helpful for me to track who is who by updating your profile by adding your First Name and Last Name here: https://games.betmo.com/account-settings/

    Best forms of payment: 

    1) PayPal to davidkearfott@gmail.com 

    Please select “Pay or send money” and choose “Send money to friends and familiy”.

    or 

    2) Venmo (@David-Kearfott)

    Thanks, good luck, and Hail to the Redskins! 

    Döner Kebab

  • Corned Beef gets introduced to Twin Team

    A PAX of 3 assembled at BWES for a River Run beatdown that went something like this

    THANG: River Run OG in reverse so we could catch the sunrise as the PAX descended into Tarrington. Bullseye met us on his bike shortly after the Twin Team ascent.

    Corned Beef measured 4.25 miles total. YHC thinks it felt like more. Lots of topography.

    Naked Moleskin

    Cheers to Slumlord for hitting up Bullseye and YHC Sunday evening to see who was running. YHC surely would have fartsacked otherwise…and then our Mechanicsville visitor would have been on his own.

    Cheers to Corned Beef for making the trek across the city to visit SOJ. YHC enjoyed the conversation and the run this morning.

    Cheers also to Bullseye for meeting up with the PAX on his bike at the top of Twin Team. He’s nursing a bad back but still posted on a bike for some fellowship.

    YHC misses seeing you guys at NoToll and Twin Team. Early tee times and walking 9 are taking priority this time of year! Of course, when YHC has posted, the SOJ guys are MIA.

    Cornbeef was impressed with Twin Team.

  • Simple as that

    2 posted.

    2 ran.

    5 miles.

  • 10 More on the EZ Dock

    Six SOJ stalwarts welcomed the sun’s arrival on a humid June morning with a DK beatdown that went something like this.

    THANG

    Mosey around BWES entrance loop twice, waiting on stragglers. Quick COP: SSHs & DQs.

    Mosey out of school. PAX given option of turning Left or Right. Left it is. Mosey to JRHS tennis courts for another quick COP: Copperhead squats, Merkins, Flutterkicks

    Line up on side line of one of the tennis courts for BearCrawlBear: bear crawl across width of tennis court and crawl bear back. Rinse & Repeat.

    Mosey down to Robious Park Landing to check out the new EZ Dock along the James River. Face the River in a line, welcome the sunrise, watch out for the crew teams, and get ready for some ground & pound.

    EZ Dock Work: walk out merkins x2, forward lunges, lt. dans, lbcs, hello dollies, slow rosalitas, monkey humpers, plank-o-rama x2, russian soldiers (probably others). Any exercise called OYO lasted about a minute until YHC called for 10 more.

    Time called, mosey about a mile back to VSF.

    COT – YHC took us out with a moment of silence in remembrance of all the lives sacrificed and families forever changed 75 years ago yesterday that allow us to live our lives today.

    Naked Moleskin:

    YHC had no plan upon arrival. A visit to the River was just what YHC needed.

    Next time, we’re going swimming. Get ready for it. We were soaked as it was anyway.

    Doozy was saying something about his hip hurting, then proceeded to lead the PAX on all moseys. TClaps to Rosie for some early morning extra credit.

    Cheers to St. Michael’s Episcopal School’s PE Teacher, Mrs. Martin, for taking out a skull on her own at 5:50am.

    I appreciate the moment of silence in honor of the 75th anniversary of DDay. My Great Uncle was killed storming Omaha Beach and is buried there. He was 24 and left behind a fiance and a full life ahead of him. I cannot imagine losing a sibling, like my grandfather did. This is a picture of Ben with my Aunt when she was a little girl. My dad thinks this picture was taken when Ben was 22. It was the last time Ben was home before he shipped off to England to train for the invasion. What a hero.

  • Normalizing Greatness

    18 SOJ regulars, 1 Kotter & 1 FNG embraced the moonlight and early sunrise and assembled at NoToll for a Döner Kebab beatdown that went something like this….

    THANG

    Mosey to inner parking lot. Can’t see the moon, so mosey to Field for COP: 30 SSHs, DQs, Imperial Walkers, Russian Soldiers, Tempo Merkins, Crab Cakes, SSHs

    Take a Lap as a PAX

    Line up on End Line for The Golden State Warrior: Like a Beast, but perform 5 exercises at each of 6 stations for a total of 30 in honor of Steph Curry and GSW’s sweep in the 2019 Western Conference Finals. Exercises were SSHs, Monkey Humpers, Plank Shoulder Taps, Capital Letters, Merkins. Loads of planking inbetween.

    Stay on the end line for Normalizing Greatness: 36.5 SSHs in honor of Steph Curry’s League History Best 36.5 points per game in a 4 game playoff sweep.

    Split into 2 teams, lights and light darks VS darks and dark lights, and play Ultimate Frisbee for 15-20 min. 10 vs 10. If you score, do 3 burpees while the other team runs back to the line. In a turnover heavy barn burner, the darks & dark lights won 4-2.

    Mosey back to basketball courts for Bear Crawl for 2 Minutes, followed by 30 seconds of Forward Lunge in Place.

    Mosey back to VSF for COT: Dr. Tryhard took us out.

    Naked Moleskin:

    Welcome back to Last Call! Way to Kotter and get back after it!!

    Welcome to FNG Tupop or Two-Pop or 2Pop (think Toucan, 2Can, Tucan) who showed the PAX what a double respect looks like, including a few scores in ultimate. As Vinny said, Tupop makes sense because he gets 2 pops of RESPECT!

    It was great to be able to play ultimate with the PAX. We picked up where we left off last year, highlighted by Aisle 5s epic, slipping fails…thrice. Hope there were no scars, Aisle 5…you did great, including your diving catch well out of bounds. Other highlights included too many long throws that resulted in turnovers, heavy dewed fields that led to feet slips and finger slips. The light dark and dark light shirts were confusing, but everyone shared in the confusion so all was well. Radar & JC get YHC’s honorable mentions for solid play down the center of the field. Additional honorable mention to Doozy for an awesome catch that went through his hands but collected with his legs!

    Announcements:

    Convergence on Memorial Day at Tredegar at 7am.

    Puppy Pile June 1 at 7am at DogPile.

    Summer Tour signups somewhere on this site.

  • SOJ Championship Parade

    SOJ celebrated our F3RVA Field Day 2019 Championship in style this morning. The route was the Tarrington Loop. Those finishing first, circle back UP Twin Team to meet up with the 6.

    The entire PAX arrived back to the VSF with 5 min left, so an audible was called to circle the school. With 2 min left, the PAX assembled for a brief COP: 20 SSH, 20 Imperial Walkers.

    COT – Gumbo took us out

    Naked Moleskin

    Respect to Bullseye, Gumbo and Rosie who arrived early for a pre-run 2+ miler.

    YHC had the honor of running with Bullseye, then Slumlord this morning. Always good to catch up. Gumbo turned back on the big loop, forgetting he had a deposit for the green box. He caught up to us on Twin Team.

    As expected, Rosie & Doozy lead the route…and both were the only ones to perform a full Twin Team hill repeat. Mad Respect.

    Way to go Field Day Champs!

  • In honor of Orange Crush

    YHC secured pickup of Don Draper & Orange Crush and delivered them to the Source of Truth, where we picked up some other SOJ stallions to welcome the Sunny & 70 degree May morning. The beatdown went something like this:

    THANG

    Mosey to front of school for COP: SSHs, DQs, Imperial Walkers, Bob & Weaves, Tempo Merkins, LBCs, Capital Letters

    Mosey down to field for Beast-a-Thon: Beast until the Q says stop with several varying plank-o-ramas after 2 reps. Exercises included: Copperhead Squats, Merkins, Squat Jumps, Monkey Humpers, 2-count Mtn Climbers, Russian Soldiers (traditional 6 sets), then BURPEES, then Shoulder Taps in plank position

    Circle up for some Slow Mary: Freddies, LBCs, Hello Dollies, Flutterkicks

    Mosey to the bottom of the hill back up to the VSF for Dealers Choice: 90s bear crawl or forward lunge up the hill

    COT – Marmaduke took us out

    NAKED MOLESKIN

    DKs SOJ Clown Car was alive and well this AM. Bullseye called for a soft pass over the texts last night…then Don Draper and I saw him pull out in front of us on Winterfield.

    The Beast was in honor of Orange Crush, since YHC thought he hadn’t ever experienced one. Wilson was quick to point out that he had, hence we didn’t stop BEASTING until YHC said to. There was part of YHC that wanted to just BEAST for 45 min. Maybe next time.

    Doozy led most of the reps, but Lug Nut surprised all of us by leading the Monkey Humpers. We see you Lug! What is it about Humpers that spur you along faster?

    Announcements:

    Field Day Saturday

    Convergence Memorial Day