Author: Faceplant

  • Scavenger Hunt RAMM Edition – where is Windsor Farms, Inc.

    12 total showed up this morning! There was some confusion on YHCs part, the pre-blast went out however YHC didn’t realize that perhaps they didn’t ‘hit save’ when adding the name to the Q sheet. Saab was kind and obliged to let YHC Q because a lot of planning had gone into this latest game. It went down like this, runners and one out of town guest on a bike arrived and YHC handed out pencils and scavenger hunt sheets. Team up with your respective running distance group and be back at 6:15. The scavenger hunt had teams running around Windsor Farms area and Libbie Grove area using clues on the sheet to figure out answers to be filled in. Unfortunately the pencils and extreme humidity and everyone’s propensity for sweating like they just took a shower made for some pretty soggy returned sheets. All scoring was based on a metric that accounted for the distance run vs the points collected.

    The Walker crew of Marv, Oyster, Swirly and BT took the crown with a perfect handicapped 100, followed by 1-800 representing the 4-milers at 65, Splinter and Faceplant for the 5-milers at 62, and Sippy, Saab and Garbage Plate bringing home the 6-mile division, along with an answer sheet that appears to have absorbed approximately three gallons of sweat.

    Asterisk for the 6-mile crew: By all accounts, Sippy, Saab, and Garbage Plate covered the most miles and visited the most checkpoints. Unfortunately, they also generated enough sweat to render most of their answer sheet unreadable. 😂 So their score does not reflect the ground they actually covered, just the answers that survived the sweat.

    PlaceClassPAXRaw PointsHandicapped Score
    🥇WalkerMarv, Oyster, Swirly, BT12100
    🥈4-Mile1-8001165
    🥉5-MileSplinter, Faceplant1362
    4th6-MileSippy, Saab, Garbage Plate520


    Names, and Numbers, and Announcements, and Praises, and Prayers.

    YHC took us out.

  • Parking ticket mystery solved

    Five pre-sunrise warriors showed up and spent the first several minutes of the workout recounting how Bodo’s was stalking Faceplant at the soccer parking lot in anticipation of Faceplant finding out who put the parking ticket on his car.

    Faceplant confesses to parking in an improper spot, but being a parking engineer Faceplant states that no one in the City of Richmond would ever enforce parking rules at the park.

    After the pre-workout mumblechatter, we got down to brass tacks. With no Q on the sheet, the potato was thrown into the air and Bodo’s grabbed it and we were off.

    Over to the picnic tables, for some stretching, and more mumble chatter, then we got on the picnic tables for a super ab workout. Next the potato was tossed to Faceplant.

    There it was progressive merkins at each tree along the sidewalk on up to 10 merkins which got us to the blacktop. There we moseyed on over to the pull up bars for a Quint-check, Quant-check, Quan-check , or however you would call a triple check but with 5 dudes instead of 3, and we only do two rounds. Mix of merkins, dips, arm hangs, timer runs to the other bars and does two pull-ups, and then SSH.

    Potato was then tossed over to Applesauce for four corners. How Bodos did not make us all do four corners is beyond me. That has been his go-to since the dawn of time. Four corners was good.

    Then Swirly wrapped us up with a quick real triple check breaking into two teams, one with five and one with three.

    Back to the flag by 6:15, where we did names, numbers, prayers, praises, and an impromptu discussion on the future of humanity and AI.

  • It’s getting dark at Wdog

    Two showed up along with many more deer for WDog. It’s good to have company because it was dark outside.

    Getting out of the car this morning after parking YHC noticed a white slip of paper tucked neatly under the windshield wiper, and being a parking engineer YHC was astonished that an expert in the industry would be getting a parking ticket. Well after further examination it was not a parking ticket. YHC shared with Swirly the clues on the paper and we immediately zeroed in on none other than Upchuck… but it was not Upchuck, it was another cheeky fellow… Bodos. Mystery solved of the early morning parking ticket.

    Good conversation and a very familiar routine of exercises around the gravel path, wrapping up a perfect 6:15 AM.

    Over and out.

  • Soupy Summer September Saunter

    Conditions were a balmy ‘feels like 80 degrees’ this morning for the arrival of 11 of the finest runners in all of Richmond. YHC knew the conditions were going to be less than cool so the route needed to be of a commensurate challenge level plus simple enough directions because YHC can only remember but so many steps until things get foggy.

    The route was as such: all 4s, 5s, and 6s head out Grove (heading east), and 4s turn back at the Boulevard, and come back down Monument, 5s turn at Meadow, and 6s turn turn back at Hawthorne.

    Good mumblechatter on the run this morning, although YHC couldn’t be everywhere all at once. Please sound off in the comments your favorite topic of conversation from this morning’s run.

    By all accounts the 6s were crushing it this morning, and one slightly late 6 (Phonics) came flying by to catch up to the 6s which were far off in the distance.

    Good job to all this morning, it was an absolutely pleaser to run with you folks.

    Announcements:

    Bodos, Honeydo and OBT are planning an East End AO, stay tuned for more news on this and if you are interested in helping please reach out to one of them. YHC is interested!

    Labor Day Convergence 7 AM at Forest Hill Park, park in the large lot next to the pavilions near where the South of the James Farmers Market takes place.

    Prayers for 1-800s son as he undergoes surgery this morning.

    It was an honor to lead this morning.

    YHC took us out with a prayer for being thankful for what you have, and appreciation for OBT and all those that came before us to create what we have today.

  • 1,000 Posts

    Big thank you to all that came out this morning, YHC truly appreciates what each and everyone of you bring to the table. An even 12 showed up which perfectly aligned with the game we were about to play. A lot of familar names from the first workout were there compared to my 1,000th. That is amazing to see!

    It was fitting that 45MOM was the first workout I attended, and it was also where fittingly my 1,000th post was (at least per big data). Hat tip to Splinter for his Big Data Machine!

    YHC checked the workout from many years back and it was sure intense thanks to Lockjaw, which ironically his first workout anniversary was on the same day as YHC’s first workout. It went down like this today on a hot a soupy morning:

    Warmup – stretching and discussion. Maybe more discussion than stretching but it was good.

    Next we moseyed on over to the tennis courts for the main event:

    Rules of the Game

    Break into two teams. The game runs for 15 minutes, with a new exercise every minute for the PAX staying at home base.

    A cup rubber bears is placed at the opposite end of the tennis courts. The goal is simple: your team wants to finish with the most bears.

    • One teammate stays at home base doing the exercise on the board while the other runs to get a bear.
    • To take one bear from the cup, complete 1 burpee.
    • Run the bear back to your team and complete 1 burpee to deposit it.
    • Switch with your partner, who repeats the process.
    • After 5 minutes, stealing is allowed. Instead of running to the cup, you can steal one bear from the opposing team. It costs 5 burpees to steal the bear, plus 1 burpee to deposit it with your team.
    • Once the main cup is empty, the only way to get more bears is to steal them from the other team.
    • Keep going until the 15-minute clock expires.

    Team with the most rubber bears at the end wins.

    We played two rounds and mixed up teammates randomly for the second round… Interestingly enough Senior Frog won both times. Thank you all for participating in YHC’s games. Over these years if there is one think you may have learned about me is YHC LOVES a good competition. Maybe some rules were bent this time but that is what YHC loves about this great thing we all have.

    After it all ended, mosey back to the flag, for prayers names and numbers.

    Announcements:

    Convergence this Monday (PARK in the big parking lot where they do the south of the James farmers market)

    Prayers: For friends of BT who’s kid is still in the hospital after an incident.

    For our PAX battling stomach cancer – see post from Corned Beef with an update.

    YHC took us out!

    Thank you all for the opportunity to lead and be a part of a great thing!

    Guess YHC should also thank Handshake for extending an invite many years ago.

  • SUNY better than the Ivies?

    Six folks including two down rangers one of which was an FNG showed up this morning.

    The workout went like this:

    6 rounds of TABATA with a lap between each round with two laps to round it out.

    Round 1 – STRETCHING!

    Round 2 – bent over rows and shoulder pressses

    Round 3 – Kettlebells swings and goblet squats

    Round 4 – Burpees and curls

    Round 5 – Merkins and weighted calf raises

    Round 6 – MARY!!

    Good mumble chatter this morning, lots to discuss. Topics ranged from parking lot design efficiences, which school has a more robust alumni network. Turns out our visitors from downrange one of which is a SUNY alum has a more famous network than the Ivy league schools. Also fun fact inside Cornell is actually FOUR SUNY schools so, they have infiltrated the Ivy network already. You have to go through this list and pick which ones went to an Ivy and which ones went to SUNY.

    Scott Kelly

    Tim Nee

    Stanley Tucci

    Wesley Snipes

    Wolf Blitzer

    Harvey Milk

    YHC took us out with a message about ordinary abundance https://ordinaryabundance.com/ and the importance of being content with what we have in front of us:

    Prayers for the cyclists injured and killed.

  • SCCC Summer Tour Stop

    It might be a record, there were 8 on the course, a perfect two foursomes for a round at the freest country club in all of Richmond.

    A very familiar routine 6 rounds of TABATA doing alternating exercises with a lab between each round, the final round we do two laps and Mary.

    Round 1 – stretching

    Round 2 – Bent Over Rows & Shoulder Presses

    Round 3 – Kettlebell Swings & Reverse Lunges

    Round 4 – Burpees & Curls

    Round 5 – Weighted Squats & Weighted Calf Raises

    Round 6 – Mary

    Big thank you to OBT for calling out YHC to come out and lead, great mumble chatter this morning! i

    Announcements:

    Beer mile coming again this October, stay tuned for the date announcement.

    Don’t forget to sign up for Breaking Bread, there are some open slots on the Q sheet.

    YHC took us out with a message of always being mindful of the needs of others, and prayers for our traveling friends.

  • Running Back the Classics

    It was a classic group for a classic RAMM route. Felt like YHC was back in 2018 for a brief minute when big blue and all the usual suspects rolled into RAMM. Since there were so many out that Friday morning it took YHC a full week to tally up all the names 🙂

    The route was the original, head out down Groveeeeee, but with a twist – go out in 23 minutes and come back in 22 minutes. That’s a negative split if you are keeping track. So however you want to do it, you cand sandbag the first half and run your regular pace back, or you can run regular pace out then drop the hammer and race back.

    Everyone shows up at the same time, in theory.

    Announcements:

    Good luck to all the folks for the Homegrown Half on August 1st

    Praises:

    Great to hear that Splinter’s mom is making a great recovery from her hand injury

    Great to hear about Gumbo’s daughter powering through and feeling good on her recent family trip.

    Prayers:

    For Circle K’s Wife’s Uncle

  • Playground Games

    The call was put out and 7 curious jeopardy contestants showed up to see what games YHC had in store. Saab was stalking the tennis courts pre workout and caught YHC planting some workout props.

    Started with some much needed stretching, all the sound effects were there for the stretching routine. Then we moseyed over to the tennis courts for the fun.

    It went like this – while downrange visiting F3 in Southport, NC YHC was introduced to this workout. It requires a coin and a whiteboard.

    flip the coin and listed on the whiteboard is ten rows, in each row there is an exercise get heads do the heads exercise get tales do the tales exercise. Every other round run to the end of the tennis courts. Get to the end of the list – we got to finish the ones we didn’t flip so dig deep into the memory banks to do the remaining exercises all together.

    After that we took another mosey around the track over to the smooth cool concrete of the covered area for Mary, becuse YHC is a benevolent Q, and didn’t want to subject the pax to the rough asphalt of the parking lot.

    Names, announcements, and prayers, and YHC took us out.

    Don’t forget to take a breaking break sign up!

  • Extra Hot Potato

    Temps were steamy this morning, and there was a mighty 4 for 45 minutes of Mary – So we tossed the potato around.

    Saab took it first with some good stretching to start us off and a Dora on the tennis courts.

    Saab wanted to do 11s and burpees but not combined, so we did 11 burpees. That was just right.

    Potato was tossed to Faceplant. 4 corners asscending, first corner 10 merkins, then first ten paces is bear crawls then run the rest of the way. Next corner 10 merkins, 20 squats, then bear crawl for 10 steps and run the rest of the way. You get the pattern… next we added 30 LBCs, and then 40 side straddle hops. BUT wait there’s more – we got to the end and now we have to unwind it all, so back again. but this time reverse bear crawl and end back where we started with 10 merkins.

    Potato was tossed to Swirly, for some picnic table work, then mosey back to the smoothest parking lot in all of Richmond, for some much needed stretching.

    Great morning all – good to see these folks. You made my day.