Author: Fireman Ed

  • Ace of Spades

    On a nice mild morning, 7 studs and Fireman Ed went out on a tour of the local neighborhoods. Unfortunately we only covered about 2 miles but we did get to do some burpees.

    COP: DQs, CPs, merkins, Freddie Mercuries, Scorpion kicks and arm circles

    Exercise: I brought a deck of cards. Clubs were hand release merkins, diamonds were jump squats, spades except Ace of Spades are Carolina Dry docks, hearts are heels to heaven. Ace of Spades is 20 marvelous burpees.

    We would mosey for about a block and then have 3 cards pulled.

    We covered south on Ridge for two blocks, turned left on a street because Kubota scared me by saying it gets dark when you go further down Ridge Road, crossed into Westham first right to the end at college road, left on College and then left on Glen Parkway with a few stops on the way. No Ace of Spades yet.

    Right on Westham and stop on the white/gray crap infested median for 4 corners. 10 burpees, 20 WWIIs, 15 Lt. Dans (I initially called for one count Lt. Dans and confused the PAX) and finish with 40 2 count flutter kicks.

    Continue to Pinetree left on Ridge and go through the church parking lot with more stops in between. Still no Ace of Spades.

    After crossing River Road and doing two more rounds of 3 cards, Handshake picked up the fabled Ace of Spades. So we ended with 20 fun filled burpees.

    It was good seeing a SOJ regular (Chaplain) and get 8 total PAX. Handshake was able to discuss his inefficiency at removing a tree stump on Monday. It was also good to see young Pucker be the war daddy; otherwise that title would have gone to me.

    Prayers are with Handshake’s friend and her family. She lost her dad (Kent) to PLS (similar to ALS I think). Great job with convergence Honeydo and the First Watch PAX.

    Zach Wilson 2024 All Pro

    Fireman Ed

  • Removing our 3rd nipples

    10 warriors showed up on a crisp Mid-May to celebrate Attila’s birthday by doing a workout led by Fireman Ed. The workout went like this:

    COP: DQs, CPs, Merkins, Scorpion kicks (the PAX had a lot of mumble chatter on this; I am told this was because there was a lot of chest rubbing against the blacktop. Perhaps the third nipples that developed from the vaccine shots were getting removed so I was doing y’all a favor), Freddy Mercuries, large arm circles. Mosey to the soccer field.

    Exercise 1: Elevens with diamond merkins and SSHs

    Exercise 2: Four corners with 10 burpees, 20 WWIIs, 30 2 count mountain climbers and 46 (hmm how did I get that #) monkey humpers

    Exercise 3: Lindseys adding to 46 with Carolina dry docks and heels to heaven. Mosey to chin up bar area.

    Exercise 4: Elevens with pull ups and Lt. Dans. Mosey to playground surface.

    Exercise 5: Triple check with flutter kicks, elbow to regular planks, run across parking lot do 2 burpees

    Cool down with 46 LBCs and DQs

    Closed in prayer. It is good to see Jville back and for Upchuck to make a visit to the far west end. Upchuck is looking for folks to sign up for breaking bread. See Upchuck for details on this good cause.

    Convergence is 7 a.m. at Tredegar downtown on 5/31. Honeydo is leading so it will be tough but fun.

    Happy birthday Attila!

  • Sunny Gridiron – What gives?

    12 merry Pax, mostly comprised of regulars and a couple irregulars descended upon a surprisingly sunny Q from Fireman Ed. Today Ed “borrowed” several coupons from the fashionable near West End to help with the beatdown. Fireman Ed was unsure what to do with no rain falling during his Q.

    COP: DQs, CPs, FMs (with White Deer doing a side to side roll motion), merkins and arm circles. Take a coupon and mosey to mud field.

    Elevens with HRMs and bench kicks. Mosey to front of school.

    Triple check with donkey kicks, coupon swings, run around loop; balls to the wall, coupon chest presses, run and chicken peckers, coupon curls and run. Mosey to nearest parking lot.

    4 corners with 10 burpees, 20 coupon squats, 30 2 count mountain climbers, and 40 2 count flutters while holding up coupon. Mosey to bus loop.

    1 burpee per post to 10 burpees, 10 LBCs, polar bear back. Then the burpee per post, 20 LBCs, lunge back. Long mosey to return coupons.

    Go to nearby pavilion. 10 step ups on each foot, 10 WWIIs; repeat with 20 each and then 30 each. We are done!

    Closed in prayer. Pray for EF Hutton who had bad burns from a grease fire this week. He will have a long recovery time. The PAX are with you!

    Tomato run on 4/24 – see Spit for details. Blood drive 5/1 and still looking for BRR runners for early September (those that have participated really enjoyed it). I personally wish it were later in September but maybe I am being weak like the 2020 Jets!

    It was good meeting Homer; feel free to join the semi elderly PAX again.

  • New Beginnings

    7 early risers including yours truly thought “5:30 is way too late, we need to start at 5” and showed up on a mild morning (not quite 70). Before we started we had a little difficulty finding the coupons which worried the Fireman. However, someone took the effort to neatly stack them for us.

    COP: Take coupon to normal COP space. DQs, CPs, ACs, SKs, and Merkins.

    Elevens with curb derkins and heels to heaven. During this exercise, Upchuck and Handshake were practicing poor social distancing by doing some sort of wrastlin’. The governor would be very disappointed in you two. For some related reason EF got into a detailed description of how hockey fights work.

    Four corners with 10 HRMs, 20 coupon benches, 30 2 count mountain climbers and 40 LBCs with block somewhere on top.

    More elevens with coupon shoulder presses and 2 count American hammers.

    Another four corners (I know, not very creative) with 10 burpees, 20 coupon squats, 30 coupon step ups total and 40 2 count flutter kicks

    Mosey back to home base and put the coupons away nicely.

    I title the backblast “New Beginnings” because I start a new job tomorrow. Also, after we sin we have the opportunity to repent and start anew.

    Announcement: This Saturday there will be a cleanup at Evergreen cemetery on the east part of town. See Doublemint for details or go to that backblast. Do great things gentlemen.

  • 48

    11 of the finest athletes in all of the Tuckahoe region assembled for a workout led by birthday boy Fireman Ed.

    COP: Mosey to Bodos’ main parking lot. 10 DQs, 15 CPs, 25 FMs, 25 LBCs, and 15 ACs each way.

    E1: Polar bear across lot, 20 SSHs’ Polar bear again, 30 SSHs. Mosey to another Bodos parking lot behind church.

    E2: Elevens with HRMS and LBCs. Mosey across the street to the next parking lot.

    E3: Cumulative 4 corners with 10 burpees, 20 Heels to heaven, 30 Jump squats and 48 2 count flutter kicks. Mosey to the next parking lot.

    E4: Catch me if you can with 5 on each leg scorpion kicks, the other partner does lunges. After partner 1 catches partner two they switch. Mosey back to horseshoe (Fireman Ed had a close call with a car crossing the street. Look both ways!!!).

    E5: Finish with one minute people’s chair and 20 donkey kicks.

    Announcements:

    Bodos is going for his dissertation in May. If it all works out, he may change his name to Dr. Bodos.

    Prayers are with the Bremer family (shooting near Godwin HS) It must be difficult to lose someone so young in such a senseless manner.

    It was fun Q’ing and it was good to be back at Hoedown.

    Fireman Ed.

  • Weatherman Ed

    8 mature warriors braved the rain to make it out to Gridiron. For whatever reason, it rains 2/3 of the time that Fireman Ed Q’s at Gridiron (or about 4 times as often as the Jets win). A PAX called me the Weatherman so I made it the title of todays backblast.

    After checking to see if White Deer was going to make it (and to Attila’s dismay he did not), the workout went like this: COP: 10 Russian Soldiers, 7 DQs, 10 Helicopters and 10 merkins.

    Mosey to the bus loop (one of the very few covered areas in the AO). Pull a deck of cards. Ace of Spades – 15 burpees, other spades – 1 to 13 merkins, hearts – heels to heaven, clubs – Lt. Dans, diamonds – 2 count mountain climbers. It took us awhile to get through this so we split the cards with a yog around the school. There was a lot of pent up excitement for the Ace of Spades (who knew that old people like burpees). After going through the deck, we went on another yog and met back at the bus loop.

    Next was a triple check with groups of 2. PAX 1 went around the triangle while PAX 2 did pickle pounders, then flutter kicks and then pole smokers.

    Mosey to pavilion near cars. Elevens with derkins and dips.

    Finish with American hammers and arm circles.

    Closed in prayer. Please sign up for Breaking Bread as there is availability for May and beyond. I believe you can sign up on the Q sheet. Details should be on the website; reach out to Upchuck with questions. I plan to take a shift this summer; feel free to join me.

  • Qinches

    13 able bodied middle aged dudes (maybe upper middle age for several) showed up in the cold morning for a beat down. After being amazed at another high attendance morning, the Fireman Ed’s Q went like this:

    COP: Two laps with some jogging, karaoke and Bernie Sanders. Honeydo was a casualty of the severely fast pace of the old folks and took a slight tumble. DQs, 3 punitive burpees, CP, ACs, Fred Mercuries

    Exercise 1: Start with 10 merkins, then 10 merkins, 20 WWIIs, then 10 merkins, 20 WWIIs, 30 jump squats, then 10 merkins, 20 WWIIs, 30 jump squats, 40 2 count mountain climbers, then add in 50 2 count flutters. Finish with 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 40, 30, 20, 10 of the above assigned exercise.

    Mosey to drop off loop for a Tabata style routine with 45 seconds on and 15 seconds off of the following exercises:

    Burpees, Heels to heaven, elbow plank, HRMs, LBCs, Plank jack, Carolina DDs, 6 inches (read as Qinches to one person), SSHs, wide grip merkins, APDs, Crab cakes, Suzanne Somers, helix squats. After completing the sets we moseyed around the school to the front.

    Next exercise was 10 donkey kicks, then 15 DKs, then 20 DKs, then 25 DKs.

    Mosey to parking lot. 20 American hammers, merkin ring of fire, 3 punitive burpees, DQs and CPs, sorry PAx no SSHs:(

    Closed in prayer with no announcements (none of us could remember what was going on – the beauty of getting old).

    Considering the difficulties that this world, nation and locality are experiencing it is good to have a group that can come together and do something positive. Let’s help someone else this week.

    God bless,

    Fireman Ed (Robert Saleh’s older thinner brother).

  • Round Mary We Go

    14 warriors, including a PAX from Napierville Illinois (welcome Super 8) showed up to what felt like the first day of winter. Knowing that it was going to be cold and there is a merkin challenge I tried my best to mix cardio with different versions of merkins. I also had us cover the grounds of Mary in a clockwise fashion, trying to at least cover each quadrant.

    After a jogging, karaoke run around most of Mary, the COP went like this.

    SSHs, DQs (too fast for Saab), ACs, CPs

    Exercise 1: Curb crawl – ascending to 5 back down to 1. Mosey to pavilion – 25 merkins

    Exercise 2: 15 Derkins, 15 WWIIs, 20 Derkins, 20 WWIIs, 25 Derkins, 25 WWIIs. 60 derkins total. Mosey to filed off Cary Street

    Exercise 3: Suicides with burpees. 1 burpee at first tree up to 9 burpees at 9th tree – 45 burpees. Mosey to blacktop

    Exercise 4: Triple check – donkey kicks, flutter kicks and run back and forth on black top and do 10 merkins each time. – 30 merkins

    Mosey around to meeting point. 15 merkins, 15 2 count AHs, 15 2 count mountain climbers and 5 very slow DQs (but still too fast for Saab). 175 merkins total based on my count. Enough to pace for 5K for November.

    Closed in prayer.

    Announcements:

    Convergence Thursday Thanksgiving at 6 a.m. Come out and get a wicked good history lesson from native New Englander TYA and enjoy a kick ass workout.

    CSOP: 7 a.m. at Forest Hill Park on Friday 11/27. Meet at Shelter 1.

    Pray for those who are suffering from COVID or are on the front lines handling a pandemic. Do great things!

    Fireman Ed

  • Special Ed’s Guest Q

    9 noble warriors braved the mean streets of the Far West End for a coupon-aided beatdown. It went like this:

    COP: Dead man hangs, cherry pickers, DQs, merkins (20 merkins) and Freddie Mercuries. 5 punitive burpees. Sorry no SSHs.

    Exercise 1: Run and do 10 merkins at each stop. One person gets to carry the coupon. Total 50 merkins.

    Exercise 2: 4 corners with 10 burpees, 20 WWIIs (feel that cool ground), 30 2 count pickle pounders, 40 jump squats

    Exercise 3: Elevens with HRMs and flutter kicks – 55 merkins

    Exercise 4: 10 donkey kicks, 30 seconds wall sit and 20 seconds balls to the wall, Followed by 15, 45 and 30 and then followed by 20, 60 and 40. After chum bucket made a special ed comment 5 more punitive burpees.

    Exercise 5: Curb bear crawl and crawl bear with 1 merkin up to 8 merkins – 36 merkins

    Mosey to chin up bars sans coupon – 9 chinups, 18 dips, 7 chin ups, 14 dips and 5 chin ups with 10 dips. The odd numbers threw the PAX off. Do one minute elbow plank.

    Finish with merkin ring of fire – 10 merkins, American Hammers, dead man hang, cherry pickers and DQs and 5 punitive burpees.

    Closed in prayer. Good luck to Blue Moon and his pacer Gypsy. Prayers are with a teammate of mine who is COVID positive and for civility in politics post election.

    Total merkins (including burpees) – 191, not too shabby for the geriatric ward. The Special Ed comes from a name that the PAX gave me due to someone stating they thought today was going to be a special guest Q and I said yeah I am the special guest Q. And somehow that led to the name Special Ed. Even though the Jets su$k, I am sticking with Fireman Ed and yes my mama does think I am special:). Have a great weekend.

  • Jets su&k, flickering light and other random thoughts

    13 capable cadets came out on another morning of the darkest AO in Richmond. There was hope that the COP would have an early boost of light at 5:31 but after coming on it for a minute and then came back on for a minute and so on. Anyway, the routine went like this:

    COP: Mosey to front of school led by two handsome bald lads, 20 SSHs, 10 DQs, 25 FMs, and 15 ACs each way.

    Exercise 1: Curb crawl with merkins near bus loop. I did not realize that the curb was a few feet from traffic which was more than expected for 5:30. That scared a couple of pax. Mosey to one of Bodos’ many parking lots.

    Exercise 2: There were 8 parking spot lines. Do 2 burpees per line. Rest then do 3 burpees for the same 8 lines. Total equals 40 burpees. Not too shabby. Mosey to front of school.

    Exercise 3: 3 sets of 9 bike rack merkins with 3 sets of 28 box jumps. Today is 9/28. I am so witty. Mosey to wall near horseshoe.

    Exercise 4: 3 sets of 9 and 28 again with donkey kicks and WWIIs, chicken peckers – 2 count and 2 count flutters and donkey kicks and heels to heaven. Mosey to wall near field.

    Exercise 5: Triple check with balls to the wall, crabcakes and 9 pullups. Mosey around blacktop twice to cool down with 28 2 count American hammers, DQs and cherry pickers (for very low cherries).

    Closed in prayer.

    Announcements: Retreat on 10/3 in Amelia, Study of Job Tuesday at 8 p.m. – virtual – invite on Slack and collecting shoes for Homeward organization. See Honeydo if you are in the West End and have gently used shoes to donate.

    Jets are not good this year. When the Colts score more points with their defense than your offense, you just entered the Trevor Lawrence sweepstakes.

    Let’s do great things this week for the one who makes all this possible.

    Sincerely,

    Fireman Ed