Author: Handshake

  • 3/4 of Breakfest Club regulars

    3 or F3 RVA’s baddest, toughest, coldest, crew met for Breakfast Club. It was so cold we did the COT while on the run back. Early Bird Biscuits was our reward.

  • A Bakers Dozen

    The finest men in the Richmond area met in the gloom for a beatdown and this is what transpired:

    • Meander around front of the school and back to the Asphalt Playground for COP
    • Mosey off campus over to Reveille UMC. Partner up, P1 Runs down the Parking Lot then Bernie Sanders down the next row and then up the final row and loops around back to the Pavilion. P2 does various exercises across 4 rounds (WWII’s, Flutter Kicks, LBC’s, Hand Release)
    • Mosey over to the Greek Church on the Corner of Malvern and Grove. Round 1 – Bear Crawl across half the lot then transition to Crab Walks. Round 2 – Polar Bear halfway and then transition to a Crab Fish (idea as a Polar Bear but adding a WWII to the Crab Walk)
    • Triple Check – P1 Run to the far end up the lot and Bernie back, P2 does Jump Squats, P3 does WWII’s?
    • Mosey back to flag
    • 1 minute of Mary to close out the 45 minutes

    NMS – it was a great morning to go for a walkabout. After days over rain/snow/ice it was nice to see clear roads and parking lots ready for us. YHC felt bad for our LIFO (TYA) because he was running late after being a great Dad and taking his daughter to the Train Station and he arrived we were nowhere to be found. Hopefully Saab is feeling better since he was originally the Q but he had to put up the Bat Signal since he wasn’t going to make it.

    Announcements/Prayer Requests – No announcements but we did have Prayer Request for Jessup’s mother who is recovering from surgery.

    Thanks for the opportunity to lead.

  • I almost forget this happened

    Three swole bros went running from and to Woke Biscuit. Conversations were had. It was fun.

    NMS – YHC almost forgot to post this backblast

  • Tuesday in the West End

    5 of the West Ends finest gathered for a Voters Day beatdown, this is what transpired:

    COP with various exericses

    Quintuple Check, 3 rounds – P1 – Runs the Blacktop, P2 WWII’s, P3 Hand Release Merkins, P4 LBC’s, P5 Balls to the Wall

    Mosey over to Pemberton Elementary – 5 Pull Ups, 20 WWII’s for 3 rounds. The 2nd and 3rd rounds touch opposite elbow to opposite knee

    Four Corners – Corner 1 – 10 Hand Release Merkins, Corner 2 – 10 Hand Release Merkins and 20 American Hammers, Corner 3 – 10 Hand Release Merkins 20 Hand Release Merkins 30 Squats, Corner 4 – 10 Hand Release Merkins 20 Hand Release Merkins 30 Squats, Corner 4 40 Flutter Kics

    Mosey back to Heartbreaker Ridge for 4 minutes of Mary

    Announcements – Guys are traveling down to F3 Hampton Roads for their Anniversary. Johnsonville is leaving Saturday morning for a down and back. Gomer Pyle and Shakedown will be leaving Friday afternoon around 4:30 and coming about to Richmond around 11/12 on Saturday. Gypsy is starting his clothing/shoe drive in December.

    NMS – not too much mumble chatter today, it was a light crew, but we did have fun.

  • These guys are brutal

    8 of F3’s finest men gathered to celebrate a guest Q. Little did they know while one Keydet was down for the count from a Geri Covid Booster that the a younger Keydet had done a back end deal and grabbed the Q. This is what transpired:

    Round 1 – Mailbox Challenge – various exercises at mailboxes: Merkins on the Left and WWII’s on the right from S Ridge to River and then opposite on the way back.

    Mosey from Ridge down to the bottom of the hill doing various exercises at political yard signs (opposite exercises at opposing candidates). Little did we know there was only one parties signs…

    Bottom of the hill partner up. P1 does a set of exercises while P2 runs down the road and back. 2-3 rounds.

    Our Crescendo up the hill was another partner exercise, P1 does something the P2 Bernies up the hill. We stopped at Overlook for another exercise.

    Indigenous Peoples Run up the hill to finish.

    Announcements: Hump-Free Happy Hour tomorrow (Thursday) at Westcreek Hardywood at 1730 hours until whenever…

    Prayer Requests: one of Last Calls Subcontractors is on a ventilator with Covid, he’s 42 years old. The same contractor last a employee last week to Covid who was 26. Prayers for these individuals and their family/friends/co-workers

    NMS: pretty quiet day without Upchuck being there, no semantics were argued. It was nice to explore some of the AO we hadn’t seen for a while.

  • Dogpiles hottest Potatoes

    With no Q on the sheet a Hot Potato was Launched. YHC has to admit he was doing the exercises but not paying enough attention to remember what exactly transpired. 

    Tryhard – COP and Triple Check in the Amphitheater 

    Gomer – A couple of Triple Checks at the Jerkin Gym

    EF Hutton – Various Bear Crawl/Crab Walk/etc exercises in the circle

    Handshake – compounding Triple Check and a mosey back to the flag before time expired. 

    Announcements – 

    Gomer leaves next week for Honduras on a scouting mission for his upcoming January Mission Trip. Prayers for safe travels and for the Mission Trip itself. Gomers typical crew of 16 is only at 2 currently, so prayers they can get more people to support the upcoming January trip. 

    Freed to Bleed. Pigskin is coordinating a Blood Drive and he needs morning/afternoon volunteers and Donors. 

    Beer Mile – Faceplant is coordinating the 10th annual Shawn G Hogan Memorial Beer Mile. Faceplant will be hosting this year at his home in Ginter Park. Provide your own 4 pack of Light Beer. Friday, October 15th. Launch time at 7:30. 

    NMS – it was a great morning. Lots of people were busy and had to roll quickly, but several of us had the opportunity to gather for Breakfast at ET’s. Swiper and Shakedown weren’t at the Bootcamp but they ran together during the beatdown. We also saw TYA, he had just finished running with his Dog Doppelgänger. 
    **pardon any typos or anything missed. YHC typed this from his phone while his M was driving to Fredericksburg**

  • Breakfast Club

    Three guys and talked about stuff. Weather was perfect.

    Prayers for Upchucks in-laws and wife as they work through health issues with Upchucks MIL

  • Tuesday sweat party

    11 veterans plus one grizzly-eyed Re-FNG posted to participate in Volun-told Q

    COP – SSH’s, Don Quixote, Hand Release Merkins, etc.

    Mosey to the Pemberton Elementary School parking lot for a bad idea. Partner up, P1 do Flutter Kicks until you almost die, P2 do Suicides every two parking spots until the second side of the parking lot was reached (YHC may not have anticipated how long that would take, but there were too many complaints for YHC the cancel the order)

    Mosey to Playground at PES for a Triple Check. P1 Run backwards around the small track P2 WWII’s, P3 10 Pull ups, 3 rounds

    Announcements – 3rd F tonight at 2000 hours. Iron Pax starts next Thursday 9/7 at Heartbreak Ridge. Practice Iron Pax at WTF tomorrow.

    Prayer requests – New Orleans citizens/Pax members. Offshores friend, Steve, who just had Open Heart Surgery

    NMS – it was a slightly cooler day but the humidity was 93%. Its good to have Gypsy back after his bout with Covid. I’m glad to return the favors he and Honeydo grace YHC with.

  • Hockey Talk

    A band of 7 studs took advantage of the unseasonably cool weather for a Greatest Hits of Mary beatdown.

    COP – various exercises and TYA making various comments about The Institute

    Four Corner – Entire Campus of Mary Mumford. Ascending, compounding, and descending. 10 Hand Release Merkins, 20 WWII’s, 30 Squats, 40 SSH’s.

    Triple Check – P1 runs across recess blacktop and back, P2 Wall Sits, P3 Bear Crawl from wall to blacktop and does Hand Release Merkins. 3 rounds.

    Monkey Bars – 2 people due Pull Ups while the others do either Merkins or Dips

    Mosey back to flag.

    Announcements – Bone Thugs is organizing a F3 night to the Squirrels on the 31st.

    NMS – Thanks to Doozy for the heads up about a guest and the motivation to take the Q. It was good to see Zamboni (Jacksonville, Florida). Zamboni was able to arouse TYA’s Hockey love, YHC had to get the group running to fix that problem. Zamboni was supposed to have an FNG come, but unfortunately he didn’t make it. Thank you for the opportunity to lead.

  • There was no Hawt Potato

    Half of Daville and a few others gathered for Hot Potato workout and it didn’t go as one would expect.

    Hot Potato:

    COP – Handshake, a bunch of exercises

    Exercise 1 – Handshake – Triple Check at the Rusty Cage (P1 5 Pull Ups then Jerkins, P2 WWII’s, P3 run to Fire Hydrant and Back)

    Exercise 2 – Handshake – Triple Check at the Pipe Loop (P1 Run the Loop, P2 Squats, P3 LBC’s)

    Exercise 3 – Handshake – Losey up the hill (Long Mosey) with various exercises: Bear Crawl, Bernie Sanders, Squats, Lunges, Boo-ya Merkins, Crawl Bear, etc.

    Exercise 4 – Handshake – Partner up (P1 run two poles forward while P2 Bear Crawls and switch until YHC realized there were no more poles)

    Exercise 5 – Handshake – Bernie Sanders up the hill then two loops around the Circle and Mosey back to the flag

    Exercise 6 – Handshake – 2 minutes of Mary until the timer

    Announcements – Memorial Day Convergence at 0700 at Tredegar.

    Prayer Requests – Slipping Jimmy and his family after the loss of his mother two weeks ago. Additional prayers for Slipping Jimmy’s father after losing his wife a month shy of 51 years of marriage. Prayers as well for the new chapter in The Carpenters and Emojis life as they move.

    NMS – as YHC woke up and checked the Q sheet there was no Q for Breakfest Club and Dogpile so YHC texted Upchuck. Upchuck said that YHC should take it, but YHC said no. Upon arriving at Breakfest Club it came up in conversation again and YHC decided we’d do a Hot Potato. YHC said he’d kick it off and he had a couple thoughts. After 35 minutes of having the potato YHC was feeling inspired by a W-Dog Hot Potato a couple years ago where Swirly kicked us off and tossed it to Oyster and Oyster kept the Potato the whole workout. YHC gets nervous leading such a big group of guys, but considering the workout was 1/2 of Daville and a few others it didn’t seem so intimidating. Thanks for letting YHC keep the Potato the whole time.