Author: Honey Do

  • CCPS Mulch budget is still flush

    4 faithful made it out to Twin Team and wondered were the piles of Mulch around the school part of the Q’s plan for the beatdown? Instead we took off and did:

    COP: SSH, Imperial Walkers, Don Qs, Merkins, Flutterkicks.

    THE THANG: Down to the big parking lot. 4 sets of 3 lightposts. Start at 1 burpee, run to next one then do 2 Burpees, all the way up to 12th light. That’s 78 Burpees!

    Over to baseball stadium: 4 rounds of: Benchkicks and Derkins. Benchkicks start at 20 then increase by 10, Derkins stay at 10 reps. Over to BWES field: Lunge across, Pickle poumders, Bernie back then 20 WWIIs. Karaoke across then Flutterkicks.

    Over to playground: 4 sets of 8 Pull-ups. Then back to field for spring across, 20 HRMs, spring back then 20 more HRMs. Mosey back to flag with a few stops for bear crawl and mary. BoBerry took us out.

    Announcements: Puppy Pile this Sunday, 7:00 am at NoToll. SlipNslide is rumored to make an appearance again.

    NMS: Strong showing from the PAX this morning. Escalating burpees right off the bat will get the blood flowing. Doozy was already warmed up after almost hitting a deer coming into the AO. He made the burpees look easy.

    Several piles of mulch sitting around BWES waiting to be spread out or played with. BoBerry, always on the lookout for a Q theme or angle, kept eyeing the piles. Both the baseball field and BWES field were in perfect condition this morning- well mowed and not too dewy. Bullseye audible’d every exercise YHC called which he said was because of an Ab injury but YHC was starting to get a complex by the end.

  • Last call for Last Call

    3 First Watch regulars found a lost FW newbie to make it 4 for a beautifully cool summer morning beatdown. We did:

    COP of 3: SSH, Don Qs, Imperial Walkers, Merkins, LBC. Start mosey to church main lot (find Last Call on the way) and start of with a Lindsay of: Hand Release Merkins & V-Ups.

    Dora 123: 100 Mtn Climbers, 200 American Hammers, & 300 SSH. Over to side wall for 3 rounds of: 30 Donkey Kicks, lunge across then 20 Jump Squats. Back to Kettlebells. 2 rounds of: Swings, Sit-n-Press, Cleans, 4th runs the lot loop. Finish up with 2 min of mary: APDs, Freddy Mercurys, Reverse Crunch. Announcements & YHC took us out.

    NMS: Lighter numbers at First Watch this morning but no real rain to bother us PAX. During the COP we saw a SUV circle the lot a few times but not on the other side of River lot where we normally park. Luckily we were able to track down Last Call and promptly dropped a Lindsay with 100 HRMs on him right away. Prayers for Kubota who is getting a puppy this weekend.

    Announcements: HR-HDHH at Kubota’s next Wednesday. 3rd F next Tuesday, check Slack for details. 4th of July Convergence at No Toll 6:00 am.

  • Feels normal again

    23 PAX made their way out to Dogpile to safely gather in Phase 2. Temps in the 60s with low humidity made it for perfect beatdown conditions.

    COP: SSH, Don Qs, Imperial walkers, Merkins, Flutterkicks, Scorpion Kicks.

    Mosey down to Backstage block storage to retrieve and drop blocks. Leave them there, down to Rusty Cage. Triple check of: Burp-Ups, Dips, and run to blocks – 10 Squats, then back.

    Head down Pipe Loop for a Proper Dora: 10 Merkins, 20 WWIIs, 30 Jump Squats. Then up the hill back to Rugby. BoxCutters and Squats to gather the pax. Bottom of Rugby partner up: Bear Crawl catch me if you can. 3 burpees then run up to crawler. Back to flag then quick mary til we hit 7:00.

    NMS: Today felt like Dogpile like normal for the first time in a while. New Market back in the mix with their mumbechatter (really just Wilson) and a large PAX over 20.

    Hitchhiker took a spill on the pipe loop and several PAX helped him up and out. Flipper busted out some Mr. Miagi magic on his foot and looks like he’ll be ok. Rumor has it Bodos also blessed Hitch’s ankle with holy water since he disappeared. Qs feel like they have to use the PipeLoop in the limited summer weeks where we have daylight but then remember how much it sucks. 5 trips through per PAX was enough.

    Good to have some newer PAX out like Zillow and Winehouse. YHC promptly was told to shave of the stache upon his arrive home.

  • Thumos

    8 PAX, including the ever elusive flying EH FNG, came out on a truly 70 and sunny morning to soak in the humidity. Fudd missed the balmy RVA weather so much he drove in from CO to get a sweat on.

    COP: SSH, Don Qs, Flutterkicks, Imperial Walkers, Merkins (no scorpion kicks 🙁

    Mosey to dip bars for Dora 123: 100 Dips, 200 LBCs, 300 SSH. Then onto blacktop for 4 corners: 5 Burpees, 10 WWIIs, 15 HRMs, 20 Jump squats. Hitchhiker had so much fun he asked us to double it: 10 Burpee, 20 WWIIs, 30 HRMs, 40 Jump Squats.

    Tennis courts: Lunge first court, 5 HRMs. Broad jump to 2nd court, 10 HRMs, Bear Crawl to 3rd court – 15 HRMs, Crab walk full length of courts then 20 HRMs.

    Soccer field for: Wheelbarrow across (alternating) then 25 WWIIs. Back to flag for some Mary then YHC took us out.

    NMS: 5 years ago today YHC showed up to 45MoM out of shape not knowing anyone there after hearing about F3 from my wife after she heard about it from the moms at the pool. 5 years later to say that F3 and this PAX have changed YHC for the better is a gross understatement.

    What a great morning this was: FNG Bandito came out after Upchuck’s EH last week. On the other side it was Old School this morning with Fudd back in the Gloom. He is back for a month in RVA with his family visiting VA. Let’s get organized on the 4th Annual Fudd leaving RVA party later this month!

    Mumblechatter was light this morning as the humidity took a toll. The days of sweating out 10 pounds during a beatdown are upon us.

  • Everyone has sore arms

    9 noble warriors took to the misty gloom at HBR for a supposed arm friendly beatdown. Here is what we did:

    COP in front of track facing road: SSH, Don Qs, Helicopters, Merkins, Flutterkicks, Scorpion Kicks. Head over to baseball fields for

    Dora 123: 100 WWIIs, 200 Carolina Dry Docks, 300 Jump Squats. Head on down to benches for: 4 sets of Benchkicks & Box Jumps. Box Jumps stay at 5 while benchkicks start at 20 and go up by 10 to finish at 50.

    Jerkin Gym time: 3 sets of 8 Jerkins. Then over to Heartbreak hill. Run up, 1 burpee, down then 2 burpees, repeato until you reached 8 (or 10 if you’re Probation) then back to flag for some mary. YHC took us out.

    Announcements: New virtual 3rd F tonight at 8:00. See slack for details.

    NMS: Another morning of strong numbers. Between the dogpile and gridiron Murph attendees most of the PAX arms were spent from the 100 Pullups & 200 Merkins yesterday. YHC promised to focus on abs and take it easy on the arms, without a said plan at 5:30.

    Good to have Ronnie and Howler out. Howler was doing a full body Alabama Prom Date on the Jerkins but at 11 hard to judge him.

    Greenbow and Pucker were team red today. Handshake joined us late in the COP, some days coming out to the gloom is the remedy to get your mind off what is going on at home. Saying goodbye to the longtime family pet is never easy, unless it is a cat.

    At the end Probation shared with the PAX he can’t wait to sign up for his VQ. He just can’t figure out which AO gets to pop his Q-cherry. Heartbreak Ridge is very kind to VQs…

  • The Triple – Triple

    Nine strong made it to HBR on another perfect morning. We did:

    COP at Pemberton ES: SSH, Russian Soldiers, Don Qs, Flutterkicks, Merkins, Scorpion kicks.

    Triple Check: HRMs, WWIIs, run the loop. Over to far lot of PES. 3 rounds of: 25 Donkey Kicks, Bear Crawl width of lot, 25 Jump Squats & run back.

    Mosey to Jerkin Gym for another Triple check: Jerkins, hold jerkiner, & Pickle pouders. Some groups really overthought this.

    Over to namesake hill: Up, 10 WWIIs, back down & 5 burpees. 2 more rounds, increasing by 5 on the 2nd one. Mosey back to flag for few Flutterkicks then out. Atilla took us out.

    Announcements: Memorial Day Murph at Dogpile with various sub-locations to keep numbers smaller. Also prayers for DTH and send him an email if you can.

    NMS: Another week and another Spider Run regular regular converted to the West End’s best AO as Upchuck joined us. Also great to have Hank Hill back out along with P-trap. Way more mumblechatter than usual this morning, as things start to seem closer to normal.

    The fuzz is keeping an eye on the PAX but seems like we are abiding the rules well. YHC wanted to dole out a lot of Jerkins for some proper arm work but avoid a mutiny like last week at Hoedown. Our group of Pucker, Lighthouse, and YHC got after it along with Atilla, P-trap, and Hank Hill. Not sure what the other 3 were doing.

    The sunrise around 6 was just beautiful. With people wanting to get back to outside, good weather, and no school to get home to now is a perfect time to EH those FNGs. We even have some good FNG names lined up for them.

  • 75th anniversary of V-E Day

    5 faithful came out to perfect spring weather for a beatdown. The Q asked if anyone knew what day it was in history, no PAX answered so we got after it:

    COP: SSH, Don Qs, Russian Soldiers, Merkins, Flutterkicks, 5 burpees.

    Head to endline of field: run width of field, 5 burpees, run back, 5 burpees. Repeato x3, running total 35 burpees. Head down to stadium entrance, 5 more burpees.

    Unveiling of DonkeyHumpers: 15 Donkey Kicks & 10 Pickle Pounders. 3 rounds. 5 more burpees. 15 more high & slow donkey kicks. 5 more burpees. Up to BWES field, 10 more burpees.

    Over to playground: 3 sets of 8 pullups. 5 burpees. Alternate Bear crawl & lunge across field. back across side lunge & bear crawl. 5 more burpees.

    Over to bus loop of BWES for Dora 123: 100 merkins, 200 jump squats, 300 LBCs. Mosey back to flag for 1 min of mary and 5 last burpees giving us 75 total. YHC took us out.

    NMS: What better way to remember V-E day than 75 burpees during the beatdown. We had 3 PAX at 5:29 but then Mr Holland and PeeDee arrive to give us a solid 5 pax.

    Starting off with runs & 30 burpees after the COP got the juices flowing. Doozy and Probation made it look easy. The PAX can thank Doublemint for the DonkeyHumpers, although after his suggestion on slack chose the fartstack this morning.

    Probation shared with YHC his absence in the gloom was from his visiting a monastery recently. Apparently PeeDee’s super power is bear crawl – he was almost done with the whole field before we could switch to lunges.

    YHC has been taking advantage of the stay-at-home time to watch documentaries with the 2.0s. After finishing a 10 hour series on WWII it is always inspiring what our grandparents went through and good lesson for us today on what courage looks like. And for anyone looking for a Q idea (boberry) V-J day is not too far off.

  • Reintroducing partner work to some varied success

    An even 8 came out to Hoedown to see if Honeydo would show up to Q this week. Perfect spring weather for a beatdown:

    COP: SSH, Russian Soldiers, Helicopters, Merkins, Flutterkicks, Scorpion kicks.

    Mosey to the 3rd Dark lot for 4 corners: 10 burpees, 20 Merkins, 30 Reverse Crunch, 40 SSHs. Over to 3rd back lot, Partner up – Broad jump burpee length of lot – alternating. 2nd round – Polar bear.

    Over to main lot: Lindsays of Carolina Dry Docks & Jump Squats. Over to TES blacktop- Partner up again for Wheelbarrow across & back. Head up to school field for attempt at Chazz Michael Michaels. Mutiny ensued and audible was called. Change up to 3 rounds of: 30 Donkey kicks, run across & 10 burpees.

    Down to Triple check loop. Partner up for 4 rounds of 1 man runs loop while other doing 1 legged LBCs. Finish up with some Heels2 Heaven. YHC took us out.

    NMS: More light and warmer temperatures in the gloom in May. Good to have 8 strong, although when Doozy and Last Call arrived with only Upchuck and YHC we were on the verge of a mini-SOJ takeover. Pucker ran in to the AO and was so sweaty nobody wanted to partner with him.

    YHC wanted to do some partner work of limited sorts and when Wheelbarrows were called the PAX took it on with vigor. Not so much when the Chazz Michael Michaels were called. Maybe YHC should have tried for Jerkins over near the gym instead. We do need to figure out how to get some arm work in the gloom somehow. Oh well good to try new things out when Q’ing. Hopefully YHC made up for his Q fail last week.

  • Tempting the rain

    4 Circus regulars came out to see if the rain would hold off until at least 6:15. With KBs in hand to ground the PAX from the 40 mph winds we did:

    COP: SSH, Imperial Walkers, Helicopters, Merkins, LBCs, Scorpion Kicks

    Mosey away from shelter to back road for some time on the wall: Donkey kicks, bear crawl across then: 15 lawnmower pulls each arm, 40 KB Swings, 10 Sit N Press. Mosey over to field behind school for some Catch me if you can: 1 man takes 2 KBs and carries while other does 10 merkins then catches up. 2 laps of this. 3rd round: Lunge with KBs while other does 15 merkins then Crab Walks to catch up.

    Back to normal spot: Boat & Canoe, Swings, Pullovers, Sit N Press, then run a lap. More swings and snatches then another lap. Back to flag.

    NMS: Can’t believe rain held off during the whole beatdown. We stayed away from the covered bus loop area and took on the heavily aerated field in the back. Nobody questioned lunging across the open field with metal KBs in hand with a storm ready to break open any second.

    Atilla asked whether this would be a 35 Lb KB friendly workout, not sure what that means but guessing this worked. Good to be back out at the Circus after a hiatus.

  • Triple – triple checks

    3 early riser veterans weighed their options before 5:00 and took advantage of the triplet of pax. To start:

    Kubota Q: COP – SSH, Imperial Walkers, Don Qs, WWIIs, Merkins. Mosey back to KB drop spot for Triple Check: High pulls, KB Swings, & run the parking lot loop.

    EF Hutton Q: Triple check #2 – Lying KB Presses, Boat & Canoe, & Run the lot. Head to end of lot: Bear Crawl length of parking lot.

    Honeydo Q: Cross street over to RRC(b) for Triple check #3: Burpees, LBCs, & run to tree and back. Head to side of church: 3 sets of 20 Donkey Kicks, bear crawl across width, & 10 HRMs. Back to flag for bit of mary then done.

    Announcements: Lots of Virtual Zoom opportunities for 1 & 2 Fs.

    NMS: Kubota gave YHC the deciding vote whether to put in a good 15 minutes at FW then head over to WDog or stay at the AO for the full 45 minutes. YHC chose to stay put as to not mess with the nap schedule.

    3 rounds of triple checks will eat up most of the beatdown. YHC enjoyed the 60+ yard bear crawl. Not sure why EF Hutton stopped and gave YHC the lead as he is a strong bear crawler. Kubuta did NOT enjoy the long bear crawl.

    Good morning to be out and we the First Watch PAX did get a few early rays of the rising sun as we were finishing up. Brighter earlier days are ahead (literally and figuratively) for RVA.