Author: Honey Do

  • Where did Trout go?

    6 PAX were unable to lose Jville so we ended up with a prime number 7 after we got started. Instead of pounding some beers we pounded some pickles & more:

    COP: SSH, Don Qs, Helicopters, Merkins, Reverse Crunches

    THE THANG: 2 Burpees per lightpost on side street, Jville joins us, then over to Blacktop: Polar Bear across, 20 merkins, crab walk back. 3 sets of 25 PLTs.

    Over to swing set: 3 sets of 10 Chazz Michael Michaels. Over to side of school without doors: 4 rounds of 30 Donkey kicks & 20 Jump squats. Over to benches – 3 sets of 30 dips & 10 Box Jumps.

    Head up a block with 5 merkins each light. up and back. then finish with some mary: Pickle pounders, APDs, LBCs, and American Hammers.

    NMS – Nice 50 degree temps and strong pax. Rumors from SOJ are that Punisher is a Happy hour workout light on exercise, YHC wanted to dole out a good ground & pound workout. Its been a while since Chazz Michael Michaels came out but PAX enjoyed them.

    BB title comes from a winded Q calling for a 20 count from Trout when Trout was not in the PAX. To be fair it was dark and Scrum joined us in the COP so the Q couldn’t see him clearly. YHC considered adding him to the PAX list regardless. YHC was worried about Jville’s mobility with his injured calf but then he proceeded to tear up the beatdown. True to form Chum hurt his shin on the Box Jumps ensuring that one of the Glouchester boys is always on the mend.

  • What is Miserable Jumprope?

    6 PAX came out wondering if Q sheet was in fact open. With no official Q at 5:30 we set off to end of track for COP and a Hot potato Q:

    COP (Honeydo): Miserable Jumprope (aka Invisible Jumprope), Miserable Burpees, Don Qs, Helicopters, Merkins, Flutterkicks. Pass Q to Lighthouse, which turned out to be big mistake:

    Lighthouse Beast – Mini beast with way worse numbers: Round 1- Merkins 20 per stop. Round 2- LBCs 20. Round 3 – 5 Burpees. Pass Q to Handshake, off to Jerkin Gym: 3 sets of 10 Jerkins. Then over to Heartbreak Hill:

    Run up, 15 WWIIs, back down then 1 Burpee. Repeat 5 times. Pass Q to Atilla – Over to bleachers for 3 rounds of: 25 Dips & 25 Benchkicks. Then up to parking lot for Triple check of: People’s chair, American Hammers & run.

    Atilla took us out.

    NMS – Nothing like creating new exercises when PAX mishears the Qs instructions. Now YHC has to think of what miserable Jumprope would really entail. Some confusion at the start as Wojo was on the Q sheet yesterday at some point but it was blank at 5:15 so technically not a no-show. PAX did learn a lesson as Lighthouse is NOT messing around. A modified beast with 120 merkins in round 1 then burpees. ouch.

    Jerkin Gym was the iciest YHC can remember and the benchkicks on the frozen bleachers almost led to a case of frostbitten ass cheeks. Great to have P-Trap back out at HBR, and on his birthday, aye! Great way to start off your 35th year.

  • Hoedown is back in 2020

    Sixteen studs came out to the first Hoedown of the decade. With Mid 30s temps and darkness across the AO mosey’d to the front of school for:

    COP: SSH, Imperial Walkers, Helicopters, Arm Circles, Merkins, LBCs, & Don Qs. Pass a cold week-old Potato to Splinter. Splinter took us back to the parking lot for 11s: Imperial Squat Walkers & Derkins. Splinter passed Q back to YHC, over to blacktop. 4 Corners: 10 burpees, 20 V-Ups, 30 Merkins, & 40 Jump Squats. 2nd round increase all reps by 5.

    Back down to parking lot, quick elbow plank & 20 Pickle Pounders. Then follow the arrows: Crab Walk arrow loop, 3 Hand-release Merkins each arrow. Head over to the flag for Mary: Flutterkicks, Hello Dollys, APDs, Kimchi Twists, American Hammers. YHC took us out.

    NMS – Great to have 16 out to start new year. Lots of new faces and old ones we haven’t seen in a while. A Slurpee sighting in the gloom is always a good thing.

    YHC was hoping Splinter would be in attendance to pass him the Q without his prior knowledge. He promptly dropped the 11s on us. Backwards running in the pitch black is always a good call. But somehow Gomer Pyle did not hurt himself during the 11s.

    Mr Holland was back to form, looks like he back is better. Kimchi Twists are all the rage at hoedown so YHC felt compelled to drop them on the larger pax. Maybe Doozy while take them down SOJ soon.

    Prayers for Offshore’s In-Laws. Winter Tour is in full swing. Also YHC has taken the liberty of creating an F3RVA group on Slack. Be on the lookout for invites via email. Other F3 regions are using this to good effect and with new year YHC wanted to give it a try.

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  • A run free beatdown

    4 PAX came out to CM with 2 of the 4 unable to run. A ground & pound Q was served up of:

    COP: SSH, Don Qs, Helicopters, Merkins, Flutterkicks. Farmers carry over to shelter area for 5 minutes of fun: partner up then 5 minutes of a given exercise with reps increasing:

    Round 1: Burpees starting at 2. Partner Al Gore’ing while waiting.

    Round 2: Sit & Press increments of 3. Hold 6 inches while waiting.

    Round 3: Merkins increasing by 4. Squats while waiting.

    Round 4: KB swings, sets of 5.

    Then some Boat & Canoe, 3 sets of 15 Lawnmower pulls. 3 sets of Bicep curls. Some mary to finish us out.

    NMS- Jville continues to post with a torn calf muscle. No running today but hopefully enough of a beatdown. Word is Fireman Ed will be joining Circus for a while since he is also running free for January.

  • HP at HBR

    A Nifty nine PAX closed out Nineteen in Hot Potato fashion at Heartbreak Ridge. Several Wahoo PAX were tired from the late finish of the Orange bowl but needed a last 2019 Big Data point. Here’s how it went down:

    COP: Honeydo – SSH, Don Qs, Arm circles, Merkins, Flutterkicks, Scorpion Kicks. Hand to Handshake:

    Mosey to “Danger Zone” for Triple check – Run loop of PES lot, Merkins, & Kimchi Twists. Hand Q to Seymour- Mosey to Honeysuckle hill for 6 rounds of Bear Crawl up & run down. Hand off to Mr Holland, down to track for shortened Track beast: 1st lap Merkins, 2nd Lap Merkins + WWIIS, 3rd Lap – Merkins, WWIIs, & Burpees (ouch). Attila took us back to flag for 75 secons of mary & COT.

    NMS – Good final beatdown of the decade at HBR. Nice to have 9 strong out. YHC has taken the liberty of naming the corner section of PES as the “Danger Zone” with the giant exposed propane tank and low hanging powerlines. Hitchhiker’s Kimchi Twists, after debuting at Hoedown yesterday, made their way to HBR. Will they spread to SOJ and Daville next? Guess we’ll see in 2020.

    Mr. Holland pushed the PAX on the 3rd round of the Track Beast with Burpees. Those 3 Laps ate up almost 20 minutes. Good thing Splinter was not here as Mr Holland was not up for sharing the potato.

    Squeaker and LinkedIn made the rest of the PAX look slow as usual, but still good to have them out. Bodos drove past Spider Run to get a full body beatdown, always welcome out at F3RVAs brightest AO.

    CONVERGENCE tomorrow at The Forge 7:00. Let’s have so many PAX there that DTH cannot try and spring his Cabers on us.

  • Caution: Benches freeze before road

    A Naugty Nine hoped to earn their way onto the Nice list with some Christmas Eve work at HBR. The PAX were rewarded with an early Xmas gift from the kindhearted Q with:

    COP- Invisible Jumprope, Hairy Rocketts, Don Qs, Merkins, Arm Circles, Flutterkicks, Scorpion Kicks. Head to football field for proper warm-up:

    Sprint across field, jog back. Bear Crawl across then jog back. Backwards run across.

    Mosey to Benches: YHC called for 3 sets of Box Jumps & Derkins, but apparently some PAX are keen on that “smile without missing teeth” look and with Benches covered in ICE an audible was called. Off to Heartbreak Hill:

    10 Merkins at botton, run up, 10 V-Ups up top. Repeato increasing reps to 15 then 20. Then off to big field: Wheelbarrow across alternating PAX.

    Over to DK wall for Triple check: Donkey Kicks, WWIIs, & run blacktop. Head back down to Jerkin Gym – 4 Sets of 8. Back to football field for some minute burpees: 7 in a minute, increase by 1 up to 10 per minute. Back to flag for some Mary. YHC took us out.

    NMS – 5:29 we had 4 PAX and then quickly swelled to 9 as we made our way to the COP. Seymour was able to find us despite the Qs efforts to hide us. The benches really were a sheet of ice and YHC was glad to call of Box Jumps, heck even Derkins on them could be dangerous.

    Good to have some non-HBR regulars out this morning. Kubota is stamping his winter break hall pass and good to have Mr Holland back out in the west end. YHC called the Bear Crawl to slow down LinkedIn only to see him lap us on the bear crawl. Someone find out what his kryptonite exercise is quick.

    Merry Christmas F3RVA!

  • Frozen Cheeks

    A frozen four found their way out to Twin Team in Icy 20 degree conditions to dodge the ice and find a beatdown. After jogging a loop for the NewMarket clown car that was never to appear we did:

    COP: SSH, Russian Soldiers, Helicopters, Merkins, LBCs. Head to parking lot for

    THE THANG: Partner up for 5 minutes of increasing exercises:

    Round 1: Burpees starting at 2, each man does, then increase by 2. Other man is holding Al Gore. We got up to 14. So 56 Burpees.

    Round 2: After moving to the grass; Sets of increasing by 3 of WWIIs while other man holds 6 inches. Got up to 24. 108 WWIIs total.

    Round 3: Merkins starting at 4 and going up by 4. Other man is doing squats. Got up to 28. 112 Merkins in total.

    Round 4: Donkey kicks on the track entrance building: 5 DKs then increase by 5. Other man doing LBCs. Got up to 30. 105 DKs in total.

    Long mosey back to BWES. Find grassy patch in front for: 3 sets of 20 PLTs. Then introduce BoBerry to Pickle Pounders. Finish up with Ring of Fire. YHC took us out.

    NMS – YHC stole this idea from Garbage Plate of 5 minutes alternating & increasing exercises but altered it so the count increased from 2-5 for the 4 rounds. Turns out increasing sets of 4 merkins gets tough around the 20s.

    56 Burpees got the PAX properly warmed up in the 20 degree weather.

    5 full minutes on the frosty grass doing WWII and 6 inches left all with frozen cheeks for the remainder of the beatdown. Very little mumblechatter this morning besides PAX pointing out where the black ice was around the AO. YHC hadn’t met BoBerry before, always good to meet a newer dedicated PAX member, apparently YHC needs to get his 6 out ot SOJ more often. Great way to start of YHC’s 42nd year, aye!

  • Bear Creek 2019

    8 PAX made their way out to Cumberland county to take on the Bear Creek 10 miler. Between bonus miles, first trail race, and gender inclusive shirt logos a good time was had by all.

    THE THANG: Arrive at Bear Creek State Park in 22 degree weather. All PAX meet up and freeze up until start. All PAX complete 10 mile route, 2 PAX opted for extra loop of additional mile.

    NMS – Overall success with no runners injured or lost during the race. The several fast runners took a wrong turn in mile 2 and ended up with a mile loop. Saab and Ollie were in that group. Saab took a branch to the forehead and was sporting a nice scrape post race. Tobit stayed on the course and ran a solid race for his first time out at Bear Creek. Mouse Trap chose to pop his race cherry (he’s never even run a 5k) with a difficult 10 mile trail race. TYA was his steady self and Bootleg ran a solid race. Once the sun got up things warmed up and conditions were perfect.

    Cookout after was great as we scored the back porch of the main building. Burgers, brews, and Brunswick stew perked this PAX up. No Lab Rat Bog this year. Drive back topics included diverse topics of self-driving cars, alternative lower half CPR, and low set vaginas.

    Good time as always and great practice for spring trail races coming up.

  • Caravan of cars at HBR

    An even dozen, including 1 visitor, arrived at varying times to Heartbreak Ridge on a gorgeous morning. Again no Q so Handshake started us off:

    COP: SSH, Don Qs, Merkins, Flutterkicks, Hairy Rocketts (horizonal version) aka inverted upside down Scorpion kicks. Back to main lot for: Quad Check – 1) B2tW, Flutterkicks, Merkins, Run lot & back. Head down to Jerkin Gym: 3 Sets of 10 Jerkins. Pass Q to Offshore:

    Over to Heartbreak hill – Triple check of Merkins, WWIIs, Bernie Sanders up hill.

    Hand Q to Garbage Plate, 1 lap of Indian Run then over to ramp: Crawl Bear up hill, bar shimmy down. 2 times. Q over to Honeydo: 3 sets of PLTs, back to flag for some Pickle Pounders. YHC took us out.

    NMS – Today was textbook Hot Potato where PAX were pushed for the full 45 min. Quad check got us going from Handshake then other Qs never let up. Good to have Stump Jumper back visiting RVA. He debated whether on posting at Spider Run or HBR but in the end he gave us the perfect dozen number to work with. P-Trap, the married version, was back out having resting his shoulder injury. No clue whether the shoulder injury occurred on the Honeymoon or not, hence the need for more Pickle Pounder practice.

    Fireman Ed was extra mouthy today, with his JETS drubbing on the Skins still on his mind. Low, low times for those who still HTTR. Lighthouse is officially a HBR regular now as YHC can’t remember a week he wasn’t there. Merkin count estimated in the 180-200 range based on Quad & Triple check inclusions. Your mileage may vary.

  • Beware of black ice

    4 fools saw the 24 degree forecast and said why not, to post at 5 am. With the all PAX SOP we got moving:

    COP: SSH, Don Qs, Merkins, Helicopters, Russian Soldiers, Scorpion Kicks (Kubotas call), and LBCs.

    Kubota Q: Run the Grassy triangle with 10 Merkins at each corner. Backwards run the long section. Repeato 3 xs (?). Then 3 rounds of 20 PLTs.

    Mosey over to RRCB lot. Wheelbarrow up & down lot.

    EF Hutton Q: Dora 123 of HRMs, Mtn Climbers, & LBCs.

    Handshake Q: 4 Corners (escalating) of 15 HRMs, 25 WWIIs, 35 Jump squats, & 45 SSHs. Honeydo Q with 87 seconds left – back to flag for 6 inches (Hooooolllllddddd it!) YHC took us out.

    NMS – Cold temps but beautiful morning with full moon and dry ground. Only a handful of icy spots in the parking lot. Best sight at 5 am is 8 bare knees in the gloom. 3 of the PAX were sporting winter beards (kubota just barely) so faces were warm.

    This new AO is headlamp recommended but not required. Wasn’t needed this morning as we did not tackle south ridge hill. EF Hutton was a gentleman and turned his lamp off before he started knocking out his PLTs. Any view seen during the PLTs need to remember the Seinfeld quote “There was shrinkage”

    Day 2 of YHC getting handed the Hot Potato at the last second and getting stuck with the BB.

    Handshake hit us up with 60 HRMs not 5 minutes after us doing 100 HRMs during the Dora. Total Merkin count for the morning was about 200. Week 3 of this experiment makes this “Kubota’s Sanity Check” workout a success.