Author: Honey Do

  • A parking crisis at Gridiron

    8 RVA PAX and 1 Charlotte visitor entered the gloom, with storm clouds swirling, to gather around the Shovelflag flying perfectly in the wind.  It went down like:

    COP:  30 SSH, 20 Merkins, 20 Freddy Mercurys, 25 Carolina Dry Docs, 20 Don Qs

    THE THANG:

    Mosey to Upper field for:  The Beast –   Rnd 1 – Burpees ,  Rnd 2 – WWII Situps, Rnd 3 – Tuckjumps, Rnd 4 Carolina Dry Docks, Rnd 5 Flutterkicks, Rnd 6 – Burpees again

    Mosey to school entrance for Triple Check – Run, Elbow plank, & People’s chair

    Mosey to picnic tables for: 30 Dips, 20 Step Ups each leg, 20 Derkins, Repeato x2

    Mosey to center field for:  Ring of Fire – leg hold 6 inches & Rosalitas.  Finish with CDDs AMRAP.

    Back to the Flag for COT, Earthworm took us out.  Prayers go out to Chum Bucket – so sorry for your loss.  All the RVA PAX is keeping you and your family in our prayers.

    NM:  So the PTP parking lot is being completely re-paved, which means the PAX had to find a way to park in the school lot.  Since the next turn in does not lead to a parking lot, rather a big bus loop, the PAX had to choose to hop a 3 inch curb over to the parking lot or go all the way around to the front of the school and back down.  YHC and Jville chose the former while the rest chose the law abiding alternative.  Circle K was finally convinced after much cajoling that his Jeep Cherokee could handle hopping the curb, after which he put it into 4WL and closed his eyes while he drove over.

    The rain held off for the entirety of the Beast and decided to open up during the Triple Check.  TClaps to Jolly Rancher for burning through the Burpees during the beast.  YHC borrowed the 2 rounds of Burpees during the beast from Wedding Singer’s 45MoM this week.  That was rough to bookend the beast with burpees.  The rain really opened up during the ROF, making sure the PAX was extra soaked to finish up.

    Great to have Pigskin join us in the Gloom, congrats on your new addition to the family and strong work today.  Nice to see White Deer so much stronger since when he originally posted in January.  Circle K mentioned to YHC after the beatdown he was surprised at the lack of BearCrawls during this Q,  YHC wasn’t aware that is a calling card but will be sure to include those next time just for you,

    Announcements:  More New AOs launching this week – W Dog on Wednesday at Dogpile & Circus Maximus on Thursday at Godwin HS.  CM at Godwin is a Kettlebell workout, BYOKB.  Rumor has it Earthworm may even post during the week at the new Godwin AO this week.

    April Challenge is 5,000 Carolina Dry Docks.  Not too late to sign up!  CDD count this morning was 125.

    Pleasure to lead this PAX in the gloom this AM.

  • April Monthly Challenge

    Time to get back to upper body for April – 5,000 Carolina Dry Docks.  That is 167 a day.

    https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-L8e9W24ygnU0suaGyKxzi1PgPqY1CBd57hLrKTZI-g/edit?usp=sharing

     

  • How powerful is Corporate?

    A pax of 1 posted in VA Beach for the Shamrock half marathon. Conditions at the start were 43, pouring rain, and wind gusts up to 40 mph.

    Run 1 mile, repeato x 13.1

    NM:

    YHC was rightfully called out for missing do Dogpile yesterday. Little did YHC know what a mistake that was. When YHC went to bed last night the weather report was cloudy but no rain between 7-10, right on the race window. YHC went to beat dreaming of a PR and good race conditions.

    When YHC awoke and saw the rain pouring down he only had one thought- this is Corporate ‘s doing! From the start through mile 7 it poured while the wind gusted strongly. That was a lot of time for YHC to consider  how Swirly could dial up a storm from over a 100 miles away…

    YHC gave up on his anticipated time and living up to his name ran with his M per her request. Luckily at mile 9 YHC was released to turn it loose and run the last 4 miles in hard. The only benefit of the race was 13 miles toward the March running challenge and a good suckfest of a run like this is ideal BRR practice, Aye!

     

     

  • Beware the Ides of March

    15 friends, romans, countrymen lent their ears, along with the rest of their bodies, to the soggy fields of NoToll on the Ides of March.  It was 51 degrees and cloudy but the rain held off. The PAX still got plenty messy.

    COP:  15 SSH, 15 Merkins, 15 Flutterkicks, 15 Hillbillys.

    THE THANG:

    Mosey to field for 44 BC in honor of the year Caesar was murdered, aka Regicide.  44 Burpees in a Corner, run to each corner and do 11 burpees to total to 44.

    Move to other field for more 4 corners – 44 of exercise at each corner: LBCs, Mtn Climbers, Merkins, Jumpsquats.

    Mosey to pavilion for sets of 23, 23 being number of times Caesar was stabbed. 1st round Boxjumps, 2nd Derkins, 3rd 23 step ups.

    Mosey to field 1 for Shakespeare sets, 1599 being the year experts believe the Bard wrote the play Julius Caesar.  3 sets to total 15 and 99. 5 burpees, 33 Tuck Jumps, run field & back.

    Mosey to center  of field for Ring Of Fire, then to basketball courts to finish with some Mary – 44 Freddy Mercurys, 23 APDs, 10 leg lifts each leg, for Wilson who was a no show for no toll.

    Finish up with COT.

    NM: YHC loves a good theme beatdown. The only thing missing from the RVA beatdowns is a surprising lack of historical facts and trivia. YHC hoped this Ides of March idea solved some of this problem.  There was zero chatter during the 44 Burpees to start and through most of the beatdown. TCLAPS to Jville for going out of his way to get muddy. There was some hesitation on hitting the ground from some of the PAX but all were warned last night of the rain on Twitter thanks to Wilson, who then proceeded to Fartsack – again!

    YHC noticed several of the PAX were working on their jumpshot form during the squats. That should come in handy for 45Mom with Splinter this Thursday.

    Great work Gumbo, one week in you already look stronger. Nice to have BT back stateside as well.

    Announcements: HDHH and Davile  kickoff tomorrow night, RSVP to Lab Rat if you are going. Talk to Jville about a new AO at Godwin on Thursdays if interested.

    Nice work today men – remember all power is fleeting, so keep posting to stay strong,

  • Six pack of Guinness – healthy version

    13 RVA regulars and 1 out of towner from Charlotte took advantage of the last day of daylight in the Gloom before the time change.  It was 60 and sunny, perfect for a Dogpile beatdown:

    COP: 25 SSH, 24 Merkins, 20 Flutterkicks, 20 IPs, 20 LBCs.  Modified Lindsay (up to 30 not 40) – partner up -1 PAX grabs and holds up partners legs – 1 partner does 20 Derkins then other does 10 Shoulder press, 15 & 15, 20 & 10.  Then switch partners.  Repeato.

    THE THANG:   Mosey to bottom of hill past memorial – Guinness 6 pack.  Partners will do total of 125 reps while other runs up the hill to the cirlce and back(similar to Dora 1,2,3).  125 signifying calories in a bottle of Guinness. 6 being a reasonable amount of Guinness for St Pattys day later this week

    First Round – Merkins , 2nd round – Boxcutters, 3rd – Jump Squats , 4th round – Carolina Dry Docks, 5th Round – Flutterkick.  Last one PAX chose to drink responsibly – only half of the last but it goes down the hardest – 65 Tuckjumps

    Mosey to Pull up bars – 5 Pull ups, 10 Dips, 15 Underhand pull ups.  Repeato but increase each by 5.

    Mosey to Hill for Jacobs Ladder.  Then mosey back to the flag for some Honeymoon suite to finish- APDs, Monkey Humpers, & finish on pickle pounders.  Finish with COT.

    Moleskin – Great work by all today PAX. Cotters to Chum Bucket, Goldberg, and Blood Test.  Glad to have you guys back at Dogpile.  Also great to see Gumbo post to his 1st dogpile.  The Lindsay while holding the partner’s legs was not well received.  YHC was not sure if it was because of difficulty, discomfort of being heels above head for 2-3 minutes each, or a combination of both.  Or alternatively that YHC chose to not man up to a full Lindsay count of 40, not 30.  Only one way to find out, stay tuned…

    TClaps for Guinness for informing RVA that he was going to be in town.  YHC took this as inspiration for the Healthy Guinness 6 pack idea.  If the PAX did not enjoy YHC’s idea then please blame Guinness. Great to have you out again and to have The Farm up this week as well.

    Some of the PAX struggled to run straight after the Jump squats and the TuckJumps, even to 65, had the PAX smoked.  Saab got into a rhythm on those though and knocked them out the fastest.

    Finishing with the Honeymoon suite ended up with juvenile mumblechatter, especially without Doner Kabab to demonstrate Monkey Humper technique.  I sense the need for a YouTube video demo…

    Guinness shared with the PAX some facts on the brewer along with some history on Ireland. Several made it to ETs afterwards for some coffee and 2nd F while Chum went on to double dip.

    For those doing the 100 mile challenge – mileage count for this AM is 2.

    Announcements:  New AOs starting in April.  DaVille and W-Dog.  HDHH is this Wednesday out at Atlee for brief AO test then homebrews at the Ratskellar, aka Lab Rats place.  6 months from today the 2 BRR teams will be finishing up in Asheville. Talk to TYA if you want to join as spots are still available.

     

  • Breaking in the new trail sections

    10 strong and a triple-hate FNG started their day off on the trails.  It was 40 degrees and a hint of rain as the PAX started off on Northbank.

    THE THANG:  Northbank – Belle Isle – Buttermilk loop.  The PAX ran up the new section of trail on Buttermilk.

    NM:  YHC was pleased to see such a great turnout this AM for the trail run.  Although the forecast called for rain overnight the trails were just about perfect and the PAX saw nobody else on the trails until Buttermilk.  Not a single biker in site, Aye!

    Splinter set the pace and proceeded to burn through the trails well ahead of the PAX.  Rumor has it he had church plans and needed to knock out the miles quickly.  YHC believes after completing the 8th and final workout of the Corporate Challenge this week Splinter was heading back for some well deserved rest.  He took FNG D-Day along for the run, as D-Day being 18 can keep up.

    The rest of the PAX stayed together.  It is great to see Oyster and Aisle 5 knocking out the miles consistently.  YHC was dismayed that Offshore was not wearing his platform shoes again for the run, although his duct-taped pants made up for part of it.

    There were rumors of a fleet footed assassin closing in on the PAX as we moved along the trails, as Saab chased us down right at the end after being LIFO to start.  Hope the back feels better.

    Topics of discussion on the main group covered respect for Rosie and Splinter for doing the full week workouts A.k.a the Corporate Challenge.  Respect to both of you, Aye! Now there needs to be a F3 RVA shirt for completing it, alongside the long awaited Double Dip shirt.  These shirts cannot be purchased, but rather earned…

    Additional benefits of completing the Corporate Challenge according to the PAX:

    1) 5 excused absences to be submitted to Swirly-F3C, good for 6 months

    2) Early entry Hot Tub passes for the BRR after-party house

    3) Guaranteed reserved double bed for BRR first night hotel

    4)  Your selection of either:  A pair of TYAs short-shorts from the 70s OR Offshore’s spring shoes

    5)   A better understanding of what Swirly feels like every sunday!!

    Other trail run notes:  Rosie continues to grow out his beard, apparently after visiting Spain he thinks he resembles the Most Interesting Man in the World with his graying beard.  Alas no amount of gray can help you avoid Hate in the COT.  Lastly Lab Rat shared with the PAX that when he passes a runner going the other direction he looks directly at their junk, well at least for guys he does… be sure to post to DaVille to learn more. D-Day was given his name by his lack of talking, being that EF Hutton is already taken.  On second thought Bizzaro-Lab Rat could have worked as well.

    YHC forgot to close out the PAX in prayer today, please forgive me.  Good work this morning men!

  • Another audible Q thanks to the snow

    Four faithful braved the snow to start off their Presidents day right at Punisher.  It was snowing and 21 degrees.  Here is how it went down:

    Mosey to field for COP:  40 SSH, 20 merkins, 20 DQs, 20 IPs, 20 Mtn Climbers.  Mosey to basketball court:

    Partner up: 1 partner does Elbow plank while other runs to end of court, does exercise then run back.  Switch.   Round 1: 20 merkins, Round 2:  20 Tuck Jumps, Round 3:  20 Carolina Dry Docs, Round 4: Jump Squats

    Stay on Bball court:  Broad jump width of court, lunge back.  Repeato.  Partner up.  Wheelbarrow width of court, switch partner.  Repeato.

    Mosey to front of school.  Grab a spot on school wall.  20 Donkey kicks, run to street, 20 merkins run back.  Round 2:  BTTW hold for Q, run to street 10 Burpees and back.  Round 3:  20 more DKs, run then 30 Flutterkicks, back.  Hold plank for 30 seconds.

    Mosey back to playground.  Clear off bench for: Dips & Merkins.  Round 1: 25 dips, 15 derkins.  Round 2: 20 Dips, 10 Derkins. Mosey to pullup bars. 2 Sets, 1st 5, 2nd Max out.

    Mosey back VSF. Finish with Mary – 20 Russian Twists, 25 Freddy Mercurys then Ring of Fire to close us out.

    NMM:

    This is the 2nd beatdown that the YHC’s Weinke has been scratched because weather. The original plan was to use the map of the US on the court and follow the presidential primary schedule with each state getting a corresponding exercise based on the first letter in the state’s name.  Unfortunately an inch of snow covering the court made the game impossible.  Given the current political climate this 2016 electoral season YHC is sure there is metaphor there…

    YHC was glad to see Flipper join the PAX in the COP.  Because of the weather YHC deemed this allowable rather than counting as a LIFO, even though Flipper said he would have been later regardless.  With his arrival it made for a even number or else YHC had visions of a lot of Triple check for the rest of the beatdown.

    Swirly led the PAX as usual although Oyster crushed the 20 tuck jumps faster than anyone else did 10 of them. Seriously, YHC has never seen anyone knock those out so quickly, Aye!  The wheelbarrow across the court twice smoked the PAX, It was pretty cool to see the mix of handprints and footprints on the court as we left.

    While at the front of the school doing our Burpees a Jeep honked as it rode by. There was speculation it was a seal teamer trying to inform the PAX that workouts were cancelled for the day because of the snow. Luckily F3 Corporate was there to confirm F3 RVA workouts are never canceled due to weather.

    During the RoF at the end Flipper upped the stakes by getting up and running around the circle and back to his spot. The PAX followed suit during their turn.

    Afterwards there was discussion of Coffeteria but no one knew of a place close by.

    Announcements: Loose Goose has No Toll tomorrow. HDHH is this Wed at Answer Brewpub, Viral is organizing. If Viral offers you Chipotle while there, do NOT eat it…

     

  • Did he get prior F3 Corp. approval?

    15 strong posted to “the best AO in all of F3 Nation” on a frosty Saturday morning. The PAX had to assemble in a different area of the parking lot because of obstructions but everyone met up for a old fashioned beatdown:

    THE THANG:
    Mosey to circle for COP:  30 SSH, 15 Merkins, 20 Flutterkicks, 20 IPs

    Mosey to Boulevard for Burpee Road: Run up the Blvd and do 2 Burpees per lamppost.  Cross and head back at break in road and come back with 2 burpees until back at start of memorial field.

    Mosey to side of Carillon for newest iteration of Touch a Tree:  Touch a Tree – Tag a Partner:

    Partner up.  1 goes out to touch set # of trees while other does exercise until partner returns.  Switch and other one runs and T-A-T.

    Round 1:  5 Trees – Donkey Kicks, Round 2 – 10 Trees – Carolina Dry Docs,  Round 3:  12 Trees – Boxcutters

    Mosey to Amphitheater:  Decline plank down the steps in unison.  25 LBCs IC at bottom.  Then scale back up steps – 5 Decline Merkins each step until back at top of Amphitheater.

    Mosey to Love Hill:  Partner up again – alternate run & exercise.  Lunges, Broad Jumps, walk-out merkins.

    Mosey back to Flag, 1 extra min of Freddy Mercurys.  COT.

    NMM:

    Pleasure to lead a large 15 strong PAX this AM.  The PAX got a lot in during the beatdown and covered a lot of ground.  The 40+ burpees during Burpee road got everyone off to a strong start.

    The Touch a Tree – Tag a Partner worked out better than YHC had anticipated even though some PAX varied in their methods of tracking down “available” trees as instructions dictated not touching the same tree twice.  On the mosey over to the Amphitheater there was mumblechatter about whether this TAT-TAP had been properly  F3 Corp approved.  Luckily YHC had obtained the requisite approval from Swirly at RAMM the day before.  Sippy decided to do 20 trees on the last round and YHC tried to tell him but alas Sippy was going too fast for YHC to catch him.

    The extended planks down the amphitheater steps were hard, maybe Offshore can show the PAX more about this “plank-off” YHC has been hearing about. T-Claps to Wilson for providing extra motivation to Lockjaw during the decline merkins up the steps.  Whatever it takes to inspire!  YHC was impressed how all the PAX burned through those 90 decline merkins in short order.  This week has been heavy on the merkins.  Flipper put in a strong showing at I believe his first dogpile.  For some reason Splinter and Rosie sprinted back from Love Hill to the flag at the end.

    Announcements:  Swirly has Q on Monday after the Superbowl.  Attendance will be recorded…

     

     

  • Outdoors, but under a roof

    19 faithful and 1 FNG braved the icy conditions at Mumford. 28 degrees and black ice abounded but the PAX put in a great workout:

    Mosey up and down commonwealth, slowly. COP attempted in the street but aborted, moved to the pavilion.

    COP: 40 SSH, 10 Merkins, 20 Flutterkicks, 20 IPS, 10 burpees OYO

    Stay in Pavilion for Dora 123- partner up for 100 merkins, 200 jump squats, 300 boxcutters. One partner runs to grove and back while others does exercise

    Partner shoulder presses – 20 reps each partner, repeato. PLTs – 20 count, 3 sets each. Finish with Mtn climbers x30 then Ring of Fire

    Mosey back to flag. Toga took us out in COT.

    Moleskin

    YHC had a very different  beatdown planned but the snow turning to ice caused a change in plans. The PAX was tight in the pavilion but stayed mostly dry. The Dora 123 YHC stole directly from Swirly’s BB from SOT yesterday.

    Only YHC and Lab Rat had a good almost slip, but no wipeouts with all the ice. Welcome to Snooki (e)(sp) , great work on your 1st beatdown.  That makes a handful of Double- haters now at 45MoM. Also Chesney is headed back to Nashville next week, show them F3 boys there how RVA does it.

    Prayers offered up for BT and hs family, thanks Toga for leading us out.

    Announcements – regular workouts planned for rest of week.

     

  • Sunday bonus beatdown, with Snurpees

    Four from Sippy’s Dogpile gathered again for an extra Sunday beatdown in the snow and to plant a shovel flag in maybe the deepest snow seen at any F3..  Conditions were 20 degrees and a little icy but to those of us who like to play in the snow it felt like 70 and sunny:

    Start on Lindsey Rd with Mosey to Westham Pkwy.  COP in the road: 30 SSH, 15 Merkins, 20 Jump Squats, 25 Don Qs.  Mosey back up to School:  Bear Crawl up fresh snow on hill x4

    Mosey to Forest – Merkins in the road, Mosey back to Westham.  Stop midway for 100 LBCs.  More Merkins at Westham.  Lunge 50 yards then mosey back to Forest.  Merkins in the road x12, 25 Jump Squats, then Crab Walk 50 yards then mosey back to Westham.

    Stop in school parking lot:  Broad Jump length of parking lot in virgin snow.  Mosey back to Westham, more merkins, then Bear Crawl up hill x3 again.

    Finish with 4 min Mary in the road-  60 LBCs, 20 Alabama Prop Dates, 20 BoxCutters, 20 Rosalitas.

    Finish back at Shovel Flag with 10 Burpees in virgin snow – Snurpees.

    Moleskin:

    YHC threw out a suggestion after all the fun at Dogpile yesterday to have a Sunday beatdown since the Trails were closed.  Since TES is near many RVA PAX with the road conditions YHC chose it.  Glad to see 3 others from yesterday there.  There was a lot of going back & forth on Lindsey as the 14+ inches of snow made it difficult to go off the road.  When the PAX did venture off the road it got messy quick with the uphill Bear Crawl getting the PAX covered in snow.

    The broad jumps across parking lot were very tough, YHC was wiped out after that.  The Snurpees at the end were fun to see how our weight could leave a detailed impression after finishing.  Lots of discussion on the mosey about BRR, again if you haven’t signed up – do it!

    With all the snow and ice none of the PAX slipped or wiped out.  YHC fell backwards during the broad jumps but that was from exhaustion not ice.

    For those who haven’t posted in the snow yet – come out to an AO you can get to this week, the snow isn’t going away anytime soon. If you are worried about your feet getting cold talk to TYA about his wrapping your feet in grocery bags strategy. It is always fun to get out and play in the snow no matter what age you are!