Author: Honey Do

  • Below freezing at No Toll

    15 faithful and 1 FNG posted on a crispy morning, the temperature gauge showing 29 degrees at start of the beatdown:

    THE THANG

    COT:  45 SSHs, 10 Merkins, 20 Flutterkicks, 15 Don Qs  then 1 lap around parking lot

    Mosey to soccer field #1 for:  Merkin Ladder

    Run width of soccer field, 20 Merkins, run back to other end, 19 merkins, and so on to 1, 210 Merkins in all

    Mosey to shed/poles for Triple (double) check:  Balls2the Wall, Pole smokers, run to gate in middle of the road, repeat 2xs.  Finish Triple check with 20 Merkins IC.

    Mosey to soccer field #3 for:  Honeymoon Suite

    2 Sets 20 each of  Monkey Humpers, Alabama Prom Dates, Pickle Pounders

    Mosey back to the flag

    MOLESKIN:

    Nice showing of 16 strong on a cold morning.  YHC underestimated how long the Merkin ladder would take but glad we did it, for those doing the November Merkin challenge this morning was 250 in total.  The Side Straddle Hops were supposed to go to 40 but BT commented about this being a Jville like start causes an additional 5 more. In all honesty YHC wanted to get to 50 but started to get out of breath, don’t know how Jville does that!  Props to TYA on posting after staying up late to watch the Pats victory, that is dedication.

    Welcome to Salad Cream!  Posting on a cold morning and diving right in with the Merkin Ladder is a great way to start.  YHC is also glad to have more mid-30’s aged PAX like EF Hutton and Salad Cream to take some of the Hate away from those in their late 30’s.

    The Honeymoon suite did not devolve too much into infantile comments at the end.

    Announcements:

    45MOM Thursday is at 7:00.  OBT is in town so come out if you are in town.  As well many PAX are participating in various Turkey Trots.

    Have a great Thanksgiving!

  • Dora comes to Dogpile

    10 regulars gathered around the shovelflag on a brisk morning at Dogpile.  The PAX was not cold for long as we got right to it:

    THE THANG

    COP:  SSH x25, 10(20) Merkins, 25 Lbc’s, Imperial Walkers x25

    Mosey to the other Roundabout circle and down Rugby hill, pair up for:

    Dora 1,2,3:  100 Burpees ,  200 Merkins , 300 Boxcutters

    1 partner runs up hill to circle and back while other performs exercise.

    Mosey to Amphitheater for:  Escalator (Mary Version) with 20 Merkins thrown in before the start

    Increasing set of Ab exercises going up series of step with 15 reps of exercise for each step:

    Step 1 – Boxjumps x5 , Step 2 – Flutterkicks, #3 Alabama Prom Dates (aka UofL recruting trips) , #4 Freddy Mercurys, #6 Box Cutter, 7 & 8 Cross Leg Lifts -alternating R&L on each step, 9 Russian Twists (4 count)

    Finish with Stairway to Burpen – Start at bottom of Amphitheater and do Burpee for each Stair all the way up (13)

    Mosey back to the Flag for COT and BOM Prayer

    MOLESKIN:

    Glad that we had an even amount of PAX for the Dora 123, credit to DK for giving me this idea at NoToll.  Running up and down the hill and the difficultly of the 3 exercises kept mumblechatter to a minimum besides some occassional “i hate you honeydo” comments along the way, which YHC takes as a sign of pride.  This one was tough for all and YHC was concerned when the truck came up the road that some PAX would not be able to move out of the way, or specifically for Swirly that he’d just keep going until his Boxcutters were done.  YHC was impressed to see Winston put in a strong effort in his 2nd dopgile, this was no easy Dora.  It is somewhat confusing to have Winston & Wilson together during the beatdown with such similar names.  Lab Rat continues to post and YHC is glad to consider him a regular now at Dogpile.

    YHC had intended to alternate arm and abs for the escalator but for time (and YHCs burning shoulders) sake went with all Abs.  This turned out to be a people’s choice with the PAX making suggestions for each step up the way.  Nice job to Swirly to finish to with Russian Twists at the top, somewhere to the west TYA was smiling.

    Glad to see the PAX enthusiastically agree to finish with Stairway to Burpen at the end.  And lastly although it was in the 30s Swirly did not bring out the infamous Yellow hat.  Will we see it in November or wait until December?

    ANNOUNCEMENTS:

    HHH brewery run Wednesday 11/18 starting at 6:00 at Ardent.  Bear Creek 10 miler spots are filing up, sign up now!  Also YHC is doing the TurkeyTrot 10k at UofR on Thanksgiving if anyone else is interested.  LabRat mentioned Ashland has a 5k as well.

     

     

     

  • 28 Days, 6 hours, 42 minutes, 12 seconds

    16 faithful and 1 sort-of-FNG arrived at Dogpile on an eerie Halloween morning in the dark.  A horror-movie themed beatdown went down like this:

    THE THANG

    COP –  SSH x 25 , Spell Halloween with leg writing, Chainsaw starters -10 each side

    Mosey instructions – In honor of Exorcist movie cover any time PAX passed a lamppost someone became possessed and blurted on an exercise that the PAX had to then do x10

    1st Lamppost – 10 burpees, 2nd one – Tuck Jumps

    Lineup on memorial field for – ZOMBIE CHASERS

    Series of sprints, side to side, slowest man each round gets tagged and turns into zombie (aka leglifts) until last man standing.  Congrats to Splinter on being most likely to survive zombie apocolypse.

    Mosey to Carillon for DONNIE DARKO (in honor of Richmond’s own Richard Kelly)

    Bunny hop up steps , 28 Merkins, down steps , 6 burpees, hop up steps, 42 boxcutters, down for 12 Carolina dry docs.  Repeato

    Mosey past several more lammposts (merkins, LBCs, jump lunges) down to behind Carillon for Descent themed Tunnel of Darkness (tunnel of love)

    Mosey back to Memorial field (2 more lammposts – dead cockroaches & merkins) for JACOBS LADDER

    Only instead of running to each hill, bear crawl on the side, crab walk other direction, up to 7 burpees

    Mosey to circle for 3MOM:  Flutterkicks, Alabama prom dates, & 30 WWII situps

    MOLESKINS:
    Good work group! YHC is a huge horror movie fan and was hoping a themed halloween Q would work.  YHC has actually met the actor who played Leatherface in the movie Texas Chainsaw Massacre but used Q-etic license to tie in the Chainsaw exercise.  That was a stretch. Thanks to Bleeder for starting the possession exercise out right with Burpees!

    There was mumblechatter about the use (yet again) of glowsticks.  Since daylight savings kicks in tomorrow we should not need those anymore for a while during a YHC Q.  Circle K had the wipeout of the day during the zombie chase.  All the PAX did well during Donnie Darko round, there were groans during the boxcutters as the worst part.

    Jacobs Ladder (altered) with bearcrawls and crab walks was brutal.  YHC was  afraid to do the Ladder in our normal spot because of darkness/safety so wanted to use the memorial field but change it up for a challenge.

    Good work Lab Rat and Amnesia on posting to your 2nd beatdown ever (with varying lengths of time between them).

    ANNOUNCEMENTS:  Looking forward to hearing about the pumpkin run later this week.

    Happy Halloween!

     

  • Chasing glowsticks

    15 gathered on a beautiful fall morning to enjoy a dry NoToll soccer field for a change.  Weather was 60 degrees and here is how it went down:

    Mosey to left soccer field for COP:  25 SSH, 10 slow count merkins, 25 LBCs, 20 Don Qs

    Mosey to other soccer field for some glowstick chases:

    25 Partner Leg Toss, run to glowstick then other partner does PLTs, x 2

    Bear Crawl to glowstick, toss and chase with Crab Walk, then toss & broad jump

    Then Pax divided up into 4 groups for Max out:  60 seconds in each corner of soccer field doing an exercise at each corner:  Stations were Merkins, WWII Situps, Burpees, & Russian Twists

    After 1st set of 4 run to center of field for Al Gores then another set but this time each station for 90 seconds.

    Mosey to lamppost for sets of Tuck-jumps:  1st set 15, then 10, then 5

    Finish up with Ring of Fire – Merkins, then Flutterkicks, + 5 Burpees to finish then back to the Flag for COT

    MOLESKIN

    Good turnout for NoToll this AM.  There was very little mumble-chatter during the Max out corner set and afterwards much discussion on the timing accuracy of the 60 and 90 second stations.  YHC takes this as a good thing.  A minute or more of Burpees or Merkins should feel like forever. Again thanks to J-Ville for bringing the Tuck-jumps out a few weeks ago, they seem to do quite well at smoking the PAX.  Lastly Shooter needs new breaks.

    Announcements:  Bottom to Tap this Saturday, Go Ruck next Sat, then Pumpkin Race on Halloween. 2nd F next week at Casa De Splinter, sounds like a run beforehand at 5:30.  Be sure to RSVP on Splinter’s pre-blast.

     

  • Soggy wet crunchy Frogs

    8 faithful overlooked the rain and poor forecast to show up for a Saturday morning in the gloom.

    THE THANG

    Mosey to the roundabout circle on the other side of the Carillon for Warm up COP.

    25 SSH , 20 Flutterkicks , 20 Imperials Walkers, 10  slow 4 count Merkins

    Mosey to front of Carillon and split up into 2 teams for Circle 2 Circle:

    Each starts at a runs to one of the roundabout circle and does a round of exercises listed on the Weinke.  Also in running between the 2 circles the team does 5 Burpees when they pass the Lamppost on the path.  After 4 rounds the team runs to top of Carillon to finish with exercise on the Weinke there.

    Circle Round 1:  30 Merkins , 40 WW I Situps

    Circle 2:   30 Dips , 25 Crunchy Frogs

    Circle 3:  25 Derkins (feet on the curb) , 50 Russian Twists

    Circle 4:  Partner up & Wheelbarrow across diameter of Circle each man, switch and WB back ,  10 Burpees

    Run to Carillon –  1st team in – 20 Flutterkicks , last team 30 Flutterkicks & 5 Burpees

    Mosey to Amphitheater for Triple Check –

    1st man – Elbow plank , 2nd Man – Dips , 3rd – Run up Amphitheater steps and back down

    Complete 4 Rounds.  After the 4 rounds YHC took a moment to properly demo the Crunchy Frog and the PAX joined for a set of 20.

    Mosey to Love Hill:

    Pair up – 1st man up the hill, partner start exercise up the hill:

    Exercise 1 – Lunges , Exercise 2 – Bear Crawl , Exercise 3 – Crab Walk

    Mosey back to the Flag for BOM and announcements

    MOLESKIN

    YHC was impressed to see a good PAX on a rainy morning, especially glad to see Aisle 5 back at Dogpile, he has been missed.  We had 7 to start and then Conspiracy joined us as we started Circle 2 Circle(C2C).  Before we started Wilson requested the PAX spend plenty of time on the ground to soak up all the gloom so YHC was happy to oblige by changing to flutterkicks in the COP to start.  This was a good start but YHC forgot to demo the Crunchy Frog exercise for later in the C2C which would come back to bite Team 1 later in C2C as team 2 improvised to X-Ys.  When both teams reached the Carillon both teams knocked out the 5 extra Burpees, good Stuff!

    YHC was not sure that Triple Check would work in the Amphitheater due to darkness so moved it to later in the beatdown.  Having 8 PAX for Triple check was troublesome for YHC as he is not capable of math before morning coffee consumption but the PAX still knocked it out.

    Love Hill was a great way to finish and lots of good mumblechatter throughout, especially about the UCI championships this weekend.  If you have not caught a race this week you need to this today or tomorrow.  Goldberg shared with YHC he posted after a long shift and little sleep, now that is dedication to shrug off the fartsack on a nasty rainy morning.

    ANNOUNCEMENTS

    Bottom to Tap is 10/17.  Doner Kebab is the man to talk with on this.

    Rugged Maniac is 10/10. Talk to TYA if interested.

     

     

     

     

  • Dogpile rearranged and Welcome back Conspiracy

    14 strong posted to a Dogpile AO with several obstructions on a beautiful morning, 62 degrees almost like fall conditions, to enter the gloom.

    THE THANG

    Mosey past orange fence, past normal COP circle to field in front of Carillon

    30 SSH, 20 Arm Circles, 25 LBC, 15 Imperial Walkers

    Ball Toss & chase – Exercise to ball thrown on the field, sprint the remainder of the field then jog back to start

    Round 1 – Lunges, 2 – Bear Crawl, 3 – Crab Walk, 4 – Backwards Run

    Mosey to Amphitheater for Escalator sets on the steps – An exercise each step where you repeat previous steps all the way up to 8th step

    Set #1

    Step 1 – Box Jumps x5 , Step 2 – Dips x10, Step 3 – Russian Twists, Step 4 – Incline Merkins x10, Step 5 – Freddy Mercurys x15, Step 6 – Decline Merkins x10, Step 7 – Flutterkicks x15, Step 8 – Carolina Dry Docks x10

    Set #2 – Same order on steps but reduce count for each exercise by 5

    Mosey back to Carillon

    3 Sets of – Up Carillon steps, bear crawl top, down to end bricks – 10 Merkins

    Finish with 2 sets of Pole Smokers x20

    Mosey back to the flag

    MOLESKIN

    Good to see a large PAX for Dogpile and great to see Conspiracy back this morning, welcome back to the gloom. YHC offered at the start to have the PAX carry Sippy around the AO to help him rest his leg, but looks like he is feeling fine.  Between Sippy and then Swirly saying he hurt himself on RAMM yesterday YHC is fearful for the alternates on the BRR team being called into action.

    There was way too much mumblechatter on the Amphitheater Escalator for YHCs liking.  The Winkie said to increase the count by 5 on Round 2 rather than go down but YHC chose to audible to decrease by 5 for time sake.  Next time we will get to the amphitheater sooner to allow for ample time.

    Great to see Goldberg and Viral back posting regularly.

    Be sure to start EH’ing a FNG for convergence at Gridiron on 9/19. trail Run tomorrow AM.

     

  • Arms Center, Ab corners

    Sixteen faithful and one FNG gathered at No Toll on a beautiful morning to enter the Gloom.  The conditions were far superior to last week’s No Toll which has been dubbed the wettest ever.

    THANG:

    SSH x 30 , 10 Burpees , 15 Imperial Walkers

    Mosey to the Pavilion in center of soccer field for:  4 arm sets & 4 corners of Abs.  Mosey between pavilion and each corner:

    Pavilion – 20 Merkins, 25 Dips, 20 merkins

    Corner 1 – Partner Leg toss , 1st set 20 , 2nd set 12

    Pavilion – Merkin wheelbarrows – 10 partner hold decline merkins, wheelbarrow crawl to tennis ball then 5 more decline partner hold merkins.  Each partner completes 1 set.

    Corner 2 – 40 Russian Twists , then 10 XO’s

    Pavilion – 15 decline merkins , 15 dips , 12 decline merkins

    Corner 3 –  40 Freddy Mercurys, Knee dip planks 30 seconds

    Pavilion – Merkin Wheelbarros #2 – 5 decline merkins, longer wheelbarrow crawl then 5 more decline merkins

    Corner 4 – 30 thrusts , 40 flutterkicks, 20 thrusts

    Mosey back to start, finish with 10 burpees

    MOLESKIN:

    Glad to have such a good turnout for YHC’s VQ and all the support.  Welcome to FNG Modell – hope to see you out again.  YHC felt a little out of breath while counting off the IPs after the starting Burpees, will have to remember that for future reference.  There was some mumblechatter on what constituted a “corner” of the field as a soccer field or as YHC sees it one “Meta field” with 4 corners. YHC’s demo of the thrusts on corner 4 proved insufficient as looking around there were 10 different versions being done, another lesson for next Q.

    ANNOUCEMENTS:

    Richmond GoRuck event is coming up on October 23 & 24.  For those who are not doing the BRR this is a good chance to one-up the BRR group along with YHC.

    Normal workouts this week along with Wednesday Hillcrest hill run at 5:30 and drinks afterwards at TYAs house.

    CONVERGENCE on 9/19 at Gridiron.  Bring a friend!