Back to the original River Run route, finishing down Twin Team for a solid 5.0. See you next week.
Author: Lug Nut
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OG
3 strong +1 moseyed into gloom, down the hill around the corner, up the hill, through the shrubs, down the big hill around the loop and back for a 5 mile run. Of course Annie led every step of the way with Honeymoon & POG close in tow.
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The Trend continues
The Thang
Run around the back of Hanover High School, front of Oak Knoll Middle School, right on Old Landsdown Rd, right on Fort Meyers Rd, run until it ends, turn around run back, another right on Old Landsdown, left on Patrick Henry Blvd, reverse at 301 all the way to the end of Patrick Henry and back to the flag for a nice 4.7 miles.
Moleskin
YHC has had some challenges lately with getting lost on runs. Today was going to be different. The weather was great, legs were tired and going to an AO for the first time with new men is always a boost. Well, if there was a PAX at the AO this would have all been true. Leaving the homestead at 0430 for the 50 minutes trip to Tomato Run, YHC goes to the www.F3RVA.com site, clicks the link and follows Google Maps to what YHC believed to be the AO. YHC did notice the high school said Hanover High. That’s ok, I double check Google Maps and it shows I’m 350 feet from the location. Not being familiar with the schools from the suburbs this close to Washington DC YHC assumes Atlee & Hanover are same and searches for other members of the PAX, but to no avail.
Update: It looks like there may have been some sort of senior prank between Atlee & Hanover. It looks like YHC was the beneficiary and will have to catch the real Tomato Run another day!
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D-Day Respect
Four strong mosey into the well-lit gloom
The Thang
Mosey around the school to the bus parking lot
COP –
25x SSH
20x Imperial Walkers
20x Jville Hops (Hillbillies)
10x Helicopters
10x Merkins
20x LBC’s
Very short mosey around the curbing to bus parking spot #1.
Touch a Bus
1 burpee for each corresponding parking spot number, then run to the bus and back to parking spot number 2 for 2 burpees, and so on, and so on through spot #12.
Mosey to the light pole alley
Elevens
11 of the desired exercise, run to the end for 11 more reps and back to the first light pole passed. Repeat with the run getting shorter each time. Exercises were:
monkey humpers
WW2
Star Jacks
Lunges
Imperial Squats
Merkins
Russian Soldiers
Mosey to the flag
COT
Moleskin
It was great to have Offshore and Scrum post at Timberwolf. YHC had not planned to Q this morning but being the lone local wanted to give our guest a proper SOJ experience. YHC was very thankful when McRib came around the corner to even the numbers.
In respect of the D-Day Anniversary McRib Crushed the 75+ burpees during the Touch a Bus exercise. Special thanks to Offshore for commenting on what another AO may be doing, so SOJ style we added a couple more burpees to cover us until 2022.
Speaking of Offshore, he dominated Light Pole Alley. YHC through a couple of hurdles in to slow him down but to no avail. Also, Star Jacks appear effortless to this guy!
Big Shout out to Scrum for crossing the creek. The 38 minute drive at 0450 deserves respect. Now if YHC how could only understand the M’ville counting cadence.
Great work men!
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Where do we start?
Eight strong mosey into a brisk gloom
The Thang
Mosey around the school to front parking lot
COP –
20x SSH
10x Helicopters
10x Cotton Pickers
1 Arm Circle ( for Hardywood)
Escalating Four Corners – Field Trip Style
5 merkins
10 monkey humpers
15 LBC’s
20 copperhead squats
Corner 2 – x2
Corner 3 – x3
Corner 4 – x4
The field trip consisted of a 2.75 mile loop, 1st to the corner circle back for the 6, and relaunch as a PAX after completing exercises at corner.
COT
Moleskin
Knowing the plan to run the streets around the AO YHC was surprised/concerned to see Bullseye had launched early for extra credit. Being the stud Bullseye is he had no issue adding extra miles to his morning.
Doozy, Tobit & Mouse Trap led the pax between corners. They were so fast on the downhill portion YHC thought we lost them. Never fear though, they reappeared from behind at corner 2.
DK and Bullseye had a nice conversation about the YMCA and cool stuff that’s going on with the kids. YHC listened, couldn’t breathe, and was very thankful one child just graduated college and 1 is halfway through. Lookout guys, time flies!
Nancy Lopez & Wilson did not share the same enthusiasm about the run as Tobit & Doozy. I can certainly appreciate that, but will add Nancy took off from corner 3 like he was shot out of a cannon and led the pax for quite a while and finished strong. Wilson says he’s not a “runner” but can kick into any gear necessary and closed out the run in super strong fashion. I think I heard him say “I can’t wait to do the BRR again”? Maybe not though.
Anyhow, strong closeout speed from Wilson & DK at the end was impressive.
If anyone has a good story on how Tobit became Tobit please let him know. The more grandiose the story the better!
Great work men!
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Just Another Day
5 strong roll out for another fantastic sunny and 70 day
Up the roller coaster in 23 minutes back in 22. As simple as that!
Moleskin
Bullseye was on fire today, disappeared out of sight on the way up the hill and caught YHC with a mile to go on the way back. Gumbo did as Gumbo does and powered through, Rosie effortlessly jogs by with easy chatter at the end of 5.19 and Doozy brought up the 6 with the support of Bullseye. Did I mention he was on fire! Strong running today men, YHC was out of gas but you guys are Rockstars!
Peace
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Playing It Cool
Five strong mosey into a brisk & breezy gloom
The Thang
Mosey down to bottom parking lot
COP –
10x SSH
10x Abe Vigoda’s
10x Imperial Walkers
10x LBC
10x Slow bending squat
Mosey to the bottom of the hill
Play it Cool
Chair sit when you see a car
Millennial
10x 100 ct exercise – 100M jog
Once 1st member of the PAX complete exercise all run 100M
(cannot be same person each time)
SSH
LBC
Lunges
Hillbillies
Jump Squats
Arm Circles
Merkins (2X50)
Flutter Kicks
Copperhead Squat
Burpees (200 total)
Mosey up steps to bleachers
Racoon Crawl
Across bleachers and back
Tracers – Group Style, all lines touched – several times
Howling Monkeys
3 rounds
Mosey back
COT
Moleskin
Great fun this morning, the PAX was “playing it cool”!
The Millennial was a first for YHC. 100 reps of an exercise, 100M jog, 10 times was going to be a challenge, I wasn’t sure we would be able to finish. I was WRONG! The PAX crushed it.
Lesson’s learned:
Not only does Mr. Roper have freakish SSH skills he is also now registered as the world’s fastest Racoon Crawler.
Orange Crush has mad stretching skills, especially when YHC prematurely ends the beatdown.
Bullseye learned that sometimes it is helpful to wear long pants.
Rosie was well, Rosie….
Great work men!
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Linens, Silk, Fruit & Flowers
6 strong moseyed into the gloom.
The Thang
Mosey to the front of the school
COP
20 x SSH
20x Helicopter
20x Cherry Pickers
20x Copperhead Squats
1 burpee for each incorrect answer to the question (5). What gift do you give for a 4th Anniversary?
Mosey to the track
Lindsay w/ loop around parking lot
30 dips/10 press ups
25/15
20/20
15/25
10/30
1 burpee for each incorrect answer to the question (3). What gift do you give for a 4th Anniversary?
Partners run track in opposite direction tag and reverse direction 4X
Mosey to steps
1 burpee for each incorrect answer to the question (8). What gift do you give for a 4th Anniversary?
Triple Nickle
Run the stairs next to the bleachers at the top 5 Monkey Humpers, at the bottom 5 Copperhead squats, rinse and repeat 5X
Partner Run
Partners run track in opposite direction tag and reverse direction 2X
Mosey to parking lot
Modified King of Hearts
To the nose of each bus
Regular suicide
Defensive Slides
COT
Moleskin
Today was the 4th anniversary of the Source of Truth. YHC had the privilege of leading the workout then and again today. Ironically both beatdowns occurred on snowy mornings. Looking back at the SOT launch most of the Pax are still regulars. Shout out to Bleeder, Wedding Singer, THE Yankee Aggressor & Wilson.
Admittedly, YHC was a little nervous to Q my first bootcamp in 2 years. A new but experienced cast of characters made the Q enjoyable and the Pax pushes the tempo beyond anything I could have expected 4 years ago.
Doozy was flying, Gumbo & Kubota possess amazing defensive slid step speed, Bullseye was his typical beastly self and the fair weathered Mr. Roper showed on an icy morning and provided the most creative answers to the Q’s question for the day. He may have wanted a few extra burpees and we all got them.
Great work men, enjoyed it!
Peace
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Captain Crunch
Two strong shuffled into the river run winter wonderland, a stark contrast to YHC abode or Bullseye’s retreat 2 miles east.
The mosey goes something like this…
Carefully mosey onto James River Rd, Right on Riverton Ridge, Left on Welby, Right on Sherfield, Left on Ashwell around the big loop, right on Edmonton and back to base.
Bullseye led the way and continually reminded YHC that running on the white stuff is a lot safer than trying to run anywhere else. It was nice to find out the Bullseye and YHC have quite a few mutual friends, I guess that happens when you live in the same area long enough.
Good times!
Lug
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Partner Run – A day late…or two
2 strong waited in the car witnessing torrential downpours and sharp lightning strikes. As 5:30 approaches we step out of the cars, the rain stops and YHC gives the command and we’re off.
Loop around the school, right on Riverton Ridge, right on Welby, left on Edmonton, left on Ashwell down and around the long loop and back for a solid 4 miles.
Fun run with EF Hutton as he knocks another AO off of his summer tour. Being the kind gentleman that Hutton is he offered to run with YHC. YHC, never being the fastest member of the PAX sets the mission to run fast enough that he can’t walk beside me, mission accomplished…for the most part. Only saw one wild animal and chatted about a lot of good stuff along the way. Fun run, great way to kick off a week!
Peace