Author: Jimmy Benson

A great day to get out for a little window shopping and Christmas inspiration for those who may be lacking in preparation for upcoming holiday. 6 gathered to get the day started right.

The Thang

Mosey over to shopping center at Three Chopt and Pump, circle up for Side Straddle Hops, Don Q’s, & LBC mosey up center to Steinmart for a triple check. Merkins and WW2s while pacer ran to end of lot and back. Giddy up towards Target. With holiday ad inspiration of cars with bows all over the place decided we should make a quick stop at Nissan dealership for 10 burpees. Continued on to Target as no Christmas shopping should miss target. Another Triple check, Squats and reverse crunches while pacer runs, mosey to Best Buy for our electronic toys. Circle up 10 merkins, 10 WW2s, 10 Side Straddle Hops and time to get rolling back to flag. A quick game of Frogger across Broad Street for a surprisingly busy morning at 6 am, all survived. 3 different levels of risk tolerance displayed as the group crossed in 3 different groups. Mosey back to flag and wrapped up right on time. 3.4 miles covered this morning. Closed in prayer and thankful for another day to head out into the world!

3 met in the gloom to sweat out as much water as we could. A small but faithful group for WTH pushed on in the quest for our summer beach bodies and preparations of Pumpkin everything coming our way.

The thang:

Mosey to Short pump park, warm up with Dead man hang, Russian soldiers, Don Q’s, Merkins, LBC’s and we are off. Head up to Broad street and east over to West Broad Village, stop at Nissan dealer ship to admire some vehicles while doing 20 merkins and 20 WW2’s. Continue to Trader Joes parking lot for some 4 corners fun. First set was 5, 10, 15, 20 Jump squats, 2nd set was hand release merkins, 3rd set was Freddy mercuries 10, 15, 20, 25 – 2 counts. Mosey into the town homes of West Broad Village. First street Lunge walk @100 yards turn and Bernie to end of road, run to next street. 10 merkins, sprint to end of road, 10 more merkins, run to next block, 10 reverse crunches, sprint to end of block, 10 more reverse crunches. run east toward pond and then back up to main road and back to flag by way of Three Chopt. 1 long loop around parking lot, circle up 30 LBCs in cadence, plank up 1 min, right hand up 30 seconds, left hand 30 seconds, recover. 3.2 miles run and 10 gallons of sweat scattered around the path we made.

When two or more are gathered the show goes on. Two lone warriors headed off as the sun started to break into the sky on a beautiful morning for a workout.

Here’s how it went down:

South on John Rolfe PKY, 1 mile and

25 Merkins, 25 LBCs, 25 – 3 count Side straddle hops

Right turn and roll west on Church Rd, 1 mile and

25 Merkins, 25 LBCs, 25 – 3 count Side straddle hops

Right turn and roll North on Glen Gary Rd, saw what appeared to be a fox come onto road ahead and took one look at Homer charging down at him and made its way back to cover, hard to tell what it said on its way into the trees. 1 mile and

25 Merkins, 25 LBCs, 25 – 3 count Side straddle hops

Right turn and roll east on Three Chopt, north up Pump a bit to Park cut through and back to flag at Pocahontas Rd, 1.17 miles and

25 Merkins, 25 LBCs, 25 – 3 count Side straddle hops

Thats a wrap: 4.17 miles covered at a nice pace and worked some muscles along the way. Pinto closed in prayer.

Two faithful showed on a beautiful spring morning to put in the work.

Clock struck 5:30 and we were off, mosey to a familiar neighborhood by way of West broad village lake path for a Cul-de-sac workout/run.

First Cul-De-Sac 20 Merkin, Next 20 WWII, Next 10 Burpees, Next 20 reverse crunches. Repeato : completed 3 sets of these including a route back around the lake and back to the flag. 3 loops around the bus loop and a final burst of old man speed to the end of lots and back to flag. 4.43 miles completed and strong workout complete.

Mumble chatter contemplated the methods and ways of vaccine distribution, spread of virus and questions of Big Brother conspiracy.

QIC took us out. Two or more gathered in his name….

Into the frozen gloom, 5 met up to burn off the fat. All were happy to see Gypsy back in the Pax for the start of the clawing back to machine condition.

The Thang,

Mosey west down Three Chopt, North on John Rolfe to the cut through to the Park. Circle up for a quick COP

10 SSH, 11 Don Qu’s, 10 LBC’s, 10 Merkins lets roll

zig zag over to the Lake at Wellesley circle up for a custom Ring of Fire:

first person starts with 20 Merkins rest of pax does LBC’s, moves to next until all 5 have completed Merkins, then start over with pax doing American Hammers, repeato Burpees and cool down with WW2s. Each person completing 80 merkins and many of the others. Up and roll out, times a wasting and miles to cover. ran up towards Broad street and made our way through parking lots dreaming about stopping for bagels, donuts, biscuits and parking our 6s in some Lazy boys. Passed an unfriendly fella who didn’t return the Good Morning. Continues the run back to the flag to completed 3.73 miles of distance. 10 punitive Burpees for Mr Grumpy’s silence, circle-rama. Announcements, prayer concerns: several mentions of those with health concerns, recent passing and eminent deaths. God speed and grace to those in need(all of us). Pinto closed us outbin prayer.

PS Kudos to Gypsy for finishing the run with the group. I would have had to take an uber back after the first mile

Here is how it went down

COP: 10 side straddle hop 10 DQs, 10 storm squats. 

Mosey to short  Pump park circle up, 20 hand release merkins, Circle the island doing butt kickers, circle again karaoke,  3rd time Bernie Sanders, back to start 20 burpees. 

Head back out on the street up the broad and over to trader Joe shopping centre. 50 LBC’s, GP equipment failure reset then Mosey back to flag,

Mosey over to the track for intervals, Sprint halfway, 20 count rest Sprint half again, repeato 3 times, 50 LBCs, Bernie half lap, bear crawl quarter lap, recover, jog one final lap and head back to flag. 20 hand release merkins, 30 2 count freddy Mercury’s, 20 rosalitas, thats a wrap. 3.4 miles of dark ground covered.