Author: Rosie

  • Is that the hill?

    2 RiverRun regulars and a SOJ regular hit the hills of Tarrington.  Shakedown has been out to RiverRun once before but didn’t recall much about the route.  He had the joy of the TwinTeam to SOT leg in the CSAUP so we decided to reverse it today and let him go down the hill.  YHC and Gumbo warned Shakedown of the climb up Ashwell, as we approached the roundabout he asked “Is this the hill?”  Yes and no, yes it’s the start but at that point you could only see about one-third of the fun to climb.

    An inordinate amount of traffic this morning.  Shakedown believes it’s gym traffic, non-F3ers realizing it’s getting warmer and summer is quickly approaching.  A nice easy run of 5 miles together into Tarrington,  up the hill and around the school to finish.  Bonus, there is a group of tires, large and small, behind JRHS.  That may be something a future Q at TwinTeam could utilize.

    Good run this morning guys, great weather to be out on the roads.

    Announcements:

    Golf tournament – See Wilson

    St. Baldrick’s fundrasier – Shakedown with more info

    Sugar Sock VQ at NoToll tomorrow.

  • 100 days

    10 winter warriors escaped the fartsack this morning for yet another chilly beatdown at NoToll.  We are now 100 days into 2018 and winter still has a grip on the weather, causing the PAX to keep their winter gear out of the attic for now.  Theme of the day – 100

    THANG

    Mosey to the parking lot for a warmup of SSH, DQ, Helicopters, IW and LBC.

    Mosey to soccer field 1 for 4 corners – 25 merkins at the start, and 25 merkins at each corner around the field; Round 2 – 20 2-ct Flutter Kicks at each corner, repeat the first corner

    Mosey over to the pavilion for Dora 100s.  P1 runs across the field, P2 completes 100 Makhtar N’Diayes, 100 dips, 100 Monkey Humpers

    Field on the other side of the pavilion for a jump squat ladder – 1 Jump Squat, run across the field, 2 JS continue up to 10 and back down to 1.  LBCs on the soft grass for the six – Once the 6 comes in 50 LBC IC (100 total)

    Mosey back to the basketball courts – partner up.  P1 donkey kicks to 100, P2 run across the courts

    Ring of Fire – 10 merkins, Mary – Freddie Mercuries, American Hammer, APD; 10 merkins each OYO

    NMM

    Excellent work today.  First, thanks to Gumbo for relinquishing the Q for today.  He had some last minute business travel and since the Q sheet for NoToll is always full YHC was happy to take over.  We started with 8 but had a nice even 10 by the end of COP, things aligned well for the 100th day of 2018.  Many ways to get to 100 and we didn’t even get to all of them.

    The self proclaimed Luddite of the group, Roscoe, asked for IT help to sign him up for the Q at SOT tomorrow.  DK, our resident SOJ IT manager, is unable to fix Roscoe’s issues so we are reduced to adding his name to the Q sheet whenever he asks.  Roscoe, if you are able to find your way to an internet cafe, you have the Q tomorrow.

    Great to see Posh back out and Flange becoming another NoToll regular.  Hopefully the warmer weather is on the way and we’ll be able to put the long sleeves away soon.  CSAUP is approaching, final preparations and tapering are in effect.

    Announcements:

    Prayers for Lab Rat and his father. Flashdance and his uncle.  Marmaduke should be adding a member to his family tomorrow.  His M helped him set his “priorities” straight and don’t think we’ll seem him for a little while.

    Thanks for the opportunity to lead this group of strong men this morning.  Have a wonderful day.

  • Dress for the weather

    3 SOJ posted on a cool April morning with some snow lingering on the ground and vehicles.  Flatline joined the regulars to get a few miles under our belts less than a week before the CSAUP.  Straight up the Woolridge hill into the wind and into Midlothian, take Salisbury Road onto the dirt road and into Salisbury.  Small loop up to Winterfield and back to Charter Colony and the VSF.

    Only 3 PAX the attire was varied with Flatline going short sleeves and Honeymoon going full winter jacket,  YHC split the middle with sleeves but sans jacket.  Flatline wasn’t digging the early wind but Honeymoon admitted the jacket was overkill by the end.  Great 2nd F with expensive refills at Urban Farmhouse.  CSAUP talk dominated, SOJ is ready to rock and roll!

  • Timberwolf Trio

    Sitting solo in the 37 degree parking lot YHC was considering which route to take for some miles when Mr. Roper and his crocs rolled in with Tobit not far behind.  Now that there were 3 PAX and no one on the Q sheet, YHC took the lead and we were off.

    THANG

    Mosey around the back of the school and to the bus loop for the standard warm up of DQ, Helicopters, SSH, IW, Merkins and LBC.

    Mosey to the entrance for light pole 11’s – exercises suggested by Mr. Roper and Tobit were vetoed and the 11’s were merkins and 4 count Freddie Mercuries.  Mosey around the bus loop and include the light poles that are out too.  Note:  There are more than 10 light poles in the loop.

    Mosey to the front of the school for a door tour.  Each door is conveniently numbered for our use do the door number of exercises as you pass them  Exercises included – Doors 1-8 burpees, Doors 9-16 Squats, Doors 16-23 2-ct flutter kicks.

    Four Corners in the parking lot  Corner 1 – 1 burpee, Corner 2 – 2 jump squats, Corner 3 – 3 Heels to Heaven, Corner 4 – 4 4-ct arm circles (for Mr. Roper), keep increasing the count – 5 burpees, 6 jump squats…around 3 times total.  Plankarama with some alternating shoulder taps and Peter Parkers, Dollies, 1-leg APD, American Hammers.

    At the light poles back to the flag alternate between 2 burpees and 5 HR merkins.  Tobit calls Rosalitas and Mr. Roper calls SSH to finish it off.

    Numbers/Names/ Tobit took us out

    Announcements

    Healing Place – last Saturday, looking for a couple people to run 6ish miles with the group.  See Shakedown and/or Upchuck.

    CSAUP is a week away.  Find someone and ask if you need to know more.

    NMM

    Mr. Roper was exhausted after his VQ at NoToll, this was apparent since everytime YHC asked him for an exercise he suggested Arm Circles.  We finally included them with the 4 corners just for him.  Mr. Roper promised to stay consistent with his Q frequency so we should look for the next one in another 22 months.  I think he would do more if Viral would write his backblast every time.  Tobit also expressed an interested in taking the Q more often so hopefully we can be on the lookout for that again soon.

    The numbered doors add plenty of fun but is was especially exhausting when we found doors 7 and 8 are right next to each other with no break.  I had read in a few back blasts that the light poles had been used for various stopping points but was unable to fully appreciate the well lit parking lots until YHC called them up this morning.  Discussions of egg salad and pimento cheese sandwiches on white bread and EF Hutton’s expected Masters tribute dominated the post workout discussion.

    Jville is on the Q sheet for TwinTeam tomorrow – come one, come all and join the fun.

  • Easter Fools

    The Easter Bunny hit a couple SOJ houses a day early due to travel plans so two runners hit the streets of OTB to get some early miles in. A loop through the Grove, Mines and Village and 5+ miles.  Honeymoon, after nursing a sore calf for a few weeks was back close to full strength and hitting a good pace through the last half of the run.  Both of us were hitting the road later in the morning but had enough time before the families arose to get a few miles in.

    Hope everyone had a Happy Easter with their families.

     

  • OTB trio

    A group of 3 set out on the normal OTB route through the Grove, Midlothian Mines park and into the Village.  Honeymoon and Longhorn turned back at about 4 with some early morning obligations and YHC kept on to get a few more through Salisbury.

    No post run 2nd F this week but plenty of discussion about the upcoming CSAUP during the run.  Thanks to Honeymoon and Longhorn for meeting me out there.

  • Tour de Dogpile

    30ish F3RVA men braved the sunny and 70 weather with 20 mph winds to what they thought would be a Sippy Cup Q but got Rosie instead.  Flag planted deep to stay upright in the wind,  a few requests to start early to get out of the wind ignored,  clock hit 0600 and we were off.   

    Mosey toward the second circle but turn into the field when some construction flags were seen in the circle.   Warm up with SSH, DQ, Hillbillies, add the Jville hop, merkins, LBC and flutter kicks.   Continue to the second circle for the Golden Triangle.  Bear creek, 10 merkins, run, 20 jump squats,  backward run,  30 box cutters.   Round 2 – bear crawl,  10 burpees, run, 20 monkey humpers, backward run,  30 2 count Freddie mercuries.  

    Mosey to the RustyCage, can’t miss a chance to stop here.   Hardywood was headed to the trail,  always 1 step ahead.   Partner up 3 rounds of 5 pull ups, 10 WWII, 5 jerkins.  Plankarama (lost an FNG here)

    Now there’s enough light to head down the trail.   Run down to the pump road,  find a new partner.   100s for our brother crushing 100 miles today.  100 merkins, 100 jump squats,  100 old man V-ups (crunchy frogs), partner runs the pipe loop.

    Mosey over to Love Hill (lost Upchuck), new partner.  P1 runs halfway up P2 goes up with lunges, polar bears, and broad jump burpees.  Mosey up the hill to the field by the parking lot for Mary to close it out.

    NMM

    First off Tclaps to Hitchhiker,  that’s 2 weeks in a row he’s posted with 3 FNGs.  Great work on the EH, somebody buy that man some coffee because coffee is for closers.  Loose Goose brought an FNG but he didn’t make it past the Rusty Cage, I didn’t get the full story, merlot spill? Loose Goose is planning to have him out again soon.  Seymour crushed some pull ups and jerkins today.  Welcome back to Aisle 5 and his 2.0 Dirty Rice with his second post.  Sippy asked YHC to switch the Q with him next week so he child stay home with the kids while his wife helped her mother.  Luckily YHC had a late change of plans and got to stay in town for Dogpile.  YHC had planned too hit the pipe loop since we only have one more week before daylight savings puts us back in the dark for a while.  Hardywood tried to go straight down the trail but we can’t skip the Cage,  or at least YHC can’t.    Always a pleasure to lead this group but a large group at Dogpile is especially fun.

     

  • Welcome to TwinTeam

    3 strong posted for a windy morning at Twin Team and spent some time on the hill.  Winklevoss and YHC exited the cars thinking it was just the two of us when Mr. Holland rolled in right on time.  A lap around the parking lot to collect him and we were off.

    THANG

    Head out of the parking lot and up the sidewalk over to TwinTeam.  Stop in the cul-de-sac for a warm up of SSH, DQ, Copperhead squats, Merkins and Flutter kicks.  Mosey up the road to the third driveway for instructions.

    Jacobs Ladder – run 10 strides uphill, 1 burpee, run back to the mailbox for 10 merkins and 10 boxcutters; run 20 strides, 2 burpees and run back for 10 merkins and 10 boxcutters; repeato up to 70/7.  Run the final 70 strides with Winklevoss but don’t return to the start.  Mary – APD, LBC

    Mosey halfway up the hill – Stop for clock merkins 5 each at 12, 3, 6, 7, 9 and 12.  Mosey the rest of the way to the top of the hill – Mary – American Hammers, Dollies

    Descending ladder – 10 strides downhill, 7 burpees; 20 strides, 6 burpees…down to 70 and 1.  That took us almost to the bottom – continue mosey to the cul-de-sac.  Peter Parkers, Cross leg lifts, Heels to Heaven.  Mosey back to the flag with some time for Hillbillies, Hand release merkins, crunchy frogs and Freddie Mercuries.

    NMM

    After being out of town, moving, and taking a break from F3, Winklevoss has come back strong with at least 3 posts this week.  Great work today and we should plan to see more of him SOJ.  When it was briefly just YHC and Winklevoss the plan was to mosey around the AO and get some exploring done.  Once Mr. Holland arrived plans quickly changed to introduce the two of them to TwinTeam.  Mr. Holland attacked the Twin Team hill and crushed the ladders up and down.  That hill has been known to destroy the dreams of many, especially when you throw some burpees into the ascent.

    Great way to start the morning men.

    Announcements –

    CSAUP – still looking for a few good SOJ men to round out the 2 teams.  Also looking for people to set up for the post-CSAUP party.  Non runners contact Lockjaw, TYA, Honeydo or YHC to help out.

    TYA is running 100 miles this weekend, we all know he’s going to crush it and he’s got the men of F3 to support him.  Swirly is in charge of social media updates so be on the lookout for the fax.  I don’t know if Saab is going to be allowed to drive the RV but with these winds I might be more concerned about the drive than the run.

  • Missed Text

    YHC missed an early morning bailout text canceling the other half of the planned participation in the Off The Books run.  YHC showed up early anyway with a new route option in mind.  The new route took me into Salisbury and some old haunting grounds.  Looking forward to showing that one off soon.

    OTB will be on most weekends leading up to the CSAUP for those SOJ or anyone that wants to get started earlier.  Check with YHC or Honeymoon to verify.

    Have a great week.

  • Mega Beast

    YHC was joined by 2 powerful men to greet this warm February morning.  Honeymoon was promised some mileage if he posted at TwinTeam instead of RAMM so off we went, need to get those CSAUP miles in.

    Mosey across the wet field to the front of the track entrance.  Stop for a quick warm-up, YHC tried Shakedown’s method of just starting cadence without naming the exercise and Gumbo nailed SSH to start, not much mystery there.  Add some DQ and IW

    To the track for the Mega Beast – run 100 yds – 6 reps, another 100 – 6 reps, another 100 6 reps, run final 100 to the start then reverse.  Just like the beast but with 100 yd runs instead of 25 yds. 1/2 mile per round.  Exercises were merkins, squats, Freddie Mercury, Mountain climbers, Carolina dry docks and cross leg lift (alternate legs).   A little time left to mosey around to the playground and complete one standard round of the Murph – 10 pullups, 20 merkins, 30 squats.  Mosey the long way around the school with a bonus lap around the cars to round off the 4 total miles.

    NMM

    Great to be joined by Honeymoon and Gumbo this morning.  They crushed the mileage, and as Gumbo mentioned as we finished up, that’s a new version of 5K the Hard Way (minus the last 0.1 mile).  To go along with The Carpenter’s Chinese Year of the Dog theme at The Creek today, Honeymoon nicknamed this one the Super Bitch.  I don’t know when the last time I got 4 miles at a boot camp was, possibly an Old Glory?  Unfortunately some weather related EH’s didn’t pan out but hopefully this taste of warm weather will open up the EHing and hibernators.  We thought we had a rogue short bus driver joining us since he parked awkwardly behind Gumbo but he stayed in the bus as we left the parking lot.  Maybe another day.

    I always appreciate the opportunity to get out and lead, along with the opportunities we are all given each day to enjoy our family and friends.

    Have a great day.  Everything is coming up Rosie.