Up and down the same stupid hill. Post a comment if you want credit.
Author: Splinter
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We Didn’t Share Towels
Shark week happened. TYA and Bleeder tried to pull one over on everyone but 16 or so regulars showed up anyway. Post a comment in Slack if you were there and care about the point and I’ll add your name.
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Double Turds
Eight Danny Noonan wannabees huddled in the normal gathering spot while the Q meandered around prior to launch. After all preparations were made, YHC walked up which immediately shut down mumblechatter. Wait three minutes to see if little blue would show up and then off we went for traveling COP.
COP
- Mosey to the end of the triangle for invisible jumprope x20
- Mosey to the next road for helicopters x10
- Mosey to the next road for suzanne somers x10
- Mosey to the next road for copperhead squats x15
- Mosey to the bottom of the hill for mountain climbers x10 and LBCs x20
The Thang
We tried a new creation today. Leap Frog. It needed some modification as we worked through it but YHC believes it was a success. Organize into groups of three. One partner runs up the hill 20 seconds, stops, and starts to do merkins. Second partner runs past the first partner 20 seconds. When your partner passes you, switch exercises from merkins, to jump squats, to WWIIs. Trailing partner does 10 WWIIs and then runs up past the first partner in leap frog fashion. It worked, hard to describe, but it worked. We went all the way from the bottom of the hill to the light.
Short mosey over to the parking lot for curb crawls, 1-5.
Another short mosey to the triangle park for a skills based challenge. Pax was 20 feet away from a 10 foot circle. Cycling through the PAX we had to try to chip a ball in the circle. In the circle, 20 LBCs. Just miss the circle, 5 merkins, completely miss the circle 5 burpees. Second round we eliminated the “just miss”. We did almost all burpees. Third round was a speed round with cumulative merkins for every miss. We did 8. Fourth round we ditched the club and just tried to throw it in the circle. 7 of 9 were successful so we did 2 merkins. BTTF.
Announcements
- TYA is off to the bridge this Saturday. Ping him if you are going.
- Lots of HDHHs not on Hump Day. Next one is Tuesday at Snuff’s house. See slack for details
- Prayers for our brothers that need our assistance. Reach out a hand to provide support.
Moleskin
YHC was unsuccessful in identifying his next captain’s choice partner. Everyone complained about not cutting the grass but what YHC learned is that everyone sucked at chipping. Maybe we should try putting next time, you know… night putting. Bacon Bits and Ronnie had the biggest scares. I thought their shots were headed for the house across the street.
Appreciate the opportunity to try something new fellas. Let each of us offer strong support for those around us no matter where they need assistance. That’s what this brotherhood is for. None of us is alone in our challenges.
SYITG fellas.
Splinter out.
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The Baggie, The Hand Mask, and the Toupee
A strong twenty of the area’s finest gathered in the bowl for today’s Spider Run. Plenty of quiet suppositions prior to launch, with many questioning when there would be instructions. 0530 arrived and off we went.
Everyone head west along the lake, across the bridge, right through the (now dark) path, and huddle up at the base of University and College.
Intervals were next. All were 1 minute up hill followed by 1:45 recovery back down. First round of intervals were up University. On the third interval up we took a right on Wood and slow moseyed to Lakewood.
Continue past the PoJ and complete 3 intervals up Lakewood. On the third, continue the recovery north on Wood.
Continue on Wood to the Baldwin intersection on the left. Third round of intervals were up Wood. Apologies to the neighbors on the street as we completely took over that road. It was only 3 intervals, which is just over 8 minutes, and then we disappeared without a trace. Ok, maybe there was a trace of something left behind which stirred up the neighbors.
Slow mosey back Baldwin, through Fraternity Row, then back to the flag which Flatline so graciously planted.
Numbers, names, YHC took us out.
Announcements
- TYA is heading up The Bridge this Saturday. Contact him if you are interested in a 6am clown car.
- Prayers for Lab Rat, Swirly’s MIL, and others in our PAX who are recovering or managing life’s various challenges
This was the first interval session since winter. The common consensus was that winter is better for these shenanigans. That’s why we modified and chose different hills today. Great job to all.
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The Crossett Fit Games – Hoedown Edition
Twelve gentlemen gathered in the waning morning light at Hoedown for our tribute to Treehugger. It went something like this:
Mosey to the blacktop for COP
COP
- SSH x25
- DQ x10
- Hillbillies x15
- LBCs x20
- Scorpions x10
- Shoulder Taps x15
- Mountain Climbers x10
Mosey to the top field for The Crossett Fit Games.
- 10x Pullups
- 20x Vee Ups
- 30x Merkins
- 40yd Broad Jump Burpees
- 50yd Sprint
- .5 mile run to the corner of Forest & Lindsay and back
- Repeat 5x (we only made 4x)
Numbers, names, YHC took us out with prayer requests from the PAX.
Moleskin
Last night while contemplating today’s workout, YHC stumbled across Florence’s slack post. YHC changed plans and opted for the tribute this morning. Man was it a heck of a workout, even without wearing a 20# vest. Prayers for Treehugger and his family.
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Backblast Comments Are Now In Slack
Slack is becoming a larger part of F3RVA. In order to consolidate comments to a single platform, we are shifting all comments to slack. Comments have been disabled for all posts and WordPress.
If you need a login to Slack or need assistance with how to use Slack, please reach out to Splinter or your friendly neighbor at your local AO for more information. Anyone can grant access to new users in Slack by adding them directly into Slack.
We will trial this for a while before considering moving additional functionality to Slack in the future.
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It was a Square J Kind of Day
Sixteen (or was it seventeen?) Saturday morning thrill seekers stretched and waited for the Q to arrive before YHC grabbed the reigns and off we went to the field in front of the carrilon for:
COP
- SSH x25
- High Knees x10
- Helicopters x10
- DQ x10
- Mountain Climbers x10
- Merkins x10
- Wilson’s Wife
- Fudd’s Wife
The Thang
Since we were on the field, YHC called triple check on the field. Group into threes with exercises being merkins, freddie mercuries, while the pace car bernie sanders down and back to the last tree on the right before the gap. YHC passed to Bacon Bits
Bacon Bits had us mosey to ye old stage and grab some coupons before partnering up for Dora. Exercises were 100x overhead presses, 200x squat swings, 300x curls. Pace car ran to the third tree. This took a while then Bacon passed it to Mr Rogers.
Mr Rogers led us to the triangle for a tribute to Garbage Plate. Partner up, one person runs the triangle while the other progresses through bear crawls, lunges, polar bears, broad jump burpees. Then pass to Wilson.
Wilson led us to the amphitheater for a short triple check. Merkins, LBCs, while the pace car ran up 8 steps and returned. Plenty of name combinations shouted with the most memorable being Bacon Gas. Wilson had us mosey back to the flag before passing it back to YHC (presumably because he didn’t want to write the BB).
YHC led us through 3.5 minutes of mary including American Hammers, Rosalitas, Dollys, and LBCs before finishing promptly at 07:00.
Numbers (someone was skipped), names (no one was skipped), before YHC and then Hitchhiker took us out.
Announcements
- Shiplap’s big day is tomorrow! Keep him and his new family in your prayers.
- Prayers for our PAX who are recovering, especially Lab Rat. We are with you brother.
- As of today, commenting on backblasts on the website has been disabled. Use Slack to comment on backblasts. If you aren’t on slack, as a friend or ask me.
Moleskin
Many of the PAX were expecting a tire to be dropped off somewhere, which must have been why the Q wasn’t in attendance. Turns out the signed up Q just overslept. Make sure to ping him on Slack and let him know how much we appreciate him.
Great to be at Dogpile two weeks in a row. Going to have to make this a more regular thing… Great coffeeteria afterwards where we solved all problems IT related.
SYITG!
Splinter
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No Stars? No Likey!
Sixteen of the mightiest dudes tried to hide from Anthrax but he found us anyway. YHC wasn’t taking suggestions for routes but there was one proclaimed, which was immediately dismissed. After that was out of the way, YHC called out these routes:
Routes
- Head west, around the lake, over the gravel hill and up University
- Continue on University to a right on Ralston then quick left on University
- Continue through the driveway, down through the park to a right on Roslyn Hills
- Left on September
- 4s: Left on Melwood, left on Roslyn Hills, right into the park
- 5s: Left on Ruggles, left on Rosyln Hills, right into the park
- 6s: Right on Higginbotham, left on Running Cedar, left on Ruggles, right on Charnwood, left on Standish, left on Rosyln Hills, right on Shadow, left on Twin Team, left on Melwood, right on Rosyln Hills, right into the park
- Everyone head back via the park
Announcements
- TYA is leading The Bridge this weekend. Contact him for clown car info.
- No First Watch tomorrow. Moved to Huguenot Flatwater. Bring your own kayak.
- Retreat info has been posted on Slack. Last Saturday in September.
Moleskin
Great morning for a run. Welcome FNG Saul. Not exactly sure how we got there but there is a connection so Saul it is. Good running with you this am.
Have a great day everyone.
Splinter
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Burpee Bliss
Ten of the area’s finest gathered at the brightest AO in RVA for a return to normal Q following last week’s takeover. Briefly discuss if today is the summer solstice (it’s tomorrow) or if it is simply the longest day of the year (it’s also tomorrow), before we moseyed to the front of the school for:
COP
- 20x SSH
- 10x Helicopters
- 10x DQs
- 10x Merkins
- 5 stride bear crawl forward (to get onto the cool “grass”)
- 20x LBCs
- 10x Scorpion Kicks
The Thang
Mosey over to the rectangular parking lot for exercises everyone loved. Partner up for 4 different exercises, 3 different sets. While one partner exercises, the other runs various lengths around the quadrilateral and back. Exercises were:
- Set 1: Merkins / Lunges / WWIIs / Burpees
- Set 2: Diamond Merkins / Jump Squats / WWIs / Burpees
- Set 3: Werkins / Calf Raises / American Hammers / Burpees
Multilingual 10 count from Pigskin then off we moseyed down Lakewood to a left on Hillsdale. Stop and point our rears south and complete 20 monkey humpers in Lockjaw’s driveway.
Continue our mosey to the ‘P’ shaped lot for a modified dora. 100 CDDs, 100 Side Lunges, 200 LBCs. Collect the 6 and then back to the flag where we counted, spouted off various names, and YHC took us out.
Announcements
- First Watch is yacking this week
- TYA has the bridge this Saturday
- House Party has a VQ at Rock N Roll on Saturday
Moleskin
Marvelous morning today for Hoedown. Other than the initial rolling in the grass, we stayed dry today. Let’s hope we can keep this weather for a little longer!
SYITG!
Splinter
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I Won’t Take It Personally
Four, that’s right 4, of the highest scholars briefly complained about the cost of used cars before we realized it was 5:00am. Mosey to the northeast corner of the back parking lot for:
COP
- 20x Invisible jump ropes
- 10x Helicopters
- 15x Imperial Walkers
- 10x Shoulder Taps
- 10x Mountain Climbers
- 20x LBCs
- 10x American Hammers
The Thang
Continue our mosey northward to a left on University. About halfway down University there were a few grunts and groans but general displeasure was withheld until we reached the bottom of University for 11s. Merkins & jump squats at the bottom and top of the hill. Bro code every two sets to make sure we left no one behind.
Short mosey down Ralston stopping at Kingsbury for Splinter’s Triangle of Terror. Form a triangle at each point of the intersection. The 4th person bear crawls from station 1 to station 2 and that person continues the bear crawl to the next station. We went counter clockwise. Stations were burpees, squats, WWIIs. We did 3 complete rounds.
Catch me if you can up Kingsbury to Gaymont. 5 merkins then catch your partner who is bernieing up the hill.
South on Gaymont, stopping at the toothbrush swing for a final round of 11s. HRMs & WWIIs.
BTTVSF where we did flutters and finished with Last Call leading shavasana.
Numbers, names, various announcements, and YHC took us out.
Moleskin
There must have been some sort of convergence somewhere else that YHC didn’t know about as all but YHC + 3 of the regulars (and no visitors) were ready to launch at 0500. Excluding takeover week and ad-hoc broga sessions, this was the smallest First Watch since October. Clearly wasn’t because YHC was on the Q sheet.
We witnessed a cat fight (not the good kind) as we were traversing back on Gaymont. Discussion ensued as to whether or not a owl could attack a cat or not.
Until next time.
Splinter