Author: Whitesnake

  • If you’re in the mood for an early run on Saturday’s, I have just the place for you. Richmond’s new hot club is…

    BRUNCH!

    Club promoter Gay Liotta is back, and this time he’s… gone… crazy. This place has everything. Full moons, key fobs, pretending your car is secure, and the debut of DJ Whitespace.

    Located in the clogged heart of the Broad Street. This gang ridden coffee spot was the ceremony spot for Pigskins 1982 wedding. This place has everything. Peeps, ted talks, someone complaining about his shoes, Kain road, Kane from WWE and Senator Kaine, all holding hands. And be sure to hit the dance floor and do a jig with COVID’s hottest hyped up Polly Pocket dancers.

    Pax: Wait. What’s that?

    It’s that thing when Polly runs into Starbucks to get a shot of expresso to help his run.  And before you get to Grid Iron for some white lines, you can party with a broken almost pregnant Ukrainian Lighthouse.  And before you ask, it’s that thing of when Lighthouse is almost late and does not have a light.

    After getting crazy high on cocaine at Grid Iron, Brunch Club travels back down Pouncey Track to see and hear the other Pax play with their horns, do some Frogger, hear more hit tunes from Whitespace and prove the answer to the Gridiron pax question “You’re running back to Starbucks?!?” is “Yes!” unless you jumped in a car filled with Johnson’s.

  • Curra-what?

    With some perfect weather, five men did the Reverse Loreine while two did the Godwin circle merkdip. Maybe next time we can do the reverse merkloreinedip.

    Prayers for Attila and his family and for Pigskin and Bluemoon to feel better soon.

    Everyone should go clubbing tomorrow: breakfast or brunch. Whitespace will be there.

  • Sold out!

    Eight great men came to the big sale and the free 20 minutes of bootcamp was the clear promotion winner. 7 ran off to short pump park while Pigskin did his Pocahontas workout solo. The lucky seven did some warmups of DQ, Helicopters, Moroccans & Ukranian Soldiers and then did elevens of dips and merkins and ran the park circle for about a mile total.

    The lucky seven eventually found a street in the Village and did some Bear Crawls one way and WWIIs the other and ran back to find Pigskin. Total mileage of 3.4.

    Pigskin was feeling better today and ran around Pocahontas for 45 minutes and stopped for merkins and dips. Basically, we all ran in circles and did merkins and dips.

    We all joined together for a minute of Freddie Mercuries.

    Announcements:

    Brunch Club run this Sat at 6:30 before Gridiron at the Starbucks across from the mall. Frozen Triangle 1/21. Amazon merchandise sorting and loading/unloading MLK day. Happy Hour tonight with the Daville crew. See Slack for all the details of these and more.

    Great turnout today and thankful I got to lead a little.

  • Two runners and a Pigskin

    Two runners got in 4.2 miles, 55 hand release merkins, 55 squats, 30 dips, 30 step ups and some thorns while Pigskin did 200 merkins and 200 dips with some walking. Where were you?

  • Bla-brocode-ck Friday

    Five of the best from the far west end met to work off some of yesterday’s overeating. EF Hutton and Pigskin did a walk with 200 merkins (made 10 stops with 20 at each) while Lighthouse, Johnsonville and Whitesnake did the regular brocode route (Pump to Church to Copperass to Ridgefield to Pump). Whitesnake and Lighthouse joined Hutton and Pigskin for the final 40 merkins while Johnsonville ended up 25 pounds lighter after his run.

    Pigskin took us out. Good luck to Johnsonville and other on the loops today!

  • White Deer’s Detachable Penis

    White Deer agreed to lead the 2022 Thanksgiving Kettle Bell “Convergence” as long as I wrote it up. Conversations included bulging and detachable body parts, slow firing neurons, not missing Attila’s gas and Johnsonville reminiscing of the early days of this AO.

    Since White Deer thinks Slack is only something he does not give to anyone, I will mostly make up the rest since he will never read this (but he will still tell me I did it wrong).

    Warmups included White Deer SSH (moving one leg at a time), arm circles, APDs, DQ and probably something else.

    We then did a Beast that included Curls, Overhead presses, Overhead Triceps, Sit and Presses, High Pulls and Squats (not in that order).

    Runners then did 2 laps of the circle and walkers walked less.

    We ended with 20 reps of Curb Pulls and then Floor Presses and then repeat.

    White Deer led us in a round of thanks. I’m thankful for anyone who got his far in my write-up.

  • Whoa, take ‘er easy there, pilgrim

    The morning started off with Offshore being so excited for his FNG (Yoda) to show up that he locked his keys in his car. And it ended with him racing off in Pinto’s car which surprisingly outran my CRV.

    In between, a stretching Pigskin sensed the following:

    A 3 mile run interrupted by warmups of Helicopters, cherry pickers, imperial walkers, dolly’s, suzanne somers. Then we did P.I.L.G.R.I.M.S. in between runs:

    P: 16 Plank jacks

    I: 21 Iron Mike

    L: 16 Lt. Dans (1 squat, 4 (2 count) lunges)

    G: 21 Groiners

    R: 16 Reverse Crunches

    I: 21 Imperial Squat Walkers

    M: 16 Merkins

    S: 21 Singlet Merkins (stopped early due to time, not because I could not do anymore …)

    My counting today was poor and only my instructions were worse. But the 6 runners did great and hopefully Pigskin’s stretching gives him some comfort today.

    Our FNG, now known as Yoda, was the Rev. Hung Su Lim. He is a Star Wars fan and a preacher so Yoda fit. He toughed it out today and hope we get to see him again soon. Offshore brought him out and he also knows Gomer who we theorized had too much to drink at Hardywood last night to come to WTH.

    Prayers for all who travel and for those with nowhere to go. Have a great Thanksgiving and either join a Mary Munford bootcamp crew at 6 or a White Deer led Kettlebell crew at 5:30. Or try to double-dip if looking to improve your 2022 data count.

  • What do you mean this is a run focused Bootcamp?

    If one were to check F3RVA.Org and the WaThoHuk workout, you would see “Run focused Bootcamp”. However, rumor has it that if you check from somewhere deep in Goochland, it says otherwise.

    Thanks to the deceit of the innerwebs, Tater made a special appearance. Despite the option to join a sore Pigskin to do some burpees and light running at the site of the AO, Tater instead joined the running crew through the fog. According to the bacon smell from Whole Foods, this is what happened:

    Ran to the West Broad Village playground for warmups of SSH, IW, Ukrainian Soldiers, Freddies & LBCs. Continue running to the end of the village and the new row houses with the great view of the 64 exit ramp. At that parking lot, we did 5 circuits of lunges (~ 20 yards), 20 squats and 10 merkins. Ran to the diamond store and took on some Captain Thor’s. It is a Jack Webb starting with one WWII followed by four American Hammers. Worked our way to ten WWIIs and forty American Hammer. Took some breaks in the middle to stretch our backs. This set of exercises started with Tater saying something like “I’m going to steal this for Gridiron” and ended with all of us saying something like “never again” and “I hate Whitesnake”.

    We then ran back to the flag. Only hit 2.8 miles total. Taking on the best Marvel has to offer comes with consequences.

  • We have to go back

    Ten beautiful men tried to recreate Honeydo and Whitesnake’s Lost route from a couple months back. Most were scared off by the smoke monster and did Prescott/Ridgefield into the Rolfield subdivision to John Rolfe and then took Gayton all the way to Pump and then back to Godwin. Blue Moon and I ventured into the Gayton Glen subdivision off John Rolfe (the scene of the crime), left onto Timberly Waye, right on Ryandale down to the Steward School and then left on Gayton, left on Pump. We avoided any hostiles & polar bears and survived. 4-5.1 miles were run depending on the route. I think all ten made it back . . .

  • Spandex Nation

    9 headbangers came to Circus Magazine’s inaugural kettlebell workout. According to the groupies, the setlist went something like this:

    Animal, Def Leppard: warmups of SSH, Arm Circles, Helicopters, Crunchy Frogs

    Nothin’ But A Good Time, Poison: Walk to the courtyard and do some curls for the girls until the song ends

    Dr. Feelgood, Motley Crue: Rotate through 10 Goblet Squats, 10 Guitar Strums, 10 merkins until the song ends

    Dude Looks Like a Lady, Aerosmith: 10 Curtsey lunges with bell, 10 Swingers, 10 Jazzercise (no bell) each side through the song

    Lick it up, KISS: 10 Lawn Mowers each arm, 10 Goblet Squats, 10 Dips (no bell) through the song

    Run to the Hills, Iron Maiden: Step Ups with Bell, run to the hills and back during the chorus and repeat

    Still of the Night, Whitesnake: 10 two count hammers with bell, 10 Headbangers (skull crushers), 10 Tawny Kitean Prom Dates

    Hells Bells, AC DC: 10 Bench Press, 10 Sit and press, 10 WWII (no bell)

    The Final Countdown, Europe: Partner up. One does Burpees while the other does a courtyard lap and switch

    Here I Go Again, Whitesnake: Walk back to the flag, on six for ~two minutes of 6 inches and then reverse crunches

    Lots of mumble chatter about wives and girlfriends and girlfriends of wives. This great music brings it out. That and bad gas. Great to see Handshake and EF Hutton join the fan club. A famous rock star once said: “It’s such a fine line between stupid, and uh…clever”. Not sure which side of the line this workout was on but hope it was fun.