Category: Richmond, VA

  • All Y’all and All Yinz

    6 hombres of the evening convened on the lucious green lawns of Lynwood Holton Elementary for today’s version of The Punisher. Temperatures again held steady at precisely 70 (and sunny). According to the kids celebrating Picture Day, the PAX launched with:

    Slow mosey through the parking loop and onto the front lawn.

    COP:

    SSHs
    IWs
    DQs
    Swirly’s Dead Man Hang (silently)
    Flutter kicks
    LBCs
    Scorpion kicks
    Upside-down Scorpion kicks
    HRMs

    Mosey to the School Wall for a Triple Check

    Balls to the Wall
    V-ups
    run to the street light

    Mosey to the front lawn for a partner suicide in 4 and a Half stages:

    Stage 1: Partner 1 bear crawls to first row of trees. Run back. Partner 2: mercans
    Stage 2: Stage 1: Partner 1 bear crawls to second row of trees. Run back. Partner 2: mercans
    Stage 3: Partner 1 lunges to third row of trees. Run back. Partner 2: WWIIs
    Stage 4: Partner 1 lunges to fourth row of trees. Run back. Partner 2: WWIIs
    Stage 5 (Half Stage): Partner 1 does 3 burpees then runs to catch Partner 2, who has been polar bearing towards the tall pole that has no power or telephone wires. Swap and repeat until reaching the tall pole that has no power or telephone wires.

    Mosey to the Side Lawn for 4 Corners, Cumulative:

    Corner 1: 20 squats or jump squats
    Corner 2: 20 squats or jump squats + 20 heals to Heaven.
    Corner 3: 20 squats or jump squats + 20 heals to Heaven + 20 rosalitas.
    Corner 4: 20 squats or jump squats + 20 heals to Heaven + 20 rosalitas + 20 burpees

    Mosey to the loading dock parking area for criss-cross 11’s. PAX can choose to run long or short side. No short siders today (push yourself; don’t hurt yourself).

    SSHs
    Hardywood’s Arm Circle on Caboose with Feet Crossed Exercise

    Mosey BTTVSF

    Numbers, names, Dial-up took us out.

    Announcements:

    Freed to Bleed coming up. Check with Boberry for details.
    BRR in September.
    Thank you to each PAX who has given their time/treasure for Breaking Bread.

    NMS:

    Rabbit joined us from Greensboro today. Looking forward to having him join us every 2 weeks. Good to have you today.

    The PAX witnessed an F3 first, at least according to Legend. The mother of a PAX member drove by to cheer on the PAX! It’s not often women driving by call out to the PAX with words of encouragement. Nicely done, Mrs. McAdams.

    Offshore couldn’t make it.

    UpChuck spits the bit.

  • Canned Soup

    Half dozen made it to last week’s Punisher. Mosey to the far eastern edge of the Laburnum Avenue-facing grassy area for warm up with an assortment of the usual.

    Relocate to the school wall. Mosey from the wall and into the school yard for 18 two-step paces and drop for one Burpee. Mosey back to the wall and complete one Donkey Kick. Continue with the same exercise on each end, decending on even pace counts 16, 14, and so on. Finish with a little Bear Crawl in place of the two step mosey at the end.

    Circle up in the nearby grass for a Jack Webb with Arm Circle chaser – the ratio – 1 Merkin : 4 Overhead Presses : 8 Arm Circles (small, you call the direction). Worked up to 10:40:80.

    Move to the pavement circle at the front of the school for a leg-focused Jack Webb routine with Squats and Side Lunges – ratio of 1:4, too.

    Return to the grass for dealer’s choice, Mary Ring of Fire. COT and YHC took us out.

  • 48

    11 of the finest athletes in all of the Tuckahoe region assembled for a workout led by birthday boy Fireman Ed.

    COP: Mosey to Bodos’ main parking lot. 10 DQs, 15 CPs, 25 FMs, 25 LBCs, and 15 ACs each way.

    E1: Polar bear across lot, 20 SSHs’ Polar bear again, 30 SSHs. Mosey to another Bodos parking lot behind church.

    E2: Elevens with HRMS and LBCs. Mosey across the street to the next parking lot.

    E3: Cumulative 4 corners with 10 burpees, 20 Heels to heaven, 30 Jump squats and 48 2 count flutter kicks. Mosey to the next parking lot.

    E4: Catch me if you can with 5 on each leg scorpion kicks, the other partner does lunges. After partner 1 catches partner two they switch. Mosey back to horseshoe (Fireman Ed had a close call with a car crossing the street. Look both ways!!!).

    E5: Finish with one minute people’s chair and 20 donkey kicks.

    Announcements:

    Bodos is going for his dissertation in May. If it all works out, he may change his name to Dr. Bodos.

    Prayers are with the Bremer family (shooting near Godwin HS) It must be difficult to lose someone so young in such a senseless manner.

    It was fun Q’ing and it was good to be back at Hoedown.

    Fireman Ed.

  • Cumulative Cul-de-sac Tour

    Warm up

    Cul-de-sac tour doing each exercise every time then adding a new one at the next cul-de-sac

    5 burpees

    10 merkins

    15 squats

    20 balldippers

    25 american hammers

    30 plank jacks

    35 mountain climbers

    40 shoulder taps

    45 freddie mercurys

    Back to the flag even though we had 5 more cul-de-sacs left. I guess time flies when you are having fun.

    Announcements:

    Boberry’s Blood Drive. Get in touch with him for details.

  • TYA for the Gold

    The plan was for ~6 mile jaunt along the access road. Somehow, that turned into 9 miles. PAX went every which way on Belle Isle, crossed T-Pot in the thunderstorm, and came back Riverside.

    It was great to have Lola back out, with his new ride. Mumblechatter was solid – we couldn’t have fit it all in with just 6 miles.

    At the end TYA pulled ahead of the PAX and left them in the dust. Not sure what that other backblast is about…. Perhaps it was a birthday boost.

  • What Did You Have to Do to Get the Nod to Come Out?

    3 regulars secured the AO-K for a Sunday Funday, afternoon edition, run to celebrate TYA’s 58th birthday. Temps were (actually) sunny and 70 (or perhaps a little higher). According to the FSB agents posing as dog walkers, here was our route, more or less:

    Hepler, Paris, Forest, University, Glendale to Ridge (left), then Ridge to Zion Town, University, and Ralston. Left on Rose Hill. Kingston, Gaymont, University, cross Ridge, and continue on University. Left on Wood to Lakewood, right on Wood, and left on Beechwood, to West Drive Circle to Lindsay and BTT VSF.

    Announcements: nada.

    NMS: Candidly, it was not our best run. Miserable. Never good. Only got worse. Perhaps an unconscious ode to TYA’s slow pace, you know, the glacial one. Perhaps it was the humidity, which was downright summer-like. That’s 4.5 miles in the books. Good chatter and good company. Lots of training to go to be ready for BRR.

    UpChuck spits the bit.

  • Mini-convergence at GridIron?

    The Spring weather brought out a whopping 18 men (1 of whom was a FNG) this morning and many questioned if we were having a convergence. After a brief warm-up we moseyed over to Burpee Hill for, you guessed it, our first exercise 10 mins of burpees. Fortunately the Pax didn’t revolt so we moseyed to chin-up bars for a modified 11’s of pull-ups and step-ups (just did odd numbers after that first exercise of 10 mins of burpees).

    Striker Park’s soft, comfortable, dry, turf field was in use so we moseyed to the wet, muddy, smelly Grid Iron for an all ab workout delivered in the format of a Beast (36 WW II’s, 36 LBCs, 36 Heels to Heaven, 36 Flutter Kicks, 36 Side Crunches, and 36 American Hammers. Finished off with a Triple Check (Balls to the Wall, more WW II’s, and a mosey around the loop). As we circled up before numberama, we were able to squeeze in just a handful more burpees because…why not?

    Great day with the Pax. Good to see long lost brothers like Feather, who posted after a year plus, and brought out FNG (Nathan Jr).

  • DogPile Goes Green

    A fan favorite of the mighty First Watch, the Green Pill was passed around at DogPile and the PAX went off on a magical trip.

    Here’s what allegedly transpired:

    Mosey to the amphitheater. 

    COP

    • Imaginary Jump Rope
    • Copperhead Squats
    • Russian Soldiers
    • Helicopters
    • Jazzercises
    • Hand Release Merkins
    • Plankorama
    • Suzanne Somers L/R
    • Freddie Mercurys

    Mosey to the stage and retrieve a block and mosey to the Bermuda Triangle

    Endless Escalator De-Escalator– Exercise 1, Run a lap around the triangle, Exercise 1 + 2, Run a lap, Exercise 1+2+3, Run…..Exercise 1-10 and Run a Lap (20 reps of each exercise)

    1. Merkins (200 total)
    2. Imperial Squat Walkers – 1count (180)
    3. WWIIs (160)
    4. Carolina Dry Docks (140)
    5. Block Dips (120)
    6. American Hammers – 2 count (100)
    7. Block Curls (80)
    8. Block Thrusters (60)
    9. Heels to Heaven (40)
    10. Burpees (20)
    11. Reverso from 10 to 1, if necessary

    Numberama, Nameorama, COT

    MOLESKIN

    YHC came up with this lil thing last fall.  The PAX of First Watch love-hate it so much, seemed only appropriate to share with the rest of the PAX.  Great as always to have Guinness from out of town.  Handshake dropped numerous four-letter words when he saw the old Green Pill board awaiting the PAX upon arrival at the Triangle.  Music to YHC’s ears.  Phonics set the pace, only slowed down slightly by Block Thrusters.  Mr. Rogers was right on his heels.  Police made an appearance when they heard someone was doling out pills.  Perhaps they came to chase off the predators lying in wait.  YHC saw the white van, but didn’t see the driver of the car, though UpChuck says their appearance would certainly lead one to believe you’d find them on a particular registry.  Maybe someone reported the unidentified flying object.  YHC suspects that was a group we shall call Meal Cream trying to steal the Green Pill and charge fifty bucks a pop for it.

    ANNOUNCEMENTS

    Freed to Bleed – See Boberry

    BRR – See TYA

    DaVille Relay – See Spit

  • Is This Too Much?

    Nothing much to see here, just 3 dudes appropriately dressed running 3 to 4 miles and one guy dressed to venture North of the Wall. Some good conversation along the way. YHC learned today that Gomer was once known as Rock and the true freaks meet at 0545 near Maymont to ruck around town.

  • F3 names that end in “Y”

    4 faithful took advantage of the perfect temps at Twin Team. The rain held off but the PAX found plenty of mud. We did:

    COP in front of stadium: SSH, Don Qs, Imperial Walkers, Merkins, LBCs. Over to covered area benches. Partner up: One pax runs parking lot length & back while other does: Box Jumps, Dips, Donkey Kicks.

    Mosey over to stadium for catch me if you can: Bear Crawl & 10 HRMs, Lunge & Jump squats, Crab Walk & 2 burpees. Backwards run & 10 HRMs. Stop for some mary then over to BWES playground. 5 sets of: 6 Pullups & 12 Squats. Over to mini-blacktop for karaoke & burpees. start at 2 then increase by 2 up to 10. Back over to front of BW for Peoples chair & 20 merkins. Finish back at flag with Pickle Pounders.

    NMS: Before the beatdown Doozy shared that he was worried about being late this morning but still was the first at the AO. Doozy and Swirly both take securing the AO seriously. Not a ton of mumblechatter this morning, all just enjoying the perfect 62 degree weather. Safe travels for Doozy to SC. On the partner work somehow the 2 speedsters Tobit and Doozy ended up together.

    Announcements: Blood Drive 5/1. DaVille relay coming up.