Category: Richmond, VA

  • Is this a trail?

    3 men and 2 canine’s set out on a hike this morning. Satan’s hill was the launch point on this chilly morning. 62 minutes on the clock and 3.2 miles earned (the brush slowed down the PAX. Hermie had heard there was a trail connecting the new section and our hood so we set out to find it. Find it we did along with spirited mumble chatter. Have an awesome day gentlemen.

  • Dark Day start @ DaPile

    5 men showed up this morning for an hour beatdown breakfast here is how it went down.

    Run Warm up

    Bulkhead and Spit met at the Rutland Clubhouse and ran the Bojangles loop then over the train tracks into Giles subdivision for the 1 mile loop finishing at the Atlee HS parking lot for the 6:30am start time. They also ran back to the Clubhouse after COT at the flag.

    YHC showed up to the AO planted the Shovel flag and we moseyed to the East side Entrance to the School for COP.

    COP

    We performed 20 SSH, 10 DQ, 10 Imperial Walkers, 10 Russian Soldiers, 10 helicopters, 10 2ct American Hammers, 10 LBC’s 10 reverse scorpions, 10 scorpions, 20 merkins.

    THANG

    So we mosey to the base of the Atlee train bridge hill and start our Carpenter Dora as we had 5 we broke up into one group of 2 and a group of 3. Group 1(G1) ran to intersection at top of hill and back as the timer and G2 performed the Exercise. The highest count of the exercise was how we traded off for the next group to pick up the count. We performed 100 merkins, 200 WW2 sit ups and 300 SSH.

    It is still very dark so we mosey to the lighted parking lot across the street(Atlee Campus has no lights on the weekend) and it has 6 trees that are perfect for ‘touch a tree’ triple check Dora. So the exercises were 100 sit ups, 200 lunges and 300 squats. The Timer was the touch a tree, similar to the above we had a different groups of 2 and 3 and we flap jacked exercises and touch a tree until all reps were completed.

    Lighter outside now so we mosey to the front of Atlee HS and do a triple check of Donkey kicks and Lunges to the side walk and back(as the timer) for the first two rotations then performed a Bernie Saunders as the timer for the last rep.

    We then mosey to flag for some Mary to cool down stretching for 4 minutes.

    COT

    Namerama and Numberama and Pavarotti took us out in prayer.

    Moleskin

    We continue to discuss staying safe during the Pandemic as infections continue to rise. We also discussed reaching out to some F3 brothers that we have not seen in awhile.

    It was an honor to lead this morning….Cheers…CB

  • Hitch’s Karaoke Bar

    Having confirmed that biscuits would be ready and waiting, 4 men earned them the hard way. Run to and from DogPile. Hitchhiker saved Handshake’s life along the way and revealed plans to have a karaoke bar in his new home once purchased.

  • funky horseshoe

    4 guys showed up for a modified horseshoe event

    Here is what transpired…

    COP — 1 minute plank, IJR, plank jacks, IW, LBC’s. crabcakes, AST’s, DQ, arm circles

    Modified Horseshoe —
    Laps consisted of crab walk (short length), lunge (long length), broad jump burpees (short length), and bear crawl (long length)

    Lap 1 – Squats
    Lap 2 – Squats, american hammers
    Lap 3 – squats, american hammers, dips
    Lap 4 – squats, american hammers, dips, WW2 Situps
    Lap 5 – squats, american hammers, dips, ww2s, merkins
    Lap 6 – american hammers, dips, ww2, merkins
    Lap 7 – dips, ww2’s, merkins
    Lap 8 – ww2’s, merkins
    Lap 9 – merkins
    Lap 10 – Victory Lap

    Numbers Names Announcements

    YHC took us out

    YHC apologizes for his lateness yesterday — set alarm for a Daville workout which made YHC late. Usually when we do a Horseshoe, we have a big loop to run for a lap. Our loop is much smaller at the Creek so YHC decided it would be a good idea to slow the loop down a little bit, which might have worked if YHC hadn’t been late and had a shorter COP. Oh well, live and learn. Will be bringing this back to the Creek if the future to tighten it up a little bit.

    SYITG!

  • Old School Dogpile

    20 strong hit dogpile for an old school beatdown this morning and here is how it went down.

    Warm up exercises to get the heart pumping and the muscles loose ..

    Love Hill – 1st version partner up run to the top before the turn in the road – exercises walk out merkins – lunges – broad jump burpees – 2nd version run to the top gate – exercises polar bears – Russian Solders – crab walk.

    Amp Theatre : dips ladder down 18-1 – back up 1-18 incline merkins

    Burpee Shuffle.

    Native American Run back to flag

    20 hand release merkins ring of fire.

    Hardywood got the pax count – EF Hutton took us out.

    Way to work guys – thanks for allowing me to lead and for letting me bring back a legendary dogpile workout .

    Have a great rest of your weekend.

  • Sat @ SH

    4 Men posted for a foggy beat down at Satans Hill this morning!

    COP

    SShs

    Helicopters

    Squats

    Imperial Walkers

    Mosey to grab a coupon

    Quad Check

    Runner plus 10 Jerkins —- Curls, Ab Twists, Squats

    4 Corners

    100 Squats

    100 LBCs

    50 Dry Docks

    50 Monkey Humpers

    Mosey back to Coupon

    Curls, Squats, Triceps, and Abs

    Toe Touches and Back to the Flag

    Numberama, Namerama, Recall took us out!

    Strong work men!

    Duke

  • Wellington Whittaker Wynmoor

    Six Stallions gathered for a cool morning run on a cross neighborhood route named after a law firm. Greenbow took us out.

    Route – S on Pump, Wellington, Weather Vane, Tunbridge, Gayton, JRP, Glen Eagles, Old Prescott. More or less.

    NMS- parts of the West end can feel like you’re in a rabbit warren. The neighborhoods around Gayton are key examples (looking at you Wellington and the back 9 of Kingsley). They feature just enough turns to head you in different directions so that you question which way you’re looking and thus it’s tough to make a decision to go left or right – then you try something only to find a dead end. YHC has maps but the pax want to learn the back roads on their own, as good navigators would and so we are resigned that familiarization takes a bit of time. That’s ok because it’s the only way to get your bearings and overcome second guesses. Also it doesn’t help that some of the maps – the ios maps for example – make it look like roads connect when they don’t. Maybe they did at one time, but concerned neighbors wanted to reduce traffic and here we are. At any rate, it provides for adventure on the par that @Bodo’s would accept, but we likely need to find things to climb over to get him out. The Q slots are open, there’s nothing like planning routes to help you get your bearings.

    NB One challenge, some of our early morning driving neighbors get freaked out by runners on the streets, so the TTP is to plan routes attempting to minimize time on any street without a sidewalk. That strange incident on the Ridgefield X weeks back is seared in our memory.

    Currahee!

  • The Zoolander

    A very Lucky 13 runners and several bikers ( a few recorded here – if I missed you, let me know) launched on a nice jaunt through the neighborhood.

    West on Grove. 4s turn right on Libbie and 5s turn right on the access road and right on St Chris. Everyone turns right on Patterson, right on Malvern, and right on Grove.

    Wedding Singer reminded me that Zoolander only turns right, hence the name.

    YHC took us out.

  • Johnny is the goodguy

    COP

    In light of the recent release of season 3 of the best teenage drama ever, we began cobra kai training at the clubhouse. SSHs, helicoptors, jazzercise, merkins, front kicks, side kicks, and shuffle jabs. Off to find the beast of new market again.

    THANG

    The Beast was located at New Market 2. It was dark, quiet, and 72 degrees. Perfect weather to destroy him, and the kai’s were animals. YHC was impressed with fortitude and speed of the PAX. It was an altered beast –

    first 6 stops were 6 ssh’s, next was 6 ssh’s followed by squats, stack those up with merkins, 4th set to add in was plank jacks along with the 1st 3 excersises, then WWII’s, finally hello dolly’s. Beast was slain, with some time left. Back to clubhouse with Nancy leading. No one told him this wasn’t a race.

    YHC called some sprints, a mary circle and was out of steam but felt the cobra kai’s would benefit from a few burpees. Honeymoon disagreed. YHC believed the cobra’s had enough, but Johnny Lawrence (Nancy) felt compelled to utilize the last 1 min and 30sec for a session of plank balance exercise. Mumble chatter ensued. Strike first, strike hard, no mercy.

    Numberama, name-arama, prayers for pax, honeymoon’s dad and thanks be to God.

  • More Kettlebell

    Another Thursday and another chance to link arms with 3 other faithful warriors.  Here was what was on the menu today:

    • COP
      • SSH
      • Russian soliders
      • DQ
      • Scorpion kicks
      • Merkins
      • LBC
      • APD
    • Mosey to the school for the following:
      • 15 donkey kicks
      • Bear crawl 20 yards to you KB
      • 20 overhead pulls
      • Run back to the wall for a 1 minute wall sit
      • Rinse and repeat 4x
    • Run the bus loop
    • 4x check
      • Lawnmower pulls
      • Sit ‘n presses
      • Halos
      • Run
    • COT with YHC taking us out

    Been a long day and this BB is late.  Grateful to have started it with my brothers.

    God is good all of the time!

    Attila