Category: Richmond, VA

  • GridIron Regulars succumb to Valentines Day, but Others pick up their Slack

    Seven of the faithful (but not so many “regulars”) posted on Feb 15 at GridIron. Johnsonville had volunteered as Q, and this is what went down, more or less.

    COP warmup in rapid succession, including 40x SSH, arm circles, hillbillies, don quiotes, Alabama prom dates, supermans, susanne sommers, etc.

    Grab 2 coupons each. Set down coupons in parking lot, pair up, and line up against the wall with partner.

    Round 1 — First partner inverts on wall and does chicken peckers whilst other partner runs to coupons and does coupon burpees. Repeat 4x each.

    Intermission — Native American run around parking lot, pausing at landsaping oval on far side. Plank on curb around said oval. Plank walk a complete revolution.

    Round 2 — First partner does rotating wall planks whilst other parter runs to coupons and does 20 coupon curls.

    Intermission — Same as above, but plank walk in the other direction.

    Carry coupons onto near GridIron. Circle up for modified Jack Webb. 1 merkin on coupons, then do 2 of the following — (i) on knees, thrust coupons out directly forward at chest level; and (ii) on knees, thrust coupons up overhead. Do 2 and 4, then 3 and 6, then 4 and 8, etc. to 10 and 20.

    20 burpees.

    Carry coupons to the other endzone. Circle up for modified Jack Webb. 10 sit and press with single coupon, then 40 single-count American hammers with single coupon. Do 9 and 36, then 8 and 32, then 7 and 28, etc. to 1 and 4.

    Native American run the length of the field, then back to the VSF. Plank until time ran out.

    COT with Funny Car taking us out.

    Welcome out to GridIron Deuce and Funy Car. Welcome back Greg. Thanks for the opportunity to lead. Jville

  • OTB

    We ran!

  • The Batteau Triple

    Three pax joined up in The Gloom for a Monday morning Hot Potato. Temps were sunny and 70. Despite looking far and wide, no latecomers joined….so, onward to…

    The COP – Courtesy of YHC

    3 veterans means save the time devoted to the Disclaimer and get started…SSHs, DQs, Hillbillies, reverse crunches, LBCs, and HRMs.

    Monday Morning 6-Pack

    Starting with the picnic table to the left of the Batteau House, the PAX did a loop, performing one exercise at each of 6 tables. Exercises were:

    10 Derkins
    20 dips
    10 step-ups (per leg)
    20 four-count Flutter Kicks
    15 incline merkins
    20 WWIIs

    Two rounds in the dark. Avoid tree branches and holes. YHC wondered why Swirly wasn’t up front…more to follow.

    Flip it to Doozy for…

    Mosey des Doozy

    Mosey across the Batteau Field to the Park Road, stopping along the road for two sets of 20 dips. Continue along the r

    Burpee des Trois

    Loop around the lake. Find a lamppost (lighted or otherwise), stop and do 3 burpees. YHC estimates 10 lampposts.

    Triangle Up at the Intersection of Loop and Other Loop. Short mosey to stairs for…

    Sippy’s Crawl of Death

    Bear crawl up the steps, then up the path, then up the steps. Longer than it sounds.

    Swirly’s Revenge

    YHC did not know Swirly had a bum ankle until after YHC ran Swirly around and across an uneven field with lots of sticks in the dark. All else equal, with three PAX, there were other options for the group.

    Swirly got his revenge (YHC is making this more dramatic than it was).

    Everyone grab a stone. Time for some boulder-work.

    First round: 20 curls, walk to terrace on the steps with the stone, 20 dips, carry stone back up.

    Second round: same as First Round, but add 10 over-head presses before going down the steps.

    Third round: 20 curls, 10 over-head presses, 15 squats, walk to terrace on the steps with the stone, 10 derkins, carry stone over-head back up to the top. YHC attempted to remain conscious.

    Mosey BTTF.

    Number-am-a, Name-a-ram-a, YHC took us out.

    Announcements:

    Keep Doozey’s mother-in-law Louisa, who is going through a tough spot, in your thoughts as well as Doozy’s wife (only child of a single mom).

    YHC’s mother-in-law is doing better, probably never going to be great, but she will take it.

  • Additional field trip

    Great run guys – we got the miles in Saturday !

    See y’all in the gloom..

  • I came, I saw no one, I ran anyway

    It was a single serving of Gumbo at RiverRun this morning. A beautiful morning for a run. YHC avoided as many hills as possible and logged 5 miles – all while thinking “did I miss a memo about a President’s Day convergence??”

    See you fellas at No Toll tomorrow…I hope.

    No More Gumbo for Me

  • Trails with Friends

    Mostly men, a couple of dogs, and a TYA set off to run trails this fine day. Some early and some at the prescribed time. Various distances were covered, the standard PAX logged about 7 miles going South to North with a little Belle Isle excursion. Faceplant arriving a little late went North to South. Others went unknown directions. YHC took it upon himself to include the early launchers in this backblast. If they’d like to report anything special about their run, they can call the Thursday morning hotline. It was super, Helix led the way.

  • Field trip RVA tour

    Winter showed up briefly in RVA this morning and greeted 23 men with 20-something degree weather. New ideas for this morning, why not get a few miles in along with the boot camp in some rarely tread territory.

    THANG

    Mosey to the east, apologies to any LIFO, we were not going to be in typical locations today. Stop at the split in the road at the lake for a brief warmup of SSH, parting the circle to allow the lone runner through. First run: around the lakes, stop at each intersection for 5 burpees. Mosey to Fountain Lake around the lake with 5 merkins at each light pole, unless you are Pew and you want EC so you do burpees instead. Up to Boulevard, at the bridge across the expressway lunge half, bear crawl the rest. Next run: Around the block to Cary, down to Shepard and back to the baseball fields with 20 squats at each intersection. We threw a few stops in here and there for some mary and other fun along the way. A short run down lightpole alley with 5 Monkey Humpers at each. One last run around the pump house road, alternative around the circles and back to the flag for Mary. You can thank Phonics or Hardywood for the audibile. Seeing the light outside, the pipe loop was a great finisher and why not add 5 pullups to the end since we’re passing the cage.

    NMM

    Thanks to the PAX for letting me lead today and putting up with my tendency for long treks. Great effort by everyone today, we were a little worried about Cooper through the streets but he kept up and enjoyed some new smells along the way. Flipper was lamenting the use of coupons recently and just wanted to run a little. Ask and you shall receive. Olivander was downright giddy about today’s field trip. Note to the PAX, if you see Ollie on the Q sheet, you might get something similar to today. Especially great to see various PAX members picking up the six as we rolled along through the City. Tclaps to Recall who decided that a Rosie Q and normal Breakfast Club run was not enough and pushed a few extra for a total of 10 miles on the morning. He earned his waffles and eggs and bacon.

    Enjoyed it this morning men, have a great weekend.

  • no rhythm

    COP

    Helicopters

    Don Quixotes

    Arm circles front

    Arm circles back

    merkins

    mosey to entrance of parking lot

    4 corners round 1:

    1st – 20 merkins

    Sprint to next corner

    2nd – 20 ball dippers

    Sprint to next corner

    3rd – 20 windsheild wipers

    Sprint to next corner

    4th – 20 copperhead squats

    4 corners round 2:

    1st – 30 monkey hummers

    Bernie Sanders to next corner

    2nd – 30 ball dippers

    Bernie Sanders to next corner

    3rd – 30 flutter kicks

    Bernie Sanders to next corner

    4th – 30 jump squats

    mosey around the entire school and back to the blacktop.

    Suicide sprints Round 1

    1st turn (1/4) around 5 merkins

    2nd turn (1/2) around 10 merkins

    3rd turn (3/4) around 15 merkins

    Last turn (1) around 20 merkins

    Suicide sprints Round 2

    1st turn (1/4) around 5 squats

    2nd turn (1/2) around 10 squats

    3rd turn (3/4) around 15 squats

    Last turn (1) around 20 squats

    Bernie Sanders Suicide sprints Round 3

    1st turn (1/4) around 5 merkins

    2nd turn (1/2) around 10 merkins

    3rd turn (3/4) around 15 merkins

    Last turn (1) around 20 merkins

    Bernie Sanders Suicide sprints Round 4

    1st turn (1/4) around 5 squats

    2nd turn (1/2) around 10 squats

    3rd turn (3/4) around 15 squats

    Last turn (1) around 20 squats

    Staying on the blacktop:

    Split up into 2 groups

    Round 1

    One group did dips while the other group did frog jumps up and back on the blacktop (x2)

    Round 2

    One group did windshield wipers while the other group ran to a big tree and back (x2)

    Finished up with descending burpees

    Ran to other side of blacktop 5 burpees, ran back 4 burpees….3…..2…..1 and then the bell rang

    Strong Friday group. Looking forward to next week.

  • Valentine’s Day Murph!

    13 Warriors and Cooper the dog arose on the the Day of Love to better themselves in the gloom!

    1 Mile out

    10 Rounds – 10 Pull Ups, 10 merkins, 15 Squats

    1 Mile Back

    Flutters, Go get the Six, 20 APDS, 15 Pickle Pounders

    Numberama, Namerama, YHC Took us out

    Announcements:

    Prayers for DTH as he leaves on his mission in 2 weeks.

    Doozy need muscle to help a church member move on the 26th

    Prayers for Doublemints Father undergoing Surgery today

    Doozy – has the Tuesday at No Toll, may need a back up, Anyone willing to step up?

    Nancy Lopez Classic Details to come soon!

    NMS:

    Lovely Day for the Murph gents! You all rocked it! Appreciate Tobit keeping the round count straight. Also good to see our visitor from Mobile again, Pew, join us today. If you have not heard Pew’s cadence it is a must hear!

    On this day of love gents, let’s remember to love on our wives, kids, and family, but most importantly remember Gods Love for us is the precedent and he is the true meaning of LOVE.

    Happy Valentines Days boys!

    Duke

  • Returning to the Scene of the Crime

    Fourteen on February 14, as these love birds flew off on their routes.

    The Route

    6s head east on Grove and north on Revellie to Patterson. 4s/5s head north on Westmoreland. Everyone heads west on Patterson.

    5s/6s turn right on Maple, left on Dustin, left on Pepper, left on Three Chopt, left on Grove.

    4s turn left on Maple, left on Grove and a victory lap around the Mary Mumford block.

    Shakedown took us out with thoughts and prayers going to Sugar Sock for the loss of his friend.

    Moleskin

    Usually Marv expresses his displeasure for YHC’s routes up front via commentary. In this case it seems he bottled it up for a few miles before visiting Starbucks en route. Afterwards, YHC thought he would return to the scene of this crime and pick up some Valentine’s Day coffee. Ah, coffee.

    Hey! It’s Valentine’s Day!. Handshake described his shopping experiences last night getting the last of the flowers, cards, and chocolates. On completion of the story, Face Plant seemed in a hurry to depart. I believe he was in search of what’s left on the shelves of a CVS on the way home. Good luck buddy.

    Lockjaw