Category: Richmond, VA

  • Who’s Your Girl? 80s, 90s, or 00s

    Sorta like being invited to a holiday party, only to show up and find out you’re there to park the cars.  That’s showing up for the Season of Giving, but having to swallow the Green Pill.

    Here’s what transpired:

    Mosey to the Church patio. 

    COP

    • Don Quixotes
    • Helicopters
    • Ukranian Soldiers
    • Arm Circles
    • Copperhead Squats
    • Hand Release Merkins
    • Plankorama
    • Freddie Mercurys
    • LBCs
    • SSHs

    Mosey back to rear corner of parking lot grabbing the cinder blocks along the way.

    Endless Escalator – Exercise 1, Run a Lap, 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 Squats single count (180)
    3. WWIIs (160)
    4. Carolina Dry Docks (140)
    5. Dips (120)
    6. Crunchy Frogs (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

    Much debate has been had about the ultimate dream girl from our youth.  Age and generation definitely play a role in the PAX’s opinions.  It is a known fact that anyone younger than YHC is a millennial, but a pre-teen and teenage Hutton was smitten with many starlets over the years from the 1980s through today.  The 70s PAX members tend to agree that the young brunette across the street from Kevin Arnold we all know as Winnie Cooper was a Wonder of creation.  The 80s PAX lean to the bubbly cheerleader from Bayside High better known as Kelly Kapowski, who stole Zack’s heart.  Those younger than YHC were raised on the girl with the crazy name and big ti… I mean hair famously known as Topanga Lawrence.  Fun fact, her guy on Boy Meets World is the real life younger brother of Winnie Cooper’s guy on The Wonder Years.  Another fun fact, YHC met Topanga playing roulette at Treasure Island in Las Vegas about 20 years ago.  So I ask, who is your girl?  Any other submissions?  For the record, mother nature has been very kind to all these ladies.  They’ve aged like a very fine wine.  These younger dudes raised on Hannah Montana must be disgusted these days.  The First Watch Season of Giving continues.  Next up, Last Call.

    ANNOUNCEMENTS

    Rosie’s 12 Days of Christmas at NoToll – 12/23

    F3 RVA Secret Santa, still time to sign up – 12/23

    The Bridge – 12/27

    Breaking Bread – 12/27 and 12/28

  • Five Strong After the Feast

    Only five posted on the Friday after Thanksgiving, with zero ruckers despite the advertising to a visitor. We took a simple Handshake route—up to the park and back down to the flag. Three runners, two walkers; the runners covered about 4.8 miles.

    Thanks to all who posted! And apologies for the delayed backblast.

  • Black Ice!

    4 HIMs conquered the allure of the fartsack this cold wet morning. 2 HIMs wanted to do a joint-friendly walk, and the other two wanted a beat down. According to the patches of black ice by the carillion, here’s what went down:

    We ran towards the circle, and ran around once before heading to the brick/concrete areas.

    COP: Helicopters, arm circles (forwards/backwards), imperial walkers, ukrainian soldiers, copperhead squats, merkin, flutter kicks.

    Run two circles in the concrete area,

    Up incline merkins 10, dips 10, down incline merkins 10

    WWIIs, American Hammers

    Then we did a series of Back/chest/abs cycles:

    — superman, hand-release merkins, freddie mercury

    — angels/demons, merkins, V-ups

    Ran 2 circles around concrete.

    Ran up to tower, jumped up and down steps 10 times, followed by a series of balls to the wall and squats.

    Ran down to the concourse, and circled twice.

    Broga-lite: downward facing dog, upward facing dog.

    Some leg stretches.

    Joined back with the walkers, numerama, namerama.

    Hitchhiker took us out.

    Chatter included topics of YHC’s new siding business, Hitchhiker’s new app, as well as our childhood experience with parents who tried to power-guide our growth/development/education.

    Hoping for more WDog-ers in the next few weeks! 🙂

  • Lake Loops … Again

    Eight showed up on a warm 60° morning for a mix of running and bootcamp. We hit the Lake again for four loops, stopping each time for 20 Derkins, 20 Dips, and 20 Heels to Heaven. By the end we logged around 3.5 miles and plenty of mumble chatter, with strong effort and great attitudes all around.

    Sorry for the delayed backblast, fellas.

  • Just start running

    Unsure where the morning route would take us 2 gentlemen headed into the gloom and down the dirt road. Conversation led down a few roads and our legs down others. Some decision making on the fly lead us through Salisbury to Winterfield. YHC hit the Mt. Pisgah hills on the return while Signer went to find relief.

    Met up with the boot campers at the end, SOT is making it’s way back.

    • My M’s art show is at Black Iris on Broad Street Friday night, open to all from 5-9pm.
    • Daddy Daughter Dance 12/6 – WEAG
    • Hit up EF Hutton if you want in on the 12 Days Secret Santa exchange. 12 Days beatdown will be 12/23 at NoToll.

  • Copycat Q

    With no one signed up to Q, YHC took a look for a random backblast and decided to copy the workout for a quick Q rather than running a hot potato. With a bevy of choices, one stood out and YHC presented it to 5 HIMs that showed up at the Woodshed this morning.

    The thang went a little like this:

    • Quick mosey around the parking lot to get the blood flowing
    • Warmed up with Don Quixotes, Cherry Pickers, Ukranian Soldiers, and some stretching.
    • Mosey to the school parking lot, avoiding ice along the way!

    The COP featured 6 rounds of paired exercises with a :20 on, :10 off format. After 3 cycles for each round, the PAX took a jog around the bus loop and circled up for the next round.

    Round 1

    • LBCs
    • Freddie Mercuries

    Round 2

    • Curb side calf raises
    • Burpees

    Round 3

    • SSH
    • Forearm Plank holds

    Round 4

    • Bench Tricep Dips
    • Russian Twists

    Round 5

    • Crab walk
    • Bear crawl

    Mosey back to the flag to ensure timing…

    Round 6

    • X-factor sit ups
    • Imperial Walkers

    Closed with numbers, names and announcements

    Prayers for Wildcat and family, Futon’s FIL and a rough year of family deaths, Excel’s job search, and encouragement for other PAX rejoining the Woodshed. Praise for movement on job search for Heist’s wife.

  • Thars Gold in Them Hills

    Well, that was quite the adventurous morning. The original Q NTB dropped out with the latest viral bug and Sable’s also still sick after world travels. YHC offered to Q if nobody else wanted it only to be shaken awake by the M saying “your alarm is goin off again” just 5min before the 0500 launch. So YHC texted L Woods the “coming in hot” message and launched into 16 layers to try and keep warm, only to find a permafrost on the truck blocking the windshield view. Showed up 3min late to find L Woods, PR, and Dealer taking a warmup lap in the lot. Then YHC was told nobody else had a route or desire to think of one, so it was “OK, well let’s go this way” having not actually thought of a route myself, but YHC was willing to see where the good Lord might lead us. Following the ends of our noses, mine being the only unprepared one not lit by a headlamp, we found a route across Huguenot and down into Bon Air, and YHC decided a jaunt through woods and new terrain would be fun. Well, we may have quietly trespassed a tiny bit and were then concerned for the pack of bloodthirsty howling coyotes that turned out to be a very upset toddler in a nearby house (probably freaked out by the ghosts of the woods), but we made it through swamp and bramble to climb hand over fist up the railroad tracks berm. Then YHC decide we’d try a little trail called “Don’t Surf” on Google Maps that turned out to be quite a nice mountain bike trail (inspiring the title of this BB), and by the time we exited the beautiful Bon Air woods we had just enough time to speed ruck the return route, all uphill as a straight shot along McRae Rd to COT and coffee at Einstein’s. Prayers for Dealer’s daughter turning six, and for PR’s BIL with early-onset Alzheimers, and for Wildcat. Discussion in Einstein’s revolved around various topics, but included some thoughts on habits, the 80/20 rule, substance use, and parents hotboxing THC with their kids on board. It’s a wild world we live in, and we can’t expect others to make the right choices, but we can live by example. Yours AYE! ~DTH

    Announcements (SEE SLACK!)

    • Monthly: Breaking Bread, Bridge
    • 12/6 Father Daughter Dance
    • 12/23 Rosie’s 12 Days – NoToll

  • Denied!

    Eleven warriors ran 1.25 miles, warmed up in the Wellesley bridge parking lot, ran down a dark path into the woods, slipped on ice, were denied access to the Wellesley basketball court, ran up a hill, lunge walked across an icy bridge, did a triple check including WW2 and merkins, lunge walked the bridge again, and then ran 1.25 miles home. 3.15 miles total including the triple check and getting lost in the woods.

    All in 46 minutes.

    -2nd F lunch next Tuesday at Tres Nachos in Innsbrook, noon.

    -The Bridge 12/27 with Kabuta leading

    -Glad to have Gypsy join us from down range…

  • Trespassers in the Gloom

    There were 2 Bermuda Boys, on a cold and wet, 70 and sunny morning at Goyne Park. Doolittle and YHC were making our way to the pavilion when the CCPD car was pulling up.

    The officer got out and announced, “The park is closed until dawn.” as she made her way to the pavilion. She was obviously checking to see what we were doing at a park picnic pavilion at 530 in the morning, but then she saw the coupons. “OK, I see you guys are just trying to get a workout in. But like I said, the park is closed from dusk until dawn, unless using lighted facilities” she said, as I could tell she was contemplating her next move.

    “So I’m officially telling you that you’re trespassing, and I expect you to leave the premises” she said with a wink, wink. “So I’ll be leaving now”

    “Be safe out there officer” We said.

    “You do the same” she said

    “Alright Doolittle, let’s do this”

    So we went into the standard warmarama, leading with the usual Side Straddle Hops.

    COP 1 Elevens

    Ascending Thrusters and Descending Groiners

    COP 2 Ascending Ab exercises

    Start with 1 WW2 and 2 double count American Hammers and ascend up to 10 and 20 of each

    COP 3 Lieutenant Dan ascends with Mountain Climbers

    1 Lieutenant Dan and 2 Double Count Mountain Climbers up to 10 and 20 of each

    COP 4 Descending Merkins and Plank Jacks

    start at 10 until time

    I’m glad we were able to get this one in despite the rain and the obvious.

    Lots to pray for and be thankful for this morning. Particularly , the officer for the grace to allow us to continue our workout without a fuss. There are a lot of good ones out there, and we’ll continue to pray for their safety and be thankful for their courage and willingness to serve. I’m sure it can often be a thankless job.

  • Discomfort Crisis

    The general populace may be getting too comfortable but not these 10 men who embraced the suck on the coldest wettest morning of the year. 34 degrees and nonstop rain, LFG. The triumphant return of Crash Test Dummy, who somehow forgot to bring the desert heat. We still love you CTD.

    Mosey to the back parking lot and around the field, then back to the covered pavilion. YHC revealed he had spent too much time on the playlist and not enough time planning, so the warmup was extra warm with lots of SSH and quick reps including 20 big boy WW2s to get the blood flowing.

    4 stations, one at each bench. Bulgarian split squats, dips, decline/incline mirkins, step ups. Each group rotated whenever the mirkin station called out to switch. After a full rotation, we needed to get even more warm: Mankillers to the beat.

    Another full rotation, then a whole bunch of ab exercises to 100: LBCs, American Hammers, flutters, and some other stuff. One more full rotation and then we had one more song to get back to the flag.

    COT – gratitude for the fortitude to get out in the gloom and the push through the rain, through the discomfort, and prove once again that we can face the new day with all 3 Fs.

    And… a cup of hot coffee or 3 out of the back of the Snuff-mobile. A small comfort, well-earned.