4 Davillians when out on a stroll this muggy Thursday morning. The route was hopefully the finalized on for our race next month. It ended up being about .15 short
Opus took it easy getting in a little over 4
Sludge had to call it early do to nature calling
Blukhead had a similar problem but at least he lives in the neighborhood and got in 5
YHC was able to finish the full route
17 gladiators entered the arena for some outright thuggery, some epic shenanigans, and a small taste of Gymkata. Let me grab my “E-Winke”, and I’ll tell you the tale:
Warmerama:
COP #1:
COP #2:
COP #3:
COP #4: (Extra Credit)
COT:
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.” — Teddy Roosevelt
I was overcome by emotion from all of the love and support shown my way today. I thank you all so much for the huge turnout! There isn’t a single person here at F3 Richmond that hasn’t made a difference in my life. It was an honor to enter the arena with you all today; I apologize for not doing it sooner. I am Bone Thugs, and I will see you at the crossroads.
Seven strong hit the schoolyard this morning to make the start of their day count. After Keymaster showed up to make it an uneven number of PAX, this is what went down:
Mosey around the Commonwealth, Hanover, Westmoreland block to loosen up. Circle up in front of the school for:
COP:
Dead Man Hang Regular, Right over Left, Left over Right
Russian Soldiers
Copperhead Squats
Imperial Walkers
LBC’s
APD’s
Crabcakes
Mosey to the track for:
4 Corners around the track:
Round 1: 20 dips, 15 decline merkins, 10 burp-ups, 5 pull-ups (audibled to Jump Squats because of the lake under the pull-up bars)
Round 2: 20 incline merkins, 15 jump squats, 10 burpees, 10 Lt. Dans
Mosey over to field for:
Touch-A-Tree DORA:
Partner up and complete as a team 100 x HR Merkins, 200 WWII Sit-Ups, 300 SSH’s. Partner runs and touched 2 different trees along Cary Street each trip.
Mosey over to Cary and Commonwealth for:
Burpee Road:
2 burpees at each light pole on Commonwealth from Cary to Grove
Mary:
Reverse Crunches
APD’s
Numbers, Names, Announcements and Shiplap took us out!
NMS:
Everyone was surprised to see Hitchhiker appear in the gloom after he had to cut his Q short yesterday after he rolled his ankle. We guess he didn’t want to lose track of Swirly in #bigdata standings.
Larger numbers this morning than what YHC had guessed because of Bone Thugs’ VQ. YHC hopes it went well over at The Forge. Bodo’s enjoyed having YHC Q two days in a row and Shiplap continues to post regulary and make himself better! Well done, Shiplap! Always good to see YHC’s neighbor, Keymaster in the gloom and to see Westham’s strong duo of Pucker and Upchuck! Well done, all!
“Question of the Morning” goes to Hitchhiker: “In English, how do you describe a light post that is shining light?”
Have a great day!
Kubota
Five strong men showed up for the beat-down in 85 °F and 82% humidity weather this morning. Hitchhiker was surprised by the fact that he was on the Q sheet this morning. While YHC led the group to the circle area in front of the Dogwood dell, Hitchhiker stepped on small broken tree branches and twisted his ankle again (Ouch!). The PAX stepped up to the plate and did hot potato. Here is how it went down:
Upchuck led the COP and #1, #2, #3 exercises as follows:
COP: 10x Helicopter IC x10, SSH IC x 20, Imperial Walkers IC x23, LBC IC x10, Merkins IC x10
Exercise #1: Bear crawl up to the inner circle curb and back to the outer circle curb with one merkin at each curb up to six times.
Exercise #2: One person run around the circle while others do excesses and take turns in three rounds; merkins, LBC, and Flutter Kicks
Exercise #3: There are five light post at the circle. Run around the circle and do exercises and run around the circle to move to next light post. Did designated exercises (Merkin, LBC, Carolina Dry Docks) at three light post and own choice of exercise at two light post.
Shiplab led #4 and #5 exercises as follows:
Exercise #4: One person run around the circle while others do excesses and take turns in three rounds; incline/decline merkins, LBC, and American Hammers.
Exercise #5: Bear crawl around the circle curb and LBC x25 at mid-point and 10 merkins at the starting point.
Mosey-walk back to the flag.
Numberrama, Namerama, Announcements, and Hitchhiker took us out.
5 Davillians came out to enjoy their mid week KB workout
This how it went down
COP (ALL IC) – SSH, DQ, Hillbillies, LBC’s, Flutter Kicks, Heels to Heaven, Merkins, Arm Circles
THANG
The Somewhat Suck – PAX split up into the four corners of the parking lot. The 5th PAX member grabbed the 30lb ruck sack YHC brought. Starting from one corner, The rucker runs to the next corner and switches with the next guy. This kept repeating with each PAX switching and running. The PAX worked on the following exerices while waiting to switch: Goblet Squats, Swings, Halos, Cleans. Rinse and Repeat till everyone does each exercise twice.
Four Corners – 50 Rows, 50 Goblet Squats, 50 Merkins, 50 Sit + Press
Ran out of time so back to the SF for Numberrama, Namerama, Announcements, YHC to us out
MOLESKIN
The 4th F was coming out over and over this morning. Mainly thanks to Yard Sale who we pretty sure sh** his shorts several times.
Good to have Mud Face with us this morning. He mentioned he has been rucking and use Eric (100lb weight bag) a lot lately. Bulkhead said if he brought Eric not Wednesday we would put him to use
Also Bulkhead has asked (for future Q’s) that we spend the last 5 minutes of a workout for stretching. YHC will leave that up to whoever is Qing if they want to.
SPIT ON THAT!!
Gents, here’s an open invite to the Hardywood Family Farm in Amelia Court House, VA. This will be super low key. We’ll have burgers and hot dogs, so please bring anything else you’d like and something to share.
If you have any questions, shoot me a text.
Your pal,
Hardywood
Five Strong hit the streets early this morning in the gloom to make themselves better before their 6am naps. Here is what transpired:
Mosey over to the smallest Henrico County Park that exists for COP:
Helicopters and DQ’s
No stragglers, let’s roll to the UR Amphiteater
5 Incline Merkins on each step down
Lindsey: 30 LBC’s at bottom run up to top 10 Jump Squats run back down. 25/15 20/20 15/20 10/30
Flutter Kicks for the 6
Lt. Dan Box Jumps on each step going up
Round of 10 Pole Smokers per PAX member while rest of PAX hold 6 inches, 45 degrees or 90 degrees
Exit Amphitheater and head down trails to the lake and mosey over the bridge to the island.
11’s: Dips on benches/Decline Merkins on benches
Lunge walk back over the bridge and take trail and College Dr back up to River Road.
Make a pit stop at Saab’s for 25 Monkey Humpers and 25 APD’s
Mosey back to VSF
Numbers, Names, Announcements and we all took ourselves out with the Lord’s Prayer.
NMS:
Way to work this morning men! Nice and warm at 5am. Thanks for changing things up and coming to First Watch this morning, Bodo’s! Always great to see the regulars Hutton, Last Call and Handshake. Don’t leave us hanging Honeydo, Splinter, Wojo, Lockjaw, Offshore 🙂
SYITG!
Kubota
Three stallions and one guy dressed for Top Gun Volleyball (you know who you are, Goose) posted this morning at Source of Truth to a find a potato in the oven – here’s how it tasted:
Warmarama (Doublemint) – mosey to the side of the school for SSHs x 15 or 16 more or less, Russian Soldiers x 15, Imperial Walkers x 15, Don Quixote x 10, roll in the wet grass, Freddy Mercuries x 20, Sugar Stix x 20, APDs x 20
Thang 1 (Doublemint) – Dora (100 merkins, 200 squats, 300 LBCs) w/ run to mechanical door and back, mosey to front of school
Thang 2 (Bullseye) – Curb Crawls (Bear crawl to curb, 5 x merkins, crawl bear back, 5 x jump squats, repeato with 4x, 3x, 3x, 1x), then
Thang 3 (OC) – Hill repeats with 25 x wide grip merkins, 25 sec planks +
Thang 4 (Tobit) – Circuit Training
BTTF for deadman’s hang, straddle streth, Wilson’s wife, child’s pose. Numbers, names and OC took us out. Strong work, gents!
3 guys ran and two took a gentle stroll with their parasols.
Kings Charter Route.
4.5ish miles for everyone.
Sludge mentioned that running this morning was like running in the shower. We briefly considered jumping in the Honey Meadows pool but figured we were wet enough anyways with sweat we wouldn’t even notice…
No Idea and Mudface were there — we saw them early on and then never again.
SYITG!
How it went down:
Mosey from minishubbleflag to back of school in last parking lot on right before baseball field
Circle of Pain:
20 SSH
10 big/5 small arm circles
Reverso
20 Hillbillys
Mosey to stadium parking lot for a bunch of parking lot tracers.
Mosey all the way to the elementary school bus loop
Triple Check
3 X (1 loop around bus ramp, 1 set merkins, 1 set donkey kicks against wall)
Helix with the 20 count
Mosey to the elementary school track pull-up bars
Everyone, 5 pullups, go to football chutes, 5 old man pullups, go to bleachers 5 dips
Mosey to middle school parking lot
Pavarotti becomes magically becomes a rabbit and the rest of pax become hounds. Pavarotti gets a head start to minishubbleflag. After a minute, hounds are released to chase the rabbit! P almost got to minishubbleflag when the hounds got ’em. Walk for 15 seconds.
Mosey to minishubbleflag. Circle up.
3 X (30 second plank, 20 second right hand up plank, 20 second left hand up plank)
Numberama, Namearama
Q took em out.
All PAX seemed fairly quiet today and set about work professionally. And I think it might’ve been Mr. Holland’s birthday, in which case…Happy Birthday!