Category: Richmond, VA

  • Sticky Hot

    Eight of us came out in a sticky hot this morning. Here’s how it went out:

    COP:

    • Mosey to the basketball court of the school
    • Deadman hang IC
    • Leg crossed stretch X10 IC
    • Helicopter x10 IC
    • DQ x10 IC
    • SSH x25 IC
    • LBC x15 IC
    • American Hammers x20 IC
    • Merkins x10 IC
    • Scorpion Kick X10 OYO

    Exercise #1: Mosey to the end of the basketball court

    • Workout 11
    • Run to the fence, do merkin x10, x9, …, x1, run back to the starting point , and do SSH x1, x2, …, x10.

    Exercise #2: Mosey to the triangle of the neighborhood down the school

    • Dora
    • While one partner runs around the triangle, the other partner do the following exercises
    • 100x Merkins, 200x SSH, 300x Jump Squart

    Exercise #3: Mosey to the parking lot of the school

    • Lateral Plank Walks x1, x2, …, x10 on side of the partking lot, run to the other side, bernie saunders up the hill, touch the fence, and run back repeat

    YHC took us out.

    NMS – As Doozy said, it looks great on the paper. My elbow hurts a bit after the plank walks.

    “Once you become aware that the main business that you are here for is to know God, most of life’s problem fall into place of their own accord.”

    J.I. Packer, ‘Knowing God’

  • Punisher Digest – 7/6/2020

    Three posted for Punisher on 7/6/2020. Animal and Tricycle made it back for a second week. Completed a 21/15/9 in the front driveway, a Triple Check from the school wall, and finished with some Mary and stretching in the shade.

  • Two city dwellers, an SOJ, and a down range PAX walk into a park…

    4 warriors of the gloom arrived to Batteau looking to explore one of RVAs beautiful parks. Unfortunately (fortunately?) they were distracted by some burpees along the way. Q sheet was empty today so a hot potato was in order for the day!

    COP (EF Hutton)

    Mosey to a lower area between two sets of stairs for various excercises including:

    • SSH
    • Imperial Walkers
    • Helicopters
    • Flutter kicks
    • Merkins

    THANG 1 (EF Hutton)

    Mosey to the pond for a lap and 2 burpees at each lamp post. Stay there and 2 rounds in cadence of step up/kicks, feelings, and dips on the adjacent picnic tables. Toss the potato.

    THANG 2 (Faceplant)

    Conveyor belt type deal with 1 PAX doing flutter kicks at top of closest hill, 1 doing LBCs, 1 doing squats, 1 running hill to relieve the PAX doing flutters. 2 rounds each. Mosey to top of hill by way of lunges to first light pole, pause for 20 merkins. Bear crawl to next light pole, then 10 burpees OYO. Toss the potato

    THANG 3 (Boberry)

    Mosey through the woods to near pickle ball courts. Grab a coupon (rock) for various exercises while other half of the PAX runs to light pole and Bernie back to the bottom. Exercises included:

    • Cusak squats
    • Standing chest press
    • Man-maker merkins
    • The Lion King

    Mosey BTTF for a few minutes of Mary. Numberama, Namerama, EF Hutton took us out.

    NMS
    If you have not posted to Batteau before YHC would suggest you are careful of missing bricks on the path and stairs as well as the aggressive curbing in the “parking lot”. Also ask Faceplant about a new way to avoid the gnats.
    Enjoyed the conversation with the PAX today. Shoutout to Posse for posting down range from CLT. As Posse said, EF Hutton your day can only get better. SYITG gents!

  • 1 hill and a Beast

    Five studs showed up to start the week right on Satan’s hill. Although some reported 72 and sunny, it felt thick and steamy. YHC rolled into the lot finding Wilson and Aisle 5. Honeymoon and Rosetta rolled in right at the bell.

    COP- 25 SSH’s, 10 DQ’s, 10 Jazzercise, 20 count dead man hang, helicopter, arm circles rounded it out. Mosey to hill on Otterdale.

    As YHC approached he saw sprinklers on and was worried we would need to abort but way up the hill we found a nice dry spot. Bear crawl up hill, 20 reps of called exercise, crawl bear back down for 20 more. Exercises included: squats, IW’s, Russian soldiers, Jump squats. 4 rounds. Mosey back to base of Satan’s hill. Beast up the hill. 6 rounds, exercises included: MErkins, WWII’s, Jump squats, SSH’s, Dollies and ???.

    YHC took us out in prayer. Prayers to Honeymoon’s dad and YHC’s mom. Also to Rosetta’s buddy having heart issues. Way to post and work aisle 5. Honeymoon and Rosetta way to set the pace. Wilson way to grind the streak. Great to lead a group of awesome men. Message don’t focus on what is being taken away from you due to this virus. Focus on what you are being given. Thank all. YHC out.

  • Fartsack Will Not Conquer YHC

    Alarm clock malfunction.  YHC rolls over to see a clock saying 5:20.  Jump out of the farksack, dress, and hoof it to the AO by 5:28.  Not awake, but ready to take another Q.  This one would have to be mindless.  Here is how it went down:

    • COP
      • 25 SSH
      • 15 IW
      • 10 DQ
      • 15 Helicopters
      • 20 merkins
      • 60 LBC
      • 20 APD
    • Deck of death – 12 reps of an exercise where each suit is a different exercise
      • Hearts – curls
      • Diamonds – high pulls
      • Clubs – weighted squats
      • Spades – sit ‘n presses
      • Joker – burpees
    • COT with YHC taking us out

    Great work by the PAX.  We worked up a little pace to get through the deck.  God is good all of the time!

    Attila

  • Old men, a youngster and a dog…..waking!

    YHC was told recently that OTB was a running AO. Funny thing about that is runners need to actually show up to make it a running AO. So walking counts!

    4.38 miles in just over an hour. Well done fellas and enjoyed the conversations. Great way to end a week of brutal workouts.

  • Wilson and #BigData Sitting In a Tree…

    Wilson is keeping it no secret that he’s atop the heap for #BigData through July so far. Well done! On this day he and 10 other seasoned vets put in work before and after the main event. 3.7 miles according to YHC’s tracker. Keep it cool out there.

  • No triple check this day at Dogpile

    No triple check this day at Dogpile

    YHC convinced his 2.0 to go out for a morning beatdown and we get to the AO in time to see the runners from ET arrive our group assembles and we are ready to roll. Here is what went down this morning:

    COP

    We mosey to Crop circle at Triangle as we had a big group to do some morning warm ups with 20 SSH, 10 DQ, 19 Imperial Walkers, 20 4 ct LBC’s, 20 American Hammers, 15 reverse Scorpions, 10 Scorpions and 20 merkins.

    THANG

    We mosey down the hill to the Pipe loop and partner up where Partner 1(P1) runs the pipe loop (Timer) Partner 2(P2) performs 5 ball dippers, 10 merkins and 15 2ct flutter kicks and repeats until P1 returns. Switch with P1 who performs the 3 exercises while P2 runs the pipe loop. We repeat this 3 times for a total of 4 reps each. Great working out with Gomer Pile and Swirly on this one. The partner teams crushed this circuit!

    We need to get back up the hill so we perform a Paula Abdul (two light posts forward, then returning 1 light post back.) The exercise is a Bernie Saunders to 1st light pole, walk to second light pole run back to 1st light pole then Bernie Saunders to 2nd light pole walk to 3rd light pole and repeat until we get to the bottom of the Triangle. We lunge up to the crop circle, then AYG to the field in front of the War memorial tower. This was a great time for some mumble chatter up the hill and I had the pleasure of catching up with Ship Lap on this part of the beat down recovery from pipe loop.

    We line up on one side of the field to start Black Jack. This is like 11’s but we go to 21 starting with 1 merkin then run to other side of field to do 20 LBC’s, run back to the start side of field 2 merkins, then to other side of field 19 LBC’s. The total count is 21 reps and we got to 17 merkins(some more) and 4 LBC’s before we needed to mosey back to flag.

    Mary

    We circle up and perform about 2 minutes of stretching before COT.

    COT

    We circle up Namerama, Numberama discussed a potential CSAUP/BRR coming up in August. Flatline mentioned that his Church’s food pantry needs diapers, formula, mac and cheese and breakfast cereal. Think Costco size here and if you can help please donate. (Flatline, please post details to this BB.)

    We also had a Triple Check of brothers below: Munson, Seymour and Malpractice. Way to show up guys, unable to upload photo for security reasons…maybe can get some help from Wilson…

    It is an honor to lead you fine men this morning and I look forward to seeing you in the gloom. Cheers…CB

  • Look at the planet

    After star gazing for a while hoping the Q would show up Rounders, Yardsale and Trout ventured out on their own hot potatoe.

    Yardsale lead the COP with arm circles, pushups and abs. Then Yardsale continued with 4 corners on the blacktop with heels to heaven, LBCs, dips, and squats, went around twice to make it 100 count.

    Trout then took over with a triple check. One ran around the parking lot, one did split Jack’s and the other did windshield wipers.

    Rounders then took over with ran over to the playground, did some rows, ran a lap, did some rows ran a lap. Then did hound and hair, let yardsale (hair) get a little headstart running back to the car then the hounds were released to chase him down…he almost survived..

    Numbered out and rounders took us out to start the weekend.

    Great to be back from vacation and seeing everyone this week..Trout

  • Mary Does What She Wants

    Mary Does What She Wants

    19 prompt individuals + 1 late arrival showed up for a little running/gearing around Mary. Instructions were given to those that cared, everyone else did what they wanted to do.

    Fartleks were the call of the day. 15 minute warm up, 10 1-minute pickups with a 30 minute recovery, 15 minute cool down. Route was east on Grove, north on Malvern, east on Laburnum. Turn around after the 5th interval and reverse course.

    Difficulty counting numbers, Difficulty remembering ages, then YHC took us out.

    Moleskin
    YHC knows this has been stated before, but those that show up to RAMM seem to do whatever they want to do. Some show up early, some do their own route, some just ignore instructions. Hey, you against you I guess.

    Perhaps we don’t need a Q anymore for RAMM? Just show up and figure it all out when you get there? YHC is not trying to stir the pot, but RAMM has to be the loosest AO we currently have on the books.

    Nice work to Shiplap, Spit, and Garbage Plate. Thanks for enduring the Fartleks with me. Way to crush it.

    Splinter out