Category: Richmond, VA

  • Sex and Anger

    Like crumbs left behind as the Trianglers flushed and headed off to stop 2, four men proceeded as usual.

    Here’s what transpired:

    UpChuck Q

    Mosey to the Amphitheater

    • Alternating any style Merkins x 5, Good Squats x 5 up the stairs
    • Plankorama

    Fudd Q

    Mosey to the Rusty Cage

    • Pullups x 5
    • Suzanne Somers L/R x 10
    • Dips x 5
    • Repeato for 5 rounds

    Helix Q

    Dora

    • Merkins
    • Squats
    • SSHs
    • Partner skip to the fire hydrant and run back

    EF Hutton Q

    Mosey to Ha’Penny Stage

    Touch-a-Tree (4 trees per round)

    • Donkey Kicks
    • Balls to the Wall
    • Dirty Hookups

    Mosey back to VSF

    Mary

    • LBCs
    • Heels to Heaven
    • Hello Dollys
    • Rosalitas

    Ring of Fire x 2

    30 seconds of stretching

    Numberama, Nameorama, COT

    MOLESKIN

    Hats off to all that complete the frozen triangle, and a bow to those who are doing for the 2nd time in 2 weeks.  Solid work among those of us who stayed behind to keep DogPile secure.  Section 8 housing sounds like a really interesting place if you have an NDA.  Care packages are provided.

    ANNOUNCEMENTS

    Prayers for UpChuck’s friends Mike and Becca

  • I wish it would suck more!

    Two Sappers gathered in the rainy, foggy and wet gloom – that frankly really could have been more spicy weather all the way around. If anyone who could pass a psych eval was out, this is what they might have seen.

    Gomer Q

    Welcome, Disclaimer, 8 Burpees – mosey to the COP
    Shoulder / Chest / Back COP all OYO: 10x DQ, 10x Turn and Bounce, 10x upper back stretch, 10x hip rotation, 10x Deadman hang, 20x ‘mer’cans, 20x wide arm, 20x Diamond, 10x fingers out, 10x fingers in, 10x fingers back, 10x chaos ‘mer’can.
    Mosey to tunnel. Gurpee at each light (burpee with mountain climber and a squat).
    AB / Legs COP: 20x WW2, 20x flutter kick. LBCs 30x reg, 30x left leg straight, 30x right leg straight, 30x both straight, 30x 45 degree, 30x 90 degree, 10x APD. 20x sumo squat. 20x split squat

    Borat Q

    Slow Mosey to the playground – 3 rounds: 8x Pullups, 26x stepups, bear crawl around the apparatus. 5 min EMoM 10x Mercans, 15x WW2, 20x Squats.

    NMS – fun discussion about Army days and the NCOs that made the world turn. Also airmobile operations and how the Nasty Guard can do more training than a active duty armor unit in garrison. Finally ADCON leaders that need to find something else to manage.

    Get some!

  • sleep eludes me.

    3 guys came out to take on the day the right way

    COP included a lot of the normal ones, but also some gradual leg raises and some dirty dogs

    Extended 4 corners
    10 jump squats
    20 merkins
    30 am ham
    40 SSH

    40 jump squats
    10 merkins
    20 am ham
    30 SSH

    30 jump squats
    40 merkins
    10 am ham
    20 SSH

    20 jump squats
    30 merkins
    40 am ham
    10 SSH

    some dips

    some DK’s

    done!

  • Kettlebell hell

    3 guys including a Kotter stopped by to take on the day the Kettlebell way

    COP — various fun exercises

    Triple check
    50 SSH (timer)
    situp presses
    1 KB thruster with 5 halos

    head over to the bus loop for some bus loop exercises

    KB slog —
    throw the KB and bear crawl to the grate
    do the same uphill

    please refrain from dropping the soap
    hold the weight out in front
    dropping it means a penalty lap
    plus 10 WW2 situps upon return

    Great morning with some great dudes!

  • Ludicrous Speed

    Site Q, gonna Q.

    Here’s where:

    • L on Pump
    • L on Falconbridge
    • R on Raintree and cross Gayton
    • L on Cherrywood
    • R on Ednam Forest
    • R on Waltham
    • R on Cedarbluff
    • R on Cherrywood
    • L on Raintree
    • L on Maremont
    • Take the path
    • Back to Godwin and SF

    Numberama, Nameorama, COT

    MOLESKIN

    The mist in our headlamps made the entire run feel like we were moving at ludicrous speed.  Shame on you if you don’t know where the reference comes from.  You’d probably dare to jam our radar with raspberry and your Schwartz definitely isn’t as big as ours.

    ANNOUNCEMENTS

    Frozen Triangle – tomorrow 0600 @DogPile

    Prayers for UpChuck’s friends

  • Donny’s Lounge

    8 warriors of the gloom met this morning for an extra soggy edition of the Twin Team lounge. Below is more or less what happened. According to the dog walkers and school employees.

    Mosey around school. 

    Warmerama 

    Invisible jump rope

    Ukrainian soldiers 

    Imperial walkers

    Don Quixote

    Are circles 

    Reverse 

    Seal claps

    Overhead claps

    American hammers

    Flutter kicks

    Merkins

    back to the big basketball lot

    Lady of the night style 4 corners

    10 merkins

    20 groiners

    30 squats

    40 SSH

    mosey to the dirt loop and a playground for

    Single quad check 

    1 lap

    Jerkins/pull ups 

    squats

    LBCs

    People’s chair

    Donkey kicks x10

    5 min Mary

    numbers bars announcements. YHC took us out.
    anouncements;

    frozen triangle tomorrow at 6am at Dogpile

    join L Woods March 7 for community 3rd F opportunity

    NMM

    YHC head the new Donny Benét album last week and decided it was the mostly Loungey music ever created. You decide. Promise he’s not a random 80s porn star. As far as I know.

  • Absence makes the heart grow fonder

    Out of the mists of a 70 and sunny day, three strong emerged to get their day off to a running start. The team of three had all the normal distances covered although YHC may not have made 4 exactly but hard to know as my watch died.

    Saab and YHC went off as the only two at the start. Vigorous conversation ensued but then abated as we could not keep up the pace of conversation some of our experienced pax members (and certainly not of the most recent addition to the pax). But more importantly Saab is faster than me even when returning from injury. General route was west on Grove, right on Granite (for 4) and right on Maple (for 5), all took a right on Patterson, left on Willow Lawn, right on Franklin, right on Lafayette then back up Grove.

    Sippy had arrived just after we left and made his own route in search of porta potties but without the use of Hitch’s PortaDash app. Which is so 2025. Not sure of his exact route but it involved Windsor Farms and I’m sure his pace was much greater than mine and likely Saab’s.

    All three returned to the AO at the appointed time and were happy to see one another again after our solo runs.

    YHC took us out. Peace to all those supporting family members and friends in their time of need.

  • DR Space Coast

    9 HIMs emerged for a station rotation style beatdown that included the following:

    • Shuttle Runs – pick up bricks or wood blocks bring them back, then return them in same fashion
    • Bear Crawl or Crawl Bear the length of the lot
    • SSH’s until 6 is in
    • Air Squats until 6 is in
    • Lunge walk the lot
    • Flutters until 6 is in
    • LBC’s until 6 is in
    • Repeat

    it was awesome to see these guys getting after it this morning, so many of them are green as the AO just launched back in November.
    It was Towlettes 2nd Q.

  • doors

    on the way in dumar informed me that after 3 years I still had to write his BB

    COP

    we ran a good bit, stretched some, he used all the non-F3 names, and we proceeded to the

    THANG

    where he made us come up with all of the ex at each door, switching ex every 3 doors until we reached the hill. He contemplated a buorbon based theme but then did a mod’d cincuenta check with some “push ups” and other stuff.Then off to the tennis courts where we did a standard 4 corner wo

    COT

    announc/name/number and YHC brought us out

  • Tour – De – Stade

    Warm-Up.
    The PAX Mosey’d to the football field and then winded it’s way like a snake from Greek mythology up and down, down and up through the stairs on the bleachers. Mumble chatter about “skipping,” the stretches were heard from the unhappy serpent until we arrived at the top of the last set of stairs.

    Circle up:

    • Cherry Pickers x 10 IC
    • Worlds Greatest stretch 10 OYO
    • Arm Circles fwd/bwd x10 IC 
    • Imperial Walkers x15 IC

    I proceeded to miss-name exercises and ruin the “Next exorcise, In Cadence, ready position, move,” procedure, but my supportive PAX was quick retrain me. Here I thought I was a big bad Q with 2 notches in my belt, but I clearly have some homework.

    Thang 1: “Tour – De – Stade” The pax will revisit the bleachers to touch every stair twice

    Set-up: 8 stair sections; assign 1 pair per section to start (staggered). 

    Per cycle (together or alternate): 

    • Run up stairs to top → 10 Dips
    • Run down stairs → 10 Merkins

    – After completing aisle, move right to next section & repeat. 

    – At far right end, mosey back to far left & loop again. 

    Transition: The PAX regrouped at the bottom of the bleachers and did air squats till the six joined us. Then we ran to the football field.

    Thang 2: Field Mary Suicides  

    Set up: Start in end zone. Suicide-style: sprint to each line (10, 20, 30, 40, 50 yd), do full reps of listed exercise, sprint back. Advance to next line after completing previous. 

      – 10 yd: 10 Australian Snow Angels 

      – 20 yd: 20 WWII’s

      – 30 yd: 30 American Hammers 

      – 40 yd: 40 Alabama Prom Dates

      – 50 yd: 50 Flutter Kicks 

    Thang 3: Dora

    Pair up, each group does 100 Squats, 200 Plank Jacks, and 300 monkey humpers as a pair. One member of the pair runs to the other sideline and back while the other member knocks off sequential reps and then they switch.

    Transition: Run to the ramp for some lunges and then back to the parking lot.

    Thang 4: 2 minutes of Side straddle hops.

    Back at the cars we found a fearless leader, very ill, and equally Nyquilled Snuff who rolled out of his death bed to bring us coffee.

    I needed to kill 2 minutes so we did 47 SSH in cadence.

    – Name-o-Rama, announcements, prayer, and Coffee-Rama followed by a DTH lead discussion of our Shorties and shield wall