Category: Richmond, VA

  • 2 of the 3 had to go #2 and 1 did

    Farmhouse loop. There is a grey comfort station on the way out and back that has a higher stalactite than it did yesterday.

    Also, Mudface and No Idea were spotted doing their rucking thang.

    Lab Rat apologizes…

  • Just Like Old Times….

    Just Like Old Times….

    Three amigos posted to River Run to burn off some of those Fathers Day liquid calories. Nothing fancy here – just the OG Tarrington to Twin Team loop. On motion duly made, seconded, and unanimously carried, it was resolved to incorporate more routes down by the river at Robious Landing Park. The hills sucked this morning, but the sunrise was magnificent. Mr. Roper and his peloton whizzed by with some words of encouragement. Bullseye and YHC called it done at 4; Lugnut busted out another mile for 5.

    Go get some today!

    Doublemint

  • Everyone knows what a trash can looks like.

    YHC was worried last night as most the New Marketeers were away at the beach. Would this be a solo? As YHC came down the hill he was excited to see Hutton standing at the ready. COP was started and down came Honeymoon from his fartsack.

    COP- 20 SSH’s, 10 DQ’s, 10 Jazzercise, 15 Helicopters, 15 Arm circles and reverso, 10 Merkins, 10 LBC’s. Mosey to bottom of Satan’s hill

    The BEAST up Satan’s hill. 1st round Merkins, 2nd WWII’s, 3rd 2 count imperial walkers, stop at top of hill. 4 corners to give Hutton a tour of NM. 10 Drydocks, 20 merkins, 30 SSH’s, 40 LBC’s. Then finish the 2nd half of 3rd beast. To the rock pile. Battery of 21’s included: curls, press, tri’s, rockcopters, front lat raises, curls, Press, Tri’s and more curls with a mosey to top of lot between each 21. Finished with 3 minutes of mary.

    Prayers to Honeymoon’s dad starting chemo. Hutton’s dad going through health issues and my mom had cancer removed from her ear (going next week to Cleveland Clinic to get a more thorough check). Hug your parents while you can.

    Announcements Convergence July 4th No Toll. Hardy wood has Q.

    YHC took us out in prayer. Thanks for opportunity to lead today.

  • Pre-Vacation Body Builder

    A wet and rainy week led to a lazy Q where the deck of cards did all of the work.  Here is how it went down:

    • COP
      • 25 SSH
      • 10 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 – swings
      • Spades – sit ‘n presses
      • Joker – burpees
    • COT with YHC taking us out

    YHC then rushed into 1 last day of work before heading on vacation.  Big Data requirement now fulfilled.

    God is good all of the time!

    Attila

  • Evaporating Sweat

    Three gloom vets opted for the seemingly harder north to south loop, while the albino deer launched from Reedy Creek and meandered through the hills of Tennessee. Fudd traveled across the country in search of humidity. He found it. Apparently when you sweat in Colorado you cool off and you’re still dry. Not how it works in good old RVA. At least here it’s always sunny and 70. Have a blessed Father’s Day to all the men of F3RVA.

  • Village Lake Run

    3 manly men managed to make the right call and meet up for a run.

    Route was Raintree to Cox, right on Guyana to Windsor Place then over to West Broad and back.

    NMS. Happy Juneteenth! Prayers for those that think that filling and throwing water balloons filled with bleach at cops is acceptable behavior as part of a constitutional right to peaceful assembly. Prayers for those present and standing by while they watch abuse. Prayers for those who have been injured doing their job and that their hearts do not harden at this treatment by the citizens they swore to protect. Prayers for the families who have to work through the pain of their loved ones.

    Prayers for everyone else to be part of a positive solution.

  • A Summer Solstice Saturday Beatdown in Daville

    Four men arrived at Atlee High School to get the weekend and the longest day of the year off to the right start. This is what occurred.

    Mosey to Chickahominy Middle School football field

    COP

    • 20 SSHs IC
    • 10 Don Quixotes IC
    • 10 Helicopters IC
    • 10 Big, 5 Small Arm Circles – Reverso
    • 10 Imperial Walkers IC
    • 10 Merkins IC
    • 10 Angled Knee Jumps IC
    • 20 LBCs
    • 10 Freddie Mercuries IC
    • 10 One-legged APDs, Reverso
    • 10 Merkins then raise arm IC

    Burpee Billiards – Along football field, do 5 burpees at the corner, middle, corner, other corner, middle, corner while jogging around the outside of the football field. The positions of the burpees look like a pool table.

    Mosey to playground

    Do as many as you can of the following exercises for 15 minutes. 5 pushups, 10 merkins, 15 squats.

    Mosey to back of Atlee High School

    Dora – With a partner, do 100 Merkins, 200 Lunges, 300 SSHs. (Because of time, we did an audible and after completing Merkins and Lunges, we did 20 SSHs IC.

    Mosey to VSF – Held six inches for a 30 count (About a minute).

    COT – Number-O-Rama, Name-O-Rama, YHC takes us out.

    NMS

    As YHC and Zulu pulled into the parking lot, only Spike’s truck was there. This was unusual since Spike normally jogs from his house. A few minutes later, Spike and Fannie Mae came jogging to the VSF after a 7 mile job. Spike’s plan was to then do an hour bootcamp and then do play basketball. Unbelievable.

    Welcome Brendon (Zulu). He moved to Mechanicsville from Lynchburg about a year ago. He is yet another XC/Track dad who has posted to a Daville workout. Other Atlee High School XC/Track dads include Helix, Corned Beef, Marco Polo, Abacus, Wheelie, Opus, Anchovy, and YHC. As we attempted to come up with a nickname for Brendon, we discovered the following: From South Africa, plays guitar, his hobby is travelling, he’s a math teacher and principal, and he speaks 3 languages which includes Zulu. That made the nickname easy. Hope to see you back soon.

    It was an honor to lead such a fine group of men this morning.

    Gotta Run!

    Phonics

  • Father’s Day Weekend Kickoff at Dogpile

    YHC was happy to have his 2.0 (Hash) attend a Saturday morning workout and with the arrival of the ET Early morning run group we assembled and were ready to go, here is what went down on this cool cloudy and 68 morning:

    COP

    We mosey down to the bottom of hill by the pump station and circle up for:

    20 SSH, 15 DQ’s(slow), 15 Russian Soldiers, 15 Imperial walkers, 20 American Hammers (2ct), 20 LBC’s (4 ct), 15 Reverse scorpions, 15 scorpions, 24 merkins plus 5 slow merkins…we are warmed up and ready to rock this morning.

    THANG

    We mosey to one of YHC’s favorite seasonal treats, the pipe loop. On this adventure we divide into groups of 2. I introduce the Bill Murray(with CB edit) which consists of 10 merkins, 10 squats, 10 WW2 Sit ups and 10 burpees. Partner 1(P1) runs the pipe loop and Partner 2(P2) performs the Bill Murray. When P1 returns from loop, he starts Bill Murray and P2 runs the loop. This would be 1 rotation and for this morning’s gasser, YHC decided on 4 rotations.

    We wrap up the Bill Murray Pipe loop WO and then form up on the 1st Power Pole(PP) perform 10 merkins, then Bernie Saunders to the 2nd PP, 10 merkins, jog to next PP, 10 merkins, walk to next PP, 10 Squats, Bernie Saunders to next PP, 10 Squats, run to next PP, 10 Squats, walk to next PP, 10 Merkins, jog to next PP, get to circle and we jog to bottom of Triangle Loop.

    YHC makes this a Dealer’s Choice and Pax can do any combination to the top of hill, Bernie Saunders, Bear Crawl, Karaoke (left and/or right), jog, run or lunge up the hill. We get to the top and Mosey to the Coupon Stage.

    Venice Beach prep – YHC thought some curls for the girls were in order so we each grab a coupon and we partner up where P1 performs the Colt 45 with the block, this is 15 reps from bottom to mid point of curl, followed by 15 reps of midpoint to top of curl and finally 15 reps of full motion curls. P2 stands his coupon up on its end and performs squats over brick(making sure to touch the coupon at the bottom of the squat with your bottom<thanks Handshake for the idea>). Some high performers laid the block on it’s side for an even lower squat…F3 awesome ‘you against you’ efforts here gents! We do this rotation 2 times as the Colt 45s were a smoker for the pipes.

    To complete our arm workout this morning we mosey to the Amphitheater bottom by the stage and begin the incline merkins at each seat, increasing by one to the top (mid way through YHC wanted to get some dips in and instructed the PAX to start with one Dip after completing the 10 incline merkins(the 10th step), then going up the remaining steps increasing by one with dips only. ) Well this painfully felt like the touch a tree audible from last fall and Upchuck and I had a laugh as he had to clean this up in subsequent Q’s to make sure we had the touch a tree down…So look for an HBR sanctioned explanation in future workouts.

    With about 6 minutes left we mosey to flag for some Mary.

    MARY

    We circle up and begin some stretches, for our back, legs, torso, we get some flutter kicks in 20 reps and begin a ring of fire (with so many we all do 5 merkins and then recover. That is a wrap for today’s Dogpile.

    Numberama, Namerama…YHC took us out in Prayer.

    Announcements – Next Wednesday is Hump day happy hour, check out Pre-blast as Kubota is hosting this event! Somehow Beers and miles came into this morning’s discussion. We will be having the July 4 convergence at No Toll starting at 6am with Hardywood and DTH taking the lead for this event.

    Moleskin

    YHC came early with his 2.0 to get set and there was one car. With in 5 minutes we had the runners from ET’s, and everyone else show up right until the starting bell with 26 total showing up. It was great to see some faces that YHC has not seen for awhile and the energy was awesome this morning with Mumble chatter in full force made this fun to lead. For the F3 brothers who lost theirs dads this year we prayed for you this morning and for those fortunate enough to have your dads around, please catch up with them and tell them you love them.

    It was an honor to lead this morning, have a great weekend gents, Happy Father’s Day and I will see you in the gloom! Cheers…CB!

  • 8AM Breakfast Club?

    8AM Breakfast Club?

    Ten of RVA’s finest did extra credit before and after DogPile to earn their breakfast, about 4 miles to be exact. Mr. Thompson said “FU, our bacon is off limits before 8am.” Mr. Thompson now has a big black X on his corporate file.

  • The Father’s Day Game (sort of)

    4 Davillians including a FNG had to changes the game day plans since it ended up being a small pax.

    This is how it went down

    Mosey a lap around the school and circle up on the blacktop

    COP (ALL IC) – DQ, SSH, Helicopters, LBC’s, Flutter Kicks, Arm Circles

    THANG

    11’s – Squats and WWII situps

    Mosey to the soccer field

    Penalty Kicks – Starting first no goalie. If Goal was made PAX did 1 Burpee, if missed 5 Merkins. Two Rounds of that. Added a goalie, if goal was made PAX did 1 Burpee and goalie did 5 merkins. If missed switch exercises

    Mosey to the baseball field

    The Cycle – Just in baseball, we touched the all. First time up a single (5 merkins at first). Rinse and repeat with a double, triple, and homer adding 5 merkins each base

    Mosey to the track

    Catch me if you can – Partner up, starting a 1/4 of track between each other, start running around the track and stopping every 1/4 lap for 5 squats. After one lap Partner 2 can stop Squats. Switch, Rinse, and Repeat.

    Mosey back to the field

    Frisbee Toss – PAX took turns throw the frisbee. While in the air the PAX sprints towards it. Once it hits the ground, PAX completes an exerise chosen but the thrower

    Numberama, Namerama, Announcements, YHC took us out

    MOLESKIN

    So the Father’s Day Games didn’t go as planned since most of the PAX was a no show. Hopefully we will have better luck next year

    Thanks Opus for bring your 2.0 out and for Wilt for ET his friend

    Welcome to Bullseye! A rising freshman at Atlee HS how is going out for the football team and loves Archery

    SPIT ON THAT!!