Category: Richmond, VA

  • Mumblechatter At An All-Time High

    Over the river, through the woods, to Marmaduke’s Q we go.

    5-6 miles total for breakfast clubbers today. Pax of 1, until YHC picked up Bleeder out for an early mile by the lake. Do the voices in YHC’s head count as mumblechatter?

  • Yes, you have to go around 3 times!

    25 Warriors to the grounds of Dogpile this morning with a nice chill in the air. 6am, off we go for some fun!

    COP

    SSHs x 20

    Helicopters x 10

    Imperial walkers x 10

    DQs X 10

    Merkins X 10

    LBCs x 20

    Mosey to Tennis Courts

    Dora

    Partner Up, Runner across the courts and back

    100 Merkins, 200 Squats, 300 Single Count American Hammers

    Mosey to Lake

    Mega Triple!

    5 Burpees OYO – Herding cats

    Runner runs around the lake

    Exercises for other 2 PAX – LBCs and Lunges

    Every runner exchange requires 20 Partner leg tosses for the 2 that are exercising.

    Modify last lap to complete!

    Back to the flag!

    Numberama, Namerama, Flatline took us out!

    Prayers for Marv and DTH, keep them in your thoughts fellas!

    Link to Donate to Raise – Vinny and Gumbo are growing out the staches for November if they hit 3k! Great Cause! https://www.aplos.com/aws/give/Raise_Donations/f3

    NMS:

    Bullet Pointed today – Sorry got a full day of family time starting with T-Ball

    -Wislon hates running!

    -Amazing Group of men this morning, thanks Swirly for leading the moseying and keeping me pointed in the right direction

    -Awesome partnering with Flip, Emoji, Upchuck, and Corn Beef today!

    -Wilson still hates running!

    -Appreciate the PAX for embracing the mega triple, YHC watch had us over 3 miles for the day

    -Got a few fellas on the mend, lets reach out to them encourage them, let them know we are there for them

    -Hug your loved ones fellas and be thankful for everything we have, the holidays are quickly approaching and lets remember that we are all blessed and lucky to be doing what we get to do!

    -OHHHH – Wilson really hates running!

    -Honor to lead you fellas this morning, love you all!

    Marmaduke

  • Where did Chewy go??

    8 willing Davillians arrived on a cooler morning to finish out their work week. A mix of Short sleeve and long were present. This how it went down

    Short mosey to the basketball court

    6 Burpees OYO

    COP (ALL IC) – SSH, Merkins, DQ, Tempo LBC’s, Helicopters, Flutter Kicks, Arm Circles (forward), Heels to Heaven, Arm Circle (backwards)

    6 Burpees OYO

    THANG

    Mosey to the Track

    Catch us if you can – Groups of 3, first person completes 6 Burpees while the other two do partner carries. First person runs to catch when finish. Switch, Rinse, and Repeat till everyone does Burpees and/or one lap

    Mosey to the playground

    Workout Deck of Cards – Partner up, various number of cards are selected for the workout deck. As partners complete the exercises. One partner run to a tree and back will the other completes the exercises. This how it worked:

    • Draw the cards (ranges from 3 to 6 cards)
    • Completed the exercises with the number listed on the card + 10 (i.e. 2 of Diamonds with Merkins = 12 Merkins)
    • Face card complete 25 reps of the exercise
    • Acres 100 reps
    • Exercises Merkins, Merkins, Merkins, and some other things

    Mosey back to the SF Numberrama, Namerama, Announcements, YHC took us out

    MOLESKIN

    Nice to have some a cooler morning. Some thought that it was cold enough for long sleeves. YHC feel the golden rule should be long sleeves under 50. Some discussion was had over this

    There is always humor when it comes to Mud Face and Chewy partnering up. This week was no acceptation. A couple times after Mud Face would come back from the run during the workout deck, Chewy was not to be found. Even for a teenager, Chewy still has some kid in him since was found on the jungle gym every time.

    6 Burpees was YHC’s honoring 6 great years with his M the F3 way!

    ANNOUNCEMENTS

    • Beer Mile for Shawn G. Hogan, this evening, Dogwood Dell.
    • Poker Night with Mr Holland – See Preblast
    • Keep Posting and Qing

    SPIT ON THAT!!

  • 11 Rounds of Murph, But who’s counting?

    11 of Richmonds Finest showed up for what they thought was a Honeymoon Murph. Honeymoon wasn’t able to make it this morning, but YHC kept the Murph alive, and at 530 the PAX were off!

    1 – Mile

    100 Pullups

    150 Merkins

    300 Squats

    1 – Mile Back. Usual way or the Hard way up Twin Team

    LBCs for the PAX.

    Numberama, Namerama, Rosie took us out!

    Announcements:

    Vinny and Gumbo need your Money, it’s for a great cause, Link in Comments.

    Hammers and Ales coming up also, will get link.

    NMS

    Great work this morning, even if Gumbo made us do an extra round! Just kidding, YHC needs all the extra work he can get. One of the hidden gems about the Murph is allowing everyone to take a turn counting. Its a great way to get your feet wet for that upcoming VQ, yes i’m looking at you POG, BoBerry, and we will give Lone Wolf a little bit of slack on the VQ since it was his second post, but soon the pressure to lead will come! Strong work gents! Have a great day, continue to be the awesome men that at you are!

    Marmaduke

  • You’re Really Focused on Murder

    14 sets of shoes, 1 set of paws, and 3 sets of wheels pounded the (somewhat less) pot holed City of Richmond pavement on a picture perfect morning around the friendly confines of MMES. For the 260th consecutive Friday, temps were sunny and 70.

    Routes…all runners, east on Grove.

    4 miler, right on Shields, then…

    5 milers, right on Vine, then…

    6 milers, right on Laurel, then right on Park, then…

    All runners turn right on Floyd, then right on Nansemond, then left on Grove, and BTTF.

    Announcements:

    Beer Mile for Shawn G. Hogan, this evening, Dogwood Dell. Come drink 4 beers over 4 laps with Handshake, Faceplant, and Friends (and learn the answer to Greenbow’s philosophical query, “What beverage should I chug that would be as bad as beer?”

    Don’t want to drink and run? No worries. Arrive early, scour the bushes, and snag a 6 pack of beer, which will be warming all day.

    NMS:

    Great morning for a run. Faceplant and Sippy launched fast out of the blocks, so fast that Sippy apparently combusted somewhere along the route. Handshake set a solid pace for the 4 and 5 milers. Good chatter with Handshake and Greenbow before the latter, Bodo’s, and Bodo’s garbage-ravaging canine split off for the 4 route.

    Swiper shared his advice on good spots to hike in Colorado, including one route that had the unfortunate side effect of triggering fear among his youngest that Swiper was trying to murder the young man. YHC is reasonably sure his own parents tried to murder YHC using the same method, an experience so jarring that YHC in turn has attempted to do the same to his own children. Remember, fellas: it’s push yourself, don’t hurt yourself. And, push your 2.0s until they drop.

  • How do you spell KETO

    A lucky 7 showed up to the Anvil for the Thursday morning grind. YHC looked at the Q sheet late last night, saw it was open and not wanting a Hot Potato decided to take on the Anvil and here is what went down.

    COP

    Short Mosey to asphalt top next to track and circled up for 20 SSH, 10 DQ, 10arm circles small 5 big, reverso 10 small 5 big, 10 helicopters, 20 LBC’s

    The THANG

    Mosey to the Chamber for a triple check as a group of 4 and 3 where 1 pair or partner 1 ran around trailer, partner 2 performed Merkins, partner 3 dips on the bench. rotate and did the cycles of this work out routine.

    Mosey to hill on West side of school and did the Jacobs ladder with 1 donkey kick run up to top of hill and 10 WW2 sit ups, back down hill 2 DK’s and back to top of hill 9 WW2 sit ups, continued until there were 10 DK’s and 1 WW2 sit ups. Team did invisible chair until 6 was caught up.

    We then did BTW and Chicken peckers and started on one end and stayed in BTW position while Pax performed 10 CP’s(5 each shoulder) and returned to BTW position.

    Switched back to invisible chair and starting at one end the last bear pax member, bear crawled to the front and assumed chair position, then next person bear crawled to the front and we repeated until each PAX member performed 4 rotations.

    Mosey to jungle gym next to Track to performed 6 pack but 1 direction 1 pull-up then 5 burpees, 2 pull-ups 4 burpees to where you complete 5 pull ups and 1 burpee.

    Mosey to flag for Mary where Chewy led Boat – Canoe until 6:15.

    Numberama, Namerama.

    We discussed an upcoming 5K where Spit and Bulkhead are planning to run the 5k Here is the link: https://runsignup.com/Race/VA/Richmond/CapTrail10Miler5K

    Also talked about the Tough Mudder and need to discuss more on where and when.

    Mudface took us out in Prayer as it was an honor to lead the gents today.

    Cheers…CB

  • Who’s faster…Opi or F.Prince!?

    10 gloom warriors and 1 gloom dog joined DTH for today’s Forge Fiesta. YHC had a couple ideas in mind, but for the first time ever, hadn’t planned today’s routine to the letter – so here’s how we fudged our way into greatness:

    The THANG:

    Mosey to Culdesac for COP #1:

    • x10 In Cadence of each: DQ’s, ImpSquatW’s, CrabCakes, Mtn Climbers, NoCheat Merkins, Starfish Crunches, …and maybe 1 or 2 others

    Mosey to top of handicap rails for COP #2:

    • 10min AMRAP Circuit: Jerkins, Dips, & DonkeyKicks (YHC completed 10 rounds)

    Mosey to base of parking lots for COP #3:

    • TIME for Mount Chaplain: 
    • Run bottom to top, stopping at each of four pavement tiers to complete x10 reps, then Clock of Mary completed at the top (x3 reps with feet at each o’clock = x36 reps total), then run back down completing x10 reps at each tier, with front runner leading Mary waiting for the SIX
    • x3 Rounds completed
    • Round 1: Plank Jacks going up, Clock of WWII’s, Squats coming back down
    • Round 2: Merkins going up, Clock of Heels2Heaven, Groiners coming down
    • Round 3: HDolly’s going up, Clock of AmHam’s, Recover BTTF

    Mosey BTTF:

    • Two minutes of choose-your-own Mary …Doesn’t matter what you choose, but you can’t just sit there!

    COT:

    • Counterama #11 + Pup
    • Namerama
    • Announcerama (see Comments)
    • YHC took us out in Prayer

    NMS: 

    • “Opi” (DTH’s 4-legged friend, actual name Cooper) jumped and sprinted around a particularly quiet PAX as we moseyed down to the first COP. YHC called the 10 count reps with today’s date in mind, and simply progressed the routine from upright down to supine. Felt natural. The PAX started to warm into mumble chatter for the 10 minute circuit. Always amazes YHC how many reps of something particularly noxious (like Jerkins) you can get through when it’s broken up with other stuff. The return to Mount Chaplain was a great way to spend a fair chunk of time, and thanks to Wedding Singer and Tobit for some exercise suggestions in the last round. And of course thanks to Fresh Prince who remains our ever present rabbit. There really isn’t any better way we could possibly choose to start the day. YHC extends heartfelt thanks to these brothers for your loyalty and support! 

  • We now run at Timberwolf?

    Waiting on any 530 squealing of tires 7 PAX members took off as no other SOJers rolled into Timberwolf for a Hot potato Q.

    COP-

    SSH x 20

    Helicopters x10

    DQs x 10

    Copperhead Squats x 10

    Imperial Walkers x 10

    LBCs x 25

    Flutter Kicks x 10

    Mosey to Back Lo

    Marmaduke

    11s – Box Cutters and Monkey Humpers, Run Entire length of the Bus Lot

    Pass the Q to Honeymoon, Mosey to Front Picnic tables

    10 Incline Merkins, 10 Decline Merkins, 10 Dips – All in Cadence

    Run Two laps around front Lot then Repeato

    Pass the Q to Lug – Mosey to Back basketball courts

    Susicidearama – No that basketball season is upon us

    Regular Suicide, Backwards out Run in Suicide, Caricoce Suicide Both ways, Defensive Slide Suicide

    Pass the Q to Bullseye – Back to Side of School

    75% Run down 2 light poles – 90% Back

    75% Down – 100% Back to the flag

    Numberama, Namerama, Lug took us out.

    Hammers and Ales coming up, will add to comments for info.

    NMS:

    Great Cool morning at T-Wolf, According to the multiple watches over 3 miles were covered today! Strong work men, love to see BoBerry, Nancy and Punxsutawney continue to post and get stronger! Much appreciation to the other Qs this morning . Make it a great day men!

    Marmaduke

  • Downright Perfect…

    3 took advantage of cool and cloudy weather and tackled a Wednesday evening run. Differing routes ranging from 4 and 5 miles.

    GMILFs were complimentary of those who were shirtless (we knew it was all directed at Swirly…)

    Saab abides

  • The Anvil

    14 Redwoods came to Mary looking for something more to the day. YHC provided that extra boost when an iron anvil emerged from the shadows.

    Mosey to the front of the school for COP in “Sara’s corner”. SSH, Don Quixote, Russian Soldiers, Scorpion Kicks. You know, the usual stuff.

    Mosey back to the soccer field and line up facing Cary for 21s. The exercises are Merkins and 4-count American Hammers. Each iteration the anvil made its way down the line allowing the Pax member to sit out a round in order to perform curls. Yes, Merkin fest is next month so why not get a couple hundred in today?

    Over to the adjacent end of the soccer field for the Beast. With this Beast, the anvil comes with us and is passed down the line at each stop. The pax member with the anvil at that time does tricep extensions behind the head. The exercises were APDs, Lt Dans, HRMs, and something else. We got 2/3s of the way done before time was called and off to the VSF.

    Labrat took us out partially due to his choice of footwear.

    Announcements: Faceplant extended an open invitation to a beer mile event tomorrow night. See him for details.

    Time to Taper,

    Lockjaw