Category: Richmond, VA

  • Simple as that, Déjà vu

    2 posted.

    2 ran.

    5 miles.

  • The Trend continues

    The Thang

    Run around the back of Hanover High School, front of Oak Knoll Middle School, right on Old Landsdown Rd, right on Fort Meyers Rd, run until it ends, turn around run back, another right on Old Landsdown, left on Patrick Henry Blvd, reverse at 301 all the way to the end of Patrick Henry and back to the flag for a nice 4.7 miles.

    Moleskin

    YHC has had some challenges lately with getting lost on runs. Today was going to be different. The weather was great, legs were tired and going to an AO for the first time with new men is always a boost. Well, if there was a PAX at the AO this would have all been true. Leaving the homestead at 0430 for the 50 minutes trip to Tomato Run, YHC goes to the www.F3RVA.com site, clicks the link and follows Google Maps to what YHC believed to be the AO. YHC did notice the high school said Hanover High. That’s ok, I double check Google Maps and it shows I’m 350 feet from the location. Not being familiar with the schools from the suburbs this close to Washington DC YHC assumes Atlee & Hanover are same and searches for other members of the PAX, but to no avail.

    Update: It looks like there may have been some sort of senior prank between Atlee & Hanover. It looks like YHC was the beneficiary and will have to catch the real Tomato Run another day!

  • “Soooo… Single Count?”

    As DTH continues his Summer Q Tour, a holy 7 brothers of the star spangled cloth gathered for their daily dose of flagellation. Here’s how they applied the whip:

    The THANG:

    Mosey to pick-up loop for COP #1:

    • Imperial Squat Walkers x10
    • Hairy Rockettes x10
    • DQ’s x10
    • Chilly Jacks (elbow plankjacks) x10
    • DR.W’s x10

    Mosey to church lot for COP #2:

    • DirtyMacDeuce – x4 Sets separated by crossing the space, each set with x3 exercises (chest, legs, core), x12 reps for each exercise
    • Bear crawl to cross lot
    • Exercises: Dive-Bomber Merkins, Ball Dippers, & WWII’s
    • ABC’s for the SIX

    Mosey back to school blacktop for COP #3:

    • Burp&Groin Pyramid – Add 1 Groiner per Burpee, going up from 1-10
    • Audible to Plank Jacks to for coming back down 9-1
    • Al Gore for the SIX

    Mosey up to the Field for COP #4:

    • Circle up for Captain Thor In-Cadence
    • x1WW2 then x4 AmHam …escalate 2:8, 3:12, 4:16, 5:20… uuuggghhhh
    • Exhausted, PAX skipped to complete 10:40, with the AmHam’s as single count

    Mosey over to the Bars for COP #5:

    • Complete x30 pull-ups & x30 jerkins OYO in whatever order desired

    Mosey back to the field for COP #4.5 to complete the Captain Thor:

    • 6:24, 7:28, 8:32, 9:36
    • “Yes Bodos…single count…”

    Mosey Back to the Flag for Mary:

    • No Cheat Merkins x10 IC
    • Flutters x40 IC to run down the clock

    COT:

    • Counterama #7
    • Namerama
    • Announcerama (see Comments)
    • YHC took us out in Prayer

    NMS: 

    • Good times with the Hoedown crew & guest Poppa Smurf, keeping it real with some fresh DTH Exicon fun… Hairy Rockettes are the inverse of DQ’s – not a bad Ham stretch actually. YHC had planned a neighborhood mosey to Tuckahoe Park for the Dirty MacDeuce, but a brief drive-by revealed no access from nearby Lindsey Court Rd…oh well. Maybe some future runner-loving Q can take their PAX the long way around. But anyway, the DMD, BurpGroin Pyramid, and Escalating Captain Thor’s all proved sufficiently challenging. So, flagellation successful! Make it a GREAT day gentlemen. 

  • Summer Tour with no Chum!

    3 SOJ summer tour warriors departed New Market this morning to get a beatdown Chum at Punisher! Only problem, No Chum and no other PAX! After a few Circles around the AO to explore it was a Hot potato Q between the PAX.

    Running – Merkins – Dips – Pullups- more running, good work fellas. Work calls so short BB for today.

    SYITG

    Marmaduke

  • Ghost Flag at WDog

    Ghost Flag at WDog

    Since the Q was open this week for WDog there will be a takeover from the DaVille PAX. The ghost will be there as well

    Come get it fellas!!

  • OTB Run

    Great morning for a run or a walk as the sunrise was on point this AM.

    4 runners got 6.4 miles
    1 runner got 5.5 miles
    3 walkers got 3.5 miles on the hills

    Always good time and good company for coffee after. Call out for Offshore crushing the summer tour and completing the whole tour in 1 month!! Good to see you post even though you had OTB completed. Strong work!

  • Daville Takeover?

    9 Davillians and a Shakedown showed up for trail day! Most were looking for a shorter route for various reasons this morning, so we opted for an out and back to Reedy Creek with optional Lariats. Phonics was lamenting about days gone by swimming in the river, so we did that, too. Tomato run looks to be crowded tomorrow!

    Welcome to FNG’s Shank (as in the prison type) and G. Love!

    Rumor has it that TYA, Flipper and Lug got in 10 early miles, and a possible Whistle Blower siting. I’ll let them write their own bb, though.

  • Back in the Saddle

    After 2 weeks on the road, YHC was eager to jump back in the saddle.  A PAX of 10 noble warriors locked arms to battle the Gridiron.  Here is how it went down:

    • COP
      • 25 SSH
      • 15 IW
      • 12 DQ
      • 10 2x merkins
      • 30 2x LBC
      • 12 Suzanne Somers
      • 10 scorpion kicks
    • Mosey to the grassy knoll of 11 minutes of burpess
    • Mosey the pavilion for an 11 – 2x boxing cockroaches and decline merkins
    • Mosey to the softball field for a modified arch loader
      • Animal crawl/walk from RF line to CF – bear crawl, crab walk, duck walk, bunny hop
      • Karaoke to LF line – 25 WWII sit-ups
      • Karaoke to CF and run back to RF line
    • Indian run to football field for a series of 100 yard dashes
    • COP with YHC taking us out

    It was good to be with the PAX this morning after being out of town for 2 weeks.  YHC correspondent spent 11+ hours in a car yesterday.  Hence the theme of 11 for the 1st half of the workout.  For the PAX, solid work by all.  It was good to see my brothers today, with some solid fellowship afterwards at Einstein’s. 

    T-claps to Byproduct for holding down the fort over the last 2 weeks. Solid work with 2 theme workouts.

    Reminder that the RVA PAX will be celebrating the 4th of July with a convergence at Tredegar Iron Works on Thursday at 7 am.  Be there, aloha!

    God is good all of the time!

    Attila

  • Time is Winding Down at The Church for The Creek

    Warm Up – Side Straddle Hops, Hand Release Merkins, LBC’s, Don Quixote’s

    Mosey to the Field For a Wilt – Two times around the field doing 50 of each of the corners (total 100 each exercise) – LBC’s, Flutter Kicks, SSH’s and Skull Crushers.

    Mosey to the parking lot.  4 Corners of The Church – 10 Bobby Hurley’s, 10 Merkins, 10 Mountain Climbers, 10 WWII Situps.  Plank and wait for the six.  When running between the corners, always face the west woods.  Go around again doing 20 of each.  Plank up and wait for the six. 

    Indian Run until we got back near the cell tower/bell tower.

    Tunnel of Love from bell tower back to the flag.  We had 1 minute left so we did a few boat/canoe’s until 6:15. 

    Numberama, Namerama, Announcements – group going to Dog Pile tomorrow. A lot of guys are traveling to all of the sites this summer – it’s not to late to start.  (There were probably others but I don’t remember).

     Yard Sale took us out with a quick prayer.    As always – it was my pleasure and absolutely the best way to start a day.

  • “Daddy, it’s Push Yourself, Don’t Hurt Yourself.”

    A hearty 26 1.0s and 2.0s descended on Dogwood Dell for the WTBS SuperStation 7:05 start of Puppy Pile on the first Saturday in July, which today happened to be the last Saturday in June. Due to a team building email from Marv for his Little League All Star team, we had a good amount of FNGs that are preparing to take on the likes of Tuckahoe, Huguenot, Mechanicsville and more starting next week.

    The Thang:

    Mosey to the big circle west of the Carrilion. Our good friends at the City of Richmond haven’t mowed that grass for awhile…kind of reminds the QHC of his current yard status.

    COP

    Fifteen Side Straddle Hops. Ten Donald Quixotes. Ten Imperial Walkder. Fifteen arm circles, forward and fifteen backwards (don’t drop your arms). Ten Hillbillies. Five ‘mercans.

    Mosey to the big field (called Mr. Tumnus’s field. A few years ago I was walking back to my car with some friends after a concert at Dogwood. My friend was complaining that Dogwood Dell could be better, more engaging with more things to look at…”like a statue park” he said. I replied “Like Mr. Tumnus and the animals in the Lion, the witch and the wardrobe?” Anyway…

    Partner carries back and forth to the end of the field. Two sets. If a 1.0 had 2 X 2.0’s then he carried one to the end and the other back. This is not easy no matter the 2.0 size. Also, should be noted, it may be easier to carry a 170lb dude who is holding on tight than an 80lb dude who is just acting as dead weight.

    Mosey to the south side of the Carrillon.

    We played HTF. Or…Hide the Frisbee. 1.0s would take two frisbees and hide them behind trees while 2.0s would do LBCs. Upon the finishing of the hiding the 2.0s would go look. When they went to a tree that didn’t have the frisbee, they were required to do 5 Side Straddle Hops. They were really bad at following this particular instruction.

    We then played HTD….or Hide the Dad. Dad’s would hide behind the trees and 2.0s would come find. If they came to a tree that wasn’t their 1.0, they owed 5 SSHs. Again, not all that compliant.

    Fifteen monkey squats when we returned to the home base. The Q was then flipped to Sippy Cup.

    Sippy Cup takes us back to Mr. Tumnus’ field and sets out four cones.

    1st Cone-Crabwalk and Back

    2nd Cone–Bear Crawl and back

    3rd Cone–Bunny Hop and Back

    4th Cone–Sprint and back

    Four different legs…do whatever you didn’t do the last time so you complete all four. (Bunny hopping 30yards and back is a bit of a grind).

    Break Out the Whammo. Toss the whammo and run until it hits the ground (staying in the Tumnus Field). Once it hits the ground you have to do an exercise until you get there. Exercises (in no particular order)— Skip, Frog Hop, Bunny Hop, Sprint.

    Mosey to the roundabout east of the Carrilon. Circle up shoulder to shoulder in plank position. Cup, Sippy gives instructions on moving forward, right, left, back…all whilst planking.

    Then the 1.0s lineup to install a 2.0 Tunnel of Love Army Crawl style. Activate that.

    “The Farmer and the Dell” is playing tonight in the amphitheater…to celebrate there were random cutouts of wooden vegetables around the roundabout (and some fruit as well). 2.0s and 1.0s had to find their favorite food and take a lap around. Then had to do it again…get to their favorite food..then another lap to their least favorite food. (QHC did cucumbers and cabbage. How everyone didn’t end up on cabbage, I’m not sure).

    Back to the flag for a ring of fire of 10 mercans.

    As much as I love all the Qs…or at least all of the ones I’ve been to…none of them compare to the 2.0 workout. To get the kids out there having fun, exercising, pushing themselves and spending time with their 1.0 is the highlight of the week. Thanks to all the guys who showed up today, I hope your brood enjoyed it as much as mine did.

    PostGame Notes–

    Congrats to Splinter’s son’s Little League all star team. They won the prestigious District 5 10 year old tournament and will now advance to the state tournament in a few weeks in Norfolk.

    Hahahaha, very funny on all the comments below about me writing up a backblast.

    Splinter and I both enjoyed our little tour of SOJ this week…ya’ll were right nice to host us. It started off by just us wanting to get a run in and also home run derby…after Splinter’s LL team kept winning…we decided we couldn’t break the streak. Plus, we were fascinated by the rotting carcass of the deer on Huguenot road. Originally the thought was to stand it’s rigor mortis-ed body up in the median with an F3 shirt on. That plan was punted and then we just couldn’t wait to see how much it had rotted. Anyway, thanks for the SOJ hospitality.

    Finally, and I can’t believe it was my Q that it happened…but was told afterwards by Fudd that “this was it.” This was truly his last F3 in Richmond, at least as someone that wasn’t truly visiting. What can we say about Fudd that hasn’t already been said? Obviously he is a terrific father and a really good friend. Considering my only interactions with Fudd, really, have been between 5:30 and 6:15 in the morning, it’s incredible how many funny memories I have of him. Fudd, may you and your family bloom where you are transplanted in Denver. Best of luck out west and don’t be a stranger.