Category: Richmond, VA

  • Showbiz Pizza!

    15 Strong Showed up for a Duke Q, but Duke didn’t have a clue what was on the agenda! Either way the PAX was off at 530.

    COP

    SSH x 20

    DQ x 10

    Helicopters x 10

    Imperial Walkers x 20

    Merkins x 10

    LBCs x 20

    Mosey to corner of lot:

    4 Corners

    Round 1 – 5 Burpees, 10 Merkins, 20 Mountain Climbers, 30 SSHs

    Round 2 – 10 Burpees, 20 Merkins, 30 WWIIs, 40 Jump Squats

    Round 3 – 15 burpees, 30 Merkins, 45 Monkey Humpers, 60 Copperhead Squats

    Round 4 – 20 Burpees, 40 Shoulder Taps, 60 LBCs, 80 Box Cutters

    Lunge back for the Pax

    Triple check

    Runner around Parking Lot, Hold 6 inches, and American Hammers

    Mosey to Basketball Courts

    Merkins Sucicide, 5 Merkins at first line, continue up to 20

    1 Sprint length of court and back, AYG!

    Back to the flag.

    Numberama, Namerama, DTH took us out!

    Announcements:

    The Forge on Thursday: Merkin Challenge for the day vs the Anvil, show up if blast some merkins.

    Thanksgiving day : TYA Holiday special at Mary.

    Day after Thanksgiving : TYA Trail Loop, See pre- Blast!

    NMS:

    Strong work today by all! Appreciate the PAX indulging YHC on a Q not planned. The title of the BB comes from Hardywood trying to convince Roper to open a Showbiz pizza up in the lobby of the James Center. Now all I want is bad pizza, skee ball and enough coupons to get a spider ring! Have a great day fellas, like DTH, take your joy and spread it to everyone you come in contact with today!

    Duke

  • Turkey trot the hard way practice

    The Mighty Nein met in the parking lot at DaVille this morning for some Gloom shenanigans. Parking lot tracers to get the blood pumping followed by what promised to be a No Idea and Mudface friendly workout. Neither were in attendance, but we perservered anyways. We made our way over to the middle school track, stopping at the bus parking lot for some warmup COP. It was Beulah’s first bootcamp workout, and second F3 gathering. Good on ya, brother! Hail and well met! We took a minute to give him a proper disclaimer then made our way over to the track for our main event. Opus manned the stop watch and gave us head’s up on our 5 minute times….every 5 minutes we bang out 20 merkins, 20 squats, then continue our way along the track. Beautiful vistas along the way include the canyon of dips, and the towering pullup bars….feel free to pull over and enjoy these majestic wonders at your own speed. After 4 rounds, we gathered back together to make our way back to the unplanted shovel flag by way of burpee indian runs. Timer went off again as we circled up, so 20 more reps called out by Opus.

    It was a beautiful morning, and I have to say it has been too long for me. Time to get back after it.

    Apology of the week goes to all DaVille regulars for being MIA for way too long. Also, Yard Sale for burpee indian runs.

    Lab Rat apologizes…

  • So much for active listening…

    A dirty dozen descended upon U of R to see what happens when the Q-sheet is left open. YHC chose his favorite, fabled 5 fingers route.

    Although I counted 3 who covered the route exactly as prescribed, I learned something today…it doesn’t matter the order of the fingers – just that you get them all in.

    Great work today fellas.

    Saab abides (when able)

  • Add title

    Four assembled for this evening’s Punisher. Mosey to the western side of the school for the startup Quadrilateral of Pain with Mountain Climbers, Rosalitas, Suzanne Somers(es), and Don Quixotes (no SSHs and no Arm Circles).

    Short mosey near the outdoor classroom for Progressive Alphabet. On our backs, we trace the letter A with our feet then hop up and jog to the edge of the garden (about 25 yards) and back. On our backs again for A and B, then run. And so on until A through Z completed.

    Stroll to the edge of the school’s driveway. Complete 10 Merkins at the streetlight, jog as a group to the next streetlight heading north up Hermitage Road and complete 10 more Merkins. Continue north on Hermitage to Claremont, cross Hermitage, and head south, completing 10 Merkins at each light. Stopped at 20 lights total.

    Mosey back across Hermitage to the side of the school for Squat Ring of Fire. One guy holds a low Squat while the others, in Al Gore position, count down from 30. Make one round then return to the parking lot for the Square of Trust and YHC took us out. Thanks Lockjaw for the backblast title.

  • New skins, old wine

    A half dozen posted at the southern end of the Libbie Mill Library parking lot for the temporarily relocated GridIron. We exited our vehicles prior to the start time, probably due to some enthusiasm for temporary new grounds, and tried to ignore the cutting northeast wind.

    Advertised as a Hot Potato affair, we followed through with this and everyone had a go. Chum Bucket started with a mosey to the wind-shielded loading dock of the library for the startup COP with SSHs, DQs, Russian Soldiers, and Arm Circles. Moved into a nearby field for five round rotation of 10 Merkins and 10 two count Freddy Mercuries. Hop up and Lunge Walk until time to tag.

    Byproduct took round 2 and ran us south to the grassy area south of the library parking lot. Completed traditional Jack Webb with Merkins and unweighted Overhead Presses. Remained in place and partnered for two rounds of PLTs. Lunge Walk for remaining few minutes.

    Tater ran us down the hill and along the creekside trail. We stopped at a couple of new exercise stations. At the first one, we completed a couple of rounds of Dips alternated with Derkins. At the second one, we completed several rounds of Pull Ups and Chin Ups.

    White Deer brought us back along the trail to the high point of the hill and had us pull large rocks from the drainage basin. We tossed these stones into the nearby grass, Bear Crawled to the tossed stone, and tossed it again. After a couple of rounds of this, we turned and worked our way back, tossing a few more times and completing Overhead Presses, Weighted Squats, and Curls a couple of times, too. We returned our stones to the basin.

    Attila took us back to the library via mosey. We completed some Pickle Pounders adjacent to the library building and resumed our mosey to the middle of the parking lot where, after a round of Tracers, we completed Burpees in each space across one column of parking followed by WWII Sit Ups, then we repeated the same.

    Johnsonville finished at the loading dock with a triple check involving People’s Chair, Merkins, and a mosey down the parking lot and back. We returned to the vehicles, circled up, and Attila took us out.

    Coffee at Crafted in the Libbie Mill development afterwards. Good food and coffee and the heating system works well. Most of us hit Fauquier Avenue in the City’s Bellevue neighborhood where we saw Blue Moon at mile 22 of his marathon. Nice work pushing through Blue Moon. The extended fellowship was fun. Johnsonville makes a nice Bloody Mary. Sorry if I missed something guys.

  • Do Your Thing

    Sunday trails were beautiful, and everybody did what suited them best. ET’s was the usual gathering place post run for muffins and hot beverages.

    Lab Rat apologizes…

  • Tomato Run at the Farm House

    4 regulars and 1 FNG showed up for a cool morning run. Mud Face did his usual route around the schools. The rest of us 4 ran to kings charter neighborhood around the farm house and returned. Marco Polo wanted to get an additional mile so he ran to cul de sac in Honey Meadows and back behind the schools to our starting point where the remaining 3 we ran to the front of the schools and completed 4.25 miles.

    Numberama, Namerama and we welcomed our new person Rhett Rutman who is an Elementary PE Teacher and we came up with Beulah (the famous gym teacher from the movie Porky’s.) Beulah – Welcome to F3 and look forward to seeing you again in the gloom. Cheers, CB

  • Group of Three at Batteau

    I’m pretty sure there’s a way to say this in French, but it escapes me right now. Anyways, three gloom warriors posted at the Stone House for some boat-ification, and here’s how it went:

    COP: Don Quixote x 10, Imperial Walkers x 10, Moroccan Nightclubs x 20, Arm Circles (big) x 10 forward then reverso, Copperhead Squats x 10, Cherry Pickers x 10, Indiginous Peeps mosey past the tennis courts to the steps for

    Thang 1: Grab a coupon and partner up. PAX 1: put coupon down (sweet!) Bernie Sanders to first light pole, forward sprint to second light pole, Bernie Sanders back to first light pole, forward sprint to steps. PAX 2: don’t put coupon down (%^#@!), American Hammers until PAX 1 returns. Flapjack. Set 2: Coupon Squat Presses. Set 3: Coupon Curls. Down the steps for:

    Thang 2: Tour de Batteau: starting at gazebo/pavilion/boat place, Bear Crawl to first light pole, Burpee x 1. Lunge to second light pole, Burpees x 2. Bernie Sanders to third light pole, Burpees x 3. etc. Turns out there are ten light poles… and some are really REALLY far apart. IP run up the path for:

    4.5MOM (sort of): Freddie Mercuries x 20, Hot Potato Merkins: Dmint: Hand Release x 10, Swirly: Close Grip x 10, Sippy: Wide Grip x 10.

    COT: Announcements, prayer request for Dmint Sr. who is back in hospital for more bladder/kidney surgery, and YHC took us out. Strong work as always gents.

    SYITG

    Doublemint

  • Chilly but Great way to Start the week!

    With no Q on the sheet, Honeymoon suggest the PAX run to Independence Golf course and back. So thats what we did. Awesome work fellas!

  • Sunday Funday

    Some ran, Some Walked. Fun Fellowship and Bad Coffee were had! Strong Sunday Fellas.