Category: Richmond, VA

  • Frosty Mary

    13 strong posted to Mary this morning and here is how it went down.

    Mossy – warm up – SSH’s Iw’s, scorpion kicks , LBC’s.

    Black Top : Polar bears to the fence – 10 donkey kicks lunge back – bear crawl to fence 10. donkey kicks sprint back. Teams of three for a triple check run the perimeter of the black top – merkins – LT. Dans .

    Track: partner up – run opposite ways meet up – 10 booyah merkins – run to finish line 10 booyah merkins . Repeat run opposite way – exercise 10 plerkins – run to finish line – 10 plerkins .

    Pull up bars/ rings : partner up – 1 start at pull up bars 5 pull ups other partner at the ring bars – 5 pull up crunches – repeat for 10 minutes .

    Benches : partner up : partner 1 Abyss merkins partner 2 run to the dip bars – 10 dips run back to partner – two times.

    Curb : 20 Rocky style foot taps – drop – 20 merkins

    Mossy to the flag.

    Great job guys – thanks for letting me lead. Glad to see Saabski back in RVA! Best wishes to Lugnut in his upcoming race – you’re ready buddy go gettem! Thanks to Bodo’s for taking us out this morning and to Bleeder for recording the pax.

    See y’all in the gloom

  • For Those About to Rock………………..

    7 cold weather warriors ignored the 20 degree temperature for the latest 45 minutes of madness known as The Forge. Tobit was the hero that we all need, rocking the shorts. Lots of mustache mumble chatter to kick things off. Apparently, several members of our brethren have been mistakenly identified as pedophiles or old west characters. That’s messed up!

    Today’s Q was not inspired by a bible verse – but rather that snarled, cartoonish face of Raider’s coach Jon “Chucky” Gruden, saying “You gotta pound that rock!” It is football season, after all.

    Pax all grabbed a rock out of the Chaplain mobile and moseyed down to the amphitheater.

    Warm Up: Don Quixotes, Cherry Pickers, Arm Circles, Alabama Prom Dates, Wilson’s Wife, Plank Stretches.

    COP #1

    Partner up:
    Round 1: Partner One does box jumps to the top of the amphitheater, 30 monkey humpers, run down the stairs. Partner Two does Merkins of choice.

    Round 2: Partner One – box jumps followed by 30 ball dippers, return. Partner Two – chicken peckers.

    Round 3 – Partner One – box jumps followed by 30 squats, return. Partner Two – flutter kicks.

    Fresh Prince went to grab a rock.
    Other PAX circled up for Failure to Launch with 5 second countdown between jumps. Completed 3 circles.

    Mosey to the soccer field for COP #2

    Partner Up –

    Rd. 1 – Partner One runs the length of the soccer field (with rock), side shuffle across, Bernie Sanders back, side shuffle to home. Partner two completes rock overhead presses for the duration.

    Rd. 2 – Partner One runs the length of the soccer field (with rock), side shuffle across, Bernie Sanders back, side shuffle to home. Partner two completes squats for the duration.

    Rd. 3 – Partner One runs the length of the soccer field (with rock), side shuffle across, Bernie Sanders back, side shuffle to home. Partner two completes rock WWII sit ups for the duration.

    Rd. 4 – Partner One runs the length of the soccer field (with rock), side shuffle across, Bernie Sanders back, side shuffle to home. Partner two completes rock tricep extensions for the duration.

    Indigenous Peoples run around the school, with person in back doing 2 burpies, then running to the front

    Stop at the curb circle and do a curb crawl, with person in back doing 2 burpies, then running to the front.

    COP 3

    From the base of Mt. Chaplain – complete 10 Merkins at each parking lot (DTH’s suggestion), 50 calf raises at the summit, 50 rock LBC’s at the base. Mosey back to the flag.

    Counterama, Namerama,

    Announcements:
    discussed the mustache challenge
    Merkin Challenge next week at the Forge – shooting for 900. May be an alternative workout for those who are interest.

    P Trap took us out in prayer.

  • Beware of black ice

    4 fools saw the 24 degree forecast and said why not, to post at 5 am. With the all PAX SOP we got moving:

    COP: SSH, Don Qs, Merkins, Helicopters, Russian Soldiers, Scorpion Kicks (Kubotas call), and LBCs.

    Kubota Q: Run the Grassy triangle with 10 Merkins at each corner. Backwards run the long section. Repeato 3 xs (?). Then 3 rounds of 20 PLTs.

    Mosey over to RRCB lot. Wheelbarrow up & down lot.

    EF Hutton Q: Dora 123 of HRMs, Mtn Climbers, & LBCs.

    Handshake Q: 4 Corners (escalating) of 15 HRMs, 25 WWIIs, 35 Jump squats, & 45 SSHs. Honeydo Q with 87 seconds left – back to flag for 6 inches (Hooooolllllddddd it!) YHC took us out.

    NMS – Cold temps but beautiful morning with full moon and dry ground. Only a handful of icy spots in the parking lot. Best sight at 5 am is 8 bare knees in the gloom. 3 of the PAX were sporting winter beards (kubota just barely) so faces were warm.

    This new AO is headlamp recommended but not required. Wasn’t needed this morning as we did not tackle south ridge hill. EF Hutton was a gentleman and turned his lamp off before he started knocking out his PLTs. Any view seen during the PLTs need to remember the Seinfeld quote “There was shrinkage”

    Day 2 of YHC getting handed the Hot Potato at the last second and getting stuck with the BB.

    Handshake hit us up with 60 HRMs not 5 minutes after us doing 100 HRMs during the Dora. Total Merkin count for the morning was about 200. Week 3 of this experiment makes this “Kubota’s Sanity Check” workout a success.

  • Fall Frost

    7 strong posted for WDOG this morning and here is how it went down.

    Mossy – warm up – SSH’s Windmills, IW’s Merkins, planks.

    Pump house hill : partner up – 1 partner run the hill – other partner exercise – repeat 3 times – exercises – LBC’s , Merkins, LT. Dans

    Mossy to pipe loop entrance : Partner up – 3 sets of 20 Wilson’s boxing cockroach .

    Hike up the pipe loop – Sippy lead the way with the dong light – Vinny @ the six with the headlamp – proceed to the Rusty Cage .

    Rusty Cage : 5 pull ups – 7 jerkins – 10 dips on the tire – 3 sets

    Mossy – Amp Theatre : 2 incline merkins at each step to the top

    Mossy to the Flag – Ring of Fire : 5 merkins each pax member choose a style – everyone does them all the way around the circle.

    Beautiful cold morning – been a while since we have been out in that kinda weather – felt great ! Awesome to see my man Vinny back out in the gloom today – keep getting better buddy.

    Thanks for allowing me to lead this morning guys – way to push !

  • “Can’t you hear me knockin’…”

    “Can’t you hear me knockin’…”

    Five gloom warriors – some in shorts – braved the arctic blast for a Source of Truthiness beatdown. Here’s how it went:

    COP: Mosey to the parking lot, DQ x 10, SSH x 20, Moroccan Nightclubs x 30, Cherry Pickers x 19, Freddie Mercuries x 20

    Thang 1: IP run to the track for Catch Me if You Can – partner up and PAX 1 does 5 merkins while PAX 2 goes Bernie Sanders, flapjack until one track lap completed.

    Thang 2: Muster on the goal line of the football field, bear crawl to the 25 yard line and do 25 WWIIs; bear crawl to the 50 yard line and do 25 WWIIs + 25 squats; on to the 75 yard line and add 25 LBCs; finish at the far goal line with 25 WWIIs + 25 squats + 25 LBCs + 25 merkins.

    Thang 3: Mosey to the track building entrance for Jacob’s Ladder. Run up the hill + 1 burpee and run down. Back up the hill + 2 burpees etc. to 7 burpees. This really sucked.

    Thang 4: Mosey to the side entrance of the school building for a Dora-ish happy ending. Partner up and PAX 1 runs to mechanical room door (scaring the bejesus out of the school maintenance crew in the process) and back, while PAX 2 busts out merkins x 100, flutter kicks x 200, squats x 300; flapjack — called for time. Mosey to the flag for –

    COT: Numberama, nameorama and YHC took us out.

    NMMS: Not gonna lie, that was cold AF. Almost would rather stay fat …

  • Keeping up with the Joneses, wait, I mean Marco Polo

    4 men came out for the weekly morning run. No Idea and Mud Face split off and did their thing around the school. Marco Polo and Trout went out for a 4 mile run. Went over the bridge into Rutland, stopped by Bojangles for a chicken biscuit, then ran through the neighborhoods, look at the picture below for more details of route…coming back over the bridge Marco Polo told Trout we only had .25 miles to get 5 miles, I didnt questions his watch but I really think we had more in the range of .75 but whose counting. Finishing up with 5 miles and will not be able to walk right the rest of the week….

  • Red Barchetta @ Daville

    COP

    YHC was looking for some workout ideas and came across this gem the Red Barchetta and as a Rush fan and drummer had to use this routine today, in fact we did a cool down version too! For the younger men, this is perhaps one of the best Rush songs on the album Moving Pictures and true to the Lyrics tell an awesome story. So here is how it went down:

    Mosey to the front yard of Atlee HS circled up for the introductions and started with 20 SSH, 10 slow DQ’s, 10 small arm circles 5 big, reverso and thank you Emoji for helping on this, 20 Freddie Mercuries, 10 Scorpions and 15 4 count Merkins (30 at warm up)

    The THANG

    The Red Barchetta – YHC had the PAX take 3 lanterns and set them up at the 25 yard, 50 yard and 100 yard marks and return to the starting line. We ran to the 100 yard mark and did 100 SSH, returned to starting line and held plank for the six, ran to the 75 yard line and did 75 mountain climbers, returned to the starting line and planked for the six, ran to the 50 yard line and did 50 LBC’s returned to the starting line and planked for the six. Ran 25 Yard and did 25 merkins, ran 10 start planked ran to 10 yard line 10 merkins and returned to start. (Total Merkins 35)

    We then moseyed over to the side walk for super 21’s where we did one merkin, one LBC, two merkins , Two LBC’s on up to 10 merkins and 10 LBC’s. (This totaled 55 Merkins.)

    We then moseyed to bus loop and back to starting line of Red Barchetta and divided into 2 four man groups, 2 men from each group ran to the opposite 100 yard line and back while the other two performed partner leg tosses, runners ran back again to 100 yard mark and back as the other partners switched PLT’s for the second run. Then runners did PLT’s while their two team mates did the running for two trips. We did this 3 times for a triple check.

    We moseyed to the side walk for another round of super 21’s 1 to 10 LBC’s and Merkins. ( total 55 Merkins.)

    We moseyed to Starting line for a cool down and ran to 100 yard line 25 SSH and returned, ran to 75 yard line for 50 mountain climbers and returned, 25 yard line for 20 merkins and returned, 10 yard line 10 merkins (total 30 merkins).

    We policed up the lights by running to first light (25 yard line and did 25 overhead claps.

    50 yard line and 20 LBCs

    75 yard line and 25 squats

    Ran back to flag for MARY and COT We cranked out 205 Merkins!

    COT

    Numberama, Namerama looking forward to a great week, you men did well today and it is always an honor to lead you guys.

    YHC took us out and I will see you all in the Gloom! CB

  • A Rare Hot Potato at HBR

    6 PAX were looking around at 5:30 perplexed by two unusual things: an open Q slot at Heartbreak Ridge and 65 degree weather on a morning where it was supposed to be snowing. Atilla took the reins and off we went:

    COP: SSH, Don Qs, Hillbillies, HRMs, APDs, Helicopters. Mosey over to tennis courts: 3 rounds of Wheelbarrow to net, 10 Derkins each man. Pass Q to Handshake, who took us down to football field for a “Bea” or abbreviated beast of: Merkins, WWIIs, and Burpees. Q passed to Lighthouse: Head over to Jerkin Gym- fake, stop at end of field & partner up: 1 man runs lap while other does LBCs. 3 Laps.

    Q passed to Honeydo – 1 minute left so back to flag & some Heels2Heaven.

    NMS YHC knew the Q sheet was open last night but assumed some generous PAX member would step up. Instead we “Batteau’ed” it up with a Hot Potato. Atilla got us going. Handshake made the pax call out Burpees on the 3rd round. Lighthouse seems to like running by his short Q portion, pax be warned. Good to have Seymour back out, apparently boxing is a young non-professional man’s sport…

    Squeeker is fast, that is all.

  • Feeding Chestosaurus Rex

    A devoted 13 Jurassic game wardens posted in the NoToll gloom to wrangle the voracious merkin-hungry beast. Here’s how we served breakfast to Chestosaurus Rex!

    The THANG:

    Warmerama on the Bball Courts:

    • Merkincides – x5 Merkins at each line, x5 rounds completed
    • (Total x100 Merkins)

    Mosey to the lush turf for COP #1:

    • Shovel Flag Planted
    • Welcome & F3 Disclaimer
    • DQ’s x10 IC
    • x20 Merkins OYO
    • Hairy Rockettes x10 IC
    • x20 Merkins OYO
    • Arm Circles x40 IC
    • x20 Merkins OYO
    • Copperhead Squats x10 IC
    • x20 Merkins OYO
    • DTH’s x10 IC
    • x20 Merkins OYO
    • (Another x100 Merkins = x200 Total)

    Mosey to Bleachers for COP #2:

    • Partner up for Dora 1-2-3
    • x100 Box Jumps
    • x200 Incline Merkins
    • x300 Flutter Kicks (2-count)
    • Moving partner runs across field and back to switch out 
    • (Add ~100 M each = x300 Total)

    Mosey to Wooden Posts for COP #3:

    • Triple Check
    • P1: Pole Smokers
    • P2: Lt Dans
    • P3: Drop and complete x10 Merkins, sprint to the other side of parking lot, drop for x10 Merkins, sprint back to switch positions
    • (Add x60 Merkins = x360 Total)

    Mosey BTTF:

    • x10 Merkins OYO
    • LBC’s x10 IC
    • x10 Merkins OYO
    • APD’s x10 IC
    • x10 Merkins OYO
    • Sweat Angels x10 IC
    • x10 Merkins OYO
    • Am.Ham’s x20 IC
    • (A final x40 Merkins = x400 Total)

    COT:

    • Counterama #13
    • Namerama
    • Announcerama (see Comments)
    • Fresh Prince took us out in Prayer

    NMS: 

    • The rain held off for the faithful this morning, and whatever merkin goals have been set were met for the day. Thanks be to God!

  • Sippy’s Stolen Route

    Fourteen fleet a foot plus one on two wheels and birkenstocks huddled and waiting for rain that never happened. After some finger pointing as to who had the Q, YHC proclaimed he grabbed it last night. Routes were as follows and then a prompt 0530 departure courtesy of TYA.

    Routes
    Meander through campus towards the River Road exit, crossing through the shopping center and across the bridge. 4 milers complete the cloverleaf and then return. 5 and 6 milers go downriver (east). 5s take the first right onto Oxford and then another RIGHT onto Arrowhead. Continue up to Cherokee and return via the same path. 6s continue on Riverside then right onto Rockfalls followed by a slight left onto Hill Rd. Continue to the top near Lewis and return the same way.

    Numbers, names, 2 announcements from TYA + 1 proxy announcement from TYA before YHC took us out.

    Moleskin
    Wonderful morning for a run, with fall temperatures sticking with us long enough to get a run in. Energy level was high and the 6 milers shot out like a gaggle of geese during hunting season. Great work to all.

    Sippy disclosed post run that he was planning a route across the bridge and through Oxford but YHC beat him to it. Apologies but there are plenty of opportunities coming up to do a little exploration.

    Announcements

    • It’s Saab’s birthday and he’s celebrating in his favorite place on earth (Vegas)
    • Black Friday loops in Forest Hill Park. 7am start. See TYA for deets.
    • Lug is going to crush the half marathon this weekend. Give him some kudos when you see him

    Always fun guys. See you soon.

    Splinter out.