2 DaVille Ruckers made their way through the 10+ inches of snow to enjoy a stroll through the winter wonderland.
Mumble Chatter was not in short supply with LabRat present. Everything from the snow to current shows everyone was watching was discuss. All we solved all life problems so your welcome.
A loop around the schools and a few roundabouts to get in 2.67 miles in 50 minutes.
What started out as an Awesome Eight evolved into a Fine Nine with Mr Holland LIFO’d in.
Mosey to the Horseshoe for COP.
Over the the edge of the horseshoe and wheelbarrow across the infield. 5 Derkins and reverse with partner for the return trip.
Triple Check! – Partner 1 high knees around the horseshoe, Partner 2 does Donkey Kicks, Partner 3 does Flutter Kicks.
Over the teacher’s lot adjacent to Lindsay for Lindsays.
Back to the playground field where Mr. Holland mysteriously joined us. Divide into two teams for some football.
The Moleskin
The combo of HRM and Freddie Mercuries made some nice snow angels. The snow was like a bean bag providing ample lumbar support during the American Hammers. We left our mark this morning.
The reflection from the snow provided more than ample light for some football. The score was somewhat lopsided, but we were making a comeback.
Upon Mr Holland’s arrival at 6:00, he informed us that he had been to Betty Weaver and back this morning. Looks like there were no fresh tracks in or out of that AO, so he decided to post where there is a guarantee of no cancellation; Hoedown.
Years before there was Hoedown, some of us met up there in late 2015 or early 2016 for a snow workout. I remember Honeydo, Saab, and TYA were present as well. Nothing like merkins in the middle of a main road with no traffic in sight.
Snow Days are the best days to post. Challenges getting to the AO, cold temps, and wet boots only add to the experience and the memories.
Time to Taper,
Lockjaw
No sad clown syndrome for 7 noble warriors. The cold weather would not deter the PAX from attacking the morning with an enthusiasm unbeknownst to the rest of mankind. Here is how it went down:
Welcome back Offshore! Good to get you back in the fold. As usual, strong work from Johnsonville after a week of strenuous workouts that were solely focused on testing his liver function. No burpee inducing upchucking in his return to the Gridiron. Adderall continues push the PAX and his own personal limits. Quest continues to be steady and consistent.
For the record, White Deer did not do crab cakes during the cumulative beast. They were some variation of a dead cockroach.
YHC had some unfortunate advice for the PAX. All PAX should be careful not to lick the jerkin pole in this cold weather. Just let that settle in.
As for the 3rd F at Einstein’s, the PAX was grateful to see our brother Earthworm return for some great fellowship. His body might be recovering, but his mind remains highly conservative and highly opinionated. Never a dull moment with our brother. Good to see you Earthworm! Do not be a stranger.
God is good all of the time!
Attila
37 Gladiators of the Gloom faced cold weather and certain beat down for the following, more or less.
Mosey to the first traffic circle for COP:
Over to the amphitheater:
Jog on back to the Rusty Cage. 5 Pullups, 10 Dips, run to the fire hydrant and do 20 scissor kicks. Three times through.
Partner up for Jerkins – 4 sets of 7.
Over to the Penny Stage, home base of Touch a Tree
Captain Thor Pyramids with a 1:4 ratio of WWII and 2 count American Hammers – 1:4, 2:8, 3:12, 4:16, 5:20, 4: 16, 3:12, 2:8, 1:4
Off on a nice jog across the Carillon field for Pole Smokers. Seven Heels to Heaven and then run down the line while the Pax perform 6 inches or 90 degrees.
YHC took us out.
Announcements:
I may have missed a couple of names. Let me know.
Time to Taper,
Lockjaw
Six men broke loose from the strong grips of the fartsack this morning to face the Twin Team Beast. Here’s what went down:
Mosey to Twin Team hill for a short COP:
SSH x 30
DQ x 15
All stretched out and blood pumping, the PAX was ready (or not) for YHCs beast modification for Twin Team hill. With the help of two flashing running lights planted half-way and all-the-way up Twin Team, four rounds of the beast followed:
Round 1: Run half-way up Twin Team (to first flashing light) and perform 10 merkins; run the rest of the way up Twin Team (to second flashing light), 10 merkins; run back to half-way point, 10 merkins; run all the way back to the bottom, 10 merkins, plank for the six
Round 2: Repeat with squats
Round 3: WWIIs
Round 4: Two-count flutter kicks
With no time remaining for rounds 5 and 6, mosey back to Bettie Weaver for a burpee ring-of-fire.
Numbers, names, announcements, and YHC took us out.
Announcements:
NMS: 5:30 arrives and YHC points the PAX to Twin Team hill. Noticeable groans followed, but YHC was undeterred. Despite being the namesake of the AO, Twin Team hill has been neglected as of late. Yes, it’s dark over there…but YHC really felt that the hill deserved some attention. Hearing this, Gumbo said that we should just rename the AO “Flat Ground”. YHC has mixed feelings.
Although 6 rounds were planned, only 4 actually happened before time ran out. YHC introduced the Twin Team modified beast at a hot potato Q a while back…we made it through 2 rounds before passing the Q. With 4 rounds done today, I’m thinking we’ll hit all 6 next time.
As typical for a beast, the final round was to include burpees. Since that didn’t happen, a burpee ring of fire was called. Mumblechatter was somewhat light given the amount of oxygen required to climb Twin Team….although some (perhaps well warranted) grumbling could still be heard. The PAX persevered and crushed it as always.
Thanks to Flange for making an appearance after seeing YHC on the Q sheet…much appreciated…and enjoyed the conversation.
Great work today fellas!
Peace…I’m out!
11 Davillians descended on The Creek to further our fellowship and honor those men and women who died on this day many years ago at Pearl Harbor. This is how we toiled.
COP: 15 SSH 10 merkins 10 DQ 15 arm circles, small and big 17 LBC’s for a total of 77 reps, as it was 77 years ago today that the Naval base at Pearl Harbor, along with Army Air Force fields (Hickam, et. al.) were attacked, drawing the U.S. into the WW2.
Mosey to bell tower for 4 corners: Run to each corner of the church building, stopping at each for 23 reps of jump squats, boxcutters, merkins and heels to heaven. 23 reps to remember the 23 sets of brothers that died on the USS Arizona that morning.
After planking for the six, it was time for the long lunges! Lunge to first concrete ‘island,’ do 35 LBC’s, run back. Lunge to second island, 35 Freddie Mercurys, run back, lunge to basketball goals, 40 SSH, run back. The total of 110 reps in recognition of the 110 minutes the sailors and soldiers fought back against the Japanese that day.
Mosey to corner of parking lot for lazyish Dora: partner up, one partner lunges and bear crawls around the area, the other partner works on 50 2 count mountain climbers, 50 split jacks, and 69 overhead hand claps while holding peoples chair. Total reps=169, which is the number of American planes destroyed by fighters and bombers.
Parking lot tracers: Do six lines, stop for 10 reps of exercises I now forget, but included burpees as suggested by Spike. 60 reps because 1941 (19+41). Mosey over to curb for 11’s of diamond merkins and appropriately, WW2 situps.
Numberama, namerama, YHC took us out.
NMS
YHC works at the VA hospital, and still sees World War 2 Veterans in clinics and hallways, although less so than in the past. Most of these men are not with us anymore, and so YHC wanted to make sure the PAX had something extra to think about today. It did become clear that by focusing on the numbers and facts, YHC may have been slipshod with the actual exercises, so apologies to the PAX, and thanks for trying to keep me straight. I earned my F3 name again today! Also, note to self, don’t request exercise suggestions from Spike, as after suggesting burpees his other thought was “let’s run a mile!” No thanks, YHC is good! Great job by the PAX today, they crushed it so much YHC had to ad lib the 11’s to fill up the time, so there is no historical footnote for them.
As usual, I have No Idea what I’m doing.
Fifteen by foot and zero by pedal showed for a cold run this morning. YHC called a new route and off we went.
The Route
North on Westmoreland and take a left on Monument to Willow Lawn Drive. Take a left on WLD and then a right on Patterson, and a left on Libbie to Grove. Left on Grove and back to Mary. That concludes it for the 4s.
5s and 6s continue on eastward on Grove. 5s take a left on Sauer to Patterson and take a left. Patterson to Westmoreland and back to the VSF. 6s take a left on Malvern to Monument and take a left. Monument to Westmoreland and back to the VSF.
Shakedown took us out.
Announcements:
Time to Taper (Is there really a time not to?),
Lockjaw
It was cold and the week had taken a toll on a pair of rugged warriors, but that was not going to stop us. Here is how it went down:
Not going to lie, today was one of those days we had to grind through. White Deer joined YHC is just gutting it out. The PAX was not in top form, but showed immense heart. T-claps to White Deer for joining me in this tough one.
God is good all of the time!
Attila
18 Studs posted this morning in the crisp cold gloom and here is how it went down.
COP : SSH’s, Helicopters, Windmills, IW’s, Flutter Kicks, APD’s, LBC’s.
Tree Work : one the short side of the field – 5 hand release merkins at each tree – long side of the field 5 merkins each tree – short side of the field 5 Chuck Norris merkins at each tree.
Wilson’s Boxing Cockroach – 3 set’s of 20.
Triple Check : run the perimeter of the black top – LT Dans, Cap Thor’s
Polarbears to the fence – donkey kicks run back – Karaoke to fence – heals to heaven run back – Karaoke to the fence mountain climbers run back – bear crawl to the fence 10 clerkins run back.
Native American Run around school back to flag.
Mary : 6 inches
The scoop : The pax stayed in their vehicles until 5.27 this morning (Good call).. . We got moving and stayed moving for 45 min. YHC apologizes to those without gloves this morning (TYA – Kubota) way to tough it out fella’s most of us except Hardywood (Stud) were bundled up and ready to shed some clothes 10 min in.. It’s still shorts weather though guys – whats the deal with these pants I’m seeing ?? Handshake crushed the treework – atta baby – Hardywood totally smoked Wilson’s boxing cockroach 🙂 Conspiracy flew through the triple check, Dr Try Hard killed the polar bear / Karaoke/ bear crawl, Greenbow pushed hard on the Indian run – and Kubota and TYA did it all with out gloves (not there is anything wrong with that 🙂 ) Great to see all of the pax out there this morning way to push – holding the 6 inches at the end on the cold ground is no joke ! Great partnering with Seymour and Pucker on the triple check. Thanks to my man Bleeder for calling me in in relief today.. I appreciate the pax allowing me to lead – great work guys.
Announcements : Hardywood has pigs – anybody want one for Christmas – see him 🙂 Yo ! one of Hardywoods 2.0’s (oldest daughter) wrote a freaken book – yep that’s right she wrote a book – and there will be a book signing celebration next Friday – watch for a blast from Hardywood on that – and congrats on that dude – that’s huge! Dr. Try hard says there may be a Holiday Happy Hour sometime at Capital Ale House so just head there every evening after work until you see some brothers 🙂 ah … actually stay tuned on that – he’s gonna get some more info !
Thanks to Vinny for taking us out – very well said brother!
See y’all in the gloom..
The warm cars were enough to keep the few PAX in the vehicles until a minute or so before launch. The goal of the day was to keep everyone moving, no ground and pound today. The 4 PAX ready to go at 0530 headed out for a warmup lap around the track that included high knees, butt kickers, slides and let’s call them layups (skips if you’re so inclined).
THANG
The Cooper – Start with 10 burpees, 10 squats, 10 merkins then run a lap. Drop one for 9 of each, run another lap, repeato until 1. Added twist, after every 2 rounds circle back for the 6 to keep everyone a little closer.
Wrap up with a little Mary – Freddies, Alabama Prom Dates and American Hammers.
After the first lap YHC and Honeymoon heard voices behind us, then Beaker shows up alone. Is that Peaches back there talking to himself? Is he cursing the Q this early in the beatdown? Out loud? On the way back to pick up the 6 after the 2nd lap, Beaker informs us that Mr. Roper found us…that explains the voices. Beaker crushed it, finishing the whole thing with time to spare. Mr. Roper had Peaches’ ear through the whole thing and kept him pushing through it all. Glad Mr. Roper showed up after giving a tour of the James Center last night for the Richmond BizSense Hard Hat Happy Hour.
HDHH at Capital Ale House in Midlothian on 12/19. Invite someone you are EHing or that hasn’t been out in a while. Let other some of the other F3 guys work the EH for you. Pre-blast coming soon.
Ghost Flag will be at YHC’s annual 12 days of Christmas beatdown on 12/18 at NoToll.
Marmaduke is collecting coats.
Have a great day today. This is a great time of year to reach out to someone you haven’t talked to recently and make a connection, EH or not, it’s worth it.