New AO, new running routes. This time Bullseye led us through the golf course for a bit and then over to Kentford, back to Stonegate, located the path back to the golf course to the clubhouse and back to the AO. 4ish miles traveled by AO runners, Bullseye picked up some more running to and fro.
Category: Richmond, VA
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Ice Road Runners
Thankfully no one fell off the road on this morning’s episode of Ice Road Runners.
Bullseye and YHC conversed in the evening, felt starting from the AO would be fine, and knew we’d provide Doozy with some company before and after the workout.
Due to the icy conditions and secondary roads not being plowed, not even Coalfield and Charter Colony, we took off east on Midlothian and quickly located Old Buckingham which was safe to run on and then found a unicorn in Unison Drive, salted and clear as a summer day with no traffic. Out two, back two, solid 4 miles.
Coffee at Starbucks with the SOT gents was welcomed by all.
-Singer
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Leaving no tracks
3 bootcamp types found their ways to the snow / ice covered lot of SOT. 2 for MOT but that’s a different BB.
As each car / truck pulls into the lot and does not leave tracks through the ground cover you know its going to be an interesting AO
With sooooooo many opportunities to get injured this morning we decided a walking workout was the best option. The 3 amigos walked around the school twice doing various exercises at differing counts whenever we felt like stopping. Wherever there was a dry spot found an ab exercise or a plank type exercise was called by whoever had an idea other than that lots of squats ball dippers and the like.
If we stopped for too long Hermie would let one rip guaranteeing our immediate need to move again.
BTTF Numbers / Names Hermie took us out
NMS: When the weight of the F250 doesn’t leave tracks in a snow covered parking lot you know its cold outside. With the way the lot was looking this morning and judging by the look of the back roads we agreed that there probably wouldn’t be any in person school for the rest of this week.
Starbucks with the 2 runners afterwards
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That’s what parking decks are for
It was sunny and 70, so I was told, but the frozen snow everywhere must have been a figment of my imagination.
Borat and I met at Pocahontas. At 5:30, we drove over to the Parking Deck at Buster and Dave’s. We did five ‘cycles’ of the following: run up the ramps to the level where the ice starts, over to the 1st stairwell, down to the bottom and back all the way to the top, down one level and across the deck to the other stairwell, up to the top and then down to the bottom, 20 merkins and 20 crunchy frogs.
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Cold, Cold Ruck
I’ve gotta give credit to Commando for getting out this past Saturday for a Pre Lumberyard Ruck on a real frosty gloom, I promised I’d be there, but with the new phone, I did not pay attention to the details between AM & PM and slept in. Way to go Commando! 👏
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Ice Fork Park
2 dumb men emerged from the fart sacks to do some kettlebell curling along the ice covered landscape of Pjne Fork Park. We found the smallest of dry spots between picnics benches under the snack shack pavilion. If the group were any larger we might have to split up under each pavilion.
The Thang!
Warmarama –
- Ukrainian Soldiers
- Deadman Hang
- Arm Circles
- SSH’s
- High Knees
- Merkins
Back to the Future
Perform an arbitrary selection of KB exercises until 06:00 – perform all exercises in reverse order back from the beginning.
numbers & Names
Announcements – The Lumberyard might be taking place at Taylor Farm Park near the airport this Saturday the 31st.
Frozen Triangle coming up on the 7th.
Prayer Requests – Prayers for healing of Commandos friend fighting with pancreatic cancer.
Commando closed it out in prayer.
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Offsite Manndate
Due to the icy conditions, the PAX decided to shift Manndate to Pearson’s Corner Elementary School. The PAX circled up in the main courtyard and the beatdown began.
COP – usual exercises.
EMOM – every minute on the minute. Perform various exercises and reps called out by the Q every minute on the minute.. Rinse and repeat for about 30 minutes.
Some boat canoes and GRAMS to close out. Numbers, names, Corned Beef took us out.
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This and that
The Magnificent Seven showed up for a workout.
We began with a perfunctory disclaimer.
Mosey to the approximate middle of the covered sidewalk on the right side of the school. Picked up Joey Chestnut and Offshore on the way.
Warm up with the following exercises in cadence
• 20 SSHs
• 20 IWs
• 20 Copperhead squats
• 10 Don Quixotes
• 20 Suzannne Sommers (change sides halfway)
11s starting with 10 Burpees and 1 double-count Hammer
• Burpees
• Hammers
Triple check
• Timer runs to end of walkway and back
• Partner 2: Pole-smokers
• Partner 3: Lunges
Dora
• 100 Merkins
• 200 Ukrainian Soldiers (each foot counts as 1)
• 300 SSHs
BTTW (aka Testículos a la pared)
• 15 People’s chair airpress
• 10 BTTW Shoulder Slaps in cadence
• 15 Donkey Kix OYO
• 15 People’s chair Milkers
• 10 BTTW Australian Mountain Climbers
• 15 Donkey Kix OYO
• 15 People’s chair Lalannes
• 10 BTTW toe taps
• 15 Donkey Kix OYO
Mosey back to the flag
Announcements
February 7: Frozen Triangle
COT
Be safe out there!
2nd F
We often go to Starbucks afterwards but we ended up at Sheetz at Regency. Offshore and Joey Chestnut got to try out the set of Crampons for their jog over to Quioccasin Middle School. Honeydo is motivated by negative feedback as Handshake said there was a 0% chance of Honeydo’s appearance at Heartbreak. Hutton wore a foreskin. (I didn’t ask any questions.) Gomer wanted to know why the Spanish word for Balls (as in Balls to the Wall) wasn’t pelotas. Answer: Pelotas are the type of balls that get kicked.
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Gomer Pyle, Joey Chestnut, Offshore, Honeydo, Handshake, E.F. Hutton, Pigskin -
Blasting Doozy music!!!
As YHC arrived at NO Toll (5:10) to put out todays beatdown paraphernalia, Tin Man was already on the scene getting after it with some laps around the field. YHC put a bucket of goodies out under the Gazebo and made his way back to the truck to see who else would arrive. L-Woods snuck onto the playground to get 5 pull ups in for todays penance. 5:26 time to get after it and see who else has ventured out in the ice and snow.
5 Iron Men gathered at the flag when all was said and done.
Indigenous people walk (parking lot was super icy) with the home made medicine ball. Person in the back does 5 Squats, hands the ball to the next guy and runs (shuffles) to the front.
At the gazebo we do some stretches, LBCs and Merkins
Move over to find the burpee bucket – Keep it simple, rotating 3 exercises (Squats, Ball Dippers, SSH) PAX moves together hitting corner 1 back to the bucket for 5 burpees. Run to the center of the field back to the burpee bucket so on and so forth. Ice on top of the snow but it was really interesting how most of the time you didn’t break through it and how it wasn’t slippery.
Doozy music was playing from the bucket as the beatings continued
Grab the bucket and the ball and indigenous people walk back to the flag with 5 squats in the back run to the front and grab the bucket.
Lots of time left, leave the ball at the truck. Take the bucket because the music is good.
Four corners on the basketball court. 10 Merkins, 10 Plank Jack, 10 American Hammers, 10 LBCs. Machismo points out how this is probably the least slick the basketball courts have ever been.
Repeto 20
Repeto 30 (with a break at 15 Merkins)
Repeto 40 (with a break at 20 Merkins)
BTTF Numbers / Names Machismo took us out
NMS: YHC had 2 plans for the day, if less than 3 others showed up the beatdown would have been 100% made up on the fly. More than 3 others and we would follow through with the main plan. YHC had planned it this way because there were glow sticks to go along with it and less than 4 HIM seemed like a waist of the sticks. With 5 HIM it was going to happen. However once under the gazebo and looking out onto the snow covered fields we could see everything and the decision was made to save the sticks for another time.
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So Many Possibilities
Joey Chestnut arose to hear someone else’s alarm going off and was greeted downstairs by Offshore… the same Offshore who basically ran a marathon the day prior. Joey did not expect to be accompanied by his lone counterpart but was appreciative of the company and dadication nonetheless.
With less-than-ideal road conditions, the two set off on a mosey to the AO, arriving about five minutes late. After realizing no one else was around, Joey took the Q with Offshore providing ideas along the way.
Warmarama:
The mosey to the AO had us mostly warm, but we hit a brief warm-up of:
• Imperial Walkers
• Dips
• Merkins
• Heels to Heaven
• LBCs
• APDs
Joey quickly realized this would be the only time spent on our six.
The “beatdown”:
A short mosey took us to the upper playground monkey bars, where one PAX performed squats while the other knocked out pull-ups on each bar. We rotated through this for two rounds.
After a trek across the field, we completed a couple sets of 10 derkins and 20 dips. At this point, Joey Chestnut was mesmerized by all the room for activities, yet constrained by the elements.
We returned toward the monkey bars for 3 sets of 8 jerkins, followed by 10 box jumps on nearby playground equipment.
Next came 3 sets of 12 incline merkins, alternating with step-ups on a nearby bench. We then switched locations and repeated incline merkins where step-ups were previously performed, and vice versa.
With only a few minutes left, we hit the blacktop for sumo squats and a burpee (performed at a safe speed), because what’s an F3 workout without at least one burpee?
Wrap up:
A final mosey led us to the walkway, where we plank-walked along the rails with a bear crawl back to the top before heading the opposite direction and ending in COT.
Prayers were lifted for a safe mosey home and for those in need of extra love and care during this winter weather.
Special appreciation for Offshore’s dadication to show up and show out. Technically Joey Chestnut’s first solo Q, and hopefully the first of many — Joey may need to revisit Hoedown soon with some new ideas.