Category: Richmond, VA

  • Back to Broadway

    For HIMs covered more than 2 miles along the Broadway line with a few arduous pit stops.

  • Ruck Miles Piling Up

    2 Extra Credit Rucking machines emerged from the gloom to log a 3 mile ruck at a grand pace of 16:30/mi. Watch the sunrise, and enjoy one another’s company with some conversation. YHC has rucked over 30 miles this month. I’m certain Commando has rucked more than YHC!

  • Teaser Week Is Over!

    4 New Kent Lumberjacks emerged from the Saturday gloom for a good ol American beatdown in the sunrise! Bam Bam, one of our newest PAX realized Pool Boys Q last weekend was a teaser to get him back this weekend, he did great by the way!

    Warmarama! – Mosey to the helipad.

    • Don Quixotes IC
    • Arm Circles IC
    • Tie Fighters IC
    • Chinooks
    • Cherry Pickers IC
    • Toe Grabs
    • Butterflies
    • Wilson & Fudds Wife
    • Merkins on my down

    Mosey to the baseball Diamond outfield to get patriotic with the first CoP – perform 10 Burpees, 20 Copperhead Squats, 30 WWII’s at each of the 3 outfield flags.

    Mosey to the coupon pile and grab a Cindy and meander our way to the football field but first, YHC heart was yearning for some Donkey Kicks so put down your Cindy and get on the wall for 10 DKs, 15 Second Wall Sit, 10 more DK’s Hoesowns 10 IC, 10 Dk’s.

    CoP3 – Dora – P1 Runs to 50 yard line and back. P2 Perfoms the following:

    • 50 Squat Thrusters
    • 100 Incline Merkins
    • 150 Bent Over Rows

    CoP4 – Bear Crawl Pull Through – 10 pulls for a chance to recite 1 of F3’s 5 core principles until completed.

    CoT

    Announcements – Frozen Triangle coming up quickly. See Slack.

    Prayer Requests – for our little 2.0’s to get healthy, a lot of illness right now with our kiddos.

    YHC closed us out in prayer. Great work you guys put in this morning! Don’t ever stop pushing yourself.

  • 12 lines 13 spaces

    4 HIMs proved their worth in parking lot of Bon Air Library.

    6 am hit and the crew rolled out with good conversation all the way to the. Library

    warmarama with a pickle pounder cherry to finish it off.

    4 corners prostitute followed with 10 merkins, 20 squats, 30 American hammers, 40 pickle pounders. 70 merkins total, 100 squats 90 hammers but only 4 pickle pounders.

    next ascending line exercises from one end to the other. Cocaine bears adding a merkin at every line. This was brutal ending with 12 merkins. 78 more merkins.

    . next trench warfare with WW1 and walk crabs. Same

    next squat ladder.

    Mosey back to the playground for a quick quattro de checko

    pull ups dips pickle pounders do you see a theme 1 found is all she wrote.

    pull ups to faulur5e

    merkins to failure.

    great time gentlemen

    coffee was good. Prayers for Tinman’s dad recovery and l woods paralegals dad.

    anno

  • Not so 70 and Sunny

    3 men braved the cold and wind to get a beatdown in.

    COP – usual exercises

    Triple Check – starting at the cafeteria entrance, P1 wall sit, P2 hold 6 inches, P3 timer

    Love flat – using the service road we do a modified love hill. Starting at a light pole P1 runs to next light pole and back. P2 bear crawls, lunges, burpee broad jumps. Rinse and repeat with modified exercises for 3 rounds.

    11s – using the poles by practice field do leg raises and run across the parking lot for Carolina dry docks

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    Mosey back to flag using service road, stopping at light poles for some boots merkins..

    One round of ring of fire and, some GRAMs and Broga to close out.

  • This is Gridiron

    Time to get back to the gridiron this week and make sure we aren’t getting too used to the soft playground or dry turf fields.

    After a brief parking lot warmup of mostly SSH until we almost got run over, we hit the football field and stayed until the end.

    Started with some more warmups in a circle and then we continued with a warmup of a ten yards bear crawl, ten yards broad jumps, ten of high knees, ten of butt kickers and then we ran the rest of the way.

    From the other end zone, we did a burpee ladder. Ran ten yards and back and did ten burpees, then to the twenty and back and nine burpees, and so on. We stayed together and ended with 55 burpees and 1100 yards of running.

    From the nearest corner we started a full field four corners: ten merkins, twenty hand release, 30 heals to heaven and 40 SSH. The first time we stayed together. We did it one more time and everyone was on their own and would finish with SSH until the six joined.

    We then went to the midfield sideline for a triple check. Timer ran from sideline to sideline and did 5 burpees, partners did jump squats or WWIIs.

    With ten minutes left, we did a quarter pounder of merkins (25), squats (50), single count mountain climbers (75) and SSH (100). Run to the yardline of the count, do the exercise, bernie back each time.

    Circled up for little Mary of LBCs, Hammers and reverse crunches. And then ended with five more burpees. The pax jumped for joy when they heard that.

    Lots of SSH since Gomer and Blue Moon were out. We did 75 burpees and covered about 2 miles too.

    Great seeing Rosie come up North and to see Banjo at his first Saturday workout. Prayers for Gomer and his team in Honduras & prayers for the Bond family.

    Go the Bridge next week with Pigskin. The more the merrier.

    And I’ve made up mind, I ain’t wasting no more time.

  • Should we just run?

    Six HIMS came out to Rockwood this morning but nobody was bold enough to claim the Q. Big Rig was running so we joined him… for a bit.

    Ran a lap around the park and broke away from Big Rig for some warms ups while he continued to run (training for a half marathon). The PAX rotated exercises and joined Big Rig for every other lap. Here is how it went down:

    Pierogi – alternate 10 merkins and 10 squats; run a lap

    Posh – 4 corners (lady of the night style) – 10 burpees, 20 lunges, 30 LBCs, and 40 flutter kicks (didn’t finish); run a lap

    Woodsman – 25 dips, 25 toe taps, 25 American hammers, repeat; run a lap

    Cha Cha – lead the pax on a sprint run lap

    Purple Rain – Superman’s, Alabama prom dates and time expired

    Numbers / Names / Announcements – Frozen triangle –> slack

    Prayer requests: Wildcat, Big Rig’s mother

    It wasn’t pretty but we got it done. 4.2 miles covered and a great start to the weekend.

  • Greatest. Dogpile. Ever. There’s never been a better one…

    7 men met in a cold dark park to exercise their body and spirits this AM.

    Mosey down to the Tollbooth for COP, various exercises.

    Mosey to the Bridge for a Light Pole Beatdown. Going south at every Pole do (5) HRM’s and (10) WWII’s. Going north on the Bridge do (1) Squats

    Mosey down to hill to the Pump House and do 50 solo Dips, get a partner and Partner holds legs and do (10) Merkins and (20) Dips.

    Mosey across the road and do Rock Parkour.

    Start making our way up the hill completing 50 of various exercises and then either Moseying between Lightpoles by running or Bernie.

    Mosey from the bottom of Triangle back to the Flag stopping at both Circles.

    Two Minutes of Mary to finish.

    Announcements – Pigskin has The Bridge on 1/24. Frozen Triangle Feb 7th at Dogpile starting at 0600. Breaking Break needs a Q next Saturday 1/24.

    Prayer Requests – none

    NMS – Good times at Dogpile. It was nice to have Applesauce and Blankspace back out. Also nice to see Helix and Wojo two weeks in a row. We were missing some key players with Oyster, EF Hutton, and Upchuck being out but we made due.

  • Return of a Site Q Kotter

    On a <20F morning and after a bit of a break we were happy to see attendees from our targeted neighborhood – well one anyway – to join 4 regulars and surprise visit from the Whitest of all Snakes. According the lady that always scoots by in the middle of COP, this is what went down more or less.

    Welcome: Slow 8 burpees Start. Mosey to COP

    Verbal welcome, disclaimer, mission. COP: 32 mountain climbers, 10 Shazam; 10 sumo squats.

    Mosey to tunnel. Easy Dora. At each lamp. OYO 10 mercan, 20 ww2, 30 LBC: 50, 100, 150 totals.

    Plank for the 6. Pickle pounders.

    Climb the hill for Mercan Rama OYO rounds of 10: Regular, wide, diamond, chuck, Ranger, fingers in, fingers out (missed chaos and tyson)

    Mosey to wall 3 rounds: 20 dips, 10 decline Mercans, 15 crunchy frogs. 20 Squats. 10 bulgarian split squats each side.

    LBC-oRama, APDs, Straight leg APDs each side. Tuscaloosa Trailerpark Twister stretch.

    Mosey back to the flag, squats at stoping points along the way. 

    4 corners. 40 mountain climbers, 30 LBC, 20 WW2, 20 Gurpee: touch knees, ankles, drop, pushup, mountain climber, up, jump.

    Ab Ring of fire.

    Atilla took us out. Bridge on 1/24, Frozen triangle coming up.

    2F at Starbucks.

    NMS – Great seeing Borat is working to keep this thing from dying and glad that Whitesnake joined us for the first time today. This AO has surprisingly a lot to offer and its fun trying different things. Lets make it great!

    Get some!

  • Frozen Carillon Triangle’ish

    10 total at RAMM/RAMM Gears this morning. 4 6-mile rabbits (well, Faceplant and the Respect Rabbits), 2 5-milers, 2 ruckers and 2 bikers braced for the windchill.

    YHC posted routes last night – heading to the Carillon through WF and the 6-milers were supposed to continue around Park to Shirley to Spottswood to BURPEE LAKE, but Faceplant took them around Swan Lake (an acceptable alternative), then back to Arthur Ashe to Grove.

    5’s hit the Carillon and then headed up Blanton to Sheppard to Grove.

    All back on Grove.

    The Ruckers spent more time in Windsor Farms searching for Marcel Marceau. Still no luck.

    The bikers minimized any flesh showing and avoided frostbite – I think.

    We counted, announced and prayed. Then dispersed for heat. Thanks for coming out gents!

    No More Gumbo For You!

    PS – YHC will be giving the porta-potty at Richmond Little League a positive review on Hitch’s Porta-Dash. 5 stars for right place, right time!