Category: Richmond, VA

  • A Tribute to Willard Scott

    Despite a little snow, four faithful Gridiron warriors avoided the fart sack and attacked the morning with a passion unbeknownst to the common man.  Here is how it went down:

    • Parking lot tracers with forward/backwards runs and karaokes
    • COP
      • 50 SSH
      • 25 Russian soldiers
      • 25 DQ
      • 20 merkins
    • Mosey to the playground for a jerkin ladder – 7,6,5,4,3,2,1
    • Partner up for PLTs – 4x 25 reps
    • Mosey to pavilions
      • 25 dips
      • 25 step-ups (left leg)
      • 25 dips
      • 25 step-ups (right leg)
      • 25 dips
      • 4x 25 WWII sit-ups, 25 APD, 25 flutter kicks (2 count)
      • 25 dips
    • Run the perimeter of the Gridiron AO (apx ¾ mile)
    • Triple check – run bus loop, wall sit, deep squats
    • Mosey to the COT with YHC taking us out
    • 3rd F – breakfast at Einsteins

    Today was a day that would make Willard Scott proud.  For those still receiving hate, google him.  The combination of snow and 100 reps of PLTs, dips, WWII sit-ups, APD and flutter kicks was a fitting tribute to the toupee wearing weatherman.  Add in some extra running and the PAX made the most of this glorious morning.  Sorry Honeydo, I could bring us to do 100 jerkins.  We wanted to be able to lift our arms this week.  Chum Bucket could probably pull it off, but we heeded the pre-workout disclaimer and checked it before we wrecked it.

    As always, Johnsonville outpaced all of the runners, but it was great to see Byproduct put together his own hat trick.  Three straight weeks of beatdowns at the Gridiron.  Watch out Cal Ripken, here comes Byproduct.

    Pre-game devotions will resume at Gridiron next week.  YHC will lead us in a look at godliness.  Better weather should yield a bigger PAX for that.

    Today’s weather made it a fun one.  God is good all the time!

    Attila

  • Riders on the Storm

    19 Riders and Runners embraced fine weather on the edge of Snowstorm Benji.  Today may be a record count for this AO.

    Today we did the forward Carillon route with all distances spoken for.  Everyone ran with a group with some packs as large as five wide.  Lot’s of car traffic today for some reason, including a mailman out for deliveries before 6:30.  ‘Tis the season.

    Lugnut took us out.

    Announcements:

    • Slurpee’s VQ Monday at Hoedown.
    • EF Hutton’s is one AO shy of completing the Grand Tour.
    • Labrat was going on about something else too
    • Honey Do has December’s HDHH on the 20th.  More information to come.

    Time to Taper,

    Lockjaw

     

  • Gas Station Sushi

    A hardy 9 men and 3 2.0s gathered at The Creek to test themselves and exprience a three-way Q

    Opus has the Q

    Scout run around Church

    COP all IC

    plank jacks

    merkins

    plank jack merkins

    flutter kicks

    WW2 situps

    LBC’s

    figure 4 crunches

    Tempo Jump Squats

    Q gets passed to Yardsale

    Indian run around church

    Tunnel of Love

    Four Corners in the field.  run to first corner first corner 10 Merkins, karaoke to second Corner 20 heals to heaven, Run backwards to third corner 30 flutter kicks , karaoke to fourth corner 40 lbc’s

    Mosey to pavilion

    Partner up

    one partner does Skull Crushers while the other partner runs to road and back then switch. This is dont twice to make sure that both sides get done for Skull Crushers

    Mudface Gets the Q

    Thunderstruck Merkins

    PAX planks up and at each Thunder in Thunderstruck they begin or end a merkins holding it until the next thunder

    Thunderstruck Boat/Canoe

    Swtich from boat to canoe and back holding until the next thunder

    Merkin Ring of Fire to eat up time

    Numberama

    Namearama

    Opus took us out

    NMS

    YHC thought that he had signed up to solo Q today, but had instead signed up for next week. Before he knew it he was the last man on a Q threesome, having forgot about the trap that he had set for Opus weeks ago (the last person to Q has to write the back blast) YHC agreed.

    Some of the PAX need think about what they are eating the night before workout. The 4th F was in excess this morning, and with the lack of wind it made for an interesting environment.

    Fun was had, Jokes were made and sweat was dripped. Good work this morning

    Thanks for letting us lead

     

     

     

     

     

  • Aisle 5 to the Rescue!

    11 Warriors broke the Fartsack to take on what would certainly turn out to be an interesting day at Twin Team.

    The Thang:

    COP –
    SSH x 20
    DQ x 10
    Copperhead Squats x 15
    Helicopters x 10
    LBC x 20
    Merkins x 10

    Mosey to the track
    Partner Up
    On one end of the track, complete 10 Booyah Merkins – then run to other end of track, 10 Pull ups per partner.  Complete 4 laps total for 40 Booyah Merkins and 40 pull ups.

    Al Gore

    Mosey to Basketball Court

    Shooters Choice:
    All PAX members get 3 shots from the foul line.  While shooting the shooter chooses what exercise the PAX will do while shooting.  Shooter can go as fast or as slow as they want with their shots.  If shot is made, move on to next shooter.  If shooter misses all 3, then all PAX members run length of 3 basketball courts and back and continue to next shooter.  All PAX members got 2 rounds, many excercises, listed below as many as I can remember.
    •Merkins
    •SSHs
    •WWII
    •Burpees
    •Monkey Humpers
    •Arm Circles
    •DQ
    •Carolina Dry Docks
    •LBCs
    •Sword Fight
    •Freddie Mercury
    •Grab your phone — Nice touch Jenny Craig
    •Jump Squats

    Mosey to Flag
    30 Secs of SSHs to complete

    Numberama, Namerama, YHC took us out.

    Announcements:
    See Viral for assistance with Non Profit Tool Bank
    Prayers for Rosie’s father in law having heart surgery

    NMS –
    YHC had thought long and hard about taking the PAX up Twin Team today but couldn’t convince himself to do it in fear of how dark the hill is.  But now after mentioning that, Rosie and Gumbo informed YHC its not too dark, so I have a Q in my back pocket.  Either way fun was had with some help of our good buddy Aisle 5.  YHC wanted to incorporate some basketball into the Q, but low and behold his basketball was flat and had no pump.  So leaning on Wilson to come through, same scenario, but he had a pump and a ball.  With a plan in place to pump the ball up in the clown car on the way to the AO, we were set.  Only to find out Wilson’s pump didn’t work halfway to the AO.  Thanks Wilson!  So back to the Twin Team hill it is no matter how dark it is.  But wait, as the PAX gathered and the deflated ball and YHC ‘s deflated plan is being joked about, Aisle 5 proudly announces he has a pump in his car! Aisle 5 you are the man!!  As for the free throws, ill just say we ran a lot.  Tons of mumblechatter and plenty of ribbing each other on their jumpers.  Also want to Welcome Hippa (FNG), another from the New Market nano region, if your counting that’s 12, but only Wilson is counting.  Strong work by all, good to see Viral and Beaker back out as well.  Have a great weekend with whatever you maybe doing!

  • Trifecta

    The gloom called, and 3 consistent, faithful warriors answered.  Here is how it went down.

    • COP
      • 25 SSH
      • 25 IW
      • 25 DQ
      • 20 merkins
      • 25 LBC
      • 10 pickle pounders
      • Arm circles – 25 forwards and backwards
    • Triple check – farmers carry, weighted squats, single arm swings
    • Death Bearimeter – one man death crawls with 25 lb weight, one man lunges, one man runs loop (switch when runner rejoins other 2 until around the bus loop)
    • Series of planks
    • Triple check – around the world walk, tricep curls, sit ‘n presses
    • COT – YHC took us out

    The PAX was solid today.  Another success hot potato Q as we did things in 3’s in honor of the PAX of 3.   Prayers to Earthworm as he recovers from a recent illness.  God is good all of the time!

    Attila

  • “A date that will live in infamy”

    On December 7, 1941, Japanese planes attacked the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor External, Hawaii Territory, killing more than 2,300 Americans. … The following day, in an address to a joint session of Congress, President Franklin Roosevelt called December 7, 1941 “a date which will live in infamy.”

    COP – SSH, Don Quixote, LBC’s

    Mosey to field for sprints. Here is how it went down

    Since the attack was in ’41, YHC decided sprint ladders were appropriate.

    4x to the 25 yd, 3x to the 50 yd, 2x to the 75 yd & 1 x to the 100 yd. 23 ab exercises between each round (LBC’s & Pickle Pounders).

    Rinse & repeat in reverse.

    Short mosey to tennis courts for rotating Ring of Fire & Mary!

    NMS

    YHC was made aware of an open Q at Timberwolf. With some pressure I agreed to get back on the Q schedule. A quick Google search made YHC aware that today was the attack on Pearl Harbor. Solid work today men!

    Wilson, Marmaduke & Manziel were all LIFO by 30 seconds or so thanks to a “faulty” alarm by Honeymoon……….it’s the button that says ON!

  • Pearl Harbor Day

    22 Warriors embraced the early morning with a solid workout.

    Surprise Attack! – Parking lot mumble chatter promptly halted with the call of 10 burpees.

    Mosey around to the side of the school for COP.

    -Invisible jump rope (imaginary jumps ropes for those with their eyes closed)

    -Arm Circles to summon the cat burglar to no avail

    -Russian Soldiers

    -Slow Don Quixotes

    Mosey to the grass next to the blacktop for lazy 11s – WWII situps and dive bombers.

    On to the blacktop for Session One of 4 Corners – For the four battleships damaged in the attack.

    • Lt Dan’s (audible called for 30s/40s to go to copperhead squats)
    • Box Cutters
    • Merkins
    • LBC

    Round 1 = 10 rep, 2 = 20, 3 = 30, 4 = 40.

    Mosey to the track for Session Two of 4 Corners – For the four battleships sunk in the attack.

    • Dips on the bars
    • Derkins
    • Leg lifts
    • Pull Ups

    10 reps, 2 rounds

    Mosey back to the flag for boo-yah merkins – 16 rep.

    YHC took us out with a moment of silence.

    NMS:

    Perfect weather today:  Cool and dry is about as good a it gets.

    Invisible jump rope was a hit through some of the Pax were clearly showing their advanced skills from their days of recess in their youth.  Dive bombers made a rare, if not virgin, appearance and result in sustained grunts by the Pax thorughout.  Hardywood knows them as the Angry Porpoise and I am pretty sure Saab’s technique was accompanied with a “tongue out maneuver” ala Gene Simmons.

    YHC called an audible on the Lt Dan’s otherwise we would still be doing them with the sun rising.  There truly is too much of a good thing.

    A shout out to the boys of the 100k and a 1/6 of a shout out to the Bear Creek team.  Kidding aside, both represented well achieving their personal goal and having a great time.

    Ronnie’s early departure was noted by Swirly.  Seems that immaculate file now has a blemish.

    Announcements:

    • Wong Gonzalez today for lunch.
    • Slurpee’s VQ is Monday at Hoedown.  Come on out to support him and see what this AO has to offer.  VQs are fun for all.

    ABT,

    Lockjaw

     

  • MANNDate Murph

    7 men un-fartsacked themselves, grabbed their heavy iron bells, and got to work

    COP all IC

    SSH x 1

    The Murph

    One mile run

    100 Merkin Rows

    200 Sit-up Press

    300 Snatch

    One Mile Run

    Numberama

    Namarama

    Chewy took us out

    NMS

    The second showing of Murph at MANNDate did not disappoint. Everyone worked hard and gave it their all. Rounders came the closest to finishing. YHC thinks that he will have to Q the first Wednesday of the month for a while before this becomes a tradition, but he fears that there may be some mutiny being planned to stop this.

    YHC learned a few things this morning:

    Murph can shut a PAX right up

    Wild Thing is a happy guy that will start singing at any moment

    When No Idea is late he can slide right into the workout without anyone knowing that he just got there

    While there is no good time for the 4th F. The worst time is at the beginning of a long set of sit-ups

    Never argue form with Helix. He is right

    Thanks for letting me lead

     

     

  • The Bearimeter is a Keeper

    4 SOJ regulars arrived to SOT with no Q signed up. Solution: Hot Potato that went something like this:

    THANG

    Döner Kebab on Q

    COP – SSH, Russian Soldiers, Imperial Walkers, DQs, Copperhead Squats

    Mosey to bus loop for Side Curb Crawls / Conveyor Belt, left then right

    Mosey to front of school and partner up for 1/2 Dora: as a team complete 50 merkins, 100 WWIIs, 150 Squats while 1 runs front school loop

    McRib on Q

    Mosey to side of school and partner up for SOT Love Hill: Polar Bears, Forward Lunges, Burpee Broad Jumps

    Mosey to basketball courts for 4 Corners with a Twist: 10 merkins, 20 LBCs, 30 Mtn Climbers, 40 Freddy Mercuries + 1 burpee at each baskeball net. Rinse and Repeat, increasing each to be a factor of 15.

    Mosey to main bus loop and partner up for Partner Bearimeter: Bear Crawl entire bus loop, while 1 partner runs the loop

    Johnsonville on Q

    Mary: partner for 25 PLTs each, 1 legged APDs each side, regular APDs, American Hammers

    COT – Johnsonville took us out

    Nake Moleskin:

    It was great having Johnsonville out to SOT. Welcome back…and don’t stay away.

    Where was the New Market crew?

    McRib was inspired by NoToll’s Bearimeter…and doubled down. Holy cow.

    After a November of Gumbo, sadly, Gumbo never got called to Q the Hot Potato in December.

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    Belated post since neither of us decided who would write the backblast.  2 stepped out of the cars, neither with a plan of where to run.  A couple options were thrown out and the RollerCoaster was the final decision.  Up into River Downs we went.  After leaving a message in the frost on Gumbo’s windshield to let him know we had been there YHC found an extra hill to conquer to add a little more than 5 miles to the out and back.  Lugnut was his usual steady pace out and quicker back going down the big hill.  Next time he’ll push it a little further.  Thanks for showing up Lugnut, I would not have done that route alone.

    Congrats to Lugnut, Ricky Bobby and the rest of the race team for their first victory last weekend.  Great job, you definitely earned that victory with the time you have put into it.