Category: Richmond, VA

  • Wishing I Was … Knee Deep In the Water Somewhere…

    Six strong posted at Batteau today.  Three or so fresh off of vacation. No more asses in the sand. Time to shake off the crab legs, ice cream and cold beers. YHC started us off.

    COP:  Helicpoters / DQs / Imperial Walkers / LBCs / Dying Coachroaches – ALL X 10

    THANG: Introduce the Batteau PAX to Windsor Farms Do Si Dos.  Partner up. Two sets of 10 each. Nex up, Whatchamacallits.  Those who posted Gridiron on Saturday were introduced to these by our guest Q from Louisville. I think he called them Jack Whites, but even he wasn’t sure if that was correct, or why they were called that. YHC has taken it upon himself to rename them. They are completely underrated, and pack a nice punch. Just like the candy bar we all loved as a kid. 1 merkin / 4 air presses. 2 merkins / 8 air presses. Sounds easy. It ain’t.  Repeat the ladder until you hit 10 Merkins / 40 air presses. I don’t know about the rest of the PAX, but shaving and hair shampooing weren’t completed with their normal ease this morning. YHC passed to Swirly.

    Mosey to rusty cage. 5 pull-ups / 20 dips x 3 sets. Mosey a bit more to picnic tables. 20 step ups (10 each leg) / 10 incline merkins x 3 sets. Pass to Flange. Mosey to tennis courts. Partner up. Bear crawl across tennis courts; sprint back. Partner collect 100 donkey kicks, 150 SSHs, 200 LBCs. Mosey to COT area for 15 minutes of pain. More bear crawls. More merkins. Bear craw across COT yard, 1 decline merkin. Run back. Repeato to 11. Flange called and audible after 10. PAX runs the large loop then back for Mary. Cherry Pickers (20, YHC thinks),  flutter kicks, Flange takes requests. Crossroads serves up V-ups. 10 or so, Flange lost his voice during counting. Easy to do at that point.

    YHC took us out.

    ANNOUNCEMENTS: Puppy Pile 7/21:

    Moleskin: YHC was excited to show the boys Windsor Farms Do Si Dos and Whatchamacallits. As expected, the PAX thought the latter would be easy. As predicted, the PAX fessed up that they weren’t. Great seeing everyone back in the gloom. If you are going to come off of vacation on a Monday, today’s 57 and sunny was a great way to do it. Nice to have Crossroads out with us. Interject some of that young blood.

    Have a great week men!

  • Smoke on the Water

    A magnificent 7 opted for some running as a way to enjoy this unseasonably cooler weather.

    We headed down to Robious Park where we picked up the trail for the next 30 minutes and then headed back up to the VSF.

    Sugar Sock took us out.

    NMS

    With this crew there is always a fair amount of mumble chatter.  We stayed together as a group until a few made some diversions along the way.  Ample discussion of upcoming brewing opportunities as well as progress on the summer tour.

    The first few minutes on the trails reminded YHC of Ragnar.  Trails in the dark is an entirely differently feel.  The crew teams were the only ones sharing this morning with us as the waters were flat and enshrouded in a deep fog.

    Announcements:

    • YHC has a combined HDHH and hill run Q on 7/18.  New location information will be available soon via pre-blast.
    • Puppypile on 7/21 – Bring those 2.0s
    • Summer Paddling Session continues with next put in this Friday or over the weekend.  Sounds like we have a few interested.  Let YHC know.

    Time to Taper,

    Lockjaw

  • Sunny and 70

    What a beautiful morning for a run. Four gloom warriors departed at or around 7:00 AM. We saw Wedding Singer on the trail and rumor had it that Saab was out there too. We four stuck mostly together and ran south to north across and on top of Belle Isle. Lab Rat took a swim.  There was a fairly common Swallow sighting on top of Belle. YHC is almost back up to speed but not quite. The last mile was a doozie.

    Puppy Pile is coming

    Stop by the Raise tent at the ? festival next weekend

    Summer Tour is going strong  – go see an AO you haven’t seen yet even if you are not on the tour

    Pray for our brothers in need – they could use it

    – Shakedown

     

     

  • Just the Tip

    4 men today as we took on one of the last humid days before cool down approaches.

    Mossy to the track for a little warm up

    15 SSL

    20 Imperial Walkers

    Mossy around track for a lap stopping 2 times to knock out some bleacher work with dips, incline and decline pushups.

    To the grass football field for the show:

    Q called for the beast:

    Round 1 – Merkins

    Round 2 – Mountain climbers

    Round 3 – Squats

    Round 4 – Monkey Humpers

    Round 5 – Carolina dry docks

    Round 6 – Burpee

    Back to a mossy as we explored the AO finding a new trail thru the woods that had plenty of cob webs!!  Also lost bag phone in the woods, sorry man glad you paved your on path.

     

    Strong work always good to Q and see new PAX continuing to come out!

  • Dogpile is the Hardest Workout in RVA….to Understand

    Last nights rains moved out and took all the humidity with, leaving this morning’s sunrise to a glorious 70 and sunny…..best feeling day in a long while!  What better way to greet the day than with an hour of play time outside!  24 warriors did just that.

    I promised TYA that if he came this morning, we would run a mile to start it off.  This caused some confusion for the under-caffeinated pax, as they put it in autopilot and headed for the carillon.  Shakedown about had a head on collision, but quickly straightened it out and we made our way around the long way.  A quick COP to loosen up and we were off.

    First stop was to do some partner chicken peckers.  These are an exercise introduced from the gym(nastics).  My 2.0 Mighty Mouse was supposed to join me as Q this morning, but forgot about a sleepover and had to bail.  Even without MM present, we were doing them anyways.  You all can also blame her for the V-snaps, as she threatened me with those as well.  Anyways, we did 30 each shoulder, switching out partners each 10.  MM claims the correct way is in an unsupported hand stand, but I doubt the outcome of that would most likely not be covered by major insurance plans.  The pax crushed them!  Herbie filmed it for a “promotional F3 video”…which I interpreted as her taking it back to the gym to make fun of how old men cant do hand stands.

    Next stop was the rusty cage for 50 partner pullups.  Nothing to report here, just 25 guys bending steel.

    Afterwards, we converged upon the carillon for a PROPER Dora (insert 24 groans here).  1 merkin, 2 V snaps, 3 squats.  No other way.  Do a hundred between partners, one does Doras, the other runs around the amphitheater.  When complete, pick up the six or plank.  There was a lot of standing around towards the end, so it was time for something sadistic…

    Mosey to field and make 3 teams of 7 for a beast race.  This is where things got a little squirrly.  A couple modifications were necessary to wrap things up by 0700, but we all got done and back to the flag by 0700.  Awesome work done by Lorax, whose team bagged him with the anchor position (burpees).  He banged them up with style….well done.

    There were a few announcements this morning, but none were more important than two:

    1.  TYA, Circle K and daughters Ally, Karly and Karoline are on their way to Guatamala for some mission work.  Keep their safe travels in your thoughts and prayers.
    2.   Hitch HIker and M. have their baby coming hopefully this week!  I made him promise to keep us in the loop on progress, so hopefully we will have good news to report later in the week!

    Also, Puppy Pile in a couple weeks, and Brew Day it my house next Saturday.

    Apology of the week goes out to TYA, since I didn’t get this backblast up in time for his layover reading pleasure.

     

    Lab Rat apologizes…

  • F3 RVA Brew Day and Open House

    F3 RVA Brew Day and Open House

    CANCELLED.

     

    Will reschedule later.

    Lab Rat apologizes…

  • Tour de James River Road

    6 non-SOJ PAX posted to SOJ Twin Team in the gloom this morning to better themselves physically and mentally.  Yes, YHC knows that one of the PAX is from Powhatan, but YHC means Richmond/Chesterfield SOJ!  5:30am, let mosey!

    COP:

    Cotton Pickers x 15

    Arm Circles Forward and Backward x 10 small x 5 big

    Imperial Walkers x 15

    Russian Soldiers x 15

    LBC’s x 20

    mosey over to James River Road for:

     

    Lindsey’s (40’s)

    30 Reverse Crunches/10 Carolina Dry Docks on the open grassy areas beside road

    mosey down the road a ways

    25/15

    mosey down the road a ways

    20/20

    mosey down the road a ways

    15/25

    mosey down the road a ways

    10/30

    Plank

     

    Now the PAX is in front of James River H.S.

    PAX does different traveling exercises toward Robious Landing:

    Butt Kickers, High Knees, Carioke to the right, Carioke to the left, Run Backwards, Lunge, Bear Crawl, Russian Soldiers, Imperial Walkers.

    5 Burpees OYO

    Now PAX is near wooden guard rails beside road.  Grab some wood for:

    11’s

    Dips on the rails and Incline Merkins on the rails

    Mosey a little ways to the river bank and grab a bench or picnic table.

    20 Box Jumps OYO

    Trot over to the kayak/canoe landing and run down and up the steps for four rounds.  Dip hand in the water just so you can say you were in the river this morning.

    Mosey back up to the boat landing parking lot for 3 Minutes of Mary including: Rosalitas, Box Cutters and V-Ups.

    Mosey a little to the wooden posts and grab a post and hold 6 inches, then 10 Pole Smokers, then 6 inches, then 10 Pole Smokers.

    Mosey back toward schools and circle up near the front of JRHS for a Merkin Ring of Fire.  3, 4, or 5 merkins of PAX choice.  No repeats.  Included were Diamond, Scorpion Dry Docks, Regular, Shoulder Tap, Spider and some kind of partner merkin that Lockjaw had us do.

    Mosey back to Bettie Weaver and to the VSF.

    COT, Numberama, Namearama and King George took us out (well said!)

    NMM:

    This was YHC’s first post to Twin Team and also, first Q, as well.  YHC was not familiar with the AO until he left work early yesterday and rode around a little.  We all know that Twin Team hill is there, but YHC needed to check the rest out.  This is a great AO!  T-Claps to the PAX members that started a boot camp here.  Lots of options!  A tour this morning was needed so YHC could familiarize himself a little better.  The PAX did not realize the decline in the road heading down to the river, but definitely noticed the incline on the way back.  Mr. Holland noticed that we took a left turn out of the BWES parking lot at the beginning of the work out.  I think he wanted to go right and over to TT hill.  YHC was not up for that this morning.  Maybe next time.

    Welcome back to King George who officially took on his new F3 name.  Way to come back out and kill it!  Also, glad to see Water Wings back out for the third day in a row before he heads back to Cary today.  We are glad to have had you!  T-Claps and Respect to Flipper who was looking as slim as ever on his weight loss journey and Lockjaw was steady as ever.  Thanks for making my Twin Team VQ a success, gents!

    Have a great weekend all!

    Kubota

    keep posting

     

  • half and half

    6 runners scoffed at 6 bikers this morning for an epic showdown of pedal power versus foot power!

    Not really.

    Bikers did an awesome trip around the bike loop that the pipeline is a part of in the dark.  It was way cool.  Unfortunately, our FNG did not get the memo that is was MTB day and brought a road bike.  He broke off of the group at the Carillon and No Tools gave him a route.  He did not return to get a name.

    Runners did old school on Grove.  No idea what happened.

     

    Lab Rat apologizes…

  • A Different Type of River Run

    A duo of kayakers arrived at Huguenot Flatwater to enjoy reasonable water levels and an escape from the heat. Upon departure, we headed to the north bank where a nice beach had formed.  Worth exploring next time.

    We kayaked upstream to the dam and checked out the fish ladder and the semi-blocked portage on the other side.  We chatted with a couple of kayakers who were hauling heavy boats over the portage path.  It was a team of father and young son who were on mile 93 of a 100 mile journey that started in Charlottesville last Saturday.  The dad explained that the son was born in America to two British parents and this was a float trip to study colonial history.  In particular, old trade routes used by the batteau of years past was the route they were retracing.

    The boats were heavily laden with all the supplies one would need to camp on the river for a week.  Kubota and YHC assisted with the carry over the rocks and they were off to set that night’s camp a little ways down river.

    Kubota and I hit the river to return to the take out.

    For interested Pax, if we go next week it will be Friday or over the weekend.  Just let YHC know and we can plan something.

    Lockjaw

  • Celebrating Freedom

    The fart sack was averted by 3 noble warriors after a spectacular day of celebrating our country’s birthday and the abundance of freedoms we have.  Here is how it went down:

    • COP
      • 25 SSH
      • 20 IW
      • 15 DQ
      • 10 2x merkins
      • 25 2x LBC
      • 10 pickle pounders
      • 15 Scorpion kicks
      • 15 burpees
    • Lucky Bus Loop – farmers carry to the four quadrants of the bus loop, perform 15 reps of a certain exercise, adding a new exercise for each quadrant, with a total of 8 at the end
      • Lawnmower pulls – each arm (7x)
      • High pulls (6x)
      • Sit ‘n presses (5x)
      • Lunges – both legs (4x)
      • KB swings (3x)
      • Halos (2x)
      • Weighted squats
    • 15 skull crushers
    • COT with YHC taking us out

    Johnsonville had texted YHC late last night to say he would take the Circus Q after a day of celebrating his right to bear arms and burn emasculating children’s books (it is how they roll at Kepley, Broscious & Biggs).  However, unlike our forefathers, he could not free himself from the clutches of the fart sack, even when his chauffeur arrived shortly after 0500.  Thankfully, YHC had planned ahead and was ready get administer a red pill.  Actually, the humidity pretty much took care of that.  Glad to see you are here to stay summer!

    Welcome to Circus Maximus Water Wings!  This noble warrior book-ended his KB workout with 2½ mile runs to his in-law’s domicile.  With five kids under 10 years old, we all offer proper respect to your ability to bring it on a regular basis.  It was fun getting to know you, and I was comforted by the fact that you were more than skilled in changing diapers, especially if one of White Deer’s flatulence turns liquid or solid.

    For those wondering, we have a guest Q from Star Child (F3 Louisville) on Saturday.  Feel free to come see how our neighbors to the west do F3, if interested.

    All in all, strong work from the PAX   God is good all the time!

    Attila