9 showed today for another Lockjaw Friday run.
No 4 milers today. 5s and 6s headed West on Grove and rambled the neighborhoods around CCV and into UR. A nice hill workout on the way home. 6s did a loop around the lake.
This may be a new classic for the portfolio based on mumble chatter.
Toga took us out.
Richmond Pax,
Come out for HDHH on Wednesday, February 15. We will meet at Ardent at 5:30 (pm).
3200 W. Leigh Street
Richmond, VA 23230
See you there!
Eleven eager souls, including 2 Mumford defectors, broke free from the endless cycle of baser humanity to post at the Circus on a beautiful Thursday morning.
COP – SSH, Boat-Canoe w/KB, Scorpions, DQs.
Mosey to back of school for Groundhog Loop- 15 Donkey Kicks against the wall, Lunge across road then exercise at the grass. 4 rounds of exercise- 15 Halos each way, 30 double hand swings, 10 Situp Presses, 15 Groundhog overhead press. Boat-Canoe while waiting for the 6.
Plank up after round 1, wake up to Sonny & Cher then repeato.
Mosey to main lot for Musical Kettlebells- PAX bear crawl around circle and stop on the Q then do called exercise. If you are in open spot – 10 Burpees. Exercises were Clean & Press, Curls, Swings.
NMS- YHC is a huge fan of the movie Groundhog Day. YHC remembers learning about Plato’s Tripartite Soul in Ethics class 20 years ago from this movie. So the movie was our theme for the day.
The plan was to do at least 3-4 Groundhog loops, but it took much longer than anticipated to do 2 times through.And the I Got You Babe was only player once, not as planned. Still the PAX persisted. Ronnie took to the theme by thinking of other movies from our youth to base a theme – Spies like us, Three Amigos, etc. Ronnie shared some other facts that YHC is choosing to post in the BB…
The Daville takeover of CM continues as there were 4 “northerners” posting today, including Spare. All put in solid work.
The Musical Kettlebells is fun as there is a large range of weights in the circle- 20-40 Ibs. This turns out to be a great way to sample bigger bells- ISI!
Seriously YHC sees a lot of Plato’s Tripartite Soul in the I am Third concept in Free to Lead. It ties in perfectly and the idea of Sad Clowns reliving the same day endlessly and how F3 can help them. YHC was planning on doing some more philosophy during the beatdown but was afraid Earthworm would be there and start quoting the original text in Greek.
Announcements – HDHH is Lockjaw’s this Feb, sounds like Ardent on 15th is in the works.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-yrtKsCdI8
13 PAX rose up and got buck at 45MOM.
The THANG:
COP: Hammer Dance x~20, Power Dance x~20, Dirty Birds x~20, Mariah Careys x10 each leg, Pickle Pounders IC x10.
Mosey to the basketball court for Triple Check: hip-slappers, WWII situps, backwards run/forwards sprint.
Mosey to the field for Bear-Crab Futbol. Each time the ball goes out of bounds, all PAX perform 5 Burpees. If a team scores, they perform 10 Monkey Humpers to celebrate. The scoring team names an exercise for the other team to perform 20 reps.
Mosey to the side wall of the school for the Ascending Testicle: 10 derkins with feet at 15 degrees, 10 at 45 degrees, 10 in BTTW position.
Groundhog Day – mosey back to the basketball court for the same Triple Check.
Mosey back to the flag for COT.
NMM:
YHC ended the disclaimer by asking TYA to complete the sentence: If a PAX is perfectly capable of performing an exercise, but chooses not to, then…. His response was “he’s a fish taco,” or something like that. PAX then proceeded to perform three exercises in honor of the Super Bowl-bound Atlanta Falcons.
The Q’s counting was a little off due to lack of practice and deafening mumblechatter, but PAX seemed forgiving. The mumblechatter was reduced to stunned silence by the end of the beatdown. YHC will work on ways to spread it out a bit.
After a swift kick out of bounds to get the Burpees going, the bear team scored within 10 seconds by threading a shot through the D and into the kid-sized goal (Marv? Singer? TYA? McRib? – it was a blur). PAX switched sides/positions, then Flipper willed a goal for the new bears. The 1-1 deadlock persisted for several minutes and a bazillion burpees, so YHC declared a golden goal overtime. The original bears scored within a minute for the victory. The losing team performed two sets of Mariah Careys, and the winning team performed one set of Hammer Dances.
The Ascending Testicle was in honor of Sippy Cup and Chum Bucket who each posted solo to AOs in snowy freezing weather recently. Props to you gents, and hope your anatomy has dropped back into place.
Best wishes to the PAX down and out with illnesses and injuries.
Announcements:
Lunch today at 12 at Wong’s. Races: Belmonte (TYA) in March, Smoky Mountain (Swirly) and Ragnar (Toga) relays in April. Suicide awareness and prevention golf tournament (Fudd) in April.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRXtzsq4zl4
11 determined stalwarts posted for a Wednesday morning beatdown…weather was perfect, 70 and sunny.
The Thang:
Mosey across the street towards the lake, stop at the triangle at the top of the street. COP including 25x SSH, 10x Don Quixote, 15x Imperial walkers, 25x LBC, and 13 merkins. Mosey further down the street to the gate for the 1k 5k. Groups of two perform 100 burpees, 200 captain thors, 300 Merkins and 400 2 count Freddy Mercury’s. One PAX exercises while the other runs a 1/4 mile. Team completes 1000 exercises and 5000+ meters. Mosey to street. Lt Dan’s down the street. Run back across the street to the shovel flag. YHC takes us out and we are all off to our days.
NMM
A ton of mumble chatter and confusion this morning ensued because of missing PAX. First off, Swirly and the blue truck were not at their appointed spot at 5am and that threw several of us off. YHC was scouting out the route for the day and since BT did not see Swirly, he got confused, looked up the Q sheet and headed over toward the lake to see if the location had change. Fortunately, he followed me back to the usual spot. Also, I had trouble trying to figure out where to park. It is easy when Swirly is there, just park behind him. Without him, i could not tell where our regular spot was…I took a guess and I think I got it right. Since the AO was not secured without Swirly there, I decided to head off campus to a safer spot ?
Also before the workout everyone was confused who was to Q as Bleeder was not in attendance either. It appears that all are reading the Q sheet now to see who is on deck.
Heal quickly Swirly and Bleeder. They have caught the bug the is going around that was started by patient zero (circle K). YHC battled the same illness a month ago, and it took a good month to feel back to normal for me.
“Swipe right” was in rare form this am. The PAX’s knowledge of tinder terms and philosophies grows guy the day (even if we do not want any more knowledge on that front). Also of note for “Swipe right” is that he is trying to get ready to pass a range test (5 miles in 40 minutes). He better start running with Sippy and Saab….but if he does, they will whip him into shape quickly.
Hardwood and Flipper were talking about he finer points of Karate classes. Their terminology was foreign to me. They must have taken a different class.
Four souls ventured into the cool, dark morning for bootcamp, what else would they be doing outside at 5:30 AM.
The thang:
Mosey to the valley of doom – 25 SSH, 15 Don Q, 10 Derkins, 20 flutterkicks
Mosey down Hate Hill to the pond.
No man left behind – run around pond, perform ladder of exercise at each lamppost increasing up to ten, when finished run back to the last man in the Pax. Round 1 – merkins, round 2 – four-count mountain climbers, round 3 – two-count squats, round 4 – burpees (but only 10 burpees before running, not every lamppost)
Lindsays – dips and Freddie M.
Mosey back up Hate Hill to flag.
Moleskin-
Little late getting this one out, YHC’s bad. As Bleeder said, sometimes the simple workouts are the hardest. This one didn’t take much effort to create, but it certainly felt difficult. Hate Hill continues to be a source of pain for some of the Pax, YHC included, on the way home to the flag. Just brutal.
There is one lamppost currently without light around the pond, and a perfect total of ten lampposts. This might be helpful for anyone wanting to Q at Batteau. For some reason the lampposts surrounding the pond reminded YHC of the meaning of the lamppost in The Chronicles of Narnia. Supposedly the beacon of light between the two worlds and the question of its origin is the iconic image that convinced CS Lewis to write more than one book. Trotting around the pond in the wee hours can feel a little bit eerie in itself.
YHC doesn’t recall any announcements being voiced, but this morning at NoToll Hardywood announced he was going to attend The Avett Brothers this spring, so there’s that.
-Singer
The fart sack was calling me this morning than I sat up in bed with the thought of Swirly outside my house with the Woodfin truck yelling get your ass up you are the Q for God sake!!!
The Thang : circled up and ran to the four corner parking lot. 1 round of knee hugs 2. Russian Zombies. Than ran 10 labs of 4 corners without the corners. Indian pole merkin relays 1 round 2 round heals to heaven with upright Alabama prom date locked in the up position relay.
Teams of 2 ran/dips 2 rounds ran/bent over rows 3 rounds ran/decline merkins 3 rounds
Ran back to the flag
Thanks again to the PAX that kept me on time. Also Honey Do, thanks for the prayer that was just what I needed this morning. It’s always a better day with F3 and our PAX!!!
Eleven intrepid men – which included two south-siders (south to DaVille that is) – presented themselves on a dark frigid morning for YHC’s first DaVille Q. This is more or less what transpired…
COP: SSH, DQ, Merkins
Red Barchetta: Flutter kicks (100), LBC (75), Mountain Climbers (50), Merkins (25). Perform each at corresponding yard-line after out and back suicide run.
Donkey Kicks (10, 20, 30): After each set Polar Bear crawl out, then crab-crawl back.
Catch Me If You Can: Partner runs backwards around bus loop while partner does 5 burpees, run and tag partner then swap. Two laps around.
Jacobs Ladder: 1 merkin, 1 J-Squat, 1 Burpee. Ascending to 7 for each. Perform across 3 alternating points across b-ball court….running from point to point.
Mary: LBC’s (30), Rosalitas (30), Box-Cutters (20)
Moleskin:
YHC wanted to end the month with a bang, which thus led to his innaugural Q at DaVille. Having posted there only once before – in the dark – he required occasional orientation. This was evident as he prepared for the Red Barchetta, where the PAX had to confirm for him both a) they were truly standing on a soccer field and b) the true direction of the goal line. Having that settled, YHC expressed his disdain for the band Rush as he went through the details of the exercise.
Having remembered it was too cold for fireflies, YHC realized the periodic glow of lights he witnessed was from those checking their wristwatches. Concerns then arose that the PAX was growing bored and feeling un-challenged. To hopefully remedy this, he threw in his beloved Jacobs Ladder at the end…in the hope it would fill the void.
On a more personal note, after posting 30 days this month, this concluded YHC’s own personal csaup for the month of January….one cannot stress enough how stupid and utterly pointless this was – thus the title of today’s BB.
Announcement: Lab Rat has one more DaVille shirt to unload at a bargain price.
Saab abides
Four regulars returned for this week’s iteration of Spider Run. Quick exchange of pleasantries then off we went.
Route
Head south and exit UR via the River Road entrance. Cross the shopping center and head across the bridge. Exit via ramp, route under the bridge and head downriver. 4 milers looped back up and over the bridge back to the start. 6 milers proceeded past the ‘Z’ dam until our watches dinged then turned around and headed back.
Moleskin
This route is one of the rare Spider Run routes that do not require a weinke. While it may have few turns, it is still challenging crossing the bridge with a stiff breeze coming at you.
Not much mumblechatter opportunity for TwoCan today as there was only 1 taker on the shorter distance. Glad to hear that his focus in now on speed, not distance. Regular Spider Run hills run attendance will definitely help with speed. Keep it up TwoCan.
Much baseball talk today as the 6 milers live vicariously through their son’s sports. It’s almost February which means hardball is right around the corner.
Thoughts are with those in the PAX that are recovering from various illnesses or injuries. Time heals all wounds.
Splinter out.
3 River Run newbies paired up with 3 regulars to take on the cold wet grounds of Bettie Weaver Elementary to kickstart the last Monday in January.
Here’s what went down (more or less):
COP
Mosey to black top
Black Jack
90 LBCs IC
Bear Crawl Burpees
100 LBCs IC
Catch a Crab
Triple Check
Mosey to dry sidewalk
100 LBCs IC
Numberama, Name O rama, Gumbo took us out
NMM
It was cold and wet at the River Run today. YHC was expecting small numbers due to the weather, but was pleasantly surprised to see a few extra headlights in the parking lot and was even more surprised to see Fudd peeling in as the PAX started to take off. This resulted in the PAX needing to take a Capri Lap around the parking lot to allow for Fudd to catch up as YHC would hate to have Fudd play catch the PAX in an unfamiliar territory.
YHC had 2 objectives today 1) get in some catch up LBCs and 2) avoid excessive running. Not included in the objectives above: 1) Staying dry or 2) Protecting palms. LBCs were sprinkled throughout the Q and the PAX completed 600 total together. These were mostly done on the freshly wet blacktop, which was also sprinkled with snow flurries throughout and was cold enough to numb Fudds lower backside region. PAX take note…no Fudd droppings were dealt this AM at River Run, however, Fudd’s 4th F was strong once LBCs were moved onto dry and warmer concrete.
YHC also was excited to try some new exercises this AM with the introduction of the Bear Crawl Burpee and Catch a Crab. Fudd crushed the BC Burpee across the blacktop, and the Catch a Crab spread the PAX out nicely as each partner was chasing each other at various intervals. These were also solid shoulder and palm crushers that effectively shredded the Nike workout gloves the M got YHC for Christmas.
During the triple check, the PAX had to audible as there was concern that Oyster and Hezekiah had abandoned ship during their run. Fudd and Gumbo had to form a quick search party and were able to find the missing PAX fairly quickly after they took a wrong turn around the loop (Yes…you read that correctly). Future River Run AOs may need to include a tutorial on shapes. On a side note…Fudd and Gumbo looked great running together in their VMI sweatshirts…YHC fears his may have been lost in the move last year, but will try to locate and join the GDC at future postings.
Lastly, it is great to see new faces and F3 RVA brethren checking out the River Run. It really is a great AO, with a lot of potential variations for creativity. YHC loved seeing Fudd and Oyster come check it out for the first time and am happy that Carmen is becoming a regular at Southside AOs.
Welcome to Buzzer Beater..you rocked it today, and hope to see you tomorrow at NoToll.
Also, thanks to Gumbo for taking us out today…well said as always.
Thank you all for letting me take the lead and indulging my further exploration of the Exicon.
Til Next Time!
McRib