Category: Richmond, VA

14 posted for a morning beatdown in RVA.  Weather was 37 degrees and clear.  Great job everyone getting out of the fartsack and making yourself (and others) better and stronger.

The Thang:

Mosey to field, 25x Freddy Mercury, 26x Don Quixote, 25x SSH, 25x LBC.  Mosey to covered pavillion for 11’s.  At pavillion exercise is prisoner leg lifts, at far end of the field exercise is the Burpee (of course).  Faster PAX use poles at far side of pavillion.  Mosey to front of school for Yogi Bear.  Four stations (most on picnic tables), first station box jumps, second station Derkins, third station dips, fourth station incline merkins.  Repeato x 2.  Turn around and right into ascending and descending curb crawls.  Grab a piece of curb, bear crawl to other side, one merkins, turnaround bear crawl to other side 2 Merkins.  All the way up to 9 Merkins and then back down to one.  When finished, get into Al Gore and wait for rest of Pax.  Mosey back to shovel flag for 4 minutes of Mary.  15x Flutter kicks, followed by 20 second hold feet in the air.  10x (on each leg) bent leg raises.

COT and out into the day, in better shape and energized to take on the world.

Moleskin:

Several Kotters today.  After a brief hiatus with several maladies (strep throat, etc) Loose Goose was back in the fold.  Olaf made his second (?) appearance at a workout after a month long hiatus waiting for the spring to come.  Pucker returned after his hibernations.  Not sure why a Yankee and Ice Hockey player needs a break due to the cold?  Great to have everyone back out there with the group.

Fudd apparently shares the lack of eyesight with his namesake.  When TYA declared that the end point for the 11’s was the road at the second tree line, Fudd was all confused.  He said he saw many tree lines and could not see the rode.  Despite his difficulties seeing, he figured things out and almost kept pace with Conspiracy on the 11’s.

The PAX continues to have difficulty with math.  When the PAX were asked to split into four groups for the Yogi Bear, confusion ensued.  How could we possibly split up into four groups with 14 people in the PAX?   The math does not work out to even numbers!  What are we to do?  We can’t possibly do an exercise with an uneven number of people in the groups!    Somehow we persevered and got through the appointed tasks without incident.

What sadistic bas435d thought up curb crawls?  Why?  They are complete torture.  They sound so simple and in theory doing bear crawls with Merkins sounds doable.  This is the second time YHC has does this exercise and I have been completely smoked about halfway through both times.  At least the first time I had hope that a bus would come and run me over and stop this idiocy,  This time, my only hope was to finish the routine as quickly as possible and then try to forget that it ever happened. Worst part of doing them was that I actually chose the exercise.  What is wrong with me?

Announcements

HDHH yesterday.  Good time had by all and pretty good attendance.  Thanks to all that came out and had a little bit of second F.  One awkward thing heard in the bar (and hopefully not overheard by anyone else): “it weird to see you with your clothes on”.

Run tomorrow at MM

13 veterans posted in the gloom for a beat down from Fudd’s VQ. Here’s how it went down.

The Thang

Mosey around the school to the Tennis Courts for COP: 20 SSH, 20 Merkins, 20 Don Quixote, 15 Mountain Climbers, 20 Hello Dollies

Mosey to the basketball courts for 650/1K:
Partner up, 1 guy exercises while other runs around the track. 50 burpees, 100 Merkins, 200 Body weight squats, 300 LBC’s.

Mosey to Tennis Courts,
-Tunnel of Love from west end of the court to the east: two lines of men lock arms and take turns bear crawling through the tunnel created by the arms.
-Kack-a-lacka Choo-choo from the east end back to the west end: all men line up in plank position and take turns jumping over each man in line.
-3 Wind Sprints the length of the tennis courts to finish up: 75% effort #1, 100% effort on 2 and 3.

Moleskin by Fudd via email from TYA in Alexandria this morning

-Tclaps to Wedding Singer…how many has he done in a row now?
-Tclaps to Pele as well….how many other kids would come out on their spring break for a beat down at 5:30 am??

Moleskin by Bleeder

Amazingly, Pele came downstairs this morning and was dressed and ready without a word from his Father to get up and get ready. He wants to dominate on the Soccer field this spring, he knows F3 can help make that happen!

For long distance Mosey to the first COP; was Fudd trying to just go further than a normal TOGA Q? The disclaimer pointed out that TOGA’s workouts seemed more certified for Fitness instructors than most. Fudd’s cadence during the COP, in true VMI Keydet fashion, was well executed especially for a VQ.

Digging through the BackBlasts, Fudd discovered a routine that both Johnsonville and TYA have used to bring on the pain to the PAX. As the PAX moved to the next evolution, we ended up running through the Tomatoes exercise area. Fudd almost paused there, but realizing we are sharing the AO, decided to continue moseying to the other end of the Blacktop.

Tclaps to Fudd for the Tunnel of Love, being close to six months into RVA F3 workouts, that’s two days in a row of something brand new in the workout routine; that’s awesome from Virgin Q’s. But not sure if you can put the Tunnel of Love and the Battle Rope into the same exercise, might be moving into a Shady Grey area there, perhaps for people in there Fifties.

Announcements:

-TYA mentioned the backblasts and said some of the PAX had found it difficult to access those. Fudd mentioned that Conspiracy set him up with a free service that emails the backblasts whenever they are posted. Fudd regrets that he has no idea how Conspiracy did this. Perhaps Conspiracy could post instructions when he gets a break from whatever job he does everyday??

-Run tomorrow, 5:30 at Mary Mumford. TYA is Q
-Hump day Happy Hour next Wed at American Tap Room