Category: Richmond, VA

  • RVA takes on the BRR!

    More to come, but I wanted to share our BRR photo album with the rest of the RVA PAX!
    http://imgur.com/a/4Uvf9

    Thanks for your thoughts and support while we were away!
    -Döner Kebab

  • Scavenger Hunt at NoToll

    Nineteen answered the call this morning and emerged through the gloom at No Toll.

    The COP:
    SSH x 25
    Imperial Walkers x 20
    Hillbillies x 20

    The Thang: Mosey over to the back parking lot and formed three six man teams for a scavenger hunt.  Cards were distributed to each team with the following tasks (in varying order):
    • Find A Bench In The Woods and Do 50 Bench Dips Per Person
    • Find A Tennis Court and Lunge Across Both Courts And Back (Parallel To Nets)
    • Find The Lonely Wooden Wall and Get Everyone On Your Team Up And Over 3 Times Each
    • Find “Katie” and Jump Up And Try To Touch Katie 20 Times Per Person
    • Find A Swingset and Do 50 “Swerkins” Per Person
    • Find Any Another Team and Switch Cards With Them
    • Find A Basketball Court and Bearcrawl From One Basket To The Other, Crab Soccer Back. Twice.
    • Find A Picnic Shelter and Do 25 “Four Count Merkins” Per Person
    • Find An American Flag and Do 50 Flutterkicks Per Person
    • Find A Trash Can In A Dark Place and Do 50 LBC’s Per Person
    • Find A Traffic Light. Stop And Do 5 Merkins Every Time You Pass A Speed Bump
    • Find Any Another Team and Tell Them To Start Over On Whatever Exercise They’re Doing
    • Find A Soccer Goal and Do 50 WW-2 Sit-Ups Per Person
    All tasks had to be completed as a team. Between each task, the teams cut cards and performed the requisite number of Burpees before moving on to the next task.

    Moleskin:
    Excellent teamwork all around in carrying out the tasks. YHC tried to set up the teams so that there was a relatively even distribution of over-achievers, general-achievers, and aspiring-over-achievers. Hints in the form of glo-sticks were largely a failure. Some team members might want to play a little Blackjack today, since they seemed to get tens on every draw. Lots of hard work today. Well done.

    Special welcome to former FNG Home Wrecker who posted up for the first time this morning.

  • Preblast: Hump Day Happy Hour at Ardent 09/16/15

    There will be a non-running HDHH at Ardent Craft Ales Weds 9/16, 1700-1900.  Be there or be..without Ardent beer.

     

    3200 W. Leigh Street
    Richmond, VA 23230

  • Forward Blast – The Convergence at Pouncey Tract Park on September 19, 2015

    Last September 20, twenty-four men posted for the first F3 RVA workout – the GridIron – at Pouncey Tract Park.  For most it was our RedPill Workout.

    Less than a year later: there are F3 RVA workouts each day of the week; there are events where the men of F3 RVA come together as a team and do things a year ago they would have thought not possible; and there exist genuine friendships formed as Iron Sharpens Iron.

    To celebrate this growth, to offer thanks for these blessings, and to embolden our focus on the 3 Fs, we’re coming together this Saturday for a Convergence at Pouncey Tract Park.

    In case you’ve missed the Back Blast Moleskins over the last several weeks, here’s the schedule:

    0600 – DogPile at the GridIron (aka the “DoubleDipper Delight” – no driving required!) – FirstHalf First F for the DoubleDippers!

    0645 – GridIron Pre-Game Gut-Check – “Slaying Giants” – 15 minute look at the leadership of David the Sheepherder – solid Third F!

    0700 – GridIron – SecondHalf First F — All the PAX together for The Convergence!

    0815ish – Coffeteria at the Daily Grind – Second F time!

    Great opportunity for FNGs – have you HeadLocked 1, 2, or more?  If not, do it today.  Press those who resist the EH – the FNGs will appreciate your perseverance when they take the RedPill.

    And don’t forget those brothers who haven’t posted recently – Kotters have done it before and can do it again.  Reach out to them and put a tight EH on them.  They’ll be glad you did.

    For those with DoubleDip phobia, post at the 0645 Pre-Game Gut-Check.  And for those with soccer games, etc. Saturday morning – don’t worry, we’ll still talk about you if you can’t join us at the Coffeteria.

    The Gloom is calling – but the darkest hour precedes the light of day.

     

     

  • The Carillon Crawl

    Seven faithful posted for a workout at Dogpile as the rain held off for the most part.

    The Thang:

    Mosey to Carillon field – 25 side straddle, 20 Don Qs, 20 Imperial Walkers, 25 LBCs, 20 mountain climbers

    Mosey to top of the Carillon of the Carillon crawl – partner up for bear crawl and freddie mercury

    Mosey to the bowl – full Jacob’s ladder – WWII situps and burpies. plank up when finished.

    Ring of Fire – 10 merkins

    Mosey to amphitheater – partner up – first man runs to top, second dips. rinse and repeat.

    partner up – calf raises – 30 each foot

    5 slow bending squats on each step to top, 3 derkins each step back down, 5 irkins (inclined merkin) back up, 5 slow bending squats back down

    mosey to flag – 5 MOM – leg raises, russian twists, LBCs

    Moleskin –

    Great workout, good numbers despite the absence of the BRR attendees. YHC considered ‘the Carillon Crawl’ during Toga’s Dogpile workout. The exercise has one partner bear crawling down the steps, around the other steps and back up, while the other man does freddie mercurys. Definitely became much more difficult going down the second time through. The full jacobs ladder started atop one the bowl on one side, doing one burpee and running down the to the valley and back up the other side for one WWII situp. Repeat by increments of one up to 6.

    YHC’s apologies if he forgot someone, or some parts of the workout. Always best to log it right after the workout but couldn’t find the time until today.

    Announcements – celebrating CONVERGENCE this Saturday at Gridiron, 7:00 AM. Regular workouts this week.

     

  • Lets Play a Little Ball

    9 motivated woke up in the gloom and posted at the Punisher.  Beautiful morning with a little chill in the air.  Fall has arrived in the RVA.  No more sweat towels needed after the workout.

    The Thang:

    Mosey to front right corner of the school for COP.  20x SSH, 15x Merkins, 20x Through the Tunnel, 20x Don Quixote, 33x LBC.  Mosey back to the parking lot in front of the school.  Baseball with cards.  Pick one card from the exercises deck and one card from the hits deck.  Single = 25 reps of exercise and one lap around the parking lot, Double = 20 reps of exercise and two laps around lot, Triple = 15 reps of exercise and 3 laps around the loop, HR = 10 reps of exercise and four laps around the loop.  We did Merkins, Jumps Squats, SSH, and Burpees (with a triple).  In all we made it through six innings.

    Mosey to front of school for 6 minutes of mary (dealers choice).  Promo pics russian twists (x20), Best Shot picks leg lifts (x20).  We also did Freddy Mercury and a few others.

    NMM:

    Great to be back out at the workouts after a few days away at the BRR.  Apologies for the lack of detail in the backblast.  My mind is still a little spent from a Thursday/Friday with only a few hours of sleep.

    Promo is in town for the World Championships.  He has a big job to accomplish between now and then.  Best of luck, and let us know if we can do anything to help.  He led the Pax on a lot of the runs this morning.  Great work my friend.

    BRR guys had a little jump in the step for the first several laps around the school.  After a few laps, the legs became heavy and the pace slowed down.

    Announcements

    Convergence on Saturday:  Come one and all.  Bring a friend.

  • What’s Next?

    Four showed up to tackle a trail run on a cool Sunday morning.

    The Thang: We ran!

    Moleskin: As the cars pulled up YHC quickly realized the A game needed to be present. Trophy led in the beginning, but Pommel was STRONG and kept Trophy in check. Offshore was keeping up nicely. Then there was YHC. While YHC had a personal best on the first half of the trails, they continued to double back to find me!

    During my run, I was reflecting on the challenge our BRR team faced this weekend and how proud RVA F3 is of this group! Well done fellas.

    So what’s next? Check out the video!

    Be sure to remember next Saturday is convergence! See you all there!

    Go BILLS!

  • He Ain’t Heavy…

    Seven hearty souls braved the overnight storms and emerged through the gloom for YHC’s virgin Q.

    A brief warm-up mosey brought us to the edge of the soccer fields for the COP:
    SSH x 25
    Imperial Walkers x 25
    Hillbillies x 25
    Don Quixotes x 15

    Mosey over to the east end of the fields and form two-man teams.
    Buddy Carry (Fireman or Piggy Back) to mid-field, Run to west end, 100 Flutter Kicks as a team;
    Buddy Carry to mid-field, Run to east end, 100 LBC’s;
    Run to monkey bar traverse then to the dip bars for 100 Dips as a (2 man) team.

    Run back to east end of fields and form three man teams.
    Max set of Australian Pull-Ups.
    Two-man buddy carry to mid-field, Run to west end, 120 Merkins as a team.
    Two-man buddy carry to mid-field, Run to east end, Max set of Australians.
    Two-man buddy carry to mid-field, Run to west end, 120 Flutter Kicks as a team.

    Break into one four man team and one three man team.
    Four man team: Three-man buddy carry to mid-field, Run to west end, 120 Merkins as a team. Three-man buddy carry to mid-field, Run to east end, 120 LBC’s as a team.
    Three man team: Two-man buddy carry to mid-field, Run to west end, 120 Merkins as a team. Two-man buddy carry to mid-field, Run to east end, 120 LBC’s as a team.

    Four man team: Three-man buddy carry to mid-field, Run to west end, 120 Merkins as a team. Three-man buddy carry to mid-field, Run to east end, 120 LBC’s as a team.
    Three-man team: Run to monkey bar traverse then to the dip bars for 100 Dips as a (3 man) team.
    Switch teams and repeat above.

    All return to east end of field for 10 quick Freddie Mercuries before we mosey back to the flag and COT.

    Moleskin:
    Lots of quality work this morning. I appreciate the lack of mumblechatter as we tried out a few new moves. The PAX rose to all of the challenges admirably. I briefly “lost” two
    over-achievers (Marv & Spotter?) after sending them out for an extra lap while the remainder of the teams finished up their dips. Fudd tracked them down and we were able to continue as a full team. Start with 7, finish with 7, I always say.

    Special welcome to Spotter, an experienced F3’er from Charlotte who has relocated to Richmond and will be joining up with us.

    TYA joined us for the COT. Good luck to our BRR participants this weekend. The group leaves Richmond at 11a and kicks off their first leg at midnight tonight.

    Hard workout this morning. Well done.

  • Hallelujah

    The Thang
    4 post to the Gloom on a dry but humid morning.

    Hallelujah Mosey to the grass area in front of the school
    COP
    15x Don Quioxte
    30x SSH
    30x LBC
    30 x Imperial Walkers
    15 x Jumpers
    Hallelujah Mosey to the basketball court
    Super 21
    Under each basket do 1 merkin/1 lbc increase by 1 each
    Rotate through until you reach 21 merkins/21 lbc’s.
    #1-8 merkin/ww2
    Jog down & back
    #9-16 werkin/flutter kick
    Jog down & back
    #17-21 carolina dry dock/lbc
    Hallelujah Mosey to the track
    Griff
    800 meter run
    400 meter backwards
    Hallelujah Mosey to poles
    4 minutes of pole smokers
    COT
    Moleskin
    YHC thought I might be flying solo today with the BRR athletes resting for their upcoming adventure. I could not have been more wrong.

    Wilson made a rare and early citing at SOT today, it was good to have him and his mumble chatter back.

    Toucan brought forth an excellent effort this a.m. Despite prior week consumption issues he excelled throughout, there was a little concern on the pole smokers that what goes in might come out. Fortunately, all went well.

    While doing the COP YHC must have closed my eyes doing lbc’s. When I reopened them all of a sudden Toga had appeared, it was an I Dream of Jeannie moment. I’m not sure that’s a dream? Maybe a nightmare? All good Toga rocked it in a very casual way.

    Good work men.

  • Four Squared Part II

    Eleven faithful posted on a gloom Tuesday morning on the southside.

    The Thang:

    Mosey near park gate, COP- 20 Side Straddle Hops, 20 Don Q, 20 Mountain Climbers, 25 freddie mercury.

    Mosey to left field – 8 count contra burpee, 20 count imperial squat walker

    4 squared – 4 laps, increasing sprints by 1 length each lap

    8 count contra burpee, plank dips 15 count

    mosey to parking lot, 4 squared parking lot

    mosey to left field – 3 minutes of mary – 20 count russian twist, 20 count rosalita, 25 LBCs

    11s – don quixote and body builder burpees

    mosey back to shovel flag

    Moleskin – excellent workout PAX. YHC felt compelled to complete Jville’s four squared workout from last week at NoToll. Points for originality – not really, but it’s a well balanced session- burpees and merkins, ciabattas, run – that deserved to be completed. Unfortunately YHC left his phone in the car, sot the ciabatta became an exercise in cadence. In hindsight that worked best as there probably wouldn’t have been time for the 11 at the end. Tclaps for Splinter and Fudd crushing the runs and 11.

    YHC let the PAX decide the exercises for the 11 workout. The PAX seemed to appreciate Bleeder choosing ‘windmills’ for the first part of the 11, and thus TYA felt inclined to choose body builder burpees as the other. Unfortunately we didn’t have time to finish the 11 but made it past 1/2 way or more.

    Our numbers will be declining this week as those in in the BRR drop off to save their strength. Best of luck out there guys, make us proud.

    Normal workouts continue this week – I think Grizzly is VQing Thursday’s workout at Mary Mumford.

    Other updates – Convergence on September 19th at 7:00 AM at Gridiron, grab or kidnap someone and bring them out. Bottom to Top 3 miler October 17th in Shockoe Bottom.

    Go Patriots (or football in general). That is all.

    -Singer