Category: Richmond, VA

  • No Wood in The Woodshed!!!

    Due to an unforeseen illness that took Excel (the original Q) down, the studs of New Market rallied to save the day! Six New Marketeers showed up ready to roll—only to find no wood in the woodshed! The cold temps and the looming Richmond Half/Marathon scared off the rest. What followed was a hot potato-style beatdown that went something like this:

    Hermey Q – Warm up mosey followed various IC exercises, followed by a few minutes of Dojo Dan. Man Down!! Nancy Lopez failed to turn the hip over enough during sidekicks and suffered a minor pinched nerve injury. Despite the jolting pain, he lifted his head high and carried on!

    Futon Q – COP 1: Mosey down to the newly lit street that has a sneaky incline for a little pyramid – Starting at the bottom of the hill perform 10 Squats, run to the top for 10 Squats, 20 Carolina Dry Docks, run down the hill for 10, 20, 30 Double Count Flutter Kicks, run up the hill for 10, 20, 30, 40 Hand Release Merkins. Quick rest and run back down the hill for 40 SSH, run up the hill for 40, 30 Double Count Mountain Climbers, run down the hill for 40, 30, 20 B-Girl Rayguns (named after the Australian Break Dancers), run up the hill for 40, 30, 20, 10 Alabama Prom Dates.

    Heist Q – COP 2: Triple Check from the entrance to the parking lot to the stop sign at the main road. P1 performs Squats, P2 performs WW2s.

    Globetrotter Q – COP 3: Short side 11’s in the parking with incline and decline merkins

    Time called, Numbers, Names, Announcements – The Bridge 11/15, SOJ Chili Cook Off 11/23, Daddy/Daughter Dance 12/6, Prayer Requests – Hardywood and the F3 Pax lifted up for the great work to donate athletic gear and getting it shipped to PAX in Kenya, Wildcat and Gal for recent quarterly cancer scans – some changes seen and awaiting further testing for treatment options. Keep praying, but we know God has it in his control and Wildcat’s mental and physical power is truly amazing.

    Pleasure taking part of the hot potato workout. There is a lot of sickness going around, so hope everyone stays well. Have a blessed day!

     

  • It sounded fun in my head

    SOT is back or at least YHC is trying to will it back to life. As the first back open SOT YHC thought it would be good to do the doors.

    5:30 and the runners are off so YHC Mosey’s to door #1 for a quick warm up.

    Doors:

    1 -17 Merkins and LBC’s the number equivalent to the door you are at

    17-20A Squats and WWIIs – 20B Mekins

    21-33 Squats and WWIIs

    BTTF – stretches and V-ups

    Meet up with the runners Numbers / Names DD took us out (see MOT BB for his report)

    NMS: A good beatdown is never as good when you don’t have people to share in the misery. Hopefully word will get out about SOT being back in business and this once great AO will be great again.

  • Over 5 miles

    2 runners and 4 ruckers gathered at Atlee High School on this cold and windy yet sunny and 70 morning.

    The Route

    The runners ran into Taylor Farm, Honey Meadows, Kings Charter, Madison Springs, Chickahominy Oaks, Summer Duck, back into Taylor Farm, and back to the VSF for a little over 5 miles. It’s rare that DaVille runners break the 5 mile barrier. The ruckers walked somewhere for likely a little more than 2 miles.

    COT: Numberarama, Name-O-Rama, Annoucements, Yard Sale took us out.

    NMS

    It was great running with BAM! this morning. The wind definitely woke us up but we kept a fairly strong pace througout the run. Well done ruckers again with 4 of you posting.

    Announcements

    • Thanksgiving workout – 7 AM at Mary Mumford
    • DaVille 2nd F – This Thursday at PBR. Time TBD

    Gotta Run!

    Phonics

  • YHC and a Bunch of Rabbits

    One nocturnal man and uncounted rabbits launched at the stroke of 04:00 in the latest edition of The Clinic. Conditions were 70 and sunny with dense fog and intense blackness. According to the rabbits silflaying, the following may quite possibly have happened.

    Mosey to the edge of the golf course for the COP.

    SSHs x30 (4 count, unless otherwise noted)
    Imperial Walkers x20
    LBCs x20
    Flutter kicks x20

    Mosey about 200 yards, pass the Dana Point Vietnam Veterans Memorial, and perform 20 HRMs.

    Continue moseying another 200 yards, stopping for a variety of squats, LBCs, WWIIs, merkins, and so forth, generally following the fall-line of the trails towards the beach. Ignore the darkness. Embrace the isolation.

    At the top of the bluff, continue right / downward to the beach path, then down the steps to the sand, forward 50 yards to the water line. Turn 80 degrees right / north, until intersection of water / sand, then proceed 6-10 feet west of intersection of sand / water (i.e., run in the water).

    Note: Water temp 66 degrees.

    Proceed to intersection of rocks / water / cliff. Find appropriate sized rock. 20 merkins. Find different appropriately sized rock. 20 boat / canoe. Do so without ingesting water / sand.

    Proceed south on beach, repeating 6-10 feet from water’s edge, always on the water side. Approximately 1 mile run. Glorious.

    Repeat rock exercises at south end of beach.

    Proceed north / east to beach road and follow road uphill. Grade as much as 14%. Unforgiving. Lower speed, force continued run. Do not walk.

    At top of hill, repeat exercises.

    Continue east / northeast through city park and back to golf course, repeating exercises 3-4 additional times. 3 MOM at edge of golf course.

    Number, name, and YHC took himself out.

    NMS: YHC finds this workout to be the pinnacle of experiences, approximately 2x per year. Few things like exercising along the beach anywhere in the world. With the time change and the jet lag, YHC did this a bit earlier than normal. Good for the soul.

    Announcements: EF Hutton leading The Bridge this weekend. No finer person to help our fellow men. Sign up, join up, and experience all 3 Fs in one morning.

  • Welcome to Club L Woods

    On a frigid, blustery Veterans Day, YHC kicked things off with a simple prompt: name someone, military or not, who has made sacrifices in your life.

    Before the beat even dropped, Scram, hearing the low hum of YHC’s generator, asked the question of the morning: “What’s that sound?” Moments later, the PAX would learn exactly what it was as the playground at NoToll transformed into Club L Woods, complete with a generator-powered karaoke speaker and flashing lights.

    After a friendly reprimand from Rosie to not disturb the neighbors, YHC introduced Scram to his playlist, including some Rage Against the Machine. With power cords, flashing LEDs, and guitar riffs echoing through the cold, the PAX pushed through four-minute stations with 20-second breaks.

    It all wrapped with a final sprint from the playground to the basketball court. As the music faded, each man called out the name of his one, someone who had sacrificed for him.

    WARM-O-RAMA (10 MIN)

    • SSH, Don Quixotes × 10 IC, imperial squat walkers, mummy kicks, merkins, lbcs, alabama prom dates

    THE THANG

    Split into 4 groups- pax count out by 4. rotate every 4 minutes. Timer was used to rotate stations.

    Station 1: One pax Bear crawls up / crawl-bear down  large green hill in playground, 1remaining pax jump squats, rotate.

    Station 2: merry-go-round: 1 pax holds “air plank” while 2 pax member holds their legs, rotate around three times. Remaining pax plank jacking until rotations are done.

    Station 3: Rope climb, one pax member climbs rope, goes over and down and returns. Remaining pax are doing burpees while they wait their turn.

    Station 4: One pax runs around playground loop while remaining do step-ups on bench.

    Finale: Wind-sprint from Playground to end of basketball court.

    Announcements: Convergence Thanksgiving Day, Chili Cook-Off at the Alamo November 23, Daddy-Daughter Dance, 12 days of Christmas December 23. Two New AOs have recently been launched: Bon Iron (Saturdays 6 am) and Huge Bells ( Monday 530 am). Please come out to support them.

    Prayer Requests: Wildcat lung cancer scan.

    Thank you all of our service-members, active and non-active, and for the sacrifices you have made.

  • Pounding in the cold

    15 of Westhoe’s greatest braved this cold windy Tuesday morning and tried to keep warm with a lot of movement. This including 3 teenagers in shorts: Joey Chesnutt, Mariner and Handshake. According to Handshake’s rock hard nipples, we did something like the following:

    13 of us went to the football field at 5:30 and soon were joined by Fudd and Full House. We did some warmups of SSH, Uranian Soldiers, Copperhead Squats, LBCs, WW2, Merkins and maybe some other stuff.

    We then went for a preview of everyone’s favorite Christmas Movie Die Hard and hit the Ridge. We did 2 sets of exercises at the bottom, ran to the top and did SSH until the six reached the top. Then we went back down for some more. 1st set was 20 HRM and 20 WW2, 2nd was 20 Merkins and 20 Heals, 3rd was 20 Wide Merkins, 20 Dollies, 4th was 20 Chuck Norris and 20 Rosalitas and the 5th was ten burpees. The hill won’t fully transform into Nakatomi Plaza until late December.

    We walked down the hill one last time and then moseyed back to the football field. There we did my favorite Double Quarter Pounder. First set was 25 HRM at the 25, 50 LBC at the 50, 75 single count Mountain Climbers and 100 SSH, bernie back to the goal line each time. Second set was 25 Merkins, 50 Hammers, 75 Squats and 100 single count Freddies.

    With a little time left, we hit the benches and did a Lindsey of 30 dips/10 bench kicks, to 20/20 and then 10/30. Then back to the flag for some Mary of LBC, Suzanne Sommers and WW2. 1.2 miles today which is about average for this AO.

    Announcements: The Bridge this Saturday with EF Hutton, Thanksgiving at Mary Mumford. Joey’s hotdogs for lunch today at noon.

    Big thanks to all who served and currently serving. Prayers to the Correll family and all those fighting cancer.

    “Like a drifter, I was born to walk alone.” But I am grateful that is not the case with this group.

  • CHAD1000x

    5 HIM came out in the cold, brought some weight and did some work. We each got through 400 steps ups plus 3 rounds of FIRE. Today though, is for our veterans.

    October 29, 2018 Navy SEAL Chad Wilkinson took his life. While approaching his 21st year of active duty and experiencing multiple combat deployments, his body and his mind had taken too much.

    “This is a silent disease where symptoms, triggers, and warnings are often recognized too late. Chad is not alone, this is a silent epidemic with the enemy sneaking quietly into our homes and it has to stop. We want to use Chad’s life and legacy to raise awareness for suicide prevention. Our hope is to remove mental health stigmas, and encourage people to reach out, one step at a time, no matter who you are.

    Our goal is to honor Chad and all Veterans currently struggling this and every Veterans Day moving forward. I hope you’ll join me and our community in doing the Hero WOD named after my husband Chad, supporting Veteran Mental Health Initiatives.

    There are a lot of people who are struggling, too many lives are lost. Many more we can prevent. We believe that physical health leads to mental health and everybody needs somebody. So use “CHAD” as inspiration. Say his name, honor his story, and live big by sharing your time with friends and those you love. Tomorrow is never promised.”

    As men, we carry the weight of the world on our shoulders some days. If there is anyone who is struggling please know its OK to ask for help, from your family, friends, professionals, your brothers – lean on others and you can make it through whatever struggle you face, know that. There is also the national suicide and crisis prevention hotline, simply dial 988.

    www.stepupfoundation.org

    Thank a veteran today

  • Give them the finger

    The usual suspects came out of the Gloom for a breezy but relatively warm run around what is known as the lower fingers. Out of the BWES parking lot across the street up and down each cul-de-sac and down to the park for 4 miles

    Numbers / Names Bullseye took us out

    NMS: Run a mile with a friend and learn how different and yet how the same your lives really are

  • Squad Bay Beatdown

    Today being the 250th birthday for the Marine Corps, YHC had an USMC themed workout.

    YHC decided to show the PAX what a Parris Island boot camp style squad bay beat down looks like.

    COP – various warmup exercises.

    Squad Bay – The PAX lines up as they would in a squad bay, facing each other about 10-15 ft apart. We decided to use the parking lot numbers as our starting position.
    11s – The PAX facing each other does monkey humpers at the starting position, bear crawl to middle to meet for some buoya merkins.
    Triple check – YHC introduced the PAX to the quarterdeck, where Marine Corps recruits receive additional motivation by a drill instructor. For our scenario, we used the sidewalk as our quarterdeck. Same starting positions, P1 does SSH, P2 squats, P3 is the timer, runs to quarterdeck and does 5x burpees. Rinse and repeat.

    During the triple check recruit Yardsale decided to mess up the rotation, so true to Parris Island style, the entire PAX goes to the sand pit for further character development. We mosey to front of school, P1 wall sit, P2 run to sidewalk 10x 2 count imperial walkers. Rinse and repeat 3x.

    Circle up for ring of fire merkins. Mosey back to flag for ring of fire core. Recover.

    Numbers, names, Corned Beef took us out.

  • Beaver High Tails It

    It was just the pines and Beaver this morning. YHC covered something like 5.2 mi and gets a max speed of 12.2 mph. YHC took a page from Commando’s book and used this time to talk with God in the overcast gloom. Even though I missed the guys, it was nice to have this alone time.