Category: Richmond, VA

  • A Baker’s Dozen for Dogpile

    With Bootleg unable to be at Dogpile he sent out the Bat Signal and YHC chose to accept the task of Q-ing the Greatest AO in the History of the World/F3RVA.

    COP in front of the Carillion.

    FIeld Work – Mosey across the field and complete 5 Merkins, 5 Squats, 5 SSH’s, 5 WWII’s. Mosey back down the field and complete 10 of said exercises. Mosey back to the top of the field and complete 15 of said exercises. Mosey back to the start.

    Mosey over to the Ha’ Penny Stage and find a partner. Touch a Tree 10/8/6/4/2 with Squats, SSH’s, HRM’s, ?

    Mosey over to the Jerkin Gym. Triple Check. P1 5 Pull Ups, P2 LBC’s, P3 Mosey to the Fire Hydrant and complete 1 Burpee and Mosey back. Rotate through all through exercises, 3 times.

    Indigenous Peoples Pull Ups. Man 1 does 2 Pull Ups while everyone else does Squats. At the end of the Rotation start again but switch to SSH’s. Keep this rotation going for 5 iterations.

    Mosey to the Fire Hydrant to complete 25 WWII’s. Mosey to the bottom of the Hill of Ill Repute for 25 Merkins. Mosey to the top of the hill/wall and do 25 Dips. Mosey back to the flag.

    Mosey back to the flag for 2 minutes of Mary followed by entire Pax doing Ménage Merkins.

    Announcements – Break Bread is open in December. The Bridge next week (11/15) with EF Hutton, see Slack or Huttons Mom for details.Thanksgiving Convergence on Thanksgiving morning at 0700 at Mary Mumford. Gomer has an idea to find out where the closest AED is to each AO. This is a great idea seeing is how it save a life.

    Prayer Requests – Prayers for Upchucks friends who are being laid to rest. Prayers for YHC’s friends mom who passed away yesterday. Prayers for Hitch’s father/family after his dad’s Stroke. Prayers for Gomer’s Mission Trip to Honduras.

    3rd F opportunity – Applesauce reminded us with the Government Shutdown there are lots of people that be going hungry. 3rd F: Challenge – You (or your M) CAN buy $50 of extra groceries and donate to a local food bank, pantry or blessing box. Bonus points for getting your neighbors to chip in, and extra bonus if you make time to volunteer in the next week or two. Link to local food pantries 

    https://feedmore.org/agency-locator/?mc_cid=3d68fa3e2b

    https://www.rvacommunityfridges.com/fridges

    https://www.signupgenius.com/go/409084BA9AB2FA6FD0-60251648-love#/

    NMS – YHC was glad to Q today. Weather was great and the Pax were full of great and supportive ideas.

  • New Launch Point

    No Latino Market this week, so we are back to the old Rock N Roll/Morning Wood start area. I figured this out after driving past House Party and circling around the park. As per the workout, we completed a near one hour ruck in the usual paved trail area. YHC may have rucked home had I gotten the memo on Mudslide’s spartan training. There were rumors of Big Rig and Boberry running, but we never crossed paths.

  • 6 HIMS and a little lady emerged from the unusually bright gloom for a faux Beaver Q Surprise, just trying to bait y’all out here! This is what the dog park weirdos witnessed!

    Mosey to the helipad for disclaimer and Warmarama(surprisingly not a whole lot of MC):

    • 10 Cherry Picker IC
    • 20 Imperial Walkers IC (fooled a lot of PAX on this one at 10th count, need to start some burpee penalties for premature haulting)
    • 20 SSH’s IC
    • 10 Nolan Ryan’s IC
    • Wilson and Fudds Wife
    • Toe Grabs
    • Butterfly
    • Roscoe’s Wife

    Start COP1 from helipad – Touch-A-Tree! Yukon suggests Leroy Jenkins: Instated! Touch the AED box at the PB Court.
    Partner up: P1 Runs to touch 3 trees(can’t touch the same tree) while P2 does Merkins on the pad. 3 Rounds. Following top of the 3rd round Commando calls Leroy Jenkins!

    Mosey to the Handicap Spaces near the playground for COP 2 – 7’s – Mike Tyson / Pole Smokers

    Mosey to the Coupons way over yonder for COP 3 – Dora …“Leroy Jenkins!” Exclaims Choo Choo – this had to have been at least a half mile round trip to the AED, shortly after YHC proactively changes the LJ destination to the much closer center field flag. Like I was saying Dora- Partner Up / 100 Incline Merkins / 200 Wet Toilet Seats / 300 LBC’s – Partner carries coupon to top of trail and back.

    Sugar Rush calls for Leroy Jenkins, run to the flag on our way back, pick up our gear and head back to the invisible F3 flag.

    Numbers(7) & Names

    Announcements & Prayer Requests – Commando’s son had a second interview on his way to a third and additional interview elsewhere.

    Yukon closed us out with a prayer.

    Great to see all of you men out this AM!

  • Machismo has the Q.

    Snuff texted late last night saying the Q looks open. Machismo realized he had mistakenly put himself down for Mammoth balls instead. Living the life of column AO#7 on the Q sheet requires more precision than Machismo is able to conjuor. That said YHC stepped up to the challenged and attempted to live up to the mistake with a ballzy 300 Q.

    Warmerama. SSH, LBCs, uks, among others were had. Along with 24 Merkins which started our countdown. 300 merkins was the goal for today. Starting at 24 and working out way down to 1.

    mosey to the riverside school. 23 22 21 20

    Thang 1 4 corners prostitute style. Corner number 1 19 merkins. 20 squats, 30 lbc, 40 ssh. The pax kept chomping down on the merkins.

    Thang 2 11s at the Gazebo which looked especially nice as Tin Man had done the metal roof on it. Step ups and dips. Pax got down to 11 merkins

    Thang 3. Hill sprints on the ball field. Sprint to the top of the hill by the track. Do hand release merkins at the top.

    mosey to the school for some donkey kicks and more merkins by the conex.

    bttf for 1 hand clap merkin.

    it was pleasure to lead the pax today. Coffeeteria was especially delicious. We were reminded a of the need to get the call out to more HIMs and fill the table at the bon iron house. Next week we aren’t in the house so Machyman will try to bring the airpot.

    Go eagles! (Scram’s soccer team not the NFL) Let’s focus on those we coach this week and encourage them to do their best.

  • Crazy 8

    With the temps back in the 30s and 40s it makes it easier to push the pace and distance. 14 pax showed up to Rick and Run around Westhoe. There was a little mumble chatter off the start about being sore from yesterday’s KBs at Circus… But that soon faded as we turned to go take on some hills.

    Pushed the pace today on the 5.5 mile route with Chicaron, so we didn’t get a chance to chatter with others.

    The ruckers all seemed to be in good spirits when they returned to the AO.

    EF Hutton said we wanted more hills..

    Pinto and a few others took on the 4.5 mile route

    Lighthouse picked up Full House and covered some extra credit.

    thank you all for showing up and holding me accountable.

    V/r

    John “Gypsy” Boles

  • TPMS

    2 scoundrels rolled in on deflated wheels on this peaceful and chilly morning. Wonka is a Michagander so I wasn’t surprised to see him start peeling layers 5 minutes in.

    Warmup

    Hustle to the octagon for some on your own stretches.

    The Meat & Taters

    • 11s was in order. WWII’s and Copperhead Squats with a 50 yard jog as MOT.
    • 4 corners. 10 two count lunges, 20 v-ups, 30 American hammers, and 40 SSH.

    Got in some good talk about the upcoming deer season. Pumped for Saturdays workout!

  • 666 Beatdown @ Satan’s Hill

    During an evening of “refined athletic hydration” (aka bourbon tasting) with a few F3 brothers, the conversation took the inevitable turn — who’s bringing the pain and who’s handing out participation trophies in their Qs (no we’re not talking about your Boys of Summer trophy Fandango). After a few generous pours, YHC’s inner Q decided it was go time. With no whiteboard in sight, a paper plate was recruited for duty. Between the chicken scratch handwriting and bourbon-fueled brilliance, a masterpiece of suffering was born. The 666 beatdown at Satan’s Hill came to life — forged in whiskey, scribbled in chaos, and executed with questionable judgment but undeniable enthusiasm. Here is how it all went down:

    Warm Up: Mosey in the parking lot and back to circle up for various IC exercises. PAX informed to grab a coupon (block or sandbag) of choice and take it to the main entrance of the parking lot. Mosey to the bottom of Satan’s Hill.

    COP 1: 666 on Satan’s Hill – Starting at the bottom of the hill PAX performs 6 HRM Burpees. The hill was broken into 3rds for 6 different exercises (3 up, 3 down). Going up the hill: 1/3 Bernie, 2/3 OH carry coupon, 3/3 Broad Jump Bunny Hops. At the top of the hill, performed 6 Burpee w/ Firecrackers. Going down the hill: 1/3 Run, 2/3 Lunges w/ coupon, 3/3 Bear Crawl or Crab Walk – Repeat x 3 1/2

    Returned to the flag with 4 minutes left and did a quick ring of fire abs edition. Time called

    Names, Numbers, Announcements (The Bridge 11/15, SOJ Chili Cook Off 11/23 – Sign up posted today by Crabgrass, F3 Daddy/Daughter Dance 12/6), Prayers (Hermey’s wife recovery from ankle surgery)

    Thanks for humoring my bourbon-born brainstorm, fellas. Thinking I’ll sign up to bring paper plates to the Chili Cook-Off — not for serving food, but to sketch out future “inspired” workouts for everyone else to be Q’d up! Cheers to bad ideas, good company, and Satan’s Hill for always beating our ass! Have a blessed weekend fellas!

     

  • When you wish upon a star

    11 of the worlds finest HIM graced the parking lot of Twin Team to see how loungy Doozy could be. In order to not be added to the probation list with Rosie, YHC got our 1 burpee max out of the way right at 5:30.

    Mosey slalom through the handicap signs and wait for the clown car to unload. Circle up with various non counted exercises

    Mosey to the JRHS parking lot for some more stretches

    Mosey to the benches at the school and partner up for touch a pole, Partner 1 touches 3 light poles in the parking lot while partner 2 does exercises

    Mosey to the second lot repeto with different partner and different exercises.

    Mosey to the swamp use the stands bear crawl up mosey around down, High knee lunge up mosey around and down, Crab walk up mosey around and down (Rosie is the only one that completed it correctly)

    Mosey BTTF but bear crawl up the hill before crossing the field

    Circle up for Mary (abs)

    Numbers / Names Wet Bandit took us out

    NMS:

    Watch what you wish for especially around OC. Rodeo Clown asked if we had seen the shooting stars this morning to which Boberry asked if he made a wish and with no hesitation and perfect comedic timing OC said “here I am”. Coffee was made by Last Call and a good time was had.

  • No Members Present

    The new Wellsley AO is still under naming consideration.  No one from Wellsley appeared today.  Here is how it went down for the non-members:

    • Attila
      • COP
        • SSH
        • Ukrainian soldiers
        • IW
        • Helicopters
        • Arm circles
        • DMH
        • Merkins
        • LBC
        • APD
      • Mosey through the tunnel to the field for a 4 corners with 10, 15, 20, 25 reps of an exercise
        • 70 HRM
        • 70 WWII sit-ups
        • 70 squats
    • Tater
      • Form the H at the tennis courts with exercises at each corner and burpee in the center
        • 10 squats
        • 10 WWII sit-ups
        • 10 dips
        • 10 CDD
    • Blue Moon
      • 7s on the hill with Mike Tysons & WWII sit-ups
    • Gomer
      • Meander around the AO stopping to do burpees – 41 burpees
      • Mary
        • FK
        • Mountain climbers
      • COT with Gomer taking us out

    A hot potato where AO names continue to bantered about.  Today’s theme focused on airline/airport/flying themes in honor of the site Q Roger Roger.  TBD.  No AED located by Gomer.  Prayers up for those looking for jobs and our country. 

    God is good all of the time!

    Attila

  • Perfect morning for a run/ruck

    3 runners and 6 ruckers came out to hit the mean streets of Mechanicsville on the most gorgeous day of all.

    4 plus miles by the runners, 2.5 by the ruckers.

    Good times had by all