Category: Richmond, VA

  • It is awfully quiet down here when …

    There is no train, or Handshake. The question is, which is more noisy. This question was discussed by the 8 hearty souls who showed up for First Watch this morning.

    We started with a traveling COP as we started from the flag and headed down South Ridge to Westham Station which included SSH, DQ, Arm Circles, Dead Man Hang, Fudd’s Wife, Wilson’s Wife.

    At the bottom of South Ridge, partner up for a Dora. 50 Merkins, 100 WWIIs, 150 Freddie Mercuries. Runner goes to the 3rd No Parking sign on the right (not the 1st, not the 2nd, but the 3rd).

    Find a different partner to head back up South Ridge. Partner 1 does 20 squats while Partner 2 starts up the hill and then runs to catch up when done with squats to trade places. Partner going up the hill does bear crawl, crab walks and then freddie mercury.

    Stop at the intersection with overlook and line up for a native american style run back to the parking lot. Once back at the lot, we split into 2 groups for a quad check. Timer ran to the median in the middle of the parking lot. Exercises for those not running were merkins, LBCs and monkey humpers.

    With a few minutes left, we returned to the start and circled up for a few minutes of mary.

    Announcements / Prayers

    1. EF Hutton leading a group to the Bridge on Nov 15. See Slack for details.
    2. Prayers EF Hutton and his family as they say goodbye to his aunt.

    Numbers, names and YHC took us out. Thank you for letting me lead today!

  • HOT POT at the shed

    rolled up with 2 in the truck to a group waiting in the cold

    COP warmarama in the usual way with the usual suspects at the shed.

    THANG

    The one and only Futon started us off with warmup and a series of 11’s with incline decline merks. He saw it fit to call on Dr. Scholls and passed it to him first. Futon was warned that it might be a mistake as amelia burpess were likely on the menu. He did not disappoint. It was a blur of bear crawls, curls and amelia burpees. Futon then recommended we pass it to a volunteer, I was voluntold and did some dojo dan and a PLT followed by a DORA with some usual ex’s. I passed it to Murr and he finished the punishment with some block work on the arms and a ROF.

    COT name/numberama, prayers and FUTON took us out.

    Honor and pleasure gents

  • Full moon + Dora =

    Three brave souls dared to conquer their weak bodies at 530am in the light of the bright full moon. According to the stones on the ground where the portajohns used to lie, here’s what went down:

    COP

    helicopter

    arm circles

    imperial walkers

    Ukrainian soldiers

    dead man hang

    copperhead squats

    Merkins and Back’ens:

    merkin

    superman

    close arm merkin

    phelps out of water

    hand release merkin

    Starfish stretch

    Mosey to tower, where we encountered the Dora curse. Dora turned us in to bears, and we have to complete 350 ab exercises (she later increased it to 400 😲)

    dora curse

    400 ab exercises while partner bear crawls to top, touch tower, run down

    After breaking Dora’s curse, we moseyed to Logland for some lumberjack training.

    log carry x12 x2 rounds

    log lifts x12 x 2 rounds

    Plank as you wait for your turn

    Moseyed back to the field but was stopped briefly when we turned into bears again, having to bear crawl around the roundabout, before heading back to the field with some lunges and ending with 2 minutes of overhead clapping to celebrate our victory from the bear curse.

    COT: numerama, namerama

    Florence came out of his cop mobile to say hi to us. We’re glad to hear that he is doing good work to restore peace in our city. He says that he misses F3 but hopes to make it out one day and also encourage others to join too.

    YHC took us out. Glad to have Senka out again from NC!

  • Full Beaver Mooners

    9 studly SOJ NOS brothers who all appreciate a big beautiful beaver (moon) gathered to ruck and chat as we do every week. No Q on the sheet, and nobody jumping forward to lead at 0500, so YHC grabbed the reins and launched into Larus. Enjoyed conversing all things hunting and venison processing with Dealer and the PAX exited the woods to take on some streets, bernie for the hills, squats for the SIX. Probably covered about 2.5 miles and ended a few minutes early for some quality coffeerama time. Thx for letting me lead gents. Yours AYE! ~DTH

    COT:

    • Counterama # 9
    • Namerama
    • Announcerama (see Below)
    • BOM Prayer – Gratefulness theme

    Announcements (SEE SLACK!)

    • Monthly: Breaking Bread, Bridge
    • 11/10 – NTB on Q for HUGE BELLS #2
    • 11/12 – brother BRU will lead the Ruckhenge crew
    • 11/23 Alamo Chili Cookoff
    • 12/6 Father Daughter Dance

  • Celebration Time!

    Lot’s to celebrate at WTH today, but first, we grind! Run to Wells Fargo to open some bogus accounts and knock out COP. Onward to Kroger for a pretty-dang-big-prostitute-style 4 corners. Gold Digger hit some small rocks just right (wrong?) and tweaked his knee. All corners completed, we ran/walked/limped BTTF. For an F3 1st, Borat sprinted back to the AO, jumped in his car and scooped up Gold Digger. We checked F3’s bylaws and determined this action to be acceptable and appropriate.

    Numbers. Names.

    Announcements: Green Hornet is 41 today. Banjo turned 23 yesterday. Full House landed a new job. I’m 21 years sober today. Members Only launches officially 11/7 and they need a Q.

    Prayer Requests: Prayers for UPS due to yesterday’s crashed plane. 7 are dead, people are still missing. Of course, many folks out there are impacted by this. Earlier in the day, there was a bomb threat at Reagan National Airport. Prayers for Roger Roger’s industry and all impacted. Prayers for physical healing for Gold Digger.

    YHC took us out.

    Lastly, Roger Roger brought Dunkin coffee and donuts, threw it out on the tailgate of his truck and we got our celebration on! Great way to start the day.

    Well done Pax. Way to work today. Have a great Wednesday and I’ll SYITG!

  • Chi-ca-ca!

    Ol Beaver is on the road for work again. Thi time he finally hits an AO in the Chicago area named War Horse. You guessed it, we hit the coupons! It’s a thing! I feel like I’m always doing coupons DR. Luckily one of the HIMs grabbed an extra for me. A variety of coupon workouts were repped. I will certainly have to come out again.

    VQ’s moleskin in a nutshell: Don’t pass up opportunities to help others when they present themselves

  • We’re Gonna Take You Higher

    On a chilly, but clear morning, 2 Bermuda Boys came out to Goyne Park to take things to another level.

    Warmarama

    530 hit and Doolittle and YHC started a long mosey. After a mile, they found themselves at the basketball court, and finished the warmarama with some SSH, Imperial Squat Walkers, and Ukrainian Soldiers.

    COP 1 Groundwork

    Alternating 10 sets of 10 Merkins and 10 sets of Ab/Core Exercises including Kimchee Twists, Box Cutters, Hello Dollies, Oblique LBCs, Flutter kicks, American Hammers, Star Crunches, and some others YHC can’t remember.

    COP 2 Suicide Penguins

    Plain old Suicides, stopping at the normal suicide stops for a set of 25 DC Penguins at each. Finish with 1 set of Merkins to Failure.

    Mosey back to the parking lot

    1 more set of Merkins to Failure

    COP 3 Cindy Songorama

    “I want to take you Higher” Sly and the Family Stone

    Goblet/Sumo Squats for the majority of the song

    Overhead Press on every “Higher”

    Higher is repeated almost FIFTY times, and the song is over 5 minutes long!

    COP 4 Single leg Balancing and Jumping

    Balance on each leg for 1 minute, then Nancy Kerrigan’s for 20 counts In Cadence on each leg

    Great work by the PAX on this one!

    Lots to Pray for

  • No Dips

    2 PAX showed up at the jungle gym at Ecoff Elementary for the weekly Extra Credit session. YHC feels like his Pull-ups have regressed in recent months, so he decided to just do pull-ups this morning. Doolittle was getting in some work of his own before we increased the intensity for Bermuda Triangle.

  • Election Day

    My Fellow Americans, I Pigskin, do solemnly swear that I AM NOT A PROFESSIONAL! And furthermore, I have never been a professional and WILL NEVER BE A PROFESSIONAL! Push yourself but do not injure yourself. And exercise your God-given rights as an American Citizen to modify any exercise where in your best judgement, it is the appropriate thing to do. Do not leave here with more injuries than you came here with.

    Finally, exercise your civic duty today by voting; early and often! Help me win this election and defeat my no-good, sleazy, dog-faced, lying skunk of an opponent!

    Warmup: in cadence

    • 20 SSHs
    • 20 Imperial Walkers

    Mosey to the front of the school: in cadence

    • 10 Don Quixote in cadence
    • Stretch: Right foot/Right hand; flapjack

    Mosey to the wall at Quioccasin

    • 15 People’s chair airpress
    • 10 BTTW Shoulder Slaps in cadence
    • 15 Donkey Kix OYO
    • 15 People’s chair Milkers
    • 10 BTTW Australian Mountain Climbers
    • 15 Donkey Kix OYO
    • 15 People’s chair Lalannes
    • 10 BTTW toe taps
    • 15 Donkey Kix OYO

    Mosey to the hill between Quioccasin and Pemberton

    • Jacob’s ladder: up the hill 7 times with 1, 2, 3, etc. to 7 Burpees at the top
    • Those who finished early, plank up
    • Stretch

    Mosey to playground behind Pemberton: 3 times

    • 8 Pullups OYO
    • 15 Merkins OYO
    • 30 Squats OYO
    • Those who finished early, plank up
    • Stretch

    Mosey to the parking lot at Pemberton

    Lunge walk across parking lot

    Mosey to the wall at Quiocassin

    Crab Walk most of the way to the corner at the front of the school

    Mosey to the side of the school: Partner up for a Dora across the front parking lot for

    • 75 Merkins
    • 150 LBCs
    • 200 Flutter Kix (2 ct)

    Mosey to flag.

    • 20 APDs in cadence
    • 15 Heels to Heaven in cadence
    • 60-count 6-inch leg lift

    Numberama, Namerama

    Announcements

    November 15: Richmond Marathon, Half-marathon

    November 15: The Bridge

    November 27 (Thanksgiving Day): 7:00 AM: Convergence at Mary Mumford Elementary School

    COT

    In the 1960s and 1970s, we had disputes over Civil Rights and the Vietnam War. Some of the infamous events of that time included the assassinations of President Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., Robert Kennedy and the assassination attempt on George Wallace (which left him crippled for the rest of his life), the murder of several civil right workers, the Kent State shooting, Jackson State shooting, South Carolina State shooting, the riots in Harlem, Watts, Newark and Detroit and the Watergate scandal which ended with the only resignation of a president in the country’s history.

    In short, our current controversies are regrettable but not unprecedented.

    Lord, give us the patience and kindness to listen and understand each other; and when necessary, agree to disagree in peace.

  • We The People

    Nine HIMs arrived at the Old Hundred this morning to protest my Q decisions. Purple Pain, Merlot Splasher, Virginia’s Most Handsome Man, I have many sobriquets, and today I got to add Least Favorite Q. 

    SSHs, helicopters, dead man hang, cherry pickers, copperhead squats, merkins, LBCs, scrunchy frogs/epileptic seizures (lol)

    Dora. 

    Runner to the clothing donation bin across the parking lot and back again. 

    100 swings, 200 squats, 300 calf raises

    2nd Dora. 

    Same running route as the first Dora. 

    100 single leg deadlifts, 200 APDs, 300 plank pull throughs  

    Biceps 30s (they’re like 21s, but with 30), 20 lying skull crushers, repeat 3x

    Lawnmower pulls to runout the final 30 seconds.

    Names, numbers, announcements (check slack).

    YHC took us out. Prayers for our leaders, for the citizenry of the USA, for Hermey’s wife who is having surgery this Thursday.

    Nancy Lopez’s words of wisdom, “When you hear the PAX grumbling, you’re doing something right.” And grumble they did, providing today’s beatdown soundtrack. It sounded like weakness, heated by the combustion of calories, leaving the body and evaporating into the fall air, leaving the PAX purified and pristine. 

    Great to see Merman make a triumphant return! And we were joined today by Globetrotter, a new resident of the PAX stronghold of New Market, a recent transplant from Phoenix, and he’s in the “respect” club. Welcome back, and welcome. 

    It is always an honor to lead you guys. Until next time!