Category: Richmond, VA

  • I’ve Fallen But I Got Up

    5 of us posted, 1 of us even had a fall…but he got back up. Now that’s the F3 way. Not how many times you fall, but how many times you get back up.

    Warm up, then a mosey to The Tunnel for Bear Crawls with a Merkin at every light. Increase Merkin per light (5 lights).

    Mosey to the hill for 7’s (Mike Tyson’s and WWII’s).

    Mosey to Retaining Wall/Steps for a series of: 1 Burpee, 10 Dips, and 10 Step Ups, and increase to 2, 20, 20, until we get to 4, 40, 40. 5 Burpees at the top and come back down with: Declining # of Burpees, but 10 Decline Merkins and 10 WWIIs at every step.

    Took an Ab Break (125 Ab related exercises…Crunch, American Hammers, WWIs, Side Crunches).

    Mosey back through Tunnel with Crawl Bear and Merkin at every light.

    Finished at Playground for a round of: Pull-ups, StepUps, Squats, and Incline Merkins.

  • I’m Feeling 22

    Whoa! A summer blast of 22 men MITG (Met In the Gloom) most of which joining an all-swim for RAMM Gears, a few of which deciding to jaunt in the 76 degree August morning.

    I think I’m most likely the only quasi-routine member that doesn’t do slack. Our work doesn’t do slack, I feel like I have enough communication channels coursing through my mobile phone and F3 slack just misses the cut.

    So, ergo, I miss things like the All Swim RAMM Gears, which is kind of a bummer, but I think I’ll ultimately survive with minimal FOMO.

    Judging from the STRAVA maps…it looks like you RAMM Gear guys crossed the river and wound your way down river to downtown. (In all transparency, I didn’t look at your map all that closesly, although, I can report that Bodos had his 2nd best time ever on Riverside Drive and also a personal record on Nickel Bridge Sprint…at least, according to STRAVA).

    Us runners…the 6 of us who may also not check SLACK, we did a reverso Carrilon. And it was glorious.

    Have a terrific weekend everyone. My watch did not record the COT, so if I missed you, text me at 804-539-9711 and I’ll add you. But huge kudos (not to be confused with STRAVA Kudos) to Fudd and Splinter for helping name all 22 guys that were out this morning ITG.

  • Jaunt in the Park

    5 Westhoians met at Godwin HS for another round of Currahee. A more svelte Senior Frog, after carb loading last night for today’s run, took off with Pigskin, both carrying weights in each hand, on an unknown route, like the madmen they are. Being more reasonable people, Pinto, Chicharon and myself headed over to Deep Run Park for what turned out to be a challenging run. The humidity didn’t help. And having one head lamp b/w the 3 of us didn’t either. But by 6:15am, after only one fall in the park, the sun was up, we had all made it back to GHS and we were done. Well done men!

    Names.

    Numbers.

    Announcements: 2nd F at The Fishing Pig on 8/11 at 12pm.

    Prayers: Continued prayers for those traveling and for Charlotte’s family as they mourn and adjust to life after her passing. We also petitioned God to help us think a little less about ourselves today and a little more about those around us.

    Thanks for letting me lead!

  • A Moist Beast

    A 12-pack assembled at HBR for another beastly Q by YHC.  Here is how it went down:

    • COP
      • SSH
      • IW
      • DQ
      • Helicopters
      • Arm circles
      • DMH
      • Merkins
      • LBC
      • Penguins
      • APD
    • Mosey down the back of the school and do 15 lawnmower pulls with each arm
    • Beast on the band field
      • Back carry and squat thrusters
      • Waiters carry and high pulls
      • Riffle carry and curls
      • Death crawl and sit ‘n presses
      • Around the world and KB swings
      • Weighted lunges and tricep press
    • KB mosey back the flag and stretch; COT with YHC leading us

    Great work from the PAX today.  The field was super moist.  Plenty of mumble-chatter about that.  Gridiron at Lake Anna on 8/15.  See Tater for details.  Tuesday lunch next week at Pig & Fish, Fish & Pig, whatever it is called.

    God is good all of the time!

    Attila

  • Meet me at the corner of Willetta & Willetta

    5 studs jumped into the hotbox of Richmond August for a sweaty beatdown. The following is what transpired:

    Mosey to the corner of Willetta and Willetta for some COP warm up and stretching. Continue mosey to the end of Ashlawn Dr for more of the same. Mosey into Reveille UMC parking lot through the secret path and head to the Pavillion.

    Table Work: Grab a place at a picnic table for 3 rounds of 3 sets of excercises in cadence. Round 1: Incline Merkins x10 IC, 3 sets. Round 2: Wingnuts x10 IC, 3 sets. Round 3: Dips x10 IC, 3 sets. Finish up with 10 Marios- hop up to the bench, hop up to table top, hop down the other side. Upchuck expressed concern about collapsing his table.

    Dora: 100 Merkins / 200 Squats / 300 LBCs. P2 run to the brick wall and back.

    mosey up to Andrim to the Orthodox Cathedral back parking lot.

    Sevens (modified 11s). On one side of the lot, 6 Jump Squats. Bear crawl to the other side of the lot, 1 WW2. Run back across the lot. 5 Jump Squats, bear crawl, 2 WW2s and so on.

    Mosey to the head of Kingcrest Pkway. Mosey back east toward the school, stopping in between each median to perform 3 burpees. 5 stops totalling 15 burpees.

    COP back at the flag, American Hammers til time.

    Numberama, Namerama, YHC took us out.

    Great to have a solid pack of 5 this morning. At least 3 languages were used for a 10 count, and Romanian was not one of them.

    SYITG

  • (Pen)Ultimate Frisbee

    Fun continues to be had, so fun must continue. With light fading, we’re running our of time to run around the field chasing an object, but may have to run it back one more time next week…

    Side note: If you enjoy sitting on benches in Sri Lanka, Warby has some new feet pics for you.

    Team COOKIE – Superhuman Snip + 5 average joes

    Team HEIST – Heist, Crabby, Flyboy, Polar Bear, Festivus, Warby, Machismo

    Team Cookie scored quickly, but Team Heist bounced right back to tie it up, then the grumbling of the ‘extra man’ began. Traded scores again and HEIST went up 3-2. Here, we decided to sit our extra man, and eventually got to 4-4 I believe.

    And then Snip decided that he wasn’t messing around anymore. This KG story sums up what happened:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGVdZ156is4

    It was a blur, but what I do remember is it went from 4-4 to 4-9, Pad Thai, Fandango, Da Bear, Posey were catching dimes in the back of the end zone, in the corner, down the middle – all out assault. Team Heist did not have an answer today

    Kudos to Team Cookie, great game! Fun was had by all

    8/21 SATANS HILL CLUBHOUSE – F3 Hot Ones challenge, bring the family, pool will be open 5-8pm

    9/11 Friday Night Ruck 8pm – 11:30pm Meet @ ALAMO

    Prayers for Speakeasy and Meatball

  • Things were done

    4 brogii regulars enjoyed the thick conditions for some early morning stretching. Back, shoulders, hammys, quads and calves were emphasized. Well done fellas.

  • ABBSOLUTION

    A lucky 13 gloom warriors accepted the invitation to crush their core with a million high speed reps all while holding the Frog’s well-lubed rings. Here’s the rundown:

    The THANG: 

    WARMERAMA: 

    • Gym Rock tunes turned UP! 
    • Each PAX collects two 5# rings from Senior Frog and circle up
    • PAX instructed to keep rings in hand for the entirety of the 45 minute beatdown, otherwise modify as needed
    • DQ’s IC while we wait for Blank Space
    • Overhead clap while lunge walking further down the lot to circle up again
    • Variable Warm-up Reps IC while holding rings

    COP #1:

    • Mosey over to the bus loop for a DORA
    • x100 Heels to Heaven w rings overhead
    • x200 American Hammers
    • x300 LBC’s w rings on chest
    • Timer runs the loop holding rings

    x5 Penalty Burpees awarded to the entire PAX for rings noted to be set down during the Dora

    COP #2: 

    • Mosey to the ECHO CHAMBER
    • PAX people chair for the SIX
    • Hoedowns IC
    • Inverted Donkey Kicks IC
    • Donkey Kicks IC
    • Mohammed Ali’s IC

    COP #3:

    • Mosey to the amphitheater for a DORA
    • x100 Scrunchy Frogs
    • x100 WWI’s
    • x200 Oblique LBC’s (x100 ea side)
    • Timer Box Jumps big amphitheater steps and then back down small stairs

    Mosey BTTF for COT:

    • Counterama # 13
    • Namerama
    • Announcerama (see Below)
    • BOM Prayer – Gratefulness Theme
    • Pull-up Challenge! (Currently at 22)

    NMS:  Solid PAX for an exhaustive sweatfest in classic DTH style, but this time with the added pleasure of Senor Frog’s five pound rings, which the PAX noted to be suspiciously lubicated. Probably sloppy seconds from those taint-loving WestHo PAX. Regardless, carrying them for a 45 minute beatdown proved a steady burn for the shoulders. Not much mumble chatter this morning between the rockin tunes and PAX just needing to breath, but the extended coffeerama afterwards was fantastic. We solidified the date for Snuff hosting a 2nd F and Dealer has committed to leading a prolonged river trail ruck as well. We’re getting closer to GTE-74!!! Appreciate you guys permitting me the honor to lead. Yours AYE! ~DTH

    Announcements (SEE SLACK!)

    • Summer Tour ONGOING
    • 8/21 – Satan’s Hill HOT ONES challenge
    • 8/27 – Heisenberg VQ
    • 8/28 – 6p Family Pool Party at Snuff’s
    • 9/7 – Labor Day Convergence
    • 9/11 – Alamo Night Ruck
    • SEPT 26 GROW RUCK! (https://event.freedom-ops.fit/gte-74)
    • Monthly: Breaking Bread, Bridge

  • Ciao

    6 men posted for Raider run/ruck. There 4 ruckers and 2 runners. The runners did their thing. The ruckers did the Honey Meadows loop.

    It was good to have Yardsale back from his Italian vacation. Numbers, names, Bam took us out.

  • Around the campus COP

    3 men posted at The Creek today. YHC wanted to do the around the campus COP at Pearsons. The PAX started from the flagpole and worked our way around the campus stopping at different points to do different exercises.

    Mosey back to flag for some GRAMS. Numbers, names, someone took us out.