Category: Richmond, VA

  • Has that guy been EHed?

    2 Ruckers and 5 Runners posted to Atlee High School on this perfect and once again humid Tuesday for the Raider Run/Ruck. These were the routes.

    Ruckers – Went somewhere around Atlee.

    Runners – Did the farmhouse loop into Kings Charter and back for somewhere between 4 and 4.5 miles.

    COT: Numberarama, Name-O-Rama, Announcements, Opus took us out.

    NMS

    It was great having other runners today. Last week, YHC decided to walk with the ruckers since he was the solo runner posting. (YHC was okay with that idea last week.) Much of the conversation centered around Sunday’s storm and damage that was caused by it. Atlee High School still has quite a bit of cleanup to do because of that storm.

    As the PAX was beginning to gather for the COT, a car pulls up and out comes a guy who is getting ready to go for a jog. At least 3 of us knew him and were fairly positive that he had been EHed many times in the past. Maybe one day Bryan will join us, but it does not appear it will happen anytime soon. YHC has tried to EH several people in the past who are early risers and are in fairly good shape but has for years been unsuccessful in getting them to post. Why some are easy to try and commit to F3 and others stay away from it will remain a mystery to YHC for now.

    Announcements

    • DaVille 2nd F – Opus is organizing a trivia night at a local restaurant for tonight, this week, or next week. Be on the lookout for more information.
    • Breaking Bread – Need volunteers for August.
    • Homegrown Half/10K – August 16 at Robious Landing Park. – 7 AM

    Gotta Run!

    Phonics

  • If a Bakers Dozen is 13, then what we do call 14?

    14 men gathered for a sweaty Heartbreak brought to you by YHC.

    COP in front of the school.

    Mosey to the Montessori School parking lot for Triple Check.

    Ascending Parking Space Merkins and WWII’s

    Triple Check # 2

    Touch a Tree

    Picnic Table Dips and Merkins

    Announcements – Crab Feast at the American Legion Post off Robious Road (in the back of Tarrington neighborhood) on Friday, August 1st from 4pm to 8pm. $55. Unlimited Steamed Crabs, Cold Beers, Hamburgers/Hot Dogs. Parking at James River High School and a shuttle will transport you back and forth. Here is the link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/james-river-post-354-52nd-annual-crabfeast-tickets-1376822566359

    Prayer Requests – Fireman Ed, Roger Roger, Fudd’s sister – Mary, my M’s Cousins Daughter – Charlotte who went through Bone Cancer treatment last year and the Cancer is back and in her lungs. It doesn’t look good at the moment. Prayers for Charlotte, for the Evans family. Prayers for the Doctors and a treatment plan/option.

    NMS – Thank you for the opportunity to lead today.

  • Not That Complicated

    Everyone knows YHC designs routes with lots of turns, but today Whitesnake complimented it wasn’t that complicated.  Here’s where:

    The Route

    • R on UR Drive
    • R on Westhampton Way
    • R on Keller and continue on Glen Pkwy
    • R on Westham

    4s

    • R on Durwood Crescent
    • R on Ridge Top
    • L on Wheeler
    • Take path to Campus Dr
    • R on UR Drive

    5s

    • R on Patterson
    • R on Honaker
    • Cross onto Boatwright
    • L on Campus Dr
    • R on Richmond Way

    6s

    • R on Patterson
    • R on St. Christophers
    • Cross onto Towana to Campus Dr
    • R on Richmond Way
    • Back to SF

    Numberama, Nameorama, COT

    MOLESKIN

    All returned safely, wet, and fully satisfied.  Call it a successful morning despite a couple of crazies on Westham and Patterson.  Don’t ever let someone tell you Westham is a flat run.

    ANNOUNCEMENTS

    Prayers for Hitch, Allen Family, Whitesnake’s father

  • 25 to 4: No Mercy, No Math

    Still feeling the sting from the 25–4 loss on July 22 in ultimate, we opened with 100 Side Straddle Hops—25 for every point allowed, descending in height until the silent count, where the Q misfired and dropped arms early. The penalty: 10 burpees for all. From there, we pushed through a soaked U-shaped grinder of merkins, jump squats, and monkey humpers, followed by a brutal fence-line rotation on the tennis courts—core, legs, lungs all tested while one ran. A hill-triple-check brought the grind home, capped by a plank hold with each man choosing his own flavor of merkin.

    Warmarama:

    • Don Quixotes
    • Ukrainian Soldiers
    • Imperial Squat Walkers
    • Merkins
    • Fudd’s Wife
    • Wilson’s Wife
    • Roscoe’s Mom
    • LBCs

    COP 1: Calf-Killers

    • 25 Side Straddle Hops (full)
    • 25 SSH (half-reps)
    • 25 SSH (quarter-reps)
    • 25 SSH (silent count)
    • Pax dropped arms early = 10 burpee penalty for all

    COP 2: Parking Lot Grinder

    • PAX starts with 10 merkins, mario jumps to end of first leg of parking lot, increase to 15 merkins, sprint second let, 20 merkins, bernie sandals last leg, 25 merkins Round 2: jump squats starting with 10 and adding 10 each time. Round 3: Monkey humpers starting at 20 and adding 10 each time.

    COP 3: Tennis Court Fence Rotation

    PAX lined up on chain-link fence while pax at back of line runs to front. Each leg is a different exercise consisting of :pole smokers, no surrenders, shoulder taps, flutter kicks, mountain climbers, burpees, LBCs.

    COP 4: Triple Check

    • Partner 1: American Hammers
    • Partner 2: Freddie Mercuries
    • Partner 3: Sprint hill

    COP5: Merkin Gauntlet

    • Plank hold
    • rotate pax doing merkin (x 10) f their choice.

    Announcements: Homegrown half August 16, Overnight Ruck at Rountrey September 26.

    Prayer Requests: L. Woods’ wife going through IVF Thursday.

  • 80 degrees and sunny

    According to the buck watching us in the Ampitheater, this is how things went down early Saturday morning. An FNG and F3 Princeton transplant joined 11 regulars discussing whether we have ever had a 6am start at 80 degrees, at least according to Sippy’s weather app. No confirmation on whether this was a paid app.

    Mosey to the Circle for a warm up of standard fare – introducing the transplant to the jazzercise and other differently named exercises.

    Up and down the ampitheater – up with increasing merkins; down with increasing squats, back up again with 5 dips per step. This concludes the limited movement section of the workout – on to the running portion.

    Mosey to the end of the field – 1 burpee per light pole. Take a break in the grass for a speed round of Mary. Mosey to the VITA track for some stations. First half – Alternate 10 V-ups and 10 merkins at each station. Switch to 10 monkey humpers and 20 raise the roof to get us to the end in time.

    Things coming up: Homegrown half 8/16 Robious Landing Park; August Bridge (date TBD)

  • Rallying after the storm

    Two Davillians posted to Atlee High School on this Monday morning after the storm that knocked out power to much of the Richmond Metro Area including YHC’s house. With little sleep, YHC took the Q and this is what occurred.

    COP

    SSH, Helicopters, Don Quixotes, Arm Circles, One Legged Lunges, other leg, Imperial Walkers, Merkins

    Dora 1,2,3 version #1 – 100 Merkins, 200 Donkey Kicks, 300 2-count flutter kicks while other partner touches 3 trees.

    Dora 1,2,3 version #2 – 50 Pull-ups, 100 Skull Crushers, 150 Freddie Mercuries while partner runs does a modified suicide on basketball court.

    COT – Numberarama, Name-O-Rama, Announcements, YHC took us out.

    NMS

    It was great working out today with Surf n Turf. YHC is not sure if the others travelled to play pickleball or stayed at home after the storm. The PAX today did have to watch closely as we moseyed around Atlee’s campus with a number of trees down.

    Announcements

    • Homegrown Half/10K – Robious Landing on August 16 at 7 AM.
    • 2nd DaVllle F – The date, time, and location will be announced soon.

    Sign up for Breaking Bread

    Gotta Run!

    Phonics

  • The Corporate Challenge – 2016 vs. 2025

    Ten runners posted on Sunday at the Pump House for preseason training to prepare for the fall when temperatures and humidity should feel drastically different.

    The Route

    Most runners did the Buttermilk to North Bank loop for somewhere close to 7 miles. They forgot to do weigh-ins before and after the run.

    COT: Numberarama, Name-O-Rama, Announcements, Helix took us out.

    NMS

    Back in 2016 when YHC first posted with F3 RVA, the Corporate Challenge had been established. The Corporate Challenge was to post at the following locations in one week:

    • Monday – Punisher
    • Tuesday – No Toll
    • Wednesday – Source of Truth
    • Thursday – 45 Minutes of Mary
    • Friday – RAMM
    • Saturday – Dogpile (6 AM), then get head out to Gridiron (7AM)
    • Sunday – Sunday Funday

    Travelling is what made the Corporate Challenge challenging. By the time that YHC started F3, Spider Run, DaVille, Circus Maximus, and WDog had started meaning there were now multiple options on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday to post everyday. Within a few years, other workouts had started. Now, less travel was needed to complete the Corporate Challenge.

    Fast forward to today, there are as many as 8 workouts per day in F3 RVA and three 7 AM bootcamps on Saturday. This potentially makes it much easier to complete Corporate Challenge.

    Can the Corporate Challenge still exist today with so many options of workouts and little travel required to complete it? YHC asks this because he did the following this week.

    • Monday – DaVille (3 miles from YHC’s house)
    • Tuesday – Raider Run (3 miles from YHC’s house)
    • Wednesday- Manndate (1.5 miles from YHC’s house)
    • Thursday – Tomato Run (3 miles from YHC’s house)
    • Friday – The Creek (1.5 miles from YHC’s house)
    • Saturday – Dogpile (6 AM), then DaPile which ordinarily starts at 6:30 AM but started at 7 AM on 7/26 due to a Puppy DaPile workout. (DaPIle is 3 miles from YHC’s house.)
    • Sunday – Sunday Funday

    Does almost an entire Nano-Region Corporate Challenge meet the requirements? Is it completed as long as the following are met?

    1. Post 7 straight day
    2. Post at Dogpile then head to another AO for a 7 AM bootcamp.
    3. Post at Sunday Funday either to start or finish the week.

    Announcements

    • Interested in running the Richmond Marathon? See Gecko. After much discussion during the COT, we believe the date of the marathon is close to November 12.
    • Homegrown Half/10K – August 16 at 7 AM at Robious Landing.
    • Breaking Bread – Sign up for August

    YHC really enjoyed his annual journey to Sunday Funday today. It was great meeting and running with Gecko and Big Wheel. You guys had already run 4 miles before YHC got out of the car. Well done Gentlemen! Much respect today as well today with 7 of the 10 PAX members in their 50s.

    Gotta Run!

    Phonics

  • COVID Testing

    Five kids and me showed up to The Deep to pass two COVID tests and also show that they count down from ten. Big accomplishments!

    The COVID tests were in honor of Tater. The company he works for used to be a COVID testing expert and Tater also has COVID–a new company benefit?

    After some warmups we did our first COVID test: 20 Calf raises, 20 Overhead presses, 20 V-ups, 20 incline merkins, 20 decline merkins. We passed.

    We then took a left down Graham Meadows Drive and starting with the first driveway on the left did ten merkins, then nine squats at the next driveway, then eight merkins, etc. After we finished, we then moseyed a little closer to the cul-de-sac for a triple check. Runner ran around the cul-de-sac and back, other two did flutters and reverse crunches. When that was done we moseyed a little of the way back, found a driveway and did ten HRM, then nine Squat jumps at the next driveway, etc. All the way back up the hill, almost back to the school.

    We moseyed to the old Nuckols Farm house for a triple check of touch-a-tree. Partner #1 did burpees and Partner #2 an elbow plank. The pax was very happy with me at that point.

    Moseyed back to the school and the six of us found a pole and we did two rounds of pole smokers while the first in line did ten merkins and ran to the front. That was fun…Then we went back to the parking lot for another COVID test in cadence: Crunches, Overhead claps, V-ups, Imperial Walkers & Dead man hang. Anyone know another “V” exercise? We all passed again!

    Hope Tater is feeling better soon. We almost got 1.5 miles in today in the 75 degree humid morning. We will have a few more mornings like this coming. Be safe everyone.

  • I’m gonna show you what I’m swinging!

    Four HIMs posted this morning to sling some iron for Mammoth Balls. A fellow brother mentioned that “only women use kettlebells under 35 pounds.” That comment had three of us briefly questioning our life choices… and our manhood. But we pressed on pride bruised here’s how it went down…..

    Warmarama

    • All the wives and moms
    • Arm circles
    • Copperhead squats
    • A lot of moaning
    • Imaginary jump rope

    Thang

    Grab the cindy’s and kettlebells

    We made our way to the parking lot and lined up shoulder to shoulder. The format was simple. One PAX called out a kettlebell exercise for the group, then grabbed two Cindy’s for a 75-yard farmer’s carry while the rest of PAX got to work.

    That carry was the timer. Once the HIM returned, the next man stepped up to call the next movement.

    Rules?

    • No repeats.
    • If you call an exercise that’s already been done 5 burpees on the spot.

    We burned through nearly every kettlebell move known to mankind swings, snatches, cleans, presses, squats, rows, halos, curls. Only one thing never made the cut the dreaded Turkish Getup

    Numbers, Names and Prayer Request Wildwood took us out

    Positive Note- Be grateful for what we all have! Be grateful for everything we CAN do!

    Don’t Waste The Day!

  • Grizzly vs. Polar Bear

    Many animals were harmed in the making of today’s Q.

    Here’s what transpired:

    Mosey around the horseshoe twice and over to the cafeteria patio.

    COP (IC)

    • Dead Man Hang
    • Don Quixotes
    • Helicopters
    • Copperhead Squats
    • Ukranian Soldiers
    • Plankorama
    • Merkins
    • Inverted Scorpion Kicks
    • Heels to Heaven
    • Invisible Jump Ropes

    Mosey to parking lot closest to the school

    Ark Loader – animal movements across parking lot

    • Bear Crawl
    • Crab Walk
    • Duck Walk
    • Polar Bear
    • Bunny Hop
    • Gorilla Shuffle

    Mosey over to Horseshoe

    • Curb Crawl – up to 5 Merkins and back down

    Mosey to Blacktop

    Quadruple Check

    • Dips
    • Jump Squats
    • WWIIs
    • Run across lot for 3,4,5,6 Burpees

    Mosey to the Paved Hill

    • P1 – Bernie x 3
    • P2 – Abs – LBCs, Freddie Mercurys, APDs

    Finish with Mary

    • Wilson’s Spaghetti Party
    • American Hammers

    Numberama, Nameorama, COT

    MOLESKIN

    During the Ark Loader, YHC was asked which Bear would win a fight, Polar or Grizzly.  While a Polar Bear is bigger and stronger and would likely have an advantage on its home turf, a Grizzly is a more experienced fighter, has longer claws, and excels in striking and jiu-jitsu.  A Grizzly would have a significant advantage outside of the Polar Bear’s natural habitat due to the Polar Bear’s lack of warm climate conditioning.  YHC thinks it is safe to say the Grizzly would win that one, but both would die a quick painful death at the hands of Chuck Norris.

    ANNOUNCEMENTS

    Prayers for Bob