Category: Richmond, VA

  • Backyard Barbeque

    Fresh off the Annual Iron Chef competition (Saturday), nine food prospectors assembled in this evening’s edition of Breaking Bread. Temperatures were 70 and sunny. According to the people STILL lined up in the drive-through of the now defunct Wendy’s, the following might have been served:

    Fried chicken
    Homemade mashed potatoes
    Cole slaw
    Lemon Bars
    Cookies
    Iced tea, lemonade…but, no one made an Arnold Palmer

    There was also a delicious looking set of leftovers from Saturday.

    Numbers, names, and everyone had a wonderful evening.

  • Iron Chef – F3RVA Edition

    YHC’s 2.0s entered the arena and threw down for the title of Iron Chef F3RVA.  Llama prepared the side while BB-8 tackled dessert.  Here’s what was served:

    • Aged loin of farm raised boar marinaded in a honey bacon glaze, seared and slightly smoky, cooked to 145 degrees internal
    • Diced Idaho potatoes tossed with extra virgin olive oil and shaken with assorted herbs and spices then roasted until slightly charred with a smooth soft interior
    • Vanilla mousse parfait layered with sliced organic bananas and wafers and finished with a light crème fraiche topping and wafer crumbles
    • Signature cocktail was an Arnold Palmer served over frozen cubes or spring water

    Numberama, Nameorama, COT

    MOLESKIN

    Winners were the good folks at the Daily Planet Medical Respite.  Always a pleasure to give back.  2.0s agree.

  • Ruck-N-Slide

    16 HIM’s & 2.0’s assembled at Rockwood Park for a School of RUCK. The DTH Tacoma was heavy laden with extra rucks, bags, and bricks, and all warriors were loaded down before setting off into the woods. YHC found a couple nice cabers in the woods for the kids to take turns carrying. On our 1.5 mile trek we made it down to the lake and back, and there were a couple brief COP’s for squats and lunges along the way. We even attempted teaching and implementing the GrowRuck exercise of a thee-man team carrying one wounded warrior. It was challenging for the kids to grasp but we gave it a solid effort. We also had some kids loaded up on shoulders along the way for Dad’s to win a little extra 1st F. After about 45 minutes the PAX returned to the start for COT and we named our single FNG, Caleb (Ponch’s son) who loves baseball. Welcome OHTANI !!! We concluded our time with a lot of fun on the slip-n-slide and yummy watermelon. TClaps to all these victors for choosing the hard thing today. Yours AYE! ~DTH

  • First Annual Lake Anna F3

    Grid Iron relocated to Lake Anna and had our first of hopefully many more events there. After a brief warm up we hit 4 stations for 3 rounds of 20 of: Dips, Dirkins, Pole Smokers and Steps Ups. BiProduct came by boat with J’ville and WhiteDeer, but for some reason they couldn’t make it out of the boat for the first round…so we did a second round. Then to the beach for a series of Abs, Merkins, and Swimming/Kayaking/Padeling.

    We kept the Fitness part short this morning and then had coffee and carbs in the parking lot before hitting the lake on a few boats for a morning of Fellowship. Great morning. Thankful for my F3 Brothers.

  • Minority Majority

    Welcome to 1000% humidity and the first ever AO where Porch noted a majority of Brown guys – which followed with interesting mumble chatter about preferred Spanish pronunciations and the like. Here’s how we won the day:

    The THANG: 

    WARMERAMA: 

    • Mosey to the basketball court and circle up
    • Welcome & Disclaimer
    • Usual DTH warm-up IC Reps

    COP # 1:

    • Mosey to the Tennis courts
    • BUDDY LADDER
    • Count down from 10–>1 Booyah Merkins, with partners alternating running the courts perimeter while the other remains for chain smokers

    COP # 2:

    • Mosey to the playground
    • WHEEL OF DEATH
    • Plank up around the spinning wheel, painfully plank walking first Left and then Right
    • Mosey back to the vehicles for a 2min water break

    COP # 3:

    • Grab rucks from the truck (all PAX wearing a ruck except one)
    • CATCH ME IF YOU CAN (modified) – all PAX lunge walk wearing rucks while one PAX runs lot perimeter then takes a ruck to let the next man run. Entire perimeter lunge walked wearing rucks. 

    COP #4:

    • Mosey to the WALL (shady side)
    • Dirty Hookups IC, both sides
    • BTTW Hip Slappers IC
    • Donkey Kickoffs up to 20
    • Hoedowns IC x2 rounds

    Mosey BTTF:

    • 5min of Mudslide Broga

    COT:

    • Counterama # 5
    • Namerama
    • Announcerama (see Below)
    • BOM Prayer

    NMS:  Brutal temps with badass HIM’s, what more could a Q ask for?! Low numbers with lots of guys on vaca, and a few SH guys who can’t wake up after a Bourbon night. Props to Ponch being the only one! We did some hard stuff and got a great workout. Well done fellas. Yours AYE! ~DTH

    Announcements (SEE SLACK!)

    • Summer Tour Ongoing
    • 7/27 School of RUCK (7am kid-friendly workout and ruck)
    • 8/16 Homegrown Half
    • 9/26 Night Ruck CSAUP
    • 10/3-5 GrowRuck in Cary NC 
    • Ask Mudslide about some other CSAUP races coming up!

  • Little of this and a little of that!

    Quick 2 mile ruck with some Broga thrown in there before the beatdown!!!!

  • The 200th Post!

    Five HIMs came together this morning to do some soul searching and to figure out why we were out here sweating like crazy in what felt like 100 degrees, with grass clippings ending up in places they definitely shouldn’t be. But not a single complaint was heard, and we crushed it. Here’s how it all went down…

    Warmarama

    • Mosey to back of the park
    • Arm circles
    • Chinooks
    • All the wives and moms
    • SSH
    • Copperhead Squats
    • Grab a Cindy and head to that Bermuda

    Thang!
    We tackled a workout inspired by Poolboy’s 100th post. The YHC made a few slight tweaks to the routines but the structure that he came up with remained the same. This one was a personal test for each HIM. Much of the workout was done solo, pushing ourselves, measuring where we are. Next time, we’ll start a bit earlier, minimize the distractions, and dial it all in. We’re almost there!

    We had an FNG join us today he goes by Paul, but after today, he’s officially known as 5 Star. He attends the YHC, Beaver and Yukon Cornelius aschurch, sells insurance, has a couple of kids but most importantly rocks the best looking mustache this side of Richmond. As for the name? Let’s just say he’s a solid 5 out of 10-star athlete… and proud of it.

    Announcements see slack
    Numbers, Names and Prayer Request YHC took us out!

    Don’t Waste The Day!

  • We are so Mechanicsville, we have a rooster at our AO

    Fun times this morning with the 2.0’s in the sweltering heat

    SHort COP with some exercises

    Vball challenge — keep the ball in the air
    reach the number — no exercises
    miss the challenge number and a member of the pax call out an exercise for all to do
    We started with 5 which wasnt too bad.
    Moved to 7, which we got immediately
    12 was our bugaboo even though we had already gotten to 17 in our quest for 7
    I think we ended up doing 6 or 7 rounds of exercise during that challenge

    Off to Ultimate
    Short field was necessary and welcomed by all.
    Fun game — 2.0’s did great and had fun.
    Mandatory Hydration breaks were crucial
    No one got injured — well I guess we have to wait till we all wake up tomorrow to find that out for sure, but I don’t know.
    Will be doing another in the fall when the weather is less sucky
    Peace
    Opus

  • My Green Mile Base

    Only way to be the heat and humidity is getting out there early! Solo Q at Morning Wood for YHC started with rucking the perimeter loop walking track which is now painted brightly green. There’s been a lot going on of late, and the quiet time rucking with Jesus created space for some good mental mumble chatter. Ended up thinking about how I hadn’t run in a while and the green loop track could be a nice distance to set a Base time with my Garmin. Rucked back to the truck and ditched the bag. Garmin set to go. Two laps completed for 1.43mi total, with a mile time of about 7:40 and VO2 Max at 53. Not bad, but despite great efforts to monitor my stride and keep the Right foot pushing properly off my right Great toe, my IT Band pain still started up pretty quick, about a mile into it. Well, at least now I have a base to compare to in future. ~DTH

  • Triple Triple-Check

    9 warriors of the gloom descended upon the earliest AO. Some surprised that Bacons Bits was leading the Q and brief discussion on whether this should be a VQ or VQ#2 since its been some time but the clock struck 5 and we were off.

    Short jaunt over to the end of the lot to pick up Hitch and around the lot to the front of the Church for COP. Appreciated the guidance and chatter to keep me in line during COP, as mentioned its been a minute.

    COP: various stretches, cherry pickers, side straddle hops, hand release merkins and then some.

    Headed back to auxiliary lot to pick up some coupons for the days work.

    The Thang:

    Triple check #1 – timer ran to far end and back while others did bench press and overhead press

    Triple check #2 – same timer, block swings, and Alabama softball players

    Triple check #3 – same timer, squats and curls for the girls

    Wrapped up with a couple minutes to spare with flutter kicks and reverse crunches.

    YHC appreciates the opportunity to lead this morning. Mumble Chatter was great since there wasn’t much focus on counting! Prayers to all with injuries and illness. Enjoyed the coffee after as always!