What do you do when the guy who’s been holding your ruck gear no-shows? Load up an extra bag with a set of heavy bocce balls and roll out in style to the jolly cadence of balls clacking. Nice to catch up with PR and Scram and get to know Bru. Rocked out a little over 3 miles through Larus trails and Stony Point Fashion Park. Deep conversation followed at Einstein along theological lines. God is good all the time! Yours AYE! ~DTH
Category: Richmond, VA
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Ruck-a-ccino
6 HIMs skipped the coffee on a warm morning and got to work! Rudy needed a minute so we did a quick lap around the block, rendezvoused, and off we went. Travelled to the depths of Bayfront, swung by Studfinder’s cul-de-sac, then up and around Alamo and back to the start. Just short of 3.5 miles.
Today we pondered how effective the Paw Patrol would be in real life without having thumbs; would Donald Duck really eat turkey on Thanksgiving; Matlock took notes of Rudy’s hot takes on the Broncos upcoming 6-11 season; and how we can use ice cream to get more guys out to F3
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60%
Three early risers came out for some Broga in perfect morning temps. All agreed that YHC is a shitty Yogi but we found out about Handshake’s burning taint.
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Is this Manndate or Pump it up?
YHC brought some toys to Manndate which brought the crowd
COP – mosey around the parking lot
SSH, Don Qs, imperial walkers, arm circles, copperhead squats, hand release merkins, LBCs
Triple check 1 – P1 squats, P2 curls, P3 timer mosey around parking lot
Triple check 2 – P1 club/mace halos, P2 good mornings, P3 timer 50x jump ropes
4 corners – c1 lawn mowers 10x each side, c2 20x WW2s, c3 20x calf raises, c4 20x tricep extensions
Ring of iron – PAX forms a circle facing out, a kb is passed around the circle for a few rotations
Some Boat Canoes in honor of Yardsale
Some stretching to close out
Numbers, names, Opus took us out
Happy birthday Wild Thing
Happy to see a good turnout today
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Thunder at Raider Ruck
YHC was excited that we finally have a Giles Resident attending DaPile last Saturday and returned today for a Ruck Walk. We had 4 today and no runners for this cool morning with a Red Sun rising, a great site on our return to Atlee High School from Giles! Simple Giles loop route and totaled 2.4 miles.
Welcome Thunder to your second workout and look forward to seeing you in the gloom.
Cheers….CB!
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Denied
There were eight today, for our weekly gathering near the pond scum of lake Westhampton. Routes were posted early, countryside lollipops, and a non-enthusiastic Q talked through directions before we embarked on our journey.
Routes
- 6s: no takers
- 5s: big loop of countryside to ruggles
- 4s: small loop of april to melwood
- All came back via the park.
Numbers, names, YHC took us out.
Announcements
- Hitch has extra tickets to Some like it Hot tonight. If you like it hot, even somewhat, reach out to Hitch to grab his tickets.
- Pickleball has started and only surface wounds from yesterday. Mondays at Batteau through the summer.
Moleskine
Who has ever heard of asking permission for your future bride in marriage and being denied? Well, apparently it does happen and it wasn’t even on a Lifetime movie. Glad things worked out in the end!
Splinter out.
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Let’s Grab That Stone
Two HIMs grabbed their sack and knocked out 3 miles this morning with some weight on our backs. To spice things up we did a mile carrying a random stone. Had some good chatter about Wonka’s upcoming family camping adventure with both sides of the family. He’s also driving over 30 minutes each way for these workouts. I think he’s gonna be our connection to the Hampton roads for F3!
“To give anything less then your best is to sacrifice the gift.” -Steve Prefontaine
Don’t Waste The Day!
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Hot Potato
3 strong men got out their fart sacks and into the gloom, no Q on sheet so we hot potatoed & Dr Doolittle’s 1st experience in Q’ing.
Broadway: started us off Left the basic workout routine with a few straddle hops, Don Quixote’s, imperial walkers, Ukrainian soldiers.
We did a 15 minute mosey run around the park through the trails into the neighborhood & back to the park.
Posh: 20 count straddle hop, 20 count LBCs, 20 flutter kicks-
Trash cleanup- some community service, we took the liberty to clean up trash in the park for every trash we picked up we did a burpee and mosey’d to the trash each time.
Four corners- 10 20 30 40 of world war II’s, Florida kicks, lieutenant Dan’s, size strata hops
Dr DoLittle: mosey over to the hill, uphill Bernie Sanders to pole smokers back down backwards bad crawl (10 times)
Moses to the pavilion for a few dips and merkins then to the broga pad to finish off with a ring of fire.
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Pickle Pounders in the Kitchen
23 gloom studs saddled up for a ride on the pain train. After a 3 month hiatus serving abroad YHC was rearing to go. Here’s how we won the day:
The THANG:
WARMERAMA:
- Mosey onto the BBall Court and line up
- Brief F3 Welcome & Disclaimer
- x5 BURPEE SUICIDES (a suicide followed by 5 burpees, for x5 reps) – one for each flight YHC had to take to get home from the mission field
- LIFO Snuff arrived just in time to miss the 25 burpees, so we did x5 Body Builders (8-ct burpee) in his honor
- Circle up for Variable IC reps
- Warm? Let’s go wreck the shoulders…
COP #1:
- Mosey back to the Tennis courts
- 4-CORNER SHOULDERAMA
- x10 Diamond Merkins
- x20 No Cheat Merkins
- x30 Werkins
- x40 CDD’s
- Bear Crawl between court corners (alt to Crab Walk or Lunge as needed)
COP #2:
- Mosey around to the main fields’ chainlink fence
- CHAINSMOKERS x50 OYO
COP #3:
- Mosey back to the Pickleball Courts
- PICKLEBALL 50’s
- At each of the individual Pickleball court the PAX is given an exercise to complete – first man to x50 calls out, and PAX moves on to the next court (front runner calls the next exercise)
- x6 courts completed with variable exercises called: Monkey Humpers, Alabama Prom Dates, Pickle Pounders, LBC’s, American Hammers, SSH’s
BTTF:
- Mosey back through trails, stopping a fee times to lunge walk to wait for the Six
- 2MoM – scrunchy frogs & WWII’s
COT:
- Counterama # 23
- Namerama
- Announcerama (see Below)
- Prayer
Prayer Requests:
- NTB Family Loss
- Warby & Snuff traveling
- DTH settling back in
NMS: Beautiful cool bright morning to be back at it with this crowd of fine brothers. YHC’s slaughter start instructions were a little rusty, but recovered with the IC reps. Somebody has clearly been slipping HIM-enhancing drugs into L Woods water bottle – now it’s hard to keep up with that dude! Fantastic to see a bunch of Summer Tourists beef up the NoToll numbers – thx to Hutton for leading this. Highlight of the morning was Gumbo’s hilarious sexual innuendo on the Pickleball Court – he had us all rolling. Kudos to Heist for keeping the Six with us, and to Machismo for taking a moment to grease the palm of the new Park Supervisor. I’ve been all over the world, but you guys are all on the next level – LET’s GO! Yours AYE! ~DTH
Announcements (SEE SLACK!)
- Summer Tour
- Timberwolf Games Challenge weekly
- Alamo-Bros VQ Week
- Breaking Bread
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Holding the Fort Down
For the non-tour stop regulars, the beat goes on at HBR. Nine faithful warriors converged in the west end and here is how it went down:
- COP
- SSH
- IW
- DQ
- Helicopters
- Arm circles
- DMH
- Suzanne Somers
- Merkins
- LBC
- Mosey to HB Hill for a Dora on the hill
- 100 HRM
- 200 WWII sit-ups
- 300 APD
- Mosey to the jerkin gym and partner up for 4 rounds
- 8 jerkins
- 15 PLTs
- Mosey to the field for a 3x check
- Run
- Step-ups
- CDD
- Bear crawl across the field and crab walk up the incline to the parking lot
- Round of Mary
- One legged crunches, each leg
- Straight legged crunches
- COT with YHC taking us out
Good work from the PAX today. Good to see some familiar and long time/no see faces. As usual, YHC included some deceptive cardio. Great to have Nacho Libre with us at the early hour. Mega T-claps for him and the PAX for keeping it clean.
Congrats to those PAX members with recent graduations! Lunch next Tuesday at Joey’s for those interested.
God is good all of the time!
Attila
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