3 Beasts from the east got together this morning to work on our rucking pace. We got in 3 miles at a pace of 15:30. A lot of chatter this morning about daily routines and having kids. YHC agrees that Wildwood has one of the best daily routines which includes a lot of golf. Beavers next Q will be his 100th! Without his push, discipline, and commitment, we wouldn’t even have an F3 in New Kent. He didn’t just show up he helped build something. Appreciate you!
YHC out
Don’t waste the day!
5:29:38 YHC pulls into the full Parking Lot of guys eager for a good beatdown. Quick mosey around the big Parking Lot and we circled up to Warmup. After Warmup was complete YHC asked the Pax if they wanted Door number 1 or Door number 2. Not a single Pax member raised their hands for Door number 1.
Various exercises were done, its was a good time. Glad to see so many smiling faces.
Announcements – The Bridge on April 26th with Corned Beef and May 10th with Hermes.
Prayer Requests – Vinny lost his Father In Law last Tuesday after a battle with Brain Cancer, prayers for the Sievers and Johnson family. Pigskins Daughter/Piglets Wife Johanna is going in for a C-Section. Prayers for a smooth birth and a happy and healthy baby.
NMS – good times with good people.
Three pax — one of them (Faceplant) in a green jacket! — gathered to start the week right at RVA’s least exclusive country club.
The Thang:
Warmup Tabata: SSH / Imperial Walkers
Hot Lap #1
Tabata #2: KB Squats
Hot Lap #2
Tabata #3: Alternating Lawnmowers
Hot Lap #3
Tabata #4: KB Swings
Hot Lap #4
Tabata #5: Wild Card
Hot Lap #5
Tabata #6: 4 Minutes of Mary
Hot Lap #6
Spreadsheets from the Gloom:
+ A lot of talk of babysitters and hourly rates ($20+!?!?) by Hitch and Faceplant. Glad to be out of that business, myself…
+ Talk of Hitch’s 3-year stint of compulsory military service in his native South Korea — for which he apparently still collects benefits(!) — somehow led to my riffing on this crazy novel about North Korea I read about 10 years ago (apparently a Pulitzer Prize winner). While a fictional tale, it is apparently rooted in historical fact, including depicting the abduction of Japanese citizens by North Korea.
+ As I mentioned in my takeout, reciting the post-communion prayer at Palm Sunday services at St. James Episcopal put me in mind of F3, specifically how our gatherings in the gloom strengthen us physically and spiritually and how, after the ritual of the COT, we are sent out into the world to do the Lord’s work just as we are after communion. For those of us who believe, this most holy of weeks is a good time to be reminded of that.
+ Hitch is my favorite Korean, but as a San Francisco Giants fan my second-favorite is centerfielder Jung Hoo Lee, who had two home runs in Sunday’s win at Yankee Stadium. Listening to the Korean broadcast calls of the homers should brighten your day.
2 Gloompadres emerged for some strength training balls and bags in hand! YHC had anticipated a party of 3, so it went from triple check exercises to Dora with rounds instead of counting, I’m sure there’s a routine for that, it isn’t coming to me though.
Warmarama right out of the driver seat!
-Parked next to the octagon, Mosey to the neighborhood and back.
The Thang!
5 Rounds – P1 walks out to tree 25 yards with Overhead kettlebell, switch hands at tree. P2 Does 4 Incline Merkin Drops around the big sand bag and 50 lb sandbag toss over each shoulder, repeat until P1 returns.
3 Rounds – P1 Lunge to tree and back. P2 performs Sumo KB Humpers.
5 Rounds – P1 Mario’s or Moseys to tree and back. P2 renegade rows
5 Rounds – P1 Deadlifts 75 lb sandbag. P2 Walks to tree and back with 50 lb sandbag shoulder to shoulder
Mary w/ KB’s
CoT
It was a pleasure to throw around some weight with you this morning Wildwood! We missed the rest of you fellas that couldn’t make it.
I can’t wait to see you guys in the next gloom!
Eight was enough this morning for a trip through Henrico and 80s music history.
7 started some SSH while waiting for Seymore to arrive and from there we went to the bus circle lawn for official warmups. We did some combination of Helicopters, Hillbillies, Dead man hang, Cherry Pickers, Merkins, LBCs and Heals to Heaven. From there we moseyed down the marshy hill to the street and headed to Nuckols farm. The pax were enthralled with half a story on the original farm and a fire until Gomer made it. After partnering up we did 3 rounds of 3 partner “touch a tree”, switching partners after 3 rounds. 1st round HRM, 2nd round Burpees, 3rd round WWII.
Went across the street to a triangle plot of land, and did 3 corners of 20 squats, shoulder taps and SSH, prostitute style.
Moseyed back to the marshy hill, got past the squish, and then did ten up and downs the hill to practice for Die Hard. Then went to the bus loop poles to do some Paula Abdul pole smoking. Ten pole smokers, lunge forward two poles, lunge backward one and repeat. Eventually went 4 poles forward, 2 poles back. Got about halfway down the covered bus pickup and then moseyed back to the start.
The pax sadly could only name 2 Paula Abdul songs at first but during the rest of Mary, we remembered two more. Attila denied going to see Paula Abdul as a little kid. Not buying it. Mary consisted of LBCs, Flutters, a few burpees and Freddie Mercuries.
Pax then got some homework to listen to the Bullet Boys. “Smooth up in ya!” is a classic.
Good to see Pinto at The Deep as we did about 1.5 miles of traveling today. Prayers for Piglet’s family as kid number two comes tomorrow (either named Maggie or Paula Abdul, don’t remember). Prayers also for Fireman Ed, Roger Roger’s family and Fudd’s sister.
Thanks for letting me lead.
19 HIMS joined the Woodsman on a chilly spring morning for his 1 year beatdown. We started off with some side shuffles, karaoke, super mario jumps, bear crawls, and broad jumps. The pax then circled up for some SSH and then various stretches to complete the warm up.
COP#1 – the “Dirty Thirty” (5 rounds of 30 reps of an exercise at each cone, with running)
Cop#2 – Dora
ANNOUNCEMENTS
PRAYERS
The dora was cut a little short due to time but overall a good workout to start the week. We covered over 2 miles so good warm up for the CSAUP. I got the circuit idea from Crabgrass’s gauntlet (which was killer). Thanks everyone for coming out, especially the F3 HIMS from a little north. Shout out to Chaplain, he was at my first F3 outing at the Crossing last spring so was great to have him down south on a Monday morning. I’ve enjoyed being a part of F3 and appreciate all of you guys. Looking forward to part 2 in a year.
11 energetic PAX chose to start their week of right at Hoedown. Before we started Pigskin was weary off a tax-day theme repeat from last year but YHC grabbed the Q to get his ass out of the fartsack. No tax theme just some basics:
COP in staff lot: SSH, Don Qs, Ukrainian Soldiers, Merkins, Reverse Crunch, Scorpion Kicks.
Mosey to the 3rd parking lot for 4 corners: 10 burpees, 20 HRMs, 30 Jump Squats, 40 LBCs. Head over to the RiteAid parking lot and partner up for a Dora: 100 HRMs, 200 Heels2Heaven, 300 SSH. Mosey back over to TES bus loop for Handshake’s Sexteplet-check with partners and an array of exercises while timer runs the loop.
Finish up with 2 rounds of 25 PLTs and burpees to close us out.
Announcements: Bridge is starting back up in 2 weeks on Saturday. Century classic on 5/2. Marv was so stirred by the pitch he HC’ed on the spot!
NMS: No need for long sleeves or cold-weather gloves this morning. Handshake opted for no-sleeves at all, getting the guns out early for summer. Marv shared that is crushed the Monument 10k Saturday with a blistering 44 minutes. Makes sense since he does good work at the Siegel center during the season as well. Good to have 11 out this morning after Senor Frog posted Solo last week.
The bat signal was called out for runners interested in the next great F3RVA CSAUP event. These men answered the call. Plan was a 4 mile route with the faster runners coming back for the six at each intersection. We got a nice cruise in with some guys pushing the pace when they felt the urge! Great work. If you are thinking about doing the century 2.0 on May 2-3 reach out to me!
A hearty crew of 11 showed up on Friday the 11th for a crisp morning trundle around the near west end.
For the record…The Carrillon is finally open (that was news to me) and we got to run up the stairs for the first time since pre-COVID. Better late than never, huh?
Also, for the record…the 4 mile Carrillon run looks like this…
Out on Grove to Arthur Ashe.
Right on Arthur Ashe (south) and that takes you to Idlewood.
Right on Idlewood. Right on McCoy. Take McCoy to Cary St. Left on Cary St.
Cary goes to Malvern. Right on Malvern, left on Grove and go to West Moreland and double back to Commonwealth.
And that’s the 4 mile Carrilon route.
Good to have Frozone at the Q from the great city of Savannah, GA. He and his family were heading up to DC with a stopover here in RVA.
After a weeklong cruise and a busy week at work YHC struggled to get out of the Fartsack this week. YHC signed up to Q for motivation. EF Hutton even joked that it was a Q by an FNG.
Various exercises were completed to include 22’s on the Field, a failed Sextex Check, and never ending Pull Up rotations.
Good times were had by all, great jokes.
Announcements – The Bridge on April 26th with Corned Beef, May 10th with Hermes. Breaking Bread is covered for April.
Prayer Requests – Vinny/Vinny’s family at the passing of his MIL. Prayers for Kubotas brother’s Family at the sudden passing of his brothers MIL.
NMS – thanks for the opportunity to Q